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Hi, this is Josh Levine and this is Slate's Sports Podcast Hangup and Listen for the week of May 21st, 2018.

On this week show, The Athletics Marcus Thompson will join us to talk about the state of Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors

after they blew out the Rockets in game three of the Western Conference finals.

Ira Boudway of Bloomberg will also be here to help us assess the consequences of the Supreme Court's ruling,

allowing sports gambling to proliferate across this year United States,

and John Swansburg of the Atlantic will come on the show to chat with us about one of Tom Wolf's Swan's is Junior Johnson. Yes. Joining us here in our studio providing exclamations on

this week's show. It is Stephen Fatsus, author of the book's Word Freak and

a few seconds of panic.

Stephen, I want to thank you for touting my 2002 city paper piece last week on Lead and Water.

I was really proud that was one of the first pieces of journalism I did.

That was like a fairly big local story

and we beat the Washington Post to it

and showing my strong reporting instincts.

We produced no follow-ups.

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