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 March 18th, 2019.

On this week's show, we'll talk about the field for this year's NCAA tournament,

and Zion Williamson's pretty damn impressive return to the floor for your Duke Blue Devils.

We'll also discuss Operation Varsity Blues, the amazing college admission scandal, named after a

movie that I have never seen.

And we will assess the Giants move to trade O'Dole Beckham Jr. to the Browns,

the Steelers dealing Antonio Brown to the Raiders and the hot new trend of dead money in the NFL.

Here with me in our Washington, D.C. studio is my co-host, Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's

Word Freak in a few seconds of panic.

Hello, Stefan.

Hi, Josh.

$20 million of dead money for Stefan Fatsis.

You don't have, you don't have, $20 million of dead money lying around?

The money, the dead presidents for Stephen Fatsis.

It's killing us.

It's killing the franchise.

Joining us from New York this week. It's our colleague

Ben Mathis Lilley, whose parents paid $500,000 for him to be on the show today. Uh, hello, Ben.

Hey, guys. Are you saying, you're questioning my, uh, my background in squash and crew?

Look, your, your parent, you know, they sent in a photo of you with a microphone, just,

you know, showing your qualifications to speak on a recording, except the microphone was like

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