Hang Up and Listen - After the Dance
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In this bonus episode preview, Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin discuss “The Last Last Dance,” Joel’s special podcast on Michael Jordan’s tenure with the Washington Wizards. Topics discussed include why Jordan chose to go to D.C., how he treated Kwame Brown, and whether Jordan’s time in Washington makes him a more or less sympathetic figure.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, hang up listeners. This is a preview of a special bonus episode that's available only to Slate Plus members. To hear it in full, sign up at slate.com slash hangup plus for a free two-week trial. And if you like what you hear, a Slate Plus membership is just $35 for the first year. Hope you enjoyed this preview. Thanks for listening. |
| 0:22.5 | This podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:31.1 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor. |
| 0:34.3 | It is December 16th, 2020. |
| 0:37.3 | This is a special bonus episode of Hang Up and Listen |
| 0:39.5 | about The Last Last Dance. Joel Anderson's reported piece on Michael Jordan's not so |
| 0:46.4 | uplifting tenure with the Washington Wizards. If you're listening to this, I'm guessing you |
| 0:51.3 | listened to that. If you have not listened to that, you can still |
| 0:55.5 | listen to this, but I would recommend that you listen to that. We'll be here when you get back. |
| 0:59.8 | Here with me to talk about that is naturally, my slate colleague, and America's leading |
| 1:05.3 | Jordanologist, Joel Anderson. Hey, Joel. Good morning. America's leading Jordanologist. |
| 1:10.5 | I would never have expected it. It's like me, Sam Smith. Who else Joel. Good morning. America's leading Jordanologists. I would never have |
| 1:11.2 | expected it. It's like me, Sam Smith. Who else? Michael Leahy. We can go over the list later. |
| 1:16.1 | The guy that made the last dance. Oh, yeah, that guy. That guy. You're on the Mount Jordan |
| 1:22.4 | Moore. With us, as always, is Stefan Fatsis, one of America's top 500,000 Jordanologists. |
| 1:30.5 | He is the author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic. |
| 1:34.2 | Hello, Stefan. |
| 1:35.0 | To be clear, I had absolutely nothing to do with the making of The Last Dance. |
| 1:39.7 | All right. |
| 1:40.3 | Now that that is clarified, I want to let folks know that we're going to be playing some extended |
| 1:45.3 | clips from Joel's interviews later on, and that's going to be stuff that you did not hear |
| 1:51.6 | in the main episode, so stick around for that. But let's start with how this project started, Joel. |
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