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Casuals with Katie Nolan
Josh Allen, 2131, and the Eagle Tuah | Plus Coach RAC of the Savannah Bananas
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Hello! It's the podcast that's your #1 source for VMA fashion commentary from an Australian guy. Today, Katie and the Casualties discuss orienteering your way into a promotion, an all-time listener voicemail, and extreme poutine volume, before breaking down the all-time classic comeback from the Buffalo Bills [13:50], an all-time bad piece of sports merch for Bills fans, Jalen Carter, AI Rizzler, and the wildest parts of a crazy Week One in the NFL, and why you still should be mad at RedZone ads even if they were small, an epic "THIS IS WHY YOU LOVE SPORTS" moment on Saturday night in Baltimore, reactions to the "Phillies Karen" and why maybe you guys have gone a little too far (?), the US Open final and greatness on display for both the men and women, Ben and Trinity dialing up the cuteness to a new level, Travis and Taylor, Justin Herbert and Madison Beer, Timothee Chalamet, the 49ers, and a shared Moody Blues. THEN, Robert Anthony Cruz - Coach RAC of the Savannah Bananas - joins...
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For years, everyone thought Verizon had the best network because they did. But now the best mobile network in the US is T Mobile. T Mobile's network has the most advanced 5G with more towers, and their signal reaches further than ever. So you can text an Insta talk and say, you won't believe where I am. T Mobile has the best mobile network.
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In the US based on analysis by.
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Ookla of speed test intelligence data 1H2025CT mobile.com network.
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Oh, Gekko, I just love being able to file a claim in under two minutes with a GEICO app. Could you sign a. Sign what? The app? Yeah, sure. Oh, it rubbed off the screen when I touched it. Could you sign it again? Anything to help, I suppose. Get more than just savings.
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Get more with Geico.
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Hey, Chris, did you see Conan Gray's VMA fit?
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Let me have a look here.
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I know you were watching the VMAs a big cultural moment.
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It used to be okay.
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Oh, you're seeing it now. You're looking at it now.
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I'm seeing it.
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Yeah. What do you think?
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It's. It's fascinating. It's. Man, I wish I had the confidence. Who is Conan Gray?
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Conan Gray is a singer with a very ethereal sound.
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You didn't even. It's an audio medium. You didn't want to in any way attempt to describe what he's. What he's wearing.
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There's a lot of words that would have to be used to describe what he is wearing. It's. It's a. Is that a navy blue and white? It looks like an old school Victorian era dress with the. It almost looks like a corset there as well.
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He looks like a sailor. Guys, I don't know what Chris is trying to dance around, but he looks like a little sailor boy, that's all. What does it say on the top of his hat?
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It's a W and a B.
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Okay, and what do you think that means, Warner Brothers? If I look too much like a sailor? You better. Warner Brother. Hello. Welcome to Casuals, the sports podcast that's just, you know, friends talking about sports they like and that they saw. We try to get you caught up on all the news, but we don't want to exclude you. So if you don't know anything, that's okay. That's what we're here for. I'm Katie Nolan. I'm your host, joined today by two of the casualties. We have Chris.
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What's up?
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We have Brady.
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Hello.
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Everybody's on Zoom. This week, the Two days. Two days. We're getting into our new studio.
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They're gonna be ready at some point. I mean, I think they're just plugging stuff in tomorrow and then important that it's ready to go.
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Great. I'm excited.
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No, the Red Bull fridge made it.
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Oh, good. I promise the Red Bull fridge from before. Not a new Rebel fridge, not a.
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New Red Bull fridge. The Red Bull fridge. And Jared said most of them are still in there.
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Oh, good.
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No one drank all our Red Bulls. That's good because they're just sitting at his desk.
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For a couple weeks, we had just the fridge, no Red Bull. Which was an interesting. I said, no, thanks. I don't actually need this. I don't need a. But then we got the Red Bulls. And I said thanks, because we did need it. Anyway, we're. If you want to email us. Casuals with katienolangmail.com. our voicemail is 646-801-0043. On IG and tick tock, we are at Casuals, the podcast. Look, I told you guys. We're figuring out the schedule, right? With the radio show. The new radio show, which, by the way, is called Fan Service. You can listen to it on Sirius XM channel 82.
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C
Spot on.
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Yeah. Mad Dog Radio, noon to 1 Eastern. Fan service with Katie Nolan. So we're figuring out the schedule and moving stuff around and what works and what doesn't. So for these next two weeks, it's sort of just. We're all being nice to each other. Remember, we had this conversation, we all made eye contact and we agreed we'd all just be nice. And I think I'm doing a lot of yapping elsewhere, so you're probably. We're gonna turn yap More into, like, housekeeping, host chat. You know, stuff before the sports news. But as always, Chris will put the time code in the description. If you don't care about us as people, which is crazy, we're great people. But I get it. If you don't care about us and you just want to know about the sports, skip ahead. Let's clear out our mailbox a little bit. We have. What do we have? Walk me through an email first.
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We do. We have an email from Ben.
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Okay. Ben says, read it to me.
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Ben says, okay, so nothing is certain, and who knows what's going to happen in the next year. But I was able to impress one of the C suite folks from my company's parent company because of what I learned about orienteering from Casuals. What the company I worked for manufactures building materials and we're owned by a European company which also manufactures building materials.
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Thrilling.
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I know, thrilling. Anyway, one of the C suite people from our parent company was visiting today and. And just chatting with people. I had been training for a trail ultra marathon, at least until I got injured and he asked me if I'd ever heard of orienteering. To hears my manager and some other VP surprise. I had heard of it and we talked about it for a few minutes. I'm up for a promotion in the spring and if I get it, I will 100% give all the credit to casuals. Anyway, thanks for giving us. Well, sure, that'd be great.
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And the money. We deserve a little bit of money. You'll buy merch. You'd have to buy some merch.
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I will accept building materials.
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Also depends. If it's limestone, send it over.
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Anyway, thanks for giving us all a few hours a week to laugh and enjoy something. Cheers.
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Hell yeah. Ben, congratulations. That is the best. When somebody important brings up a thing that you know nobody else knows about and you're like, I do perfect.
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I got hired to Sirius. I got hired by SiriusXM like 18 years ago by a boss who was obsessed with Pearl Jam. And I remember I had. I had like just listened to a Pearl Jam album that morning and I was just like treading on such thin iceberg. All right, let me talk about the songs. I just listened to and beg that there are no follow up questions.
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So that was the first time you'd really listen to Pearl Jam.
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Not the first time ever, but the first time in a while. Because they had just had like a revival. They had just had a new album come out and I was. I was treading, treading like. All right, I am way in over my head here. You asked me about deep cuts from 10. I got nothing. I made it.
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Well, you got the job, so. Good job. You know what Pearl Jam is? I only learned that recently.
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C
What is it?
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Think. Well, think about it now. Now picture it.
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I'm gonna let Chris process with some internal.
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If you made jam out of Pearls, not the noise I would have probably made, but do we also have a.
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Voicemail original name for that band? Remember Mookie Blaylock? The Old Falcon? The old. Not Falcons, the Old Hawks. Point guard.
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No, you said Falcons. You're a dumb idiot. Can we play the voicemail? Hi, guys. Jason from Toronto, just with a.
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Did you see that Your boy Joey Chestnut did another food competition and he won.
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He dominated again. He's not all about hot Dogs.
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Just wanted to get the word out.
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Oh, wait. He won.
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Oh, God, this is a disaster. But I don't know. Why don't use this.
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I changed my mind. What? Wait, what? He fell off a cliff. He was doing so well, and then he just absolutely. What even happened? I still don't even understand what happened. What did he say wrong?
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Everything was correct until he questioned himself.
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Yeah, I think I need the end. Play the end of it again. I need to hear what happened. Brady's crying.
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Oh, wait, he won.
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Oh, God, this is a disaster.
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I don't want to go use this. I changed my.
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What happened?
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Jason got really confident that he had a great story, and then somehow one detail unraveled him at the end. Joey Chestnut did win a competition this week. It was completely accurate up until that point.
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Yeah. What did he say? What? I am so confused. So, okay, Joey Chestnut won at what? What did he eat?
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Poutine.
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Joey Chestnut was in Toronto this weekend for the Smokapalooza World Poutine Eating Championship on Saturday afternoon. Competed against some of the top competitive eaters in the world. Scarfed down 26 and a half pounds of poutine in 10 minutes.
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Get out of here. Get out of here. How long does it take to come out of you? That's all I want to know. That's a full. If I lost 26.5 pounds, that is. You would notice. So to put that much in, does 26 and a half pounds come out? What happens once it's in? Guys?
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Like, that's just. That's a noticeable change in your body weight.
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Do you think he weighs himself after every. I would.
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I think yes.
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100?
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Well, no, I mean, do you think after. He has to know, like, how much has come out of me so far? How much is still there?
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Yeah, after every. After every poop, he goes, like, we think we're halfway through.
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Even if it's like three to three pounds at a time, that's nine cycles.
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Oh, God. Cycles. Why are we calling them cycles?
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Sort of get a general sense of what their diet looks like in the lead up to these tournaments. Like, how long until they start eating properly again? Do they just not eat for a few days afterwards?
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I think they eat a lot. I think it's about. We're all talking out of our ass. Welcome to the part of the show called talking out of our Ass. I'm pretty sure they eat a lot to, like, stretch out their stomach. Like, I think Joey Chestnut, like, if you've ever watched the way they move their bellies when they're doing stuff because you just see them shifting to, like, pack it in like Tetris.
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So there was an empty TV True life about a competitive eater. It was him. It was Kobayashi, who is his. His com. His rival. And Kobayashi had, like a genetically different stomach that could, like, move to a different part of his abdomen and expand more. And he would born for this massive amounts of rice drink water to expand it.
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It's the opposite. It's like the opposite of Derrick Rose. It's like he had exactly the body for the type of play he wanted to. This is. Yeah, that's. It's. I look, I want to be respectful to competitive eaters. I know we have some who listen sometimes, though. It's gross. It's amazing. It's incredible. But it's like a visceral. It's nasty. But I'm in awe. If nothing else, I'm in awe for your ability to competitively do something. Imagine if you like competitive pooping. It's like competitive eating as a concept is so like, how do you even. We all eat. That's part of the human experience. Competitive. What other parts of the human, like competitive crying. I would crush. I would crush Jason. That was the funniest voicemail we'll probably get this year. So thank you for making Brady cry.
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I hope he's okay.
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I hope he's okay too. And just, babe, believe in yourself, because I don't think you had done anything wrong. But I do relate to that feeling of like, ah, I said the wrong thing. Oh, God, please don't use this. Oh, what do I do? I'm pretty sure at the end of. If you finish and you push a number, you. It'll go like, do you want to save it? Do you want to delete it? Or is that just like a Verizon phone? And because this is a Google voice, we don't have that. I feel like has that because I always try that if I'm leaving a voicemail I don't like, I'll hit. I think it's nine. It's been a long time. I don't make a lot of phone calls. And then I'll just go, like, can you delete this? And she'll go, do you want to record again? And you go, yeah, I do. So I try that also. If you call back right away to us and just try it again, and that one, you succeed. We probably. I'm not going to say definitely, but we probably won't play the screw up. We'll just play the actual One that you sent.
