Hang Up: Tom Brady’s $375 Million Deal

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🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Vinson Cunningham, Josh Levin, and Ben Mathis-Lilley talk about the Mavs’ shocking win over the Suns, the Celtics’ romp over the Bucks, the 76ers’ flameout, and other NBA playoff happenings. They also discuss Tom Brady’s megabucks contract to call NFL games for Fox. Mavs-Suns (3:05): How Luka Doncic and Dallas embarrassed Phoenix. More NBA (24:53): With the Bucks and Suns gone, who’s the favorite to win the title? Brady (48:00): Why does he want to be an announcer? Will he be any good? Afterball (1:08:28): Ben on Greg Norman, Joe Biden, and what it’s OK to say about Saudi Arabia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.0	Hi, I'm Josh Levine.
0:50.0	Slates National Editor.
0:51.0	And this is Hang Up and Listen for the Week of May 16th, 2022.
0:55.0	On this week's show, we're going to dive deep into the winners and losers in the NBA's conference semi-finals.
1:01.0	Two segments deep, because it's going to take at least one to try to understand what befell the sons on Sunday night.
1:08.0	And with whatever we have left of our senses, we will discuss Tom Brady's reported 10-year $375 million deal to call football games for Fox.
1:19.0	I'm in Washington, DC, and I'm the author of The Queen and the host of the podcast one year.
1:24.0	Stefan Fatsis is off this week, but let's pause to praise him for two word related accomplishments.
1:30.0	First, he pulled off a fantastic school Scrabble Championship here in DC this past weekend.
1:36.0	And second, he published his first ever crossword puzzle in the LA Times on Friday.
1:41.0	We will link to it on our show page, and you can try to beat my time of nine minutes and 31 seconds.
1:48.0	That's nine minutes and 31 seconds.
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