← Casuals with Katie Nolan
Casuals with Katie Nolan
Bryce Harper's Toothpaste, the Giants PR Team, and HOLY S***, THE KNICKS
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Hello! It's the podcast that's been watching old Jason Williams highlights for the last 96 hours straight. Today, Katie and the Casualties (minus Chris, who's in Australia, 14 hours into the future) catch you up on the lackluster and possibly pointless Enhanced Games from Sunday, and break down the Knicks' first run to the NBA Finals since 1999, Isabella's celebration, Travis Kelce's contraband Game Three chug, Ben Stiller's postgame videography, the Knicks players LOVING Mike Brown, a pop quiz for Isabella on what 1999 was like for the olds, Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson's comments on winning the series analytically, James Harden still believing the Cavs were the best team, a listener's thoughts that we've overhyped the Spurs in the Western Conference Finals and an examination of why it's so hard to root for SGA and the Thunder as a casual fan. Then, the team gets into the tragic loss of Kyle Busch, the photo finish in the Indy 500, Bryce Harper's viral toothbrushing technique an...
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B
Hey, Katie, did you know that I went to the gym today?
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A
No, I didn't, but I'm happy to hear it. Is this the cold open?
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B
Yeah.
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A
Are we doing a Uno reverse?
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B
I decided. Okay.
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A
So. Okay. Hey. Sorry. You said, hey, Katie. Did you. No, I didn't know. Tell me about the gym. Okay.
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B
It's for one particular reason, and I need to have an understanding from a super sports person.
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A
As a gym experiment? As a gym rat?
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B
No, it has nothing to do with the gym.
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A
Really.
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B
I'm on the treadmill and I look over to my right and I see this man with the Yankees logo tattoo right on his arm. Arm?
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A
Like upper shoulder?
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B
Yeah, like upper shoulder. And I was just curious. Is that a thing?
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A
Do.
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B
Do people regularly get sports logos tattooed on them?
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A
I think. I think so. Brady. Stop me if I'm wrong. It would stop me in my tracks. I wouldn't even think twice Especially that logo. They love to put that logo everywhere. Even weirder, I saw a guy when I was walking into work the other day sitting outside of Sirius with a hat on that had a picture of Yankee Stadium that said Yankee Stadium above it. No, that's. What's that?
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C
It's the building.
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A
You like the team or you just like the house? But a tattoo. I don't know if I would. That you didn't like it. I just.
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B
I think maybe part of it was also that it wasn't centered.
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A
It was kind of like it was a bad day. It wasn't fully filled in.
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B
I just like. And I say the Yankees these days. Sorry. I was like, I don't want to see that.
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A
That's right. Yeah, but.
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B
Okay, fine. So basically you're saying I can get a Nyx logo right here.
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A
I think you should. In fact, I'd get it on the face.
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B
I'd actually get it right on my chest.
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A
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Perfect. Right in the middle, right on the chest plate.
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B
Okay, cool. That's why I really asked. I just wanted the validation to get
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A
that tattoo and validation you received. Let's make a podcast. Hello and welcome to Casuals, a sports podcast that doesn't care what, you know, sports are for everybody. So we're here to get you caught up on everything happening in the world of sports. I'm Katie Nolan, the host of this thing, joined today by Not a Full house of Casualties. Chris is in the Outback doing a walkabout or something. He's off heads. Chris is not here. He's in the Outback and eating a Bloomin Onion.
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C
So it's tomorrow where Chris is, which is still mind blowing.
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A
Right? We don't. He already knows all the outcome of the sports stuff, so we can't talk to him because we don't want any spoilers. But we got two of them here. We got Isabella, our sports newbie.
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B
Hi.
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A
And we got Brady.
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C
Hey.
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A
Yeah, so we're gonna tell you. Look, I know it's. We've been bouncing around on the days of, like, sometimes we do an interview on the Thursday and then we move it to the Today is just gonna be a producer news podcast because we have a lot of news to talk about. We got big Knicks news, and Isabella, obviously is a Knicks fan. And earlier this week, our episode because of Memorial Day was a mailbag. And so today we're just gonna kind of do the, like, talking about everything going on in sports. So we've got a lot to get to. We're gonna talk about college softball. We what a weekend in the super regionals and we've got the World Series starting today, Thursday. So we'll get you set up for that and all the drama going into that. We've got Jackson Dart obviously making headlines. The NBA Finals are half set. The NHL finals are half set. So we'll talk a little bit about that. Lots to get to and then at the end of the show we actually have a list of stuff we're not going to get to and we'll tell you all about that so that you're in the know. Our job here is to help keep anybody who wants to be in the know on what's going on in sports in the know, but also have a little fun while we do it. If you want to reach out to us, Casualswithkatienolanmail.com is our email. Our voicemail is 646-801-0043 on IG and TikTok. We are at Casualsthepodcast. You guys have been doing a fantastic job, our listeners with emails and voicemails and stuff. We are still looking for maybe a couple more voicemails about or emails about your favorite sports movie that's coming up in a week. This is the last time we're going to mention it. I promise. I'll leave you alone. But we're looking for your name, where you're from, I think and your favorite sports movie and why. Just a nice quick we're going to use that with somebody to make some content about you. So send those in casuals with Katie nolan gmail.com or 646 800-10043 Very easy. Doesn't have to be fancy. We love hearing from you. Thank you to everyone who's already sent us in some stuff and for the mailbag and for Ashley. I know we're asking a lot of you, but it's a, it's a give and take relationship, wouldn't you say, Brady? Lot of giving, lot of givin. All right.
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C
We give so much.
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A
We do. They do or we do?
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C
You know what? We both do. It's a give give.
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A
Yeah. So what I said before, a given a take and they give and they let's do a follow up on the enhanced games. This is where we're starting because I don't think we're going to spend a lot of time here. Dan in our AP apartment. My fiance Dan was like we gotta put that on when it starts. He was fully. I did not think we were going to watch it. I Thought we were gonna just make fun of it and then see what happened after. Dan wanted to tune in because he said, this is a new sporting event. This is the Enhanced Games, the Steroid Olympics as people are colloquially calling it. The Human Experiment, funded by Peter Thiel and d' Souza or whatever happening in Vegas happened in Vegas this past weekend. Dan was like, it's a new broadcast. They don't know what they're doing. It's gonna be a mess. We definitely wanna watch. So we did watch a little bit. And that did happen. There were a lot more moments of like, what's going on here? Than you would normally expect in a sports broadcast. A lot of times it's a well oiled machine. They toss, they go to this, they go to them, they go down in the field, they go up to the booth and this. They did not have it down like that. But I noticed something. Brady, I know you watched a little bit of it too, so I got mostly questions for you. I noticed in the intro where they were setting up what in the hell. We were about to w. They mentioned something like 42 athletes, which I know when we spoke about it last, it was 50. So what do we. Did we get any insight into what happened to the eight?
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C
No. It did make me worry because they had. I think it started with 60 in like the original press release went down to like 50. Then they were training in like Abu Dhabi. And then for massive geopolitical reasons, they had to move training. And at that point, once you're moving 50 people out of the Middle east, if you can only account for 42 of them. I need some answers.
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A
Yeah. Did we not check to see if the others. So, okay, so it was 42 competitors in running, swimming and weightlifting. And another thing we had talked about going into the weekend was if you break a world record, you get a million dollars. And that was credibly reported, I thought, from where we got it from. So what? At the start they said 20 $250,000. And that ended up being what they paid out to the, I believe one world record that was broken. What happened to the million?
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C
They turned the million into just like the sexy events, just like the hundred meter dash and the 50 meter freestyle, I think. And that 50 meter freestyle ended up, the swim ended up being the only record that was broken. So that ended up being the only thing that was paid out for a record.
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A
And the guy wore a suit, right?
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C
He wore suits, yeah. He did all of the things that you're not allowed to do in regular swimming. So of course you're going to. I'm amazed they only broke one record. I think they were amazed they only broke one record. They built it up as we are going to break all of these records. And the only record that got broken was the last guy to compete at the end of the night.
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Well, and Fred Curley, who was already in hot water with the governing body of the track and field in the United States for drug. For failing a drug test. Right. Didn't even use PEDs during the summer.
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C
He was competing clean.
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A
What the hell is this event?
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C
They're promoting all these. All these athletes that are pumped up on steroids and various drugs. A lot of them, A lot of the peptides and whatnot that are available through the enhanced website, they're promoting that this is the peak of human condition. They're pushing all these athletes forward and they all get beat by the one guy who's not doing any of them.
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It just was such a strange. I feel like all we learned is that like, yeah, if you got the world's most elite athletes and drugged them up, maybe we would be learning something. But the drugs themselves alone are not enough to lift a. The tier of athlete that would participate in this type of an. Of event above a very skilled, talented athlete. The drugs alone will not do that.
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C
Yeah, the women's hundred meter dash, I think they were almost a full second off of the record.
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Just brutal. Just was. The whole thing was a brutal showing. It looked miserable to be at. I know it was invite only, but it seems like a lot of people RSVP no because there were not that many people there. I did see Brian Johnson, the human aging expert, whatever they called him.
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C
Shiny man.
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A
Yeah, that dude that's trying to reverse aging, he had a parasol the entire time he was reporting because the sun. Any look, the sun is dangerous. And I think most people aren't taking that as seriously as they should. A lot of people should be wearing sunscreen all the time and they don't. We had this conversation today on radio. Isabella. Oh, isn't today national sunscreen? But by the time this comes out, people will have celebrated that already. Wednesday was National Sunscreen Day or whatever. But I don't think we need to be carrying around a parasol to shield. Then go inside, buddy. You know what I mean? This isn't really like, gotta be outside for it, but okay. Biggest surprise for me, the Killers performing. Now I saw that on a graphic and I said like the Killers. Was it a knockoff band, Brady, or did you actually get to See the killers perform.
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C
You know what? I don't have visual evidence. They performed. They were prone to having performed everything after said they did perform then that's.
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That's.
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C
I did not see them in the actual event.
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There's no clips that came out of it.
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Doesn't it feel below them? Don't you.
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C
It does feel below them. But you know what? There's the check. I'm guessing they were paid handsomely. The check probably does not.
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Yeah. I'm sick of hearing about the check as the reason for everything. Like it reaches a certain point. Like the killers don't need that check. I'm not intimately familiar with their finances. But we're talking about a successful band that people like.
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C
Like if you told me the Killers were like performing at the Sphere in Vegas. That would track. I'd be like, they're that big enough. They have that.
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A
I thought. But I mean, maybe do this. It doesn't feel like they did. But they did do it. So did DJ Ruckus. And that's Take the check. You know what I mean? Take the check. So that happened. I don't think it's gonna change the game. I'd be surprised if they do it again next year. It doesn't feel like it did a lot. And. Oh, what's this? The stock price of the company enhanced dropped 40% on Tuesday. So it does. I'm not saying. I'm just saying it feels like once the markets reopened people were like, oh, this isn't all it was cracked up to be. So whether that's good or bad, I don't know. It seems like we tried steroid Olympics and it sucked. Also counter programming to tough sports. There was like a lot of sports to be watching that weren't this. I don't know why they. Why didn't they just run it during the day? This was all around a mess to me.
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C
It was bright out anyway.
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A
Right.
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C
It was west coast time. Very weird. It's really hard to take it seriously when it's both quiet and extremely well lit. And all you hear is like a DJ spinning in the background. It was very hard to take.
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A
It's just tough. It was tough. Vegas daytime sometimes. Unless you're at a pool party. It's tough to process with your eyes where you go. Like the lights don't look the same. It's. I'm seeing too much. So seeing people compete in steroid sports on. I kept like looking. The little I watched was through my fingers. I didn't want to see a vein pop out I just felt like at some point we were going to see something or like during the weightlifting, during the. I thought somebody's, like, elbow was gonna, like, pop out all crazy. So I didn't watch too much.
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C
It happens. And it's the worst thing you'll ever see.
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A
I know. And I don't recover well from it.
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C
The Game of Thrones guy was trying to deadlift. He was trying to pick up 1100 pounds.
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And that's a lot. I don't have any context, but sounds like 1100.
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C
It's a lot for a human being to just get off the ground.
