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Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of December 18th, 2022.

On this week's show, Argentinian journalist Martella Mora Iarajo will join us to talk about Leonel Messi's coronation on soccer's biggest stage.

And then we will talk about the greatest World Cup final ever, maybe.

We'll also discuss a bizarre weekend in the NFL featuring the biggest comeback in history

and the Patriots managing to lose in the dumbest way possible.

And finally, we'll assess the life and career of Mike Leach, the innovative and strange college football coach

who died last week at the age of 61.

I'm in Washington, D.C., and I'm the author of The Queen and the host of the podcast One

Year.

All episodes of our 1942 season are out now, and the 86 one, and the 95 one, and the 77 one.

Also in D.C. Stefan Fatsis, he's written books, Wild and the 77 one also in dc stephen fatsis he's written books wild and outside

is one of them word freak a few seconds of panic hey stephan hi and with us from the bay area of

california it's joel anderson host of Burn, seasons three and six. Hello, Joel.

Hey, I'm interested in you saying that because I tried a thing years ago trying to call

the Tampa Bay Area, the Bay Area, and it never quite caught on. So I'm glad you did at least

makes a distinction here. The Tampa Bay Area. I like that. And that is like a legitimate area.

If we're talking areas, Tampa St. Pete.

Major metro area.

The Tampa St. Pete Clearwater.

Mm-hmm.

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