College Football, Retired Bison, and Poland's Least Popular Paving Company

Summary

Casuals with Katie Nolan

Episode: College Football, Retired Bison, and Poland's Least Popular Paving Company

Date: September 2, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode of "Casuals" is a chaotic yet delightfully relatable mashup of fantasy football, college football news, and some epic sports-adjacent viral moments. Host Katie Nolan, with regulars Brady, Chris, and fantasy football rookie Isabella, navigates a live fantasy draft (for the podcast’s league), shares a major personal announcement, and riffs on the week’s wildest sports stories—from a retired bison mascot to an international tennis scandal involving a not-so-generous CEO.

Expect classic Casuals banter, millennial/Gen Z culture-clash gags, and an energetic “homework-turned-recess” approach to sports talk, perfect for fans and the sports-curious alike.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Fantasy Football, Live on Air

• The Setup: Isabella, fantasy football newbie, is in charge of drafting the show’s fantasy football team—live, despite ever-changing technical issues and general confusion.
• The Chaos: Draft order changes at the last minute (Isabella prepped for the 2nd pick, gets 9th), prompting comedic panic.
  • “We prepped for that. So I feel like once the draft is rolling, I feel good for you. But first target of the first round is something that you thought was already... you already had it tucked away and now we have to start from scratch.” (Katie, 05:05)
• Learning curves & Legendary Guidance: The team coaches Isabella in real time—debating sleepers, roster balance, bye weeks, and telling her to listen to her gut.
  • “Isabella, learned something today.” (Chris, 08:32, re: muting fantasy site sounds)
  • Tech hiccups abound, leading to debates over position strategy and tool proficiency.
• Meta moments: Katie’s control-freak anxiety collides with Isabella’s chill, unbothered approach, creating running commentary about trust, chaos, and “boomer” moments with technology.
• End Result: Isabella assembles a solid beginner’s team, gets encouragement (even a post-it note from someone in the league), and is christened with a new appreciation for fantasy football’s drama.

2. Major Announcement: New Katie Nolan Radio Show

• Katie reveals she’s launching a daily, live call-in radio show on Mad Dog Radio, SiriusXM (Channel 82), noon-1pm ET.
  • “I’m launching a radio show... It’s every day. It’s gonna be Monday through Friday on Mad Dog Radio... it’s called fan service with Katie Nolan.” (Katie, 11:02)
  • Listeners get the invitation: “Call me. Beat me, if you want to reach me.”
  • Details about the first call-in number: “Triple eight, mad dog six.” (12:52)

3. College Football Drama & Viral Mascot Moments

• Arch Manning’s Rollercoaster Debut
  • The crew discusses the media whiplash after Arch Manning’s underwhelming performance against Ohio State.
    • “Everybody went from calling the kid generational to now saying he is absolute cheeks.” (Katie, 23:07)
    • Consensus: Overhype, overcorrection, and the burden of a legendary football surname.
  • “He looked like a kid playing against older kids. I mean, he looked overmatched.” (Brady, 26:37)
• Lee Corso’s Farewell Lovefest
  • Warm coverage of Corso’s final football picks and the sport-wide send-off.
• Mascot Mayhem
  • “Puddles,” Oregon’s duck, loses his head (literally) on the field. The right protocol? Run away (body sans head) and let someone else retrieve it.
    • “That’s tough day for Puddles. Is the name of the mascot. Puddles.” (Katie, 37:29)
  • Cute tangent on college mascot lore—retirement reveals, the importance of “Manning face,” and graduation ceremonies for mascots.
• Retired Bison!
  • The University of Colorado’s real bison mascot, Ralphie VI “Ember,” retired for not enjoying running.
    • “Ember is the sixth Buffalo to fulfill the Ralphie role, and she seems to enjoy leisure time more than Running Girl. Same.” (Chris, 40:04)
    • “They’ve retired Ember early so she can chill on the Ralphie Retirement Ranch.” (Katie, 40:18)

4. NFL & Player Movement

• Micah Parsons Trade Shock
  • Cowboys trade star Micah Parsons to the Packers. Social media and sports media reactions range from disbelief to anger.
    • “The news came down that Micah Parsons was traded from the Cowboys. Absolutely. To the Packers. Sorry, I should have said that part. Shocking. Shocking.” (Katie, 44:24)
    • “Mina said that we may be witnessing... one of the biggest mistakes in NFL history.” (Katie citing Mina Kimes, 45:21)
    • Katie and Brady rant about the idiocy of owners negotiating with players instead of agents, referencing Jerry Jones’s notorious style.
• Team Value and Fan Frustration
  • Ownership and trades: Is Dallas becoming the worst fan-experience in sports right now? Katie empathizes with Dallas fans, a shift from past pod attitudes.
• Fantasy football: Q designations, bye week strategy, and more
  • Isabella still adapting to fantasy terminology and position runs, but increasingly confident.

5. International Sports Virality

• The Polish Paving CEO Hat Theft
  • Viral moment: CEO rips hat meant for a child during the U.S. Open, becomes instant villain.
    • “Not only did he not give it to the kid, he ripped it from a kid’s hands and then hid... shoved it into his wife’s, some woman’s purse.” (Katie, 65:02)
  • Community outrage, Internet sleuthing, and the consequences of viral shaming—Katie argues for proportional accountability and learning, not endless pile-ons.
    • “We are not very good at, once we get retribution... at some point we’ve gotta... but we’re not at that point yet, to be clear.” (Katie, 70:20)
  • Also, discussion of American “if you catch a ball/gift, you give it to a kid” etiquette and if it should always apply.

6. Rapid Sports & Pop Culture Updates

• US Open Tennis
  • Coco Gauff’s emotional performance leads to a segment on the acceptability of crying in sports.
    • “Cry when you are sad or overwhelmed. That’s what feeling your feelings looks like.” (Katie, 58:02)
  • Tommy Paul, Alexander Bublik, Taylor Townsend’s redemption arc.
• Baseball Tidbits
  • Red Sox inside-the-park homerun, Peyton Toy’s debut.
  • Mets rookie Jonah Tong’s eventful debut: “So many people brought Tongs to the game.” (Isabella, 77:44)
• Soccer
  • Manchester United knocked out of the League Cup by fourth-division Grimsby Town (“the most English sounding thing”).
• Celebrity/Pop Culture
  • Heidi Gardner’s SNL departure.
  • Wild celebrity couples: “Sydney Sweeney and Scooter Braun are dating.” (Katie, 83:45)
• Friend of the Pod Shoutouts
  • Danny Wexelman’s adorable Elmo interview for MLB Network.
  • The John Boys (Jomboy Media) entering a professional cricket tournament in Barbados.
  • Bubba Wallace in NASCAR playoffs.
• Miscellaneous
  • Dogs on sports sets (Kirk Herbstreit’s dog's “incident” on live TV); debate over giving dogs learned "bad" behaviors; mascot graduation TikToks.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Living Chaos:

  • “The sports podcast that’s going to attempt to live draft a fantasy team for the first time. While we also do a podcast.”
    —Katie Nolan, 02:18

• On Fantasy Fixes:

  • “We can’t have it be like this every pick.”
    —Katie Nolan, 15:09

• On College Football Hot Takes:

  • “I would argue… we don’t read anymore, and people don’t know what generational means. And because he is the third generation of a popular last name, I think they’re saying it and meaning that.”
    —Katie Nolan, 23:07

• On Mascot Mishaps:

  • “The mascot gets up, the body leaves the head and just sprints into the tunnel.”
    —Katie Nolan, 37:29

• On NFL Trades:

  • “Famously not how that works. The job of the football player is to play football and to put all of their energy and resources towards becoming the best football player they possibly can. The agent’s job is to do the business…”
    —Katie Nolan, 45:45

• On Internet Vigilantism:

  • “You stole from a child and you’re a CEO… but we are very good at, like, continuing to go at [people].”
    —Katie Nolan, 66:12, 70:20

• On Athlete Emotions:

  • “Cry when you are sad or overwhelmed. That’s what feeling your feelings looks like… It’s not—I’m sick of this—like, you’re not a real athlete if you cry.”
    —Katie Nolan, 58:02

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Topic | Timestamp | Notes | |---------------------|--------------------|----------------------------------------------------------| | Intro & Banter | 01:01 - 02:15 | Jamie Lynn’s dog joyride, ADD energy | | Fantasy Draft Begins| 02:15 - 19:00 | Tech chaos, strategy, mock-drafting, first picks | | Katie’s Career News | 10:56 - 12:59 | New SiriusXM radio show announcement | | College Football | 22:17 - 37:29 | Arch Manning hype/flop, Lee Corso send-off, mascots | | Bison Retirement | 39:22 - 42:45 | Ralphie, the chill bison, retires to "pasture life" | | NFL Reaction | 44:24 - 53:00 | Parsons trade, owner shenanigans, fanbase empathy | | Polish CEO Scandal | 63:34 - 73:01 | Hat theft, public shaming, etiquette debate | | Tennis, Emotions | 57:26 - 59:39 | Coco Gauff, letting sports figures have feelings | | Baseball Highlights | 75:15 - 78:13 | Red Sox, Mets, tongue-in-cheek “Tong Night” | | Grimsby Town Upset | 80:47 - 82:33 | Man U shock defeat, quirky lower-league soccer tales | | Friend of the Pod | 82:41 - 91:08 | SNL departures, celeb relationships, cricket in Barbados | | Weekly Sports Guide | 93:22 - 94:37 | What to watch—Thursday, Friday, Sunday football lineup |

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Isabella's Fantasy Draft Recap

• Lineup:
  • QB: Caleb Williams
  • WR: Puka Nacua, T. Higgins, Devonta Smith, George Pickens, Chris Godwin
  • RB: Christian McCaffrey, Kyron Williams, Tyrone Tracy Jr., Zach Charbonnet, JK Dobbins, Javonte Williams
  • TE: Mark Andrews
  • DEF: Seahawks
  • K: Brandon Aubrey
• Notable picks: Several “Matthew Berry Guys,” crossover from advice given in previous episodes.
• Team name brainstorming: “Isabella the swiper”; crowd-sourcing on social media to come.

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Tone and Running Jokes

• Classic irreverent and self-aware humor (lots of meta-commentary on their own chaos)
• “Best player in the history of [insert high school]”
• Millennial/Gen Z misunderstandings (muting tabs, fantasy app quirks)
• Katie’s deep sympathy for sports fans, but lighthearted impatience for toxic internet mobs
• Isabella’s rookie mistakes used as learning moments and running gags

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

This episode blends the hilarity and anxiety of a live fantasy football draft by a rookie, with sideline discussions of football culture, athlete pressure, and viral sports moments. Alongside major news (Katie’s new radio show! Shocking NFL trades! A Polish CEO becoming a global meme!), there’s nostalgia, meme references, and audience-building warmth. You’ll walk away with fantasy advice, a little sports perspective, and a reminder that sports, at every level—from pro mascots to college quarterbacks to fantasy draft rookies—are full of the unexpected, the emotional, and the absurd.

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Contact/Community

• Email: [e-mail]
• Voicemail: 646-800-1043
• IG/TikTok: @CasualsThePodcast
• Daily SiriusXM Call-in: 888-MAD DOG 6 (12-1pm ET)

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Next up: Team name suggestions for Isabella, more friend-of-the-pod updates, and reactions to the return of football season.

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Transcript

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[Katie Nolan]

Hey, Isabella, did you see Jamie Lynn Spears's dog got in a golf cart and drove the golf cart into her car?

[Isabella]

No.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh.

[Isabella]

And how. How did it reach the gas pedal?

[Katie Nolan]

I have no idea, but there's video of it. So there's the golf cart. The dog is in it. Oh, my God.

[Isabella]

And it's so slow, too. And then the dog immediately hit and runs out.

[Katie Nolan]

Hit and run. The dog runs away. Damn. I know. Jamie Spears is surrounded by otherworldly, transcendent talent, and the poor girl got none of it.

[Isabella]

Would you be mad if Myrtle did that?

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. No, actually, I don't know.

[Isabella]

I feel like sometimes people have a little bit of a. Of a soft spot if their dog does.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, I would. It just barely scraped the side.

[Isabella]

Exactly.

[Katie Nolan]

I'm really proud of her. I can't believe she did that. It's like I'm not even mad. I'm impressed. It's a giant wheel of cheese.

[Isabella]

What?

[Katie Nolan]

Sometimes I forget you're not actually a millennial. You just hang out with us.

[Isabella]

I'm so sorry.

[Katie Nolan]

Hello. Hello. Now I'm screaming. Now I'm getting too loud. Now I'm peeking. As they say in the biz. Welcome to Casuals, the sports podcast that is really doing a number on its ADD today. The sports podcast that's going to attempt to live draft a fantasy team for the first time. While we also do a podcast. We already struggle to keep within normal time constraints. I'm your host, Katie Noland. I'm joined today. I just called myself Katie Noland.

[Chris]

I heard that.

