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Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of March 22nd, 2021.

On this week's show, we're going to talk about Loyola, Chicago's big upset, Oral Roberts's

bigger upsets, Paige Becker's big debut, and the other large storylines from the opening

weekend of March Madness. We'll also discuss how Oregon-Sidona Prince use social media to

expose the inequalities between the men's and women's tournaments.

An author, Jessica Luther will join us for a conversation about the assault lawsuits against

Houston Texans quarterback Deshawn Watson.

I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of The Queen, host of Slow Burn Season 4 on David Duke.

Also in D.C., Stefan Fadzis.

He is the author of the book's Word Freak in a few seconds of panic. Hello, Stefan. Hello, Josh. What's your hat? My hat is the San Francisco Seals. Really? Baseball team, yeah. Pacific Coast League. Pacific Coast League, yeah. That's pretty cool. I'm a big fan of that. Yeah, I like the seal. It's an orange seal on a Navy hat.

Love it.

There should be more marine mammal mascots.

I think we can all agree.

Also with us, Slate Staff Writer, host of the upcoming Slow Burn Season 6, and the award-winning Slow Burn Season 3.

Award-winning. Destroyed All-Commerce, earned a 2021 Writers Guild Award. Slade's

zone, Joel Anderson. Congrats, Joel. Also, congrats to Christopher Johnson, our beloved

former colleague. Yeah, much like an athlete interviewed after, you know, a winning touchdown or something. I just want to credit my offensive line. I mean, Josh is part of, Josh is part of the offensive line. Christopher's part of the offensive line. Gabe is, it's a team award, but it's very cool. Yeah, I'm really excited. It got it announced by the Hollywood Reporter. Talk about your emotions. Well, you know, I mean, you just work really hard, you know, all season. You know, you work really hard. And, you know, this is what you're building for at the end of the year, you know, the big game. And then to come through, I mean, it just, you know, verifies everything coach has been telling us all year. You know, just keep your head down, work hard, and good things will happen. So, really excited about that.

And to be clear, this was for one episode of Slow Burn or the whole series?

It was, unfortunately, just one episode.

But there was a...

Yeah, the rest episodes weren't that good.

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