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I mean, just think about realistically. If I see two voicemails from Jason in Toronto, I'm not listening to them both.
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Right. I'm just going to listen to the second one. Exactly. So if you want to listen to.
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The first one because you're like, did something happen here?
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Yeah, I would only listen to the first one.
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What are they trying to hide?
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This does feel like a good time to say and just to remind that the voicemail number that we give and the email that we give. I think I've said this before, but it's like for fan generated content. It's for audience generated stuff. So if you're sending something to us, just assume it's being used. I also, please don't try to reach me to like book me on something through that email. That's just not fair. These are not my assistants. They're my producers. And that email is for content. So just. That's. I don't know. Was that mean? Am I mean, is everybody.
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Don't apply for a job at Aldi.
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No, definitely do. And let us know if you got.
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That job because no follow up that Evan was hired or not.
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All right, Evan, we're gonna need to hear back from you on that, so call in and let us know.
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Real quick. By the way, just on the Jason's voicemail, I have a lot of sympathy for him because I. The first time I was ever on radio, I was doing a spot at my old radio station talking about American sports, right? I was like, the American sports voice. Because no one else at the station cared too, too much about American sports. At the time, it was all about Australian football, but I loved it, right? So I was doing a cross for baseball scores updates, and one of the games was the Orioles and the Royals. And I kept saying Orioles and the Royals and I realized how similar they sounded. And so three times I repeated Orioles and the Royals. Sorry, Orioles and the Royals. The Orioles and the Royals. And I just completely said the same thing over and over again.
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Correctly. That's correctly.
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Because I thought I had kept messing up.
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Yeah, that's really funny.
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Great start to my radio career.
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We do need more of that in society. I feel people going, oh, I think I might have been wrong there. We're not getting a ton of that at the moment. We got a guest today. We do have a guest coming up a little bit later. We're going to talk to a Savannah banana. We're going to talk to a Savannah Banana that if you've been following the lore, we've been trying to talk to for months, but the last time we had him scheduled, he.
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Broke his face.
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He fell on his face at CNN or whatever. He did his trademark flip, the thing he does all the time for work and it didn't. But it was on a, on a slippy floor. He absolutely ate it and had to go to the hospital. So we have him. He's here. We're to talk to him a little bit later at the end of the show probably. Should we hit a break and come back, talk about sports news?
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Let's do it.
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Yep.
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Only in theater September 19th. Rated R. Get tickets now.
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Oh, Gekko, I just love being able to file a claim in under two minutes with the Geico app. Could you sign a Sign what? The app. Yeah, sure. Oh, it rubbed off the screen when I touched it. Could you sign it again? Anything to help, I suppose.
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Get more than just savings. Get more with Geico. Honey. Do not make plans. Saturday, September 13th.
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Okay. Why? What's happening?
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The Walmart wellness event. Flu shots, health screenings, free samples from those brands.
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You like all that at Walmart.
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We can just walk right in, no appointment needed. Who knew we could cover our health and wellness needs at Walmart?
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Check the calendar. Saturday, September 13th.
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Walmart wellness event. You knew?
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I knew. Check in on your health at the same place you already shop. Visit Walmart, Saturday, September 13th, for our semiannual wellness event, Flu shot. Subject to availability and applicable state law. Age restrictions apply. Free samples while supplies last year. Okay, we obviously have to start by talking about that Bill's Ravens game. Oh, it's Tuesday when you're hearing this. It's Monday when we're recording this. So if last night was a real barn burner, we can't wait to talk about it on Thursday.
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If something important happened, we would have recut it by now.
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You think? Yeah. Okay.
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If someone's hearing this, that probably means that Bears, Vikings wasn't a big deal.
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Okay. But we also don't know, so we don't know. Again, growing pains. We're gonna figure it all out. No stress, no worries. The Bills in the Ravens game for us was last night and was a shocking. Just a shocking turn of events. I got to the point halfway through the game that I put it on, I was like, oh, well, this is, you know, pretty much over. It looks like it's going to go heavily in the Ravens favor. So I'll switch it to my second screen and I'll start playing video games. Because if I'm gonna put off playing video games, I want to watch a game that' a good game. So I moved it and then was like, well, now I gotta move it back. This is. It became a game very quickly. Reigning MVP Josh Allen propelled the Buffalo Bills from a 15 point fourth quarter deficit to a 4140 win over the Baltimore Ravens. That's a Scoragami. Did you see that?
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I did not realize that until right now.
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Yeah, we've never had a 4140 before. That's called scoragami. Chris, are you. Isn't it you? Aren't you a Scoragami guy? Don't you like.
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Yeah, I like Scorami.
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Yeah.
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I think we introduced Isabella to that concept earlier on and we should one.
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Day have a quiz. No, I think maybe it's against our ethos, but it would be kind of just entertaining to see how much of what we've dumped on her she's retained. Because I'm surprised she's retained a Lot of it.
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She's doing great.
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People's names will come back up and she'll go, oh, the guy from the like. Unfortunately, when she did that, when we were talking to middle world peace and she was like, oh, malice at the. I was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Not to his face, not to his face.
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They asked me not talk about one thing.
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It would be fun to see. I doubt I if I were a betting woman, which famously I am not, I would say if we asked her to remember Scoragami, rightfully she would be like, I don't remember that.
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This is like the inverse version of that bit of asking men in sports. What, like a makeup brush or like a toe separator is the exact opposite.
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Well, unfortunately, it is the actual thing that men do to women in sports all the time. That's why the bit unfortunately wouldn't work. But it would be. Let's. It was fun to talk about for those 30 seconds. By the way, we miss you, Isabella. I'm sure you're not listening to this. I would not listen to my work podcast if I was not at work. So I. But let's just all say our favorite thing about her. I just love how sweet she is.
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She's really funny, very diligent, very punctual.
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Wow. Did I say the important stuff? The fourth quarter, Allen threw for 251 pass yards, three total touchdowns. According to next gen stats, the Buffalo Bills win probability. This is one of my favorite things in sports. They will say like at a certain point in the game, it's like a 97 chance this team is going to win. And then to watch those huge swings in win probability, my favorite of course being the Patriots Seahawks super bowl, just to see a huge swing. And win probability is always a fun game. So in the according next gen stats, the Buffalo Bills win probability was as low as 1.1% with 8.37 remaining. What? 8.37. Who's she talking to? With 8 minutes and 37 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter, what happened there? It's like when you type a number into Excel and it assumes you meant money and you're like, no, I was writing the time. What is this? Yeah, it was 40 to 25 in the fourth quarter. Eight and a half left. Win probability 1.1%. The most improbable comeback by the Bills and the 13th most improbable comeback. Oh. By the Bills with Josh Allen at QB and the 13th most improbable comeback by any team over the last decade. Crazy. Just an unexpected, crazy game.
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And this is why you don't leave games early.
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Yeah, that's what we talked about today on the radio show. We had fans calling in from all over the country, talking about the times they've left early or the times they stayed when people wanted to leave early. And it paid off. And it's just like a fascinating, I don't know, fan thing that you, like, really do have to figure out, especially as you get older and you've got. I don't. But you have kids maybe, and you're like, let's get out of here. Beat the traffic, get home at a normal hour. And then you miss that. And Josh Allen, after the game on the field during his interview, he, like, alluded to his. The fans leaving and said, like, that's okay. We pulled it off anyway. But you guys gotta have more faith if you're a Bills fan, you have to be like, I'm so sorry. I'm, like, so sorry. Are you.
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I'm so sorry from, like, that emotional low. And, like, you can't just leave. Josh Allen's got the same emotional low. It means more to him. He's out there still trying to get it done.
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Yeah, you can still drink beers.
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Buffalo, you know, it's like. I don't know. Is there traffic? What's it like leaving Buffalo? I've never. Dan has, like, real heat for Buffalo, so I don't get a. He's been there more than me, but it's to watch his friend lose. And so he. He hates that place. He has nothing nice to say about that stadium, but I know it's rooted in his. He's too close to it. Does. Getting out of that stadium sucked. I saw people in boats on the. What was that all about? Is that their new thing? Showing up to the game in canoes last night?
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No. Why would they show up to game of canoe?
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I don't know.
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I don't either.
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It was interesting.
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Amazing. Like, everything that could go wrong went wrong for the Ravens.
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I know.
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Like, they just had to get a couple first downs or they just had to make an extra point and their kicker doinks an extra point off the goal post. Remains the most honorable Ravens kicker of the last decade. But just drills one off the.
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Off the goal post. Derek Henry, Bring back Justin Tucker. I'm like. Or. Or don't. Guys, what are we. Can we not bring him back?
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Fire him into the sun. One of the two. Derrick Henry, like, have one of the greatest games of the Last decade. And then at the end, fumbles. And then Josh Allen is just absolutely perfect going down the field. And then, like, their temporary kicker is like 42 years old, like that. They just signed and he's been with Buffalo for, like, three days. Just rolls out there and hits the game winner like it's nothing. It's amazing.
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It's nothing.
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All the players earlier on in the week thought that he was a coach. He walks into the locker room and they're like, who's this. Who's this new coach that we have? And it's like, it's just Matt Prater.
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B
Damn.
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A
That's why you love sports, Katie.
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B
It is.
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A
Because the great, absolutely great part of sports is better than anything else in the world.
- [23:48]
B
Yeah. I mean, it's also why you hate sports. Like, you're the. The feeling, the Ravens fans feeling of that.
- [23:54]
A
Have you checked in on Stavros? Is he okay?
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B
No, I saw him. I saw Ronnie post a video today. I. Look, they do not make it easy on them. It's also funny because, like, the Bills have a hump they can't get over. It's like they're this. The relationship is so. I don't know, but, man, those are two good teams.
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A
Great teams.
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C
Very fun to watch.
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A
Very lucky. Cubies just run them out there every week.
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B
Yeah.
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A
This is like center and Alcaraz and just let me watch them every time. Those games are entertaining as hell.
- [24:26]
B
We already have the center connection through Justin. Josh Allen.
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A
Oh.
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B
Brady.
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A
Hey. Sorry. Going different direction.
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B
Brady, what's this email that you really got upset about?
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A
I got upset about that somebody pointed out to us. I like one of our corners to be calling out really bad merch. So we got this email from Macon that Nike is selling an official, officially licensed T shirt for the Buffalo Bills that just has in red letters on the front of it, B hyphen, lo, below. Like, we're calling Buffalo below.
- [25:08]
B
Who's calling it that?
- [25:09]
A
It just says blow. And it also has, like, snow on top of the red letters. So we're even adding an extra layer on this.
- [25:16]
B
Yeah. What? This is an official shirt.
