Ohtani, Quarterbacks Both Good and Cheeks, and a Very Casual NBA Preview

Summary

Podcast Summary: Casuals with Katie Nolan

Episode Title: Ohtani, Quarterbacks Both Good and Cheeks, and a Very Casual NBA Preview
Date: October 21, 2025
Host: Katie Nolan (with Isabella, Chris, and Brady)

Main Theme / Purpose

This episode of Casuals with Katie Nolan delivers a lighthearted, banter-filled roundup of current sports stories, spanning the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show’s athlete inclusion, mailbag on the joys and perils of mixed-fandom dating, MLB playoff madness, quarterback “cheeks” rankings across the NFL, NBA season preview-with-vibes, plus a primer on the upcoming Sports Equinox. The tone is casual, welcoming “sports-curious” listeners as well as die-hards, with comedic asides, pop culture detours, and relatable tangents.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show & Social Media Rage-Bait

[01:31–09:01]

• Angel Reese & Suni Lee—first pro athletes to walk the Victoria’s Secret runway. Katie’s algorithm frames online debate as polar opposite “too woke”/“not woke enough.”
• Rage-bait Algorithms: Katie highlights how contrasting viral stories are framed to stoke engagement and outrage:

  "We gotta be really vigilant about rage bait. It’s just a fashion show for underpants." — Katie [05:36]

• Physicality of the Show: Models reportedly wear 50 lbs. of wings—“they’re all basically athletes.”
• Learning to “walk” like a model: Tyra Banks/America’s Next Top Model quotes; walking is a skill (not obvious to the guys on the podcast).

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2. Mailbag: Dating Across Rival Teams & More

[10:00–21:07]

Can You Date a Fan of Your Rival Team?

• Listener Cody asks: “Can you date someone who loves the team you hate?”—he’s from North Dakota and can’t imagine dating a Minnesota fan.
• Team mascots confusion: Brief comic confusion about team nicknames.
• Consensus:
  • Isabella: Possible, but hard unless you share a non-contentious team elsewhere (“bond via baseball if you can’t in basketball”).

    “What has helped me and my boyfriend… is we bond for baseball, which is nice. I’m dreading basketball season.” — Isabella [12:10]

  • Chris & Katie: If the rivalry is your “big sports hate,” it’s probably not sustainable for a serious relationship.

    “You need to always protect your biggest sports hate from any love whatsoever.” — Katie [15:30]

• Lighthearted conclusion: Playfulness is fine, but “biggest sports hate” is best untouched.

Ski Orienteering

• A listener reports discovering this niche sport while traveling.
• Team riffs on the danger and weirdness of map-reading on skis:

  “If I have a risk of getting lost, I wanna have a rifle over my shoulder.” — Brady [17:35]

• General confusion and amusement; love for random international sports TV.

“Raw dogging” Youth Lingo and Sports Slang

• Middle school teacher Carrie updates on new usage: now means wearing sandals without socks.
• Katie laments kids “evolving” word meanings in ways that make adults deeply uncomfortable.

  “I maintain that knowing the truth of where it comes from doesn’t make it any less uncomfortable when a child is using it.” — Katie [19:51]

• Best parent tactic: just start using the phrase yourself to make it uncool.

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3. MLB Playoffs: Mariners, Blue Jays & Historic Dodgers

[23:48–34:22]

Mariners vs. Blue Jays Game 7 Predictions

• Podcast timing fun: Hosts record before Game 7, make “predictions” for a result listeners already know (“we are Schrödinger’s sports podcast”).
• Isabella “decides” the Mariners won. Katie agrees, referencing a Mariners “time traveler” fan theory.
• Reminder: “Don’t repeat any of this as fact—we’re recording Monday!”

Shohei Ohtani’s Unbelievable Postseason Game

• Historic statline: Three home runs AND ten strikeouts in six shutout innings to clinch the NL pennant for the Dodgers, in a sweep.
• Katie and crew stunned: “One of the greatest individual performances in sports history.”

  “This is essentially if Beyoncé released both Renaissance and Cowboy Carter in the same year.” — Brady [33:03]

• Shohei’s dual-threat, “helping himself” on both sides of the ball awes cohosts.

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4. NFL Roundup: Are Your QBs “Cheeks”?

[35:45–51:38]

Inspired by Robert Griffin III’s memorable:

“Yeah, Jason, that kick was cheeks.” [36:01]

• The segment:
  • Katie, Chris, Isabella, and Brady grade QBs as “Cheeks” (bad) or “Not Cheeks” (not bad) after notable Week 7 games.
• Quick hits:
  • Commanders (Jaden Daniels): Cheeks, but got injured, “poor guy.”
  • Rams (Matthew Stafford): Definitely Not Cheeks (five TDs in a London game).
  • Jets (Justin Fields): Cheeks, harshly so.
  • Chiefs (Patrick Mahomes): Not Cheeks (“we spent two weeks panicking… they’re back”).
  • Dolphins (Tua Tagovailoa): Cheeks (“three meals, all delivered to the wrong house”).
  • Patriots (Drake Maye): Not Cheeks (record completion %).
  • Giants (Jackson Dart): Not Cheeks, but “fourth quarter defense was stupid ass shit” – Brian Burns quote [48:23].
  • Eagles Tush Push: Vikings tried odd tactic—player lays on ground—failed.

    “Call this the stop for tush push is tummy time.” — Katie [51:07]

• Running theme: Goofy analogies, relatable laments about fandom, and a willingness to laugh at the league’s quirks.

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5. College Football: UNC, Bill Belichick & Pablo Torre’s Pablo-ganda

[52:07–58:21]

• Pablo Torre’s reporting on Bill Belichick and UNC’s behind-the-scenes dysfunction, centering on Jordan Hudson’s meddling in show production (frustration relayed hilariously by Katie).
• Katie relates to creative chaos and the peril of being “voluntold” to deal with surprise difficult content under the influence.
• Larger point: The “yes-manification” around powerful sports figures can breed dysfunction—Bill “lets anyone weigh in” with no pushback.

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6. NBA Season Preview — Vibes Edition

[60:05–82:18]

Best Off-Season Stories

• 76ers “benching 2.5 lbs” viral goof: Player mocked for light weights in uniform reveal photo. UCL injury the next day.
• Rookie hazing: Car tire in locker, popcorn in car; Shaq “pranks” were just dangerous (bucket of pee).

  “That’s not a prank, that’s just mean!” — Katie [65:24]

• Malone “birthday parade” prank: Actually city’s Pioneer Day parade; well-played and gentle humbling.
• LeBron’s “Decision 2” (Hennessy ad): Fan sues LeBron, believing he was retiring—not an ad.

  “This feels like a classic Judge Judy case.” — Brady [70:13]

• JJ Redick talks to ChatGPT for 90 min: Katie expresses concern about “AI psychosis” and coaches going down AI rabbit holes.

Team Vibes and Brief Analysis by Chris

• 76ers: Middle of the pack; too many injuries. Knicks & Cavs forecast as strong.
• Lakers: Should be a comfortable playoff team if LeBron’s healthy.
• Celtics: Could finish anywhere 4–10; Miss media-coach scrimmage blowout (coaches 57-4), Missoula is “chaotic good.”
• Timberwolves: “Pretty good”—Anthony Edwards entering prime.

The Believe That Awards & “White Boy of the Year”

• Anthony Edwards’ award show (on YouTube): Timothy Chalamet wins “White Boy of the Year.”

  “Leon Nelson is the best step towards remembering Liam Neeson’s name I’ve ever heard out loud.” — Katie [80:37]

• Other nominees: Adam Sandler, Tom Cruise, Mr. Beast, Pat McAfee.

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7. Sports Equinox Primer

[85:50–91:48]

• Definition: All 4 major men’s US sports (MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL) in regular season/postseason action on the same day (Monday, October 27, 2025).
• Games on the Slate: World Series Game 3 (Dodgers vs ???), MNF: Commanders vs. Chiefs, 11 NBA games, 2 NHL games.
• Conversation about best ways to “watch it all” (YouTube TV Multiview, drinking games, or just sampling).
• Katie: “It is the duality of man—this is the well-written.”
• Realistic confession: “It’s hard to care about regular season anything when other postseasons are happening. I’ll dabble.”

  “Don’t stop working just as hard. You don’t need my eyeballs tonight.” — Katie [90:58]

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8. What to Watch This Week (Chris’ Picks)

[91:48–95:45]

• NBA Season Opener Double Header: Rockets–Thunder (7:30 PM ET, Peacock); Warriors–Lakers (10 PM, Peacock)
• NHL: Panthers at Bruins (7:30 PM ET, ESPN)
  • Side note: Bruins have been slumping since praised on-air; Chris tries to “reverse jinx.”
  • Marchand anticipated return at TD Garden.
• NASCAR Playoffs: Sunday, 2 PM Eastern, NBC & Peacock. Ryan Blaney must-win situation to advance.

  “Everybody send your good energy…we are rooting for a Ryan Blaney win.” — Katie [95:04]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On “rage-bait” and algorithmic division:

  "We're being fed things that people know will make us go like, 'That’s not—' It can't be both at the same time. It’s just a fashion show for underpants." — Katie [05:36]

• On mixed-fandom relationships:

  "You need to always protect your biggest sports hate from any love whatsoever." — Katie [15:30]

• On Shohei Ohtani’s postseason feat:

  "It’s like if Beyoncé released Renaissance and Cowboy Carter in the same year." — Brady [33:03]

• On NFL, “that kick was cheeks":

  "Yeah, Jason, that kick was cheeks.” — RGIII soundbite, adopted throughout [36:01]

• On NBA rookie hazing:

  “I don’t like pranks in general. I am not the audience for pranks.” — Katie [64:09]
  “Shaq… would dump a bucket full of his own urine on them. That’s… not a prank.” — Katie [65:24]

• On J.J. Redick’s AI use:

  “I know therapy’s expensive. I also had seen he uses it as a therapist. I don’t think I’m going to be getting in on the AI stuff.” — Katie [73:54]

• On Sports Equinox overload:

  “It’s like my dad at a buffet—he feels a moral calling to have a little bit of everything.” — Katie [87:50]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Victoria’s Secret / Fashion Show + Ragebait: [01:31–09:01]
• Mailbag (mixed-fandom dating, ski orienteering, lingo): [10:00–21:07]
• MLB Playoffs, Mariners/Blue Jays, Ohtani: [23:48–34:22]
• NFL “Cheeks” QB roundup: [35:45–51:38]
• College Football saga (UNC/Belichick/Pablo Torre): [52:07–58:21]
• NBA Stories/Vibes Preview: [60:05–82:18]
• Sports Equinox Explainer & Chat: [85:50–91:48]
• What to Watch This Week: [91:48–95:45]

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Tone & Style

• Fun, welcoming, and irreverent—feels like a hangout among sport-obsessed but never cliquish
• Balances analysis with self-aware humor, cultural references, and the experience of fandom in everyday life
• Frequent digressions and hypothetical scenarios, always looped back to main sports discussion

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For New Listeners

This episode’s packed with sports news, pop culture, and the messy highs and lows of fandom. If you like your sports coverage as much about the people, the memes, and the vibes as about the stats, Casuals with Katie Nolan is your jam.

Transcript

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[Jerry]

Listen to your heart. Ask your doctor about Repatha. Learn [e-mail] or call 1-844-repatha Here's a quick podcast for all you true crime fans. The Case of the Missing Reeses. It was me at the store with my mouth motive. They're Reese's. What was I going to do? Stop myself? Tune in next time to see if I do it again. Spoiler. I will. Wow, that had everything. Reese's. Suspense. Reese's.

[Katie Nolan]

Hey, Isabella, did you see what Kim Kardashian wore to this museum gala? It's not the Met, but it was. I think it's the Academy.

[Isabella]

Academy museum. Yeah, I did.

[Katie Nolan]

And what did you think of that?

[Isabella]

I hope she was able to breathe okay.

[Katie Nolan]

It doesn't look like it.

[Isabella]

It doesn't.

[Katie Nolan]

It's certainly stunning. It is like, it, like it stunned me, you know? She's stunning in that way.

[Isabella]

Because it stunned you.

[Katie Nolan]

Yes. Did you. Would you wear this?

[Isabella]

No.

[Katie Nolan]

No. Do you know how much milk costs?

[Isabella]

About $4.00.

[Katie Nolan]

Depending.

[Isabella]

Depending. Yeah. If it's like organic, it's like probably like six.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, yeah. You saw that. Kim said she's not aware of. She was very embarrassed.

