Hang Up and Listen - Prediction Season
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Hosts Alex Kirshner, Lindsay Gibbs, and Ben Lindbergh look into their crystal balls and tell us what to look out for in the sports world of the future! Will we see more LeBron? More sports betting scandals? A Bill Super Bowl win? A Trump immigration World Cup incident? Only time and the all-knowing Hang Up hosts can tell.
In the second half of our show, we’re sharing Alex’s recent conversation with Mary Harris on What Next.
Predictions (2:54): 2026
What Next (41:50): Mary Harris interviews Alex
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to tell you exactly what you need to do. |
| 0:02.0 | Dominate your finances. |
| 0:04.0 | Sunday morning, listening to questionable financial advice from the Fintock Bros on his social feed. |
| 0:11.0 | Drowning in green. |
| 0:13.0 | Scale, scale, scale, scale, scale. |
| 0:15.0 | This is the moment Isaac chose to search Barclay's life skills, |
| 0:18.0 | get some better money intel and save up for that new skateboard. |
| 0:22.4 | We're helping young people become money confident. |
| 0:25.4 | Search Barclay's life skills. |
| 0:27.5 | Barclays, make money work for you. |
| 0:36.7 | It is Monday, December 29th, 2025. |
| 0:41.0 | Happy almost New Year or New Year 2, depending on when you are listening to the show. |
| 0:45.2 | I'm Alex Kersner, and this is an episode of Hang Up and Listen, the sports podcast here at Slate. |
| 0:49.7 | I'm a contributing writer for Slate, and I also co-host Split Zone Duo, a national college football podcast. This week, we've got a very special Hang Up and Listen for you. It I also co-host split zone duo a national college football podcast. |
| 0:54.9 | This week we've got a very special hang up and listen for you. It's a two-parter. The second part |
| 0:59.2 | is going to be an episode that we're going to play in just a little bit, which goes off of a |
| 1:02.8 | recording that is already in the bank that involved me talking about some big stories from this |
| 1:07.7 | sports year along with the excellent Slate podcast. What Next with Mary |
| 1:13.0 | Harris? Look forward to playing that. But first, along with my co-hosts, Ben Lindberg and Lindsay Gibbs, |
| 1:18.2 | we are going to make a series of predictions for the sports world in 2006. Lindsay, you are the |
| 1:25.4 | women's sports lead at CBS Sports and the publisher of Powerplace, a newsletter that covers the biggest stories of the day in women's sports. How are you? |
| 1:32.9 | I'm doing great. This is a stressful time of year, but it's also my favorite time of year. It's annoying that those two things go hand in hand, but you know what? I'm reminding myself to enjoy it, and I hope you all are too. We made it, friends. We made it. |
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