- [25:20]
A
This is an officially licensed shirt through Nike with the official Buffalo Bills logo on it. Like, somebody is going to call this place below.
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B
But, like. But like, don't even. They didn't even. Why wouldn't they make it into a beat like, 12 below joke? Like some sort of about how cold it is. Below. Below. Nobody calls Buffalo that. Am I wrong?
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A
I have never heard that in my life.
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C
I call Greensboro G row.
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B
I mean, I call it Below Wild Wings. I'm always saying, let's go to below Wild. Below. Wow.
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A
Oriole Royals.
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B
Oreolios. Okay. Yeah. So that was a great game. You mentioned Matt Prater, other old guy doing it this week, and Aaron Rodgers. What the hell? He looked good. Certainly not what I was hoping for. Let's just put all our cards on the table. I kind of wanted that guy to suck and he didn't.
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A
Oh, he didn't.
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C
It was actually a fun game.
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B
Yeah, it was a fun game to watch. It was. It got into my. I feel like top three games of the weekend.
- [26:26]
C
Yeah. Because even Justin Fields look great.
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B
Yeah. Yeah. I hate the jets, but it was a fun. An interesting out of body experience, like rooting for them, you know? But yeah, a good game.
- [26:41]
A
Problem with Aaron Rodgers is that he doesn't succeed well, he doesn't succeed quietly or graciously. Just the fact that he threw four touchdowns is now going to become a testament to all the haters in the world, all the haters in his life that, you know, he tunes out that noise.
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B
Yeah. Threw four touchdowns, beat his old team. He said after the game, I was happy to beat everybody associated with the jets, which is. Look, that's normal. That's a normal amount of screw you. It's like, yeah, they didn't want you and you didn't want them. That's. I get this. This makes sense. I'm not gonna yell at the guy just cause he's. Just. Cause I can't stand him. He did a good job. Also, old guy Pete Carroll's back. He is now the head coach of the Raiders. I can't remember who they played or if they won or how that went at all. It sucked. We're not going to talk about the paths today because this is my podcast and I don't want to, but man, it's just like a. Like. Okay, that's. It's just. I'm gonna just be a football fan this season, I guess. Put me on that AI float with Mr. Beast. No. What the ever else? Put me out with the Chargers fan that got shot out of a cannon or whatever.
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A
You can go ride a Dolphin with Drew Ski.
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B
Yes, exactly. I would love to do that because.
- [27:59]
C
Hang out with the creepy Raiders, baby.
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B
I don't have a team. I am teamless. Right. I mean, I do guys, obviously. I'm just saying I'm not like tuning into it every week. It's just not going to be worth it. And I'm annoyed that anybody was like, I don't know this could be a good. What were you talking about? What was the. What were you thinking was gonna happen? This is not. We don't have the. Okay. Pete Carroll is what I was saying. He defeated his former team. I mean, what was that a million years ago? Was in the Stone Age 20 to 13, while also becoming the oldest head coach in NFL history at 73 years old.
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A
Is that the oldest head coach?
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B
I guess. But it says here.
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A
Am I just warped by presidential ages thinking that we have older coaches? 73 now seems like. All right, sign him up.
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B
73.
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A
Carol on the ticket, youthful.
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B
Good for Pete Carroll. I'm happy for that. The with the Dolphins. Did we do this yet? The do. I mean, my God, we didn't do the Dolphins. God. Indianapolis playing against the Dolphins with Daniel Jones under center looking like a transcendent talent did something no quarterback has ever done. They say, although the asterisk is that it's because other quarterbacks probably took a knee on a drive. But he led seven drives and they scored on all seven. Are Is Daniel Jones good, or do the Dolphins absolutely blow?
- [29:35]
C
Good question.
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A
Do I have to pick one?
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B
Yeah, I think so. I I yeah, I think so.
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A
Dolphins players are good, right?
- [29:43]
B
Okay. Like, okay, so what are you saying? Well, hey, now, then. What are you saying? Then Daniel Jones, their defensive coordinator. It's their defensive coordinator stinks better.
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A
Oh, I don't know, man. That, that's. I didn't see that coming. That was one of those games where, like, people picked against the Colts for, like, survivor pools.
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B
Yeah.
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A
And, like, people are getting knocked out in week one survivor pool where a bunch of people throw money into a pot. And every week you pick one team to win, and you can't pick that team again for the rest of the year. And if your team loses, you're out of the pool for the year. So you have to pick, like, the one team you know is going to win. And people are picking the Colts over or the Dolphins over. The Colts.
- [30:21]
B
All over the now people are saying that they're going to. There's one of the main strategies for those is to pick whoever plays the Dolphins.
- [30:28]
A
They don't deserve that.
- [30:29]
B
That's brutal. It's brutal. I will say, very interesting. Daniel Jones over here doing that. And then you look at the Giants quarterback situation, and it's like, what's going on there? Russell Wilson did not look good. They also have who Jackson dart and.
- [30:49]
A
James Winston Jameis was the healthy scratch on Sunday. He just didn't even. Didn't even. He wasn't even on the roster for the weekend.
- [30:55]
B
As of within the last hour of this, they. The Giants have said they are going forward with Russell at quarterback. So next week they play the Cowboys, which, you know, we still don't really know because the Cowboys we really only got to see play against an Eagles team that lost two guys on the first snap of the game. So we don't. We don't really know, but that should be interesting. That should be interesting. A lot of story lines, you guys, to keep up with.
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A
8 o' clock on Thursday, you know, the season was beginning. I was like, sure, you know, you got a little bit of time before bedtime. Gather round, children. We'll watch the beginning of this NFL season.
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B
Oh, just in time to see spit.
- [31:34]
A
Just in time to see the Eagles best defensive player hocking a lug on the Cowboys quarterback.
- [31:39]
B
Did we talk about this here yet? We haven't.
- [31:41]
A
We haven't. Okay, go ahead, Go ahead. You got a spit gate here.
- [31:44]
B
I do. I. Okay. So I feel like when I watched it live, I was like, how. Why would Jalen possibly ever do that? You just. Guys gave us this big speech about how you're very focused in the locker room. So focused that they're doing a banner ceremony celebrating the super bowl win from last season. And nobody from the Eagles is out there because they're in the locker room getting focused because they have a game to win that night, so they skip their own party. And then on the very first play, you spit on the quarterback. I was shocked. And like, his face didn't see seem as he was leaving the field because he got kicked out. It didn't seem like he was. I just felt like we were observing two different situations. And then it came out that they showed video by the end because that game got rain delayed. But I feel like it was in the third quarter. They were like, hey, we have footage that shows that it. It actually may. Dak may have spit first. And you see a clip of Dak kind of like looking at Jaylen through the heads of his. His line lineman and he like, is talking to him and then he spits in his direction and then like breaks through his, you know, lineman and. And makes his way towards him. And after the game, Dak said a. That he spits all the time. He spits during games. It's something he does. He's not proud of, but he's like, probably spits a thousand times a game. Which, Buddy, I don't know, but that feels like an acid reflux. You should probably talk to Somebody about, get a scope. Go get scoped. They'll go right down your nose. They'll figure it out. But he also said, you know, that he spit. And then Jalen said, are you spitting at me? And he came towards him. He. That's when he stepped through. His linesman basically were like. He said, in more colorful language, quote, unquote. He said, I probably said something to him like, why would I. Why would I spit at you? Which is antagonistic. So it. Like, if. If a guy. I'm putting myself in Jalen's shoes, I'm hyped up for this game. It's the very. It's the first play. So if energy is something that depletes, you would say, this is when you have the most of it in the game. You come out to play and this guy, you perceive that he spit at you, and you go, did you just spit at me? And instead of him going, no, I spit a thousand times a game. My bad, dude. I'm ashamed of it. He steps through his lineman towards you and says, why the f. Or whatever he said would I spit at you? I'd be like, excuse me, I spit at you. It wasn't smart. He shouldn't have done it. It was crazy to see just how many cameras. I feel like I've been watching a lot of, like, baseball, and some baseball games are now being played in, like, minor league parks because everything's broken. And so it was just funny to see the amount of cameras they had ready in immediately to show 18 different angles of that spit hitting Dak in the jersey. It was very funny.
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A
The next gen stats on him just get the. The. The arc of the spit hitting him.
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B
But it was. I just felt like once I heard that and saw that. So I. I went, okay, at least I understood. He still shouldn't have done it. It was massively stupid. It cost their team. It was like a whatever. But at least I didn't go like, like, is this guy out of his mind? It was just like he had just hyped himself up to get out there to kill the guy on the other side of the line. That's the whole point. And then he got like, kind of. I don't know. He should have been smarter about it. But he got baited into acting a way that I at least now go, okay, I see how we got here.
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A
4D chess. Dak Prescott said, I'm gonna find the most hyped up guy on the defense, and I'm going to gently patooey right on the ground. In front of him and see if he can. And see if he can get himself ejected.
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B
I don't know if it was all that, especially because he didn't even know he got ejected. He thought he was just, they got a penalty. He didn't think that he got kicked out. So yeah, that was a good game. And we didn't talk about the Chiefs game down in Brazil.
- [35:37]
A
It was oddly very normal, right? It was in Brazil. It was presented by YouTube. Mr.
- [35:43]
B
I didn't, I felt old. I'm sorry, I, I don't want to be that lady who gives that take. But all the little things they were doing for the, the YouTube of it all, I was like, this is, I.
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A
Guess I expected worse.
- [35:55]
B
Yeah.
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A
You know?
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B
Yeah. I just like Mr.
- [35:57]
A
Beast was gonna run out and be like, here's what happens when you sign a one million dollar quarterback. Now here's a ten million dollar quarterback.
- [36:04]
B
I locked this ten million dollar quarterback in a supermarket for ten weeks.
- [36:13]
A
I mean, at least they had AI generated ads with Mr. Beast's AI generator face.
- [36:19]
B
I also do have to retract my anger at Red Zone. The commercials weren't that bad. I feel like accountability is important and I did make it sound like it was going to be this big. But I will still say exactly. That is how they get you. And now that they're allowed to have ads and seeing people out here going, like, people are really overreacting about Red Zone or people out here going, you can't be a real sports fan if you watch Red Zone. It's like you guys are in such a rush to lick a boot. What are we doing? Let's all say we don't want ads. Sure they're gonna do it anyway. Sure they don't care. But if we can just let people be annoyed that ads have to fuck their way into every single thing we do, every single thing we enjoy. Even the things that like pride themselves on having no ads now have to stop saying that part because they have ads. So, like we're allowed to be annoyed at that. But I will say it was only like four ads and they were like 15 second half screen things that only added up to a total of a minute. I didn't mean to fear Monger or the sky is falling. I just am like very sick of being advertised to. Especially now because on baseball broadcasts, for whatever reason, I'm seeing commercials for ice and it's driving me nuts.
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A
For ice.
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B
For ice.
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A
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought the ice.
- [37:35]
B
That you put in your water. But the image In Gestapo, I meant.
