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Casuals with Katie Nolan
Buzzer Beaters, Tiger Woods, and Hitting Our National Jelly Roll Limit
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Hello! It’s the podcast that was only $300 million away from saving the Connecticut Sun. Today, Katie and the Casualties take a look at a week full of sports headlines that AREN’T April Fools jokes, but might as well be - are the Golden Knights really hiring John Tortorella with 8 games left in the season? Did Tortorella really try to spear a fan with a hockey stick between panes of glass? Is the Phillies third baseman really suing his parents? Did LSU football just sign a 26-year-old rapper? Is Donald Trump really trying to move Madison Square Garden? Did Dana White… whatever?Then Katie and the team get into March Madness and the insanity of UConn’s buzzer beater, from the Duke hometown call to the UConn women’s team’s reaction, where the shot ranks on Chris’ list of all-time March buzzer beaters, whether the UNC men are getting a new coach, whether the LSU women are losing one, the Olympics banning transgender athletes for 2028 and Bob Costas genuinely thinking he’s the voice of ...
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That's magnificent.
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What a moment.
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What a strike.
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See who makes their case to join the roster to represent the Stars and
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Stripes as the road to the World cup continues.
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USA versus Portugal. Tuesday, March 31st at 6:00pm Eastern live on TNT and HBO.
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Max.
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Hey, Isabella, did you hear that 12 tons of KitKat bars that were shaped like F1 cars. Okay. Were stolen during transit in Europe.
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I want some.
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I know. 12 tons. 413,793 units of chocolate on the way.
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Say that number again.
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413,793 units.
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Okay.
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So that many chocolate bars? It's on his way from Italy to Poland and they stole them.
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And do they know who stole it?
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Not that they're saying. They're keeping it very close to the vest.
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Okay. Sounds yummy.
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Nice.
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That's a yummy steal, right?
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Good. Next time, drive that truck into my mouth. Right into my mouth. Let's do a podcast. This episode is presented by gmc. We are professional grade. Hello. Wow. Voice cracked on that one. And welcome to Casuals, the sports podcast that doesn't care what you know. It's okay. It's not about that. Come sit down. We're talking about sports. I'm Katie Nolan, your fearless host, joined today by the Casualties, the production crew here at SiriusXM. We have Isabella, our sports newbie.
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Hi.
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And we're still calling you that. Yes. Yeah, that's fine. All right. Chris, our master editor.
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Hi.
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And I didn't ask. Are you okay with that, Chris?
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Yeah, of course.
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Fantastic.
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Sounds pretty cool.
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Thank you. And then Brady.
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Very okay with that.
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Okay, cool.
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Cuz there isn't a title cuz famously you'll remember it used to be guy who knows all the stuff. And that was too much pressure for you, I think.
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Just prove that one quickly.
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It was a little too. A little too much pressure. Our email, if you want to reach us casuals@katiengmail.com. our voicemail 6468010043 on IG and Tik Tok, we are at Casuals, the podcast. Lots to talk about today. Lots happened in sports over the weekend. We're going to get to all of it. We've got an all time buzzer beater in the men's March Madness tournament. We've got great news in the nwsl, but then also some sad news for the wnba. Tiger woods is Tiger Woodzing and a little bit of baseball in there today. But we do have Sarah Wilson, AKA Swilly from John Boy. She's our guest for the episode later in the week. So we're gonna put off a little bit of baseball. I know things are very exciting and there's a lot to talk about with abs and stuff. I think we'll get to most of that in the episode that's coming later in the week. For today, let's stick to this stuff and we'll start off with a yap. Today's yap. This audio is being released on March 31, so it still holds true that it is not yet April Fool's Day. There were a couple of headlines I bumped into over the weekend that had me checking the calendar because, you know, we reached that time of the year where you see a story and you go, what? And then your brain goes, hey buddy, check the calendar. It's probably April 1st. That happened to me like three different times this weekend. So I figured we would compile a bunch of headlines, more than three to go through to remind you that no, these are not April Fool's jokes. So if you're listening to this, these are real headlines, despite what you may have thought when you originally scrolled past them. First, the Vegas Golden Knights have fired Bruce Cassidy, their head coach, and instead they're going to hire John Tortorella. With with eight games left in the season now, little parts of this headline could make sense, right? We're not shocked that Bruce Cassidy's being fired by Vegas. I would say the timing of it is kind of shocking. Eight games left to go. They entered Sunday third in the Pacific Division, six points behind the first place Anaheim Ducks, but four points ahead of the LA Kings for the final divisional playoff spot. So they are very much still in the conversation. They been having a hard time as of late. I think they've lost six of their last seven, including the last three in a row. So it's not like things were going well. But to fire your head coach, who you'll remember in 2023 won the Stanley cup there in Vegas. To fire your head coach and hire John Tortorella feels nuts with eight games to go in a season. Obviously they hope, I guess, that he's going to sort of light a fire under their butts, their GM Kelly McCrimmon said in a statement. With the stretch turn of the 2025, 26 regular season upon us, we believe that a change is necessary to return to the level of play that is expected of our clubs. And listen, John Tortorell is a storied coach. I believe he was the first American born coach in the NHL to win 500 games. I remember that was like a heated race. He's coached for the Lightning. He got, he brought them a Stanley cup in 04. Then he went to the Rangers, then, then the Canucks, then the Blue Jackets. And then last he we heard from him, he was with the Phillies, I mean, sorry, the Flyers, the Philadelphia Flyers, they fired him in 2025. So this is the first time he's coaching since then. Isabella, I wanted to give you just a little bit of context for John Torella of why this feels like a kind of a wild choice, some of the trouble that he's gotten in throughout his career. So in 2009, it was the playoffs, he was coaching for the Rangers. It was game five against the Washington Capitals, okay. And behind the bench was, it was like a rowdy group of Capitals fans. John Tortorella threw a water bottle at them and then tried to take a stick and spear them through the glass and got suspended for. He got suspended for one.
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I know I shouldn't, but why does the visual.
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I love it. Because it's absurd. It's absurd behavior. Then in 2014 when he was with Vancouver, okay, he had to be physically restrained. And after the first period, so during first intermission from confronting Calgary's head coach Bob Hartley, he wanted to break into the locker room and like fight him and they had to hold him back. So he got suspended 15 days by the NHL because of that. But also when he was in Vancouver, like he lived in Washington State, like in the United States. And he would like reports said that he would like barely be there for practice. He would come in and be like looks good. And then like leave and let his assistants do the rest of it and go back to America. So it was, was kind of wild. And then in 2024 when he was with the Phillies, the Flyers, he got ejected from a game for getting into a verbal altercation with two refs. But then he like stayed on the bench and kept yelling at those two reps. He, like, did not leave the game. They suspended him for two games and fined him $50,000. He is like, a hothead. He's like a. It's just crazy. Also, this contract they gave him is just through the end of this year, so it's basically Vegas going, like, get in here and do this, or else you're out. And even if you do it, you could still be out. But it was shocking. I thought it was April Fool's prank.
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It feels like a threat from the Knights management. Like, they had told these guys, like, straighten up, win some games.
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We're bringing in Tortorello.
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We're bringing in Tortorello. We'll do it. I swear to God, we'll do it.
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Dude, I don't know, man. Their issue right now is goaltending, which is just interesting. I'm not saying anything like, Carter Hart curse. I would never say that, but it is something I'm thinking, just let the record reflect. Okay, how about another headline that I totally thought was fake, and I had to Google it to make sure that it wasn't? Phillies third baseman. Speaking of Philadelphia Phillies, but actually this time, the baseball team. Phillies third baseman suing his own parents for $3 million. And I went, what? No way. No chance. Alec Bohm is. And he is. He filed a lawsuit against his parents last week in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleasant. I don't know. What if it's on? What if it's an exceptional plea? That just feels like, wow, it's really basic. You should take that basic court. He's saying that they froze him out of millions of dollars from financial accounts they managed for him and that they used. I saw something about them using money from LLCs for their. To cover their own expenses. So it sounds really complicated. The lawsuit demands at least $3 million in damages and that his parents relinquish control of the accounts. That seems like that should be pretty obvious and easy to do, I hope. He also requested that an accountant track every transaction that involved money transferred from his personal accounts to the accounts that his parents controlled. Kind of messy. Kind of messy. As somebody whose dad is an accountant and who all of her life did her taxes, it was great. He does everybody in Framingham's taxes. He's the tax guy. Shout out, MKN tax. He was doing my taxes when I was getting. When I got started to make more money than I think anybody in my family at least thought I was ever gonna make. And we had to reach a difficult moment where we. He had to go Like, I don't. I think you, I think somebody else has to do your taxes. He made a little bit of a mistake on one of my taxes. It cost me a little bit of money. And I will say the hardest thing was him telling me when he had to call me into his, you know, MKN tax office, to the basement of the house that we live in, and sit me down and say, like, I, I made a mistake and it's going to cost you this much money. I remember just how nervous he was to even say that. And then I had to, like, I didn't want my dad to think I was mad at him, but I wasn't thrilled at the number I was looking at, you know, so it's just, if I could give Alec Bohm any, any advice. I know he's very Midwestern and I know they're very family oriented, but I would say just pay somebody to do your taxes. You know what I mean?
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Okay. But now imagine that Mike Nolan, after all of this time, had gone back and said, all right, now that we have severed our business ties, I am, I have counted up every hour that I have ever spent helping you with your finances since you were a child. And I am now billing you at $50 per hour for all of those hours. That is where the Bohm family is at.
