Hang Up and Listen - The NBA Players Aren’t Friends Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2018
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by the Athletic’s Ethan Sherwood Strauss to discuss Draymond Green’s beef with Kevin Durant. Oliver Roeder of FiveThirtyEight also joins to talk about the World Chess Championship and the Atlantic’s Derek Thompson talks about income inequality in youth sports.
Draymond vs. KD (2:40): Will interpersonal strife tear the Golden State Warriors apart, or is this just a small bump on the road to another championship?
Chess (22:46): Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana have played eight games, all eight of which have ended in draws. Are we having fun yet??
Youth sports (41:40): Kids from wealthy families are playing sports at increasing rates, while participation is dropping for kids from lower-income families. What’s the solution?
Afterballs (1:03:50): Stefan talks to Brin-Jonathan Butler about his book The Grandmaster and Josh on a strange college basketball upset.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:09.5 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of November 19th, 2018. |
| 0:18.1 | On this week's show, the athletics, Ethan Sherwood-Strauss, will be here to assess whether the conflict between Dremond Green and Kevin Durant will be the thing that breaks up the Golden State Warriors dynasty. Oliver Rader of 538 will also join us to talk about the showdown between Magnus Carlson and Fabiano Caruana at the World Chess Championship. |
| 0:39.6 | And finally, the Atlantic's Derek Thompson, will be here to discuss how youth sports in America |
| 0:45.1 | has become the province of the wealthy with kids from lower-income families getting left behind. |
| 0:51.8 | Joining me in our Washington, D.C. studio is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's |
| 0:56.5 | Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic. |
| 0:59.1 | Hello, Stefan. |
| 1:00.0 | Hello, Josh. |
| 1:02.0 | Alex Smith, 33 years after Joe Thysman, with Joe Thaisman in the stands, breaks his tibia and fibula, and the Washington game |
| 1:14.2 | against the Houston Texans. That was gross. Thirty-three years to the day, to the weekend. |
| 1:19.5 | Yeah. It was gross and sad. Football's fucked up. It's dangerous. Don't play football kids. |
| 1:27.3 | Yeah. Is there anything, is there anything else to say? |
| 1:31.3 | That Joe Thysman hit was... |
| 1:35.7 | The subject of an afterball I did a few years ago? |
| 1:38.5 | Was the subject of an afterball you did? |
| 1:40.0 | It was the subject of the beginning of the movie, the blind side. |
| 1:44.6 | Maybe if the Washington Offensive Line had watched that movie, |
| 1:48.1 | they would have understood the importance of your quarterback not getting his leg broken and mangled horrifically. |
| 1:54.6 | It seems like one of these, like, horrific leg mangling breakages happens like once a year. |
| 2:00.5 | In football or other sports. |
| 2:01.8 | Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We were due for one. Sorry, Alex Smith, that it had to be you. But it had to be someone. |
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