Does Aaron Rodgers’ Wife Exist? Plus an NWSL Upset, DWTS BS, and the DTF Pats

Summary

Casuals with Katie Nolan — Episode Summary

Episode Title: Does Aaron Rodgers’ Wife Exist? Plus an NWSL Upset, DWTS BS, and the DTF Pats
Date: November 11, 2025
Host: Katie Nolan (w/ Isabella, Chris, and Brady)
Main Theme:
A lighthearted but incisive roundtable tackling the week’s biggest sports stories, with a focus on the NWSL playoff upset, NFL drama, sports fandom’s cost, and viral culture moments—plus a running, skeptical investigation into the existence of Aaron Rodgers’ alleged wife.

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1. Opening Yap: Sports, Capitalism & the Cost to Fans

Timestamp: 03:00–14:10

• Katie’s Rant: Frustration at modern sports and society being shaped mostly by “capital wars” between mega-rich entities, leaving fans holding the financial bag.

  • Streaming and cable disputes (YouTube TV vs. Disney/ESPN) block fans from games, while sports ticket prices and stadium seat licenses soar.
  • Personal examples (her partner Dan subscribing to $90/month YouTube TV, while they already pay for cable).
  • The new Buffalo Bills stadium: smaller, more expensive, funded by taxpayers but then pricing those same fans out.

  "It just feels like the loyalty and the dedication of sports fans... is being exploited for money in a way that's like really, really depressing to me." — Katie (10:28)

• Broader Frustration: Parallels drawn to government shutdowns and political dysfunction: ordinary people “go hungry” while leaders and mega-corporations dither.

• Notable Quote:

  “Is anyone ever just gonna go, sports fans, hey, we’re not going to take advantage of the fact that you’re loyal and dedicated...?” — Katie (09:05)

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2. NWSL Playoffs: Gotham's Upset of the Century

Timestamp: 14:43–24:45

• Quick Results Recap:

  • Portland Thorns over San Diego Wave (94th-minute goal)
  • Washington Spirit beat Racing Louisville on penalties
  • Orlando Pride beat Seattle Reign 2–0

• Main Focus – Gotham FC (8th seed) knocks off #1 Kansas City Current:

  • Historic upset: KC had 65 pts. (record), Gotham just 36.
  • Game drama: KC ties in stoppage (90+6’), but Gotham wins it in extra time (121’).

  “Gotham FC upset of the century— the eight seed pulling off an unbelievable upset defeating number one seed Kansas City Current two-one in extra time. A shocker of a game.” — Katie (18:39)

  • Atmosphere: Mahomes family in attendance, nerve-wracking finish.

• Player Shout-outs:

  • Emily Sonnett: “What a great game from her yesterday.” (24:23)
  • Midge Purce/the “credit” moment for the winning goal
  • Rose Lavelle

• Looking Ahead:

  • Semifinals: Washington Spirit vs. Portland Thorns (Brady’s team); Orlando Pride vs. Gotham FC
  • Katie: “All my gals, all my homies are Gotham FC fans.” (24:24)

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3. NFL Talk: Coaches Out, Kafkaesque Giants & Presidential Stadium Bids

Timestamp: 25:56–34:15

Giants Fire Brian Daboll; Kafka Steps Up

• Comedy at Kafka’s expense:

  “Kafkaesque… surreal and illogical, defined by bureaucratic absurdity. Does that sound like the Giants to you?” — Katie (28:24)

• Isabella’s confusion between “Daboll” and “Vrabel” leads to running bits about hot NFL coaches.

Trump at the Commanders’ Game—Stadium Naming Spectacle

• Trump’s push to have the new (hypothetical) $3.7B Commanders stadium bear his name (Donald Trump Stadium), and his awkward, tone-deaf flyover and booth appearance.
• Satirical riffs about “Trump at Buffalo Wild Wings Field.”
• Katie expresses exhaustion at the constant circus:

  “Culture is in the fucking toilet right now. I’m sorry.” — Katie (37:43)

Fox Booth Memes & Presidential Football Chat

• Kenny Albert, Jonathan Vilma, and Trump’s awkward stats bluff:

  “I never tell a lie, right on its own… You found a picture of me playing—proof I’ve never told a lie.” — Trump, played in clip (36:12)

• Vilma and Fox crew uncomfortably try to meme with Trump (“six, seven touchdowns,” etc.).

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4. The DTF Patriots, Broadcasting Mishaps, & Early NFL Surprises

Timestamp: 40:14–44:40

• Patriots Beat Bucs, Patriots now 1st in AFC East:

  • Tony Romo’s viral “This team is DTF, Jim!” calls get dissected.
    • Jim Nantz laughs along—are either in on the “down to fuck” meme?

    “This team is DTF, Jim.” — Tony Romo (42:02)
    “I think that Vrabel set them up... They walk directly into it.” — Katie (44:01)

• International Games:

  • Colts beat Falcons in Berlin (first regular season NFL game in German capital).
  • Daniel Jones gets bloody; notable for being possibly the most “face” of the season.

• Colts CEO Carly Irsay’s redemption arc:

  • Brady confesses he’s now a fan after seeing her “fit game” and buying drinks for fans in Berlin.

  “Now there’s... consistent, flawless blue and white fits. She has not interfered with team business. The team is kicking ass on the field.” — Brady (47:37)

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5. Culture & Viral Nonsense: Sydney Sweeney, Kim K, Joe Exotic, DWTS, AI Wives

Timestamp: 49:47–64:10

Sydney Sweeney’s Charity Boxing Claim

• Movie ‘Christie’ flops; Sweeney claims she’d do a charity boxing match.
  • Crew doesn’t buy it: “Calling bullshit.” (51:25)
• Start a segment: “Is this more bullshit than Sydney Sweeney’s boxing match?”

Bullshit-ometer:

• Kim Kardashian failing baby bar again — less bullshit than Sweeney fight

  “She’s way closer to becoming a lawyer than Sydney Sweeney is to getting punched…” — Brady (53:57)

• New GTA VI delays — “Don’t believe the date.”

  "If it is [out in November 2026], I'll fight Sydney Sweeney." — Katie (56:31)

• Joe Exotic says “Everyone in prison is listening to Hilary Duff’s single” — plausible, crew believes it.
• Hayley Kalil’s gossip about ex-husband's anatomy (the “two Coke cans” viral moment)—called out as the most BS.
• DWTS Andy Richter “Can’t Dance” controversy:
  • He’s getting voted through for being “adorably bad”; “integrity of competition” discourse; mostly played for laughs.

  “They’re needing to use like a smoke machine to hide Andy Richter’s feet because, like, that’s how badly he can’t dance.” — Katie (60:53)

The Aaron Rodgers’ “Wife” Conspiracy

• Main Segment Name-checked in Episode Title (65:00–67:30):
  • Rodgers says he has a wife (“Brittany” with no last name); teammates and other players’ wives say they’ve never met her.

  “Doesn’t it kind of feel… there’s no proof that she exists.” — Brady (65:49)

  • Growing suspicions she’s an AI bot; group jokes about setting intrepid reporter Pablo on the case.

Tom Brady Clones His Dog

• Brady (the football player) clones his late dog via blood sample, is “investor” in the company.
• Anger & ethical confusion ensue:

  “It still… it’s a still a new dog with a new personality… The dog's not going to, like, remember you.” — Katie (71:13)

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6. Wholesome Corner: Chris’s Daughter’s First Game

Timestamp: 74:06–79:41

• Field Report: NC State defeats Tennessee in women’s NCAA basketball.
• Chris interviews his young daughter after, sharing her honest delight (“I love being there… I love clapping… and I love the man talking on the microphone so it let me know to watch.” — Chris’s daughter, 78:01).
  • The gang fawns over the cuteness.

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7. What to Watch This Week (Sports Guide)

Timestamp: 80:23–82:21

• Beach Volleyball World Championships in Adelaide (USA v Australia men’s and women’s matches)
• Summer Deaflympics: Notably orienteering as a featured event. (Available on Deaflympics YouTube)
• CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes vs. Saskatchewan Roughriders (Nov 16, 6pm, TSN in Canada, CBS Sports Network in US, global free streaming on CFL+)

  “The two teams that I think I could have named—if you didn’t, I don’t know that I could have named a third.” — Katie (82:21)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Figure it out!” — Katie’s rallying cry across every structural mess in sports, government, and entertainment industries.
• “This team is DTF, Jim.” — Tony Romo (42:02)
• “Does Aaron Rodgers’ wife exist?” — Theme and running joke (65:00)
• “Can we move on to Tom Brady cloning his dog?” — Katie (67:33)
• “Men will literally play flag football in Saudi Arabia and clone their dog before going to therapy.” — Katie (71:41)

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Overall Tone and Spirit

• Irreverent, whip-smart, and exasperated—but always fan-first.
• Deep sports and culture knowledge filtered through accessible, empathetic conversation.
• The crew balances snark and earnestness: they care deeply, but won’t play along with performative sports/media/celebrity BS.
• Frequent digressions and lots of running inside jokes—if you're new, you'll still get the gist, and you’ll feel welcomed.

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For Listeners in a Hurry

• If you want catharsis about the state of sports and capitalism, start at 03:00.
• If you missed the NWSL shocker, jump to 14:45.
• If you’re in a chaos/viral meme mood, the NFL and pop star/dancing BS runs from ~25:56–64:10.
• For a feel-good minute: Chris’s daughter’s sporting review at 74:37.
• For sports viewing recommendations: 80:23–82:21.

