Hang Up and Listen - The 200 Seventh-Graders vs. LeBron Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by the Gist’s Mike Pesca to discuss a whole bunch of sports conundrums. Among the questions they ponder: How many seventh-grade basketball players would it take to beat LeBron James? How would you change an NBA court or an NFL field if irregularities were allowed? What’s a more worthwhile career—a few years of brilliance or a decade-plus of mediocrity?
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:12.6 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of January 1st, 2018. |
| 0:20.4 | On this week's show, we're going to do the first ever hang up and listens conundrums podcast |
| 0:26.0 | in the spirit of the great political gab fest. |
| 0:30.0 | They wanted to know which would you rather be a fish or a tree. |
| 0:34.2 | We will ask, who would you rather be catfish hunter or tree Rollins? |
| 0:39.2 | And there will be other questions. |
| 0:40.2 | We'll ask and answer. |
| 0:41.1 | Marty Fish, Marty Fish, the Stanford tree. |
| 0:46.1 | Mike Pasca. |
| 0:47.3 | Mike Pasca. |
| 0:47.9 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:49.5 | Hey, Mike. |
| 0:50.3 | Mike Pasca is here. |
| 0:51.1 | It's always a special episode when Mike is here. |
| 0:53.5 | He's the host of the Daily podcast, The Gist, and he's joining us from New York. Hello, Mike. Hello. I definitely don't want to be, was it the Auburn tree that the Alabama guy tore down or the other way around? Yeah, it was the Alabama guy poisoning the Auburn tree. That is correct. Yes. Don't want to be that. Has anyone poisoned the fish? I don't know who the fish would be. |
| 1:14.3 | They called the dolphins the fish. |
| 1:17.2 | That was like an Ace Ventura, right? There was some dolphin-related issue. |
| 1:21.9 | Benny the Marlin? Is that his name? Yeah. Is this going to be the whole episode? Just like naming different fish and trees? We got to give credit to Al Baker. He actually came up with the catfish hunter, Tree Rollins thing. Stefan Fatsis is the author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic. He is here in Washington, D.C. Hello, Stefan. Hey, Josh. Hi, Mike. So, Mike, you're the guest. |
| 1:46.2 | You're the honored guest. We've got a lot of really fun conundrums here, but I want to give you first pick in the conundrum draft. All right. This is my favorite one. Let's go with LeBron James and the seventh graders. All right. How many seventh grade basketball teams would be needed to beat LeBron James on his own? |
| 2:03.7 | That's the question you want, correct? graders. All right. How many seventh grade basketball teams would be needed to beat LeBron James |
| 2:02.7 | on his own? That's the question you want, correct? Right, right. So that one's from Daniel |
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