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 February 6th, 2017.

On this week's show, we'll talk about the Patriots 25-point comeback to beat the Falcons in Super Bowl 51, which proved once and for all that the Golden State Warriors blew a 3-1 lead in the NBA finals.

Charlie Pierce, who wrote a book about Tom Brady, will join us to talk about what we know about the guy and what we should think about the guy.

And Spencer Hall of SB Nation will be here to help us understand the Atlantanus of this situation.

And whether that game was abominable for Falcons fans or more like horrible, disgusting, distasteful.

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

Hello, Stefan. With us from New York is Mike Peska, the host of Slate's Daily Podcast, The Gist, and the host of a Super Bowl party that has a good flow. Yeah. Especially for a game this year, where you could really tune out for a couple quarters, watch halftime, and then hunker down at exactly the point

most of the guests leave.

You have to time this for the East Coast.

This is the way.

This Super Bowl was perfectly suited to the normal ebbs and flows of East Coast parties.

Yeah.

Or the circadian rhythms of a classic sports event.

My guests left when it was 28 to 3. When did your guest start to

leave? There was a trickle out. Look, the last four guests left as it went into overtime. Like,

you know what? I don't really like Super Bowls or football that much. In our bonus segment,

first slate plus members, we'll compare the Patriots win to the Cavaliers,

win in the NBA finals, and the Cubs World Series went and determine once and for all something.

We'll just have a conversation.

We won't determine anything.

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