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Hide your children.

Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of November 2, 2020.

On this week's show, we're going to talk about the COVID-positive Justin Turner's maskless

World Series celebration and star Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence missing games because of his own

positive COVID test. We'll also speak with WNBA player Renee Montgomery, who opted out of the

2020 season to work toward social justice reform and is now part of

LeBron James' more than a vote campaign.

Finally, we'll revisit Ruth Shalit Barrett's story on rich parents pushing their kids in the niche sports,

which the Atlantic has now retracted in full.

It's a journalism scandal, baby.

I'm in Washington, D.C. and the author of The Queen,

the host of Slow Burn, season four. Also here in D.C., it's Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's

Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic and the bane of journalistic fabulists everywhere. Hello,

Stefan. Nothing a bunch of journalists like more than a journalism scandal, is there?

It's true. You know, we can get into this in a bit, but I was thinking, you know, it's obviously not

a low-stakes thing for the Atlantic or for Ruth's Shalit-Barrant, but it's nice to have like

something that we can talk about that doesn't feel like the fate of the world is resting on it.

Just a nice low-stakes scandal. It feels very before times. Yeah, and certainly like whether a squash

player gets into Georgetown is low-stakes. But we'll talk about that too because Georgetown doesn't

have a varsity squash team. With us from Palo Alto, Slate Staff Writer, host of Slow Burn Season 3.

And now we're happy to report the host of the upcoming Slow Burn Season 6 on the LA

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