Hang Up and Listen - Ja Morant’s Crossroads
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by the Washington Post’s Molly Hensley-Clancy to discuss her reporting on the troubles surrounding Ja Morant. ESPN’s Don Van Natta Jr. also joins to talk about whether Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder will get forced out of the NFL. Finally, they speak to Slate’s Alex Kirshner about the quarterback dilemmas at the top of the NFL Draft.
Morant (3:17): What comes next for the Memphis Grizzlies star?
Snyder (22:07): The scandals are mounting. Will he finally get the boot?
Quarterback prospects (42:07): Bryce Young, Anthony Richardson, and the Bears’ big choice at No. 1.
Afterball (1:01:05): Josh on podcast ads and the National Council on Problem Gambling.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the overnight flight from London Heathrow to Beijing. |
| 0:05.0 | Flight time 11 hours, 237 passengers on board, |
| 0:11.0 | and one murderer. |
| 0:15.0 | There's no escape. |
| 0:17.0 | At 35,000 feet, red eye. Stream now on ITX. |
| 0:30.0 | 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. |
| 0:45.0 | My colleague, Mark Joseph Stern, and I will be talking to some amazing guests, |
| 0:50.0 | including Cheryline Eiffel, and a sitting state Supreme Court justice. |
| 0:54.5 | All about how originalism, a relatively recently invented way of interpreting the Constitution, |
| 1:00.9 | has taken over the Supreme Court and radically reshaped the law. |
| 1:05.4 | It's been doctrinal rocket fuel for the conservative legal movement and facilitated the rolling |
| 1:10.7 | back of abortion rights, the expansion of gun rights, and the |
| 1:14.0 | obliteration of the separation of church and state. And as another wildly |
| 1:19.4 | consequential Supreme Court term, careers to its end, the Court's originalists are on a tear. |
| 1:26.6 | But there's something you can do about it and we hope you'll join us in DC on May 14th |
| 1:31.8 | to explore the possible pathways out of the current situation. |
| 1:36.3 | Go to slate.com slash Amicus Live for tickets. The following podcast contains explicit language, including the words, well, you'll just have to |
| 1:48.0 | wait and see. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's National Editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of March 6, |
| 2:07.0 | 2023. On this week show, the Washington Post's Molly Hensley Clansy will be here to discuss her reporting on Memphis Grizzly star John Moran, whose season is on indefinite |
| 2:16.8 | hiatus after he published a video of himself waving a gun around. |
| 2:20.0 | We'll also be joined by E.S. P. N. Van Nada Jr. to talk about his piece on the federal investigation |
| 2:26.1 | and a possible financial improprieties by Washington commander's owner Dan Snyder. |
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