Dodger Dogs, Masters Menus, and Katie N. Predicts the Severance Finale

Summary

Casuals with Katie Nolan: Episode Summary Title: Dodger Dogs, Masters Menus, and Katie N. Predicts the Severance Finale
Release Date: March 20, 2025
Host: Katie Nolan
Guests: Brady, Isabella
Podcast Description: Casuals is a sports podcast designed for everyone—from the sports-curious to the sports-obsessed. Hosted by Katie Nolan, the show features a rotating cast of friends from sports, comedy, and entertainment who banter about the week’s biggest stories, making the sports fan experience more enjoyable and less daunting.

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1. Introduction and Opening Banter

The episode kicks off with Katie Nolan greeting her guests, Brady and Isabella. She mentions that Chris is off for the week, hinting at his usual on-location antics. The trio dives straight into their current interests, setting a casual and friendly tone.

Notable Quotes:

• Katie Nolan [00:58]: “Hey Isabella, did you see that? We found out Sia has a kid.”
• Isabella [01:10]: “I don’t want to be mean.”

2. March Madness Bracket Discussions

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to discussing the upcoming March Madness tournament. Katie shares her struggles with completing her bracket, humorously admitting, “I didn’t feel a calling to any important upsets” ([02:35]). Isabella reveals her unique selections, including Texas A&M, based on the logo resembling “ATM” ([03:17]), while Brady expresses his commitment to Maryland, emphasizing personal stakes in his picks ([10:57]).

Notable Quotes:

• Katie Nolan [02:31]: “Sometimes I fail to hit the final button.”
• Brady [10:57]: “I have to have Maryland going all the way because if Maryland were to win another national championship and I didn’t pick them, then, like, I have to live with that.”

3. NBA News: Boston Celtics Acquisition

The hosts break down the news of Bill Chisholm’s agreement to purchase the Boston Celtics for a record-breaking $6.1 billion, surpassing previous high bids like the Washington Commanders in 2023 ([07:00]). They debate Chisholm’s authenticity and potential impact on the team, with Katie expressing skepticism about his background and genuine passion.

Notable Quotes:

• Katie Nolan [07:00]: “If approved, this will be the most money ever paid for a North American sports franchise.”
• Brady [08:55]: “Would you prefer he was a billionaire from Southie? Like, I would feel more genuine.”

4. NFL Updates: Aaron Rodgers’ Speculated Retirement

The conversation shifts to Aaron Rodgers, detailing his holdout from signing with teams and his rumored consideration of retirement. The hosts discuss the Minnesota Vikings’ shift towards JJ McCarthy and the mixed reactions from Rodgers’ potential suitors like the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Giants ([24:00]).

Notable Quotes:

• Katie Nolan [25:22]: “Why is he doing this to us? Why? What’s he waiting for?”
• Brady [26:02]: “The Vikings are willingly going with J.J. McCarthy, who they drafted last year and immediately hurt his knee and missed the whole season.”

5. Dallas Mavericks’ AI Jumbotron Controversy

A major segment covers the Dallas Mavericks’ recently unveiled AI-generated Jumbotron video, which received backlash for its uncanny valley appearance and poor animation quality ([16:43]). The hosts humorously critique the AI’s performance, noting issues like players not looking natural and the potential for game forfeits due to injuries caused by the AI’s unrealistic portrayal ([22:29]).

Notable Quotes:

• Isabella [22:33]: “No, no, no. Nobody in that video actually plays basketball.”
• Brady [22:49]: “We promised we'd be popping a nooner today. Popping a nooner for March Madness.”

6. TV and Movie Talk: Severance Finale Predictions

Katie Nolan transitions into discussing the anticipated finale of the TV show Severance. She shares her extensive note-taking process and prediction format, categorizing her theories by stakes. The conversation delves into character arcs, corporate conspiracies, and potential plot twists, with Brady adding his insights on character motivations and narrative closure ([65:14]).

Notable Quotes:

• Katie Nolan [65:14]: “But, we’re near the owner's meetings. Those are March 30th.”
• Brady [69:22]: “See, I like the finale is going to have a hard time living up to Christopher Walken saying the words 'Lumen Goon.'”

7. Masters Tournament: Champ’s Menu Breakdown

The episode covers the tradition of the Masters tournament champion selecting the menu for the Masters champions dinner. Katie reviews Scotty Scheffler’s Texas-themed menu, comparing it to previous champions’ selections like John Rahm’s tapas and Tiger Woods’ varied French offerings ([55:35]).

Notable Quotes:

• Katie Nolan [55:14]: “The Brady or it’s everybody who’s ever won the Masters.”
• Brady [57:53]: “Jon Rahm was a reigning Masters champion. John Rahm is from Spain and showed up and did a full tapas menu.”

8. MLB Highlights: Shohei Ohtani Appreciation

Shohei Ohtani’s exceptional dual-role performance as both pitcher and hitter is lauded. The hosts admire his versatility and sportsmanship, with Katie emphasizing his record-setting base running and home runs despite injuries ([51:53]).

Notable Quotes:

• Brady [51:53]: “Do you have a general grasp of how amazing Shohei Ohtani is at what he does?”
• Katie Nolan [52:05]: “Shohei hits well and pitches well. He’s one of the best hitters, and he’s one of the best pitchers.”

9. Special Segment: C Block Predictions

In the final segment, dubbed the “C Block,” the hosts make speculative predictions about the Severance finale. They discuss potential character developments, plot revelations, and the overarching themes of corporate control and personal identity ([65:14]).

Notable Quotes:

• Katie Nolan [65:14]: “I have this notebook obviously with everything that happened in the episodes, but I have a specific card that said predictions.”
• Brady [69:06]: “Isabella, tell me if this makes sense.”

10. Audience Engagement and Closing Remarks

Katie encourages listeners to engage via email, voicemail, Instagram, and TikTok, fostering a community feel. The episode wraps up with playful banter about future topics and the upcoming week’s discussions, maintaining an inviting and upbeat tone.

Notable Quotes:

• Katie Nolan [74:37]: “This is our second podcast of the week. Can you imagine? Can you believe we’re working so hard?”
• Brady [75:48]: “You could say @casualswithkatienolanmail.com if you had to.”

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Key Takeaways:

• March Madness is a hot topic, with personal stakes influencing bracket selections.
• NBA transactions continue to make headlines, notably the Boston Celtics' acquisition.
• NFL rumors around Aaron Rodgers highlight ongoing team dynamics and player decisions.
• AI in sports entertainment is a controversial trend, exemplified by the Dallas Mavericks' Jumbotron mishap.
• The Masters Tournament's culinary traditions showcase the champion's personal tastes, sparking engaging discussions.
• Shohei Ohtani remains a standout MLB player, admired for his dual capabilities.
• TV show predictions, particularly for Severance, engage the hosts’ analytical and speculative skills.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps:

• Katie Nolan [02:35]: “I didn’t feel a calling to any important upsets.”
• Brady [10:57]: “I have to have Maryland going all the way because if Maryland were to win another national championship and I didn’t pick them, then, like, I have to live with that.”
• Isabella [22:33]: “No, no, no. Nobody in that video actually plays basketball.”
• Katie Nolan [52:05]: “Shohei hits well and pitches well. He’s one of the best hitters, and he’s one of the best pitchers.”
• Katie Nolan [65:14]: “I have this notebook obviously with everything that happened in the episodes, but I have a specific card that said predictions.”

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This episode of Casuals with Katie Nolan masterfully blends sports commentary with pop culture insights, all delivered with humor and relatable banter. Whether you're a die-hard fan or a casual observer, Katie and her guests provide a comprehensive and entertaining overview of the week's most pertinent topics.

Transcript

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[Katie Nolan]

Hey Isabella, did you see that? We found out Sia has a kid.

[Isabella]

Really?

[Katie Nolan]

The kid's name is Somersault Wonder.

[Isabella]

I like it.

[Katie Nolan]

You do?

[Isabella]

I don't know. I don't want to be mean.

[Katie Nolan]

That would have been a tough name to have, I think as a kid. Informatives.

[Isabella]

You better get ready for attendance.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, really Somersault. Like, do I have to? Hello you beautiful babies. Welcome to Casuals, the podcast that claims to be about sports. But we'll see. Actually, I think we're pretty sports heavy today. We got a lot of sports topics to talk about. Just me, your host, Katie Nolan, and we got Brady and Isabella today. Chris wasn't kidding. He takes off on Thursdays. I thought that he meant like from a real job, but he meant from this job, this sports job. So no Chris today. And I. I love that for him because I bet he's drunk already. Yeah, starting. Yeah, he's at least well on his way.

[Brady]

He's trying.

[Katie Nolan]

He's.

[Brady]

The effort is in.

[Katie Nolan]

Did my bracket make it through? Sometimes I fail to hit the. Whatever final button is. Let's. I'm pretty sure I did him this morning. That's just how I roll. And remember I said I was going to like listen to my instincts and really become one with the and then make my picks. I didn't. It didn't Work out. Wait, we can see my bracket?

[Isabella]

We can see each other's bracket.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Oh, sure. Can.

[Isabella]

I should have just copied you guys.

[Katie Nolan]

No, no. How did you fill yours out?

[Isabella]

Okay, so I did it. A combination of things. One mixture of location. So, like, I was like, oh, I want St. John's to win. And then also seating. Like, I don't know what else to.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, it's a. It feels. I don't know. Maybe I. I don't know anything. But it does feel like a relatively chalky year. Like, if you went with the top seed, you won't have. I don't think you'll have that bad of a bracket. Now that I've said that, upsets galore will abound. But I didn't pick any. I didn't feel a calling to any important upsets.

[Isabella]

I did with Texas atm.

[Katie Nolan]

It's. Yeah, it's A and M. Oh, I liked that.