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Okay. And that does sound like an MKN tax thing to do.
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I'm just going to be honest.
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It does.
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My dad would go, and, and if we're doing an itemized receipt, well, then I, I've got billable hours that haven't been being billed. Okay. And I'm happy to bill those now. So that's pretty. I mean, that's messed up. That's gotta be like relationship testing for Alec Bohm. Didn't his parents, like quit their. They sold their business so they could like follow his career in like a
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van in an rv.
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Yeah, yeah, it's kind of wild. So not April Fools though. We will keep you updated on that as that develops. Here's another one I thought was fake. LSU football adds a 26 year rapper named Toosie to their roster despite him having no previous college football experience. A 26 year old rapper who's never played college football before has been added to LSU's roster. Real in December 2 announced his commitment to Syracuse despite not having any collegiate football experience. That went viral. Then two months later, now he has enrolled at LSU and is listed on the team's 2026 roster. Quote I'm chasing history. First multi platinum recording art. Multi what does that now?
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Multiplat million streams, same as sales. There's no way he's selling 2 million.
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I know. First multi platinum recording artist to go back to school and play Division 1 football. That feels like a very specific thing. He wanted. He wrote under. On a piece of paper that he put under the pillow under his pillow at night. Just like the secret tells you to do. And now he's going to get it next year. I'm going to be on somebody's team. Mark my words. Tusi rose to mainstream. Prominence. Prominence. I'll put that in air quotes, cuz I don't know who this is. Following the release of his 2023 single favorite song, which went viral on TikTok. The song peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100. So I'm just an old lady earned double platinum certification. So this is a famous person.
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Do you think he gamed the system by just taking precedence? Whenever anybody said like, hey, Alexa, play my favorite song.
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Ooh.
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And just suddenly he's just rolling up numbers.
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It's really not a dumb thought.
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It's like all of the Chinese restaurants named Chinese food near me.
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Yeah. Or like number one, best food. All right, so that's real ish. Right? Like it's a. It's a. It's a publicity stunt. Right.
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He's never gonna.
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I would like.
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He's on the roster now.
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Yes. Make him play one game. Make him play one game. I want to see what happens. Here's another one that I promise is real. I'm sorry. I'm really sorry, but I promise it's real, not April Fools. Donald Trump wants to move Madison Square Garden to make way for Trump Station. So that's Isabella's excitement. That's her excitement noise. She is hyped on this. She's wearing her MAGA hat. You guys can't see if you're listening, but she's got it on. Donald Trump is reportedly considering a funding plan that would move Madison Square Garden off of its current location in order to facilitate an overhaul of Penn Station. Now, let's be clear. Does Penn Station need an overhaul? Yes, very much so. But I saw there were other plans that are also suggesting the same thing that would not require moving Madison Square Garden. I think it's a lot more likely that those would happen because it's absurd to have to move Madison. Where are you putting it? Where are you putting it? I don't even have room for an extra tiny little table I bought by accident. I have to sell it immediately or throw it away. Or donate it. There's no extra room in New York. There is no space. Where would you put Madison Square Garden? Donald Trump wants to name Penn Station after himself. Mm. Now that would require a sign off from Madison Square Garden owner James Dolan, who I'm sure you can assume has connections to Trump. He got married at Mar a Lago in 2002. To who? Bring her out.
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I don't think she's still in the picture.
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Okay.
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Because James. James Dolan in wedding when Google had several hits.
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Shock and awe. Wow. Who would have guessed that guy? Tough to stay with. I'm just kidding. I don't know him personally. He should have known. Remember that? Remember when he performed the song I Should have known about his dear friend Harvey Weinstein, JD in the straight shot.
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It says here his spouse is the CEO of amc.
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Oh, Nicole Kidman.
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I wish
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the picture of her looking free after her divorce is actually when she got free from James Dolan. Just. These are fake. This is April Fool's. What? I just said there was April Fools. I'm confusing the bit. Let me stick to the. While we're doing people from Isabella's MAGA contingent that she loves so much, let's talk about Dana White. So there was a UFC event on Sunday, Okay. At the post fight press conference, a reporter asked Dana White, apparently they were using AI generated art for promotional, like, posters that they were posting on social media. And so a reporter was basically like, what do you have to say about the fan reaction, the negative reaction from fans about you guys using AI to promote this fight and. And what? The sound we're about to play is not AI. It is not April Fools. This is the actual response in a post match press conference from Dana White.
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Give me a break. AI is coming.
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And if we're using AI, who gives a shit?
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People are upset about it.
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We should use artists. How about this? Shut the up and watch the fights. Yeah, dude, totally. Yeah, totally, dude. I love that. You know, I think the. The part I like the most is where you could tell he put a lot of thought into it. You know, where you can tell this is something he's considered before? The way he says what we should pay artists. Like it. Like, yet. Yes, you should also pay your fighters, bro. What do you. What world do you live in where you're just like, it's coming whether you like it or not. Fudge you. This can't be it anymore, okay, you guys. We can't live in this anymore where someone just gets to say that it
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wasn't as if he just came out with this, you know, this take, like, this was like a pre planned take. He was genuinely shocked that the question was being asked and there was backlash. He didn't understand what they were doing.
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You could tell he was like, what are you asking me? What do you mean? What's the problem?
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Cannot see why that might be a little bit.
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The reporter had to say, I don't know. A lot of people are saying, maybe you should use artists instead. And that's when he said, basically, fuck off and watch the fight. I have no clue how this all exists outside of the jurisdiction where we can go like, hey, Dana White, somebody's got to bring him out and hold him accountable for a lot of the stuff that he's doing. A lot of the wage theft he's committing to employees of his company. So anyway, that guy rules. And oh, then there was this one. Seven months after rejecting the sale to Boston to a Boston ownership group to save women's basketball in New England, the WNBA's Connecticut sun is being sold to a Houston group for $25 million less than the Boston group offered. So the Connecticut sun is moving to Houston, where it will be renamed the Comets, which is the old Houston WNBA team that they got rid of before that they mismanaged that franchise, lost it, and then now they get the sun on a weekend when the. Which we will get to in a second. In the men's and women's tournament, UConn both advancing to the Final Four. Connecticut basketball, the sun is now moving to Houston. And the closest team in the WNBA for, like, New England fans is New York. And as we've talked about a million times on this show, it's really hard for Boston fans to root for New York teams. It's the entire genesis of the issue I've got with Gotham versus Boston Legacy.
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Yeah, you guys need a team.
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By the way, Boston Legacy. At a game this weekend, there was a tent set up. It was like women in Sports day or something. And the Connecticut sun had a tent and they were doing like, giveaways or stuff. But then they found out that, like, oops, actually we don't even have a team. It's not for this season. It's for next season. So they will have one last season. Should we get Isabella to. Is it. It's at Foxwoods, right? Yeah, they play. Is. Should we get. Or it's Mohegan.
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Yeah, I'm sorry. Yes.
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Yeah, yeah. So we should get Isabella to Mohegan to watch a game. I mean, I'm sure they're gonna do.
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Can I ask a stupid question? Why don't they just make a new team for this?
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That's not actually really not a stupid question.
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Because why can't they just keep Connecticut's sun and then build a Houston team?
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It's not a bad question. I believe that. That I had seen something about Boston submitted for the relocation of the sun but didn't submit an expansion team thing. And I think the league was seeing that as trying to get around the cost. I think that it would be to. To expand, like, it requires a. Like a startup cost, essentially, like a payment. And so maybe the league saw that as, like, they didn't want to do that. This also they wanted it to go to Houston because it's going to be owned by the Fertittas. Is that how you say it for Fertitta? The guys, the people, the family that owns the Rockets. And so they like to tie the two leagues together in that way. You know, $300 million is a record price for a WNBA team. That's what it's selling for. But again, it is $25 million less than the former Celtics minority owner would have paid to move the franchise to Boston. It's also up by so much from the last time a team was bought in the wnba, which goes to show that they clearly held on to this deal and information until the CBA was figured out, squared away, and announced. Because it's a huge, I don't know, indicator of how much money and interest there is in the wnba, which is huge. It's just a real bummer. Chris, I think we got an email from somebody that is very upset, and I would like you to read it for us, if you could. Thank.
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This email is from L. I don't think L wanted to use the.
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And it's just the letter L, not L, L, E. Just the letter L. Yeah.
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And El says, consider this my yap, because I'm outraged. Outraged.
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Sometimes Chris's accent, when you say Y, it sounds like you said, yup. And I just wanted to make sure their joke landed. It's a yap. Sorry. Go ahead, Chris.
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Good point. Consider this my yap, because I'm outraged. Outraged. Capitalized. I think I used to think the C word was one that rhymed with punt. But the real C word is Kathy Engelbert.
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Oh, damn.
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She's done the bare minimum, which is keep the league running. Like, congrats on that. The players have proved they can run the league without you. But the absolute fumble of the sale of the sun needs to be talked about. Steve Pagliuca tried to bring the sun to Boston. He offered The Mohegan Tribe 325 million and Cathy shut it down because Boston wasn't on their expansion map or some dumb shit. Suns sell out the Garden two years in a row on, like fucking Tuesday afternoons. There is a huge appetite for the team to move here. But okay, so Mark Lazari matched the $325 million and says, let's keep them in Connecticut. She shut that down. Now the team is going to Houston for $300 million. So not only is Cathy robbing the good people of New England of a WNBA team, she literally screwed over the Mohegan Tribe by handcuffing what offers they were allowed to accept. Fuck Kathy Engelbert and the W who strong armed and disrespected the tribal ownership. There's some OG evil shit. I love you when I meet it. I also hate Cathy and I mean that too.
