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Hi, I'm Josh Levine,

slate's national editor and the author of The Queen, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of May 4th, 2020.

On this week's show, we'll check in with E-S-P-N's Chicago Bulls documentary The Last Dance,

which is really the only sports thing we've got

going for us right now, thankfully pretty interesting to talk about.

We'll also check in on the U.S. women's national soccer team's equal K lawsuit, which took a turn last week when a major ruling went against the players.

Finally, the Hang Up and Listen, quarantine magazine club reconvenes for a discussion of the 1998 Sports Illustrated cover story on

athletes and out of wedlock children, Where's Daddy?

The headline, we'll talk about the article and the controversy it kicked up.

Hello from Washington, D.C. I already said hello. I'm saying hello again.

The view from my desk this week, quite similar to the view from my desk.

Last week, Stephen Fatsus, also in DC, author the book's Word Freak in a few seconds of panic.

Stephen, I feel like it's tradition in the intro for you to describe one item in the

background of your Zoom window here. What is the football next to the Broncos

helmet? Well that's my NFL football. I bought one NFL football to train for

kicking with the Broncos and that is it. My football by Stephen Fattis. Did you autograph it to yourself?

I did not. Great job kicking Stephen from Stephen.

Also with us in Palo Alto, California,

but by way of Houston, Texas, Slate Staff Writer,

host of Slowburn, season 3. Joel Anderson. What's up, Joel?

Hey, what's up?

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