[Isabella]

Like, it looked like the logo looked like atm. And then I think apparently much different concept.

[Katie Nolan]

Yes, yes.

[Isabella]

And then I think, apparently Brittany Boesky is an alumni.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, really? Is she?

[Isabella]

I saw it on Google, so I.

[Katie Nolan]

Was like, you know, she put a song out. Did you listen to it? I haven't heard it yet, but I saw it yesterday and I saw people being very positive about it. Okay, but I haven't listened yet.

[Isabella]

I haven't either. I'll take a. Take a listen after.

[Katie Nolan]

Good for her. I love taking a swing. Whatever. Just everybody imagine we have. I mean, we do have limited time on this earth. Might as well make whatever you want to make. I'm going to make a podcast, which, if you want to email it, you can Casuals with Katie nolan gmail dot com. Our voicemail is 646-801-0043 on IG and tick tock. We are at Casualsthepodcast. I realized yesterday I hadn't ever tweeted about this podcast. I just hadn't even mentioned that I had one. And then I. So I did. And then I remembered why I hadn't done that yap today. I don't know. I don't think there's anything. The Internet's pissing me off, man. I just feel like we are going into a weird place. Like, I saw a. Isabel, do you happen to see any of this? This isn't a cold open. That is just genuinely a question I want to ask you. The. Do you know Colleen Hoover is.

[Isabella]

Yeah, it's. It ends with Us.

[Katie Nolan]

Y. The woman who wrote It Ends with Us. Which. The movie that the Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni drama all is stemming from. And the Internet loves a drama like this. She. Somebody. I saw somebody post yesterday that, like, Colleen Hoover posts disturbing video on whatever social media it was that she posted it on. And I was like, damn, what happened? And I clicked on it, and it's just a lady in her house. She's pouring Diet Pepsi into her ice cubes tray and then freezing that.

[Isabella]

Oh.

[Katie Nolan]

And saying that, like, I'm gonna do this to make the most Diet Pepsi. Diet Pepsi I could possibly have.

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

And I was like, disturbing.

[Isabella]

Not disturbing. You know, there's people who do that with coffee.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Isabella]

So I don't understand why people can't do it with diets. I wouldn't.

[Katie Nolan]

Right. But it's, like, not a. Not particularly groundbreaking. It's not even really that interesting. Like, I. Instagram stories, if that's where that was. I posted an Instagram story a couple, like, a week or two ago about trying to get two cups unstuck. I didn't think we were judging our sanity based off what we put in our Instagram stories. I just. When I encounter a problem, my best way to take a poll is I just go, does anybody know how to fix this?

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

And then I get a DM from Jim Norton that says I would hold onto one on one end and another on the other end and pull.

[Brady]

Would Norton be upset if, like, you blew the roof off, that he has just rational responses to things in private?

[Katie Nolan]

No, I hope not. Cuz then he did dance podcast, and when he came to the house, I grabbed him and I was like, before you leave. And I handed him the two cups, and he really did try to pull them apart, but it's. Those things are stuck. I got to toss them in the trash.

[Brady]

That is. Hold on. That is too emasculating. Like in Dan's. In Dan's house, saying, hey, Jim, can you unstick these cups? That. Clearly Dan.

[Katie Nolan]

Clearly Dan can't do. Dan caused the problem in the first place. Dan's so strong, he smushed the cups together in a way that no one can pry them apart. It's like the sword in the stone. And he. But even. But he can't take it out. So I don't know what that's about. But I loved these cups, and now they're just stacked. My point was, I think we're getting a little out of hand with, like, the drama. I think it's like we're trying so hard to. I saw another one where they posted a picture of Blake Lively had posted cookies or cupcakes or something she made with her kid on her Instagram. And the comments were like, wow, so out of touch. And you're like, what? What do you mean? What do you mean? It's boring. The lady's being boring. And maybe she's not. Maybe she's annoying. But what's your end game here? What are we hoping to get her up on the stake to admit to? Can we all just be like, hey, that lady's annoying on the Internet? I'll go look somewhere else. I don't know. Disturbing new disturbing video.

[Isabella]

It's kind of how I feel when people, like, use the word obsessed a lot. Yeah, guys, I'm so obsessed. I'm obsessed.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Isabella]

With my new toothpaste.

[Katie Nolan]

Speaking of which, Brady's obsessed with sweater vests. That's why I wore. I know. Audio medium. Audio medium. But I wanted to let everybody know I wore one today.

[Brady]

It's a damn good look because I.

[Katie Nolan]

Wanted Brady to know it's part of a. We can all be part of the group. I also have my glasses on, so I feel like I'm in a. Like a school teacher costume by accident.

[Isabella]

You look a professor.

[Katie Nolan]

Thanks. That's nice.

[Isabella]

Professor of mathematics with tenure for sure.

[Katie Nolan]

Let's hop into some news. What's happening in sports? I saw this morning the Celtics have been bought. Bill Chisholm, the managing partner at. I mean, what a title. That means, like, nothing, everything. Managing partner at Symphony Technology Group. Immediately obvious what they do. They do keyboards. I don't think they do. That's a joke. Has agreed. He's agreed to purchase the Boston Celtics for $6.1 billion. I will say Chisholm is a lifelong Celtics fan from Georgetown, Mass. I don't know Massachusetts the way I'm supposed to. I can tell you if I've heard of your town before, but I can't tell you where it is. So I looked up Georgetown. It's up there. That's basically New Hampshire. But I guess. I mean, I know people who have lived in New Hampshire and commute to their job in Boston. So, like, it's. It's.

[Brady]

Would you prefer he was a billionaire from Southie? Like, I would feel more genuine.

[Katie Nolan]

Yes.

[Brady]

Okay.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. And I'd be more interested in how he got it.

[Brady]

I mean, he would truly knock over a string of banks. I think that's the only explanation, which.

[Katie Nolan]

Again, is at least he did it. The honest. At least he was an honest criminal. You know, if approved, this will be. Who gets to approve it?

[Brady]

The league the league. The owners have. The other owners have to vote on it. That's how Mark Cuban didn't get to buy a baseball team. They. Everybody else has to vote you in and be like, yes, you can join our club.

[Katie Nolan]

If approved, this will be the most money ever paid for a North American sports franchise. Hard to believe no CFL team went for more. Surpassing 6.05 billion paid for the Washington Commanders in 2023. Haha. Brady, my team's more expensive than your team.

[Brady]

I mean, my team turned it around pretty quickly.

[Katie Nolan]

Like, we wouldn't believe they sold for that much. That's pretty wild.

[Brady]

Well, every one of these teams, you buy it and it just immediately makes you another billion dollars. They just keep going through the roof. Like, finally these billionaires have found a way to make other billions on top of their billions.

[Katie Nolan]

Thank God. Thank God. It was hard out here for them. And now. No, that's good. This guy. I don't. Look, I'm not. You're never gonna catch me praising an owner. I don't really think I'm a big ownership fan of any. Do the job, Bill, and I'll be happy to have you. My favorite type of owner is one whose name I don't have to know because stuff is just running smoothly. So yay. I guess. I don't know. I could probably have a smarter take on it, but I just found out, and I'm a casual. We kind of basically talked about our brackets. Did we. Did we want to say who we have winning? I don't. I don't think anyone should care if I'm honest about who we have. I think I picked. I did a couple brackets for a couple different leagues, but I think I took. I know Arizona goes way too far in my bracket because Dan went there and I root for it at St. John's I think I might have had winning because it's fun. That would be a fun story to have, but I don't feel particularly strongly about anything.

[Brady]

I have to have Maryland going all the way because if Maryland were to win another national championship and I didn't pick them, then, like, I have to live with that. Like that.

[Katie Nolan]

Right. That is a true. Like if Arizona. If I didn't pick them and then Dan's like, wow, you bailed on my team and they won the whole thing.

[Brady]

Right. Like, there's no shame in being wrong. I'm fine in being wrong with a bracket. I'm not, like, upset if somebody's like, oh, you picked the winner. Of course no one picks the winner. But I'm much happier saying I picked my guys and if they win, then I would be like an extra level of drunk and happy.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Isabella]

How long is this.

[Brady]

This show?

[Isabella]

Because I was. I was filling out the bracket and I was telling Katie before this, I was like, oh, I didn't realize there's like, we're not just doing east and west. Like, there's Midwest and then what is it? South.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Isabella, we screwed her over because her first experience with the bracket was the sweet 16 of our show. And so I think she probably thought this was like a easy endeavor where you just had to pick 16 teams. I don't think we set her up for success by being like, you got to click through the regions and really make a bunch of decisions that are ill informed, but you got to do it.

[Isabella]

Yeah. It took up a significant amount of my commute and how dare we took away from my. My music listening sessions.

[Katie Nolan]

You couldn't. So you felt you couldn't listen to music?

[Isabella]

No, I had to.

[Katie Nolan]

Filling out a bracket.

[Brady]

Listen to one shining moment. Just. Just plow through.

[Katie Nolan]

She either has to sit. She has to sit.

[Isabella]

I had to concentrate and listen to.

[Katie Nolan]

The songs or she can do something on her phone in silence. There is no. Yeah, yeah.

[Isabella]

I had to make sure, of course. So you didn't answer my question. How long is this entire April 7?

[Katie Nolan]

It goes till April 7.

[Brady]

It's three weekends. Because you can play two rounds in a weekend. They do Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, then Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday again. Then you're down to so few teams that they do Saturday.

[Katie Nolan]

Dumb question that first Monday stinks when you're like, wait, we were just in it. Now we gotta wait to get back into it again. What's your question, my darling?

[Isabella]

Where am I watching this?

[Katie Nolan]

Tnt, tbs, True tv and cbs, Right? Is it still in cbs?

