Knicks vs. Celtics, Isabella vs. Katie, Mammoth Debates, and Breaking #PopeFacts

Summary

Casuals with Katie Nolan – Episode Summary: "Knicks vs. Celtics, Isabella vs. Katie, Mammoth Debates, and Breaking #PopeFacts"

Release Date: May 8, 2025

Host: Katie Nolan | Guests: Ryan Reynolds, Isabella, Brady, Chris

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1. Opening Remarks and General Banter ([02:09] - [03:41])

Katie Nolan kicks off the episode with her usual upbeat introduction, highlighting the show’s aim to make sports more enjoyable and less intimidating. Joined by her regular crew—Ryan Reynolds, Isabella, Brady, and Chris—the team dives straight into discussions without any special guests.

2. Rant on Suspicious Mobile Apps ([03:41] - [05:22])

Ryan Reynolds initiates a heated discussion about a mysterious mobile app heavily promoted through celebrity endorsements. He expresses deep skepticism:

"Don't download it. Don't download it. I don't trust that at all." ([04:58])

Brady and Chris chime in, speculating that the app likely harvests user data for profit, further fueling Ryan's distrust. The conversation underscores concerns about privacy and the authenticity of celebrity endorsements in advertising.

3. Knicks vs. Celtics Showdown ([05:22] - [17:03])

The primary focus shifts to a controversial NBA playoff series between the New York Knicks and the Boston Celtics. The Celtics, despite holding a commanding 20-point lead twice in the series, suffer unexpected losses due to poor three-point shooting.

Ryan Reynolds vents his frustration:

"It's just a terrible clip. What’s crazy, losing by one, one and one point. It's... incredibly frustrating." ([14:16])

Chris analyzes the Celtics' strategy:

"They just take more threes than any other team, and for whatever reason, they've just gone completely cold working." ([12:13])

Isabella and the team discuss the implications of the Celtics' shooting slump, debating whether it's a skill issue or something deeper like team chemistry.

4. Coaching Decisions: Joe Missoula Under Scrutiny ([17:03] - [20:55])

The conversation turns to Celtics' coach Joe Missoula, specifically critiquing his lack of tactical timeouts during crucial moments.

Brady questions Missoula’s choices:

"Would you like Missoula to call a timeout and, like, rally and draw up the perfect play?" ([18:19])

Ryan Reynolds admits his lack of expertise but expresses disappointment:

"There's a million things I'd like everybody to do differently." ([18:32])

The team debates whether Missoula’s coaching style is hindering the Celtics’ performance, emphasizing the need for better in-game management.

5. Team Rebranding: Utah Mammoth and Greensboro Gargoyles ([27:04] - [46:41])

Ryan Reynolds and Brady engage in a spirited debate over recent sports team name changes, focusing on the Utah Mammoth’s rebranding and the Greensboro Gargoyles’ new identity.

Ryan critiques the Utah Mammoth’s name selection process:

"You’re naming your team Mammoth? The kids at the museum. I'm like, what is this?" ([40:48])

Brady argues against the lack of cohesive branding:

"One of the reasons it was able to rise to such popularity is that it's so much easier to go. It's Sunday Football day." ([37:59])

The discussion highlights the challenges teams face in creating names that resonate with fans while maintaining originality and avoiding confusion.

6. NHL Spotlight: Miko Rantman's Stellar Postseason ([56:03] - [28:30])

The team celebrates Miko Rantman of the Dallas Stars for his extraordinary postseason performance, setting multiple NHL records.

Ryan Reynolds lauds Rantman's achievements:

"He scored a natural hat trick... he's only the fourth player in NHL history to achieve this." ([26:43])

Isabella and Chris echo the sentiment, emphasizing Rantman's impact on the Stars' success and his place among legendary players like Wayne Gretzky.

7. College Sports Commission and Nick Saban ([62:22] - [67:06])

Brady and Ryan discuss the formation of a new college sports commission co-chaired by NFL legend Nick Saban and former athletic booster, amid debates over player transfers and NIL (Name, Image, Likeness) regulations.

Ryan expresses skepticism about the commission’s intentions:

"It feels like a power grab back... How do we take that back?" ([66:43])

Chris criticizes the potential lack of progressiveness:

"Coaches are like the highest-paid public employees... They have endorsements on top of that." ([67:06])

The conversation delves into the complexities of regulating college sports, balancing athlete compensation with institutional control.

8. NBA's Return to NBC with AI Voiceover ([68:11] - [75:23])

The episode covers the NBA’s partnership with NBC, marking a return after two decades. However, controversy arises as NBC employs AI to recreate the iconic voice of former announcer Jim Fagan.

Brady reacts to the AI implementation:

"The NBA on NBC is back. See you this October for the NBA season." ([69:55])

Ryan critiques the authenticity and ethical implications:

"I just think we shouldn't be using AI to replicate a voice that somebody else created." ([74:13])

The team debates the future of sports broadcasting, questioning whether AI can truly capture the essence of beloved personalities.

9. Celebratory News: Achievements in Women’s Sports ([76:36] - [78:02])

To balance the earlier frustrations, Katie shares uplifting news from women’s sports:

• Sue Bird named Managing Director of USA Women’s Basketball.
• Mallory Swanson announces her pregnancy.
• Caitlyn Chen makes her debut for the Golden State Valkyries, becoming the first Taiwanese American WNBA player.

Katie Nolan emphasizes the significance of these milestones, celebrating the achievements and progression of female athletes in their respective fields.

10. Tom Brady's Reflections on Personal Mistakes ([78:12] - [82:09])

The team discusses Tom Brady’s regret over participating in a Netflix roast, highlighting his realization of its impact on his family.

Brady reflects:

"There are some things as a parent, you... you don't realize until after." ([80:40])

The conversation underscores the importance of considering personal actions' effects on loved ones, drawing parallels to broader themes of accountability and responsibility.

11. Miscellaneous Sports Updates and Closing Remarks ([82:09] - [85:07])

The final segments include brief updates on:

• Luke Littler setting a Premier League record.
• The upcoming Champions League Final between Inter Milan and PSG.
• Brewers Hot Dog Club membership issues.

Ryan wraps up with light-hearted banter and a humorous note about unexpected smoke in the studio, symbolizing the show's signature blend of sports analysis and comedic relief.

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Notable Quotes

• Ryan Reynolds ([14:16]): "It's a terrible clip. What’s crazy, losing by one, one and one point. It's... incredibly frustrating."

• Chris ([12:13]): "They just take more threes than any other team, and for whatever reason, they've just gone completely cold working."

• Brady ([18:19]): "Do you want a coach to just step aside and do nothing there, or would you like Missoula to call a timeout and, like, rally and draw up the perfect play?"

• Ryan Reynolds ([40:48]): "You’re naming your team Mammoth? The kids at the museum. I'm like, what is this?"

• Ryan Reynolds ([69:55]): "This is The NBA on NBC. The 1992 NBA Finals."

• Brady ([74:35]): "It's like, I don't like that."

• Katie Nolan ([76:36]): "Congratulations to Sue Bird, Mallory Swanson, and Caitlyn Chen for their incredible achievements in women’s sports!"

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Conclusion

This episode of Casuals with Katie Nolan delivers an engaging mix of intense sports analysis, humorous debates, and heartfelt celebrations. From the shocking Knicks vs. Celtics games and contentious coaching decisions to the challenges of team rebranding and the ethical dilemmas of AI in sports broadcasting, the team provides thoughtful insights and lively discussions. Balanced by uplifting news from women’s sports and personal reflections on mistakes, the episode exemplifies Casuals’ commitment to making sports accessible and enjoyable for all listeners.

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For more insights and updates, tune in to future episodes of Casuals with Katie Nolan on SiriusXM.

Transcript

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[Isabella]

I did see this and I love it. Yeah, I don't know the full extent of what it's included other than like the bidet and then is there like a drying component to it?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Well, well, in my experience, yeah, they do. There's like heated seat component. There's various sprays that you can direct in various places.

[Isabella]

Is there music or something?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Is there a. I don't think but I'm sure there could be if you pay for an upgrade.

[Isabella]

Light up the toilet.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, it's certainly. I think they do like a blue light that like sanitizes it.

[Isabella]

We should have all of our toilets be like this.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Agree. I think we should all bring this up to.

[Isabella]

Seriously, style, please.

[Ryan Reynolds]

They're like 500 bucks each I think. Oh, so we don't even have a bathroom in the office. We have to go out into the Very true to use it. So I don't know if this will but you might as well bring it up.

[Isabella]

You're really selling me on the Dodgers.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, well head you can go there. Yeah, I will put her in coach. Hello, welcome to Casuals, the podcast that's gonna make you love sports even if you think it couldn't. I'm Katie Nolan, big sports fan, here to talk to you about all the things going on. Joined today by my production team, the casualties you know them, you love them. It's Isabella, it's Chris, and it's that American man. That's what somebody in my mentions called you, Brady. They said the American man on your podcast. And.

[Brady]

And it's a compliment till it's not.

[Ryan Reynolds]

And right now is mostly when it's not right, doesn't it sort of feel. But it is us nonetheless, and we are here to talk to you about everything. We got a lot to get to today. No guests, just us just yapping about sports. If you want to email us, we are CasualsWithKatyNolanmail.com if you'd like to leave us a voicemail. That's 646-801-0043. On IG and TikTok, we are @ CasualsThePodcast. We start this podcast with a yap. This is a quick one because we got a lot of stuff to get to and it's just. It's completely not related to sports. But it's been bothering me and I'm not even gonna be able to say the name of the thing I'm ranting about because I don't want to give it any more press. But there is an app. There's an app for your phone. It's a game that has must have an exorbitant budget.

