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The following podcast contains explicit language. Hide your children. Hi, I'm Joc Levine, Slates National Editor, and this is hanging up and listen for the week of December 20th 2021.

On this week show we'll talk about how COVID is running rampant through every

sports league again and through everything else again and what in the hell we're going to do about it.

We'll also discuss the Jacksonville Jaguars firing Urban Meyer

and why one of the greatest college coaches of his day

flamed out of the NFL so quickly. And finally, Josh Juan Newman will be here for a

conversation about Kenny Washington, who broke the NFL's color barrier a year before

Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's. So why isn't he remembered the way

Robinson is? I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of The Queen and the host of the

podcast One Year, season two on 1995 in your podcast feeds right now.

Joining me is Stephen Fatsus, a man of Greek heritage, a native of New York.

He resides in Washington, D.C.

And is the author of the books,

In Order of Sales, Word Freak,

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