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F, S, Editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of August 3rd, 2020.

On this week show, we'll discuss the first week inside the NBA bubble and

Major League Baseball's continued misadventures on the planet we call Earth.

We'll also be joined by UCLA football players

Otido Obonia and Elisha Guidry for a conversation about the

We Are United Movement, which athletes from the PAC-12 are threatening not to play if the conference doesn't listen to their demands for reform.

Finally, we'll talk to our own Joel Anderson about his peace on Liberty University's attempt to become a sports powerhouse and why black athletes have started

leaving the school. I'm the author of the Queen, the host of Slowburn Season 4. I'm recording myself

on my phone in Washington, D.C.

Joining me is D.C. legend, Stephen Fatsis,

author of the book's Word Freak,

and a few seconds of Panic.

Hello, Stephan.

Good cat, that Joel Anderson.

How'd you pull that off off Josh? He was available. Yeah, I've made myself free on Monday mornings every now and again.

Joel is with us from Palwell to California. It's a it's a chore to get up on Monday mornings, but Joel does it because he loves us.

He's the host of Sloburn season 3 and the author of Slate's cover story this week.

Hello, Joel.

Hello, I just want to, before before we move on you said DC legend

for Stephan you didn't give me Palo Alto legend but maybe I haven't been here

long enough so maybe I'm not a legend out here yet. No you need to you're

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