The following podcast includes explicit language. In other words, might get a little blue in here.

Hope you can handle it.

Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of May 31st, 2021.

I guess it's June 1st, 2021, but it's the week of May 31st, 2021.

On this week's show, we're going to talk about Naomi Osaka's withdrawal from the French Open

and what that episode reveals about athletes and mental health and athletes in the press.

We'll also discuss the spate of atrocious fan behavior in NBA arenas.

And Rebecca Schumann will join us to talk about

Simone Biles' latest feats of gymnastics excellence and whether international sportocrats are out

to get her. I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of The Queen, the host of Slow Burn Season

4 on David Duke, also in D.C. back in our loving arms after two weeks away. Stefan Fatsas, author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic. Hello, Stefan. Hey, Joel. It's going to be a double dose of sportocratic behavior. We've got the tennis and gymnastics. So I'm Josh. That's Joel, by the way. Yeah, I hadn't been introduced yet, but that's fine. It's, he's, Stefan's getting back to, you know, you did. Just getting your, just getting your C-legs. You know, Joel hosting, you know, threw me off. Yeah. Well, that's what we were trying to do to the listeners, not to our actual, you know, panel, but, you know, it's good to know that we've got good at misdirection.

We're all friends here. Joel Anderson, host of the upcoming Slow Burn season six and the host of

Slow Burn season three. And he's on the West Coast and a Slate Staff writer, just going to throw things in

in a random order. There's a lot of things. Yeah, you went with six in three normally. But again,

it's all in service of keeping people off their feet. So that's, I'm with it. If I, uh,

listen to Slow Burn season six first, am I going to be confused if I haven't listened to Slow Burn

season, season three? It'll probably be really difficult because I think if you go to the

slow burn

feed, there's nothing up from Slow Burn 6 yet. But, you know, you never know. I mean,

you have to give it a shot. I'm still trying to catch up on podcast too right now. So you just

never know. Maybe you should go to the feed anyway if you're listening to this and see what's there

and listen to it, just to see.

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