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Hide Your Children. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's National Editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of September 7, 2021.

On this week's show, Spencer Hall will join us to talk about the opening weekend of the college

football season in which Alabama reasserted its dominance and Clemson did not.

Spencer will also stick around to discuss Bishop Sycamore, the fake high school that made its way

into an ESPN football showcase and the story only got weirder from there.

Finally Morgan Campbell, the CBC, will be here to assess Canada's series of recent sporting triumphs, many of which have come at the expense of these here United States.

I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of The Queen and the host of the podcast one year. Our pal Stephen Fatsis is off this week, but never

forget he is the author of the book Wild and Outside. With me as always from the West Coast

Slate Staff Writer,

host of Sloburn season 3, and the upcoming season 6,

Joel Anderson.

Hello, Joel.

Josh, what's up?

You didn't mention one of those big games from the weekend in the intro, but we'll rectify that at the top of the next segment.

I want to step on you. I know that you have a whole special occasion planned, so we'll allow our listeners to enjoy that unfettered by my

commentary. They might like that surprise they might like that surprise but yeah I think this is a

lot of fun I mean Bishop Sycamore was our afterball name last week.

Making a leap from afterball.

Promotions.

Congrats to Bishop Sycamore.

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