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Hang Up and Listen

Introducing Man Up

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6986 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Josh Levin talks with Aymann Ismail, the host of Man Up, the new Slate podcast about masculinity in the modern world. The two discuss Ep. 1 of Man Up, which features Eric Kelly. Kelly was so successful at fighting off bullies as a kid in Brooklyn, that he grew up to become an Olympic level boxer, until a bar fight ended his career. Subscribe to Man Up in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, or search for Man Up from Slate in your favorite podcast app.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, hang up, and listen.

0:02.0

Listeners, you probably know me if you don't.

0:05.0

This is Josh Levine, your host.

0:06.5

I am here because we have a special presentation in our feed this week.

0:10.5

We have a new show at Slate.

0:12.4

It's called Man Up and the first episode is

0:16.3

great and it's also relevant to folks who like our show. So I'm here with Aaman Ismael who is the host of Manup

0:25.3

What's Up Aaman?

0:26.2

What's up, Josh?

0:27.4

It's great to have you and I love the show and the reason that we're featuring

0:31.9

it in our feed feed actually two reasons.

0:33.8

Number one good audio content.

0:36.0

Yep.

0:36.8

You gotta have quality audio content for the people.

0:39.1

Number two is that there is a sports team and a sports focus on this show.

0:44.1

You talked to a guy who was a championship boxer

0:47.9

and is now a boxing coach.

0:50.0

So can you just explain a little bit

0:52.0

how you got to this guy and why he was the perfect figure for your first episode?

0:56.0

I first heard about Eric Kelly through Instagram.

1:00.0

He posts these really, really funny videos of his clients, people that he trains, but way before that he was a favorite to go to the Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

1:09.0

So I was so curious how someone who can can go from being the number one boxer to being kind

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