Hang Up and Listen - The Make America Cheat Again Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin discuss the women’s NCAA tournament with Lindsay Gibbs of ThinkProgress. Sports Illustrated’s Chris Ballard also joins to talk about Giannis Antetokounmpo. Finally, Slate’s Jim Newell assesses Donald Trump’s cheating on the golf course.
NCAA tournament (2:01): How did Baylor beat defending champ Notre Dame? And what should we make of Baylor coach Kim Mulkey and Notre Dame’s Muffet McGraw?
Giannis (25:59): How coach Mike Budenholzer helped transform the Milwaukee Bucks and gave the Greek Freak space to become the NBA MVP.
Trump and golf (40:44): Does Rick Reilly’s reporting on Trump’s cheating tell us anything about the president that we didn’t already know?
Afterballs(58:50): Stefan on the history of the participation trophy and Josh on burning infields.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:11.0 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of April 8th, 2019. |
| 0:18.0 | On this week's show, Lindsay Gibbs of Think Progress, we'll be here to talk about Baylor's thrilling one-point win over Notre Dame, which made them the champions of women's college basketball. |
| 0:27.8 | Sports Illustrated's Chris Ballard will also be on the show to discuss his story on how Janice Antedacompo became the probable NBA MVP, sorry James Hardin. And finally, Slate's Jim Newell will come on to |
| 0:40.4 | discuss the shocking allegations that Donald Trump cheats at golf impeach. Impeach. Here with me in our |
| 0:48.6 | Washington, D.C. studio is my co-host, Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and a few |
| 0:53.3 | seconds of panic. How does it feel, Stefan, to be introduced by the author of the upcoming book, The Queen, available on May 21st. That would not be a good introduction for me because I did not write The Queen. You did? Josh's book is out in May. We promoted it last week, Peska and I. Thank you. You didn't hear the show. |
| 1:13.1 | Apparently, Josh was in Vietnam where apparently the internet doesn't work very well, so he didn't listen to his colleagues and friends work in his absence. Love hang up and listen. Great show. One of my favorites. By the queen. Pre-order it, everybody. |
| 1:27.3 | Not a lot of sports content, though. |
| 1:29.2 | I can tell you. |
| 1:30.4 | I'm versatile. |
| 1:31.4 | So, men's NCAA title game between Texas Tech and Virginia happening tonight after we record the show. |
| 1:38.6 | We'll talk a little bit about some stuff that happened in the men's tournament in our first segment with Lindsay Gibbs. |
| 1:43.2 | But this is a classic hang-up listen recording on Monday, a problem. |
| 1:48.4 | But I just hope everyone enjoys the game on Monday night. |
| 1:52.1 | That's all that I wish for. |
| 1:54.0 | Or enjoyed the game. |
| 1:55.3 | For the listeners to be happy. |
| 1:56.7 | I hope you enjoyed the game. |
| 1:59.1 | Good sentiment, as always. |
| 2:02.3 | In the 2018 NCAA women's basketball championship game, Notre Dame trailed by 15 points before defeating Mississippi State on a buzzer-beater by Arike Ogunboale. |
| 2:13.0 | On Sunday in the 2019 title game, the Irish came back from 17 points down against Baylor. |
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