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Hang Up and Listen

George Floyd Is a Sports Story

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6986 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin talk about how the sports world is reacting, and how all of us are reacting, to the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota. They’re also be joined by ESPN’s Myron Medcalf to talk about college sports, and who is and isn’t speaking out about racial injustice. George Floyd (01:12): What athletes and leagues are saying and doing after Floyd’s killing, and what should happen next. Floyd and college sports (26:16): Basketball coach LeVelle Moton called out his white colleagues for their silence. Will anything change going forward? Afterball (54:27): Joel on George Floyd, Houston high school athlete. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language. Slate National Editor and the author of The Queen.

0:12.8

This is Hang Up and Listen for the week of June 1st, 2020.

0:16.8

On this week show, we're going to talk about how the sports world is reacting

0:20.6

and how we're all reacting to the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota.

0:25.0

As part of that conversation, we'll be joined by E-SPM's Myron Medcalfe

0:29.0

to talk about college sports and who is and isn't speaking out about racial injustice.

0:35.0

Coming to you today as always from my home in Washington, D.C.

0:39.4

Joining me from D.C. is Stephen Fatsus, author of the book's Word Freak

0:43.8

and a few seconds of Panic.

0:45.3

Hello, Stephan.

0:46.2

Don't say as always, Josh, please, we can't do this forever.

0:51.4

Yeah, well, we're doing it now, and're going to be doing it for a while so get used to it.

0:56.8

With us from Palo Alto, California, Slate Staff Writer, Host of Sloburn, season 3.

1:01.8

Joel Anderson, what's up, Joel Joel What's up, Joel?

1:04.0

What's up fellas?

1:05.0

Glad to be here.

1:06.0

Glad to be with you, Joel and you, Stephan,

1:09.0

and looking forward to our conversation.

1:18.0

Hi, this is Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slate's legal podcast Amicus. If you're listening to this show, you might be interested in Amicus's live show that we're hosting in Washington, D.C. on

1:25.8

Tuesday, May the 14th. My colleague, Mark Joseph Stern, and I will be talking to some

1:31.1

amazing guests, including Cheryline a sitting state Supreme Court justice.

1:37.3

All about how originalism, a relatively recently invented way of interpreting the Constitution has taken over the

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