The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast Hangup and Listen for the week of January 21st, 2019.

On this week's show, Hangup Panelist Emeritus Mike Pesco will be here to discuss the cruelty,

the depravity, and the Brady of the NFL's conference championship weekend.

ESPN Steve Faineru will join us to talk about his story on the collapsing football insurance market

and weather said collapse will imperil the sport.

And finally, Ben Lindberg of the ringinger will help us assess Major League Baseball's

ice cold free agent market, as superstars Manny Machado and Bryce Harper remain unsigned

less than a month before spring training commences.

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

of panic. Hello, Stefan. Hey, Josh. Got a text from Stefan the other day about how the Duke

campus, Shoshavskyville, in particular, was, what was the exact quote? Not as bad as it seemed.

I think I said it wasn't Satan's lair. Where in the, which circle was it? Probably third or fourth. I don't know. Shishovskyville was kind of, we were there, I was there with my daughter, we were playing in Scrabble tournament. We were also looking at colleges because she is of that age now. And we stumbled toward Cameron and Shoshavskyville was in full force

because they make these kids sit outside for a month, like literally a fucking month,

sleeping in tents to get tickets for the UNC game. Weren't they play, they were playing Virginia

on Saturday. Yeah, that was a separate line. There were two lines at Shoshavsky.

So, wait, you had to be in the UNC line, and that meant you couldn't go to the UVA game?

No, you could be in both.

So it's like they have these giant tents, like 12-person tents.

Yeah.

And there are random spot checks where all 10, I think 10 out of the 12 have to be there.

Is it the same guy who's randomly testing Eric Reed's urine?

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