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Hide Your Children. Children. Hi, I'm Josh Levine,

Slate's National Editor and the author of The Queen.

This is Hangup and Listen for the week of April 27th, 2020.

On this week's show, David Roth will join us to talk about the socially distant NFL draft,

a time for us to come together as a nation

to appreciate the sectional furniture and the pets

of pro football coaches and general managers.

Lindsey Gibbs of power plays will also be here to talk about when and if

women's sports will come back from the pandemic and Mike Schur of Parks and

Rec and The Good Place and other fine television products. We'll be here to assess this year's name of the year bracket,

where LSU wide receiver commitment,

...