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Damn. Damn. L. Damn. Elle. Fucky Engelbert and the W who strong armed and disrespected the tribal ownership. That's some OG evil shit. I love you and I mean it. I also hate Kathy and I mean that too. Damn. That's in quotes. So you can't hold that against me. That's just reading an email. I get an email. I read it. I didn't say it. I didn't say the C word.
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The C word is Kathy Engelbert.
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If you're a New Englander, you're sitting there and you have to make peace with the fact that Kathy Engelbert's explanation for the whole thing was all semantics, that you didn't file the. Right. You didn't file for relocation, you didn't file for expansion.
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That.
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It all comes down to categorizing. And if you're the. If you're a fan of the Canadian sun, you don't care about any of this. You just know that your team is fleeing the entire region. That has to burn.
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Yeah, it sucks too, because, like, they. That the tribe was there for them when the W wasn't popping off. Like, they, you know, did a lot for that team in the sun. And the sun was really important to a lot of people. And I don't know. It's just a bummer. It's just a bummer. It's great that it's a big payday. It's great that that's how much a WNBA team is selling for. That's all well and good, but just like that's not close. They're not moving it anywhere close. And I'm interested to see what happens with like the records. Like if an expansion team then does go to Boston at some point with the Connecticut, what are they going to do with the Sun's records remain with that team that gets sold even though it becomes the Comets? I don't know.
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I'm going to guess it's like when the Cleveland Browns moved to Baltimore and then a new Cleveland Browns took over.
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Yeah.
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That the old records for the Cleveland Browns then transfer to the new Cleveland Browns and the Ravens kind of got cut off and they're their own.
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Which should happen also with like the Sonics if they get a team back. Right.
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Yeah.
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I think the Thunder records would just become the Thunder records and the Sonics name would resume with the Sonic.
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It's just messy. It's messy. It doesn't make any sense. I don't understand how this can happen. I don't understand how the league is able to decide who the team gets sold to. I don't think that seems fair. But I'm willing to admit that I don't know enough about business to know in which ways exactly the issue would be. So I'll just wait till smarter people investigate it. That's kind of a fingers crossed thing at this point. I always used to assume smarter people were on it. At this point I go like and someone's going to look into that. Right.
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And so just Pablo at any time.
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Yeah. Like that's all you got, Time. Yeah. And he's, you know, nominated for so many Emmys, I don't know if he has time. Last little bit of I could have sworn that was April Fool's Day content. And turns out no, it wasn't. Came late last night the Detroit Red Wings made an Instagram post to show their support for the pwhl. They posted Always Supportin the pwhl and it was a slideshow of the team doing their walk ins. Like entering through the hallway for their game. And the first three slides show the men all wearing the same T shirt. And. And then after that it's every other player holding a T shirt up. Now the T shirt has the Detroit Red Wings logo on it in the middle. And then it says support women's hockey in the tiniest font you've ever seen. It is a. It is a five point font that says support women's hockey. And then again the logo of the men's hockey team is on the shirt. So there's. And three of them put it on and the rest of them held it up as they walked through the tunnel over the outfit they actually had on. And the Detroit Red Wings were like, that shows how supportive our guys are. So let's definitely post that on Instagram. Not fake. Actually, real support women's Aki, oh my God,
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please iron on patch. It just gives all the vibes of the iron on patch they bought in the wrong size.
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If you're not busy. Sorry for asking, but please support women's hockey if that would be okay. Thank you. It would mean a lot to me. Exclamation, exclamation.
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Oh my God, our hello Kitty talks. I didn't know that.
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Okay, that's it. Those are all not April Fools, but man, didn't they feel like it. And wouldn't it be cool if some of them were like, the Trump one and the Dana White one? Okay, let's go to break, and when we come back, we'll get into maybe the greatest March Madness shot of all time. And if not, Chris has other options of what it could be. This is casuals, and we'll be right back. When you're choosing dinner, you want to know it's worth it every time. Gorton's Seafood has been providing quality seafood for the whole family since 1849. Gorton's is the easy, dependable choice that takes the stress out of mealtime, and it has been for over 175 years. You know the fisherman guy in the yellow coat? Yeah, that's Gorton's. Gorton's products are great for the main meal, for snacks, or for appetizers, from classics like coconut shrimp. I mean, who doesn't love coconut shrimp? To new, innovative options like taco tenders. Choose Gorton's for uncompromising quality and reliable fresh taste. I love Gorton's because it's so easy. I can toss some shrimp or a filet right into my air fryer and it's ready in minutes. It feels elevated because it's seafood. And honestly, it reminds me of when I was a kid and my mom would make me some fish sticks after school. Visit gortons.com to learn more, find a store, and get recipe inspiration. Have you ever wished you could make something happen just by thinking about it? Well, WIX may have just answered your prayers. Wix's new Harmony editor makes it so easy to create a website exactly how you imagined it that it's almost like you're just thinking out loud. Experience the new way to create websites WIX Harmony is a hybrid website editor that offers the perfect blend of AI and precise drag and drop tools introducing the world to the next generation of website creation. Switch back and forth between AI prompts and hands on editing to build the exact website you want the way you want. Wix Harmony is packed with some of the coolest, most useful AI features and agents built specifically for small businesses including aria, an AI agent that helps you create your website and take care of business so you don't burn out. And rest easy knowing that your WIX site is backed by 99.99% uptime and enterprise grade security. No add ons required. Check it out@wix.com Harmony Hey, I don't know what it is about the world now, but finding clothes that look good and actually also feel good is such a challenge. And that is where Vuori comes in. They make incredibly versatile, insanely comfortable clothes that move with you from lounging at to layering up for a chilly commute. It's effortless, elevated style that you will actually want to live in. The Performance Jogger and Halo Essential Wide Leg Pant are made with Viori's signature Dream Knit fabric. It is their softest premium stretch material. Lightweight, it's moisture wicking and it's effortless to wear anywhere. Add the Restore oversized hoodie for an easy pulled together look. I wore my Restore oversized hoodie to work the other day and everybody was like I love that hoodie. It's an investment in your happiness. For our listeners. They're offering 20% off your first purchase, so get yourself some of the most comfortable and versatile clothing on the planet@vuori.com Casuals v u o r I.com Casuals exclusions apply. Visit the website for full terms and conditions. Nowadays it feels like people just love to put you in a box, but I think confidence comes from choosing what actually works for you. The GMC Terrain is a premium compact SUV built for people who value capability, smart design and doing things their own way. That confidence shows up in the 2026 Terrain's bold exterior styling, including an available two tone roof with heated front seats and available all wheel drive with multiple drive modes. The Terrain is ready for whatever comes next. GMC we are professional grade and we're back. Wow. Wow. How exciting. March Madness the Final Fours are set now where we are. The women aren't, so we can't actually really talk about that. Which is okay because the women's are more chalky than I think the what happened in the men's that was so shocking? Obviously the big stunner of a game from this weekend was UConn versus Duke. This was last night, this was Sunday night. Yes.
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Yes.
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Here's the deal. The first game yesterday, not so good. Big blowout. So I was at Michigan, Tennessee.
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Correct. Yes, correct.
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And so I was like, I'm annoyed by this. Then I start watching Duke UConn men's game again and I. It's a blowout again. It's becoming a blowout. They UConn never has the lead. It's Duke all the way. I think they had like a, some sort of a double digit lead at the half and the Bruins were on making a comeback in third period. So I switched, I switched to the hockey. Now the Bruins ended up coming back and winning in a shootout. Congrats to them. Huge. I didn't know what happened. I thought, I assumed in my head game over. Could not be more mad that I missed like the one, maybe the greatest shot of all time in March Madness history. So it was number two, UConn playing in the elite eight. They were down 19 at one point to beat number one Duke. 73, 72 on a three pointer with 0.4 seconds remaining from Braylon Mullins. He was like 35ft from the, from the hoop. It was like beyond the three point line. The longest, fourth longest buzzer beater in March Madness history. Again, that was UConn's first lead since the game's opening minute. So they did not lead the whole game. And Mullins had missed all four of his previous three point attempts that day. So it's. The story of it is beautiful. He gets the ball on a pretty unfortunate turnover from the younger Boozer. Which is Kaden. Yes, which. Look, we don't have to zoom in on that. He's a freshman. He made a mistake. All he had to do, Chris, was hold on to the ball.
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Yeah, they would have fouled you. Like normally when teams are in the position that UConn was in, you try to trap them first. See if they're going to throw away the ball like Duke did. And then if you wait a couple more seconds and it looks like they're not going to give the ball away, you foul them. And then Duke would have gone to the line and essentially put it away. But that did not happen for whatever reason.
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The younger Boozer. Boozer the. Oh, I guess it would be Boozer the elder. What do you say when they're the young. Do you say the younger Boozer? The younger little Boozer. Lil Boozer.
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Lil Boozer is very funny. It sounds like a drunk 5 year old.
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He's also suiting up for LSU next.
