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Hi, this is Josh Levine and this is Slate's

sports podcast, hang up and listen for the week of December 31st, 2018.

On this week's show we're going to do the quasi-famous semi-annual Hangup and Listen Call-in show in which we take your questions not necessarily

literally your question but if you didn't call you know the global you we will be taking

your questions about such topics as the ethics of

fandom Ben Simmons being bad at shooting a basketball and oh so much more

joining me in our Washington DC studio is Stephen Fatsus, author of the book's

Word Freak, and a few seconds of panic. Hello, Stephen.

Hey Josh.

Should we get right to the calls? to the calls is the caller there directly to the calls Houston

hello all right on the air

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My name is Christian Evans, I'm from Minneapolis, Minnesota. My question for you both is, after

listening to both seasons of Sla's slow burn, if you could adapt the slow burn templates to a hang up and listen story.

What would your season one and season two stories be?

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