Hang Up and Listen - The His Airness Plays Ping-Pong Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2017
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin and guest Jane Coaston talk about the NBA playoffs. Sean Singer also joins to discuss Enes Kanter and Turkish politics, and economist Andy Schwarz comes on the show to announce his plan to kill the NCAA’s amateur model.
NBA playoffs (2:42): A conversation about the inevitability of a third straight Cavs-Warriors finals, and whether anticipation for that series has killed the rest of the postseason.
Enes Kanter (15:50): Former Turkish Basketball Federation official Sean Singer explains how Oklahoma City Thunder power forward Enes Kanter became a political activist, and how his conflict with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is perceived in Turkey.
A plan to kill the NCAA (30:50): Andy Schwarz rolls out the HBCU League, which would pay college players and prepare them for the NBA.
Afterballs (49:22)
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:16.5 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of May 22nd, 2017. |
| 0:23.1 | On this week's show, we'll talk about the not super-duper exciting weeks-long prelude to what should be a super-duper exciting Warriors Cavs NBA finals, although now it seems like the Celtics aren't totally dead, which is a little bit weird. |
| 0:37.3 | Moving on, we'll be |
| 0:38.5 | joined by Sean Singer to discuss the strange saga of Ennis Cantor, the basketball player |
| 0:44.6 | for the Oklahoma City Thunder, who was detained over the weekend seemingly due to his opposition |
| 0:49.2 | to Turkish dictator Rejep Tayyip Erdogan. And finally, we'll be joined by economist Andy Schwartz, |
| 0:56.9 | who's ready to unveil his plan to pay college athletes and destroy the NCAA model |
| 1:02.1 | of enforced amateurism. It's interesting. I think you'll want to hear it. So don't throw your |
| 1:07.2 | phone into a lake before we get to that part of the show. Joining me in Washington, |
| 1:12.2 | D.C., as Stefan Fatsis, the author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic. He's currently |
| 1:17.0 | dunking his phone into a glass of water, ignoring my instructions. How dare you, Stefan? |
| 1:22.8 | Hi, Josh. Welcome back. Thank you. And with us for a return engagement as our pal Jane Kaston of MTV News. She's not just of MTV News. She's a semi-douranged Michigan Wolverines fan. Hi, Jane. I mean, semi-duranged is a really relative term. I just saw that Jim Hackett, our interim athletic director, just got hired as the head of Ford, I believe, based purely on getting |
| 1:44.7 | Jim Harbaugh to go do something. |
| 1:47.1 | Maybe Jim Harbaugh will go to Ford. |
| 1:48.7 | That's not deranged at all. |
| 1:49.7 | Can you see Harbaugh on the assembly line? |
| 1:52.1 | Motivating workers. |
| 1:53.7 | It would be Taylorism taken up to an uncomfortable level. |
| 1:58.3 | In our bonus segment, First Slate Plus members, we will have a prolonged fan fiction |
| 2:04.6 | about Jim Harbaugh on the assembly line. And then after we're done with that, we're going to talk |
| 2:09.0 | about U.S. soccer star Mallory Pugh's debut for the Washington Spirit and whether she'll |
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