The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast. Hang Up and Listen for the week of February 22nd, 2016.

On today's show, we'll talk about SB Nation's piece on football player and rapist, Daniel Holtzclaw,

and whether this long-form catastrophe says anything about the state of long-winded journalism.

We'll also discuss the science of fatigue and whether the NBA schedule is wrecking players' bodies.

And we'll be joined by ESPN's Bonnie D. Ford, who wrote a story recently on Rio's broken promise to clean up its fetid waters in advance

of the 2016 Summer Olympics. Joining me in Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fadzis, author of the

book's Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic. Fetid, it's one of those words where you really

got to put it before waters. Well, not if you're using it.

How else would you use fetid?

A fetid, you can say swamp.

You know, Washington is a fetid.

That's water, though.

That is an aqueous situation.

Right, water or wet.

H2O, you know, maybe required.

My soup was fetid.

Oh, yeah, after Sarah Palin was picked because she was fedded. A fetid.

She also was a fetid choice.

Yeah, yeah.

Once Juno melts, it will be fetid.

I think that I like fecundity and fetid.

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