[Katie Nolan]

That's how stressed out I am right now. We have so Much going on. It's also technically a day off. It's Monday, September 1st, where we are. Happy Labor Day, everybody. I'm Katie Nolan. I already said that. I'm your host. Joined today by the casualties. There's Brady.

[Brady]

Hello.

[Katie Nolan]

Sorry.

[Brady]

Call me mid iced coffee. I'm never first.

[Katie Nolan]

I still made you go first. I know. You're first this time. And Chris is also here.

[Chris]

What's up?

[Katie Nolan]

And then drafting a fantasy team to represent our podcast in our podcast's fantasy league for the very first time, having watched 30. 30 minutes of professional football in her life. Yeah, it's Isabella. Joseph Tis.

[Isabella]

I. I watched the game plan the other day with the Rock. That's a football.

[Brady]

You are ready.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, well, how could this go wrong then? How you feeling about it?

[Isabella]

Honestly, guys, I'm battling an ear infection, so this is the lowest on my problems.

[Katie Nolan]

My God, you're battling an ear infection and you go on vacation tomorrow?

[Isabella]

I know, I know. I just took antibiotics, so I'm hopefully.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, Isabella, flying with an ear infection is hell.

[Isabella]

I know. But you know what?

[Katie Nolan]

I'm so sorry.

[Isabella]

I am so excited to draft my first team. Yay.

[Chris]

How much do you remember about what Matthew Berry taught you last week? How much have you retained?

[Isabella]

Well, I wrote something down. So one thing is bench is all running back and wide receiver.

[Chris]

Okay.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, love that. I love that. That's good advice. Hopefully you don't remember everything he said because Brady just broke some news to us as we logged into the Zoom today. And what was that news, Brady?

[Brady]

That I thought I had up to a half hour before draft time to set the draft order because we had prepared for Isabella to pick second, and I had an hour before draft time. So draft order was completely randomized, and you're picking ninth. Go get them.

[Isabella]

Okay.

[Katie Nolan]

We asked. We asked her fantasy football guide what she should do with the second pick. Isabella has prepared to have the second pick, and now she has the ninth, and the draft starts in eight minutes. So I was gonna. Yap. It's gone. I think what we need to use this top of the show for is to now decide what her first pick should be or to help counsel her on what to pick with her first pick. Because, Isabella, this is the good thing about nine, which is a bad thing, Brady, to be clear. But the good thing about it is it's the same rhythm between picks. So it's basically the two of the end. So it's like you're gonna pick, then someone else is gonna pick twice, and then it's back to you again. And we prepped for that. So I feel like once the draft is rolling, I feel good for you. But first target of the first round is something that you thought was already. You already had it tucked away and now we have to start from scratch. Who's going at nine?

[Isabella]

You know, I'm not worried about it.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay. I'd be less worried about it if you answered with a name.

[Isabella]

Oh, for who? For what?

[Katie Nolan]

Who's going at nine?

[Brady]

The ninth best player on the default rankings is Christian McCaffrey. Oh, Christian McCaffrey, who is amazing.

[Katie Nolan]

He's due, I guess, for a bounce for a good season.

[Chris]

He's gonna get fed.

[Brady]

He was great last year.

[Katie Nolan]

Was he?

[Brady]

I thought he had him two years ago. No. Yeah. Last year he was hurt last year. He was hurt the year before. That was the one. He was amazing. He tends to get hurt a lot.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, he does. That's why I make that face. Not cause he's not a fantastic running back, not because we're not happy for him. Didn't he have a baby? And I know he had a wife. The thought I'm having now is that I should have known that she's going to approach this with blind confidence and I am nothing else. Am I stressed? She's just going to go, I don't know. Oops. Did I get all wide receivers? Was that bad?

[Brady]

Two cyclones.

[Chris]

She threw a Cyclone. Yeah. She threw a cyclone pitch in front of a stadium full of people. This is nothing.

[Katie Nolan]

T. I as a control freak, I'm like, how's this? And then what are we. And then how. And what I got to learn to do. Just chill, bro. We're going to get a ridiculous team. We're going to get a ridiculous team and they're going to win. I have trust in Isabella. You have four minutes. You have your rankings in front of you.

[Isabella]

I do. And I'm assuming, are these going to be the same as the one on Yahoo?

[Chris]

Probably slightly different.

[Katie Nolan]

They'll differ in ways, but they'll probably be same in similar in ways. They're not gonna differ wildly, I guess is the answer. Hey, remember Matthew Barry said, email me and I'll get you signed up with Fantasy Life.

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

And I was gonna. I went into my email to see if I still had Matthew Berry's email. There was somebody whose email, in some arrangement of words, basically said, this is a person named Matthew Berry's email. I sent it an email saying like, hey, thanks, if this is still your email, blah, blah, blah. Haven't heard back. So I feel like, that's not his email. And then that was my fear. Then I was like. And did I email Matt Barry? Like, am I. Are we. Is this a bad. Have I emailed the wrong person? Are they going to be upset with.

[Brady]

I would guarantee you Matt Berry at ESPN has had that happen enough times that he does not care. Yeah, there's two mad Berries.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, but you think you'd at least go like, hey, it's me. What's up, Isabella?

[Isabella]

Oh, it's an ad draft prep.

[Katie Nolan]

Hold on.

[Isabella]

I don't want to hear you not here to prepare.

[Katie Nolan]

They can't give you an ad you're drafting.

[Chris]

You might need to mute the site because it does make sounds as the draft.

[Isabella]

They just randomly showed a Yahoo fantasy, like, draft.

[Katie Nolan]

Did you. Are you listening to Chris? Did you hear what Chris said?

[Isabella]

I can exit it out, but.

[Chris]

But you should also mute the sounds.

[Katie Nolan]

You have to mute the website, the.

[Chris]

Tab, because every time someone makes a draft pick, it's going to make a sound.

[Isabella]

Mute the tab?

[Chris]

Yeah. If you right click on the tab itself, it says, mute site.

[Katie Nolan]

Isabella, learned something today.

[Isabella]

I really am a boomer.

[Katie Nolan]

I don't think I. I don't think I knew how to do that either. It's okay. I don't think I've ever had to do that. Thanks, Chris.

[Chris]

You're welcome.

[Katie Nolan]

Famously not on social media.

[Chris]

Famously.

[Katie Nolan]

Brady. Also, you said that we're still getting emails. Guys, stop emailing about joining the league. The league is drafting right now, so you're not going to get in.

[Brady]

Declared Monday at 4. I'm going to guarantee that after 4 o', clock, I'm still getting emails.

[Katie Nolan]

It's wild. I.

[Brady]

But big thank you to the 500 people who have emailed.

[Chris]

And when was the last one, 45 minutes ago?

[Brady]

Yeah, pretty much.

[Katie Nolan]

Are they at least now sending in names for teams?

[Brady]

No, no, no. Absolutely not.

[Katie Nolan]

Come on, you guys.

[Brady]

I am getting a lot more dogs, though, okay?

[Katie Nolan]

Somebody showed me the dog that they sent you and on Twitter and I threw you under the bus immediately. I said, brady's fired. I then checked and I don't have the authority to do that. So you do still work here. But the vibes I'm throwing at you today, just so you know, it's because you didn't immediately put in the person who showed that dog. It was a cute dog. Okay.

[Brady]

There are a lot of dogs, though. I'm sorry, was I supposed to say, like, your dog's not cute enough? I'm not here to judge.

[Katie Nolan]

What? Why would you say that?

[Brady]

Because there were more than 10 dogs were sent in eventually.

[Katie Nolan]

Stop yelling at me. Can you just take the note? You're fired in spirit. Thanks for being here on a holiday. Okay, so Isabelle is gonna join a draft.

[Isabella]

Ooh, 52 seconds.

[Katie Nolan]

I'm gonna throw up.

[Isabella]

Where's the draft button?

[Chris]

You'll see it when it.

[Katie Nolan]

You'll see it when it's available to you.

[Isabella]

Okay. Oh, I'm number nine. I don't have to worry.

[Chris]

I can't wait to see which play is dropped to you at nine.

[Katie Nolan]

I wish we could see both Isabella's face and her screen.

[Isabella]

Do you want me to share it?

[Katie Nolan]

Can we share? Yes, but then we can't see her face. We can.

[Chris]

Yeah, we can see both.

[Katie Nolan]

Doesn't it take over for her?

[Chris]

You still have it up at the top of the screen.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, but I have on my screen the rundown open, and so I can't make my screen big enough to see what she shares on her screen. Guys, this is why I don't like shooting from my house.

[Brady]

We do still have a podcast to do, so we can't just focus on Isabella's dress.

[Katie Nolan]

I know. Should I start with housekeeping now or should I save it for the end the big announcement? Guys, wink, wink. I should do it right now.

[Brady]

Let's. Well, now that you've teased it out, I might as well just wait till the end.

[Katie Nolan]

What do you mean by that?

[Chris]

Keep people listening.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, we'll wait till that feels.

[Isabella]

They'll just fast forward, you know?

[Katie Nolan]

Right. That's what they did with the draft.

[Brady]

Least you can say.

[Katie Nolan]

I think we should just say it, guys. I'm launching a radio show.

[Chris]

And when was this? Still a few weeks away, right? Or when is this?

[Katie Nolan]

No, it's today. It starts today. And by today, I mean tomorrow to me. But it's today to you. It starts on Tuesday.

[Chris]

And this episode will be posted at noon, so.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, so it will have probably already happened. I already had a radio show. That's okay that you missed it. It's every day. It's gonna be Monday through Friday on Mad Dog Radio, SiriusXM channel 82. Look, they let us do that test week. We did Casuals Live. It was so fun. You guys showed up and then it was, you know, they were like, what if we did this but for a little bit longer than a week? And I was like, okay, I really enjoyed talking to you guys on the phone. So this is a call based radio show. Calling it fan service with Katie Nolan. Did I already say it's noon? To 1 Eastern, Monday through Friday on channel 82. So I call. Call me. Beat me if you want to reach me. It's like a lunch hour, right? And it's only an hour, so I want to spend it, like, talking to people. Like we're at a lunch table. Come sit with me at my lunch table. It's called fan service. And. And it started probably, like, an hour ago. You missed it. But it'll be here again and again every day for the rest of your lives. Questions, answers, anything.

[Brady]

Before we move on, you clearly remember the phone number that people are supposed to call, right?

[Katie Nolan]

Mm. It's 888. Right is where we start.

[Brady]

So far, we're nailing it.

[Katie Nolan]

Then if you're asking me the numbers, but I know I'm pretty sure it's Mad Dog. And then the only thing I have to figure out is what that last digit is. And spiritually, it feels like an eight, but I think it's a six, so.

[Brady]

Triple eight, mad dog six.

[Katie Nolan]

Triple eight, mad dog six dot that's what I said. Okay, that's what it's my turn to. Draft begun. Hold on.

[Isabella]

You guys picked?

[Katie Nolan]

Oh.

[Isabella]

Who did everybody pick?

[Katie Nolan]

Who's at the top? Who's at the top?

[Isabella]

I don't know. Jamar Chase is still up here.

[Brady]

This is the most.

[Katie Nolan]

Pick him.

[Isabella]

Wait, I can't pick him. He was already chosen.

[Katie Nolan]

There's. Okay, you know what? Let me go to running backs.

[Isabella]

I'm gonna pick a running back. Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm choosing. I'm choosing. Okay, fine. Guess I'm not fucking choosing because someone already took that.

[Katie Nolan]

Why is it giving you people that have already been taken? The list should be updating so that when people are taken, they are off the board.

[Isabella]

I don't see it. That's why I'm, like. I'm looking at this list, and then it's not.

[Katie Nolan]

Deep breaths.

[Chris]

How long have you got? Surely we're running out of time.

[Katie Nolan]

Of the list, there should be. Oh, my God. I have three seconds. I'm getting Christian McCaffrey. Yeah, what happened there?

[Brady]

Be prepared to care way too much about a man's cafe.

[Katie Nolan]

You got another one coming. Okay, the wave is not on. I feel scared.

[Isabella]

Cause I can't see you guys.

[Katie Nolan]

Who's next? Okay, who's next? You got a running back? Let's get a wide receiver.

[Chris]

There'll be some good wide receivers available here.

[Isabella]

Q, I'm assuming, means someone already took it.

[Brady]

No Q.

[Katie Nolan]

Questionable, isn't it?

[Brady]

Oh, are you talking about the word Q or the letter Q.

[Isabella]

No, there's like a red Q next.

[Katie Nolan]

It's questionable. That means they might not be playing for week one. Oh, for week one, at least.

[Isabella]

Good to know.

[Katie Nolan]

If you click on the little info button, it'll tell you why.

[Chris]

But if you're thinking like, someone like A.J. brown, his questionable. Probably will play week one.

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

So A.J. brown. We do like. Who. Who we looking at? Say names.

[Isabella]

I see Justin Jefferson. I see Nico Collins. I see Drake London.

[Chris]

I see Justin Jefferson still available.

