Hello I am Josh Levine's

Slate's national editor and the author of The Queen.

And this is Slate's Sports Podcast Hang Up and Listen

for the week of December 3rd, 2019,

Live from the Hamilton in Washington DC.

Totally unprompted applause, Stephen the best kind.

On this week's show we're going to talk about the past, present,

and future of sports media and how our consumption habits have

changed since the death of dead spin

and the partial zombification of Sports Illustrated.

We'll also be joined by one of the greatest

hurtlers of all time, Olympic gold medalist Don Harper-Nelson.

We'll talk with her about her career and her decision to

come back this year after retiring to have a baby. Finally, we'll be joined by

three of our favorite journalists, Jean Dembie, Lindsay Gibbs, and Dave McKenna, for a

segment on moral and ethical dilemmas related

to bats and balls and things of that nature.

We're calling it hard choices, parentheses about sports. It is always an easy choice for me to sit alongside my

podcast partner of the last 10 years. The author of the book's Word Freak and a

few seconds of panic. Stephen fats says, hello Stephen.

Hi Josh.

We have not done one of these things since 2016.

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