Hang Up and Listen - Remembering Jim Brown
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🗓️ 22 May 2023
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Summary
Josh Levin and Stefan Fatsis discuss the Heat and Nuggets and their stars Jimmy Butler and Nikola Jokic. They’re also joined by writers Dave Zirin and Jesse Washington to talk about the life and legacy of Jim Brown. Finally, Defector’s Maitreyi Anantharaman joins to assess Brittney Griner’s return, Becky Hammon’s suspension, and other WNBA storylines.
NBA (3:10): How Miami and Denver are steamrolling to the NBA Finals.
Jim Brown (24:00): He was a football star, a civil rights icon, and a domestic abuser. How should we think about him?
WNBA (54:25): Making sense of the busiest opening week in league history.
Afterball (1:13:56): Stefan on race, wealth, and baseball in Washington, D.C.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast includes explicit language, including, well, you'll just have to wait and see. |
| 0:22.0 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine and this is Hang Up and Listen for the Week of May 22nd, |
| 0:25.5 | 2023. On this week's show, we'll talk about two teams on the verge of sweeps in the NBA conference |
| 0:31.5 | finals and two players who are dominating the playoffs. The heat's Jimmy Butler and the Nuggets |
| 0:37.3 | Nicole Lyokitch. Writer's Dave Zyron and Jesse Washington will also join us to assess Jim Brown, |
| 0:43.5 | the football legend, civil rights activist, and domestic abuser, who died last week at age 87. |
| 0:49.9 | And finally, defectors May 3 on on Theraman will be here to discuss Brittany Griner's return, |
| 0:54.9 | Becky Hammond's suspension and what's in store for the WNBA this season. I'm in Washington, |
| 1:00.8 | D.C. and I'm the author of The Queen and the host of the podcast One Year. Also in D.C. |
| 1:05.1 | is Stefan Fatsis. He's the author of Word Freak. A few seconds of panic and wild and outside |
| 1:10.6 | hell is Stefan. Hi, Josh. How's your week? Good. Thank you. You're implying that we didn't talk |
| 1:16.5 | since last week that we just went into our cryogenic chambers and have only now emerged to encounter |
| 1:23.5 | each other on this Zoom. Just private talk and then there's hang up talk. Everyone who's listening |
| 1:29.0 | didn't hear us talk when we talked. I'm hearing us talk now. How is your week? It was good. Thank |
| 1:37.3 | you for asking, Josh. Picked up my daughter at college, played a little softball, watched one of my |
| 1:43.3 | scrabble players graduate from college, even though he's only in high school, long story, |
| 1:49.6 | watched a high school baseball game for a week. How was Joel Anderson's week? Don't know. He's |
| 1:54.7 | not on the show. He's busy busy, isn't he? I think it was a busy week. Slowburn's season eight |
| 2:00.8 | becoming Justice Thomas. It's coming next week, baby, May 31st. Listen for that. In our sleep plus |
| 2:09.1 | segment this week, May 3 and on the rummend of Defactor, we'll stick around to talk more about |
| 2:13.2 | the WNBA, including why do so many draft picks not make opening day rosters? And how can the WNBA |
| 2:20.2 | fix that? Terrace discuss you need to be a sleep plus member. You get bonus segments on our show. |
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