Hang Up and Listen - The New York Jets Are Bad
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🗓️ 7 December 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin talk about the latest humiliation of the winless New York Jets. They also discuss the Russell Westbrook-John Wall trade, and Russell Dinkins joins for a conversation about his quest to save college track programs.
Jets (03:55): Are they trying to lose on purpose? Should Trevor Lawrence stay away?
Westbrook and Wall (23:57): The thin line between NBA superstardom and basketball sadness.
Track (39:32): Why are men’s track programs disappearing, and what does race have to do with it?
Afterball (58:21): Joel on the end of the Southwest Conference and the decline of the Houston Cougars.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.3 | Hide your children. |
| 0:10.8 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of December 7th, 2020. |
| 0:17.5 | On this week's show, we'll talk about the most recent humiliation of the winless New York Jets |
| 0:21.7 | and whether those rascally JETS will win in the end. |
| 0:26.5 | We'll also discuss the Rockets Wizards Russell Westbrook John Wall Swap, whether it's as sad as I think it is. |
| 0:33.5 | And finally, we'll speak with runner and activist Russell Jenkins about his quest to save men's college track programs, which he describes as the only sport in the NCAA where schools cannot profit from black athlete labor. |
| 0:46.5 | I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of The Queen, the host of Slow Burn Season 4. Also in D.C., Stefan Fatsis, author of WordFreek and a few seconds of panic. How's it going? |
| 0:55.4 | Stefan. Good, Josh. How are you? Doing swell with us from Palo Alto, Slate staff writer Joel |
| 1:00.9 | Anderson. He's the host of Slow Burn season three and the upcoming season six on the LA riots. |
| 1:06.0 | Hello, Joel. Good morning. So perfunctory chatter there. |
| 1:11.7 | I think I'm just going to call it out for what it was. |
| 1:13.9 | But the reason for it is that we're going to now get into some animated back and forth |
| 1:18.9 | about the big hang up and listen news for next week, which is, Joel, you've been working |
| 1:24.7 | on a special podcast on Michael Jordan's time with the Washington Wizards. |
| 1:31.0 | It's basically what the last dance left out. |
| 1:33.4 | It ended that documentary series with the 98 Bull season and then pretended like Jordan never laced them up again. |
| 1:40.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:41.1 | But he did. |
| 1:41.9 | He did. |
| 1:42.4 | It's the last last dance, we've been, you know, |
| 1:45.2 | unofficially calling it. And yeah, me and Melissa, who is our great producer for this podcast, |
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