Hang Up and Listen - Is the Hot Hand Real?
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🗓️ 9 March 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin are joined by the Wall Street Journal’s Ben Cohen to talk about the latest on the coronavirus and sports. They also interview Cohen about his book The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks. Finally, they assess a chaotic week in New York professional basketball.
Coronavirus (1:52): When will our sense of American exceptionalism end and reality set in?
Hot hand (19:35): What the latest research tells us about the elusive “zone.”
Knicks and Nets (39:24): James Dolan is beefing with Spike Lee and Brooklyn just fired its coach. Yowza.
Afterballs (59:48): Stefan on team handball and Joel on Carl Crawford.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Slate listeners. Do us a favor and help us make a better Slate by answering our survey. |
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| 0:10.8 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:17.7 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor and the author of The Queen. |
| 0:21.5 | This is Hang Up and Listen for the week of March 9th, 2020. |
| 0:25.6 | On this week's show, the Wall Street Journal's Ben Cohen will join us to talk about the escalation of coronavirus-fueled cancellations in sports |
| 0:33.5 | and how upcoming events like March madness might be affected. |
| 0:39.1 | We'll also interview Cohen about his new book, The Hot Hand, The Mystery and Science of Streaks, and we'll discuss a week |
| 0:44.5 | of chaos in New York basketball is Spike Lee beefed with Nick's owner James Dolan and the Nets |
| 0:50.6 | fired their coach, Kenny Adkinson. The multi a multi-beef week in New York. Beaves |
| 0:57.6 | joining me in our DC studio, Stefan Fatsas. He's the author of the book's Word Freak. |
| 1:02.8 | And a few seconds of panic. There's Stefan, looking forward to being socially distanced from you |
| 1:07.6 | in the weeks to come. We're about, what, four feet away from each other? |
| 1:10.9 | I think that's a good distance. |
| 1:12.8 | As I back away from the microphone, I welcome in from Palo Alto. |
| 1:17.3 | Man, they were always socially distanced from, geographically, but not emotionally. |
| 1:21.3 | Joel Anderson, he is. |
| 1:23.7 | Slate staff writer, the host of Slow Burn, season three, will not be appearing at South by Southwest. |
| 1:29.1 | This happened since last week's show. |
| 1:31.4 | Yeah, man. |
| 1:32.0 | We had plans to be in Austin, and then we canceled before they canceled the whole thing. |
| 1:38.5 | And I think that's really what tipped it over. |
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