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Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of February 16th, 2016.

On today's show, we'll discuss the resurrection of a 1996 sexual assault allegation against Peyton Manning and how that allegation has been reported then and now.

We'll also talk to New York Times

columnist Joan Asara and New York Times contributing writer Ben Strauss about their new book

indentured, The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA. And we'll have a conversation

with Greg Coes, the director of the documentary The Great Alone, about the four-time

Iditarod sled dog race champion, Lance Mackie.

Joining me in Washington, D.C., in our new podcast studio, is Stefan Fatsas, author of The Book's Word Freak, and a few seconds of panic.

Stefan, can you take our listeners on a tour? Take Mike Peska on a tour.

Mike, listeners. Kind of kind of felt walls, which is nice. The soundproofing felt. I guess that's a new thing. We've got some blocks. We've got a blue block, black, gray, and there's some duct tape holding up some covering over the windows.

Maybe I'll take a photo right now. We can post it later.

Yeah. Hey, Mike, while I'm taking this photo right now. We can post it later. Yeah.

Hey, Mike, while I'm taking this photo, why don't you tell the people where you are?

Well, to me, that brought to mind John Kalapari telling us about his locker room and the extra

long lockers and the very plush towels.

I'm in Florida, the state of Florida, because it's prime recruiting ground, fertile recruiting ground.

I am going to see Bruce Springsteen show tonight.

It's kind of why I'm in Florida, but also kind of not.

I have to leave it opaque.

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