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Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of September 27th, 2021.

On this week's show, we're going to talk about Kyrie Irving and the anti-vaxxers of the NBA and what the league should do about them.

Molly Hensley Clancy of The Washington Post will also join us to discuss allegations that the Washington spirit of the National

Women's Soccer League of a misogynistic work culture.

And finally, Will Barton Warper will be here for a conversation about his piece for Harper's

on the potential death of minor league baseball in small towns.

I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of the Queen, the host of the podcast

one year. Also in D.C., Stefan Fatsas, he's the author of the book's word freak, a few seconds

of panic, and a book written while minor league baseball was still alive, wild and outside.

We'll get to that later, Stephen. Yeah. I got three things to say, though. One, wild and

outside, finally getting its segment due on the show. Two, there was a Division II college

football game over the weekend. Miles beat Central State. The final score was 55 to 4. So for all of you score, Agami fans, 55 to 4, that's insane.

And three, we should go back to, I want to go back to our conversation last week about the Erskine

college football team and their original nickname, the Sucidors. It does turn out that we were informed by a listener,

and I looked up that the secedars refers not to the Civil War, but rather to, yeah.

Well, literally doesn't refer to, it refers to like the Church of Scotland and

the great secession from the Church

of Scotland in 1733

by a group of Scottish dissidents

led by Ebenezer Erskine

but yes it seems to school

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