Chloe & Myles, The Quad God, Illegal Curling Boops, and a Daytona Arby's

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Casuals with Katie Nolan

Episode: Chloe & Myles, The Quad God, Illegal Curling Boops, and a Daytona Arby's
Original Air Date: February 17, 2026
Host: Katie Nolan
Guests/Co-hosts: Isabella, Chris, Brady
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Episode Overview

This episode of Casuals with Katie Nolan covers the Olympics in full swing, diving into the unique and viral moments from figure skating (“the Quad God”), curling controversies (“Boop-gate”), love stories from the athletes’ village, and even a NASCAR-Arby’s crossover. With her signature irreverence and banter, Katie guides her casual crew—Isabella, Chris, and Brady—through both in-depth and delightfully off-the-beaten-path sports stories, always focused on making sports fandom fun and accessible.

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Main Topics & Discussion Highlights

1. Olympic Village Condom Distribution

• A humorous icebreaker about the number of condoms at the Olympic Village: Only 10,000 distributed this year versus 330,000 in Paris and 450,000 in Rio.
• The team jokes about athletes’ optimism and logistics, “Some people might just be taking them…optimistically.” (Katie, 01:39)
• “Congrats on your new Olympic baby.” (Katie, 02:08)

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2. Listener Email: Spring and Fall Olympics? [04:03–08:47]

• Mike from Philly asks why there aren’t Spring/Fall Olympics, and what events the crew would want to include.
• Fun brainstorms: Easter egg hunts, lumberjack events, apple bobbing, pumpkin picking, competitive kite flying, sack racing, chess boxing, cornhole, and darts.
• “All those sports that aren’t recognized… Should we organize this? If we had our [act] together…” (Katie, 08:17)
• The team considers holding their own “Schmalympics”—a bar games Olympics for perennial fun.

Memorable Quote:
“If we could get them to be real, I’d watch that. All I’m saying is we’re leaving money on the table.” (Katie, 42:45 – re: an Olympic dating reality show)

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3. Olympic Figure Skating Drama – "Quad God" Ilia Malinin [08:47–18:48]

• Recap of Ilia Malinin (“Quad God”) and his disappointing Olympic free skate—hyped as the first-ever Olympic quadruple axel, but Malinin falters and drops to 8th.

• Discussion about the pitfalls of self-promotion and pressure. Katie and crew debate the merits and awkwardness of Ilia’s spoken word routine and subsequent “hype video” posted after his loss.

• Memorable Quote:

  • “You named yourself Quad God… That’s very marketable, and it was therefore marketed. But…now’s probably a good time to take a step back.” (Katie, 17:42)
  • “I would be so pissed at my own recording if I fell after doing a jump and then it’s like I just hear myself saying, ‘Shut up!’” (Isabella, 12:41)

• Special attention given to sportsmanship and redemption, noting Kazakhstan’s Michal Shadorov winning gold unexpectedly, and Malinin’s gracious reaction.

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4. Curling Controversy ("Boop-gate") [23:36–29:42]

• Detailed breakdown of the curling scandal: Sweden’s Oscar Erikson accuses Canada’s Mark Kennedy of “double-touching” (or “booping”) the curling stone after the hog line.
• Swedish team brought their own cameras; memes and online jokes abound.
• “I’ve been trying to single boop and I’ve been double booping and that’s my bad.” (Katie, 28:12)
• Further incidents prompt additional officiating and reveal Canadian women’s and British men’s teams also violated the rule.
• Explores the erosion of curling’s “honor system” in the Olympics.
• “Get it together, curling—quit. Straighten yourselves out, because curl straight. You know what I mean?” (Katie, 29:34; joke lands with crew at 29:42)

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5. Hockey at the Olympics [29:42–34:49]

• US men's hockey team: Winning but not dominant, struggling with slow starts and on-ice mistakes.
• US women’s team: Crushed Sweden 5–0 in the semifinals; on a dominant streak, aiming for gold against Canada or Switzerland.
• “They look so much better than everybody else.” (Katie, 32:46)
• Gets into the emotional rollercoaster of rooting for NHL stars on various national teams, specifically the Kachuk brothers.
• Notable moment: Rare Olympic hockey fight between Canada and France, resulting in ejections.
  • “You never see a hockey fight in the Olympics.” (Brady, 34:07)

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6. Other Olympic Stories: Brazil's First Medal & Olympic Love [34:49–45:28]

• Brazil’s first-ever Winter Olympic medal: Lucas Pinheiro Broughton wins gold in giant slalom—a dual-national who came out of retirement.
  • “I just hope the Brazilians back home look at this and truly understand that your difference is your superpower…” (Lucas, as quoted by Katie, 35:41)
• Love at the Games: Browns’ Myles Garrett and snowboarder Chloe Kim are the Olympic power couple, exchanging sweet posts and gifts (i.e., a pink Ford Bronco).
  • “They are so cute. He posted: ‘So proud of you. I’m thankful that I get to be by your side…’” (Katie, 38:04)
• Other love stories:
  • Sophia Kirkby (luge) turns Olympic stay into a “Bachelorette”-style quest.
  • Newlyweds Kim Meylemans (Belgium) and Nicole Silveira (Brazil) compete against each other in skeleton on Valentine’s Day.
  • “Can you imagine if on Valentine’s Day you had to compete against the love of your life?” (Katie, 43:45)

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7. Olympic Figure Skating Hype (Continued): Alysa Liu [45:28–46:21]

• Isabella spotlights skater Alysa Liu, her comeback narrative, unique style, and LGBTQ+ representation.
  • “She retired when she was 16. She’s so cool with her stripe hair and stuff.” (Isabella, 45:46–45:59)

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8. NBA All-Star Weekend Recap [46:29–52:21]

• Crew discusses the underwhelming All-Star game and skills competitions—empty venues, too-high ticket prices, and the “weirdness” of the event now.
• “Stop showing us how empty [the arena is].” (Katie, 48:26)
• Obama’s cameo gets the only thunderous crowd response, leading to a chat about his remarks on UFOs/aliens.
  • Obama says on a podcast: “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them.” (50:25)
• Katie: “Why isn’t it catered toward the fans more? … If we could just go directly to their wallets, we’d bypass them immediately.” (Katie, 49:28)

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9. Rapid-Fire Rundown: Sports Are Back [52:21–69:01]

NASCAR

• Tyler Reddick wins Daytona 500; Jimmy Eat World performs at a Daytona Arby’s.
  • “Highlight was that Jimmy Eat World played a concert at an Arby’s in Daytona.” (Brady, 54:37)

MLB/College Baseball

• Baseball and college baseball return; wild stats, like Baylor’s Tice Armstrong hitting 3 grand slams in one game.
• “What are we showing off? Two was fine. Three is kind of a lot.” (Katie, 64:47)
• The new ball-strike challenge system sparks debate; Chris Sale says: “I will never challenge a pitch...because I’m not an umpire.” [61:20–61:57]
• Drag on Red Sox and Phillies front offices for frustrating handling of contracts and policies.

College Softball

• Oklahoma crushes UTEP 34–0, with stats that sound made-up (“nine games…38 home runs”).
• Nija Kennedy at Texas Tech: first million-dollar softball player; her season is off to a bumpy start.

Golf

• Colin Morikawa and Anthony Kim (after 16 years away) each win events, with noted caveats for LIV Golf’s Saudi funding.
  • “Good for Anthony Kim…” (Brady, 69:01)

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10. 'What to Watch This Week' (with timestamps) [72:20–74:34]

Chris gives top picks:

• Olympics: Women’s hockey gold medal match – Thursday, Feb. 19, 1:10pm ET, NBC.
• College Baseball: #1 UCLA vs #10 TCU – Friday, Feb. 20, 8:00pm ET, Big Ten+.
• MLS: Nashville v. New England Revolution – Saturday, Feb. 21, 8:30pm ET, Apple TV.
• (Light joke about 'the MLS' versus 'MLS.' Katie: “If you’re gonna yell at him [Chris], you gotta go through me.” 74:01)

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Notable Quotes and Moments

• “I just want to yell in a way that only my partner understands what I’m saying. That’s what I want.” (Katie, 24:28, on curling)
• “You cannot double boop.” (Katie, 29:02, on recurring curling infractions)
• “We could do an annual party…call them the Spring and Fall Olympics…” (Katie, 08:40)
• On Ilia Malinin’s quad God hype: “It just made me feel bad for how harsh I was…” (Katie, 12:49)
• “You want the finals to be USA–Canada; that’s exactly how it should be.” (Katie, 33:48 – on Olympic women’s hockey)
• “If you guys break up, I swear to God. Not this year. I can’t take it, okay?” (Katie, 39:54 – on Myles Garrett and Chloe Kim)

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Tone & Style

• Playful, sarcastic, self-deprecating humor
• Banter that makes sports accessible, not intimidating
• Pop-culture and meme references, asides, and running jokes
• Crew interjects as “casuals” and “newbies,” keeping discussions light

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Olympic condom supply & intro: 01:00–02:44
• Spring/Fall Olympics brainstorm: 04:03–08:47
• Ilia “Quad God” Malinin saga: 08:47–18:48
• Curling controversy ("Boop-gate"): 23:36–29:42
• Hockey (Olympics, fights, and Kachuks): 29:42–34:49
• Brazil’s first Winter gold & athlete love stories: 34:49–45:28
• Alysa Liu’s comeback and figure skating hype: 45:28–46:21
• NBA All-Star Weekend complaints: 46:29–52:21
• Sports rapid-fire (NASCAR, MLB, college sports): 52:21–69:01
• What to watch this week: 72:20–74:34

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Closing Thoughts

Katie and crew deliver a whirlwind Olympic update through the lens of infectious fandom, meme-culture, and general irreverence, wrapping it all in accessible fun. From the high drama of the quad jump to the slow burn of MLB front office angst, Casuals does exactly what’s promised—turning sports from “homework to recess.”