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Seriously, Lil Boozer tried to, like, launch the ball to the other end. It got. It was a turnover. And then, amazingly, UConn they get the ball to Braylon Mullins, and he bangs the three, and it's over. Now I would like us to listen to the Duke call again. Isabella, just to set this up for you. These are students. This is radio. Yes, student radio. They're calling the game. Duke has been winning the entire game, okay? At this point, Duke is up by two. It's 72 to 70. And then. And then Duke is going to lose. So just keep that in mind. Let's play the clip of the Duke broadcast. Bobbled it back for star.
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Needs to get rid of it. Does for Kaden. 7 seconds.
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Try to throw it ahead.
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Deflected. Stolen by Connecticut. Two seconds. It's Mullins up top for the win.
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Oh, he hit it.
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Three tenths of a second to go. Malachi Smith ran off the bench.
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That should be a technical, but with
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three tenths of a second ago, Connecticut
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has the lead, 73 to 72. So before we. The Malachi Smith of it all. Don't worry about that. He was playing. There was no. It wouldn't have been a technical that he was on the court because he was playing, but it was funny that he immediately was like, no, wait. Something this good, we fix it, reverse it. They did something wrong. They're gonna get in trouble. That did not happen. That is the greatest no sell of a shot I've ever. Oh, he hit it. Oh, he hit it. Was. I've never heard anything like. I've watched that 50 times. It's so purely the same with the reactions. Watching every coach and assistant coach's reaction as the ball went in was crazy. Dan Hurley, who we've talked about a bunch on this show as being kind of, you know, emotional and all over the place, him having his jacket half ripped off. Like, he's like a cool girl in high school with his shoulder out, just being, like, walking up. Do you see him go up to the ref and is in his face, just staring at him with his jacket off. I mean, mayhem Madness.
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Did you see Hurley's mom?
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No.
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They cut to Dan Hurley's mom in the crowd, and she just turns her head back to the court, and no audio on her, but she just clearly goes, holy fucking shit.
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Absolutely unbelievable. It had a lot of people, Chris, saying that this was maybe one of the best buzzer beaters in March Madness history. Now you are our basketball expert on this show. And so I didn't want to say that it was one of the greatest shots in March Madness history without running it by you first. You have some possible others, or did you put them in order that you think are the best of all time?
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I put them in order. I went from five to one.
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Okay, let's start one.
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Seriously, being the best.
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Chris is number five.
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Braylon Mullins makes it. Otherwise this bit is dead.
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Yeah.
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Number five, Duke's Christian Layton against Kentucky in the 1992 Elite Eight. This is one of the most famous buzzer beaters of all time. A turnaround jumper.
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Okay, but so listen. So then hush up and listen while history is being told. Okay?
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It was a. A turnaround jumper off Grant Hill's full court pass. They were in OT. They were down 103 to 102. Ended up hitting. Hitting the basket as time expired. Christian Leitner also, by the way, while we're talking about him, he had another famous buzzer beater in 1990 in the Elite Eight against Yukon to win that game in OT. So he was sort of there, you know, last minute, last second shot guru. But this shot in the elite eight in 1992, one of the greatest of all time. It's number five on my list.
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Okay, let's now go to number four.
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Number four was Jalen Suggs of Gonzaga against UCLA in the 2021 final four. 37 foot bank shot, one of the longest in NCAA history. We spoke about Mullins, 35 footer, being the fourth most. I think Jalen Suggs is the second or third. That game was tied at 90 apiece. And this ended up getting them into the championship game. Incredible shot. Banked it. One of the greatest of all time.
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They lost the championship game, though.
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They did lose a championship game.
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That's okay. I was just saying for. For posterity. Okay, number three on Chris's list, Braylon
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Mullins against Duke, 20, 26 in the Elite 8. 35 foot heave off an Alex Caraban pass. Yeah, fantastic shot. They were down, which I like. I like the fact that it wasn't tied. Right. They were down. They had to hit it in order to survive. Fantastic shot. Now they're faced off against Illinois in the Final Four on Saturday. So we'll see what the end of this story becomes. That's right, but that's number three.
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Okay, Salt in the wound of Duke fans that. You put that ahead of Christian Laettner, of course, Salt.
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And I think he did that on purpose. Also, shout out to the White Lotus for that prescient. Meme of a Duke fan in a Duke shirt with a gun to his head because, boy, did that get a lot of use last night.
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Okay, number number two, Villanova's Chris Jenkins against North Carolina in the 2016 national championship game. Three pointer off a trail. They were tied at 74 apiece. And as time expires, Chris Jenkins launches it and just sends a dagger into the heart of all North Carolina fans around the world. One of the greatest shots in March Madness history, but not the greatest.
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Not the greatest. Isabella, we heard the call of that one on Fan service today because somebody called in to talk about that one. What, Chris, what is your number one? What is this buzzer beater? Greatest shot in Bars Madness history.
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It's Lorenzo Charles of NC State against Houston in the 1983 national championship. It was a dunk off the Derek Wittenberg air ball. The game that were tied at 52 apiece until that dunk as time expired to give them the 54, 52 lead and the national championship. This is one of the most famous pieces of footage from March Madness history because their coach, Jimmy V. Jim Valvano, who everyone loves, is just running around the court not knowing who to hug. Just looks like a duck with his head cut off. It's fantastic. That story you were speaking about, the Braylon Mullins story and how that makes the shot so impressive and so much fun. And that was sort of the case with Lorenzo Charles's buzzer beater. That's absolutely the number one shot that comes to mind when you ask me to put together this list, I'm like, well, Lorenzo Charles is going to be number one because of that story and how iconic it actually is.
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Yeah, man. A dunk to win the championship off an airball. Yeah.
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For a number six.
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Satisfactory.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Number six seed. Taking down like Akeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler, like, that was such upset for the ages.
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Absolutely crazy. And why we love March so much. I should say that.
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Dunk on you guys. I'm sorry, you think I could dunk on you guys? 1v3?
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No.
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Jesus Christ. Be confident.
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Like, absolutely not. No. I don't think you could dunk in an empty court, my love.
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Don't.
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And that's nothing against. What do you mean if I get a kid one?
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A kid. A kid hoop.
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And now why would you have a kid hoop? And there's just so many follow ups. Steal one from a kid at the playground.
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I think I could probably defend a kid's hoop. Better off a dunk than a Regulation, to be honest.
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We love you and we lift you up, but we will stuff you. There's no chance in hell that you're getting a dunk off on us. No chance.
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She didn't even go one on one. It wasn't Isabella v. Katy. No gym Isabella to the rest of the crew.
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I don't even know why there even has to be defense on the floor. I don't think you could dunk it. I do want to mention a couple things. Number one, the UConn women showing support. Did you see the video of them? They were, like, in their hotel rooms, and when UConn hit that shot, they gathered each other and all ran down into the lobby of the hotel and were going nuts. That was awesome. And I also want to say shout out Jordan's furniture. The furniture. The big furniture chain in Massachusetts, New England that did that promotion this year where if you bought any furniture between January 20th and, like, March 1st and the Yukon men and women both make it to the championship game, your furniture's free. So, you know they're sweating right now. You know they're going, damn, damn. We're gonna have to give back all that money that we made, which really feels like Kalshee.
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With extra steps, though, if you're buying an armoire banking on Yukon winning the championship.
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Yeah, well, I mean, theoretically, you need the armoire, and so you go, oh, we'll get it. We'll root for the. I. I think my family did it with the Red Sox. I'm pretty sure the couch we have as a family still to this day was paid for by the Red Sox winning the World Series. I can fact check that with my parents, but I think it was the couch that Tito built. Another thing I want to say, Duke, if you're feeling sad, I totally understand, and I don't even actually feel all that bad, but I do want to give you something to feel a little bit better. Women's softball, Duke. I saw this over the weekend. They were down 14, 8 in the seventh to Stanford yesterday, and they scored nine runs in the bottom of the seventh and ended up winning 17 14. So a huge comeback win for Duke softball. So it's not all bad for Duke. Okay, I know that's probably not. It's like a band aid on a huge wound, but it is better on a missing leg. And. Yes. And the band aid has a little bit of Neosporin on it, so actually it's really good. Okay, so the men's final four is set, and we know it. And we can say it to you. It's Yukon, Illinois, Michigan and Arizona shout out, Arizona bear down even though they're Wildcats. I don't understand it. I don't ask questions. I just know that that's where Dan graduated from, and for that, I'm grateful. Interesting story with Arizona, with Tommy Lloyd. So Arizona beat Purdue. It was like, close for a little bit in the first half, and then they ran away with it. By the end of the game, they beat Purdue, punched their ticket to the Final Four. That's their first time there since 2001. And then after the game, Tommy Lloyd, who's rumored to be UNC's one of their top choices for their next head coach, spoke about his team. Arizona's win. Let's take a listen to the. The. The sound.
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The sun may be shining on, you know, this team and me coaching it right now, but when it's shining on you, you gotta fight like hell to protect it and build it. And so that's what I feel like my number one responsibility is, is to fight to protect the program and fight to build it for those who came before me and for those that are going to follow after me. Because you know what? Arizona is going to have another good coach after me, I promise you. I mean, the place is special.
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Okay, well, why would you say that?
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Very strange.
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I mean, look, nobody thinks he's going to coach there forever, but just a weird thing to bring up to be like, they're good now, and I love that. And they're going to be good after me because they're. A good coach is going to.
