Hang Up and Listen - Sex Testing and Women’s Sports
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Josh Levin, and the CBC’s Morgan Campbell check in on the WNBA at the halfway point of a historic season. They also talk about ESPN’s list of the 100 greatest pro athletes of the 2000s. Finally, they interview Rose Eveleth about their podcast Tested, on the history of sex testing in sports.
WNBA (4:19): What’s the story with the new TV deal? How did the WNBA All-Stars beat the Olympic team?
100 greatest athletes(18:45): What’s wrong with ESPN’s list? Are we falling into a trap by talking about it at all?
Tested (32:06): The century-long obsession over whether women athletes are really women.
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| 0:18.8 | Hi, I'm Joel Anderson, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of July 22nd. On this week's show, we'll talk about the WMBA's wildly successful Awstar Weekend, which fell just days after reports |
| 0:25.2 | that the League is poised to sign a lucrative new media rights deal. |
| 0:28.8 | We'll also talk about ESPN's list of the top 100 athletes in the world over the past 24 years. the co-produced the series, which covers the 100-year history of sex testing in elite sports. |
| 0:44.4 | I'm in Palo Alto. |
| 0:46.1 | I'm Slate's three-time slow burn host, including season 8's Becoming Justice Thomas and |
| 0:51.0 | our emotional investment columnist. |
| 0:53.0 | Stephan Fatsus is off today, but he's got a great excuse. |
| 0:56.0 | He's currently competing in the 2024 Scrabble Players Championship |
| 1:00.0 | in South Bend, Indiana, |
| 1:02.0 | according to reports, which are actually Stephen's text. |
| 1:05.2 | He apparently got out to a rough start while his daughter Chloe is looking like a real contender |
| 1:09.0 | through the first couple days of competition. |
| 1:11.7 | And with me from Washington, D.C. is Josh Levine. He's a as a |
| 1:15.0 | and with me from Washington DC is Josh Levine. He's the author of the book The Queen and |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah, that's right. |
| 1:20.0 | It hosted the upcoming slow burn season on the rise of Fox News. |
| 1:24.0 | He was also my most recent out-of-time guest here in Palo Alto and I sort of miss him. |
| 1:28.8 | Hello Josh, good to see you again. |
| 1:30.0 | It was so great to see you in your natural environment, |
| 1:33.5 | aka a diner. |
| 1:34.7 | When you said three times slow burn, |
| 1:38.5 | for whatever reason, I thought you were going to say champion which maybe that's just what you should |
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