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[Katie Nolan]

Hey, Isabella, did you see that? They ran out of condoms in the Olympic Village.

[Isabella]

Oh, man.

[Katie Nolan]

Brutal.

[Isabella]

I know. Don't they know?

[Katie Nolan]

You'd think you'd at least have.

[Isabella]

You should have a backup.

[Katie Nolan]

They only gave out 10,000 this year. Oh. For comparison, in Paris, it was3.300,000.

[Isabella]

I was gonna say how.

[Katie Nolan]

I don't even.

[Isabella]

I can't even. How many people are competing.

[Katie Nolan]

I guess they've got, they, they, they have to take into account the athletes and also the officials. Yeah, they have 3,000 people at the Olympic Village.

[Isabella]

I don't even wanna do that math. But they definitely should have had like at least 100K.

[Katie Nolan]

Right. The record is 450,000 in Rio. That's how many, 450,000 they went to. I also think we need to account for the fact that some people might just be taking them aspirationally. They may be taking them optimistically. It doesn't mean they're being. We don't have any evidence, nor do we want any that they're all being used.

[Isabella]

Also, we don't have any evidence of the quality of them. So we don't know how many of them broke and maybe they needed another one.

[Katie Nolan]

Why would we have. What? Congrats on your new Olympic baby. Hello, and welcome to Casuals, the sports podcast that does not care what you know, it does not matter. That's not what it's about. It's about what you feel. And we feel excited to talk to you about sports. I'm your host, Katie Nolan. Joined today by my casualties, our production crew here at SiriusXM we have Isabella, our sports newbie.

[Isabella]

Hello.

[Katie Nolan]

We've got Chris, our master editor.

[Chris]

Hi.

[Katie Nolan]

And ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba. Rady.

[Brady]

Yo, yo.

[Katie Nolan]

You can reach us if you'd like to by email. Casuals with Katie nolan gmail dot com. Our voicemail is 646-801-0043. On IG and Tik Tok, we are at Casuals, the podcast. I have to apologize. I sound horrendous. Today. I have come down with something. I got away with it. Dan's been sick like two or three times since I've last been sick. So I've been doing great. And then this weekend just came to a crashing and burning. I feel horrible. Today is technically, I think, a holiday, right? Happy. Yeah, happy President to you. But we're here and we're gonna power through. Also Housekeeping here. Up top. Big news. The podcast is now full video available on YouTube.

[Chris]

Yay.

[Katie Nolan]

So that one guy who commented that on every single thing we post on Instagram, I would like somebody on our staff to comment back to him and let him know he better watch and you better get all his friends to watch because he's been really mean about it. And now we're doing it. We're here, we're live. Of course. It's the day I'm sick and we're very excited. Cool. Anything else in Housekeeping? Do we have any emails we need to get to?

[Chris]

We have one.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, let's hear it.

[Chris]

This is from Mike from Philly, and Mike wants to know, why are there no spring and Fall Olympics? We're on a four year cycle at the moment, so why make us wait between Olympics? What events do you think you could have at the potential spring and Fall Olympics? For fall, every event from the Lumberjack Games would be a good start. Spring feels like a time for whimsical events like cheese rolling and wife carrying. What events would you like to see? This is a good point. We could get Olympics every year.

[Brady]

NBC just got those Scrooge McDuck eyes. They just heard money being printed.

[Katie Nolan]

I think the issue is the building of the. I've been saying this for a while. Olympics need to move to, like, new, like, eight neutral sites around the world and just sort of cycle through those. Cause it's crazy. Even while they're in Milan, which is in Italy, like Milan Cortina, the Olympics that were in Torino. I've seen pictures of the Torino, like, luge track and how it's overgrown now and, like, nobody uses it and it's just Like, a huge waste of it gets sad. It's great. And I love the Olympics and I hate this angle of talking about it, but it is like a. It's tough to have all these sites and build the infrastructure necessary, ignoring all of that and just playing with the fun of it. I think we should add an Easter egg hunt to the spin Spring Olympics.

[Brady]

Like, intensely hidden eggs.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. I mean, that's what it always was for me and my brother, and he always found all of them as a little sister, you never. He would always just be like, there's one Katie. And, like, leave them for me. And he found all the good ones.

[Brady]

I always thought you couldn't just cross brand this to Red Bull because all of the Red Bull folks, like, you have guys jumping out of space or, like, flying cardboard planes from 300ft up in the air into nothing. People are risking their lives. Like, no gold medal. In the end, let's just create something for these guys that are doing horrifically dangerous things all the time with no Olympic sport on the end.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Downhill racers, the soapbox cars. Hell yeah. Olympic sport.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Why not? Let's do free soloing. Olympic free soloing. It'll just be that one guy and, like, the four other guys that do it. But. But still, I'd tune in. I'd watch. That way we don't have to put him on Netflix on a rainy day.

[Brady]

You know, it'll be fun. Until it's not, right?

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Isabella]

Until I have an idea for.

[Katie Nolan]

Isabella has an idea, and that. That means I want everybody to sh. And she's gonna say it. Go ahead.

[Isabella]

I was gonna say do, like, apple bobbing or what is it called? Or, like, pumpkin picking. Something like that.

[Katie Nolan]

For the fall Olympics. I love that. I love that.

[Isabella]

Right?

[Katie Nolan]

While drinking a pumpkin spice latte. Put on your boots, layer up, and let's go. Yeah, I love that. Chris, any ideas?

[Chris]

What about competitive kite flying for the spring Olympics?

[Katie Nolan]

Okay. How do you win?

[Chris]

Well, you, like, cut down the opposition's kites.

[Katie Nolan]

Whoa.

[Brady]

Oh. Battle kites.

[Chris]

Or you do tricks. There's, like, different disciplines within the competitive kite flying sport.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, of course. I'm more of a distance gal. Maybe, like, ultimate Frisbee, I feel like. Could be one. That's a good one. Are we just calling that ultimate now? I think. Or frost.

[Brady]

Yeah, I think. I think the Frisbee is, like Xerox or Kleenex. The Frisbee folk wanted the branding proprietary.

[Katie Nolan]

And we can't say it.

[Brady]

Only one.

[Chris]

I would throw in sack racing for fall Olympics.

[Katie Nolan]

Sack Racing. Now that is.

[Chris]

What, like the potato sack racing.

[Isabella]

Oh, the one where you jumped in.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay. Yeah, yeah. I didn't know. I didn't. You guys do weird stuff down there in Australia. I didn't know if we were doing something with our sacks, you know?

[Brady]

What season do you slot in chess? Boxing.

[Katie Nolan]

Chess. Boxing.

[Brady]

So chess Boxing is a sport where you alternate rounds of chess and boxing. You win either by knockout or checkmate.

[Katie Nolan]

Hold on. The mental of the. It's like a. How could you.

[Brady]

You play like a couple minutes of chess, and then you go punch each other in the head for a couple minutes, and then back and forth. You win by either checkmate or knocking the other guy out.

[Katie Nolan]

No. Okay. You're saying it like it makes sense, so I'll just go, totally. I'd put that in spring, because who cares, you know? This is not real, so it doesn't really matter.

[Chris]

Cornhole for fall.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay. Yeah. I do think we could do, like, half Olympics, like the spring and fall schmalympics. Like, something that's. It's all like, bar games and stuff.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Like, you know, and all the way up to darts, which I know we take very seriously as a sport here at Casuals.

[Guest Speaker]

100%.

[Katie Nolan]

But it's all those sports that aren't recognized. Instead of adding them and trying to get them into. We should put whatever the lady from Australia did that breakdancing could probably go in, like, spring or fall. I don't think that needs to be in the Summer Olympics, but, yeah, good idea. Mike from Philly. We could put all these little. We should organize this. If we had our together here at Casuals, and we just got full video, so we need a.

[Chris]

Let's wait a little bit.

[Katie Nolan]

I think we could do an annual party, and we call them the Spring and Fall Olympics. I think we could make this work. We'll get to work.

[Brady]

Some Olympics probably gets us around the branding.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, I think so. And we'll do four boxes or five boxes. You know, they will never know. They'll be different colors. Okay, let's talk about the Olympics. It's not a yap. Usually up here at the top, I like to do a yap. But I'm. I. I want to bring everybody in on this because I mostly want to discuss Olympic stuff. And the thing about Olympics is everybody's a casual for the most part. I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, maybe one of you is a figure skating expert. But my favorite thing about the Olympics is that we're all just gathering to hear the Stories and. And try to remember what we've definitely learned and forgotten about how to play each and every of these sports. So because there's so much Olympics to talk about, I figured we'd put some of it up top here before we take our first break. And I want to start by talking about the quad God. Now, did we. How much of this did we cover on the last episode of this podcast? Somebody has to remind me because I did a bunch of radio since then, and I don't want to repeat myself, but we did discuss Ilia Malin and. Correct. He was the United States favorite for men's gold in figure skating.

