WBC Celebrations, 24 Hours of Burrow/Alba, and Defending Dunkin' from RFK Jr.

Summary

Casuals with Katie Nolan — Episode Summary

Podcast: Casuals with Katie Nolan
Host: Katie Nolan (SiriusXM)
Episode Title: WBC Celebrations, 24 Hours of Burrow/Alba, and Defending Dunkin' from RFK Jr.
Release Date: March 10, 2026

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Episode Overview

This week, Katie Nolan and her crew cover a lively spread of sports culture and news—from Boston Celtics star Jason Tatum's return to the WBC's wild energy, all the way to defending Dunkin' Donuts against RFK Jr.’s health crusade. With classic banter and affection for both die-hards and casual fans, the crew blends humor, personal stories, and takes on the week's buzziest sports headlines.

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Key Participants

• Katie Nolan: Host
• Isabella: Sports newbie and Casuals crew member
• Chris: Master editor/prod. crew
• Brady: Contributing co-host
• Dan: Crew member/chimes in throughout

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Main Segments & Discussion Highlights

1. Housekeeping & Boston Lens (03:33–12:31)

• Personal Updates: Katie recaps her trip to Boston and an awkward fan interaction. Myrtle (the dog) also gets some love.
• Ryan Blaney NASCAR Story (04:43): Discussion about Blaney’s NASCAR win and his mustache, plus a humorous mishap when he forgets to apply the parking brake post-race.
  • "There's no terror like that one and a half seconds where you get out of the car and, oh shit, it's moving." —Brady (05:47)

Boston Sports Focus

• Jason Tatum Returns (10:23)

  • Tatum’s early comeback from Achilles injury; plays Friday and Sunday games with strong stats. The MVP-caliber return is big for the Celtics' finals hopes.
  • The crew debates the pronunciation of “Achilles,” with comic effect (12:33).
  • "No perennial MVP candidate has ever made a season debut this late in the year." —Katie (11:48)

• NFL: Maxx Crosby Trade (13:19)

  • Boston-tinted reaction to the Raiders trading Crosby to Baltimore, including rumors Tom Brady blocked a move to the Patriots.
  • Questioning Brady’s lingering grudge against New England.
  • Introduction to Alex Guerrero, Tom Brady’s controversial “alternative medicine” advisor, including FTC history and his influence with the Raiders (16:37+).

• Boston Miscellany

  • Flag football venue move—NFL flag event relocating to LA (21:08).
  • RFK Jr. vs. Dunkin' Donuts (22:17): RFK Jr. questions safety of Dunkin’s sugary drinks for kids, prompting a hearty defense of Massachusetts coffee culture.
    • “That little girl can drink anything she wants. She’s got softball practice and then ballet, okay?” —Katie (22:24)

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2. World Baseball Classic (WBC) Reactions (29:33–43:29)

• Team USA’s Undefeated Start

  • Recaps wins over Brazil and Great Britain, with concern that games start slow offensively.
  • Pitching dilemmas: Will Tarek Skubal pitch again? (31:01)
  • Highlights of Trace Thompson’s home run for Great Britain and the Megan The Stallion x Dunkin’ merch crossover (32:18).

• Mexico Team Shoutout (33:43):

  • Noted as a tough opponent; praise for player Rowdy Tellez's unexpected infield single.
  • Amusing commentary on broadcast oddities (Ramirez common surname confusion).

• WBC Walk-Off Home Runs (36:19)

  • MLB history: The first and subsequent walk-off home runs in WBC, including “mercy” walk-offs that feel bittersweet.
  • Critique of play-by-play calls (37:08):
    • “Baseball play-by-play is hard… you have to capture the emotion of something you were not planning on happening.” —Brady (37:08)

• International Home Run Celebrations (40:06)

  • Fawning over Team Italy's espresso-for-homers ritual.
  • Comparison to other team celebrations (Mexico’s sombrero, Mariners' trident, Red Sox Green Monster hat, Orioles’ water-bong).
  • Criticism of Team USA's "just a salute" outfield celebration.
    • "Just do something fun that makes us look fun, because otherwise, I'm already comparing the international crowds to our crowds." —Katie (41:14)

• Crowd/Television Experience Gripe (41:53):

  • “Fix” requested for having empty premium seats behind home plate on TV broadcasts during sold-out games.

• Additional WBC Notes

  • Emotional reactions to Taiwan’s win and excitement for upcoming rounds.
  • "The best thing about the pool play of WBC: these countries that it really means a lot to can pull together and get a win." —Katie (42:57)

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3. Celebrity & Sports Relationship News (43:29–47:11)

• Burrow/Alba Viral Photo: Speculation about Joe Burrow and Jessica Alba at a casino; quickly debunked as just a coincidental group event. Jokes about superhero paychecks and internet reactions.
• Dak Prescott Breakup: News on Dak splitting from his fiancée right before their wedding, possibly over prenup issues. Jokes and gentle sympathy.

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4. Relationship Timing — Jack Hughes & Tate McRae Announcement (47:41–51:08)

• Crew analyzes the timing and PR strategy behind singer Tate McRae confirming her relationship with NHL’er Jack Hughes, especially after her national allegiance drama during the Olympics.
• “It showed that she didn’t have the awareness of how it would be perceived. And this kind of feels like the same mistake.” —Katie (49:34)

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5. New Segment: "Which Side Are You On?" (51:35–59:12)

1. LA Marathon Medals Controversy (51:49)

   • Should runners receive medals for completing only 18 miles in extreme heat?
   • Crew mostly agrees: Medals should only go to those who finish the full distance.

2. United Airlines Headphone Policy (55:26)

   • Debate over United’s new policy to require headphones for in-flight audio. Viral incident discussed.
   • General consensus: Speakerphone use is annoying; headphone policy is justified.

3. Timothée Chalamet vs. Ballet/Opera (59:12)

   • Chalamet’s quote about not wanting movies to become “like opera or ballet, where artists are keeping it alive but no one cares anymore.”
   • Crew critique: Not the most tactful comparison, especially during an awards campaign.

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6. Shout-Outs & Best Fights of the Week (64:24–74:42)

Shout-Outs

• Oksana Masters: 20th Paralympic medal; advice on watching the Paralympics on Peacock (65:05).
• US Women's Soccer: 8th SheBelieves Cup win for USWNT, Alyssa Thompson’s late goal.
• WNBA Unrivaled & Shoey Talk: Atlanta Smith's “shoey” celebration triggers an exploration of the Australian tradition of shoe-based drinking.
• Best Fight Poll (71:01): Three nominees
  • 23 red cards in Brazilian soccer match
  • Women’s Lacrosse League coach entering field altercation
  • Buffalo Sabres vs. Lightning multi-fight, high-penalty game
• Each crew member picks their favorite “fracas,” with Katie favoring the chaotic Sabres game.

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7. What To Watch: Sports & Beyond (78:09–83:34)

NCAA March Madness & Conference Tournaments (78:09)

• Champ Week: Men’s and women’s championships on ESPN/CBS/etc.

Formula 1: Chinese Grand Prix (79:44)

• Second race of the season, highlights from the first race, and Charles Leclerc’s wedding.

The Oscars (83:00)

• Watch for Conan O’Brien hosting, multiple films nominated including “Begonia” with a Casuals guest cameo.

Odds & Ends

• Celebrity Jeopardy All Stars to air soon; details still in flux.
• Commentary about the oddities of modern streaming/pay-per-view platforms.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Tom Brady and Pats Fans:
  “I just feel like he has turned on us in a way I’m confused about...I gotta square up with Tom Brady.” —Katie (20:06)

• On RFK Jr. vs. Dunkin’ Donuts:
  “Listen here, dude. That little girl can drink anything she wants... She needs to drink her Dunkin Iced extra, extra blueberry flavored, okay?” —Katie (22:24)

• On Team Italy's WBC Celebration:
  “Vinny Pasquantino... makes a cup of espresso for every player who hits.” —Katie (40:06)

• On Empty Premium Seats at WBC:
  “It looks ridiculous on television for there to be three people behind the plate.” —Katie (41:54)

• On Speakerphone Use on Planes:
  “50% volume is loud. If you're watching something at 50% volume in a public space, it's too loud...” —Katie (57:00)

• On Shoey Traditions:
  “Just because you can do it doesn’t mean you should.” —Isabella (70:15)

• On Multi-Fight Hockey Games:
  “Buffalo’s doing something right now that feels kind of magical...I’m picking that.” —Katie (74:42)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 03:33 — Boston stories, Ryan Blaney/parking brake
• 10:23 — Jason Tatum returns to Celtics
• 13:19 — NFL: Maxx Crosby trade, Tom Brady’s grudge, Alex Guerrero deep-dive
• 22:17 — RFK Jr. vs Dunkin’, Massachusetts coffee pride
• 29:33 — WBC weekend reactions, USA’s performance, international team celebrations
• 43:29 — Celebrity/relationship news (Burrow/Alba, Dak Prescott breakup)
• 47:41 — Jack Hughes & Tate McRae relationship reveal
• 51:35 — Which Side Are You On? (Marathon medals, airline headphone policy, Chalamet)
• 64:24 — Shout-outs: Paralympics, Women’s Soccer, Unrivaled
• 71:01 — Best fight(s) of the week: soccer, lacrosse, hockey
• 78:09 — What to watch: March Madness, F1 Chinese GP, Oscars

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Tone & Style

• Irreverent, conversational, and inclusive—balancing “sports for everyone” with deeper context for the die-hards.
• Humorous self-deprecation (about pronunciation, streaming issues, sports fandom) mixed with genuine sports enthusiasm.
• Welcoming for new fans, educational without condescension, and punctuated with playful jabs among the crew.

