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Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of

January 19th, 2015. On this week's show, we'll talk about the NFL's conference championship

games, wherein the Seahawks staged a crazy comeback that made Russell Wilson cry, and the Patriots are being investigated for using deflated balls in their route of the cults.

We'll also talk to Fred Godelli, the coordinating producer for NBC's NFL coverage about what goes into televising the Super Bowl.

We'll be joined by our hockey guru Greg Wischinski to talk about Latvians and the All-Star vote,

to talk about P.K. Suban, the Montreal Canadiens defensemen, and other important NHL matters.

And in our bonus segment for Slate Plus members, we will have Mr. Goodellie back on,

and he will walk us through the O'Dell Beckham catch the greatest play in NFL history, which

was on NBC earlier this season. Joining me in Washington, D.C., it's Stefan Fatsis, the author of

the book's Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic and the Friday sports correspondent for NPRs, All Things Considered. Ola, Stefan. Hi, Josh. And with us from New York, it's Mike Peska, host of Slate's Daily Podcast, The Gist with Mike Peska. Hello, Mike. Thanks. You know, we didn't send a thanks. Is that like the right word to say hello? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I thought you were against thanks. You like, you're welcome. You should have just said you're welcome. He just had an out of body experience. You're welcome. I'm here. So we didn't set this up before him, but it would have been really good because it would make me look more gracious if you were, let me prompt you. Guys, congratulate me on my great tweet about Russell Wilson.

Oh, you love that tweet. That was an awesome tweet, Mike. I'm so proud of my own damn tweet. Great tweet. You could say I had a first on Twitter. Go ahead. You want me to read the tweet? Would that make you feel better if someone else read the tweet? That's what I'm saying I'm really the way gracious I hold on a second

find the tweet find the original tweet and then say and Mike oh wait I should be filling I should be

filling here while Stefan looks for the tweet yeah somebody somebody in the room is is miming stretching

taffy right now this is like Ronald Reagan 20 foul 20 foul balls because the tick. Hey, Mike. Yeah. You had a great tweet over the weekend. Oh, which one was that? Stephen. Well, somebody had tweeted Ben Greenman had tweeted. He's funny. He's funny. I have a lot of respect for Ben Greenman. Funny guy. Funny guy. He tweeted Russell Wilson is throwing like Woodrow Wilson. That's not very nice, but maybe true. Because that was earlier in the game.

Right, with the Woodrow Wilson comparison. I remember that. And then you wrote, what did I tweet?

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