- [37:40]
A
Like, pull open the big silver door at a grass.
- [37:43]
B
I was like, what an interesting thing that Brady wants to dig in on. I thought he would be giving me the please move on from this phase. And it's like that. It was watching him realize that, no, not cold.
- [37:52]
A
Like $2.29 a bag. How. Ad budget.
- [37:57]
B
Since when is it $2.29? I thought it was like 99 cents.
- [38:01]
A
No, no, I. That's like 1999 ice price frozen water.
- [38:06]
C
You now have to pay for air at the. When you're trying to pump up your tires.
- [38:10]
B
You don't. You do.
- [38:11]
C
Yep. See, I always thought.
- [38:13]
A
I always thought that was just to keep kids from messing with the air pump.
- [38:16]
C
But the fact that you have to pay for air to fill up your tires. I'll take a dollar or something, but.
- [38:20]
B
Do it with my mouth.
- [38:23]
A
Yeah, you're not paying for the air. You're paying for the compression of it. It's a giant machine doing this.
- [38:27]
B
Can I just do it with, like, a bicycle pump? Was that all the football? Did we talk about all the football?
- [38:32]
A
I think there were two Browns fans that got married at their tailgate in the parking lot, and I thought, yeah.
- [38:37]
B
That'S more sad than anything.
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A
It's adorable.
- [38:39]
B
I don't know. You got married. Did the Browns win?
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A
No, no.
- [38:44]
B
They got married or they got engaged?
- [38:46]
A
No, they got married and then their.
- [38:48]
B
Kicker missed a parking lot.
- [38:49]
A
Their kicker missed a 36 yard field goal to win it on their wedding day.
- [38:53]
B
Yeah. That's tough. What did they wear? Do they wear traditional garbage?
- [38:59]
A
Traditional garb means Brown's jerseys.
- [39:01]
C
A traditional tailgate gap.
- [39:03]
B
It sure doesn't for a wedding.
- [39:04]
A
All right, so the Nolan wedding is all right.
- [39:07]
B
We're no jersey. Yeah. Feel pretty strongly about that. The. The jersey policy is gonna be cool.
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A
Okay.
- [39:13]
B
At the wedding. Again, look at this. Just assuming you were going to be invited.
- [39:16]
A
Did not. Did not.
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B
Remember last time when you guys fought over the jobs that you would all like to have? I was just going as media flower girl. I had a media pass.
- [39:25]
A
I have. I'm credentialed. Okay.
- [39:27]
B
Okay. You can't drink if you're credentialed.
- [39:30]
A
That's fine.
- [39:30]
B
So, fun wedding.
- [39:32]
A
That's what gummies are for.
- [39:34]
B
Even us. Dan doesn't drink. Obviously. He's quit doing that. He was so good at it. He graduated. He's not allowed to go back. He. We. I, even us, will have an open bar. You can't have a wedding without an open bar.
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C
It's just of course not.
- [39:47]
B
No. It's just a debate that rages online a lot. I want to put my. Yeah, I mean, obviously there's like, exceptions. If you. It's. If it's a cost cutting and you have to. It's like, that's fine. I'm not judging people that. But like, if you can, you supposed to. It's your party. You're supposed to give everybody the. The stuff to party with. That's part of it. So anyway, Brady, we have to talk about the Dodgers almost no hitter, because what an exciting sports moment to be on the winning side of. Why don't you take this one and tell everybody what happened this weekend on Saturday night.
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A
So I pitched this as our lead story today. And I know that that is an absurd thing because it was NFL week one, and you know, football is football.
- [40:31]
B
He has a whole speech written.
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A
You see this and you know, Bill's Ravens was amazing. Saturday night was the 30th anniversary. So let me take you back 30 years. Saturday night was the 30th anniversary celebration in Baltimore of Cal Ripken's 2131 game game, which in 1995. It was a game where Cal Ripken broke Lou Gehrig's record for most consecutive games played in Major League baseball history. Essentially, it's about 14 years of playing every day in every game. And while it sounds just kind of like showing up, it's a record that's defined by like the greatness of the two men who have held it. Lou Gehrig might be the greatest first baseman of all time. I mean, he very tragically has career ended by played als. Cal Ripken, hall of Famer, who was just the heart of the city of Baltimore, played there for 20 years, was just an incredible part of the city. Everyone loved him. Great offensive player, great defensive player, great community man, yada yada. So 1995 post baseball strike, people have a very sour taste in their mouth about baseball. But. But that night, you know, nationally televised in Baltimore, Cal breaks the record. They're. There's banners everywhere. There are hall of Famers everywhere there to celebrate him. Cal Homer's in the game because of course he did. He does a victory lap, like around the field mid game, high fiving every fan who comes down. Amazing night, amazing moment. Like Baltimore sports history etched in stone forever. This weekend was the 30th anniversary of it, and they brought in all the Orioles hall of Famers, all the locals. Jim Palmer was there, Eddie Murray was there. They had Chris Berman was there. Ken Griffey Jr. Was there just luminaries from all over baseball from the last 30 years. Caitlin Clark happened to be there in attendance just because the Fever were playing the Mystics in Baltimore like, it was a packed house. Celebrities were there. It was like the marquee moment of the season for the Orioles, who are having a down year, and this is like their moment of the year. Such a celebration, such good vibes, so much nostalgia. All the greats were coming through the booth. You were getting to hear from them, see them, you know, Brady Anderson, Chris Hoyles, like all the Orioles greats that everybody grew up would love. There's so much nostalgia.
- [42:39]
B
This is the guy who wants the podcast under an hour. Yes.
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A
This is how great this one was. So the Orioles show up to play the Dodgers on this night and completely get on for the first eight innings of the game. Yoshinobu Namamoto from the Dodgers is absolutely. No hitting them, like, cannot be touched. Zero hits for the Orioles and a no hitter is one of the greatest accomplishments a pitcher can have. You get like, one or two of them a year. Yamamoto's no hating them after six innings, after seven innings, after eight innings, it feels like the Orioles can't touch this guy, and they're going to have the most embarrassing showing possible in the most attended game of their year. One out goes by in the ninth, two outs go by in the ninth. Kobe Mayo just kind of flies out deep on the first pitch, and you're like, ah, this is going to be terrible. Two outs in the ninth inning. Jackson Holiday gets one hanging over home plate. The Orioles second baseman and launches it into the seats in right center field about 3ft over the fence. Breaks up the no hitter, breaks up the shutout. And the fans, like, stand and applaud partially for Yamamoto and partially because, like, all right, this is not going to be as embarrassing as we thought.
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B
What's the score of the game at this point?
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A
Three to one off the home run. Still two outs in the ninth, and the Orioles fans are kind of like, all right, we're gonna lose this game, but. And then base hit. And then I hit batter. And there's two on. They've pulled Yamamoto at this point because he's throwing too many pitches. He's too tired. Blake Trinen walks. Another batter, walks in a run. You have made the appropriate face about Blake Trinen, and seeing him fail was kind of schadenfreude. Delightful. They had to pull him at that point. It was three to two. The fans were on their feet. They were going nuts. Because now it finally feels like there is a chance they can win this game. Emmanuel Rivera comes into pinch hit against the third pitcher of the inning. Lines one to center field. First run scores. Jorge Mateo rips around third base. The throw is offline. He comes across. Orioles walk off and win. They go from being one out away from being no hit to absolute electric atmosphere in the building. Fans going crazy. Like, I'm just texting emotion to my Orioles group chat, being like, this team was about to. To bed and embarrass themselves. This group chat may include one person who used to be the general manager of the Orioles. And, like, I'm just completely ecstatic and, like, jumping around being like, thank you all for riding this roller coaster of motion. This is the reason we watch sports.
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B
I know this was everything in one night. Like, because literally, it means nothing. The Orioles suck. The season's done. It's not a. A nothing comes of this, but, like, that way that feels in that moment where you're like, man, this great night. Everyone's here remembering a moment in our history. I was feeling good about the franchise, and then I'm immediately reminded how bad we suck to then have such, like, a momentum shift like we were talking about with the. The Ravens and the Bills and watch, like, the. They come. What an incredible. For that moment, you're like, yeah, I'm proud of you, fan. We did that. Yeah. Again, means nothing.
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A
Your team, they lost the next day.
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B
But it's great, great night. Great moment. Really cool, exciting stuff. You guys stink.
- [45:53]
A
But, man, it felt good, though.
- [45:54]
B
That's so fun. And against the Dodgers, too.
- [45:57]
A
Yeah. Otani started that game.
- [45:59]
B
Yeah. Delicious.
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A
What a night.
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B
What a night.
- [46:04]
A
What a night.
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B
Oh, what a night.
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A
Damn.
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B
Yeah. So that's good. Good job. That was like 30 minutes. Do you have any awareness of that? Do you have any awareness of how long that was? That we just. I know. And I just want to be like. And this. That's where I'm coming from. I'm excited every time. And this is where the time goes. It disappears into the ether. Okay, now to the thing I wanted to be the lead story for today. A woman, a Phillies fan, at the Phillies Marlins game in Miami. There was a big controversy. I'm sure you saw it. There's no chance you didn't see it. This broke out of sports in a way that is actually kind of the point of what I want to talk about. But this woman with your classic Karen haircut, it's an unfortunate thing for people named Karen. And it's an Unfortunate thing for people with that haircut. It just happens to be that that is the, like, archetype of this type of woman, and she sort of fit the bill. Oh, you guys have names here? Oh, the name of the dad who had the kid. All right, so there's a game, a ball. Harrison Bader hits a home run. Who plays for the Phillies? Harrison Bader. And went flying into the crowd in left field, and it landed in the bleachers by a group of people, but it was in a part that nobody was sitting. So in that case, ball's usually up for grabs. It's kind of like whoever gets to it. Whoever gets the ball. Yay. Exciting. They got the ball. So a guy, Drew Feltwell, goes over and thinks he gets the ball, and he brings it over to his son. He walks back to his section, which is a little further away, and gives it to his son. A woman who had been seated right in the row behind where the ball hit took exception to that. We don't really necessarily. I mean, she kept saying that it was in her hand. I don't know that we saw that on video. It was a little confusing. But she came over to him. I mean, we got every angle of this. Like, it was the spit, by the way. Like, we got cell phone video from every section. Apparently, this woman had kind of been a menace in her section all night. And she marched over to the guy and basically was like, that was my ball. You stole it from me. The guy drew, the father, like, put his hands up and was very like, whoa. Clearly scared by how she had, like, accosted him and got in his face. And then pretty quickly, he turned to the kid, took the ball out of the kid's glove, gave it back to the woman, was basically like, okay, go ahead. You can have it. She then goes back to her section. This gets clipped and put on the Internet. People were like, this lady's a monster. Drew's son named Lincoln. It was his birthday. The kid who had the ball. So then when the Marlins saw, I guess, what had happened, they were like, PR opportunity. They went up to the section and gave him a bunch of swag. It included video games. And he's a Phillies fan, I believe. These. These people are Phillies fans, correct?
