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Hang Up | The Not-So-Super Chiefs

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Hosts Alex Kirshner, Lindsay Gibbs, and Ben Lindbergh examine how the world-beating Chiefs ran into the brick wall that was the Philadelphia Eagles at the Super Bowl. They also speak to journalist and author Julie Kliegman about the Trump administration’s recent executive order aiming to ban trans women from sports. Plus, the panel examines the growing movement across sports to shorten game times. On the bonus episode available exclusively for Slate Plus members, the panel dives into potential blockbuster moves in the NFL offseason. The Super Bowl (2:24): The Eagles are elite. Trump’s Trans Sports Ban (18:08): The repugnant executive order fueling trans discrimination across sports. Shorter Games (38:37): What's behind the push to bring playing time down? (Note: time codes are only accurate for Slate Plus members, who listen ad-free.) Want more Hang Up and Listen? Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page, or visit slate.com/hangupplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:36.8

It is Monday, February 10th, 2025. Welcome back to Hang Up and Listen, the sports podcast here at Slate.

0:43.5

Back with you again. I'm Alex Kirshner. I'm a contributing writer for Slate, and I also co-host the

0:48.5

College Football podcast Split Zone Duo. Super Bowl 59 has come and gone. It was, you know, certainly a football game with at least

0:58.3

one team playing on the field at all times. We will discuss the flight of the Philadelphia Eagles.

1:05.2

Also, we will talk about Donald Trump's executive order targeting trans athletes, a segment for

1:10.2

which will have an excellent guest,

1:11.7

sports writer and editor Julie Kleigman, joining us for that, and we'll discuss the continuing

1:16.5

efforts of various sports executives to make their games shorter. They have some good ideas,

1:21.6

and they have some bad ideas. As usual, joining me this week is Lindsay Gibbs, the publisher of

1:25.9

PowerPlays, a newsletter that covers the biggest stories of the day in women's sports.

1:30.4

Lindsay, how are you?

1:31.6

Well, I'm doing better than Mark Williams, who was sent to the Lakers and then sent back to the Hornet because he failed his physical.

1:39.5

So that's been my favorite sub subplot of the week.

1:42.5

And, man, what a weird locker room scenario.

1:48.2

We're all doing better than Anthony Davis, at least. No adductor issues here.

1:51.9

We can only hope that he at least got some frequent flyer miles out of the deal, going from one city to the other and then back. And of course, we've got Ben Lindberg here. Ben is a senior

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