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Hide Your Children. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's National Editor, and this is Hangup and Listen for the week of October 25th, 2021.

On this week show we'll ponder the big questions of the NFL season, including,

what the hell is going on with the Kansas City Chiefs.

We'll also investigate whether the Houston Astros or Atlanta Braves are more worthy of our support

in the World Series. And Drew McGarry will be here to discuss his new book, The Night the Lights Went Out, A Memoir of Life After Brain Damage.

I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of The Queen and the host of the podcast One Year Joining me from his own place in DC

is Stephen Fatsus, the author of Word Freak,

a few seconds of panic and wild and outside.

Hello, Stephen.

Hi Josh.

Our co-host Joel is off this week, Stephen, but you and everyone all should know that's slow burn season six

on the LA riots starts next week on November 3rd and the trailer should be out by the time you hear this so please check that out and you have my guarantee that the season of Sloburn is going to be great.

But back to us filling in this week for the whole show. It's the guy with the book and the guy with

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