Hang Up and Listen - The Watch Out for the Pious Ones Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2017
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin discuss the shifting politics of the NFL protests with Jamil Smith. Bloomberg View’s Joe Nocera also joins to discuss the FBI investigation of NCAA basketball, the Ringer’s Ben Lindbergh previews the baseball playoffs.
NFL protests (2:24): Jamil Smith joins for a conversation about how NFL owners have tried to co-opt players’ protests for racial equality.
FBI vs. NCAA (23:46): Joe Nocera comes on the show to break down the FBI’s investigation into the nexus between shoe companies, assistant coaches, and college basketball players. Why is the federal government sticking its nose into college hoops now, and can anything good come out of this inquiry.
Baseball playoffs (41:11): Ben Lindbergh joins to discuss some of the postseason’s top contenders, among them the Cleveland Indians, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Washington Nationals, and the Houston Astros.
Afterballs (56:42):
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:12.5 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of October 2, 2017. |
| 0:18.8 | On this week's show, Jameel Smith will join us to talk about the shifting |
| 0:21.8 | politics of the protest in the NFL, and owners' attempts to co-opt and soften the message |
| 0:26.6 | of those protests. Joan O'Sara of Bloomberg View will also be here to help us answer any number of |
| 0:32.2 | questions about the FBI's investigation of the money-changing hands between shoe companies, coaches, and players in college |
| 0:38.7 | basketball. The most important of those questions being, why is the FBI investigating the |
| 0:44.1 | money-changing hands between shoe companies, coaches, and players in college basketball? |
| 0:48.3 | And finally, Ben Lindberg of the Ringer will join us to preview the baseball playoffs, |
| 0:52.5 | in which such teams as, let's say, the Minnesota |
| 0:55.1 | Twins. We'll try to win a big trophy with flags on it that is not named after a particular |
| 1:00.2 | person. Good luck. Joining me in Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word |
| 1:06.2 | Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic, the latter of which is, along with a few good men, the Sean Colvin album, |
| 1:12.0 | a few small repairs, and the board game, a few acres of snow. Just one of many items you can |
| 1:16.8 | purchase that begin with a few. To learn more, go to Google.com and type in the phrase a few. |
| 1:23.1 | Thanks, Stefan. I've already acquired all of those. I'm very excited today, not to shift the focus here, but we had two score agammies yesterday. We all have our own things we want to talk about. I did my afterball last week. I feel it's incumbent on me to let everyone know in case they have not yet followed at NFL underscore scoreagami. That there were two scoreramis yesterday. The the Texans over the Titans, 5714, and then last night, |
| 1:46.0 | I stayed up to watch the end of this game for no other reason |
| 1:48.9 | than to see if it would be scuragami, |
| 1:51.1 | the Seahawks over the Colts, 46 to 18. |
| 1:54.8 | That's a great score. |
| 1:56.1 | So Al Michaels of Sunday Night Football is famous |
| 1:59.6 | for giving sort of like backdoor, backhanded |
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