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Hi, I'm Stefan Fatsis, and this is Slate's sports podcast, hang up and listen for the week of October 11th, 2021.

On this week's show, Slate's Alex Kirchner joins us to discuss the racist, sexist, misogynistic, anti-gay, anti-Rogadale, anti-antyracism, and pro-concussion emails written by NFL lifer John Gruden. Writer Roberto Jose Andrade Franco will be here to talk about

budding U.S. soccer star Ricardo Pepe, who was not responsible in any way for the national team's pathetic

one-nothing loss to Panama over the weekend. And finally, we'll break down the WNBA playoffs

with Chantelle Jennings of The Athletic. I'm the author of the book's Word Freak,

a few seconds of panic and wild and outside. I'm in Washington, D.C. Joel

Anderson is off this week. Josh Levine is not. He's Slate's national editor, author of the

queen, host of the podcast series one year. Hello, Josh. Hey, Stefan. And I have a... I forgot to say

you're in Washington, too. I am. And I have a special I forgot to say you're in Washington, too. I am.

And I have a special announcement for you today.

The you and this copy that I'm reading is the audience, but it's also you.

Wow.

You, the Stefan.

This year is the 25th anniversary of Slate.

Congratulations to Slate.

And for a limited time only, we are offering our annual Slate Plus membership at $25 off in celebration of that 25th anniversary. As a Slate Plus member,

as you may or may not know, you will get no ads on any of our podcasts, unlimited reading on the Slate site,

and member exclusive episodes and segments from us here at Hangup and for other shows like

Slow Burn, one year, amicus, the political gab fest, etc. We've been around for not quite half

of those 25 years, Stefan,

but we've been podcasting for a long-ass time, is the technical term.

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