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Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of February 1st, 2021.

On this week's show, we're going to talk about the latest NFL hiring cycle, where one black coach got hired to run a team, and a whole lot more did not.

We'll also look at the upside-down world of sports in Australia, where athletes lock down for weeks and play in front of maskless crowds.

And finally, we'll ponder the most important question of this or any age.

Will Kurt Schilling break the baseball Hall of Fame?

I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of The Queen, host of Slowburn, season four on David Duke.

Also in D.C., Stefan Fatsis.

It's the author of the book, Word Freak, and also the book, A Few Seconds of Panic.

Justin from shoveling, I'm assuming.

Hello, Stefan. Hi, Josh. First day in, what was it like, 710 days that Washington has gotten

more than half an inch of snow? Uh, that seems about right. I made a little snowman. Did you lose

count after like 702? I've been Xing off the days on my snow calendar with us from Palo Alto, Slate Staff Writer,

host of Slow Burn, season three, and the upcoming season six. Joel Anderson, what are your

thoughts on snow, Joel? I'm glad that I live on the West Coast where it's not snowing,

but I guess we'll have to trade that for wildfire season here pretty soon. Yeah, that seems like a bad trade. I personally hate snow. I just want that on the record. We're from warm climbs, Joel. Yeah, I'm a very much tropical person. You are as well, Stefan. Melissa, I mean, I don't know what you go. No. No, snow's great. Love the snow. Okay. All right. Love the cold.

Really?

All right.

You're welcome any time to come shovel the wintry mix in front of my house.

I'll leave the light on for you.

In May, the NFL made a few more tweaks to its Rooney Rule.

That's the league policy requiring franchises to interview minority candidates for head coaching and senior

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