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 January 9th, 2016.

On this week's show, we'll talk about the opening weekend of the NFL playoffs with a particular focus on the New York Giants party boat

and their devotion to bare chestedness in both warm and cold weather. We'll then discuss ESPN's

Chris Berman, who will soon be back, back, back, back, back, back, back, please kill me, gone from our

television sets. And the great game of darts will be discussed on this podcast for the first

time ever. Darts. Joining me in Washington, D.C., is Stefan Schitt. I didn't think of a nickname for you.

Just Stefan shit. Let's go for it. Let's go. Stephen shit. Bats us. Man, I can't believe

Berman beat me at that ESPN audition.

Still bitter about that.

The author of the books, Word Freak and a few seconds of panic. Hello, Stefan. Hi, Josh. I'm sure you got a lot of cruel nicknames as a child on the playground. So I'm not going to perpetuate. You're just given your personality. Minnesota Fatsis. Oh, that's good.

Isn't that good?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Stefan Bode Fatsis. Oh, that's good. Isn't that good?

Yeah.

Stefan Bode Fatsis, just to go with the nautical theme and the theme of

my not being able to come up with nicknames on the fly.

And with us, as always, from New York, is Mike.

Bed and breakfast.

Baganals. Baby ton. These are all darts terms. A baby ton to score of 95. A bed and breakfast is, of course, a 26. Bag and ales, landing all three darts and the ones. Bagan als. You're wasting all of our afterball names. Mike Pascah, the host of Slate's daily podcast, the jest. Hey, Mike.

I like how we've conflated the Berman and the darts, though. Uh-huh. Yeah. Baggernails. D'all. We're the conflators. So there's no whimsy watch during the playoffs. I don't know if you guys remember that. It's very, it's too serious. There's no time for shenanigans. I have some scorgami news, though, which I think qualifies.

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