Hanging Up and Listening
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Hosts Alex Kirshner, Lindsay Gibbs, and Ben Lindbergh join forces one last time to break down (what else?) the week’s top sports stories. Then, the panel is joined by Hang Up all-star guests from across the years (including John Wertheim, Jeff Passan, Louisa Thomas, and more) to share memories from the show’s seventeen-year run and make predictions of the sports world for the next seventeen.
Finally, Lindsay closes us out with an Afterball capturing what the WNBA was like seventeen years ago.
The Masters: (12:48): Rory is still great
The Hang Up Guest All Stars (39:27): “This show was the perfect anti-toxin to sports radio.”
Afterballs (1:11:41): One of the most thrilling WNBA Finals occurred in 2009 (not a typo!)
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| 0:00.0 | It is Tuesday, April 14th, 2006. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome back to the finale of Hang Up and Listen, the sports podcast here at Slate since 2009. |
| 0:16.0 | Back with you one more time. I'm Alex Kirchner. I'm a contributing writer for Slate, and I co-host |
| 0:21.4 | split zone duo, a national college football podcast. This is going to be the curtain call |
| 0:26.7 | for this long-running podcast that has met so much to all of us. We're going to make this show |
| 0:31.6 | something of a tribute to a program that predates any of our times here by quite a bit. |
| 0:38.7 | And joining me for this final voyage, as usual, is Lindsay Gibbs, the women's sports |
| 0:43.1 | lead at CBS Sports and the publisher of PowerPlays, a newsletter that covers the biggest |
| 0:48.2 | stories of the hour in women's sports. |
| 0:50.8 | Lindsay, it's great to be with you on Hang Up and Listen one more time. |
| 0:54.3 | Absolutely, Alex. I'm going to hold in my emotions a little bit, you know, put on a brave face, |
| 0:59.2 | but I'm going to really, really miss having these Monday or Tuesday morning conversations with you and Ben going forward. |
| 1:08.1 | They have just been, honestly, one of the highlights of my last year and a half. And it's been |
| 1:14.4 | really cool to hear from listeners over the past week. And just want to thank you all for all the |
| 1:21.6 | support you've shown us throughout last week. And gosh, I'm starting this on a sad note. We're going to |
| 1:27.4 | have fun this last episode. I promise. |
| 1:30.8 | Are we supposed to hold our emotions in check if we continue down this path? I did a terrible job |
| 1:34.7 | in my defense I was up to like 2 a.m. covering the WM.Draft, but so a little all over the place. |
| 1:41.7 | But gosh, let's just, let's, let's hit out of the ballpark. |
| 1:46.3 | Ben, Lindbergh of effectively wild, Ben, it is wonderful to be with you as well. Have you |
| 1:52.8 | contemplated yet that Hang Up and Listen is ending at a moment that the Pittsburgh Pirates have |
| 1:58.4 | the second most wins in baseball? Yeah. And the Charlotte Hornets are |
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