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(End of summary)

Transcript

[A]

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[B]

I literally saw it and was like, I was like, put a note in this and send it to the casuals crew for Monday or whatever. Thank God you remembered it. Yeah, that was crazy.

[A]

I love that. The point of that story was that you didn't do that. You did not make a note of that. You did not send that to us.

[B]

Guys, I need to get better. There's so many times where I'm like, oh this would be good on the podcast. And then I'm like, remember it to.

[A]

Put it on the document instead of actually doing it you have to do what I do, which is just take a screen grab of all of those and then have a full 11,632 item photo library that you never check and never make sure Casual hello and welcome to Casuals, a sports podcast that tries to get you caught up on all of it while still remaining entertaining. Can we do it? We will see. I'm Katie Nolan, your host joined today because it is a Tuesday by my casualties, the production crew here at SiriusXM. We have Isabella, our sports newbie. That's right, that's her. And she will sound like that the whole show. We've got Chris, who handles our edit and also basketball. I don't know. That's right. That feels right.

[C]

Yeah, I like that. That's good.

[A]

Great. And then Brady's here.

[D]

I'm not in character. I don't have anything to scream.

[A]

Well, that's fine. We're going to get to all your sports news in a little bit and boy, is there so much. We've got coaches fired in the NFL. We've got Sydney Sweeney's new movie about boxing and how that goes. We've got a. We've just got a lot and we're going to get to it in just a second. First, I have to let you know that if at any point, because we aim to speak to a casual fan, we will not judge you. If you have any questions, I don't care how easy the question seems, you can ask it. The way to reach us casuals with Katie nolanmail.com our voicemail is 646-801-0043 and on IG&T tick tock, you can find us at Casuals, the podcast. Sometimes we start these pods with something called a yap, which is where they kind of just let me yap about something that's been bugging me. And today we're going to do that. It's not going to be a very long one, but I'm just feeling very frustrated. I don't know if this is. I imagine other people are feeling this way as well, but I'm just getting really exhausted with what feels like constantly waiting for rich people and entities to figure it out so that we can have something. It feels like life right now is just a lot of like, well, these two capitalistic entries need to decide who deserves to get more money out of the customer. These things that are supposed to be serving us are like figuring out how they can profit and waiting until they get the best deal for them before they're going to offer us what they're supposed to be providing us. I mean, let me just get a little specific. But it does feel like an overarching thing. Kind of touching everything right now in society. Obviously YouTube TV and ESPN, ABC, Disney of it all, are locked in a dispute. This one's very famous. Disney, of course, is keeping its programming off of YouTube TV until it gets what it wants from YouTube TV. YouTube TV is basically saying we don't want to raise our rates. The reason that they are the market leader of this type of streaming provider is because of how low their the cost is. I don't have it. Dan has it. I only recently found out it's like 90 bucks. And I was like, hey, Dan, we've got cable. So I don't think we needed to spend also 90 doll dollars a month on YouTube TV. But we have it, so that's good. I guess YouTube's argument is that they don't want to raise their prices because then they'll be just like cable and then they'll lose people anyway. I don't. Just figure it out, figure it out. Like Monday Night Football has been affected by this. Obviously that's an ESPN property we missed last week. By the time you're listening to this, it'll be Tuesday. I assume they won't have figured it out, but maybe they did. Maybe last night they had it all figured out. I know Bob Iger is going on Monday Night Football, the Manning cast. So I'm sure we'll glean some real information from that. I'm just fed up with like, between that and the government shut down, where you're just like, so, okay, we're in the longest the government's ever been shut down before. We're coming up on the holidays. People are not getting the benefits that they need to live to eat to survive. And then the president comes to a football game and everyone's like, oh, this is the first. Pretty amazing first time a sitting president has gone to a regular season football game since Jimmy Carter. Yeah. Can we talk about the fact that, like, what a weird time for that, isn't it? Shouldn't you be embarrassed? Your job is to be government and you're not being government right now. Why are you here? So it's just getting frustrating and I imagine other people are feeling this way. And I just wanted to let you know, like, it's. I feel like I'm losing my mind. Like I'm. I'm spending the weekends monitoring sports. Sports. Making sure I keep up on all the sports news. And I just feel like I keep getting knocked on my ass by these stories that are like, yeah, that's sports, but it's also just so depressing. Like I watched a YouTube video over the weekend about the Bills new stadium. You know, they're building a new stadium in Buffalo for the Bills. The Bills, a fan base that we constantly hold up in the media as like, these are what's being a sports fan's all about. They're out of their minds. They're loyal, they'll shovel out the stadium. So much so that they're building a new stadium in Buffalo with no roof. Because Buffalo Bills fans, it's a point of pride for them that when it snows they will show up early and by hand dig the stadium out of the snow. We do so many puff pieces on this fan base, this blue collar fan base and how they show up for their team, even though their team keeps pissing them off, keeps historically disappointing them. And then I watched this YouTube video on this new stadium they're building. A, they're making it smaller so it's going to fit less fans. B, they're doing PSLs, the seat licenses. So in order to get the right to pay them for season tickets, you have to pay what boils down to essentially an initiation fee of like thousands of dollars to acquire a seat license that allows you to then pay them. It gets you nothing except the right to pay for a seat, which is a mess, especially considering that the stadium itself is being partially funded by your own money. It's taxpayer dollars. So it's. I just watched this video on the Bills new stadium and like that combined with the YouTube TV of it all, it just made me feel like, hello, is anyone ever just gonna go, sports fans, hey, we're not going to take advantage of the fact that you're loyal and dedicated to this thing. And we know that it just feels like the loyalty and the dedication of sports fans. One of my favorite things about sports fans as people like one of the defining characteristics of a sports fan is that no matter what, you still show up. You keep doing it. Remember that jets fan who was like, I hate this team, I hate this team. Why do I root for this team? But I'm gonna keep doing it because I'm a Jets fan till I die. It's like that's being exploited for money in a way that's like really, really depressing to me. I just wish one person, anybody would stand up and go like, hey, maybe we don't just cuz we can, maybe we don't bleed these people dry. Price out a city like Buffalo who economically. No, I'm not keeping my finger on the pulse, but I don't think they're crushing it. I don't think Buffalo's having a fantastic economic boom. And to watch how many of their fans are being completely priced out of being able to go to this stadium. And then hearing that they raised prices on tickets to this season because it was the last season in the old stadium. And it's just like, does there ever come a point where, yeah, you could charge more, but please don't. The making a smaller stadium bums me out because it's like, that's a trend in stadiums. And it feels like between that and the cosm. Have we talked about cosm here or has it just been on the radio? The. They're these, like, standalone restaurants, but they're with a giant screen, so almost like a mini version of the Vegas sphere that are in places like. I know there's one in la. I think there's one somewhere in Texas. They're like, you can go to a game, quote, unquote, but it's virtual reality. It's a cool thing. But when I pair it with the idea that they're making stadiums smaller and pricing out real fans, and that fans would then go, well, I can go see it at a cosm, which isn't the real thing, and have to settle for that instead of actually being able to go to a game. This is all just really depressing to me. And. And the. I just wish that everything wasn't coming down to two rich people trying to figure out how to get the most money out of the people who just want the thing. Because I'm also looking on the horizon of Major League Baseball. I don't know if you guys saw that story this weekend that reportedly. Or allegedly an associate. Let me start the story at the beginning. Remember when Rob Manfred, the commissioner of Major League Baseball, visited the Phillies as part of an annual visit? And Bryce Harper, star of the Phillies, reportedly told Manfred to, quote, get the. Out our clubhouse when Manfred mentioned the idea of a salary cap because we have a potential labor dispute coming up in a year when the CBA runs out in the. In Major League Baseball. A new report from sports agent Alan Walsh claims that later a deputy of Manfred of Manfred's allegedly threatened Harper, saying, don't ever say that again to the commissioner. Don't ever disrespect him again publicly like that. That's how people end up in a ditch. And I'm Just tired, I guess, is the point of this yap. I'm just tired. I'm tired as a sports fan of being bled dry, of having to brace myself for the fact that we're not going to be able to get the thing that we want, which is to see baseball happen, because the billionaire owners don't want the baseball players to make more money. And the baseball players are like, if you can cap my salary, when can we cap yours? Like, I'm just sick of how often the money of it all is coming up. And I'm sick of how often these people whose job it is to provide something for us, whether it's sports, access to the sports we want to watch, or government, are just like, able to go like, well, we can't come to an agreement. Figure it out, figure it out. Or you don't get to have any dinner. I don't know. Use the tactics my mom used to use, like, figure it out or no, no recess. You don't get to come to an NFL game until you figure it out. People are hungry. People are working and not being paid. People need to fly to their jobs. And we can't figure out if the airports are going to work because the people who work at the airports aren't being paid for their high stress job where all of our lives are on the line. Can somebody just fucking figure it out? Can an adult come in and just go like, okay, everyone, here's how it's going to go. I'm just getting so frustrated. I just feel like there's no answers to anything. And then just one last quick fuck you before we take a quick break and come back with the news. This is a couple weeks old now, but it ties into this. The CEO of Live Nation. His name is Michael Rapinoe. You may recognize his name. It's mentioned in a Drake song. I was like, I recognize that name. And I was like, oh, it's from a Drake song. This is a quote he said, that puts a nice button on all this. Music has been underappreciated, Rapinoe said, especially compared to sports. Quote in sports, I joke, it's like a badge of honor to spend 70 grand for a Knicks courtside seat. They beat me up if we charge 800 for Beyonce. He added, we have a lot of Runway left. So when you read about ticket prices going up, the average concert price is still $72. Try going to a Laker game for that. And there's 80 of them. The concert's underpriced and has been for a long time. Please do not use sports fans willingness to pay your ridiculous ticket prices as some sort of proof that music tickets aren't expensive enough. People deserve access to this stuff. It's for the people who the are you respectfully, $72 is a lot of money to go see somebody play music that you could hit, play on something and listen to in your house like this is. Everything is so expensive in a nightmare and a mess. And I just wanted to say all of this so that we could do a podcast without it looming over everything like a big gray cloud. Did it make a lot of sense and make a cohesive point? Probably not, but it's everything I was feeling. So we're going to take a and when we come back, because that's really the beauty of the app. When we come back we'll be a lot more focused. We have a lot more things to talk about. Mainly big upset in the nwsl. We're gonna take a quick break and we'll be right back.