[Isabella]

Yeah, she was like, I would really love to know. Like, I need to, like, be more aware of where that at.

[Katie Nolan]

It was very. Watching that happen to her. She said I. I would. I really wish this wasn't happening, but no. I don't know how much milk cost. Not even. I'm not even confident enough to guess.

[Isabella]

Well, Brady did. Did confess to us that he isn't sure if he knows the cost of.

[Katie Nolan]

A carton of milk. Brady, how much does a carton of milk cost? You think?

[Brady]

Am I buying it at the grocery store? Am I buying it at the gas station?

[Katie Nolan]

You're being pedantic. That's the answer to no.

[Isabella]

You're buying it at like a shop rate.

[Brady]

6.99.

[Katie Nolan]

Sure, five bucks. It doesn't. It's the. What we're trying to catch her in is the. It's a banana, Michael. What could it cost? $10? But instead she says, like, I don't even wanna attempt to even say. Cause she doesn't even have a scale for how off she would be. Bad sign you gu. Hello and welcome to Casuals, the sports podcast that gets you caught up on all the sports, but tries to do it in an exciting and entertaining way. We try not to spend too much time in the actual sports of it all. It's kind of about the hang. I'm your host, Katie Nolan, joined today by my casualties, who will be here in just a moment. Our email if you want to reach us. Casuals with Katie nolanmail.com our voicemail 646-801-0043 on IG and TikTok. We are asual as the podcast. Here's the plan for today. I'm, uh, we've got. I feel like we've got a little bit of a yap. It's not really big. It was a. I was trying to plan a yap and ended up backing up into another yap. So you've got that to look forward to. Then we're gonna hit some emails in our housekeeping. Uh, we've got some really good ones today. We've got a bit on the sports equinox that's coming up next week, which is when we get all of the sports and, uh, we have an NBA season preview. The goal is to get to all of these things, and the only way to do that is to keep myself honest and keep talking. So let's start with this yap. Okay, so the Victoria's Secret fashion show was this past week. You may have seen headlines because Angel Reese became the first pro athlete to ever walk in the show. Olympic gymnast Suni Lee also walked in the show. It's funny because this was originally pitched to me as something we could talk about here because somebody's algorithm, another woman who works on this show, had and isn't Isabella. I'm not trying to be vague There's a. We've got Marissa damn shading her. She won't be named. No, but she sent this and was like, look, this is what I'm hearing. And one of the things that she was hearing, she had reactions from fans saying that Victoria Secret's new era of inclusivity has, quote, gone too far. And she said TikTok. Critics complained that the latest show's models didn't have the OG angel body sparking debate online. And I gotta say, that floored me because my algorithm fed me the exact opposite. My algorithm was like, see, they went back to using skinny girls and the numbers went up. You know, you did it wrong before. You were trying to ruin Victoria's Secret. And that had me going, well, hold on a second. That's not true at all. The criticism against Victoria's Secret back then, that it wasn't inclusive in a number of ways, and how could one person be being fed a story that are saying it was too inclusive and somebody being fed a story that said it's not inclusive. And that's why it's good again. And what I'm here to tell you and what this yap has eventually become about is like, we gotta be really vigilant about rage bait. We are being fed things that people know will make us go like, well, that's not. That's two completely different stories. One is that it's no longer woke, so it's good now. And the other is that woke is killing it. It can't be both of those at the same time. That doesn't make sense. But it's the framing of it and it's being framed that way and put into your algorithm because it's in getting you to engage with the content and that is in turn making money for somebody. So we just have to. It's just a fashion show for underpants. I don't think we have to turn it into a big moment. It is what it is. Congrats to Angel Reese. She looked absolutely amazing. So did Suni Lee. Everybody looked amazing. Everybody always looks amazing because they're in this really expensive under underwear and they've got their hair and makeup done beautifully. I mean, what do you want me to fucking say? It's a fucking fashion show. It's so crazy. It's become this big, oh, it's not enough this, and it's too much this, and it's not enough this. It's models showing their underpants. Great. Got a lot going on. Pardon me if we can't spend a ton of time Talking about the models in the underpants. Good job in your underpants, everyone. Hopefully that's enough to cover this story. You know, moving on. Right. Am I missing the. The only story here to me is that it's apparently 50 pounds of wing. Apparently, the wings they wear are like £50. And you're telling me it took them this long to let a female athlete walk? Those are all female athletes. If they're carrying 50 pounds of wing.

[Isabella]

Down the Runway and they make it look effortless because.

[Katie Nolan]

Effortless. I'm sorry. I never floated like that in my underpants. I'll tell you right now.

[Isabella]

And in heels.

[Katie Nolan]

Crazy.

[Chris]

Don't know why they need to be £50.

[Katie Nolan]

I don't. Well, because of the mechanisms to get.

[Brady]

To take flight, Justin Herbert is now 01 since his girlfriend walked in this show.

[Katie Nolan]

She walked or she. I heard she performed.

[Brady]

She did both. Which makes me no closer to figuring out why she did.

[Katie Nolan]

She did both, which to me means she did neither. What does this girl do? What is she? You know, what I've come to with her, I think, is that if you see. If you've never seen Madison beer, just Google Madison beer and you go, well, that girl's just famous because we have to see that face. There's truly somebody. You make a face like that, and you go like, that's a beautiful. Put her on stuff. I don't know. She'll figure it out. She'll build the plane in the sky, just take flight.

[Brady]

The algorithm said we're gonna make her famous and we'll figure out why.

[Katie Nolan]

Right. We'll just figure that part out. It's not as important in the mad lib of it all at this point. And she's, you know, beautiful. Oh, beautiful women took their clothes off and walked down a Runway. Let's get mad at each other about it. I have no idea. I have no idea about any of it. But I wanted to say congrats to Angel Reese, who hired a walking coach.

[Isabella]

Good.

[Katie Nolan]

Good. Walking is. I mean, I don't know if you boys understand this because you weren't raised on America's Next Top Model. The way that we were forged in fire. I was rooting for you. We were all rooting for you. But it. Like the walk. I've never yelled at a girl like this.

[Isabella]

That's that one, right? Yes.

[Katie Nolan]

So funny. Point was, walking is a skill in and of itself. It's something we all think we can do, but there are ways to do it poorly when you're modeling. And if you don't Know what you're doing. It's immediately obvious. And you won't know how good a good walk is until you see a bad walk. And then you go, ugh, what the hell? That's not right.

[Isabella]

Can you guys tell Kevin, Ukulele. Can you guys tell when. When a. When someone is not doing a good walk? I'm speaking specifically to Brady and Chris or no.

[Brady]

Oh, God, no.

[Katie Nolan]

I think you could. I think you could.

[Brady]

Like, like. Because I don't know what the metric. What makes a walk.

[Katie Nolan]

You just know. It's just the way that you go, wow, she's wearing those clothes. Or you go, yeah. Or you go, wow, those clothes are wearing her.

[Brady]

If you get from the back to the end of the Runway and back, like, without eating, like, I imagine, like, just not falling down is metric one. I don't know what the other steps are.

[Katie Nolan]

And that's. And maybe everything's not metrics, Brady. Maybe it's La Joga Bonito. Maybe it's beautiful. Maybe it's about the beauty of the game, okay? Maybe everything doesn't have to be an advanced stat. I can't tell you her war, okay, but she can walk. She can strut. You made me want to buy that trench coat. So exciting stuff. There's your yap. Let's go ahead and hop into some emails because I know we got some good ones. We'll start with Cody. Chris, can you get me the email from Cody, please?

[Chris]

Let me just pull it up here.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, wait, sorry. I actually should introduce you guys because I didn't do that yet. I was gonna do it later on, then I forgot Brady's here. Brady, say hi. Hi. And then Chris is here.

[Chris]

Hi.

[Katie Nolan]

And then Isabella's here. Hi. Yep, that's Isabella. She's a little monster who lives in the studio. Chris, we're doing Cody's email.

[Chris]

All right, this email's from Cody, and Cody says, hey, Katie and the casualties. Cody from Boulder, Colorado, with a question for Katie and the whole squad. Can you date someone who loves the team you hate? I'm a die hard fan of my alma mater, the University of North Dakota, and could not see myself ever dating someone who rooted for our biggest rival at the University of Minnesota. How much can you separate the fandom from the person? Love you. Mean it.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, Cody, love you. Mean it. Really good question. It's harder, though, when you use these examples. Like when you're like, I love North Dakota, and of course, that means I hate. And I go, oh, what does it says? University of Minnesota? Because you say that's what I would have thought.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

I would have thought it would split.

[Brady]

Goddamn Southerners.

[Katie Nolan]

Civil War logic. But I'm wrong. It's. Apparently the Dakotas get along just fine. Their true rival is the. Is that the Golden Gophers in Minnesota? The Golden Gophers. So in the North Dakota what?

[Chris]

Jack Rabbits? Or is that in South Dakota Jack Rabbits.

[Isabella]

And Isabella said the North Dakota mountains.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, I, like. I don't see any issues with.

[Brady]

I went North Dakota Bison.

[Katie Nolan]

I actually don't know.

[Chris]

Fighting Hawk. Damn.

[Katie Nolan]

It's the what?

[Chris]

The Fighting Hawk.

[Katie Nolan]

The Fighting Hawk just won. And it's Fighting Hawks.

[Chris]

The North Dakota Fighting Hawks.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay. It's the North Dakota Fighting Hawks vs. The Minnesota Golden Gophers. First of all, you guys, too many adjectives. Okay? We could just call you guys the Gophers, I guess. The Gophers and the Hawks. The Hawks would win that. I think they often do.

[Chris]

I was thinking of the South Dakota State Jackrabbits. You see how I got confused?

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Clearly anyone could make that.

[Katie Nolan]

This is why college sports is harder for a casual. Too many of you. Too many of you. But the question stands. Can you date somebody who roots for your biggest rival?

[Isabella]

Yeah, you can. It's kind of hard.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, Let Isabella speak on it.

[Chris]

Okay.

[Isabella]

So I've talked about this several times already, but me and my boyfriend, that's Nick's kind of thing, he really hates my team. So, so, so, so, so, so, so what you can do, though, what has helped men, okay, is we became. We were able to bond for the longest time. It was hard for us to bond on basketball because we don't like each other's teams. So we are on the same team with baseball, though, which is, like, really nice. So there's balance. Although I am actually, like, really dreading basketball season because my apartment's gonna be a hellhole all over again. So.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, that's coming right up. We got a couple days until that.

[Isabella]

Yeah. So it can't help you with the actual sport where you guys have enemy teams be on the same team for different sports.

[Katie Nolan]

North Dakota and Minnesota, I imagine both would root for the VI Kings. Question mark. Like, who is North Dakota rooting for? And I'm actually assuming that's where he lives. He's from Boulder, Colorado. So you guys must share fandoms in some ways. If not, this might be a little harder to overcome. I'll tell you right now, flat out, I could never date a Yankee star fan. I could. I'm probably. If I'm being as honest as I've probably hooked up with one, it wasn't my brightest, shiningest moment and we probably didn't talk much after, you know what I'm saying? I just feel like, yeah, it was sort of like a thanks so much, that's exactly how I thought it would be, but good to know and then goodbye type of a deal. And so I just. For me, it depends on how deep the hate is. Like, if your big sports hate, as a University of North Dakota fan, if your biggest sports hate is Minnesota, then I would say this has to be the love of your life in order to do this. In order to put up with this, it has to be Romeo Juliet. And people forget they were like 14. They weren't really thinking clearly about their lives.

[Chris]

Unless the team that you root for, for is infinitely better than your rivals. Easy to get away always. It would have to always, always one up them or at least for the duration of your relationship.

[Katie Nolan]

In a true rivalry, you can't really assume that at some point the other one's not going to be up.

[Chris]

You can. Because my sports team, my Australian sports team, have been terrible for 20 years. And against our rivals, we have been atrocious for 20 years. And I dated someone who was a fan of the rivals, and she didn't have any issue whatsoever. The fact that I was a Carlton fan. I had a big issue that she was a Collingwood fan.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay.

[Chris]

Did you marry her because they beaten us? I did not. I moved the country.

[Brady]

Clearly didn't work.