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Closing

The episode wraps with love for the audience, a tease for the next episode (Joey Avery, comedian/return guest), and recurring gratitude for both new and long-time listeners. Overall, it’s a breezy, entertaining ride through the sports world, pop culture tangents, and the unique culture that Casuals fans crave.

Transcript

[Katie Nolan]

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[Brady]

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[Katie Nolan]

Hey Isabella, I got you something. Oh, really? Yeah. If you look in that room, check underneath. If you look down to your right, you'll see like a cylinder looking thing on the bottom shelf there. Yeah. Can you reach behind that?

[Isabella]

What the.

[Katie Nolan]

This is like what Pablo did to Adam Silver when he taped the evidence on the bottom of the chair that Adam Silver sat in this weekend, but a little different. Shut the fuck up. Guys, guys, guys.

[Isabella]

It's not. It's a. It's a hello Kitty stuffy, wearing a next jersey. I'm so sorry to your headphones.

[Katie Nolan]

Isn't it so cute? Oh my God, thank you.

[Isabella]

This is so much less expensive than

[Katie Nolan]

going to the Braves game. It's technically. It has a keychain on it. When I ordered it online, I thought it was gonna be a lot smaller, but it's. I guess you hang it from your bag now. I got my. I was gonna get you a Mets one. The Mets one had a little hat and the bow and I was like, I think this one is more aligned, cuter. And it's got the Knicks jersey on. But I got myself a Red Sox one. So we'll have matching.

[Isabella]

Oh my God. Someone needs to get me a Dunkin iced coffee bucket so I could put this on it.

[Katie Nolan]

This episode is presented by gmc. We are professional grade. Hello. I saw somebody say it really hurts their ears when I yell. And so now I'm. I'm feeling like I shouldn't yell, but I want to still bring the energy of a yell. And that's what that was.

[Dan]

Hello.

[Katie Nolan]

Hello. Welcome To Casuals, the sports podcast. It doesn't care if you don't know anything. We're just excited that you're here. It's kind of our job to tell you everything. We keep you updated on what's going on in sports. We try to make it fun. Maybe if you're not like a Die Hard or you are, I don't know. I'm just explaining what the podcast is. I'm Katie Nolan. I host it. If you want to reach us, Casuals with Katie Nolan, gmail.com 646-801-0043 is the voicemail at Casuals, the podcast on IG and tick tock. Join today as it is a Tuesday episode released on Wednesday on YouTube. Joined today by the Casualties, the production crew here at SiriusXM, we have Isabella, our sports newbie. How.

[Chris]

Hi.

[Katie Nolan]

We've got Chris, our master editor.

[Chris]

What's up?

[Katie Nolan]

And ba ba ba ba ba ba. Rady is here.

[Brady]

Hey, everybody.

[Katie Nolan]

What's up? We're all here on. Why do I always want to call it Skype? It's Sky. Hasn't been Skype in a long time.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

On Oovoo. Are they still a company?

[Isabella]

I have no idea.

[Katie Nolan]

God, I remember Oovoo from college. Am I dating myself coming to you

[Brady]

as a series of vines?

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, something like that. Are vines still around? No, hell no. Well, hell no. We don't have to celebrate it. What do we have coming for you today? So much. We got WBC action. We gotta talk about what's going on in wbc, which is a little difficult to do because of our timeline, but we've got exciting moments that have happened over the weekend. We want to talk to you about Tate McCrae and Jack Cuser. Official Jack Cus. Just really interesting timing, I feel like. And I'm going to see what Isabella thinks about that. Also, Jessica Alba we saw, might be dating an athlete who. We'll get to it. We got a new bit called which side Are youe On? Where we're presented with a story that has two clear sides and then we try to take one. And if we've got time, we're gonna get into some of the best fights of the week. So a lot to get to on the podcast, but we're gonna start with a quick bit of housekeeping, which is where we like to update you on friends or former guests of the podcast. Anybody that's in sort of the Casuals podcast universe. Um, what's been going on with them, if there's any updates. And Brady, you've got an update for

[Brady]

us on our great piece of furniture, Ryan Blaney. Ryan Blaney, the second NASCAR driver to win a race this year, took home the. Took home the W at Phoenix on Sunday. The first three races have been won by Tyler Redick, which is our friend Bubba Wallace's teammate, Ryan Blaney in the Warner Circle. Really, the big takeaway from this race is that he won. He did his donut, put some marks on the track, got out of the car to do his post race interview, and the car started drifting away. He forgot to put the parking brake on.

[Katie Nolan]

Wait.

[Brady]

So you see this mad scramble of Ryan Blaney hauling ass to the car, and because they don't have doors, the stock cars don't have a door, they don't have a handle. He has to jump in through the window to try to activate the parking brake on this thing, which I didn't even like. What the parking. I have no idea where it is. Thank God Blaney knew it immediately. Yeah, these cars aren't cheap.

[Katie Nolan]

Not immediately. If he had known it immediately, he would have thrown that thing on before he got out. Ah, crazy to think of.

[Brady]

There's no terror like that. Like one and a half seconds where you get out of the car and like, oh, shit, it's moving. It's moving, it's moving.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

I don't think I've ever felt that. Thank God. But that's. Hopefully it's a hand. I wonder if it's a hand or if it's a foot. You ever had a foot parking brake?

[Brady]

Oh, yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Is that the more common one? That's the more common one. I would have thought it was the crank.

[Isabella]

I have the crank.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. I like doing that because it makes me feel like cars are losing the tactile things that let you know the thing has happened.

[Isabella]

Yeah. And you know that when you rent a car and you're like, what is this now?

[Katie Nolan]

It's like a parking brake is a button that I'm like, surely that has not done what I need. I like it to be like, I got it. I put it in park.

[Brady]

You know, the worst feeling is like a valet that takes the handle of the parking brake and puts it, like, halfway up. It just feels like a weak handshake of a parking brake. So you, like, crank it all the way up. Or don't either.

[Katie Nolan]

Do it or don't. Don't have to step with me. Crank this thing. All right.

[Chris]

On a side note, by the way, Ryan Blaney's mustache is looking Glorious.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Wow.

[Chris]

My goodness.

[Brady]

Oh, yeah. I thought he was gonna just do it for like, photo day at Daytona. He's still going strong.

[Katie Nolan]

All right, well, I think it's the transition into dad. I think he's in dad mode.

[Chris]

And dad.

[Isabella]

It's because we haven't let him out of the studio, so. He hasn't.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, it's actually, if you haven't seen him, he just looks like a walrus. It's just an overgrown mustache. And he's like, please let me out. I have a race to race. That's what a walrus sounds like. A lot of people haven't had a conversation with them. And now you know. All right, let's transition this into the yap. Now, as everybody knows, because I was quite loud about it, I went back to Boston this weekend. Now, not just Boston, we also went to Phil Dan had two sold out shows. Shout out Boston in. In Boston at the. At the Shubert Theater, which was very cool, very fun. My whole family came, bunch of people. And like, my old manager at the White Horse came and we hung out. It was very good to see everybody. I had an awkward. I blew an interaction with a fan. Okay. I was walking in between shows. I. I was on Myrtle duty. We brought Myrtle with us and I had to go walk her. So I had just, like, seen my family. It was after the first show, done, all the, like, hugs and kisses. I'm walking over to the hotel. Family wants to see the dog because that's basically their second grandkid. That's all they're getting. So they want to see the puppy. Puppy comes down, we have a little love moment. Then they all go back home. I go to walk her. I'm walking her in the. While the line is forming for the second show. So these are in my mind. I'm like, oh, I just realized I'm kind of walking Dan's dog, who's in a lot of Dan's stuff, out into a sea of Dan fans. And I'm like, trying to be mindful of my. And then I just hear someone go, hey. And I, like, looked up and was like, hey. And they said, I love casuals. And I went, whoa, cool. And then, like, we both kind of kept walking. Now I was walking a little slower. Cause Myrtle's sniffing and at any moment she could start to poop, which is an awkward thing to, like, carry on a conversation. But she didn't yet. So the two of us are just walking and then we stop at a red light. And now I'm just standing with this guy. But I'm also, like, kind of trying to be vigilant about not bumping into somebody I know and not noticing. And also get this done, because I got to get back inside. And then he, like, I'm John, by the way. This is like three minutes after the original conversation. Then he says his name. And I was like, oh, I'm. And I'm Katie. And he was like, I know. And I was like, right. And then the light turned green, and I realized that I had forgotten something. So he goes to walk, and I just stopped and went the other way. And I went, well, now that felt on purpose. And so it's just really been. I've been sitting with it, so I just wanted to say shout out to. I think it was John that I met on the street. I wasn't ready to interact with somebody about me. I was in interacting about Dan mode, and so I didn't. I wasn't. I wasn't at my best. But Myrtle liked you, and so thanks for saying hi, by the way, while we're on. John. Yeah.

[Brady]

Shout out to Marjora.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Who we found out your name is Marjora, and we apologize for calling you Margaret last episode.

[Katie Nolan]

So it's with a D. Yes. Marjora. Okay. And Chris, you're going to be better about that.

[Chris]

I will. I'm sorry, Marjora, please.

[Katie Nolan]

Chris is sorry. Chris takes.

