Hang Up and Listen - The Caught Between the Moon and Golden State Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2018
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by the New Yorker’s Vinson Cunningham. They discuss Raheem Sterling and racism in English soccer, the 25th anniversary of the FOX-NFL alliance (with the Ringer’s Bryan Curtis), and Stephen Curry’s comments about the moon landing being a hoax.
Raheem Sterling (2:26): How an Instagram post started a much-needed conversation about race, society, and soccer.
Fox and the NFL (21:57): Rupert Murdoch’s $1.6 billion deal changed the network and pro football forever. What were the biggest repercussions and missed opportunities?
Stephen Curry and the moon (39:10): Does Curry really believe that the moon landing was faked or was he just trying to go viral like Kyrie Irving?
Afterballs(51:04): Vinson on the “modern NBA,” Stefan on the origin of the game ball, and Josh on Pat Summerall and House of Buggin’.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:11.0 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of December 17th, 2018. |
| 0:18.7 | On this week's show, we'll discuss Manchester City star Rahim Sterling's call to end |
| 0:24.2 | the culture of racism in English soccer. The ringers Brian Curtis will also be here to talk |
| 0:29.4 | about the 25th anniversary of the NFL's TV deal with Fox, a move that changed both the sport |
| 0:35.9 | and the network in profound ways. And we'll also |
| 0:39.1 | discuss Steph Curry's doubts about the moon landing, Kyrie Irving's view that the world is |
| 0:45.2 | flat and other deep thoughts about the Milky Way from NBA stars. Joining me in our Washington |
| 0:51.5 | DC studio is the Pleiades to my hiades, the author of the book's Word Freak in a few seconds of panic. It's Stefan Fatsis. Hello, Stefan. Hello, Hydez. And also with us today is a guy who hangs the moon as far as I'm concerned. It's New Yorker staff writer, Vincent, |
| 1:15.2 | Cunningham. Welcome back to the show, Vincent. Thank you so much for having me, guys. |
| 1:22.3 | I'm looking forward to it. Stefan, I called Steph Curry, Steph Curry, just to distinguish him from you. At this dark moment at which he's destroying the knowledge base of our nation's children. |
| 1:30.8 | I just want to make sure that people know. |
| 1:33.0 | Do I need to go on the record, do you think, saying that I do believe that men have walked on the moon? |
| 1:38.6 | We'll get to that in our third segment. |
| 1:41.1 | But for now. |
| 1:41.9 | Let's keep them hanging. |
| 1:43.1 | Let's keep them hanging. |
| 1:43.7 | Maybe I don't believe it. |
| 1:44.6 | I will say that you've still got a few more days hang up people to give us a call for our call-in show. |
| 1:53.0 | We're going to record it later this week. |
| 1:54.8 | So if you listen to this on around December 17th, September 18th, December 19th, you can still call in. |
| 2:01.0 | Give us a call at 7-7-Hang-Up 10, |
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