[Katie Nolan]

Disproven. Disproven. You can't. I don't think you can. It's too big. If it's your big sports hate, it's too much of a hurdle to overcome because I maintain that the healthiest place to put your anger, your frustration, your hate, is in sports. It's where you're supposed to get that energy out. And so if you take away your ability to truly, truly hate your sports enemy, then where are you going to put that? You don't want that anywhere near your relationship. You can't mix love and hate in this way. I don't think it's good for you long term. If it's just like a light rivalry, it's playful, you guys can have fun with it, and you know your biggest hate is the, I don't know, packers or something anyway, then, like, that's fine, but you need to always protect your biggest sports hate from any love whatsoever. Is that the most negative take on your. But I think it ultimately serves a good purpose. But, like, I can't be having any sort of sympathy for the Yankees. I have to keep that. They have to be my big bad guy.

[Chris]

There's definitely gonna be less fights in the relationship if you're taking sports away from the equation.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. So I just think it's the safest. But look, Cody, if you love them and you mean it and this person is the person, then I think you can make it. Yeah. Okay. And that's tough love with Isabella. We have more emails we have to get to. Let's go to Jason. Jason has an email. Chris, can you read it for us?

[Chris]

Hello, friends. It's Jason from Toronto this time I can't bail out mid voicemail. Remember, Jason was the one that just lost his mind.

[Katie Nolan]

It's so good to hear from you.

[Chris]

He's actually in Cairo right now. Naturally, this is what Jason said. Naturally. I love watching random channels while on vacation. And while watching one, they're actually airing ski orienteering.

[Katie Nolan]

What?

[Chris]

And Jason wanted to email us because we're the number one podcast on orienteering, which is true. And he says of ski orienteering, this looks about a billion times harder to do. But I feel the trails might make it a bit easier to see the spots if someone else has done that trail. Interesting point. I just wanted to make you aware that this exists as well as the number one twice a week orienteering podcast. Have a great day. Love you guys. And mean it, Jason.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, so, Jason, love you. Mean it. For anybody who might be new here, orienteering is a sport where you have to. You're given a map and you have to figure out where you are. Is that the best way I can do that?

[Chris]

Figure out a way to the finish line, essentially through different checkpoints along the way.

[Katie Nolan]

The end of Naked and afraid. But you're allowed to wear your clothes, right?

[Chris]

At least in consideration.

[Brady]

Just afraid.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, just afraid. Just afraid and lost. Ski orienteering, I imagine, is cross country skiing.

[Chris]

Yes.

[Katie Nolan]

While orienteering.

[Chris]

That would be crazy if it was downhill ski orienteering.

[Katie Nolan]

What if it's like a mix of both? I have no idea. This feels like a biathlon already to me because it's skiing and orienteering, and that's two sports at once.

[Chris]

Yep.

[Brady]

If I have a risk of getting lost, I'm gonna want to have a rifle over my shoulder.

[Katie Nolan]

I was gonna say it's a biathlon because I'm gonna. I need that gun. I'm gonna do some shooting. Knowing me, I'm gonna try to do the skiing. It's gonna. I'm gonna struggle with the orienteering and Then I'm gonna.

[Brady]

That's the danger of ski or like when you're skiing, if you get lost, like, you die. So I Right. This is.

[Chris]

The stakes are high.

[Katie Nolan]

Stakes are really high. And again, I will be able to see where you've skied through the snow. And so it does feel a little bit more. I'll just go where this guy went and hope that he went the right way.

[Brady]

Shout out to the random cable channel in Egypt.

[Katie Nolan]

Honestly.

[Brady]

Cairo, servicing the lost skiers.

[Katie Nolan]

What is up? Are they just fascinated by the snow of it all? I don't know. What could possibly be the draw ski orientation hearing. Yikes. All right, let's go One more email. I think we have time. I'm pushing it, but we'll go to Carrie. Do we have an email from Carrie?

[Chris]

Yes. Carrie says hi Katie and the casualties. And she trademarked casualties. I like that.

[Katie Nolan]

Nice.

[Chris]

I feel with all this middle school references in the recent Should I have said that out loud? Segment, I, a middle school teacher of seven years, have some insight to share. In my experience with Gen Z and Alpha Raw dogging has evolved to describe when someone wears sandals without socks, leaving the dogs or feet exposed. Regardless, as a Bengals fan, I was beyond happy to see Jamar Chase and T. Higgins raw dog in the Steelers defense on Thursday. Maybe some Roy dogging could help Joe burrow in his recovery from turf toe. Love you mean it.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, love you mean it. Carrie, I'm first of all sorry about your experience with Gen Z and Gen Alpha. I can't imagine that's anything but trying. Second of all, I get look, this is like one of those things where POV has now evolved to mean the opposite. It's meant. It has evolved to mean the literal opposite of what it meant before literally has evolved to mean not always literally. It means like it's just a point of emphasis. And aesthetic has gone from being a word that describes like a type of aesthetic. It now you describe something as aesthetic. And that is these are all things I know to be true and yet reject wholeheartedly with my entire soul. I know POV has evolved. I know that aesthetic means something different now. And just like I know raw dog to the kids means wearing socks and.

[Chris]

Sandals, but that's not how German Chase used it.

[Katie Nolan]

Anyway, I know that it has. It just basically means you're doing something without something in between. And I maintain that's kind of what it's always meant. And I knowing the truth of where it comes from doesn't make it less uncomfortable when a child is Using it in the way that they are. I just don't need a kid talking to me about raw dogging. You know, it's how he got here in the first place, the child. So I don't know. I don't love, I don't like. But I appreciate Carrie the insight. I like having boots on the ground with the youth. Keep us abreast of any new trends in the way.

[Brady]

That'd be uncomfortable, though, because, like, you hear it, you're like, that's not what that means. They say, oh, yeah? What does it mean?

[Katie Nolan]

And then you go, well, I'm not going to be the one to tell you because then you'll tell your parents, and I don't want to hear about that. How do you get a kid to stop saying a thing when you can't tell them what the thing is and why they can't say it?

[Brady]

You know how I make my kids stop saying a thing? I start saying it.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, wow, that's.

[Brady]

Then it's no longer cool.

[Katie Nolan]

Brilliant. That definitely, definitely works.

[Brady]

You want a 9 year old to start seeing Bruh?

[Katie Nolan]

My brother said it the other day on chat. I think he was joking, but I immediately went, please don't ever do that again. Please don't. It's a guy. I had to immediately deade that from happening.

[Chris]

Incredible.

[Katie Nolan]

Bruh. Can't. I can't take. All right, let's take a quick break. Then we come back. We're gonna talk about baseball as much as we can, because I'm sorry, but we've got a development you're not gonna love. And then the big NFL stories. We're gonna figure out if your QB is cheeks or not. It's a great segment and I'm excited for it. We'll be right back. Cooler days call for layers that last and Quints is your go to for quality essentials that feel cozy, look refined, and won't blow your budget. Think $50. Mongolian cashmere, premium denim that fits like a dream, and luxe outerwear you'll wear year after year. They're wool coats at Quints. They look designer level, but they cost a fraction of the price because Quints partners directly with top tier ethical factories and cuts out the middlemen to deliver luxury quality pieces at half the price of similar brands. It's the kind of wardrobe upgrade that feels smart, stylish, and effortless. Me, I just got a 100 organic cotton fisherman crew sweater from Quint. It's like this deep green. It's so high quality and it did not break the bank. I love it. I'm going to wear it all the time. You're going to see it a lot in clips. Find your fall staples at quints. Go to quints.com/casuals for free shipping on your order and 365 day returns. Now available in Canada, too. Congrats. That's Q U I n c e.com/casuals to get free shipping and 365 day returns. Quints.comcasuals.

[Jerry]

He'S Kenny Maine, the funny guy from ESPN. Formerly he's Cooper Manning, the more intelligent and handsome of the Manning brothers. And he's Brian Baumgartner. But to me, he'll always be Kevin from the office. Yeah, you and everybody else together. We're the hosts of the new comedy golf podcast, we need a fourth from Smartless Media and SiriusXM. It's like a cold beer after a round. You hear the strangest and most bizarre golf stories from our friends, athletes, celebrities and comedians. It's all about how much we love golf and how much we hate golf. New episodes are out every week. Listen now and subscribe wherever you get your podcast. Could just be anywhere, just on a couch. Doesn't matter. Reese's Peanut butter cups. They go perfectly with music, podcasts and welcome back to the show. Even nature sounds. Oh, and the thing where someone crinkles tissue and whispers at you.

[Katie Nolan]

Hello.

[Jerry]

Look, I'm not here to judge what you listen to. I'm here to judge you for not eating Reese's while you listen to it. Reese's Ashley, go back to the nature sounds. Nice. Yeah, that's really nice.

[Katie Nolan]

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[Isabella]

It was cute. I liked it. It was it.

[Katie Nolan]

And Isabella was watching baseball.

[Isabella]

I was. And I just happened to be watching it when that happened, too.

[Katie Nolan]

Dude, it made me so happy. It was like the. I truly think I haven't hit a peak of happiness like that in a long time. Certainly not since stopping my antidepressants. So I wanted to say thank you to Eugenio Suarez and Isabella for combining on just a pure moment of joy that was then immediately stopped a bit because Toronto came rallying back in game six to force game seven, which again, dear listener, has happened for you, but has not happened for us. So what we're going to do right now is we're all going to make a prediction for what has already happened in Game 7. And we'll start with Brady.

[Brady]

What has already happened in Game 7 was that the Mariners regret using Eduard Bizzardo in Game 6 because they went to him early. Yeah, they went to him early. He comes in a little gassed, gives up a go ahead home run to Joey Loperfido. Blue Jays win by two.

[Katie Nolan]

Joey Loperfito?

[Brady]

Yes.

[Katie Nolan]

Has he gotten a minute of playing time in the Series so far?

[Brady]

Little bit. He came in after George Springer went.

[Katie Nolan]

Down with the injury and crazy George Springer came back and played. I could not believe.

[Brady]

Took a Fastball off the kneecap so hard that it rolled back into the field and stat cast registered it as a hit. It came off his kneecap so hard.

[Katie Nolan]

55 miles an hour.

[Brady]

Crazy.

[Katie Nolan]

Off of his kneecap like a hit. And then he played the next game. Absurd. Okay, so quite a. Quite a prediction from Brady there. Chris, what do you think has already happened in Game 7 between the Blue Jays and the Mariners?

[Chris]

Well, my. My heart wanted a Mariners victory, but unfortunately last night, you know what happened? Shane Bieber threw a perfect game.

[Katie Nolan]

He did, did he? For Toronto. A perfect game.

[Chris]

I love me some pitching jewels, so I still enjoyed it.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

But man, perfect game from Shane Bieber. That's going to happen.

[Katie Nolan]

Crazy. And. And Right. It has already happened. And then Isabella, no pressure on this. This can be anything you think or feel. What do you think happened last night? Already in the game.

[Isabella]

The Mariners won because I decided it.

[Katie Nolan]

That's perfect. She decided it last night.

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

And then they did it. And then she's just here telling us about it because it happened. Yeah.

[Chris]

Post it.

[Katie Nolan]

I really think. I don't know if you guys have seen the theory that the dump here man is actually time traveling. He. This is real. This is not my fake prediction because in an interview he said that he was just happy to have. He wouldn't have come back to 2025 if the Mariners hadn't won it all. And he was in the spot where hit what, 62 and 63, I believe. I know. It's also kind of weird that we're still counting because that's not really how it works. You're supposed to stop counting after the regular season, but for the sake of the T shirt and et cetera. And then he also was present when Gino hit. He was. That was where Geno hit the grand slam to. He didn't catch it, but he was there. And so it's just sort of feels like who would know to be in all those places except a man who traveled back in time. And if that man traveled back in time, then that means the Mariners win not only this series, but they win the whole World Series. And so I too am saying that last night the Mariners won. But what a game from Vlad Crazy to have two home runs in a game in a playoff game and lose. But that is, in fact, what happened last night in game seven. Now, a requisite disclaimer that is made up. We don't know what happened. Just a reminder that we're recording this on Monday, so please don't have listened to anything we Just said and say it to your friend as if it's fact. Because we don't. One of them maybe is fact. I'm worried too much about misinformation. You guys are adults. You can handle how we did that segment. Let's talk about the Dodgers, because I know we're all not Dodgers fans, except Isabella. In her heart. Deep down, I really think wants to root for the Dodgers. But Shohei Ohtani, in game four of the National League Championship Series on Friday night, had the greatest game ever known to man. It was a sweep. The Dodgers obviously onto the World Series, defending their title from last year. The brewers put up a fight. They tried their best. They tried their darndest. They really did. They really did. But the pocket pancake could not save you. This Dodgers team is absolutely unreal. And in game four, Shohei Ohtani hit three home runs, struck out 10 batters in six shutout innings, did not allow a run to complete one of the greatest individual performances in sports history. They won 5 1, and they clinched a World Series. Burn. Isabella.