[Isabella]

The.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I'm seeing them come up a lot in. When I'm scrolling through my. Let's just say TikTok, this ad keeps popping up. And there's one where Kevin Hart is pretending to do stand up and he's being heckled by people who are playing with this phone app. And instead of reacting with anger, he's like, that's okay, I play it too. There's one where they. Where Shakira is performing a dance and her dancer, she gets to take a break while her dancers have to keep dancing. And she's playing on this phone app and talking about how great it is, how there's no ads and how it's free to download and you don't even need wi fi. There's one where they reunite some of the cast of Friends, Monica and Phoebe on a plane, talking about this app and how they love to play it and how you're so silly if you're not playing it. Who. If it's free and there's no ads, where are you getting money? Who is this app? Where did they come from? And why is everybody downloading it? Don't download it. Don't download it. I don't trust that at all. Am I the only person that when I see how much money an app can spend on their ads, I'm like, you must be selling until the third.

[Brady]

Minute of play costs 9.99.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Or like, you're.

[Brady]

They start cranking up subscriptions or you're.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Selling my information somewhere. You're harvesting data from me and selling it. Because why else would you be incentivized to make an app that's free and to have everybody that I like pop culturally tell me to download it? What's the one thing I learned from the movie? I'm not saying out of spite.

[Isabella]

Okay.

[Brady]

The one thing I learned from the movie pass documentary is that apparently even your data is not that valuable. Their whole plan was to take everybody sell it, and then they still went bankrupt.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, they can be bad at business. That doesn't necessarily mean our data is not valuable. I think it is the most valuable thing.

[Brady]

Everyone's already bought mine on earth.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I know.

[Isabella]

So you accept cookies.

[Ryan Reynolds]

We can't. We can't just live by that, you guys. We can't just go, well, they have all my data, so I'll download Schmoyle Schmingdom and I'll play whatever the hell this game is. It's not. The thing is that none of the ads say what the game is. None of them. And if they're not showing you the gameplay and they're only showing you these famous celebrities that you know aren't playing it, something's up. Something's up. And Kevin Hart say no to a check one time. Just for a second, just to see how it feels, you know, like, and I honestly think my. My thing is if you're doing an ad where you're pretending to do stand up, Rocket Mortgage did this as well, where you're pretending to do standup and somebody in the crowd is talking back to you and you're talking back to them. Anyone who goes to a Kevin Hart show from here on out should yell out about this app when they're at the show. Because he said that's. This is how it would go. If you yelled out at my show about this app, we would engage in light hearted banter. So try it. Go to a Kevin Hart show if you can afford a ticket and yell out that you're playing smushmingdom and tell him what. What level you're on and make a joke about how you asked what level he's on, not how many movies he's done this year. I'm gonna jump off the roof of my building. Okay, updates on stories we've been talking about and following.

[Brady]

How do we follow you threatening to jump off the roof of your building?

[Ryan Reynolds]

I don't know, because I'll probably do it three more times throughout this podcast. The antidepressants not working. Gotta switch it up. Gotta switch it up. The Conclave. We don't have a Pope yet. No Pope. This is why I'm so aimless. There's no leader to my church. How am I to know where to go morally without a Pope? We got black smoke yesterday. It may happen before we're finished recording, but I doubt it. The best thing to come out of the Conclave so far is an instance where cbs. Look, CBS is known as the old person of the abc, NBC, cbs. I think we can all agree CBS is usually the punchline of, like, this is the oldest set of viewership. And what do old people do? Well, they hear young people use a word and they like to go, hey, the kids are calling it this and they use it. But CBS did that in probably the worst possible context in regards to the Conclave. Can we play the clip? They're sitting reading their breviary. That's a book of prayers that clergy have, or praying a rosary or doing.

[Brady]

The one thing we know they're not.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Doing is checking Instagram because their devices have all.

[Brady]

I believe the kids call it raw dogging.

[Ryan Reynolds]

It.

[Chris]

If you're gonna go through a long.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Period of time with no electronic device. Yeah, that's one time they.

[Isabella]

It's always raw dogging. Anytime I see this instance where, like, someone wants to use a term that younger people use, it's always raw dogging.

[Ryan Reynolds]

And what's crazy to me is it doesn't not sound filthy. It's not like you go, oh, raw dogging means something bad. Also. It means something I probably wouldn't want to say. No way. Raw dogging it. It sounds like what it is. It sounds like what it. Going without for a lot. That sounds like what it. How have you not bumped into this previous? How have you not bumped into this previously? I guess is my question.

[Isabella]

They didn't have a production call before.

[Chris]

I mean, God, run by an expert.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I know. I just want a picture. And this is. Again, they are the old network, but I wish I could see the live look of the truck where at least one person must have, like, looked up from what they were doing and been like.

[Brady]

We can call that sitting there playing schm. Sitting there playing what?

[Chris]

Wait, Chris White Smoke. Why smoke?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Who's the. Who's the Pope?

[Isabella]

Whoa.

[Chris]

Don't know yet. It's gonna be revealed soon.

[Ryan Reynolds]

When do we find out?

[Chris]

My wife just texted me and I just looked online.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Oh, my God.

[Chris]

I don't know how long it takes, but we've got white smoke.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Wow. Maybe they are raw dogging.

[Isabella]

Okay.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Wow.

[Chris]

Okay, man. This is really.

[Ryan Reynolds]

This is really cool.

[Chris]

Throwing the entire rundown.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I know. So, Chris, you just have to keep an eye on it and I will.

[Chris]

Keep an eye on it.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Jump in. We're gonna. Come on.

[Chris]

Mario Greck.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, let's do it. Look, I saw a lot of people online saying they wanted pizza bola because of his name. And I again, I just said if you're the custody of the Middle east right now. I just don't feel like we can be like you. You've got everything under control. You.

[Chris]

Why am I so excited right now?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Because we're about to finally know if it's okay to be gay and married.

[Brady]

Finally.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Finally.

[Brady]

I feel like Tagley had the biggest Internet Stan. The biggest Internet Stan squad.

[Ryan Reynolds]

And we will see if that helps. Listen, because look, Stan armies can eventually they can hurt. So we'll see. We'll see the effect that that has.

[Isabella]

In the name of the father, imagine all the Holy Spirit. Amen.

[Ryan Reynolds]

If it is a Filipino pope, we must have a national day of karaoke. I think everybody tonight has to do.

[Isabella]

Did you see someone in the comments yesterday? I called you at the Katy. Do you know what that means?

[Ryan Reynolds]

No, I have no idea what that means. What does that mean?

[Isabella]

Someone was like, damn, like Katie's been stamping her Filipino card lately. And then they were like, at the Katy. Loading. And ate is what you call like your older sister or like an older female cousin. So I call my sister Atahuli.

[Brady]

So.

[Isabella]

So I'm like, yo, you're at the Katy.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I assumed it meant auntie, which I wouldn't have even been offended by, but.

[Isabella]

Auntie would be Tita.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Older sister's even better. Okay.

[Isabella]

At the Katie Loaded.

[Ryan Reynolds]

At the Katie Loaded. Let's go. I'm delaying because I don't want to get into this first story. You know why? Cause I don't even like basketball. Okay. I don't even like basketball. I was so mad last night by this basketball game. I don't know what's happening to me, but I'm upset. The Knicks, if you didn't see the Knicks have taken a 20 series lead because the Celtics blew it again at home. Again. Okay, so they had a second half 20 point lead and then they lost 9190 to the Knicks in the eastern Conference semifinals, they were up 73:53 with just over 14 minutes left in the game. Then they went without a basket for more than eight minutes in the fourth. The Knicks finished the game on a 23. 6 run. The Celtics shot 25% from three again.

[Brady]

Again.

[Ryan Reynolds]

It's just. I mean, you even said, Chris, you were like, I feel good about this loss the first time because you said, there's no way. It's unsustainable to expect that the Celtics will continue to suck from three.

[Chris]

Sport makes no sense whatsoever. The entire sample size of the regular season and even the first round of the playoffs would suggest that going 25% from 3 is not something they are going to do twice in a row. And they did it twice in a row. 15 from 60 in the first game, then 10 from 40 in the second game. So at least they learned their lesson. Not taking as many threes, I guess, but still shooting that same clip. What is going on? It doesn't make sense.

[Isabella]

It makes so much sense. It makes so much sense, guys.

[Ryan Reynolds]

And this here's another thing that doesn't make sense.

[Isabella]

I saw you guys texting in the chat, and I was like, I'm not even gonna say anything because I don't want to. I don't want to. No, not yet. Until they won. I was like, I'm not gonna jinx it. Let them talk. Let them be upset.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Let them talk.

[Brady]

They only do one thing. That's what. It's so wild that if they're gonna go, they shoot 25 of 100 from 3. Whatever percentage that is, it's.

[Ryan Reynolds]

That's pretty easy percentage.

[Brady]

The only way they can sit. It's the only way they can win a game. It's the only way they even try to win a game when they're cold. It's like, I don't know what to do with my hand.

[Chris]

It's worked for almost.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Here's the thing. Not only has it worked, people have been bitching about it the entire season. I've listened to people go like, celtics are ruining basketball because of the threes. And now it's like, okay, wait, can.

[Isabella]

You give me some background on this about three? What do you mean? Is that, like their normal.

[Ryan Reynolds]

That's their strategy? Chris, talk about it in a basketball way?

[Chris]

Yeah, well, essentially, they just take more threes than any other team and have for a long time. And a lot of people, a lot of basketball purists are saying, well, that's a boring way of playing. Right? You want to be able to run different actions you want to have like an inside game as well as an outside game. So, you know, you involve your. Your centers a little bit more, things like that. Whereas the Celtics just jack up a whole bunch of threes. But it has worked. They are a historically good three point shooting side. It's called. It's like Joe Missoula's game style. And it works because he has the right personnel. And for whatever reason, all of a sudden, they've just gone completely cold working. And you see how it happens. But even so, we. It still came down to the last possession.

