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Hi, I'm Josh Levine,

Slate's National Editor, and this is Hangup and Listen for the week of August 2nd, 2021.

On this week's show, we're going to talk about Simone Biles' Olympics, her decision to pull herself from the team finals and everything that's happened since.

We'll also discuss the U.S. women's soccer teams lost to Canada,

plus all of the Texans, one of whom represents Italy, that have caught our attention during the past week at the Tokyo games.

And finally, we'll speak with ESPN's Jeff Passen about the hyperactive baseball trade deadline and what it was like to be a reporter during that deadline frenzy.

I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of the Queen and the host of the new podcast one year.

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

seconds of panic. Hello, Stephen. Hey Josh. And with us from Palo Alto, slate staff writer,

the host of Sloburn season three,

and the upcoming season six, Joel Anderson.

Hello Joel.

Okay, good morning.

I made sure to mention Texas and that intro just to get you hype.

So I am expecting a certain level of enthusiasm and energy

to percolate through the whole show just by virtue of that mention of Texans.

I mean, normally as a Texan we're willing to claim all Texans but I mean El Paso

barely has anything in common with Houston so I can't I can't say that I could get too

hype about that I mean it's not even in the same time zone as the rest of the state

man at Texas dude wins the hundred meter dash and you can't get pumped joll.

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