The following podcast includes explicit language, including, well, you'll just have to wait and see.

Hi, I'm Stefan Fats, and this is Slate's sports podcast.

Hang up and listen for the week of January 11th, 2022.

On this week's show, we'll discuss Georgia's 33 to 18 win over Alabama on Monday night for its first college football national championship since 1980. We'll also

break down the wild emotional ride that was the Chargers Raiders NFL regular season finale.

Tennis writer Ben Rothenberg will help explain the bonkers ongoing story of unvaccinated

Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open.

And we're going to pick a sports word of the year, Swoody.

I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of Word Freak, a few seconds of panic and wild and outside.

In the 1980s, I covered the murder of an alligator at a zoo in Palm Beach, Florida.

I did.

Josh Levine is also in D.C.

He's the author of The Queen, the national editor of Slate, and the producer and host of one year, 1995, which has just wrapped up.

Congratulations on another fantastic series, my friend.

Thank you. A producer. Got to give some shoutouts to Evan Chung and Madeline Dusharm here.

I want to sell out Stefan a little bit, Joel. I know if this was just me and Stefan talking

or if it was all three of us. So we're recording this

super late at night after the college football game. Stefan suggested that we actually record

this top of the show earlier in the day and just record that Alabama had won. I did.

Did he really? I did. I did. I did. That's what you get. That's what you get. Just for efficiency. You had more to do with it than Stetson Bennett did. I promise you that. That's Joel Anderson. He's in Palo Alto, California. He's a Slate staff writer. The host of Slow Burn Season 6, the L.A. riots, which is also done and available now for binge listening. Congratulations to you, Joel.

Thank you, my friend. You were definitely frisgier this week

in the lead up to this podcast.

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