Hang Up and Listen - The San Antonio Big Macs Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2016
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss Kobe Bryant's last game and whether refs are biased against Jeremy Lin; the Rams' trade for the top pick in the NFL draft; and the NBA's move to put ads on the front of jerseys.
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| 0:00.0 | Hangup and Listen is brought to you by Slack. Slack brings all of your communication at work into one place. |
| 0:05.8 | Create a new team right now at Slack.com slash hangup, and you'll get $100 in credit for when you decide to upgrade to a paid plan. |
| 0:13.5 | That's Slack.com slash hang up. |
| 0:16.7 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:25.1 | Thank you. The following podcast contains explicit language. Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate Sports Podcasts, Hang Up and Listen for the week of April 18th, 2016. |
| 0:31.6 | On today's show, we'll talk about Steph Curry, Kobe Bryant, and the end of the NBA regular season, plus the claim that NBA |
| 0:37.9 | reps are biased against Jeremy Lynn. We'll also discuss the big trade at the top of the NFL |
| 0:43.5 | draft in the Rams decision between quarterback's Jared Goff from Cal and Carson Wince from North Dakota |
| 0:49.9 | State. And finally, we'll look at the NBA's decision to put ads on the front of its jerseyses and how many Budweiser Clydesdales of the apocalypse that represents. |
| 0:59.9 | Joining me in Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic. |
| 1:06.0 | And you know, it's baseball season, so could you throw in wild and outside, too? |
| 1:10.0 | I love throwing in wild and outside, |
| 1:11.9 | but you always demure saying that it was an early effort. Yeah. Lesser Fatsis, I believe, |
| 1:17.1 | was the statement. With us in New York is Mike Pesca, most of the gist. And I'm from the lesser |
| 1:23.4 | Antilles. What's the earliest Pesca effort that's available for online consumption? |
| 1:28.9 | Online, that's interesting. |
| 1:30.0 | I think I'm – I know my first piece for NPR was about this new HBO show called The Sopranos, and I interviewed this guy named Gay Talese in his townhouse. |
| 1:41.1 | And he exhibited no sexism towards me. |
| 1:46.3 | So that was a really long time ago. |
| 1:51.7 | Yeah, nothing. You college, nothing online, archives. I mean, my college was a little... My alma mater just posted its archives online. That's interesting. I'd like to know if the Oceanside, |
| 1:57.0 | cider press had my Pesca on politics column, wherein I endorsed Dukakis over Bush, |
| 2:01.7 | but said Bush was a qualified and quality candidate. We're lucky to have two such qualified |
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