Hang Up: 15 Years of Hang Up and Listen

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🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin reflect on hosting Slate’s sports podcast, which debuted in July 2009. Retrospective (6:51): How the show attempted to be an antidote to traditional sports talk radio. Old Afterballs (30:55): Josh on a 1934 battle between a scorpion and a spider. Stefan with an update to “Proud to Be an Astro” from Ball Four. New Afterballs (51:17): Josh on listener comments after the first episode of Hang Up and Listen. Stefan on a decade and a half of Afterballs. (Note: time codes are only accurate for Slate Plus members, who listen ad free.) Want more Hang Up and Listen? Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page, or visit slate.com/hangupplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:11.0	C. UK. The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:17.8	Hide Your Children. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of August 19,
0:38.7	2024.
0:40.7	Topics, we don't need your stinking topics. What you really need to know is that I'm in
0:45.4	Washington, D.C. and I'm the author of The Queen and the host of an upcoming
0:48.2	slow burn season for slate on the rise of Fox News. Also in D.C. is
0:52.2	Stephen Fatsis. He's the author of Word News. Also in DC is Stephen Fatsus, he's the author of Word Freak, a few seconds of panic and wild and outside. Hello,
0:57.1	Stephen. Hi Josh. Although I did skip the topics, Stephen, I can assure you and the listeners that we have some special stuff planned for this episode. But before we get started,
1:06.2	Stephen, what would you like to tell America and our friends overseas?
1:10.2	So I have decided to make this show my last show for a bunch of reasons. One is
1:18.6	circumstantial. I am on a book deadline. The next few months are going to be really really busy for me. I've been
1:24.7	working on this project about the dictionary for low many years since actually I
1:31.1	wrote a long feature story that Josh Levine edited 10 years ago.
1:37.3	Wow.
1:38.3	Wow.
1:39.3	And the book is nearing its conclusion and I want it to be good.
1:44.0	So I need some time off.
1:46.0	Also, Joel's unexpected departure from Slate was definitely a contributing factor in my decision to take this step right now.
1:54.5	But more than all of that, it just felt like it was time.
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