[B]

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[A]

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[B]

Damn.

[A]

But Gotham FC upset of the century. The eight seed pulling off an unbelievable upset defeating number one seed Kansas City current two one in extra time. A shocker of a game. Kansas City, you'll remember, had a record setting season. They were the top seed in the playoffs. They finished first in the regular season standings. They clinched that first place way earlier than anyone ever had in NWSL history. They also had A league record 65 points compared to Gotham finishing in 8th place. 36 points. That's like I know it's not double but in dumb brain it's double. That's like almost double the three times two would make a six. So that's like double. Absolutely insane. I watched this game. This was. I was so I found out I have YouTube TV. So I was watching this game was on. What was this? It was during other stuff. So it must have been what day was this? Saturday or Sunday?

[D]

Was this yesterday? But not with enough confidence.

[A]

I know but I think it was Sunday. This game was on Sunday. A lot was going on. In an ideal world I would have been able to have the Pats and the and Gotham in a split screen. Of course there's dispute. Finally the NWSL gets on a network that you can watch it and it's actually a bad thing because that network is in a dispute with YouTube. It's just so ironic as a person who's like had to find oxygen in order to watch and not the air. I mean like the channel so that I could watch nwsl. It's finally on. I think it was on ABC and I'm like and I can't split screen it. I have to switch back and forth between the input on my TV to watch the Patriots and to watch. So anyway I was trying. I'm switching back and forth I. I saw. I saw Gotham score their goal and I'm like, damn. The crowd was nuts. Kansas City was tense. The game was in Kansas City, obviously they were the one seed by a million. Present at the game because the Chiefs are on a buy. We had Brittany Mahomes and Patrick Mahomes with their kids. At least one kid. How many kids do they have?

[D]

I think they have three because they're named after different medals.

[A]

I would imagine they're all. They were all there, wait, like gold and platinum and I vaguely remember this. Look it up.

[D]

Sterling bronze and golden.

[A]

That's. I guess I appreciate a theme. I would hate to be bronze. I. So they're at. They're in Kansas City. They keep cutting away to them in the. In their. In their box. And everybody's getting stressed out because it's one nil and it's looking like the time is going to wind down and they're going to lose. So they add on like eight minutes of stoppage time. And at the beginning of that, Gotham's goalie is like, something's wrong with her legs. She's on the ground, like, nursing her. So they're like, it's eight minutes, but it might end up being like nine minutes. We're getting to the end of the stoppage time and they score in the 90. Was it like sixth? It was like 90 plus six. Kansas City scores. I had just switched back from the pats and I just see the ball, like squirt into the net. Like it barely. After all the amazing saves that had been made by Gotham. It was just such a. I was like, wait, that's a goal. And the tone shifted completely because when it's an away game and you've had the lead, now it's a tie game, you feel completely disadvantaged. It's like a brand new game. At the end of the game, I was like, well, now Kansas City's gonna win. And that whole thing was for nothing. This big storyline I was building is all for nothing. After an incredible defensive game by Emily Sonnett. Shout out. She also had. I think that was her first playoff assist. Shout out. Emily Sonnett. We love her. One of our favorite players in the league. And I was like, it's all gonna be for nothing. They go to extra time. They go to what's. It's extra time, right? I always get the little times in soccer mixed up because you've got your stoppage time and then your extra time and then you're. So they go to these 15 minutes. It's two 15 minute periods, no matter what they play. All fifth, all 15 minutes. Both 15 minutes, which I don't like. I really love a sudden death.

[C]

You have to go to goal.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And that really takes away from it. It's like if you score at the beginning of the first 15 minute overtime period, you have to like still play out that one and the little halftime and then the second 15 and you're like, okay. And it still was just the one goal. And it was so many min. But whatever. It's the way they have it. And it's. It is what it is. They then won in extra time again, almost at the end of it. It was the 121st minute. They're about to go to penalty kicks. I'm sweating. I'm like, I really don't. It can't come down to pks. I know PKS are great and exciting, but once I'm invested, I don't want it to come down to that. Because now it's like, what a terrible way to lose if it were to go that way. And luckily I was saved. They didn't have to. They won two one. Very exciting. We're all in on Gotham, right, everybody?

[D]

Hell, yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Except you, Brady. You're rooting for the Thorns. You're not allowed to.

[D]

I don't know anyone on the Thorns. I just like the S on the end of our. On the end of their name.

[A]

Well, you don't have to be so transparent. I think we already knew that. But I don't think you can just abandon them.

[D]

Unless, if we come to a Portland Gotham showdown, I'm going to be.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Well, now you're making me rethink my life.

[A]

I know. Which actually I kind of like. It's good content, so we'll see. So anyway, shout out to Gotham FC for pulling off the upset of the year. All my gals, all my homies are Gotham FC fans. Midge Purse on Gotham fc.

[D]

Shut up.

[A]

Originally credited with scoring the winning goal. They were like, midge Purse. And I was like, she did. No, she didn't. But I for a second believed that she did. And I was like, that's my girl. And that's still my girl. Rose Lavelle, also on Gotham fc. And like I said, Emily Sonnet. What a great game from her yesterday. So off to a rollicking start. Your semifinal matchups for the NWSL are Washington Spirit versus Brady's Portland Thorns, who he said he loves more than anything and will never betray.

[D]

I will. I will root for them over my local squad. The S does trump the locality of the Washington spirit.

[A]

It's funny. It's he doesn't care if you start with an S. It's about ending with one. It's about how you finish. That's Saturday at noon Eastern, and then Orlando Pride versus Gotham FC on Sunday at at 3pm Eastern. So be sure to tune in. Things are heating up. Let's see if Gotham can continue this incredible run and they can just continue to upset everybody. Because isn't that what you want as a sports fan? Don't you want upsets? Isn't that what you're rooting for if you're new neutral? I think so. But we'll see what happens in the future. I was just excited. I could watch it. Annoyed. I had to keep hitting the input button on my TV to switch between my split screen of the Patriots and Red Zone. But let's talk about the Patriots and Red zone. Transition to NFL stories. Transition. Transition.

[C]

Who's the scream?

[A]

Isabella Transition.

[C]

That's Bella.

[A]

That's really good.

[B]

Thank you. That's really good. I discovered my career pivot.

[A]

I think so, too. As I'm out of here, the breakingest news story here that I've just tacked on to the top of our NFL news section of this week's podcast. Because as you know, we record this on Monday and as you know, this drops on Tuesday mornings. We've just found out here in the past that the Giants have fired their head coach, Brian Dabal. The offensive coordinator, Mike Kafka, will serve as interim head coach, which is very funny to me. This is obviously coming after the Giants lost to the Bears. It's their 11th straight road loss. Their record is now 2 and 8. People have been calling into the radio show fan Service noon to 1 Eastern on Mad Dog Sports Radio on SiriusXM. They've been calling in for weeks saying we need to fire the head coach. We need to fire Brian Dabel. We need to get rid of him. He sucks. He stinks. I don't like to say coaches need to be fired because famously I've got one head coach, sort of acquaintance, friend. It's funny, I'm too. I'm not close enough to him to call him my friend, but I also feel uncomfortable on camera not acknowledging that I know him personally. It's a very strange world to live in. But I live here. By the way, the Dolphins won. They beat the Bills this week. Absolutely incredible. That's my friend Mike McDaniel who coaches. Not friend, guy. I know Mike McDaniel who coaches that Team complicated. I don't. I famously don't like saying coaches should be fired. But. But of all the. If we were just doing. Based off of market research, of people who have called in and yelled about wanting to fire their coach, he was top of the list. I'll tell you. Tomlin from the Steelers is moving up. He's the longest tenured coach. He's never had a losing season. People want him gone. Brady, I don't know. I don't know. People want him gone. They want more.

[D]

Hell, do they think they're going to find a better coach than Mike Tomlinson?

[A]

They think that you can find a young up. And these are all the questions I've asked. And I'm not endorsing what they're saying or agreeing with them, but I. It's just as now that Day Ball's gone, people are like, great, let's move on to Tomlin. I know. Don't know. My point is the Giants obviously had to name an interim head coach. They named Mike Kafka. Kafka, who is their offensive coordinator. Very funny. Because if you look up Kafkaesque, it's not the.

[B]

It's not the writer.

[A]

Guys.

[B]

I just want to make sure.

[A]

Right. Franz Kafka. If you look up Kafkaesque. What?

