Tom Brady Is a Buc

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 66 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slates National Editor and the author of The Queen.
0:15.7	This is Hang Up and Listen for the week of March 23rd, 2020.
0:20.3	On this week show we'll talk about Tom Brady's big move from New England to Tampa
0:25.2	and how in this time of global uncertainty there's truly nothing left for us to grasp
0:29.8	onto.
0:30.8	I'm getting ahead of myself though.
0:32.3	We'll also discuss the increasing calls to postpone the
0:35.2	Tokyo Olympics and whether intransigent sportocrats will end up killing all of us.
0:40.4	And finally, we'll interview English rugby announcer Nick Heath, who's taken to calling some alternate
0:46.9	events during our global sports shutdown, among them the two lonely blokes in a park final and the regional qualifiers for market bartering.
0:56.4	I'm in my home office in Washington DC, my cell phone next to my ear, my headphones strapped on.
1:02.7	I've got Zoom thrumming here,
1:05.2	I'm ready to podcast.
1:06.6	Joining me from his place in DC,
1:09.2	sporting a coronavirus beard.
1:11.6	Stephen Fatsus, he's the author of the book's word freak and a few seconds of panic.
1:15.1	Hello, Stephen?
1:16.1	COVID-Bead, I'd like to call it.
1:18.1	Looking good, man.
1:19.1	You're just saying that because it really does not look good, but I appreciate the sentiment.
1:23.0	With this as always from Palo Alto, a man who is a world-renowned expert on Beards and working from home.
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