Hang Up and Listen - What Jim Jordan Knew About Sexual Abuse at Ohio State

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🗓️ 17 October 2023

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and special guest Pablo Torre of Pablo Torre Finds Out are joined by Sports Illustrated’s Jon Wertheim to talk about the Ohio State wrestlers speaking out against their former coach Jim Jordan. They also discuss the journalism ethics brouhaha over the Braves’ Orlando Arcia lightly mocking the Phillies’ Bryce Harper. Finally, they assess the rivalry between NBA newsbreakers Adrian Wojnarowski and Shams Charania.

Jim Jordan (4:22): He claims he knew nothing about Richard Strauss’ sexual abuse. A group of Ohio State wrestlers say that’s not true.

Braves-Phillies (26:37): How a locker room joke became an off-field and off-field controversy.

Woj vs. Shams (45:57): Should we care about them and the transactions they report?

Afterball (1:04:00): Josh on the Asian-American tennis players you need to know, including Mackenzie McDonald and Jessica Pegula.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language, including the words, well, you'll just have to wait and see.
0:20.3	Hi, I'm Josh Levine, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the Week of October 16th, 2023.
0:25.0	On this week's show, Sports Illustrated's John Wartime will join us for a conversation about
0:29.1	Speaker of the House candidate and former Ohio State Wrestling Coach Jim Jordan,
0:33.6	and the wrestlers who've been speaking out about what Jordan knew and what he didn't do
0:38.0	about a sexual abuse scandal at the school. We'll also discuss the sports journalism ethics
0:43.1	bruhaha about the brave Orlando Arsia, lightly mocking the Philly's Bryce Harper,
0:48.8	and we'll talk about the NBA newsbreaker rivalry between ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski and the
0:54.0	Athletics Shoms Charania, and whether either one of them or any of us is a winner in that rivalry.
1:00.5	I am in Washington, DC. I'm the author of The Queen and the host of the podcast One Year,
1:05.0	our latest season, One Year in 1955 is out now. Please listen. Also in DC is Stefan Fatsis. He's
1:10.9	the author of the book's word freak, a few seconds of panic and wild and outside. Hello, Stefan.
1:15.7	Hey, Josh. How's it going? Good. How'd you do? Unscrabble this weekend. Oh, I did well.
1:20.0	Played an internament in Lake George, stacked field. I was seated 24th out of 24 in Division One.
1:29.6	Yeah. Rough, rough go, but I finished seven and eight. My rating went over 1700 for the first time
1:35.5	in a long time, and I'd beat my daughter on the live stream. Sorry, Chloe. Just absolute brutal,
1:42.8	merciless, take down. Well, congratulations. Thank you. And joining us this week for the show,
1:48.0	the whole show. It's the former Sports Illustrated writer, the former host of ESPN TV is high
1:52.5	name, the former host of the podcast ESPN daily and currently employed in the present day as the
1:58.6	host of metal large media's new podcast and YouTube show Pablo Torre finds out, which has an
2:03.7	short history gone deep on Russell Wilson's presidential ambitions revealed what Jordan pool
2:09.2	told Dremont Green before Dremont punched him and solved the mystery of the five billion dollar
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