The legendary coach is getting more attention for his relationship with 24-year-old Jordon Hudson than football these days. It’s a reminder that we should probably retire the term “gold digger.” This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Jolie Myers, fact checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. Bill Belichick and Jordon Hudson pose for a photo backstage at the 14th Annual NFL Honors. Photo by Todd Rosenberg/Getty Images. Help us plan for the future of Today, Explained by filling out a brief survey: voxmedia.com/survey. Thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What sparked the public interest in Bill Belichick's relationship?
In the spring of 2024, I was watching the roast of Tom Brady on Netflix, and people kept making jokes about Bill Belichick's relationship. I laughed, though I wasn't quite sure I got it. But now I know why you were so obsessed with Foxborough High School. You were scouting your new girlfriend.
About a month later, 73-year-old Bill's relationship with 24-year-old Jordan Hudson became public, and it seems like the country's been obsessed with it ever since. There are interviews.
Not talking about this.
Investigations. When did she get control over Bill Belichick's new media empire? Articles, plural, in the New York Times.
Why do we care about these people? You care because he's Bill Belichick and you care about whoever he's with. And number two, you should care because she's 24 years old and a lot of people are very scared of her.
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Chapter 6: What does Bill Belichick's relationship reveal about societal perceptions?
Wait, he signed a textbook that like he didn't write? He just signed a random book?
No, no, no. He just signed her textbook. Yes. Yeah. Okay. She's from Maine, so it is totally possible that she really knew who this guy was, like, wanted to talk to him anyway before she even realized that Grandpa wanted to date her. And Grandpa did indeed start dating her. Yeah, Grandpa and Jordan are officially dating.
Tell us what happened more recently. Where do we get this idea that that that Jordan Hudson is is sort of a stakeholder in the Bill Belichick experience?
There's two things that happened. Number one, sports fans started hearing about it because there started being reporting. The Athletic was reporting on her on April 15th. They reported. some stuff about how she was really involved with the coaching at UNC, but that's kind of inside baseball-y, inside football. They also reported that she was filing for trademarks
for his phrases, which were already coined by the Patriots. So he said them, but they're trademarked by the Patriots. So he can't really like double trademark. So she started trademarking them with parentheses Bill's version after them, like Taylor's version, like no days off Bill's version. So that's like a thing that's happening in the background.
But then on April 27th, CBS Sunday Morning interviews Bill Belichick about his memoir. It, like, pretty clearly was supposed to be kind of a pretty easy interview. Not, I mean, all up to CBS Sunday morning, but, like, if you want to go and do, like, a pleasant enough interview, they are down for a pleasant interview.
Right.
But Bill Belichick and Jordan Hudson together, like, they're not here for a pleasant interview because if you ask them anything other than, like, what was it like to write the memoir that you probably had ghostwritten, let's be honest, then they're mad. So Tony DeCoppo is interviewing Bill Belichick and then DeCoppo asks him very, very basic questions about Jordan Hudson. How did you guys meet?
Which he refuses to answer. And then Hudson from off screen goes, Not talking about this. No. No. But that's the moment that the Jordan Hudson figure kind of blows up. There's also a voiceover from DeCoppo that says, Jordan was a constant presence during our interview.
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