[Ryan Reynolds]

That's what we're shooting at, a terrible clip. What's crazy, losing by one, one and one point. Like, it's a. It's. It's crazy. It's very frustrating. I'm very mad. I'm clearly very emotional about this. But, like, here's my thing. To the Celtics, this is not a skill issue. This is either mental or emotional or this is a chemistry. I don't know what it is, but it's not. You are not unable to shoot threes. You got here doing that, so somebody needs to. This is the digging down deep they talk about. You have dropped two games at home. You're now on the road, by the way, down the street from me, and I'm not even considering going to a game. There isn't even a piece of me that's like, maybe I'll hop on over to the. It's not happening. I don't want to. I want to ignore it that it's even there. But you're on the road now, going into Madison Square Garden. This is the digging down deep. This is the scene in the documentary that warrants the making of the documentary. This is where you guys need to figure out who you are, remind yourselves of who you are, and lift each other up. Now, listen, I'm no basketball expert. We all know that. Some may say I even hate it, especially today. But do not underestimate the power of assuring your people that you're not mad at them, that you love them, that you believe in them, and then lifting each other up a little like, hey, that sucked. But it doesn't define you as a player. Let's get out there and get back into it goes a long way. And I feel like this team needs that, because in these moments, the first thought is like, okay, I'm gonna like. Like Jayson Tatum. I feel like last night reverted into the, like, I have to do it all. It has to be me, and I have to do it all. And. And that didn't work out. You don't have to do it all, but you do have to help everybody else get back up. Clearly, right now, nobody's happy, and the instinct is to be, like, mad at them or yell at them, but you haven't lost yet. It's not over unless you quit. So rather than quit, let's figure out what's up, address the problems, and then just, like, be nice to each other and support each other. It's like an underestimated. Nobody wants to talk about that element of things, but it sure feels like we all just need a little bit of reassurance because last week you were hitting threes just fine and nothing's changed. So it's up here. Focus up. A little love and a little tenderness.

[Isabella]

You should be a coach.

[Chris]

And that's the strange part as well. Because this team won the championship last season, they have gone through the success of a postseason victory. Right. This isn't a team that has failed at the final hurdle time and time again, and they've still got this monkey on their back. And they really have to, you know, prove that they can get it done. They proved it less than 12 months ago that they can get it done. And it's largely the same core. It is the same core from last year, and for whatever reason, it's just not clicking right now. They can still win the series, but, man, it's looking a whole lot less likely than it did this time yesterday.

[Brady]

We don't really talk about coaching decisions unless it really hits home. Did you have a problem with Missoula at the end of that game? We talk a lot about crazy person Joe Missoula, but there's also really good basketball coach Joe Missoula. So they got the lead with a play where Jayson Tatum got the ball just one on one blue pass, dunked it to take the lead. Then the Knicks got the lead back, and instead of calling a timeout with 12 seconds to go, Missoula said, just run that shit again. Just ran the same play. Let them go down the court. And that's where Tatum got the ball blocked.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Do you want a coach to just step aside and do nothing there, or would you like Missoula to call a timeout and, like, rally and draw up the perfect play?

[Ryan Reynolds]

If there's one thing I'm the least qualified to speak on, it's clock management. So I'm going to go ahead and. Yeah, there's a million things I'd like everybody to do differently. It's. I'm never Going to be like, they should have called a time. I.

[Brady]

You've coached more NBA games than I have.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I. Well, and I won. So.

[Brady]

So 1 and oh, 1 and oh.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Against Rachel Nichols, famously smart about basketball. Go ahead.

[Chris]

There's two reasons why I was fine that he didn't call a timeout. One is because it doesn't give the defense time to set themselves so you can sort of catch them hopefully off guard. That's sort of the, you know, they're thinking there. But also it's just less stopping, like, as a viewer.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Chris]

The less timeouts in the final minutes, the better you.

[Brady]

That's like your perspective as you. Not your perspective.

[Ryan Reynolds]

You can't air that out here. Where can you?

[Isabella]

But Joe's like, you know what? I don't want viewers at home to, like, get annoyed by this.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Chris has family visiting. He's probably very tired. We'll just go ahead and play through.

[Chris]

But isn't that what everyone.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yes, I think it is the funniest thing about basketball, if you're not watching a lot of it. Whenever I watch with, like, people that truly never watch are like, wait, There's. There's only 30 seconds left in the game, so we'll. It'll be over soon. And you're like, you don't know. It's good. They're gonna milk this every second for more seconds, and then we'll go to commercial five times before this is over. So. I see what you're saying. I just think that it's a shame the basketball season had to end and we should. And I'm glad we all did it, but it's. It. We don't have to talk about it anymore. Right. So that's pretty crazy the way they just end basketball like that. So I don't know.

[Isabella]

I'll keep talking about it.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Pretty. Pretty crazy. Update, Paul Pierce. Oh, sorry.

[Brady]

As of 29 minutes ago, Paul Pierce is still not at work.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Okay. And. And this was that he said, if the Celtics lose game two at home, I'm walking here tomorrow to Fox Sports 1's office, I assume, which I believe is still on the Fox lot.

[Brady]

It's in Century City, I think.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yes. 15 miles in my robe, no shoes on, barefoot, put the house on this game. Well, I hope you didn't put the house on the game. That's. That's a crazy. Never come back with. Is like, yeah, he did the thing. He's going to walk in the robe. Is he going to help out anybody who put their house on the game? Because now without A house, as are the Pierce, because the house doesn't matter.

[Brady]

All morning, robe, T shirt, just walking through la, which isn't.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I wouldn't even look twice at that. I wouldn't even do a double take at Paul Pierce walking around in a robe barefoot. I'd go, well, Paul Pierce is out again.

[Isabella]

Imagine you're just driving.

[Brady]

Somebody check on Pierce.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Pierce got out other basketball. Isabella. Sorry. Oh, I did want to say this, and I know Chris agrees with me because he said it. And if you had told me this a month ago, I'd be like, that's crazy. Genuinely watching Isabella become like a passionate sports fan, even just about the Knicks, has softened the blow of this a little bit. I'm so glad because it's actually, to me, proof of concept of the podcast that by talking about sports in a way that you find interesting and encouraging a fandom, we're like creating a monster, essentially. But she's like one of those cute little monsters, a little sweetie pie. And while it absolutely sucks to have her kind of flex it directly in our faces, I'm. It's. It's fun. It's great. She's watching a lot of basketball. Let's go, Nick.

[Isabella]

Let's go. Nick's.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Okay, don't listen, I gave you like.

[Isabella]

10 minutes, both of you guys to just talk about the Celtics.

[Ryan Reynolds]

So go ahead, you have two to talk about the next.

[Isabella]

No, no, I'm not gonna talk about. I'm just gonna sit. Enjoy.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Oh, okay. That's good.

[Isabella]

That's all I need.

[Ryan Reynolds]

The Pacers took also a 2:0 series lead against the Cavs. After a last second, Pacers guard Tyrese Halliburton hit a three pointer with 1.1 seconds left to give them a 120 to 119 victory over the Cavaliers and a 2:0 series lead. Unfortunately, his father, I assume not in the building to see that. That is something you'd want probably your dad to see. I know we're supposed to care about this one just as much. Many are arguing this is actually an even bigger story. Not for me. So, Chris.

[Chris]

Yeah, it's. I don't think it's as big of a story considering the way that the Celtics lost, being up by 20 in both games and having historically bad shooting nights both games. But The Cavs were the 1 seed in the east, dropped both games to the paces. They did have a lot of injuries, so a lot of guys not suiting up in that second game. So, you know, bit of a built in excuse there, but, you know, they're still two nothing down. They're gonna have a fight on their hands just like the Celtics. It's just bizarre that the. The top two seeds in the east are really struggling at the moment. OKC lost their first game of their series against the Nuggets before, I mean.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Absolutely destroying them last night. That was a. It was a bad basketball night in our apartment. It was like Dan came home from doing spots and he was like, sorry about your game. And I was like, that's fine. And then we started watching his and by the half he was like, I don't know about this. And then like I said, I went on with other things and was checking in with the score periodically and. Yikes. What was the final score in that game?

[Brady]

It's a 39 point win, I think. Whatever.

[Chris]

The final was 149 to 106. 149.

[Ryan Reynolds]

That is really brutal. At one point I think it was up to 48 or 49 point lead. It was not close. And Jokic looks at that point like.

[Brady]

Let him, let him run it out. Let those guys run around, get tired and be like, you guys are dumb. We're sitting here relaxing. We got more games to play.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, who needs a hundred? And that's too many points.

[Brady]

Lose by one, lose by 43. Whatever.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. They're not rollover minutes. You can't take them with you. Remember rollover minutes. Are we past the point of that reference landing with anybody you used to. Isabelle, did you know this? Used to be able to. If you didn't use up all the minutes you paid.

[Isabella]

On your phone.

[Ryan Reynolds]

On your phone. Yeah. Okay, so you do know about this.

[Brady]

How many, how many minutes do you think she spends talking on the phone?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Well, some younger people brought the phone back. Some of them are back into using the. They. But they use FaceTime in public.

[Isabella]

I'm. It depends on friends. Like it's. Or to people. Like some people I like to FaceTime with and some people I like. I have one friend I like only phone call with her.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Brady]

So we used to have limited minutes we could call. But then like the people with the really good plans, they would call you right at 6pm because they had unlimited nights.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Three nights and weekends. Yeah.

[Brady]

Hell yeah. Those people would be calling you at 6 because he's like, that's when I.

[Isabella]

Was calling my girl.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, that's when he hit up six o' clock.

[Brady]

Let's see what everybody's up to.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Those ladies call that girl from chem after 6?

[Brady]

No, I had to.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Kim. Oh, My God, did you.

[Brady]

I had the next chirp when I was in high school.

[Ryan Reynolds]

The most annoying place for the nextel chirp was the changing room of any mall. Like, if you were trying on clothes and you just heard like, where are you guys at?

[Brady]

Blue bloop.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Oh, my God. Can you just call. Just call each other. I'm trying to figure out if this is a skirt or a tube top.