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A
Yes.
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B
So. So they got this little swag bag. And then after the game, he got to meet Harrison Bader, who plays for the Phillies, and hit the home run. He got assigned bat from Harrison Bader. Later, I saw that Marcus Lemonis, that CNBC guy, the business guy, who's. I don't know, like, important. He's gonna send them to the World Series. The dad and the son. Pretty sure he had a daughter that was there too. So little sister gets the shaft again. Just always, constantly. If there's no. If there's a big brother, the big brother gets it. If there's no big brother, then it's oh, daddy, daughter. But it's never.
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A
The sister was on the other side. There was a lot of theorizing that the sister may have swapped the balls in.
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B
What? Swapped what balls in? What do you mean?
- [49:36]
A
That there's a. The sister reaches into the brother's glove as the woman is asking to have the ball back. There was a lot of theorizing that the sister may have swapped in a different ball. Oh, they also let me wishcast that one.
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B
Why? Where'd she get another ball from?
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A
Like a souvenir ball or something. Like, you know, you go and you get a ball souvenir.
- [49:53]
B
If I just paid money for a ball, I don't think I would put that ball in the.
- [49:58]
C
For a Harrison Beta home run bowl.
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B
I mean, is she a child?
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A
Does she seem to be an older child?
- [50:04]
B
Okay. All right. I was just Picturing like a 7 year old. I didn't know you went deep into the.
- [50:08]
A
Oh, I went down the rabbit hole. Because you're right. There are a lot of angles of this.
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B
Yeah, a lot. Well, then I'm interested to know your thoughts because. Yeah, you. You dove in on it. What did you think? Who's at fault?
- [50:23]
A
Okay, well, yes, the ball is up for grabs. The. The woman from behind that does the accosting is clearly in the wrong because there is no ownership of this ball. And if you're reaching down into a section, it's not like it's. It's if it's in her space where she paid the ticket. That's one thing. If someone reaches in and grabs it. It was in the seat in front of her, and she's trying to reach down and grab it, and he just walks across and grabs it from the row he's sitting in. Clearly his ball. Clearly his ball. She also can't run over and put hands on him and like, yeah, wild. Like, that's assault, brother. You can't run over and grab him and. And demand that ball back. I understand him being terrified because if you're like, like you're hyped up and you're excited and you just gave your kid this ball and it's loud, and then suddenly this woman looking as she does, sneaks in Grabs you and gets in your face. I'm terrified in that moment too. Like, I understand how badly that could go. I'm probably throwing my hands up and I will literally do anything to get her out of my life at that moment. It's a tough call. I mean, I understand why, fearing for your safety now, the. The tough call of whether or not to give her the ball in that moment moment. Like, do you get.
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B
Oh, I see. Look, I think the dad deserves credit for de escalating.
- [51:36]
A
Yeah.
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B
So rarely. So rarely are we seeing situations where people are de escalating situations that have unnecessarily escalated. And I think he did a really good job of just going like, just a ball. Yeah.
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A
She's not a rational human being in that moment.
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B
Right. She's clearly not operating with her best, most conscious and connected brain. So you almost don't want to introduce whatever this force is into your especially children's life. So it's like, okay, lady, just take the ball and get out of here. And then she also got up, she.
- [52:02]
A
Got the ball and walked away and expressed no joy about it either. That was, I think, the harshest part was that she took the ball away from the kid and wasn't even happy about it. Yeah, she was just like.
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B
Although her being happy about taking the ball from the kid, I would feel like that's almost crazier if you're like, haha, I got it okay. From a child.
- [52:20]
A
Cruella Deville was able to like, experience joy in her life. Like this woman, like, got everything she.
- [52:26]
B
Wanted going with this.
- [52:31]
A
This woman was making a out of baseballs. Couldn't even celebrate it. She had. She was just reveling and being so aggrieved.
- [52:39]
B
I think it was good of the dad to de escalate. I think it was good of the Marlins to make good on it to. To help the kid, you know, not have his birthday ruined by a cranky, weirdly, weirdly angry lady that he doesn't know. And then I think once it got online. This is where I take exception to the way that we act as a society. Now I want everyone to hear me say that I understand the desire for someone on this damn planet to experience consequences of their actions. I understand the desire for people to be held accountable when they act in an antisocial way or in a way that is unacceptable to us as a society. I understand completely how frustrating it is to feel like people keep just doing whatever they want and nobody ever makes them reckon with what they've done to the vibe or to other people. I don't think we've got to hunt down Phillies, Karen. I don't think we need to try to find her real name and her job. I don't think we need to as was commented on the people.com article about this. So not a big sports fan audience. Not somebody I would care to be. It's just people.com two comments. One said, we need to light this bitch up. She needs to be taught a lesson. And then someone wrote, bye, bye Karen. Good luck trying to show your face in public. I think maybe what we do in these situations is say, hey, look this way. This woman was. She sucks. Don't be like this. This isn't the way to be. And then we move on. I don't think I don't see the value and it freaks me out how many people do see the value in hunting her down to make sure she gets fired from her job. For what? For being like a really tough hang? For being like a miserable woman that night? What is the crime? I understand. I'm just said I'm with you on the point of she shouldn't have done this. She was in the wrong. But I just. You lose me when we get into this. Like Internet, do your thing. Okay, either you do it or shut up. I don't this stupid. Everybody getting in on it by quote, tweeting or posting like, oh, they're gonna find her, drag her out. Like, aren't you embarrassed? This is an embarrassing way to be acting. I get that this woman sucks, but you're not better if you want to know her government name and find out where she works and make sure. Is that gonna help you sleep at night? That this lady doesn't have a job at a time when jobs are tough to come by, make sure she loses hers. Because who knows, she could have had a terrible day. She. For all you know, that woman just found out she's got cancer. You have no idea what's going on with that person. Person. Just like you had no idea it's that kid's birthday. Nobody knows any. We all need to be just a little bit more like, hey, that lady sucks. I feel a lot more comfortable telling you guys that lady sucks because we don't know her name. Because I don't think we need to be tracking her down and screaming at her. And I don't want to harass this lady, but what she did sucks. Her existing as a nameless person that we can refer to so as not to be like that is actually valuable. And I'm Annoyed by the amount of people that are always like, find her. Find her and get her fired from the school she's an underpaid teacher at. Okay, I feel great now. This feels great.
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C
Yeah. Especially because the kid got a bunch of stuff from the game anyway. He came away looking pretty good from that. You know what I mean? Like, you're not making it about, oh, this poor kid anymore. You're making it strictly about the woman. And I don't think you can separate those two things. You're upset with her because of what she did with the kid, but then the kid had a good night, so you could sort of just leave it at that.
- [56:42]
B
Like, the only reason I would ever want to identify this woman is so that we could connect her with the father and his son so that she can apologize to them. She owes them an apology. Other than that, it really, I don't see any value in trying to find out who this is. This lady is. I. The only thing I think she owes is an apology to those people. And she should be looking at her actions. She should be self reflecting and going, man, why was I such a monster that night? I don't want to hear the. I mean, it's not the fault of the dad, but when this article, I believe this was the People magazine article that I bumped into on like an algorithm when it said, like, father from Philly's Karen breaks his silence. Like, get this out of my face. Breaks his silence. Silence. It's not like he's got a thing that he weakly speaks on. It's like he wasn't silent. We just didn't know how to talk to him. It's not a silence being broken. You just talk to the guy. So we're building this up to be some big thing. It's just like, I don't know, watching everybody descend and then all the, like, political accounts that get in on these arguments to try to drum up interactions because that's how you make money on social media. Now, Chris, I know you don't know that because you're not on it, but you'll see people just like rage bait to try to talk about the thing everyone's talking about. And every now and then you see these little political accounts dip into sports and you're like, get out, get out. We're not doing this. Okay? It's still, it's like we can self police sports.
- [58:10]
A
It also crosses over into a woman did a thing that we can yell at her, right?
- [58:14]
B
Then it becomes right. And then, then it gets annoying because then I'M like, okay, I don't want. I am. I was with you guys on her being in the wrong, but now we're going too far. Now it's becoming about this woman, this like, like, this bitch. Like the words they're using to bring her out. We gotta. It's like, okay, you guys are on a different thing. This feels like you should call your mom if you can and see what the issue is. Because it's just a lot. So I don't know. Hopefully we all drop this now. I think I feel the kid gets to go to the World Series.
- [58:47]
C
There'll be someone else taking something else. If a kid at a spawning event next.
- [58:50]
B
I mean, we just had a CEO stealing the hat. So it's like, I'd rather us be more mad at him still than we are to move into this. Like, clearly this.
- [58:59]
A
She just needs to apologize and it needs to happen during a Nick Castellanos at bat.
- [59:04]
B
Yeah.
- [59:05]
A
And then the world can be right.
- [59:07]
B
She's a CEO. All right. The U.S. open. I feel bad. It kind of went off with like a. And I kind of. It's. I'm not blaming the guy, but he did. Trump did delay it by a long time. The U.S. open men's final between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner. I mean, stop me if you've heard it before. I've been following tennis for like a few weeks and it's like, oh, these two again, I see. Was delayed by 30 minutes because of extra security measures put in place for president. I love that something happened. Oh, it's a fleck of dust on my screen. It looked like you wrote president like you put a little accent on president. I was like, who are we doing it? Like a margarita. But no should. It was just dirt on my screen. President Donald Trump's visit. The match was scheduled to start at I love 14 local time at 2 o' clock in New York, but was pushed back because of huge cues. Okay, so this is what from the Daily Mail. I could just tell by the way it's written. This is from a British publication. Was pushed back because of huge lines outside of Arthur Ashe. Security had been increased significantly with airport style scanners erected overnight outside. Ash, here's a question. Hello. Why weren't we doing that already? Why did we need to start doing that? Only he gets to be not shot. I'd like to go to the US Open and not be shot.
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A
Oh, aren't we greedy now?
- [60:26]
B
I. It's like, God, I'm sorry.
- [60:28]
A
You were supposed to not be Able to not be American.
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B
Never, ever stop being American or I'll kill you. Okay, Dana. Okay. Quote. As a result of the security measures in place and to ensure that fans have additional time to get to their seats, we have have pushed the start time, U.S. open organizers said in a statement. Conspiracy theory. I had heard that they asked the broadcasters not to show booze.
- [60:56]
A
Is this correctly? Did. Yeah.
- [60:58]
B
They had said don't show booze. I'm saying conspiracy theory. If there's nobody in the stadium, there's nobody to boo.
- [61:06]
A
That's fair.
- [61:07]
B
So I don't know. I'm not saying. I'm just saying it just felt like a. But I saw a video of people, you know, when he came out and did his little wave, people zoomed out. There was nobody there. It was. So I guess you don't have to suppress free speech if you don't allow it in the building. So I don't know. Cool. Hope you had a good time. Saw they sat him with the trophy. Sure. He loved that. Sure. He asked to keep it. Sure. Positive.
