Hang Up and Listen - The Biggest Contract in NBA History
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🗓️ 31 July 2023
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Josh Levin and Stefan Fatsis are joined by the Washington Post’s Chuck Culpepper to talk about big wins for Colombia and Australia at the Women’s World Cup. Alex Kirshner of Slate and the Split Zone Duo podcast also joins to discuss whether NFL running backs should go on strike and the Celtics’ Jaylen Brown getting the biggest NBA deal ever.
Women’s World Cup (2:40): The scene in the stadium when Australia thrashed Canada.
NFL running backs (21:34): What can they do to get more respect and more cash?
Big-money deals (42:47): Is there any amount of money that’s too much for a pro athlete to make?
Afterball (1:02:22): Stefan on the world Scrabble championships in Las Vegas.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast includes explicit language, including, well, you'll just have to wait and see. |
| 0:21.6 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine and this is Hang Up and Listen for the Week of July 31st, 2023. |
| 0:27.2 | On this week's show, the Washington Post's Chuck Cole Pepper will join us to talk about |
| 0:30.8 | the latest from the women's world cup, including Colombia's big win over Germany and Australia's |
| 0:36.4 | monster victory over Canada. Alex Kirschner of Slate and the split-zone duo podcast will also be |
| 0:42.7 | here for a couple of segments. First, on whether NFL running backs should stage a mutiny to protest |
| 0:48.4 | their relatively low wages. And second, at the other end of the pay scale, we'll discuss the |
| 0:53.1 | Celtics, Jalen Brown, getting the biggest deal in NBA history, and whether there will ever be a |
| 0:58.1 | point when athletes make too much money. I'm in Washington, DC, and I'm the author of The Queen |
| 1:03.1 | and the host of the podcast One Year. Back with me this week, I'm happy to say, Stefan Fatsas. He's |
| 1:08.3 | the author of the book's word freak a few seconds of panic and wild and outside. How are you, Stefan? |
| 1:13.2 | Getting better. Don't get COVID people. COVID sucks. COVID kicked my ass. I got it in Las Vegas. |
| 1:21.1 | My fault for going to Las Vegas to play in the North American Scrabble Championships a couple |
| 1:26.5 | weeks ago. We'll be hearing more about that. The Scrabble part, not the COVID part later in the show, |
| 1:34.2 | but glad you're feeling better. Thanks. The Slow Burn live show was great. I say that not to |
| 1:39.4 | rub it in to Stefan who was not able to be there, but to revel in the glories of our friend, |
| 1:46.3 | Joel Anderson, and in our bonus segment, first lay plus members this week. If you are a member, |
| 1:54.4 | you'll get to hear Alex Kirschner and us talk about maybe the end of a conference on the West Coast |
| 2:04.3 | that connects such teams as Oregon, Washington, Stanford. I can name them all, but I won't. |
| 2:11.2 | With Colorado leaving, what does that mean for the future of the pack, whatever number it is, |
| 2:15.8 | and will there cease to be any such conference? Alex will drop some knowledge on us. To hear |
| 2:22.3 | that, you have to be a slate plus member. You get bonus segments on this show and on Slow Burn and |
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