[Brady]

The phone you could crack walnuts with.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Moving on to hockey because, thank God, Miko Rantnen is having one hell of a postseason. Miko Rantman plays for the Stars. We talked about him last week in their last series when they played the Avalanche because he scored a number of goals to help the team win. He's at it again. At one point last night, I saw a stat that said of the. He said a postseason record for having a goal or an assist on 12 straight scoring plays by his team. So the last 12 goals his team has scored, he has either scored it or assisted on it. That's unheard of. But last night he set a pair of NHL records after scoring a natural hat trick, which Chris just learned about for the first time, right?

[Brady]

It's a hat trick without an epidural.

[Ryan Reynolds]

It's a hat trick without anything happening in between. It's just three straight goals. Is a natty Hattie to give the.

[Isabella]

It took me. Sorry. It took me like a good five seconds to understand the joke. And then I was like. I was like, yo, that's so funny.

[Chris]

It's a good dad joke.

[Ryan Reynolds]

The Dallas Stars won 3 2. Game 1 win over the. The Winnipeg Jets. The. Oh, yeah. These are all the things I just said from memory. You guys wrote them out, which I really do appreciate, but I always forget that it's down here. So I'm like, shoot, I have to remember what happened. And then it says it there. Okay. You love to see that. That's just crazy. I mean, imagine of all the times to get hot. What a time. Because before the. This streak that he's on, his. The first few games of that Round one series were a little quiet for Ranton. Quiet no longer, that is. He's on fire. Game 2, tomorrow night, 9:30pm Eastern, if you're interested. He's only the fourth player in NHL history to achieve the feat of multiple three goal periods in the same postseason at any point in his career. And the other three are Wayne Gretzky, Maurice Richard and Tim Kerr. So pretty good. Elsewhere in hockey, the Leafs. The. The Toronto Maple Leafs take a 20 series lead in the Second round. I don't think I've said that in my sports career. So it's pretty rare. Leafs fans must be feeling good, but they also know the danger of feeling good. Yes.

[Isabella]

Isabella is the. The Leafs. Is that the team that. The Scottish woman.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. With the mascot, falcon tits. And she's back. She came back. She made another appearance.

[Chris]

Really?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. Let me see if I can get this clip. This is probably the space it takes for me to get to this clip. Okay, so the Maple Leafs are playing Isabella's Florida Panthers. The Florida Panthers goalie is named Sergey Bobrovsky. That's just important context for this. Fuck Bobrovsky. He's a dick.

[Isabella]

My jock's a dick.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Everybody's a fucking dick.

[Isabella]

Last time I was here, we lost. I was a wee bit excited, kind of wiggled my boobs a bit.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Massive fucking chest. This time the boobs were nowhere.

[Isabella]

The team boys focused and they fucking did it. The pheromones were fucking rockets.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I rubbed them all over the guys next to. And he love that. It's a. Certainly a type of mood.

[Brady]

We can get her on this pod, right?

[Ryan Reynolds]

I don't know. Maybe. It's possible.

[Isabella]

I'm trying to party with her.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Oh, Isabella. Just apropos of nothing, I just saw somebody tweet we're gonna need Isabella to stop it with the post it notes. And I agree.

[Chris]

Power of those posted.

[Isabella]

No, it really is, guys.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I know. I blame Heidi Gardner for telling us about it at all in the first place. So, yeah, the. The Panthers are down, which if you're keeping track, is good, but also not great for. For me in the sense that, remember Brad Marchand traded at the deadline if he plays, I believe, fifth, if they make it to the Eastern Conference finals and he plays 50% of their minute, he or more our pick that we got from that trade. The Bruins becomes a first round pick. And so we need. I need, I guess technically I need them to win. And I know Isabelle is rooting for it because she's been a Florida Panthers fan for three days to piss me off.

[Brady]

So that makes her one of the longest tenured Florida Panthers.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Burn.

[Chris]

Burn.

[Isabella]

I see your eyes. You look directly into the camera.

[Ryan Reynolds]

It's because sometimes I watch clips back and I realize I'm looking at the zoom and I look like. I'm like. So when I mean it, write down barrel. Oh, here's a fun one. The Ravens released Justin Tucker, uh, just to recap. That's their kicker. Just to recap. This is from the ringer. The Baltimore Ravens released Kicker Justin Tucker on Monday, a little over three months after the Baltimore Banner published a report in which six women from four local spas said that the kicker, quote, engaged in inappropriate behavior, end quote, during massage sessions from 2012 to 2016, including exposing his genitals and making unwanted sexual contact with massage therapists. Had the team merely chosen to quietly part ways with the 35 year old, we would have been left to fill in the blanks on why the move was made. Instead, the Ravens released a statement that made it clear it was strictly a football decision. Here's the statement. Sometimes football decisions are incredibly difficult, and this is one of those instances. General manager Eric DaCosta said in the release. Considering our current roster, we have made the tough decision to release Justin Tucker. Justin created many significant and unforgettable moments in Ravens history. His reliability, focus, drive, resilience and extraordinary talent made him one of the league's best kickers for over a decade. We are grateful for Justin's many contributions while playing for the Ravens. We sincerely wish him and his family the very best in this next chapter of their lives. Uh, in the statement, no mention of the growing list of women, which is now up to 16, who say Tucker harassed them, or the NFL's ongoing investigation into the matter. Look, I'm not new here, not my first day on Earth. I understand that there's probably legal reasons you can't mention any of that or allude to any of that or suggest guilt in regards to any of that, but I don't think there is legal reasons. You have to go out of your way to be like sometimes when a man and a woman, really. When a man and a man really wish they could work together, but they just can't. Sometimes you gotta make a difficult football decision. And this. This is one of those. I don't think you have to do that. I don't think you had to go out of your way to say now, let me tell you, this is only about the football. Did they need to do that?

[Brady]

It just implies that, like, they went so far, they're, like, in between the lines. Part now is that we're cool with the other stuff.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, I mean, you know, if you.

[Brady]

Made all your field goals, this would be fine.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Too bad you stink now. Well, I know he's pissed that this has turned into his fun fact. It used to be that he could sing opera. That was all anybody ever used to talk about.

[Isabella]

Really?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. I guess he's a trained opera singer, actually.

[Brady]

Is really good, but isn't it?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Isn't it an interesting, isn't it?

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

So okay, he's gone. They drafted, they used a six round pick on Tyler Loop from Arizona. Steven Tyler Loop.

[Brady]

Just go by Steven Tyler Loop.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Just go by Steven Tyler on a loop.

[Brady]

More fun name.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Steven Tyler Loop is what I did the very first time I heard this on crying. I just was like, run that back. I loved that. That's really good. More football while we're here. NBC's Mike Florio reports that Aaron Rodgers may be waiting to sign anywhere until after the NFL schedule release so as not to have to play as many Mondays and Thursdays. Background Isabella that may be necessary that maybe you don't have. The football season used to be Sundays and then they expanded it. Which one was first? Thursday. Monday came first, Monday came first. Monday Night Football one game and then sometimes more than one, but just mostly one game and then Thursday Night Football. So NFL players don't like that because it shortens your week. So if you played on Sunday and then you have a game on Thursday, that's a shorter week than having another game on a Sunday. You know what I mean? Or if you play a game on Monday and you have a game on Sunday, your week is shorter than somebody who had a game on Sunday and a game on Sunday. So it's just like in general, not their favorite thing. And last year the NFL gave the Jets a bunch of early season prime time games because those are one game in those slots. They're prime time games. Whereas if you want to watch football, everybody's got that one game to watch, as opposed to on Sundays you could watch a million games. So they, because Aaron Rodgers was such a high profile move to the jets, once he was there, the NFL was like, all right, we're going to put you on Mondays and Thursdays more so that you have prime time matches. And the NFL VP of Broadcast planning, Mike north, candidly admitted, I feel like the jets kind of owe us one. So this year, Rogers has yet to sign with the Steelers, which is where everybody is assuming he's going. If he does it before the schedule is released on May 14, the league will know that it's getting a marquee team and a marquee quarterback for a slew of standalone games. If he waits, I guess it's possible they won't schedule as many primetime appearances because Mason Rudolph would be their quarterback. And so there's, according to Mike Florio, a well respected reporter in the field, he's waiting until at least after May 14th to sign. Does that make. Does that I kind of get it. I kind of get it. But it's also, like, it just feels. As with most things with Aaron Rodgers, you're like, okay, because before, wasn't it. I'm waiting until after something else. I don't remember what specifically, but he's always like, well, I'm not gonna do this until this happens. And it's like, all right, buddy, so let's just. Can you just call us when it's time? I don't. Do we have to keep going? Well, now, Aaron Ronderson, waiting until such and such happens. I don't. I. I'm finding it so hard to care.

[Brady]

Such a inverse relationship of how much we have to care about him and how good he actually is and how much effect he'll have on the actual season. I know, like, everyone else got a starting quarterback except the Steelers. That's how urgent, like, this was, that everybody was like, we'll just get somebody else. We'll just get somebody else. So, I mean, if he's the 32nd best quarterback, but now we're sitting around waiting for him to be done with his vacation to the pyramids. And I'm guilty of talking about it now. I want to not talk about it.

[Ryan Reynolds]

You put this in. Just for the record, Brady put this in the doc. There were three parts to it. I removed two.

[Isabella]

I feel like baseball should take up this new schedule of, like, only on Mondays and Sundays or only on Mondays and Thursdays.

[Ryan Reynolds]

That's the thing. You're so right. That's the thing about football. Is that it. The reason I think it was able to. One of the reasons it was able to rise to such popularity here is that it's so much easier to go. It's Sunday Football day. Granted, there's a little spillover, but it's mostly concentrated, whereas other sports, it's not as regular. It's kind of. We blew Isabella's mind the other day talking to her about the baseball schedule.

