The following podcast includes explicit language, including, well, you'll just have to wait and see. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's National Editor. This is Hang Up and Listen for the week of December 28, 2020.

We're going to end the year by taking listener questions.

Those questions will be on a whole mess of subjects,

including how sports changed our national response to COVID,

whether the pandemic soed mistrust between owners and players,

and Joel and Stephan and I will tell you,

our personal athletes of the year.

I am in Washington, D.C. and I am the author of the Queen,

the host of Sloburn season 4 on David Duke.

Also in DC, Stephen Fatsus, author of the book's Word Freak,

in a few seconds of panic, and a piece on the Washington Post that came out on Monday.

Everybody check that out.

Please do.

Hello, Stephan.

Hi.

What was your piece on?

He asks, faking like he doesn't know.

Faking like he didn't read an early draft.

It's about the renaming of my local high school here in Washington, which is named for

Woodrow Wilson.

My daughter just graduated from there in the spring, and the city is supposed to pick a new name very soon.

And I explore the history and legacy of the teacher, black woman teacher who desegregated Wilson in the 1950s.

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