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Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor and the author of The Queen.

This is Hang Up and Listen for the week of May 11th, 2020.

On this week's show, we're going to do our regular check-in with the Bulls documentary, The Last Dance,

which covered Michael Jordan's foray into baseball and Jordan's legendary jerkitude. We'll also talk to Dan Strayley

about the life of an American baseball player in South Korea, where sports are actually going

on right now, and writer Morgan Campbell will be here to help us assess the return of the

ultimate fighting

championship, where Joe Rogan insisted on shaking everyone's hand.

I'm in Washington, D.C., so is Stefan Fatsas.

He's the author of the book's Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic.

Hello, Stefan.

Hey, Josh.

And also with us, Slate Staff writer, host of Slow Burn Season 3, TCU, Hoodie Wearer, Joel Anderson. Hey, Joel.

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