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Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slates National Editor,

and this is Hang Up and Listen for the Week of December 18th, 2022.

On this week's show, our Gentini and Journalist Martela Morat-Yarauho will join us

to talk about Lionel Messi's coronation on soccer's biggest stage.

And then we will talk about the greatest World Cup final ever, maybe.

We'll also discuss a bizarre weekend in the NFL featuring the biggest comeback in history

and the Patriots managing to lose in the dumbest way possible.

And finally, we'll assess the life and career of Mike Leach,

the innovative and strange college football coach,

who died last week at the age of 61.

I'm in Washington, D.C., and I'm the author of The Queen

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