[Isabella]

Well, that's what I'm saying. I want it. I want this schedule for the baseball players, right? So that they don't have to play, like, six times a week.

[Ryan Reynolds]

But that changes the entire nature of the sport. I think that the baseball schedule being what it is, is part of why I love it. Because the Sox can do stupid shit. And the very next day they've got another game and they've got to go at it again. And I can. They can do cool shit in that. And it just feels more like a.

[Isabella]

Well, you always keep saying that. It doesn't matter, right? Now that they're losing. So at what point does it matter?

[Ryan Reynolds]

And that's a fun debate to have. You could argue it always matters. You could argue it doesn't matter until after the All Star break. You could matter. You could argue that it doesn' There's a number of different ways to look at it. The way I see it is it's like you don't have to pay attention to it, but you can. That's why I like it. I can watch a bunch of baseball and I don't. It doesn't have to hurt yet, but you can find people who are already keeping track of standings, which to me, I'm like, get that out of my face. I don't care who's where. Like, war at all.

[Isabella]

And.

[Ryan Reynolds]

But I. It's. It's era. You're doing great. And obviously she's right. Why do we call war. War Runs. Yep.

[Isabella]

Average.

[Ryan Reynolds]

That's right.

[Brady]

Hell yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Why do we call it war? But we don't call it era she's got a really good point there.

[Isabella]

That now. That now you're losing me. What do you.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I'm defending you.

[Isabella]

Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, Me neither. So we weren't talking about baseball, but I wish we were. New team names. We've got a bunch of new team name stories. I can only think of two, so I'm excited to find out what third one you guys put in here to make the rule of threes. Well, I guess we'll get it when we get to it. The Utah Hockey team. The Utah Hockey Club has unveiled their new name, which we knew because it leaked. It's Mammoth. They also unveiled their logo. It was in a video, which, look, I don't want to go too deep on. On. On brand videos from teams, but I was like, okay, we get it. We don't need a Christopher Nolan style trailer that kind of loses the plot halfway through. It's Mammoth. You're naming your team Mammoth? The kids at the museum. I'm like, what is this? It's like they had an idea. It felt like they had six ideas. And then somebody was like, put them all together. And it was like, okay, someone. The president of cohesiveness should have taken a pass at this before it went out. Those are just my notes. Also, you don't have to name the blue and the white and the black that you're using in a way that tries to evoke the. The team name of, like, this is Rock Black, Rock Ice, Blue Mountain White or whatever. It's like, it's White Light blue and black. Chill out.

[Brady]

I can show you the hex code for rock black and black and tar black and night black and there's.

[Isabella]

I bet I was going to say like the hex code list would say otherwise.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I bet they're all the same. Smith Entertainment Group is the name of the. I guess the. The ownership group of the team Utah mammoth. More than 10,000 years ago, herds of mammoth claimed Utah as their home. And ever since the mammoth has embodied strength, momentum. Momentum has.

[Brady]

It's probably hard for a mammoth to slow down if we're talking like a Newtonian sense.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Right? In the sense of like the. The. Which one was it on? The Mighty Ducks. No, the Mighty Ducks that couldn't stop. He could skate.

[Brady]

Luis Mendoza.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. Mammoths are the Luis Mendoza of. Of animals I guess. Strength, momentum in an earth shaking presence. Qualities that are brought to life by the passion of Utah's hockey fans, those brand new folks. And that mirrors the franchise's bold emergence into the NHL in a process driven by the community. The Utah Mammoth name was chosen by fans during a 13 month process involving four rounds of fan voting and 850,000 dol thousand plus votes. There was initially 20 possible names. Utah Blizzard, Utah Hockey Club, Utah Outlaws, Utah Venom, Utah Yeti. And they weren't allowed to be Yeti because the Coolers exist.

[Brady]

So the Coolers had had a legal team.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. And they said no thanks to that. Now Brady, you are. You had a strong anti on this name because of the lack of an.

[Brady]

S. I'm very against a lack of.

[Ryan Reynolds]

An S. It doesn't bother me. I think I used to notice it more but with the resurgence of the WNBA you notice that most. A lot of those teams have no S. It's kind of common. So at this point I've been desensitized to it. I don't mind and I think mammoth mammoths anything. Ths is a little tough to say quickly.

[Isabella]

Mammoth. Don't use it mama.

[Ryan Reynolds]

And imagine having to say the mammoths is forward. It's like a mammoths's would be crazy. As opposed to the. Yeah but saying it out loud. The mammoths where it's just saying like he. He's. The mammoth's forward is easier. And mammoth is also an adjective, is it not? Can be used as an adjective. So they are the mammoth. They are huge. They are mammoth.

[Brady]

So what do you call one of them? One of them is just a mammoth but then they're all the mammoth. Like throw the S on the end have an S on it. You don't need to be different. You don't need to be like. I am the club that sets apart everybody else has an S on it.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah.

[Brady]

But I'm gonna make. What do you call the Boston baseball players?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Socks.

[Brady]

You guys have had 120 years to figure this out. You can't figure out what to call one of the players.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I know. I was gonna say, is it bad that I still stumble over it? Rego. You know, the Red Sock. It's like. It doesn't. It doesn't sound right. I don't like. I don't like. But most of their options had no S. Where were you during that, Brady? During the democratic process, none of them were good.

[Brady]

Even the Utah Outlaws.

[Ryan Reynolds]

You're the guy.

[Brady]

Not a good one.

[Ryan Reynolds]

You're the guy who googled tariffs the day after the election. I don't want to hear this now. You could have spoken up when Blizzard and Mammoth and Venom and Yeti were the options. You could have used your voice. And now you're going, no, sir.

[Brady]

And now there is no one to speak for me.

[Ryan Reynolds]

That's right. They came for you, and there's no one. Outlaws for you.

[Brady]

Outlaws is the only one with an S. And Outlaws is problematic just because the entire creation of the state of the government of Utah done outside of the rule of law of the United States.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Correct.

[Brady]

This is. None of these are good.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Outlaws. Outlaws.

[Brady]

I think the most.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I was gonna say outlaw is a fun idea when you're picturing the government being something that keeps you from your freedom and you're going out and you're robbing the rich and giving to the. Or it's less fun when you're like, we want to be able to marry more than one person and we're going to do it.

[Brady]

When you're like, wait, Brigham Young did what? We are called the Outlaws. Why?

[Ryan Reynolds]

And which laws are we on the out of?

[Brady]

Would you say Isabella? There's 11 teams from the major men's pro sports leagues, which. My most feminist view here is that I hate the women's names as much as the men's names. I feel like that makes me an ally.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Really good spin.

[Brady]

You know what? The links, the sky, the sun, the fever. All bad. What do you call one fever? What is Caitlin Clark?

[Isabella]

A fever.

[Brady]

She's a Feevist.

[Isabella]

A feverist.

[Ryan Reynolds]

A fever.

[Brady]

Utah Mammoth 2025. Before that, it was the Seattle Kraken 2021. Like, that's just one creature. Your whole team can't make up one creature. Why is this not Voltron and I'm.

[Isabella]

Like, you know what? Like, let's just not be lazy and add an extra word and say, oh, a Kraken player.

[Brady]

The Minnesota Wild.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Isabelle's telling you you're dumb. Can you hear it? Is that getting in?

[Brady]

The Colorado Avalanche. This could have just been the Avalanches.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Why would it be anywhere?

[Brady]

What do you call one player?

[Ryan Reynolds]

When are the Avalanche players?

[Brady]

They're a collective.

[Ryan Reynolds]

When is there more than one Avalanche? You.

[Brady]

Oh, I'm sorry. So like, if there's two of them, they are just. They combine into one avalanche.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I'm talking.

[Brady]

You can have multiple of these things.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Falling down a mountain. If there are two happening and they combine, you just call it an avalanche.

[Brady]

If it's not problematic, don't name a team after it.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Brady. I'd like to move on. And unfortunately, as I'm looking, I'm realizing we are moving on to the clearly. What the hell? The Greensboro Gargoyles named ECHL affiliate of the Canes.

[Chris]

Chris, who put that in there?

[Ryan Reynolds]

What is this? Who cares?

[Chris]

Announced Tuesday, the Gargoyles.

[Ryan Reynolds]

The Greensboro Gargoyles are set to begin play this October at the first Horizon Coliseum. We were all waiting with bated breath. The team will compete in the echl, a double A developmental hockey league. But we all knew that. Is this a new team name you're saying?

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Okay.

[Chris]

Brand new team, brand new logo, things like that. What do we think of Gargoyles as a new team name?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Well, Brady, there's an S. So you're.

[Chris]

Not allowed to say Brady doesn't like that one either. Oh, you do like that one?

[Brady]

I like it better. I don't think it's a good mascot because a gargoyle is something that is just very heavy and doesn't move like.

[Ryan Reynolds]

They are famously statues. It's a good point. It's a good point. They do famously stay in place, but they intimidate. And also speaking of statues, people forget Cleveland Guardians. New team name had to change from their problematic former name, Cleveland Indians. And they changed to the Guardians. And based off of what statues? The Guardians of Traffic. Those giant statues that I think are only famous in Cleveland to Cleveland people. That's what they're named after. Google them. They are ridiculous looking.

[Brady]

They give off big, never ending story vibes.

[Ryan Reynolds]

It gives off like time, you know, when things are. What's it called? Anachronistic.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Where it just feels like they're from two different time periods. It's like an old looking statue with new tech and you're like, what? What's this? What's this from? I don't like. So teams have been named after statues before. I guess in baseball, it's probably a little more accurate than in hockey, where you want them moving around. But gargoyles are spooky. At least they're scary. Guardians of traffic are like, we'll make sure that there's nothing bumper to bumper. No rear ending.

[Chris]

I'm a big fan of alliteration.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. The Greensboro Gargoyles.

[Chris]

Greensboro Gargoyles. And our minor league baseball team is the Greensboro Grasshoppers. So we're really, really, you know, leaning into the alliteration on our minor league sports teams here in green.

