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In this episode Preston Hutcherson joins Greg to talk about the poetry of sports broadcasting and sports punditry.
(00:35) Preston regales Greg with a bizarre and hilarious piece of audio in which sportscaster Jim Nantz suddenly reinvents himself as a mortician.
(09:45) Greg and Preston parse the psychology of stardom and discuss Bono and Tom Brady.
(19:18) Strange trends emerge in sports punditry.
(19:59) Colin Cowherd sparks wonder and bewilderment with the phrase “Sunday bodies.”
(21:26) Preston asks Greg about the connection between weird sports talk and actual poetry.
(24:27) Which is actually more entertaining, the games themselves or the pundits’ commentary afterward?
(25:58) Why is sports talk starting to sound like Old English, Beowulf-style?
(28:50) Check out the story behind the phrase “like a weasel through cream.”
(32:35) Greg solves the mystery of “face fomus.”
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