Hang Up and Listen - The Commissioner Is Making Funny Faces
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Josh Levin and Stefan Fatsis are joined by Slate’s Seth Stevenson to discuss the Patriots’ playoff loss and the post-NFL life of Rob Gronkowski. ESPN’s Jackie MacMullan also joins to talk about the legacy of NBA commissioner David Stern. Finally, they interview Theo Anthony about his documentary Subject to Review.
Patriots and Gronk (01:39): Why couldn’t Tom Brady and Bill Belichick pull it together this year? And should we pity Rob Gronkowski or feel happy that he got out of the NFL at 29?
David Stern (17:41): How we should think about the legendary commissioner, who had a reputation for meanness but made the NBA a corporate giant.
Subject to Review (42:31): A heady, trippy documentary about replay in tennis.
Afterballs (57:48): Stefan on the origins of “trash panda” and Josh on decibel readings at football games.
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. |
| 0:08.3 | Hi, I'm Stefan Fatsis, the author of Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic, and |
| 0:12.5 | this is Slate's sports podcast. Hang up and Listen for the week of January 6th, 2020. |
| 0:18.2 | On this week's show, Slate's Seth Stevenson joins us to talk about the end of the New England Patriots Dynasty or whatever the team's loss over the weekend signified, and a new profile that he's written of retired tight end, Rob Grancowski, who maybe would have changed the outcome of the game against Tennessee on Saturday. |
| 0:37.4 | Hall of Fame basketball writer Jackie McMullen will be here to assess the life of one of the most influential executives in modern sports, NBA Commissioner David Stern, who died last week. |
| 0:47.9 | Finally, director Theo Anthony will join us to discuss his new ESPN 30 for 30 documentary subject to review a meditation on the |
| 0:56.7 | mechanics and metaphysics of instant replay. Josh Levine is Slate's national editor and the author |
| 1:02.9 | of The Queen, The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth. He joins me again from New Orleans, |
| 1:08.5 | where the Saints lost in overtime to the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday, 26 to 20. |
| 1:14.0 | Joshua at the game. |
| 1:15.5 | Appreciate the reminder. |
| 1:16.8 | Yeah, in case you had forgotten. |
| 1:18.1 | Yeah, they did lose an overtime. |
| 1:19.5 | I remember now. |
| 1:20.5 | That was bad. |
| 1:21.8 | Did you throw a metaphorical red flag after the no call against Kyle Rudolph for pushing off during his game-winning |
| 1:27.9 | touchdown catch? I did not. I wasn't particularly upset about that. We can get into it when we |
| 1:33.1 | talk to Seth, though. I just want to make sure you're okay, though. I'll make it through. We'll make it |
| 1:36.6 | through together. I'll help you. On Saturday night in foggy, Foxborough, Massachusetts, |
| 1:43.7 | six-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady's team scored zero points in the second half of a game against a team quarterbacked by a guy who was dumped by the Miami Dolphins. |
| 1:53.5 | That's not entirely fair because Ryan Tannehill has been pretty great since taking over the Tennessee Titans early this season. |
| 2:01.7 | But Brady was pretty bad in the last few weeks and again in his first appearance in the lowly wildcard round |
... |
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.