The U Bum Edition

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin and Marcus Thompson of The Athletic discuss the wave of protests against Donald Trump’s remarks about the NFL. Then they talk about Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant’s recent Twitter snafu and his fragile psyche. And broadcaster and former U.S. soccer player Marcelo Balboa joins for a conversation about hot, new Major League Soccer team Atlanta United FC. NFL protests (1:35): Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Marcus Thompson of The Athletic discuss a remarkable weekend in professional sports that began with Donald Trump calling protesting NFL players “sons of bitches” and culminated in hundreds of athletes, coaches, owners, and others across sports rebuking the president in a wave of on-field protests and statements. Kevin Durant (27:16): Stefan, Josh, and Marcus assess Kevin Durant’s apparent insecurities—reflected in his new line of Nike sneakers with insoles that take on his critics—and whether it’s possible to be an NBA superstar and also mingle with the public like a regular guy. Soccer (41:13): Stefan interviews three-time World Cup soccer player Marcelo Balboa about Atlanta United FC, the Major League Soccer expansion team that recently drew a league-record 70,000 fans to a game in a new stadium in Atlanta. Afterballs (48:17): Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.7	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.
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, all about how originalism, a relatively
0:57.0	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. The following podcast contains explicit language. Hi, I'm Stephen Fatsus, and this is Slate's sports podcast, hang up and listen for the week of September 25th, 2017.
2:05.0	On this week's show, we will discuss the remarkable weekend
2:08.0	in sports in which the President of the United States
2:11.3	called for firing athletes who engage in peaceful sanctioned protest,
2:15.6	and the athletes and their employers responded in force.
2:19.6	Then we'll stick to some sports, more or less, and explore the psyche of Golden State Warrior star
2:24.2	Kevin Durant who tweeted intemperately undercover in the third person about his
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