[Isabella]

You guys want to know what my college mascot was?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Sure do.

[Isabella]

And mind you, not a sports school. No, it was just only like, mine.

[Brady]

Was a fancy turtle. So this is. Okay.

[Isabella]

Terrible Narwhals.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Narwhals is great. Narwhals.

[Isabella]

Isn't that so cool? So cute.

[Ryan Reynolds]

That's really great.

[Isabella]

Mascot's really cute. Cute little glasses.

[Ryan Reynolds]

That's so true. Bye, buddy. I hope you find your dad okay. And then all of this is just in service of getting to the story we really want to talk about, which is the Morehead City Marlins, a collegiate summer league team to rebrand. They are going to rebrand for one weekend in June. Are you sitting down as the Crystal Coast Booty Divers.

[Isabella]

Wow. Chicken wow.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Wow.

[Brady]

This is the opposite of saying that they are raw dogging while voting on the Pope. They know. We wanted to know.

[Ryan Reynolds]

We wanted to tip our cap to the history and spirit of the Crystal Coast. Said not Marlin's owner. I get Morehead City Marlin's owner, Buddy Bengal. There's something magical about believing there's treasure still out there. We're just bringing that magic to the ballpark. So Booty here supposed to be pirates pirate related. Booty.

[Brady]

Booty being the buried treasure.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yes. Or. Yeah, just treasure, I think. But it, you could say has another meaning. Certainly calls to mind other imagery. And. And they know because merch will include T shirts that say I go down and if you buy one, you better. Let me just say we don't have to get into it, but don't false advertise. Okay. Women's booty shorts with the temporary logo. So it'll have the Booty diver logo, which I assume is hopefully a thing of treasure and not spread cheeks, but I guess you never know. And then they are also selling a red hat that says make a Booty diving great again. Sure. And then a youth shirt that says Booty Patrol So one weekend, whatever. Fun. Fun.

[Chris]

You know, that's.

[Isabella]

I don't like that they did that though. The youth shirt. It's kind of like, all right, you're gonna make this like, other merch that's very clearly insinuating this thing. And then like, oh, youth shirt that says booty. It just feels weird. It feels weird.

[Ryan Reynolds]

And I'm not a parent, so I'll let the parents speak here. But I will say first, I don't like any of those. Like, I. I'm a lady killer on a baby boy. And you're like, all right, it's a baby boy. I don't know. He's got plenty of time to be that. Maybe now. And I'm not even saying, like, I'm. I get. I'm offended. I'm just like, what's the. Why are we all making shirts like that? Why are these as popular as they are?

[Brady]

Everything you dress a child in is projection. So like, yeah, gotta kind of look at it in that lens of these children are not dressing themselves ever.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Okay. But also at their essence, kids are evidence. You. So we really don't need you to tell it to us again, like, we know, we see the baby. Congrats. I guess.

[Brady]

So does the tata's hat need a buddy in the studio?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Probably. No, but I don't. I.

[Chris]

Listen, I'm gonna buy it before it gets banned.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Brady, I can't do. I'm not into a red hat. The symbolism of it in general, to me, if I see somebody with a red hat, even if I eventually see what it says and I go like, oh, okay, I get it. You're making a self aware criticism of the thing. It's a commentary. As soon as I see the red, I've already subconsciously, I'm already in a place, so I'm not.

[Brady]

You see the Shriners on the street and just run the wrongs.

[Ryan Reynolds]

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[Ryan Reynolds]

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[Brady]

You know, number 21 sign honoring the greatest player in franchise history who died on a humanitarian trip, you know, bringing food to the poor. They took down his tribute and sold the ad space and thought no one would notice. Bad luck, bad luck.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I mean, in another public relations blunder, the Pirates removed the commemorative bucko bricks Placed outside a PNC park that have been purchased by fans without any notification. Isabella, have you ever seen this? You can, like, for however much money, you can buy a brick and then you can inscribe on it, like, in memory of our dad, and then write his name. Or you can just write your names and you just, like, pay for it. And they put it outside the stadium on the ground as part of the. As part of the. So you're.

[Isabella]

But it's not part of the building already. It's like a brick itself that was. And then they. You can buy it.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I think it's like, usually, and I don't know specifically with PNC park, but usually it's like they're repaving the outside. They're going to lay down all these new bricks. You can spend money. We'll put your name on a brick, and you can see it's part of the thing. So they. They did that and then they took them out. And not only did they take them out, they were discovered in an area recycling facility. So they took them out and they tossed them without telling anybody who paid money for them. And then the Pirates have now offered fans commemorative replicas of the bricks if they want. Sorry, we did that. We can make you a fake one and send it to you. If you're going to be. If you're not going to stop whining about it.

[Isabella]

I would stop being a fan. That's the kind of thing that would make me so upset. I would just.

[Ryan Reynolds]

The Pittsburgh Pirates subreddit has begun popping up in my newsfeed of subreddits because the fans are so mad that every day they're writing, I think, this is it for me. And every day I read a new that starts with them going, apologize for how long? This is just a rant from a fan who's like, I've had enough. And the third thing, the newest one. The Pirates have suspended an usher after a video surfaced of him getting involved in a violent altercation with a fan at the park during Sunday's game against the San Diego Padres. A video posted online shows the usher engaged in conversation with a fan before repeatedly punching him in the face. The video also appears to show the fan then spitting on the usher, who then the usher takes off his belt and begins slapping the fan with it. What the.

[Isabella]

I don't approve of violence, but I find that so funny.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Spitting. It's so many different types of violence is what I find fascinating. It's not punches.

[Isabella]

He's like, oh, you want to fucking spit on me.

[Ryan Reynolds]

It's like, you're going to throw punches at me. I'm going to spit on you. And he's like, you're going to spit on me? I'm going to spank you. I mean, what's going on in Pittsburgh?

[Brady]

And I kid you not, since we wrote this and prepped this and started this podcast 14 minutes ago, the Pirates fired their manager.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Oh, my God.

[Brady]

Like, it's just a downward spiral.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Out of there.

[Brady]

All they have is skins. And every time they try to say, like, all right, you know, all this stuff's going on. But hey, fans, look at skiings. We have bobblehead for skiing. So, hey, Paul, show these people your bobblehead. Paul, here's your Bobby. It's like, okay, this is my bobblehead.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Okay, thank you for making a talk.

[Isabella]

You guys always say that.

[Ryan Reynolds]

He's just like, I would love if the first time Paul Skeen shows personality, it's to go like, what the fuck's up with Pittsburgh? You guys gotta help me out. Hey, Chris, any news on this Pope?

[Chris]

I've been staring at a live shot of that damn balcony in the Vatican for the past 45 minutes. There was so much pomp and circumstance around this. And we still haven't gotten an official announcement, but I have kept my eye on it.

[Ryan Reynolds]

But pretty soon I was glad I.

[Chris]

Didn'T have to interrupt the Booty Divers conversation to talk about the new perk. That was good that it didn't break during that story.

[Ryan Reynolds]

And look at this.

[Chris]

But I'll let you know as soon as we.

[Brady]

Yes, it's such a steady stream. Like, do we know what they're burning? Is there somebody who's just like, shoveling logs into this fire concept?

[Ryan Reynolds]

I don't think we want to know. I think the less questions asked of the Catholic Church, the better is what I found. But any minute now, someone's going to come out and dangle that new pipe pope off that balcony. So I look forward to that.

[Chris]

So as soon as it comes out, we won't have to, like, do some guys.

[Isabella]

If I get a Knicks win and a Filipino pope in 24 hours, like.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I.

[Isabella]

May just fucking go to space. Like, that's literally what I might do. I'm gonna be the first 26 year old unqualified Filipino woman in space. That's what it'll be.

[Brady]

You would not be the first unqualified woman in space.

[Chris]

That's a good thing.

[Ryan Reynolds]

We can assure you that is the cross that Katy Perry bore for us. She was the first to Be unqualified. So we could all do it as well. Okay, this. Another quick baseball one. The brewers introduced the Brewers Hot Dog Club, something that I sound like I would be involved in and happy and supportive of. On Tuesday, they announced a new $59.99 annual membership. So 60 bucks a year to be a part of the Brewers Hot Dog Club, which gets you a hot dog at every home game, plus an exclusive hat. We looked into the design of the hat. It's nice. It's a trucker hat, so it's not for everybody, but. But the. The design on it's cute. The problem with the rollout is that the first fans that used it and what trailblazers they are. I love that they're the first to go, I will buy this.

[Brady]

Right away, they slapped that card down on the counter.

[Ryan Reynolds]

They were like, say less. Here it is. The first fans that use it on Tuesday were all charged sales tax on their free hot dog. So essentially making it a dollar dog membership. You're now signing up for the right to have a dollar dog every game. Are they fixing this, Brady? Is this on the mend?

[Brady]

They did. They fixed it after the first game. I'm looking at the. I'm looking at the details, all of the disclaimers on this membership. Nothing really absurd, except for the fact that they limit eight memberships per person. No single person can have more than eight. That gets them more than eight hot dogs per day.

[Ryan Reynolds]

How many meetings do you think were called before they. On the number of eight, do you think it was like, okay, everyone, and for next time, let's all come in with a number of. How many hot dogs would be a problem. Would turn a fan. Yeah.

[Brady]

An insurance rep and a doctor and said, how many will kill somebody?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Well, a doctor's going to say for us. A doctor's going to say, please don't eat hot dogs. The amount of rat feces allowed to be in there is. Is alarming. It's pretty crazy.

[Brady]

They're like, hey, the only options are zero or alarming.

[Ryan Reynolds]

They always say we can't be expected to keep it from happening. So you just have to be expected to know it's in there. And that's never a good. But they're so delicious.

[Isabella]

I feel like this is kind of.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Expensive for one hot dog per game. Yeah. You'd have to go to, like, literally every game.