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Has a human being ever done that? They have.
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Well, I've done 1102 pounds.
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A
That's right. And she's not on any drugs except recreational. Yeah, we do the recreational drugs Olympics for us to compete in.
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C
That's the exercise.
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They put the strain that you're like, she's on 70% Pineapple Express. It's a sativa indica hybrid. You can order it here. I mean, I do this. I would watch this.
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C
I would watch this, text this guy and he will bike to you with it right now.
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Which is how it works now. Crazy. They make you, like, scan your id and then you start to go like. This feels even weirder. I don't know what to do with this interaction. Okay, so we got the enhanced games out of the way. The big story. Isabella, I haven't, like. I've been like, avoiding talking to you about this all day because I wanted to save it for camera. The Knicks. I know the Knicks are going to the Finals. Isn't it crazy? Isabella's New York, hello Kitty. Knicks are going to the NBA Finals. The Knicks have not been to the finals since 1999.
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B
I was a ripe one year old.
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A
Oh, fuck. What the hell? I was having a fine day until that. We didn't want to talk about it before we left for Memorial Day weekend. Remember, we were dancing around it. I said it's possible that the next time we see Isabella, this is over. If the Knicks sweep. And they did. The knicks have won 11 games in a row in the post season. They are rolling. They've got energy. They've got. I don't know. They got celebrities behind them. They got celebrities to come out to Cleveland to see the games. Did you happen to see Isabella that the. That Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.
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B
Yeah, I saw that.
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A
Were at. Oh, what?
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B
Whatever.
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A
Okay. It didn't work. It didn't help.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Sorry.
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B
And then I think he chugged a beer.
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A
Yeah. Did you see the Clip. I'm. I can't tell. She seems annoyed, but it's like, how could you be annoyed? That's Travis Kelce. Travis kelseying. You know what I mean? It's like if I would be annoyed if Dan did a wrestling impression. It's like, that's. You chose this. This is the life you chose. He loves to. Do you think she was being like playful girlfriend. Oh, this guy. But really she loves it. Maybe. Yeah. I think in general, we're all reading way too much into those two interacting. I saw thorough breakdown broadcast capture of
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B
it as opposed to the actual clip. I don't know what the actual clip was.
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A
Yeah.
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C
Can I pull a curtain back on this? So Travis chugged the beer. He chugged a 12 ounce can of garage beer.
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A
What's that type of beer?
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C
It's. It's the brand of beer that, like, I think Jason owns the stake in.
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A
Okay.
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C
They don't sell that at rocket Arena. Travis BYO'd his own bee.
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A
You can't be your own be not allowed to be.
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B
Kylie Jenner did the same thing.
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A
What do you think she brought? She does. She brought liquor.
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B
I think she brought liquor.
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A
Okay, this is quite an accusation. Let's pull the allegedly. Wait, you saw her like slide a flask into her purse?
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B
No, no, no. It was like a tick tock where like she was drinking something out of a cup and then she passed it to Timothy and then Timothy.
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A
Like you think they were mixing their own drinks like a high school football.
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B
And then people were like, oh, does she have something in her purse or something like that?
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C
Like she unscrewed the lens off that Nikon camera she was carrying around? Yeah, just a flask.
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Speaking of cameras, on the baseline, did you see. This was a couple games ago, but did you see Ben Stiller, famous New York Knicks fan, was filming like highlights from courtside in. This was when the games were in New York. And you just see it and it's so beautifully shot. So you're like, this is. We should always have directors, like, cinematically capturing highlights. It was beautiful. He even like panned to Jalen Brunson's face. Zoomed in and caught like actual emotion. It was a great shot that I'm like, they should be capitalizing in the same way.
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B
Did you see that Spike Lee, like, when they all took the picture at the. Not the NBA finals? Not yet, but when they won the. When they had the trophy for the Eastern Conference finals. And he was just like on the floor like a dad taking a picture.
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A
So it's so cute. It's so fun to see. How are you feeling? You've been watching the games? Yes, yes. Yes, I have. And it's been fun.
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B
It's been fun. Kitty's been in the same spot. That's all I'm saying.
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A
We're not saying it's all Kitty, but it's at least partially Kitty.
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B
I will say, though, the more they advance, the more scared I am.
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A
Welcome to it.
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B
I'm so scared. I'm like, you could, but I don't even want to.
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A
I know. So let's just make sure on hand at home, you've got, like, Tums or like, Maalox, you've got some sort of something for any digestive issues you may encounter, because this is gonna be a wild ride.
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B
Yeah.
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A
And it's gonna be a lot of anxiety.
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B
So, like, if they. So if something bad were to happen, can I call out of work the
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A
next day and we could talk about it?
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B
Would you guys be okay?
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A
Would you? Well, we could say.
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C
I'm already down a Chris. This is kind of a.
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A
It would be tough. Just me and Brady making a podcast, I think would expose a lot of cracks in the foundation. So I'm not sure. We could try.
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C
I can't do it.
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A
I'm dying. It's so sad. And you would have to do it. Here's the thing. I'm not gonna. Look, I got you into this mess. I know your Knicks fandom predates us. I don't want to take any credit, but, like, we. We use your sports fandom for content. I would never. We're gonna have to talk, but we will do it so gently. If anything were to happen, we will discuss the feelings that it brought up for you and how you're coping with them. If that.
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B
Just be like this, the whole show.
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A
Yeah. We could just have you. We could have you camera off. We could do a fun background. We could do whatever you want to do. It will be gentle. But you do have to.
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B
Okay.
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A
We don't have to keep talking about it because. And it won't matter because they're gonna. Here's the thing. We're still waiting to find out who they're going to play against. You mentioned the trophy ceremony. I did want to mention the thing. One of the things I really like about this Knicks team, and that's Dan and I are both conflicted about liking the Knicks. I told them Isabella's my excuse. I said, well, I gotta root for Isabella. It's better content to see her happy. The joy that this team has brought her and the way that it's displayed on her face and in her energy is, like, infectious. And so I'm rooting for them in that way also. We live in New York. It's cool to be a part of, but I'm not gonna like bandwagon. Front run. But I'm also not going to be a hater. Their vibes are fun. Did you see during that trophy ceremony what they were doing to head coach? I know it's a sensitive subject because he took your job, but head coach Mike Brown.
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B
Yeah, no, it's really funny.
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A
Did you do the clip? Play that. It's like the Finding Nemo. Play it. Coach Brown. Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike. It's so funny. It's also like, it made me realize, oh, he's probably been dealing with them doing that this entire. This is probably.
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B
Yeah. Like, we're only just seeing one.
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A
Yes. One of my favorite things on a team, energy wise, is when, like, a player or multiple players and the coach have, like, a bit that annoys each other, but there is clearly loving. Like, I feel like Lindor used to have this energy with your former manager on the Mets that I really liked, where it was just like, something where they, like, clearly give it to each other back and forth. And I think that's like a cute relationship for a team to have with their coach. So I. I'm.
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C
Remember when no one could touch Adrian Beltrae's head?
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A
Yes.
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C
That was the greatest bit.
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A
Yes.
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C
Coaches, players, managers, everyone touching Adrian Beltray's head and he would legit throw things at them.
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A
So it's an interesting series. I'm excited to see what happens in the final. The ticket prices. I don't even want to talk about it. The ticket prices that I've seen being reported are like, what. What's anybody supposed to do? What's an average person who wants to go to a basketball game supposed to do? But I suppose it's Madison Square Garden and you just accept it, and that's how that goes. Knicks fans have basically promised to riot if they win the finals. And did you see the video of the cops lining up. Yeah. Outside to get ready for the, like, watch parties of game four. It looked like a scene from the Dark Knight. That was so many cops. And I just. What do they do? Cause the guys are still getting up on the light posts.
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B
Yeah, they're all getting up on awnings, like, of msg. Like crazy. There's only so much you can control.
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C
Someone's on top of the light post. Outside of Radio City, which I'm like, that's not outside the Garden. This was just the whole city.
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A
I think they also. I think they moved the watch party from the Garden to Radio City to try to contain it, make the numbers smaller. Which guys. The fans are going to spill out into the street no matter where they are. So I don't know. We'll see what happens. But we got to wait because in the west, there's just. We don't know yet. We don't know. But since the last time the Knicks were in the finals was 1999. Isabella. And you mentioned pretty rudely, if I do say so myself, that you were the ripe old age of one when that happened. Brady put together a little quiz for you to try to see how much you know about some of the iconic things that happened in 1999. Are you up to the challenge?
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B
Okay, I'm excited.
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A
All right, Brady, take it away.
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C
All right, Isabella. 1999 and its iconic moments. I'm going to ask you. Number one.
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B
Yeah.
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C
Brandi Chastain achieved worldwide fame for doing what immediately after scoring the game winning goal for Team USA at the 1999 Women's World Cup.
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Come on, baby.
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B
Oh, wait. World soccer.
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A
Yes.
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Okay.
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Brandi Chastain. Women's soccer. Women's World Cup, 1999, Team USA. Brandi Chastain scores a goal and then does what?
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Oh, does she do like a celebration?
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Yes, partial credit. What type of celebration?
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She does a cartwheel.
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No, no.
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What is it?
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Very famously took her shirt off and slid on her knees in front of the goal after scoring the game winner and penalty kicks.
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Damn. Brady, make a note. We gotta tell her about the 99ers, especially before the movie comes out. All right, next, number two.
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What bird named skateboarder landed the first ever 900 in competition? Half pipe.
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That's it. There she is. Okay. I wanted her to get one. Okay, good. Perfect. Tony Hawk.
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Okay, next, they're going to get progressively harder. Which pro golfer who hasn't competed since 2024 due to back injuries, a second DUI arrest, and a trip overseas for rehab, won his second career major in 1999 at the PGA Championship.
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Tiger Woods.
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How'd she get that? How could you possibly have known so many of them? It could have been others.
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There could have been other jump to one that's very relevant and was on top of our minds. What were we all afraid was going to kill us on December 31, 1999?
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Oh, wasn't it computers?
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Yeah. But what we call it. Oh, you Guys use it to describe fashion.
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B
Now the. The. The something. The something of the Y2K.
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That's it. Y2K. Y2K. We were terrified of it. You guys use it to describe wearing chokers and low cut, low rise jeans. That's crazy.
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We were just convinced planes were falling out of the sky because we didn't put a third and fourth digit in the computer.
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They were like. Nobody thought ahead. And so when it switches, it's gonna think it's 1900 and all your banking information is gonna be gone. And we didn't know enough, so we went. It is.
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They made a movie about that?
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No. Was it good?
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Yeah, it was like a.
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C
What's the climax of it? Just. It strikes midnight.
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B
No, they made a scary movie out of it where it was like they actually. The computers actually did kill us.
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Oh, sick. Sick. Which. We're almost there. That's coming up. Yeah. Yeah.
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C
Speaking of scary movies, let's take it home with this. What? Low budget horror film set in the woods of Burkittsville, Maryland project.
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She knows, all right? She knows. She's a millennial at heart. Launch the found footage genre as an old. As a. Never watch it, though.
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B
I'm not into found footage. I. Sorry.
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A
Yeah, it's. Well, it's not found. They made it look like found footage, but it's not found. But we all. The reason it was crazy is we all thought it was real. People thought like this actually happened because we didn't have the Internet. We did, but it wasn't at the capacity of that now.
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But he's at the style of.
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Yeah, but anyway, it's hard to watch. It's hard to watch because it's bouncy. But that was sort of the whole point. I was gonna say, much like an older man dating a much younger woman, I say Isabella's got an old soul. She may be young, but she's got an old soul. She likes art. She's precocious. She's so precocious.
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C
Sorry.
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Sorry, Brady. These are trigger words for us. Sorry, Brady. These are really hard for us to deal with. All right, before we wrap up the. The Knicks and the Cavs, the Cav season is obviously now over. That's how it works. Unfortunately, they got swept. Although they did announce yesterday, I believe that Kenny is going to stick around. Their head coach, they're keeping him on.
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They want him back.