[Brady]

The best thing CBS does, and they've always done, is that they stream it on their website for free. So if anybody's picking this show up, there's, you know, you miss the Thursday games up on Friday. They have it, you know, for streaming at your desk. But they also always include one thing called a boss button where they put it on the screen, says boss button or work button, and you click it and it immediately changes your game to the most boring, nondescript, generic spreadsheet they can find. It just does a fake excel.it's amazing, brilliant idea. And I'm confident no boss has ever figured this out.

[Katie Nolan]

I'm trying to think of, like, the job that it would almost get you in More trouble to have a spreadsheet open. Like what? We don't even do that. Why are you. What are you doing? Well, if you're a surgeon, I hate to say this March madness is for everybody, but maybe you don't get to watch until you're off work. I don't know. That feels. Is that okay to say? I don't want to tell anyone how to live their life, but please focus on the task at hand.

[Brady]

My neighborhood group text right now asked if anybody wanted to meet up at the. At the bar in our around here on. On Friday to watch the games. And the OB GYN on the group text was like, yeah, it's fine. I'm. I'm done with deliveries at 10 o'clock. I'll meet you guys after.

[Katie Nolan]

That's amazing. Deliver a baby.

[Brady]

Wash hands and then go to a. Wash hands.

[Katie Nolan]

Thoroughly wash hands. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

[Brady]

Preferably change clothes. He has come to the bar before without changing out of his scrubs. And immediately.

[Katie Nolan]

Well, that. You can only do that in like a non bloody day, I feel.

[Brady]

Yeah, but like, do we know that.

[Katie Nolan]

Anybody show up to. Well, you don't see people show up in their scrubs outside of work and the scrubs are covered in blood. That feels like a. We all understand that.

[Isabella]

Well, they get like dressed up before.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, yeah, I guess you're right. They do put stuff on like this.

[Isabella]

And then they have the gloves over the.

[Katie Nolan]

That's right.

[Brady]

There are multiple fluids in play. There's a lot going on here.

[Katie Nolan]

And it's like, yeah, blood's almost not even the worst.

[Brady]

I just want to watch hoops. But you're clearly in your work clothes and I know what you do for a living. I know what you've been doing all day. Like, you're taking me out of the immersion of watching this game.

[Katie Nolan]

Well, put a. Put a little outfit for him in your backpack. Grab a sweater vest out of the closet. And then if he shows up in work clothes, you can go. I'm glad we're having this conversation. Hand him the backpack. He goes to the bathroom, he changes his bag.

[Brady]

He's carrying a go bag for my buddy so he can join us after work. Yeah, all right.

[Katie Nolan]

Yes, I think so. I think that's right.

[Brady]

I'm realizing this in real time. I should have been doing this all along.

[Katie Nolan]

No, that's. No, it's that everyone can always be a better friend. You can always be a better friend.

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[Katie Nolan]

30 minutes time for a confession. In our rundown here, it says Mavericks AI Jumbotron video breakdown because I watched the Dallas Mavericks in House Hype video that they showed on their Jumbotron the other day at a game. It's fully AI generated. It's western themed, I believe even. And I don't have this confirmed, but it sounds like even the rap song that goes with it is AI generated. It feels like they fed a machine that commercial with that McDonald's commercial with that is it LE47? It feels like they gave it just that as source material and said come up with a rap. And it's like, I don't know why this has to be a woman rapping. But anyway, I wrote all these notes about it when I watched it the other day. And then on my way out the door to come to the podcast today, I grabbed a notebook thinking it was the notebook that has my Maverick notes in it. And it it isn't. This is my seventh notebook. I wish I was kidding. It's my severe notebook. So listen, and I think we'll probably get into it at the end of the podcast. Don't worry. No spoilers right here at any point right now. But I started rewatching season one because I started season two of Severance and I was like, I don't know if I remember season one enough. It's been three years. So then I went and watched one of those YouTube videos where they give you, like, the full. Here's what happened in season one. And then I was like, okay, I feel pretty refreshed. And then I watched episode two of season two, and I was like, I still don't feel like. I'm like, this is hitting with me. I'm not really getting it. And then. And then I just was like, then we got to episode seven. And I loved that so much that I was like, I'm gonna go back to episode one and rewatch season one so that the stuff I'm not picking up, I can pick up because it's, you know, it's like, if the show's gonna lose me, I wasn't gonna go all the way back. But once I got to episode seven and was like, one of my favorite episodes of tv, I' I went back. And then when I went back, I was like, well, I gotta jot down stuff if I see it that I think might become important later. And now I've got pages and pages and pages of useless notes. And that, folks, is the Katie Nolan experience in a nutshell. I've just now got notes that'll never go anywhere. They're not for anything, but are detailed and highlighted in parts. And I. And so anyway, I don't have.

[Brady]

I have severe resentment for anyone who can hit. Hit skip recap on a show like that. Like, the skip recap button, it looks at me is like, are you smart enough to click me? I'm like, hell, no. Hell, no. I need every recap possible.

[Katie Nolan]

And here's the thing about skip recap. Here's the thing about the recaps. Now I think we should start giving away, like, an Emmy to the best recap editor because they used to be. I feel like they used to just be what happened in the immediate episode prior, and now I feel like they do a really good job of being like, what little things from any time before right now do you need to be reminded of in order for this episode to best land? And I think they do a really good job of it.

[Brady]

Some shows, Game of Thrones not only did a recap, but they acknowledge what an idiot I am. And they would give you a recap and a freaking map in the credits. And the map would be like, here's where this. Here's where Winterfell is. All right, all right, dummy. Here's where King's Landing is, and you can't remember the name of all these cities.

[Katie Nolan]

And that show can fuck off with calling you a dummy because that show did not pay off paying five different.

[Brady]

Characters named John that they keep track of.

[Katie Nolan]

These people, they acted like. Pay attention to each detail and you will be rewarded. And then at the end, we were like. Or not. I guess. I guess.

[Isabella]

I guess every single detail doesn't matter.

[Katie Nolan]

I guess promises don't mean the same thing in Westeros anyway. So. The Mavericks. You should really. Guys, you should really Google it. It was. It's so bad that we. It took a while for us to confirm it actually ran in the Mavericks home stadium. It did, but it seemed so plausibly entirely fake. It's. Their hands aren't moving right. What's crazy is that it's the. It's the members of the Mavericks. I know there's not a ton, but as the Mavericks internal media company, you should have access to the team. You should be able to book the players. It's not a hard ask to get the players in your hype video, but I guess that was too much to send the email. So instead they just AI generated their own players. They put the names, which famously go on the back of the jersey. They just wrote their names across the front of whatever western themed clothing they were wearing. Presumably because there are so few Mavericks. You might not know who this guy is. I mentioned this. Yes. Tuesday, but Anthony Davis at one point has two guns pointed at his head because AI still hasn't nailed the hands thing. And then the craziest part of this hype video playing at a basketball game was that it made these basketball players look like they'd never touched a basketball before. Like the way they handled the ball. Dare I say, and I know this is this much of an exaggeration, I would look more natural handling a basketball than those AI basketball players. The other thing about the Mavericks, because you think it couldn't get worse, but you're wrong. The team is now so injured that they are at risk of having to forfeit games. Something that has never happened in the history of the NBA. Is that true? That's very surprising to me. To play, it's required to have eight players. That's it. Just eight players listed as active. And the Mavericks are in grave danger of being unable to compete.

[Brady]

They have like 15 guys on the roster. They should be able to find eight.

[Katie Nolan]

That are willing to play, and they're just all hurt. And if that video is any evidence, unable to play basketball.

[Brady]

No one in that. No one in that video actually plays basketball. Because they realize, I think they started the video and they're like, wait, AI can't make it look like real basketball.

[Katie Nolan]

Let's still do it, right? So let's make it. Let's make it horse themed and we'll have them look like they are riding a horse. They also don't even really look like the people that they're supposed to. It's bad. It's bad across the board. To remedy the situation, Nico Harrison, the gm, the guy responsible for the Luca trade, has made an unusual request of the league because certainly he's in a position to do that. They're asking for financial leniency so that they can sign free agents to play. They can't, but that's wild. This is embarrassing. This is actually embarrassing. You should get relegated.

[Brady]

We promised we'd be popping a nooner today. Popping a nooner for March Madness.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, man. I forgot beers and now this is where I'm a bad. A bad host. I forgot. I forgot to bring Isabella and I beers. Isabella, if you want to leave and.

[Isabella]

Go get a beer, I'm popping a kind bar.

[Katie Nolan]

Nice. Sick. A nooner can be whatever you want it to be. I have edibles in my purse. Aaron Rodgers, you know, the guy who's been holding out on signing anywhere. He is now reportedly considering retirement as his options are at this point limited to signing with the Pittsburgh Steelers, the New York Giants or no one. On Wednesday, NFL Network reported that the Minnesota Vikings were no longer interested in Rodgers same and would be moving towards 2025 with JJ McCarthy as their quarterback. The Giants, however, have also hosted quarterbacks Joe Flacco, Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston for free agency visits as they await Rogers decision. And the delay may have worn on Steelers players, including team captain Cam Hayward, who said, I ain't doing that darkness retreat. I don't need any of that crap. On his Not Just Football podcast. Either you want to be a Pittsburgh Steeler or you don't. It's simple. That's the pitch. If you want me to recruit, that's the recruiting pitch. Pittsburgh Steelers. If you want to be a part of it, so be it. If you don't, no skin off my back. Yeah, fair same. My only problem with that is that he said it on his own podcast and that's we can't book athletes on podcasts anymore because they have their own podcasts. That's clearly a personal gripe. I just. I mean, what is he. What is he doing? Why is he doing this to us? Why? What's he waiting for?

[Brady]

Has he indicated he said it's not about money?

[Katie Nolan]

Okay. Has he said what it is about?