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Also he's soft launching, and it's like departure.
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It's kind of the hardest soft launch I've ever heard in my life. 148 wins in his first five seasons. 61 wins in the first two seasons are the most for any head coach in NCAA Division 1 history. But like he said, somebody also good will do it next. So. Interesting. Like I said, they're still playing, so they still have games to play. And I guess we'll just keep a mic on him and see what he says. The women's tournament, like I said, and UConn and UCLA, where we're sitting, we know that they are through. We don't know what happened between Texas and Michigan or South Carolina and tcu, so we can't say yet. How are we doing in our bracket pool?
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We have gone up.
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A
Ooh. Okay. What place? Are we not taking a sip of this water?
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B
As of last week, we were at 602 out of 630.
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A
Still 5.
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584.
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Okay.
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Oh, nice crack.
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The top 600.
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That's not enough. Our champion is gone. So we really. We had Kentucky.
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I thought we had Yukon.
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We had Kentucky. They were. We had UConn in the final against Kentucky.
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A
And we picked Kentucky.
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We did.
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D
They had some good fun facts I don't remember doing.
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B
They had the nicest follow up email saying they loved the segment.
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A
Oh, shoot. So that's why you picked them. That makes a lot of sense.
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It was kind of in the spirit of the bit. They loved it.
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Important. We had to do it.
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We have one participant, Tapuna, and I may be pronouncing that incorrectly. 109 possible. 109 points out of a possible 180. They have one game picked wrong. So out of how many games played right now, they have picked one game wrong.
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And that was like their winners still alive.
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Yeah. They have Connecticut. They have all. They have the entire Elite Eight. Correct.
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A
Whoa.
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B
Could have the entire, you know, everybody still in it and have Connecticut beating UCLA in the final. It's an incredible wow. The only blemish was not picking Virginia over Georgia or picking Georgia over Virginia. Which one?
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See, he doesn't even know what actually happened.
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B
So technically I missed the 710. Yeah, they had Georgia and Virginia won that game.
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A
Okay. Yeah. So, I mean, shout out. We should get their contact information and. And use, I don't know, use their services. That could be an Etsy witch.
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C
Listen, we may not be super high, but there's still a lot of people behind us.
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So I was like, speak for yourself. I am super high right now.
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B
I can dunk on anyone in the women's.
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I mean, still crazy. You even said it in the women's tournament. What we can update you on. Didn't Kim Mulkey do something weird? Oh, Kim Mulkey, your girl. She's out. I don't know if I want to give her. She did Hard hands and then immediately remembered why she knows Kim Mulkey and went, well, I don't. Fashion icon LSU head coach Kim Mulkey, who's got some interesting opinions, I guess we'll say, fiercely denied that she was considering retirement after her team lost to Duke. See Duke. Well, then, didn't they also lose? So it's whatever, 87, 85 in the Sweet 16 on Friday. Let's listen to Kim Mulkey. I'm not retiring. Do I look that bad? I don't know where that came from. I'm only 63. Yeah, girl. I think as we get older, as coaches, they want to say, well, how much longer is she going to be in the game? I'm going to be in this game unless LSU fires me. Okay. Until I can't put a product on that floor that's competitive or my health fails me, I'm with her on that. I'm fine with that. I thought it was that she was rumored to be retiring and was pretending that she wasn't. That I like, she was.
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She came out against it. There were a lot of rumors that she was going to retire.
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A
Damn. If that truly only came because you think she's old. That's mean.
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Yeah, she. She seemed legit offended. She was like, excuse me, yo, what the.
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What's the. I'm aging. I'm not aged. You know, I'm still going. Let me keep going. So you know what?
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The state of Louisiana is dead and out of sequence. I will.
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I was going to say, until they ban being like that, dressing that way, until they make us wear a uniform, I will stay coaching here. So. All right, Kimoki. Keep going, girl. Okay, then we've got, you know, other news. Other news that has happened starting in the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles. All participating athletes in women's Olympic events must be assigned female at birth. Look, we've discussed this story at length. This is, again, unsurprising, given the 2028 Olympics are happening in LA and that Trump, when he first took office this second time, immediately signed an executive order like it was top priority to ban transgender athletes from sports. This has been sold to you and to the general public as protecting women's sports. I'm of the opinion that that that's complete, mainly if not only because of how little anybody pushing that narrative has given a about women's sports in the past, but also just the fact that this is a tiny number of athletes that this actually affects. This is not some huge issue that requires everybody's attention or that requires that this now genetic testing that will be done only on female athletes. The people that are pushing this are not ever, like, they never come to you with an opinion where you go, wow, I never thought of it that way. They're not diving in on the issue. Like, for example, Bob Costas was called to CNN to speak on this, which I don't know, as somebody who's kind of like, in the sports world, obviously, Bob Costas, huge name, huge cachet. I've never really seen him talk about this, so I didn't know calling Bob Costas in as the voice of reason on the Transgender Olympic ban. I was like, well, what. I'm interested to see what Bob Costas has to say. Maybe I shouldn't have been. But let's take a listen to what Bob Costas had to say.
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If Caitlin Clark could play in the NBA, everybody would applaud it. That'd be an incredible thing. But if the last guy on the bench of an NBA team went to the WNBA and started averaging 40 points a game, everyone would know that is BS. There's a reason why Sugar Ray Leonard, who was a contemporary of Mike Tyson, didn't fight Mike Tyson. They were in different weight classes. There is a reason why there are men's and women's sports and why Title IX was one of the truly progressive pieces of legislation, in the best sense of the word, progressive under the Nixon administration. It changed everything. I had a sister who never played a single organized sport. One generation later, two children of my own. My daughter played just about as many organized sports as my son. That's a great thing. It doesn't make any sense to have a swimmer who was the 472nd ranked swimmer when he was a man at Penn, either winning or coming close to winning against women a year and a half after transitioning. If that's what the person wants to do, that person should be treated with dignity and respect. But there ought to be common sense, and common sense is not transphobic.
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I just so it. I just. It just feels like a person's first day considering the issue. The fact that you would say, if Caitlin Clark played in the NBA, people would love it, that'd be great. But if the guy on the bench of an NBA team went to the WNBA and started averaging 40 points a game, you'd know that's BS that has not. That's not what's happening. The only people that ever engage in this bad faith argument of like, we need women's and men's sports and they need to be separate are the people that are, like, nobody's arguing the opposite. Nobody is saying, let's turn it all into one league. Not a single person that I've ever heard discuss this conversation has said that it should just be men and women competing together. What they're talking about are specific athletes, transgender athletes who have gone through gender reassignment treatments that then have an effect on the human body. That then would be. So it's the only people who ever bring up this, like, well, then a man could just go play in a woman's sport. I've only ever seen that proposed by Clay Travis and It was him telling people to go do that, to go do that, wearing the branding of his website so that they could get publicity off of a man qualifying for women. Those are the only people who are talking about doing it nefariously. What we're talking about in most of these issues are women who sometimes, like with Amon Khalif, sometimes they. They themselves weren't even aware of a genetic situation because gender is a lot more complicated than I think the average human with no medical background or science background understands. There are people who can live their whole lives thinking they're just a woman in the plainest sense of the definition, that can then find out that actually what's going on at the chromosomal level is different, and that difference could disqualify them from playing in a women's sport. And so now this is a person learning something on an international stage that even they didn't know that now they're being held responsible for. I. I love fairness as well. I love the spirit of competition as well. You've never heard me say that there shouldn't be weight classes in sports where there are. You've never heard me say that there shouldn't be men's leagues and women's leagues. This makes me upset. This makes me upset for a number of reasons, and I think the main one is because it continues to villainize people who just want to play sports. Sports people who have a different lived experience than me that I will never be able to understand, but I can at least, I think, empathize with how difficult it must be to feel that who you are is not aligned with how you appear. I can't imagine anything that would trouble me more than that. And how difficult that must be. And to make a decision to. To believe in yourself and expressing yourself fully and honestly must be really difficult. And to do that and then be told that because you did that, you don't. You can't play sports. To me, isn't sports doing its best? The genetic testing that they are using, they had tried using before, and then doctors were like, this actually doesn't make sense for us to. The medical community was the reason that it wasn't being used anymore. So, I don't know, maybe you think that these people know more than the medical community, but I just personally do not.
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Not.
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And so I just wanted to let any members of the trans community or the LGBTQIA plus community at large know that not everybody feels this way, and not everybody. I don't know. I don't want to say, has fallen for the messaging being pushed by the other side. But like as somebody who dipped my toe in it a little when I dealt with the Riley Gaines Simone Biles tweet situation from a couple months ago on this podcast, you see the little ways in which misinformation is like the information is being prepared and presented in a way that would skew people's I just don't like the way this argument goes and I don't think a lot of people are engaging in it in good faith. And I also am bummed by this and I also am ready to move on. Not to happy or real quick.
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Can I say one more thing?
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Please, go ahead.
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You also can't pretend to be the voice of reason in an argument like this. If you're Bob Cost justice when you misgender Lia Thomas the way that he did in the interview when he said when he was a man at Penn. If you don't have a basic understanding of how gendering works and how you label transgender athletes, then you cannot have a seat at the table in the argument.
