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Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Hosts Alex Kirshner, Lindsay Gibbs, and Ben Lindbergh revisit the whirlwind week for the U.S. men’s hockey team, after their gold medal win, and SOTU and White House visits. Then, the Ringer’s Megan Schuster joins to preview the new season of Formula 1 and its broadcasting move to Apple TV. To close, Ben breaks down what to look out for in the World Baseball Classic, which starts this week.
On the bonus episode, available exclusively for Slate Plus members, the hosts share their highs and lows of watching the Winter Olympics.
Hockey and Politics: (3:45): The U.S. men’s hockey team gets their Big Macs
F1 (20:02): Formula One’s new home at Apple
WBC (44:24): The American baseball dream team still has an uphill battle
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| 0:00.0 | It is Monday, March 2nd, 2006. Welcome back to Hang Up and Listen, the sports program here at Slate. Back with you again. I'm Alex Kirshner. I'm a contributing writer for Slate and I co-host split zone duo, a national college football podcast. This week we got a big show on tap for you. |
| 0:22.6 | We're going to talk about the maybe finally concluded fallout from the U.S. men's hockey team's |
| 0:27.8 | dalliance with Donald Trump, which became one of the biggest stories in sports over the past week. |
| 0:32.6 | We're going to preview what will be a truly transformative F1 season starting this upcoming weekend |
| 0:37.3 | with Megan Schuster of the Ringer F1 season starting this upcoming weekend with Megan |
| 0:38.1 | Schuster of the Ringer F1 show, we will look ahead to the World Baseball Classic, a tournament |
| 0:44.0 | that Ben Lindberg has us very much looking forward to. Ben, how are you, senior editor for the |
| 0:48.6 | Ringer? You co-host effectively wild, so you're already in the baseball ramp-up mode. |
| 0:52.9 | Yep, and the snow has melted here in New York |
| 0:56.2 | City, so it does feel like more of a time for baseball, and I am extremely ready for the WBC. |
| 1:02.3 | I am quite in the mood for it myself, and also joining me this week, as usual, is Lindsay Gibbs, |
| 1:07.7 | co-host of Burn It All Down, Women's Sports Lead at CBS Sports, and publisher of Power Plays. |
| 1:13.1 | Lindsay, how are you? |
| 1:14.7 | Well, Alex, it's March, so I'm fully immersed in the madness already. |
| 1:20.3 | I don't even know what day it is at this point. |
| 1:22.8 | It must be Monday, because I'm recording Hang Up and Listen. |
| 1:25.2 | This show keeps me on track. But I'm loving it. |
| 1:29.3 | Women's College basketball has taken over my world. |
| 1:32.0 | And, of course, we're still waiting for CBA news in the WMBA. |
| 1:35.5 | And so it's going to be that will probably drop, you know, the night of like the Sweet 16 or something. |
| 1:41.0 | So it's good. |
| 1:43.3 | I'm geared up for a wild ride. It does feel like that's the natural way of the world. |
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