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Hide Your Children. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's National Editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of August 1st,

2022. On this week show, Bill Russell's biographer, Aram Gatsusian, will join me

for a conversation about the life and legacy of the basketball legend and civil rights icon.

Grant Wall will also be here to discuss the English national soccer team's historic

victory at the women's European Championships. And finally I'll talk with Anne Scapes Jason Reed,

the author of the new book, The Rise of the Black Quarterback,

about Deshaun Watson's six-game suspension,

and about the controversy over Kyler Murray's film study clause. I'm in

Washington DC and I'm the author of the Queen and the host of the podcast one year.

Stephen Fatsus, and Joel Anderson, and Vincent Cunningham are all off this week.

So you're stuck with me and that illustrious panel of guests.

In lieu of pre-show banter with myself, I'm going to take this opportunity to tell you that in our bonus

segment first late plus this week I'm going to talk more with Jason Reed about his

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