NFL, MLB, Saudi Sportswashing, and Could You Eat 275 Nuggets in 3 Hours?

Summary

Podcast Summary: Casuals with Katie Nolan

Episode Title: NFL, MLB, Saudi Sportswashing, and Could You Eat 275 Nuggets in 3 Hours?
Date: September 16, 2025
Host: Katie Nolan
Guests: Isabella, Chris, Brady
Duration: ~1 hour

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Overview

This episode sees Katie Nolan and her cast of producers and editors breaking down week 2 of the NFL season, key MLB moments, the ongoing topic of “Saudi sportswashing” with a specific focus on Tom Brady’s involvement, and a very Casuals-style detour into competitive eating—namely, the possibility of consuming 275 chicken nuggets in under 3 hours. Expect witty banter, sharp commentary, and a fan-friendly, irreverent approach to sports dialogue.

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Main Topics & Key Insights

1. Competitive Eating: Joey Chestnut and the Nugget Challenge

[00:58 - 02:30]

• Discussion kicks off with Joey Chestnut’s feat at a Giants game: 275 Impossible chicken nuggets in nine innings.
• The group debates how many nuggets they could eat in a similar timeframe. (Chris: “My personal best for nuggets would have been about 40 in 10 minutes...if I trained, give me a week, I feel like I could smash.” [01:33])
• Isabella and Brady joke about the feasibility, referencing “nugget PRs”—a nod to mock seriousness about absurd eating challenges.

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2. Housekeeping, Listener Mail, and Personal Updates

[03:17 - 11:14]

• Katie congratulates her father, Mike Nolan, on his golf league win; comments on his muted outfit vs. past “loudmouth” golf attire.
• Katie announces her new SiriusXM daily call-in radio show “Fan Service” (noon to 1PM ET on Mad Dog Channel 82).
• NASCAR update: Ryan Blaney (Casuals favorite) finishes 4th, advances in playoffs; Bubba Wallace also moves on.
• Listener emails:
  • Mel from Chicago: Should a 79-year-old keep a baseball caught at a game or give it to a kid?
    Katie: “If you're over 75...you get like child status.” [08:12]
  • Eve from Boston: Request for a shoutout to impress friends (Katie and Rhea). Katie offers encouragement for Eve’s budding romance. [09:49]
• Quick Emmy Awards review; celebratory nod to Cristin Milioti for “The Penguin,” and viral moments from Hannah Einbinder’s speech (“Go Birds. Fuck Ice. Free Palestine.”).

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3. The Yap: Tom Brady, Saudi Sportswashing, and the Fanatics Flag Football Classic

[11:14 - 23:41]

Tom Brady’s “Big Announcement”

• Revealed as a new “Fanatics Flag Football Classic” tournament in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (March 2026).
• Heavy critique on “sportswashing”—the use of major sports events to improve the reputation of regimes with problematic human rights records.
• Katie runs through Saudi involvement in various sports: LIV Golf, Tennis, Esports, F1, Soccer, Boxing, Comedy, WWE (WrestleMania 43 to be held in Saudi Arabia in 2027).
  • “Saudi Arabia is there, I guess you could say an ally of ours, though I wouldn’t say that. We have a very good relationship with them...mostly based on the fact that they’ve got lots of oil.” [17:37]

Criticism of Athlete & Sports Executive Involvement

• Calls out the “money over everything” attitude:
  • “I just am really frustrated with this money over everything aspect of culture where we just excuse any decision made because of the bag...” [19:17]
• Questions participation by wealthy, highly paid athletes and coaches like Saquon Barkley, Christian McCaffrey, Pete Carroll, Sean Payton, Kyle Shanahan.
• Notes the hypocrisy of risking player health in an off-season flag football game.
• Highlights the timing: announcement made just after September 11th anniversary – “...between the boxing match, the announcement of WrestleMania, and Tom Brady’s announcement all happening this close to September 11th is fucking embarrassing for us as a country.” [23:41]

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4. NFL Week 2 Storylines

[27:29 - 48:39]

Monday Night Football Doubleheaders

• Mixed reactions to 10pm EST starts; viewers struggle with balancing late games on the East Coast.
  • Chris: “I didn’t love it. I like those 8:15 kickoffs because I can watch after my kids go down.” [28:18]

The “Mouse in the House” Tangent

• Briefly discusses Chris's mouse issue and debate about humane trapping. Classic Casuals banter.
  • Katie: “After the Saudi stuff, this really isn’t looking good for you. I feel like you’re mouthwashing.” [30:28]

QB and Team Standouts

• Daniel Jones’ Revival with Colts: “You can just go somewhere else and be like, actually, I don’t suck. So I’m rooting for Daniel Jones.” [31:54]
• Colts’ New Owner Carly Irsay-Gordon: Applauded for sideline presence to understand team operations.
  • “She wants to observe where the business happens...She’s getting off fits. She looks cool. Intensely focused.” [32:57]
• Lamar Jackson’s Hot Start: Six touchdowns, zero interceptions, dominates Browns.
• Derrick Henry “Easy to Tackle”?: Browns’ Grant Delpit’s comment followed by Henry getting held to 23 yds.

Quarterback Injuries

• Joe Burrow (Bengals): Out 3 months (surgery for turf toe); team 2-0 for first time since ~2013.
• JJ McCarthy (Vikings): Out 2-4 weeks, high ankle sprain. Carson Wentz as backup. [38:12]
• Deshaun Watson: Noted only for the “most obligatory” birthday post from the Browns following ongoing controversy. [38:49]

Kickers: Saviors and Scapegoats

• Cowboys’ Brandon Aubrey: Two clutch field goals in thriller vs. Giants. (He never played college football; ex-soccer player.)
• Chiefs’ Harrison Butker: Critiqued for misses; broader concerns for KC after falling to 0-2.
  • “Losing a little faith in the Chiefs.” [41:56]
• “Free 4” Shirts for Rashee Rice:
  • Katie: “He’s not a political prisoner...Why would you possibly print and wear these shirts?” [44:19]
• Taylor Swift at Chiefs Game: Tongue-in-cheek speculation about her security partition; Brady notes it was bulletproof for safety, taking wind out of the joke.

Other Kicker and Team Notes

• Falcons’ John Parker Romo: Five field goals; only meets teammate Leonard Floyd post-game.
• Patriots’ Rookie Kicker: Missed extra points but team beats struggling Dolphins.

Kicking Ball Rule Changes

• Teams can now “brush, massage, and otherwise break in” balls ahead of the season, leading to more long kicks than ever in early weeks.
  • Katie: “Teams have made five kicks longer than 55 yards in each of the first two weeks...that figure ranks tied for second out of 431 weeks since 2000.” [48:39]

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5. WNBA Playoffs Update

[50:14 - 52:59]

• Aces rolling, Liberty win but Brianna Stewart suffers knee injury.
• Lynx win, Valkyries poised for Game 2 in San Jose.
  • Friend of pod Natalie Nakase: “I want a fair fight. I really do. I want a clean fight, but I love the fact that both teams are playing their hearts out...” [52:05]
• Fever lose to Atlanta, Clark still out.
• Elena Delle Donne named managing director for U.S. women’s 3-on-3 basketball.

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6. MLB Highlights and Controversies

[53:00 - 58:12]

• Red Sox avoid sweep against Yankees; Anthony Rizzo retires as a Cub.
  • Katie describes Rizzo missing a home run catch at Wrigley Field: “That’s why I retired.” [53:00]
• Cal Raleigh ties Mickey Mantle for home runs by switch-hitter (54).
• Aaron Judge passes Joe DiMaggio for most Yankees HRs (now 4th all-time).
• Ken Rosenthal/Gatorade Incident: Apologizes after accidentally knocking over Brewers’ team photographer during live interview, leading to overblown online backlash.
  • “People love to see a guy who wears a bow tie get his comeuppance...the bow tie thing for charity...” [57:12]
• Mets’ epic collapse: Eight straight losses, eliminate themselves; Giants fans’ playoff hopes revived.

