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Hide your Children. and the author of the Queen. This is Hang Up and Listen for the week of May 11th, 2020.

On this week show we're going to do our regular check-in with the Bulls documentary The Last Dance,

which covered Michael Jordan's foray into baseball and Jordan's legendary jerkitude.

We'll also talk to Dan Strayley about the life of an American baseball player in South Korea,

where sports are actually going on right now and writer Morgan Campbell

will be here to help us assess the return of the ultimate fighting championship where

Joe Rogin insisted on shaking everyone's hand.

I'm in Washington, D.C.

So is Stephan Fatis.

He's the author of the book's Word Freak

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