The following podcast includes explicit language not restricted to words beginning with F Slate's National Editor, and I'm recording this at two minutes before midnight.

It's about to be Thursday, August the 27th. This is a special

addition of Hang Up and Listen with me in DC.

Stephen, and from Palo Alto, Joel Anderson, hey, Joel. Hey Josh. And from Palo Alto, Joel,

Joel.

Hey Joel.

So we're doing this tonight, the special edition,

because it feels like a night that we're going to be talking about for a very long time and we wanted to very quickly kind of tell you

you guys what we're thinking and what we kind of feel is the important stuff that we wanted to memorialize

about this night that's

unprecedented in our lifetimes I think as far as you know a sports league

potentially shutting down multiple sports leagues potentially shutting down multiple sports leagues,

potentially shutting down after the police shooting of

Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

We understand that by the time you guys listen to this what we're describing as far as the facts on the ground

might be out of date but what we're looking at right now is that there was a players meeting in the NBA. There was no

resolution but there's discussion about ending the playoffs, ending the season and

it seems like it's possibly going to get resolved on Thursday when there's going to be another

meeting for players and also a Board of Governor's meeting for the NBA owners.

So Joel, why don't you start us off?

Is there anything that I left out?

Obviously there are, you know, the W&BA called off games,

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