Hang Up and Listen - The My Favorite House Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2018
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by the Athletic’s Marcus Thompson to discuss the Warriors and Steph Curry. Bloomberg’s Ira Boudway also joins to talk about legalized sports betting, and John Swansburg helps assess Tom Wolfe’s classic piece on NASCAR driver Junior Johnson.
Golden State Warriors (4:20): With Steph Curry looking spry and healthy, can anyone stop the NBA’s best team? And what’s the deal with Curry’s mom fining him for cursing?
Legalized sports betting (26:15): The Supreme Court’s huge ruling will change how leagues operate and how fans wager. Bloomberg’s Ira Boudway explains the ramifications.
Tom Wolfe on Junior Johnson (44:35): Tom Wolfe’s Esquire piece “The Last American Hero Is Junior Johnson. Yes!” is a classic of new journalism. What did Wolfe get right about Johnson and NASCAR and what did he miss?
Afterballs (1:11:40):Â
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.0 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of May 21st, 2018. |
| 0:17.8 | On this week's show, the athletics Marcus Thompson will join us to talk about the |
| 0:21.7 | State of Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors after they blew out the rockets in game |
| 0:26.9 | three of the Western Conference finals. Ira Boudway of Bloomberg will also be here to help us |
| 0:31.7 | assess the consequences of the Supreme Court's ruling, allowing sports gambling to proliferate |
| 0:36.9 | across this year, United States. |
| 0:39.5 | And John Swansberg of the Atlantic will come on the show to chat with us about one of Tom Wolfe's |
| 0:44.8 | most famous pieces of journalism, The Esquire Story, The Last American Hero, is Junior Johnson. |
| 0:51.5 | Yes! |
| 0:53.0 | Joining us here in our studio, providing exclamations on this week's show. |
| 0:57.1 | It is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic. |
| 1:01.9 | Stefan, I want to thank you for touting my 2002 city paper piece last week on lead and water. |
| 1:09.1 | I was really proud. |
| 1:10.0 | That was one of the first pieces of journalism I did. That was |
| 1:13.1 | like a fairly big local story and we beat the Washington Post to it and showing my strong |
| 1:18.4 | reporting instincts. We produced no follow-ups. I should say I produced no follow-ups and then like |
| 1:23.3 | the post did a bunch of really good journalism on the problem of D.C. DeWater. |
| 1:28.4 | It's sort of like being an editor, Josh. It was just foreshadowing your career as an editor. You're the inspiration for others. |
| 1:33.8 | I think somebody just assigned me the tip. So I basically like row one story and then forgot about it for the rest of my life. But I do deserve all of the credit. |
| 1:41.6 | I wanted to mention the first story of yours that I was |
| 1:46.0 | able to find in any news database. I'm sure it wasn't the first piece that you wrote, but it's the first |
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