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Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's National Editor, and this is Hangup and Listen for the week of July 19th, 2021.

On this week show, the New York Times's Tokyo Bureau Chief Matoko Rich will join us to assess

Japan's readiness and willingness to host the Summer Olympics, which are going to start this week,

no matter what anyone wants. We're also going to start this week no matter what anyone wants.

We're also going to talk about how this NBA finals went from eh

to kind of a classic.

And we'll discuss Janus on Teacumpo the Greek philosopher.

Finally we'll review Space Jam a new legacy starring LeBron James Bugs Bunny and

naturally Don Cheetleedlele as a computer algorithm named Al G Rhythm.

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

one year about the various and sundry things that happened in the year

1977 and this week is going to be an episode about sports about the first woman to get a real shot at being a baseball announcer.

So look out for that and subscribe so you can hear it.

Also in DC, Stephen Fatsus, author of the book's Word Freak, and a few seconds of panic.

Hello, Stephen.

Hello, Josh.

I was like too much kind of, you know, obsessed with myself to even remember to introduce

you.

So there was a slight hesitation there. But now you are here,

always an honor and a pleasure to have you here, Stephen Fatsus. So

1997 is terrific. Josh, one year is terrific. Back to me, thank you.

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