[Brady]

Justin Jefferson might be the best pass catcher in the NFL.

[Isabella]

Puka is here.

[Chris]

Take is good.

[Katie Nolan]

Take Jefferson. Right.

[Chris]

Jefferson.

[Katie Nolan]

He was taken already. Why does this keep happening? Something's wrong. Why is she seeing names?

[Isabella]

Drake London. I'm gonna go for. I'm gonna go for Nico Collins.

[Katie Nolan]

Sorry.

[Isabella]

No. He's taken. Why am I not seeing it?

[Chris]

Do you need to share your screen so we can.

[Katie Nolan]

I think she should. We can't have this be every pick. We can't have it be like this. Every pick.

[Chris]

Do you have every pick? Like, I wonder what you're looking at with A.

[Katie Nolan]

After you make the pick. I can't.

[Isabella]

Even when I click a player, it's not even showing the draft button. Okay, I guess I'm taking Puka. That's who I got.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay. All right. That's okay. Now let me show my screen, please. This is a nightmare. This is a nightmare.

[Chris]

Still McCaffrey and Puka decent.

[Katie Nolan]

Not that part. I just mean the experience. I just mean the experience.

[Isabella]

You see it?

[Katie Nolan]

Help her.

[Brady]

So this looks normal. So Nico is available. So highlight Nico and then we'll draft.

[Katie Nolan]

She already made her pick.

[Brady]

Yeah. So where it says Q when it's your turn, that'll turn into draft.

[Isabella]

Oh. Oh, okay.

[Brady]

And these are all the wide receivers. You can change a position, you can.

[Isabella]

Make it say everybody, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.

[Katie Nolan]

What were you looking at before?

[Isabella]

I was on wide receivers, and when I clicked the name, I didn't see the draft button. And I don't know if that means. Because it wasn't my turn.

[Brady]

It must have been your turn.

[Katie Nolan]

Whose turn is it right now? Where are we seeing whose turn is.

[Brady]

Sally Boys on the left drafting now?

[Katie Nolan]

My screen isn't big enough to see that.

[Brady]

So Sally boys.

[Chris]

Yeah. Pick five in the second round. So it's still gonna be a while before Isabella's pick comes back around.

[Katie Nolan]

No, maybe not.

[Brady]

Yeah, it's probably solid.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, so should I.

[Isabella]

Should I keep picking a running back or a wide receiver?

[Chris]

Just see how the draft falls.

[Katie Nolan]

I'D say go to the full list, not by. Yeah, all players. And then just. You're gonna pick whoever's at the top and available, mostly right in the next round. Yeah, whoever's up there.

[Brady]

You don't have to take any position because it's the third round. You only need anything. You could take anybody you want.

[Isabella]

Okay. That was scary.

[Katie Nolan]

I would be. What are they? What? Do you have them organized by expert rank?

[Brady]

Yeah, that's just the default expert rank.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay. Because who are these experts? I'd go adp.

[Chris]

No, it depends. Sometimes if a player is falling in drafts due to some news that it's occurred in the last few days, the. It takes the ADP a while to catch up. So it's not the most up to date information. If something has happened recently.

[Katie Nolan]

Those first picks were awful, and I'd love us to.

[Isabella]

Damn.

[Katie Nolan]

Really?

[Isabella]

Were they not good?

[Katie Nolan]

No, no, no, no, no. Sorry. Not the quality of the pick. The experience of the pick. That's why I wanted her to mock draft.

[Brady]

Well, somebody had an ear infection and I wasn't gonna make her mock draft.

[Isabella]

Thank you, Brady. I needed to sleep as long as I could.

[Brady]

We're gonna melodically def.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, stop. Okay, let's stop. We don't have time for this fan. Do we have this fantasy.

[Isabella]

Oh, wait. Nick Collins got taken and that's fine.

[Katie Nolan]

So we'll look at the next person. We'll look at the next person. All right, let's. What is this? Someone named Evan has used our email address to apply for a job at Aldi. We are not going to help Evan, but we are pulling for him.

[Isabella]

Okay, I agree. I hope you get that job.

[Katie Nolan]

I do. I. I hope you're sending. Wait, so they listed our email address? Yes, I keep getting their job application.

[Brady]

Yeah, a lot of. Yeah. I hope it goes well. I don't know. I hope that, like, the fact that it's not going to Evan's email does not negatively affect him. I imagine it could.

[Katie Nolan]

I also feel like Aldi would go, like, why do you have another person's name in your email?

[Isabella]

Oh, wait, guys, I'm about to pick.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay.

[Isabella]

No, I'm not about to pick. Never mind.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, okay, good, good.

[Isabella]

I just saw a Timer, and when I see a Timer, I'm thinking, timer's.

[Katie Nolan]

Been up there the whole time.

[Isabella]

Oh, eight picks until your turn. Okay, I'm good.

[Katie Nolan]

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[Katie Nolan]

Okay, let's start with college football. Rah, rah, sis, boom bah. I love me some college football. I watched some.

[Isabella]

Okay.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay. Ohio State beat number one ranked Texas. Texas quarterback Arch Manning falls a little flat. So, coming into this week, the hype around Arch Manning was absurd. Many people using the word generational to describe his talent. Now granted, going up against the defending champs, Ohio State. Why are you smiling, Brady?

[Brady]

Why wouldn't I be smiling?

[Katie Nolan]

Why'd you smirk at that?

[Brady]

Having fun?

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, you. I thought you were smirk. I thought you were reacting to what I said. Apologies. No, just smiling. Cause that's normal.

[Brady]

Smiling's my favorite. What can I say?

[Katie Nolan]

Is this an overreaction? Because, dude, everybody went from calling the kid generational to now saying that he is absolute cheeks. And it just feels like pretty crazy pendulum swing to me. I would argue. And my theory is that we don't read anymore and people don't know what generational means. And because he is the third generation of a popular last name, I think they're saying it and meaning that. And I think that's where the disconnect is happening. I blame literacy rate. Any other theories?

[Brady]

I think it's just a lot of course correction. Like maybe we're not turning around thinking he's entirely cheeks, but I think it's a good realization that we crowned this kid way too fast, gave him way too much, and assumed that he was mechanically perfect and a God on a football field because his two uncles have three Super Bowls and hall of fame careers.

[Isabella]

Oh, it's my turn to draft.

[Chris]

Yeah, I was just about to say. I didn't know if he'd realize it or Not.

[Katie Nolan]

Who are you going to take? I wouldn't take Trey McBride. I don't think. I wouldn't do that out of Trey McBride.

[Isabella]

Jaden Daniels. Should I choose him or.

[Chris]

He's a quarterback, but no, no, he's going that high. Probably not.

[Katie Nolan]

No. I would go with.

[Brady]

You're gonna have a fun time.

[Katie Nolan]

Where are you going? Where are you going? Go back to the top. Why are you scrolling down?

[Isabella]

Okay, take.

[Katie Nolan]

Who do you have? You have a wide receiver and a. And a running back.

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

I mean, T. Higgins isn't bad. T. Higgins or Kyron Williams. Quick.

[Chris]

Seven seconds. Six.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, I'll let it.

[Brady]

Isabella picked his team or not?

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, I was asked. Oh, you're right. You're right. Let me say nothing. Don't then unshare her screen.

[Isabella]

Okay, I'm gonna. I was actually just thinking about. Because if you wanted clips too, isn't it probably better because we're not gonna.

[Chris]

See anyone's faces, but then how are we supposed to let you know that you're picking if you.

[Katie Nolan]

She'll know. She should know. She should pay attention to her draft and not worry about the good. Right.

[Chris]

But back to the game. Right. It was quite funny because obviously he came into this game with so much hype. The game as a whole had a bunch of hype. You know, Texas being ranked number one in the country. Ohio State, I think was two, three. There were two in one of the polls. Coaches poll. Right. Three in the AP and Ohio State were favorites coming off the national championship. And the first in the first drive that Arch Manning had. What was it going to be like a 8 yard pass maybe, and just completely skipped it. I think it went like 4 yards, 5 yards, which wasn't a great way to start the. To start his essentially collegiate career. I know he's had some snaps before, but this is essentially the start of his collegiate career and it sort of was just downhill from there. Now you're playing against arguably one of the best defense, if not the best defenses in the country. But it was still quite humorous to see how much he struggled and how. How much really both offenses struggled because it was a defensive battle to place.

[Katie Nolan]

Him in the Manning family tree. If you're. If you're wondering if you've forgotten, he is the son of Cooper, making him the grandson of Archie and the nephew of Peyton and Eli. He finished the game. He made 17 of his 30 passes for 170 yards, one touchdown and one pick. That doesn't read as bad. I feel like people were mostly just alarmed by the by how the incompletions.

[Brady]

Looked at the end of the third quarter, he had fewer than one yard per minute.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, a lot of that came right.

[Brady]

At the end of the game.

[Katie Nolan]

Right, right, right, right.

[Brady]

But like short passes and sidearms and, and yeah, he looked like a kid playing against older kids. I mean he looked overmatched. He looked like he wasn't ready for the spotlight. Which is probably unfair unless it's with a kid who has embraced the spotlight every day up until now. Like it's one thing if we're saying that like, oh, this 20 year old kid, you know, had a lot of pressure and it's okay if he doesn't come out of the gate perfectly the first time. But like Arch Manning has like, you know, he had a GQ spread. Like he. He's on the COVID of video games. He's a Warby Parker sportsman. He does Red Bull, he does viori, he does Panini American.

[Katie Nolan]

Shut up, Viori.

[Brady]

Sheriff Yori is dope.

[Katie Nolan]

Shout out.

[Brady]

He was the bettinger to win the Heisman. Like it's all, it was all. It was all like there that he was, you know, willingly taking on. You got to perform when it comes time.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, but I will say Brady, you didn't really, you don't really seem to think like you didn't give Shador any credit. When he did show up when it was time, you were like, it's preseason game, who cares? You know, I mean it was preseason game.

[Brady]

Who care?

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Well, okay. And then if you want me to care about his preseason, then the third preseason game, he dropped back 11 times and took five sacks.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, well then this is.

[Brady]

You go so hard for the Cleveland Browns third string quarterback.

[Katie Nolan]

I just love a team with six quarterbacks. What can I say? I love a quarterback heavy. Give me a snowman where the biggest balls right up at the top. I think that's the best way to build your team. I just love that.

[Brady]

I like to get. I like to get on a plane to fly across the country and know that there are six different pilots trying to steer it at one time. You know, it's always the way you want to go.

[Chris]

Yes.

[Katie Nolan]

Did you see the question? Yeah.

[Isabella]

What does this. What does this. This metric by mean the by week.

[Brady]

One week per season that they don't play.

[Isabella]

That's the week, that's what the buy. Okay. Okay.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Isabella]

So it just said bye and I was like, okay, bye. Like does that mean like I don't have the option for that player? Bye.

[Chris]

No, like essentially ideally you wouldn't want to draft like three running backs that all have the same bye week, for instance, because then when it gets to that week, it's going to be tough to. For you to fill out your roster. But.

[Katie Nolan]

And Chris, you weren't there, so I get why you.

[Isabella]

Oh, no, I have two players.

[Chris]

No, I figured that out later.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, yeah, good point.

[Isabella]

Okay.

[Katie Nolan]

It's okay. You'll figure it out. That's why you're filling your bench, right? What does it say? What did you learn? What are you filling your bench with.

[Isabella]

Running backs and ride with wide receivers.

[Katie Nolan]

That's right. In fact, my brother one year drafted everybody with the same bi week on purpose. You just eat it for that week and then you crush every other week. That's not a terrible strategy, actually. You never really have to make any. It's too late for you to use a strategy like that. Why don't listen to me. This was for the people listening. I will say the one thing that Arch definitely has that he got from his family is the face. We got plenty of Manning face. I didn't realize how much I'd missed it till I saw it. Seeing him on the sidelines, sort of processing his performance. Brilliant. Welcome back, Manning face. We've missed you very much.

[Brady]

That's a G Wiz face.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. G Willikers. A lot of love for Lee Corso this weekend. College football. I, you know, I'm an outsider here in this world, but it was, I thought, sweet to see. Also fascinating that One channel's team One channel's six guys at a desk show threw from their network to ESPN. They aired the Lee Corso thing on FS1, right? Not Fox.

[Brady]

Yeah, FS1. It was a lot of love. Like, just, like a lot of. Just everywhere. Everybody across the sport just showing up for Lee Corso, like, game also.

[Katie Nolan]

He went 6 for 6. He went 6 for 6 with his final game day predictions.

[Brady]

He went 6 or 6 with his picks and every team that he coached, including Maryland Shout out won on Saturday.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, every single team. That's really sweet. Glen Powell got to be there at that. Right? And I don't know if you saw wearing a Christian Kristen Yusczyk original. It's sick. I love, I love what she does. And it looked so cool. I saw, I think I bumped into it for the first time because I didn't watch Game Day. Sorry. On TikTok that she was like making the shirt. I was like, oh, cool shirt. And then like the reveal was that Glen Powell wore it on game Day. I was like, hell, yeah. She's having a year. They're launching. She's launching her WNBA line soon, I think. Right. That's this week.