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Which, you know, fine. We don't advocate for coaches to get fired here because we don't know. We just advocate for them to get hired because they're sweet Isabella, and we think they would do a good job. But he did say something interesting before game four. Kenny Atkinson. Can we take a listen to what he said? This was heading in to game four, so they had lost three games and we're about to get swept. They didn't know that part yet, so we'll forgive it. But here's what Kenny had to say.
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Analytically, I think we've won the expect.
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I said three out of three. We're two out of three in the expected. If you guys follow that, it's an
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C
expected score, you know, and we won two other three.
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A
And I know you're looking confused, but I.
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B
No, no, I'm not.
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There is really, you know, if you believe in process and all that, like, man up, you know, take that later.
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Oh, my God. Are you for real? When he's like, I know you're looking confused. No, no, I'm not. I am. I am confused. When he goes. I don't know if you guys follow that, but they do. Expected score, I assume. Brady. This is an advanced analytic that tries to extrapolate based off of the. Whatever that's happening, what the final score is expected to be. Sort of like ex WOBA or whatever in baseball where it's all, like, extrapolated from stats. It means fuck all when it comes to the score and the outcome of the game. So, no, I don't think you've won two out of three analytically. I. And then he brings up, like, trusting the process of it. And it's like, well, you. But you do need. Before the game ends, you need to finish the winning. You can't just. The game can't end and you go. Stats say, we won that one. So I'll count it.
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C
Stats are great for, like, long term, like 100 games worth of data. Figuring out your process. You gotta win these three.
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There is so much value to me knowing what the expected score was. I see what the score was. And you lost. Oh, that's crazy. That made me feel like I was nuts.
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C
Hit him with big Rick and Morty viewer energy where he was like, I don't know if you can follow this. Are you following me? Are you smart enough to follow me?
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A
I don't know if you guys know about this little stat. That means nothing. Another weird thing was what James Harden said after game four. This is now after they've been swept. And he basically says, like, who could possibly say which of these two teams is better? Can we play that clip? I don't think we gave.
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C
We had A chance as far as our best shot, you know, from a standpoint of the circumstances, you know, obviously, they just, they. They dominated us 4, 0. But yeah, I don't know if I can necessarily answer that question just because genuinely, I do feel like we are
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the better team, you know, and it's just like, I get it. I get it. Sometimes you aren't your best you and you're like. But I know deep in my heart, we are the better team. It's just like now, it's not. We're not hearing that right now. You know what I'm saying? James Harden, like, now's not the time to say that you think that you're the better team. Because, look, if we were to say, well, how could we figure out who's the better team? We'll make them play each other. Someone would go, well, that's not enough. One game couldn't possibly decide. We would have to make. Let's try a series of seven games. Up to seven games, and whoever wins four of them first will say is the better team. That's exactly what happened. And you lost.
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C
Whoever wins four of them, analytically, no, for real.
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On the scoreboard. So technically, you didn't win any. And so you can't be the better team. The better team has to show up. You can't just be in your mind, like a version of yourselves that you. The team that showed up was kind of clearly not the better team, as is evidenced by the people in the streets of Manhattan with brooms. So you lose, Isabella wins. And like I said, now we await to see what comes out of the West. Game 6 of the in the Western Conference will be tonight. The Thunder have a 32 lead in that series. So if the Thunder win tonight, they move on. It is in San Antonio. And so it's possible that a lot of people are counting out the spurs already. This is a very close series that has been trading wins, so I'm not ready to do that. But a lot of discussion around this series and who people are rooting for. I know we've been pretty heavily across the board rooting for Wemby and the spurs, but one of our listeners sort of called us out and thinks maybe we've been unfair. Can we play this? Voicemail. Isabella, Hi, my name is Christopher.
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C
I'm in Colorado and I'm calling because
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A
I'm a little annoyed with Wemby. You guys talked about it just a little bit on your last episode. And then everybody hates sga. Shay Gilder said Xander for the Thunder. Everybody Hates him because they say he flops a lot. All the star players like Luka Donovich and. Sorry, Isabella, but Jalen Brunson for the Knicks, they all do all the same stuff and don't catch near as much flack. I can't help but feel like it's partly because he's in Oklahoma City and not a major market. Love you. Mean it. Bye. Love you. Mean it. Christopher, thank you for your call. Love to have us called out and brought to the floor and to atone for anything that we've said. Brady, you found the numbers. Somebody ran the numbers, you said.
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C
Yeah. Tom Haberstraw from Yahoo Sports ran the numbers of like, does everybody else do what SGA does as much? And what SGA does is gets to the free throw line an absurd amount. He shoots a lot of free throws. He's really good at shooting free throws. He scores a lot of points. He will drive to the hoop or he'll pull up for a jumper. And more than anybody else in the NBA, he falls down, he hits the ground. He gets fouls called on him, and it works for him. And you know what? If it works, it works. But that doesn't make me have to like the way he plays basketball, so. But you said that it was like.
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A
It was like the. The. The amount that he does it is the amount of everybody. What was the stat you said to me earlier?
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C
Brunson and Donovan Mitchell combined. It's like the. Brunson and Mitchell combined. Fall down less than Alexander does. Like, Harden is the only one. That's nearly. That's nearly where he is. Like, he. When he. He falls to the ground more than anyone and he gets a foul called on him, I think 23 out of 46 times during the four. The first four games. Yeah. Of this series now. And it works. He's trying to put points on the board, but I hate watching.
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Right. So here's. That's. This is the two parts of it. Right. Because we argue if he is doing it, if he is a foul merchant, if this is a legitimate way to play basketball. A lot of people have opinions on that, but I think I kind of heard Rachel Nichols say this in a way that crystallized it for me. That was like, that's half of it. And then the other half of it is enjoying to watch it. And it is not a incredibly watchable product the way that Oklahoma City plays. So for a casual fan of basketball, that is not rooting for either of these two teams. The likelihood I'm gonna stick and watch this Whole game all the way through is less when I do not enjoy the brand of basketball that is being played. Again, it's not to say that OKC is wrong or that they should stop doing it, because why would you if it's working for you? So in my opinion, it would be on the NBA then to get this sort of behavior more discouraged within the sport so that teams aren't like, well, if you're not flopping, you're not trying. Like, you do not want to encourage other teams. It kind of reminds me it's analogous to the tush push, where it's like, if. If we let everybody do it, it's going to become unwatchable. But the only way to get people to stop doing it is to make it not. Is to litigate around the rules for it. So I don't know what the answer is, and I don't intend to find it. I feel like, yes, SGA does seem to do it more than anybody. And yes, I understand why. I'm not even holding it really against him. And I think that might be Chris's point here. Chris from Colorado. But I just feel like I don't
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B
make Chris like our Chris.
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A
No, not Chris. He's. Unless he phones in with a. With a point, which would take a couple days to connect, as I understand it. I don't think we can just imagine
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Chris editing this audio and be like, fuck, no, Isabella, that's not the point.
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A
Yeah, writing in with his point, putting it into the episode description and just
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B
recording his own single audience.
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A
Hi, this is Chris. I'm editing and I just wanted to say. So I don't know.
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C
Voicemail. That's just with a thick Australian accent. This is Chris from Delaware.
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A
Yeah. So the foul merchant conversation is going to continue. It seems like the numbers bear out that he does do it, but I don't even blame him. I just don't want to watch it. I'm just saying, like, you're not going to get in depth. I watched every second of this game analysis for me because I just. There's too much for my eyeballs to watch and I do not. I do not want to watch that. It's not enjoyable.
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C
To me, best comment I saw was that the end of every Shay Gilgeous Alexander jump shot. Looks like Andy from Toy Story has just walked into the room. He just crumbles.
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Isabella, have you seen that trend on TikTok to the. To a Beyonce song where a guy. The guy picks up the girl and she sits on his arm while he leans on the wall. And so she like perches on his arm and then she like does cute. I saw a lady try that with her boyfriend and she fell down, fall so hard, basically crack her skull. And like the number one comment was that it was the woody on the ground crumpled in a pile. Oh, brutal. Okay, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna take a break. When we come back, women's college Softball World Series. We gotta talk about that. I'm so hyped. I got way, way too into the super regionals this past weekend and I want to tell Isabella about these teams. And I know Brady's been following Texas Tech and he'll talk about what happened in that game. There was drama. We also need to talk about Bryce Harper. We just have to. Because why? Who? He's done something weird again. So all that and more coming up. This is casuals. We'll take a quick break. We'll be right back. The road to the playoffs is here. Catch every NBA matchup on ESPN and every NHL showdown on ESPN and TNT with Sling. Sling is great. You customize a channel lineup and only pay for what actually gets watched. So no more wondering why random channels are there. No contracts, just flexibility. Choose a one day pass starting at 4.99 for a big game, a seven day pass for playoff series, or you can go monthly for more. Pause anytime with no penalties and still enjoy over 600 free channels. You can even stream instantly on all devices at home or on the go with Sling. I know for me what I love about Sling is that on my phone when I'm on the road, maybe in like a green room that doesn't have any tv, I can watch on my phone and easily go between a hockey game that's on ESPN and then I can switch over to an NBA matchup. So choose and customize your channel lineup or pause and watch for free. Sling lets you do that. Visit sling.com to learn more. If you're trying to be more intentional about what you wear day to day, Quints can help with that. They've got pieces that feel easy, comfortable and yet still put together. Quince uses premium materials like 100 European linen, organic cotton and ultra soft denim. Everything at Quint is priced 50 to 80% less than similar brands. They work directly with ethical factories. They cut out the middlemen. So you are paying for quality and craftsmanship, not brand markup. I just recently got some jeans. Quince has all of the cuts that I was looking for from wide leg to like a more boot cut and they're all so affordable, the price on them cannot be beat. So refresh your everyday with luxury you'll actually use. Head to Quince.com Casuals for free shipping on your order and 365 day returns. Now available in Canada too. That's Q-U-I-N-C-E.com Casuals, free shipping and 365 day returns. Quince. Honestly, honestly, honestly.
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Okay, welcome back to Casuals. Big weekend in auto racing. First of all, we have to unfortunately start with a tragedy that really shocked I think the sporting world, obviously the racing world. Racing is a very close knit community and they lost a member of the family. This shockingly at the end of last week. On Thursday, we all found out that Kyle Bush had died out of nowhere. Not at all something anybody had expected. He'd been dealing with some issues in a race before, but nothing that had been escalated to this level. We found out that he was rushed to the hospital on Thursday with some sort of a sickness and then by later in that day he was gone. I, I talk a lot about misinformation on this podcast. I looked at my computer and I was like, this can't be right. I'm seeing Kyle Bush has passed away. I didn't believe it. I was like looking and looking for more sources because I just, it Was that shocking. 41 years old and we now know that he had pneumonia which quickly as it can devolved into sepsis. And sepsis is like one of the scariest things that I think can happen. It happens so quickly and it's so Dangerous and harmful. Your body basically turns against you. And that is terrifying and so tragic and so sad to have just lost someone who, I mean he had just raced previously, like the week before Brady or two weeks before. Crazy. And so it was an absolute shock. I watched a lot of people's reactions to it. I saw Marty Smith on SportsCenter. Just an incredible job of after finding out such shocking news. Like I said, it's a very tight knit community, nascar. To go on TV and memorialize him with such honor and dignity and respect for the family and to sort of let people who maybe aren't as plugged into the racing community know exactly who this guy was and why he was so amazing. The fact that he was so good, so young, they had to change the sport to allow him. He's such a pure natural talent. He had a reputation as being like a villain for a bit of his career, but he's been racing for so long, he's like grown up in front of our eyes. And it, this was so shocking to hear and I know a lot of people were really devastated by this. It's a devastating loss to the NASCAR community, to the sporting world at large. So scary. We, our thoughts are with his family. They did a great job. The Coca Cola 600 was this past weekend and they did a great job of like a moment of silence for him and his family that was incredibly hard to watch because again, you're watching people that are, those children are still trying to understand what happened. There's no way they get it. And his wife, God, they were such a vocal advocates for people struggling with fertility. I think they had a foundation, Brady, that you mentioned where they helped people. Or maybe it was Steve who was telling us this, that he helped provide funding for people who needed money to, to pursue a fertility journey that they couldn't afford. And I just, you know, I, I, we're still reckoning with the, the loss. It was absolutely shocking, devastating. NASCAR did a great job with it this weekend as, as good as one could. But what a tough, tough loss to have found out on Thursday. Also this weekend, the Indy 500. I know a lot of people have like their Memorial day weekend, Indy 500 traditions. I tuned in this week. This time I don't often watch it. I watched it a lot when I was little, racing sports. I feel like my brother was really into cars and then we, that's probably like a little boy that's like dinosaurs. It feels like one of the chapters that you, one of the eras that a little boy goes before. He latched onto hockey and then really didn't go towards anything else. It was just all he ever wanted to watch was hockey highlights. But for a while there, we were watching Indy 500. And this year I tuned in and I see, of course, the SiriusXM car winning the closest finish in Indy 500 history. Isabelle, did you see the picture? No. Of the. It was by a nose. It was like a photo finish. The call of it actually gave me goosebumps when I listened to it. I was like, this is like. It was so exciting. It really came down to the final seconds. And Felix Rosenquist won. What was the margin of victory?
