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Hide Your Children.

Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's National Editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of November 2, 2020. On this week show, we're going to talk about the COVID positive Justin Turner's maskless World Series celebration and

star Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence missing games because of his own

positive COVID test. We also speak with WNA player Renee Montgomery, who opted out of the 2020 season to work

toward social justice reform, and is now part of LeBron James's more than a vote campaign.

Finally, we'll revisit Ruth Shalit Barrett's story

on rich parents pushing their kids in the niche sports,

which the Atlantic has now retracted in fall.

It's a journalism scandal baby.

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

Also here in D.C. and Stephen Fatsus, author of the book's Word Freak

in a few seconds of panic and the bane of journalistic

fabulists everywhere. Hello, Stephan.

Nothing a bunch of journalists like more than a journalism scandal, is there?

It's true, you know, we can get into this in a bit,

but I was thinking, you know, it's obviously not a low stakes thing

for the Atlantic or for Ruth's Chilied Barrett,

but it's nice to have like something that we can talk about that doesn't

feel like the fate of the world is resting on it. Just a nice low-stakes scandal.

Feels very before times.

Yeah, and certainly like whether a squash player gets into Georgetown is low stakes.

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