[Brady]

We discussed the quad God and the fact that it's the spinning and not the thigh muscles. And his spoken word, Jack Handy.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, we did talk about that.

[Chris]

Yes, yes.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay. So he skates. His free skate is to a song called I believe. It's called a Voice, and it is just a dramatic, like piano violin arrangement. And then it's him saying inspirational quotes. Wily skates not live. It's pre recorded. Part of the music. Live would be live would be. At least it would go, oh, that makes sense. This is. This. It's almost weirder that it's recorded where it's like, just mic the guy up and let him say it. I will say it also hits really different when you're not nailing your jumps. And when we saw now Iliad was playing with. Yes, yes. Isabella. Yes. Ilya Malinin, we should say, already has a team gold from the team event, the figure skating event. It's the first thing they. And he wasn't supposed to compete in it. And he did. He had to, in fact, in order for the United States to win. And they won gold. Then we did ice dancing and there was a little bit of controversy on that, which we can get into in a second. And then we did the men's singles, and Ilya, obviously, they do a short program and a free skate on two separate nights. The free skate is Ilya's spoken word arrangement. And leading into it, they were like, here he goes. He had the lead. He was in first place and did not do well. Now the announcers, it's Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir. Tara was like they were hyping this up. This would have been the first time that somebody completed a quadruple axel on Olympic ice. It had never been done before. It was considered impossible to do just because of the way the axle works. We don't have to get into that. But he was. This was going to be the first time it was done on Olympic ice, leading into this first jump, she's like, if he's gonna do the quad, it'll be right here. And you're. Everybody's on the edge of their seat. And he popped it into, I believe, a single axel. And then as the routine continued, he fell a couple times. Some of his jumps that were supposed to be quads were actually doubles. It was just from that first miss, you could tell this was not going to be the routine that anybody was expecting. He eventually fell to eighth place, completely off of the podium. And it's just. It made me immediately feel bad for how harsh I was. About, like, he gave himself the nickname of quad God. And he skates to a song where he motivates himself by saying, you are not nothing, you are something. Or what was Isabella your favorite? Was like, pull the thread of future and see where time it was.

[Isabella]

I would be so pissed at my own recording if I fel after doing a jump. And then it's like I just hear myself saying, shut me.

[Katie Nolan]

Shut up. Will somebody shut me up, please? What do I know? How could I at a time like this? And so, yeah, he didn't do well. He fell off of the. Well, he didn't fall off the podium. That sounds like he got up there and tripped. He didn't make it to the podium. Okay, the feel good story. Michal Shadorov from Kazakhstan, who put together a beautiful routine, who actually also completed a triple axel, half loop, quad saukow, a combo that had never been completed on Olympic ice before, put together such a beautiful routine, he won gold. And watching that occur to somebody who was not a metal favorite, who was not like, during his actual routine, they were saying, now this is just him planting seeds for the next Olympic cycle. Look at him showing you that next Olympics he's gonna be somebody to contend with. Meanwhile, he won the gold. So watching him realize that he was gonna win a medal and then realize that the medal was gonna be gold was such a pure moment. It was crazy. So then, after this devastating, I will say what, sportsmanship from Ilya Malinin, he came off the ice, didn't refuse an interview. He actually did an interview where he said, you know, they asked him, what did you feel in that moment when you were finished? And he was like, like, I let everybody down. And it's like, ah, yeah, I can see how that's what you would feel. That's a. That sucks. And then he was so gracious to the winner, he went and hugged him and congratulated, him. I don't know what he said to him, but he said something. And like I said, I felt bad. I felt bad that I was like, I'm not rooting for this guy. I don't like the way he spins. It doesn't do it for me. I don't think he can dance. As soon as it had happened and he fell to eighth place, I was like, man, I'm sorry I said all that. I didn't. I wasn't rooting against you. I didn't want you to do poorly. I just thought maybe your first Olympics, it was kind of a little much to come out with a song where you were the person talking. It was like maybe a humbling event, you know, he's young. He's so young. He's 21. This is his first Olympics. I feel like this is. Could ultimately be something that's good for him in the long run. It sets up his Olympic story. He can come back from this. We do have a tendency to do this with our athletes, though, of praising them as these people who are going to bring home everything. We did it with Nathan Chen as well. A couple Olympics. An Olympic ago. An Olympics ago. But I saw people online saying, this is unfair, the media is unfair, setting up these huge expectations for these athletes. And I just wanted to know if anybody here had thoughts on that, because I had thoughts on it.

[Brady]

I don't like that. He immediately returned with a hyper produced video on his Instagram account.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, so tell me about this because I missed it.

[Brady]

So it's. It's his highlights, but it's like the Avengers trailer. Somber piano music over his highlights, flashing to black and white shots of him with his head in his hands that he's like. It fits right with his music. It's. No matter how hard you try to stay the same through the endless insurmountable pressure, it all builds up as these moments flash before your eyes, resulting in an inevitable crash. This is the version of that story and it says, coming February 21, 2026. Like, he immediately responds with a hype video for the exhibition skate that they'll have on Saturday to end the Olympics. I don't think it can feel genuine when you're coming out with like your video team producing a hype video with credits like there's there, there's. It's a step too far, man. I, I don't know how I can get behind that.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, I, I can't get behind him skating in the gala because I assumed he wasn't going to for Anybody who doesn't know they end the figure skating competition with a gala where I don't remember who gets to skate what, but it basically gives these skaters an opportunity to, like, do their routines one last time. And it's really fun because the pressure is off. So a lot of the times they'll come out and, like, really give their all in a way that's, like, more fun for them, as opposed to, like, having to stress about landing all their jumps or whatever. And I love that he's gonna do it. I think that I assumed he just wouldn't after that performance. And I think it shows, you know, fortitude. Mental fortitude, that he's able. That he's gonna do it. I. Yeah, I don't. I didn't see the Hype video, but I don't. I don't love it.

[Isabella]

I know when you said gala, I was imagining all of them just having, like, a cocktail party on the ice and skates.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Which I would tune. Where?

[Isabella]

The gala.

[Katie Nolan]

I'd tune into that.

[Chris]

Right.

[Katie Nolan]

I'd watch the. The Met Gala on ice.

[Chris]

Sounds pleasant.

[Katie Nolan]

That be kind of funny, right, to watch. They should put the actual Met Gala on ice. We can see if these people can skate.

[Brady]

Just saying. You can't complain about the enormous pressure if you then release a Hype video, building up more pressure for your gal.

[Katie Nolan]

I mean, you named yourself quad God. I do keep coming back to, like, you gave yourself that nickname now. He gave it to himself, I believe, to motivate himself to hit his quads and to make that his whole personality. But it's very marketable, and it was therefore marketed. And so I think that, like I said, he's young, and I think now is a good time to take a step back. And it's the difficult thing about being an athlete. Right. Cause it's like, you have to have so much confidence in yourself to be able to go out there and perform on the world's biggest stage. At the same time, if you overdo it, you look kind of. It makes this part more awkward and uncomfortable because it's like, I thought you were the quad God, you know? But I just. Look, that's gotta be tough to do. The Hype was so real for him and so big, and he. And he did not handle it as well as we would have hoped. It just didn't go well. You have bad skates every now and then, and this happened to be the one that was on Olympic ice in front of the world. I think he can bounce back from it, but I think Maybe I would like next Olympics to not have him dance to his own. Is that too much to ask? Maybe we don't do a spoken word performance. That's my note. My only note.

[Chris]

Good note.

[Katie Nolan]

Good. Thank you. I don't. I don't want to bully him. I mean, he's down, you know, And I think. You know, I think the Olympics have to tell us who the athletes are that we're supposed to count on because we're not paying attention to this stuff year round. You know what I mean? All right, we'll skip the ice dancing controversy because really, we're getting into pairs figure skating tonight. I know that's going to be tomorrow night for anybody listening to this. And if you're watching it on YouTube, I think that means it was two nights ago. Terminator timeline. Very hard to keep track of, but we'll just skip it because I don't think. Look, the French judge is always wrong. Put that on a mug and let's sell it. The French judge never judges properly, but you don't look good challenging it and trying to get it overturned. It's just. It is what it is. Sorry to. To Chalk and Bates. We were rooting for you. We were all rooting for you, but glad that they're not going to appeal that because it seemed silly. Okay, let's go ahead and take our first break, and when we come back, we'll talk about even more Olympics. A lot of love at the Olympics. A newlywed couple competing against each other. Miles Garrett and Chloe Kim. I'm embarrassingly in on that. Embarrassingly in. You got me in on it. Oh, my God. It's crazy. I'm such a. I'm such a simp for this relationship. We'll take a quick, quick break, and we will be right back. Hey. I don't know what it is about the world now, but finding clothes that look good 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 home 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 Vori'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 of your first purchase, so get yourself some of the most comfortable and versatile clothing on The Planet at viori.comcasuals V-U-O-R-I.comcasuals exclusions apply. Visit the website for full terms and conditions. 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 to 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 [e-mail] Harmony this show is sponsored by Liquid IV. All day events like Big Game Days aren't just about the opening moments. They require superior hydration from start to finish. Just one stick and 16 ounces of water hydrates better than water alone. It's powered by live hydro science, an optimized ratio of electrolytes, essential vitamins and clinically tested nutrients that turn ordinary water into extraordinary hydration. I like knowing that Liquid IV can help me boost my hydration better than water alone. It's super easy to keep a packet or three in my purse so it's with me wherever I go. And with sugar free flavors like strawberry watermelon and rainbow sherbet, I know I will actually drink and hydrate and be ready to go and tackle the day. Show up start to finish with hydration from Liquid iv. Hydration Multiplier Sugar Free Tear pour live More go to liquid I.com and get 20% off your first order with Casuals at checkout. That's 20% off your first order using code CASUITS@Liquid I.com Everyone deserves to be connected.