[Chris]

At least I didn't assume. I never assumed that her name was Marga, Margaret or Margaret or anything like that.

[Katie Nolan]

That's right. You did originally cut out her saying her name from the voicemail. That was going to.

[Chris]

If we were right or wrong. Except Madra.

[Katie Nolan]

Get it. Pretty wild. But basically, the point is, I was looking at all these stories through a Boston lens this week, so I apologize. But the top of the show here today is going to be all stories that relate to Boston. And I, like, I half apologize because you guys let Bill Simmons do this for an entire podcast. So I'm. It's only for the beginning. We're going to focus kind of intensely on Boston. First story, obviously, Jason Tatum making a return to the Celtics. Chris.

[Chris]

Hell, yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Absolutely huge. Nobody expected that Jason Tatum would be back in time to play. I know he's always said he wanted to play meaningful basketball this season, but it. This is early, right?

[Chris]

Yeah, it's just shy of 10 months. 298 days after he had surgery, he was back on the court. Played Friday night against the Dallas Mavericks. There was always rumors earlier on in the season that he could come Back at some stage this season, but it's sort of hard to know, right? The Achilles is such a devastating injury, and for most athletes, they're out for at least 12 months, if not longer. And the fact that Tatum was back in 10 months and how he looked in the first week, he looked awesome. He looked sort of 80% of what he was. I think that was a lot more than we were all expecting him to look. He started the game on Friday night. Oh, of six from the field, and we're all thought, oh, this doesn't look great. But then he made his next five, got into the rhythm of the game, finished the game with a decent stat line. He had 15 points, 12 rebounds, seven assists. He was flirting with a triple double towards the end.

[Katie Nolan]

He got real cheeky with it. Isabella.

[Chris]

He, like, really, with the triple double,

[Katie Nolan]

he was like, wyd, question mark.

[Chris]

And then on Sunday against the cavs, he had 20 points. So, you know, he's. He's working his way back into the game. It's just. It's awesome to watch. The Celtics have the fourth best record in the league, and now they just had Tatum return to the court. And now the finals are looking like a distinct possibility for the Celtics.

[Katie Nolan]

That's right. They're currently second in the east. They're 43 and 21. And, yeah, this exciting. It's exciting. Scary, uncharted waters. No perennial MVP candidate has ever made a season debut this late in the year. So this is like. It's a. It's. I hope he doesn't. I don't want to even say, you know, we're just going to say, go easy. Okay. Go easy on it. And, you know, a nice little bit of a break, probably for Jaylen Brown. He was sort of having to put a lot of it on his shoulders, and now he can shoot. Share that with, you know, Tatum. So all good things for the Celtics. And I just wanted to apologize to everybody, because that's gotta suck. When you see that, you're like, I thought we were in the clear on this. I thought we weren't gonna have to worry about this. And now you are gonna have to worry about it.

[Brady]

So 10 months is crazy.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Brady]

It used to be like a torn Achilles. It used to just be like, well, I guess you're not an athlete around

[Katie Nolan]

the room and say the name of the tendon. Let's all go around the room and say, the way we say it, the name of the tendon. Chris.

[Chris]

Achilles.

[Katie Nolan]

Isabella.

[Isabella]

Achilles.

[Katie Nolan]

Brady.

[Brady]

Achilles.

[Katie Nolan]

That's not what you said just now before. Though.

[Brady]

Achilles.

[Katie Nolan]

Achilles. Dan does the same thing. Achilles.

[Chris]

Really?

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. I don't know where that comes from or if it's correct.

[Brady]

Like, I believe it's Greek.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, I know Achilles comes from Greek. I mean, like, Achilles, where the urgency to go Achilles comes from? I don't know, but many people do it. So this was me asking if that's right.

[Brady]

We all just doubt our own pronunciations

[Katie Nolan]

every time we record, you know, that tendon, this one.

[Chris]

My pronunciations are always spot on.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Chris has never doubted a single thing he said. He's always like, that's how we say it where I'm from. So maybe it's different for you. Another story we're going to make about Boston, and you'll see Max Crosby to the Ravens. We were all talking about defensive end Max Crosby and what was going to happen with him. He wanted out of the Raiders and he's been traded to the Ravens. They sound enough alike for you to remember that, you know, Raiders, Ravens, if you were drunk enough. Sounds the same. Two first round draft picks, which not usually. The Ravens don't really get down like that. I don't think they usually get rid of their first round draft picks. So kind of uncharted territory for them as well. Now after the trade, Jeremy Fowler from espn, it was sort of like a footnote, sort of like the. The end of the article about this basically said that someone said that there was no way Tom Brady was going to send Max. Sorry, I need to start pronouncing his name properly because there are two X's. It's Max Crosby. No. 1. There was no way he was going to send him to Mike Frable and the Patriots. And I just am like, first of all, who knows if that's real? That's coming from another person who's inside that said that. So they may have just been joking. They may have been sort of alluding to something. Does Tom Brady have that type of power on that team? He's a. Is he not a minority owner?

[Brady]

They. They gave him that power.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, so he's veto trades?

[Brady]

Pretty much.

[Katie Nolan]

Pretty much, yeah. Okay, second question. What's his fucking beef with the Patriots?

[Isabella]

What.

[Katie Nolan]

What have we done to you, Tom? Because, like, I understand there was issues with Belichick. I get that. But Belichick's not here anymore, famously. And I always thought Brady and Kraft at least had professional respect for one another. Vrabel played with Brady, so you would think that there wouldn't be some sort of animosity. And I'm just curious on the heels of the conversation about Brady not having a dog in the fight for the Super Bowl, I just want to know, like, what the actual fuck, because I'm not sure. What. Did we not passionately defend all the stuff that you were accused of? Did we not stand by you and love you and, like, never bring up the old stuff? You know, we were, like, pretty chill about everything that happened with Brady, and now I just feel like he has turned on us in a way I'm confused about.

[Brady]

It feels like so many pieces have changed. It's like the. The Ship of. Of Theseus. It's like all the. Everybody has changed. It's just Bob Kraft is the only one left. Like, Mike Vrabel left and came out, but there's no pieces. Anybody he was mad at before is gone now, which is why it feels

[Katie Nolan]

like he's mad at me, which is why it's like, what did I do? We have done nothing but, like, you know, cape up for you. And now he's like, I don't really care about that place. I spent so much time and won almost all of my Super Bowls. Chill out. Chill out. One thing that hasn't changed, Ship of Theseus or whatever Brady said that sounds right. Is the. Is Alex Guerrero. People hating Alex Guerrero. It's a tale as old as time, people.

[Isabella]

Who's that again?

[Katie Nolan]

And we're gonna tell you because this is a real. Okay, a real fun side character in the NFL world. So Alex Guerrero was. Tom. Is Tom Brady's, like, alternative medicine doctor guy who.

[Brady]

Don't you dare say doctor. Don't you dare call him a doctor.

[Katie Nolan]

Alternative medicine man. And he's a practitioner, I guess. Yeah is the word you can. Yeah, he's like a wellness guru. He. Isabella. He was big into. Listen, Tom Brady played till he was really old, which is not common. And the big thing that he emphasized Guerrero and Tom Brady was, like, pliability, like your muscles being pliable and staying pliable. He had, like, a really strict diet they called the TB12 method. He just had alternative ways of thinking. Anyway, he worked his way into the locker room, and it became sort of like a. Who the hell is this guy, and why does he have all this power? Okay, it was sort of a rift. I believe he was fired by the team. In 2017, Belichick stripped Guerrero of all privileges with the Patriots over his involvement with Pat's players. Guerrero then followed Tom Brady to Tampa Bay, and then he went to the Raiders, where he is currently their team's official wellness coordinator. Is the job Title that they've given him a little background on him as a guy. So in 2000. Blink twists if you do. In 2005, Guerrero was sanctioned by the U.S. federal Trade Commission, the FTC, for falsely presenting himself as a doctor and claiming to be able to cure cancer, aids, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, arthritis and Parkinson's disease using a dietary supplement called Supreme Greens. All of them. So he's like a podcast host? It sounds like.

[Chris]

Yeah.

[Brady]

He was running infomercials saying he was like, all those six things that are plaguing humanity, I got them all.

[Katie Nolan]

Take this pill. It's like, when was it Russell Wilson who did the nano bubbles? He was like, this water cures concussions. And everyone went, in what way?

[Brady]

Oh, well, don't you worry. Alex Guerrero had one of those too.

[Katie Nolan]

He had a supplement, so it was called Neurosafe. And Neurosafe was just a seat belt for the brain. Wasn't that what they called it? Neurosafe, A seat belt for the brain. Doesn't that paint a picture? Claim to protect its users from the consequences of sports related trauma, Traumatic brain injury.

[Brady]

Tomato traumatic.

[Katie Nolan]

Basically strap in so that your brain won't be as hurt when you get hit really hard again. That's Neurosafe. Tom Brady said, quote, neurosafe makes me feel comfortable that if I get a concussion, I can recover fast and more fully. And then the FTC shut that down in 2012. They said, I don't think we can say that. So.

[Brady]

So the full circle here is that Alex Guerrero is still with Tom Brady. He's with the Raiders. He is inside the team's facility and the relationship is strained with the Raiders players, namely Max Crosby, who is their best player, because they feel like Alex Guerrero is only in there to be the eyes and ears of Tom Brady, who lives in Florida and is just having way too much power because he's feeding information to and from Tom Brady and just walking around that place like he is ownership when this is what this is.

