Hang Up and Listen - The Marvelousness of Marvelous Marvin Hagler

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🗓️ 16 March 2021

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Summary

Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin discuss the lead-up to March Madness. They also talk about the controversy surrounding “The Eyes of Texas,” the song the University of Texas plays before and after football games. Finally, they assess the life and career of Marvelous Marvin Hagler.

March Madness (01:09): Should the NCAA Tournament be played?

“The Eyes of Texas” (21:35): What we know about the song and what the conversation about it leaves out.

Hagler (41:00): What made him and his fights so memorable.

Afterballs (60:25): Stefan on the etymology of packed and stuffed.

Podcast production and edit by Margaret Kelley.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language, including the words, well, you'll just have to wait and see.
0:10.1	Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of March 15th, 2021.
0:17.2	On this week's show, we're going to talk about March Madness and he rode to the Final Four, which this year is about avoiding COVID-19.
0:25.5	We'll also discuss the Eyes of Texas, the song the University of Texas plays before and after football games, which has become the subject of heated debate at the school because of its historical connection to menstrual shows. And we'll assess the
0:39.1	life and career of marvelous Marvin Hagler, the middleweight boxing champ who died on
0:44.4	Saturday at the age of 66. I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of The Queen and the host of
0:49.9	Slow Burn, season four on David Duke. Also in D.C., Stefan Fatsis, he's the author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic. Hello, Stefan. Hey, Josh. And also with us, Slate Staff writer, the host of Slow Burn, season three, and the upcoming season six. Get hype. Joel Anderson. Hey, Joel. Hey, good morning, everybody. Check out the link that I just sent around.
1:12.1	Okay. We're doing this on the air. We're doing this in real time.
1:16.3	A real time. Can you read the headline and the subhead? Wow. It's like this, it's like this story was created just for me. Did you all assign this story because of me? But anyway, the headline is
1:27.9	how to win your NCAA pool. The subhead says, act like a hedge fund manager and pick Houston
1:35.3	to win it all. I am elated. That would be more exciting to me than even TCU wearing a national
1:42.3	championship, to be honest. So this is the story that we re-up every, that we re-up every year, where the premise is,
1:49.6	we're going to identify the team that the general public most undervalues, that the general
1:57.2	public most disrespects, that the general public most hatess, the general public most hates on,
2:04.6	and tell you the readers of slate.com,
2:07.9	they should pick them to win your bracket
2:09.4	because they're the most undervalued asset.
2:11.1	And this year, that team is the Houston Cougars.
2:14.6	Everybody thinks Gonzaga is going to win.
2:16.2	All the prediction systems,
2:18.2	all the ESPN.com tournament challenge people. And Houston is like considered to be very, very good
2:24.2	by all of the like advanced numbers, the analytics. They're one of the top few teams in the country.
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