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The following podcast contains naughty language. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's National Editor, and this is Hangup and Listen for the week of September 27, 2021.

On this week show, we're going to talk about Kyrie Irving and the anti-Vaxers of the

NBA and what the league should do about them.

Molly Hensley Clancyansy of the Washington Post

will also join us to discuss allegations

that the Washington Spirit of the National Women's

Soccer League of a misogynistic work culture.

And finally, Will Bardenwerper will be here

for a conversation about his piece for Harpers

on the potential death of minor league baseball

in small towns.

I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of the Queen, the host of the

podcast One Year. Also in D.C. Stephen Fatsus, he's the author of the book's Word Freak,

a few seconds of Panic,

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