[Brady]

Thursday the 4th. Yeah, Thursday.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. I'm excited.

[Brady]

She made that jersey by hand, like you. I pulled up the TikTok of it, and, like, she's cutting up an actual, like, Longhorns jersey, putting the hem on it. The new logos, you know, slapped a PAL one on the back. It's a good look.

[Katie Nolan]

She always makes really cool stuff.

[Brady]

I love that jerseys are hard. Sports jerseys are hard in general because you want to support the team, but, like, wearing the actual jersey never quite fits right as a garment. And football jerseys especially are meant to be worn, like, over pads where they have, like, these long sleeves or they're billowing. Yeah. Any kind of modification that can make you look like a human wearing clothes while wearing sports gear always helps.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Isabella's face is making me laugh.

[Katie Nolan]

Where are we at in the draft, baby? You got to tell us when you're making. My turn.

[Isabella]

My turn is next.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay. Who. Who. Who's on the list?

[Isabella]

Huh?

[Katie Nolan]

Sorry. Go ahead. What? Chris, ask her your question.

[Chris]

Who are some of the players that you're gonna choose between? Who. Who's, like, the next four listed? Yeah.

[Isabella]

Kenneth Walker iii.

[Chris]

Okay.

[Isabella]

James Connor.

[Chris]

Okay.

[Isabella]

Devonta Smith.

[Chris]

Yep.

[Isabella]

And George Pickens.

[Chris]

All right.

[Brady]

Okay. How much?

[Isabella]

Oh, DK Metcalf. Cute.

[Chris]

Okay.

[Isabella]

Oh, he was actually taken. He's not there anymore.

[Katie Nolan]

Well, I don't.

[Isabella]

All these top two ones, they're on the same bye week, and I already have two guys with the same buy.

[Chris]

Don't worry too much about it. If the value is there, it's fine. It's just sort of. If you can't decide between one player or another, that's like a tiebreaker.

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, you know what?

[Isabella]

I want this. I want this guy who. Bye. I got Devonta Smith. I wanted him.

[Brady]

Right on.

[Chris]

Sweet.

[Katie Nolan]

Nice. Just listen to your heart.

[Isabella]

Yeah. Yeah. And then I'm next. I don't know. Someone this weekend told me that when with offense. Pick Eagles. I don't know. I'm trusting that it worked last year.

[Chris]

Makes sense. Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Isabella]

Okay.

[Katie Nolan]

You talked to people about it?

[Isabella]

Yeah, I did. At a baby shower. I love that everyone was talking about it, and I was like, I turned over to my boyfriend. I was like, I know so many names.

[Katie Nolan]

I love this. Wait, this was at a bait. Where was this?

[Isabella]

At a baby shower.

[Katie Nolan]

I thought you said. Said yes.

[Chris]

That's so cool. But it's also a good idea. To just draft from teams that you enjoy watching. My apologies.

[Isabella]

Sorry. Hold on. I said that lovingly.

[Chris]

We do still have to podcast and I know she's.

[Katie Nolan]

Just let her make this. I just wanted to make.

[Isabella]

Okay, let me just make this one.

[Katie Nolan]

And then Kirk Curb Street's dog pooped.

[Brady]

This is what? You missed game day live.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, I caught it in the clips. His dog that he brings to work pooped. Because dogs poop, Kirk.

[Brady]

Well, especially when you're lining up for a field goal. They have this big patch of grass where the kid's gonna kick a field goal. Yeah. Into an upright. And like, the dogs.

[Katie Nolan]

Grass, go poop. What do you want it to.

[Brady]

Big space of grass. No one around. No one. Just.

[Katie Nolan]

You want it to be like, well, Pat McAfee's yelling here. There couldn't possibly be. This couldn't be where I poop.

[Brady]

It was a lock. This dog was going to crap. And then you see a pa, very slow, subtly dressed in black, trying to sneak into the shot. But the problem is, like, the problem is that the fence behind it was bright orange, so there was no hiding with this poop bag to grab it. And I don't think they got to it in time. The kid kicked the field goal, made the field goal, which somehow is now worth $250,000 to make this field goal. It used to be like, we'll buy your books for a semester. Now it's.

[Katie Nolan]

So last time I watched, they, he said to Shane, live on air to Shane Gillis, he was like, you'll match that. Right? And you can see Shane looked over at him, was like, I'm not doing that. What do you mean? What? What? Yeah, that money goes up. I don't know how that works, but I've never understood how that works. What is that? Somebody will go. Insurance pays it, and I don't know what that means.

[Brady]

Yeah, that's as far as I can go on that.

[Katie Nolan]

I don't understand what that means, and I've never admitted that. Thank you. Who'd you pick, Isabella?

[Isabella]

I'm cueing people. I'm in this, okay? Because I want the one that Matthew Berry told me to pick. I think that was the one.

[Katie Nolan]

Who did you pick? With that last pick, when you told.

[Isabella]

Chris to shush, I picked. Who was it? George Pickens.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, great. Get back to your cue. Don't let me stop you. Alabama's dead. I saw a clip of Johnny Manziel saying that Alabama is, as we know it, is dead. Nobody is afraid of them. Nobody cares anymore. I do Love that. I heard it on his clip of an appearance on Shannon Sharpe and Ochocinko's show in which two thirds of those people are wearing their sunglasses. Sports media's in a place. I don't know what this is, but.

[Brady]

We'Re going to Johnny Manziel for football expertise. When Johnny Manziel made a big show that he watched 0 minutes of film in college.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, yeah. All right, fair. But I do feel that their aura has diminished. Do you not?

[Brady]

Well, they're nine and five. Like, nine and five in the last. Since DeBoer took over for Nick Saban. That's. That's not aura right there. Like, that's. That's just a team that's like Ole Miss numbers. Sorry. Ole Miss. But that's. Yeah, there's. There's no mystique for that. And it takes a while to come back from that. Like, Texas had down years and they came back.

[Katie Nolan]

Doesn't it feel, though, like, as soon as you were allowed to pay players, a lot of these schools that had, like, these big storied, they kind of just like, stopped having an advantage.

[Brady]

I don't know. We still have the same powerhouses that we did from 10 years ago. Ohio State's still huge. Michigan's still huge.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Brady]

I mean, Oregon's like, the one that came up over the last 20 years to be a perennial powerhouse. But, I mean, I think it's.

[Katie Nolan]

I was just asking. Just asking questions. Hey, speaking of Oregon back. I. Back off my point. Cause I don't care enough. It just feels like everybody's talking about Alabama like they're dead. And I thought that sounded interesting, but again, not gonna catch me doing that on Saturdays. So Oregon's Duck, the mascot, their head fell off on the field in the middle of a performance, and. Very funny, but this is mascot protocol. It's the correct thing to do, but always funny to witness. The mascot gets up, the body leaves the head and just sprints into the tunnel. Just sprints right off the field, leaving a giant duck head on the field for somebody else to come grab and pick up. That's tough day for Puddles. Is the name of the mascot. Puddles.

[Brady]

It's. I mean, I know that, like, in your mind, it's triggered that, like, grab it and run, but it's awkward. It's awkward to see that. Just picking up that.

[Katie Nolan]

I feel bad for the kids. I listened into the clip. I turned the sound on because I wanted to see if you could hear them going, like, hear anybody realize that God is dead? I Don't know. A mascot just lost his head in front of you in the middle of the band thing. That's wild.

[Brady]

It's hard to do because there are straps under the arms that hold that head on.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, really?

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

That's smart.

[Brady]

Head's like that. Head's on there. Good.

[Katie Nolan]

So you're saying this guy's a scrub.

[Brady]

I think a proper person's not taken.

[Katie Nolan]

You're saying the man that lives inside of Puddles.

[Brady]

I'm wondering if this is a first year. Puddles.

[Katie Nolan]

Wow. He called you a rookie, bro. He called you a rookie, bro. Well, you know what? I do. I did discover last year that they do those reveal videos. Have you seen these on social media? Have we talked about these? Where whoever was the mascot, it shows a person graduating and then when they open doors or there's a transition on TikTok. Chris, I know you're not on social media, but a transition is in video when you go from one shot to a reveal of another shot and the reveal is what mascot they are. And it's been cool. I love those videos. Maybe because I don't remember if I saw the duck graduate last year, but that would be why. Right? You would get a new duck.

[Brady]

The best look is wearing the feet under the cap and gown.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Like the hokey feet at Virginia Tech. Just seeing big turkey feet walking across.

[Katie Nolan]

That's what a hokie is. A turkey.

[Brady]

Yeah. Hokey's a fancy turkey.

[Katie Nolan]

I don't think I knew that. I feel like I've definitely googled it.

[Brady]

It was a chant, but I haven't retained it. That became a turkey.

[Katie Nolan]

I think I dated somebody who went there and I think even he was like, I don't really know what it is. So I don't know. Interesting. Anyway, what you said about this. Okay, what? Tell me about it.

[Brady]

Chris, you want to take the email? It'd be weird if I read an email.

[Chris]

Sure. This is from Katie R. Oh, Katie R. Says, I wanted to share a cute mascot story with you.

[Katie Nolan]

Please.

[Chris]

The University of Colorado's mascot, Ralphie has a long tradition of running on the field before CU football games. The most recent Ralphie is named Ember and she has recently retired due to an indifference to running.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, are we talking? These are live animals.

[Brady]

Whole ass buffalo. Yes.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, we have to make the distinction between this being a person dressed up as the bull or the buffalo going, I really don't do running. Or if it's a bull, a buffalo. Why do I keep doing that? That doesn't Want to run at all? So sorry. Keep going.

[Chris]

Ember is the sixth Buffalo to fulfill the Ralphie role, and she seems to enjoy leisure time more than Running Girl. Same.

[Katie Nolan]

Seriously?

[Chris]

The Buffs have decided to retire Ember early so that she can chill on the Ralphie Retirement Ranch.

[Katie Nolan]

That. Can I vacation there? Is that on Airbnb? The Ralphie Retirement Ranch.

[Chris]

Sounds cool.

[Katie Nolan]

Just go hang out with a bunch of old former famous Bison guys.

[Isabella]

It's my turn to drive.

[Chris]

Okay, here we go.

[Katie Nolan]

How's it going?

[Isabella]

I kind of want to get another running back, because right Now I have 1, 2, 3, 4. I have 4 wide receivers and two running backs. Should I get another? Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Or. What round is this? That makes it 7. 7. So you could take. If you wanted. You could look for a tight end or a quarterback, but it's totally up to you.

[Isabella]

I'm. Maybe I'll take this guy. Tyrone Tracy Jr. You can play.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay.

[Isabella]

Kenny Brady. Can you play? Can he. Is he good? I don't know.

[Brady]

I mean, every player on that list was the best player in the history of their high school.

[Katie Nolan]

Don't do this. This isn't helpful to her.

[Isabella]

I have five seconds asking you for advice. I'm drafting him.

[Chris]

So now that you've got seven players, run us through who you've got again.

[Isabella]

Because I think right now I have Puka.

[Chris]

Yep.

[Isabella]

Higgins, Christian McCaffrey. Oh, I don't even remember this guy's first name, but K. Williams.

[Chris]

Kyron. Yep.

[Isabella]

Okay. Devonta Smith. He's listed as my flex.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Because he's got nowhere else in your starting lineup to go.

[Isabella]

Oh, okay. And then George Pickens. And then Tyrone Tracy Jr that's who I have.

[Brady]

Pickens is going to be a fun one to own, because George Pickens is a special brand of crazy.

[Isabella]

Okay. Yay. Ooh, I love George Pickens.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, it's my turn. Who's up there? Who's at the top? Do we see any tight ends we like?

[Isabella]

I don't see any tight ends, but I could change it to tight end.

[Katie Nolan]

No, no, don't. No, no, it's okay. No, I was just asking. You don't.

[Isabella]

The only one at the top of tight end is Mark Andrews.

[Brady]

That's good. Let's go to Jillian. Touchdowns last year.

[Katie Nolan]

This. I've infected the process too much. I was just asking if there was a tight end at the top of the list. I didn't know.

[Isabella]

You're fine.

[Katie Nolan]

I didn't. No, I'm not. I don't like this.

[Isabella]

Chill. Hold on.

[Katie Nolan]

Was that the end of Katie. That wasn't the end of Katie's email, was it?

[Chris]

There was still a little bit more. So Katie ended the email by quoting the Colorado announcement that said, due to an indifference to running typical of many Mamblins, both four legged and two legged, it was determined that it was in Ember's best interest based on her disposition to focus on relaxing strolls on the pasture, which is her favorite hobby.

[Isabella]

I love that.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay.

[Isabella]

I have a while to chill.

[Katie Nolan]

Sick.

[Chris]

Who'd you draft?

[Isabella]

Mark Andrews.

