The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of September 19th, 2016.

On today's show, we'll discuss race and baseball, and Adam Jones's claim that there haven't been any Kaepernick-like protests in the

game because it's a white man's sport. We'll also examine the hot new fad that's sweeping the nation,

football players dropping the ball before they cross the goal line as they cruise in for a touchdown,

and we'll be joined by rock climber and wingsuit base jumper Steph Davis to talk about a recent spate

of deaths in base jumping and why she continues to do it despite the fact that her own husband

lost his life in a jump.

Joining me in Washington, D.C. as Stefan Fatsis, the author of Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic.

Hello, Stefan.

I once jumped off of the third step, the bottom of a staircase.

Remarkable. Without a parachute. And with us from New York is Mike Peska, the host of Slade's daily podcast, The Gist. Hey, Mike. A lot of times the news of the day is a jumping off point for my podcast, The Gist. So, Wimsy Watch, I feel like there are lots of complicated rules about what constitutes

whimsy that I don't remember because it's the beginning of the whimsy season.

But I did like that everyone was comparing Cam Newton to the Monorail salesman on the Simpsons

because of the straw hat he was

wearing.

It's a boater.

Also, the Rams.

Lyle Langley? Lantley. Lannley. Lannley. Also. He sold monorails to North Haverport, Ogdenville, and I can't remember it all the top of my head. North Haverbrook. North Haverbrook. there is a chance his brain will bend.

Rams linebacker Alec Ogletree were a crying Jordan t-shirt.

That was fun.

But the best that I think I've ever seen crossover between whimsy and just NFL evil was Adrian

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