[Katie Nolan]

What sucks about Tom Brady being mean to Patriots fans is that I'm starting to feel like I gotta make up for it and be mean to him. Like, I really am starting to feel like we gave it. He had it too easy. And he doesn't understand that if all these people that loved him were actually loudly critical of him, it would be very. His perception would be very different. And so, like, now I'm feeling like I gotta square up with Tom Brady. Like, what's going on with your flag football game, Tom? Like, Are we doing? What's all these business ventures? The owning of a soccer team, the being a part of ownership and having a ton of power from the Raiders, but sending your guy, your snake oil salesman in there to be like, your mole. This is all bad business. He's not doing a good job at his jobs. And like, I wasn't probably gonna say anything, but at this point, if you're gonna keep getting mad at the Patriots and holding something against the Patriots, watch out.

[Brady]

I do have an update on the flag football for you.

[Katie Nolan]

What is. What is the update?

[Brady]

They finally today, which is gonna be 12 days ahead of when it was gonna happen, moved it to Los Angeles.

[Katie Nolan]

They just did.

[Brady]

Yes.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay. Where in Los Angeles do we have a venue?

[Brady]

We do have a venue. March 21 at the BMO stadium in Los Angeles.

[Katie Nolan]

Where's that?

[Brady]

I don't know. What is a bmo?

[Katie Nolan]

It's a bmo. I mean, they had to. I mean, this is like, if you get your. You have to change like a wedding venue at the last minute. It's very hard to.

[Brady]

It's the soccer stadium where LAFC plays.

[Katie Nolan]

I mean, that's kind of wild. These are all the biggest stars in the NFL. That's kind of a smaller venue, right, Than you would imagine. But the others are, I assume, all booked.

[Brady]

I. Or they're just too big. You're not going to fill. 70,000 people march in March in LA. It's going to be. The weather's gonna be fine.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Okay, well, good. I'm glad we're not sending every coach and player that wanted a huge paycheck over to Saudi Arabia. War zone. And then our last Boston story is about RFK coming after Dunkin Donuts as part of his Make America healthy again initiative. U.S. health and Human Services and sentient pair of jeans. That's working out.

[Isabella]

Oh, yeah, that's right.

[Katie Nolan]

Secretary RFK Jr. Said we're gonna ask Dunkin Donuts. Did he spell it like that or did you. We're gonna ask Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks show us the safety data that shows it's okay for a teenage girl to drink an iced coffee with 115 grams of sugar in it. I don't think they're gonna be able to do it. Listen here, dude. That little girl can drink anything she wants. She's got softball practice and then ballet, okay? And she needs to drink her Dunkin Iced extra, extra blueberry flavored, okay? That's what she needs. Between school, hard day at school, and then two practices of two very different Types of activities. That's what she needs. In response, Massachusetts Governor Mora Healey responded to this story with a photo on x of the 1835 come and take it flag with a picture of a cup of Dunkin. And RFK Jr replied to that no one is taking away your Duncan. But isn't it reasonable to ask whether a drink loaded with 180 grams of sugar is safe? It is just so funny to be like, even when you're right. Like, remember when I Spice came out with her Dunkin Donuts drink, and it had, like, blended munchkins in it, and it was like, ew.

[Chris]

Hello.

[Katie Nolan]

I don't remember that.

[Dan]

Hello.

[Katie Nolan]

I don't think we need this. I don't think we need to be drinking what we're eating from. I don't think we need a donut in the coffee unless we're dunking it. That's supposed to be the whole point. So I'm like, I. I can see where you go, like, I don't think we need all that. But at the same time, it's like, what about the freedom? Also, put on a pair of sweatpants. Put on a pair of sweatpants. Why are you working out in jeans? It doesn't make me go, gonna trust this guy and what he has to say about fitness. Like, there's just no correlate. It's like, even if you're right, I go, yeah, but it's got to be wrong, right? Because he's working out in jeans. I don't like sweating in denim is wrong. It's wrong, and I'm not gonna stop saying it. Okay? So you can pry this from my cold, dead hands. I don't do extra extra anymore. I'm an adult now. This is just regular cream and sugar.

[Isabella]

Is that go to order?

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, it's just, you know, the easiest. I thought we were all still doing it until everyone started going, no, I like my coffee black because I'm 40, okay?

[Brady]

I feel so seen

[Katie Nolan]

by that.

[Brady]

Drink my coffee black as hell. Yes, it's because I'm 40. There's nothing goddamn wrong with it.

[Katie Nolan]

I don't know that I would have called what just happened there feeling seen, but I'm happy for you. All right, let's. Should we take a break? Those were my Boston stories, but the main takeaway is I'm gonna fight Tom Brady and probably RFK if he'll put on sweatpants for it. And sorry to John that I. That I. That I really blew that. And I'm really grateful that you're a Fan of our podcast. I should have had a follow up question and I didn't. I just kind of stood there and looked at my dog who got a haircut by the way, and she looks really cute. But I was telling Isabella this earlier. We, when we went to Philly, we stayed at the Philly Four Seasons, which I guess is like well known as like one of the better Four Seasons. I didn't know we were bullied into staying there. It's usually above the level of hotel Dan and I like to stay at.

[Brady]

Is that the one with the landscaping?

[Katie Nolan]

I don't know. It's the one with the Four Seasons landscaping.

[Brady]

That was Philly, wasn't it?

[Katie Nolan]

Yes, of course that was Philly. This but this was had a glass elevator and when you go up, we brought Myrtle in, it's dog friendly. But everybody else's dogs at the Four Seasons are like little Paris Hilton dogs. They're like little. And so we brought in Myrtle and she gets in the elevator and like looks out it as the. As we're going like shooting up into the sky because the lobby is on the 60th floor. You have to go all the way up.

[Brady]

What?

[Katie Nolan]

And yeah, and so she did not like it. She was curious. She goes over and looks out the glass and then was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Backed up and was very jittery in that elevator. So apologies to literally every person who rode in that elevator over the weekend with. With Myrtle and I. She wasn't a huge fan. Anyway, point is, we were gonna go to a break and when we come back we'll talk WBC and a bunch of other stuff. This is casuals. We'll be right back. Have you ever wished you could make something happen just by thinking about it? Well, WIX may have just answered your prayers. Wix's new Harmony editor makes it so easy to create exactly how you imagined it that it's almost like you're just thinking out loud. Experience the new way to create websites WIX Harmony is a hybrid website editor that offers the perfect blend of AI and precise drag and drop tools, introducing the world to the next generation of website creation. Switch back and forth between AI prompts and hands on editing to build the exact website you want the way you want. WIX Harmony is packed with some of the coolest, most useful AI features and agents built specifically for small businesses, including aria. An AI agent that helps you create your website and take care of business so you don't burn out. And rest easy knowing that your WIX site is backed by 99.99% uptime and enterprise grade security. No add ons required. Check it [e-mail] Harmony these days it's all about choosing quality over quantity, especially when it comes to a wardrobe. If a piece isn't well made and versatile, is it it truly worth having. That's why so many people love quints. Their fabrics feel elevated, the cuts are thoughtful and the pricing actually makes sense. Quince works directly with safe ethical factories and cuts out the middlemen. You're not paying for brand markup or fancy retail stores, just quality clothing. The quality clothing I've gotten from quints. I love my weatherproof oversized rain jacket. I got it in the color dark spruce and I also. I mean I must be a dark spruce gal because I also got the 100 organic cotton fisherman crew sweater in dark spruce right now go to quince.com casuals for free shipping and 365 day returns. That is a full year to wear it and love it. And you will. Now available in Canada too. Don't keep settling for clothes that don't last. Go to Q-U-I-N-C-E.com casuals for free shipping and 365 day returns. Quince.com casuals everyone deserves to be connected.

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[Katie Nolan]

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[Brady]

I mean, it was a first pitch, solo homer.

[Katie Nolan]

Yes.

[Brady]

One nothing through four.

[Katie Nolan]

So from the pitcher who loudly was like, I'm only playing one game for this team and I'll only throw this many. And have you seen now that Tarek Skubel is saying hard to pull himself away from the team and he's going to want to maybe pitch a little bit more, but he can't say right now. Do we all have. Does anyone have thoughts on that?

[Brady]

I think it's. I don't think he's pitching. I think when. When Ken Rosenthal puts a microphone in your face during the game and the camera's on you and you're live, and he's like, hey, you know, you said you weren't going to pitch. You're going to pitch again. You're having a good time. He's going to get a little defensive. He's going to back up. He's going to be like, I'll think about it.

[Katie Nolan]

It.

[Brady]

But then he deflected and said, I have to talk to my manager. I have to talk to my agent, and they can be the bad guys. He's not pitching again.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. And that's just because of how much money they have to pay him and that he can't get hurt. Yeah, but it's a game, Brady. Can't you tell them that we just want to see it?

[Brady]

I, I can put that call Into Scott Boris.

[Katie Nolan]

Thank you. I know you know all of them, so can you just.

[Brady]

I will call Tyler at Boris Corp and be like, please do this for Katie.

[Katie Nolan]

Because it's like, listen, that's our guy. And the whole point of this is supposed to be our guys versus their guys. And so how come we can't have our guy? Like, you didn't even want to pay him all that money in the first place. He had to take you to court about it and now you're paying it to him and you're like, because we're paying it to him, he can't play in the thing. That would obviously be awesome for him to play in.

[Brady]

I think, as noted, Megan the Stallion fans, I think we can at least be a little happy for Trace Thompson, Clay's brother, in having that first inning home run, which is going to be a really.

