The following podcast includes explicit language, including, well, you and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of March 18, 2024.

On this week's show, we'll talk about the biggest storylines going into March Madness.

Iowa in LSU could have a rematch before the final four.

We'll also discuss the NFL's big quarterback shuffle with Russell Wilson and Justin Fields,

both landing in Pittsburgh.

And finally, we'll investigate the greatest

Scrabble play of all time and the fascinating

kiwi who made it.

I'm in Washington, D.C.

I'm the author of the book The Queen and the host of an upcoming slow burn season on the rise of Fox News and how the left tried to fight back.

Also in DC is Stephen Fatsus. He is the author of the book's Word Freak, Wild and Outside, and a few seconds of panic. And by my

calculations, he made both the 18,432nd best Scrabble Play of all time and the 18,432nd worst Scrabble Play of all time.

Congratulations.

I've probably made more bad plays than good plays, but I've made some pretty good plays in my time.

I would just defer to your judgment on that.

I have no way to evaluate that claim.

With us from Palo Alto, Slate writer, and podcaster Joel Anderson, best and worst football plays that you ever made of all time.

Do you really? Is this a real question? Yes. Worst fumbled return for a touchdown in a 14 to 7 loss to our rival my senior year and

Do you blame yourself for the return or was that just like a bad break

I should not have lost the ball but also I'm pretty sure replays indicate that I was down like I, I mean, my, you know, like the play had stopped.

My forward motion was over and then just a bunch of people

surrounded me and knocked the ball out.

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