[B]

And also day ball is. Don't get confused with Ray Ball, because I got confused. So just let you know. Those are two different.

[A]

Isabella pointed this out today, and I said, I never would have thought of that. But I'm genuinely like, thank you for. She's like, I never know who you're talking. Vrabel and Dable sound a lot alike. And I was like, I never even would have. And she's right. Vrabel is the hot coach.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

He's the cutie who coaches my pates.

[C]

First place pates.

[A]

That's right. First place pates by quite a bit now, thanks to that. Thanks to my best friend Mike McDaniel, who I'm naming my firstborn after. I'm not having kids. I'm just. It's a bit. The bit I wanted to do is that if you look up Kafkaesque, a word people use to say that it's like the literature of Franz Kafka. This is what it is described. Surreal and illogical. It's defined by bureaucratic absurdity. Does that sound like the Giants to you? A feeling of powerlessness and a sense of dread and hopelessness.

[D]

I think all these things are. Russell Wilson behind center.

[A]

I think Kafka is the perfect interim head coach for the Giants. And I believe that team is already Kafkaesque. So I look forward to seeing how that goes. In other news, we kind of touched on this in the yap, but not in any sort of cohesive way. President Donald Trump swung by the Commander's game. They played the Lions. Got smoked. Stopped by the stadium. First sitting president to do that since. I believe it was Jimmy Carter. I'm just quoting based off. So go look it up if it matters so much to you. I don't know why he was there. Flew Air Force One over the stadium in a way that concerned me. I just was like I don't. That doesn't feel safe. I don't know what's up there. But fine.

[D]

Flyover used to be for like fighter jets and bombers.

[A]

Right? Cool planes. This is just a plane with a guy on it. Okay. It's a little close but it's like so is the. It felt like I was at LaGuardia. It just felt like a plane was landing. Okay. It's not cool. Cool looking but anyway. Donald Trump, the story before he showed up at the game was that he wants the Washington commanders to name their planned $3.7 billion new stadium after him. Multiple sources said this to ESPN. A senior White horse. White horse. That's the bar used to work at. I wish. At least they show up to work and get stuff done. Actually it's been closed. So. Actually a senior White House source says that there have been back channel communications with a member of the commander's ownership team group led by Josh Harris to express Trump's desire to have domed have the domed stadium in the nation's capital bear his name. Caroline Levitt, the White House press succubus said that would be a beautiful name as it was President Trump who made the rebuilding of the new stadium possible. The land was owned by the government. Brady, what's the remind us of that story as quickly as possible because we're.

[D]

Trying to make sure the government managed by the Park Service. It was just. It's been like 10 years of bureaucracy that I don't know what he could have possibly claimed to.

[A]

And then over the summer he said they better change their name back or we're not going to let them use that land or something. It's okay. Caroline refused to answer additional questions. Senior Whitehorse source told ESPN it's what the president wants and it will probably happen. Do you what's the likelihood of that? We're going to call it Donald Trump. Donald Trump Stadium.

[D]

So hypothetically it's Supposed to open after. He's hypothetically supposed to not hypothetically be president.

[A]

Hypothetically.

[D]

So, I mean, do you just, like, give him the unplugged Nintendo controller and say, sure, we'll name this after you? I don't know.

[A]

Because throughout every chapter of this, it feels like only his people get to lie and everyone else has to tell the truth. And so it feels like, I would love to lie and go like, yeah, we're totally gonna name it after you, just to appease him and then pull the rug out from under him. But nobody seems willing to do that. So.

[B]

Also.

[D]

But this is also not going to come at the expense of a corporate sponsor, because that is hundreds of millions of dollars.

[A]

Right. Why would we be naming anything after you when it could be a money. How come we're always going, of course the team. I bet people are reacting to that yap of like, of course they have to put finances first. They're a business. Of course teams care about making money. That's the most important part. Everyone's always willing to sit in the front office when it comes to those arguments, but no one ever goes like, this would be a terrible financial. Why can't the team want to sell the naming rights to their stadium like any other team does? Even ones with, like, legit storied names. Like, what is the actual name, Brady, of your baseball team's field?

[D]

Oriole park at Camden Yards?

[A]

Oh, I guess that's one of the only one that doesn't have a huge.

[D]

But I mean, the University of Maryland had, you know, Maryland Stadium, it used to be Bird Stadium, but yada, yada, racist history. Maryland Stadium at corporate sponsor FIFA Old.

[A]

Mile High, I think is like at Invesco. Invesco.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Everybody sells that. It's. It's such a huge opportunity for money. Why would you just give it.

[D]

Well, no, because now you're going to end up with the so and so fluffy name at corporate sponsor field. And this is going to. We. We're looking at the most ridiculous possible convention of like, Trump Stadium at Buffalo Wild Wings Field or something.

[A]

You're selling me on the idea.

[D]

It's entirely possible.

[A]

Possible. You're selling me on the idea because.

[D]

That would be Trump Field at Buffalo Wild Stadium. Yeah.

[A]

TRUMP at McDonald's Drive Thru Stadium.

[D]

And he's going to think it's brilliant and we're all going to laugh at it.

[A]

We live in and no, the hellscape we live in is. It feels like when he d words, they're gonna go like, oh, remember his Ding wish was to be on, have his name on, and then someone's gonna go, it's the right thing to do. And then we're all gonna go, oh, hello. No, it isn't. It.

[D]

I'll be too drunk to care.

[A]

I'm gonna start smoking cigarettes again soon. I. It's just. Anyway, he joined the booth on Sunday. Trump did. He joined the booth. He, he, he hopped on in to the Fox booth. Do you think Fox knew that was gonna happen? Because I don't know that that's the team they would have had there if they knew.

[D]

You don't think that Kenny Albert and Jonathan Vilma.

[A]

Not that there's anything wrong with Kenny Allen, two lovely gentlemen and John, but.

[D]

They'Re not Tom Brady.

[A]

Not that I didn't lose. Am I allowed to say, Is it too mean to say that I lost a little bit of respect for them the way they did this? I don't know, it's. Look, you guys, it's a weird time to have to talk on camera and into a microphone about something divisive, something that seems obviously wrong, that a loud contingent of bots and. Or people seem to actually think is great. It's a weird time. So I'm not saying anybody had to take a stand against the president during the middle of a football game on fire talks, but what I am saying is it just was a little bit, it was a little too, you know, it was a little too saccharine for me. It was a little. There wasn't any. The government coming back anytime soon. People gonna get their food, benefits, any sort of. I think Trump thought they were the commander's broadcasters. The way he was talking to Jonathan Vilma and Kenny Albert was as if they work for Washington. Like, you guys have a great backup quarterback situation. I was like the Fox.

[E]

What do you mean?

[D]

Kenny kept trying to say, yes, they do.

[A]

But yeah, he kept trying to go like. And that's not us. But I guess in Trump's mind, he.

[C]

And he kept bringing up Fox. You with us on Fox. On Fox, right.

[A]

And he's like, I'm in commander house. Must be commander people. That's how I'm imagining the thought process of, of our commander in chief. But anyway, Jonathan Vilma embarrassed. Can we just play the first attempt, please?

[D]

We were trying to look up your stats and we wanted to know how.

[A]

Many touchdowns did you have back then?

[D]

Six, seven? I'm not sure I had any. It's a long time ago.

[E]

But.

[D]

At least you realize that I never tell a lie, right on its Own. On its own. You might have been able to say that Vilma just coincidentally said six or seven in a vacuum.

[B]

Katie, that's really impressive.

[D]

Catatonic in anger.

[A]

I forgot how that clip ended. I forgot. He says that like, yeah, proof. You found a picture of me playing Proof. I've never told a lie. Yeah, on its own. But then Jonathan, Vilma followed up with.

[D]

I would have liked him as a quarterback. You definitely would have had like six, seven touchdowns there. He puts it in your hands, right?

[C]

What?

[A]

Can you stop? Like, what? This. This is so embarrassing. Jonathan's like, please, please acknowledge my meme. Please, please. I said the meme thing. Kids, hello. Love me. I do not like watching people debase themselves. It makes me very uncomfortable.

[C]

This entire interview really, really tried to wedge it in there. Especially in the first instance. Trump had already started talking and he's like, no, wait, wait, I gotta get in.

[A]

How many touchdowns would you say he had? Probably six, six, seven.

[C]

We have fun.

[A]

Culture is in the fucking toilet right now. I'm sorry, I. I believe I. They asked Trump where. How he feels about where we're at as a nation. Can we play that clip?

[D]

I think about how football is similar.

[A]

In some respects to Congress back war, etc. And you kind of take some of the same strategies. We'd love to hear your thoughts about.

[D]

Where we are as a nation, how we're doing well, we're doing great and recruitment is doing phenomenally. People have spirit. Our stock market hit an all time high.

[A]

What are you talking about? What are you talking about? What does he know about the military? What are you talking about?

[D]

Don't compare sports to combat.

[A]

Football has a lot in common with combat. How are we doing as a country? Recruitment is up. What are you talking about? I have ruined the rundown. It is crumpled. I need to probably move on from this story. Let me smooth this out really quickly and see what it says here. The. Oh, also I. We should mention St. Brown on the Lions did the. Trump pointed up to the booth, point up to the box where Trump was and did the Trump dance. And then somebody on your team too, Brady. I just didn't write it down.

[D]

They're not mine.

