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Olympics Extra: The Don’t Swim Like a Terrestrial Mammal Edition

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6986 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Josh Levin speaks with swim coach Terry Laughlin about what makes Katie Ledecky so fast in the water.  Plus, David Epstein of ProPublica talks about how 43-year-old gold-medal-winning cyclist Kristin Armstrong defies the sports age curve. Facebook: http://fb.com/HangUpAndListen Email: hangup@slate.com Show notes at http://slate.com/hangup Ending music by mtbrd http://mtbrd.bandcamp.com/ & Flamingosis https://flamingosis1.bandcamp.com/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi, this is Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slate's legal podcast Amagus. If you are listening to this show, you might be interested in Amicus's live show that we're hosting in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, May the 14th.

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My colleague, Mark Joseph Stern, and I will be talking to some amazing guests,

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including Cheryline Eiffel and a sitting state Supreme Court justice, all about how originalism, a relatively

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recently invented way of interpreting the Constitution, has taken over the Supreme Court and radically reshaped the law. It's been

1:05.7

doctrinal rocket fuel for the conservative legal movement and facilitated the

1:10.3

rolling back of abortion rights, the expansion of gun rights, and the obliteration of the separation of church and state. And as another wildly consequential Supreme Court term, careers to its end, the Court's originalists are on a tear.

1:26.5

But there's something you can do about it and we hope you'll join us in DC on May 14th

1:31.7

to explore the possible pathways out of the current situation.

1:36.2

Go to slate.com slash Amicus Live for tickets. Hang up and listen, Olympics Extra is brought to you by Rocket Mortgage from Quicken Loans.

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Quicken Loans.com slash Hangup. Hi, this is Josh Levine. I'm Slates Sports Editor and host of Slates Sports Editor and

2:07.9

host of Slates Sports Podcast Hang Up and Listen. It's August 11th, 2016, and this is your hang up and listen Olympics extra. On Wednesday in Rio the U.S. women's field hockey team beat Japan 6-1 to advance to the Olympic quarterfinals.

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The Americans who placed 12th in London and 8th in Beijing will play an opponent to be determined on Monday.

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And also I'd like to mention that the team's headquarters in Lancaster, PA, are touted as the

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nation's largest indoor sports complex, and also they are located on Spooky Nook Road.

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