[Brady]

Well, the problem is once he signs, then the news story is no longer Aaron Rogers, so he's got to figure that part out.

[Katie Nolan]

No way.

[Brady]

It's, how can I sign and I can still be the main news story?

[Katie Nolan]

No way.

[Brady]

Do you know any. Have you noticed this man enjoys attention?

[Katie Nolan]

I put it even now, attention kind of sucks right now. Everybody that looks at you goes, nah, you're crazy. You put Diet Pepsi in your ice cubes. You're unhinged. And you're like, well, I'm just kind of trying to live despite it all. Yeah. All right. Aaron Rodgers, retire. I don't care.

[Brady]

The Vikings. The Vikings are willingly going with J.J. mcCarthy, who they drafted last year and immediately hurt his knee and missed the whole season. And they said, we're going to go with JJ McCarthy over a future hall of Famer, Aaron Rodgers, where they have, like, a playoff team, they have a chance to win the super bowl, and they have decided, like, we're good. We're good, Aaron. We're good. We're going to go with JJ McCarthy, who has not like, proven anything. He's got a. Got a good head of hair. That's about it. He's tall, and we're like, we're cool with him. This is our guy.

[Katie Nolan]

Well, how old is Aaron Rodgers?

[Brady]

42 this year.

[Katie Nolan]

That's old. Okay. That's old. And he's not. I mean, I don't think he's as clearly taking care of his. I know he does his own research, but I don't think he's as clearly taking care of his body as, like, we watched Tom Brady, like, care more about pliability than having a personality. So I. I feel like he's not. He's. I mean, he's old and he's a pain in the ass, it sounds like. Could be wrong. Maybe. I don't know the guy personally. Sure sounds like he's. He's thrives off of being annoying or a problem. And so it's like, we've been hearing this for years, that if somebody's problems off the field, if their talent outweighs it, then they'll deal with it. But it's like, I just think it may be the other way around at this point. Like, come here and play football or don't. Like Cam Hayward said, come here and play football or don't. But, like, I don't care about your little. Your theatrics, so best of luck to him and his decision. I'm just glad he didn't end up the host of Jeopardy.

[Brady]

Do you worry that we, like, if Aaron Rodgers doesn't play football. Then he picks up a new hobby, and then we are then subjected to that. Like his new hobby was nearly being a vice presidential candidate.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, yeah. Well, I. I don't. It. I. You know, and so if it. And you and I. And that's my official statement on it. Yeah. I mean, I think he'll just start a podcast. And here's the thing. We don't have to listen to them all. People get very mad when somebody says they're starting a podcast on Twitter and they go, wow, how many podcasts are you ever going to have? I don't. What's the matter to you? You don't like it? Don't listen. There are millions. That's kind of the crazy thing about it. You can start your own. All you need is a mic. And as of now, you don't need a license for one of these things. That probably should be changing soon. But as of right now, another exciting thing in the NFL, moving on from that to something much more exciting that everybody gets hyped about. Rule change season. Woo. Fwa. It's that time of year when we. When the rules maybe change a tiny little bit in a way that's gonna maybe not be immediately ob, but might be kind of annoying once next season starts. And they'll make a graphic to remind you of it because. And you'll go, wait, what? And then we'll learn the implications and that'll. So anyway, this is. It's the. We're near the owner's meetings. Those are. That's March 30th. I felt like those are usually in April. Am I way off?

[Brady]

It's whatever. Off by two days.

[Katie Nolan]

I went to those once. It's. It's a. It was a wild experience.

[Brady]

I mean, it's essentially just like billionaires having a reason to go to, like, Palm Springs or something and stay somewhere warm. Right.

[Katie Nolan]

At, like, a nice resort. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. March 30 owners meetings, where 24 of 32 owners would have to vote yes for a rule change. So you can propose one, and then you got to get 24 of 32. I imagine it's much like the movie Conclave, the way they try to get their votes for their rule changes. The biggest one on the table that we've. I mean, at this point, exhausted from talking about if I have to say tush. I never thought I would say tush this much in my life, never mind in my sports podcast career. The packers now officially putting their name on, wanting to ban the tush. Push, the play that famously killed them in the playoffs against the Eagles. A previously reported attempt to ban the Tush push short yardage play that they've used in recent years. Submitted by the Packers. The rule would prevent players from pushing a teammate that is lined up directly behind the snapper and receives the snap immediately at the snap. Isabella, that makes immediate sense to you, right?

[Isabella]

The pushing part?

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, yeah. It's basically. I assume they're phrasing it that way in case it's not the quarterback. They just want to let you know that whoever's receiving the snap cannot be pushed by somebody behind them.

[Isabella]

Where's the line of, like, rule changes? Like, people could just. So it's like, every single season, they could just be like, oh, we want this rule changed because we suck at it.

[Katie Nolan]

I think it's. Is there a. Is there a vetting process for being able to. To put one up? I don't know if there is, but I think mostly it regulates itself where, like, you're only going to really propose a rule change if there's momentum behind it or if it's, like, something that people have discussed or that you think you're gonna get. I don't think they're just out here going, like, no pants. Yeah, new rule, no pants.

[Brady]

There's a little more, like, buttoned up than, like, a local, like, small government town hall meeting. Like, there's a vetting process of putting something up for a vote. But, like, yeah, they. The. The line of where the kickoffs come from changes every, like, 18 months. Like, these. The rules constantly change every year, and we are. We are always learning about it. Week one, where this ball's being kicked off from, and that's going to continue this year.

[Katie Nolan]

I gave up this year. I saw that kickoff, and I was like, I don't need to know how that works. It's not. It's of no import to me, and so I no longer care. I also am. I truly don't care about the Tush push. I think it's like, you know, has.

[Isabella]

This always been around?

[Katie Nolan]

Yes, but it hasn't been used.

[Brady]

We used to not be able to push guys. You used to. Like, there was, like, a penalty for it 10 years ago or something, and then they.

[Katie Nolan]

Why did it change?

[Brady]

I think it was too hard to regulate. Like, when does it become pushing? Like, if you put a gentle hand on someone's back or if, like, you grab them and carry them, like, certain. Like, that's when they. They also used to have, like, a line of intentional versus Unintentional passion or fearance. And then you had a referee determining, like, when that was. And they're like, let's make the ref stop thinking about that. Let's just make it legal or make it all illegal. And then they. Once they allowed people to start pushing, like rugby style, then the Eagles were like, hell yeah, brother. Let's just. Let's just throw them forward. Let's just get all 10 guys running, running together, make a big dog pile and move the ball. And now it's just a big old mess of people.

[Katie Nolan]

Well, that's weird because this. The rule change does not in any way clarify the language of pushing. So it feels like it would still run into that same problem of push being hard to define.

[Brady]

Better word than tush that I. That I like with my kids. Fanny.

[Katie Nolan]

Fanny. Well, you know, in. I believe in England that means something very different.

[Brady]

Does it?

[Katie Nolan]

I think in England, fanny is in the front.

[Brady]

Huh.

[Isabella]

Well, that would make. Oh. Because fanny pack is always in the front. Well, I mean, I wear it in the front.

[Katie Nolan]

Can someone confirm this?

[Brady]

See, I have always known before.

[Katie Nolan]

I look like a weirdo.

[Brady]

Oh, okay. Well, this is just about the most confusing Merriam Webster page I've ever seen.

[Katie Nolan]

The Internet.

[Brady]

Fanny. Noun 1. British slang. Vulva.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, oh, oh.

[Brady]

2.

[Katie Nolan]

2.

[Brady]

Alternative definition. Buttocks.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. And you do not want to get those two confused.

[Brady]

How could one word mean both?

[Katie Nolan]

You do not want. Because it depends on where you are. We mean, what are we doing with language? That's why I'm saying I wouldn't go with fanny. I'd go with tuchus. I love.

[Isabella]

That's a good one.

[Katie Nolan]

A little tuckus. Because, like, it's never going to come up sexually in your life later. You know what I mean? Like, I really do think that's a key. You're never gonna bump into that word by accident and go, wow, embarrassing. That's what my mom used to call my butt. It's. No one's gonna say that. Took us.

[Brady]

The problem is, like, I'm very deep in the usage of fanny. And now I suddenly have to evaluate your kids.

[Katie Nolan]

Fanny.

[Brady]

Now it's like toothpaste back in the tube.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Oh, man, they're gonna have a. Oh, they're gonna meet a British person.

[Katie Nolan]

Better hope they don't study abroad. Hey, keep them on. Keep them domestic.

[Brady]

I don't like this conversation.

[Katie Nolan]

Home soil. Neither do I. Let's talk about rule changes. Are there any good ones here? I'm seeing a bunch. And, you know, I don't care anything that stood out to you, Brady. Worth mentioning.

[Brady]

Isabella, tell me if this makes sense. So, footballs, there are many balls they're used for throughout the game. You might have, like, 50 balls for a game.

[Isabella]

Really? Like, used?

[Brady]

Oh, yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Like, available to you.

[Brady]

One gets. One gets thrown. And, like, if it goes, like, all the way out of bounds, they don't, like, go run and track it down. Somebody has to get it. They'll just throw a new one in. Or if one gets, like, a field goal, gets kicked into the crowd, they're like, all right, time out. Can we have that back, please?

[Katie Nolan]

Hits a net, a lot of balls, and.

[Brady]

But the ones that are kicked, there is a rule that those have to stay under, like, lock and key, and are in the box until right before the game. Whereas the rest of them, people can, you know, pick up and throw around. The players can, like, warm up with them. They can rub them, they can let them squeeze them. Some people have been accused of not def. Of deflating them. Nobody cares.

[Katie Nolan]

Nobody cared until they cared, you know, Nobody cared.

[Isabella]

I'm like, the things you guys tell me, I'm like, you're lying.

[Katie Nolan]

No, we would never lie to you. We'll never do that.