[Katie Nolan]

It's a real stretch.

[Brady]

Easily going to be the highlight of the tournament for Great Britain.

[Katie Nolan]

He has a brother and he hit any. Yeah. And he hit a home run playing

[Brady]

for team Great Britain.

[Katie Nolan]

You got Isabella. Isabella is now staunchly Megan the Stallion supportive because when she went to Dunkin Donuts last week, they gave her a free cup from the Megan the Stallion collab that says hot girls run on Duncan.

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Yep. And I was like, hell, yeah, that's.

[Isabella]

They do. Indeed they do.

[Katie Nolan]

I go to Duncan all the time. And I was just, like, wondering, I'll see if they have any left. Nobody ever gives me a free cup that says hot girls run on Duncan. It's feeling, again, kind of personal, and I don't love it. All right, so like I said, the United States is going to face Mexico. But will it. It will have happened by the. So let me. Shut up. Mexico has a squad, by the way. I. I forgot that they've got a squad. They have Alejandro Kirk, they've got Jaren Duran, Randy Rosarena, Alec Thomas, who I really like from the Diamondbacks. Also, I was watching the other day, Rowdy to Lez beat out a single, an infield single. Safe at first base. Rowdy to Lez, cut to the bench. Everyone laughing. It was very funny. Isabella. Rowdy to Lez is not, I guess I would say, known for his speed. He's a bigger guy.

[Brady]

The body type they call it in baseball is large, adult son.

[Katie Nolan]

Yes, yes.

[Brady]

He's a large boy.

[Katie Nolan]

And he. And he beat out a. An infield single, which you would expect. Like the. He got there before the ball. Usually a bigger guy hits an infield single and the ball's Going to get there first. But he beat it. He ran, he hustled down the base path.

[Isabella]

I like to see that.

[Katie Nolan]

So shout out Mexico until we play them. I watched them playing Brazil this weekend and it was, there was this really funny specific moment where whoever was calling the game, I actually don't even know. Manny Ramirez's son Lucas plays on Brazil and he's up at bat and whoever's calling it said Ramirez, if that last name sounds familiar. And I was like then welcome to Earth. I guess like it's not like a name, it's not like a Rosa Reina where you're like, if that sounds familiar, it's his son. They said Ramirez, if that sounds familiar, that is Manny's son. I'm like, yeah. It's also an incredibly popular last name. Not even close to the only one we've ever met. Speaking of Suns Friday when the United States played Brazil, Jose Contreras's 17 year old son got Aaron Judge to ground into a double play. That's got to be top five coolest things that can that a 17 year old has ever done.

[Brady]

He's going back to high school and

[Katie Nolan]

just going, guess what I did. Yeah, guess what I did, guys. I. So that's kind of sick. Saturday we already talked about this is, this is Ernie Clement erasure. Whoever wrote this in the doc that the United States was trailing Britain 1 nothing through four innings after the lead off Trace Thompson home run off at Tarek Skubel before Kyle Schwarber homered in the fifth. I will have you note Ernie Clement hit a single, got himself to third and then scored on I think a pass ball. Could have been a wild pitch but he scored. And then that inspired Schwaber to hit an absolute bomb of a home run. This was the most action I got to watch. This was after Dan was done with his Philly show and we were all hanging out in the green room and I found out we were losing one nothing to Great Britain and Dan put it on his phone and so we were all crowded around a phone watching and Ernie Clement who we love in our house scoring was pretty sick. And then Schwaber hit a home run. We were in Philly so all the people there, Schwarber fans. So that's sick. But I guess we'll keep an eye on the Tarek Skubal of it all. Maybe Brady's wrong. You can still have faith if you want.

[Brady]

Dear listener, I would love to see him pitch again. I just, I have heard agent speak from baseball players so many times. It doesn't make me optimistic that he'll do it.

[Katie Nolan]

We also got our first ever walk off home run in World baseball classic history. And then right after it got the second. And then I believe there was also a third because on Sunday I watched a walk off mercy home run, which is so mean. It's just like so mean. I don't have them in front of me, but the mercy rules are something like 10 after five innings are completed and like something else after seven. And they ended up hitting a home run that made the lead so big that they ended the game on it. And that's just like. It's technically a walk off, but it doesn't feel right. It's like we just walked it off out of kindness. But we're celebrating. But we can't really celebrate because we murdered you, Brady. You took a real issue with the. The call of the very first walk home run in WBC history.

[Brady]

Baseball play by play is hard. There's a lot going on. You have to capture it.

[Katie Nolan]

I know it.

[Brady]

Yeah, you have to capture the emotion of something that you were not planning on happening. Like it's something that is happening in the spur of the moment. Paul Severino was calling it for MLB Network. This was the bottom of the ninth with the Netherlands down three to one to Nicaragua. Chris, you want to roll that? And Elvis deep drive right center field.

[Katie Nolan]

Down to their last breath.

[Brady]

The kingdom of the Netherlands takes the lead. Hey, Paul, it's over. And a walk off home run

[Katie Nolan]

for Ozzy. Albies. Yeah, listen. So runners on second and third. Albies at the plate. It's the bottom of the ninth. Like he said, they were down 3:1. And so obviously that put them not just with the lead, but it was the walk. It was the end of the game. Isabella, do you take issue with this?

[Isabella]

I don't fully understand it.

[Katie Nolan]

See, I don't think that's tough. I don't think anyone. I think there are some people who just tech. Nothing he said was technically incorrect. Yeah, they did take the lead. They just took it, you know, out of here.

[Brady]

The last lead.

[Katie Nolan]

And so it probably could have been more excited of like. And they walk it off. The game is over and it ends on a hard home run. He sort of was calling it as if there was going to be more baseball. And. And there famously was not. It was the end of the game.

[Isabella]

So, you know, I'm not, I'm. I don't. I don't know what it's like to. It's going to sound mean. I Don't mean it in a mean way at all. I don't know. I don't know what it's like to care so much about how the calls like. I don't really care too much.

[Katie Nolan]

She said, you guys are dorks.

[Isabella]

Sorry.

[Katie Nolan]

I don't know what it's like to be a dork.

[Isabella]

I'm so sorry, but I don't know. At least from what I heard with that, I'm like, okay, sounds like you made a tiny mistake and then said it.

[Katie Nolan]

And that's fine. Enough. I'm sorry. She goes, listen, I don't know what it's like to be that big of a loser to care what the guy says, but, hey, I'm too busy drinking

[Chris]

my hot girl coffee.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Each their own. Hello Kitty and I are dunking, so. All right, let's. What about. Let's talk about Vinnie Pasquintino, friend of the show, the Pasquatch. We love him so much. Hopefully we'll get to see him again this year. I heard that our schedule, our filming schedule now may not align with getting baseball players, and I'm very upset about that because Vinnie needs to come by and we need to see him. Team Italy, undefeated as of recording. I should say something happens that's not my fault. That has nothing to do with a metallian. It's my team. This is my second team. You know, I was debating if I should make a Mike Tirico joke and decided no, but here we are anyway. They're currently undefeated in wbc. They have the best home run celebration of any team. Vinny Pasquintino, our dear friend, makes a cup of espresso for every player who hits.

[Isabella]

Oh, cute.

[Katie Nolan]

Isn't it cute?

[Isabella]

Wait, that's so cute.

[Chris]

They have an espresso and he gives them a kiss on both cheeks.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Brady]

And then he does a little.

[Katie Nolan]

He does a. And an espresso. See, she loves it.

[Chris]

The coolest dude in the world.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, we just love it.

[Isabella]

I love it so much.

[Katie Nolan]

He's better every game. That's so cute.

[Brady]

I know.

[Katie Nolan]

I mean, there's a lot of really fun ones. There's the Mexico. Does the sombrero that they put on. If you hit a home run, they put the. And then.

[Isabella]

Oh, this is similar to how. What's the team with the

[Katie Nolan]

trident? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Mariners.

[Isabella]

Yeah, yeah. We're like. When they do. When they come back into the dugout, it's basically that.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Yes. And the Red Sox did the thing with the. Remember the Green Monster? They would put the head on last Season. Oh, okay.

[Brady]

The Orioles beer bong. A bottle of water.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Oh, yeah, I forgot about that one. Can we talk about our outfield celebration, though? Did you guys see that? No.

[Brady]

What's the American outfield salute?

[Katie Nolan]

It's just this. They meet up in a circle and they just do this to each other.

[Brady]

Aaron Judge thought of that one, didn't he?

[Chris]

I know.

[Katie Nolan]

It's just like. And I get it. There's nothing. I don't have anything against saluting. I believe it to be a great practice. It's just a tough. You know, there's no.

[Chris]

It's also not just not fun.

[Katie Nolan]

There's nothing to it. You know, give me a little bit of. Maybe we should have had a good brainstorm of what a better American celebration would be. I feel like Peyton totally would have

[Chris]

come up with some fun ideas. I feel like.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, just ask Mookie Betts.

[Brady]

You all know Mookie Betts. Mookie Bets will come up with some cool shit in the outfield.

[Katie Nolan]

Just do something fun that makes us look fun, because otherwise, I'm already comparing the international crowds to our crowds. Here's one thing I'm taking a real issue with when I'm watching a game in the. In the. In. It's in Houston was this one specifically. And the. The crowd is packed, but behind the plate is empty. Fix that. Okay?

[Brady]

Stadium syndrome.

