Hang Up and Listen - Live at the Hamilton
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2019
⏱️ 80 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
At a live show in Washington, D.C., Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by NPR’s Gene Demby to discuss the state of sports media. Olympic gold medalist Dawn Harper-Nelson also joins to talk about her comeback as a mother. Finally, Demby, Lindsay Gibbs, and Dave McKenna ponder ethical dilemmas in sports.
State of sports media (01:38): How have our consumption habits changed since the death of Deadspin and the partial zombification of Sports Illustrated?
Dawn Harper-Nelson (16:36): The hurdling champion on the highs and lows of her career and the challenges of returning to the track after having a baby.
Ethical dilemmas (44:12): Would you report on an NCAA violation if you think NCAA rules are immoral?
Afterballs (01:00:42): Stefan on the sad fate of wonderfully named minor-league baseball teams and Josh on a peeing dog at the Egg Bowl.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello, I am Josh Levine, Slate's national editor and the author of The Queen. |
| 0:04.8 | And this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of December 3rd, 2019, live from the Hamilton in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:19.8 | Totally unprompted applause, Stefan, the best kind. |
| 0:23.3 | On this week's show, we're going to talk about the past, present, and future of sports media |
| 0:26.9 | and how our consumption habits have changed since the death of deadspin. |
| 0:31.3 | And the partial zombification of Sports Illustrated will also be joined by one of the greatest |
| 0:36.5 | hurdlers of all time. Olympic gold medalist, Don Harper Nelson. We'll also be joined by one of the greatest hurdlers of all time, |
| 0:38.3 | Olympic gold medalist Don Harper Nelson. We'll talk with her about her career and her decision |
| 0:43.1 | to come back this year after retiring to have a baby. Finally, we'll be joined by three of our |
| 0:48.1 | favorite journalists, Gene Demby, Lindsay Gibbs, and Dave McKenna for a segment on moral |
| 0:53.5 | and ethical dilemmas related to bats and balls |
| 0:57.1 | and things of that nature. We're calling it hard choices, parentheses, about sports. It is always |
| 1:04.0 | an easy choice for me to sit alongside my podcast partner of the last 10 years, the author of the book's |
| 1:09.3 | Word Freak and a few seconds of panic, |
| 1:11.4 | Stefan Fatsis. |
| 1:12.0 | Hello, Stefan. |
| 1:12.6 | Hi, Josh. |
| 1:17.9 | We have not done one of these things since 2016. |
| 1:22.1 | Allie Krieger was our guest. |
| 1:24.5 | She was a good guest. |
| 1:25.5 | No pressure on tonight's guests. |
| 1:28.2 | One World Cup ago? |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Joel Meyer, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Joel Meyer and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.