Hang Up and Listen - The Let’s Retire at Halftime Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2018
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin discuss Vontae Davis’ mid-game retirement and Le’Veon Bell’s holdout, Outside Magazine’s Alex Hutchinson talks about Eliud Kipchoge’s new marathon world record, and Aaron Gordon assesses The Athletic as a business and editorial venture.
Vontae Davis and Le’Veon Bell (1:25): Davis’ sudden exit from the league and Bell’s refusal to suit up without getting a long-term contract show the limits of player solidarity in the NFL.
Eliud Kipchoge (21:27): The 33-year-old Kenyan has won 10 of the 11 marathons he’s entered. Alex Hutchinson explains what makes him so great and how he destroyed the world record.
The Athletic (39:31): Will the new media outlet save sports journalism or destroy it? Aaron Gordon’s non-hot take: The answer is somewhere in between.
Afterballs(59:47): Stefan on live retweets of high school football carnage and Josh on the pleasures of airplane mode.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:12.4 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, hang up and listen for the week of September 17th, 2018. |
| 0:20.2 | On this week's show, we'll discuss Vante Davis's pretty much |
| 0:23.7 | unprecedented mid-game retirement, Leveon Bell's ongoing holdout, and the limits of player |
| 0:32.3 | solidarity in the NFL. Alex Hutchinson of Outside Magazine will also join us to talk about how Kenya's |
| 0:39.4 | Elliot Kipchogi managed to destroy the world record in the marathon. And Aaron Gordon will be here |
| 0:45.8 | to assess the athletics effort to become a world-dominating, audience-pleasing sports media behemoth. |
| 0:54.6 | Joining me in Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak in a few |
| 1:00.9 | seconds of panic. |
| 1:03.0 | Hello, Stefan. |
| 1:03.8 | Hey, Josh. |
| 1:04.3 | I like how you said, hang up and listen in the intro. |
| 1:06.7 | That was a new twist. |
| 1:07.9 | You like that? |
| 1:08.6 | You think I should adopt that new cadence? |
| 1:10.6 | Sure. |
| 1:11.8 | Hang up and listen. |
| 1:14.6 | Do you want to start us off by talking about the NFL? |
| 1:19.0 | Would that be a thing that I can entice you to do? |
| 1:21.2 | I could do that. |
| 1:22.1 | All right, go for it. |
| 1:23.2 | Buffalo Bill's defensive back, Vante Davis, played the first half of the team's game on Sunday |
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