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Hi, I'm Josh Levine, slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of December 7th, 2020.

On this week's show, we'll talk about the most recent humiliation of the Windlass New York Jets,

and whether those rascally J-E-T-S will win in the end.

We'll also discuss the Rockets Wizards Russell Westbrook John Wall swap,

whether it's as sad as I think it is.

And finally, we'll speak with runner and activist Russell Jenkins

about his quest to save men's college track programs,

which he describes as the only sport in the NCAA where schools cannot profit from black athlete labor.

I'm in Washington DC. I'm the author of the Queen, the host of Sloburn season 4.

Also in DC, Stephen Fancis, author of Word Freak, and a few seconds of panic.

How's it going? Stephen.

Good Josh, how are you.

Doing swell.

With us from Palo Alto, slate staff writer Joel Anderson, he's the host of Sloburn Season 3, and the upcoming season

six on the LA riots.

Hello, Joel.

Good morning.

So perfunctory chatter there, I think I'm just going to call it out for what it was. But the

reason for it is that we're going to now get into some animated back and forth about

the big hang-up and listen news for next week, which is, Joel, you've been working on a special

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