The Ninja Doppelgänger Edition

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2017

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by NPR’s Gene Demby to discuss Jemele Hill and ESPN’s conservative trolls, by HBO’s Eric Raskin to talk about Golovkin-Alvarez, and by Ninja Warrior’s Josh Levin for a conversation about obstacle course stardom. Jemele Hill (1:28): Gene Demby of NPR’s Code Switch comes on the show to explore why ESPN has become a target in the culture wars and the kinds of discussions that happen when people of color become leading voices in the mainstream media. Golovkin-Alvarez (25:43): Eric Raskin of the HBO Boxing podcast explains what made the middleweight fight between Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez an instant classic, and what can be done about scoring controversies in boxing. Josh Levin (46:55): A different Josh Levin comes on the show to chat about what it’s like to appear on American Ninja Warrior and his quest to become an Olympic rock climber. Afterballs (1:01:20): Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.8	Hi, this is Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slates 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.
0:45.0	My colleague, Mark Joseph Stern, and I will be talking to some amazing guests,
0:50.0	including Cheryline Eiffel and a sitting state Supreme Court justice.
0:54.5	All about how originalism, a relatively recently invented way of interpreting the Constitution,
1:00.9	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. The following podcast contains explicit language. Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's Sports Podcast, hang up and listen for the week of September 18th, 2017.
2:01.0	On this week show, Gene Dembe of NPR's Code Switch podcast will be here for a conversation
2:06.6	about Jamel Hill, Clay Travis, Donald Trump, whether it's okay to call the President
2:11.1	a White supremacist and how ESPN is handling
2:13.7	attacks from conservative trolls. Eric Raskin of HBO Boxing will also join us to
2:18.3	discuss the fantastic fight between Ganadi Galavkin and Canello Alvarez, which ended in a draw thanks to one awful scorecard,
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