Katie Nolan (3:35)
And B. Brady. Hey. Whose video is on a little bit of a delay. It's just something we're all going to have to get used to until he finally moves here, which everybody's doing. Right? It's in the plans. Everybody's going to move to New York. I must have been on a different email, if you want to. Speaking of email, if you want to reach out to us, casuals with katienolan gmail.com our voicemail 646-801-0043 on IG and tick tock, we are at Casuals, the podcast. Like I said, Swilly. Coming up in a little bit, we're going to talk to her about Mike Trout. We talk about ballpark food because there's some fun new ones across Major League Baseball this year. And also we take a voicemail about when to start worrying about your baseball team because some of us, Red Sox fans included are starting early this year because they look bad and are bad. So we talk about all of that. But before that, we do a little bit of a yap here at the top of the show. And I believe. Did we discuss Jaden Ivy already on this show at all? No, I've only done it on the radio. So the Jaden Ivy story, it's. It's kind of old by now. You may have seen it. He was waived by the Chicago Bulls, the team that he was traded to this year. At the deadline from the Pistons. He's hurt. They declared that he was going to be out for the year. And then yesterday or two days ago, depending on earlier this week, they waived him. He was a former fifth overall pick in the 2022 draft by the Pistons. So, you know, just background about him as a player. They said when they dropped him that it was due to conduct detrimental to the team. I saw a lot of people writing up the headline that it was because of homophob that he expressed during a couple of social media rants. And I just wanted to say, obviously the story has been being talked about a lot and obviously at this podcast, we are not for homophobia or any anti gay statements. I do just want to say I feel like I thought we were doing a good job with mental health awareness and I feel like maybe we need to be doing a better job because the way I'm seeing a lot of people reacting to this and discussing this story makes me feel like maybe not everybody watched the video. They must not have actually watched the videos that Jaden Ivy posted in which he is talking about a number of things. Religion and God and his beliefs and of course, the thing that made the headline. But also I believe there was anti Catholic sentiment expressed in the video. My point is, if you watch the videos, these are long lives on his Instagram, it's kind of clear that that's the headline isn't really the, the thing that's being made the headline. And the, the danger there for me is that it's difficult to, to talk about. You know, I'm, I'm not a doctor. I just recognize certain patterns from being on earth for a long time and, you know, dealing with mental illness in various ways throughout the course of my life. It's just not. These aren't like he's not taking to some video to, to make some coherent statement. These are videos that are being filmed while he's boarding a plane. While he's on a plane. There are videos of it while he's driving. And these are lives where he's just sort of talking uninterrupted for long, long stretches of time. And while I'm not saying we shouldn't call attention to the hate that is being spread in some of this, I just, it's weird seeing a lot of people reacting to the pull quote and defending that based off of religion for a number of reasons. Number one, at this age and stage of my life, I'm, I'm really done hearing from religious people that it's okay for them to be against gay people. I, I, look, I don't want to insult Anybody who has a strong set of beliefs or a religion that they believe and practice. And I, I think freedom of religion for all. It's just that it keeps being tied together as like, well, you can't say anything to me because it's, it's my, these are my beliefs and like I don't think it's a secret to anybody. I'm not a practicing, currently a practicing Catholic, but that's how I was raised. As a child I went to. I'm, I'm fully through confirmed with the Catholic Church. I've got my own thoughts and this isn't my place to air those out about the Catholic Church, especially in Boston and in general the religion. I've got my own spirituality. Again, not really something I'm here to talk to you about. But like it was not a. I didn't come away from that anti gay. Like I was fully indoctrinated into Catholicism. It was what I was raised with and it did not in any way plant that in me. So watching everybody point to it as like a. Well, this is their belief, it's their faith. My faith never taught me that. And I don't know, I just feel like it. Those, there's people, there's. There are people that are gay and they are telling you their lived experience. If your religion is. Your understanding of your religion is that is that you don't believe in gay people. That's not really. It's just not how it works. And I'm sorry, I just am like fed up with hearing that as like, oh, well that's. They. You can't suppress their right to a religion. No, but I don't think you get to in your religion go, well, we don't believe that those are people. So I it to me, I'm sick of hearing it as an excuse. But more importantly, I think it's really weird the people that we saw grab on to that part of Jaden Ivy's statement and use it to say, hey, I agree with him and he should be able to say whatever