In late August 1992, Randy Weaver and his family were refusing to come down from the remote Idaho mountaintop where they lived.

Weaver, a fugitive on a federal firearms charge, has been hold up in a cabin near Naples for more than a year.

The government thought Randy Weaver was a dangerous, possibly violent extremist.

Randy and his wife Vicky thought the government

was an agent of Satan on earth. When it was all over, three people were dead, and the government

had spent millions of dollars to catch one man. We'll find out why the siege at Ruby Ridge

unfolded the way it did, and think about some of the questions it raises.

What should we do about white supremacists? Why has the story of Ruby Ridge become an enduring

myth for the far right? And whose fault was it anyway?

Subscribe to Standoff, what happened at Ruby Ridge, in Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

It is Monday, April 7th, 2025.

Welcome back to Hang Up and Listen, the sports podcast here at Slate.

Back with you once again, I am Alex Kirchner.

I'm a contributing writer for Slate, and I also co-host the College Football Podcast,

Split Zone Duo.

This week, we are going to talk about the Connecticut Huskies returning to the mountaintop

in women's college basketball.

We are going to talk about a real comeback in a sport that

was critical to all of our childhoods, especially in the video gaming world, that is vertical

skateboarding. We've got a great guest to talk about some major developments in that sport.

And we are going to talk once again about a tradition, unlike any other, Rory McElroy's

efforts to finally get the green jacket on his back and the monkey

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