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 31st, 2018.

On this week's show, we're going to do the quasi-famous semi-annual hang up and listen call-in show in which

we take your questions, not necessarily literally your question, but if you didn't call,

you know, the global you, we will be taking your questions about such topics as the ethics

of fandom, Ben Simmons being bad at shooting a basketball.

And oh, so much more.

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.

Should we get right to the calls?

Straight to the calls.

Is the caller there? Directly to the calls. Is the caller there?

Directly to the calls.

Houston.

Hello.

All right.

On the air.

My name is Christian Evans.

I'm from Minneapolis, Minnesota.

My question for you both is, after listening to both seasons of Slate's slow burn,

if you could adapt the slow burn

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