[A]

Also did the Trump dance. So I guess it's just me. I just. I'm the one that is going like, are we. Is everybody for real right now? Because Teehee, he danced funny. When I saw him point up to the box at first I was like, here we go. And then not what I thought, thought was. I really thought we were gonna get you Know something we could walk away from and go like, hell yeah.

[D]

What is the appropriate move?

[A]

I double birds. I don't know. I don't think that probably go over well, but at least you said something.

[D]

You know, you point and then just turn your back.

[A]

I guess I just.

[D]

I don't know because, like, what's the. Not, you know, too vulgar. What is the. I'm making a statement. I understand the struggle of everyday people of all colors and skin in this country.

[A]

Like, yeah, I don't think there's really much of anything. I mean, you could point to him. Take a knee. I think you'd know exactly what you meant. You could point to him and that's a good one. Money. You could just do like, give me money. Can we have.

[D]

Yes. Johnny Manziel.

[A]

Yeah, true. I don't know. I'm not even saying I know what he should have done. I just know that I was like, this has given me a nasty taste in my mouth. Just feels heartless. But let me move on to the Patriots.

[D]

Much better.

[A]

You're in a good mood again.

[D]

You're in a good mood.

[A]

Would never have a friendship with Donald Trump.

[D]

They would never even said Tom Brady. Great guy.

[C]

No.

[A]

What do you mean? First place pates at it again, beating the Bucks. This was a good game. This. Coming into this, people were like, this is MVP Chance Baker Mayfield was getting just a couple weeks ago. Obviously not coming off their greatest. I think they're coming off a buy. But before that, not his best performances. But coming into this game was like, okay, so real test for the pace because Isabella, you know, they've just been win, win, win, winning under hot coach. Which one?

[B]

Mike Fable.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Good job.

[A]

Yes. God, I'm so proud. The Patriots now have a two game lead in the AFC east over the Buffalo Bills, who lost to, like I said, my best friend. I'd call him like a brother. Mike McDaniel and his Miami Dolphins. No business winning that game. Did you see that he drove by the bar that the Bills fans were at Isabella after the game and rolled his window down and they say he was like trolling them.

[B]

That's funny.

[A]

Pretty funny. He also just like lives. I think he lives over there. I don't want to dox the guy, but it's in the neighborhood, so he probably was just trying to get home. But the rolling down in the window I think was probably like, how's everybody doing? More embarrassing stuff. But at least this is funny to laugh at in the booth of this game again, watching it live. Stop me Dead. My channel tracks. I was like is. Whereas Jonathan Vilma, 6, 7. I believe he was trying to make it seem like he didn't even know he was saying the meme, but it was so obvious to anyone that he was desperately trying to say the meme. In this case, I truly don't think but want to know your guys thoughts. I don't think Tony Romo knows what he's saying.

[E]

This team is dtf, Jim.

[D]

Patriots details toughness and they finish.

[A]

The bet. Okay. The best part is Jim Nance then responds to him and says like, ha ha. So he's laughing so you're like, wait, no way. Jim Nance knows that DTF is down to fuck. By the way, this comes from Jersey Shore, correct?

[B]

Yeah, that's how I know it.

[A]

There's no. I'm like, is Jim Nance about to go like well that's not what it means to a lot of people.

[D]

But instead he goes, that's right Tony. This Patriots team is down to fuck.

[A]

No. But instead he laughs and he goes, well Tony, I think when Vrabe Vrabel says the same thing, but the T means toughness or it was whatever the T. He says a word that isn't what Tony said and I go, are you both arguing about. Do you both not see? Is this actually coming from Vrabel? Is this something they got in the pregame meetings where Vrabel was like, yeah, it would just say we're dtf. And then he probably snickered to himself going these two are going to go on the air and say this and have no awareness that this means something else. Is this in like a. A elite level troll by my super hot coach or is this just one of those mistake what Brady you think in the.

[D]

So you think in like the pre show meeting, the Friday meeting with the broadcast crew that Brady to go to.

[A]

The ones where the broadcasters sit down with the coaches and they talk about what's going on in the game or.

[D]

Whatever, but Tony Romo is allowed to go to. And Tony Romo sat down and VRA was like, I'll tell you what our secret is, Tony. This team is dtf. Yeah, dtf.

[A]

And then he details or whatever the hell Tony said. And then I think Nance was correcting them and going like well that's what Vrabel said and he was toughness. I think that's my theory, my conspiracy theory, my like able to be thought about without contemplating the state of the world and how everything's broken. Conspiracy theory, a nice low stakes one on A Monday. I think that Vrabel set them up. Dt. Either way, that would be.

[C]

That would be funny.

[A]

Like expert level. They walk directly into it. The pause after he goes. This team is DTF just for anyone at home to go. So is. Did he say what I thought he said? Crazy. But the Patriots, first place, seventh game in a row. Let's go Pates. The Colts beat the Falcons in Berlin. I don't know if you woke up and watched this. Jonathan Taylor, incredible season he's having.

[D]

Woke up and watch this. It was on at 9:30. Yes.

[A]

Know I didn't. I didn't wake up. That is absolutely my point. 9:30 on a Saturday, please. I'm waking up at 8 every day of the week on a Saturday. You're not going to see me till 11 at best. Oh yeah. A Sunday. Either way. Both either way. Saturday, Sunday, even worse.

[B]

Wake up at school.

[A]

Thank you. Thank you, Isabella. Finally, someone who understands, loves and embraces me. She elbs me.

[D]

Set my alarm for 11. I got a big Sunday coming up.

[A]

You think I don't have to set an alarm? Because I'll tell you when I. I don't. I wake up at 1pm and go, what happened? And Myrtle's looking at me going, can I pee? It's crazy.

[C]

I'm hungry. Swear to God. I once slept in for a shift at a hotel I was working for. That started at 3 o' clock because I didn't set my alarm. This is 3:00pm Yep, 3:00pm slept in. Manager wasn't even mad. They were just impressed that someone slept in for the first time ever for a 3pm kind of amazing.

[A]

Look.

[C]

Wasn't even drunk, wasn't hungover.

[A]

If something isn't rousing me, I'm out till the world ends. I need to be awoken by something. I've never gone like, good morning. Tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet. I checked my clock and been like, oh, nine. Perfect. It's never happened. I always wake up and go like I've overslept something. Because I have. I just am comatose. It's lovely.

[D]

You only wake up like you're being unplugged from the Matrix.

[A]

Yes, my favorite day time of day is being unconscious to the horrors of the world. Anyway, this was the first regular season NFL game in the German capital, which is Berlin. If you guys ever need a capital of a country, just ask me. I probably know it during the game tying drive deep in the fourth quarter, Daniel Jones, quarterback of the year guys had a 19 yard scramble which concluded in him getting knocked out of bounds, falling on his face and busting his lip open. Which then led to us getting a wonderful photo of Daniel Jones close to up with his. If you've ever seen his eyeballs, they're really something to see. They are very open in a way that is a little, some would say, off putting.

[B]

I don't think I've ever seen him.

[A]

He's just really. It's like me when I'm focused and not thinking about being perceived. Sort of like staring off into middle distance and searching the crevices of my brain for a thought. But when I watch it back in a clip, I go like, Jesus, she's not there. She's not present. That's what his eyes are always like. And then his mouth was covered in blood. Fascinating. Just a fascinating look at. At a quarterback having a like the season of his life.

[D]

Can I confess on the Colts?

[A]

Yeah, please.

[D]

I've completely come around on Carly Irsay.

[A]

Let's go, Isabella. Big win for us. Come on, gals.

[B]

Say that you like her.

[A]

I've come around.

[D]

When we first saw that she was on the sideline as the CEO wearing a headset, I was like, you're micromanager. Get off the sideline and let people work. Now it's like we're half a season in. She's in just consistent, flawless blue and white fits. And now there's.

[A]

Don't you. I was just gonna say you left out the part where you said the only reason you like her is because she gets fits off on the sideline, which is crazy. And then now you're going to like, gotta admit, she's getting fits off on the sideline.

[D]

That was point one.

[A]

Both my guns. Both my guns are out and pointed at you. Isabella's guns are out too.

[D]

Flawless blue and white Colts fits. She has not interfered with team business. The team is kicking ass on the field. And then we get this story that she rolled up to a Colts bar in Berlin, which I guess was a temporary Colts bar. I don't know if they had permanent.

[A]

Colts bars to be a pop up.

[D]

And just bought rounds on the house for the fans in attendance.

[A]

Sick.

[D]

Sick woman of the people. You know what I'm in on, Carly.

[A]

I'm sorry, Brady. Maybe we'll make you write an apology to formally deliver next episode to her. Carly Ursay Gordon.

[D]

Wait, this didn't count.

[A]

No, I want more officially with bigger words and just kind of more groveling. I didn't. I don't feel I got enough groveling. I didn't feel how sorry you are.

[B]

You need to repent for your sins.

[A]

Yeah, I just like, we gotta do three Hail Marys and. And we'll see. Not the passes, the prayers. So shout out to the Colts getting that win over in Germany. Sydney Sweeney. We talked about this last week. Sydney Sweeney was promoting her movie. I was wondering how she was going to do the promo for it, because she had now pivoted to sort of this like, I'm a sentient pair of breasts. And I was wondering how they were going to market a movie with a queer star about a complicated queer story involving really complex themes like domestic violence and et cetera, et cetera, etc. And then she showed up to a game looking like Marilyn Monroe. Sydney Sweeney's new biopic, Christie absolutely bombed at the box office this weekend, opening to only $1.3 million domestically. This is one of the top 10 worst opening weekends ever for a film in over 2,000 theaters. The film had a woeful $646 per theater. After that is.