- [61:34]
A
Just made it something. This is mine, right? Looked bored as hell.
- [61:40]
B
Bored as hell. He clearly had no idea what was going on. Please, no idea. And. And that's so great. I love that, Love that so much. It's great. Thanks Rolex. Thanks Rolex.
- [61:54]
A
My favorite corporate sponsorship of the weekend was Sabalenka. At her post match presser, she came to talk to the media covered in champagne with moe goggles on. Like sponsored. Where she had branded moe goggles so that she could just spray herself in champagne after the win.
- [62:13]
B
Great. Putting Myrtle in the shot for you.
- [62:15]
A
What's up, Myrtle?
- [62:16]
B
She's just chilling. She loves moe. She's a moe girl. Why you open your mouth like that? Yeah, she does. She really does. She's an expensive date. Yeah. Sabalenka also won, but I loved. I saw Nomi Osaka, Naomi Osaka posted on Instagram about like, yeah, it's over for me. But I felt so good and I had so much fun and I was like, let's go, let's go.
- [62:44]
A
Nice.
- [62:45]
B
She did a. A great job. Also, I saw people talking about how Djokovic. A lot of noise is being made about how he's made it to the semi finals of the last few whatever, slams. And then nobody talks about how he like loses in straight sets in all of them. He's like, not. He might be getting a little.
- [63:05]
A
It's got to be tough to be the third best tennis player in the world.
- [63:07]
B
Yeah.
- [63:07]
A
When like the top two are finally.
- [63:09]
B
Time yeah, it's gotta be tough.
- [63:11]
A
I also heard they're lucrative still, so, like, I'd probably be okay with it.
- [63:14]
B
I also heard the other day they're Saudi washing some. They're using the. They're doing the tennis. They're coming for tennis now. They're doing like a special Netflix king of the something great. Tennis.
- [63:26]
A
So that's now golf, something.
- [63:28]
B
Boxing, something to look forward to. Comedy, golf, boxing, comedy, pro wrestling.
- [63:34]
C
E games.
- [63:35]
A
E games. Yeah.
- [63:37]
B
Yeah, Cool. Not coming for the women's sports, though. I wonder why that is. I wonder why that is. Be sure to check out the Riyadh Comedy Festival. Ben Shelton and Trinity Rodman are flirting all over my algorithm. It's. I'm getting parasocial about it. I like giggle and kick my feet up when I watch videos of them. I was scrolling through Tik Tok cuz I'm not above it because I'm also a piece of. Because I'm in the mud with you. I was scrolling the other day and the two of them were doing a crumble cookie review and they just are so cute. It's so annoying how cute I find them and how much I enjoy their little dynamic. We saw Trinity asking questions before Ben had to. Ben ended up what. What's it. What's the tennis word? Pulling out of the tournament because of his shoulder retiring.
- [64:27]
A
He's got a good entire game before.
- [64:29]
B
That, the game before that, she was in the. In his post game press conference or post match press conference, asking about if he was upset that he wasn't hitting the ball hard enough that day. And like, he was annoyed but in a sweet and cute way. And then in this one, they're trying to come up with like, their. What their hybrid couple name is, and they're like, annoyed with each other in a sweet and cute way. And then over the weekend, he interviewed her after the Washington Spirit game. Can we play a little bit of the clip? Ben Shelton with Trinity. Robin. Ben, it's your show now. You can take it over.
- [65:03]
A
All right, what's up, guys? How we doing?
- [65:04]
B
Great. How are you?
- [65:05]
A
Great. Great. First off, I want to say great game. Trent, I got a couple questions. First of all, two great combo goals today. It was really, really cool to see the assists. Can you talk about your dynamic with Croy Bethune and how you guys play out there together off each other? It's really cool to see.
- [65:23]
B
Yeah, I think Kroy's a really smart player. I don't even really have to look at her for myself to know that she's going to play me back and she's cheeky like that. And I knew it was coming back to me. She's a great player.
- [65:34]
A
Yeah. That's awesome. That's awesome. One last question. I'll let you go. Just want to know this. This team has had some struggles with injury throughout the year. It seems like you guys are getting a lot of. A lot of players back, really coming into form right before playoff season. What are your hopes and goals for the team for the rest of this year? And what do you guys, what do you guys want to. Want to do going forward?
- [65:55]
B
Yeah, I mean, there's been a lot of.
- [65:59]
A
No, I'm gonna be the bigger man. I'm gonna be the bigger man. I'm the bigger man. I'm keeping it positive.
- [66:05]
B
Yeah, I think, I think there's been a lot of interchange with players and formations and lineups and we're still trying to get our group together. But yeah, it's nice to have a healthy squad and to have a lot of attacking threats so you can score goals and have fun. Well, thanks.
- [66:17]
A
Thanks a lot, guys. Thanks. Back to you.
- [66:20]
B
Thanks so much. Have you ever heard anybody giggle so much in a post game interview?
- [66:26]
A
She's so happy.
- [66:27]
B
She sounds so very happy.
- [66:29]
C
So in love. They're so, so in love.
- [66:32]
B
Obsessed with each other. It's so cute. He also asked like real questions. It was so sweet.
- [66:38]
C
Oh, good questions. Good media.
- [66:40]
B
I know. Yeah. Oh, my God. I'm like such a child. I'm embarrassed. I'm like a 13 year old girl with these two. I'm like, look, they love each other. They love each other so much.
- [66:52]
A
I'm afraid to be hurt after I.
- [66:54]
B
You know what? I don't care.
- [66:55]
A
After Pam and Liam.
- [66:56]
B
Don't even bring them up. You know, she brought it up again and I didn't, I didn't look into it. She said something about, like, it's a death sentence if you fake a PR relationship. And I was like, so are you saying you did? Are you saying you didn't? I don't have time for this. I don't have time for this. I was rooting for you.
- [67:08]
A
Get out of here with this barbed wire. You lost all your good faith.
- [67:13]
B
So anyway, I'm obsessed with those two, but in a way that's normal. And if you ever don't tell them, I'm not like trying to be weird about it. It's just I think they're so cute. And also because they're just like a little bit cute, mean to each other sometimes you know what I mean? It's, like, fun to see, I don't know, two people that clearly just like being around each other and are, like, in that little moment, also allegedly dating. Let's. While we're doing relationship catch up, Justin Herbert and Madison Beer. They were photographed together, like, a week or two ago. Two weeks ago, people were abuzz. And Justin Herbert, the quarterback from the Los Angeles Chargers, and. And Madison Beard, a. Is a. I don't actually should say she sings. I'm pretty sure she's very pretty. I feel like she's somehow connected to.
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A
Justin Bieber also has shown up in a Mr. Beast video.
- [68:03]
B
Yeah, she's one of, like. It's like an Addison Ray when you're my age. It's like a. When you go, like, okay, a very pretty girl who's figuring out what her thing is. I feel like. But maybe she sings better than I realize. I don't think I. I know she sings. I just don't know if I would know a song, like, if a song of hers has, like, broken through in a way that an old has. Would be familiar with it. A medium old. I don't know. I feel like people that are older than me are like, stop saying you're old. The people that are younger than me is like, you should know who Madison Beer is. And I'm like, I'm just trying to speak my truth. Okay. They look cute together. And I also find it fascinating that the Internet hates it. So I don't know how deep you guys get in on Reddit, but one of my, like, anthropological favorite things to just observe are these, like, niche subreddit where people who are parasocially in love with a male, whether it's an athlete, an actor, a singer, where they sort of, like, I don't know, compound one another's delusions and talk about the girl that the guy they're obsessed with might be dating. It's just a fascinating look into human psyche and how we bond with each other where people just are, like, like, in denial about two people dating when they're holding hands and caught, like, out on a date where they're like, no, you wouldn't date her. She's below his. He's not into girls like that. And you're like, you don't know this person at all. You have no idea what this guy's into at all. And most straight guys are into girls like that. I don't know what to tell you. I don't think that. That you're right on this one. But it is fun to watch. It's. Have you ever been to the Timothy Chalamet's?
- [69:46]
A
Oh, no.
- [69:48]
B
These people are just like, he'll come back to me one day when he's.
- [69:51]
A
Done with his Lucid car ads.
- [69:54]
B
What?
- [69:55]
A
Oh, he started popping up all over NFL Sunday for Lucid, the electric car brand.
- [69:59]
B
We have a new car brand.
- [70:01]
A
Oh, yeah. You don't get those very often. I think the last one we had before that was like, Saturn.
- [70:05]
B
No, the last one before that is the one that just came out like not that long ago. And I had this exact same conversation. I was like, where'd that come from?
- [70:11]
A
So there's Rivans, Lucids, the two. The two other electric car brands after Tesla.
- [70:17]
B
Yeah, Tesla.
- [70:19]
A
I mean, Shalam has the one that comes. It's like an ad for like Chanel perfume. And since you can't really make ads for perfume, all he has to do is just like slowly turn his head while the Moody Blues plays. And they're like, this is your ad. And I'm like, this couldn't have taken you more than 14 minutes to produce and you're getting a residual every year. And God damn it, I wish I had your life.
- [70:37]
B
Timothy Shallow, the Moody Blues. That's what. That's what the Niners were feeling this weekend.
- [70:42]
A
Heyo. Because their kickers, Jake Moody, and he.
- [70:46]
B
Missed a lot of kicks. They're sticking with him. They said, did you see that? Yeah.
- [70:50]
A
Stand by your guy.
- [70:51]
B
I don't know, man. I don't know, man. Dan is ready to throw that guy off a ship. He's not happy.
- [70:56]
A
They spent like a third round pick on him. So they're kind of over invested in a kicker.
- [71:00]
B
Yeah, Dan's. Dan has.
- [71:01]
A
They bought a way too early.
- [71:03]
B
Dan is cashing out on that guy. I hope they never meet because I don't want Dan to have to, you know, but it's just a nightmare. There was also a little bit of slap drama, the Travis Kelce slap drama that I saw unfolding online. We don't really have time to get into all of this, and I find it probably less interesting the more days away from it we get. But somebody who was the guy on the.
- [71:25]
A
Was it Tart, the defensive tackle from the Chargers?
- [71:28]
B
From the Chargers slapped Travis Kelce across the face during that Brazil game and didn't get called or in trouble for it. And then after the game, like posted online and said that he's too swift with it. And then swifties were some swifties, I guess you should say, because I Guess you wouldn't want to lift up the them as a paragon of the intent. They're not a. It's not a monolith, I guess. But they felt that was an attack on Taylor and. And they weren't happy about it. So I just think. I didn't know you could do that. I didn't know you could slap a guy in a game and then later post about how proud of yourself you were for slack getting away with slapping a guy in a game. I feel like that's where a league would normally go. Okay. And you're fined for that. You can't. We. You got away with it. You should have just shut up. Don't go home and go, yeah, I slapped this darling of the NFL.
- [72:21]
A
It's because I can't stop being American.