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[Katie Nolan]

Okay, welcome back. Let's dive back into the Olympics because really so much has happened. That's the only negative of this pod being twice a week is like, we're not talking about. We haven't talked about any Olympics action since Wednesday of last week. And so much has happened. And I don't want to leave any of it out because I want you to know all of it. I think the big thing everyone's talking about right now, at least, is the controversy in curling. Curling, a sport I still vaguely understand doing my best and getting hyped for it, whether I know the rules or not. Like, I am right there going, great shot. And then when an announcer goes like, that was the worst shot we've seen from them this tournament, I go, totally. No, totally. I was only joking when I said what I said.

[Brady]

I just like the way they glide in their cool shoes. It's.

[Chris]

It's so cool.

[Brady]

I just want to glide around ice with one shoe that slides and one shoe that sticks. Yeah, it's the dream.

[Katie Nolan]

And I just want to yell in a way that only my partner understands what I'm saying. That's what I want. On Friday, Oscar Erikson of Sweden accused Canada's Mark Kennedy of breaking the rules by touching the rock again after initially releasing it. So the line that you, you know, you drop, you push the curling stone, right? That line there is called the hog line. And as soon as the front of the stone touches the hog line, you are supposed to let go of it. You are allowed, I believe, to touch the handle again once your hand is off of it, but not once it touches the hogline. You are not allowed to touch the stone. Part of it, they're calling it Boop gate. And they are alleging that he booped it from the stone once it was crossing the hogline. The way that this controversy unfolded, if you were watching, is that Sweden sort of accused the guy from Canada, Mark Kennedy. And Mark Kennedy said, what did he. You can f off. Was that.

[Brady]

No, it's in the politest Canadian way. He just goes, you can off.

[Katie Nolan]

That's what I said. Yeah, you can. You can off. But it's not delightful. He said he Was. He was mad. He was clearly very mad. He was like, you can fuck off.

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

And it was like. And the guy, the. The Swedish guy, Oscar Eriksen was like, you can check that. He's like, I'll show you the tape now. When he said, I'll show you the tape. This is an interesting conspiracy theory I've been following, which is that they allege he always does this, that Canada does this a lot, and that they know that there's no camera on the hog line. This is kind of like in the NFL, however many years ago, when they were like, they should put a camera in the pylon. I feel like it was Patriots related, where it was like, in order to see if it crosses the goal line, you should have a camera in the pylon. There now is a camera in the pylon. There is no camera at the Hogline. So from what I heard, Sweden had their own cameras set up recording at the Hogline so that they could then show the video evidence that he booped it. And you're not allowed to boop.

[Isabella]

I saw his. I didn't see. I just saw, like, everyone keeps cropping out his hand and putting his little finger boop thing on things.

[Katie Nolan]

What was your favorite one that you saw?

[Isabella]

I don't know. It was like, one. Is it Michelangelo painting? The one with the. With the guy where they're like this.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Isabella]

And it's like him and his finger.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Isabella]

And then the curling stone on the opposite side.

[Katie Nolan]

I saw that and I saw the guy who does art but make it sports. Have you seen him. The guy on Twitter that. I think so. He's so smart. He's like such a. I think he's like an art history student or he was and has a degree in it, but he finds moments in sports and tweets out pictures like classical art. That looks a lot like the sports picture. And the issue he took with the finger thing is that the point of that is that they don't touch. The point of that piece of art is that the two don't touch. And the point of the controversy is that they do. And I was like, damn, this guy really is good at this specific. Where he goes like, mm, mm, that one's not gonna be for me. And I was like, damn, that meme.

[Isabella]

Actually is not valid.

[Katie Nolan]

Right. That actually is wrong. And I'm with him on that. When asked about the footage, Canada's Mark Kennedy said, if somebody said to you, hey, do you double touch all the time? I honestly, in that split second of a Moment. I couldn't even tell you if I do or not. I'm new to curling, I guess, but.

[Chris]

Shouldn'T you know, feels like something that.

[Katie Nolan]

You would know if you're gonna yell, you can F off. Why wouldn't the first thing you say be, did I do you double boop? Did ya? Did I double boop? You know, I've been double booping lately. I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to. I've been trying to be more boop once.

[Isabella]

I'm so sorry.

[Katie Nolan]

I've been trying to single boop and I've been double booping and that's my bad. But the way he got so defensive, I don't know, it reminded me of any time you call a man out on something that they've done wrong and they go like, I'm never wrong. I've never been wrong. Well, now, okay, you're getting a little defensive. Why are you being so defensive about this? The controversy compounded on itself because on Saturday, World Curling deployed additional officials to monitor the hogline. And they found that Rachel Homan of Canada's women's team had a stone disqualified because she allegedly touched it twice. Now this feels like an issue within the program. Now we're talking about how are they making curlers in there up there in Canada? You guys all double booping.

[Isabella]

Damn.

[Katie Nolan]

You cannot double boop. And then I think also on Sunday, the British men's team had a stone removed in their match. So it's this big thing unfolding through curling. And one of the things I've always heard from people who like curling is that it's like a self regulating sport. They like, you know, talk to each other and like, it's kind of like honors system based. That's beautiful. Well, not anymore, Isabella.

[Brady]

It's.

[Katie Nolan]

It's all crumbling before our very eyes. Like all institutions, not even, even the hogline isn't being respected.

[Isabella]

Yeah, no, that's not cool.

[Chris]

It feels like it's a fun idea for like league competition, but probably not when it comes to the Olympics.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. So, you know, get, get it together. Curling. Quit. Straighten yourselves out because curl straight. You know what I mean? Thank you. Thank you guys so much. We can just clean up that edit so that on the YouTube video, it looks like everybody laughed really big. Let's go. Yeah, Good stuff. Really good stuff. Let's move on to hockey. The other ice sport, US Hockey is, is, it says in here, dominating. As somebody who's been watching all the games, I'll say they're doing well. Okay, they're doing well. The final scores are looking good. They made it out of their group. They beat Germany 51 on Sunday. They were unbeaten in the group. They clinched the second seed in the knockout round. They are set to face the winner of the qualification round game that's on Tuesday between Sweden and Latvia. And number one seed Canada will play either Czechia or Denmark in the quarterfinals on Wednesday. The USA vs Denmark game was not so fun. The first period for these USA Hockey games have not been enjoyable. As a United States fan, they've been either slow starts or versus Denmark. They were down 2:1 after the first period. Jeremy Swayman from the Boston Bruins was in net. And I don't know if you guys saw this highlight, but let in a goal that was basically shot from the red line. It was so far away, and it went in and partially. I guess if you were looking for excuses, you could blame it on the fact that the boards. I'm grateful they don't have ads. If you watch a lot of NHL hockey now, it's all ads, all the time on the boards. Isabella. That's the, like, wall around the rink. And it's annoying because sometimes there's, like, moving ads, and you're like, is that the puck? It's like, no, that's a ad for, like, SAP. I'm like, I don't even know what that is. But for the Olympics, they were. It's, like, solid colors, but it's a dark color. So I guess if you needed to make an excuse for your dear, sweet goalie who did not get the start in the third game, it's that the puck could get lost in that. And maybe you don't see it against a black background. Like, the boards used to be white. And I feel like that was for a reason. But we aren't making excuses. I also saw two players skate into each other. Nobody from the other team anywhere near them. Two United States players just crossing, crashing into each other in the middle of the ice. So I feel like USA has got a couple kinks to work out before they make it into further rounds of this hockey tournament. But they did win. And if you're looking at the scores, you're like, it's 5 1. They beat Germany. Like, what do you want, lady? And I want more. You know, I want. I want what Canada had. Canada beat France 10 to 2. I want that. We deserve that. The United States has been, like, playing down to their competition in a way that's frustrating. It's almost as frustrating as having to cheer for The Kachuks. I'm having such a hard time rooting for Matthew and Brady Tkachuk on account of I hate them. And it's one of the harder things about NHL players being back in the Olympics now. It's like you're seeing ones you like on teams that aren't yours and ones you don't like on your team. And so I don't like that. And I just wanted to say if anyone out there feels that way, I'm with you. All right. The women are crushing and cruising the United States women's hockey team. Unbelievable. They look like so much better than everybody else. They beat Sweden in the semifinals today. So Monday, five nothing. They've scored five goals in every game. At least they will face Canada or Switzerland in the gold medal game on Thursday. And I believe the United States men, if they face Canada, it will be in the gold medal match. There's no opportunity to see them before then, so that's exactly how it should be. It's what you want. You want the finals to be USA Canada, and. And hopefully that's what we get. We also got a fight in the Canada France game, which is so silly. But, Brady, aren't you, like, a big Tom Wilson guy?

[Brady]

Big Tom Wilson guy, local D.C. guy. Very, very thirsty clientele around here for Tom Wilson. Tom Wilson signed a stick for a charity auction I was working with last year. So, like, homeboy forever in my good graces, but threw down a hockey fight that. You never see a hockey fight in the Olympics.