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7. What's On & Closing Banter

[59:11 - End]

• Upcoming Sports to Watch:

  • WNBA Playoffs: Lynx vs. Valkyries, Wed 10pm ET (ESPN).
  • Women’s Rugby World Cup Semifinals: NZ vs. Canada (Fri 2pm ET, Paramount+), France vs. England (Sat 10:30am ET).
  • Azerbaijan Formula 1 Grand Prix: Sun 7am ET (ESPN); Oscar Piastri leads, chance for first Aussie champ in decades.

• Closing Challenge:
  How many chicken nuggets could listeners eat in nine innings? Katie wants high, yet honest, guesses.

  • “There's an honor system working here. How many nuggets could you actually knock out?” [61:25]

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On sportswashing:
  • "It just looks really bad for us. I think. I just think like, while another country is trying to make the world think better of It, I'm thinking less of us that will do anything for cash..." [19:33]
• On Rashee Rice “Free 4” shirts:
  • “He’s not a political prisoner...Why would you possibly print and wear these shirts?” [44:19]
• On Daniel Jones' revival:
  • “I just love the idea that like everybody can write you off and say you suck and you can just go somewhere else and be like, actually, I don’t suck. So I’m rooting for Daniel Jones.” [31:54]
• On Emmy speeches:
  • “Hannah Einbinder went pretty viral because she said, go Birds. Fuck ice and free Palestine.” [11:00]
• On listeners and sports fandom:
  • “If we want to give you the authentic experience, I'd love to give you a lovely catered experience where you only get teams that win. But I do think the true experience is finding out that your team's gonna do nothing but disappoint you later in this season.” [58:20]

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Time-stamped Highlights

• 00:58 — Joey Chestnut and competitive nugget-eating segment.
• 03:17 — Housekeeping, listener emails, Emmys chat.
• 11:14 — The Yap: Saudi sportswashing & Brady's flag football event.
• 27:29 — NFL Week 2 kickoff, Monday Night Football, QB notes.
• 38:12 — NFL injuries (Burrow, McCarthy), birthday posts.
• 40:10 — Kicker drama and “Free 4” controversy.
• 50:14 — WNBA playoffs recap.
• 53:00 — MLB rundown, Ken Rosenthal incident.
• 59:11 — “What’s On” recommendations; end-of-episode challenge.

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Tone & Style

Conversational, irreverent, deeply informed but unpretentious. The show makes space for moral complexity without losing its sense of humor—especially regarding sports culture, athletes’ choices, and the absurdity or heartbreak of fandom. Personal anecdotes and quirky asides keep the vibe light even when tackling heavy topics.

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Summary

This episode covers major sports stories and cultural critiques, from the NFL’s unfolding drama and the money-ethics collision of Saudi “sportswashing," to niche but delightful stories like nugget-eating competitions and the human side of sports retirements. Packed with sharp opinions, playful tangents, and the show's trademark listener engagement, it's Casuals in top form for sports fans (and the sports skeptical alike).

Transcript

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In the US based on analysis by Ookla of speed test intelligence data 1H2025CT mobile.com network hey Isabella, did you see that Joey Chestnut tried to eat 99 nuggets in nine innings at the Giants game this year? And did he succeed? Yeah, and then some, I guess. He ate in nine innings. 275 impossible nuggets. That's light work for him. I'm not surprised. It's a lot of nuggets. Normally this just Isabella and I, I feel like. But Chris, feel, feel free to chime in. You think you can do this?

[C]

Easily. My personal best for nuggets would have been about 40 in 10 minutes.

[B]

Personal best for Nuggets trying his nugget PR.

[C]

That was just me being hungry. I wasn't attempting to eat a certain amount within a certain amount of time. That was just how my body consumed him. So I think if I trained, give me a week to train, I feel like I could smash.

[A]

What would. Your training is a long time. Yes. So what? Not. Not with a pitch clock.

[B]

You could. I could imagine Chris banging out a hundred, taking a breather for like an hour and then going back to it.

[C]

Yeah, I think I could do this.

[A]

Do you think I've seen a man.

[B]

Do a hundred, like straight through? Like it can be done.

[A]

You've seen a man do 100 straight through? What are you talking about?

[B]

100 nuggets in a row.

[A]

Okay. And I'm asking what are you talking. When did you See that.

[B]

My roommate Abe, back in the day, Just to see if he could shout.

[C]

Out, Abe, see again.

[B]

Just to see if you're in the Cleveland area, Abe Gordon, sports radio host.

[A]

Can knock out 199, sausage, king of Chicago. Hello. Welcome to Casuals, the sports podcast that, you know, loves sports so much, loves sports from its head to its toes, but it doesn't care if you don't know anything about it. It just wants to tell you about it. Nice. That's good. It's a good one. That's the podcast. I'm Katie Nolan. I'm your host, joined as always by my producers on our Tuesday episode. Here we have our sports newbie, Isabella. Hi. We've got our Aussie editor, Chris.

[C]

What's up?

[A]

That's fine, right? That's fine.

[C]

I like it. Yeah, of course it's fine.

[A]

And then the guy who makes us keep these under an hour, it's Brady.

[B]

I try and fail.

[A]

Yeah, well, today it's dictated by our schedule. What?

[C]

Chris, I like how of all the weeks that I've edited without any issues, you've never mentioned me as the editor.

[A]

I thought.

[C]

And the one time that I had a small issue last week, now you've decided to.

[A]

Accountability. Culture. So hot right now. No, I thought I called you the editor before. I'm just reading what's in my phone. We have, like, not enough time. Today's crazy schedule. It's early in the morning, but it's going to be a good podcast. We're going to get into it right now, but first I have to tell you how to reach us. You can reach us by email. Casuals with Katie Nolan, gmail.com. you can leave us a voicemail. 646-801-0043 on IG and Tik Tok. We are at Casuals, the podcast coming up. We're going to talk about NFL Week 2. We're not going to talk about Isabella's fantasy because we're going to do that on Thursdays, but we are going to talk about the NFL action and. And what happened in it, plus a bunch of other stuff. First, a little bit of housekeeping before we get into my little yap here. Number one, my father won his golf league.

[B]

Hell, yeah. Mike Nolan.

[A]

Congratulations. Mike Nolan sent me a lot of drunk texts of him with a trophy. So congratulations to Mike Nolan. He's in multiple. And I bet he'll send me a text that's like, well, technically this. I just finished in first place in this league. The other one's a tournament. So I so I'm probably not even saying it right, but my dad did a good thing sports wise, and we're proud of him.

[B]

Hell yeah. What was the championship loudmouth pants choice?

[A]

Not good. I wanted to post the picture to be like, look, my dad won. And then I realized I hyped up his outfit so much. And then I looked. It was very, I don't want to be critical of my father here, but it wasn't, it didn't, didn't slay. It made me seem like a liar in previous iterations of this conversation. So it was kind of muted. I think he was trying to be more reserved so he didn't look like a flashy winner. But anyway, he did win, so that's very exciting. Second piece of Housekeeping I have to say I have a radio show now, if you want to listen to it. It's on Sirius XM. It's every single day from noon to 1pm Eastern. It's been a blast. It's called Fan Service. It's on Mad Dog Channel 82. It's an hour of taking people's phone calls. It's a hotline for sports fans. So if you want to call in between noon and one Eastern, it's 888 Mad Dog 6, which I now know by heart. And if you have Sirius XM, tune in 12 to 1 Eastern Monday through Friday. And there's also a link to if you don't have SiriusXM and you want to start a trial, you can get it through our show. But I don't you can't put a link in a podcast. So I'll just post it somewhere and you'll you listener will keep your head on a swivel. Check that out. I'm having a lot of fun doing it and talking to you guys. A lot of you who listen to casuals have called in and it's been great and fantastic. So please keep doing that. I just have to tell you this, that that's happening. Also housekeeping. Ryan Blaney, our new best friend in nascar, finished fourth over the weekend, which is great.

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Moved on.

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He moved on. He's moving on through the cut.

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He is. A lot of people were asking if he was going to be a constant part of the set design because we, we had he was pushed him as a part of the furniture.

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Yes.

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We did have to loan him out to go run a car race, unfortunately. So he is.