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C
023.3 seconds.
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A
I mean, I can't. I can't even comprehend how quick is that? Like that. It's like a. That's so quick.
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C
I think it's an actual blink.
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Yeah. We should mention Catherine Leg. I know we said before she tried the. She was attempting the double. She was the first woman to try it. And that's when you race in the Indy 500 and then you fly or take whatever transportation to the Coca Cola 600 and race in that. She got knocked out of the. I don't think she finished. Did she finish either race? I know she didn't finish the.
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C
She didn't. She was like 16 laps back.
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A
And you know what? It's a difficult challenge. Not a lot of people have done it successfully. I think one person has done it successfully.
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C
Yeah. I think one.
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A
Right, Tony? So it's not like the margin of victory. It's not like a lot of people are out here just doing it. And it's easy. It's incredibly difficult. She tried it. Good for her for trying it in that chrome Elf car. I like that car. It's cool looking.
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C
What is cool looking? So, Elle, what is the F usually? Because all of her stuff says, like, eyes, lips, fuel, face. Okay.
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A
But you just knew you could suss out that it was eyes, Lips, Fuel.
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C
Like, that is not the regular makeup brand, but they.
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A
Yeah, they're all also the issue. Eyes and lips are located where.
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C
Seems like on the face.
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A
Right. So it's kind of a tough. But hey, it works. A lot of people don't even know it stands for anything. So, Brady, you're already ahead of the. You're ahead of the bunch.
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B
Oh, that is a cute car.
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A
Isn't it cute?
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B
I like it.
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A
Yeah. Elf is like, secretly quietly stepping into, like, wim, like, sponsoring women and sports and stuff. I see you, elf.
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B
I love that because I use elf so much.
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A
Yeah.
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B
All right.
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A
I Remember when they first came out, I was like, this is affordable. Good stuff. Okay, Bryce Harper, we've arrived. We've arrived. As we're talking about toiletries etc, we have arrived at the Bryce Harper story. Isabella, you have enough. You have a little bit of context
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B
of Bryce Harper spins his blood and
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A
that will come back up. Okay, so Bryce Harper posted a TikTok.
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B
Wait, sorry, remind me what sport he plays.
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A
Baseball. Baseball for the Philadelphia Phillies. Okay, he posted a TikTok and in it he's talking about something. Honestly, I did not listen to a word he said because in it he's brushing his teeth and it just. I don't think I've ever seen anybody brush his teeth this way. Isabella, did you watch this at all?
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B
I have not seen it.
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A
Okay, so what he does is he takes the toothpaste tube and he squeezes it into his mouth. No lips to tube. Squeezes it into his mouth, puts the tube down and then runs. I think he runs the brush under the water and then our blah blah, blah, blah, blah blah, starts brushing his
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B
teeth like toothpaste onto teeth.
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A
I think it's toothpaste into mouth, just into mouth. And then I think he's sort of smushing it around. It's similar to how I brush my dog's teeth, but I don't think I've ever seen a human suck on the tube. The germ transfer from mouth to tube is.
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B
Yeah, what if you're sick?
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A
Why would you do it that way? And why do you look like you like doing it that way? What the fuck is that?
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B
That Bryce Harper toothpaste. I need to see at least a picture of it.
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C
And it's done like it's completely normal. Cuz the video is a 9 minute long tik tok. It's just a get ready with me from.
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A
He's not doing it like check out how I brush my teeth. It's like wild. He's trying to just do something normally. And everyone went, I'm sorry, what was that? That's crazy. It's crazy. Brady, you mentioned earlier you were going to defend him. I was wondering if you were ready to do that or.
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C
I'll do it now. We can do everything else on this context. I like Bryce. I've been, I've been in clubhouses with Bryce plenty.
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A
Brady had a couple covered major league
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C
baseball before we, before we began this podcast, covered major league baseball for like 15 years. Bryce is a really nice, normal guy. Outside of like all of these little quirks that make you think like why do you do this this way? He is someone who grew up as a homeschooled Mormon kid in Nevada and has never been like, with kids his own age growing up. He was on an accelerated path in school because the goal was to get him graduated from high school early so he could go into the MLB draft early. He has always played sports with kids older than him because he's better than them. He's not just been in. In regular classrooms. And he's been famous since he was like 14 years old. And I think there are just a couple, like, little socialized developmental steps that. That kind of skipped by Bryce long ago that he's had to make up for in real time as an adult in front of the public eye. And I think just nothing is really. There's nothing malicious. There's nothing that is true.
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A
These are like controversies.
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C
They're just little weird, quirky guy who generally is good in the heart.
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Sure. It's just like, they're just a little quirky. They're so weird. I was gonna ask if this toothpaste thing even cracks the top five weirdest stuff we've seen Bryce Harper do. There's the. He drinks. He's a raw milk guy. Right. He's a. Don't pasteurize your milk. Which I. If that's for you, fine. I would never. Is that safe? Yes, incredibly. And so I would never push publicly that that's a good idea. You know what I mean? So there is, to me, a little bit of inherent danger being a pro athlete and being like, it's just milk that hasn't been gone through the process that makes it safe to drink. Like, maybe he has access to some high quality udder. I don't know. I don't know. But the average person should not be encouraged, I don't think, to drink unpasteurized milk like we. We remember Louis Pastor because of what a huge deal that was for allowing us to have milk. So I don't know. He also had a third of his blood removed and then spun around, treated with ozone, and then put back into his body. I don't even know how to start asking questions. I don't know where to start with a question for that. I don't know. Where do you get ozone? What is it?
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C
Go up and grab it. I don't.
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A
I thought we were lacking ozone. I thought there was a big hole in the.
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C
I don't know the science well enough.
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B
The idea of the blood going back into my body.
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A
No, there's new stuff in it. Ew.
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It's not.
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No. A third of my blood feels so much lighter. It's crazy. What is this? My period? He also. What else? There's other ones. I know there's other ones.
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In that same video of him getting ready, he just espouses his copper tongue scraper as like, this is something I can't live without.
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Can't live without is a step too far. It's a set you can absolutely live without a copper tongue scraper.
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You know, last year he was in a slump, just spontaneously just shaved his head and just came back in like it was nothing. Like, this is what's going to get me over.
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I like that. Actually support that. I've been a supportive. I've been supportive of that since Brittany.
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I was scrolling through tick tocks and being like, what have I missed about Bryce Harper? There's one of him that's really off putting of him pulled off on the side of the road during the tick tock from his driver's seat, maybe passenger seat. He's not moving. There are cars whizzing by him on the side. And it's like people have been asking me, what colognes am I really into these days? Here are my favorite colognes right now.
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Okay.
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I'm just thinking, like, this is like, he pulled over.
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He had to get this off his chest. It's like, I've seen the last tweet about it. I need to let you know these are my favorite colognes. I'm getting sick of the people in cars doing interviews. By the way, not on TikTok. That's fine.
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Adam Schefter, but.
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So Isabella saw Adam schefter on Pat McAfee and has no context, really. And goes, why is this guy always in his car? Which I thought was so funny. But then yesterday I was watching SportsCenter and I don't remember who it was, but they. Jacob Fatu, maybe they had him in his car, like, talking to SportsCenter. And I'm like, you a pro wrestler in a car looks so weird. Please get him out. He looks like he doesn't fit. He's like a big gigantic guy. Get into us. We used to live in a society where if you were doing a live hit on SportsCenter, you were in a little studio and you did your live hit and then you went and sat in your car. Everybody's just coming on TV from their car on their phone. I step it up, please. I'm sick of this. I distracted us. Anything else? That he's weird, that he's Done.
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There was that time last year or maybe the year before, but the MLB deputy threatened to threaten him with. That's how people end up in a ditch after he threw Rob Manford out of the clubhouse because Manford came in talking about a salary cap in Major League Baseball. Maybe this is not weird. It's a weird story that involves a weird.
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That's how people end up in a ditch was wild.
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We have a mob enforcer now in Major League Baseball threatening.
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Yeah, I was gonna ask. I was like, there's a deputy.
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So what do you think, Isabella? Do you think you would ever squirt your toothpaste into your mouth before brushing your teeth? No. You see the merits of the practice at all? And do you think that, that, that Bryce Harper is a psychopath?
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I mean, we all do crazy things, right?
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So it's. We'll just, we'll go easy on him. But like, hey, buddy, please don't. Don't do that.
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Yeah, I'd rather put it on your finger and then put it in your mouth or something. I don't know.
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That's how I brush my dog's teeth.
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Put it on your toothbrush and then put your toothbrush. Sounds like he's compelled to put it
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on something on his body first before putting it on the toothbrush. So I don't know.
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It's too. It remind. It would remind me too much of those. Remember when like Power Bar came out with that, like. Oh, the Power Bar performance gel. And you would just see them like stick squeezing gel out of a little packet into their mouth. And I always. My issue with it was always textural. I'm like, I would not want to suck some goo out of a tube to eat. And so the thought of wanting to do that with your toothpaste is like. Also it makes me think you're using too much toothpaste. You're only supposed to use a pea sized amount. If you are squeezing, it's just a nightmare.
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Oh, yeah. That whole cascading pompadour of toothpaste that they show on the commercials.
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It's too much. It's too much paste.
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Trying to get you to buy more.
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That's what he's doing into his mouth. I just think that's.
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So this is a whole scop by big toothpaste.
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You're saying maybe just to get us to use more. Just like rinse and repeat with the shampoo. They're just trying to get you to go through the product twice as fast. You don't have to do it. You don't have to do it, guys. Stay strong. Somewhere a person, like an esthetician's, like, pulling their hair out, being like, yes, you do. You have to rinse and then wash it again. I'm not doing it. I'm going. I'll be brave.
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I'll be brave throwing things.
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Okay, we've got a favorite segment. We almost bumped into this during the Nick's Cabs, but we just use those as sound bites. But we have put together a little bit of Should I said that out loud? Look, everybody loves it. It's stuff we've bumped into over the week in sports that we hear with our ears. And we go, maybe that didn't need to be said out loud. And we are starting with an absolute banger of a Should I have said that out loud? This one knocked me, stopped me my tracks. This one I had to rewind my TV and go, did I hear what I thought I just heard? So this is during the Texas Arizona State super Regional game, right this past weekend. And let's just listen to the broadcast as it went out live.
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Wonderful relationship, those two.
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And she said, when you come to Austin, they tell you, lick my ball sack. They're gonna compete for national championships as an assistant. Who is that?
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No one knows.
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We don't know. I assume a fan.
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Hold on.
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Wait. Can we run that back? Yes, please. When you come to Austin, they tell you you're going to compete for national championships. As I do think it's worth asking, where was RFK Jr. This weekend? That's crazy, because it does just feel like it's not like they were so close. I think what must have happened is they found a field mic or a mic that was put out in the crowd to pick up crowd noise, identified it, and then I don't know how they managed the timing so perfectly that the booth said, you know, when you come here, they always say, little pause and then lick my. But. Well, what the captions said was not lick my ball sack. The captions said, nick Mud ball sack. Now, I don't know if those are AI. Are those AI generated at this point? Has that job already been outsourced to a computer? Probably because it's. Nobody would have but Nick Mud Ball Sack, Longhorn legend. I think what. I think what actually happened was lick my ball sack. And there's. I mean, really, there's nothing the broadcast could do about that. I wonder if the people in the booth could hear that it happened and had to keep powering through without laughing or if that just didn't the feed of the mic doesn't go to them, and maybe they just didn't hear it.