[Brady]

But they determined the kickers were, like, doctoring the balls too much, and then they made the. Them, like, lock and key, the kicking balls. So those things come, like, straight out of the factory and they're like a brick to kick.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. And is this a rule change now?

[Brady]

They want to walk that back. And the kickers are like, these balls are too hard. Can we please be able to be able to, like, rub the balls again and be able to, like.

[Katie Nolan]

Please let us rub our balls again.

[Brady]

Please, sir.

[Katie Nolan]

Won't you please? Why?

[Brady]

It's Christmas, sir, please, one time.

[Katie Nolan]

We deserve to rub our balls, sir.

[Brady]

So it's. It's a lot of legislation of how the balls are handled.

[Katie Nolan]

Snooze, snooze, snooze, snooze. Good luck with your rules, guys. Let us know what comes out of your school meeting. We don't, to quote Stephen A. Smith, we don't care. Netflix's quarterback is coming back. Now, I got got by this video Netflix, you know, they have that behind the scenes NFL documentary, it's called Quarterback. They are returning for their second season in July. Uh, season one followed Patrick Mahomes, maybe you've heard of him, of the Kansas City Chiefs, Kirk Cousins, who was then with the Minnesota Vikings, and Marcus Mariota, who was with the Falcons. Then they did a season of receiver, and then now this season of quarterback is Cincinnati Bengals Joe Burrow, Detroit Lions Jared Goff and Atlanta Falcons Kirk Cousins again. Kirk Cousins again.

[Brady]

Went all in on Kirk Cousins.

[Katie Nolan]

I think we've. I think we know the guy. I think we've had enough. He drives a van and he likes Harry Potter and he. You like that? That's. I got. We're good. I'm good. I don't know. Fine. Netflix released a teaser on Wednesday confirming the series return. But what they did was they started it out by being like, you've seen quarterback, you've seen receiver get ready for mascot. And they made like a fake trailer for pretending that this year they were going to follow around the mascots. And then they had the quarterbacks that we now know are featured in the season of quarterbacks saying, you guys know they can't talk, right? Hey, I think that's stupid. I do a season. Would you like pretend asking each other even though none of them are in the same room? A thing that ads love to do now where you're like, we're not stupid. We know those guys aren't in the same room talking to each other. There would have to be three setups of them all being straight. That doesn't make sense. And then they were like, yeah, let's do it. And then, you know, Netflix was like, teehee. Just tee he jk. It's. We're doing quarterbacks and look cool, funny. Haha. Disrespectful to mascots who I don't think deserve it.

[Brady]

I would be into the mascot show. Like, I really was into it. I would too, as a former.

[Katie Nolan]

Or just like hearing the people talk about being a mascot, I mean if they're really going to be on camera as the mascot, that is less they do not open up a candle.

[Brady]

As a former professional mascot myself.

[Katie Nolan]

Let's go. What the fuck? Why did it take this long for.

[Isabella]

Us when you share the information?

[Katie Nolan]

What are you fucking talking. If I had the power to fire you right now, I would. What more tell. Expand upon that.

[Brady]

I had a limited run for the Baltimore Bayhawks Major league lacrosse team as the Bayhawk did a lot of. Did a lot of Isabella.

[Katie Nolan]

He a little overstated a little. Technically. Technically, it's not the Philly fanatic.

[Brady]

No, no. This is a much lower level but did a lot of events.

[Katie Nolan]

What was it again? It was a Bayhawk.

[Brady]

It was a big gray bird that in dressed in a lacrosse uniform, big feet, big head, danced on stage with DJ Cool for let me clear my throat one time dance kind of a big deal.

[Isabella]

That's kind of, you know, I say.

[Brady]

Dance like no one's watching. Dance like you're in a mascot suit with no. With no identity. Like, you can go, so true.

[Katie Nolan]

Dance like they can't trace it back.

[Brady]

Dance like you're a giant, like Muppet playing lacrosse and you will have a good time. But doing events with like the local DC mascots, like the Screech from the nationals and, you know, a bunch of the locals, there's some hardcore dudes inside the mascots, like guys who have just made a. They've been doing this for like eight years. And I remember one of the racing presidents from the nationals, we went like into our backstage area and he took his head off and the man had like a ice water cooling system that he. There was like tubes snaked around his entire body and, like, had a power bar in like a little front pocket and his shirt was ready to go. And I'm like, this is why your suit probably smells way better than mine. You're way more prepared for this. But there's a. There's an ethos to, like, how you have to walk with the feet to make the feet the biggest, like sideshow bob feet flap in real time at the right.

[Katie Nolan]

So you don't look like a human with awkward feet.

[Brady]

So, yeah, you're kind of like a. Like a walking.

[Katie Nolan]

Kind of like the first time you put flippers on when you're going scuba diving and you, you put on the flippers and then you try to walk and you're like, well, this is different. This is different. This is more different than I thought it was going to be. I imagine is what it's like to put on a Netflix.

[Brady]

Underestimated where the content would be.

[Katie Nolan]

I agree. I also think there's like a mascot camp that you could have gotten some great footage at. Did you have to share your suit with other people? Were you like a mascot by committee?

[Brady]

Yeah. That's easily the worst part.

[Katie Nolan]

I can't imagine because you'd be like, hey, can I get some approval power over who else gets to be on the team? So I'm not sharing a suit with the stinkiest co worker.

[Brady]

They. It is, I'm pretty sure, completely impossible to wash a mascot suit.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Brady]

You can try to cover it up as best you can.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, I bet they just spray it with disinfectant.

[Brady]

They are extremely hot. There is no. No escape from sweating inside that thing, especially when yours has feathers.

[Katie Nolan]

Speaking of extremely hot, annual reminder that the guy inside a gritty is an attractive man. I've been letting the world know this for years. Maybe it's a different guy now. So I could be wrong, but gritty's hot. Do with that information what you will. Trinity Rodman and Ben Shelton Hard launch. Saw a lot of people going nuts over this. I'm not paying attention to tennis, I guess in this way that I that I knew who this was. But tennis star Ben Shelton went Instagram official with his relationship with US national team and Washington spirit forward Trinity Rodman. Isabella, you hyped on this couple, a young couple love to believe in again.

[Isabella]

I mean, I'm not necessarily hyped, but I will say it is fun whenever there's like two athletes dating for some reason. Yeah, it's just fun to see. You're like, oh, you do that thing right? You do that thing like different sports.

[Katie Nolan]

But you guys can relate to like mindsets and like the basic like the. You both do the same job, but you.

[Isabella]

But I also nervous for them because it's like I feel like once you go into the spotlight and make it official, it's like that's a lot of pressure.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. But I just feel like people seemed very supportive and look, I'm too old now to put any sort of faith in anybody's relationship. I'm happy for them as long as they're happy and I'm gonna. And we'll see. Well, good. And if they want to be apart, break up. I don't. You can't. Can't put any meaning in anything anymore. The world lets you down enough times and you just go imma hold on to that. I'm gonna keep that close. The only relationship I believe in is my own. I don't even believe in my parents marriage anymore.

[Isabella]

Wow.

[Katie Nolan]

I never believed in my parents marriage, but they are still together. They are proof you can just power through it and come out the other side in love again. What about Happy Gilmore? We've been hearing that the Happy Gilmore reboot. Not reboot. I guess it's just a sequel. Sequel a long time coming. Happy Gilmore 2. The trailer is out. While Netflix's log line for Happy Gilmore 2 keeps the storyline a mystery, all it says is Happy Gilmore is back. The news A lot of Netflix stories today. I feel like we're doing very Netflix heavy. The new trailer shows Sandler's character having some doubts about facing off against a few PGA heavy heavyweights. But he returns to the golf course with confidence and all hell breaks loose. Joining Sandler in the sequel, returning cast members Julie Bowen, Christopher McDonald and Ben Stiller, plus newcomers. Newcomers such as Bad Bunny, Travis, Kelsey and Sandler's daughters, Sadie and Sunny. Real professional golfers John Daly, Scotty Scheffler, Rory McElroy, Bryson DeChambeau and more also feature in the movie Travis has mentioned on his podcast. Oh, Travis has mentioned it on his podcast. So we have a nice something for Travis Sandler said about Kelsey's. Okay, well, I'll. Should we get ready to make a clip of me saying something nice about it on a podcast? That's all you got to do. Travis Kelce said something nice about it on your podcast. So you got. You put him in the movie.

[Brady]

Happy Gilmore is back is enough of a log line, right? Like, I feel like if they explain the premise to us more, it's only going to make me less interested.

[Isabella]

Fun fact. I've never seen Happy Gilmore.

[Katie Nolan]

What? Well, that's. You should. You should really see it.

[Isabella]

I know, but I'm not gonna.

[Katie Nolan]

You know, I haven't seen all the Star Wars. I don't see a lot of movies. I'm a. I like tv, so I'm not gonna judge you. I think you'd like it. It's fun.

[Isabella]

Yeah, it's funny. Like Adam Sandler. Yeah, I think I'd like it.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Like the water boy. Did you see. Did you see the. Do you see Billy Madison?

[Isabella]

No.

[Katie Nolan]

Well, well. So these are. These are like Sandler's best. That's like peak Sandler. So if you like Sandler without those, you. You should really love those.

[Brady]

I think, like your Sandler experience. Can't start with click. There has to.

[Isabella]

No, no, it was Spanglish. I seen waterboy. I've seen Mr. Deeds. Oh, I liked that one. That's one. That's one with Winona, right?

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. From Winchesterton, Townville.

[Brady]

Underutilized John Turturro in that one.

[Katie Nolan]

Yes.

[Isabella]

I love Johnson.

[Katie Nolan]

Betty. Betty. Sneaky.