[Katie Nolan]

Well, that's because it's not allowed. It's not ever ejected.

[Brady]

There are penalties for it.

[Katie Nolan]

They both got ejected. He also kind of got his. He also kind of got his ass kicked. I don't know if you.

[Brady]

But the doing it, you know, daps on him for doing it.

[Katie Nolan]

He was doing it to basically protect his teammate, Nathan McKinnon, who had gotten a forearm to the head by Pierre Crinol before. But I think he kind of got. I think he kind of got beat up. He's not getting suspended. They both got ejected from the game. The refs were a little bit too involved for me. The refs were like, mid taking punches. I was like, hey, easy. That's a ref. Okay? Go easy on the ref.

[Brady]

The ref just diving on players, like, saving them. Like, these are big men with pads. You can just let them be. Fine.

[Katie Nolan]

All right. Moving on to other Olympic stuff. Brazil. Shout out to Brazil. They won their first ever Winter Olympic medal, I believe, and it's a gold. Lucas Pinero, Broughton became the first South American to win a Winter Olympics medal after he earned gold on Saturday's men's giant. What is it, Chris?

[Chris]

Slalom.

[Katie Nolan]

Slalom. It is the official Giant Slalom.

[Chris]

Pronunciation. Thanks to the ioc.

[Katie Nolan]

We got an email from Nick from Brazil. Correct.

[Chris]

We did.

[Katie Nolan]

What did he say?

[Chris]

Of course Nick said, did you see that?

[Katie Nolan]

We did.

[Chris]

Brazil just got its first ever Winter Olympics medal gold in giant slalom. And then Nick said, this is not just an excuse to get Chris to say slalom. Love you, mean it. So Nick was pumped. Nick's one of our best listeners. Always emails in. You know, he was immediately on the. On the emails as soon as that happened for us.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Lucas has a Norwegian father and Brazilian mother. He retired in October of 2023, really abruptly. That was when he was competing for Norway. And then he returned to competition five months later representing Brazil. He won gold on the first day of Carnival. Ooh, that's exciting. So I'm sure people were pretty busy, but hopefully at your Carnival parties, you were. You had a TV and you watched him bring home the gold. It was so exciting. Afterwards, he said, I just hope the Brazilians back home look at this and truly understand that your difference is your superpower. You may show up with different colors, whether that's on your skin, whether it's on your clothes, whether your culture, whether, whatever, it doesn't matter. Every dream is yours to follow. And I really hope this could inspire some kids out there that feel a bit different to trust who they are. I thought that was really sweet. A beautiful message. So congratulations to Brazil and to South America. A huge win for them. Very exciting. Okay, now to the part of the podcast that's gonna just embarrass me, I think, because I don't know these two people, and I really try to stay out of other people's business, you know, I really do. I try not to ship anybody, and I try not to be too weird and parasocial about other people's relationships. Unfortunately, I'm powerless. My forces, I have no power against this love. Miles Garrett from the Browns, who had an incredible season this year, a record breaking season, is dating Chloe Kim from Team usa. She's a snowboarder and he is in. Miles is in Milan Cortina with her, taking pictures of her wearing shirts with her face on it. They posted on Valentine's Day and she made him a shirt that says, like, my very hot, beautiful girlfriend. Or like, please leave me alone, I have a very hot, beautiful girlfriend who I love so much. Or something like that. They are so cute. He posted so proud of you. I'm thankful that I get to be by your side watching the extraordinary things you do. You fought through so much even to get to this point, and you earned everything and more. The goat. My love and my valentine. Happy Valentine's Day, babe. And she replied, my love, thank you for dealing with my craziness over the last couple months. Grateful for you forever, my valentine.

[Isabella]

That's really cute. And didn't he have like a really. He, like, had like a huge camera with him, like a professional camera when he was taking pictures of her or something like that. That's cute.

[Katie Nolan]

And he just always. I mean, I've said this before. I think he's got a real cute smile. And it's just whenever they show him, like, watching her, he's just like, so happy. He's so happy. And she. Isabella, I made Isabella watch this. I bullied her into watching this video last week because obviously Chloe Kim won silver in the half pipe event this year. She was going for gold and if she had won it, she'd be the first to win it. In three back to back. She'd win three back to back golds in that event. And it actually went to. She got silver and it went to 17 year old Choi Gown from South Korea. It's cool because Chloe Kim, when we first saw her in her first Olympics, she was 17 and she is Choi Gown's mentor. She took her under her wing and they trained together. And so when they found out that Choi won and. And Chloe lost, Chloe snowboarded over to her and like hugged her and celebrated her and it was just like, so sweet. It was such a sweet moment where, like, I would have, like, pouted and been annoyed. She went over and was like, you did it. It was like, oh, I loved it so much. And I sent it to Isabella and I was like, this is who these two people are. And you need to watch this clip.

[Isabella]

It's so sweet. So, so cute.

[Katie Nolan]

And so I thought that was really wonderful to have. It's like she's handing, you know, passing the torch. Not to say that she's done or anything, but just like the way that she, you know, is holding the door open for the girls behind her and, and hoping that they can have their own success. I thought that was really, really sweet. Does anyone else have anything parasocial to say about those two and how much we're obsessed with them? If you guys break up, I swear to God. Not this year. I can't take it, okay? I got enough going on. There's Enough bad news in the world. Obviously, if you guys. If you need to be apart, that's fine, but it just would be really nice if you guys could stay together for a little bit for us, Please.

[Brady]

I'm jealous of Chloe's Valentine's Day gift from Miles.

[Katie Nolan]

What was it?

[Brady]

It was a custom, like, Barbie pink Ford Bronco, which looks just badass.

[Chris]

Jesus.

[Katie Nolan]

And you've been asking that for the last three Christmases. You're like, I want my Barbie pink Ford Bronco any color.

[Brady]

Like, since some random point in the summer of 1994, I've been infatuated with, like, that's the coolest looking car on the planet.

[Isabella]

Oh, I'm not. I'm like, oh, the pink car sounds cool. I don't really care about the Ford Bronco Park.

[Katie Nolan]

Just get her a pink car. If you're listening to Isabella, get her a pink car. Okay, while we're talking love, we got a couple other Olympic love stories. Sophia Kirkby is a. She was an Olympian. Who is there. She finished fifth in her doubles luge, but instead of leaving, she decided that she's gonna stay. And she's been documenting her life on Instagram, basically saying she's like the Bachelorette, that she's a single and she's ready to mingle. Now, the reason this first crossed my desk is because she was propositioning. That's probably the wrong word. She was. She was trying to get the attention of. That's nicer. Jake Pates. Now, Jake Pates.

[Brady]

Go, Jake Pace.

[Katie Nolan]

Let's go. Pates is a snowboarder, a male snowboarder. That she was like, hey, are you single? Like, so am I. Let's do Olympic Village. Bachelorette. I don't think that's who she ended up dating, but she was being very open about how she was single and ready to mingle. And a fan messaged her and she said. A fan who jumped into my DMs two weeks ago said, hey, I just found out I have the 13th to the 16th off. Would it be weird if I came and booked an Airbnb five minutes from you now? My answer to that would be yes. My answer to that would be yes. It would. Absolutely. I guess hers was, no, it's not. Also, he must be rich, because I don't think Airbnb is during the Olympics. Five minutes from the Olympics Village.

[Isabella]

Oh, yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Are going to be cheap when you're.

[Chris]

Booking that late especially.

[Brady]

Don't care. I still need, like, a photo of her holding today's newspaper.

[Katie Nolan]

She said that she Responded and said, go ahead. He's actually from the United States. He's currently living in the uk and he flew here just to see me. So she said she's got her first date scheduled for tomorrow. I just. Listen. We had the conversation about the condoms. These are like young athletes in their prime on the world stage. With all this pressure, I do think we're missing an opportunity for a reality show here to be like, let's get a dating show going on. Remember when the US Open something? Yeah. I'd much rather do it for the Olympics. We should get, like, you know, they're all living in the same house basically in the same village, even.

[Chris]

I would watch that.

[Katie Nolan]

Right.

[Brady]

What happened? Stop.

[Katie Nolan]

They start being polite and start getting real. Yeah, but I would watch it. I don't know. I think there's something there. But you'd hate for them to do it poorly. Then you'd be like, this. This stinks. But if we could get them to be real, I'd watch that. All I'm saying, we're leaving money on the table. And then this last story of love. I really loved this. Two newlyweds competed against each other on Valentine's Day. It's Kim Meilmans from Belgium and Nicole Silvera from Brazil. They were wed in August. They officially got married in August, but they planned to have a proper wedding and a celebration after the Winter Olympics. They said they've been so focused on training and getting ready for the Olympics that they didn't get to put a lot of time into their wedding. So they're gonna have a beach wedding next year. But on Valentine's Day, they ended up racing against each other. And I thought that was really funny. Can you imagine if on Valentine's Day you had to compete against the love of your life?

[Chris]

I would have to get to compete.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, true. That's kind of. Chris, you're right. That is their approach to it. They said, it's not like we stand on the line against each other. It's not like we step into a ring and have to fight each other. So I think it's a bit unrealistic to think that we're actually enemies. So I get it. In a sport like skeleton, which. Isabella, you know what that is now.

[Isabella]

Yes, I do.