[Isabella]

Yes.

[Katie Nolan]

How much of this are. Is. Does it sound impressive to you?

[Isabella]

It does, because I'm aware that not everyone is, like, as good of a pitcher as they are hitting. Right?

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Sometimes they don't. Most pitchers do not hit. He is, I don't want to say the only, but the only pitcher who hits. So he not only hits, but he hits well. He leads off and he hits home runs. It's absurd.

[Isabella]

That sounds really cool.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, it is really cool. Does it move you any further than that?

[Isabella]

Not quite.

[Katie Nolan]

That's fine. Just curious.

[Isabella]

Yeah. I think if I saw it, I think if I saw it, I would feel it. Like, for example, like, what's his name who just did it in the Mariners that hit that really cool home run?

[Katie Nolan]

Geno Suarez.

[Isabella]

Yeah. Like, when I saw that, that wasn't obviously the same amount as like. Like Otani, but it was, like, really fun. So I feel like I have to see it.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. To really feel that third home run. The place was. I mean, his own professional baseball playing teammates were all shocked. Everybody's jaw dropped. They were all looking. It's always fun when you see a professional athlete bewilder other professional athletes with their talent. It was absurd.

[Isabella]

Now, if only he did that. When I saw him.

[Brady]

Second one left the park. I think the second one cleared Dodger Stadium.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Like, it ended in a parking lot.

[Katie Nolan]

It was a bomb, an absolute bomb. And Isabella, what was that again? You were saying?

[Isabella]

I said I wish he did that.

[Katie Nolan]

When I saw him Right back to that. He didn't do nothing for me.

[Isabella]

He didn't do anything for me.

[Katie Nolan]

Shohei Ohtani's a bum. You heard it from Isabella.

[Chris]

Didn't. Couldn't even pitch a perfect game.

[Katie Nolan]

How dare. How dare he. Wow. He only went six. Wow. Embarrassing. Three home runs. I think he could have hit four. Now, I will say, and this is what Adam Shine's producers are bringing up today. Shohei's not been having an incredible postseason. There have been a lot of strikeouts. He's not been producing as much as he could have. That being said, that does nothing to color my perception of this game. This game, to me, is incredible. If it happens in the regular season, the fact that it happened in the postseason, to send his team to the World Series is impressive to me. I don't care. I'm. It's an honor to be able to watch Shohei Ohtani play. I've said this many times before. I hate that he's doing it for this team. But that's what happens when your team is willing to spend all of their billions and billions of dollars on guys that are somehow in such a huge contract, still undervalued. They're still somehow underpaying. Shohei Ohtani.

[Brady]

Can I give. Is. Can I give the Isabella comp here, please? 2023 Beyonce releases Renaissance wins Best Dance Album at the Grammys. 2025 Beyonce releases Cowboy Carter wins best country album. This is essentially if she released both of those albums in the same year.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, that's a good conjuga. It's not too bad.

[Isabella]

That is crazy. That's crazy.

[Katie Nolan]

There's not. Yeah, there's really not any other. I mean, I guess basketball, you're always playing expected to or hoped to play both sides of the ball. Like, David Robinson has twice dropped a triple double with 10 blocks. More than 10 blocks or 10 blocks. But it's. Yeah. This is just. To be such a big part of the game on both sides of the ball is crazy. They used to say when pitchers would get hits, like, he helped himself because it basically tries to get you the insurance, like you're only helping yourself as the pitcher to give yourself more wiggle room. And, you know, by producing runs. And he did that on both. He kept helping himself. It was just like a Shohei Ohtani help himself off.

[Brady]

If every. If the eight other Dodgers would have just not had a bat, if they were just not taking their bats, just sat down and only Ohtani hit, they would have won the game.

[Katie Nolan]

Isn't that crazy? Isabella? He could have been the only guy out there and they could have won. It's. It's nuts. It's absolutely nuts. One of the greatest performances of all time. If you don't like baseball, that's okay. But this is. We're watching history. This guy is unreal. I also saw. I don't know how much I believe that he, like, wrote in his journal about this. He, like, has his whole life mapped out of, like, goals he wanted to hit and by what year he wanted to hit them, and he's, like, on pace to do them all. It's crazy, if real. He even plans ahead for his regression where he's like, I'm gonna take a step back that year. I'm gonna start to be. I'm gonna field my age and my body, like, what even knows to plan for. It's crazy. Shohei Ohtani, you're a God. Please go somewhere else and do it. Boston's really nice, you know? Come do it for a team that really needs you. Please. Okay, let's talk about the NFL. Kind of a funny thing now, this to set up our NFL conceit for this week, because we don't want to just tell you about who won the games. We want to tell it to you in, like, a fun way. And so our construction for this week is inspired by former NFL quarterback Robert Griffin iii. He was breaking down a kick. There was an onside kick during the end of the BYU Utah game. That was on Saturday. It was towards the end of the game. Utah's about to attempt an onside kick. Here is the call and the moment. Onside kick.

[Jerry]

The game on the line. There it goes.

[Katie Nolan]

And it's kicked by Utah.

[Jerry]

Utah football. But it looked like it hit a ute player first.

[Brady]

This should be BYU football and the game over.

[Jerry]

Yeah, Jason, that kick was cheeks.

[Katie Nolan]

Thanks, RG3. And so this week, we're going to look at the NFL by asking various teams the question, was your team's quarterback Cheeks? This weekend, we'll start with the Commanders, their quarterback, of course, being Jaden Daniels. The Commanders lost to the Cowboys 44 to 22. What an ugly score. What a weird little score. What a creepy, freaky little score that is.44 to 22. Get out of here. Daniels suffered a right hamstring injury early in the third quarter against the Dallas Cowboys. I believe it was the first play of the second half on Sunday. He was later ruled out. Finished the game with a 45.7 QBR. Was the commander's QB. Cheeks. Yeah, Jason, that kick was Cheeks. Was he, though? I feel like he got hurt, the poor guy.

[Chris]

Hey, this is the one that Brady threw in the rundown. He wasn't too happy with how he's playing.

[Katie Nolan]

I think he's upset. I think he's upset. And what's funny is he has also left the podcast. Yeah.

[Chris]

Like, there is talk about.

[Katie Nolan]

Started talking about the commanders. Brady left. And the thing is, is we don't have time to stop and figure out if he's coming back where.

[Chris]

That's fun.

[Katie Nolan]

We just continue on without him.

[Chris]

Yeah, I say so. But that's. That is a devastating loss for the. For the commanders. I know they're banged up a bunch. They didn't have a lot of guys playing in this game. Their offense, which was hit really hard with injury, but losing to the Cowboys this season, tough. It's not fun.

[Katie Nolan]

It's not a good look. They've already got ties.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

If Brady's gonna keep leaving every time he gets upset, wait till he finds out who won White Boy of the year. He's not gonna like it. It wasn't him. All right, moving on. Matthew Stafford. Matthew Stafford's five touchdowns led the Rams to a 357 victory over the Jaguars in London. That's one of those wake up early and watch this games. And I'll tell you what I didn't do. I wake up early and watch it. I caught some of it. I saw the end. Okay. The. You always know it's a London game because the field's super green, and you're like, that's not what they usually look like. That's a different color green. Five touchdowns is the most touchdowns any quarterback has thrown in an international game. If that stat means anything to you. I don't. I don't know. It doesn't. There's not really a lot. It's all different cities, so it's not to say. But whatever. He did that without his star wide receiver, Puka Nakua. Isabella knows that because of her fantasy team.

[Isabella]

I do.

[Katie Nolan]

Because we had to sit pooka because he wasn't gonna start. Isabella told me that on Friday, Chris, we were doing the radio show, and she goes, puka's not gonna start this weekend. And I, like, looked up and was like, you checked.

[Chris]

So proud of you, Isabella.

[Katie Nolan]

I was so proud she checked. And I can't wait to find out.

[Isabella]

Well, I mean, I think it was Brady who mentioned it to me.

[Katie Nolan]

I know, but you still said it. You, like, had it on your. You were, like, on your phone about it.

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Let me be proud of you.

[Isabella]

Okay.

[Katie Nolan]

And we won't find out till Thursday if she won, but I have a funny feeling. And Stafford only had to stay in London one night. He got to play around at Camden Yards all week. That was cool. And I'm sure Brady would have stuff to say about that had he not left the podcast. So was the Rams quarterback Cheeks?

[Chris]

Absolutely not.

[Katie Nolan]

Right? We don't have sound like we don't have him saying that kick wasn't Cheeks.

[Chris]

No, we don't.

[Katie Nolan]

So the segment's not perfect, but it's good. You know, perfect is the enemy of good, they say. So Justin Fields. So this is the Jets. Justin Fields was benched in the third quarter of the Jets 136 loss at the hands of the Panthers, which means that The jets are now 06. They have yet to win a game. Justin Fields managed 46 yards from 12 attempts. This was still more yards than he had last week against the Broncos, which was 45. Was/. Is the jets quarterback Cheeks? Yeah, Jason, that kick was Cheeks. Yeah, Jason. Yeah, Jason, that kick. That quarterback is Cheeks. Hello, Brady. Welcome back.

[Brady]

Hi.

[Katie Nolan]

Everything okay?

[Brady]

Oh, it's not. It's not you. It's tech issues across the board with this AWS outage is causing podcast.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, the Amazon sitch is hitting us here at home.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Bezos, we need our Brady. Are you on Amazon? What are we? Are we? Yeah. They came first. They came for my whatever I ordered, speak up for.

[Brady]

I was not using Riverside.

[Katie Nolan]

That is right. Okay, so Brady's gonna be in and out. Well, you missed some stuff that I think you'll be happy you missed. All right, Patrick. Mahomes. The Chiefs. The Chiefs dismantled the raiders this weekend. 31, nothing. Rasheed rice is back from the bad thing he did. Just gotta remind everybody, because I feel like most times people are talking about it like he's back from a vacay or like somebody locked him in a tower and wouldn't let him free. Please let him out so he can catch passes for us. And catch passes he did. He caught two touchdowns and he had a great game. Again, he did a bad thing. And him not being able to play these first few weeks, consequences of his own actions. As long as we're all clear on that, we can move forward. Mahomes had a pretty cool play on 4th and 1. We have audio of this. Is it good? It's worth listening to.

[Chris]

That's pretty funny.

[Katie Nolan]

All right, let's listen to the audio.

[Jerry]

Fourth and a foot tried to draw him offside. Sorry. My home says, coach, it doesn't oh, there they go.

[Isabella]

Wow.

[Jerry]

You'd give it up on that one. You thought for sure it was a draw, didn't you?

[Katie Nolan]

That's pretty funny. Yeah, it's pretty funny. I know we all hate Patrick Mahomes, but that's pretty funny that that works. Isabella, did any of that make any sense to you?

[Isabella]

No.

[Katie Nolan]

So what they'll try to do sometimes is they'll try to draw a team offside so they will make it seem like they're snapping the ball so the team will move. And if the team moves, that's a penalty. So they're basically just trying to trick the team into thinking that they're about to start playing, but they're not about to start playing. And so he counts. This happens a lot on certain plays where you're just trying to get a yard. You're just trying to gain a yard. And so they will waste time doing this. They tried to do it. And then Patrick Mahomes said this never works, which even causes Tony Romo, who's in the booth to go like, yeah, he's right. It doesn't ever work. So everybody kind of assumes it's over, and then it works. It draws them offsides, and then it's. I guess it's not. It's a neutral zone infraction.

[Brady]

No, no. They actually. They snapped the ball when everybody was like, oh, he's thinking that.

[Katie Nolan]

He was just trying to draw them offsides.

[Brady]

He snapped the ball. They ran a run play for 2.

[Katie Nolan]

Yards and they got the first down. Fun. But it worked. It tricked them. Chiefs fans. Was your quarterback cheeks? No. The answer is no. Your quarterback was fine. They're back. Huh? They're real back. They're back in a big way.

[Brady]

We spent two weeks panicking about our decision.

[Katie Nolan]

They're not Chiefs.

[Brady]

Chiefs over.

[Katie Nolan]

No, he's not Chiefs. He's Chiefs. Tuatanga vailoa. Honey, have a seat. Have a quick seat. I mean, literally had a seat during the game. The Dolphins quarterback to a Tonga Vailoa having a tough year. He was benched. They were blown out, 31 to 6 by the Browns.

[Chris]

By the Browns.

