The following podcast contains naughty language.

Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor.

This is Hang Up and Listen for the week of February 8th, 2021.

On this week's show, we're going to go long on Super Bowl 55, how the Bucks and Tom Brady won it,

and how the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes got run over.

We're also going to discuss player discontent in the NBA, where LeBron James is mad about the proposed all-star game,

and Kevin Durant is mystified by the league's COVID protocols.

I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of the Queen, host of Slow Burn, season four on David Duke.

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

and he spent the Super Bowl thinking about vowels, vowels sounds.

Should I explain that?

Yeah, so what's a super vocalic?

Yes, supervocallics are words or phrases that contain the letters Ae, I, O, and you, but only once.

It was created by a friend of mine named Eric Chakin, who with the linguist Ben Zimmer, have started a great

website called Beyond Wordplay. And so we tweeted out Super Bowl calyx during the game. I'll give

you some examples. So there was one player in the game who is one. Maybe we should save that.

We could say that. Give people a chance to think about it. Okay. One player in the game who is one, maybe we should save that. We could save that. Give people a chance to think about it.

Okay. One player in the game.

Yep.

Had A.E.I. O.N.U. in his name first and last, but only once each.

Another Super Bowl player who's had, who's a super vocalic, was O.C.

Umun Yura. Humanura, A.E. I.O.U.

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