Hang Up and Listen - The Superteam Finals Are Here
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by the Athletic’s Sabreena Merchant to talk about the WNBA Finals matchup between the Las Vegas Aces and the New York Liberty. Aaron Schatz of the FTN Network also joins to discuss the badness of the New England Patriots and whether Bill Belichick’s job is at risk. Finally, Defector’s Dave McKenna comes on for a conversation about swimmer Diana Nyad and the adversary committed to exposing her as a fraud.
WNBA (3:31): Do the Liberty still have a chance to make it a series?
Patriots (24:26): What’s gone wrong in New England and could Belichick be on his way out?
Nyad (49:21): The swimmer vs. her debunker.
Afterball (1:07:21): Stefan on teams losing football games after failing to take a knee.
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| 0:29.7 | Hi, this is Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slates Legal Podcast, Amagus. If you are 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. It's been |
| 1:05.7 | doctrinal rocket fuel for the conservative legal movement and facilitated the |
| 1:10.4 | rolling 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 |
| 1:19.3 | 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. |
| 1:36.2 | Go to 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 Hangup and Listen for the week of October 10th, |
| 2:08.0 | 2023. |
| 2:09.0 | On this week show, The Athletics Sabrina Merchant will be here to talk about the Wnba's long-awaited Super Team Final. the athletics Network will also join us to talk about the New England Patriots' awful start and |
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