[Isabella]

This better be, like, a loaded hot dog.

[Ryan Reynolds]

You'd have to go. This only makes sense for. I bet it's not. This only makes sense for, like, a. A Season ticket holder. I don't think you want to spend 60 bucks a year to go to three games. Like I get one free hot dog.

[Brady]

There's 81 home games a year.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Okay, one. How much does a hot dog cost? Six bucks probably.

[Brady]

They have a, they have a regular. Oh you know what, that's a really good deal. $4. They have a regular size hot dog for $4.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Okay, so four times 81 is guy who couldn't do 25 out of 100%.

[Brady]

300. $324,000. Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

What three.

[Isabella]

So not a thousand.

[Brady]

It would cost $324 to buy a hot dog at every game. So they're charging you $60.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, but you're not, you're, you're, you're assuming someone's at every game. It's, you'd have to be at every game.

[Isabella]

I just think everything's expensive.

[Ryan Reynolds]

So it is. She's not wrong.

[Brady]

You got a 15 games. It's worth it. Plus the hat. It's a good hat.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Sorry, we are forgetting about the hat. Thank you, Brady. We are discounting the hat. The Pope would never do that.

[Brady]

Got a little cartoon hot dog man.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Nick Saban to reportedly co chair President Trump's commission on college sports. Nick Saban is expected to co chair president Donald Trump's commission. I love that this first sentence says the same thing as that. The other co chair is expected to be a well known college athletics booster. The Sorry. The athletic first reported Saban would be a coacher. Yahoo Sports first reported Trump's plans to form a commission focused on college sports. The athletic also added the president will be very engaged because of the national importance he sees in college athletics. Trump is also reportedly considering an executive order which would create more scrutiny around nil. According to the Wall Street Journal. That news came down after the President and Saban met ahead of last week's commencement address address at Alabama. The commission on college sports is expected to quote, deeply examine the unwieldy landscape of college sports including the frequency of player movement in the transfer portal, the unregulated booster compensation paid to athletes, the debate of college athlete unemployment, the application to Title 9 to School Rev. I'm sure they're going to be cool about Title 9. I'm sure what they're saying is they want to increase the reach of Title nine. I bet that's what they're saying. And even conference membership, makeup and conference television contracts. According to Yahoo Sports. It's expected to be a months long endeavor. Here's the thing. I Don't disagree with their needing to be some sort of a meeting about what the going on in college sports. I think, like the Ayama Leava story is one that we sort of talked about a little bit. Transfer portal situations, trying to get more money. I think, like Nil being new and sort of like the Wild west has sort of made. And again, I'm not following college sports like this, so forgive me, but it almost has made the transfer portal feel like TiVo in that it was like a thing that we created to solve a problem of an era that is now not. It's not. We kind of fixed it a different way and now the transfer portal is kind of getting in the way of it. It's confusing and it needs to be fixed. I agree, but maybe we don't go to the coach that left because of Nil. Maybe we don't go to the guy that's not. I don't feel like this commission specifically is about making sure that the. It feels more like the athletes have too much power and money. How do we take that back? Not how do we make this make the most sense? How do we make it so that name, image and likeness is being used properly? Because when I first heard about name, image and likeness being allowed, I thought it would be more about being able to take sponsorship deals and being able to profit off of your name, image and likeness being used by a company. And it's kind of just quickly morphed into just. Just paychecks in a way I don't understand. So, like, this is one of those. Yeah, that probably does need to happen. I don't love the people in the driver's seat. Right.

[Brady]

It's the guy who quit because Nil Money existed right now. Being in charge of doling, of regulating it doesn't feel like the most progressive way to solve it.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Right. And a boost or the way that's.

[Brady]

Going to put money into the labor's hands.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Right. It feels like a power grab back. It feels like, oh, these kids are getting a little too entitled after how many years of this. Coaches have always been able to move wherever they wanted. They could, in fact, take a deal with money and then go right away. So it's like, I'm sorry, you have an issue with the transfer portal. Are we. None of the things I listed there were about the way coaches act and the money that coaches make. So it's.

[Chris]

Yeah. A lot of these coaches are like the highest paid. What do they call it? The. The. The highest paid public employee. Public employees in their states things like that. And then they have endorsements for brands on top of that. So you'll see ads for them on television because the money that they're making through their salary isn't enough yet. They don't want these kids who are the ones out there to actually make the money out there.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Sacrificing their bodies on the line.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Because they have to potentially sacrificing their, their future earning potential by damaging their bodies. So. But at least it's okay, guys, Nick Saban's on it. He's on it. He's got it. So I wouldn't worry about it. That's going to be figured out. I hate this as well. We've now, I guess, reached the dark part of the podcast. The NBA on NBC. This fall, the NBA is going to return to NBC for the first time in more than 20 years. I think we all know that because we're excited about the return of Round Ball Rock. The best, the best song in sports, also known as anywhere. Basketball.

[Isabella]

I don't know this song. You might maybe when I hear it.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Basketball, Give me, give me, give me the ball because I'm gonna dunk it. It's not, there's not really words to it. It was an SNL sketch, but a. It's, it's John Tesh, right?

[Brady]

Hell yeah.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Great. It's just a great. It's a perfect sports song. You know, Isabella when you're watching a game. And the song they play coming in out of commercial, not like a popular song, but like the, the broadcasts. Theme song. NBC had the best one and they didn't have basketball for a while. So we've gone 20 years, like, without it. And now they're bringing it back, which everybody was very excited about.

[Isabella]

That's crazy. They don't cover.

[Ryan Reynolds]

They weren't. Well, they weren't doing. Yeah. And so. But now. So the NBA is coming back. The network is working hard to recall the heyday of its basketball coverage for their fans, which includes bringing back one of the iconic voices of the 1990s NBA on NBC era. Though he's been gone for almost a decade, NBA NBC announced this week that it will use AI to recreate the voice of Jim Fagan, the voiceover artist whose narrations on NBA on NBC segments became an integral part of the broadcast in the 90s. While fans of the NBA on NBC era might not know Fagan's name, his narration of pregame segments setting up key matchups was an integral part of the drama in anticipated anticipation of the show in its. Heyday, Brady, you've got a clip of the real Fagin voice.

[Brady]

Yeah. So let's do the real Fagin. And then they did a sample of the AI version of Fagan. And then I. I don't know if that's going to influence you of whether or not this is a good idea.

[Ryan Reynolds]

It's not. But let's listen.

[Brady]

Let's hear the execution.

[Ryan Reynolds]

This is The NBA on NBC. The 1992 NBA Finals. Okay. That's the song, by the way, Isabella. Pretty good.

[Isabella]

Kevin sounded familiar.

[Ryan Reynolds]

It's pretty good. Okay, Brady. And then now let's hear the AI One. Already bad. The NBA on NBC is back. See you this October for the NBA season. Tip off you. What the fuck is that? It was too clear. What is that? Listen, I too would like to go back to 1992 before I knew anything or had to know anything or had to be aware of the world. I'd love to go back to Saturday morning cartoons and little notes that are like, yes, no, maybe. Do you have a crush on me? I'd love to go back. Okay, we can't. And so many questions. Is Fagin's family estate. Are they getting paid for this use of his. Yes.

[Chris]

Yes.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Oh, okay. I'm a little bit more okay with that. It. But here's kind of my issue with a lot of things in media now is it's like find today's Jim Fagan who can create that sort of a feeling. Why are you telling me the Nobody on earth can do this except that guy. I just. Just don't think we should be using AI to replicate a voice that somebody else could have. And this also calls to mind last year when NBC used AI to have a fake version of the very much still alive Al Michaels narrate Olympic highlights.

[Chris]

Oh, the doors are opening. The doors of the balcony are opening. Oh, my goodness. Step out.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Who is it?

[Chris]

Who is it?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Will you know him by face?

[Chris]

No idea. Oh, he's old. He's a white guy.

[Isabella]

Fucking A.

[Ryan Reynolds]

The Pope is in.

[Brady]

Roger Canal.

[Isabella]

He's being traded.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Oh, I'm so nervous. I have to pee.

[Brady]

The thing is, WO tweeted it three minutes ago. Definitely knew.

[Ryan Reynolds]

He scooped. He scooped the Pope. I keep checking.

[Chris]

The Cardinals are zoning in on.

[Ryan Reynolds]

That's what they said. An American Pope. Somebody said. I heard Americano.

[Chris]

Wow. It is.

[Isabella]

Wait, who is it? Is it Kevin Farrell?

[Brady]

Is it my guy at 25 to 1?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Is it me? Do I have to go?

[Chris]

Wait, Robert Prevost. My wife has been tweet texting me.

[Ryan Reynolds]

She's tweeting you.

[Chris]

She said they're announcing, but it's in Italian. What are they saying? He's coming. Oh, my God. He's American. The first American Pope. It was Robert Prevost.

[Ryan Reynolds]

There he is. Robert Francis Prevost. We have a Pope, folks.

[Brady]

This man was not on the board on mgm.

[Ryan Reynolds]

No way. Well, you know what they say.

[Chris]

He's done by Pope Leo.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I saw this. This the other day, and I forgot to say it in all of our Pope craziness, but apparently a common phrase that they say about the Pope is he who enters the Conclave, the Pope leaves a cardinal. And I feel like that was them saying that if you're a favorite, you don't usually come out as the Pope, so. Makes a lot of sense. Someone somewhere is really rich from it. Bobby, Frankie Prevost, our newest Pope. We'll just. I was gonna. I was gonna play Al Michael's AI, But I'll just say that, like, stop signing off on that. It allows them to. To. To not pay you for. It's not a good idea. Am I crazy?

[Brady]

Jumping back?

[Ryan Reynolds]

What? No. There.

