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Hi, I'm Stefan Fatsis, and this is Slate Sports Podcast. Hang up and listen for the week of December

6th, 2021. On this week's show, we'll break down the college football playoff and good old boy Brian Kelly and his family moving from Notre Dame to LSU.

Bradford, William Davis of Insider will be here to discuss the Major League Baseball Lockout and also his fascinating story about Major League Baseball using two different baseballs last season.

Finally, we'll talk about blowouts for which it was a big week led by the OKC Thunder losing to Memphis by an NBA record 73 points.

I'm in Washington, D.C. on the author of Word Freak, a few seconds of panic and wild and outside. I also once was detained by police in Albania during a reporting trip.

Josh Levine is also in D.C. He's the author of The Queen, the national editor of Slate, and the producer and host of One Year 1995. Hey, Josh.

I just can't erase the image of Foghorn Lakehorn getting arrested in Albania. I don't know if that's what you wanted me to be thinking of.

You kind of dropped a bunch of fodder on us. I'm on Twitter here.

I was in Albania doing some reporting for the Wall Street Journal. I was doing a piece about Albania's Olympic team and I did another story while I was there.

This was after the fall of communism. I was wandering around the city and I was taking pictures and I took a picture of what turned out to be a government building and a cop car pulled up and forced me to get in.

And detained me in a police station for a couple of hours without letting me call anybody.

I think they went through my hotel room too.

What was the detention room like? Did you have like access to anything?

I just imagine there were no snacks. I remember that the walls were yellow. I was pretty grim.

One year 1995 Albania.

I'm certainly prepared to do that piece. But a better one year was Kristina Kauraruchi's episode three last week about a reproductive medicine scam.

Women's frozen eggs being used without their consent. Listen to it. Listen to all of them. It was terrific. What's up next?

Thank you. And yeah, Kristina did an amazing job with that. Next up is our producer, Evan Chong has a story about the first internet site or one of the first that went viral.

It's really fascinating story about something that folks don't remember. So look out for that this week.

I just can't believe that in 1995 you've missed out on Stefan in Albania and then you didn't cover my senior year high school football in 1995.

So there's just a lot that's left out. I guess it speaks to how you know how pivotal and important that year was that those two important stories didn't make any sense.

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