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I tried to nail him down. I tried to literally take nails and nail him down to the chair. Unfortunately, he's got. He's very busy and important. So he was busy finishing fourth. Bubba did not finish. Not because he didn't want to. He wanted to very much. He hit a wall. Relatable. But I think I heard he hit a wall.

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Physically.

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Yeah. Oh, physically, okay.

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Hit a literal wall.

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I did not finish this play.

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But they both did move on in the playoffs.

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Okay.

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They both did move on to the next round.

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Our two best friends have moved on in the NASCAR playoffs, something we've always cared about and will continue to care about very much until they aren't in it anymore and then we're not gonna care. But that won't happen because they're gonna win. They're gonna finish first and second. Cause they're our best friends. And that's how karma works. And karma has to still be real. Right? We got a couple of emails. Chris, can we really quickly, can you read me Mel from Chicago?

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I can. Mel says a ball landed in the lap of my 79 year old mother tossed into the stands by the visiting team of which she was a lifetime fan and was even wearing their jersey. Someone still asked her if she'd like to give the ball to some random child. A ruling please.

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Huh? Okay, let's take the facts. 79 year old mother got the ball that was tossed into the stands by the visiting team that she's a lifetime fan of and she was wearing their jersey. So they gave her the shirt. Because she's a traveling away fan and she's 79. Someone asked her, asked her if she'd like to give the ball to a random child. I don't. I would say no thank you. That's my rule.

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I would agree.

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Same. Yeah.

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I think if you're over 75 and like not an active politician, you get like child status.

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I was going to say for the, for the, for the, for the discount. Yes. I think it's like with like driver's licenses etc. It's like the beginning of life up until. And then like the. To the end. There's like those periods where it's like you are not. We'll treat you like ch. Like baby you are baby. If you're over 75, if you shouldn't.

[B]

Be driving, then you can have the ball. Basically that's how that should work.

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Sure.

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If you have car keys on you. No ball.

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I don't know. That's Brady's rule. I feel like you could still keep it if you got your car keys. I like to have my car keys on me at all times. Those are Also my house keys. But yeah, I think she can. Absolutely. I hope she kept it.

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Me too.

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I really hope she kept it. I also like to know what team it was, but it doesn't matter. And then also give me. We've got time for Eve from Boston. Yeah.

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And Eve says, hi, my name is Eve and I'm from Boston. Shout out.

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Shout out.

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I've been a huge fan of Katie since middle school. Sorry.

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Oh, my God.

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She helped me get into sports and bond with my dad as a Boston sports fan. I'm now about to graduate college and I'm a huge nerd about sports and casuals is my all time favorite podcast to keep up with what's going on when I'm busy with classes and my lab research.

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Lab research.

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I know that sounds impressive. Anyway, I'm talking to this wonderful girl right now and I'm trying to win over her friends. Her best friend is also named Katie and is also from Boston and she is a huge fan of the pod. I was wondering if you could help me impress her by shouting out her and the beautiful Rhea as well. Thank you for all that you do. I love you and I mean it.

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Eve, I'm thrilled to wing person you on this. So who are we? So, Katie from Boston. Hi, I'm Katie from Framingham. It's nice to meet you. And Rhea, Hi. In case you're listening, I know we noticed here Ria's not necessarily a fan of the podcast yet. Not to suss out the only negative in this entire email of wonderfully positive things, but it says that Katie is a huge fan of the pod. But please also shout out. Rhea. Ria, you sound like you got a good one. So hopefully the two of you find beautiful love and you're together forever. Or as long as you both want to be together. Is that right? Is that good?

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That sounds good.

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Yeah.

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Together until both of you can get home run balls in the stands again.

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That's right. Until you are no longer allowed to carry your car keys. I hope you love each other for that long. Shout out. You are right. Saying that you listened to me since middle school did make me a little bit nauseous. But then I remembered how much I hated middle school and how much I would have loved to have a podcast that made me feel seen in middle school. So I'm actually honored. Very honored. Thank you for writing in Eve. We love you. We mean it. And then I guess this isn't really housekeeping, but just like a quick thing that doesn't really matter to this podcast The Emmys. Did you guys watch the Emmys at all? A little bit, yeah. It was good. No, not at all. Oh, you're not a TV guy.

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No, I like tv.

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Do you own a tv?

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What?

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Yes, I watch a lot of tv.

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Okay. Because I am not on. Social media gives off such. I don't own a tv.

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I don't even own a tv. I like the book. I watch book Emmys.

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I love the book shows. The only award show I care about is the Oscars. And even then, it's like, it can.

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Get a little bit boring. Yeah, even then.

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He's only there for the memoriam.

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This one was a. This. What the fuck?

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Making sure everyone on my list gets ticked off. And then whenever they don't mention someone, I get rid of it.

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He puts bets on who gets the hammer. I just wanted to shout out Cristin Milioti. I don't know if you guys remember. It was episode nine of this podcast. At the very end, I had nowhere to put this. And I wanted to let everyone know I had just watched episode four of the Penguin, the HBO miniseries. She was the star of that. And I let everybody know she's the greatest actress I've ever seen of all time, and that she deserves every award. And she won. She won for Penguin. Her speech was perfect. If you did not watch the Emmys and you're only gonna look up some speeches. I know Hannah Einbinder we should mention went pretty viral because she said, go Birds. Fuck ice and free Palestine. And I saw a lot of people saying they should have bleeped out when she said, go, Birds. Which I thought, I can't support going birds. Or they were like, I can't believe she would support such a controversial and bad organization. Bad. You know? And then it was. They were talking about the Eagles. It's a funny misdirect. And also Jeff Hiller from somebody somewhere, also an incredible speech. I also loved that show. A huge surprise win, and I loved it. You saw Tramell Tillman one? Yeah. Great. I thought the people who got the awards and the speeches, even with Nate's little conceit, that they had to do it quickly or they would steal money away from a charity, which I know people had mixed reactions to. I thought they were great. So shout out television, I guess, is the point of this housekeeping. And now we've arrived at the yap. Believe it or not, we weren't yet at the yap, where I just talk unabated for a little bit about something, but it's here now, so Sunday night, Tom Brady, or Sunday during the, during the game that he called, Tom Brady teased that on Monday night he was going to announce something that he's been wanting to announce for a really long time. He has a very exciting announcement coming before the Raiders game. I'll remind you, Tom Brady is now a, I believe 5% owner of the Oakland Raiders. I mean, sorry, the Las Vegas Raiders. Um, and so he said it was going to be before the game. He was making a big exciting announcement. We found out last night what that was. The Las Vegas Raiders minority owner and seven time super bowl winning quarterback is teaming up with fanatics Fox Sports and OBB Media for the fanatics flag football Classic. So far, whatever, you know, so far, I don't get it. I don't know why we need these three companies, one of whom I thought made T shirts to come together to make a flag football league and why Tom Brady would come out of retirement to play in a flag football league. But it's not offensive yet. The tournament will take place March 21, 21st, March 21, 2026 at the Kingdom arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. All right, so this is now 1 in the A long line of what has been dubbed sports washing for Saudi. Saudi Amer. Saudi America is hilarious. Saudi Arabia. We had live golf, right? Live golf's a Saudi run league that was controversial when it came out with player with golfers being like, I won't be taking Saudi money. And then a bunch of them did and it happened anyway. They've been present in tennis. I don't know if you guys remember this, but in 2018, right after, you know, that journalist was murdered, assassinated by Saudi Arabia. Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal agreed to play in Saudi Arabia like five days after that happened. They were going to do an exhibition in Saudi Arabia. Federer turned it down and then Amnesty International had to call on them to please pull out of the exhibition and eventually they did because Nadal needed surgery. They also have a Netflix event coming up, the Six Kings Slam. That's this year in Riyadh. And the 2024 WTA Finals were in Riyadh Esports. We talked about this, Chris, that they, they've been trying to make their mark in esports. The inaugural Olympic Esports Games that are going to be in 2027, those will be in Saudi Arabia. They've taken over esports organizations ESL and Faceit. And this is when I say they, I mean literally Saudi Arabia. It's the pif, their public investment fund. It's Government money. Government money. Formula One. They've got the Saudi Arabia Grand Prix in soccer, you know, they've got a lot going on in soccer with like Manchester United. They. There was. Remember when Al Hilal, their soccer team, wanted to pursue Kylian Mbappe and Lebron and Giannis tweeted about this because they said that he was. They were willing to spend up to a billion dollars a year for Mbappe. A billion dollars a year to bring him to Saudi Arabia. And obviously we've talked a lot about. Cristiano Ronaldo went to Saudi Arabia. They had to look the other way on their laws because he wanted to live with his longtime girlfriend who he's now proposed to with that gigantic ring. But at the time he hadn't. And that was illegal there. In boxing, we just had the Alvarez Crawford fight. That was a partnership between Dana White and Turkey. Al Sheikh, who is the chairman of the General Entertainment Authority, who's kind of responsible for. For a lot of this spending in comedy. I don't know if you care about comedy. The Riyadh Comedy Festival coming up. Very exciting. Almost every comedian you know or like or ever had respect for or lost respect for it will be at the riyadh Comedy Festival. WWE has had a long relationship with Saudi Arabia. In 2018, they agreed that they would. It was a 10 year deal that they would do. Please. Which are their premium live events from Saudi Arabia. And then I believe they just announced Brady.