- [72:23]
B
My bad. I can't. I'll never, ever stop being American.
- [72:26]
A
Look, if they can run 40 ads by the guy who invented Power Slap, then he can slap some helmets.
- [72:32]
B
Did he invent it or did he just, like, pick it up?
- [72:34]
A
It was not a thing beforehand. I don't think competitive slapping was a. Chris, was competitive slapping a sport before Power Slap existed?
- [72:42]
C
I wouldn't have thought so.
- [72:44]
B
Yeah, well, we'll never know. Shout out to Alex Morgan. She had her jersey retired this weekend. That. Her speech made me emotional. The San Diego Wave is the team that is retiring it. Number 13. They retired it after her match on Sunday. After their match. Sorry. On Sunday. Would be pretty crazy if she played in it, but I would love that. I'd watch. Presented the legend with a framed jersey moments after the team lost. Okay, and that's. Who cares? Why are we bringing that up? Even that they lost to Houston, Nobody gives a shit. 100 of Morgan's family members and friends were in attendance for Sunday's matching ceremony. She must have hit a limit. I bet I was 101. I bet if anybody in that hundred declined, I think I was right. I just missed the cutoff right there. But I know she wanted me to be there. I was busy. Including former teammates like Tobin Heath. They commemorated the jersey retirement, which is a rare honor in soccer, by giving fans pink headbands. The look that we all know Alex Morgan made iconic. And there was a huge number 13 structure wrapped in pink. Pink pre wrap, which is what she uses to do her headbands. She retired last year. She played for nearly 15 years. And in May she bought an ownership stake in the wave. Two time World cup winner, an Olympic champion, she scored 123 international goals. That's the fifth most in US women's national team history. We love her. She's done so much for the game. She was a face for the women's game for a long time and helped spread, you know, the gospel of women's soccer. She was an icon. Is an icon, and we love her. And hearing her say that this wasn't even something she'd ever dreamed she'd be a part of because this didn't exist before when she was a kid. Just beautiful. So shout out, Alex Morgan, we love you. And I'm sorry. I was busy and I couldn't make it.
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A
She understands.
- [74:43]
B
Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I think she might be mad at me. The Aces won 14 straight. They've been undefeated since the baby race. You know, we talked about that. The baby race. That one baby got up and walked still.
- [74:57]
A
Bullshit.
- [74:58]
B
The audience was split. Some people felt like, that's an incredible feat. Other people felt like, you're not supposed to use your feet. It's strictly hands and knees. It says it in the rules. But since that controversial moment, they have it lost.
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A
You know, if this was Major League Baseball, the Aces absolutely would have had a fake baby on the sideline. They would have put the baby on T shirts. There would have been a walking baby. They were.
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B
Yes. They would have leaned way too hard into it.
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A
Killed the concept.
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B
Yeah. Yeah. But this is more just unspoken. Also, The Valkyries clinched playoffs. Nobody thought that was going to happen. Nobody believed in us. Us? We're not even allowed into our own home. Before the Valkyries were a team, they made a deal at Ballhalla, whatever it's really called, to let somebody else use their stadium. And now they can't use it for the playoffs. That's crazy. They got to go to the SAP center, right?
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A
Yep.
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B
Was that San Jose, Which I think.
- [75:57]
A
Is a decent sized venue. I mean, right?
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B
But it's not like. As it's not close. It's not like that just kind of stinks. And I don't. I have all the faith in the world they'll travel, that the fan base is awesome. But. And I don't just say that because I'm part of. Part of it. But that's exciting. I thought for them.
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A
I looked up. I looked up that the only way Natalie would be in New York to ask her to swing by is if they meet in the finals.
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B
Oh, wow. Yeah.
- [76:24]
A
Yeah. I was hoping they'll have an early matchup. Maybe I could have her swing by the studio. They're gonna have to make the finals.
- [76:30]
B
Then they can do it. What? They could do it. It is possible. It is possible.
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A
The Aces are 14 straight and currently lined up in the first round against the skeleton of the Indiana Fever. It's just not fair.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Caitlin Clark out. Sophie Cunningham out. Development coach out with the blown Achilles. Like, what a draw to be that hot and to get the Fever, who have fallen to the seven seed Fever in the morning.
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B
Fever all through the night. This is what people tune in for. I just found it very interesting. Lane Kiffin, who's with Ole Miss, they beat Kentucky on Saturday. The final points in the game belong to the Wildcats, who scored a 39 yard field goal with eight seconds remaining. The kick had no impact on the game's final outcome, but was significant for gamblers. How many times have we seen that? That where it's famously garbage time, points that are just points scored that all they really do is serve to cover a spread or not cover a spread or whatever. Rebels coach Lane Kiffin acknowledged the kick's impact in his postgame interview, saying, quote, that's a really hard team that plays really close games. So I'm proud of our guys. Sorry to a lot of gamblers out there.
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A
Can't say it. Can't say it. You can't say it out loud.
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B
I just don't think in a post game press conference you can. I think like what we used to do and I think is the right way is to sort of elude or wink of like, I know there's going to be some people out there mad.
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A
About those points scored Al Michaels constantly.
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B
But out loud in a post game press conference saying gamblers is like, I just don't know. I just don't think it's a good look for especially a coach who's been coaching for like a long time. It's like, you should know better than to acknowledge this. I don't know if that's just me being a whiny brat about it, but I just didn't love this.
- [78:19]
C
Why was that front of mind? Why? If you have two sentences worth of things to say in that moment and a quarter of what you said is about gambling, about the line.
- [78:30]
B
Yeah.
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C
Why is that so high up on your agenda of things you wanted to say?
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A
Yeah.
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B
Yeah. After Kiffin's interview, play by playman Sean McDonough explained the full significance of the final field goal. Lane hit the nail on the head. McDonough said. Gambling is part of it now, so we might as well acknowledge the field goal changed the spread. Ole Miss went off as a 7 1/2 point favorite. And it also took it from the under to the over. The over under was 51 and a half. The game ends at 53 with the field goal. So great. Love that. Now we got a play by play guy. The guy who's in charge of telling you about the game, telling you about the lines in detail. I. It's just like, that's not enough of a. Gambling is part of it now, so we might as well acknowledge does not. Does not work for me.
- [79:15]
A
No, the problem is that gambling's a part of it now.
- [79:18]
B
Like, right. Gambling doesn't have to be. Gambling doesn't have to be a part of it like this. Especially with all these stories about, like, athletes getting harassed by gamblers. Especially with all of this, like, online hate that they're getting because somebody decided it was a good idea to put way too much money on something that this athlete could control but is not thinking about. But I don't know, not like raising a pitchfork about it. It's just like, can we not. It's like ads on Red Zone. We're just like, okay, this time he mentioned it. Now what? It's like now it's in the water. Now it's. It's now we're the frogs in the water and they're just going to turn the heat up and we're not going to notice and suddenly we're cooked. So I don't know. It just doesn't feel. I don't love it. I love it. Lane Kiffin, you've been around long enough. You should know better. Okay, I. We gotta get to our guests, guys. Why have you guys been talking so much? We have a guest to get to. A whole guest. Our guest today is Robert Anthony Cruz. He's one of the stars of the screaming hot, scorching hot Savannah Banana Bananas. It's the banana summer. Since joining the team in 2023, he has built a community of over 2.25 million followers across TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. Chris, those are social media websites, okay? Or apps. I can break that down for you in more detail. Off.
- [80:30]
C
I think I want to know. It's fine.
- [80:31]
B
He shares coaching advice and life lessons for the next generation of players. You know him, you've seen him flip. He does flips in the outfield and he catches the ball. He's a fascinating player. We got to talk to him about this. This wonderful, just the phenomenon of Savannah Bananas this summer. And we will get to that right after a quick break from producer Jordan Peele. The movie him asks the question, would you sell your soul for greatness? What are you willing to sacrifice?
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D
I think a whoopsie describes it well.
- [83:06]
B
Yeah, Talk to me about that day. Where was that? Was that cnn? I keep thinking it was cnn.
- [83:10]
D
Yeah, it was right up the street from here. That was gonna be. That was the first.
- [83:13]
B
Would have been convenient.
- [83:14]
D
Yeah, would have been really convenient. Would have swung right over here. We would have talked. But now here we are talking now. So there you go.
- [83:21]
B
So that day they just, what, asked you to do a flip and because it was obviously a studio where the floor is slippery. You just slipped.
- [83:28]
D
Yeah, something like that. You know, I had. I had done that several times on ESPN and some other, you know, other shows.
- [83:34]
B
That.
- [83:34]
D
That's kind of like my. My party trick that I bring out, you know, I know I've seen a.
- [83:38]
B
Savannah Banana a million times.
- [83:40]
A
Yeah.
- [83:40]
D
Yeah, that day. Yeah, it was. It was bright in the studio, bright light above me. Got disoriented, and, you know, stuff happens that's very scary.
- [83:49]
B
You immediately go back out to flipping right away.
- [83:52]
D
I think it was three days later, I played in Citizens bank park in Philly, and. Yeah.
- [83:57]
B
And did the flip.
- [83:58]
D
Yeah, yeah. Caught a ball doing it, and. Yeah, right back to it.
- [84:00]
B
No hesitation at all. In your mind, there's no moment where you're like, is it different now? Have I forgotten to flip?
- [84:07]
D
Oh, you know, those thoughts definitely are inevitable. I definitely had them over the next couple days. But, yeah, when I got there in Philly, I was like, all right, well, before I try to do this in the game, I'll try to do one on the grass first and see how it goes. And. And, you know, at this point in time, I got stitches in my chin and whatnot.
- [84:22]
B
And.
- [84:22]
D
But, yeah, did a flip on the grass. I was like, okay, I still got it. So there you go.
- [84:26]
B
And now you're just right back to flipping.
- [84:28]
D
Right back to flipping.
- [84:29]
B
That feels like right in line with the Savannah Bananas ethos, which is, like, you guys put fun before everything, which is awesome and also very, like, refreshing. I think a lot of people, we're a podcast for casual sports fans, which I think Savannah Bananas really speak to, but it surprises them to hear sometimes that, like, sports themselves don't always put fun first. So, like, talk to me about what it's like playing for, like, a ball club, where the most important priority is that you guys go out there and have fun for yourselves, but also for the audience.
- [85:02]
D
It's. It's refreshing because you don't have to focus so much on your performance on the field. You know, I came from a world of professional baseball and collegiate baseball where how you perform on the field is the only thing that matters. If you are not performing, your job's in jeopardy. If you are performing, then everybody loves you. And being with the Bananas, you'll go over three, you'll strike out two times, you'll have objectively a bad game. But when you go outside to sign autographs, there's a little boy who's, you know, 10 years old who plays baseball who is so excited to meet you and is Going to say you had the best game ever. You did so good. And so it helps take a focus off of yourself a little bit, which I think is encouraging as a player, and I think it's refreshing to the game.
