The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast hanging up and listen for the week of August 22nd, 2016.

On today's show, we'll talk about how the Rio Olympics played in the United States and critique NBC's coverage,

or maybe there won't be anything to critique. We'll see. We'll then talk to Scott Price of Sports

Illustrated about how the games played in Brazil, whether a bloated, expensive, sportocratic

fortnight can bring meaningful change to the third world. And Luke O'Brien will join us to discuss the rematch

between Connor McGregor and Nate Diaz at UFC 202

and what the UFC's $4 billion sale means

for the present and future of mixed martial arts.

Joining me in Washington, D.C., is Stefan Fatsis,

author of Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic and a Master of the Rear Naked Choke. Hello, Stefan. Hi, Josh. And with us from New York is

Mike Pesca, host of Slate's Daily Podcast The Gist, a man who never taps out even when he

loses consciousness. Even when subject to a rear naked choke, I'm more a master of the

full frontal handshake, warm handshake. That's why we're such a great team together.

Stefan chokes Mike out and Mike just accepts it happily. How are you guys? I don't,

is that what we do on this show? No. We just move on.

Well, I'll give a little update quickly.

I was on MSNBC this morning and I wanted to plug this podcast.

The podcast were on, hang up and listen.

And the anchor said, and now the host of Slates, sports, upcoming podcast.

And then when the phrase, hang up and listen was meant to be read from the teleprompter, I think she just bailed. She totally bowled. She didn't know what those words in a romance. And she just went on, hello, Mike. Like, so if you're here for Slate's upcoming podcast, this is it. It upcame. I was not on MSNBC this morning. My daughter started high school, though. Nice. Freaking me out. That's big. Yeah. So if I seem a little melancholy this morning, that's why. So a couple things I wanted to mention. We interviewed Clarissa Shields a couple of months ago. We did. There's a documentary T-Rex that she was the subject of.

She just won her second gold medal. It was an awesome, awesome fight, and she gave an awesome interview

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