Hang Up and Listen - The You Get a Trophy Just for Listening Bonus Segment
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
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🗓️ 3 September 2015
⏱️ 14 minutes
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This podcast extra is free to all readers to preview our membership program, Slate Plus. Visit slate.com/hangupplus to learn more.In their Aug. 17 Slate Plus bonus segment, Hang Up and Listen’s Josh Levin, Stefan Fatsis, and Mike Pesca discuss participation trophies, a supposed scourge that even NPR-listening softies point to as a sure sign of American decline. Josh, Stefan, and Mike were reacting to recent anti–participation trophy comments made by Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison.To access each week’s Hang Up and Listen bonus segment, visit slate.com/hangupplus and try Slate Plus free for two weeks.
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| 0:29.7 | Hi, this is Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slate's legal podcast Amagus. If you are listening to this show, you might be interested in Amicus's live show that we're hosting in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, May the 14th. |
| 0:45.0 | My colleague, Mark Joseph Stern, and I will be talking to some amazing guests, |
| 0:50.0 | including Cheryline Eiffel and a sitting state Supreme Court justice, all about how originalism, a relatively |
| 0:57.0 | recently invented way of interpreting the Constitution, has taken over the Supreme Court and radically reshaped the law. It's been |
| 1:05.7 | doctrinal rocket fuel for the conservative legal movement and facilitated the |
| 1:10.3 | rolling back of abortion rights, the expansion of gun rights, and the obliteration of the separation of church and state. And as another wildly consequential Supreme Court term, careers to its end, the Court's originalists are on a tear. |
| 1:26.5 | But there's something you can do about it and we hope you'll join us in DC on May 14th |
| 1:31.7 | to explore the possible pathways out of the current situation. |
| 1:36.2 | Go to slate.com slash Amicus Live for tickets. This podcast Extra is part of your Slate Plus membership. |
| 1:47.0 | Now it is time for our exclusive bonus segment for Slate Plus members. |
| 1:51.0 | Over the weekend, Muscily Pittsburgh Steeler James Harrison posted on |
| 1:55.0 | Instagram that his two sons quote received true trophies for nothing a |
| 1:59.5 | participation trophies exclamation point he continued well I am very proud of my boys for |
| 2:05.0 | everything they do. This is the exact same syntax as nobody deserves to get their |
| 2:10.2 | job broken but well I am very proud of my boys for everything they do, and |
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