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Yeah, just on Friday, they announced WrestleMania 43 in 2027 is the first WrestleMania to occur overseas in Saudi Arabia.

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In Saudi Arabia, the marquee event, would you call Wrestlemania is the big event. The biggest event of the year is going to be in Saudi Arabia. Here's the deal. Saudi Arabia is there, I guess you could say an ally of ours, though I wouldn't say that. We have a very good relationship with them. And I also feel that our relationship with them is mostly based on the fact that they've got lots of oil and they'd be willing to sell that oil in American dollars as well as give us access to it. And it's a complicated relationship for sure. But it's a country known its human rights violations and sports washing is a known thing where entities will try to use sports, something that people like us care a lot about and put our emotions and our heart into to try to improve the national standing of or like the international opinion of this country and the things that they've done and that we've known them to do also. I just. And I. And I'M very sorry, but Tom Brady isn't because he announced this literally yesterday, which was September 15th.

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Yep.

[A]

Yeah, okay. He announced this on September 15th. I just have to remind you, 15 of the 19 hijackers, of the four airlines who were responsible for nine, 11 originated from Saudi Arabia and Osama bin Laden, born and educated in Saudi Arabia. So it just is crazy to me that we live in a world now where on September 15, Tom Brady can come out and be like, I'm partnering with Saudi Arabia to take to do flag football. I'm coming out of retirement to play flag football for Saudi Arabia. Just as a reminder, Tom Brady already makes $37.5 million per year for the 10 years. So eight more years on this deal from Fox for being in the booth talking once a week for a couple of hours. He also gets money from, you know, flipping that soccer team that he owns and also from owning the Raiders. The 5% stake in the Raiders, and he's got a minority stake in the Vegas Aces. These, this, what really pissed me off is just this list of people who are going to be participating in this flag football league that will be taking place, like I said, March of 2026. Saquon Barkley, CD Lamb, Christian McCaffrey, Sauce Gardner, Miles Garrett, Brock Bowers, Max Crosby, Tyreek hill, Odell Beckham Jr. And Rob Gronkowski. The teams will be coached by Pete Carroll, Sean Payton and Kyle Shanahan. I am, this is, I just am really frustrated with this money over everything aspect of culture where we just excuse any decision made because of the bag, where everything is like, well, but that's, you wouldn't turn down millions of dollars to go to Saudi Arabia because it's like we're, I feel like when people say that they're thinking about themselves, they're thinking about like, well, if somebody offered me millions of dollars, I don't know or care that much about Saudi Arabia in the first place. Why do I have to be the one to put my foot down? But it's not you average person. These are some of the highest paid people in the NFL. This is, they already are getting paid so much money. And the way that these, that like Saudi Arabia or other countries that participate in sports watching, the way they get people to do this is they offer them boatloads of money. And I just am sick of us as a culture just automatically going, well, they're paying them. So it just looks really bad for us. I think. I just think like, while another country is trying to make the world think better of It, I'm thinking less of us that will do anything for cash, that will just go, that's fine. That's totally fine. That Pete Carroll, Sean Payton and Kyle Shanahan are gonna go coach a flag football league and that's totally fine. That these NFL players, by the way, who could easily get hurt playing football in the off season, usually frowned upon unless it's to help Saudi Arabia out, I guess. I mean, sure, it's flag football, but non contact injuries happen all the time and they're some of the worst ones. So I wouldn't be thrilled about Saquon Barkley going to play in a round robin tournament against Tom Brady and Rob Gronkow. Like, what is this and why do we keep doing this? It's too many times. It's too many sports. And I just feel like as a sports fan who tries to speak to sports fans, it's up to like, it's. I feel a responsibility to be like, we can't just keep being like, well, what are you gonna do? I wanna watch this event. So we've gotta let them do it. I just don't think we do gotta let them do it. So cool announcement. Tom Brady, thanks for letting us know and we're really happy for you.

[B]

I'm terrified for Christian McCaffrey's.

[A]

I mean, my goodness, the guy can't be. He's already gonna. He's already got too much on his, too much weight on him with his quarterback being out.

[B]

Also, like two of the Raiders are on this list, Brock Bowers and Max Crosby. Like, they work for Tom. Like, Tom, even if you're doing this, don't let them do this.

[A]

I just don't.

[B]

Doesn't make sense.

[A]

I just don't know, man.

[B]

I just feel really integrity of the Saudi field. You know, we stick in cleats in the ground and getting hurt.

[A]

Right. Is this a good field? I mean, there's so many things really frustrating. It's very frustrating. And.

[B]

And I'm also pointing out the wrong problems with this. I'm thinking of the logistics which are far beyond all other problems.

[A]

No, of course you didn't want to Google Saudi Arabia, American relations and have to dig into that. Like I did when it said they were an ally, I was like, well, I mean, kind of, kind of. It's strategic. It's a strategic partnership for us as a country, for sure. But everything we ask them to do, they go, we're not going to do that. And they take the side of our enemy.

[B]

The rumors about WrestleMania broke on September 11th and they announced.

[A]

Very cool. It's just very cool. Hashtag never forget. But I guess unless it gets in the way of the bag. Embarrassing. It's embarrassing for this much. Saudi Arabia, between the boxing match, the announcement of WrestleMania and Tom Brady's announcement all happening this close to September 11th is fucking embarrassing for us as a country. And somebody had to say something. Let's go take a break. We'll be right back with more sports news. Man, life can get packed, huh? Just so much stuff to do all the time. You gotta clean the bathrooms, you got to read the news, you got to watch the sports. You got to drop your kids off at school. Not me. But I'm sure that's something that takes up a lot of time. Life just gets in the way. Well, when life is full and time is tight, Instacart helps you stay on track Instacart is more than a grocery app. It's a care company that works around your schedule. Get groceries and household essentials delivered in as fast as 30 minutes. Whether you're hosting a barbecue or getting back from a trip, or just juggling back to school chaos. It helps save so much time. Open your phone and scroll through and pick out the things you need. That's why I love Instacart. Download the Instacart app and use code CASUITS20 to get $20 off your first order of $80 or more. That's code CASUITS20 to get twenty dollars off your first order of eighty dollars or more. Which is great because that means you can add that to the tip offer. Valid for a limited time, excludes restaurants and additional terms apply. Fall is in full swing and it's the perfect time to refresh your wardrobe with pieces that feel as good as they look. Luckily, quints makes it easy to stay warm and save big without compromising on quality. Quint has all of the elevated essentials for fall. Think 100% Mongolian cashmere from $50 washable silk tops and shirts. Skirts, because tops are shirts. So I think I meant to say skirts. But you can wash them both and perfectly tailored denim, all at prices that feel too good to be true. But they're not. They're true. They have this Mongolian cashmere fisherman crew neck sweater that I love. It's just like a staple to my fall wardrobe. It's like, you know how you have like 80 sweaters but you only like three of them? It's in my three, so that's awesome. Keep it classic and cozy this fall with long lasting staples from quints go to quints.comcasuals for free shipping on your order and 365 day returns. That's Q-U-I-N C E.comcasuals to get free shipping and 365 day returns. Quints.comcasuals if you're a maintenance supervisor at a manufacturing facility and your machinery isn't working right, Grainger knows you need to understand what's wrong as soon as possible. So when a conveyor motor falters, Grainger offers diagnostic tools like calibration kits and multimeters to help you identify and fix the problem. With Grainger, you can be confident you have everything you need to keep your facility running smoothly. Call 1-800-GRAINGER clickgrainger.com or just stop by Grainger for the ones who get it done.

