Hang Up and Listen - Who Gets to Be a March Madness Folk Hero?
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🗓️ 25 March 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Josh Levin, and Ben Mathis-Lilley talk about whether college hoops has passed by John Calipari and why Oakland’s Jack Gohlke became a folk hero. They also discuss Kim Mulkey’s preemptive strike against the Washington Post and what to make of the strange story of Shohei Ohtani, his interpreter, and massive gambling debts.
NCAA tournament (4:06): The strangeness of tourneys that have mostly gone to form.
Mulkey (23:07): The LSU women’s basketball coach goes on the attack … over a story that hasn’t been published.
Ohtani (39:24): Trying to make sense of a very confusing series of events.
Afterball (50:56): Josh on Kobe Elvis.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:02.8 | If you want to know how explicit, keep listening. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of March 25th, 2024. |
| 0:25.0 | On this week show we'll talk about whether NCAA basketball has passed Kentucky coach John |
| 0:30.2 | Calipari by and what a three-point shooting transfer from Hillsdale College says about the state of college sports. Plus we'll try not to get sued for defamation by LSU coach Kim Mulkey and we'll try to figure out what's going on with Ellie Dodger |
| 0:44.4 | star Shohay Otani, has now former interpreter and millions of Otani's |
| 0:48.9 | dollars that were allegedly used to pay off the interpreter's gambling debts. |
| 0:53.6 | I am in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:55.2 | I'm the author of the book The Queen, |
| 0:56.3 | and the host of an upcoming Sloburn season |
| 0:59.1 | on the rise of Fox News and how the left tried to fight back. |
| 1:01.8 | Also in D.C. As Stephan Fatis. He's not on the show this week. I just wanted to assure you that he does still live in DC. |
| 1:08.3 | Still in Palo Alto, slate writer and podcaster Joel Anderson. |
| 1:12.6 | Joel, the best game of the weekend was right down the street, |
| 1:15.8 | Stanford Women, over Iowa State and O-T. |
| 1:18.6 | Did you run over to bow down to Kiki very often. |
| 1:23.0 | Well, nobody cares about my own personal travails, |
| 1:26.3 | but I was too sick to do anything up until maybe Saturday afternoon. |
| 1:31.4 | So unfortunately, I missed Cameron Brink and the ladies bringing it home. But you know, I sent a shout out from I could I can kind of wave to the Ariaga Center from here. So we made my presence known one way another. I'm sure they |
| 1:44.5 | appreciated it. Also with us this week is our slate colleague Ben Mathis Lily |
| 1:48.0 | he's the author of the hot seat a year of outrage pride and occasional games of |
| 1:51.9 | college football. Ben basketball is the one where Michigan loses. |
| 1:55.0 | Not anymore, now that we've hired Red Hot Coaching candidate Dusty May right out of the clutches of the Louisville |
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