[Brady]

Let me. There's a. There's kind of an in between. Like, you may be on the fence about this. So paying Fagan's family is one thing, to recreate his voice. Paying Al Michaels to just not have to record things because Al doesn't feel like getting out of bed. Last year, James Earl Jones, before he died, signed over the rights to Disney to recreate his voice for future instances of Darth Vader. Are you okay with that?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah, I think so. Because I think that is. Look, I think ideally it wouldn't be AI. Ideally, he would, like, lay down his voice or whatever. But I think on the scale of these things, that one doesn't bother me as much because he has consented to it. They compensated him for it. And. And it's his voice that created the iconicness of that character. And. But I just think, in general, you should be very cautious before you tell a major corporation that they have the rights to your. Your Euness. That you. You.

[Brady]

And we have Darth Vader selling Goya beans next, right?

[Ryan Reynolds]

And then you're like, well, that immediately cheapens it. It's like gambling in sports, where I was like, yeah, I don't see the issue with making it legal and above board to gamble on sports. And then two days later, everything was gambling. It was in the broadcast. It was brought to you by. It was. The only people offering jobs in sports media were gambling houses. Like, it went. It Took over very quickly. So I feel like on its surface, yes, I'm okay with that. But I would caution that usually they go, now that he signed it, let's put his voice everywhere. Profit, profit, profit, profit, profit.

[Chris]

Yeah. It's only one step away from that movie, the Congress. Did you ever watch the Congress, the Conclave with Robin?

[Ryan Reynolds]

I did watch Conclave, the Congress. No, I did not. And what was the quickest? What was that about?

[Chris]

An aging actress agrees to preserve her digital likeness for a studio to use in any future film it likes.

[Brady]

Wait, that was 2013?

[Chris]

That was 2013. Yeah. Good movie.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I feel like we could have seen this coming, you know? Yeah. Let's hit some happy news here after this. To brighten us up, we've got three instances of congratulations. Okay, so first, first, Sue Bird has been named the managing director of USA Women's Basketball.

[Brady]

Yes.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Sue, friend of the podcast. Sue Bird, one of the most accomplished women's basketball players. Also one of the sweetest, kindest, best people. Also in a relationship with Megan Rapinoe, another female, another women's sports icon. So that's one. Congratulations. She also, I think, launched a new podcast, so congrats on that as well. Second, Mallory Swanson, formerly Mal Pew, a women's soccer, another icon, current player on our national team, has announced that she's pregnant with her first child. Mal Swanson, famously married to Dansby Swanson, the shortstop from the Chicago Cubs who couldn't just unfortunately could not be here today. Caitlyn Chen. Here's the last one. Caitlyn Chen made her preseason debut for the Golden State Valkyries. Caitlyn Chen is a rookie out of Yukon. She was their third round draft pick. She made her preseason debut versus the Sparks for the Valkyrie. She is the first Taiwanese American WNBA player. So congratulations. Congrats to Caitlyn Chen for making some.

[Brady]

History today, playing for the first Asian American WNBA coach.

[Ryan Reynolds]

That's correct. On the Valkyries. So shout out. We've got a couple more, but I don't. I'm looking at the time going, do we really have a couple more? Let's fly through them here, Tom.

[Chris]

Yeah, we have a new pope. We got things to get to.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I know. Tom Brady. I got to find out where we stand on all the stuff, you know, am I still allowed to receive communion, which I'm obviously doing regularly. Tom Brady. Got that. Sometimes the mad lib of a story just makes you sigh before you even get to the meat. Is this one of those instances? I'll let you decide. Tom Brady does Logan Paul's podcast says he regrets doing the Netflix roast because of the effect it had on his kids. Uh, Tom Brady says, I love laughing at myself. It felt like I was in a locker room. It was electric. We got done. Everybody was on cloud nine. I think that moment I'll never forget. But Brady added that even if he didn't have an issue with the jokes about himself, he did not take into consideration the impact it would have on his family, which, to me, sums up the divorce. I. That's just. He didn't think about his family. Oops, forgot to think about my family. Someone should have reminded me. He said, quote, there are some things as a parent, you expletive up, I assume, fuck. And you don't realize until after. Brady said of talking with his children the day after the special, adding, quote, it felt like a stake through the heart. They were just like, why did you do that? They're protective of their mom, their dad, of everybody. That's. I love when people do that. When they say something, they realize it makes them sound like they're saying something else. So then they just list one other thing. And then everybody, they're protective of their mom and of their dad and of everybody and of animals and of, of their necks. It's okay. They're protective of your. So you're saying your kids are protective of everybody. They're protective of their mom, and they didn't like what you did. I get that you don't mind yourself hurting, but you don't want to see your parents hurt and you don't want to see your kids hurt. Yeah. Brady, what is up? We. He did this. I'm pretty sure already. We've already talked. He already did a podcast. I think it was Ryan Clark's podcast, the Pivot, where he was like, oh, yeah. I didn't really think of how everybody would attack my. Or use my kids to make fun of me or my parents or, I mean, my wife or my. And it's like, you didn't. Who's telling me?

[Brady]

A lot of the reaction sounded like he expected people to, like, make fun of how handsome he is.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I know. And it's like, what are you, what are you talking about?

[Brady]

How's the weather up there, tall man? Like, I, I. He had different expectations of what this was going to be.

[Ryan Reynolds]

The point of a roast is to, is to humble you and to laugh at, like, wow. Hahaha. And like, buddy, you could at the very least, for a guy who prides himself on his prep, just pay somebody to give you a list of the 10 things that someone could make fun of you for. And on it is going to be the karate instructor or the whatever instructor he was of the kids that Giselle slept with. It's going to be.

[Brady]

Watch 4 and a half seconds of Jeffrey Ross on the Internet, which I.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Don'T even recommend doing. It's more than I would recommend even doing, but it just is like, you okay?

[Isabella]

Would you do a roast, Katie?

[Ryan Reynolds]

In what way? Like, let people roast me? Probably not. I don't. I don't. I think I'd have to be more well liked first. I'd have to feel confident that people liked me before I could do that. Cause otherwise I would just be like, okay, I do this in my own brain every day.

[Isabella]

Yeah, well, let's just, like, cry.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yeah. It's like, I don't think we need it.

[Isabella]

I go to therapy for.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Exactly.

[Isabella]

So.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Exactly. And I feel like the. A roast is culturally relevant to me. At a time when everybody's being too nice at a time like this, I'm like, I don't think we need to roast. We're roasting people every day. I think what we actually need is for people who are friends with people in power to be honest with them instead of being yes men. It's just a very weird cultural times.

[Isabella]

People need to start sharing a Coke.

[Ryan Reynolds]

And a smile with their friends. Gta, Grand Theft Auto. I get it. Everybody's really excited about it. It's never been a game I've gravitated towards. And they keep pushing back when it's out. And you guys keep eating every little crumb they leave you. You're like, yeah, yeah, yeah. They pushed it back, but they put out a new trailer. It's like, just let me know when it's coming out. I. I don't.

[Brady]

Okay, 54 weeks from now, it will be out.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Oh, good. Well, I'll start counting down. And then, Chris, I truly. I feel bad because we keep cutting for time your darts stories. And this time I was like, will come. This time I was like, we're keeping this in so that Chris can talk about Luke Littler. You've got about a minute. Catch us up, because we're reaching the pointy end of the dart season.

[Chris]

He won night 13 last week, which was the fifth time that he's won a Premier League night in the same season. And that's a record. No one's ever won five Premier League nights in the one season. So congrats to Luke. There's still a few weeks left in the regular season. The week 14 is going to start in half an hour. So if anyone's listening to this as soon as it dropped, maybe. I don't know how long it'll take me to. But it might still be on by the time you're listening to this because it goes until about 7:30. I realized that I had to miss the final last week because it was dinner time. But check it out on Tubi.

[Ryan Reynolds]

And then also things we're not going to have time to get to. Champions League final is set. Right. It's Inter Milan and psg. So that's going to be at the end of the month, question mark.

[Brady]

Yes.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Yes.

[Brady]

31St. 31st.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Head on a swivel, folks. I know we didn't talk about it. There's so much sporting. Okay. It's hard to get to it all, but that's it. And can I while we're here, one last thing that's really offending me is every now and then when we're recording this podcast, I get a giant whiff of weed smoke and it's not coming from me. And so I just want to know who in this building and are we not cool? They don't want to be our friend.

[Isabella]

It's not me.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I know I can see you. If it wasn't. If I couldn't see you, I'd be going, Isabella. Pass.

[Brady]

Sporkful.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Could be. Who's to say? Who's to say? Is it Thursday? Oh, that's so funny. I was gonna go, Chris, what are we watching for sports this week? But it's Thursday, so you already know.

[Chris]

More NHL, more NBA.

[Ryan Reynolds]

I don't think the NBA. I heard it was this Saturday.

[Isabella]

The Knicks and the Celtics are playing.

[Ryan Reynolds]

Are they. I heard that was canceled. Oh, I heard that they were like, you know what?

[Chris]

What?

[Ryan Reynolds]

Basketball is what I heard they were like, it's WNBA season. Let's get out of the way. And they just wrapped it up. Is that not. We can fact check that. Don't do it now. But I think we can. We'll update you on that next episode. But I'm pretty sure basketball's over, folks. It's a podcast. It's a podcast that now has a new pope. And boy, are we happy to. To see it. An American Pope. It's a big. It's the first one ever. It's a big time. Make an American Pope again. Thanks for listening. We love you and we mean it. If you want to reach out to us, we want you to. We'll. We'll reach back. It's CasualSwithKatienolan gmail.com our voicemail 646-801-0043. If you're a Pirates fan who's, like, thinking about leaving your team and you just want to kind of to scream about it and vent, it's 646-801-0043 on IG and TikTok. We are Casualsthepodcast. We love you so much. This is so much fun. And we'll see you on Tuesday. I already said it. I'll say it again. Love you. Mean it. Bye. The wrongs we must right. The fights we must win. The future we must secure together for our nation. This is what's in front of us. This determines what's next for all of us. We are marines. We were made for this.