The Best Bad Guy You Can Be Edition

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Josh Levin and Ben Mathis-Lilley are joined by Daniel “Progressive Liberal” Harnsberger to chat about his wrestling persona. The Ringer’s Bryan Curtis also discusses Jamie Horowitz and Fox Sports, and Nick Greene analyzes NBA free agency. The Progressive Liberal (1:27): Professional wrestler Daniel Harnsberger joins to describe the inspiration behind his character, whether he’s critiquing the Democratic Party, and what it’s like to be the bad guy in wrestling. Jamie Horowitz (19:01): Bryan Curtis, editor-at-large of the Ringer, comes on the show to assess what the sacking of Fox Sports 1’s Jamie Horowitz means for the channel and FS1’s lineup of debate-based programming. NBA (35:04): Nick Greene joins to discusses Kevin Durant’s massive pay cut, and whether anything can be done about the massive exodus of talent from the East to the West. Afterballs (54:04) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.7	Hi, this is Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slate's legal podcast Amagus. If you are listening to this show, you might be interested in Amicus's live show that we're hosting in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, May the 14th.
0:45.0	My colleague, Mark Joseph Stern, and I will be talking to some amazing guests,
0:50.0	including Cheryline Eiffel and a sitting state Supreme Court justice, all about how originalism, a relatively
0:57.0	recently invented way of interpreting the Constitution, has taken over the Supreme Court and radically reshaped the law. It's been
1:05.7	doctrinal rocket fuel for the conservative legal movement and facilitated the
1:10.3	rolling back of abortion rights, the expansion of gun rights, and the obliteration of the separation of church and state. And as another wildly consequential Supreme Court term, careers to its end, the Court's originalists are on a tear.
1:26.5	But there's something you can do about it and we hope you'll join us in DC on May 14th
1:31.7	to explore the possible pathways out of the current situation.
1:36.2	Go to slate.com slash Amicus Live for tickets. The following podcast contains explicit language. Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's Sports Podcast, hang up and listen for the week of July 10th, 2017.
2:01.0	On this week show, we'll talk to Harnesberger, the professional wrestler known as the
2:05.2	Progressive Liberal, about how he invented his Hillary Clinton-loving character, what the Democrats
2:11.0	need to do to win the 2018 midtermterms and how he's planning to survive
2:14.8	an upcoming Dukes of Hazard Festival in Virginia.
2:18.2	Brian Curtis of the Ringer will be here to help us assess Fox's ouster of Shoutfest show mastermind Jamie Horwitz and
2:25.0	where ESPN's biggest rival goes from here and we'll chat with Slate's
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