Hang Up and Listen - The NBA’s New Rules
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Joel, Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin discuss the ouster of Joel’s old football coach, TCU’s Gary Patterson. They also talk about how the NBA’s new rules are changing pro basketball. Finally, the New York Times’ Kevin Draper joins for a conversation about the Chicago Blackhawks’ cover-up of an alleged sexual assault.
TCU (3:06): Why was it time for Gary Patterson to go? Who does Joel want to see replace him?
NBA rules (30:11): Draymond Green is delighted. Trae Young and James Harden aren’t.
Blackhawks (44:42): What the team’s investigation revealed about the culture of hockey and sexual assault.
Afterball (1:04:30): Stefan on the surprising origins of the “tomahawk chop” music.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains naughty language. |
| 0:18.5 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of November 1st, 2021, aka Slow Burn, Season 6 launch week. |
| 0:28.7 | On this week's show, we'll hear from the TCU football legend in our midst about what the ouster of Hornfrogs coach Gary Patterson reveals about life and college |
| 0:39.4 | football. We'll also investigate whether NBA rule changes have fundamentally altered the game |
| 0:44.6 | and or made James Harden bad at basketball. Finally, the New York Times is Kevin Draper will be here |
| 0:49.9 | to discuss the fallout from the Chicago Blackhawks investigation into the team's failure to act on reports that a coach sexually assaulted a player during the 2010 NHL playoffs. |
| 1:00.3 | I'm in Washington, D.C., and I'm the author of The Queen and the host of the podcast One Year. |
| 1:05.2 | Joining me from Palo Alto, number one in our lineup, number one in our hearts, number one on the podcast charts soon to be it's joel |
| 1:13.3 | anderson host of slowburn season six on the la riots episode one out on wednesday if you don't listen |
| 1:19.2 | we can't be friends with jol i'm sure you can't be friends with jol but we've got jol's back so you can't be |
| 1:23.5 | friends with us either what's up joel let's go stroz let's go stroze let's go stroze. Let's go stroze. Let's go stroze. |
| 1:30.1 | I appreciate you all looking out for me when I wasn't here last week and saying that there was a |
| 1:34.6 | reason, a plausible reason to root for the Houston Astros, and it was me. So I'm really grateful for |
| 1:40.8 | that. And thank you also for letting people know about Slow Burn 6, which |
| 1:45.4 | we put a lot of work in and are really excited to share with the rest of the world this week. |
| 1:50.5 | With us from D.C., Houston Astros fan, Slow Burn fan, author of Word Freak, A Few Seconds of Panic, |
| 1:59.1 | and Wild, and Outside, Stefan Fatt says, hello, Stefan. |
| 2:01.9 | Hey, it's good to have us all back together. It's been a few weeks. It has. It really has. |
| 2:07.4 | Yeah. Joel's working. I was playing Scrabble one weekend. You know, our priorities are in order. |
| 2:15.1 | Joel is wearing his TCU t-shirt. |
| 2:19.0 | How many of those do you own, Joel? |
| 2:20.8 | How much purple is in your closet? |
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