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Hang Up and Listen

The Whore of Carnegie Mellon Edition

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6986 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss Duke’s Grayson Allen and other NCAA basketball matters. Scott Raab also joins to talk about his new book You’re Welcome, Cleveland, and Oliver Roeder of FiveThirtyEight explains how a computer program beat four pro poker players. Grayson Allen and NCAA hoops (2:55): exploring America’s longstanding hatred of white Duke basketball players; Northwestern’s likely maiden visit to March Madness, and the first-ever Ivy League basketball tournament. Scott Raab’s You’re Welcome, Cleveland (21:37): The writer and Cleveland sports fan explains what he got wrong in The Whore of Akron and whether LeBron James would like his new book. How a computer took down the poker pros (33:40): Oliver Roeder explains how poker went the way of chess, checkers, Go, and Scrabble, and what the next challenges are for artificial intelligence. 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.

1:47.0

Hi, this is Josh Levine and and this is Slates Sports Podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the

1:56.2

week of March 6, 2017. On this week show, we're going to talk about college basketball

2:01.4

matters, including Grayson Allen's emergence as the latest Duke

2:05.4

basketball villain, Northwestern's likely first ever March Madness appearance, and the impending

2:12.0

first ever Ivy League basketball tournament.

2:14.3

Scott Rab will join us to discuss your welcome Cleveland,

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