Hang Up and Listen - The Bernie and LeBron Are Both on Board Edition
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🗓️ 16 September 2019
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by SB Nation’s Matt Brown to talk about California’s Fair Pay to Play Act; the New York Times’ Joe Drape discusses Triple Crown winner Justify’s positive drug test; and ex-NFL player Ryan O’Callaghan joins for a conversation about his memoir My Life on the Line. Fair Pay to Play Act (01:54): What does this California legislation mean for the future of college sports and athlete compensation? Justify (21:49): What we know about the horse, its trainer Bob Baffert, and the process whereby a positive drug test got tossed out. Ryan O’Callaghan (39:53): What it was like to be a closeted player in the NFL, and how his life changed after coming out. Afterballs (59:26): Stefan on the Dickerod and Josh on coaches’ wives as “recruits.”
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.2 | Hello, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor and the author of The Queen. |
| 0:13.1 | This is Slate's sports podcast, hang up and listen for the week of September 16th, 2019. |
| 0:19.2 | In this week's show, Matt Brown of Eskney Nation will join us, to talk about California's |
| 0:23.4 | Fair Pay to Play Act, the bill that could at last allow college athletes to profit off of their |
| 0:29.8 | names, images, and likenesses. Joe Drape of the New York Times will also be here to discuss |
| 0:35.0 | the hushing up of a positive drug test for last year's |
| 0:38.2 | Triple Crown-winning horse, Justify. And finally, former NFL offensive lineman Ryan O'Callaghan |
| 0:44.4 | will be here for a conversation about his new memoir, My Life on the Line, which he explains |
| 0:50.0 | what it was like to play in the NFL while in the closet. Joining me in Slate's Washington, D.C. studio is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak, |
| 0:59.0 | and a few seconds of panic. |
| 1:01.1 | Hello, Stefan. |
| 1:02.0 | Hello, Josh. |
| 1:03.1 | It's a tough day for us here. |
| 1:05.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.6 | The studios. |
| 1:06.1 | Especially for me. |
| 1:07.0 | Some of our older NFL players going through a rough time. |
| 1:11.1 | As of the time we're recording this, Ben Rothlisberger out for the year with an elbow. |
| 1:15.6 | No, feel for that guy. |
| 1:17.1 | Drew Brees, potential thumb surgery in his future. |
| 1:21.3 | Adam Vinatari, at the time we're recording this, we do not know Vinatari's fate, but he just |
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