[Katie Nolan]

And you're terrified of it.

[Isabella]

It's scary. I watched it this weekend, and I was like, head first. If you bump anything, like, incorrectly, like, you could.

[Katie Nolan]

I saw a video on the Olympics of them teaching, I think, a luge allusion how skeleton is. And when she laid down on the sled. They kept going. Move forward, move forward. And then when she said she moved all the way forward, and they were like, that's where you go. And she's like, it's all ice under my face is all ice. And they were like, yeah, that's how it is.

[Isabella]

That's true.

[Brady]

They said you can hear the helmet skidding across the ice on turns.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, my God. Scary.

[Chris]

But here's another event that was incredibly like, The. The broadcast was incredible because of the use of drones. We were mentioning last week how good the. The drones have added to the coverage. The skeleton, I think, has benefited the most. The speed that the drone is following the skeleton. Skeletor, I believe, is Skeletor down the ice is incredible.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. So those two Skeletors got married to each other and then had to compete on Valentine's Day. I think it's. It's probably one of the more memorable Valentine's Days of their lives. They didn't meddle, but they. They did well and good for them. And I just think that's really beautiful. Really beautiful and sweet, and I hope they didn't fight about. Feels like such a. Such a high to a low to now bring up NBA All Star Weekend.

[Isabella]

I have one, actually. Can I say one last high?

[Katie Nolan]

Begging.

[Isabella]

I have gotten so into Alyssa Liu in the last, like, 24 to 48 hours. I. Oh, my God. I love her short program to promise with Levi's music.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Commercial Announcer]

Oh, my God.

[Katie Nolan]

Do you remember I yapped about this so long ago.

[Isabella]

I remember when you showed it to me, like, a year ago already at this point. Yeah, it's so good. And I'm, like, so into. I'm like, oh, my God. She retired when she was 16. She was like, no, I'm coming back on my own terms. And then, like, she's so cool with her stripe hair and stuff.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, dude. I love her because she's like, I needed to fall back in love with the sport, and she did. And she skates so differently now that she took that time away. I also saw a really funny tweet of somebody saying, like, I just found out that all of the men's. The United States men's figure skaters are straight and all of the women are gay. And now I'm super, super into it. And I was like, hell, yeah. I love that.

[Isabella]

Well, I saw someone also also be like, well, first heated rivalry, and now Alyssa Liu. And it's like, something about these ice people.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. I'm excited for the women's figure skating. It's gonna be really, really intense. I don't want to put too much pressure on anybody. Okay. But I am very excited to see how that goes. Now let's. Chris, Put a damper on everything and talk about NBA All Star weekend. Let's go around the room and say how much of it we watch. I watched the actual All Star game.

[Chris]

How many of the All Star games?

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, all of them. And I will say the last one, it's like the first three because it was four total. Right.

[Chris]

Or was it round robin and then the final?

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, whatever. I watched. The first ones were all very close. The final was a blowout. It was like it ruined the whole thing. Right up until the last game, they were all very close. And I was like, this format makes a lot of sense. The second game, Kawhi Leonard had like 31 points or something in 12 minutes. It was crazy. And then, and then the last game was like, oh, okay, so they're gonna just get dog walked. I guess it wasn't as close.

[Brady]

Watched a little bit of the All Star games. At one, I turned it on and my daughter asked me, what are they doing?

[Katie Nolan]

And you were like, I can't explain it.

[Brady]

It's like it's basketball, but it's also not. But it kind of is. Watch more of the three point shootout, the shooting stars, the slam dunk, which is, I don't know, kind of more of like the ADD basketball session where I can tune in, watch some people shoot some stuff. Maybe dunk, maybe not dunk.

[Katie Nolan]

Kind of depressing kinda. Yeah.

[Isabella]

I don't watch any of it. I'm so sorry.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, that's okay. No, don't ever apologize for that. It's okay. It's okay.

[Brady]

5Pm on your Saturday.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Someday we'll show you like, old dunk contest videos. Put that on the list of things. We've got to show Isabella old dunk contest videos. And then we'll show you these ones and you'll just be like, that's not the same thing. It's got to figure out what it is. But yes, to Brady's point. Empty house. Truly empty. They kept showing. I'm like, stop cutting away to the crowd. Stop showing us how empty. And I feel like they put lights on the seats to make it look like people are here. It's like there's not. There's not people here. Were tickets super expensive or something?

[Brady]

Yeah, like 200 bucks face value to start to get into the nosebleeds. And this is for like, not an All Star game. This Is like the Saturday afternoon thing that's going on tnt. They, they priced out anybody was going to fill that upper bowl.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, that's a real bummer. Sports are starting to bum me out that way. I feel like a lot of stuff is becoming too expensive for regular fans to go to it. And something like an all Star weekend. You got it. That's just got to be the fans. If the place isn't full of fans, it's not going to feel right. So it's like, I don't know if you're going to put on a dunk contest like that. I feel like maybe you should just give tickets away for free. I fill the seats. It should be about giving back to the fans.

[Chris]

Especially when the fans play an integral part of the selection process of the All Stars.

[Katie Nolan]

Right? Completely.

[Chris]

The fans are a part of the whole thing.

[Isabella]

I didn't know that.

[Chris]

Why isn't it catered towards the fans more?

[Katie Nolan]

Because they want to make more money. I think. Ah, fans are great, but if we could just go directly to their wallets, we'd bypass them immediately.

[Brady]

One fan got a big reaction.

[Katie Nolan]

Obama.

[Brady]

Obama.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. People were very happy. Barack Obama. Everyone was like, please, please, please, please go back. You wanna, you wanna, you, we could.

[Brady]

You just please fake mustache on some other name. Whatever, whatever.

[Katie Nolan]

I very briefly saw what he was promoting, which is at the, is the Obama Center? Is that what it's called? It was like a, it looked, I didn't like the way it looked. The video they showed, I was like, that's a scary looking building inside of. It's very cool. But I don't know, it looked like a, like a scary building. While we're talking Obama, are we going to talk about the fact that he said on a podcast, first of all, what's Obama doing on a podcast and why isn't it ours? But he went on a podcast and said that aliens are real.

[Chris]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Confirmed Brian Tyler Cohen. Is that a bad guy? I don't, I don't follow the pot sphere as much as I should, but every now and then he's okay.

[Brady]

He's got one of those really good at calling out bullshit social accounts. Okay, I'm gonna give this guy a thumbs up.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, well. And that's from Brady. We'll take it with a grain of salt. But it's. But Brady signs off on him. He was asked, are aliens real? And he said they're real, but I haven't seen them. And when I saw that clip, I mean first of all I was like, would it kill you to ask a follow up. I guess this was part of a rapid fire question part. And as somebody who I think I rapid fire asked John Cena that question once I get it, it's just like a question you ask to see how they answer.

[Brady]

Big difference in those two people.

[Katie Nolan]

When he said it, barely when he said it, they're real, but I haven't seen them. To me it felt like he was saying like, I believe in the existence of aliens, not that like the CIA showed me when I took office that aliens are real. Or like whoever would it be? The CIA whose jurisdiction I guess Space Force. What are they doing? Are they getting ready for space war? Do they train? Are they? What's up with Space Force? Are they at camp? Like, what are they? What part of their season is the Space Force in? Because if something starts to space pop off, I hope they're space ready is all I'm saying.

[Brady]

I feel like the point of them is that we just let them take care of the stuff we don't know about.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, I guess that's how I used to feel about a lot of stuff, period. And then I started learning about them and I was like, I feel like somebody else has to be in charge of that.

[Brady]

I get what Obama was saying, but if you're John Cena, you can say, well, yeah, of course they're real. They're probably real. I believe that they're out there.

[Katie Nolan]

His issue was that people got really upset with him about it. I don't remember why, but.

[Brady]

But if you're Obama, like what you say has to matter on this. You being the guy who would know if they were real. You can't just willy nilly throw out, yeah, they're real.

[Katie Nolan]

By the next day, Obama went into damage control mode on social media, clarifying that his answer was simply quote, in the spirit of the speed round and that the chances Earth has been visited by aliens from space is quote, unquote, low. He also claimed he saw, quote, unquote, no evidence of them while president. That makes sense. I think that makes sense to me also. Why would he tell us? We're not in a place where we can receive information like that anyway. We're not doing well with information we receive, nor are we seeming to do anything about it. But this is a good transition from Obama, who. Please come back. We transition into a rundown of a couple sports that are so back. We are so back. So many sports are back right now and we want to talk about them. So let's run through them. Sport by sport. Let's start with NASCAR. NASCAR's back. Woo. We need shooters for every single one of these sports. Okay? You guys need to pretend to be excited about every single one of these sports. Let's start again. I'm gonna wait till Chris is done with that sip of water. NASCAR is back.

[Brady]

Hell, yeah, brother.

[Katie Nolan]

Isabella, what did you say?

[Isabella]

He said, vroom, vroom.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, go on. Tyler Redick won the Daytona 500 on Sunday with a last lap pass at Daytona International Speedway. Redick was driving for 2311 Racing, which is partly owned by Michael Jordan. Somebody today asked me, is Michael Jordan the new face in nascar? I don't think we're there. I don't think. I don't know. It felt early to go to the. He's not in the car even. Let's talk about the piece of furniture from our studio. Ryan Blaney. How did he do?

[Brady]

You're caught in the big one.

