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Hang Up and Listen

Fight in the Handshake Line

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6986 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin are joined by Slate’s Justin Peters for an Olympics wrap-up. They also discuss the Wisconsin-Michigan handshake line scuffle. Finally, Slate’s Alex Kirshner joins to talk about Saudi Arabia’s efforts to start a new golf tour.   Olympics (3:01): Were there any bright spots during these dark Winter Games?   Handshake fight (24:18): Why did things escalate? Should Juwan Howard have been suspended?   Saudi golf (47:00): How a plan to disrupt pro golf fell apart.   Afterball (1:08:23): Josh revisits his thoughts on Ben Simmons and mental health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6

The following podcast contains explicit language including the the words, well, you'll just have to wait and see. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's National Editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of February 22.

0:56.7

On this week's Slate's Justin Peters will join us for a valedictory to be wondrous and horrific

1:02.4

spectacle of the Olympics.

1:04.0

We'll also scrutinize the handshake-line fight between the Michigan and Wisconsin basketball teams,

1:10.0

which led to Wolverine Coach Juan Howard getting suspended for the rest of the regular season.

1:15.1

And finally, Slates Alex Kirsner will be here for a conversation about the proposed Saudi

1:19.4

takeover of Pro-Golf, which now appears to be just as dead as European Soccer's Super League.

1:25.6

I'm in Washington, D.C. and I'm the author of the Queen and the host of the

1:28.9

podcast One Year. Also in D.C. is Stephen Fatsis. He's the author of the book's Word Freak, a few seconds of panic, and wild and outside.

1:38.0

Stephen, it's the final day of the biggest sporticrat spectacle of the year.

1:45.0

You must be sad.

1:46.0

I'm a little sad, a little sad, but I'm happy because it's also a very, very exciting week date-wise. It's Palindrome week, 220, 22, 221, 22, 222,

1:59.0

22, 222, 223, 2, 29.

2:04.4

It was a leap year because we're losing out on one

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