The following podcast includes explicit language not restricted to words beginning National Editor, this is Hangup and Listen for the week of August 17, 2020.

On this week show, we're going to discuss the hundred anniversary of the Negro

leagues and what Major League Baseball should do to honor the game's Black

pioneers. The New York Times is Rory Smith will also join us for a conversation about

soccer's Champions League where an American shined and Leonel messy went down to a

humiliating defeat. Finally we'll talk with Louisa Thomas about losers. a and Mary Pelon. I'm the author of the Queen and the host of Sloburn season four.

I'm in Washington, D.C.

where for the first time and a long time,

the temperature is less than a billion degrees.

Joining me from D.C., Stephen Fatsus, the author of the book's Word Freak

in a few seconds of panic.

And Stephen, I think it's important for the people in Podland to understand we make the ultimate

sacrifice for them. We turn off the air conditioning.

Yeah, I'm in an attic. I mean I'm glad to have an attic but it's

fucking hot in this attic so I will start sweating unless I turn on the air conditioner between segments, even on a nice balmy day in the low 70s here in Washington.

With us always from Palo Alto, Slade Staff writer, host of Sloburn season 3, Joel Anderson, so devoted to the podcast listeners that he doesn't even have air conditioning

so he's not tempted to turn it on.

Yeah I didn't realize until I moved to the bay that air conditioning is considered an amenity, you know, that it's not necessarily

standard with your home.

And the way I found that out was on the first day I moved here, it was 95 degrees and we asked

our landlord, hey, where's the air conditioning?

He's like, oh, we don't have that.

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