Age gaps & wage gaps: unpacking our Belichick-Hudson obsession

It's Been a Minute

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🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

After 8 trips to the Super Bowl, 73 year-old former NFL coach Bill Belichick is ready to start a new phase in his career: mentor, college football coach, and now doting boyfriend to 24-year-old Jordon Hudson. But as Hudson also takes an increasingly important role in Belichick's professional life, people are speculating about the motivations behind their union. Why do we care?

Brittany is joined by arts and entertainment reporter Shar Jossell and Vox senior correspondent Alex Abad-Santos to explore the public's reaction to this very public relationship, as well as the question of whether it's okay to marry or partner for reasons other than love.

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0:00.0	We've all been there, running around a city, looking for a bathroom, but unable to find one.
0:05.7	Hello.
0:06.8	Do you have a restroom we could use?
0:08.9	A very simple free market solution is that we could just pay to use a bathroom, but we can't.
0:13.4	On the Planet Money podcast, the story of how we once had thousands of pay toilets and why they got banned.
0:20.1	From Planet Money on NPR, wherever you get your podcast.
0:27.5	Hello, hello.
0:29.0	I'm Brittany Luce and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR,
0:32.6	a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident.
0:45.3	Yeah. what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident. This week, we're connecting the dots between double standards, the 18th century
0:49.4	enlightenment, and the National Football League. I know, I know.
0:54.9	How are all of these things connected?
0:57.0	Well, we're going to find out with arts and entertainment reporter,
0:59.6	Shah Jossel, and Vox Senior Correspondent, Alex, Alex, welcome to it's been a minute.
1:06.2	Hello, Brittany.
1:07.4	Thanks for having us.
1:08.6	Hey, Brittany.
1:09.7	Okay, one teeny tiny little question before I continue on.
1:12.7	What's your love language?
1:15.0	My love language.
1:16.5	Ashar, you look so.
1:18.4	No, because it's really a little bit of all of them.
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