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Hang Up and Listen

Hang Up and Listen - Remembering Grant Wahl

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6986 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin are joined by Sports Illustrated’s Jon Wertheim to talk about journalist Grant Wahl, who died suddenly over the weekend at the age of 49. They’re also joined by the Atlantic’s Franklin Foer for a conversation about Morocco’s thrilling run to the World Cup semifinals. Finally, they discuss Brittney Griner’s long-awaited return to the United States after a prisoner swap with Russia.

 

Grant Wahl (6:26): The life and legacy of a great journalist, mentor, and friend.

 

Morocco (32:01): What their success means for soccer, Africa, and the Arab world.

 

Griner (49:08): How she got released and what comes next.

 

Afterball (1:04:31): Josh on Grant Wahl’s Sports Illustrated cover story on LeBron James.


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0:29.7

Hi, this is Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slates Legal Podcast, Amagus. If you are 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. It's been

1:05.7

doctrinal rocket fuel for the conservative legal movement and facilitated the

1:10.4

rolling 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

1:19.3

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.

1:36.2

Go to slate.com slash Amicus live for tickets. The following podcast contains explicit language. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's National Editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of December 12, 2022.

2:07.0

On this week's show, Sports Illustrated's John Wertheim will join us to talk about his longtime colleague and our friend Grant Wall, who died suddenly over the weekend

2:15.9

while covering the World Cup in Qatar. We'll also be joined by the Atlantic Franklin

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