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

This is Hang Up and Listen for the week of January 21st, 2020.

On this week's show, we'll talk about how the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers made it to Super Bowl 54.

We'll also assess the new Netflix documentary, Killer Inside, The Mind of Aaron Hernandez.

And finally, the iconic duo of Stefan Fatsis and Mike Peska will interview the greatest Jeopardy player of all time, Ken Jennings. Joining me in our Washington, D.C. studio, we're together for the first time and a long time. It's the author of Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic. The aforementioned Mr. Stephan Fatsas, hello, Stefan. First time, long time. Yeah, it's been a minute. It's been like three weeks. I'm not in New Orleans anymore. No, you're back.

Good to be home. I'm glad you're back. And with us from Palo Alto, our insurance policy against being accused of East Coast bias, it is the host of Slow Burn Season 3, Slate's own, Joel Anderson. Hello, Joel. Hello, I'm both a West Coast and Gulf Coast elite. I was actually thinking about this that we do not represent the Midwest, the great, amazing

Midwest, the third coast, as some call it, the coast of Lake Michigan.

The show is just designed to attack Midwestern values and flyover values.

That's what we stand for. I've been to all the Lake States. You've been there? Yeah. What else could they possibly want from us? Exactly. I've been to Minnesota at least three times. Hey man, I wrote a book that was based in the Midwest. We should tout that book, Wild and Outside. It's another insurance policy for us. Everyone should love and respect us.

From Thunder Bay to Sioux City.

I've hit them all.

Joel, you've got the live tour for Slow Burn coming up, D.C. on the 5th of February, New York

on the 6th, L.A. on the 11th, San Francisco on the 13th.

And you've got some...

No flyover stops there either.

I thought I was just going to gloss right over that.

And there are some guests being announced.

The L.A. show in particular, you've got an on-stage confrontation that we're looking

forward to.

Yeah. It's going to be the two foremost experts into the murder investigations of Biggie and Pock, and they've never confronted each other before, and they've been champing at the bit to get at each other. And so we're going to bring them together for the first time and let them have at it. I'm going to moderate. I'm not going to allow it to devolve into like Jerry Springer or anything. But I can only do so much. Maybe I should say it's going to devolve into Jerry Springer, in which case people will show up. Either way, I think, either

kind of cool headness or chair throwing. I would be there for either. Slate.com slash live

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