Hang Up and Listen - The Best Comeback That Never Was
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2023
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Josh Levin and Stefan Fatsis are joined by Joel Anderson to talk about the Celtics’ Game 7 loss to the Heat. They’re also joined by Mike Simmonds of Luton Today for a conversation about Luton Town’s rise to the Premier League. And finally, writer Sam Miller comes on to discuss the indelible image of Randy Johnson killing a bird with a fastball.
Celtics-Heat (6:49): How Boston came so far, and then collapsed.
Luton Town (28:27): The inside scoop on an incredible underdog story.
Baseball and birds (47:15): Why we’re still talking about a pitch from 2001.
Afterball (1:07:07): Stefan on Tom Wambsgans and Bill Wambsganss and Josh on whether Clarence Thomas could dunk.
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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. This podcast contains explicit language, but it's probably not my fault. |
| 1:48.0 | Don't worry, I'll talk to the other hosts. It's. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, and this is Hangup and Listen for the week of May 30th, |
| 2:08.0 | 2023. |
| 2:09.0 | On this week show, we'll talk about what the hell just happened in the Eastern Conference finals, where the Miami Heat nearly |
| 2:14.8 | blew a 3-0-series lead before blowing out the Boston Celtics. |
| 2:20.1 | Mike Simmons of Luton today will also be here to talk about Luton Town's incredible rise |
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