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Hang Up and Listen

Hang Up and Listen - Micah and Jerry’s Dallas Standoff

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6986 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Hosts Alex Kirshner, Ben Lindbergh, and Lindsay Gibbs are joined by Cowboys beat writer RJ Ochoa to dissect the messy public contract negotiations between Jerry Jones and superstar Micah Parsons. The panel also discusses the relocation dispute between the Connecticut Sun and the WNBA, plus Jen Pawol becoming the first female umpire in MLB. 

On the bonus episode available exclusively for Slate Plus members, the panel talks about the Kansas City Chiefs not being favored to win the Super Bowl this season.


Jerry Jones (4:29): The drama king digs in his heels.

The Connecticut Sun (24:20): Will Boston finally have its WNBA team?

Jen Pawol (43:25): Baseball’s umpire glass ceiling is finally broken.


(Note: time codes are only accurate for Slate Plus members, who listen ad-free.)


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Podcast production and editing by Kevin Bendis, with production assistance from Patrick Fort.




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0:00.0

In late August 1992, Randy Weaver and his family were refusing to come down from the remote Idaho mountaintop where they lived.

0:09.0

Weaver, a fugitive on a federal firearms charge, has been hold up in a cabin near Naples for more than a year.

0:15.0

The government thought Randy Weaver was a dangerous, possibly violent extremist.

0:20.0

Randy and his wife Vicky thought the government

0:23.0

was an agent of Satan on earth. When it was all over, three people were dead, and the government

0:29.2

had spent millions of dollars to catch one man. We'll find out why the siege at Ruby Ridge

0:34.7

unfolded the way it did, and think about some of the questions it raises.

0:39.4

What should we do about white supremacists? Why has the story of Ruby Ridge become an enduring

0:45.3

myth for the far right? And whose fault was it anyway?

0:51.0

Subscribe to Standoff, what happened at Ruby Ridge, in Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

1:00.0

How much do you know about the scandal that got Bill Clinton impeached?

1:03.3

Monica Lewinsky is under the microscope. Bill Clinton is under siege and the White House is trying to contain the damage.

1:10.1

Maybe you know the basics. The Clinton's presidency came to a screeching halt amid a storm

1:14.7

of accusations involving sex, power, and partisan warfare.

1:18.2

If it turns out to be true, it could be the end of Clinton's presidency.

1:21.4

Congress is rushing to overthrow the commander-in-chief.

1:25.5

What determines who we believe and whose side we take in a political fight?

1:29.3

Tripped and secret me, tape Monica Lewinsky.

1:31.6

Go down the radio shack and buy a tape recorder and plug it into your phone.

1:35.8

What does it mean to abuse one's power?

1:37.7

I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

1:41.7

It is absolutely staggering that the fate of the most powerful man on the planet

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