Hang Up and Listen - Trump vs. the IOC
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Hosts Alex Kirshner, Ben Lindbergh, and Lindsay Gibbs talk to sportswriter Rodger Sherman about how the United States’ immigration maneuvering might affect the Olympics. They also discuss the NFL’s new multibillion dollar deal with ESPN, and how the Minnesota Twins’ massive trade-off could affect the team – and the rest of MLB.
On the bonus episode available exclusively for Slate Plus members, the panel holds a special draft: one fictional player and one real player they want back in the game.
IOC (4:20): Trump’s immigration plans run afoul of the IOC.
NFL ESPN(23:27): ESPN acquires a ton of NFL assets.
Minnesota Twins (40:11): The team’s trade deadline turns into a fire sale.
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| 0:59.4 | conditions apply. It is Monday, August 4th, 2025. Welcome back to Hang Up and Listen, the sports |
| 1:10.1 | podcast here at Slate. Back with you yet again. I'm Alex Kirsner. I'm a contributing writer for Slate and I co-host Split Zone Duo, a national college football podcast. We have a full and fun show for you this week, or an interesting show. I don't know if it's all fun, but it's a heavy topic to start. The United States has a couple of high-profile international sporting events coming |
| 1:28.8 | states out over the next few years. |
| 1:30.3 | We're going to talk with the sports writer Roger Sherman, a longtime Olympics obsessive, who |
| 1:35.4 | will join us to talk about how the United States' immigration maneuvering might affect |
| 1:39.6 | one of those events in particular. |
| 1:41.7 | ESPN struck a deal with the NFL to give itself access to a bunch of |
| 1:45.1 | big-time media assets like Red Zone and the NFL network. It's a massive deal that will |
| 1:50.1 | subtly, or maybe not subtly, change how we consume the biggest sport in the country. We'll talk |
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