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[B]

I didn't hate it because my sleep schedule was already fucked from the fight on Saturday night which ended at 2:00am Eastern time.

[A]

Yeah, we're not going to talk about that because I just don't care but it Dan had Dan fell asleep when it was starting because it started at.

[B]

Around 1 in my mind it's like oh yeah 2am fight. I'll stay up. This would be awesome. And my mind doesn't say you're 40 this will you up for a week and like I am still not recovering. So last night like great. I had no problem making it to the end of the Raiders game this morning.

[A]

Tough it did wasn't worth it.

[B]

Would it be tough for another couple days?

[A]

Worth it. The problem with a late Monday night Football game like that, at least on the east coast, is I feel like once the game feels like it's over, people are going to stop watching it. It's like that game would have to stay exciting till the very last minute. Chris, there's no chance you even saw that game start?

[C]

No, I watched the first half.

[A]

Wow.

[C]

Didn't catch the second half, but I watched the first half, but missed the start of the earlier game because I don't put my kids down until after that game began. So normally I like those 8, 28, 15 kickoffs because I've put the kids down, I've cleaned the house, all that sort of stuff, and then I can just watch TV until I go to bed. But, yeah, I didn't love it. I didn't love it.

[A]

Yeah, it's gonna happen, I think, three more times this season. I think we've got Monday night doubleheaders quite a bit, so. Yay. As a. As a late person, I don't mind. The only problem is, like, I like to watch the football game and then play video games with my friends. And so the second football game really pushed off when I could play. I didn't get to play any video games last night. So if I sound cranky, that's why Also, it's like 9am so that could also be why those cars aren't going.

[B]

To kick giant soccer balls into the net by themselves.

[A]

Well, they had to play the tournament without me last night and they lost. They had a third guy who didn't show up and he just sat there idle and they lost. So thanks for bringing it up, Brady. We lost the Rocket League tournament because I couldn't be there because I had to watch football. Chris, this is something you brought up to us on our. In our meeting and hasn't brought up yet on the pod. But I just will ask very quickly, did you find the mouse that is loose in your house yet?

[C]

No. We have probably 13, 14 traps set up in our house. And as of this morning, when I looked about a couple of hours ago, it is in none of them. So we'll see. It might have just disappeared because there are so many traps. I don't know how it can evade all of them.

[A]

Because it's a mouse.

[C]

I don't know.

[A]

Yeah, it's a dastardly little mouse whose life depends on evading your little traps.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Does it sing?

[B]

Did you at least switch over to the old school spring traps? Are you still going with the. Like.

[A]

I wasn't gonna bring this up. I wasn't gonna bring up Chris's mice rights violation. I wasn't gonna bring up that he has that he's got glue traps all over his house.

[C]

That's what my father in law brought over. That's what the pest control dude brought over.

[A]

Chris didn't know until we explained to him yesterday that a how a glue trap works and now I think you do feel bad about it.

[C]

But yeah, I'd never used glue traps.

[A]

Before and I wouldn't recommend just what.

[C]

My father in law brought over. That's what the pest control guy brought over.

[A]

So that's what after the Saudi stuff, this really isn't looking good for you. I feel like you're mouthwashing and so I think maybe we should move on. NFL Week 2 storylines, it was all QBs and kickers, right? Daniel Jones. The Colts have not punted yet. The Indianapolis Colts have yet to punt in this season. I believe that was the first time in the super bowl era a team has gone two weeks without punting at all. Daniel Jones looks like a new guy, a completely new.

[C]

You just need that change of environment and then all of a sudden you're a new person.

[A]

I wouldn't usually recommend that your new change of move to Indianapolis and change.

[C]

Your life from New York.

[A]

Yeah, but Indian, Indian New York's not for everybody, Katie.

[B]

New York.

[C]

You just got to get out of that fishbowl.

[A]

You guys are going to talk.

[B]

He was asked for the Giants last year and that was well established. He was just, he wasn't good.

[A]

Right.

[B]

And then he went to the Colts, were like, all right, we'll take him, we'll take him. And everybody said like, you're ruining this franchise. What do you, why are you bringing him in? And then it's, you know, already through two weeks, it's looking like it happened with Sam Darnold, like it happened with Geno Smith, like it happened with Baker Mayfield. Like some guys just need some more time and give them a second chance. And you're like, oh, this is why he was a first round pick. They look great. Like he's just slinging it.

[C]

It's a very hard job. Sometimes it does take a little bit longer to really master.

[A]

Yeah, I, I also, I just love the idea that like everybody can write you off and say you suck and you can just go somewhere else and be like, actually, I don't suck. So I'm, I'm rooting for Daniel Jones. I haven't paid a lot of attention to the Colts, but between him and the new owner who is on the sideline walking around with a headset. Have you seen her?

[B]

Carly Irsay Gordon.

[A]

Yes. Carly Ursay Gordon is the new owner. She inherited the team, and she's very present. She said she wants to be hands on. She wants to understand the business inside and out. So she wears a headset and she walks around on the sidelines sort of. She said she wants to see the decisions being made in real time so she can understand them, so she can better judge if they're being made properly. I love it. She's got. She's getting off fits. She looks cool. She looks intensely focused. And look, they're 2 0, the Indianapolis Colts. Nobody had that as a prediction. So I love it. I'm, like, rooting for the Colts in a way.

[B]

If I'm a player, I'm nervous as hell. I just. I don't. I don't like your boss's boss's boss just sitting there 20ft from you, watching you work.

[A]

Work. Well.

[B]

No one else would be uncomfortable with this like you. You're. You're. Well, you shouldn't be writing this off like, it's awesome. Because she has a sweet blue turtleneck and jewelry.

[A]

It's not why. It's not because of the sweet blue turtleneck and the jewelry. It's because she inherited the team. She's a woman. I imagine people are like, she doesn't know anything. And she's like, I. She could easily just be the rich kid who's like, I got the team. I make decisions however I want to. And she's like, I'm gonna go observe the business from where the business happens. She's not meddling. She's not getting involved in the decisions. She's just kind of being like, hey, how does it work down here? And observing.

[C]

It's how I feel like I would want to run my team if I inherited or if I bought a sports franchise. Just be in there. Learn as much as you can. Absorb all that information. I think it'd be fascinating. And it's right. You're right. It does sort of give her a better understanding of the game and how decisions are made and all this sort of stuff. And it can only be positive as long as she continues to not meddle in everything. If she's just standing there, just listening and watching, I think it's only a positive for the team.

[A]

Yeah, it could turn to a necklace.

[B]

I'm sitting here podcasting.

[A]

You are.

[B]

I'm sitting here podcasting, and Eric Spitz just walks in the back of the room and just sits there quietly in a sweet blue turtleneck with jewelry.

[C]

Just wants to learn about podcasts.

[A]

Does he own serious Does Eric.

[B]

He's my boss's boss.

[A]

Own. Serious? Yeah. Okay. It's your boss's boss. If the owner of Sirius came in and said you guys have been making a podcast that we're in charge of, I would just. I'm gonna sit here and watch how you do it. No judgment on anything you do. I just want to hear how the decisions are made. If that makes you nervous, Brady, maybe you should make sure there's a cold open in the dock the next time we do a podcast. Okay. That's not the only team, and we do have to get to the rest of them. Lamar Jackson. Six touchdowns and zero interceptions on the season so far. Hell, yeah.

[B]

Incredible.

[A]

Amazing. They demolished the Browns on Sunday. 41:17. After that game against the Bills was a thriller. In Week one, Grant Delpit came out before the game and said that Derrick Henry was easy to tackle. Right. Was that the quote? He's like, really not that hard to tackle.

