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Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast Hangup and Listen for the week of

October 19th, 2015. On this week's show, Spencer Hall of SB Nation will join us to talk about

Michigan State's bizarre last second

one over Michigan in the college football-iest college football game of this or any other season.

We'll also discuss Daniel Murphy's Hot Streak, Jose Batista's Batflip, and the other big

storylines of the baseball playoffs. And we'll talk about Lamar Odom's near-death experience

and his Kardashian abetted position at the nexus of the sports and entertainment worlds.

Joining me in Washington, D.C., is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds

of panic. Hello, Stefan. Hello, Josh. Good job hosting. How was your travels? Last week,

my travels were good. Let's both ask each other questions simultaneously. That's how this works.

We can't, we can't decide who's hosting anymore. I swam a little bit. Where were you? I went on some

slides. Do you want to tell people where you were?

I went to Hawaii.

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