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It.
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They may not have the NAT sound from the field. I. There's no way they do, because I don't think. I don't think Scully himself could power through that.
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Yes. That's crazy. Lick my balls. And so no, I guess, would be the answer. No, you shouldn't have said that.
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Oops.
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Out loud. What a crazy, specific thing to say on a women's college softball broadcast. This next one's really fun, too. Isabella, have you been watching the French Open? I know you're our tennis girly.
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I actually have, but I was so soon. I'm sorry.
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I had to tell her about Naomi Osaka's.
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Yeah, I haven't. I. I haven't been as. I'm so sorry. I was so.
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That's all right. And like I've said before, you only have one set of eyeballs, and you. And you've got to use them how you can. And you've been really focused, and it's been working for the Knicks, so we can't possibly. But now that you've got some time to wait for the Western Conference finals to finish, you can lock back into the French Open, and maybe you'll see moments like this. So our tour. Jaya. Right. Is how we're saying his name. This was Sunday at the French Open. He was. He needed to take an emergency break, and. Which isn't usually allowed, is. They were going like, we can't. And then we heard why. Yeah. Do we know anything about that? No, He's. He has some stomach problems. Yeah, I did. They let him. They had to let him. You can't. He had stomach problems, and he was like, I'm sick. I'm going to. On the court. And I say yes. You should have said that out loud. You absolutely should have said that out loud because it's. Listen, bodies are weird. Crazy stuff happens. The French Open does not need you to shit yourself on tv. The last thing a prestigious tennis match needs at Roland Garros.
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Oh, my.
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Clay courts. Imagine seeing it on his leg and having to go, what is the. Oh, my God.
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Isabella, how does that work with clay quartz? I don't know very well, but I imagine the cleanup's not gonna go well.
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Exactly.
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You got, like, basically powder mixed with poop.
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Oh, God. Oh, God. So I think they let him do it. And, yes, he should have said that out loud. Advocate for yourselves. You've got to use as few words as possible to communicate the urgency of the situation, and I think he did exactly that. I am going to shit myself. We need to get me off the court. It's coming. It's coming. And I actually don't even have time to negotiate this with you. Can I go, please? The poopening is happening. Okay. Continuing on with. Should I have said this out loud? This is probably the. The biggest one of the weekend. Jackson Dart, quarterback for the New York Football Giants, took time out of his busy schedule, took time away from a team that a lot of people have a lot of hope for this season, a lot of positive vibes going into the season for the New York Football Giants. And Jackson Dart said, hold my beer. I've just gotta do this. He introduced President Trump at a rally at Rockland Community College in Suffern Succotash on Friday. Let's take a listen to Jackson Dart introducing Donald Trump. Nice. What's up?
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What's up?
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What's up? Yeah.
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Big Blue Nation. It's a pleasure to be here. I gotta start this off with a go, Big Blue. I'd love it if y' all will follow with me. Go, Big Blue.
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Go, Big Blue.
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Go, Big Blue. Go, Big Blue. What an honor. What a privilege it is to be here. And without further ado, I'm grateful, I'm honored. I'm pleasured. To introduce the 45th and 47th president.
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Jesus Christ.
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President Donald J. Trump.
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Please.
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I had to include the sloppy clip.
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Please let it play. And I'm proud to be 47.
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Yeah.
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The 45th and 47th. He also at first said, go, blig boo. He almost said blig boo. I. Speaking of boo. Tomato, tomato, tomato. Boo. What are you doing? I am honored. What was the second one? I am honored, grateful, privileged, and I am pleasured. Pleasured. Hey, big dog, let's take a knee. You are not pleasured. He even. You could tell. He, like, looks off and gives a little pause. I'm pleasured to introduce. That whole thing was so uncomfortable and so awkward that it's like, why? Why do it? Why do it at a time when I listen? You can have your political beliefs. Anybody can have their political beliefs. I think we can all agree that, like, more than any time in our lived experience, things are volatile in the political space. I think that goes without saying. People believe what they believe and argue about it all the time. Things are popping off. And so back in the day, what would happen in situations like that is you'd go, that's a little hot right now. Let's not turn the ball over. Over. Let's just avoid that because no one's going to notice that you didn't do it. Jackson Dart, if you were to turn this down, no one would go like, Jackson Dart didn't do it. You just don't do it. And then you don't have to deal with potential fallout. Because in an arena when things are so heated right now, likelihood of fallout high. So PR teams would usually step in and go, we're not doing anything political right now. Things are kind of, we're in a war that prices are going up, people are struggling to afford, and the president is saying he doesn't care about that. Citizens are being shot by secret police forces. It's like there's a lot going on, right? And so you can have voted for and believed in. You can be Republican, you can be whatever you want to be it. That is part of the issue. It's not even the part I'm talking about about the pr. The instinct to turn over the ball, metaphorically is concerning for a quarterback. The ability to not identify that the risk reward in this avenue will not pay off the ROI is not worth it. The audible you're calling is the wrong one. It's just not what I want from a franchise quarterback that we're trying to say. Sure, he plays in a way that's really tough to stay healthy and tough to have career longevity, but we like him. He's. He's good, he means well, he tries hard. It's just hard to go like, I'm excited about my quarterback when the quarterback just voluntarily does something that pisses off a lot of people he shares a locker room with. Now, to that point, linebacker Abdul Carter on Twitter posted the video and said, thought this was AI. What are we doing, man? Now, if you go look for that tweet, it's gone. Which I find really interesting because I did see a lot of reaction. I'm trying to look at less stuff online because the amount of bots that you can actually kind of see now is like, maybe I'll just protect what I've got up here instead of getting misinformed by whatever all of this is. But somebody. People were criticizing Abdul Carter for dividing the locker room. Abdul Carter, who was just reacting to some disbelief that he had that his quarterback out of nowhere at a time like this would go, I'm gonna go 10 toes down for the president at a rally. What president has ever had rallies before while in office? The 45th or 47th president. Only because it's not a thing you do unless you' but let's not get into it too much. So former Giants kicker Lawrence Tynes tweets, the locker room is a sacred place because it brings together everyone from all walks of life and beliefs for one common goal. Calling a teammate out publicly for his political views and to get attention is nasty work. He basically accused Abdul Carter of dividing the locker room himself by. By saying that he could not believe that Jackson Dart volunteered to introduce President Trump at a rally. So Abdul Carter says that he spoke to Dart. He said, Me and JD6 are good, which is really scary. J6 is. It's so close to accidentally writing J6.
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Oh, he's J6 having to do J. This man has adopted the nickname of
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J6 for, like, we hadn't noticed until now and now.
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Until right now.
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So JJ. He's a J6 or J6 and Big Blue. Me and J6 and Blig Boo. Me and JD6 are good. We spoke earlier. As men, y' all can keep your narratives.
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The men can capitalize.
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Yeah, we spoke as men. Y' all can keep your. Y' all narratives. So then, Isabella, guess who chimes in on this.
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Who?
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Your boy. Yes, that's right. Boomer Isabella's media beef, recent inductee into the Radio hall of Fame. I'm coming behind you, Boomer. Boomer Assisin says to put this out of Abdul Carter. This is him talking about Abdul Carter. To put this out like a child on social media is ridiculous. And then when I heard. Yeah, we spoke man to man. Yeah, there was only one man on that call, and that was Jackson Dart. Huh?
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What?
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What? I. I think. Ah. I don't want to scream. I don't want to scream. I don't want to go off the rails. And we're already at an hour, and so I do have to move us on. But I really think a lot of you are not understanding that this isn't a game for a lot of people. What's going on right now politically is very real for a lot of people. And they're treating it like, oh, I like chocolate, and you like vanilla. Can't we all get along? And I just. That's not tracking with what I'm seeing. It isn't chocolate or vanilla. And there is a reason that certain players would feel betrayed to their core by something like this happening. Not just to know this now about their teammates, but also to know that their teammate doesn't even care enough to just go, like, why would I do that? Why would I introduce. Why would I dip my toe into. Why would I Be put on camera praising how much this guy rules and how pleasured I am to bring him out at this rally when I don't have to, when I could just be secretly super into it and not piss off a bunch of people who I have to sort of lead as a group. Like, this isn't just Abdul Carter being pissy because he disagrees with your personal preference. This is Abdul Carter feeling like an administration that is attacking beliefs and values that this country was supposedly built on, being supported by a teammate that just doesn't seem to. That seems to think it's cool, that thinks it's like, sick. I. I could not believe hearing people react to that like it was Abdul Carter's fault.
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Yeah, that's crazy.
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Jamel Hill did a good job. She said. So Jackson Dart gets to publicly express his political beliefs, but Abdul Carter doesn't. If this is about locker room sanctity and leadership, is it a good idea for the face of the franchise to attend a political rally for a president that's considered to be hugely divisive? It's exactly it. Whether you're on side A or side B may be what matters to Abdul Carter, but isn't even what we're talking about. It's a divisive person. Why even throw your hat at in the ring? Why even. Unless it matters to you that much, in which case it is weird. J6 it is weird for it to matter to you that much right now in that way. Fair. Yeah. Yeah.
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Being shocked that your teammate Abdul Carter, who is young, black and Muslim, would have any sort of stake in this issue. Like, yeah, it's just an oblivious level.
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It is. It's an oblivious level that I would be fine with a quarterback being if he shut the fuck up about. It's like, you don't have to be an expert in everything, but, like, you do need to know the limits of what you do know. And like, I am not going to be accepting if we come to a point later, years down the line where people like a Jackson Dart, for example, let's say he were to come out and go, like, I didn't really understand what was going on with X, Y and Z politically. So I didn't know at the time I would never have stood with a president. If that's how I. Then your job is to know before you stand with the president. You can't just go like. Like, yes, of course I'll do it. What a booking. You gotta at some point realize, and Trump does this with a lot of things. He needs you More than you need him. He's counting on you and your fan base and you kind of running cover because you have positive. You're polling well and he's not. So at some point you've got to notice that, like he's using you and you're willingly being used. And something about that rubs people the wrong way. And I do not want to later hear you didn't understand the ways in which you were being used. Because if that's the case, you should have not participated in it. So I. The whole thing is a mess. It's a mess that he invited into the locker room. And I will be holding him responsible for not his teammates who feel some type of way in reaction to his actions. Insane. We are losing the plot more and more each day. Day. Technically, we're still in. Should I have said that out loud? I think the answer to this one was no. A pretty. A pretty strong no.
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Should not have said any of it out loud.
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There is.
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Should have rehearsed the numbers you were going to say. Maybe the sizes and colors in consecutive order.
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Gotta start out with a big blue here. Let's. I'd love if you could join me. It's like charisma. Negative. 0.0 Riz in this interaction. And I just. Aura farmed.
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None.
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None. 0. Aura farmed. Negative aura. You left aura behind at the podium.
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He's the shitty pro wrestler who goes out and the first thing he says is, it's great to be here in Knoxville, Tennessee. And holds it out for applause.
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Come on, you're in New York. It's the place that has always known who Trump is, who has not been surprised by any of the developments. They've seen them and experienced them. It's not a. It was just a stupid mistake. Giants PR needs to get their shit together. Respectfully. Because between this and the Epstein files thing, I'm not getting enough from them in terms of doing their jobs. They've got an exciting team and I keep talking about anything but the football of it. So get it together. New York football team.
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Scatterboo's entire off season.
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Oh, that's right. He doesn't believe in concussions.
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He doesn't believe in asthma.
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Great. Very cool. What we do have one more. Should I have said that out loud? And it does tie in. And we'll just hit it really quick because you can't bring the guy up, which Jackson Dart did, and not talk about the fact that. Fact that Donald Trump's son names his namesake is his father Donald Jr. Got married this past Weekend in the Bahamas. And Trump was asked on Thursday if he was going to go. Let's hear what he had to say.
