Hang Up and Listen - The Meaning of O.J. Simpson
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin, discuss the death of O.J. Simpson and everything his life and his murder trial dredged up. They’re also joined by Vincent Goodwill of Yahoo Sports for a breakdown of the NBA playoffs.
O.J. Simpson's legacy (2:05): Reckoning with the meaning of O.J.
NBA Playoffs (23:45): Breaking down the upcoming playoff picture.
Afterball (41:42): Joel on O.J. Simpson’s long and not so successful sportscasting career.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast includes explicit language, |
| 0:03.4 | including, well, you'll just have to wait and see. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of April 15, 2024. |
| 0:26.7 | On this week show, we'll talk about the death of OJ Simpson and everything his life and |
| 0:30.9 | his murder trial dredged up. And be joined by Yahoo's Vincent Goodwill |
| 0:35.6 | who will help us look at the shenanigans and the storylines going into the |
| 0:40.0 | NBA post-season. I'm in Washington DC I'm the author of the book The Queen and |
| 0:45.0 | the host of an upcoming Sloburn season on the rise of Fox News and how the left |
| 0:49.0 | tried to fight back. Also in DC is Stephen Fatsis. He is the author of the book's Word Freak, |
| 0:54.9 | a few seconds of panic, and wild and outside. How are you, Stephen? |
| 0:59.5 | I'm great, Josh. How are you? |
| 1:01.8 | Was I a little too aggressive for you? |
| 1:03.6 | A little bit. We're recording a little earlier |
| 1:06.3 | than our usual, so I'm trying to amp up the energy. Let's see |
| 1:10.1 | if the listeners can tell how energetic and or tired we are with us from Palo Alto is the energy |
| 1:17.0 | drink officiano himself Joel Anderson it's pink today yeah it's strawberry. I have a whole 24 pet |
| 1:24.7 | crate. Oh no. Yeah, I'd made a promise to get off of this stuff and you know |
| 1:30.5 | Sometimes promises to make to be broken, you know, you know sometimes promises to make to be broken you know |
| 1:34.1 | uh you know I promise we never break it's the promise we make to our slate |
| 1:38.1 | plus members we guarantee to you that we will drink strawberry energy |
| 1:42.1 | drinks and provide a bonus episode every week. |
| 1:45.2 | This week we're going to talk about the crazy revelations in the case of Shohay O'Tani's interpreter |
| 1:51.3 | who reportedly stole 16 million dollars from the |
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