Hang Up and Listen - Quarterback Roulette
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🗓️ 14 March 2022
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson and Josh Levin are joined by the Ringer’s Bryan Curtis to discuss Tom Brady’s unretirement and other huge quarterback news. Alex Kirshner also joins to discuss March Madness storylines and Falcons wide receiver Calvin Ridley’s suspension for betting on NFL games.
Quarterbacks (3:36): Brady back to Tampa, Russell Wilson to Denver, Deshaun Watson to … somewhere.
March Madness (23:20): What to watch out for in the men’s and women’s tournaments.
NFL and gambling (47:03): Football, betting, and “the integrity of the game.”
Afterball (1:09:06): Joel on the history of conference basketball tournaments.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.0 | Hide your children. |
| 0:05.0 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of March 14th, |
| 0:23.5 | 2022. On this week's show, we'll talk about the NFL's quarterback roulette, which landed on 12 |
| 0:30.1 | Orange on Sunday night, with Tom Brady's announcement that he's not retiring after all. |
| 0:35.1 | We'll also discuss the favorites and the storylines to watch in March Madness, |
| 0:38.8 | and the LSU coach who got fired right before the tournament started. Finally, we'll |
| 0:44.1 | parse the NFL's decision to suspend Falcons wide receiver Calvin Ridley for at least |
| 0:49.2 | one year for betting on games. I'm in Washington, D.C., and I'm the author of The Queen and the host of the podcast |
| 0:55.3 | one year. |
| 0:56.6 | Seffen Fatsis is off this week, but with me from Palo Alto, California. |
| 1:00.8 | Joel Anderson is the host of Slow Burn Season 3 and Season 6. |
| 1:06.5 | Hello, Joel. |
| 1:07.4 | A lot of sports this past week, I feel like... |
| 1:09.8 | Yeah, it got very, very sporty all over the weekend. |
| 1:13.4 | Then we thought March Madness was going to be the biggest, |
| 1:16.8 | the biggest story coming out of the weekend, and then how about it, you know? |
| 1:20.1 | I'm going to see if I can find your slack to me from that time. |
| 1:26.0 | You said, fucking Brady. You also said, that was just because he was |
| 1:35.1 | messing with our show lineup. I have no, nothing against Tom Brady at all. Yeah, fucking Brady. |
| 1:40.8 | That was it. Yeah. Right. So, anyway. I wanted to ask you about something that you tweeted, |
| 1:45.6 | since you're going to be putting my slacks out for public consumption. You're saying, |
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