[Katie Nolan]

I know. I know, Chris. I know. Okay. Dan watched that whole game. Just as a refresher for anyone who doesn't know, my fiance, Dan, his middle school best friend, is the head coach of the. Well, currently, as we as of reporting.

[Chris]

As of 2:12pm on Monday, is the.

[Katie Nolan]

Head coach of the Miami Dolphins, who have since said that no changes are being made, but we don't know they're going into A bye week. So it feels like if they were to make a change, it would probably be now. Ish. Dan watched that whole game and was. Came out in a Just a bad mood, a clear bad mood where he wasn't even aware of how bad of a mood he was in until I was like, why are you being so mean? And he was like, sorry, they're just talking about firing my friend so nonchalantly with a cavalier attitude in a way that's really upsetting to me, and I get it. But Tua went 12 of 23 and threw three. I don't even want to say it in the microphone. Three intercept. He threw three picks. Was the Dolphins quarterback Cheeks? Yeah, Jason. That kick was Cheeks. Yes, Jason. Yes. Unfortunately, Jason. He was Cheeks. And he.

[Brady]

Imagine if you're like a doordash driver and you have three meals and you drop all three of them to the wrong house.

[Isabella]

Oh, that's bad.

[Brady]

Yeah, yeah, that's Tua.

[Katie Nolan]

Unless it's like a restaurant where all the orders are basically the same. Everyone's ordering the same thing. You know that. It's like, get over it. If it's not your exact order, just get over it and eat it.

[Isabella]

Well, no. As someone who did doordash driving, like, you get the name.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, it is. It's. I don't want to look from where I'm sitting. I don't want to be criticizing doordash drivers for not getting the names right. I feel like the most charitable position for me is to go. Tough gig. Lot of bags, a lot of phone calls. In a city like this, you're doing your best.

[Isabella]

Oh, yeah, it is tough, especially with the Internet's going out and you're like, God damn it, I have to drive to this corner so that I can complete this order.

[Katie Nolan]

That's right. I can imagine that being really frustrating. So shout out to, I guess Tua Tonga Vailoa. Who, again, to be clear, was Cheeks. Drake May from the Pates. The first place Pates. Pardon me. The Patriots are in first place, and Drake May had a better completion. He set a new record for the Patriots, a new team franchise record for completion percentage in a game. 91.3% of his passes completed. Brady's highest, I believe, was like 85 and a half. Not saying he's better than Brady. The numbers are saying he's better than Brady. Okay? It's not me saying it. It's the numbers. And I've been told they don't lie. 31 to 13. Did I say the final score of Mike Vrabel going back to Tennessee after being fired there unceremoniously. But at least they've got a head coach they love. Wait, no, sorry, they don't. They just fired their guy and have an interim guy. 31 13. I also said this already on the radio. Sorry for overlap for anybody who listens to both, but it was fun finding out on TikTok today that people are starting to thirst over Mike Vrabel. I like that. I like women on the Internet going, why is he kind of, you know what they're like. There was a clip of him giving a female reporter the chance to ask questions before any other reporters because women have a harder time breaking into a room like that. And it worked on us. It was like a. It's like a man taking a golden retriever puppy to the park, you know, it was like, ah, look at him. Smart move, Smart move. Because women are going, mm. And that sweatshirt, I could really. It's a man you could come home to. So shout out, Coach Rayboul. We love you. And Drake May was the Patriots quarterback. Cheeks.

[Chris]

Nope.

[Katie Nolan]

That's right. No, he wasn't.

[Chris]

He was incredible.

[Katie Nolan]

The numbers say better than Tom Brady. Only the numbers, though. Jackson Dart had a great day right up until the team didn't. The Giants lost. They allowed 33 points to the Broncos in the fourth quarter. This is one of those games you may not have been watching, but if somebody was watching or if you had like red zone on, they reached a certain point where the energy shifted and it was a, hey, come take a look. Something's happening in this football game because the Broncos were shut out for the first three quarters. And then in the fourth quarter, Bo Nix rushed, had two rushing touchdowns and two passing touchdowns that had not been done before. And the Giants ended up losing 33 to 32 on a Will Lutz 39 yard field goal. As time expires, that is the most points in NFL history by any team that was shut out for the first three quarters. And before Sunday, teams had lost 1602 consecutive games when trailing by at least 18 points with six minutes to play. No one has come back from that in 16 over 1600 games. So that's pretty crazy. Denver changed that. 33 points. That's its most in a quarter in franchise history and tied for the second most in a quarter in NFL history. Absolutely insane. Brian Burns on the Giants defensive strategy in the post game said, quote, stupid ass shit dropping 8 in coverage.

[Brady]

To be fair, not in the post game press conference, just post game walking through the tunnel Screaming perfect. Stupid ass shit dropping Aiden coverage.

[Katie Nolan]

And if the tunnel isn't part of the press conference, isn't it?

[Brady]

It's where you get the best.

[Katie Nolan]

That's where I'm really finding out how you feel. Stupid ass shit dropping Aiden coverage. So, Giants fans, was your quarterback cheeks? No, he wasn't. He wasn't. Like, we could say, yes, but no, he wasn't. He was actually really good. Your fourth quarter defense was stupid ass shit, which comes from cheeks, but is not in itself cheeks. It's cheeks adjacent. And then this is sort of. What? Isabella, what did you say? No, I'm sorry. I talked over you. What did you say?

[Isabella]

No, I said it's a cheeks product.

[Katie Nolan]

That's right. The product of cheeks. And then I guess. So is this. While we're talking cheeks, this isn't really. But the Tush Push, you know, we've talked about this quite a bit. The Eagles run the Tush Push. It's an annoying play. People find it very annoying. It's not the football that they want to watch. A lot of whining and complaining and hand wringing. And then there was the game where the Eagles ran it, like four times on the same drive. And we were like, do you hate us? Are you mad at us? They're like, going off sides and nobody's calling it. It's like, this is the most annoying play in football. Well, the Vikings tried to come up. At least they're trying something. At least no bad ideas. In a brainstorm, the Vikings tried something interesting. They had their rookie lay down on.

[Chris]

The ground because of course it was a rookie. Of course it had to be a rookie.

[Katie Nolan]

Had to be. That's a volunteerist tribute type situation where it's like, look, kid. And if we get roasted for this, you might find yourself going somewhere else. Lays down on the ground in front of Eagle center Cam Jergens. And I'll tell you what might be so just so crazy, it just might work. No, it didn't. They still converted it.

[Chris]

So the Tush Push, at least they're trying.

[Katie Nolan]

Unstoppable. And let's. If we could describe what was the attempt there.

[Brady]

Just, like, create a pile of bodies. Like, just create a mountain of people. They have to push through, turn yourself into a kid. Has to have a boom mic on the point where they ask this kid, hey, can you go lay down right there?

[Katie Nolan]

We're gonna ask you to lay down on the ground. It's like an activist in those old. Like when they would come for the forest and they would like, sit in the trees. And they were like, you can't take this tree down. He laid down and said, you can't. You can't drive over me. And then they did. So disrespectful.

[Brady]

1500 pounds of dude piling.

[Katie Nolan]

This man is laying here. The least you could do is not push your tush into.

[Chris]

If they're practicing that defense during the week and they're running it like four or five times in a row, this guy's just, like, lying on his belly.

[Katie Nolan]

He's sick of it. 10, 15 minutes, he's like, okay, we'll do tummy time. Call this the stop for tush push is tummy time. Every team needs to start. Employ but love. I love this. Start trying weirder shit, okay? They're gonna keep running this dumb play that we don't like. Start doing weirder stuff. What if you start turned around? Is that illegal? If they were to face backwards and stick their butts up in the air instead of facing that.

[Brady]

One way to find out.

[Katie Nolan]

Only one way to find out.

[Isabella]

What if you use, like, confusion.

[Katie Nolan]

That's right.

[Isabella]

So like, start kangaroo hopping, right? And they're like, what's going on? And then that's when you get.

[Katie Nolan]

It's like, yeah, listen, she sounds nuts. But this has worked in every Disney Channel original movie I've ever watched. Every kid's sports movie ends with them going so crazy, it just might work. So let's start really thinking outside the box. Who's playing the Eagles next? Whoever that is, start game planning to do something weird against the tushbush. And if you just show up and you try to. That they're not getting called for being off sides. I don't. Or a false start. I don't want to hear it. That's not going to work. We're trying that. Who is?

[Chris]

It's the Giants.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, Jesus Christ.

[Brady]

Giants are going to drop eight.

[Katie Nolan]

Jesus Christ, we are screwed. Well, we'll see what happens. All right. College football. There's only one story I want to talk about. And to be honest, I only want to talk about it from a very, I guess, myopic. In a very myopic way. I just want to focus on. I don't know if you guys saw Pablo dropped New UNC News. Pablo Torre, our friend journalist who works at Meadowlark Media and the New York Times. On his podcast, Pablo Torre finds out has acquired more information regarding Jordan Hudson.

[Isabella]

The.

[Katie Nolan]

Well, I guess it's mostly information about Bill Belichick, the head coach of UNC's football program who brought his friend Mike Lombardi to be the, I believe, GM of the football program. Getting paid a historic amount in that state position. It's a basically a government position to do nothing. The team sucks and it stinks. And Pablo's been keeping an eye on why and what the vibe is over there and basically unearthing lots of documents. The document that was unearthed this past Friday was behind the scenes footage from the filming of a show called Coach, which featured Matt Patricia, the former defensive coordinator for the Patriots and current head coach of somewhere, Brady in college, but I don't know where.

[Brady]

Ohio State's defensive coordinator.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, is that what it is?

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay. Current defensive coordinator for Ohio State and Bill Belichick, they were filming this show. I believe they were filming it at NFL Films, but it was actually being produced by Underdog Fantasy. And basically Pablo got his little journalist hands on hot mic footage of Jordan inserting herself into the production of the show at sort of what felt like the 11th hour. For somebody who makes content speaking to people here, the casualties who also make content, it felt like it was recording time and she was doing notes about graphics that probably would have needed to already have been discussed. And we were at the point where we needed to film, basically. Did you guys see Pablo torture me with information on Friday?

[Brady]

My friends, I saw your defense of. Of not having to name Adobe Photoshop with every Jordan feeling like she had discovered this amazing program into which you could input text, which would be, yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

You just use it on Adobe Photoshop and then you just type it in, you just highlight it or whatever, like jets defense. And you just hit tap the delete button. Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap. That was my favorite part. And then you'll just tap the delete button. Tap, tap, tap. Like she has to describe how to use a keyboard as opposed to describing how to use and make graphics. Um, look, there's a lot of criticism to be made about Jordan. I think the important thing is to focus on what it says about Bill Belichick and what it says about people attempting to create anything, whether it be a successful football program and. Or a television show with a fantasy company. Making stuff with him appears to be something that other people can get their opinions in on. There is no pushback. I will say Matt Patricia just kind of sits there and let this happen. Nobody ever at any point, go, thank you for your feedback, Jordan. We actually really need to film this stuff right now. We have a show planned and we only have 30 minutes left of this studio to get this recorded. So I really appreciate your feedback. If you want to put it in an email, I can try to take a look. But it's important that we stay on task here. There was nobody in the room going like, hello, we have a job to do. Everybody just goes, totally, yeah, we could do that. Yeah, yeah, we could do that. While a graphic designer or producer, whoever the guy is that's leaned over the table, dies inside as he's like, this person is telling me they I. She even at one point said, I don't know how to do anything, Anything. And even I could do it better than this, which is like, wow, you're explaining my job to me while telling me you actually don't know how to do it. Really infuriating stuff. I just wanted to give my behind the scenes take because what Pablo does to me is evil, okay? What Pablo does to me is unfair and should be studied. Most of the time when Pablo asks myself and Michael Cruz Kane to do his podcast, he doesn't say anything. So sometimes it's to come in there and receive news, but sometimes you come in there thinking you're gonna receive news. And he just looks at me and goes, you wanna talk about anything? And if I've got nothing, well, now we're screwed. For an hour. Now for an hour, we've got nothing. So what I started doing once it felt like the Jordan stuff was over is I would do a little drugs before I went and hung out with my friend Pablo. I would just, like, smoke a tiny little bit of weed to keep the creative juices flowing so that when he goes, we don't have anything to talk about. We would find things to talk about because that is the effect that that happens to have on me. And so for this episode, I did that. I did that. I got in an Uber and realized maybe I did that a little too much. I started to have a panic attack because I was like, I've been. I hadn't taken a day off. I had to travel last weekend. So I'd been working for a number of days straight. And at some point you guys will find out what happened while I was working for a number of days straight. And a lot of this will make sense. Suffice it to say, I had very stressed and hadn't been acknowledging it. I smoked a little bit of weed. I had a panic attack when I realized how in the middle of everything, I was to the point where Dan had to text Pablo and go, katie's gonna be a little late. She needs to grab a Snickers bar. She needs to eat something before she comes upstairs. Great. I walk upstairs, he locks the doors and pushes out this box and goes. We have new information on Jordan Hudson. No, wait, no. I thought it was just a content day.

