Hang Up and Listen - The New York Knicks Are a Thing Again Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson and Josh Levin are joined by the New Yorker’s Vinson Cunningham to discuss the rise of the New York Knicks and the start of the NBA playoffs. The Athletic’s Chantel Jennings also joins to talk about the start of the WNBA season. Finally, Joe Drape of the New York Times assesses the case against racehorse trainer Bob Baffert.
NBA (3:42): Does the Knicks’ return to non-terribleness matter? And what are the big storylines going into the playoffs?
WNBA (24:42): The return of Sabrina Ionescu and other big news from the league’s opening weekend.
Horse racing (42:58): Is the sport turning on Bob Baffert after yet another doping scandal?
Afterball (58:39): Joel on Sam Houston State’s football championship.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast includes explicit language. |
| 0:07.9 | Hi, I'm Joel Anderson, Slate Staff Rider, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of May 17th, 2021. |
| 0:15.5 | On this week's show, we're going to talk about the Knicks managing to be relevant and good for the first time in a long time, |
| 0:21.3 | the start of the WMBA season, and the very dark drug-fueled cloud following controversial |
| 0:27.1 | trainer Bob Bafford and Kentucky Derby winner, Medina Spirit. |
| 0:30.9 | Stefan is out this week and the next, but we're going to make up forward by having guests |
| 0:34.9 | for every single segment this week, delivering on Josh's promise to keep our audience off balance. |
| 0:40.6 | I'm in Palo Alto, California, and I'm the host of Slow Burn Season 3 |
| 0:44.5 | and the upcoming Slow Burn Season 6 on the 1992, LA riots. |
| 0:49.3 | In D.C., we're going from west to east this time. |
| 0:53.0 | It's Josh Levine. |
| 0:53.6 | He's the author of The Queen and the host of Slow Burn Season 4 on David Duke. Josh, good morning. |
| 1:00.4 | Nice to be here with you, Joel. And I'm glad that the West Coast gets to go first for once in life. It's just nice for you to have a moment in the sun. |
| 1:10.4 | We normally don't mind following the East Coast. This time zone has actually been very good |
| 1:14.9 | for me, except on days when I have to record this podcast. But other than that, it's not been bad. |
| 1:20.0 | We should talk about, because, you know, I'm going to use this time to just praise you |
| 1:25.3 | all of the time like I did last week when we talked about, you know, |
| 1:29.0 | your piece that ran in Slate. But let's talk about one year podcast because they just announced |
| 1:34.4 | it at the IAB. I don't know what those, that acronym stands for, but it has something to do |
| 1:39.5 | a podcast in new shows. You have a new podcast coming out soon. Yes, IAB, it stands for |
| 1:43.8 | podcasts. The I and B, all stand for podcasts. The IA and B all |
| 1:46.1 | stand for podcasts. Yeah, so you've got a new show coming out called One Year, the premise of which |
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