[Chris]

Okay.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Isabella]

He was in between the two guys that. That Matthew Berry mentioned. Oh, that were interesting. So I was like, all right. If he's in between them, yeah, what the difference?

[Chris]

Tight end and.

[Isabella]

Exactly.

[Chris]

And it's. He's a guy that's going to be on national TV a bunch. Like the Ravens going to get a bunch of games. They're a fun offense to watch. So when you don't really know who to draft, going for someone who's on a team that you're going to be able to watch a lot of is a good tiebreaker.

[Katie Nolan]

Isabella, does your. Do you have red zone? Do you know.

[Isabella]

Do we have red zone? Do we have the channel Red zone? I guess we do. Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Shout out. Shout out. Your boyfriend Tommy said hi. That'll be helpful. That'll be helpful for you. That'll be the. Probably the way that you'll watch. That'll be fun.

[Isabella]

Okay.

[Katie Nolan]

And you'll be like, oh, my God, I know that guy. I'm so excited for her first day of, like, my guy did the thing while I was watching, which is, you know what it's all about.

[Brady]

I can't tell you enough. George Pickens will be fun. George Pickens famously got into a fight with a defensive player last year while a pass was being thrown to him. Instead of trying to catch the ball, he chose to fight this guy and, like, shove him out of the field. The. The pass did not get caught.

[Isabella]

I like it. I like it. I'm excited to have him on my team.

[Katie Nolan]

Good.

[Isabella]

The fight. Maybe he won't be that great at catching because he'll be fighting, but might.

[Chris]

Be, you know, he'll be fighting.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

It's all about trying to. Trying to pick storylines to follow throughout the season. It's all about learning football through your team. So this is a good way of doing it.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, let's go to. Let's head to the NFL while we're talking about it. Obviously, the big, big news from last week is that right after, I believe we recorded our Podcast. The news came down that Micah Parsons was traded from the Cowboys. Absolutely. To the Packers. Sorry, I should have said that part. Shocking. Shocking. You know, shocking, but, like, shocking. Like, what took it so long? What I always love about the way these conversations go is that, like, when the. When the deal still hasn't been signed and it's like getting into training camp and people are like, eh, we all know how this is gonna go. They're gonna wait till the last minute, then they're gonna sign. They're gonna have to sign him for more money than if they had just agreed to the thing before they. And that's not what happened. They straight up traded him. I saw, you know, taking in the reactions from people across the sports media landscape, Mina said that we may be witnessing the. One of the biggest mistakes in NFL history. One of the worst mistakes. I saw a clip of DEZ Bryant talking about a time that Jerry Jones was trying to negotiate with him without an agent. I saw a clip of Jerry Jones in an old press conference talking about how he doesn't deal with agents, he likes to deal with the player.

[Brady]

Not how that works.

[Katie Nolan]

Not how that works. Famously not how that works. The job of the football player is to play football and to put all of their energy and resources towards becoming the best football player they possibly can. The agent's job is to do the business, do the negotiating, understand the market, get a fair deal.

[Brady]

And if you're Jerry Jones, there's literally only one reason why you would ever want to negotiate directly with the player. You're just telling people openly. Like, I am trying to take advantage of someone who is not business savvy, may not have a college degree. Like someone who, you know, has. They pay somebody else to do this negotiation. I'm trying to go around that. Like, Jerry just said the quiet part out loud the whole time, which he.

[Katie Nolan]

Tends to do that Jerry Jones.

[Brady]

Will this help Jerry in his quest for glory Holes?

[Katie Nolan]

I just. I don't care what that guy does anymore. I don't wanna talk about him. Like, this is just a. It's a clearly obviously predatory practice. Watching Skip Bayless also do tricks on it is so annoying. Watching him be like, I think this is a great idea. I think this is a great idea. Jerry finally listened to me who's been saying, get rid of that guy, get rid of that guy. And then you're seeing all these stories come out about how like, oh, people are relieved that the deal is done. Trying to stop, spin it. This is. Anytime any trade happens, happened with Raphael Devers in baseball and the Red Sox. It's like, oh, actually, maybe he was a bad guy. Maybe he was bad for the team. It's like, okay, fine, sure. What? It's so obvious, watching all of the machinations of this work. I feel bad for Dallas fans. I feel so bad for Dallas fans, which I don't feel like I would have said that a couple years ago. Dallas fans and I have been like this a couple times. I'm putting my fists up because, I don't know, sometimes when someone says they're a Dallas fan, I have to go like, we cool? Because of Greg Hardy. But I feel so bad for them. This is another huge blow. This is a incredible talent who's young, who was supposed to be here for a while, who you would never consider this would happen to. And it's happened to them twice in, like, a calendar year. And that's devastating. I saw a clip, I don't know if you guys saw this online, of somebody walking by Nico Harrison, who's dining not outside, but right at an open window somewhere, and somebody recognizes him. And they must have planned this out because his friend was filming. They must have been walking by and noticed and then turned around and walked by and planned what they were going to say. But one of the guys yelled at him and basically said, what did he say? Like, I hope you get.

[Brady]

Everyone still hates you.

[Katie Nolan]

Everyone still hates you. Yeah. And I saw people going, like, that's not okay. You can't do that. And I saw a lot of people say, like, I'm glad you did that. And I'm not gonna go either way on that. I feel like. I don't think it's. I don't think it's a good thing to endorse. I don't think being like, yeah, definitely do that, because that's harassment. But I will say the amount of people who are going, like, it was cathartic to watch you do that. It should be reflective to the ownership of these teams that, like you. You're really upsetting people by getting rid of these incredible talents that you have the luck to have on your team. It is. You know, people care about this stuff, and they give you a lot of money.

[Brady]

They have the best rookie in two different basketball leagues, and it still feels like Dallas fans got the shit kicked out of them all year long.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Brady]

I just feel just a worst year for a fan base.

[Katie Nolan]

Don't go yelling at people. Okay. While they're eating with their family. Okay, like, don't. Just don't. But, like, not really mad if the person did. But don't. You know what I'm saying? Don't do.

[Brady]

In both cases, it felt like they just got so much less back than they could have. Like, it just feels like.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. It's not even like at the end of the day a wise business decision. You're not even like, well, look at the hall.

[Brady]

Yeah. Like if the, if you trade Shohei otani for. For 25 first round picks or whatever. Like I'm thinking of the best player in sports and the like. Sure. But like this is just an average return.

[Katie Nolan]

Like was it two first round picks?

[Brady]

Two first round picks. And Kenny Clark, who is a 30 year old defensive tackle. That cool.

[Katie Nolan]

Who is. Was the best at the high school that he went to.

[Brady]

It was the best player in the history of Kenny Clark High school. Weird that they named it after him.

[Katie Nolan]

Crazy. And he wasn't even that good.

[Brady]

But Jerry Jones got to the press conference and he was trying to pitch it to fans like they were stupid and just telling him like, look, he's. I wrote the line here. What was the line? Look, these draft picks could get us Pro bowl type players.

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Brady, he could. You could get, you could probably get the best. You could get a Micah Parsons with that pick. Okay.

[Brady]

You see people, people splitting that. It was this clip has the same energy. It was Jerry Jones saying that and then it was Peter Griffin saying, do you want the boat or the mystery box? Peter goes, the mystery box. Could have anything in it. Could even have a boat. You know how much we wanted one of those?

[Katie Nolan]

That's very funny.

[Isabella]

It's my turn to draft.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay. What do you think?

[Isabella]

What does Q mean again?

[Chris]

Questionable.

[Isabella]

Questionable.

[Katie Nolan]

That means they might not play most likely week one, but chances are it would say O if they were out.

[Brady]

Yeah. The only options are which player, which.

[Chris]

Player has a Q designation that you worried about?

[Isabella]

Stefan Diggs. I was thinking of going for this Zach Charbonnet guy. It's like his last name.

[Brady]

That was a Matthew Berry guy.

[Isabella]

That was a Matthew Berry.

[Katie Nolan]

Go ahead, take him.

[Isabella]

Once you said, did you. Does it matter if they have. There's a bunch of people with the same bye week team name.

[Katie Nolan]

Marvin Gaye and Charbonnet.

[Isabella]

Okay, I'm going. Zach Charbonnet.

[Katie Nolan]

Let's go, let's go.

[Chris]

And then after that, it's a good late round pick. I'm surprised.

[Isabella]

I think, I think. I know. I was like, oh, wait, this is the one that's highlighted.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Isabella]

Wait, when should I pick a quarterback or should I just wait soon Probably.

[Katie Nolan]

I feel like.

[Isabella]

Okay.

[Brady]

I think either one. One of the.

[Katie Nolan]

What about if you start seeing one you like or you just start seeing. Yeah. Yeah. So the best guys are probably gone, but I would say with some.

[Isabella]

Who's available in the best guys, it's. Brock Purdy, Dak Prescott.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay.

[Isabella]

Baker Mayfield.

[Chris]

Whoa. There's still some.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Talented QBs out there. You don't have anything to worry about.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. You're not in a rush, right?

[Isabella]

Okay. I don't think so. Should I be?

[Katie Nolan]

No. No.

[Isabella]

Okay.

[Chris]

Absolutely not.

[Katie Nolan]

And you have a. What other positions do you need to fill? You took a tight end.

[Isabella]

I have a tight end.

[Katie Nolan]

That's right.

[Isabella]

I need a kicker.

[Katie Nolan]

No, not.

[Chris]

You can wait till the very end.

[Katie Nolan]

You can wait.

[Isabella]

I have. I need to pick a defense.

[Katie Nolan]

Defense. You can also wait till the end. So. Yeah. So I would say whenever. Pick. I would say look at the list of quarterbacks and figure out which one you like. And then when it gets to them, like, if it's somebody that's at the top, then you. Right. Yeah. And then if it's. If they're. If you can wait a little longer to get them, then do that.

[Isabella]

Okay. Oh, it's my turn again. I say wait. Let me read this again. Diggs has a lot to overcome this year, but if he does, he's in a position to potentially draw a ton of targets.

[Katie Nolan]

But the first sentence.

[Isabella]

What? Oh, yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Then Maybe. Not.

[Isabella]

Maybe. J.K. dobbins sounds like a author.

[Katie Nolan]

But. But better.

[Isabella]

Actually. Oh, seven seconds. I'm getting him. Whatever.

[Chris]

Dobbins.

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Okay. That could be good. He could start the year really hot. The only issue with him potentially is that he has a rookie on his team that could potentially.

[Katie Nolan]

You did great, Isabella. You did great.

[Isabella]

What?

[Katie Nolan]

He was on the top.

[Isabella]

He was a top.

[Chris]

He has the potential to be a really strong player.

[Brady]

There you go. That's the end of the analysis.

[Katie Nolan]

Best guy at his high school.

[Isabella]

I'm gonna. I'm gonna look him up and see what the hell is wrong.

[Chris]

I like JK Dublin's quite a bit.

[Katie Nolan]

It didn't sound like it. Chris, can I be honest? Looks like you can't.

[Chris]

I'm saying the reason why he dropped is because of.

[Isabella]

Oh, I took. I took someone. Someone's player out of their hands. I like it. Someone said. Took Charbonne right out of my hands. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Oh, sucks to suck.

[Brady]

J.K. dobbins legitimately is the greatest player in the history of Lagrange High School.

[Katie Nolan]

Great.

[Brady]

There we go.

[Isabella]

That doesn't sound Promising.

[Katie Nolan]

Why not?

[Chris]

No.

[Brady]

Best player LaGrange High School's ever had.

[Isabella]

Okay. But high school, like it's.

[Katie Nolan]

You haven't been able to pay attention. It's just a running bit that we've been doing. It's like the fourth time we referenced this. It's okay. And that's. I'm. I'm letting you know what happened. But we can't slow down for you. We have to continue with our.

[Isabella]

Go ahead.

[Brady]

Also from Lagrange High School, Homer Bailey.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, quick announcement. Tommy Cutlets is now in New England and his agent. What's his. His agent's name?

[Chris]

Fedora.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. He's. That. That's. Can I just. We're psa. Can I put a stop to this? This worked in New York. People ate this right up in New York. This isn't as funny in New England. We don't.

[Brady]

It's not really Sean Stellato.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. This whole little lays. He's Tommy's cutlets. He's hearing about these cutlets in the north end. Maybe even better than his Mars. I don't want to. Please stop talking to me like that. You need to get off the sideline. He needs to play football. And let's just get back to work if we could. I don't want to do. Sorry to ruin the fun. We did it. You leave that back there. Thoughts?

[Brady]

A city that needs more Sean's. Yeah. They sent him to Boston. They don't have enough. Sean's already.

[Katie Nolan]

Separate punchline. Not really in the same line of thought. Chris, do you have any thoughts?

[Chris]

I just don't think this moves the needle much. Like he's not going to be. He's not going to be playing much. He's not going to be doing much. It's just going to be a nothing thing. I just don't want jokes out off the start.