[Brady]

This is Alonzo Hamburger Jones again.

[Katie Nolan]

I thought I was just goofing with my friends and so that is. I just don't know how to communicate to Pablo that. I need a heads up if we're getting. You're listening to hidden voice note mic. Hidden mic conversations that no one's ever seen ever before of the dynamic between Jordan and your. Your former favorite football head coach who brought you all of your championships. I just need a heads up that that's what the episode is gonna be. I don't get paid by this man. He does this to me. I let him do this to me for free.

[Brady]

Pablo slides a box forward. Katie, I have new information on Steve Ballmer's SEC filings.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh my God. It just am like I can't. It's so stressful because you also have to double check and make sure that like, are we doing a bad physics mean. I don't want to be mean. Mean spirited stressful. But we talked about it and it was a lot. I mean, listen, it doesn't look good for her, but I also know when you put anything like that on the Internet of a woman acting a certain way, she's going to get more hate than she deserves and nothing's going to happen to the bill of it all. But I think the yes manification of everybody that's around bill should concern people. And, and, and I'm not going to say Mike Lombardi is not qualified for that job because truthfully, I don't know what the qualifications are and I'm not even purporting that I have them or am able to ident them in a potential other candidate. All I'm saying is what I know of that guy, probably not the best for the gig. Just all I'm going to say. So that's college football. That's how we college football here on this podcast. I promised an NBA preview and I know we're getting close time wise, but we can fly through this. I think these are really good stories. Basically what we've done is if you've noticed, it's been a little while since we've talked about anything in the NBA, anything that we've noticed in the public. I mean, in the off season we have sort of stashed somewhere and we're going to run through some of our favorite stories from the off season as a way to sort of bring basketball back to the forefront of your mind. Because that season is starting this evening, Tuesday night. So we want to get you ready and just remind you of teams and players and things to look out for. Chris, if at any point in here there's actual basketball knowledge you feel we should drop, I'm going to put that on you. You hop in and go. And they're going to be really good this year. But I, I only want to focus on the goof stuff. Is that okay with you?

[Chris]

You got it.

[Katie Nolan]

Great. Here's our NBA season preview, brought to you by the casualties. Okay, the 76ers Jared McCain this is, this was one of my favorite stories because it is so funny the way that it happened and I think it's low stakes enough that it's not serious. So the 76ers revealed their new throwback uniforms in September and they did that with pictures. They put out a bunch of pictures of their team wearing these new jerseys and one of the pictures Featured guard Jared McCain and in it, in the background, the bench press. Whoever had staged this photo shoot was not paying attention to the weights that were on the bench press. And if you happened to look back there and notice, because of course you did, you're an athlete, you like sports. You would notice that it only had 2 1/2 pound plates on it. So somebody noticed this, of course, went on Twitter and said, why is Jared McCain bench pressing two and a half pound plates? Obviously funny. We all know how photo shoots work. He probably wasn't actually benching in the middle of this. He just was there. And so the post goes viral and McCain addresses the comments on his Instagram story, I think a day later or a couple days later. And he wrote working on it with two sad emojis and then he posted a video of him pretending to struggle with curling an 8 pound dumbbell. So it was a joke of being like this is a very lightweight, but ooh, I'm having a really hard time because haha, I only bench pressed two and a half pounds. So the next day I had seen both of those stories and I was like, this is already a funny story worthy of talking about on the podcast. The next day the team has to announce that McCain suffered a UCL tear in his right thumb during a workout and would be at for a little bit. So funny. Just perfectly perfectly timed. I will ask, how Serious Is a UCL tear in your thumb? It's not.

[Chris]

It was 46 weeks at the time, so he'll probably be Back early November so he might miss the first maybe couple of weeks of the season.

[Katie Nolan]

And that's why it's okay to laugh at because this guy hurt himself lifting an 8 pound. Dumb. I'm just kidding. He didn't, but it seems like he did. We don't know. And that's why it's important to remember no matter how heavy the weights are that you're lifting, you can still hurt yourself if you don't have good form. Should the 76ers be worried about this, Chris, or are they going to be okay this year?

[Chris]

They're probably not going to be great this year. Everyone outside of the Knicks and the Cavs are probably going to be not so good in the East.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, that's how you love to see it. You love to see there be two teams already before a ball has been dribbled that we know will be good and everybody else stinks.

[Chris]

That's what's that in. In the East. Don't know how much like Joel Embiid is going to be playing this year. He's very injury prone. It they're going to be very middle of the pack. I feel like the 76ers.

[Katie Nolan]

Well they also are are they're doing well at least in one area which is rookie hazing. Adem Bona played his first NBA season. Brady keep it together with Philly. Last season he appeared in 58 games. But according to his teammate Andre Drummond, he is still a rookie until his second season starts. So there was still time to pull some last minute rookie pranks. I don't know if I agree with that. I don't know if you're still a rookie until your second season starts. I feel like when you come back for the beginning of your second season, you're not a rookie anymore. But I'm no basketball player and Andre Drummond is. So I'll default to him on that. Exactly. This is the birthday month of sports. They filled Bona's car with popcorn, which we've seen before. And one of the tires from his car was removed and placed on his chair in the locker room that I don't think I've seen before. Also got to make you wonder, did they want to take off a bunch of them and they only could get to one? Cuz that's pretty tough to do. Did they jack the car up? How did they get it off?

[Brady]

Well, you got to jack it up, right?

[Chris]

But I mean some of these are pretty elaborate. They've got to have. Is it someone at the team like a staff member who comes up with it? Do they hire? Do they outsource?

[Isabella]

That's an annoying prank. I don't like that.

[Katie Nolan]

I don't like pranks in general. I am not the audience for pranks. I am. I don't like them when they're done to other people, which I feel like is my only saving grace, is I'm consistent. I don't like to prank people and hate being pranked. I don't like pranking people. I don't like pranks in general. I think they're. Most of the time, you can call anything a prank. You can just be mean and go prank. It's not really a prank. It's mean spirit. It's just means you're just trying to make me upset. And then when I get upset, you're going to.

[Isabella]

Okay, so what about if I put a little fart thing underneath your seat?

[Katie Nolan]

Great. Fine. That's funny, right? To a point. And then you get.

[Brady]

If I walk into the locker room and I'm like, oh, that's the tire from my car and I wanna leave. Cause I have to go put the tire back on after work. Thanks.

[Katie Nolan]

No thanks to that. Also, it's my second year here. Cut the shit. That's what I would say. Tell you what. That's what I would say. We have a list of other crazy rookie pranks. What's the best one of all time? Do we think. Think Shaquille o' Neal is no good? Shaq no good. That's not a prank. Shaquille o' Neal would victimize rookies by dumping a bucket. Bucket full of his own urine over them while they were in the bathroom. What kind of a prank is that?

[Chris]

Yeah, Shaq's sort of known for his extreme rookie hazing tactics.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

And I think he's sort of shown sympathy somewhat recently. But, yeah, it would have been pretty brutal to be a. A rookie in Shaquille o' Neal locker room.

[Katie Nolan]

I don't know how I'm going from being covered in your piss while peeing. I imagine if not the other thing, I'm now covered in your piss. I've got to go and play basketball with you. You're my teammate.

[Isabella]

I'd be annoyed. I'd be like, never mind. I quit basketball.

[Katie Nolan]

By, I would not play with you.

[Brady]

I would jump to the logistics of having a bucket full of your urine.

[Chris]

Which apparently he would fill up over the course of a week.

[Katie Nolan]

This is. This is like, I'm concerned.

[Brady]

How are you?

[Katie Nolan]

This is really, first of all smelly. That's yeah, smelly. I don't know if you've ever had them be like, hey, we're turning the water off and you're building for like a couple hours and you forget that and you pee and then you go, ah. And so it just has to sit there. Even just that in water, you're like, I feel like my whole house is going to smell like piss. Holding up a bucket of piss that you've acquired over the course of a.

[Brady]

Week is psychopath with a diet of nothing but shackaronis.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, I can't. I can't love. I don't love that.

[Chris]

One that we can enjoy, though, is when Kyle Malone off to a bad.

[Katie Nolan]

Start, but keep going.

[Chris]

No, because he was the butt of the joke.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, good, great. Perfect.

[Chris]

That's how we love.

[Katie Nolan]

How did he get. Yes, that's right. That's right. How did he get hazed?

[Chris]

So he wanted the Mavs to take him in the draft originally, but the Mavs didn't take him and instead obviously went to Utah, where he spent the majority of his career. He wasn't thrilled when they took him, but their coach at the time informed Malone that the city of Utah would launch a parade for his visit and for his birthday to sort of celebrate him and who he was. And apparently Karl Malone was very excited and, you know, walked the parade and was waving to the residents of Salt Lake City and all that sort of stuff just to thank them for coming out. And then Malone found out later that the parade wasn't held for his birthday, but for Pioneer Day, which is a State hall holiday.

[Katie Nolan]

I mean, like, obviously it's so funny to not have the. To go, like, they're gonna throw a whole parade for my birthday. Like, that should be your first. Of course they're not gonna. But to go, like, yeah, that adds up. That's exactly. That's actually a well executed prank. You're right, Chris. That works because it immediately humbles a person who thought that they would throw a parade after openly complaining about going there and wanting to go somewhere else.

[Chris]

And it's also one of the rare pranks formed from a coach or spawned from the coach, because normally it's from vet players. You don't really see coaches get involved much. But that's great.

[Katie Nolan]

We love that.

[Chris]

Makes this one unique.

[Katie Nolan]

All right, moving on. In our NBA preview to the Lakers, we saw LeBron did the Decision 2. We were worried on this very podcast that we wouldn't be able to cover it. And then Brady broke the news right at the end that what the Decision two was was a partners with Hennessy. It was an ad for Hennessy that LeBron was calling the Decision 2 hard to top the bad decision making of Decision 1 found a way and did it with the Decision 2. Now a lifelong Lakers fan is suing LeBron James because he believed the basketball legend's announcement teaser was for retirement like a lot of people did. Instead of in fact being an ad for Hennessy. Andrew Garcia is the fan. He saw the tease and he spent hundreds of dollars on a tank ticket to watch LeBron play against the team he started with in Cleveland on March 31, 31st, 2026.

[Chris]

Accurate.

[Katie Nolan]

I didn't see anything wrong with thinking it would be one of the superstar ballers last games. When Garcia learned it wasn't retirement news, but rather an ad, he sued LeBron claiming he was deceived out of those hundreds of dollars spent. And there's going to be some juicy drama in LA this season, that is, I'm with him on that. I don't know. Sometimes these fan sues because the product on the field isn't interesting enough to keep my attention. And I got hit in the face with a ball. Sometimes you're like, I don't know. These are kind of this one I'm with. I, I. It was the first thing I thought when I saw that the ticket prices for LeBron's game were like going like the Lakers tickets went up a bunch in the lead up to whatever the announcement of the Decision two was. My first thought was like, I'd be so pissed. I mean it still could be his last season. I guess you never really know, right?

[Chris]

But if it was his last season, I think LeBron would have announced it already.

[Katie Nolan]

I think so too.

[Chris]

Like the kind of guy that would announce it at the the end of the season. He wants to do that Kobe jersey swap after every game. Presence from the mayor of every city. Like he's going to milk it as much as he can.

[Katie Nolan]

And I think so too. I'm just leaving the door open for anything to possibly happen. And, and yeah, I think I don't know how you win that lawsuit. I don't know what you have to prove, but I'm with you on it.

[Brady]

And we'll feels like a classic Judge Judy.

[Katie Nolan]

With that one. People's question. Court.

[Brady]

People's court.

[Katie Nolan]

Well, we'll see. I'd watch that episode. Get Judy in here. Is she still doing them? I thought she retired. I think she was done.

[Brady]

She will never retire.

[Isabella]

Judy.

[Katie Nolan]

God, my mom loves Judge Judy. God, my mom is Judge Judy. It's really a one to one comparison. Here's my favorite story from the NBA off season. Wait, I guess. Chris Lakers good.