[Katie Nolan]

Once the fans are in the building and the expensive tickets are not gonna get sold, you need to move the fans down to the lower bowl seats. Sorry. Eat it. Eat the lost cost. There's. You're not gonna. It looks ridiculous on television for there to be three people behind the plate. And then when a big hit is hit, you see people going nuts out in the seats they can afford. Makes me feel sick. Okay, put people in the good seats once the game starts. Is that crazy to say it's fair? Come on. All right. I feel like there's got to be some other WBC stuff we missed. I really liked watching Taiwan win that game against Korea and then seeing them all cry after I watched that late night after the Philly show that we had in Philly, of course, I managed to see the end of that game, and it was an exciting one. There was like, oh, my God, who's gonna win? And then they ended up pulling it off. So that was really cool, seeing how much it mean to them. That's the best thing about the pool play of wbc. It's like these countries that it really means a lot to can pull together and get a win. You know, and also has me all hyped up for the next round because I think there's going to be some really good baseball. Any other thought? Anything I missed?

[Brady]

Just we're seeing everybody go 100, like 110. That's the thing that you always said 100 for the three innings that he's out there.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Brady]

The best of them there.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Brady]

We always. We want the American stars to play. We want all the stars to play. When they're out there, we want them to treat it like life or death baseball. And I think we're getting that and making entertaining play product.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. The US has to start scoring runs a little earlier for me. Please and thank you. Please and thank you.

[Brady]

I'll put that on my list to send to Scott Boris.

[Katie Nolan]

Tough weekend for Brady, cuz I know for a little bit here we thought maybe for a second Jessica Alba was dating Joe Burrow. And I just feel like people really panicked. March 8, a photo of Burrow and a list actress Jessica Alba sitting at a casino together surfaced on social media. Went viral right away, of course, because this is really. Everybody goes nuts about Joe Burrow and who he's dating and Jessica Alba, if she's available to be dated. There's a line. I'll say that. So they. People saw them sitting together and they were like, maybe these two are together. However, a report from TMZ surfaced shortly after and proved that's not the case. Apparently, they were together as part of the opening of the Zero Bond social club at the Wynn. Now, I gave them free. Now it worked. I'm saying the name of their thing. This was just a viral ad, wasn't it? They were part of a bigger group and the photo was taken at a rare time when just the two of them were sitting together. I guess everyone had to pee and so they left the two of them together because Alba is reportedly dating actor Danny Ramirez, who plays the Falcon in the Marvel movies.

[Brady]

So, Brady, feel bad for Danny Ramirez at this point?

[Katie Nolan]

Why?

[Chris]

You feel bad for Denny Ramirez?

[Brady]

You know what? Fair point. I do not feel bad.

[Katie Nolan]

Poor guys. Gotta date her.

[Brady]

You see a viral news story, be like, hey, Joe Burrow and his Anakin Skywalker hair are dating your girlfriend. Like, that's. No.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brady]

And then again, at the end of the day, he's like, whatever.

[Chris]

Yeah, I take it.

[Katie Nolan]

I'm sure he's fine. Yeah.

[Brady]

Alba plus Avengers money.

[Isabella]

I'm fine with my girl. Whatever. Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

For a moment, everyone's gonna think you're the coolest. And then they'll remember it's actually me who's the coolest because I'm dating her.

[Brady]

I get to put on wings at work. You don't.

[Katie Nolan]

While we're doing relationship news. Sad one, though. This one's kind of sad. Dak Prescott was engaged to Sarah Jane Ramos. They went to the Bahamas for a bachelor bachelorette party and have they've broken up. One month before they were gonna get married, things came to a head with a blow up argument at their joint bachelor bachelorette parties. I said that. And they have two kids aged 22 and 10 months. Meaning 2 months and 10 months or 2 years old and 10 months. Okay.

[Brady]

I think that mathematically has to be 2 years and 10 months.

[Katie Nolan]

Well, I don't know how it works because I'm not doing any of that. So. Yeah. So that's a bummer. And sorry to them. I think I saw someone say it's not the. The bachelor bachelorette is not to blame that it was over. But then I never know what's real anymore because I read that it was over prenup stuff, which I guess can come down to I've been a part of contract negotiations, which I guess is what that is. It's technically like a cba. And I guess it could come down to the a month before. But it does feel like tough timing.

[Isabella]

Yeah, that's. Yeah.

[Chris]

They probably don't go on the trip.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Well, at the same time all these people are going. You don't want to. They're probably going to go without you. You might as well just go on the trip and then go. And now that that's over, we're not gonna actually get married. But a bummer.

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Kind of a bummer for them. So I hope that they're both okay and I'm sure more will come out out later. Not even the biggest thing that TMZ has been reporting. Between that and Elba, it was actually. Did you guys see the. That Travis's mom is remodeling her house? Do you see that TMZ report?

[Chris]

Whoa.

[Katie Nolan]

They were like Mama Kelsey remodeling her home replacing 12 windows. And you're like, okay, wow. Okay, TMZ, thank you so much for the hot scoop.

[Chris]

We didn't leave with that in the able.

[Katie Nolan]

I know. Sorry. I almost. I forgot to put it even in the dark. Now. This one's a timing one because we here at Casuals have been following the Jack Hughes, Jack hues, Tate McCray relationship. Right. We've known this. Sorry, sorry.

[Brady]

It's Jack Youth.

[Katie Nolan]

I get it because of the teeth. Very good. We've been following this since before the. The Jack youth of it all. Since the goal. Since before the. Because we talked about how they might have been dating, but that it wasn't really confirmed. It was just sort of like streets were saying. Right then we had the conversation about how she appeared in that Olympics commercial. But as somebody who's waiting at the. I'll be here in support of Team usa. And everyone in Canada said, excuse me, you're Canadian, so what do you mean you're supporting Team usa? And then there were all the jokes about Jack Hughes. She loves him so much it made her switch countries. And then she had to come out and respond to the backlash and she said, I'm Canada, you guys know, I'm Canada down. Which, like, which, like half makes sense, I guess. And people kind of bought it. But now after Jack Hughes scores the game winning goal in overtime and then Cash Patel chugging a beer, picking up the phone call from the President, laughing at the joke about the United States Women's team kind of botching all the press around that SNL made up for it a little, I guess. But like now reports come out Tate McCray confirms or whatever that she and Jack Hughes are exclusively dating.

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

And I just think the timing's really interesting.

[Isabella]

Yeah, I think it's interesting that she decided to make this come out now.

[Katie Nolan]

Right. Like you could have gotten away with continuing not to just being like, we're not commenting on our relationship.

[Isabella]

Like, if it's in an attempt to make him look or like to distract from that, I could see the, the desire to want to do that. But I think this would make her look bad.

[Katie Nolan]

Thank you. I agree. Just because on the heels of the Canada of it all, I feel like it showed that she didn't have the awareness of how it would be perceived. And this kind of feels like the same mistake.

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

But I, you know, it could also just be that because it feels like her going like, you all know him and everybody's in. I'm sure he's getting an increased interest from people as he is now more nationally known than before. He's a hockey star, but it's hockey, not the top of our sports nationally. And so now that he's done this big thing and more people are aware of him, I feel like he's probably getting more interested maybe from people. And she seems to want to be sort of marking her territory of like, this is. We are exclusive. But it's just like, okay, now that you've Said that. Have you guys had any conversations about how that whole thing all went? Or.

[Brady]

She's still more famous than him, right? Just in terms of.

[Katie Nolan]

I think so, but I say that. And I also can name a Tate McCrae song. I think sports car is greedy.

[Brady]

Greedy's the one.

[Isabella]

I don't know anything about song. I feel bad.

[Katie Nolan]

No, I know. Me, too. That's why I'm not trying to be mean to her. I just don't. I don't know. I don't. Fame is different now, I think, than it was before. So I'm not really sure how to judge who's more famous.

[Brady]

He cameoed on Saturday Night Live. She performed on it.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Brady]

I don't know if that's a gauge.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, I. And I also think he would struggle to perform on it. I don't think he would do. I don't think he's that good at that other stuff. I don't know. Just interesting timing that I. I was wondering how Isabella would read, and it's kind of confirmed. That's what I thought would happen. Let's do a new bit. We got a new bit called Whose side are you on? What we're gonna do is we're gonna. I love that. Beautiful. Perfect.

[Chris]

Oh, geez.

[Katie Nolan]

A new bit. Whose side are you on? Here's how it's gonna work. One of the casualties is gonna present us with a story that has two sides to it. They're going to tell us the two sides, and then we got to choose which side we're on. Chris, you're up first.

[Chris]

All right, so the LA marathon took place over the weekend, and because temperatures reached a whopping 90 degrees, race organizers decided to award medals to anyone who finished at least 18 miles of the race. What are we for or against this? So normally you get a medal for finishing that at the marathon.

[Katie Nolan]

And how many miles is a Marathon on 26.2. Right. I thought you'd know that off the top of your head. You're kilometers guy.

[Chris]

No, in my mind, my brain went to miles, I think probably because I've been here for a little bit too long. But, yeah, smart.

[Katie Nolan]

We love that. It's good sign, but. And so they were.

[Chris]

Normally you get a medal for finishing. These people got a medal for going

[Katie Nolan]

so much shorter than 26.2. Yeah.

[Isabella]

Like, it's not 20.

[Katie Nolan]

Right. It's. That's. And look, I've never run and will never. Don't ever make me run a marathon. But that doesn't feel like you guys ran a marathon either.