[Katie Nolan]

I don't want to do all these little tick tocks. I don't want to do all these little. Get out of here.

[Chris]

This was his opportunity.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

And then best of luck to you. And we're not going to see much of Tommy Cutlets again. I can't imagine you think your mom's.

[Katie Nolan]

Cutlets are better than the north end. I need you to head out. Yeah, I. Yeah.

[Brady]

Like if you got claimed by like Jacksonville, we would have never heard from this man again.

[Katie Nolan]

Right. Yeah. I just want him to know like you're. That's the. The Little Italy doesn't span. You're doing New York. We aren't. That's not how we do it. Here. Okay, so.

[Isabella]

Aw. Someone wrote post it notes for me.

[Katie Nolan]

A somebody in your league.

[Isabella]

Yeah. They were like, we all believe in you.

[Katie Nolan]

No.

[Isabella]

And they wrote little post.

[Katie Nolan]

What did I say? Wait, there's what I say.

[Brady]

They're supposed to be.

[Katie Nolan]

No, they can't be nice. They're supposed to be someone to win.

[Isabella]

Well, someone's being nice.

[Katie Nolan]

I'll check him out. I'll check that. I got to get in there, let them know. Not to bring back up my favorite quarterback room in the NFL, but Deshaun Watson, I don't know if you saw this. Also, a recurring headline for some reason on this podcast is that he got a full body tattoo, and so he went under anesthesia. He went under anesthesia to complete an extensive full body tattoo. That's actually the only way the four people who did it agreed to work on his body as if you knock him out. That's actually why. It's nothing to do with the pain. It's that they didn't want to do it unless he was knocked unconscious. It includes his fiance. Okay. So now you got to look her in the eyes. His fiance, an empty super bowl ring. Cause dolls and a diamond. I'm not going to look into that any further. I just wanted to say my little joke landed with me. Thank you. The U.S. open. Lots going on in the U.S. open. I've been watching a lot of te Tennis. Isabella.

[Isabella]

Yay.

[Katie Nolan]

Are you proud of me?

[Isabella]

I am proud of you.

[Katie Nolan]

I've been watching a lot of tennis. I don't. Oh, I don't remember. I've just been watching it in the background.

[Isabella]

Oh, I just.

[Katie Nolan]

I saw. I watched Coco golf on Thursday when she was. The match that she was crying.

[Isabella]

Oh.

[Katie Nolan]

And everybody was.

[Isabella]

What? You just reminded me that she was playing Osaka today.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Isabella]

Oh, she lost.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, no.

[Isabella]

Osaka. But this was one of those matches.

[Katie Nolan]

Where I was kind of winning. Yeah.

[Isabella]

Yeah. I was like, oh, well, I'll be happy for whoever wins at least the most.

[Katie Nolan]

What'd you say?

[Brady]

Straight sets, too.

[Katie Nolan]

Wow.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Well, what I watched was Coco Gauff crying into her towel during her match on Thursday. And I saw people going, like, what is with these tennis players these years? This year, their emotions. Get your emotions in check. And I just wanted to second PSA of the podcast. Cry when you are sad or overwhelmed. That's what feeling your feelings looks like. People love to go, like, feel your feelings. Feel them. If crying allows you to get out the frustration that you're feeling, so that you can then take a couple deep breaths and then get back out there and focus on competing in the highest level in front of a huge crowd who are all hoping that you'll succeed at what you're doing. Then cry, little girl. Whatever. I think it's so weird how weird we are about crying. It's like, haven't you ever been in a situation where your body just like starts doing it? Have you ever been in a meeting with a boss and they're kind of yelling at you and your eyes go like, fuck, fuck, fuck, here it comes. I gotta fight this.

[Isabella]

I gotta fight.

[Katie Nolan]

It's like, what if we all just, as a society went like, don't mind those. It's just my body reacting to the pain you're causing it. I'll be back in a second. I need to take a couple deep breaths. It's fine. Cry. Feel your feelings. It's not. I'm sick of this. Like, you're not a real athlete if you cry. Like, she went out there and she cried a little and then she got over it and then she won. So shut up.

[Isabella]

Yeah, true.

[Katie Nolan]

It's fucking stressful. It's stressful. Tears mean you care.

[Chris]

Exactly. Sometimes we forget that these athletes, because of what they're able to accomplish with their bodies, are still humans. We forget that. But seeing athletes crying reminds us that they are, in fact human. Which, juxtaposed with their athletic talents, makes their success look even more impressive.

[Isabella]

I just drafted someone that I don't even know if I should have drafted them, but there were so many QBs at the top and I decided to get a running back or a wide receiver. I don't know. But.

[Katie Nolan]

So you just. You can cry. It's okay.

[Isabella]

Okay, thank you.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, I got you.

[Chris]

Who was it? Who'd you draft?

[Isabella]

I drafted Javante Williams.

[Chris]

Okay. It could be the obi one. Fidelis.

[Isabella]

Oh, it's my turn again. I think I'm going to do a player back a quarterback right now. Hold on.

[Katie Nolan]

Who do you like?

[Isabella]

I don't know. You know, maybe just to be consistent of anything I know about any of these quarterbacks, I'm going to go with Caleb Williams.

[Chris]

Oh, your guy.

[Brady]

There you go.

[Isabella]

There you go.

[Katie Nolan]

I love this.

[Chris]

That's a great pick.

[Isabella]

And there's someone. There's someone in this league called Caleb Williams's Nail Salon anymore.

[Chris]

They can trade for him, but they're gonna have to give up, like, a lot to get.

[Katie Nolan]

That's right. We haven't even talked her about trades yet.

[Chris]

Yeah, I was gonna wait.

[Isabella]

Oh, you could trade eventually.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. I mean, I Don't.

[Chris]

Trades are fun. Trades are a lot of fun.

[Katie Nolan]

I hate em.

[Chris]

Really.

[Katie Nolan]

I hate them.

[Chris]

I prefer them in Dynasty compared to Redrafts, but they're fun either way.

[Katie Nolan]

I'm like, leave my team alone. I just kind of want to, like, be over here doing my own thing. Not really interested in a group project, and that's why I don't win that much. The big news out of the US Open. Sorry to the tennis. Did. Did. Oh, well, before we. Actually, we should just cover a little bit of the tennis. Tommy Paul lost. He's out. Which I know Grace Kuhlan Schmidt is devastated. I don't know if you guys saw her story this.

[Isabella]

No, I didn't.

[Katie Nolan]

She's a comedian and a lesbian, famously, and was talking about how Tommy Paul looks exactly like the man she wants to marry and that she was obsessed with him, and it was very, very funny. He's engaged to that influencer, very popular, Paige Lorenz. But he lost to Alexander Bublek.

[Isabella]

Mm.

[Katie Nolan]

Do you have anything to say about that?

[Brady]

Alexander Bublek or Chris Bubitsch?

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, well, as somebody, I do prefer boob lick to boob. It's not. The boob is kind of, like a necessity. Boob lick is like, we're having fun here. You know what I'm saying? It's not. The context is usually I think we're having fun for the most part. So anyway, that happened, and Ostapenko apologized to Taylor Townsend. Did Taylor Townsend win yesterday?

[Isabella]

No, she. She lost?

[Brady]

No. Fuck me.

[Katie Nolan]

Wow. I was getting super into her. I didn't know her story about how she basically got held down by. Is it USTA the tennis, and. And then this was, like, a redemption for her, and she had that upset a couple days ago, but then I guess she lost, so that's a bummer. But I like her. She's a player.

[Isabella]

But what about the butt with ust? I didn't know about that. All I know is that she was a doubles player. She's, like, the number one doubles player.

[Katie Nolan]

But when she was in juniors, I think or something, she was, like, young. I. I should have probably refreshed. I sent the video. But she's. She was, like, the top junior, and they didn't want her to go to the Open. Like, they didn't want to pay for her to go, so she, like, got held back from going, and then I think went in doubles and did well or whatever, but, like, they didn't want her to go as a. What's the word I'm looking for? Like an individual, you know.

[Isabella]

Oh, singles.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, singles. That's what I like.

[Brady]

When we just were just kept saying dead wife.

[Katie Nolan]

God damn. And then someone was like, oh, late. Very commonly used phrase.

[Brady]

You're getting emails of like people saying, I never thought I would just be shouting late wife.

[Katie Nolan]

I know at a podcast, it's really not our brightest moment. I felt immediately terrible about it.

[Brady]

We say a lot of words here. So if like one out of a thousand gets lost.

[Katie Nolan]

And in my defense, not your guys's, but in my defense, I asked, I admitted brain fart. There's gotta be a word for this. And none of nobody thought of one. Everyone said dead.

[Brady]

So it was accurate.

[Katie Nolan]

Though not with the best bedside manner, I guess. Let's say the big story though, from the US Open is that the Polish pavement CEO, the CEO of a pavement company. Is it Peter, I assume Peter Sirczek. Sirzurek.

[Brady]

I wanna say it's just Sarek. Like it starts out like Wally Zerbiak.

[Katie Nolan]

So I think it's just Zurich Zurak. And is it. Do I have to say like Pyotr, or is it Peter?

[Brady]

If I like this guy, I would care more about saying, yeah, Peter Sirzik.

[Katie Nolan]

Whatever. I could spell it if you want to find him. Stole a hat that a player was trying to give to a kid and stuck it in his, I believe, wife. Whatever woman was with him, stuck it in her purse. Now, this man has committed a cardinal sin of sports. I don't know if it's this way around the world. I would assume that it is. I don't want to say this is an American thing, but I can only speak to American sports. And if you catch a ball or get some sort of a thing and there's a kid nearby, you're supposed to give it to the kid. This is even worse. Not only did he not give it to the kid, he ripped it from a kid's hands and then hid. Was handed to the kid. He ripped it out of the kid's hands and shoved it into his wife's. Some woman's purse.

[Isabella]

That's embarrassing.

[Katie Nolan]

Embarrassing. Mortifying. I first saw the clip and I said, God, that better be that man's child. That better be his son. And he's holding onto that hat for his kid so the kid doesn't lose the precious artifact. But no, the Internet, of course, found the guy. That is not. They found him immediately. I had no. I knew they would. I knew they would. And I'm gonna have an unpopular take at the end of this, but they Found him. He's Polish. He's the CEO of a paving company. And if I can be honest at this current social climate in America, the end of that sentence didn't matter as much as that CEO part, because it really didn't matter what he's the CEO of. As soon as everybody found out he was the CEO, all. And any goodwill he may have gotten from people, it was just like, oh, that's. This is. You stole from a child and you're a CEO, which, if you think about it, that's how you get there, right? You're the exact type of guy who would be in charge because you steal from people and don't feel bad about it at all. But it's. If you were to isolate the pavement company, I don't think you'd go like, this high powered executive. I think you'd go like, well, he's the CEO of a. Of kind of like a.

[Brady]

More.

[Katie Nolan]

What does the CEO of a pavement company do? Am I. Is this like a huge. Like, he's like a. Steals hats or is it just like a. He's. He runs a local company that has. But he's the top. Like, I write CEO on stuff I got. This is all I do is this. This is a. An LLC that I have. I just have to give myself a title. That's the title I give. Please don't come for me, Luigi, please. I'm on your side. It's just. I. So this guy, they found him. They review bombed his construction site. This is where the Internet frustrates me, where we're currently at, because I can't tell what's real and what's not. This happened with the CEO that was cheating at the Coldplay concert. This happened. It's like that. You get these little. Like, this guy's released a statement, and you're like, no, this is. See the dot eth. This is an ethereum coin. This is some sort of a. Somebody has just made this thing to try to make it go viral. It happened when Dave Grohl got somebody outside of his marriage pregnant. There was like a fake report of like, I'm the girl and I'm only 18. And people ran with that. And then you were like, that was a fake post. The woman's not 18. It's like, this is where the fake news of it all. At this point, I just go, I don't know which of these are real. So has. He has apologized?

[Brady]

He has apologized with an actual statement.

[Katie Nolan]

Is it the statement that said none of the other statements are Real?

[Brady]

Yeah, I think. Well, there was the. The statement that said, like, life is first come, first serve that everybody really jumped on. And that was not the real statement.

[Katie Nolan]

And that's not real. Okay.

[Brady]

That got community noted. To hell.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay.

[Brady]

Which, I don't know. I oddly trust community notes, even though they're like Twitter publishing, because we have.

[Katie Nolan]

Nothing else to hold on to unless we need to stabilize ourselves somewhere, somehow.

[Brady]

Yeah, he said, I would like to unequivocally apologize to the boy who has harmed his family as well as all the fans and the player himself. I made a serious mistake. No shit, buddy.

[Katie Nolan]

That's it. No, keep going. Read the whole thing.

[Brady]

In the emotions, in the crowd's joy after the victory, I was convinced that the tennis player was handing the cap in my direction. That what a CEO. I earned this thing for my sons who had earlier asked for autographs. So he's of course deflecting to the children.

[Katie Nolan]

Of course I have kids.