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That's a really good point. Thank you for making that, Chris. It's true. If you had engaged with the text in it's a rich text in any type of way, you would know that that's not how to speak on the issue. And pretty disappointed. Disappointing to see. Okay, again, moving on to not necessarily not not happier news, but it is different news and we move on to it. Tiger woods days after his return to professional golf he played in that TGL indoor golf final. I think his team lost. PGA Tour legend Tiger Woods, a man who needs no introduction, was involved in another rollover car accident near his home in Jupiter, Florida. The county Sheriff's office confirmed the accident occurred Friday afternoon when the driver of a Land Rover attempted to overt a pickup truck that was pulling a pressure cleaner trailer at a high rate of speed on a two lane road. After the accident, the driver of the Land Rover was able to crawl out of the passenger door and was confirmed to be Tiger Woods. He was said to have shown signs of impairment at the scene. They did not suspect alcohol use. He blew zeros on a breathalyzer. This is not the first time that Tiger has done that refused a urinalysis. So that would mean I assumed that it was medication.
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Legally, it's all an assumption. We don't know what was in the
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actual we have no idea.
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But I mean he does have a long history of non alcohol impairments found in his bloodstream in his system during these incidents where he Is operating a vehicle while impaired would.
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And maybe I'm putting you on the spot. Would a urinalysis test show if he happened to be also on performance enhancing drugs? Drugs.
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They would have to test for it. And they wouldn't.
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And they wouldn't.
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It's not like a test that's going to say here's all the things you got.
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Yeah. So woods has since been charged with the DUI with property damage and refusal to submit to a lawful test. Remained in custody. Was released around 11. I saw that the law is you've got to keep him for like at least 11. I mean at least 8 hours. Was described as cooperative but not trying to incriminate himself. He was previously involved in a single car crash back in 2021. He had serious injuries to his lower body. This was his broken bones in his legs that he had like multiple surgeries on a long surgical procedure. Didn't he say that at one point that he was gonna. It was. It looked like he could have lost his leg or something. I think, you know this has happened before quite a few times. To the point where when NBC cut into their live coverage of a golf event in Texas on Saturday to announce the news Dan Hicks had to address earlier in the broadcast the network had shown the wrong footage from an older. Let's just listen to the. To the apology from Dan Hicks and
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we want to take this time to make a correction. Before we came on the air today with our regular PGA Tour coverage of this Texas Children's Houston Open, our studio show inadvertently showed the incorrect picture of car crash Tiger woods was in. Was a another previous car crash. It was not the correct one. The latest one. That was yesterday. So we apologize for that but just wanted to straighten that out before we go any further.
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Again, that was Tiger woods just from a different time. It's not that it was the wrong guy. It was just he does this. This a lot. So I don't really know what there is to say. Like I, I saw an interesting angle of people getting mad at a website. I would never expect to have journalistic integrity for not having journalistic integrity about this. Saw people going like why wouldn't they report it? And I'm like cuz they're a frat boy website that doesn't have any journalists on staff. But I don't know what the actual. What is there to say? Tiger? Hire a driver. Like get a person to take you from place to place because it doesn't seem to be a strength of yours to not be on. So he's not. I mean, he's out for the Masters. Yes.
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B
Gotta be.
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A
There's no chance.
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I, I myself, like, I want to take myself to task. I want to stop being excited for Tiger woods comeback because Tiger will, you know, we loved watching him 25 years ago and it's one of the most amazing performances we've ever seen. Week after week he's older, he keeps giving us these grand senses that he's going to come back from his last transgression or his last injury. And he keeps up time after time. And I get, you know, I get disappointed in Tiger Woods. I'm like, God, how could you do this? And then a couple months will pass and I'm like, like that Tiger's coming back. The Tiger's coming back. Every now and then I gotta stop getting excited for this because I am going to get disappointed by this man. If I want to hold him accountable, then me as a sports fan, I need to stop getting excited for him to come back. I need to stop thinking that it's more important to see him play golf than it is for him to be held accountable for taking a 10 ton death machine through the streets of Florida while hopped up on God knows what and putting other people's lives at risk. Yeah, I'm great. Tiger woods was not severely injured in this crash. He was severely injured in the last crash. Makes you think it's a goddamn miracle. He has never killed anyone. Like this is, it's reckless serious. It's reckless that Tiger woods keeps doing. And I need to stop thinking about him as a golfer that I just want to see play golf. No matter how many fleeting minutes there may be, how many months it may take for me to get hyped up on him again. I gotta like, just make sure that as golf fans we're like, like stop investing in this man.
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I also, I know gets wild down in Florida, but I would have thought if this happened this many times, there'd be like a. You got to go to jail at some point. I don't, I'm not saying I want him to, I don't. But it just feels like if you also.
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C
Isn't there like a point, I guess maybe it's within a certain amount of time. But doesn't your license get.
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A
Yeah, it's possible that it is. And he just drives anyway. I don't know if. I don't know, it just is like, like it's deja vu. It just felt like again, we're here again, we're talking about this again, like crawling out of the passenger side. Like he just. He. I think he needs help and. And I just. I don't know, hope that he gets it.
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B
The number of times that I've had To update a 50 year old man's obituary content for SiriusXM is really, really depressing. Wait, that we don't know what's coming?
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A
Like, you are in charge of Tiger woods obituary content.
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B
I got a lot of jobs here.
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A
Feels like a huge reveal. So if. If something were to happen to Tiger woods while we're doing this podcast, you'd have to go?
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B
No, cuz it's updated now.
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A
Oh my God.
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B
Yeah, see?
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A
Damn. Br.
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B
Shouldn't have to do this for a 50 year old man.
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A
Yeah, I. And that's really bleak. It's really bleak. And I think we should move on.
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C
Okay.
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Yeah. To probably whatever we're. Isabella, you familiar with that sound?
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C
No, it kind of sounded like a fart.
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A
Play it again.
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B
That's accurate.
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A
You know what that means? It's time for a World cup date. Oh, hell yeah.
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B
World cup date.
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It's time to cup. It's time to cup date everybody. On the stories around the World Cup. It's the World cup date.
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B
Okay, Isabella, you asked what a Vuella sounds like.
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A
That's it.
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B
Get ready for it.
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C
That's a V. Wait, can I just play it one more time?
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A
Sure can. Sure. Perfect. Okay, starting. I don't know what that. I don't know why there's white noise at the back end of it. It's not part of it.
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C
I'm sorry.
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A
Wait, one more time.
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C
Okay, I'm done.
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Starting with USA versus Belgium. Did you see this? The United States played Belgium. What was that? A friendly in Atlanta on Saturday. A friendly? It's like two international teams playing against each other. I've never heard that. Yeah, well, it's. It's basically like we're here, the World cup is coming, we'll play against each other.
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D
It doesn't count for anything.
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Everybody except soccer calls it an exhibition.
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A
Right? But they call it a friendly.
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B
So like, it's not part of the season, it's not part of the tournament. It's just a game.
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Just a game that doesn't matter. People can come to it.
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The results don't matter. It's just about the friends that you make along the way.
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And it's a good thing that it doesn't matter because they wore the same fucking outfit. They like. Like girls at prom who are embarrassed they showed up in in the same outfit. They both were wearing white kits with like I'm sure somewhere, if you zoomed in enough something that showed which one was Belgium, in which one was the United States. For anybody who tuned in, it was like what? And apparently even some of the players. Christian, how have we all decided his last name is being said? Pulisic.
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I think we're at. Pulisic.
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A
Pulisic.
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C
Pulisic.
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Pulisic.
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I've heard it so many ways. We should confirm.
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B
You want me to text Pete by the end of this bit?
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A
Yeah, but what's he gonna do? Text it. You make him say it back to you in a voice note. Say it out loud in a voice note and we will play it because it's with the. The debate ends.
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Call him coward. He probably knows.
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He said it's difficult. A lot of times you get the ball and you look up and you can't really lock in on something. You only can base it off the color of the shirt. That's how it works. And when it's very similar, it's difficult. It's not an excuse at all. And that he's saying that because they lost five to two and it's not an excuse at all because both teams deal with it. But it's just. It can happen. It shouldn't. Did anybody communicate with anybody about who was going to wear what? Neither team had a backup option at the stadium. They both had to wear their exact same kits.
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So then you go jerseys and skins. What are you doing?
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A
I know. Take your shirt off and take off.
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D
Much easier.
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B
Me 8 year old field hockey tournaments, I get updates of what color were jersey we're wearing the day ahead of time.
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Absolutely absurd. So that's story number one. Story number two, a man has died at the newly renovated Bonorte Stadium in Mexico City, which is scheduled to host the 2026 World cup opening ceremony. I think there's also games being played there. Moments before Mexico and Portugal had their friendly, which Isabella now knows what that is is a man fell to his death from the VIP box. Now I saw that and I said a VIP fan has died at a newly renovated stadium. This is going to be huge news. Then I saw the man is believed to have climbed the exterior of the venue while intoxicated as he tried to jump from the second level box seats to the first level level before falling to the ground. So I again, I don't know who's liable or at fault. Obviously not great. And rest in peace to that man. That's scary. But that does seem like a situation that could have been avoided and maybe wasn't just that they didn't have the proper guardrail up in the VIP box. If you try to jump from floor two to floor one unadvised, ill advised. Don't do it. It. I think is is safe to say. Yeah. Brady has an answer on the Pulisic. Pulisic. Pulisic. Question.
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Pete came through. Pete is the head of all soccer content@sirius xm.
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Pic One more time list.
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Ick. Pic.
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Pic.
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He says. Not poo, not itch.