[Brady]

Sir, I have five 90s movies I would much rather see a sequel to. Not that I'm anti Happy. Go more sequel. Like there's a bar to live up to.

[Katie Nolan]

Did you just see me digging through the. I was like, oh, I'm sorry. I must not have seen Wedding Singer.

[Isabella]

Sorry, I was. That's my. That's my favorite Adam Sandler airheads.

[Brady]

The list starts with airheads. Five 90s movies I wanted to see a sequel to.

[Katie Nolan]

You have five.

[Brady]

I can make a list of five of anything.

[Katie Nolan]

You're in sports media.

[Brady]

That I am.

[Katie Nolan]

You're born for.

[Brady]

That's why I'm starting with sports Basketball absolutely needs a sequel in 2025. You don't think that there's a re up for a satire of the sports industry in general, especially done by guys who've been cranking out content of weekly satire?

[Katie Nolan]

Yes. Like, yes, I think you could make it just not a sequel. I think you could just take another swing at another parody of without making it a sequel. But yeah, all right.

[Brady]

Fair. The program love meets. The program just juiced up. College football squads of 1993 absolutely translates to today, where now, like, suddenly all college athletes have money and have not gotten any more responsible with anything.

[Katie Nolan]

Number three, I'm editing you number three.

[Brady]

The Fifth Element, Granted, Bruce Willis. So be it.

[Katie Nolan]

The best.

[Brady]

Everybody loved the Fifth Element. That's a whole world I want to live more in. Like, a lot of it is, like, what world do I want to get more in?

[Katie Nolan]

I wouldn't want to do it without him.

[Brady]

That's tr. That's probably a bad idea.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Brady]

The last two. Number two, the last action hero totally got crapped on when it came.

[Katie Nolan]

Is that the one that starts with the gun with the shooting in the mid at the beginning?

[Brady]

Yes.

[Katie Nolan]

Is that the one that starts on a football field and the guy shoots?

[Brady]

No, that's the last boy Scout. Also with Bruce.

[Katie Nolan]

My bad. Yeah.

[Brady]

Last action hero is Arnold Schwarzenegger. Like, is a fictionalized version of Arnold Schwarzenegger living inside his movie universe. And there's a whole bunch of meta theater of the kid popping in and out of this fantasy world where in the fantasy world, his partner is a cartoon cat. It's very Paul Abdul.

[Katie Nolan]

Ah.

[Brady]

I want more of this.

[Katie Nolan]

Opposites attract.

[Brady]

Number one, though. It was a. I keep going back to, like, worlds I want to live in where I could do an update of I could be down for an Alicia Silverstone return.

[Katie Nolan]

Ooh.

[Brady]

In a clueless sequel in 2025.

[Katie Nolan]

If she's okay from eating that berry off that bush on her Instagram Live.

[Brady]

I think she'll make it. Alicia Silverstone. I had to have this conversation with my kids.

[Katie Nolan]

Isabelle, did you see that?

[Isabella]

No. That's why I was like, huh?

[Katie Nolan]

She tilted her head like a dog. Like, what is this? A couple months ago, she, like, was on Instagram Live and was like, what are these berries? They're growing in my backyard, and I'm just curious. And she, like, popped one in her mouth. And then all the comments were like, poisonous berry. That's a poisonous berry. Don't. Don't eat that. And then she like, I don't know. For a day didn't post or something. And people were like, is Alicia Silver. She. Okay, okay.

[Brady]

She is the mom and babysitter's club. Also on Netflix. And I had to have that conversation with my kids being like, look who that is.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh my God. Yeah, Clueless is great, but I'd miss.

[Brady]

Brittany Murphy when Stacy Dash probably wouldn't get invited back either, but Paul Rudd can probably just play Josh again.

[Katie Nolan]

Looks exactly the same deal with the devil he made. I don't know what that is, but he looks exactly the same. Our little handsome. Alright, I guess we should talk about baseball because technically this is very annoying, I think. But the baseball season has started. Even though opening day here on home soil March 27. We played a little Tokyo series in, you guessed it, Tokyo. The Dodgers played the Cubs. That was a two game series, correct?

[Brady]

Yes.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Dodgers won them both. The. It was early in the morning. I'm not gonna say I watched it, okay? And I love baseball, but I didn't wake up early and watch it. So drag me over the coals or whatever. But I heard about it. I heard that a large draft beer at the stadium cost 900 yen, which is about six bucks. And the best part, it was poured in seat by beer vendors who would wear backpack mounted kegs.

[Brady]

Brilliant. Glad those didn't exist when I was in college.

[Katie Nolan]

I was gonna say no chance that existed in high school because I went to a high school. When you were. When you would go to a house party, these kids would wear their beers on their back instead of putting it in the fridge. They just would assume somebody would take those. So you have to wear your back, wear your beers on your back. And if they had these, I feel like it would have stayed colder. Probably because you could have insulated, have.

[Brady]

Like the walking tap. Like you're the most popular guy in there.

[Isabella]

That sounds really heavy.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, but we were in peak physical form back then, so I could have lifted a keg backpack. I lifted a keg up the stairs. I bar backed at the bar I worked at one night because we didn't have a bar back and I, I don't think I lifted it up the stairs. I don't think that's necessary. But I, I moved kegs around. One of them had beer in it. So where's my metal?

[Isabella]

Have you ever done the thing where you go upside down?

[Katie Nolan]

In my life, have I ever been upside down?

[Isabella]

A handstand like on the keg.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, a keg stand.

[Brady]

Do kids not keg stand anymore?

[Katie Nolan]

They must not.

[Isabella]

I was not a. I was I've never been to a high school party. I was not.

[Katie Nolan]

Huh?

[Isabella]

Yeah, I was not. I was drinking. I mean, to be clear.

[Katie Nolan]

To be clear. High school party. We were doing beer balls. At most. We were not grabbing a keg. What is a beer ball party? That was college. A beer ball was like a smaller keg. It was like a little a ball. Like a glass. I want to say ball that had beer in it. And you could pump it and get beer out of it, but it wasn't a keg. I got caught for having a party once because somebody brought a beer ball and then they threw the beer ball out just across the street into the woods instead of. Because I said, take this with you and dispose of it. I don't know what to do with this. And they were like, you got it, chief. And then they tossed it across the street. And somebody was like, hey, we found a beer ball. And you were away last week. Mr. And Mrs. Nolan, I think this might belong to you. And then, guess what? I was grounded. That's how every high school story of me ends. I was grounded. I was like the most well behaved, constantly grounded child on earth. Thanks for letting me get off that. Get that off my chest, you guys.

[Brady]

Isabella, do you have a general grasp of how amazing Shohei Otani is at what he does?

[Isabella]

Yeah, I hear he's awesome and he's amazing.

[Brady]

No, that's not enough.

[Katie Nolan]

Those are two words. Yeah, yeah, it's not enough.

[Isabella]

Doesn't he have. What's the name of his dog again? Isn't it like a decoy?

[Brady]

Decoy is the name. His dog. Because he used his dog as a decoy for where he was signing when he was a free agent going to the Dodgers. Yes. It was all very meta.

[Katie Nolan]

Very funny. Very, very funny. Do you understand that, like, not that most pitchers, people who throw the ball to the batter in baseball do not hit? They don't. It's just like, not. Because their arm is very. Is like precious and protected. And Shohei hits well and pitches well. He's like one of the best hitters, and he's one of the best pitchers. So it's like a type of player that we do not often see anymore and certainly do not see at this level.

[Isabella]

And he'll regularly do that. He'll not just pitch, he'll also hit.

[Katie Nolan]

Last year he didn't. He was hurt, but he set a record anyway in a different way for base running and hitting home runs. Because he was like, well, I gotta do something extraordinary. And they won't let Me pitch. So I'll just break a record. He's so good. He's just so purely good at baseball.

[Brady]

He's like the egot of sports.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Isabella]

Okay.

[Katie Nolan]

And he's like, sweet. My favorite thing when I would watch him that season I did baseball, is he would, like, apologize a lot. Like, if there was. Or if he, like, hit a foul ball and it was like, a sharp line drive foul, he would be, like, careful. Like, he would be, like, oh. He would, like, care about the fan. Like, it was. I just think he's a sweetie pie.

[Brady]

He goes out of his way to pick up trash on the field. Like, the man will run around, he sees litter. It just goes in his back pocket.

[Isabella]

Katie, it sounds like you should be a Dodgers fan.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, Isabella, bite your tongue.

[Isabella]

No, never.

[Katie Nolan]

Never.

[Isabella]

I don't know.

[Katie Nolan]

It won't ever happen.

[Isabella]

Nice things about Shohei Ohtani.

[Katie Nolan]

Maybe I have nice things to say about a lot of them. Mookie Betts, is Tay Oscar Hernandez still on the Dodgers?

[Brady]

Yep.

[Katie Nolan]

I love Tay Oscar. I love Tay Oscar. Isabella, you would love Tay Oscar. So then you should buy the front. The laundry. The front of the. I can't get past the front. I'm not. I just. I can't.

[Isabella]

What, like the logo?

[Katie Nolan]

No, the. Just the team. The team in general. It is always the team that gets the guy that you wanted. I'm just, like, sick. I'm exhausted by them, but I'm happy for their fans. Yada, yada, whatever. I don't hate them the way I hate those other two teams.

[Isabella]

Yankees.

[Katie Nolan]

That's one of them.

[Isabella]

Can I guess the other one?

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Isabella]

Let me see if I can go back in my inventory of things that you've hated.

[Katie Nolan]

I'm not as loud about this one because they get very annoying. Yeah, hell, yeah. That's exactly right. Isabella knows me.

[Isabella]

I was like, no, Panthers is hockey.

[Katie Nolan]

I've seen. Oh, my God. I feel so.

[Isabella]

I pay attention.

[Katie Nolan]

I know I'm being perceived in a way that I sometimes forget.