[Chris]

Yeah, they should be okay. They got Luca and they have to be good. Phenomenal. If LeBron can stay healthy once he comes back from his sciatica flare up.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, that's right.

[Chris]

You know that's going to be a big part of it.

[Jerry]

But.

[Chris]

But they should be a playoff team pretty comfortably, I would have thought.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, you'd think. You never know of course, but you think now this is my favorite. J.J. redick, head coach of the Lakers says that he sometimes spends an hour and a half talking to ChatGPT during this off season. Lakers Head Coach Revealed Quote I do have a general curiosity about stuff. No problems yet in the quote. I'll just say I'm the type of person who spends an hour and a half going down a deep, deep rabbit hole on chat GPT. Okay, starting to concern me in the quote back in it used to be Wikipedia, but now it's my friend chat. I don't know how deep into chat or AI psychosis you guys are in your algorithms, but I get served quite a bit of this content to the point where I'm now seeing journalists who write about AI and ChatGPT and Claude and all these AI assistant programs, journalists who write about them or speak about them prominently are being emailed by people who use these services because the services are telling them to email this person at this outlet and to let them know that we have breached a new relationship between user and program that has never been before seen in human history. And they need to be writing about this. You need to alert the media. It is very scary. I'm very scared by it. Chris, is this your first that you're hearing of it? Because watching this story happen across your face is fascinating. It's scary. AI is sort of just. It's generative. It's based off of everything that's ever been made, but it's not thinking, it's just predicting. It's like a predictive model. And so while you can use it for a lot of tasks, I do not. But I'm not judging people who use it for parts of their job. I know it's very quickly taking over everything, but it just something you need to keep in mind when dealing with it is that it's not a person. It's not a human thinking considering and that because of that and because of it being a product that these companies want you to use a lot of most of its programming is to keep you involved with it. So it tells you what you want to hear more often than maybe a thinking, breathing human person would do. Now, as we've seen with Bill Belichick, you can have humans around you and still only ever get yeses. So it's not only something that happens through AI, but I just am. So whenever I hear somebody go, like I use AI, I talk to it all day. I talk to it about every idea it gets. My. It's basically my brain.

[Chris]

I go deep rabbit hole.

[Katie Nolan]

I don't know, it's like, maybe we could go down a deep rabbit hole of research, of reading stuff, stuff written by people, just because sometimes AI is pulling from that, but other times you don't know where AI is pulling from. I'm. I, I fear that somebody listening to this thinks I sound like an old person. And maybe I do, but like, this is the ship I go down with. I don't think I'm going to be getting in on the AI stuff. It doesn't. I don't think it's for me. Is that okay?

[Isabella]

I think that's okay.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Got a hot news update for you.

[Katie Nolan]

What's that, Judy?

[Brady]

Just justice is a spin off of Judge Judy and is still airing in occasional new episodes on Amazon Prime Video and Amazon freevee. Judy is 82, still at it, and she.

[Katie Nolan]

And these are just whenever she feels like it. Check back head on a swivel. We sometimes will put new episodes up here as long as Bezos turns the Internet on today.

[Brady]

I think it's like, curb your enthusiasm.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Judy's like, I feel like making some episodes. Let's dole out some jokes.

[Katie Nolan]

Damn, Judy Justice. I love that. Okay, so thoughts and prayers with J.J. redick, I guess. Look, I'm not. I don't know. I know therapy's expensive. I also had seen that he uses it as a therapist. And I know therapist. Oh my God.

[Isabella]

Her birthday's tomorrow. Happy birthday, Judge Judy.

[Katie Nolan]

Happy birthday, Judge Judy.

[Isabella]

Sorry.

[Katie Nolan]

Birthday. That's okay. Okay. The Celtics coaches played against the media in a scrimmage. This is a fun thing where you play against the people who cover the team. And you might think, I bet basketball media could make that kind of close. I'm sure a couple people in the basketball media there that cover the Celtics could bang a three or two. The final score of this 12 minute scrimmage, 57 to 4.

[Chris]

In the defense of the Celtics media members, they were not aware that they were going to be facing off against the coaches until the Last minute. It was supposed to be a. A media only game. And right before they were scheduled to play, Joe Missoula, after the quick press conference with the media, said, I got bad news for you. You're not playing each other, you're playing us.

[Katie Nolan]

Fantastic. They did. They did eventually, I think, also play against each other. They had their usual game. We don't care. We want to talk about the game against the coaches that you lost 57 4. Now let's take a look at the coaches who played in the game. We have Joe Mazzulla, who a former Division 1 player at West Virginia. Phil Preci, former NBA player. We have God, Sham, God Junior, former Division 2 player, Emil Jefferson, former NBA player, lots of talent on the coaching side because of course, that's your coaching squad for your team. They've got basketball experience. We don't have the names of the media listed here. And that's out of respect. And that's out of respect. I don't think we need to say who played in that game, but Missoula. Go ahead.

[Chris]

Yeah. Missoula is just a psychopath. And this entire coaching staff are sort of all cut from the same cloth. They full court pressed the entire 12 minutes, which is how you end up with 57 score one at 57 to two. But they full court pressed the entire time, did not relent whatsoever.

[Katie Nolan]

Is. Is Joe Missoula chaotic good, Chaotic neutral? Is he like. He's so he's a psychopath?

[Chris]

Absolutely.

[Katie Nolan]

His quotes throughout the season, the way that he takes a scrimmage against the media so seriously, I like, am obsessed with it. I love it. I'm worried that at some point I'm gonna go, oh, my God, this guy's actually out of his mind in a bad. But I think it's all fine.

[Chris]

Everyone who has something to do with Joe Missoula, including these media members and even the place is they all love Joe Missoula.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

So I think he's the type of guy that's very intense, but if you earn his trust, then you know he has your back completely. 100. He seems to take really good care of everyone in his circle. He's just a.

[Katie Nolan]

He's a good. He's a. He's crazy. And he loves basketball. And I like that. Yeah, I get down with that. Remember when he said on Chris Stops Porzingis? I like watching him bleed on the court. I think it's important. Great. It's a psycho. That's my psycho. All right. Continuing our NBA preview, Anthony Edwards had a award show this week, last week on Wednesday, the Believe that Awards. It was a smashing success for all that I saw about it after I didn't hear anything about it before, I didn't know this was happening. I would have bought a nice dress and sat by the phone hoping to win something. It was a live stream on YouTube. It featured appearances from some of the award winners. They gave Anthony Edwards crowned White Boy of the Year. And Brady not even in the running.

[Brady]

I feel like I had a very white year.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, no, you definitely did. I would say if the. If it was whitest year of the boy, you would have won that whitest year by a boy for sure. You. But White Boy of the Year went to Timothy Shallow May, and he was there. Here's the thing. A lot of times with these award shows, like, I'm thinking of you, MTV Movie Awards, as you've fallen off, if you'd noticed in recent years, in an effort to try to get people to tune in, they just gave the awards to whoever was there. I think one year, JLO won best actress for that movie where the. Her neighbor was hot or something. And it was just like a really best actress for this. And you go, that's. She was. She was there. They wanted to give her the award and she was there. This. They actually you give it to Timothy because he. On his merits. And then he showed up. He is filming Dune 3, which we're doing. How many of these are we? Dune?

[Chris]

I think it's just the three, right?

[Katie Nolan]

I don't know.

[Brady]

It's like Dune itself was a really long story.

[Katie Nolan]

It was huge. This used to be my dad's favorite. I don't know movie or book, but I think it was movie. The original or was it a show?

[Brady]

It was a book and then a movie.

[Katie Nolan]

It's just such lore. And he's. Anyway, they're doing the third one he Skyped in, or I guess Katie get with the time. Skype. No longer a company, but zoomed in is a thing. It's already a thing. Anyway, he's an A lister. He won the award. He was honored. He won it over Adam Sandler, Tom Cruise, Mr. Beast and Pat McAfee, which are for white guys. I'm just not sure what they did, you know, I don't.

[Chris]

I think they might just be some white boys that Anthony would like that touched his radar. Not even likes.

[Katie Nolan]

Just like. Not even likes.

[Chris]

Who are some.

[Katie Nolan]

Who can we give it to? Who are my favorite white boys? Mr. Beast making it. Gotta be the best thing that's ever happened. To Mr. Beast, Chalamet joined the stream from Budapest. Anthony Edwards said, let me think of some fly white boys. I know Justin Bieber, fly as fuck. Ed Sheeran, my girl like, what's the white boy name? Morgan Wallen. I gotta shout out what's his name? Leon Nelson. Liam Neeson, that's my white boy. Fly as fuck. Jason Statham, fly as fuck. Triple H from WWE Goldberg. Adam Sandler, fly as fuck. And so that, folks, is just a stream of consciousness top of mind list of the white boys that Anthony Edwards is familiar with. Leon Nelson is the best step towards remembering Liam Neeson's name I've ever heard out loud.

[Chris]

Especially when he says, that's my white boy. I'm like, you called him Liam Nelson.

[Katie Nolan]

And now if I could just flag one, I'm gonna flag Morgan Wallen. I'm flag that as maybe. Maybe a white boy. We don't love as much, but that could just be me. But just. He stands out in this group of other white guys that are fly as fuck. That I'm not sure we gotta shout out. You know what I'm saying? Tennis star Ben Shelton won they got next award over Cam Ward, who has the word Ward in his name, much like award. He's a Ward himself of the Tennessee Titans and NBA rookies Cooper Flagg and VJ Edgecombe. So Ben Shelton is the they got next. Are we just doing award. You can just go, I'm making an award show and then give it up. And then my other question that I had here, what's his face? Antonio Brown did an award show last year. And I. Because doesn't he do cte S, P N? That's his whole thing. And I'm not trying to give him any shine. I just do think that he did White Boy of the Year. Just saying. I think he may have done it first. Okay, we can just. We don't have to get into that. You're right. We shouldn't enter into any controversy in the white boy sphere. Let's. Brady's having a tough enough time.

[Jerry]

By the way.

[Chris]

Timberwolves should be pretty good this season.

[Katie Nolan]

Good.

[Chris]

Led by Anne Edwards. You know, he's coming into his peak. He's gonna be in his peak for a long, long time. They're going to be up the top of the. The West Celtics going to be very interesting. They could finish anywhere from, like 4th to 10th. I feel like depending on how quick Jason Tatum comes back, it looks like he's going to be aiming to come back. Come back around about January ish So we'll see how healthy he can be by the time he comes back. But gonna be an interesting season for the Celtics. I still think they make the playoffs, though.

[Katie Nolan]

We'll see. All right. That's your basketball preview. Don't you feel like an expert? Don't you feel like you know everything there is to know? We're here to do that for you. We're gonna hit one more break. When we come back, we have to very quickly tell you about the sports equinox because that's gonna happen on Monday and you're not gonna. We're not gonna be able to talk to you about it before then. So. So when we come back, we'll hit that, and then Chris is going to give you some stuff that we need to watch this week. We'll be right back.

[Jerry]

Welcome back to Listen to youo Heart. I'm Jerry. And I'm Jerry's heart. Today's topic, Repatha Evolocumab Heart. Why'd you pick this one? Well, Jerry, for people who have had a heart attack like us, diet and exercise might not be enough to lower the risk of another one. Okay. To help know if we're at risk, we should be getting our LDL C, our bad cholesterol check, and talking to our doctor. I'm listening. And if it's still too high, Repatha can be added to a statin to lower our LDL C and our heart attack risk. Hmm. Guess it's time to ask about Repatha.

[Katie Nolan]

Do not take Repatha if you are allergic to it. Serious allergic reactions can occur. Get medical help right away if you have trouble breathing or swallowing. Swelling of the face, lips, tongue, throat or arms. Common side effects include runny nose, sore throat, common cold symptoms, flu or flu like symptoms, back pain, high blood sugar and redness. Pain or bruising at the injection site.

[Jerry]

Listen to your heart. Ask your doctor about Repatha. Learn [e-mail] or call 1-844-repatha.

[Katie Nolan]

He's Kenny.

[Jerry]

Maine, the funny guy from ESPN. Formerly, he's Cooper Manning, the more intelligent and handsome of the Manning brothers. And he's Brian Baumgartner. But to me, he'll always be Kevin from the office. Yeah, you and everybody else together. We're the hosts of the new comedy golf podcast, we need a fourth from Smartless Media and SiriusXM. It's like a cold beer after a round. You hear the strangest and most bizarre golf stories from our friends, athletes, celebrities and comedians. It's all about how much we love golf and how how much we hate golf. New episodes are out every week. Listen now and subscribe wherever you get your podcast could just be anywhere, just on a couch. Doesn't matter. Here's a quick podcast for all you true crime fans. The Case of the Missing Reese's. It was me at the store with my mouth motive. They're Reese's. What was I gonna do? Stop myself? Tune in next time to see if I do it again. Spoiler I will. Wow, that had everything. Reese's, Suspense, Reese's.