[Chris]

Great bub.

[Katie Nolan]

What?

[Brady]

He got caught in the big one 20 car wreck on the 124th lap. Could not. Could not get that engine fired back up.

[Katie Nolan]

No, he DNF'd. No, Blaney. He's sitting right here. But I can't. We're not showing him on camera.

[Isabella]

Taking a moment.

[Chris]

Better news, though.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Other friend of the pub, Bubba Wallace, finished 10th.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay. Out of how many people race in the Daytona 500?

[Chris]

There was, like, 41, I think, on the grid. Usually 41, but not that many people finished. So the fact that Bubba even finished was good in the first place. The fact that it was top 10, even better.

[Brady]

I'll give you the best highlight of Speed week at Daytona, and it's gonna require no context. Highlight was that Jimmy Eat World played a concert at an Arby's in Daytona.

[Katie Nolan]

I'd be there. I'd always be there.

[Isabella]

Arby's.

[Katie Nolan]

I don't even think I like Arby's. I've never had it.

[Brady]

Your response to Jimmy Eat World playing a concert at Arby's was, I've always wanted to try Arby's.

[Katie Nolan]

Jimmy Eat World, Isabella, Eat Arby's. This also reminds me of how come last week after the Super Bowl, I saw clips of Sam Darnold in a raising Cane's answering questions. Why did it look like he was on his lunch break at a raising Cane's? Answering questions about it was so strange. I'm sure it was promotion. I'm sure it made sense somewhere. But the clip that, like, went viral was just him in raising Cane's clothes at a raising Canes answering questions about the Super Bowl. I was like, what the hell? Does he manage one on the side?

[Brady]

Please leave me alone. I'm eating.

[Katie Nolan]

Absolutely insane. Baseball is back.

[Brady]

Hell, yeah, brother.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Good job, Major League Baseball. Do we have to talk about Sam Kennedy? I really don't want to. Red Sox CEO and president Sam Kennedy. We'll just play the clip on what he said about Alex Bregman.

[Brady]

Yeah, we. We so grateful to Alex Bregman and what. What he meant to us. But look, in the end, when you. You have choices the way he did, you work really hard to be in a position to become a free agent and to perform at that level. He chose a different path, and we wish him well and looking forward to seeing him at the end of the season at Fenway.

[Chris]

The no trade plus thing is that organizational policy that you don't give out, full or partial.

[Brady]

Oh, look, if Alex Bregman wanted to be here, ultimately, he'd be here.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, what do we think about that?

[Isabella]

What do we think about that?

[Katie Nolan]

I'm just like, it. They don't. The Red Sox front office has this way of just squandering any sort of benefit of any doubt that they were being given. And I just feel like I don't care anymore. I don't care anymore. I just am gonna go back to being a fan like I was when I was 12, where I just go, let me know when the season starts, and I'll watch the games and I'll root for my team to win. Because the more and more you get involved in trying to understand why the front office moves the way the front office does, the more I'm just like. And I didn't even really like Alex Bregman on my team. I didn't want him on my team. But once we screwed over my favorite player to get him and then forced my favorite player off of the. A Yankee killer. We had a certified Yankee killer who took joy in hitting grand slams, home runs in Yankee Stadium. That's what you want as a Sox fan. And we got rid of him because we wanted Alex Bregman. And then Alex Bregman was like, bye. I actually do not want to be here, and left immediately. And so it's like, what? At what point? So anyway, I'm just gonna go back to watching just the baseball, and I don't want to talk about any of these people who work in the front office. Remember when there was a story that came out that somebody interviewed for a job at the front office of the Red Sox and they had to go through like four rounds of AI interviewing. It's like, hello. All this talk about all the money that was saved by getting rid of Devers contract. What are we spending it on? Anybody? What?

[Brady]

We shouldn't have done this to you.

[Katie Nolan]

Why did you?

[Brady]

We were having such a good time with Arby's.

[Katie Nolan]

I know. Next. The Phillies. We should talk about the Phillies. And Nick Castellanos. His time with the Phillies has come to an end. Less than 24 hours after it was revealed the team told him not to report to spring training, he was released by the club and then signed by the San Diego. San Diego Padres. San Diego Padres. That's how they say it in Australia. And I'm trying to be nice to Chris and say things like slalom and San Diego.

[Chris]

Perfect.

[Katie Nolan]

On his way out, he wrote a handwritten note focused on the quote, unquote Miami incident. He posted this, I believe on Instagram a picture of this handwritten note?

[Brady]

Yeah, I think so.

[Katie Nolan]

That's where we got it. He wrote. As a veteran of the game of baseball, there are rules and I broke one in Miami. After being taken out of a close ball game in front of my friends and family, I brought a presidente into the dugout. That's a beer. I then sat right next to Phillies manager Rob Thompson and let him know that too much slack in some areas and too tight of restrictions in others are not conducive to us winning. Shout out to my teammates and Philly's special assistant to the general manager for taking the beer out of my hands before I could take a sip. Parentheses I appreciate you guys. After the game, I went into the office with Dave and Rob. We aired out our differences and the conversation ended with me apologizing, flooding my emotions. Get the best of. I'd like to note that I was ready to share the details of the incident in its entirety to the media the next day, but was instructed not to by management. The punishment I received for my actions was the benching the following game. You know, is it. Is it cool to bring a beer onto the bench?

[Chris]

Yes.

[Brady]

No.

[Katie Nolan]

Didn't the Sox get in trouble for this? And it wasn't even the bench. It was like the.

[Brady]

Yeah, it was John Lackey and friends drinking in the. In the clubhouse during the game and eating.

[Katie Nolan]

And eating chicken. I think. Yeah.

[Brady]

You can't bring the beer under the. If you're pissed off because you've been taken out of the game, like while your family is in attendance, you can't bring the. The beer onto the.

[Katie Nolan]

I just love the way he goes. Thanks again for stopping me from drinking.

[Brady]

That Howie Kendrick apparently, like, bum rushed him to take the beer away.

[Katie Nolan]

Like, shit. They're gonna stop you from drinking the beer. You're sitting next to the manager. You cannot crack a beer open and take. You would be in so much trouble. Have you never seen a baseball game in your life? That's crazy. Hey, by the way, thanks for that. Yeah, dude.

[Brady]

Okay. Thanks for keeping me from shotgunning that theater.

[Katie Nolan]

Thanks for not letting me make an even bigger mistake. I also love that he goes too much slack in some areas and too tight of restrictions in others not conducive to us winning. Crack. Come on, dude. Crazy. So we'll keep an eye on that. He's on the Padres now and then. Worth remembering now that baseball is back, the automated ball and strike challenge system is going to be instituted this year. And in pregame media, preseason media. Chris Sale, who's on the Atlanta Braves, former Boston Red Sox, said he will never challenge a pitch because the catcher, the pitcher, and the batter are the three people at any given time that are. Are given this ability to challenge a pitch if it's called a ball or a strike. And they want to say that it's the opposite of that. Chris Sale says that he will never challenge a pitch. We have audio of him. Let's take a listen.

[Guest Speaker]

I will never challenge a pitch. I will never do it.

[Katie Nolan]

It.

[Guest Speaker]

I won't do it.

[Katie Nolan]

Why?

[Guest Speaker]

Because I'm not an umpire. That's their job. I'm. I'm a starting pitcher. I've never called balls and strikes in my life. Plus, I'm greedy and I know that. I think they're all strikes, you know, especially, you know, you. The catchers nowadays, the way they catch the ball, the way they receive, they make them all look like strikes. In the heat of moment, especially, you throw a good pitch, you know, you got Murph or Baldy or whoever back there, and they kind of, you know, catch it the right way. I mean, they make a lot of. Of balls look like strikes. And I don't want to take away one of those challenges that might be needed later on in the game.

[Katie Nolan]

So every team starts with two challenges at the beginning of a game. If you get it right. Like, if you. I love when this thing randomly puts balloons, but that's not probably on the actual video feed, right? Damn. All right, so cut out me saying that every team gets two challenges to begin the game. If you get it right, like if they call a ball and you tap your helmet, you're the batter in this situation and you tap your helmet. Well, why would you. Because it was a ball. Whatever. If it's switched the other way and you get it right, you get to retain that challenge. So you can theoretically keep getting it right and keep these two challenges throughout the whole game. But if you get it wrong and it goes to challenge and it's wrong, then it gets taken away from you. This is, this makes logical sense to me. I don't. I. I'm surprised to hear it because I would expect Chris Sale to. To challenge. But I think it's going to be really interesting to see who is allowed to and who's not. You know, like the pitcher, the catcher and the batter are like within the rules, they can. But I wonder if each team is going to have like a. You are not allowed to challenge. You need to keep your mouth shut because you tend to be wrong and you also tend to always think you're right. And I think that'll be a fun thing to follow throughout this.

[Brady]

Seeing the stats on guys at the end of the year, like their success rate.

[Katie Nolan]

Challenge rate. Yeah, that's. That's an advanced metric. I'll be watching. I'm definitely into.

[Brady]

I just miss hearing baseball nicknames like hearing Sale talk about whether it's Murph or Baldy back there. Oh, man, it's bad. Springtime.

[Katie Nolan]

It's back. Baseball is back. Which means college baseball is back.

[Brady]

Hell yeah, brother.

[Katie Nolan]

Isabella. What? That's it.

[Isabella]

Oh, Ste.

