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Hang Up and Listen - Hang Up and Listen: The Mr. Monopoly Was a Hipster Edition

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4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2014

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis, Mike Pesca, and Mary Pilon preview the NCAA basketball finals and discuss with Andy Glockner what it's like to root for a Premier League team facing relegation. Finally, they talk about Monopoly's upcoming inclusion of "house rules."Show notes at www.slate.com/hangup.


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0:00.0

Hang Up and Listen is sponsored by Audible.com.

0:03.1

Audible offers more than 150,000 audio books, all available for listening on your smartphone, tablet, and desktop.

0:10.5

Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at Audiblepodcast.com slash hang up.

0:16.9

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:25.9

Hi, this is Mike Peskin.

0:27.5

This is Slate Sports Podcast.

0:30.8

Hang up and listen for the week of April 7th, 2014.

0:35.0

On this week's show, we'll talk about the NCAA men's final four.

0:36.1

Actually, the final two.

0:39.1

The women's final two. If two teams are playing in the NCAA tournament, we are going to talk about them. And in the world of soccer, the

0:43.3

possible relegation of Fulham and one of the greatest sporting slash contest events going

0:49.8

Monopoly, everything about Monopoly, and I'll focus the question this way. Monopoly does it suck? I'm joined from Washington, D.C. by Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak in a few seconds of Panic, and the Friday Sports Correspondent for NPR's All Things Considered. And next to me is our guest panelist for the vacationing Josh. I will introduce the guest panelist in a second. But say, I was thinking about this, Stefan.

1:12.1

Josh right now is spending time in the country where we've spent the most time together.

1:17.0

And that includes the USA.

1:18.4

It's not the USA.

1:19.5

Josh is in South Africa.

1:20.8

Would you say that's true, Stefan?

1:21.9

I would say that's true, Mike.

1:23.5

Yes.

1:23.9

I mean, we spent a lot of, we spent a lot of emotional time together in the United States. No, but physically in each other's presence. We're more South African friends than U.S. friends. Mary Palat is a reporter for the New York Times who covers, I was looking at the things you cover. I'm going to say you cover contests. Yes. More so than sports. Out of Idod stuff, and you're writing a book on Monopoly?

1:44.7

Yes.

1:45.2

Do you know what the title's going to be?

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