Hang Up and Listen
is a nice try, but not quite there. Mike Pesca in particular is wrong on a lot of facts, but is so supremely confident of himself that no one challenges him. (Ex: Yes, Mike - NFL assistant coaches can interview for jobs with other teams during the playoffs even if their teams are in the playoffs - they usually do so during a bye week if they can.) Worse, I've never heard anything corrected in subsequent podcasts. I had high hopes for this podcast, but I've stopped listening to it because I don't trust anything that gets said there as being true, and at least once I week I hear something that I know is not. I agree with others who want to break these podcasts and Gabfests into different streams. I really enjoy the Culture Gabfest, I like the Political Gabfest, but I'd prefer to just drop this one entirely.Read full review »
Coop47 via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 12/22/09
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5 Stars to the original format of tightly-written, detailed articles with straight-forward presentation. 0 Stars to the recent increase in "Gabfests." I know we must wade through podcast-commercials, and I accept that as a price of admission. But the gabfest trend is unfortunate. Each...Read full review »
Leon999 via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 03/18/06
The gabfests are interesting, but Dale Willman has the most annoying voice on the planet, and he reads all the commentaries. Ugh.
MJS1979 via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 12/10/08
Slate's articles are awesome. Their gabfests are too, but shuffling them all up in a single podcast doesn't work at all. I want five days of straight <10 minute articles, and another podcast for gabfests, and another podcast for each individual gabfest. I've given up listening to...Read full review »
iJamesS via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 09/23/09
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