Hang Up and Listen - The Classy Intangibles Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and the New Yorker’s Vinson Cunningham talk about Jay-Z’s new partnership with the NFL. They also discuss Joseph Tsai’s multibillion-dollar deal to buy the Brooklyn Nets. Finally, they select the words they’d like to ban from the sports lexicon.
Jay-Z (2:10): Did the NFL botch its move to bring on the hip-hop icon as a corporate partner or is the league savvier than we think? Brooklyn Nets (20:30): How and why Tsai paid the biggest price ever for a U.S. sports franchise. And will franchise values keep going up? Banned words (32:00): Is “class” the worst sports word of them all? What about “talk about”? Afterballs (48:30): Stefan on football and the heat and Josh on an incident from tennis player Daniil Medvedev’s past.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.1 | Hello, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor and the author of The Queen. |
| 0:12.7 | And this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of August 19th, 2019. |
| 0:18.6 | On this week's show, we'll talk about Jay-Z's new partnership with the NFL and what it |
| 0:23.0 | means for the league and the still unemployed, Colin Kaepernick. |
| 0:26.7 | We'll also discuss Joseph's $1, multi-billion dollar deal to buy the Brooklyn Nets, the |
| 0:32.0 | highest price ever paid for an American sports franchise. |
| 0:35.4 | Finally, we'll select the words that we would like to ban |
| 0:38.8 | from the sports lexicon. Joining me in Slate's Washington, D.C. studio is a high character guy, |
| 0:46.1 | the author of the book's word freak, and a few seconds of panic. It's Stefan Fatsis. |
| 0:50.6 | High motor, too. I just want to point out. That's implicit. |
| 0:54.8 | Also with us this week from our studio in Brooklyn, it's a guy who brings the intangibles. |
| 0:59.8 | He is the theater critic for the New Yorker and a charter member of the fan club for R.J. Barrett, aka the Maple Mamba. |
| 1:07.6 | It is our friend Vincent Cunningham. |
| 1:09.3 | Hey, Vincent. |
| 1:10.3 | Hey, I am all of those things. |
| 1:11.9 | That's true. |
| 1:13.3 | Before we get on to business today, I wanted to let folks know that Hangup Alam, Mike Peska, is doing a live show at the Bell House in Brooklyn. |
| 1:22.3 | It's on Monday, September 16th. |
| 1:24.6 | That show is the Gist Comedy Special. It will feature Hari Kandibolu, among many others. |
| 1:32.2 | Tickets are 20 bucks, and you can get them at slate.com slash live. Go see Peska. |
| 1:39.9 | The NFL didn't look so great when it became public a couple weeks ago that one of its franchise owners, billionaire Stephen Ross of the Miami Dolphins, was hosting a $250,000 per person fundraiser for Donald Trump in the Hamptons. Ross defended himself in a statement touting a sports nonprofit he runs and calling himself an outspoken champion of racial equality. |
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