The following podcast contains explicit language.

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

2022. On this week's show, we're going to discuss the NFL's super wildcard weekend. How super was it,

really? We'll also talk about the rise of the Memphis Grizzlies John Morant and whether he'll be

the NBA's next superstar. And finally, defectfector's Kaylon Kaler will join us

for a conversation about nepotism in NFL coaching.

I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of the Queen

and the host of the podcast One Year.

Also in D.C., Stefan Fatsis,

author of the book's Word Freak, A Few Seconds of Panic,

and Wild and Outside,

and one of the more obscure branches of the Mike Shanahan Coaching Tree,

the less well-trodden path from the NFL to Girl Soccer. How are you stuffing?

I'm well, Josh. How are you? Doing salad. With us from Palo Alto, not a member of the Mike Shanahan coaching tree,

so far as I can tell.

Joel Anderson is a slate staff writer and the host of Slow Burn Season 6 on the LA riots.

Hey, Joel.

Hey, what's up?

I did coach before.

It was part of a coaching tree.

What did you coach?

I coached, unfortunately, before we were a little more enlightened about these things,

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