Introducing Hang Up and Listen: Kids Play the Darndest Things
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Hey, Mom and Dad Are Fighting listeners, Hang Up and Listen, Slate's sports show, did a special episode about youth sports, which we thought you might enjoy. If you dig it and would like to hear more, subscribe to Hang Up and Listen wherever you get your podcasts!
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by Slate’s Allison Benedikt to answer your questions about youth sports. Topics covered include whether and how to teach your kids how to talk trash, how to balance sports time with family leisure time, and whether it’s ethical to watch football if you don’t want your child to play football.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.1 | Hello, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, the author of The Queen, and the |
| 0:12.5 | parent of zero children. This is Slate's sports podcast, hang up and listen for the week |
| 0:17.3 | of September 30th, 2019. On this week's show, we're going to answer your questions about kids and sports. |
| 0:23.8 | Kids Sports Kids, Sports Kids, not Sports Illustrated for Kids or Jason Kidd |
| 0:27.7 | or the Australian Sporting Goods retailer Jim Kid Sports. |
| 0:31.8 | Anyway, kids, sports, you had thoughts. |
| 0:34.4 | We have thoughts. |
| 0:35.1 | We will share our thoughts with you shortly. |
| 0:38.2 | Joining me in Slate's Washington, D.C. studio, is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak, and a few seconds of panic. A father of daughter, singular, and a girl's soccer coach of some renown in the D.C. Metro area. Hello, Stefan. |
| 0:51.0 | And commissioner. Commissioner of the girls' high school division. My fifth year. That's big. That's big. |
| 0:56.5 | Veteran commissioner. |
| 0:57.8 | Yeah. I renewed my contract. Do you think of yourself as like more of a Goodell or a Tagliaboo or a Rosel? Oh, come on. No, no, no. I'm a humane commissioner. You're an Adam Silver type? |
| 1:07.4 | I'm an Adam Silver type, yes. |
| 1:08.8 | Yeah, I'm not sure I believe that. |
| 1:09.8 | But I'll take your word for it. |
| 1:10.7 | I did have to discipline someone once. |
| 1:12.8 | Kick the coach out of the league. |
| 1:14.6 | Wow. an Adam Silver type. I'm an Adam Silver type, yes. Yeah, I'm not sure. I believe that. But I'll take your word for it. I did have to discipline someone once. Kick the coach out of the league. |
| 1:14.5 | Wow. That was ugly. We'll get to that. Or not. We'll see. With us from our New York studio is |
| 1:19.7 | Allison Benedict. Allison is Slate's executive editor. One of the founding hosts of Slate's |
| 1:25.9 | parenting podcast, Mom and Dad are Fighting, |
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