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Hi, I'm Josh Levine and this is Hang Up and Listen for the Week of June 12th, 2023.

On this week's show, the Washington Post's Ben Golliver will join us to talk about the final days

or maybe the final day of the NBA Finals and what we've learned about the nuggets, the heat,

and ourselves. Slates Henry Gravara will also be here to assess the 2023 French Open,

where Novak Djokovic won his record 23rd Grand Slam title and Yggush Fiontek won her fourth.

And finally, Slates Alex Kirchner and Brendan Porath of the Friday egg will help us sort out

what's going on with the PGA tour, which has decided all of a sudden that the Saudis money is

totally great and what pro golf has needed this whole time. I'm in Washington DC and I'm the author

of the Queen and the host of the podcast one year. Stefan Fatsis is off this week and Joel Anderson

is still slowly burning, although I must say that the season is moving fast. The third of four

episodes of Slow Burn becoming Justice Thomas is out this Wednesday and it's a banger. I hope you

will all tune in. But anyway, with those gentlemen away, I'm happy to be joined this week by

Louisa Thomas. She's a writer for The New Yorker. Has a bunch of books to her name, including

as co-editor, losers, dispatches from the other side of the scoreboard. Louisa, welcome back.

It's always good to be back. I saw you nodding when I mentioned Slow Burn becoming Justice Thomas.

I'm slowly burning through it. It's fantastic. Excellent. You have a story that just came out. We're

recording this on Monday that just came out in the New Yorker about the pitcher Daniel Bard. It's

great. We're going to talk about it later on in the show. We will continue that conversation

about Daniel Bard and his mysterious control problems during our Slate Plus segment. If you want to

hear the whole thing, you need to be a Slate Plus member. You get bonus segments on this show,

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