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Okay, everybody try it. Yeah. Good job, Chris.
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That's the only way that I hadn't.
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I know. Saying holistic Christian, it's a new word. It's gonna be really hard to remember.
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A new pronunciation has been unlocked. I feel like that's the fourth or fifth one.
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He's reached his final. Christian Pulisic. Okay, so that's that story. Tailgating has been banned at MetLife Stadium. No tailgating. Supporters attending games at MetLife Stadium will not be allowed to partake in tailgating. The decision is largely due to the absence of parking at the venue for the tournament, meaning around 80,000 fans per match will rely entirely on public transport, which I have done to get to MetLife and I can't recommend less. MetLife Stadium is set to host eight matches, including the final, and it will operate without its usual parking infrastructure, which is already ass cheap as it is. Absolutely insane to me. No tailgating. Not allowed to use the parking lots. Get to the game. Don't party. Yes, it's the final. Yes, it's a huge soccer game. No, you can't party.
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C
Damn.
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Just show up and go inside. Also in Boston, the mbta, which is their public transportation train, the T that takes you from the center of Boston to Gillette Stadium. When that's used during matches in Foxborough, when it's like Patriots games, It's like a $20 ticket. I think it was doll dollars this weekend to the friendly that they had again, Brazil versus France, which like, okay, why is it going up for a game that means objectively less? Well, it's going up even more. They're reportedly planning to charge 75 or more.
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C
That's crazy.
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For round trip train train tickets to Gillette Stadium for the World cup, which is crazy because I saw people complaining when they were buying their World cup tickets that this World cup lists the cities as like Boston, but it isn't. It's in Foxboro. The game is actually in Foxborough. And while to us, that's just a joke about, you know, before Thursday night football when the Patriots are Playing and they show these beautiful shots of Boston and we all laugh and go, that's not where the game is played. If you're coming from another country, you really don't have the context for that. You don't really know. So you may book a Boston hotel and then you find out, oh, I gotta get from Boston to the actual stadium where they're playing these games. Oh, good, there's a train that does it for $20. Oh, actually they're gonna be $75 now. Yeah. Do we have any update also on if they got the gaming license for the.
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B
Well, they did get that done.
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A
They got it done.
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B
That agreement got done. So they will have games there.
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Good news, bad news, I guess. And then speaking of bad news. So the World cup song. You know, there have been some famous ones throughout the history of the World Cup. The Ricky Martin. Yeah, yeah. The cup of Life. Shakira had waka waka. That was the Africa World Cup.
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C
Wait, so Jelly Roll is our World cup song?
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B
Yeah, that's America right there.
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FIFA released the first song Friday from its 2026 World cup album. And all the news of this keeps calling it the first song. So that feels to me like they're te. They were test running and if it doesn't go well, they can go well. Don't worry. We also got, you know, Coldplay to Creed's coming. Jelly Roll is the first song from the 2026 World Cup. The song is called Lighter. It features Jelly Roll and Mexican singer Karen Leon. Now, I may be pronouncing that wrong, and that's out of respect. So as not to associate this person with this song. I can. I can't speak to their part of it. I can only speak to the part that Jelly Roll sings. It's a three minute song. Jelly Roll sings in English and Leon sings in English and Spanish. Let me read for you the lyrics because we can't play it for you and I can't recommend les that you go find it. Here's the lyrics to the World cup song that we have so far. Jelly Roll Never felt this free before I'm high and I'm getting higher Chains don't rattle no more Good Lord, I'm feeling lighter now. What are you fucking talking about? I respectfully.
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B
Respectfully. He did just lose 100 pounds.
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A
Sure that. That we're supposed to be talking about soccer.
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No, he's feeling lighter.
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They were cold, cold way too heavy Wear me down like a broke down Chevy doesn't make sense, doesn't make sense Till my Soul, soul was good and ready to lay them burdens down I was shackled and battling in a war with myself I was praying and praying my way out of that hell Same old boots but they're off the ground Devil try to catch me now so that's the. The chorus is now. Them chains don't rattle no more Good Lord, I'm feeling lighter they're dropping on a hardwood floor it's soccer. They don't play it on hardwood to the rhythm of a heavenly choir Never felt this free before I'm high and getting high or chains don't rattle no more Good Lord, I'm feeling lighter so that is your World cup date. That's the. All the news that's fit to print about the World cup and how it's going. I don't think it's going to go very well. I guess. Also falls under the World cup date. I think they started paying TSA agents, so that's good.
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D
Oh, nice.
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That's helpful. So the airports aren't just lines in the parking garage out the door of the building because nobody can get to their flight before all these people try to come into the country to play soccer. So, whoa. Let's do some good news for soccer, shall we? I mentioned at the top of the show that we had good news for the nwsl. Denver Summit FC played their first home NWSL game over the weekend, and they set an attendance record. I know I say this a lot on this podcast that you should go look it up, up. And I know that's really annoying, especially if you're watching this on YouTube. Unfortunately, we can't show it to you, but you need to find the video of the crowd at this Denver NWSL game, because it is. It'll affect you. It's. It's. It's a lot. It's beautiful. It's a lot of people. 63,004.
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B
Hell yeah.
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63,004.
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D
Man. How cool would you for that. Four.
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It's Malala. One of them's got to be Malala. She deserves it. She shows up at events like this, and she gets to count as one of the extra four fans that showed up at Empower Field at Mile High, which is where the Denver Broncos play, to watch the Denver Summit play the Washington Spirit. It ended okay. It could have been a better game for them. And I get that it ended in a. In a nil. Nil draw, but I thought it was awesome. I thought it was an amazing showing of support for women's sports. And I think we had some Listeners who might have gone. Chris.
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D
Yeah, a few of them. We will. Let's start off with. With Shelly. Let's hear. Let's hear from Shelly.
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Hi, this is Shelly and son and Olivia and Owen from Denver. We just want to say, 1, 2, 3, go summit. We just saw a game with 60 plus fans. Like, this is crazy. Denver Summit.
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That's all.
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We just want to say hi and we love you and you're awesome and thank you for loving women's sports like we do. Bye. Wait, wait, wait. I'm obsessed.
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D
So much energy in that contagious.
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A
I'm obsessed also that the excitement had her say that they saw a game with 60 fans, which.
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B
60 plus. Which is true.
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60 plus. There were more than 60 people there. That was absolutely adorable. Do we have another one like that?
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D
Yeah.
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F
Let's hear from Sean, Katie and the casualties. This is Sean from Denver. I think my wife just called, wanted to call again and let you know that we just got back from the first ever NWSL game here in Denver, Colorado. 63,000 plus people showed up for the game. It was awesome. Yeah, we. We were popping nooners. We're watching women's soccer. We're breaking attendance records. So we just wanted to call and let you know the good news.
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Oh, hell yeah. Wait, do we have. We confirmed is his wife Shelly.
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D
I'm pretty sure, because if you go back and have a listen to the start of Shelly's voicemail, she says, this is Shelly. And I'm pretty sure she says, and Sean.
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A
Aha.
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D
And yeah, okay. And those voicemails came in, like, five minutes apart.
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Now, in my mind, it's that she. He was like, I'm gonna call Casuals. And she was like, what? So are we in separate rooms?
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D
Do it independently.
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I think that's really sweet, and that's really warming my heart. Do we have another?
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D
We do. We have one more. This is from Rob. Let's have a listen.
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Hey, KD and Casuals, this is Rob in Denver. I just came from the Denver Summit game that I've got a little bit of Maramite without any butter of bitter taste in my mouth. That is not something that Chris mentioned as a thing to watch this week. Yet somehow, on a show released on the 24th, he wanted to highlight a softball game that took place on the 24th. And subsequently, fortunately, people weren't necessarily following that belated guidance. And there were 63,004 people setting a new national Women's Soccer league record of attendance. And I was happy that myself and my girlfriend, who bought the Season tickets were among them. And so please, also, if you can, I'm trying to get her into listening to casuals as a casual herself. I sent her the interview with Gotham FC and then Summit subsequently waxed them. So please interview more other opposing teams. Any encouraging words to Carrie to listen more? I would be happy to have the help trying to get her on board with you guys.
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C
Aww.
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Love you and mean it. Bye.
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A
That's really funny, Chris. Did you care to comment?
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D
Yeah. So firstly, we don't eat Marmite. We eat Vegemite.
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A
I was gonna say, what's Marmite?
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D
I think that's like the UK version. Or maybe it's like the knockoff version, straight out. Vegemite.
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A
First of all, please.
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D
Secondly, I was incorrect in the date that was on the rundown, but the game itself, it should have read the 27th. So the game had not happened yet that I was trying to preview. It was just a spelling mistake that I put in the rundown. So I apologize. Point taken.
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Yeah, yeah, mistake, but not at the level that he's trying to allege.
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D
Yeah, exactly. The.
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B
You could have edited that part out.
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D
No, because I wanted to. I wanted to make sure that I was, you know, being held accountable.
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A
This is like abs in baseball. This is. The umps are going through this right now where they have to sit in it and go like, oh, our collars are abs system. Yeah, I love that.
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D
But it was just a typo, not an actual error on which game I was talking about.
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A
Okay. And he got the number perfectly right, so we can't even. There's no corrections to offer to him. He's specifically.
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D
Well, the correction is the Vegemite of it all.
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A
You're right. That's exactly right.
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D
Yeah.