[C]

It wasn't hard to tackle.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. And in the game, tackled him twice, and the Browns held him to just 23 yards on 11 carries. So I guess maybe he's right. Is that what we're learning from this? Grant Delpit was right, and we can all tackle Derrick Henry.

[B]

Turns out that Derrick Henry sucked. We didn't know. We had no idea.

[A]

We're kidding. He does not suck.

[C]

8 and 275 Nuggets tackling Derek Henry. It's all the same. It's easy.

[A]

We can do all of that. Okay, let's get to the big news. The quarterbacks that are out, because this is just like. It just keeps coming and coming. This week, Joe Burrow, out for three months with turf toe. Crazy. Because last week we heard Brock Purdy was going to be out with turf toe, and they were like three to four weeks. And so then when Joe Burrow left the game, I believe it was in the second quarter this week, people were like, what's going on? Then it said toe. So I think everyone's brain went, maybe it's turf toe. So maybe we're looking at three, four weeks. Just like Brock Purdy. Come to find out. No, his is really bad and you need. He needs to get surgery. So Joe Burrow after the Bengals start the season two, and, oh, for the first time since. I don't know, it's like 2016, 16, 13.

[B]

Long time.

[A]

It's been a long time.

[B]

That feels like a stat. And we were told there would be no stats.

[A]

Right. And I had it. Here's the thing. Between this and the radio show. Whenever something's like between since 2013, since 2009, they all blur together. There's no hope for me. It's been a really long time and the Bengals do not usually start their season like this. And now they have started this and lost their quarterback. Jake Browning took over for Joe Burrow and threw three picks. They also won, but he threw three picks. So this is truly the most devastating news of the week in terms of football teams. This is like you're doing a fantastic job and also you're probably not going to be able to do a fantastic job for much longer.

[B]

Jake Browning is going to be a three touchdowns and three picks guy every week and those games are going to be so much fun to watch.

[A]

I mean that was not if you're.

[B]

A Bengals fan, but like that team's going to be fun because they're just balls is going to go wherever.

[A]

It's just a wild situation unfolding in Cincinnati. Also we found out I believe last night, JJ McCarthy out for two to four weeks with a high ankle sprain. They lost 22 to 6 to the Falcons on Sunday night. The Vikings did and and J.J. mcCarthy apparently suffered a high ankle sprain and now he's out for two to four weeks. He went 11 of 21 with two interceptions over the weekend and he struggled a lot more than they did against the Bears. McCarthy looked great against the Bears, not so much against the Falcons, but he is now out and their backup is Carson Wentz. Carson Wentz still in the league?

[B]

Carson Wentz. Welcome back pog form.

[A]

Carson didn't went anywhere. He's been here the whole time.

[B]

Pride of North Dakota State.

[A]

And then this is under the QB down thing. I don't know why, but Deshaun Watson had a birthday this week. I guess the only way I found out is because the Cleveland Browns posted a Happy Birthday post to him that was as not happy as it possibly could be. It expressed no excitement or joy. It shared nothing special about Deshaun Watson. It was basically just a picture of Deshaun Watson Watson and it said Happy Birthday Deshaun Watson.

[C]

I don't even think obligatory happy birthday post.

[A]

I don't even think they put a comma between birthday and desean. It was like no, they didn't want anything interpreted either way. But it is technically this guy's birthday. This guy that we signed to a five year $230 million fully guaranteed contract back in March of 2022 who we still owe $46 million worth of salary in 2026 Happy Birthday to him. The other storyline this week, does your kicker suck or is your kicker good? Let's go game by game. We had the Cowboys. Does your kicker suck? No, not at all. Brandon Aubrey, the kicker for the Cowboys. They beat the Giants 40 to 37 in overtime. It was a thriller, a very exciting game, probably the best game of the week. They called Brandon Aubrey out on the field in the final seconds of regulation and asked him to hit a 64 yard field goal to tie the game and send it into overtime. And he did. And then they, after neither team could score a touchdown after the fourth quarter of that game was all just like, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown. Like four lead changes in the fourth quarter. Then they get to overtime and nobody wants a touchdown. So they end up calling Brendan Aubrey out again and asking him to hit a 46 yarder to win the game. And he does it. Amazing.

[B]

It's whatever.

[A]

It's just so much pressure to put on the guy that you don't even let eat lunch with you in the lunchroom. Like the kicker is never treated like they're just part of the team and this guy comes out and gets it done. They made him do. They put it all on his shoulders. And I love when somebody rises to the occasion. And I hate when they put a lot of pressure on a kicker and the kicker doesn't get it and then they act like he's a guy.

[B]

This guy didn't even play college football.

[A]

He did it.

[B]

He just. Oh, he's a soccer player in Notre Dame. Didn't go to the mls.

[A]

Yeah, it's not the mls, Brady. They get very mad if you say that.

[B]

Oh, I did it.

[A]

Same with mlb. You can't say the mlb, the Major League Baseball. Doesn't make sense. Please.

[B]

I mean, he could go to the Major League Soccer. He could have gone to the minor. That doesn't even sense.

[A]

Okay, I take that back everybody. Brady was right.

[B]

I should probably accept the L on this one.

[A]

Chiefs, does your kicker suck?

[C]

Yes.

[A]

Yes. Your kicker is Harrison Butker. So he does suck outside of football. But the good news is also sucks inside of football. The Kansas City Chiefs fell oh and 2 on the season. Eek. After losing to the Eagles 20 to 17 on Sunday at home. Their kicker that Brady has. Oh God, that's very funny. You've asterisked him out of the document. Harrison Bucker missed a 58 yard field goal in the first quarter that would have given the Chiefs the lead. This comes a week he misses the point after attempt against the Chargers in Brazil. Which I believe that was when Rich Eisen said that he missed it coincidentally. Wide right. Pretty funny. So, yeah, they're. They what?

[B]

Losing a little faith in the Chiefs.

[A]

I've never had. They're. Oh, and two, I've never had any faith in the Chiefs.

[B]

02. They lost two games all of last year. And it just feels like as long as Patrick Mahomes is there, like, they'll be good. Just always felt like that with Tom Brady. It's like Tom Brady and like James White and, you know, before, like Danny. Amen. Dammy Amendola. Like, whoever's out there, you're like, oh, they'll be fine. They'll make the playoffs because it's Tom Brady.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And that's how it feels like with Patrick Mahomes. But this time it kind of seems.

[C]

Like Kelsey's too distracted by Hollywood.

[A]

That's what they always say. Don't blame the effing girlfriend. It's so old. I mean, fiance. I apologize. I know that's new. Look, they've got. They've. Their receivers are out. They lost Xavier Worthy in the. In the opening. Okay. And Rasheed Rice is suspended. Can we talk about them all wearing Free four shirts when they came out on the. Not all of them. I guess I shouldn't say it was all of them. I know Travis Kelsey wore one. There was somebody else at least that wore one. It's a shirt for Rishi Rice that says Free four. His number is four. It's just like, can we talk about what Rashee Wright did? Rashi Rice was part of. He was like street racing his Lambo and was responsible for a big crash. And then he fled the scene. He could have killed somebody. And he got 30 days in jail. Plus I believe it's five years probation. I don't have that in front of me. But he only got 30 days in jail. And then they negotiated to a six day. Like, he pled guilty, by the way. And then he got a six game suspension. So free him from what?

[C]

Six games?

[B]

He's not a political prisoner.

[A]

Yeah, six games is pretty light. But then you also get into this weird NFL thing. This is the world the NFL has created where you go, like, how many games is it if you hit a woman, how many games is it if you hit a child, how many games is it for a hit and run? And I really hate doing that math because it. But then people get into, well, it sets a precedent and there's a players union and you can't over penalize and under penalize and It. It's a mess. It's always been a mess when it comes to the personal conduct policy. And I don'. Point is they agreed to six games. The six game suspension is what he got. I do not know what they're trying to free him from. I don't know if this is Travis Kelce just being an idiot. Why would you possibly print and wear these shirts? What could you. What could you possibly. This isn't an injustice being carried out.

[B]

Are they trying to give him away?

[C]

We don't want him free.