[Chris]

You ran 18 miles despite it being 90 degrees. I can understand and appreciate how difficult it would be to run in those conditions.

[Isabella]

Sure.

[Chris]

But still, would. Would the runners even want a medal for not finishing the race?

[Katie Nolan]

Do you think it's like people were told they could finish at 18 specifically and handed a medal? Or do you like they. Do you think they like stopped the race? Like wouldn't let people go further and in that case gave. Right. That would be different to me than

[Chris]

if it was like ran the fool

[Katie Nolan]

and so they were just. Were getting to 18 and stopped and.

[Brady]

Yeah, so you have two types of people that run the marathon. You have like the competitive, like the, the world class runners that are running it for time. And then you have Joe Marathon, who is just trying to, you know, finish it and have a good personal time. Those people they were letting stop after 18.

[Katie Nolan]

But I'm saying, do you think there was a person at 18 going, if you want to stop, stop, here's a medal. Or do you think it was like they afterwards went back and would check if your bib or whatever made it to the 18 mile marker and if you could prove it did, got a medal? I'm just curious to know the logistics of it.

[Chris]

It's a good point.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Brady]

It's all electronic, so I'm guessing they didn't need a person there.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, I'm on the side of the.

[Chris]

Because you'd be pissed if you ran 17.9 and you didn't know that 18 mile mark you would get a medal and you're like, all right, I'm done.

[Katie Nolan]

Right.

[Chris]

Like I could have ran another.

[Katie Nolan]

I'm on the side of this stupid. Whose side is that? Is that. Whose side am I on?

[Brady]

I think that's Katie Nolan's side.

[Katie Nolan]

That's right.

[Brady]

Who's on my side? Marathon or.

[Isabella]

Thank you.

[Chris]

I think so too. If the runners themselves wouldn't even want it. Like you don't want a medal. Here, here's my medal for not finishing the full marathon. Then I don't think you need it. But by the way, American Nathan Martin won the men's race.

[Katie Nolan]

That's what I thought we were gonna talk about.

[Chris]

By less than 01 seconds, the closest ever finish to an LA Marathon.

[Katie Nolan]

This clip is crazy. We can't show it. I don't. I'm sorry. But go look it up. It's absurd. They're at the end of the marathon. One guy, a Kenyan runner, is clearly gonna win. And then you just see a guy comes sprinting up and the runner who's in the lead is kind of like, wait, well, hold on. And then he. It's perfectly timed so that right at the finish line, he goes right in front. It's like almost a photo finish. And I have no idea. I've never related to something less to. To find deep within you this ability to like hit the NOS button and just like go right at the finish line is crazy. And I love that. It made me want to make me go like I could run a. And then I fell asleep. I didn't even finish the sentence. So I won't be doing it. Brady, what is our next. Whose side are we on?

[Brady]

United Airlines at the end of February updated their their policy, their contract of carriage to include a requirement that passengers consider, quote, use headphones while listening to audio or video content, end quote. This essentially means United Airlines is now willing to kick you off your plane for listening to content just over the air and inconveniencing others. You know, the speakerphone crowd. We had our first viral moment this past weekend of a passenger being kicked off the plane claiming that they listened to one 30 second reel at 50% volume on their phone. Let's roll that clip.

[Katie Nolan]

I paid money for it. And I played a video for 30 seconds at 50% sound. And that's the reason you're kicking me

[Isabella]

off, because I said that sounds like you problem. You stop at oh, what?

[Katie Nolan]

Whoa, whoa. That like they didn't accept that and

[Isabella]

that sounds like a damn problem.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, there we go. There may be other factors at play here. That's a them problem.

[Brady]

Clearly somebody called her out for listening to this video and her response was that's a you problem. And then they kicked her off.

[Katie Nolan]

Got it.

[Brady]

Now, written policy.

[Katie Nolan]

Whose sides? What are the two sides?

[Brady]

United Airlines or them? The passenger.

[Katie Nolan]

And now here's the thing. Let's get something stated for the record. 50% volume is loud. Okay? If you're watching something at 50% volume in a public space, it's too loud. You can put that down to like three clicks up and hold it next to your ear if there's something you need to hear. And you don't have headphones. Because I try to be sympathetic to a plight and I know that the headphones they hand out to you, the free ones, ones those that jack is not going into your phone. I know that some, a lot of phones don't have headphone jacks at all because of wireless headphones. I understand that your wireless headphones could be dead. That's something we never had to worry about before. You could find yourself in a situation where you're like, there's no captions on this. I need to hear what's happening. Go low on the volume. Put it right next to your ear. I would allow 50. Volume is too loud. I doubt it was a 30. I doubt it was a 30 second clip. Now when this.

[Chris]

And I doubt it was at 50% volume.

[Isabella]

30 second clip. I can. And that. And that's it. Just a 30 second clip. And it's even playing out a little bit.

[Katie Nolan]

Right.

[Isabella]

Like, I can't see them kicking someone off the plane just for that, but

[Katie Nolan]

it feels like maybe there was other stuff.

[Chris]

Yeah. When someone reacts like that.

[Katie Nolan]

I know, I know.

[Chris]

It's like this. It's this three layer story, right? You hear the. The story about United Airlines implementing this rule and you're like, that's great. If anyone's against it, they're in the wrong. Then you hear they throw someone out for playing a 30 second clip and you're like, whoa, I think they might have gone a little bit too far.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

And then you hear how she reacted and you're like, o. She definitely did much more than just

[Katie Nolan]

listen to a 32nd volume. I was on from the moment I heard that. You just followed me on the whole path. Nailed that. Those are the correct sides. And just, you know, maybe United Airlines should start handing out phones with a lightning jack. I don't know if this is something that really matters to you. God forbid you invest a little portion of your business on making sure that those things you hand out haphazardly on the flight aren't just one time use. Dan saves them. By the way, Dan still has all over our house little packs of Delta headphones that I'm like, I don't think we need these.

[Isabella]

I save the sanitizer wipes.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. And that's.

[Chris]

That makes sense.

[Katie Nolan]

Kind of. That's like saving sauce packets where I'm like, there may come a time where I need this and I don't have it. And now I have it, you know. All right, last one. Isabella is in charge of Isabella. What's our last. Whose side are you on?

[Isabella]

I'm in charge. Right. Okay. So Timothee Chalamet, who we all know recently came out. Marty Supreme. The opera and ballet communities are coming at him because he was on this interview. It was a CNN and Variety town hall event. And he basically said that he didn't want theatrical movie going to end up like the ballet or opera, where artists want to keep this thing alive even though no one cares about it anymore.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, let's listen.

[Isabella]

Have some audience.

[Katie Nolan]

Let's listen.

[Brady]

I don't want to be working in ballet or opera or, you know, things where it's like, hey, keep this thing alive. Even though no one cares about this anymore. All respect to the ballet and opera people out there. I just lost 14 cents in viewership.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, now this is another journey.

[Isabella]

Yeah, this is a journey too, because

[Katie Nolan]

at first I was like, he's saying something. And it's sure, maybe he didn't make his point as eloquently as he would have liked to, but he's basically, you know, movies are at sort of a crossroads where we're talking about if people are still gonna go to the theaters. And he's kind trying to express that this happened with or is happening in other arts in a more dire way. And he doesn't want to be in a situation like that. Whatever he's trying to say, when he said no offense to the opera and ballet communities, I went, okay. So he is at least self aware of like, that didn't sound great.

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

And like, no offense to them. And then he takes that next step and the next steps where he loses me. I'm on ballet and opera's side because he says, I just lost like 12

[Isabella]

cents in viewership, Timothy. And I. And you have afterwards, he's like, damn. I just like, what's the saying again? I just threw shots. I just shot shots.

[Katie Nolan]

What's the shots fired shots.

[Isabella]

He said something alongside for no reason. And I'm like, yeah, shoot your shot. I don't know.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Isabella]

He was like, damn, why'd I do that for no reason? And I'm like, yeah, why did you do that?

[Katie Nolan]

Is this an old clip clip that has surfaced or is this a new interview? Is the question I have.

[Isabella]

Oh, so that is actually from late February, so fairly new.

[Katie Nolan]

Ish. Okay, you can't be doing like this when you're like on a campaign for an art award. Timothy, you are campaigning. Please award me as an artist. So don't take shot at. Take shots at artists for no reason. You just gotta be smarter than that. This is like the. The lead actress from Hamnet went on an interview recently and said she hates cats and that she convinced she was like really proud of herself for convincing her boyfriend to re home two of his cats in order to date her. Because she was like. I just was like, what's everybody doing? That's not.

[Isabella]

And I saw she went on. I. For whose show? But she went on. She's like, guys, I'VE been thinking about this all day and I just want people to know, like, I do love cats. Cats.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. And it was like a. What's her name, Chris?

[Chris]

Jesse Buckley.

[Katie Nolan]

Jesse Buckley. It was like a. I was like, jesse, what are we doing, baby? I've seen nothing but positive reviews about her as an actress and. And her performance in that, which I haven't seen yet. I got to really crack down. I got to watch the Oscar stuff. How caught up are you, Chris? How many have you seen?

[Chris]

I've only got three. And it's champ week this week, so I don't know how many more moves I'm going to be able to get in before Sunday.

[Katie Nolan]

You've done five total. You've watched five or you.

[Isabella]

Yeah, I. I think I have five more, but I think I can do it.

[Katie Nolan]

Shoot, look at you. I really only seen sinners. I don't think I've. I gotta watch all the rest.

[Isabella]

One I really loved and I. If you want to find another one to watch is sentimental value. I really.

