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Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin discuss the NBA All-Star Game and the state of the league a year after it suspended play due to COVID-19. They also talk about a new report on LSU’s failures to deal with sexual assault claims and allegations about the school’s ex-football coach Les Miles. Finally, Andrew Maraniss joins for a conversation about his book Singled Out, on the plight of the gay baseball player Glenn Burke. NBA (1:55): What has the NBA learned, if anything, during our year-long pandemic? LSU (18:54): How should the school respond to a report laying out its Title IX failures? Singled Out (38:49): What Glenn Burke went through, and what his legacy means today. Afterballs (57:40): Stefan on Muhammad Ali’s activities before his first fight with Joe Frazier and Josh on listeners’ favorite free throws. Podcast production and edit by Margaret Kelley. You can email us at hangup@slate.com. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slate's legal podcast Amagus. If you're listening to this show, you might be interested in Amicus's live show that we're hosting in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, May the 14th.
0:15.0	My colleague, Mark Joseph Stern, and I will be talking to some amazing guests,
0:20.0	including Cheryline Eiffel and a sitting state Supreme Court justice.
0:24.4	All about how originalism, a relatively recently invented way of interpreting the Constitution,
0:30.8	has taken over the Supreme Court and radically reshaped the law.
0:35.0	It's been doctrinal rocket fuel for the conservative legal movement
0:39.0	and facilitated the rolling back of abortion rights,
0:42.0	the expansion of gun rights, and the obliteration of the separation of church and state. And as another wildly consequential Supreme Court term, careers to its end, the Court's originalists are on a tear.
0:55.6	But there's something you can do about it and we hope you'll join us in DC on
1:00.6	May 14th to explore the possible pathways out of the current situation, go to
1:06.6	Slate.com slash Amicus Live for tickets. The following podcast includes explicit language, including, well, you'll just have to wait
1:19.5	and see. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's National Editor, and this is Hangup and Listen for the week of March 8, 2021.
1:31.0	On this week show, we're going to talk about the NBA All-Star game and where we are a year
1:36.1	after the league suspended play due to COVID-19.
1:39.8	We'll also discuss the new report about LSU's failures to deal with sexual assault
1:43.9	claims and its failure to deal with its former head football coach Les Miles.
1:48.0	Finally author Andrew Marinus will join us for a conversation about his book singled out on the plight of the gay-based Marion of the Queen and the host of Sloburn season four on David Duke. Also in DC is
2:04.7	Stephen Fatsus. He is the author of the book's Word Freak in a few seconds of
2:08.6	panic. Hello Stephen. Hi Josh. With us from the South Bay Bay the great state of California.
2:15.0	The South Bay home of a statue of a car running on naked human legs.
2:19.0	Slade Staff writer, host of Sloburn season 3 and 6.
2:22.0	Joel Anderson, are you familiar with that statue? writer, host of Sloburn Season 3 and 6, Joel
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