Hang up and listen fans, people who are Listen for the week of January 9,

2024.

On this week's show, we'll sing Hail to the victors, and, eh, we're not going to sing

hail to the victors, but we will break down Michigan's 34 to 13 win over Washington

for its first college football championship in more than two decades. Then, like Michigan coach Jim Harball

probably, we'll move on to the NFL, the upcoming playoffs, which coaches

got fired on Black Monday, and why Bill Bellachik wasn't one of them.

Finally, Chantel Jennings of the Athletic will join us to discuss whether the NCA's new media deal with ESPN

continues to undervalue women's college basketball.

I'm in Washington, D.C. and am the author of the books Wild and Outside, Word Freak and a few seconds of panic.

Also in Washington, it's Josh Levine, the author of The Queen and the host of Sl's podcast series one year.

The latest edition is 1990 and it's terrific.

There's even a mention of Scrabble in the fantastic episode,

Mandrake The Magician.

Don't think I didn't notice, Josh.

Thanks for noticing, Josh.

Thanks for noticing, Stephan, and thank you for hosting, reading the intros with such a plumb.

I'm recovering from COVID that I acquired in New Orleans. I'm trying to normalize

Joel discussions of COVID transmission over the holiday season. I don't want to hide.

I think you raised last week what's what's the deal with nobody talking about

COVID anymore oh yeah a timing was impeccable right I should have did you want to do you

want to talk about if you wore a mask on the plane or not or no I did not wear a mask on the plane

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