[Isabella]

You do look. I think you would look good in Dodger blue.

[Brady]

She's laying out a very rational case for this. And you can't argue with anybody. It's like, here's all these players you like. Here's a uniform you like.

[Katie Nolan]

It's making me feel mentally ill. You're a dog person.

[Isabella]

Shohei Ohtani has a dog.

[Katie Nolan]

There's other dogs. Please. Your argument is weakening. There's other dogs I can like. I like my own dog. The Masters menu the Masters are under gets underway Thursday, April 10 I forgot what a busy, like time of the sports schedule we're at right now. As is tradition, each year the reigning champion personally selects the menu for the Masters champions dinner on Tuesday. That dinner is everybody who's going to play in the Masters.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

And the Brady or it's everybody who's ever won the Masters.

[Brady]

Because everybody who's ever.

[Katie Nolan]

That's a lot.

[Brady]

Who's ever won the Masters gets invited to play in it forever. That's why you have 80. You have like 80 year old Jack Nicholas, like still gets to play in the Masters. And he tease, you know, he'll tee off, he'll play two rounds, he won't make the cut. But like, it's still fun, still cute.

[Katie Nolan]

So the, the, the last year's champion gets to pick the menu for this dinner. Scotty Scheffler won last year in 2024. And his menu that he selected has a text Texas theme. I'm gonna tell you about it now, so I hope you're not hungry. For appetizers, we're gonna do cheeseburger sliders, quote unquote, served Scotty style. No elaboration on what that is. So that's. I don't know if I'm supposed to know or what. Firecracker shrimp and papa chef's meatballs and ravioli bites. I'd be all over that. Tell you that right now. I'm an app's gal. First course, Texas style chili. Great. Sure. Main course, cowboy rib eye or blackened redfish with family style macaroni and cheese jalapeno creamed corn, soy glazed brussels sprouts and chipotle lime sweet potatoes. Elaborate. Nary a food item without a food adjective before it. And then for dessert, a warm chocolate chip cookie with vanilla bean ice cream. What is this, a flight? How do we feel about that? That's a delicious dinner. Nothing groundbreaking there. Steak or fish? Some regular steak sides, I would say.

[Brady]

Scotty's not utilizing his. Like, he's not, he's not seizing the moment on this. Like he, he's done this before. This is his second Masters dinner because he's won the Masters twice now. And this is fairly very similar to when he did it the first time when he served dinner in 2023. And it's, you know, just another Texas.

[Katie Nolan]

The firecracker. Yeah, firecracker shrimp tortilla soup. He went with a different.

[Brady]

Like last year, Jon Rahm was a reigning Masters champion. John Rahm is from Spain and showed up and did a full tapas menu. Tapas for a Full tapas menu.

[Katie Nolan]

Saying tapas. That's wild.

[Isabella]

You're about to get some comments. Brady.

[Katie Nolan]

He did a whole tapas menu of you could have tried probably, but we won't.

[Brady]

You want me to try and think it'll go better than tapas?

[Katie Nolan]

No. No. I immediately regret. No.

[Brady]

Yes.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay.

[Brady]

It was. John just went full Spain on it. Like Hideki Matsuyama went like a full sushi and like a 5 wagyu, which, by the way, like, driving the price up of anybody who's ever done this menu. Like, he got his money's worth for what Augusta is willing to pay for it in 2022. Like, this is.

[Katie Nolan]

Has anyone ever seen chances? Yeah, and by chances, I mean let's food poison these guys.

[Brady]

That's the thing. That's what I'm saying.

[Katie Nolan]

Katie Nolan's menu. Undercooked chicken, Chicken medium rare.

[Brady]

I would roll in there like Wallace, Sean and Princess Bride.

[Isabella]

Why are you so upset at these guys?

[Katie Nolan]

Because I want to win again.

[Brady]

I want to win again. I want to knock out my competition. I'm going to serve something that I know that I have built up an immunity to in my stomach.

[Katie Nolan]

That's right. And no, I spent the last six months eating chicken a little undercooked to be ready for this moment.

[Brady]

2017 works.

[Katie Nolan]

I don't recommend that you do that. Please don't eat undercooked chicken just to get ready for eating undercooked chicken.

[Brady]

2017, reigning champion Danny Willett of England. Danny Willett showed up and went full English mini cottage pies. Sunday roast of prime rib and Yorkshire puddings.

[Katie Nolan]

Please don't be mad. Anybody listening? I'd show up to that dinner having eaten already. I'm eating before that dinner and when I leave, I'm hitting the McDonald's drive thru. Just. I'm sorry, I'll eat the apple crumble.

[Isabella]

I'm doing a surf and turf.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, that's like Adam Scott. Adam Scott did surf and turf.

[Isabella]

Like, I feel like you have to do lobster at least.

[Brady]

Adam Scott, 2014 Reigning champion from Australia, did surf and turf, which is Morrittan Bay. Bugs.

[Katie Nolan]

I hate that they call them bugs.

[Brady]

Well, I think they're the little lobsters.

[Katie Nolan]

You know, like, which we call the.

[Brady]

Something with a C. Yeah, they're like not quite lobsters.

[Katie Nolan]

You're not even sure if they really funny. I'll try to think of it by the end of the podcast. I will just yell it out randomly if it comes into my brain. So, yeah.

[Brady]

And it was like artichokes, squid and Lobsters.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Charles Schwartzel, the year before that from South Africa. It was like a, like a, a South African barbecue of lamb chops and South African sausages. Like this man, I think was like really getting it. Really. Like I'm going to try to create some gastro problems with my competition. Did not run it back, but I appreciate the effort.

[Katie Nolan]

Is this the same team of chefs every year having to follow the whimsy and will of any winner of the Masters?

[Brady]

I think so. But you could probably bring in your own chefs. Like I know there was Justin Thomas did one of these when he won the the U.S. open. And I told you he brought in like the staff from Rao's to, to cater this thing. Like to go for it.

[Katie Nolan]

Italian restaurant?

[Brady]

Yeah, I think so. Because I don't think you want the Augusta, Georgia staff having to do South African barbecues and sushi.

[Katie Nolan]

And. Not to say that they couldn't. Not to say that they couldn't. But isn't the Masters. Is that where you get those pimento sandwiches?

[Brady]

That is it, yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. I don't think they're like, I don't think they're having to compete at this Top Chef level, you know, so it just feels like a lot to put on them.

[Brady]

Phil Mickelson 2011 and everyone already has an opinion of Phil Mickelson Spanish themed menu with seafood, paella and machango topped filet mignon as the entree.

[Katie Nolan]

I'll just let you say it, however.

[Brady]

Mahango. How do you pronounce this?

[Katie Nolan]

I won't touch this. Nope, that's on. It's. You let me live and die on this. Yeah. Go for, go for a run with it.

[Brady]

Let me sound as western Maryland as possible while pronouncing Spanish paella.

[Katie Nolan]

Tiger Woods. Didn't he do like chicken sandwiches, french fries, milkshakes? That's safe.

[Brady]

So 22 year old tiger woods did cheeseburgers, chicken sandwiches and milkshakes. And then Tiger's Last Masters in 2020 was tempura shrimp, spicy tuna, eel sauce. And then so for an entre, for an appetizer, entree, steak and fajitas. Like Tiger went crush genre.

[Katie Nolan]

I mean, having to bring all those out is crazy. Also, as a lady who's had hot fajita juice dripped on her shoulder by accident at a restaurant.

[Brady]

Accident?

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, somebody was trying to. Somebody across from me at a large table. I think it was for like a gymnastics meet. We all went out for dinner the night before. Somebody across from me ordered fajitas. The waiter had a. Had was serving 17 to 20 people, including little kids, all at once. A nightmare for a server. And then his nightmare worsened because he reached over me to put the fajitas down in front of my teammate and poured the juice on my shoulder. And so I had no idea that was even possible. Getting burned unexpectedly. I, like, jumped up and, like, flailed my arm. I had no idea what was going on. You guys are, like, looking at me like I'm telling you a war story. This is supposed to be funny. It hurts, but, like, it was just. Thank you so much.

[Brady]

The mental picture of, like, young gymnast.

[Katie Nolan]

Being scalded right before rhythmic gymnast, let's be honest. Nonetheless, it's important. They wouldn't like if I was associated, if I was calling myself Ribbon, a troll in itself. They look down on us. We got the back three pages of the USGA Magazine 2004. They were like, oh, and rhythmics happened. It's here at the bottom of the page.

[Brady]

2004, the goat of the Masters dinners. Mike Weir, reigning champion from Canada, serves up elk and wild boar and Canadian. And Canadian beer only.

[Isabella]

No, no sides.

[Brady]

Sides were listed.

[Katie Nolan]

Elks, wild boar, meat on meat.

[Brady]

Sides weren't listed.

[Isabella]

Canadian beer.

[Brady]

I mean, maybe there's a potato somewhere, but, like, that's a flex if Mike Weir is just slamming a boar on the table Robin Hood style with a couple of knives.

[Isabella]

Chefs come out of the chest with, like, the meat on a knife.

[Brady]

Apple in the mouth.

[Katie Nolan]

I don't know if this is culture wider for. It's. It's just my friend's Russian wedding that my friend went to, but apparently a Russian wedding was just meat, meat, meat. They just kept hitting him with a meat course. Vodka and meat.

[Brady]

I have no doubts about that.

[Katie Nolan]

Every time I talk, you guys get silent. What's. Am I pissing y'all off? Every time I've said something, you guys look at me like. And that's a thing you said.

