Hang Up and Listen - The No Texts or Nothin’ Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2018
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Josh Levin, Wosny Lambre, and Ethan Sherwood Strauss discuss the NBA playoffs. They also talk about Meek Mill’s release from prison and his relationship with the 76ers, and they ponder quarterback Josh Allen’s old, racial-slur-laden tweets.
NBA playoffs (2:20): Josh, Wos, and Ethan assess the state of the Oklahoma City Thunder and the NBA’s most polarizing player, Russell Westbrook. They also examine LeBron James’ latest triumph and check in on the state of the Golden State Warriors.
Meek Mill (22:35): Upon his release from prison, the Philadelphia rapper headed straight to the Sixers’ game against the Miami Heat. How did Mill forge such a tight connection with the team, and how did he become a cause célèbre for criminal justice reformers?
Josh Allen (37:23): The Wyoming quarterback’s tweets were publicized the night before the NFL draft. Should we care about Allen’s social media misadventures, and how should we think about athletes’ old tweets more broadly?
Afterballs (56:00):
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:12.9 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of April 30th, 2018. |
| 0:19.9 | On this week's show, we'll talk about LeBron James' Heroics in leading the Cleveland |
| 0:24.3 | Cavaliers out of the first round of the NBA playoffs. |
| 0:28.1 | We'll also talk about the future of Russell Westbrook, Paul George, Carmelo, Anthony, |
| 0:32.0 | and the Oklahoma City Thunder, and other news from the NBA. |
| 0:36.2 | We'll also discuss how the city of Philadelphia, the 76ers, and New England Patriots owner Bob Kraft, |
| 0:42.2 | have embraced the rapper Meek Mill, who is released from prison in time to watch the Sixers series clinching win last week. |
| 0:49.5 | And finally, we'll kick around Josh Allen's old, not super great tweets, which resurfaced in the |
| 0:56.1 | hours before the quarterback prospect got selected in the first round of the NFL draft. |
| 1:01.8 | Stefan Fatsis is off this week, but joining me from L.A. is Wozni Lambray, aka Big Was. |
| 1:09.0 | You can listen to Was on the back-to-back podcast where he talks about basketball and lots |
| 1:13.0 | of things that aren't basketball with the likes of Zach Harper and Amin Elhassen and Tom |
| 1:18.0 | Haberstro. |
| 1:18.8 | You can also check him out on another podcast called The Score, which covers the crossover |
| 1:23.5 | between sports and music. |
| 1:26.2 | Was, thank you for making us a part of your weekly podcast schedule. |
| 1:31.2 | Well, thank you for having me. |
| 1:32.9 | That was a fantastic introduction. |
| 1:35.0 | Ethan, you got competition on Warriors Wednesday. |
| 1:39.1 | Damn it. |
| 1:40.9 | Was is doing my job by introducing Ethan Strauss. What's up, Ethan? |
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