The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor and the author of The Queen.

This is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of December 23rd, 2019.

On this week's show, The Ringers, Brian Brian Curtis will join us to discuss the seeming demise

of the Dallas Cowboys, whose owner Jerry Jones is sad and whose coach Jason Garrett is probably

getting fired. Lindsay Gibbs of the Power Play's newsletter will also be here to talk about

Kelly Leffler, the WNBA owner who's on the cusp of becoming a pro-Trump U.S. Senator.

And finally, we'll interview Jason Holt, who has a high schooler in Wyoming 25 years ago, played a key role, actually the key role in one of the most significant basketball plays in the history of the game.

Joining me is Stefan Fatsis, author of

the book's Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic. Hello, Stefan. I love how you did not say what

that play is, Josh, to keep the listeners listening. Savvy, savvy podcasting. Thank you. And we should

note to the listeners that as part of the holiday spirit,

we recorded all three of these segments on three different days with potentially three

different sound profiles just to keep you on your ear toes. So, Stefan, do you have any other

messages for the listeners as we approach Christmas Day?

Does that give anything away?

I don't know. We'll see if people read the iTunes description or the show page.

Stefan, always a pleasure. Shall we get into it?

Let's do it.

On Sunday in Philadelphia, the Eagles beat the Dallas Cowboys, 17 to 9 to, I suppose, take control of the division.

As our colleague Nick Green wrote on Sunday, anything can happen in the self-flushing toilet that is the NFC East.

And the seven and eight cowboys could still

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