Hang Up and Listen - The NBA’s All-Star Catastrophe
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🗓️ 20 February 2024
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin discuss whether the NBA All-Star Game is fixable. They also talk about whether Fanatics and Nike are destroying the sports uniform. Finally, writer Abraham Josephine Riesman joins to explain the allegations against wrestling impresario Vince McMahon and why they matter.
All-Star Game (3:16): What can the league do to revive what used to be a showcase event?
Uniforms (22:53): Baseball players say their new clothes are the pits. What happened?
McMahon (42:37): What’s next for pro wrestling and the man who’s controlled it for decades?
Afterball (1:01:43): Josh on the time the mayor of San Francisco insulted the 49ers’ backup quarterback.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:02.8 | If you want to know how explicit, keep listening. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of February 20th |
| 0:23.6 | 2024 on this week show we'll talk about the no defense farcicality of the |
| 0:29.2 | NBA all-star game and whether anything can be done about it. We'll also discuss whether the company |
| 0:34.0 | fanatics is destroying the sports uniform. And writer Abraham Josephine Reisman will |
| 0:39.1 | join us to explain the allegations against wrestling honcho Vince McMahon and why they matter. |
| 0:44.7 | I'm in Washington DC, I'm the author of the book The Queen, and I refuse to play defense |
| 0:49.3 | before it was cool not to play defense. |
| 0:51.7 | Also in Washington DC is Stephen Fatsis, he's the author of the book's |
| 0:54.7 | Word Freak, A Few Seconds of Panic, and Wild and Outside, and he's so on trend that sometimes he lets |
| 1:00.0 | the ball go through his legs on purpose and old man softball. |
| 1:03.2 | False! But I only played defense when I played pickup basketball because I really didn't |
| 1:08.6 | have much of a shot and I couldn't drive the lane well. So, I was scrappy. |
| 1:13.4 | I would hope that you were. |
| 1:15.0 | Grand Theft, Fats of Raldo. |
| 1:17.0 | And with us, as always from Palo Alto, |
| 1:20.0 | it's three times Sloburn host, Joel Anderson. |
| 1:22.0 | And I would never presume about you Joel did you ever play defense |
| 1:26.0 | Oh no I was really good at defense I mean the thing you learn in little league and in youth basketball |
| 1:31.8 | is that most people can't dribble. |
| 1:33.4 | So if you swarm them, I would probably score 10 points a game |
| 1:37.1 | just off stealing the ball from the other guard |
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