[Katie Nolan]

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[Chris]

Sure.

[Katie Nolan]

Great. If you had said no, would have been a real dead end of a segment. The sports equinox is a day when all four major U.S. men's professional sports leagues, so MLB, NFL, NBA and NHL have games scheduled on the same day. It's a little outdated, I feel because we're starting women's sports are picking up steam and obviously there are major leagues in women's sports. But this is an old, old concept that has been, you know, we've been talking about this for years when all four of our mate quote unquote major sports in the United States play at the same time. So a sports fan is supposed to love this day because you can get a little bit of everything. It's a relatively rare phenomenon. It only happens like once or twice a year. On Monday, October 27th. Here is what is on the slate. You are going to have World Series Game 3 in Major League Baseball. So that will be the Dodgers. And insert, insert what you know here. NFL, we have week eight, Monday Night Football. It's going to be Commanders versus Chiefs. The NBA will have 11 games including Thunder versus Mavericks and Nuggets versus Timberwolves. And in the NHL, two games. You've got Blues, Penguins, And Bruins, Senators. Isabella, now that you're aware of what a sports equinox, how do you feel?

[Isabella]

I feel like. Well, it's too much to watch. Like, what am I gonna watch? Yeah, it's overwhelming.

[Katie Nolan]

It is a lot. It is a lot. I've heard the merits of. People have really been talking about that. YouTube TV, multi view.

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Is anyone using this?

[Isabella]

I know Chris is.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. I have a hard time watching more than one, especially of the same sport.

[Isabella]

I don't think I could do multi view. I'd rather just like. Okay, commercial break. I'm gonna go back to this channel.

[Katie Nolan]

Watch this game.

[Chris]

My daughter doesn't enjoy it. I was watching two NFL games as well as the F1 and the NASCAR races yesterday.

[Katie Nolan]

That's a lot, dad.

[Chris]

And my daughter was. Was not enjoying shows. I want to watch one. Yeah, put on one.

[Katie Nolan]

I love that.

[Brady]

She just wanted breakfast. Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

So smart. Such a smart kid.

[Chris]

I haven't eaten in eight hours.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, please, father, just a little bit of something. Just a snack, a Cheerio. All right. Yeah. So I get it. I'm. It's overwhelming. I. I always try on a sports equinox to make a valiant effort to watch at least a little bit of every spot because I feel like that is my. It's like my dad at a buffet. He feels some sort of a moral calling to have to try a little bit of everything as it's all been made available to him, and it would only be rude to leave it there without taking a bite of it. And so I fill my metaphorical plate up on a sports equinox and I try to dip in to each. Or you can have fun with it and.

[Isabella]

And you can like roll a dice or something. Pick out of a hat. And you're like, I'm only watching this game today. I'm only watching.

[Katie Nolan]

And then the fun where you're finding the fun is that it's out of.

[Isabella]

Your control and you gotta watch what the hat tells you to watch.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay. The hat. Right. Okay. Is that a Harry Potter?

[Isabella]

No, just. I'm just talking about a hat.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay.

[Chris]

Not the Sorting Hat. Just a general sample.

[Isabella]

Just a general hat. Just a vessel to put the. Put. To put these different games.

[Katie Nolan]

And then you pick one.

[Isabella]

And then you pick one or two.

[Katie Nolan]

But you can do that anyway. Day. On this day, there's all these games. Don't you want to celebrate that? There's all these. I know. You're like, lady, I'm trying to get into sports and you're overwhelming me.

[Isabella]

I'm like, hold on.

[Katie Nolan]

Hold the fire hose of sports and going, don't you want to drink? I'm like, I just got into MLB and now it's NFL. I know it's a lot. It is a lot, but it is the duality of man. As they say. This is the well written. Or how about this?

[Isabella]

You make it a drinking game. You take a shot every.

[Katie Nolan]

Every single time.

[Isabella]

Every single time. The team you want to win scores of all of the games that are playing.

[Katie Nolan]

So rip to you, that's a lot. The only way to win is to remain neutral.

[Isabella]

Okay, so Dodgers shot. Then it's like commander shot. Then it's like Thunder shot.

[Brady]

Okay? But there's like the Knicks are playing. So every time the Knicks.

[Isabella]

I'm getting wavy Dodgers sh.

[Katie Nolan]

Shot. When the team that you're rooting for. We said that. We said that we don't know what's.

[Isabella]

Going to be World Series game three. So all I know is that don't we already know it's going to be Dargers?

[Katie Nolan]

You're right. You're not wrong. I just was checking to make sure you said the team we're rooting for. We would. I'm just choosing the first name that's listed here. Okay, fine. Sorry. I'm sorry. I think we owe it to our fans to let them know. If you are a Dodgers fan, you have to say it. It's like Undercover Cop. If I ask, you have to say, say no. Brady, what are you doing to celebrate sports Equ. Sp.

[Brady]

Commanders are playing. World Series is playing. I. There's no bandwidth for NBA or NHL on that one.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, I know. It's so bad. I feel bad how little I care about early regular season sports when other postseason sports or more rare sports like football playing once a week are on. Do you know what I'm saying? It's hard to go like. Hell yeah. Random early season Thunder, Mavericks, you know.

[Brady]

It'S like Blues and Penguins. I know you guys are out there working hard and I.

[Katie Nolan]

And I love that for you. I love how hard you work. Don't stop working just as hard. You don't need my eyeballs tonight. You don't need me QC ing you. You can figure out who you are and once you know, let me know and I'll tune in. Once the baseball's gone, I'm gonna be really sad and have to cope with that. Until then, I'm watching the baseball. It is at the end, the pointiest end. It's so sharp. Ow. But I will try to dip in. Maybe I'LL watch. I mean, Nuggets, Timberwolves, Dan will be ready for that because Dan's got no baseball team, you know, and the Niners are hurt all the time, but they still win. They still win. They can still get it done. All right, that's. So those are some things you could watch next week. But Chris has things here. He likes to tell us what we can watch if we feel like watching sports this week. And Chris, what have you got for us this week?

[Chris]

First thing tonight, the NBA double header to begin the season. First game, Rockets at Thunder tonight at 7:30pm Eastern on Peacock. Proud as a peacock, baby. And then the second game, warriors at Lakers tonight, 10pm Eastern, also on Peacock.

[Katie Nolan]

Great. That's just streaming. It's not available on NBC at all.

[Chris]

It didn't look like that would be wild.

[Katie Nolan]

I feel. Feel. But I believe. But we'll check and see. Check your local listings. Do people still say that? Where are your local listings and how do you check them? Have you ever had a TV Guide mailed to your house? What else, Chris?

[Chris]

Second thing, NHL Panthers at Bruins also tonight, 7:30pm Eastern on ESPN. These two teams, they won't face off until February. So we gotta, we're gonna make the most of it while we still can. Now, Katie, since we brought up the Bruins in the what to Watch last week, they, at the time that we brought it up, at the time of recording, they were undefeated and they were looking good. And since we added those words that were undefeated, they have gone.04. So I feel like I needed to bring them up again today in the what to Watch this week so we can reverse it once more and they can go on a hot show.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, I see the logic. Cause what it felt like to me was like last time we talked about this, we jinxed them. And now you're reminding me that Brad Marchand, who does not play for my team anymore, he plays for the Panthers now and had quite an eventful game the other night. I don't know if anybody saw him take someone's helmet to the penalty box with him and then rip the straps off of it and then throw it back out onto the ice. Man, what a terrible guy that guy is. I'm glad he's not on my team anymore. Was the pivot that I was hoping to make here so that I could feel better about not having him on my team anymore. And now you're bringing it up and throwing it in my face. So I, I like this bin here, which is that by bringing it up. Yeah, we're gonna bring glory back to. It's sports meth, the black and gold. Yeah.

[Brady]

What's the reaction for Marshan gonna be at TD Garden?

[Katie Nolan]

It's tough to say. I imagine supportive. And then probably treat him like the heel he wants to be treated like throughout the rest of the game.

[Chris]

Ultimate respect?

[Katie Nolan]

No idea. But yeah, I think that would probably be it. You know, we let him go, so that's kind of on us. Us, but doesn't mean we're going to like them. So we'll see. What else?

[Chris]

The last thing, we have some NASCAR playoffs this weekend, Sunday at 2pm Eastern on NBC. And Peacock. So that you've got on Peacock and Wow. The traditional television channel. And we're rooting for Ryan Blaney in this one. He finished the race over this past weekend. Probably hasn't done enough. Enough to make the round of four in the playoffs unless he wins this race.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, so wait, so he. When you say he finished the race, that was basically saying it wasn't.

[Chris]

Didn't crush.

[Katie Nolan]

He didn't do great. He finished 23rd out of how many?

[Brady]

42.

[Katie Nolan]

So it's still better than I could do. But he finished 23rd at Talladega and he moved up to seventh in the playoff standings. And they're going to cut the field down to four after this weekend. So he. We're basically saying needs to win in order to advance.

[Chris]

Correct.

[Katie Nolan]

So we are rooting for a Ryan Blaney win there. And you all have to do that, too. You have to set your minds. I know we have a lot of sports going on, but set your minds to that 2pm on Sunday, part of our studio. Ryan Blaney will hopefully win so that he can make it into the next round of the playoffs. And that would be the fine. That's the final cut. Right? Right?

[Chris]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

So we're going to need you guys to focus on that. Everybody send your good energy towards that.

[Chris]

Right?

[Katie Nolan]

Isabella. What?

[Brady]

After they cut down to four, it's the last race in Phoenix and then that's.

[Katie Nolan]

And he'll win that. So that's. We don't even have to worry about that yet because he's going to win all of it. Because he's our chair.

[Chris]

He is. And that's everything to watch this week.

[Katie Nolan]

Thanks, Chris. I appreciate that. And you know what that means. That's everything for the podcast. It was a fun one today. I feel like we really got you guys caught up on a whole. A bunch of different sports. Hopefully you feel the same casualswithkatynolan gmail.com if you don't, or if you do, let us know if you're loving it or if you're hating it. We will take all of that. 646-801-0043 is the voicemail IG and tick tock. We are at Casuals, the podcast. Oh, don't forget our merch is out. We have merch out now. A lot of different stuff. There's hats, there's hoodies. There's one that's like a really high quality hoodie. And then there's just like also another hoodie that's available in other colors. There's T shirts. You can get T shirts in your team color colors. Thought that was very charitable of me to allow for people to get it in their team colors even if their team colors are a team. That may be not my team. Okay, maybe a stupid, maybe the dumbest team on earth, but you can still get Casuals merch in that color because I want you to rep. That's what it is. There's. We don't have team colors for casuals. You've got your team colors. And fine. If your team is that stupid team, it doesn't say it anywhere on it. It's just those colors. So I thought that was a cool idea. Get your Casuals merch now. We also have little pins. I want to get bigger pins, though. We need some bigger pins. I love a pin.

[Chris]

Just put three pins on top of each other and put a little trench coat over the top.

[Katie Nolan]

I love that. Three pins with a trench coat to make one bigger pin. SiriusXMstore.com Casuals go get some merch if you want it. You guys have been asking for it. They're socks. Fun. That's it. We will see you guys on Thursday. Love you. Mean it. Bye.

[Jerry]

He's Kenny Maine, the funny guy from espn. Former. He's Cooper Manning, the more intelligent and handsome of the Manning brothers. And he's Brian Baumgartner. But to me, he'll always be Kevin from the office. Yeah, you and everybody else together. We're the hosts of the new comedy golf podcast, We Need a Fourth from Smartless Media and Sirius xm. It's like a cold beer after a round. You hear the strangest and most bizarre golf stories from our friends, athletes, celebrities and comedians. It's all about how much we love golf and how much we hate golf. New episodes are out every week. Listen now and subscribe wherever you get your podcast. Could just be anywhere. Just on a couch. Doesn't matter. Here's a quick podcast for all you true crime fans. The Case of the Missing Reese's. It was me at the store with my mouth. Um, they're Reese's. What was I gonna do, stop myself? Tune in next time to see if I do it again. Spoiler. I will. Wow, that had everything. Reese's Suspense. Reese's.