[D]

That's like 50 people.

[A]

That's like hurtful. I know. It's like knowing how much it costs to go see a movie, that doesn't seem like a lot of people went and saw this movie. Now, let's be fair. I guess movie seeing in general is down. I don't know, Chris, how much you keep. I know you're a big movie guy. I don't know if you're keeping your finger on the pulse of the business in that way.

[C]

Not recently. I think since.

[D]

Since.

[C]

Since COVID Things has just dropped pretty dramatically. And I haven't really kept my eye on the. The box office results for a lot of new films as much as I used to.

[A]

Yeah, I know. Like, smart movie people always are discussing, like, they got to get out to the theaters. Like I remember with Sinners, everybody's like, you have to go see it. So they know that films like this do well when they're in the theaters. Blah, blah, blah, blah. So clearly theaters aren't like. It's not like everybody else is going to see every other movie all the time.

[B]

Time.

[A]

We'll give her that. She's done a lot during this press run for this movie. Obviously there was the big gq. We're not gonna. Don't have time to get into that. But I'm sure you've seen the discourse around that online. But she also. I saw last people talking about this. She teased, competing in A potential charity boxing match. Saying in the middle of filming, I was like, I love this. Sorry, let me do it in character. In the middle of filming, I was like, I love this. This isn't as hypothetical as you think it is. I'd totally do a charity bout. That'd be so sick. You'll have to wait. I'm serious. Stay tuned and you'll see it. I have some names that we can't throw out yet. That's the quote. You'll have to wait. I'm serious. Stay tuned and you'll see. I have some names we can't throw out yet.

[D]

Colin.

[A]

Bullshit.

[B]

Jake. Paul. I think that would be a good matchup.

[A]

God damn it. Would get me to tune in. I said, I would never buy another Paul fight, but this would be the one. This led us to an idea that we're gonna try out here. New segment called Is this more Bullshit than Sydney Sweeney claiming she might do a real charity boxing Match? We gathered some other headlines from across the weekend, and we want to decide which is more bullshit. The headline or the one where Sydney Sweeney said she's gonna do a charity boxing match. Because in the middle of filming, Christie, she was like, quote, I love this first headline. Kim Kardashian fails the California bar exam, says she's not a lawyer. Quote, quote yet. Is that more bullshit than Sydney Sweeney claiming she might do a real charity boxing match? For some background, I believe she failed the baby bar, the California baby bar, twice. And passed it once and then has failed the bar. This is once or twice, and I think you can keep taking it, right, Kurt Ashton took to her Instagram stories on Saturday to share she didn't pass the bar exam, which she took over the summer. I'm not a lawyer yet. I just play a very well dressed one on tv.

[D]

Didn't she play a version of a lawyer that has her ass hanging out of her pants?

[B]

Oh, I saw that on that new show she's doing. I saw someone post a video of them. They were like, what the fuck is she wearing? And I was like, no way. This is real.

[A]

It is. All those actresses in it are such, like, big names. Yeah. Dan and I actually had to have an intervention with each other. We were gonna watch it. We like to watch shitty TV and make fun of it. And we were gonna watch it. And then Dan, I'm so proud of him, he was like, hey, hey. We can't contribute to the People are gonna think this is a success. If you hear it so bad that you watch it, the numbers will Say they should keep making garbage like this. He was like, so we gotta stay strong. We can't watch this. And I was like, damn.

[D]

I wanna see Dan is my wife.

[A]

I wanna see Kim Kardashian lawyer with a whale's tail. I've earned that. It's been a hard day. I wanna make fun of this garbage show. Here's the thing, as far as, like, billionaires and the things they could be doing with their time and their money. Go. I know it's funny to make fun of Kim Kardash fact that she's probably going to end up being too stupid to pass the bar exam, but it's like, shouldn't we want her to not be that stupid?

[D]

I think she's way closer to becoming a lawyer than Sydney Sweeney is to getting punched in a charity boxing match. So I think this is less.

[A]

I'm with you. Is everybody comfortable with that? I can't move on till all agree.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. No, I agree.

[A]

We have to come to an agreement or we have to Send our listeners $20. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

[D]

YouTube. Throw it on the pile.

[A]

Big deal.

[D]

Number two.

[A]

Next headline. GTA 6. Don't ever put a Roman numeral.

[B]

I was scared. I was so scared for two seconds.

[A]

I was, like, getting close to it and I'm going, I better figure this out. By the time I get to that V. I better figure this out.

[D]

I'm sorry. You just flouted being able to tell me the capital of Nepal.

[A]

Those are two different things. I know. I was reading that suit, Katie. I was like, we already have numbers. Why do we need letters to be numbers? GTA delayed again to November 2026. But they say they feel really good about this new date. The game was initially scheduled for a May Release. May of 2025. Oh, 2026.

[C]

It got pushed back already.

[A]

Getting pushed back.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

To next. So a year from now. And they say they feel really, really good about that. The. In a newly released statement, Rockstar did games said Grand Theft Auto will now Release on Thursday, November 19th of 2026. We're sorry for adding additional time to what we realize has been a long wait, but these extra months will allow us to finish the game with the level of polish you have come to expect and deserve. Who here's playing GTA vi?

[D]

I'm playing the shit out of it.

[A]

I'll play.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I don't. I'm not a gta. It's. I. It's not for me. And that's fine. Maybe I'll. I might still buy it. And try it. But I. You had to know this was coming. There's no way that you didn't see this coming. They. This is. They're notorious for this, are they not?

[D]

They are, but I feel like them saying, this time, this will be the real date.

[A]

No, no, we feel good about this date. No, no, no. It feels like when they go, we're not going to fire our coach this year. We will not be firing. One thing we're not going to do is firing our coach. And then two weeks later, they fire their coach. This is what that feels like. This feels like Kyrie Irving going to the fans fan fest, the Celtics and going, like, I'm gonna stay a Celtic. I love you guys. And then, like, you'll have me immediately going on. But then the other side of me goes, you know how hard it must be to make a video game. How the hell are they doing this? How are they getting people to work together at a time like this in this economy?

[B]

So. Or not.

[A]

I think it's probably more. I don't think it'll be out. I don't think it'll be out on in November of 2026. If it is, I'll.

[D]

I'll fight Sydney Sweeney.

[A]

Yeah, I'll. I'll finally answer the email she sent asking me to please box her. I gotta start training. Okay, next.

[D]

Number three.

[A]

Number three. Joe Exotic claims everyone in prison is listening to Hillary Duff's new single.

[B]

I haven't even listened to it yet.

[A]

Let's do a little bit of it. I didn't have Hate it.

[D]

It came out late Thursday. I woke up Thursday. Oh, let's do it. Mature was not streaming yet.

[A]

In an Instagram. You know what I don't like is everybody immediately was going, who's it about? Which husband? Which boyfriend? Which husband? And that's where we go. Like, guys, singers used to be able to just write songs about, like, when the Dixie. When the Chicks, I believe they're now called the Chicks, came out with Earl. Nobody. Nobody went like, who's Earl? And these ladies murdered him. We. This is a cold. We should open that cold. They went, it's a song. It's a song. It's a fictional song about a situation one could imagine. Now whenever somebody comes out with something, they go, well, this is about that ex of hers. This has to be about her ex. We don't know. It's just a song. Anyway, Joe Exotic says, it's a song that's really hot in prison in an Instagram comment, because that's. I haven't checked in on prison in a while. They have Instagram and the prison. Oh, yeah, Chris, you don't even have Instagram prison. They have Instagram because it must be seen as a necessity. And here you are living without it. In an Instagram comment, Tiger King star Joe Exotic says all the guys in here listening to it.

[B]

I believe it.

[A]

Duff's new single Mature has already been viewed more than 1.5 million times on YouTube since dropping last Thursday. I believe believe it.

[B]

Me too.

[A]

I absolutely believe it. Did you see the. What was I reading the other day? There was a God. This podcast is just going there. Luigi had written a note that had gotten out of prison where he had said that he was listening to a Taylor Swift album and somebody came up to him in the yard and asked him what he was listening to and he said that. And they just like shook their head and gave him like an hour long speech about how, like, you need to be listening to real music and then like, put him on to music he should be listening to. Does anyone else not read this? Luigi.

[D]

Luigi, professing his love for Taylor Swift, is just trying to get every single worst person on the Internet to organize a prison break for him.

[B]

It's possible.

[D]

The Luigi Stans and the Taylor Swift fans coming together unite.

[A]

Why not? Okay, that's one. I guess we'll say that's. Did we say if it was more? Isabella says she believes it. So less. Less bullshit.

[D]

We need more bullshit.

[A]

Yeah. Number four, the Haley Khalil. Matt Khalil claim. I'm borderline wanting to skip this Sports Illustrated model and influencer, Hayley Khalil. Who? What's she known as On. Yes, you do, because she's, I believe, the let them eat cake girl. She's the influencer who went out, who didn't even get to go to the Met Gala, but dressed up and stood outside of the Met Gala. This was two or three years ago. Oh, I do know her as Marie Antoinette. What's. What does she go. Haley Bailey, I think, is what she goes by online.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. She opened up about what led to her divorce from NFL player Matt Khalil during a live stream last week, saying his size caused a serious issue in their sex life. I'm glad we put that in the doc. Twice that same paragraph, just so I didn't miss it. The quote, I believe, was like two Coke cans stacked on top of each other, Correct?

