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Hang Up and Listen

Hang Up and Listen - LeBron and Bronny

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6986 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis and Joel Anderson talk to the New Yorker’s Louisa Thomas about the 55th pick in last week’s NBA draft: LeBron James’ son, Bronny. Plus, Joel and Josh Levin interview Wil Aaron about racism in baseball in the decades after Jackie Robinson.

Bronny James (3:33): LeBron James wanted to play with his kid in the NBA. Will that be good for Bronny?

Wil Aaron (20:54): Hank Aaron’s cousin on his frustrating years in minor-league baseball.

Afterball (54:06): Stefan on Turkey vs. Türkiye at the 2024 Euros.

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0:00.0

How much do you know about the scandal that got Bill Clinton impeached?

0:03.4

Monica Lewinsky is under the microscope. Bill Clinton is under siege and the White House is trying to contain the damage.

0:10.2

Maybe you know the basics, that Clinton's presidency came to a screeching halt amid a storm of accusations involving sex, power, and partisan warfare.

0:18.3

If it turns out to be true, it could be the end of Clinton's presidency.

0:21.5

Congress is rushing to overthrow the commander-in-chief.

0:25.6

What determines who we believe and whose side we take in a political fight?

0:29.4

Trip and secretly tape Monica Lewinsky.

0:31.7

Go down the radio shack and buy a tape recorder and plug it into your phone.

0:35.8

What does it mean to abuse one's power?

0:37.8

I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

0:41.7

It is absolutely staggering that the fate of the most powerful man on the planet is in the

0:46.5

hands of a completely unknown 23-year-old interim.

0:49.9

Subscribe to Slow Burn and Apple Podcasts.

1:05.4

In late August 1992, Randy Weaver and his family were refusing to come down from the remote Idaho mountaintop where they lived.

1:07.6

Weaver, a fugitive on a federal firearms charge, has been holed up in a cabin near Naples for more than a year. The government thought Randy Weaver, a fugitive on a federal firearms charge, has been holed up in a cabin near Naples for more than a year.

1:12.6

The government thought Randy Weaver was a dangerous, possibly violent extremist.

1:17.6

Randy and his wife Vicki thought the government was an agent of Satan on Earth.

1:22.6

When it was all over, three people were dead, and the government had spent millions of dollars to catch one man.

1:30.3

We'll find out why the siege at Ruby Ridge unfolded the way it did, and think about some of the questions it raises.

1:37.3

What should we do about white supremacists?

1:40.3

Why has the story of Ruby Ridge become an enduring myth for the far right?

1:45.1

And whose fault was it anyway?

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