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Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor and the author of The Queen.

This is Hang Up and Listen for the week of July 6th, 2020.

On this week's show, we're going to talk about the renaming of the Washington NFL team,

which appears imminent, as well as the potential for the Cleveland Indians to no longer be

the Cleveland Indians. We'll also discuss all the athletes who are opting out of playing

as the nation's various sports leagues slowly crank back up, and we'll be joined by the newest analyst on ESPN's

NFL Live, the living legend, Mina Kimes. This is the point of the show in which I remind you to

listen to Slow Burn, season four, episode four of our season on David Duke is out on Wednesday.

This is also the point where I welcome in my neighbor in the not yet estate of Washington, D.C. It is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak, and a few seconds of panic. Hello, Stefan. Hi, Josh. I'm announcing my candidacy for the Senate when D.C. becomes a state right here, right now. I'm not going to say you have my vote. I need to hear the different platforms, but you know, you'll start with a healthy lead. I think so. With us from Palo Alto, California, Slate staff writer, host of Slow Burn season three, the great Joel Anderson. And Joel, just so you know, when you said the words Aaron Brooks on last week's show, my elbow started tingling. Oh, man. And you know, it's funny, too, because they're like three famous Aaron Brooks's, too. You know, like, so there's Aaron Brooks, the little point guard that played out of Oregon and, like, kind of flound around the NBA for a little bit. And I feel like there's another Aaron Brooks that I may just be making up because I can't think of another one. You just got kind of stuck in the middle of that sentence. Yeah, I just kind of got up in the air and didn't know what to do with it and just took the travel call. But yeah, those were the much darker days for your saints, Josh. Not dark at all. Aaron Brooks led them to their first ever playoff victory. And we will always love him for that. Really? At least I will. That's what

Aaron Brooks did? Seriously? That's what he did. And nobody will ever be able to take that away from him.

Take down the Benson statue, put one up to Aaron Brooks. There you go. I was told that I neglected

to mention last week in my afterball that the statue of the Saints owner, there is one

and should come down. Put up one of George Benson.

Wasn't the note that you got, Stefan, that there's a statue of Steve Gleason blocking the punt?

Yeah. So it filled both two the categories in my afterball. One, awful people who don't deserve statues in sports.

And two, action statues as the only good statues.

Mm, you're here.

In 1933, George Preston Marshall renamed his Boston football team from the Braves

and hired William Lone Star Dietz as coach.

Dietz signed two Native American players, but the Washington Evening Examiner reported

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