[C]

Yes.

[A]

Because the sound maybe three.

[C]

She even said, oh, my gosh.

[A]

That is more bullshit. I'll tell you, that's more bullshit. That girl wants, wants to be famous and I really hope the best for her. She was in the Taylor Swift fake Christmas Lifetime or Hallmark, whoever it was that did that movie last year that did the Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce based Christmas romance film. She was in that. This girl with the coke can say, you're doing your. They must have split on good terms because she's doing his something this Brady. You're in a timeout. Brady's in a timeout. That's more. I'm saying that's more. You should never have pitched a segment where I have to keep saying the word. I feel like we're going to get yelled at by somebody. But I think the Haley Bailey thing is more. And then the last one, this I tacked on because I've been vaguely following this online and I guess this is more just kind of a controversy. I don't know if this is bullshit. I don't know. Andy Richter, friend of the program. I've done his podcast. I've seen, I've met him before, very nice guy. Is on Dancing with the Stars this season. You might not know this because you might have YouTube TV and you can't get ABC anymore, but he's on Dancing with the Stars. We are getting deeper into the season. I'm not quite sure where. What I've gathered is that Andy Richter cannot, for the life of him dick dance. Now, he could be a star, but he cannot dance. And, but he's loving it. He's having fun. You can tell it's brought new joy into his life. He's been very open about that. He keeps getting voted by the fans through to the next round and people who are good dancers keep getting eliminated. And as this continues deeper and deeper into the competition, people are getting really fucking. People are very, very upset. They feel that the integrity of the competition is being called into. They're needing to use like a smoke machine to hide Andy Richter's feet because, like, that's how badly he can't dance. They did a group number last week that I watched someone have a meltdown online about because, like, he ruined the whole number with his inability to dance. And yet because it's open to a group audience vote, he keeps getting voted through because people think it's so pure that he stinks, but that he's trying, that he's really trying his best. And the argument, I guess if you want to get serious with it, the argument being made is that like, no, you, you can only be like, like a, a famous white older Guy and get treated like it's adorable. He's not like a. An old man. He's not like, they're just. And so people are getting really mad about it. Isabella, what are your thoughts on Andy Richter getting voted through to Dancing with the stars?

[B]

I mean, I guess, like, if it's. I'm assuming it's seen as, like, the most entertaining and that's why people are choosing it. Which kind of is like. Like, I don't know.

[A]

I mean, you open it to a fan vote.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So there's got to be a reason. And this is the outcome of that. You might end up with a fan favorite who isn't very good at what he's supposed to be good at, but they're rooting for him. And if they get a vote, is.

[B]

It a fan vote every time or so?

[A]

I'm not really, because I thought dancing.

[B]

With the stars was judges.

[A]

They certainly have a judging panel, and that panel certainly holds up signs I it. The lore goes deep, and it's too deep for me.

[B]

I don't think the fan favorite should be, like. Should way too.

[A]

It should be, like, weighted against also the scores.

[B]

Yeah, I think so.

[A]

From what I hear from the uproar, they're also still not really going below, like, a seven, but, like, the. Something's got to give. We can't. You can't vote. He can't win. Kenny. I don't know. Would it be. Is that the best possible outcome? Does that. Is that how you blow up the. Is it. Is that how you get into a Dancing with the stars rebuild?

[D]

You've got to go.

[B]

I think I would feel a little. I would feel a little bit more bad because isn't Dancing with the stars mostly it's just celebrities.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And dancers. It's not like.

[A]

The reason I don't get into it is because I'm very conf. One year, it was like Nicole Scherzinger, and I'm like, yeah, of course a pussycat doll is a better dancer than an actor who's never danced before with.

[B]

Something like the voice or American idol or America's got talent. These are, like. Not that celebrities aren't real people, but, you know, these are people that actually care about, like, the.

[A]

Yeah, they're like regular, average people, but.

[B]

That care about the actual talent that they're auditioning for. Whereas this is more. Yeah, this isn't.

[A]

So you think you can dance.

[B]

Yeah. So in a way, it's kind of just like.

[A]

I don't know. Yeah. At the same time, it's a little different. Yeah. It is just a celebrity competition. It's not like a. But they're learning how to dance. I don't know. I'm on the outside of this one, but I felt it needed to be included also. Kind of similarly, is it bullshit. But I guess we're done with that segment, so thanks for listening. Aaron Rodgers's wife. Is anyone getting to the bottom of this? Because his teammates say they've never met her. The wives say they don't know her. I know this was to the Daily Mail, but they said, we all want to meet her, to invite her out, get to know her. But we haven't met her yet. We don't even know who she. She is. And when the story first came out that he had gotten sneaky married, I remember. What's her name? Brittany.

[D]

Brittany.

[A]

Brittany. Brittany.

[D]

But they didn't even put a last name on it, right?

[A]

Britney. They don't put a last name on it. And in everything I read, they were all spelling it with an I. And that's not the way that I think. I mean, that is a way to spell Britney. But if all you have is somebody telling you their wife's name is Brittany, you would just jot it down. I remember looking like, okay, so we must know which Britney this is, because it's a very specific way of spelling her name. And I could never find any more information on this book person. I'm not saying that he's making it up, but doesn't it kind of feel.

[D]

Me, you know, there's no proof that she exists.

[A]

And I. If I were him, I'd make it up. He. We hound him over his notoriously private.

[D]

Human being, Aaron Rogers, who has kept all of his relationships a secret forever, right?

[A]

And so he. I get it. He wants him. It's always those ones who are like, the media needs to get off my back. And it's like, well, you need to stop bending down and asking if we want uppies. Like, you keep. We're getting on your back because you keep saying stuff. What are you talking about? But I feel like he's just trying to get everybody off of the trail. Maybe I should. Maybe this is.

[B]

If you guys have any intel, let us know.

[A]

Maybe I should text Pablo. Maybe that's what this is. Maybe Pablo should be finding out. Yeah, I know he's busy.

[D]

We could try to find things out, or we could just have a friend who finds things out.

[B]

If any of you are a journalism major, figure this out for us.

[A]

PR Falls under the. It used to at least I have the base if I needed to ever refer to it.

[D]

I have a theory. I could say a theory. It's completely unfounded. I have no evidence on this. It fits within. Could she be an AI bot?

[A]

Oh my God.

[D]

Is Aaron Rodgers the type of man who could determine and make the decision that it is completely normal for him to find a soulmate who is just an AI bot that has been trained on conversations with Aaron Rodgers that he has found his soulmate. He has found his companion. She doesn't need a last name because she doesn't have one because she was never born. She has no Social Security number. She is just Brittany the chatbot. That's why no one has met her. That's why there's no online profile. But he's gonna wear that wedding band and all of his friends photos because he has found the one for him.

[A]

Oh my God.

[B]

Has it a last name?

[D]

Nope.

[A]

Can we move on to Tom Brady cloning his dog? Dude, I've never. You'd find you. I know this is hard to believe with how mad I've been. This podcast, the maddest I've been in the last week is when it was announced that Tom Brady cloned his dog right after we recorded our second podcast. I was leaving that podcast and it was like, bloop, bloop. Tom Brady clones his dog. We can't talk about this for a week. Tom Brady revealed on Tuesday that his dog Junie is actually a clone of another dog he and his ex wife. We'll come back to that. Gisele Bundchen shared that died late in 2023. Brady said the cloning process required a simple blood draw from the family's aging pit bull Mix Lua before she died. Brady is an investor in this company. That's worth noting. We have to note he has invested in this company whose name I won't be saying A, because we didn't write it down, but B, out of principle because this is clearly like Spawn Con. This is a dog he already has. You notice. You wait till the dog has been cloned successfully and around for a minute before he goes. This a clone, by the way, he didn't tell us as it was a puppet. You know, I. I don't think I checked in since Dolly. I know. I had heard Barbra Streisand cloned her dogs. And Paris Hilton, I believe, cloned her dog. Same company. I didn't know we were just out here. Where are we at ethically on. On cloning a dog?

[B]

I don't like, it, it's a. I.

[D]

Couldn'T look at the dog and be like, I don't know. Like, yes, I, I. So I just had a dog. My dog passed last year. I love Tank, but like, if we were to clone Tank, that dog wouldn't be Tank and I would just be like, what's up? Not Tank, right. Like you're, you're different dog. I understand that the first version of you died. Now you're just, you're just like the sequel of it. And it just feels very like that dog doesn't have his own identity now.

[A]

It's very strange, I think the club. In trying to be empathetic to the other side, it's an annoying exercise I put myself through constantly. I. The closest I got was if you adopted a dog that was, let's say, like Myrtle, a. An unknown mix of breeds where you're like this. She's probably 12%, 10%, 8%. Her brother got his DNA done and it was one of the percents. It was like 30% super mutt, which was like a mix of a billion breeds. Oh, sure. There's just too much has happened to lead to her and we can't possibly know what it was.

[D]

100% bet if so.

