Hang Up and Listen - Tom Brady Is a Buc
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin talk about Tom Brady’s move from New England to Tampa Bay. They also discuss the increasing calls to postpone the Olympics. Finally, they interview rugby announcer Nick Heath, who has taken to providing commentary on ordinary life events.
Tom Brady (02:02): Did the Patriots disrespect the legendary quarterback? What can we expect of his tenure with the Bucs?
Olympics (20:38): Why has the International Olympic Committee been so slow to understand the reality of the global coronavirus pandemic?
Life commentary (35:19): How a play-by-play commentator adapted to a world without sports.
Afterballs (54:50): Joel on claiming unearned national championships and Josh on the fake games played by the 1982 Saints.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.0 | People who are listening for the first time might hear a bad word or two. |
| 0:11.7 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor and the author of The Queen. |
| 0:15.7 | This is Hang Up and Listen for the week of March 23rd, 2020. |
| 0:20.2 | On this week's show, we'll talk about Tom Brady's big move from New England to Tampa |
| 0:24.6 | and how in this time of global uncertainty, there's truly nothing left for us to grasp on to. |
| 0:30.5 | I'm getting ahead of myself, though. |
| 0:32.1 | We'll also discuss the increasing calls to postpone the Tokyo Olympics and whether intransigent |
| 0:38.0 | sportocrats will end up killing all of us. And finally, we'll interview English |
| 0:43.3 | rugby announcer Nick Heath, who's taken to calling some alternate events during our global |
| 0:48.7 | sports shutdown, among them the two lonely blocs in a park final and the regional qualifiers for market bartering. |
| 0:56.7 | I'm in my home office in Washington, D.C. My cell phone next to my ear, my headphones strapped on. |
| 1:02.7 | I've got Zoom thrumming here. I'm ready to podcast. Joining me from his place in D.C. supporting a |
| 1:09.8 | coronavirus beard, Stefan Fatsis, he's the author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic. Hello, Stefan. |
| 1:15.9 | COVID beard, I like to call it. Looking good, man. You're just saying that because it really does not look good, but I appreciate the sentiment. |
| 1:23.0 | With us, as always, from Palo Alto, a man who is a world-renowned expert on beards and working from home. It is Slade Staff writer, host of Slow Burn Season 3, Joel Anderson. Hello, Joel. I wish this was a visual medium so you could see how good Stefan looks today, guys. It's a very good beard. Did you guys see the Ben Rothlisberger video? Oh, yeah. I didn't see the video. I saw a screenshot of it. |
| 1:44.7 | And that's a guy that's going to play football this year. |
| 1:47.2 | Based on the density of his facial hair, it looks like we are in year 18 of the coronavirus |
| 1:53.8 | pandemic. |
| 1:55.0 | It's really, really terrifying. |
| 1:57.4 | I will leave it to you to look at that on your own time. |
| 2:02.5 | Speaking of people who have been alive for a long time, Tom Brady, he's about to be |
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