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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 13th, 2021.

On this week's show, we're going to talk about Daniel Medvedev's grand slam-stopping U.S. Open win over Novak Djokovic,

and Emma Raducanu's out-of-nowhere run to her first major title.

We'll also discuss James Winston, the Jacksonville Jaguars, and the other success stories

and disasters of the NFL's opening weekend.

And finally, we'll assess the U.S. men's national soccer teams up and down opening of World

Cup qualifying. Started sort of bad, slightly

more bad in the middle, and ended actually kind of okay. I am in Washington, D.C. I'm the author

of the Queen, the host of the podcast, one year. Also in D.C., Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's

Word Freak, A Few Seconds of Panic and Wild and Outside. People are talking

about wild and outside more and more these days. It's making a comeback. It's hot. It's hot. Joel

Anderson, our pal, he's off this week. Filling in is Louisa Thomas. She is a staff writer at

The New Yorker. She's written as many books as Stefan has, plus she's the co-editor of losers' dispatches from the other side of the scoreboard.

So take that, Stefan.

Much younger, too.

The books per year ratio.

It's off the charts.

Welcome, Louise.

Always great to have you with us.

I'm thrilled to be here.

Thrill to be bettering Stefan in any way I can.

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