[Brady]

It is painful, but a necessary lesson in humility for me that.

[Katie Nolan]

That's the full thing.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Well, there might be more, but that's all I need.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. I don't know. This guy stinks. This guy stinks. He wanted to mention that he had kids and he had a good lawyer who said, well, don't just say, say maybe this was for your. That's not your son. But you do have a son. So just because you put it in your bag doesn't mean you're gonna resell it. Probably. How could you have thought they were handing it to you? They handed it directly to the child. These are all my issues with it. But I will also say, and I'm sorry, but I have to. We are not very good at. Once we get retribution. Right. The kid was given more. He got to meet the tennis player who handed the thing originally and he got more merch. He got the hat and then some. The guy's business has been what any actual thing has happened. Is it like lost money?

[Brady]

I think they took down. They took down socials.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Brady]

I don't know if the Polish pavement business is that swayed by social media.

[Katie Nolan]

I again don't have the scope, unfortunately, of. Of how the Polish paving sector. So I don't know if this is like, you idiot. It's the most money making venture you can do in Poland because of the abundance of limestone. I don't know any of that. Okay. I'm just a girl. So I will say we do sometimes come for these people. And then like, we keep going, you know, we keep kicking them and at some point you have to go like, okay, and what have you learned? And we're not good at that either. I will say we're not good at going. Show us that you've learned something and then we'll let you back in. But we are very good at, like, continuing to go at. And it's like, all right, at some point we've gotta. But we're not at that point yet, to be clear. So you guys can keep going. This guy doesn't seem like he knows that he's. He's gotten. Seem like he's learned his lesson yet.

[Chris]

But can I ask a question about something that you mentioned at the beginning of this, which is that if you catch something or are given something in the crowd, that you're supposed to give it to a child.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

I once caught a T shirt at a Knicks game from a T shirt cannon.

[Katie Nolan]

Congrats.

[Chris]

And there was a child near me and I did not for a second, I don't know, think of giving it to the child.

[Katie Nolan]

Gonna be an L or an xl. Yeah, there's. It would be.

[Chris]

I didn't even wear it because it was too big.

[Isabella]

But I think you should only. No.

[Chris]

Give it to the child.

[Isabella]

No. And the reason why is only if it's. I think it's like, you should give it to a child if it's in a scenario where it's like, you guys both were kind of potentially gonna get it. Whereas, like, if you got it good, like.

[Chris]

Okay.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Yeah. I think. I'm sorry.

[Chris]

I left handed stuck in the mitt beautifully.

[Katie Nolan]

I was being. I was being overly. I was taking too much credit for saying that you should. You're right. You in. In.

[Chris]

I got worried for a second.

[Katie Nolan]

No, it's.

[Chris]

Your kid has been trying to find me for the last six years.

[Katie Nolan]

There's that video that I don't know if it's old or not, where like a guy in a. And a little girl both ran to try to catch a ball that had bounced in an empty part of the stands during a baseball game. And the kid gets it and he cheers. And then when he turns around, he sees the little girl had also run over to get it. And he just immediately hands it to her and she takes it and then she goes like, yeah. And like, it's a perfect moment. He got to have his. Like, I got it. And then he immediately was like, you have it. And that's.

[Isabella]

Who should I choose? Who should I choose between the Chargers and the jets for a defense?

[Katie Nolan]

It doesn't. It doesn't deserve the way you feel about it. Who do they play week one? Who plays the worst team week one?

[Isabella]

I don't know.

[Brady]

Well, the jets can't be playing the jets, so that knocks them. That knocks them out.

[Katie Nolan]

Right. So maybe the Chargers. I don't know.

[Brady]

The Chargers have the Chiefs, so don't take them.

[Katie Nolan]

Don't take the Chargers.

[Isabella]

So take the jets or.

[Katie Nolan]

I literally can't. I would never say that.

[Brady]

Don't take the Chargers.

[Katie Nolan]

Are those the top ranked right now? Yeah.

[Isabella]

I was gonna get Pittsburgh, but someone took it.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, that's all right. No sweat. This won't matter. This won't matter. It's a crapshoot. You're just. Who plays? Doesn't matter.

[Isabella]

I'm the Seahawks.

[Katie Nolan]

Great.

[Chris]

That's a good one.

[Katie Nolan]

If it were a couple years ago this weekend, why can't it be again? Right? Great. Have we set our piece on the CEO guy?

[Brady]

Mm, I think so. Then in my mind, it becomes, like, participating. So, yeah, you give the baseball to a kid, but then it's like, what if it's like, Jim Tomi's 600th home run or something?

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, we can parse this whole thing. What the hell? This is not worth making this point. If it's. If it's like a big sweaty hat.

[Brady]

Let the kid have it.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Brady]

That hat was so sweaty.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Isabella]

My draft is complete, guys.

[Chris]

Good job. How do you feel?

[Isabella]

Relieved. Yeah, I'm done.

[Katie Nolan]

Do you want to go through the team, tell us who you got?

[Isabella]

Yeah, I wish I could make this bigger.

[Brady]

Oh, we didn't time that out to wait till we were at a break between sports.

[Isabella]

Okay, we have Caleb Williams. Puka Nakua. Is that how you say it?

[Chris]

Yep.

[Brady]

He's a dude.

[Isabella]

T. Higgins. I don't remember his first name.

[Katie Nolan]

That's right. T. Literally, ironically enough, it's T. Oh, okay.

[Chris]

J. Simpson. Sorry, Katie.

[Katie Nolan]

How dare you. How dare you. How dare you.

[Isabella]

Christian McCaffrey. K. Williams. Don't remember his first name again.

[Katie Nolan]

It's the second time you've forgotten him. He's going to take that personally.

[Isabella]

M. Andrews.

[Brady]

Kyron's on the same team as Puka, so you're going to be watching a lot of Rams games.

[Isabella]

Oh, okay. M. Andrews. I think that's Mark.

[Chris]

Yep.

[Brady]

I kind of just like mandrews.

[Katie Nolan]

Mandrews.

[Isabella]

Mandrews. Devontae Smith.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Isabella]

B. Aubrey. When did I pick you? Oh, Brandon Aubrey.

[Brady]

He's the best kicker.

[Isabella]

Yeah, I picked Seattle for my defense. George Pickens, Tyrone Tracy Jr. I think that was his first Name? Zach Charbonnet.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Isabella]

J.K. dobbins.

[Katie Nolan]

This is a good team.

[Isabella]

Jay Williams. Who was that?

[Chris]

Javante.

[Isabella]

Yeah. And then C. Godwin Jr. Chris Godwin.

[Katie Nolan]

That's who. And that's cuz Matthew Barry told you to take him.

[Isabella]

Yeah, yeah.

[Chris]

Except we edited that out of the podcast because he said that he was only going to miss the first two or three weeks and he's going to be out for four or five.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh.

[Chris]

But once he comes.

[Katie Nolan]

Probably should have told Isabella that.

[Brady]

Well, no, here's the thing. If that's your last pick, you have an injury spot. You can drag him into your injury spot while he's hurt and then grab another dude.

[Chris]

So once he comes back, he'll be a really, really solid player. I think, considering the strength of your starters, you don't need him in the immediate. In the first month of the season. When he comes back, you can slot him into one of those flexible.

[Katie Nolan]

How long can you stash somebody on the ir?

[Chris]

As long as they are listed in the. As long as they're injured.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay. Isabella, great draft.

[Isabella]

Yeah, thank you.

[Katie Nolan]

Really good draft. Are you having any thoughts about team names?

[Isabella]

I don't know. I was looking at everybody's team names and I just don't know what I would do.

[Brady]

Well, you stole so many people from other people's team names. There's a team named after Caleb Williams. There's a team named after Puka.

[Isabella]

Yeah, yeah. Isabella the swiper. I don't know. Swiper. No swiping.

[Katie Nolan]

Are you resonating?

[Isabella]

Does that resonate with anyone?

[Katie Nolan]

Are you taking everybody's hats that were handed to them?

[Isabella]

Yeah. I'll just be the generic Isabella's team.

[Katie Nolan]

No, no, no. We will not stand for this podcast. You will not. We will kick you out. You will have to go. Absolutely not. You have to. You have Charbonnet.

[Brady]

All right, we're going to solicit team names for Isabella's team. If you would like suggestions, we can throw this on social.

[Isabella]

I would. Yeah, let's do that.

[Katie Nolan]

Throw it up there. The Red Sox. The Red Sox have done a bunch of stuff. Jaren Durant hit an inside the park home run. I love that. We needed that. It was right up against a bunch of times when they were just leaving guys stranded on bases. And then, like, the heart of our lineup, the heart of the order would come up and they would just strike out, which was very frustrating. And then Jaren Duran hit an inside the park home run. So shout out.

[Brady]

Not even like a. Not even like a bullshit Inside the park. Home run. There were no errors, there were no misplays. He just hit it into that one random spot at Fenway and pulled off.

[Katie Nolan]

And then hustled around the base away. Yeah, he's real fast. Jiren Duran and Peyton Toy had his debut, which was fun. Everybody at Fenway loved him. Exciting. We lost that game, but it was still a good game. He's going to be good, I hope.

[Brady]

Yes. And he had one of the. The very rare ever hey, kid, you're going to the big leagues moments where he actually was emotional and it was actually worth filming. It was the opposite of Paul Skeens.

[Katie Nolan]

Which ironically, that's who he faced. They called him up to. To face off against Skeens. So that was sick. Again, lost that game, but go ahead.

[Isabella]

Isabella. Can I. Can I make a. A contribution to please the baseball conversation?

[Katie Nolan]

I'd love that.

[Isabella]

Okay. I saw in real time, which was kind of fun because every time you guys talk about, like, oh, so and so got called up or like, they had their debut, like, I'm not fully understanding the vibes, but I was watching a Mets game and I saw that guy, Jonah Tong, whose debut. Nasty. And that was a lot of fun to watch.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, he did well, right? In his debut.

[Isabella]

Yeah, he did really good. And it was. So many people brought Tongs to the game.

[Katie Nolan]

Cute. That's cute. That's really cute. How are we getting that through security?

[Isabella]

I don't know, but someone had like, tonight is the Tong night or something like that. And then they had like the tongs, like, glued to the bottom of their poster. And I was like, like, all right, sick.

[Brady]

That's another one where at some point, maybe just. I get that his name is Tong. We don't need to bring Tongs in.

[Chris]

Something that you can use to clap, it would be.

[Katie Nolan]

Yes. Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang, clang, clang. That'd be fun. Unless they are the ones with the like, rubber, then it wouldn't really. That wouldn't really work. The Red Sox signed a Rollus Chapman are closer to a. Extension.

[Chris]

Thought of you as soon as I saw that news.

[Katie Nolan]

I mean, you know, it's just like, oh, great, great news. Look, he's doing well. He's having a good season. I just don't like him. That's a personal problem I have to work through. But here's the thing that I saw his walk rate this year, he's like, cut it in half. He's having. He's old, right? Isn't he 30 36, 6. And he's having one of his best seasons. He used to be. If you watched a lot of Aroldis Chapman, he can throw fast, he can hit like 103. But he also was pretty erratic. He was all over the place. He would walk a lot of people. And this year he's not doing that, which is certainly helping. And I saw pitching Ninja is a guy I follow who like breaks down pitching and has all these great pitching videos because I find them fascinating. But he had on Buster only to explain why this is. And Buster only told that same story that I think it was Lou Merloney told during an early season Sox game that I bitched about here and I bitched about when I went and did John Boy's show, which is that like the Sox think they've unlocked another level in this guy because they told him to locate his pitches, to move his fastball around the strike zone. And he had never thought of that before. And this is a. This is his fifth, seventh, seventh major league team. There's no. And he went and these aren't like scrub franchises. And he. You want to tell me he played for all these teams and nobody said, hey, throw this one inside, then let's throw that next one outside. I don't know, it's just. I've heard this story being parroted enough times. The first time I heard it, I laughed out loud and I was like, that's clearly the story there is that the guy's an A hole. Because why else would you go like, oh, I never thought of that before. There's no chance he was being serious. And now I've heard it from two like respected, I guess. And the numbers don't lie. So I don't know what the fuck, but he's assigned him to an extension. Yeah. Oh, this was last week. But I. Can we talk about how Manchester United lost in the Carabao cup? The English League Cup? They lost to Grimsby Town.

[Chris]

The most English sounding.

[Katie Nolan]

I can't believe. But it was like, Manchester United eliminated by Grimsby Town. You know Grimsby Town, our soccer club? It's a cr. That's crazy. Grimsby Town, fourth tier, fourth tier tier team. So we've talked recently about the leagues. It's not Premier League. They are not a championship team. They are not even a League one team. This is League two, fourth tier Grimsby Town.

[Chris]

They're located in northeast Lincolnshire.

[Katie Nolan]

Of course they are. What's the nearest forest? Nottingham. Sure. So shout out Grimsby Town. That rules. They beat them in penalties.

[Brady]

Rough go for Manchester United.

