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Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week

of April 10, 2023. On this week's show, ESPN's Kevin Pelton will join us to talk about

what went wrong for the Dallas Mavericks and to preview the NBA postseason. Slate's

Jim Newell will also be here to discuss John Romes when at the Masters, and the fruitless

quest by the live golf crew to bring a green jacket to Saudi Arabia. Finally, we'll

speak with LJ Raider, who pairs photos and fine art on the Twitter and Instagram accounts

art, but make it sports. I'm in Washington, DC, and I'm the author of the Queen and the

host of the podcast one year. Also in DC is Stefan Fatzis. He's the author of the book's

word freak, a few seconds of panic and wild and outside. Hello, Stefan. Hi, Josh.

Joel Anderson is still hard to work on slow burn season eight, becoming Justice Thomas,

a topic that I understand was in the news last week. Someone who is here, I guess not

someone. Something that is here, Stefan, is a new remixed Hang Up and Listen theme song.

As our in house, as our in house jazz critic, I'm eager to hear your thoughts. I like it.

It puts me in a sort of mellow mood. It's got a nice, calming vibe to get into the show.

What about you? Yeah, I feel like I'm at the blue note, certainly. You know, the one

thing that I am sure about is that people hate new things. And so if you hate the remixed,

revamped Hang Up and Listen theme song, then it's just because you haven't yet loved

it. You're going to love it. You're just not quite there yet. And we wanted to thank Mary

Jacob Slate's technical director for reworking theme song for us, which we do love. Thank

you, Merit. In our Slate Plus segment, Kevin Pelton of ESPN is going to stick around and

talk about Brony James, the as yet uncommitted high school star with a famous dad. Kevin

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