Hang Up and Listen - The Pelicans’ Zion Williamson Problem
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2023
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Josh Levin, Stefan Fatsis, and Joel Anderson talk about whether the Pelicans should trade Zion Williamson. Josh and Stefan are also joined by the Athletic’s Paul Tenorio to discuss the U.S. men’s national soccer team's wins over Mexico and Canada and the rehiring of Gregg Berhalter. Finally, Mick Akers of the Las Vegas Review-Journal joins for a conversation about how Vegas became America’s No. 1 sports town.
Zion (4:47): The Pelicans are in a very tough spot.
U.S. soccer (27:35): Why Gregg Berhalter got his old job back.
Las Vegas (56:14): How it went from a sports desert to every league’s favorite destination.
Afterball (01:11:36): Stefan on the World Football League’s very colorful pants.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the overnight flight from London Heathrow to Beijing. |
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| 0:11.0 | and one murderer. |
| 0:15.0 | There's no escape. |
| 0:17.0 | At 35,000 feet, red eye. Stream now on ITX. |
| 0:30.0 | Hi, this is Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slate's legal podcast Amagus. If you're listening to this show, you might be interested in Amicus's live show that we're hosting in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, May the 14th. |
| 0:45.0 | My colleague, Mark Joseph Stern, and I will be talking to some amazing guests, |
| 0:50.0 | including Cheryline Eiffel, and a sitting state Supreme Court justice. |
| 0:54.5 | All about how originalism, a relatively recently invented way of interpreting the Constitution, |
| 1:00.9 | has taken over the Supreme Court and radically reshaped the law. |
| 1:05.4 | It's been doctrinal rocket fuel for the conservative legal movement and facilitated the rolling |
| 1:10.7 | back of abortion rights, the expansion of gun rights, and the |
| 1:14.0 | obliteration of the separation of church and state. And as another wildly |
| 1:19.4 | consequential Supreme Court term, careers to its end, the Court's originalists are on a tear. |
| 1:26.6 | But there's something you can do about it and we hope you'll join us in DC on May 14th |
| 1:31.8 | to explore the possible pathways out of the current situation, go to |
| 1:36.7 | slate.com slash Amicus Live for tickets. The following podcast includes explicit language, including, well, you'll just have to wait and see. Thank you. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of June 20, |
| 2:09.4 | 23. |
| 2:10.4 | On this week's show, we're going to discuss what comes next for the top two picks in the 2019 |
| 2:14.7 | NBA draft, the Pelicans, Zion Williamson, and the Grizzlies, Jah Merant. |
| 2:19.8 | Paul Tenorio of the Athletic will also join us to talk about the US men's national |
| 2:23.9 | team's big wins on the soccer field and their big decision to rehire coach |
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