Hang Up and Listen - The Mascot That Changed American Sports
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Josh Levin and Stefan Fatsis are joined by Jack Hamilton to discuss the NBA Finals. The New York Times’ Tariq Panja also comes on for a conversation about Saudi Arabia’s efforts to lure Lionel Messi and conquer global soccer. Finally, the Athletic’s Zach Buchanan discusses his piece on the pioneering mascot the San Diego Chicken.
Nuggets-Heat (3:05): How Miami tied up the series.
Saudi soccer (24:18): Can they get Messi? What are they trying to accomplish?
The Chicken (42:49): What Ted Giannoulas created.
Afterball (1:05:20): Josh on Rodney “Crash” McCray.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the overnight flight from London Heathrow to Beijing. |
| 0:05.0 | Flight time 11 hours, 237 passengers on board, |
| 0:11.0 | and one murderer. |
| 0:15.0 | There's no escape. |
| 0:17.0 | At 35,000 feet, red eye. Stream now on ITX. |
| 0:30.0 | Hi, this is Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slate's legal podcast Amagus. If you're listening to this show, you might be interested in Amicus's live show that we're hosting in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, May the 14th. |
| 0:45.0 | My colleague, Mark Joseph Stern, and I will be talking to some amazing guests, |
| 0:50.0 | including Cheryline Eiffel, and a sitting state Supreme Court justice. |
| 0:54.5 | All about how originalism, a relatively recently invented way of interpreting the Constitution, |
| 1:00.9 | has taken over the Supreme Court and radically reshaped the law. |
| 1:05.4 | It's been doctrinal rocket fuel for the conservative legal movement and facilitated the rolling |
| 1:10.7 | back of abortion rights, the expansion of gun rights, and the |
| 1:14.0 | obliteration of the separation of church and state. And as another wildly |
| 1:19.4 | consequential Supreme Court term, careers to its end, the Court's originalists are on a tear. |
| 1:26.6 | But there's something you can do about it and we hope you'll join us in DC on May 14th |
| 1:31.8 | to explore the possible pathways out of the current situation, go to |
| 1:36.7 | slate.com slash Amicus Live for tickets. The following podcast includes explicit language, including, well, you'll just have to wait and see. Thank you. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of June 5th, |
| 2:09.0 | 2023. On this week's show, Jack Hamilton will be here to talk about how the Miami Heat improbably, or maybe at this point probably, tied up the NBA finals against the Denver Nuggets. |
| 2:20.0 | Tariq Panja of the New York Times will also join us for a conversation about Saudi Arabia's efforts to lure Leonel Messie and conquer global soccer. |
| 2:28.4 | And finally, the athletic Zach Buchanan will come on to discuss his story on the final days, possibly, of the |
| 2:35.0 | legendary pioneering mascot, the San Diego Chicken. |
| 2:39.4 | I'm in Washington, D.C. and I'm the author of The Queen and the host of the podcast one year. |
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