Hang Up and Listen - What Happened to Freddy Adu?
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🗓️ 23 November 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson and Josh Levin are joined by Yahoo’s Seerat Sohi to talk about the latest NBA deals. Jessica Luther then joins Joel, Josh, and Stefan Fatsis to discuss LSU’s mishandling of sexual misconduct allegations. Finally, Grant Wahl comes on to talk about American Prodigy, his new podcast on soccer phenom Freddy Adu.
NBA (03:17): What moves will make the biggest impact on the coming season? And is Giannis going to stay in Milwaukee?
LSU (21:57): What Yahoo’s investigation revealed, and what should come next.
Freddy Adu (44:54): Why was he so hyped? Was his career a failure?
Afterball (01:06:43): Joel on Utah high school football amid the coronavirus.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.4 | Hide your children. |
| 0:11.0 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week |
| 0:15.3 | of November 23, 2020. |
| 0:18.3 | On this week's show, Yahoo's Zirot Sohi will be here to talk about the NBA draft and |
| 0:23.2 | free agency, and the fact that the season is somehow starting just a month from now. |
| 0:28.3 | Jessica Luther will also join us for a conversation about Yahoo's investigation into |
| 0:33.1 | LSU's mishandling of sexual misconduct allegations allegations and why this keeps happening year after year. |
| 0:39.3 | And finally, Grant Wall will speak with us about his new podcast, American Prodigy, |
| 0:44.2 | on the teenage soccer phenom of your Freddie Adieu. |
| 0:48.4 | I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of The Queen, host of Slow Burn, season four. |
| 0:52.9 | With me from Palo Alto, Slate staff writer Joel Anderson. He's the host of Slow Burn, Season 4. With me from Palo Alto, Slate, staff writer, Joel Anderson. |
| 0:56.7 | He's the host of Slow Burn Season 3, the upcoming season 6 on the LA riots. |
| 1:01.2 | Hey, Joel, happy Thanksgiving. |
| 1:02.9 | Happy Thanksgiving, Josh. |
| 1:04.8 | What's going on with you, man? |
| 1:06.5 | I am looking forward to a limited and socially distant Thanksgiving meal. |
| 1:13.8 | It's going to be like a normal Thursday then, basically, correct? |
| 1:16.3 | I mean, what, it's just going to have turkey at it? |
| 1:18.9 | Well, now that you mention it, because this is Thanksgiving, |
| 1:21.3 | I wanted you to give our audience the gift of telling them about the turkey leg hut. |
| 1:25.9 | I was looking for some Joel Anderson turkey content on Twitter. |
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