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He'd like me to go, it's going to be just a small little private affair and I'm going to try and make it. I'm in the midst and said, you know, this is not good timing for me. I have a thing called Iran and other things. That's one I can't win on. If I do attend, I get killed. If I don't attend, I get killed. By the fake news. Of course, I'm talking about now. But he's been a very person who I've known for a long time and what they're gonna have a great marriage.
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Person you've known
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so his whole life. You could even say, I think I've known him since the day he was born.
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I'm glad she heard that right. Yeah, Isabella, you're hearing that, right.
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Okay.
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I think it's possible. God, I hate to do this. I think it's possible he was trying to refer to the woman that he's marrying. I think he was. It's possible he was saying he's got a very lovely wife. His brain probably forgot the word fiance because it ain't a wife. It's not great at thinking on its feet, that brain. And so instead it just goes, he's got a very person who I've known for a long time and hopefully they're. It's possible he's talking about.
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You don't get to give the President of the United States credit for what he might have wanted to say.
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It kills me to do it, but I do think that's possible. What isn't possible? Starting with he'd like me to go. Yeah, I bet he'd like that. I bet he'd like if I went to his wedding. That son of mine, he's always asking me to do stuff like go to his wedding and visit with my grandchildren. But it's like I got Iran to worry about, you know, the country I started a war with. And then the fact that he's thinking about hit. I can't win. If I go to the wedding, they'll be mad at me. If I don't go to the wedding, they'll be mad at me. Oh, poor victim President. Poor, poor victim. He can't win. He can't win. I guess he should just golf instead. Dead. I guess he'll just probably. Did he golf instead? I would not be shocked.
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I'm pretty sure.
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Maybe not because of the rain.
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But I think he was at bed iner this weekend.
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Just beautiful. Just beautiful. And, and, and I am pleasured to bring that audio to you. I am fully pleasured. Climaxing to bring that audio to you. Our president. That's. Should I have said that out loud? No.
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We all did
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hockey, y'. All. I don't. I can't fucking believe the Colorado Avalanche played in my goddamn face. I rooted for that team. They won the president's trophy. They had the best record in the regular season. They were so good.
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I was low key rooting for them too. I haven't watched a single state hockey. That's honest. I was just like, I like the way that team sounds.
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Yeah. No, they didn't give a shit, Isabella. They said, you want us to win? Watch a game one time. Because they were infuriating. I was mad at them. Like I knew and I barely know these guys. I've been watching them in the post season. I hate Vegas. Vegas are the current villains of the NHL for a number of reasons, it's worth saying. So this. The Vegas Golden Knights advance. They swept the Colorado Avalanche. The Avalanche were the favorite in the series and doesn't matter. They got swept. The Vegas Golden Knights are now going to the Stanley cup final where they will face either the Montreal Canadiens or the Carolina Hurricanes. We're still waiting on that series. We have nothing decisive to say about it yet, so we're kind of skipping it today. But the Golden Knights are advancing now. This is the fifth. Third time in their. Is it eight. Eight seasons? Nine seasons as a team. This is the third time they're making it to the finals. So there is an argument to be made that this is like the greatest expansion team that history, that sports has ever seen. That they come into the league and right away start making it far into the postseason and they've, you know, they've won a Stanley cup and now they've got another chance to. Again. There's also arguments. I've seen people that know a lot more about the in depth hockey draft, expansion draft, et cetera, that feel that Vegas got sort of a leg up that other expansion teams didn't necessarily have. They were able to pick from more players, more high quality players. Other teams weren't allowed to protect their better players in that expansion draft. There's arguments to be made. It's not going to be made here in casuals for the sake of you to know they are the villain. They're the villain right now in the league. They've got John Tortorella. We've talked about him a lot. They brought him in at the end of their season, and he has basically used his very unique brand of coaching that some people like, some people don't. But it has lit a fire under the ass of the Golden Knights, and they've been winning around the same time that Tortorella became their head coach. Carter Hart, a controversial goalie, came back from injury. I believe it was one game after Tortorella was named the head coach. And he's also been very good, whereas he was not very good before that. And he's also got. I've got my own issues with Carter Hart that I. That I dance around talking about because I really don't want to get into it. I don't like him. And everyone else is able to make their own decisions about that. I read testimony and coverage of that trial, the Hockey Canada trial, and I've got my opinion. And so I hate the Knights. And they now swept Colorado. Dan's mom, my future mother in law, at some point, we are gonna get married at some point. She is a Avalanche fan. That's the only connection I really have to this team. And yet I still was rooting for them. So hard to watch them sort of disintegrate was very frustrating and pretty confusing. But Vegas is just clicking. They're absolutely clicking. Isabella. Vegas has a player named Mitch Marner. This is his 10th season. He played the first nine. These numbers are off the top of my head, so if they're wrong, just Google it. They're close. The first nine he played with the Toronto Maple Leafs. And the knock on him repeatedly was like, he just does nothing in the postseason. He cannot get it done. Mitch Marner. Oh, my God, when is he going to get it done? And now in Vegas, his first year away from that team, his first year with Vegas, and he's like, crushing it.
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Potential playoff mvp.
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Yeah, he's absolutely crushing it. And I was telling this to Dan last night, and Dan said, good for him. He unlocked something. He's pooping. And I thought that was so funny, that the connection that Dan made to Mitch Marner is when you're constipated and nothing will come out and then something clicks, you figure it out, and now you're pooping.
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But I don't like John Tortorella being the laxative here. Like, he shouldn't get credit for this. I don't like the guy. He's not the one that should make the poop.
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People do like him. Him. Some people do like him. He's just. I don't know that his brand of coaching is as sustainable as you would want it to be. So he kind. And what we have to remind you is he is not on contract. He's not under contract after the Stanley Cup. So he's about to coach in the Stanley cup final. Win or lose. We don't know if he's their coach next year. He does not have an existing deal. And Vegas is also being weird about the coach they fired who they are still paying. Bruce. Bruce Cassidy, who won them their cup up. They're not letting him interview at other teams and I saw somebody suggest that that's because they're trying to. They don't know what's going to happen with their coach at the end of the season. So they don't want to help other people get their coaching carousel start to be figured out because then they won't. They'll be behind on the timeline of that.
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So they're going to try to bring him back.
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I don't know. I put nothing past this team. They're. They're the stuff they've done with their salary cap. I'm like the. That doesn't seem allowed. It feels like you should be in trouble for that. So I don't know. Vegas kind of operates under their own wild rules, but they are the villain now. Another thing I hate about them that other people probably don't care enough about. They've got sparkly jerseys and I hate it. I hate it.
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Cuz they're Golden Knights.
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Yeah. And they have this type of sparkle that is reminiscent of like your aunt's sweater that she would hug you with when you were a kid at a family function. And it was itchy. It was like that kind of itchy. Sharp. It's just there. I hate them. And thank you for letting me speak my truth here because I hate them. I think they look so cheap and yucky and even on two of two, a couple that we've talked about a ton of times on this podcast. Bam Adebayo and Asia Wilson, they were. They did that mic'd up court at the rink watching one of the games and they were wearing these Golden Knights jerseys. And I just was like, I hate, hate.
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Those are really sparkly, aren't they? They're way sparklier than I imagined.
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It's. You don't notice it until it's close up on the broadcast. And then you go like, I don't. I like them trying new stuff. And Vegas does try a lot of new stuff. Isabella. They have cheerleaders in the like on the stairs, in the crowd. Like, they do a lot of, like, fire hazard. Yeah, they do a lot of, like, check us out. We're Vegas. We do all this weird stuff. And look, I don't care. I love bring people in. Grow the game. It doesn't matter of me. But the jerseys, I just don't like. And this Bam Adebayo one kind of was the center of a controversy because Bam is apparently a Florida Panthers fan. Now, I don't acknowledge that. I think that's disgusting. But to each his own. And so after he was seen at the game, he put out this video trying to explain to Panthers fans, like, to stop jumping down his throat. Do we have this audio? Listen to what he says.
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So we just went to a nice game. I just want everybody to know it's still. I just couldn't wear it in there because I was with somebody. But y' all know what it is.
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Okay, first of all, with somebody.
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Yeah.
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Asia Wilson. Let's just call. We don't have to. I was with somebody. She plays for Vegas. So I. It's. That's the connection. But it's to say, like, I was only doing it because I was with somebody. Then he holds up a Panthers, I think a jersey. It could be a sweatshirt. Hard to tell. It's in the plastic you would buy it in. It's brand new. And he goes, I always rep the Panthers. You know what it is? It's the Panthers holding it up, still in the bag. Did you just buy that?
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What are you.
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You're like, look, this is from when I was 12. I've always loved. That is from five minutes ago. It's not good. It's not. Does not serve well as a receipt of your fandom. Bam. It's. Why is it still in the plastic?
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Where'd you buy. He was in, like. Where did the man find a fresh Florida Panthers jersey in Vegas?
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Did they have an NHL store? Did he. Maybe. I have no idea. Maybe he said, I'll only wear that jersey if you guys also provide me a brand new Florida pant. I have no clue. It was just such a weird defense to go see. I've always been a fan. Tag still on it.
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Three points. You start making demands of hockey teams.
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I know. All of a sudden he thinks he's the better basketball player in the relationship police. All right, so that's what's happening in hockey. We've caught you up on basketball. We went through the Jackson Dart of it all. Can we please talk softball now?
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Hell, yeah.
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Okay, so this past Weekend was the super regional, which is where they decide the final eight teams that make it into the Women's College Softball World Series, which kicks off today, Thursday at noon. Six of the eight of the top eight seeds. So Isabella, if they rank them right, which they do, six of the top eight made it through, but two upsets happened. So two of the top eight seeds did not make it through and the lower seeds made it instead. One of them was a really eventful series that you may have seen a little bit of online. This kind of blew up and I'm gonna let Brady take that one and tell you the story of it. But to give a little context, the away team, so the lower seed travels to the home. Were they all at the same home of the teams?
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Yeah. Super regional goes to the. The highest seed hosts it.
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Right. So it's a three game series over the course of three days, played consecutively. And the winner of the series gets into the, into the World Series. So the one that Brady's going to tell us about was Texas Tech playing number three seed. It was 11 seed Texas Tech against number three seed Florida. So they were playing at Florida.
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Yeah. So national, national number 11 against national number three. And we've had a lot of discussion about Texas Tech and their star Nyjah Kennedy in the past. Nigel may not even be the best player on this team anymore. This team's was pretty great last week. They had crazy game on their own. They were down eight nothing to Ole Miss with like two outs in the seventh. So one out, they come back and win this game already on a crazy run. They're in Florida at Gainesville. This game on Sunday, the third game was just nuts right out of the gate. It's seven, seven after two innings. You just got home runs flying out of the park. You have Texas Tech swapping their pitchers in and out constantly.
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Crazy.
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Because in softball, you know, pitchers play other positions and you can come in, you don't need as long to like warm up your arm as you do for baseball. You can go like day after day after day.
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But it's just so strange. They can go like in the fourth inning we took out our pitcher and then in the sixth inning we put that girl back in at pitcher. And then in the seventh inning, like if they can just kind of, oh
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wow, do it arbitrary thing. We're just used to not being able to do because of baseball. There's nothing anything wrong with it.
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True.
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So this game in to set it up. Mia Williams is the star hitter for Texas Tech. She leads the Team in home runs, RBIs, everything. She is a transfer from Florida. She is also the daughter and this name will ring to every millennial. She is the daughter of White Chocolate. Jason Williams, former Florida basketball player, went on to play for Google.
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Jason Williams, White Chocolate. He was a legend at Florida.
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Legend at Florida. Legend. In high school, he was Randy Moss's teammate on a high school in West Virginia. They were making mixtapes. They had like the coolest friends.
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Starting point guard for the Heat.
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Yeah, he was the Kings and the Heat. This was also the era of like the N1 mixtapes. And this man was throwing behind the back passes and alley oops and crossing.
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He got drafted high. Didn't they take him like top 10?
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I think.
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Yeah, I think he was 8. 8.
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So. Mia Williams is his daughter. In her this series, her return against Florida that she had previously played for before transferring to Texas Tech, she got beaned five times in.
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Five times they hit her with. Hit with the.
