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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 sowed mistrust between owners and players, and Joel

and Stefan 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 Slow Burn season

four on David Duke. Also in D.C., Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak, and a few

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

Please do. Hello, Stefan. 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.

That's a great story. Everybody check it out. We'll link to it on our show page.

With us from Palo Alto, Slate staff Writer, host of Slow's Burn, seasons three and six. Mr. Joel Anderson. Hello, Joel.

Hey, good morning. And yeah, let me get my chance. Stefan's Peace, great. I already cast my vote for Marion Barry, but I understand that he's no longer in the running.

He's still in the running. No, he's one of the final seven. He's one of the final kind?

All right. Well, I don't know if my, you know, never count on Marion Barry.

That's a fair point. That's a very important D.C. lesson.

Yeah, yeah. And also, you know, we should mention that Josh in Slow Burn, number 29 in the Atlantic's top 50 podcast of 2020, which I think is still way too

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