he wants to Trayon Henderson, I'm kind of looking at you. There's just. Because there's just no way. You watched the video and your takeaway was that he was making some strong stance against being gay, not potentially having a, A, a bigger issue. Do you know what I'm saying? It, it is just weird to see people retweeting and, and being like, I'll fight for his. He's being lifted up as a martyr. They cut him for his beliefs and, and While I do maybe have an issue with them cutting him, if he is experiencing a mental health episode, and I don't know where team liability begins and ends in that regard, he's not being cut for his beliefs. This isn't that. And to see a number of people love the idea that he was being homophobic and to use that to say that he's the victim in all of this, for that reason, to me, is like, you got to click past the headline, dude. I don't think maybe you're engaging with this story in a way that. And then in doing so, you're telling on yourself. Trayvon Henderson, a Patriots running back who posted a Bible verse on social media that read, blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. He basically said, this guy's blessed and gonna go to heaven because he's righteous in saying that you can't be gay because God says. Which, by the way, I tried to read the Bible. I didn't get all the way back through it, but with adult eyes, have recently read the Bible, and it does not jump out the way that some of these religions or the people that teaching and preaching these religions would have you think. You know what I'm saying? Like, if this were like a top five takeaway of the Bible, it would have made it into the commandments, and it didn't. So what are we possibly. When they go like it says right here? Yeah, if you, like, read it really specifically, it also says right here, if a woman has her period, she's not allowed back in the village for a couple weeks. And that's not how we live. So I. It's just. It just feels to me. So obviously being religion is being used as a shield to push a belief system and hatred. And that's the issue. I take with all this. It's really tough to talk about religious beliefs because I know how much religion means to some people, and I know that it doesn't mean that much to me. And I don't want that to make it sound like I feel any sort of value assessment to that. You are welcome to believe in your religion, but where you're losing me is where you're using it to push hatred of literal human beings who are on earth with. With us. We all have one shot at living the life that we get to live. Now, again, certain belief systems, actually, I think, think that you get more than one shot. So I'm not trying to dismiss that, but I'm saying that my. This consciousness here. Katie Nolan I got one chance to be her. And I don't like anybody who tells people how to live their lives if they're not hurting anybody else. And the fact that people get so mad about who people love at a time when love is like nowhere to be found, I hate this is why I didn't want to talk about this because there's so many layers to it. I just feel like people might be engaging with the headline and the way that the story is being pushed and that's actually also creating more hatred towards the community that I think we should protect. I've talked to some people within the community being like, I hate that it's being reported this guy got cut for being anti gay because now it's making all of these anti gay people really, really loud and say that we are the reason that he got fired. And I that's just not what the story is. So I would just say there's a lot to be said about Jade and I' I hope that he has support around him. I hope there is a support system. There are mental health professionals. I know he has mentioned on many replies to stuff and on the live streams themselves that he people keep telling him he's having a mental issue and he's not. Again, these are things that if you're familiar with certain mental issues, this, this behavior tracks. And so I heard him say on one of these lives because I tried to watch them to do my due diligence and they are hard to watch. And in one of them, he says his wife isn't answering his text, that she's watching the Instagram live, but she won't get back to him. And then he says his family is cutting him off because of his beliefs and that he's speaking up for them. And it, it just is like I think there's more to this and I hope that he gets the help that he needs. And, and I and I disagree and disavow with the, with some of the things he said. While also I'm trying to exercise empathy for the fact that it. I don't believe that that is the there' to it. So anyway, those are my thoughts on it. Let's do Should I've said that out loud? We've got a couple. There were a lot. We had to cut this segment down, okay. Because I talk too much. There's a lot of weird quotes this week. The segment will not die because people just keep saying stuff out loud. Let's start with Tony Vitello, the manager of the San Francisco Giants. The Baseball team. The narrative coming into the season. Tony Vil is the first coach to make the jump directly from coaching in college ball to coaching in the majors. And people were like, how's this going to go? His very first press conference, he spent a little too much time talking about how people covered him making the move. And he had some issues with reporters. Red flag. But, you know, it's like a light pink flag.
