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Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of June 28th, 2021. On this week's show, we're going to talk about Raiders' defensive lineman Carl Nassib's decision

to come out, becoming the first active NFL player ever to do so. We'll also discuss Chris Paul,

Devin Booker, DeAndre Aiton, Paul George, Yonis Ante Buccoe, Chris Middleton, Trey Young,

at least some of them. Point being, but they're all still alive in the NBA playoffs at the time I'm recording

this.

And finally, we'll take a tour through the week in sports idiocy with stops at the Tour de France

in the College World Series.

Please join us, won't you?

I'm in Washington, D.C.

I'm the author of The Queen, the host of one of the Slow burns, and the new podcast One Year. The trailer is out today, team. I'll get through this quickly so you can go and listen to it. Also in D.C., Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak, and a few seconds of panic. Hello, Stefan. Which year? One year, 1977, July 8th, wherever you get your podcasts. Thank you, Stefan.

It's a good year. I remember that year. You guys don't remember that year.

Yankees, etc. Correct. Probably not covered in the podcast, but that's an unspoken overlay. Just think about that.

With us from Palo Alto, Slate Staff writer, host of Floborn Season 3, and the upcoming Slow Burn Season 6, no trailer yet.

It's Joel Anderson.

Waiting on that trailer.

Excited for the trailer.

Yeah, well, if you guys can hold on another three or four months, I'll show there'll be one eventually.

Okay.

Yeah, we'll give one year the spotlight for the time.

Let's let people just have enough time to sort of, you know,

savor that excellence before they get so slow burn.

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