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They hit her with a.
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While she was at bat. She got hit five times, five times
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including just like leading off game three.
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Right. So game three. Remember how he told you it was like 77 right away? Game three starts, first pitch of the game, they hit her and it's the fifth time she's been hit in this series. And then after that, her team just scored a bunch. And then you're like, oh yeah, that set the tone. And then they respond, Florida scores a bunch. And you're like, oh, we got a. Like things were bubbling under coming out
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of the dugout after that first hit by pitch. Like Texas Tech players were popping out of the dugout. They were ready to go. Jason Williams is in the crowd. He's after assert after one home run. He's yelling down into the Florida dugout from the crowd, doing the Gator chomp like back at them. There was a report at one point like somebody threw something at him and, and like his other child and he went after a fan. He got escorted out of the game
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and brought back crazy.
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Florida's coach ends up getting ejected for arguing balls and strikes in the fifth inning. Side note to this, this wearing shorts. And when you're getting ejected, it's really hard to take you seriously wearing shorts. I'm not used to managers and coaches.
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Were they like short shorts? What are those like regular shorts, but
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it just gives like beer league vibes. Like, I don't know why.
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This give you the same logic you gave me on swapping the pictures out? There's nothing inherently wrong with shorts. It's Just. You're not used to seeing.
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I'm not used to.
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I'd rather that than them wear the uniform the girls are wearing.
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Jason Williams came out after the game talking to the Gainesville paper, and he accused Florida's coach of getting. Getting ejected from that game just so that he wouldn't have to face his daughter in the handshake line. And then, lo and behold, this game ends. It's a run rule. It's 16, 7.
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They mercy them, Isabella. They beat them so bad, they ended the game early.
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And Florida did not come out to shake their hand after the game. Florida did not line up for, like, the courtesy handshake.
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Now, two. There's two the schools of thought on this. Number one would say you always do the handshake line. Obviously, it is a sign of respect. It's a game. It's how you leave it all on the field, and you just show respect for each other and you show grace in the face of defeat. And the other school of thought is that these teams were as close to fighting each other in an allout brawl as you get. And if they met at the field and had to shake each other's hands, something might have popped off. So I. I tend to think you shake hands, you grow up, you put on a brave face. I say that I probably would be crying. I was thinking about this whenever I watch softball and I see one of the girls will be crying in the line, and I go, I'd like to think that wouldn't be me, but that would absolutely be me. You just can't help it. It happens. And you go, like, please ignore that I'm sobbing. I'm being very strong, but I'd be sobbing in the line. But you go to the line, you shake hands, and you move on from the game. And instead they were like, nah, we're not doing that. Their coach had already gotten kicked out, and fans from either side are yelling at each other. It's further complicated by the fact that White Chocolate went to Florida. So people in Florida like him. And he's been like, even as early as. As recent as this season, he's been going to Florida basketball games. And so it's weird to see him, like, yelling at Florida. But then other people say, like, yeah, because his daughter got hit, hit five times, they were clearly targeting her. So there were a lot of heated opinions about this online. I saw somebody even zoom in on footage to try to prove that Rothrock, who was the pitcher on the mound for Florida that hit Mia with the first pitch that her father was in the crowd doing the suck it gesture. He was, he kept doing suck it, you know, with your hands. Not appropriate and that. Very inappropriate. But I have no confirmation that that's her dad. I don't know. And so I just was like, yo, people are getting really upset about this. But there was like a lot of, yeah, it was intense.
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And of course, this is a Holly Row game. So Holly's got all the post game interviews with, with Nigel Kennedy and Mia Williams, and they're just like, we're ready to go. Like, my Mia's like, my teammates had my back. This game. We were ready for anything. Like, man, this was like possibly the most intense women's college World Series or super regional game I've ever seen. And like we were like an inch from this being an all out melee.
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I know.
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Ready to go.
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It was absurd. So Texas Tech moves on and they will play in the first game of the World Series, which, like I said, is today at noon. Now, who they're playing against is Mississippi State. And Mississippi State was unranked going into the super regional and they played. And the number three ranked powerhouse, Oklahoma, Oklahoma has won, what is it, four of the last five championship games. They are a, they are known. Isabella. Oklahoma is like a softball school. It's like they're number one. And they were beat by this unranked team, Mississippi State. So Mississippi State has never been to the World Series ever. And they're playing against a team that always goes, I think they were in like a nine year streak of making it to the World Series. The first game, Mississippi State wins 11 to nine. They were down six two in the fourth. Then they, they tied it up at six. And then like in the very next half inning, they're behind again. Nine, six. And then they rally from behind and they score five runs in the seventh to stun Oklahoma at home. Nobody thought this was gonna happen. The Sooners had a bunch of errors in that game. It was not their best game. Then game two, not so good for Mississippi State. Oklahoma wins seven to one. It was not their bet. They just couldn't get anything going. They couldn't score any runs. They scored that one run. They got a little late in the game. It was not their best. Then we go to the third game. Game, game three. Okay. And what a game it was. They shut them out. Final score, 6 nothing. Mississippi State Bulldogs beat Oklahoma on their home field. That's the first time they've been shut out on home field in over 11 years. An incredible pitching performance from Delaney Everett, she had pitched 13 and a third innings all season prior to Sunday. She didn't. Had not. She'd been hurt. I think she hadn't played a lot. And they, they put it on her and. And she rose to the occasion. And it was their first start. Absolutely incredible performance to blank a team like that. Absurd and crazy. And here's another thing I like about them. So I've been digging in on Mississippi State to see like, is what is it that is working for them. And whereas Texas Tech, Brady, their vibe is kind of like. Like we used the transfer portal to bring in all of these players to create this powerhouse team that is poised to take down the former powerhouses. Mississippi State is like vibes. It seems like the power of friendship. It feels like this is just a team that. To hear any of the girls on the team talk about it, they're like, I've never gelled with a team like this. We are clicking. Everybody knows what they have to do and everybody is doing it. And then they've got broccoli guy. So there's this guy, his name is Jim Stewart Allen, and he was caught on the broadcast holding broccoli, like big stalks of broccoli and dancing in a women's sports. Everybody watches women's sports T shirt. He was. This was at the weekend. What's the weekend before? Super regionals. What's it called? Okay, great. Just regular old regionals. Medium sized regionals. And he was there and they. I guess this is a thing he's done before. One time in like 2020, he went viral for dancing with a potato at the. One of those potato bowls.
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Oh, I see him.
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The Idaho Potato Bowl. He went viral for that. So this is the thing he does. He just like goes to games and is supportive, but is just kind of a. He loves good vibes and friendship. He thinks sometimes sports get too serious. He has described broccoli as nature's pom pom. Oh, that's so perfectly accurate to me. And he also said it's very Pacific Northwesty. So he just likes to bring good vibes. The Mississippi State is the first team that has sort of adopted his thing and brought it to the team. So they had on their bench a bunch of broccoli and like when somebody would get a hit, they would like wave the broccoli around. Like they've sort of made it their rallying cry in their graphics announcing their wins. They've got like broccoli in the graphics. It's just like a fun reminder that like, this is about Being fun and having fun. And you can also be good while having fun. Maybe we don't have to take it so seriously and be so mad all the time. And so I love that. I love that they've got like a. Just a team that is. I don't know, they seem like they really like each other and this feels like a vibe that you could root for Isabella. So I'm hoping in this game, that is tomorrow or today to listeners at noon, these two teams are going to play each other. That's the only thing that kind of sucks. It is double elimination. So it is possible that one of them can lose and still make it, but it's a harder path. And I, I hate that they're facing off right away against each other. But I also think what a cool matchup to see these two teams that kind of shocked everybody and just to like, see how it goes. They also have Mississippi State. Does they have a pitcher named Paja Gould? She's a senior. She transferred from Chattanooga and she was a recipient of the final golden ticket from the AUSL this year. Remember we talked about that being the thing they. The professional league comes around and gives out. She got it. And everybody loves her. Apparently she's short. She doesn't throw the ball fast, but it moves. It's got crazy movement on it. If you believe her Instagram comment section, she is the, I guess, Greg Maddox of softball. She's very, very good and people are excited about it. So they have a fun team and that's who I think I'm gonna be rooting for because I like Broccoli guy
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and I like vibes.
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I love Vibes. They just seem like they're having fun and they like rallied to come from behind to, to beat this team in a way that nobody saw coming. So I love that. I think it's a great story. Two great stories at a super regional. So we will all be tuned in. The College World Series occurs over the next. I think it goes Thursday to Monday and then it'll be two. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday are the three games. Three days of the three game series for the final. Does that sound right? Because they do.
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It sounds right, but I can't lock into.
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I don't have the. If Chris were here, he would tell you. If Chris were here, he'd tell you what to watch and how to watch it. But it's. This is just a really fun. You can have paid attention to zero college softball all year. Tune in for this because it's awesome, it's exciting and, And These women are great. Also, I didn't even mention Mississippi State's head coach was a star at Oklahoma. So they also had that connection of, like, she was coaching against the team that made her the player that she was, Samantha Ricketts. And. And it just was a great series, and I'm excited to see where this goes. Pretty cool softball, huh? Huh?
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Pretty cool.
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Pretty cool. Okay, let's take a quick break, and when we come back, we got a couple things to really depress you. We got some AI stuff that I just. An AI segment. And no, it's not Allen Iverson, unfortunately. So. Yeah, I know. We're going to take a quick break. This is Casuals, and we'll be right back. Okay. I have to tell you, I was just looking on ebay, where I go
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for all kinds of things I love.
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And there it was, that hologram trail trading card. One of the rarest. The last one I needed for my set. Shiny like the designer handbag of my dreams. One of a kind. Ebay had it.
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And now everyone's asking, ooh, where'd you
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get your windshield wipers?
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Ebay has all the parts that fit my car.
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Millions of finds, each with a story. EBay, things people love.
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plan options available, taxes and fees extra. See full terms@mintmobile.com okay. Welcome back to Casuals. The sports podcast gets you caught up in everything happening in sports. We've got a Little fun segment here. It's really not that fun as setting it up. I realize it's really not that fun. But, you know, AI, it's here or whatever and it's kind of leaking into everything. And I think that's probably going to keep happening. I've started to take up the mantle of what's the opposite of artificial intelligence. And that's human stupidity. And I think I'm gonna start leaning into that. I think I'm gonna start embracing moments of true human stupidity so that we can counteract AI. Because also I feel like we're using the word I intelligence incorrectly. These things as of right now, not that smart. They're having a hard time in ways. And so I gathered a couple of AI stories that either made me want to jump. Jump somewhere that made me really scared or that made me laugh. We'll end it on one. I think that makes me laugh. I mean, crazy. But like, let's go ahead and start with the scary one. So Sam Altman, we know who that is, right? He's the CEO, I assume of. Is it open AI? Which one is he?
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C
The open AI.
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Cool. So Sam Altman was doing a. I don't know. He was talking somewhere. Let's take a listen to what he said. He sees the future of AI being like.
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C
See a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter and use it for whatever they want to use it for.
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You see a future where we have to buy intelligence from you on a meter.
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Ew.
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Which if you don't hear all the different ways, that. That's terrifying. That's like saying they're putting a premium on. On knowledge and then they're gonna sell it back to you. Comparing it to water, also crazy. I don't think that that should necessarily be sold back to us. Maybe. Maybe instead you could stop trying to sell us stuff because you also refuse to pay anybody. Where's anyone getting the money to buy the intelligence from you on a meter? Have you considered how this will affect anybody other than you? The guy in charge. Selling us back the human capability on a meter.
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Do you think it'll take coins?
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Don't forget that all of this intelligence is also going to make us run out of the water too.
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That is right. Sorry. Yeah. I forgot to even mention.
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So that one's also going to go.
