Hang Up and Listen - Roger Goodell Says Black Lives Matter
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin talk about the NFL’s about-face on players and social activism. They also assess the different roads taken by the NBA and Major League Baseball to returning to play. Finally, they interview Bao Nguyen, the director of the documentary Be Water, on the life of martial arts legend Bruce Lee.
NFL (05:44): Roger Goodell, Drew Brees, Colin Kaepernick, and the changing conversation about civil rights and pro football.
NBA and MLB (24:54): There’s labor peace in the NBA and labor strife in pro baseball. What does that say about those two leagues?
Be Water (39:31): The latest film in ESPN’s 30 for 30 series is about Bruce Lee, and about racism in America.
Afterballs (01:02:56): Josh and Joel on black football coaches and Stefan on a man who could have played in the majors.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.4 | Hide your children. |
| 0:10.6 | Hi, I'm Stefan Fatsis, the author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic, |
| 0:15.3 | and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of June 8th, 2020. |
| 0:19.4 | On this week's show, we'll discuss the national football |
| 0:22.2 | leagues about face on the rights of its players to advocate peacefully against racism and |
| 0:27.8 | police brutality, and whether that about face is genuine. As sports leagues ramp up to |
| 0:34.6 | resume play, we'll assess the very different roads being taken by |
| 0:38.5 | the National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball. Finally, we'll talk with Bao Wyn, |
| 0:45.0 | the director of ESPN's latest 30 for 30 documentary, B. Water, about the life of martial arts |
| 0:51.5 | movie legend, Bruce Lee. I'm still in the attic of my home in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:57.4 | Joining me from another part of the city is Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, |
| 1:02.1 | and the author of the National Book Critics Circle Award winner, The Queen, |
| 1:06.6 | which is out in paperback. |
| 1:08.3 | Hello, Josh. |
| 1:09.5 | I get gassed up more when I'm not hosting the show. I |
| 1:12.9 | got to do this more often. I know. Totally pumps up the sales when you're not hosting. |
| 1:17.9 | Appreciate it, my friend. And with us from Palo Alto, California is Slate's staff writer and the |
| 1:23.6 | host of Slow Burn Season 3, Joel Anderson. What's up, Joel? |
| 1:27.8 | What's up, man? I'm about to be dethroned as a Slow Burn King this week. |
| 1:32.0 | I was just about to say that. We loved Slow Burn Season 3 about Tupac and Biggie, Joel. |
| 1:37.6 | But it is time to move on. It's time for Slow Burn Season 4, David Duke. It is reported and hosted, as some of you know, by Josh Levine. There will be six episodes, some programming details. The trailer went out on Monday. Please check that out. And the series will be available starting Wednesday, June 10th. Slate Plus members will be able to receive the first three episodes on Wednesday. |
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