Hang Up and Listen - The Troubleshooter, the Faluter, and the Kid Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2014
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca take listeners’ questions in a special year-end call-in show. Topics range from their greatest sports moments to what to watch on TV when you can’t sleep to gender bias in the sports media.Show notes at www.slate.com/hangup.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Josh Levine and this is Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of December 29th, 2014. |
| 0:11.5 | This week's show is the special year-end, hang-up, call-in show. |
| 0:16.6 | On this year's show, we're going to answer questions about our favorite sports announcers, whether college athletes are kids, if football would be safer without helmets, and a whole lot more, including some bonus questions for our Slade Plus members. |
| 0:29.2 | Joining me in Washington, D.C., is Stefan Fatsis, the author of the book's Word Freak in A Few Seconds of Panic and the Friday Sports Correspond correspondent for NPR's all things considered. |
| 0:38.3 | Ola, Stefan. |
| 0:39.2 | Ola, Josh. |
| 0:40.7 | And with us from New York is Mike Peska, the host of Slate's Daily Podcast, The Gist, |
| 0:44.2 | with Mike Pesca, who just fixed a problem in the New York studio. |
| 0:48.3 | He is the troubleshooter of today's episode. |
| 0:51.6 | It's Fatsus and the Troubletcher and whatever you want to call me, Mike. You ready for the theme song this year? I'm ready. Phone in. Cause we're ready to go phone in. Though our readiness is clearly not so. Phone in. That has a double meaning you know. Phone in. It's a podcast, not radio. Phone in. Phone in. We're phoning it in. |
| 1:13.1 | Phone it in with the troubleshooter. Fathless. Phone in. And the kid. And the kid. |
| 1:18.7 | I guess I'm fine with being the kid. Blinky and flute. Blinky and flute. Blinky and flute. |
| 1:25.2 | And from the York, the troubleshooter. So we determined before we started rolling tape that I'm the only person involved in |
| 1:33.3 | this podcast who cannot wink with both eyes. |
| 1:35.3 | And I'm now very curious how prevalent that is. |
| 1:39.3 | Can everyone in the world accept me wink with both eyes? |
| 1:42.3 | No, Yahoo! |
| 1:43.3 | Answers reveals that there is someone who says, when I was little, I couldn't |
| 1:47.9 | wink with my right eye either, but my mother could. Stupid as it sounds, I started practicing, |
| 1:53.6 | and now I could wink with both eyes. So you're just lazy. It's got lazy eye. |
| 1:59.4 | I'm trying to practice now. I'll be practicing during the show. |
| 2:02.3 | It's very distracting. That's very uncomfortable to watch. Someone says, I can wink on my left, |
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