Hang Up and Listen - The Cut It Out Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by the Undefeated’s Jesse Washington to talk about the latest allegations against Antonio Brown and the story of a high school wrestler who was instructed to cut off his dreadlocks. The Ringer’s Ben Lindbergh also assesses the disappointing Cubs and Red Sox and the surprising Twins. Antonio Brown (01:17): What we should make of the latest twists in the Brown saga, and what the Patriots should be forced to reckon with after signing Brown and then releasing him. Andrew Johnson (21:15): The high schooler went viral after a referee told him to cut his dreadlocks or forfeit his match. Here’s the story behind that story. Cubs, Red Sox, and Twins (36:05): What went wrong for the Cubs and Red Sox and how can they fix their problems? And what went right for the Twins? Afterballs (58:20): Stefan on powder-puff football and Josh on the Cubs on WGN.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.1 | Hello, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor and the author of The Queen. |
| 0:12.2 | This is Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of September 23rd, 2019. |
| 0:17.9 | On this week's show, The Undefeated's Jesse Washington will join us to talk about Antonio Brown, the accusations of sexual assault, the Patriots decision to cut him, and Brown's declaration that he's quitting the NFL. |
| 0:29.5 | Jesse Washington will also talk with us about his story on Andrew Johnson, a high school wrestler who is instructed to cut off his dreadlocks or forfeit his match. |
| 0:37.8 | Finally, the ringers Ben Lindberg will be here to assess the Cubs and Red Sox, the long-suffering |
| 0:43.2 | franchises that haven't been suffering all that much lately, but have been suffering this season. |
| 0:48.1 | Joining me in Slates Washington, DC Studio, Stefan Fatsis, author of the books, Word Freak, |
| 1:10.9 | and a few seconds of panic. I feel like there's a first time, long time, first suffering, long-suffering thing somewhere buried in there, Stephen. Yeah, I have no sympathy for either of those franchises, though. Your sympathies, as always, are with the long, painfully suffering New York Angus. That's right. It's been a while. |
| 1:11.5 | It has. |
| 1:12.4 | Go bombers. |
| 1:12.9 | Yay. |
| 1:14.0 | They won the division. |
| 1:18.7 | A little less than two weeks ago, |
| 1:24.6 | Antonio Brown's former trainer, Britney Taylor, filed a civil suit alleging that Brown sexually assaulted her three separate times. |
| 1:27.0 | Five days later, Brown caught a touchdown in his first game for the New England Patriots |
| 1:31.7 | who'd signed the wide receiver after he essentially forced the Oakland Raiders to release him. |
| 1:36.9 | A day after Brown made that touchdown catch, Sports Illustrated's Robert Klimko published a story |
| 1:42.3 | about one lawyer called An Unfortunate Pattern of Entitlement and Narcissism, |
| 1:48.1 | a series of events in which Brown refused to pay a trainer, a chef, and an aquarium guy for services rendered and generally behaved terribly. |
| 1:56.5 | That story also contained an additional accusation of sexual misconduct. |
| 2:01.0 | This one levied by an artist who'd been commissioned to paint a mural of Brown. |
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