[Katie Nolan]

Reich out. Yeah. Great. Perfect. Baylor. We're talking about Baylor. Tice Armstrong hit three grand slams in his Baylor debut Friday night. The Bears won 15 to 2. It was their season opening victory over New Mexico State. He became just the second college baseball player to accomplish that feat. He joins Lowellville's. You gotta say it right or they get mad. He joins Lowellville's Jim LaFountain as the only players with the distinction. LaFountain hit two of his three grand slams in the same inning in 1976 in the second game of a double header. That makes that even CRAZIER to me. Second game of a double header. Two of the three grand slams in the same inning, and then a third grand slam. And then he also hit a two run home run in the fifth inning. Well, the game ended in the fifth inning because of the mercy rule 26 to 4.

[Guest Speaker]

They.

[Katie Nolan]

They won that game back in 1976.

[Brady]

Shout out.

[Chris]

You toss Armstrong.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Ty's still impressive if you got rid of. Because two, three grand slams is what, 12 runs?

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

So if you subtracted his 12 runs, they do still win the game. So it's like he didn't really need to do it. It's a little excessive, right, if you think about it.

[Chris]

Good point.

[Katie Nolan]

What are we showing off? You know, two was fine. Three is kind of a lot. You could have won the game. Three, two, it would have been okay. And then in other college baseball news, and I'm only mentioning this because it came across my timeline and I didn't watch it. It. I did not watch it, but I heard it was really, really graphic. Seton hall, their season opening loss to Boston College at the Puerto Rico Challenge on Friday night. Left fielder Justin Ford hit a two run home run to left center field during the fifth inning. But rounding first base, he was celebrating. He looked back at the bench and was like celebrating and snapped his leg ankle in. They had to come out and get him and like cart him off the field. It looked absolutely disgusting. And it was the go. It was a go ahead home run. I saw they did count the run. Somebody told me they didn't and I was like, that's insane. If the ball goes over the fence, count the runs. Like, sorry, I had heard they didn't count, but they did. But they ended up losing 6 to 4 to BC so that sucks and yuck. But college baseball's back. And if college baseball's back, you know what that means. College softball is back.

[Isabella]

Meatball. So I looked up softball terms and.

[Katie Nolan]

That was I like, you had it, meatball. You just went meatball.

[Chris]

You were really excited for that one, too.

[Katie Nolan]

I loved it. I really loved it.

[Chris]

Really excited.

[Katie Nolan]

Meatball it is. Oklahoma beat UTEP, that's Texas El Paso, 34 to nothing. They hit two grand slams in one inning, beat them 34, nothing. Came within one run of tying the Sooners record for runs in a game. They had 25 hits in that game. The first eight batters, they started right away. First eight batters reached base and they took an eight nothing early lead in the third inning. Both Tia Malloy and Gabby Garcia each hit Grand Slams, adding 12 more runs. And then they tacked on 14 runs in their final time at bat because they called the game after five innings. So in five innings they scored 34 runs. They have now in nine games this season, they've played nine games. They've hit 38 home runs already. So Yowza Manousa is what everybody's saying. College softball's back. Nija Kennedy, we've talked about her before. She pitches at Texas Tech. She was the first Million dollar softball player and then got another contract as well. Remember when she. We talked about her before? Isabella. She transferred from Stanford. She led Stanford to two straight World Series appearances and one USA Softball collegiate player of the year. And then she transferred to Texas Tech. Well, they dropped their first game of the season on Sunday against number eight, Nebraska. They lost three to two in the final game of the Clearwater Invitational. So that's a bummer. How come softball has played so many games already this season?

[Brady]

Like, teams snuck in, like, three of these tournaments where they're playing double headers, and we got like 12 games in eight days. Just snuck up.

[Katie Nolan]

They lose their first game. I'm like, oh, that they played all season. It's like, no. Of the season.

[Brady]

But they're 11 and one now.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Crazy. So we'll see how Nyjah bounces back from that. She's nasty. I mean, she's absolutely nasty. So definitely someone to continue to keep an eye on this softball season. And then lastly, we saved the best for last. Golf is back. Happy Gilmore.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

A nice soft clap from Chris. I didn't want that to go underappreciated.

[Chris]

Thank you.

[Katie Nolan]

Brady, can you take this one? Because, you know, I half care.

[Brady]

Absolutely. Colin Morikawa won the PGA event at Pebble Beach. More interesting. We don't really celebrate LIV Golf because of what it stands for and the Saudi government. It's a really dicey one.

[Katie Nolan]

Right.

[Brady]

But Anthony Kim, however, like LIV Golf was his opportunity to get back into golf. He left the sport after his. His last tournament win was 2010. He went to rehab for drugs and alcohol and just was completely out of it for 12 years. Finally got back. Live was his opportunity because they brought him in for name value. Won the tournament this week for Live. First tournament win in 16 years. Good for Anthony Kim.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, okay, you're right. That did end up being worth it. We can let him live. Okay, but the rest of y', all, get out of there. Cut it out. What do we need this for? Okay, so sports are back. Sports are back in a really big way. And we're very excited about it here at Casuals. We're gonna take a quick break, and then when we come back, as we always do on our Tuesday episode, Chris is gonna tell us what you can watch. If you want to watch some sports this weekend, this is Casuals. We'll be right back. When you're choosing dinner, you want to know it's worth it every time. Gorton 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. Olivia loves a challenge. It's why she lifts heavy weights and likes complicated recipes. But for booking her trip to Paris, Olivia chose the easy way with Expedia. She bundled her flight with a hotel to save more. Of course, she still climbed all 674 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower. You were made to take the easy route. We were made to easily package your trip. Expedia made to travel Flight inclusive packages are atoll protected. This message is brought to you by Cottonelle. Cottonelle leaves you feeling so clean you'll want to come clean about everything else. Like the fact that your home gym is actually just where you keep your laundry. Your booty deserves the best. And the Cottonelle toilet paper and flushable wipes duo use cleaning ripples to clean better and leave you feeling comfortably dry. It's the clean that makes you finally admit you still own a pair of cargo shorts you claim are vintage. Come clean with Cottonelle.

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[Katie Nolan]

And we're back. I'm so glad people finally get to see that kind of stuff on YouTube of me screaming away from the microphone. Oh my. That lymph node in my neck that really Is starting to hurt. I got a tender neck, y'. All. Let's go to Chris. Chris, what can we watch if we wanted to watch a little bit of sports this week?

[Chris]

Well, we sort of touched on it a little bit before, but it bears repeating. On Thursday, February 19, at 1:10pm Eastern, we will have the women's ice hockey gold medal match between the USA and either Canada or Switzerland. So make sure you tune into that on NBC. Of course. That is the biggest event of the week so far.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, I love when the games are at. Most of the hockey games are at times that we are awake here. They've been at, like, I think the earliest one that I was at, like, 10 o' clock in the morning, which is, like, doable. But this one's at 1 Eastern, so that's nice. Good time zone. Okay, what else?

[Chris]

College baseball. We have number one, UCLA against number 10 TCU. That game will be on Friday, February 20th at 8:00pm Eastern on Big Ten.

[Katie Nolan]

Plus, which I don't have, but I'm sure I can figure out how to get it this time of the year. It's like you're just putting baseball on because I want the sounds in the background. God, do I miss the sound.

[Chris]

It makes you feel roughly 5 degrees warmer whenever you hear the sound.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. You're like, oh, it's like the opposite of the groundhog doing what it did. Yeah, it's like a. Like, oh, okay. Spring is just around the corner. Get ready for those spring Olympics. Okay, what else can we watch?

[Chris]

The third thing to watch if you want to watch sports this week is the mls. The MLS is another thing that is back. This week we have Nashville against our. As a pod. New England Revolution, I guess.

[Katie Nolan]

Sure.

[Chris]

On Saturday.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

February 21st at 8:30pm Eastern on Apple TV.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, great. Also, I just have to say, because I've been yelled at about it. They do not like when you say the mls. They get very sorry.

[Chris]

Everyone very upset. Loves, before you guys take to the.

[Katie Nolan]

Comments, he's from Australia. He didn't.

[Chris]

That's how we say it in Australia.

[Katie Nolan]

And that's how they say it there. The mls.

[Brady]

You say the Major League Soccer.

[Katie Nolan]

If you're gonna yell at him, you gotta go through me. Okay, so say something mean about me, which you definitely weren't gonna do until I said that, so. All right. Thank you, Chris, for telling us what and where we can watch if we want to watch some sports this week. Which means, guys, we've reached the end of our first full video casuals podcast. Thank you. For listening and. Or watching. I. And look, you can do what you want, but I think you should do both. I feel like you should listen to it and then you should watch it, you know? Everyone agree? Yep. Yeah.

[Brady]

At the very least, let it run in the background, make us look at it.

[Katie Nolan]

What else are you doing? You know, it's like, just leave your computer going and, and go for a walk or something. If you want to reach out to us, don't forget, you always can. Casualswithkatynolanmail.com Our voicemail is 646-801-0043. On IG and TikTok, we are casual as the podcast. Please pray that I'm not sicker for the second one of these this week because that will really be unbearable. I'm gonna hydrate and take my vitamins and go to bed early and snuggle my dog in the hopes of getting better in time for Thursday. And we will see you guys back here then. For the second episode of the week, this has been casuals. We love you. We mean it.

[Brady]

Bye.

[Katie Nolan]

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