[A]

He's free.

[B]

Free. Hey, everybody, you guys can have him.

[A]

Free number four if you guys want. Also, did you see Isabelle, did you see Taylor Swift come to the game behind a partition? I did. I did. And what did I tell you guys? I was like, was she inside of it? I was like. I was looking at the footage and I was like, I don't get it. She's being transported like through. And then I saw like it turn and I was like, no, she's not. That's skinny. Like, the footage starts like a board. The footage starts with the rolled up partition being pushed out by these people who are then going to open it up and set it up so she can walk behind it. And Isabella thought that it was like a. She was like packaged like. I was just. I was so confused. I didn't like fully read it and I was looking at it, I was like, where is she? It's like, damn, she's inside of that. That's crazy. No, the Chiefs are so bad she didn't want to be seen rooting for them. And I get it.

[B]

Well, it turns out that was a bulletproof partition.

[A]

Well, that makes it less funny, Brady. That makes it. That makes it make a lot of sense. Sense. Given the context of the current. You could see why she.

[B]

That like it was like a. Like a security, like a fear thing of. Not like they didn't announce any like direct threats against her life, but like. Yeah, and it's kind of.

[A]

You're taking the funny thing and you're making it less funny. But that's. Now everybody. No, no, it's okay. Now everybody knows. And that's. It's not funny. It's not because the Chiefs are bad. It's actually because somebody. Somebody probably credibly threatened her life and she can't support her boyfriend without showing fiance. My bad.

[B]

There are less ridiculous ways.

[A]

Falcons. Does your kicker suck? No. John Parker. Romo. Love a Romo. Back in the league. Kicked five field goals in the Falcons 22, 6 defeat of the Vikings on Sunday Night Football just days after joining the team in the post game interview. I don't know if you guys saw this. He met his teammate Leonard Floyd for the first time. He was being interviewed after the game and, like, shook hands with his teammate who's been in the league since 2016. Very funny.

[C]

Didn't know who he was. Knew who Bijan was.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Didn't know who Leonard was. Very funny.

[A]

I get it, I get it. You don't have time to meet him. I'm telling you, these kickers aren't, like, they're not, you know, immediately best friends with the quarterback and the receiving core. They're like a different team entirely. So I thought that was fun and cute. Patriots, does your kicker suck? It says yes. He's a rookie. Andres Borgales. He missed two extra points, which isn't great. You really hate when they miss the extra point because it seems so easy. It must be very hard. Please don't come for me. But it seems so easy. It's just that little extra point and he didn't hit it. But that's okay because the Patriots played the Dolphins, who sting. And they won anyway, 33, 27 to get their first win on the season. Borgales was selected in the sixth round of the 2025 draft. He was the first kicker taken in that draft. And then Mike McDaniel. Look, here's my thing with Mike McDaniel. If you're going to love his nerd, weird personality, vaping ness when they're winning, then you don't get to use that exact thing against him when they're losing. Like, he's just saying things like, hey, we're to win games, you have to win that game, not lo lose the game. And that's how you lose the game. That's how he talks. It's how it's always been, how he's talked. He's, I assume, being sarcastic because that's what he's always doing. And when he's like, hey, yeah, you got to score more points than the guys on the other side of the field. From what I hear, that's how you win a game. It's the personality that he has. He's clearly depressed and aging rapidly by what's going on in Miami. But I just hate when people are like, did I already say this on the last podcast? Rex Ryan, calling him nerd boy on espn. Embarrassing. Embarrassing. That's a professional NFL head coach. Call him nerd boy. Okay, Foot guy. Like, get out of my face with this. You're nonsense. You'd kill to have his job. You didn't age out of it. You just don't have it because nobody wants you. So chill on the nerd boy.

[C]

Maybe Patriots second in the afc.

[A]

Yeah. I mean the AFC east is a real how the mighty have fallen used to be such a competitive and not anymore. One of the reasons the kickers are such a big storyline apparently, is because the is because they've changed the football strategy. Like the strategy for the actual physical balls. Before this season, teams use special kicking footballs that players didn't have access to until game days. Each team would realistically have about 30 minutes to brush massage and otherwise break in three footballs. I hate that list of things you can do to it. Brush massage and otherwise break in is really tough. That's all you have to do with your Doc Martens. That's. And that's what we all were thinking about. Those were what we were thinking about. In 2020, that time increased to one hour. So they used to get the games, I mean the balls right before the games and they would have an hour to mess with them. But under rules adopted this season, teams received 60 footballs for the season before the start of training camp. And they can work those footballs into the shape they want, learning exactly how they will respond. And then those footballs have definitely been responding. Teams have made five kicks longer than 55 yards in each of the first two weeks of the season. And that figure ranks tied for second out of 431 weeks since 2000 per True Media. So they get to spend more time with the balls.

[C]

They certainly do.

[A]

And they get to.

[B]

Why is that funny?

[C]

Get to massage the balls for longer, shape them into whatever shape they want the balls to be, Stick with the.

[A]

Same balls on the ball making meatballs. That's what I was thinking of. Right again, that's what you're thinking of. Doc Martens and meatballs are what we're all thinking of and why we're all giggling into our microphones. Also, just very funny on the heels of this Patriots story we were just talking about because the they so strange the NFL and the way they're like the balls must be treated a certain way. These balls must be treated this certain way. And then you've got Aaron Rodgers on an old broadcast before Deflategate being like, yeah, I like to overfill the balls a little bit. I like them to be too much air. So I'll we'll take them and we'll fill them back up. And nobody cared. And Then Tom Brady says he likes them a little bit less and then everybody cared all of a sudden. And now they're just. Just so. I don't know. Who gives a shit? The NFL needs to decide if it cares about its balls or not, because I certainly don't okay the WNBA play. We'll talk more about football when we look forward to the rest of the season. We'll do that on, I mean, the rest of the season. The next week. We're going to do our look ahead to football next week on Thursday's episode where we'll talk about Isabelle's fantasy team and all that. The WNBA playoffs started. No real surprises in the first round, which got underway on Sunday. The Aces are still rolling. They beat the storm 102, 77. Asia Wilson had 29 points in 30 minutes. The Liberty defeated the Mercury 76 to 69 in OT. Brianna Stewart will be examined by the team's medical staff. She suffered an apparent left knee injury with three minutes left in the extra period. Her status is still unknown. For game two, the Lynx rolled the Valkyries 101 to 72. That's okay. Friend of the pod Natalie Nakase calls for a fair fight from the refs, saying when Ilana Rupert is trying to fight for the rebound and she's getting called for a foul on a rebound, it takes our aggression away and that's where I'm not okay with it. I want a fair fight. I really do. I want a clean fight, but I love the fact that both teams are playing their hearts out. They're fighting, but I would like it to be fair. They play again tomorrow night in San Jose, right? That's where SAP center is.

[B]

One, one, one. Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. So that's the format. One, one, one, meaning that's a home game and away game and a home game for the top top the higher seed. So the next game will be would have been in Baala for the Valkyries, but they're going to be in the SAP center because as we've talked about before, Baala was loaned out to somebody else. So they can't be there. But hopefully they'll take that game. Fingers crossed. The Fever Dream matchup ended in 88, 80 to 68 win for Atlanta. The Fever are still without Caitlyn Clark and Sophie Cunningham and Elena Deladon has been named managing director for women's three on three. Three. That's just kind of tucked in there. It's exciting.

[B]

It's a very cool thing.

