The following podcast includes explicit language, not restricted to words beginning with F, S, B, and Q.

Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of March 1st, 2021.

On this week's show, Meg Rowley of Fangraps will join us to talk baseball, including the

resignation of Seattle Mariners President Kevin Mather, whose comments about foreign players,

among other things, revealed a lot about the thought process of a major league baseball executive.

Alex Kirchner will also be here to assess NBA Top Shot,

a new investment vehicle for people who love collectibles

and GameStop-style internet bubbles.

And finally, Nick Green will be here

to tell us what he learned from game designers, economists, ballet choreographers,

and theoretical astrophysicists as he reported out his book How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius. I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author

of The Queen, the host of Slow Burn Season 4 on David Duke. Also in DC, Stefan Fatsis, he's the author

of the book's word freak in a few seconds of panic. Hello, Stefan.

Hi, Josh. Joel is off this week, but next week we will have to offer him the most fulsome possible.

Congratulations for his usage of the word pack. Is that the right usage of the word fulsome, though?

Is it? Is it not? I think it's not. Hang on. You're keeping us all in suspense here. I'm keeping you honest. Type more quickly. Fulsome characterized by abundance, copious, generous in amount, extent, or spirit. So it seems like I used it correctly? I think you used it in the third sense, which is the least sense being full and well-developed.

Get the hell out of here.

It's also aesthetically morally or generally offensive, which used to be, I think, the main

sense.

There are only two of us.

So if you annoy me, if you annoy me today, Fatsis, then you don't have an ally.

Anyway, usage of the word PAC as elucidated on last week's show.

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