Hang Up and Listen - The Grab the Stick and Run Like Hell Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2015
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the latest innovation in NCAA evildoing: football programs fining players. They also interview 81-year-old track star Irene Obera and review HBO’s Hard Knocks, starring the Houston Texans’ J.J. Watt.Hang Up and Listen is sponsored by Draft Kings. Start this football season by winning two million dollars! This isn’t fantasy as usual. This is Draft Kings. Use code HANGUP to play free for a shot at two million dollars in the Week One Ten Million Dollar Maker. Go to www.draftkings.com and use the promo code HANGUP.
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| 0:00.0 | Hangup and Listen is sponsored by Draft Kings. |
| 0:02.5 | Start this football season by winning $2 million. |
| 0:05.6 | This isn't fantasy as usual. |
| 0:07.1 | This is Draft Kings. |
| 0:08.6 | Use code HangUp to play free for a shot at $2 million in the week one $10 million maker. |
| 0:15.2 | Go to draftkings.com and use the promo code, Hangup. |
| 0:18.4 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:27.0 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's Sports Podcast Hangup and Listen for the week of August 31st, 2015. |
| 0:33.8 | On this week's show, we'll discuss whether college sports are changing for the better, |
| 0:37.3 | with schools now paying players full cost of attendance, or if schools are just figuring out new ways to be evil, like Virginia Tech trying to find its players for personal foul penalties. |
| 0:46.9 | We'll also interview 81-year-old track star Irene Obera, who just won the 100 meters, 200 meters, 80-meter hurdles, 200-meter hurdles, |
| 0:55.4 | the long jump, and a couple relays at the World Masters Athletics Championships. |
| 1:00.7 | And we'll review the latest season of HBO's Hard Knocks, |
| 1:04.4 | starring American hero J.J. Watt and the Houston Texans' Ctastic head coach Bill O'Brien. |
| 1:11.6 | Joining me in Washington, D.C., is Stefan Fatsas, |
| 1:15.1 | author of the book's Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic, |
| 1:17.8 | a coach who's known for teaching his young charges, |
| 1:22.0 | the importance of American curse words. |
| 1:25.5 | Hello, Stefan. |
| 1:26.3 | Get your shit together, girls. We're going out there. We're taking the fucking Pink Panthers down. His mic is hot. His temper is hotter. With us from New York. It's the host of Slate's daily podcast, The Gist, with Mike Paska. It's Mike Pasca. Have you ever coached youth sports, Mike? |
| 1:45.2 | Uh-huh, yeah, definitely. |
| 1:46.8 | I just want to note that Stefan has asked Bill O'Brien's mom not to listen to this podcast. |
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