[Katie Nolan]

Like, that is tough.

[Brady]

But then every time I think of them as being just the Yankees of England, I'm like, if there was a rough go for the Yankees, I would just drink it all up.

[Katie Nolan]

So, right, so it's like, I'll allow it. We'll allow it to happen. It's. You hate to see it in the sarcastic way. You know, I actually love to see it. The fans rushed the field. Chaos. Which I. But it went okay. Nothing bad happened. It was just a big celebration because Grimsby Town has come away with the win.

[Isabella]

You're not good at rolling your R's. Grimsby cannot do that.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, you could. What?

[Isabella]

No, I. I literally can't.

[Katie Nolan]

What if you tried?

[Isabella]

No, not on. Not on pod.

[Brady]

What female celebrity are you envisioning saying Grimsby Town? You're doing someone's voice right now.

[Katie Nolan]

Me?

[Brady]

Yes.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, it's probably like a. Oh, is it a Meryl Streep?

[Brady]

Who's the woman on the Great British Bake Off?

[Isabella]

Oh, I. Mary Berry.

[Brady]

Prue.

[Katie Nolan]

Pru.

[Isabella]

Oh, Pru.

[Katie Nolan]

You mean DK Metcalf's girlfriend? Pru.

[Isabella]

I'm an og.

[Katie Nolan]

God, the sparks were flying, those two. They were. We couldn't leave them alone. I had to supervise just to make sure nothing went. Sorry, Normani. It's just.

[Isabella]

The sparks are flying.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, you can't be with that. You can't stop chemistry, you know? It's like flour and sugar. It's gonna make a cake. I don't know. I don't know anything. I retained nothing. Okay, let's do some Friend of the Pod updates because there are many. We have to start with Heidi Gardner, an incredible eight seasons at snl and she's announced that she's leaving, so we're pouring one out for Heidi Gardner, our friend. We're writing a post it note for our friend Heidi Gardner. The SNL announcements were wild this week.

[Brady]

We'll see her at the Kelsey wedding.

[Katie Nolan]

And when he says we'll see her, he means in photos. You made it sound like we'd be invited. We'll be seeing her. We'll run into her at that Kelsey wedding. Swift. I think he should take her last name. It helps in his gig as well.

[Isabella]

I think so, too.

[Katie Nolan]

I think that'd be a pretty big deal. Speaking of meeting at weddings, did you see this isn't Friend of the pod. But it's just while we're here, Sydney Sweeney and Scooter Braun are dating.

[Isabella]

Really?

[Katie Nolan]

That girl just doesn't want anyone to that. She wants no support. That's a wild choice. I guess they. I don't know if they met at that wedding, but I know that they spent time together at that wedding, and I guess they are dating.

[Brady]

Okay, so if they met at the wedding, then she definitely said, hey, Scooter. Hold on, let me try Tom Brady for. And we'll see if that goes anywhere.

[Katie Nolan]

We don't know if they met at the wedding again, to be clear.

[Brady]

But.

[Katie Nolan]

But just a. Just. What is that? What's that about? Also, it sucks to be Bezos kid who. Wasn't that why she was invited in the first place? That he was like, wanted her to be there. And she's like, no, but I've met a grown man named Scooter who doesn't have. A lot of people don't seem to really like. I'm gonna try him first, and if that doesn't work, maybe I'll call you.

[Brady]

Shout out. Shout out to my friend Scott Braun from foul territory, who is impossible to Google because of the existence of Scooter.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, no, that's tough.

[Brady]

Yeah. Poor guy.

[Katie Nolan]

But it kept him from going by. Scooter. Scooter. I can't grow, man. Scooter. I don't think you're getting that from me. What up, Scoot? I don't think that's happening. I don't think I'm interacting.

[Brady]

I mean, as a dog owner. It's a negative connotation with Scooter. Like, we can't get past that.

[Katie Nolan]

It just makes me think of Skeeter.

[Brady]

From Butts on Carpet.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, I'm sorry.

[Brady]

Is Myrtle never okay?

[Katie Nolan]

She's never. She doesn't do that. She doesn't do that. She doesn't do the thing where she, like, kicks after she pees.

[Brady]

Bulldog.

[Katie Nolan]

Really? Those are. I believe I've read that those are learned behavior. Like, when you see. It's like you got to stop your dog from. It's like the ring.

[Chris]

Why did you. What are you doing at home?

[Brady]

I never taught a bulldog to scoot.

[Katie Nolan]

No, you have to, like, jump in front of your dog and keep them from seeing another dog. Do it or else they'll do it. You know, look away. Look away or else they're gonna dig for the rest of your other friends of the podcast. Podcast lady gets a radio show, and suddenly she forgets where she came from.

[Brady]

Triple eight, Mad Dog six, Stavros.

[Katie Nolan]

Is that how I'm supposed to say it?

[Brady]

No, but you could.

[Katie Nolan]

I won't be Stavros. Did you see Stavros on the red carpet looking down in Venice with his Arm very comfortably around. Emma's our world's greatest lady. I love her. He's just like, comfortably hanging out. And I believe. Was that Alicia Silverstone? Because I don't. Her name's not getting mentioned in any of the stuff, but that looks like her. Glad to see her alive. Last I saw, she was eating an unmarked berry on Instagram live or on her story and people were like, hey, I think that's poison. And then I never saw from. I never saw her again. So glad she's okay. And Stavros looks good. Great.

[Isabella]

Oh, yeah, he does.

[Katie Nolan]

How cute.

[Isabella]

I love it.

[Katie Nolan]

I thought that was so cute. The John boys are entering a cricket tournament in Barbados this week. Somebody please explain this to me.

[Brady]

I think that was the entire story those. Jimmy is a cricket die hard. I mean, he and Chris have bonded over cricket. Why am I telling the story?

[Katie Nolan]

Because I don't know it.

[Brady]

Yeah, Chris. Like, they have used their fame and reach to. They are entering a professional cricket tournament as a jam group. The John squad is heading to Barbados.

[Katie Nolan]

It's a Jomily. They're a Jomoly.

[Brady]

We are Jomily. If you can get a trip to Barbados funded by whatever sponsor they have paying for good on them. But their goal is to win one game in this tournament, and I'm pulling for them again.

[Katie Nolan]

This is a professional cricket. Yeah.

[Brady]

I don't know what the definition of professional cricket. Like, they win money if they win it, I guess.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay.

[Brady]

Yeah, they're up against, like, real cricketers. This isn't like, you know, beer league cricket.

[Katie Nolan]

That's wild. Yeah. Chris, you're. Are you going?

[Chris]

Well, I haven't been invited. If I get invited, I will go. I'm putting it out there. John. Dad, speak to John boy this week. Give me an invite.

[Katie Nolan]

I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say no, cuz Isabella's off this week, so can't be losing you in a way that you just, like, lobbied for on the podcast. I'm not gonna let you use this platform to request a week off from this platform. I'm sorry.

[Chris]

I could still be working. I would be strictly working.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Putting in the hours.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, you would get capturing content in Barbados.

[Chris]

There's the buzzwords.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just content.

[Chris]

That's all it is.

[Katie Nolan]

We did this last week that Karen Feehan did not get the role of Karen Reid. It went to Elizabeth Banks, who. And I hate to say that about a woman, and I only just mean by googling her age. And comparing it to Karen Reid's age, I don't mean she's too old for the earth, just for this club. Karen Reid reacted to this. I didn't see that. What did she say?

[Brady]

Elizabeth Banks, by the way, in that club, in that scene.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, my God, she is. I didn't even think about that. I didn't even think. I mean, I did that on purpose, is what I meant. I did that on purpose. It was mindful. I'm the best at this. Continue without supporting. Sorry. I'm gonna click that every time Karen Reid reacts. Not authorized by me in any way. Okay. I would assume. I would assume it was an authorized. It is weird where we are in media that, like, a story can become big national news because of its players. And then how the rights to the story work is very confusing to me. If you're allowed to make it in, like, based on, like, Dick Wolf does when he, like, changes it a little bit, but makes it based off of, like, a real thing that happened. It's like, I would feel like this is. You should have to ask me before you make a show about me. Yeah, but I guess you don't have to.

[Brady]

You had to say yes, then, like, shitty people would never get shows made about them.

[Katie Nolan]

Totally. It's true. And that's why I'm saying it's complicated. I just. I don't understand it. But I believe that quote continues to say, it has nothing to do. I have nothing to do with that. It's not authorized by me in any way. If it were up to me, I would have picked Karen Feehan. So that's good. That's good that she said that in her statement, officially. Thanks, Karen Reed.

[Isabella]

I always.

[Katie Nolan]

I knew you didn't do it. I knew you didn't do it. Bubba Wallace finished sixth in the Southern 500 over the weekend. He currently sits fifth in the playoff standings. He's good, though, because he got a win, so he's. He doesn't have to worry about anything, right? That's what he said.

[Brady]

No, he had. He was locked into making it into the playoffs. Now he has to stay above the bottom three for every cut point until they get to the.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, they're in the playoffs. The playoffs have begun. Yeah, my fault.

[Isabella]

Okay.

[Katie Nolan]

And Blaney's in, too.

[Brady]

Yes.

[Katie Nolan]

He's.

[Brady]

Lainey won this past week.

[Katie Nolan]

He's a. He's a potential friend of the pod, but he is not yet friend of the pot. He's next. When is he in? A couple weeks.

[Brady]

Yes.

[Katie Nolan]

Once we get our studio back.

[Chris]

Nine days.

[Brady]

Eight days.

[Chris]

Eight days.

[Brady]

Well, eight days from when anyone hears this, it would be eight days.

[Katie Nolan]

Mark it on your calendars. I'm gonna be exhausted. It's gonna be fun watching me go through, like, having to work every day and how that shows up in my, I don't know, demeanor. But we're gonna ride the wave together because I'm coming back to life. That's what this all is. It's the knocking off of dust. Let's. Oh, and Danny Wexelman interviewed Elmo. I don't know if you guys saw that, but Danny, our only repeat guest in the history of casuals so far, had an adorable interview with Elmo. What was that for? Just fun.

[Brady]

MLB Network for MLB Network Radio.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Interviewing. You know, for the kids. They reached out, wanted to have Elmo talks in sports with the kids. It was the most adorable thing.

[Katie Nolan]

Really beautiful, really, really sweet. And I love it. She's perfect for that. She's perfect for that. Okay, so we'll take another break. When we come back, Chris is going to tell us what to watch if we want to watch sports this week. Hi, I'm chef Franklin Becker.

[Chris]

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[Isabella]

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[Katie Nolan]

Okay, we're back. Chris, I just told them you were going to tell them what to watch if they want to watch sports this week. Can you do that, please?

[Chris]

Of course. Football is back, baby. Football's back. NFL is back. The first game this Thursday, Cowboys versus the Eagles, 8:20pm you can watch that game on Peacock. It's gonna be a lot of fun. We get to watch Javante Williams. We get to watch. Who else? Devonte Smith. Who else did you draft? Isabella, from George Pickens. There's a lot of players for you to watch in this game, Isabella. So this one's.

[Katie Nolan]

Yay.

[Isabella]

I'm excited.

[Chris]

Second one, because this one's just an NFL specific what to watch this week, Chiefs versus Chargers in Brazil. This will be on Friday at 8pm Eastern, free on YouTube Friday. So for anyone out there who doesn't have cable, who doesn't have Peacock, who doesn't have whatever else, you can watch this on YouTube.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay. You can also watch it on YouTube if you have the other stuff too. It's just. That's where the game is.

[Chris]

That's true. And last game to watch this weekend, Ravens versus Bills, Sunday at 8:20pm Eastern. That'll be on NBC. Lamar Jackson, Mark Andrews. Isabella, for you against the Bills. Three really good games I just gave you there.

[Katie Nolan]

I don't think my mom listens this far into the podcast, but if she did, I have to, for her sake, correct you and say that in America, we say verses. It's not verse.

[Chris]

Okay, Verses with an S. Interesting.

[Katie Nolan]

It's a real pet peeve of hers that people have started and she's right. People have started saying verse and it's. It is verses. All right, you guys, that's it for the podcast. Isabella drafted a fantasy team and we all are still singing. Standing. We're still standing. And she did a great job.

[Chris]

I like that team.

[Isabella]

Thank you.

[Katie Nolan]

I'm realizing now I never told anybody how to get a hold of us, but just apply to Aldi and write in our email address. That's the best way to get a hold of us Casuals with Katie nolan gmail.com or voicemail 6468001043 on IG and Tik Tok. We are at Casuals the podcast and starting today you missed it. Probably the actual window, but you could do it again tomorrow 12 to 1pm Eastern if you call 888 Mad Dog 6. You can talk to me. We're having a fun time over on Fan Service. So okay. Thank you so much for listening. I love you, I mean it and I will see you here on Thursday. Bye.

[Brady]

Good luck, Evan.

[Katie Nolan]

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[Isabella]

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[Katie Nolan]

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