Hang Up and Listen - What Was The Last Dance?
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin discuss the final episodes of ESPN’s documentary The Last Dance. Announcer Ian Eagle also joins to talk about the challenge of calling games remotely. Finally, they assess the NFL’s proposed modifications to the Rooney Rule.
The Last Dance (01:29): What we learned, and didn’t learn, about Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls.
Remote broadcasting (22:22): A veteran sportscaster on what it’s like to call a huge sporting event from a studio.
Rooney Rule (44:49): Does it make sense to offer teams better draft picks to hire minority coaches and executives?
Afterballs (01:01:54): Stefan on 19th century baseball and smoking and Josh on Michael Jordan’s absence from NBA Jam.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:02.4 | People who are listening for the first time might hear a bad word or two. |
| 0:11.2 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor and the author of The Queen. |
| 0:15.4 | This is Hang Up and Listen for the week of May 18th, 2020. |
| 0:19.7 | On this week's show, we're going to do our last ride with the Last |
| 0:22.8 | Dance, assessing the final two episodes of the documentary and the series as a whole. We'll also |
| 0:28.5 | be joined by broadcaster Ian Eagle, who'll speak with us about the challenge of calling games remotely. |
| 0:34.7 | Finally, we'll talk about a new NFL proposal that would give teams better draft |
| 0:39.3 | picks if they hired minority head coaches and general managers. Hello from Washington, D.C., |
| 0:45.3 | home of your Washington Wizards, an NBA team that exists, just throwing that out there. Also in D.C., |
| 0:53.3 | his friend, colleague, documentary, O Officianado, Stefan Fatsas, author of the book's |
| 0:58.9 | Word Freak in a few seconds of panic. |
| 1:01.0 | Hello, Stefan. |
| 1:01.9 | I hear that this Michael Jordan guy played for the Washington Wizards. |
| 1:06.4 | Dirty, vicious rumor. |
| 1:07.8 | Also with us, it's a man known for winning on the track in the CrossFit gym, |
| 1:12.5 | and in a little game that we call life, Slate Staff writer, Slow Burn host, Joel Anderson. Hey, Joel. |
| 1:18.7 | Hey, Joel. Good morning. I'm not the loser that Michael Jordan thinks that I am. |
| 1:23.8 | We'll just leave it at that. I think no better way to end our pre-show banter. |
| 1:29.6 | After 10 hours and an untold number of cigars, glasses of scotch, and perceived slights, |
| 1:36.8 | the last dance waltzed off screen on Sunday night with Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bowls |
| 1:41.5 | winning their sixth and final championship. |
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