[A]

It's a very cool thing. We are running out of Time. And I mean it for real this time, because we're doing this before the radio show and I have to go. The socks avoided the sweep against the Yankees. Thank God. That series sucked. I knew the Yankees would win at least one. They won two and it really sucked. But they, the Sox won six four on Sunday. Anthony Rizzo, who we absolutely love, has retired. He's retired as a Cub. He was watching the game on Saturday. I don't know if you guys saw this, you should go look it up. He's watching the game on Saturday in the bleachers wearing a jersey that he had signed. He had gotten signed by all of the kids he had visited at a hospital throughout his career. He's sitting there, a home run ball gets hit to him, like right to him. He stands up, it's like a scene in a movie. Reaches his hand up to catch the ball and misses it. It hits his hand and bounces behind him. And then another fan catches that ball. And then the camera goes back to him and you see him say, like, that's why I retired. It's very funny. It makes me laugh so much and I love it so much. We love Anthony Rizzo. He's wonderful. We love you. Congrats on an amazing career and we're sorry to see you go. Big dumper. Cal Raleigh tied Mickey Mantle's record for home runs by a switch hitter. His major league leading 54th home run, he hit it on Sunday and tied that record that Mickey Mantle set back in 1961. Also, I should have mentioned this back during the Yankee story, but Aaron Judge has Now passed Joe DiMaggio on the list of all time Yankees home runs. He's in 4 4th now, so that's cool and good. The big story I saw from baseball of the weekend was Ken Rosenthal. I don't know if everybody saw this video that he was doing a live interview after the game interviewing Andrew Monasterio after the rookies clutch single beat the Cardinals nine, eight. They, they came over to hit him with a Gatorade shower as they always do when there's a, a, a walk off. And Rosenthal backed up. And while backing up, he backed into Scott Paulus, the Brewers team photographer, and knocked him over in the process. Paulus was like crouched down on the ground and he got knocked over. And then instead of helping him up, Rosenthal turned around and looked at him and then shook his head and then continued his interview. People online got very upset about this. It was a huge uproar to the point where Ken had to apologize. I saw him apologize yesterday for what had happened. I. I don't know. I feel like, sure, it was a short little video, and sure, it looks like he was frustrated and angry, but it's. I don't know. We're extrapolating a lot from small glimpses of video lately. We see something, and then we go, like, that person's a monster. It's kind of like the Phillies, Karen, where it's like, yeah, the worst possible way that this looks could be the truth of what's happening. It could also be a million other things. There's no way Ken Rosenthal, who's been in baseball for forever, just met that guy. He definitely knows that guy. They may have an existing relationship beforehand. Also, he's on live tv. He's in the middle of interviewing somebody on live tv, getting out of the way of the Gatorade shower. I've watched people try to do it throughout baseball. Sometimes they get hit, and it's funny. Sometimes they get out of the way in time, and it's. But they do have to resume the interview right after the shower happens. So for the people that were like, ken, help the guy up. It's like, yeah, I think in an ideal world, he would love to help the guy up. He's live on tv. And if he went to go help the guy up, I think the camera guy that's got the live TV camera would be like, hello, Ken, you've left the interview. We need you to come. Like, he's on camera. And I just think that people love to see a guy who wears a bow tie get his comeuppance. I truly feel that has something. It at least plays a minor role in this. People were so quick to be like, I've always hated that guy. And you're like, why? Because bow ties are smug? I think so.

[B]

For charity.

[A]

I know they are. I mean, he does the bow tie thing for charity, but I think. I really think that's. My theory, is that people. But he's apologized and said that he'll apologize to the. To the guy and whatever. I just. It was weird seeing everybody go like, that's right. Ken Rosenthal's always sucked. I'm glad I can finally say it. I'm like, whoa, dude. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. The Mets have crashed and burned. They lost eight straight. That was pretty crazy. Pete Alonso had to walk it off to avoid it being nine in a row. They love to collapse at the end of the season. It's been pretty frustrating. It's Got Giants fans excited that wild card Dan was all of a sudden, like, we're only a game and a half back from the wild card spot.

[B]

So that they called up Bryce Eldridge. Like, they called up their top prospect aspect yesterday because they're like, oh, we're in this now. Like, they're. The Giants suddenly can make a run at this.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Like, the Mets fell so far back that it is. It was September 15th and the Phillies clinched the division.

[A]

Yeah, the Mets have really stunk. Damn. Yeah, sorry.

[B]

I feel bad that we've introduced Isabella to this.

[A]

Yeah. No, she picked the Mets, I think. No, I did. Yeah. So I don't think you didn't.

[B]

I don't think she knew what September is.

[A]

I didn't either. So the fact that you guys never gave me a heads up up is kind of messed up. Well, is it messed up or is it exactly how sports fandom works? And if we want to give you the authentic experience, I'd love to give you a lovely catered experience where you only get teams that win. But I do think the true experience is finding out that your team's gonna do nothing but disappoint you later in this season. Yeah, but if it's like a tradition that every September, the Mets just seem to collapse and you guys don't tell me about it, then I'm kind of like, what the hell? Yeah, it's public, interesting.

[B]

Every 30 years or so, you will have a good run. Every 30 years or so, it'll work out. It's like cicadas.

[A]

Other than that, right before we take your keys away, you're gonna go, the Mets are going to the World Series. Okay. We don't have a lot of time left, but, Chris, because it is Tuesday, we need to let people know what they can watch if they want to watch sports this week. What have you got?

[C]

All right, the first thing we've got, the WNBA playoffs. We mentioned it before game two of the Lynx versus Valkyries. That'll be tomorrow night at 10:00pm Eastern. You can watch that game on ESPM. Go Vel.

[A]

Go Valks. What else? Oh, oh. Valkyrie shirt. I did. Hell, yeah. All right, what else, Chris?

[C]

Okay, we also have the Women's Rugby World cup semi finals coming up. We had a voicemail from Larissa from Canada about this. Just talking about the Women's Rugby World Cup. We have New Zealand facing off against Canada on Friday, September 19th at 2pm Eastern. You can watch that on Paramount Plus. And then France face off against England on Saturday at September 20th, 20th at 10:30am Eastern again on Paramount Plus. So make sure you check out those two games for the women's Rugby World Cup. No Australia anymore. No us anymore. So I don't know. Who we going for? New Zealand.

[B]

I can't remember. Are you friendly with New Zealand or is it like, I want to see New Zealand lose? How does that.

[C]

No, we like New Zealand. Oh, I like New Zealand. I thought you guys were nice people.

[A]

Playfully.

[C]

If we like each other, if we're playing against them, obviously. But no, that's more. More to me. That's more England. I'm actively rooting against England. I think I generally like to see New Zealand do well.

[B]

Stop sending us prisoners.

[A]

Okay, last one. What else?

[C]

The Azerbaijan Grand Prix. That'll be Sunday, September 21st at 7:00am Eastern on ESPN. Oscar Piastri leads the championship to McLaren teammate Lando Norris. So that's going to be a good race to watch. We got to see. We've got to see Oscar continue to do well because he could be the first Australian in a long, long, long, long time to win the F1 championship. So let's go, Oscar.

[A]

All right, 7:00am Eastern. My favorite time to wake up and watch cars drive. God, I love it.

[C]

Really, really fast.

[A]

God, I love it. I just can't get enough. Just can't get enough. Okay, everybody, that's it for the podcast. Thank you so much for tuning in. We love you. We mean it. You can email us casualskatiannolenmail.com leave a voicemail 646-801-0043. Call into my radio show from noon to 1 Eastern. 888 Mad Dog 6. Or on IG and tick tock, email.

[B]

Us with how many nuggets you could eat during a baseball game.

[A]

Okay, I want to know this, people. Absurd numbers. It doesn't mean it's true.

[B]

I. There's an honor system working here. How many nuggets could you actually knock out? Yeah, it's Chris's hubris unfounded.

[A]

Assuming we might call you out and make you prove it, you can email us and let us know how many. Many chicken nuggets or impossible nugget. What are impossible? Are they more dense or less dense than a real.

[B]

Judging by the impossible burger, yeah, they're pretty much identical.

[A]

Oh, okay. I thought they were supposed to be chicken, not beef.

[B]

Well, yeah, but the beef tastes like beef and feels like beef. I'm guessing the chicken feels like chicken.

[A]

The phrase feels like beef so much. Anyway, send us an email or call us or whatever. We love you so much. We mean it. And we'll see you on Thursday. Bye. If you're a custodial supervisor at a local high school, you know that cleanliness is key and that the best place to get cleaning supplies is from Grainger. Grainger helps you stay fully stocked on the products you trust, from paper towels and disinfectants to floor scrubbers. Plus, you can rely on Grainger for easy reordering, so you never run out of what you need. Call 1-800-GRAINGER Click grainger.com or just stop by Grainger for the ones who get it done.