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 December 7th, 2015.

On this week's show, Brian Curtis will join us to talk about the end of college football's regular season and the non-controversial picks for the second ever college

football playoff. Love a raging non-controversy. Former U.S. women's national soccer team defender

Stephanie Cox will also be with us to talk about the national team's decision to postpone a game

to cancel a game on the team's victory tour rather than play on a substandard

field. And we'll discuss the 12 and 0 Carolina Panthers, who may actually have one loss, but I'm

told they're undefeated and maybe the worst 12 and O team in NFL history, or maybe they're great

and everyone's just hating. Joining me in Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book Word Freak

and A Few Seconds of Panic hates the average amount, I think. Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book Word Freak and A Few

Seconds of Panic, hates the average amount, I think. Hey, Stefan. Yeah. I'm a great

hater. Greater. A greater. That's one of those blended words that actually doesn't work

because it's already a word. Yeah. It's already two words. Good luck adding that one to the

dictionary. All right, thanks.

Yeah.

With us from New York, it's Mike Pesca, host of Slate's Daily podcast, The Gist, with Mike Pesca, a man with love and his heart.

I hate to tut my own portmanteau horn and be a portman tutor, which also doesn't work on.

That is good.

That doesn't work on four levels. Because it's actually a portmanteau.

It's, oh, come on.

One level.

Come on.

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