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It just feels like these six people are in charge of the future of humanity. And I didn't vote for any of them. When do we get to decide who where do they get to back themselves into power this way? It's crazy. But this is a sports podcast so let me move on to the next really, really bleak and terrifying thing in AI that I saw this week. So Isabella, go ahead and click on that link. This is a trend. This is a trend I saw amongst young influencers of different types. Sky Jackson was one of them. She used to be, I believe on, she was like an actress on Disney I think. But she's also, I think deep in a, in an AI hole that I don't even, I can't even begin to understand from what I hear. But there's also Piper Raquel who was a young child influencer who has now become a little bit older. So you can imagine the type of content that she may be pushed in towards making. But these influencers are participating in a trend where they upload to their social media accounts an AI generated photo of what they would look like if they were, let's just say from a different tax bracket and working a minimum wage job. So it's just these like young girls known for being famous, beautiful, young and very online laughing about how weird they would look if they had to work at Walmart. And I bumped into this, this somebody was complaining about the normalization of the use of AI and sure, I'm with you on that but this, I had to sit with this for a little bit that you are cosplaying and then sharing with your followers.
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This is so weird what it would
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be like if you had to work a job that does not pay well and is hard and it's just weird.
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It was one of them captioned it, okay, Walmart Eric, what I this made
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me feel so scared. Like what do you mean you're not noticing how like deeply, deeply out of touch this is not just the AI of it, but to use the water guzzling program to generate a picture of what your life would look like if it was more like the people that followed you at a time when people are already criticizing influencers for like posting about the stuff that they get when other people can't afford. It's just, I don't know man, I did not like this.
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Yeah, I don't like that either.
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This one's too dystopian. Can we counteract?
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Yes, let's counteract it with maybe the funniest thing I bumped into recently on sports Internet. Now you may have seen this post. I had taken a while to actually click and listen to it, but I guess there are sometimes a fully AI generated content videos on YouTube that just try to run through headlines in WWE and discuss them. It's actually an issue that's kind of personally close to me because I lost a friend who got duped by. She was like, I'm gonna make AI slop. AI generated slop on YouTube and make passive income. And I was like, that's not. You're the. I'm the wrong person to talk to about this. This is offensive to like literally what I do for a living. But anyway, anyway, these are just like fully AI generated videos talking about wwe. Now I. I saw the caption was, listen to this AI generation try to pronounce and stumble over the acronym wwe. And I was like, this must be really funny. I can imagine the way it would like. It probably must just try to. It must say like wwe. It must go like wwe. And then we laugh like, haha, stupid robot. That is so not what it does. And what it does do. Brady, how long was the original clip?
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Clip? It was like three minutes.
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It goes on for so long that we've had to cut it. Okay, but this is an AI generated WWE video trying to pronounce the word. Kind of crucial. The acronym wwe.
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Do you feel like you have to be there?
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That's the question.
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C
And for a lot of people, the answer this year seems to be not quite. The show will happen. The stadium will likely fill up one way or another.
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C
What?
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A
I don't know, bro. You tell me. What? What?
- [107:57]
B
What?
- [107:58]
A
It keeps going. It does not get any closer. It sounds like it's asking. It does not move on to the next. You'd think at some point it would. It's broken. You'd think at some point it would go like moving on to the next word. Whatever I did is over next word. But no, it changed. Just keeps trying. And then what really freaked me out is if you have the wherewithal to stick with the clip and keep listening to devolves into. And we're not going to play the whole thing. It goes on for way too long. It's very uncomfortable. It devolves into mouth noises.
- [108:34]
B
Oh God.
- [108:36]
A
An AI doesn't have a mouth. So what the fuck is actually happening here? Play the clip.
- [108:55]
B
Ew.
- [108:57]
C
Like, It makes me feel really, really good about. Like maybe the robots aren't coming to kill you.
- [109:13]
B
So disturbing.
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A
I hate this segment. I hate it. At one point you hear it go. I'm like, is it sighing at me? You're the one who can't pronounce W W e, you dipshit. What are you talking about? I fucking. Oh, my God. It haunts my nightmares. How is that real? How does that get posted? The fuck.
- [109:42]
B
No one's. No, that's the creepiest part is when he goes.
- [109:51]
A
Also it tossed in a. Like. It went like. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. It's so weird. Oh, God.
- [110:02]
C
Huge match for in Italy this weekend.
- [110:07]
A
Oh, my God.
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B
Brutal.
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A
That's the. That's the end. There's one more. There's one more. I just have to give an honorable mention to. We've mentioned Darren Revelle here before on this podcast in the way he tweets and how it's just a mess. He's just. He's like a sports business guy, but sometimes he's just a little out of touch with stuff. And I saw him retweet some random fans. AI generated tribute to Kyle Busch, who I told you we tragically lost. This is. But it was the. So Kyle raced for the. For M and Ms. That was like his main sponsor, an M&M's hat and, you know, the M&M's car or whatever. And it's just the four. Is it four humanoid Eminem mascots like standing AI generated standing around a puddle that has a reflection of Kyle Busch in it as it rains. And the sexy green one cries. And I. He said, like, this is such a touching, moving tribute. And I was like, I don't.
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B
That's so weird.
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A
I don't think. But if you're into that sort of thing and you want to watch the mascots of the candy company mourn a racer that we lost too young, you can check that out. AI made that for you and Darren Revelle tweeted it, so go find it there. Okay. This has to be the end of the podcast because it's been too long. There is some stuff we didn't get to. We do this every week and I finally decided. I think we make a segment segment where we go stuff we didn't get to. But we did see, but we just didn't have time for. Okay, so I'm going to run through those now. Hit it. Number one, Josh Jacobs. This one. Listen. He was arrested on Tuesday on five charges for a horrific domestic violence incident, including domestic abuse, strangulation, suffocation. At the time of recording. We don't know enough about what is happening there. We're just not going to. That sucks. I'm sure we'll talk about it. It. We're not ready to do that today. So not happening. US Soccer announcing their 26 man roster for the 2026 World cup on Tuesday. I'm sure it's full of. Full of good boys. We're not going to talk about it because it's nothing really that surprising. I guess Diego Luna was kind of the big snub. He's been playing well. They were using him in all of their marketing materials and then he just didn't make it to the team.
- [112:24]
C
But again, I still buy his jersey on fanatics.
- [112:26]
A
Whatever. I just don't. I. We'll talk. We'll talk plenty about their roster then. And I just need to be reminded how to say Christian's last name a couple times before the World cup gets here. Okay.
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B
Pisic.
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A
Pisic.
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C
Pulisic.
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A
Poo. Lis.
- [112:41]
C
Pulisic.
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A
Pulisic. Great. Not going to talk about him though. Also not going to talk about the Houston Astros. I'm so sorry that three of their pitchers combined on Wednesday to throw baseball's first no hitter since 2024. One of them, Alimber Santa, was on his major league debut. Very impressive, very cool. But I don't Combined no hitters. Controversial opinion. I don't recognize those.
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B
I don't think that counts either. Brady.
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A
I love, I love that.
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C
So anti teamwork.
- [113:15]
B
The whole premise of a node is so exciting is that it's one single person who's pitching this whole game and
- [113:21]
C
yeah, but if you can't make it past six innings, teammates pick you up. Zero hits is zero hits. You're shutting down.
- [113:26]
B
The whole team insisted no hitter. This is not what we're talking about here.
- [113:31]
A
Yeah, we can't. It's. We're not getting together as a team. Now listen, you're talking to a lady who on her fridge has a clipping from a newspaper from the Natural West Daily News bragging about my combined no hitter from I think my U12 league when we beat Blackstone. But the reason it's up there is because not only did we combine for a no hitter. Me, Kerry Kwazak in a minute, a Goldfarb. But also I think I was like three for four or two for three at the plate. I did a lot. I did a lot in that game. I was pretty impressed with myself. But a combined no hitter, that's nothing. It doesn't mean anything. It's got to be one guy. So we're not going to talk about it. We're also not going to talk about I saw a story that Robert Sala, the new head coach of the Tennessee Titans made it a top priority to remove all seed oils from the team facility and that the players appreciated it. We're not going to talk about that because I don't know what's going on there. Does anybody have any insight into seed oils? Are they.
- [114:24]
C
I would, I would have been like upgrade the run game.
- [114:27]
A
Yeah. I wouldn't have made a top priority for certain. But I don't. I hear, I'm hearing a lot about seed oils and it kind of feels like snake oil in a type of way, you know, where it's like, is it really that. Are they really that bad for you?
- [114:39]
B
I don't know.
- [114:40]
C
American Hearty association says no.
- [114:42]
A
Oh, all right.
- [114:44]
B
Well, there you go.
- [114:44]
A
Go. What does RFK say in his jeans doing pull ups?
- [114:48]
C
He says, yes, they're bad.
- [114:50]
A
Yes, they're bad. So. All right, well, we're not going to talk about it. That's why. Because I don't. I think this feels like much ado about nothing. I miss the days when it was just every other week we decided eggs were good or eggs were bad. Yeah, this is too difficult. I don't know. Seed oils are in everything. What do you want me to do? What do you want me to do?
- [115:05]
C
Olive oil's got too low of a burn point. Can't win.
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A
Olive oil, not a seed oil, right?
- [115:12]
C
No.
- [115:12]
A
Right.
- [115:12]
C
But seed oils have a higher burn point. That's why you fry things in them. That's why you fry things in peanut oil.
- [115:16]
A
Pretty. We're not talking about it.
- [115:17]
C
Oh, right. My bad.
- [115:19]
A
We're also not talking about Kendall George who is the number 13 prospect of the Dodgers who I guess severely injured his knee on Monday while avoiding the affiliate Tulsa Drillers bat dog after scoring a run. So he's down in the. Are they double A or aaa?
- [115:36]
C
Believe that's double.
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A
A minor league affiliate of the Dodgers. This is a, a, a top prospect for that team. As if they need them. As if they need them. But he's a top prospect and I guess he hurt himself trying the, the bat dog got in the way. Isabelle, are you familiar with the concept of a bat dog?
- [115:54]
B
No, I don't think so.
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A
They send the dog out to get the bat from the field and to bring it back to the dugout. And they're like highly trained. I, it's, it's a cute little shtick that a lot of minor league teams do. But in this situation, I guess that dog I would blame the trainer probably got in the way of a player and the player trying to Jump out of the way? Did something do his knee? But we're not going to talk about that because dogs don't do wrong stuff here.
- [116:21]
C
So we don't have one job. That job was to fetch a stick.
- [116:23]
A
And did he do.
- [116:23]
C
It's a job to get out of his way.
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A
That's right. Like we don't acknowledge dogs wrongdoing. Maybe, but I would need to be presented with more evidence. I don't know this Kendall George at all, so. And we're also not going to talk about Joe Missoula. Joe Missoula, the Celtics coach, was asked back in March about potentially winning coach of the Year, and he said, quote, I don't need it. I think it's a stupid award. And he won that stupid award on Tuesday. But if he thinks it's stupid, then so do we, and we're not going to talk about it. So apologies to Joe Missoula. Those are all the things we're not getting.
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C
You think Joe Missoula brushes his teeth? I think that's toothpaste. Straight into the mouth. Mouth.
- [116:58]
A
I think he's got a powdered toothpaste.
- [117:01]
C
I think he uses toothpaste but doesn't use a brush and just goes like full fist onto each tooth with his hand.
- [117:07]
A
Yeah, that makes sense. Again, how I brush my dog's teeth. Or he's one of those guys that's like, I use a water pick. And you're like, okay, well, that's crazy.
- [117:15]
B
Okay, I love a water.
- [117:17]
A
Me too. But I haven't really used one since I had braces. They were clutch when I had braces.
- [117:21]
C
No, Jesus didn't have a water pick. Joe Mazula is not going to use a water pick.
- [117:25]
A
You don't know Jesus. We're not going to talk about it. Jesus might have had a water pick. Just let the record reflect he turned that water pick into a wine pick. And now I'm back in. Guys, that's it. That's it for the podcast. And boy, didn't we get to so much. Don't forget to send us your favorite sports movie. And why? Just do that. Just do it. It's going to be funny and fun and we need all the answers. If you got a weird one, I love that, send it over and maybe we'll use it. If you want to ask us or talk to us about anything else, don't forget our email casuals with Katie nolan gmail.com our voicemail 646-801-0043 on IG and Tik Tok. We are at Casuals Casuals, the podcast. I've reached my word limit. My AI is going to power down. And we'll see you back here next week. We love you. We mean it. Bye.
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C
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