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[Katie Nolan]

All right, this is the C block. I mean, I don't know, but this is the C block and we've decided this week we would make our guesses predictions about what we think is going to happen in the severance finale. So if you are not caught up on severance or if you're like me and one of those people that don't want to necessarily know everybody else's theory about what's going to happen in severance, now's the time the podcast is over. So email casualswithkatienolanmail.com voicemail 646-801-0043IG and TikTok It's CasualsThePodcast. I love you and I mean it. Don't leave if you want though. Cause this is I was so when I started rewatching I kept a specific card because I have this notebook obviously with everything that happened in the episodes, but I have a specific card that said predictions and I even had a format for it where I was going to say like stakes. Is it a low stakes prediction? Prediction a medium stakes or a high stakes? Like a low stakes prediction I have is that the timelines are going to merge like the we're going to run into. We're going to see that Cobell used to be in a much nicer office. Before first episode of the show they talk about Cobell moving to her new office. I forgot that that had happened and I feel like she is was probably higher up and is slowly being phased out by this company. I think we're going to see her in a big so you think time is.

[Brady]

You think time is a big reveal here?

[Katie Nolan]

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. But I think if we're following her timeline of when she grabbed the chip and the fact that she owns the I don't. I feel like we Might find out that she's slowly being another weird one. That's kind of a swing Rigabe. The woman who did the surgery on Mark and bailed. What? Yeah, and bailed. I think she was Milchick's position before at Lumen.

[Brady]

I could see that.

[Katie Nolan]

Interesting, because she tells Mark she put the chip in his head.

[Isabella]

Oh, she does?

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. And I feel like we see Helly get her chip and Milchick is there for it.

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

So I feel like.

[Isabella]

But Milchick didn't do it. Wasn't he just present?

[Katie Nolan]

So it's either she was the doctor who we don't really see. I don't think the doctor who actually puts it in her brain, or she was Milchick. So maybe you're right. It's probably she was the doctor, but I think she used to at least used to work at Loom Woman. Yeah, but that's probably. Everybody thinks that. Okay, Gemma's floor is creating marketing material. It may be doing other things, but Gemma going and having to do all those rooms. The dentist, the plane crash. They're filming those for promotion for when they try to go fully commercial with the chip. And they sell it as like, do you want to avoid all the shit in your life that you don't like doing? Severance. And they show her, I think is an. Is a guess that every time you say one of your severance theories to other people, you feel really naked. So why doesn't someone else.

[Brady]

Well, you say that out loud. And as someone who is in that for a living, like, I think of like creating marketing materials is the least interesting outcome possible. Supp.

[Katie Nolan]

No. It's dark, it's bleak. They're torturing a woman and then they're going to use her torture to basically show. To sell to us. The layman who's like, oh, fun. You can skip riding on a plane not knowing that that lady's been kept in ca.

[Brady]

We've been on a photo shoot with you for creating marketing materials. Like, how much different is this from this scenario you've laid out?

[Katie Nolan]

Basically the same. It was torture. Absolute torture. All photos.

[Isabella]

What do you guys think? Sorry. I was gonna say what do you guys think is Cold Harbor? What's in that room?

[Katie Nolan]

It's got to be baby related death. Some sort of. He's gonna have to. Someone's gonna have to die or lose.

[Isabella]

Because I do see what you're saying of like, it's definitely. They're definitely testing out things that people. Or at least I'm assuming that people tend to Be afraid of, but for what reason?

[Katie Nolan]

Right.

[Isabella]

That like, severance can, like, help you avoid these situations. But it's like Cold Harbor.

[Katie Nolan]

I think less about that because I'm like, we'll know. Yeah, we're going to know. I'm more like, what are they trying to do with this show?

[Brady]

See, I like.

[Katie Nolan]

I think. I think they are. No. What's a gold.

[Brady]

I was the opposite on Cold harbor. And that I think it never gets revealed. I think it ends up being like the. The. The briefcase in Pulp Fiction where you're like, I have never no idea what this is. And it makes it that much more ominous. And the real journey is the friends we make along the way. But it like, is that much terrifying that we don't know. And kind of it's the big corporate unknown. And the process is the issue, not the end goal. And I kind of don't want to be told what it is.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay.

[Brady]

Fair was almost like Lost told you too many things. And every time it told you something it made less interesting. Like, I think Cold Harbor. I don't need to know what it is. It can go ahead and sound like a polo shirt Kirk Cousins buys from Kohl's. Like, you can just. Just give it a vague name.

[Katie Nolan]

We would know because he's constantly being documented. I think there's gonna be an issue with timeline. I think when we meet Petey and he's reintegrating in season one, he talks about how it's really screwy that your brain timelines. It's your severed brain thinks it's alive as long as your regular brain. And so like he talks about how his first day at Lumen is what's the temporally in the same place as like his first day of fifth grade or first grade or something like that. And so I think with that in mind integrated Mark, if that's what we're gonna see. Cause last episode we really. I was left a little wanting of like, is he reintegrated? I thought we were reintegrating him. If he is reintegrated, I feel like he know he's known heli as almost as long. If not long, then he's known Gemma. Which could create some thing that would stress me out if he had to make a choice. And I know the right choice, but he doesn't. So that I think is something that.

[Brady]

Is that a harder choice than the one Gretchen has between the two Dylan's.

[Katie Nolan]

That is a more tragic choice. I don't know.

[Brady]

It's the same guy, but clearly one's Way better.

[Katie Nolan]

What's tragic to me is it's the same. Yeah. Yes. Well, he's not better. It's just what they would be without society and the experiences of their life on them. It's basically like a pure person, which is why I think the real point of severance is that it was created by this company who is a cult. They have, like, a religious cult, basically. That's what. What's. Her face came up through Cobell, and I think that she came up with this idea to end suffering, and they saw it as an expression, exploitable way to. You don't have to brainwash somebody. If you find a thing that switches their brain to blank, it's a lot easier. You can just control their blank brain. And so they're gonna try to get chips in everyone's brain. And then we know that they have the ability to just hit the button and activate them whenever they want. So I think they're just trying to make more people family. What's with the eggs? Why are we doing so much egg stuff? We think a baby. Do we think somebody's pregnant? Do we think, going by standard TV.

[Brady]

Tropes, two people had sex, one of them has to now be pregnant?

[Katie Nolan]

Well, a bunch of people had sex. Kind of same two people every time, but not the same two consciousnesses.

[Brady]

Consciousness.

[Katie Nolan]

Consciousness.

[Brady]

Tapas. Tapas.

[Katie Nolan]

Conscious scenes. I do think the most interesting thing I've learned about Severance is that it has functioned. That Lumen has functioned much like the Kansas Jayhawks in that they've been around since the 1800s and have had eight leaders in that time period.

[Brady]

Essentially. Paul Pierce is Bert.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. I think that's what we're going to find out in the finale. I don't want to give anything away, but I think we're going to see.

[Brady]

That the finale is going to have a hard time living up to Christopher walking saying the words lumen Goon. Like, lumen goon, I can't get enough of.

[Isabella]

It's. You know, I'm still confused what's happening. What happened in that last episode with what Christopher Walken was doing.

[Katie Nolan]

Me, too. I feel, though I have. I read that the finale. Everyone who's seen the finale is like, it's good. It could serve almost as a series finale if they wanted to. I've seen two people say that, which to me means things get enough. Things get wrapped up. Mm. And so either they're right, or I'm gonna have two new enemies after that episode airs. Because those two lied to me.

[Brady]

Someone gets murdered Right.

[Katie Nolan]

I don't know.

[Isabella]

Let's not.

[Katie Nolan]

Someone's probably gonna die. Someone's probably gotta die. I'm gonna say murder.

[Brady]

Everyone said, murder's on the table.

[Katie Nolan]

My boy's gonna get high enough that I think I feel confident about murder.

[Isabella]

Maybe Rickon. Maybe Rickon does.

[Katie Nolan]

I love Rickon. I'm in on Rick.

[Isabella]

Have you been seeing the anti Rickon?

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. That people think he works there. Look, I don't get too deep on the Reddit because I'm like, yeah, you can really prove anything. You guys didn't write the show. So I want to see what the writers of the show think.

[Isabella]

A lot of people think that Devin.

[Katie Nolan]

Is also, like, I know, secretly bad.

[Isabella]

And it's like, I would. That's so bad.

[Katie Nolan]

And maybe it's possible, right? I'm not gonna say and I'll eat crow, but, like, it's just funny when a woman makes a dumb decision, they're like, this doesn't vibe with her character. And it's like, yeah, a lot's kind of going on. Her brother as a who I was gonna say, not really thinking like, well, Cobell's probably bad. Mrs. Selvig is probably evil. She's like, what do I do? Yeah, I just walked in in my. Also just had a baby questions. Yeah, you're right. You're so right. Where is that baby?

[Brady]

I don't know, but no one's sleeping, so you're not making the best decisions.

[Katie Nolan]

I just hope they answer the fundamental question of the show, which is what truly defines the Bill self. All right, you guys, that's casuals. That's our podcast for the day, for the week. This is our second podcast of the week. Can you imagine? Can you believe we're working so hard? I already said this before. I'm not gonna say it again. That would be three times in a podcast. I tell you how to email us and call us, and we haven't done a voicemail or an email in a long time.

[Brady]

You could [e-mail] if you had to. Like, if you had to say, email us casuals with [e-mail].

[Katie Nolan]

You just did.

[Brady]

Again, I didn't even mention the casuals.

[Katie Nolan]

To podcast host sending us emails. Chris is overwhelmed by emails, and he's got the day off. He's drunk. He can't be reading emails today. Don't send. Actually, if you send an email today, start it with, hey, Chris, know you're drunk. And then ask whatever. Even unrelated to that. I think he would find that very funny or he'd be scared. And either way, funny to me.

[Isabella]

I like it.

[Katie Nolan]

Do it. We will see you guys on Tuesday and we'll talk about sports a little more. I got to come up with how to end this podcast because right now it's just like, that's it, guys. Love you. Mean it By.