How ESPN’s Joe Lunardi invented bracketology Ep. 52

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🗓️ 9 March 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This week, due to inclement weather, we were unable to record on our usual Wednesday. This week’s episode is an abbreviated one, sans consolations and desolations, but have no fear: It’s a good one. Since Selection Sunday—the official start of the NCAA tournament and office bracket pools across the nation—is this weekend, we decided to bring in Joe Lunardi, the ESPN bracketologist and administrator at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. We talk to Joe about the art of bracketology, how his Jesuit education has influenced his career and more. Finally, in Signs of the Times, we talk “Lady Bird” getting snubbed at the Oscars, Francis’ five years and a new feast day for Mary. We want to give a huge thank you to listeners who have pledged to support Jesuitical through our new Patreon page. Shout out to Super Fans Jessica, Caroline Marcotte and Sarah Neville Jimenez and Ambassador Emilee Hunter Macguire. We are grateful for your investment in our little (but growing!) podcast community. As always, we want to hear from you. Write us an email at jesuitical@americamedia.org and follow us on Twitter @jesuiticalshow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So I should tell you guys about the time when my high school chemistry teacher sent me to another science teacher's classroom to find a glass stretcher.
0:09.0	I was basically being disruptive in class and he was like, can you go get the glass stretcher for Mr.
0:13.8	Holman?
0:14.8	Is that how your teachers dealt with you?
0:17.4	That's how he got me out of like out of class for an entire period.
0:20.1	So I would go to Mr. Holman, Mr. Holman would say, oh, I lent the glass stretcher to Mr. Lehman.
0:24.0	What's a glass stretcher?
0:25.0	It doesn't exist.
0:26.0	You can't stretch glass.
0:27.0	So is that what we should do to you when you're like just talking too much?
0:29.0	Be like, hey Zach, can you go get that, uh...
0:31.0	Can you go get my reversible coffee mug?
0:33.2	I think I left it in the kitchen.
0:35.1	Your reversal coffee mug?
0:36.4	Yeah.
0:37.4	You'd have to say, I think I lent it to.
0:39.7	Oh, but I think I lent it to Joe McCullough. Or McCulli but then Joe would have to know okay yeah no he
0:45.8	know I would but I actually did lend it to Joe McCulli.
0:48.8	Hello and welcome to Judge Whitaker a podcast by The Theoretically Young,
0:54.0	earnestly hip and verifiably lay editors of American media.
0:58.0	That lay part means we aren't Jesuits, but we work with them.
1:02.0	Join us each week for a smart Catholic take
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