Hang Up and Listen - Sha’Carri Richardson Did Nothing Wrong
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin talk about sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson’s marijuana suspension. Penn State professor Amira Rose Davis joins to discuss Olympic hammer thrower Gwen Berry and Black women activists in sports. And finally, a look at the first week of new name, image, and likeness rules in the NCAA.
Sha’Carri Richardson (02:28): Why is marijuana a banned substance in the first place?
Black women activists (20:59) How athlete protests have evolved and what to expect at the Tokyo Games.
NIL (46:32): College athletes signed a range of deals in a wild first week of commercial rights.
Afterball (1:03:06): Stefan on a Myanmar men’s national soccer team player who protested against the military dictatorship.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of July 6th, 2021. |
| 0:11.6 | On this week's show, we're going to talk about sprint champion Shakari Richardson's marijuana suspension and the future of weed in sports. |
| 0:18.9 | Amira Rose Davis of the podcast, Burn It All Down, |
| 0:21.4 | will also be here to discuss Gwyn Barry's plans |
| 0:24.1 | to protest at the Olympics in the past and present |
| 0:27.0 | of black women activists in sports. |
| 0:29.5 | And finally, we'll look at the first week |
| 0:31.1 | of new name, image, and likeness rules for college athletes. |
| 0:35.1 | They're making money in weird and wild ways, and the earth continues to rotate. |
| 0:40.0 | I am in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:41.5 | I'm the author of The Queen, the host of the new podcast One Year, which debuts this Thursday. |
| 0:46.8 | Woo-hoo! |
| 0:47.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.0 | Subscribe, please. |
| 0:49.4 | If you guys could see, my beard is very long, so you know that the show's's good if it's distracted me from shaving for this long |
| 0:56.8 | podcast beard exactly it's like a playoff beard also in dc stephen fatsis author of the book's |
| 1:03.6 | word freak in a few seconds of panic and stephen is beardless now so he hasn't been working very |
| 1:07.9 | now or playing in the stanley cup finals neither one With us from wherever it is that he is. It's Slate Staff writer, the host of Slow Burn season three and the upcoming season six, Joel Anderson, who's in the middle ground, beard-wise, this week. Yeah, this is the same beard that I've always had. I mean, just been in between me and Stefan on the the hang-up beard gradient. Do you think your beard is that much more thick than mine? I don't know. I'm not certain about that. Yeah, that's a good point. Maybe I was a little bit cocky about my beard depth. Yeah, don't get out ahead of yourself there. Get over your skis. This is an impressive beard in its own right. It's an important moment |
| 1:45.0 | of humility for me at the top of the show. |
| 1:53.5 | One notable thing about Sprinter Shikari Richardson's positive test for marijuana at last month's |
| 1:59.0 | U.S. track and field trials was that she didn't deny or |
| 2:02.3 | apologize for using pot. She said she was trying to cope with the stress of learning from a reporter |
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