The following podcast includes explicit language not restricted to words beginning with F Slate's National Editor, and this is Hangup and Listen for the week of

April 13, 2020.

On this week show, we're going to talk about E-P-N televising horse, Major League Baseball's

plan to restart the season by quarantining everyone in Arizona and other dispatches from

a sports world gone insane.

We'll also talk with the athletics Ethan Sherwood Strauss

about his new book, The Victory Machine,

the Making and Unmaking of the Warriors Dynasty,

and the Hangup and Listen magazine club will convene to discuss how

I psych them, Bill Russell's 1965 account of how he gets an opponent's heads, or will we discuss it?

Maybe, maybe not.

Think about it.

Hello from Washington, D.C.

Connoisseurs of the hang-up intro copy will note.

I did not mention the Queen up top because I'm going to mention it now,

the Queen, the only National Book Critics Circle Award winner, written by someone who has a strong

opinion about the Pass Interference No Call in the 2006 L.S.U. Auburn game. It is out in

paperback this week. It's got a new cover, a green one. It's pretty. I've got a few

copies to give away. If you want one, stay tuned for Afterballs. and I will tell you what to do joining me here in the booth

Stepan fats us. He's the author of Word Freak and a few seconds of panic. How are you feeling today, Stephen?

Wait wait, I'm not joining you in any booth. We are isolated, Josh. Let's be clear.

We don't want to give people the false impression that we are violating norms.

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