The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the

week of September 6th, 2016.

On today's show, Spencer Hall will join us to talk about what some people called, the

greatest opening weekend in the history of college football and others called a reminder that sports are bad and no one should ever watch them.

I think you mean some people are saying that it was the best weekend of college football.

We'll also talk to former NFL long snapper and U.S. Army Green Beret Nate Boyer about his conversations with Colin

Kaepernick and the relationship between pro football and the military. And we'll discuss the

end of Vin Scully's 67-year run as the play-by-play man for the Dodgers. Joining me in

Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic. Hello,

Stefan. Hello, Josh. With us from New York is Mike Peska, the host of Slate's Daily Podcast.

The Gist. How many years is your broadcasting career now, Mike? The entirety of its career from

starting off as a caller to a Jets radio show on WGBB. Sixty- 67 years. Calling in to the Greg Butler show, yes. Yeah, I had to say the Dodgers in the intro, not the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers. Yeah. They're in Brooklyn. Yeah. The trolley Dodgers. Yeah. Trolley Dodgers. So we're looking for an intern. Email us at hangup at slate.com. If you're in D.C., if you can work on Mondays, if you're interested in working with us, hangup at slate.com. What else? Bonus segment? We're doing one of those. Mike and Stefan don't know what our bonus segment is, but I do. Surprise bonus segment. Yeah. So we're about to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Slate.

So we've got a little bit of a ways to go to catch Vince Scully. But we've got some memory lane

action. We're going to go back and listen to the afterballs from our first ever show.

Oh my. From 2009 and do a little... Wow. Our show's

seven years old. Only 60 years to go. Wow. It felt like, it feels like it's been 11 years.

That's incredible. So, 2009 was a baby. Wow. It'd be an obnoxious, long-winded baby.

We'll do a little extra podcaster's commentary for you on those afterballs.

I'm not going to retire from the show until I'm 106, just to match Scully's run.

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