- [85:47]
B
You guys have three more stops left. You guys been playing at major league ballparks across the country. You've got, what, Yankee Stadium, Seattle and Houston left, and you guys go into a city and do a weekend right, and then head out. What has the response been like?
- [86:04]
D
Oh, it's tremendous. I mean, every game is sold out. Every city has its unique quirks. You know, I've never. I only could have dreamed of playing in all these stadiums. We've played in this. I think this year it's 17 or 18 major league stadiums and several football stadiums. So it's been so much fun. We're just now at the conclusion of the tour. Yeah. Just a couple weeks left, but, yeah, Yankee Stadium. That's. Yeah, we're pretty excited about the body.
- [86:29]
B
Language for the audio listener. Completely changed. When you discuss playing in Yankee Stadium, I mean, I, of course, that's amazing. I hadn't even thought of it that way. Of, like, you grew up playing baseball. Baseball's your life. You love baseball, and you get to play at Yankee Stadium.
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A
Yeah.
- [86:41]
B
How cool is that? Very, very cool. Not cool for me. I'm a Red so fan. I get that place.
- [86:45]
D
Fair enough. We did get to play a toad, though.
- [86:47]
B
And that. Was that also cool?
- [86:49]
A
Yeah.
- [86:50]
B
Was that also the best?
- [86:52]
D
That was also the best. Got to sign the Green Monster. All that good stuff.
- [86:55]
B
Me, too. I think they paint over it. I think the people that don't. I think they let the people who they don't really care about as much. Me, I'm talking about. Sign a spot that they later paint over because I bet it's not still up there. This is probably true, but I, I. It's on tape, so they can't claim I didn't do it. The dances. Okay. I think a lot of people interact with the Savannah Bananas. Or first we're confronted by them scrolling through their TikTok. Do they ask you if you want to be a part of the dance? Or does everybody learn the dance? And is that part of practice? How does this work?
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D
Yeah, so that would be rehearsals, not practice.
- [87:26]
B
Okay, sorry. Are they separate? Do you have both? Do you guys practice baseball and you rehearse?
- [87:33]
D
Yeah, yeah, we definitely have both. Like, during. During the week. It's generally baseball practice. That's, like, what we're focusing on. That's the hard Part day of games, that's when we will practice the dances. So when you see us doing a dance on TikTok, we just learned it that morning. And occasionally, if we have a bigger performance, we will rehearse it the day before. Other than that, it's like everything you see on TikTok, we are rehearsing that morning. They'll tell us. Sometimes they'll shoot us a text the night before, hey, this is what we're doing tomorrow morning. So here you go. But it kind of has to be that way because so much of what the Bananas do, it's on the fly. It's a new trend that just came out, like, two days ago, and so now we're gonna learn the dance to it. So it kind of has to be on the fly like that. But it's a lot of. A lot of quick learning for us players.
- [88:17]
B
All right, tell me about not yout Average Baseball Camp, which is the baseball camp that you run, I assume, in the summer.
- [88:22]
C
Yes.
- [88:23]
D
Yeah, yeah, in the summer.
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A
Yeah.
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D
I'm super excited about that Under Armour sponsor. The last one we did, we had a thousand kids over the course of a week. That's now the fifth camp we've done. But the whole idea behind that was like, let's get. Let's get some of these, you know, content creators and current professional baseball players. Banana players. Let's get all these people that maybe kids watch online, on social media or on YouTube all the time, and let's get them in person and, like, actually making an impact on these kids in. In person, teaching them the game, having fun with them, playing games, filming content, all that good stuff. And, yeah, that. That camp was so much fun. We've got. We've got a lot more coming up in the future.
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B
Is there. Where can people go if they want to sign their kid up?
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D
Yeah, so you can go to notyouravagebaseball.com that'd be the place to check out. Or on Instagram. Not your average baseball. That's.
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B
That's the.
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D
The way. Or just, you know, follow me, too, if that also works, because I'll be posting about it.
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B
Yes, Coach rack, he's got 2.25 million followers across all platforms. They say that is quite a lot of people. I don't have that. Thank you so much for coming here and for. And for doing this and for, like, doing Savannah Bananas. It's been very cool to watch as a huge baseball fan. I haven't gotten to go to a game yet, but, like, that's because you Guys, like, sell out very quickly.
- [89:38]
D
Do you just, like, refuse to go to Yankee Stadium because it's such a diehard?
- [89:42]
B
When I do go to a Savannah Bananas game, it will not be at Yankee Stadium. Cool. Cool. All right. I won't offer you somewhere I can have fun. That was. It would be very nice of you. Unfortunately, I'm a pain in the ass and I just hate that team so much. But, yeah, I gotta get out and see because what a fun I've had. I know so many people who have gone and been like this, made me, like, interested in baseball, and I'm obsessed with that. So thank you for everything you do and for your backflips. And I will not be making him do a backflip for us today.
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D
That's right. Not enough space in here.
- [90:10]
B
Pay for the tickets and go see it. It's not safe to do backflips anywhere else. Okay.
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A
Okay.
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B
Be careful. All right. Okay. Thank you for coming. Thanks. Thanks to Coach Rack. That was fun. Thank you for swinging by. I'm glad you made it here safely this time, Chris. Before we let the people go, we have to let them know what to watch if they want to watch sports this week. Right? What do you got?
- [90:30]
C
The first thing, Katie, do you know what stage of the MLB season we're.
- [90:34]
B
Getting to the end of it?
- [90:37]
C
The pointy end. We are getting to the pointy end of the baseball season.
- [90:42]
A
Walk right into that.
- [90:43]
B
Oh, God. Ow.
- [90:46]
C
So a lot of these games have big ramifications. Got some big matchups coming up. We've also got the Yankees and the Sox facing off again this weekend. But the one game that I want to point out for everyone to watch this weekend week is the Mets and the Phillies on Thursday at 7:15pm Eastern. That game will be on Fox. It's a battle of the top two teams in the NL East. Phillies, one of the hottest teams in the league at the moment. Mets is the team that Isabella goes for, so, you know, we all have a bit of a soft spot for them. That is the first game for everyone to watch out for. Mets, Phillies, Thursday at 7:15 Eastern.
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B
Okay. I'd be rooting for the Phillies in that. Love you, Isabella, but you're not here. So what else?
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C
NASCAR playoffs. We got the Bristol Motor Speedway Saturday night at 7:30pm Eastern on USA. Bubba Wallace, so far in the playoffs, sits at fourth place, and Ryan Blaney, future guest Ryan Blaney is fifth. So we got a couple of. Couple of drivers who are in really, really solid positions in the playoffs.
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B
So Far our best friends. We have a couple of best friends.
- [91:50]
C
Fighting it out really well.
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B
Yeah. Okay. What else? One more thing.
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C
NFL Eagles versus Chiefs, Sunday, 4:25pm Eastern on.
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B
You did that just to hurt me. You did that just to hurt me. Eagles versus Chiefs.
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C
That was on purpose versus Chiefs.
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B
Thank you.
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C
Eagles are 1 0. The Chiefs are 0 1. We spoke about both of those games earlier. This is going to be a fun matchup. You got Mahomes against Hertz. Whenever you can get some big powered offenses, some big named quarterbacks facing off against each other, it's worth a watch. So check out that game Sunday at 4:25pm Eastern.
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B
Also interesting watching Patrick Mahomes, you see him like, slam that guy on the sideline and it's like, well, he usually gets so protected on the sideline by the refs that they know not to hit him. And now if he's going to be doing that, I think people are going to get a little bit physical with Patrick.
- [92:37]
A
Feels unfair.
- [92:38]
B
It is unfair. It is unfair.
- [92:41]
A
Like the defender is not allowed to hit him as he's running out of bounds down. So that guy slows up and Mahomes just knocks into him.
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B
It's technically like a cheap shot. When a person can't fight you and you fight them in a way that makes you look like you're big and strong and powerful. It's like, all right, well, he wasn't gonna hit you because he would get in trouble. So I don't know. It's a dicey. Also, the vibes with the Chiefs are just like, kind of off this season. I'm not. I don't mean to be smiling as big as I am as I say these things. It's just like they don't feel. There was a lot of yelling at each other.
- [93:13]
A
Well, four plays in, Travis Kelce runs into Xavier Worthy. Running shoulder, knocks his own guy down and knocks him out of the game.
- [93:22]
B
Well, his fiance did show a little bit of interest in Xavier Worthy, so maybe he just was like, this guy's gonna be a problem. I gotta get him out of here.
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A
Oh, my bad. Did I get you?
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B
She can only have eyes for me. Pop your shoulder back in. All right, so that's what to watch if you want to watch sports this week. There's a lot. There's a lot going on. Big thanks to our guest today. Big thanks to Isabella for taking a vacation, which means that for the next few months, she has to be here. She can't go, so gotta do it. Thanks to her for coming back I'm getting ahead of myself. Maybe I should make sure she does first. Thanks to you two for really trying to fill the void. It's an impossible void to fill. But you've. Chris Brady, you've done it.
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A
Chris talked about VMA fashion today. What more do you want from him?
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B
For, like, a second, you got the job.
- [94:08]
A
That was the second. The most uncomfortable second of Chris's day. I guarantee.
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B
I know.
- [94:12]
C
It really was.
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B
He was like, oh, it's clothes, is what I'd say.
- [94:16]
C
The only way I would be more clothes. The only way I'd be more uncomfortable is if you made me dance outside of that.
- [94:22]
B
One of these days.
- [94:23]
C
One of these days.
- [94:23]
B
Once we get a video podcast for that one guy who won't shut up about it in our Instagram comments. That one guy who keeps saying he's never gonna listen to our podcast because it's not video, and yet he says it every single clip. Once we do that, I'm gonna make you dance. Maybe in our new studio. Maybe you should fly here and we'll dance. He's like, no, I quit. I'm literally quitting.
- [94:47]
C
This is already making me nervous.
- [94:49]
B
Okay, that's it. We have to let you go. I'm talking too much. Email us Casuals with katienolanmail.com you can call us. Our voicemail is 646-801-0043 on IG and tick tock as that guy will let you know who yells at us. We are at Casuals, the podcast. We will see you on Thursday. We love you. We mean it. Bye. So I was just parking my car and then I saw you. The Gecko. Huge fan. I'm always honored to meet fans out in the wild. The honor is mine. I just love being able to file a claim in under two minutes with the Geico app.
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A
Well, the Geico app is top notch.
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B
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A
Sign what?
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B
The app. Yeah, sure. Oh, that means so much. Oh, it rubbed off the screen when I touched it. Could you sign it again? Anything to help, I suppose. You're the best. Get more than just savings.
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Get more with Geico. Honey, do not make plans. Saturday, September 13th, okay?
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B
Why? What's happening?
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A
The Walmart wellness event. Flu shots, health screenings, free samples from those brands. You like.
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B
All that at Walmart?
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A
We can just walk right in, no appointment needed. Who knew we could cover our health and wellness needs at Walmart?
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B
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A
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