Hang Up and Listen - The Stick to the Oscars Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss sports parallels for Sunday’s big Oscars mishap. They also talk JaVale McGee’s feud with Shaquille O’Neal, and Ken Early of the Irish Times joins to discuss the decline of Leicester City.
Sports and the Oscars (3:07): breaking down the Moonlight-La La Land mix-up, pondering different sports analogies, and discussing whether sports TV would have covered the incident differently.
Shaq vs. JaVale McGee (16:43): Do McGee’s frequent bloopers warrant relentless mockery on “Shaqtin’ a Fool”? Where is the line between comedy and bullying?
Leicester City (32:11): Ken Early joins to talk about Leicester’s fall from glory, the team’s decision to fire manager Claudio Ranieri, and how the squad can avoid relegation.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.2 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast hanging up and listen for the week of February 27th, 2017. |
| 0:17.6 | On this week's show, we'll talk about how La La Land lost out on Best Picture in a bizarre envelope-related screw-up and what these sports-related parallels for such a thing might be. |
| 0:28.5 | Did La La Land, in fact, blow a 3-1 lead in the NBA finals? |
| 0:32.4 | We will discuss. |
| 0:33.5 | We'll also talk about a case of alleged cyberbullying in pro sports, |
| 0:38.1 | and whether Hall of Famer and TNT broadcaster, Shaquille O'Neill has gone too far |
| 0:42.6 | and mocking Golden State Warrior Center, Javelle McGee, for his on-court mistakes. |
| 0:48.5 | And Ken Early of the Irish Times and the second captain's podcast will also join us to explain |
| 0:53.6 | why the most surprising story |
| 0:55.8 | in sports history, human history, the history of the universe, the shocking Premier League |
| 1:00.9 | Championship of Underdog Soccer Club, Lester City, has turned sour this season with Lester |
| 1:06.6 | firing its manager, Claudio Rennary. Joining me in Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak, and a few seconds of panic. |
| 1:17.1 | Hello, Stefan. |
| 1:17.8 | Hi, Josh. |
| 1:19.2 | Joining us from New York is Mike Peska, the host of Slate's Daily podcast, The Gist. |
| 1:24.2 | Hey, Mike. |
| 1:25.2 | Hello, how are you? |
| 1:26.5 | Will regular folks be traipsed in to stare at Stefan and I, I hope? |
| 1:32.4 | What was your opinion on that bit? Opinion was sharply divided. |
| 1:36.7 | Sharply divided, the bit. I was, there was so much buildup that I was dreading it. |
| 1:42.2 | Yeah. I forgot. There was like some magic. Oh, on one of the Tonys, there was like some magic trick that Neil Patrick Harris did, and I wiffed, I had the whiff of that. And then when it happened, I thought just in terms of execution and humor, it was great. I know there was a lot of backlash, but the backlash seemed to be that they were poking fun at regular people. |
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