Hello there, Hang Up and Listen fans. This is your host, Josh Levine. We have something very special we want to share with you on the feed this week.

Hang Up and Listen, alum, our friend, the host of The Jist, Mike Pesca, had an amazing podcast series called

upon further review. There's a book upon further review that Stephan and I both wrote chapters for, you should check that out too.

But we want to present, this is the last episode in the Upon Further Review series, which is a triumph

that could have only come from Mike Pesca's brain.

I don't want to give too much away.

Mike's going to explain it once the episode starts, but it involves Boston Sports Talk

Radio, Tom Brady.

It's a counterfactual history of the New England Patriots, and if you like

Arsha, if you like Mike Pesca, you're going to love it. So now I present the final

episode of a Further Review.

From Slate, it's Upon Further Review. I'm Mike Pesca.

Well, maybe this one, this episode here, maybe this one's for me, but I think you're going to like it too.

This episode is based on a chapter in the book that shares a name and overall Gestalt with this podcast

upon further review, and it really was a joy to commission.

Steve Kornaki wrote it.

If you've seen him on TV, you know he's methodical and thorough,

and he really did bring those virtues and his knowledge of early 21st century Patriots football to bear.

To begin with, let me lay out what really happened.

So back in week two of the 2001 NFL season, Drew Bledso, the Pats QB, and he is 14th on the NFL's

all-time passing yards leaders list, he took a vicious hit and he was out.

And a little-known backup replaced him. That guy's name, Tom Brady, takes his team to a championship,

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