Hang Up and Listen - I Just Binged Cheer
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Josh Levin, and special guest Lindsay Gibbs talk about the fallout from the Houston Astros’ sign-stealing scandal. They also discuss WNBA free agency and the rise of Oregon’s Sabrina Ionescu. Finally, they review the Netflix docuseries Cheer.
Astros (03:13): What should we make of baseball players’ anger toward their Houston brethren?
Women’s basketball (19:53): What’s the deal with all the player movement in the WNBA? And is Sabrina Ionescu the sport’s next huge star?
Cheer (38:16): What makes the Netflix docuseries great and why it’s often disturbing to watch.
Afterballs (01:01:00): Joel on the Knuckleheads podcast and Lindsay on the pioneering Immaculata women’s basketball program.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.4 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor and the author of The Queen. |
| 0:12.4 | This is Hang Up and Listen for the week of February 18, 2020. |
| 0:16.7 | On this week's show, we're going to talk about the fallout and the recriminations from the Houston Astros sign stealing scandal. |
| 0:23.3 | Everybody's mad. |
| 0:24.8 | Jose Altuve has a collarbone tattoo. |
| 0:27.0 | We'll also discuss the huge changes that are reshaping the WNDA and assess the best player in college basketball, Oregon's Sabrina Yinescu. |
| 0:37.2 | And finally, we'll review the Netflix docu-series cheer, a look at the triumphs and the rigors of competitive cheerleading. Joining me, as always, from Palo Alto, fresh off his triumphant live tour, Slate Staff writer, and the host of Slow Burn Season 3, Joel Anderson. Hey, Joel. Good morning. Yeah, |
| 0:55.7 | I'm triumphant. I do feel triumphant. I survived. You did. You not only survived. You triumphed, |
| 1:01.7 | which I guess is implied by triumphant. I'm going to get into my thesaurus later in the show, |
| 1:07.9 | but I'm just working one word at a time at the top. Stefan is off this week, filling in for him in our DC studio. |
| 1:14.8 | It's Lindsay Gibbs. |
| 1:15.9 | Lindsay is one of the co-hosts of the Burn It All Down podcast, the proprietor of the |
| 1:20.8 | Power Play's newsletter on sexism in sports. |
| 1:23.9 | Hello, Lindsay. |
| 1:24.5 | Hi. |
| 1:25.3 | Thanks for having me back. |
| 1:26.3 | We're always happy to have you. |
| 1:28.1 | And big news for the Power Play's A Cinematic Universe. This week, you are bringing the newsletter to the next level. |
| 1:37.4 | It's time. It's time to flip the switch and pull out that subscription model. So announcing it in Tuesday's |
| 1:43.9 | newsletter, which should be out shortly, |
| 1:46.0 | and then next week starting the subscriptions, and then we'll go to some subscriber-only post, |
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