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Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of September 14th, 2020.

On this week's show, we'll talk about the protests, the Tom Brady Interceptions,

and everything else that happened on the NFL's opening weekend. We'll also discuss

Naomi Osaka's victory and her outspokenness at the U.S. Open, and we'll survey college

football, the NBA, the Premier League, and other stuff that caught our attention during one of the busiest weeks in the annals of modern sports.

Annals.

I'm the author of The Queen, the host of Slow Burn, Season 4.

I'm in Washington, D.C.

With me this week, as he has most weeks.

Not all weeks, most weeks.

Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic. Hello, Stefan.

Great to have you. Almost all weeks. Almost. And sometimes I'm not here. Not casting experience.

You're making it seem like you're here all the time. No, not here all the time. I'm here sometimes.

Most of the time. A lot of the time. It's good when I am here. With us from Palo Alto, we're not long ago,

the sky was a sort of Texas Longhorns, burnt orange. It is Slate staff writer and the host of

Slow Burn, Season 3, Joel Anderson. What? Hello, Joel. Burnt orange? What? What are you doing?

I'm just accurately reporting on the hue of the sky where in the West Coast.

Oh, yeah, that's so fair point. Yes. I mean, yeah, all bad things can be traced back to burnt orange.

Although I will say it's been more of a gray. So I guess something like, you know, but, you knowkeye's gray sky the last few days here.

That's an improvement.

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