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Well, man, I love that. I love how excited everybody was and I love setting new attendance records and I love the energy in the video from the Denver fans. It's awesome. I think we need to move towards sustaining stuff like that, like repeated, you know, crowd size. But nothing about that is negative. It was a blast to watch. It was so cool to see people show up and to love it and to all be really into do it. And I absolutely love that. Should we take a break? And then when we come back, Chris can. Maybe during the break, Chris will fact check all of the things he's going to tell us we can watch if we want to watch sports this week just to make sure he doesn't give the date.
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D
You guys just let me know if I'm mentioning a date that's in the past and then I can correct.
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That's the other thing. None of us, none of us noticed that it was for a date that had happened already. So we're kind of all in the wrong. But let's not dwell on that. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. Nowadays it feels like people just love to put you in a box, but I think confidence comes from choosing what actually works for you. The GMC Terrain is a premium compact SUV built for people who value capability, smart design and doing things their own way. That confidence shows up in the 2026 Terrain's bold exterior styling, including an available two tone roof with heated front seats and available all wheel drive with multiple drive modes. The Terrain is ready for whatever comes next. GMC we are professional grade America's best
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Okay, I have to tell you, I was just looking on ebay where I go for all kinds of things I love. And there it was. That hologram trading card. One of the rarest. The last one I needed for my set. Shiny like the designer handbag of my dreams.
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D
One of a kind.
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A
Ebay had it and now everyone's asking,
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D
ooh, where'd you get your windshield wipers?
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E
Ebay has all the parts that fit my car.
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A
No more annoying, just beautiful.
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C
Millions of finds, each with a story. Ebay Things people love.
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E
As a fan chosen for the halftime challenge, I love sports for a chance to win the big prize.
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D
But when my half court heaves only
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E
goes half the distance, how embarrassing for him? I wonder, is sport clips better than sports?
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D
Because Sport Clips haircuts is sports on
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E
tv plus an expert haircut.
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D
Hot steam towel and massaging shampoo tear
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up his comically large check. Which is better than sports plus public embarrassment. Sport clips. It's a game changer.
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D
Check it online@sportclips.com okay, we're back.
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Last block so I don't really have to scream. But Chris does a great job for us every week. You know, some mistakes get in and that's totally fine. He compiles a list. List of Stuff that if you a casual wanted to watch some sports this week, what would be some good things for you to watch? So Chris, why don't you walk us through your choices for this week.
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D
First thing, the FA cup man City against Liverpool.
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Right.
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Katie, last week you mentioned your love for Mo Salah. Now Mo Salah will no longer be at Liverpool come the end of the season so there's only going to be a very few amount of opportunities for people to watch Mo Salah in a Liverpool kit. So watch this game. It'll be on Saturday 8, April 4th at what time? Which is in the future at 7:45am on ESPN. So this will be Mo Salah's first match if he plays since he announced his departure from Liverpool at the end of the season.
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And then it's just, it's just 7:45 on a Saturday, you know and I love Mo. I'll be, I'll see. I'll get. Get up.
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I'll get up you because you mentioned in, in your episode, in your, in your farewell message to him last week that you used to get up.
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I did, I did. And what she Believe it cuz I can't.
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I can't.
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But I did. Yeah and a lot of that was the communal aspect of the going to a bar that like somehow specially is allowed to serve beer earlier than usual, that everybody's together to watch the actual, you know, they're all there for the same. Doing it by myself in my apartment with my dog who's gonna be annoyed at me. Why are we up? I need to go out and there's no way I'm waking up, taking her out and then it's just a. I'm gonna, I'll wake up, I'll turn the TV on and I'll stay in bed. Is that fair? 7:45.
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Yep.
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Mm mm.
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It's not that early.
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What else? Yes it is that early. If you don't have kids. Yes it is that early. I wake up every day during the week at 8am I don't want to also do that on the weekends. I just don't.
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That's fair.
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I chose to not have children specifically for, I mean a bunch of reasons but this is kind of a big one.
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I like sleeping in, getting jumped on at 7:15 on a Saturday. That is one of the reasons that,
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that it's probably lovely. There's probably nice parts about it. Don't tell me any of them. I'm not doing it. What else can we watch, Chris?
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Number two, the men's NCAA College Basketball Final four will be on Saturday. We still obviously don't know the women's match matchups yet. That's still TBD for us.
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He's not mentioning them because he hates women.
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That's why I only want you to
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watch the women's final.
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The men's final four, number three Illinois will face off against number two Yukon on Saturday, April 4th, again in the future at 6:09pm Eastern on TBS. And that game is followed up with number one Michigan against number one Arizona, also on Saturday, April 4th, at 8:49pm Eastern. That time will, I think, maybe change depending on what time that first game game ends. But those are the rough starting tip offs for those two games.
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For just the men's.
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For just the men's.
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And then hold up before. Okay, go.
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What?
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You can jump in there if you want, buddy.
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What, Brady, what did you want to say?
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The one thing that Chris cut out of the what to watch was a baseball game. I wanted to share Sunday night, just like out of habit for the entirety of my life. It was like 8 o' clock on Sunday night. Sunday I rolled through my TV channels, I put on ESPN and it was the United Football League.
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That's right.
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And it was so goddamn sad.
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It was really bad.
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But it was that they.
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Baseball.
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That Sunday night baseball's gone.
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Well, it was on.
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It's on. Peacock. Yes, it's on.
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Which is kind of crazy because if you turned to NBC, it was Sunday night basketball. And I feel like we are not that far removed from a world where you weren't allowed to have both because where would you have put the other one?
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One?
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I mean, they had NBC Sports Network, which had been converted from verses. But that is gone, isn't it? NBC Sports Network is gone.
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Yeah, I think so. I think that's gone.
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And so like, I. I don't know, I just thought it was interesting that if you wanted to watch Sunday night baseball, you had to go to like Peacock.
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Yeah, I had to take all the steps to get there, but like, it was just such a. Like a staple. I made peace with baseball tonight. Going away and the animation of the guy spinning around and hitting the homer. I made peace with that going away a while ago. But to not have the actual game on there, not, you know, turn it on and be like, there's no Eduardo Perez in my life on a Sunday night.
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Strange.
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Yeah, it just, it really hit home that it's not there anymore.
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It's like F1 not being on ESPN. For me, it's that sort of thing. Because our Sundays are markedly different now that it's on a service that we do not currently have.
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Oh, we gotta get you that service.
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I know.
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And we gotta find those F1 KitKat bars because I do want to eat them. I want to eat a little car shaped KitKat.
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What if it's just they find the thief in a room just like lying on the ground, barely open and just, just like Kit Kat rep. His chocolate
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melted all over his face. When I saw that, it actually looked like the evidence.
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Saw that it actually looked like a car. It was cool cuz, you know you get those like Reese's Cup. Like the Reese's Cup. Santa Claus.
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Not a Santa Claus. Yeah, it's like pick something like an egg so we know you can just go like. See, it's a little bit oblong. Chris, there is one more thing that we can watch if we want to watch sports this week. What is is it?
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There is. And this was inspired by an email that I got from Paul who wrote in and said, hey Katie and the casualties. In the interest of promoting more women's sports, I thought I'd bring your attention to the WNFC Women's National Football Conference. They're a women's full contact tackle football league and they're getting ready to start their next season. The games are available to stream on Victory plus. And of course you should try to go to a game if you have a team in your area. So the game that I want to highlight for this week is, is also on April 4, this is at 10pm Eastern, 7pm Pacific on Victory Plus. It's the Seattle Majestics at Oregon Ravens. So make sure you check out this Victory Plus. I did some research on this streaming service. It's a free ad supported streaming service. They have Anaheim Ducks games, they have Dallas Stars games, they have Dallas Pulse games of the Major League Volleyball and they also cover NWSL League 1 volleyball and the Western Hockey League as well as the WNFC. So a lot of different sports and different teams that you can watch for free streaming on Victory Plus. So go and check that out.
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I think I might have watched the championship of the WNFC last year. Oh cool. By accident. I think it was on a weekend. I think I was. Dan was in Connecticut for a show. Myrtle and I went, we're at the hotel with him during the day. We were like, what could we watch? And we put on. It was like a women's indoor professional football competition. That game.
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Competition very well could be that.
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And I think it was this. I don't remember who won, though, is the thing. So I'm as bad of an ally as Chris, so I do what I can. All right.
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None of us can live up to Brady's.
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Yeah, Brady just loves women so much. He said that the wrong team won a WNBA game because he stopped watching it.
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Last half full watch that first half.
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Sure did just like me for that. Truly. I it was. I could finally relate to you when I was like, I turned that off. It was over. Wasn't over. Yukon won. Okay, that's it for your first episode of the week. Like I said, later in the week we're gonna have Sarah Wilson, AKA Swilly. You know her as Swilly from John Boy. In here. We're going to talk about all the baseball goings on. I want to talk about abs. I want to talk about CB Buckner. I want to talk about so much knowing the names of umps and how fascinating that is in this new era. So we'll get to all of that and then other stuff with her later in the week. Thank you guys so much for listening. Don't forget, if you want to reach out to us Casuals with Katie nolan gmail.com our voicemail 646-810-0043 thank you for calling and sending in those voicemails. By the way. All awesome today, Casuals, the podcast on IG and TikTok. Love you. Mean it. See you later in the week. Bye. This episode is presented by gmc. We are professional grade.
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