[A]

Exactly. I got those results back. She. If something about it was like, wow, magically her temperament and, and her health and it all this specific combination of breeds gave me something that I couldn't find in any other dog and wouldn't know how to replicate. That's the closest I come to going, like, yeah, okay, try cloning the dog. It sounds like they take blood from a dog that's alive. They take like the genetic material out of that. They put it into an embryo and then put inside of a, A, a dog that gives birth to the. So it's still. I don't know. I don't want to talk about it. It's just. It sounds like there isn't any literal physical. None of it seems painful or like torturous to an animal in any way. It seems like a normal birth to the animal. Who doesn't know any better? We think. I don't know. But it just, it doesn't feel right to. You're not going to. The dog's not to going, going to like, remember you. They're not going to be like Tom Brady. You were my dad before. It's me, your other dog. It's still the, it's a, still a new dog with a new personality. You know, I'm just imagining the dog going, John Brady Also, if I if this dog is our dog and we're divorced, you better ask me before you clone the dog.

[B]

Oh, for sure.

[A]

That's my dog as well.

[D]

No chance.

[A]

Would you ask me before you clone my child? Tom Brady doing everything but finding love. You know, cloning his dog, buying a Saudi Arabia playing flag football in Saudi Arabia. Men will literally play flag football in Saudi Arabia and clone their dog before going to therapy. Let's take a quick break. When we come back, Chris is going to tell us what we can watch if we to want to watch some sports this week.

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[A]

All right. Welcome back to Casuals. We're coming to the closing, the pointy end of this episode. And of course, this is usually where Chris tells us what we can watch. If we want to watch a little bit of sports this week, we want to make it easier for you because there's a million places to watch things and it's hard to find and to know what's going on. So that's what Chris is here for. But Chris, you also went to a game, you had boots on the ground at a basketball game this weekend and I you had a report you wanted to issue and I just realized I don't know how to tee you up for that. So go Chris.

[C]

Well, so firstly, thank you to Megan, a listener who provided me with a couple of tickets for me and my family for this game last week. It was on cheap Tuesday at 4pm A game between NC State and Tennessee Women's college basketball. They were playing at the Greensboro Coliseum. So me and my family, my parents went across to that game and we loved it. It was a great game. North Carolina State, number 19 in the country, number nine team in the country defeated number eight Tennessee, 80 to 77. It came down to the final buzzer. Tennessee had a chance to tie it at the very, the very end. Mr. 3. That would have tied it, but the atmosphere was fantastic. I think there were almost about 5,000 people there, which for a game featuring two out of town teams at 4pm on a Tuesday, pretty darn good.

[A]

Yeah, sounds like a lot.

[C]

Yeah, that schedule's not really doing that, that match up any favors. But it was like the atmosphere was fantastic and the players were really into it and it was tough fought game. There was a lot of Argy Bargy going on throughout the game. A lot of Argy Bargie, my God. Yeah, it was pretty fantastic and my kids loved it as well. Initially, my daughter was a little bit scared because when we told her who was playing in the matchup, we told her that NC State Wolf pack were one of the teams and I think she thought it might have been a real life wolf pack. And she got very nervous and was pretty quiet for the first 25 minutes of the game while she's just there looking around scoping at the scene and seeing if there's an actual wolf pack. She was sitting on my wife's lap at one stage and my wife's like her heart is beating really fast right now.

[A]

It's like at Any. She hears any noise and goes like, it was pretty much that.

[C]

But my son, on the other hand, you'll be pleased to know, much more of a dancer than me was absolutely breaking it down. The entire.

[A]

I love a little kid on a jumbotron. Breaking it down. What sort of songs are we talking about?

[C]

Anything that was being played throughout the entire match, throughout the entire game, he'd be dancing. But what I decided to do for this is get a report from my daughter on how the game went. So once we got home from the game, so it was relatively late and she was tired. But I thought, you know what? While it's still fresh in her mind, I wanted to sit her down and interview her about the experience of going to a college basketball game and see if it might encourage other people to go to college basketball games. So I put something together for you. So have a listen.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

Where did we just go?

[A]

Team basketball.

[C]

Who were you going for? Were you going for Tennessee, the orange team, or were you going for NC State, the white team?

[A]

Tennessee.

[C]

Do you remember who won? It was NC State. It was really close. It was really, really close. And Tennessee had a shot at the buzzer and missed it. What was your favorite part of the the game?

[A]

Looking at the screen.

[C]

Looking at the big screen. Did you like watching the game on the big screen or did you like watching people dancing on the big screen?

[A]

I like the both.

[C]

You like them both? Did you like the stadium that we went to? Was it a cool stadium? The place where we sat and watched the game?

[A]

I loved the seats.

[C]

You love the seats? They were really close, right? Would you want to go to the basketball again?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Why? Why do you want to go to the basketball again? Why did you enjoy it so much?

[A]

Because I love being there.

[C]

You love being there?

[A]

I love clapping.

[C]

You love clapping.

[A]

And I love the man talking on the microphone. So it let me know to watch.

[C]

Can you say, go watch some college basketball?

[A]

Go watch some college basketball.

[C]

Because that's a lot of fun.

[A]

Because that's a lot of fun. Love you mean it. So cool. That was so cute.

[C]

I love her.

[A]

That interviewer would not shut up. His questions were. It's like letter. Yeah, letter answer.

[B]

Fuck.

[A]

Oh, my God. Oh, did you do. Who won? Was it NC State? Like, maybe she could answer.

[B]

Maybe she knows the color of the team.

[C]

Maybe also, maybe not.

[A]

No. Dude, that was so cute. That was awesome.

[C]

She was a cutie.

[A]

Wait, wait. I wasn't ready. Oh, my God. I wasn't ready for that. Oh, my period.

[C]

I will say so she's she's still new to the whole talking into the microphone thing. So when I first got her in front of the microphone and I asked her the first question, she paused for a few seconds and then. Then just said, I love you, daddy.

[A]

Oh my God.

[C]

How come that didn't make it into the cut forever?

[A]

How come that didn't make it into the edit? That's gotta stay in. That's the most hard hitting part of the interview. That's the scoop. That's the scoop. I love you, daddy.

[B]

Oh, that's so cute. Love you.

[A]

Mean it.

[B]

Oh, I love you.

[A]

Mean it.

[B]

Isabella.

[A]

What's my favorite part? She said, I like the screen. And then she said, I like when the guys come on the microphone to tell me to watch.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

Oh my God, I love her. What a great report. Back to you. She's Just make sure next one she ends with back to you.

[C]

Back to you. Now we got to make sure that people actually go watch some college basketball, whether it's men's or women's, even though it's earlier on in the season.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Still got to get down.

[A]

You have to for. For little Isabella. For Isabella too?

[C]

Yep.

[A]

For teeny tiny. Were we not naming her on purpose? Did I just screw that up? Did you say her? Have you said her name?

[C]

I think I did.

[A]

I think you did too, but then I just realized maybe I didn't.

[C]

So I call it easy. We call it Izzy.

[A]

Okay. I was gonna say you could cut it out if you wanted to. I don't know. I wanna protect everybod privacy.

[C]

It's all good.

[A]

Okay, Chris, now that that's out of the way, now that let's tell everybody what they can watch if they want to watch some sports that aren't college basketball. Maybe this weekend.

[C]

First thing we've got the beach volleyball world championships happening in Adelaide beginning this week, Thursday, November 13th. You can watch all the action on Volleyball TV. So make sure you get a subscription to Volleyball TV to catch all the action. There's a bunch of matchups in the first couple of days of competition, but you between teams from the USA and teams from Australia. We have women's doubles match on Thursday at 10:30pm Eastern between Shore and Chang of the USA and Fleming and Fairhess I guess from Australia. So that's going to be fun. The women's doubles there. And then we've got a men's doubles matchup on Friday at 11:30pm Eastern, which is Evans and Buddinger. Former NBA player Chase Buddinger for the USA.

[A]

Oh, that's right.

[C]

Yeah. Against Potts and purse for Australia. So a couple of fun USA Australia matchups in the beach volleyball World Championships this week.

[D]

Let's get to number two. Number two. He's got to go faster.

[A]

Okay, Brady.

[E]

God.

[A]

What else?

[C]

Brady's trying to make us go faster when I'm about to talk about one of our favorite things. Firstly, the Summer Deaf Olympics begins on Saturday, which is essentially the Olympics for deaf people that has a whole bunch of different events, including everyone orienteering.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[C]

They're going to be doing orienteering at the Summer Deaf Limited, which it's essentially the same sort of rules, a couple of different tinkerings with, with how they relay the information to the athletes. But we're going to be experiencing some orienteering this week at the Summer deaflympics. So everyone keep an eye out for that. You can watch all the action on The Deaf Olympics YouTube channel.

[A]

Oh, YouTube. That's so. That's free. So you can probably go watch. I would. I'm going to try to figure out how to check that out. What else? What else do we have?

[C]

Last thing we got the Canadian Football League. Great cup this weekend, Sunday, November 16th at 6:00pm Eastern Eastern on TSN. If you're in Canada, CBS Sports Network in the USA and on free streaming platform CFL plus everywhere else in the world, the game will be between Montreal Alouettes and Saskatchewan Rough Riders. So if you want to check out some Canadian football, check it out on Sunday.

[A]

The two teams that I think I could have named if you didn't, I don't know that I could have named a third Regina. Do they have a team? They sound like they should be the Regina Vaginas. All right, guys, that is is it for this episode of Casuals. Thank you so much for listening. If you want to reach us, don't forget you can always send us an email. Casuals with katynolangmail.com our voicemail 646-810-0043 on IG and TikTok, we are at CasualsThePodcast. We will see you back here on Thursday with another episode. Until then, we love you. We mean it. Bye.

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