The Seven Dwarves Versus Four Giants Edition

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis and guest host Mike Pesca discuss the start of the NBA conference finals and the debate over the debate over who’s the greatest, Michael Jordan or LeBron James. Stefan talks to Roger Bennett of Men In Blazers about Wayne Rooney’s reported move to America and Roger’s new book, Men in Blazers Present Encyclopedia Blazertannica. And Stefan and Mike are joined by Nate DiMeo to discuss his essay in Mike’s new book, Upon Further Review, about the alternate history of tug-of-war. NBA (1:42): Stefan and Mike discuss Game 1 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals, Michael v. LeBron, and Charles v. Shaq. Wayne Rooney (22:04): Stefan and Roger Bennett of Men In Blazers talk about English striker Wayne Rooney’s reported move to D.C. United of Major League Soccer. Tug-of-War (40:24): Stefan and Mike talk to Nate DiMeo about imagining what would have happened if tug-of-war hadn’t been kicked out of the Olympics a century ago. Afterballs (56:01): Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.7	The following podcast contains explicit language. Hi, I'm Stephen Fatsus and this is Slate's Sports Podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of May 14th, 2018.
0:56.9	On this week's show I'll be joined by a special guest to talk about the NBA playoffs,
1:02.4	then the always great Roger Bennett of men and blazers will be here to discuss the once great English striker Wayne Rooney,
1:09.6	who might be coming to America to play in Major League soccer. And finally, Nate De Mayo, the creator
1:16.0	of the podcast, The Memory Palace, and the aforementioned special guest and I will have a conversation about tug of war because it's high time we conversed about tug of war on this program.
1:29.0	Josh Levine is the author of the 2002 Washington City Paper Story, Plumbing the Depths.
1:35.4	The EPA finds too much lead in D.C. tap water.
1:39.0	He is away again this week.
1:40.9	But you know who is in a way?
1:42.4	The special guest. It's our old friend Mike Pesca.
1:46.0	He's the host of Slate's Daily Podcast, The JIST, and now he has edited a book.
1:51.3	It's called Upon Further Review, The Greatest What Ifs in Sports History. There are 31 of them. I wrote one. Josh wrote one. And you might now be realizing that Nate DeMayo wrote one, and you might now be realizing that Nate DeMoe wrote one, too.
2:05.1	What if the Olympics hadn't dropped tug-of-war?
2:07.4	Mike, congrats on the book, tell everyone why they should buy it.
2:11.4	Well, first of all, when you said there are 31 of them, I want to be clear that that's not the print run.
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