Hang Up and Listen - The Best Bad Guy You Can Be Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2017
⏱️ 66 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Josh Levin and Ben Mathis-Lilley are joined by Daniel “Progressive Liberal” Harnsberger to chat about his wrestling persona. The Ringer’s Bryan Curtis also discusses Jamie Horowitz and Fox Sports, and Nick Greene analyzes NBA free agency.
The Progressive Liberal (1:27): Professional wrestler Daniel Harnsberger joins to describe the inspiration behind his character, whether he’s critiquing the Democratic Party, and what it’s like to be the bad guy in wrestling.
Jamie Horowitz (19:01): Bryan Curtis, editor-at-large of the Ringer, comes on the show to assess what the sacking of Fox Sports 1’s Jamie Horowitz means for the channel and FS1’s lineup of debate-based programming.
NBA (35:04): Nick Greene joins to discusses Kevin Durant’s massive pay cut, and whether anything can be done about the massive exodus of talent from the East to the West.
Afterballs (54:04)
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:11.5 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of July 10th, 2017. |
| 0:17.8 | On this week's show, we'll talk to Daniel Harnsberger, the professional wrestler known as the Progressive Liberal, about how he invented his Hillary Clinton-loving character, what the Democrats need to do to win the 2018 midterms and how he's planning to survive an upcoming Dukes of Hazard Festival in Virginia. |
| 0:35.0 | Brian Curtis of The Ringer will be here to help us assess Fox's ouster |
| 0:38.4 | of Shoutfest Show Mastermind Jamie Horowitz and where ESPN's biggest rival goes from here. |
| 0:44.8 | And we'll chat with Slate's NBA columnist Nick Green about Kevin Durant taking less cash |
| 0:50.0 | so the Golden State Warriors can stay together and whether the league should shove |
| 0:54.2 | the Eastern Conference into Yucca Mountain. |
| 0:57.5 | Stefan Fatsis is out this week. |
| 0:59.5 | Filling in for him, we're very lucky to have a genuine |
| 1:01.8 | cyberhuman, our nation's foremost thinker |
| 1:04.9 | on the role of Fox Sports One in our society. |
| 1:07.6 | It's Slate writer Ben Mathis Lilley. |
| 1:09.5 | Hello, Ben. |
| 1:10.7 | Hey, Josh. Cyberhuman, of writer, Ben Mathis Lilley. Hello, Ben. Hey, Josh. |
| 1:12.5 | Cyberhuman, of course, being Jason Whitlock's term of art for something that only Jason Whitlock understands. |
| 1:20.4 | It's a thing that's online that he doesn't like. And you are the quintessential thing online that |
| 1:26.5 | Jason Whitlock doesn't like. |
| 1:28.2 | Our first guest this week came to my attention via a deadspin post published two weeks ago with the headline, The Progressive Liberal is maybe the perfect wrestling heel. |
| 1:38.7 | That item introduced the world to a man who cuts promos for his matches and the Appalachian Mountain Wrestling Circuit |
| 1:44.5 | while wearing a shirt plastered with various images of Hillary Clinton's face. Here's an example |
| 1:50.8 | of some of his work on the microphone. You people need to be reprogrammed. You continually vote |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Joel Meyer, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Joel Meyer and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.