[Katie Nolan]

I heard okay. And I know nothing about it, but I. But it's good.

[Isabella]

It's really good. I really like that one.

[Dan]

Okay.

[Chris]

Streaming on.

[Isabella]

I don't know what it's streaming on. I saw it in theaters.

[Katie Nolan]

Damn, look at you.

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

No offense to theater.

[Isabella]

I'm keeping movie theaters alive.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Single handedly.

[Isabella]

Literally.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Okay.

[Chris]

Not streaming anywhere, but you can purchase it for rent for six. Six bucks.

[Katie Nolan]

Boy, am I sick of doing that. Boy, am I sick of paying to own something I don't own at all. That if that streaming service enters a new agreement with someone, there goes that thing I own. Have I vented in here yet? About the time I paid some amount of dollars to rent or buy the Mario movie, but nowhere on it was it noted I was buying the Spanish version and so I had to pay for it twice. And it wasn't until the open opening scene of the movie when like the little penguin comes out and he's talking about the. And he was like, like speaking a language that I. And I was like, oh, they've got the penguins speaking Spanish. It must be because they're like South Pole penguins or so I have no. I was like thinking penguin colonialism. And I didn't even consider the fact that. No, actually you just bought the wrong. Dan was like, are you gonna notice at any point we're watching the Spanish version of the Mario movie? And. And then eventually I did.

[Chris]

Did you call an. And get a refund?

[Katie Nolan]

No, because I wrote down somewhere to do that. And then of course completely moved on and forgot about it. Then four months later when I remembered, I thought it's too late. Even though I am the last cable customer, when I call, they better answer and they better fix it because I'm still on a cable contract.

[Chris]

That's funny because I just. I did the opposite thing when I bought Howl's Moving Castle. I thought I was getting the subtitle version and I ended up getting the English dub and I had to call and get my money back so I

[Katie Nolan]

could get the Good for you though. You did it. You took action. If Dan's not home, the call isn't being made is the thing. We want to do a couple quick shout outs. These can't take too long. We're already obviously running over because that's what we do here on casuals. We're very casual about everything. Sports and time mostly. But Oksana masters won her 20 Paralympics medal over the weekend, claiming gold in the women's spring sitting discipline in Parabiathlon. This is her sixth Winter Olympics gold medal to go along with her four gold medals at the Summer Olympics Golds medals, she wins them. So shout out to her.

[Brady]

Damn.

[Katie Nolan]

Where are we watching the Paralympics?

[Brady]

Peacock.

[Katie Nolan]

Nice. Everybody tune into Peacock and check out when's the sled hockey. Ooh, level A level.

[Chris]

It's sort of been going on for a while.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, I got to find it. I saw some people, one of the guys I follow talking about how it's tough to find on the app, which is very frustrating. I'm not trying to like yell at Peacock, but it is a little frustrating that they I would like them to bring similar energy so it's as easy to find the events, the international events. If you want to watch the Paralympics,

[Chris]

USA just beat Germany today in the Para Aki 13 nothing.

[Katie Nolan]

Nice. Love that close game.

[Chris]

That's cool.

[Katie Nolan]

Love that. Love to beat up on them.

[Chris]

Next games against China tomorrow at 8:35am so this, this podcast comes out at 3:00am Eastern.

[Katie Nolan]

Great.

[Chris]

So people will have five and a half hours to discover this podcast.

[Katie Nolan]

That's right.

[Chris]

Listen to the first hour.

[Isabella]

Yes.

[Katie Nolan]

Get this far into it.

[Brady]

This is only for Australian fans.

[Katie Nolan]

Tune in.

[Chris]

My parents can watch it.

[Katie Nolan]

Tune in right now. Also want to shout out U.S. women's Soccer. The women's national team, they beat Columbia in the she believes cup. The late goal for Melissa Thompson was awesome. I actually don't think they needed to score a goal. Right. Didn't Colombia need to score three goals in order for them to win? So it Was. But that's still a great goal by Alyssa Thompson at the end of the game. That is the eighth she believes title for the Americans. It was at Sports Illustrated stadium, which I actually had just driven by right before games.

[Isabella]

I gotta go there.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Isabella]

For something.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, you should have.

[Isabella]

Is it just soccer at the stadium?

[Katie Nolan]

Nothing's ever just one thing. Right.

[Isabella]

Okay.

[Katie Nolan]

But that is the majority of it. I can't. Brady, off the top of your head, anything you would think would be being played at hockey or. No, no.

[Brady]

I would imagine they multi purpose it like lacrosse or field hockey or something.

[Katie Nolan]

Maybe a lacrosse or a field hockey. Isabella, do those.

[Isabella]

Oh, yeah, duh. Sorry.

[Katie Nolan]

Do those. Get moving.

[Isabella]

You said it.

[Katie Nolan]

Only.

[Isabella]

It's only. Only basketball courts that turn into that.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, that. Mostly basketball. Yeah. It's like most do. If it's dual purpose, it's usually basketball, hockey. Gotcha. And then also like concert.

[Isabella]

They can't like lift up the grass.

[Katie Nolan]

No, but they. But they. I'm sure they actually could. Every time I see how the field and playing surface tech actually works, I'm usually pretty amazed and impressed by the way I saw somebody comment on a clip of me. Oh, tell me that my. Because they said something like, wow, shoes on the couch. I hope nobody else sits in the. And I said, I've never seen a single other host of a single other show be told like, whoa, what you're doing with that? It's my furniture. I can do whatever I want with it. It's my chair.

[Isabella]

It's not your furniture.

[Katie Nolan]

This is how I sit. This is the show where I do the sitting. So what do you mean? What do you. Don't worry about my couch. Okay. Yikes. Weeks.

[Brady]

Crazy rugby, rugby, lacrosse and a little bit of HBCU American football.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh.

[Chris]

At that point.

[Katie Nolan]

Well, there you go, Isabella. You've got your pick. All right. Of what you want to go and see. And then last shout out is, you know, unrivaled is over. What an unrivaled weekend they had at Barclays. That was sick. I almost went and I wish that I did because the energy and the environment looked electric. But the mist won this season of unrivaled. Brianna Stewart, 322 point points, helped the miss secure the 80 to 74 win in the championship game last week. But we got a voicemail about unrivaled that'll lead us to our shout out. Can we play Johnny's voicemail, please?

[Brady]

Did you see what Atlanta Smith did after she won the unrivaled championship? He did a shoey which is when you pour the beer in the shoe and then drink it. I wanted to know what you guys all thought of this, especially your Australian middle Burke prick. So, yeah, let's see where this is going.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, let's see where this is going. Johnny, Love you. Mean it. Thank you for the phone call. So, yeah, let's. I'll hang out.

[Isabella]

Thanks for producing it.

[Brady]

Let's pour a beer in a shoe and just see where things go.

[Katie Nolan]

Let's just see what happens. I think I feel like we've discussed the shoey as a concept before. Have we? Am I wrong?

[Chris]

I feel like perhaps. Did Oscar Piastri do it maybe last year? I know Daniel Ricardo did it a few years ago. I feel like Piastri might have.

[Katie Nolan]

And this is an Australian thing. Yes.

[Brady]

I remember I asked you about it when I saw Rhea Ripley do it at WrestleMania. It's just a common thing to pour a beer in a shoe and chug.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. And I think my issue has always been that, like, the inside of my shoe is, like, covered in dog hair because I keep my shoes on the ground and that's where my dog is always at. So, like, the absorbency of a shoe. I wear a lot of sneaks, you know, and so I'm not. I don't want to pour wet into a. And then my foot's gonna be. Then I got trench toe. I don't think this is a good practice. Why are we doing this, Chris?

[Brady]

I think the grossness of it emphasizes the celebration of it. Like, I am so hyped up and this is such a big moment. I'm willing to chug out of a shoe.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. That's not enough for me. Yeah, Chris.

[Chris]

Yeah. Because you also don't have to chug out of the shoe after winning. You can just enjoy the celebrations because it is disgusting and I would never do that.

[Isabella]

Just because you can do it doesn't mean you should.

[Katie Nolan]

So is this. Is Australia going to be mad at you for being anti shoey on this podcast? Is this going to. Are you going to have to put out a statement that says. And you guys know I'm Australia down. Okay. I'm sorry that I not going to

[Chris]

be allowed back in the country.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. And I'm thinking that's. Which is crazy because they'll let any. They've got giant spiders over there. They let those into the country. But no guy who's anti shoey.

[Chris]

You know what's strange, though? It doesn't seem to be a thing that we do in domestic leagues. It only Seems to be be like international athletes doing it on an international stage.

[Katie Nolan]

It's like the first Australian of Australian customs. It's like it's for you but not for really for us.

[Chris]

You don't see it in like Aussie rules and you don't see it in, you know, a lot of other domestic competitions.

[Katie Nolan]

It's interesting.

[Brady]

It's the blooming onion of celebrations.

[Chris]

Exactly. Yeah. Definitely not for me. I ain't doing it. But I'm also not winning a championship of anything.

[Katie Nolan]

So true. And I thank you for bringing it up because I was to going to have to say it and I hate reminding you, but it is true. All right. This gets collapsed but I do want to mention it because there were a lot of fights. We got to pick best fight. Here are your options. There was a Brazilian soccer game where there were 23 red cards issued. I'm sorry, what is the common average

[Brady]

of less than 1 per game?

[Katie Nolan]

Less than 1 Isabella is the average usually 1. There were 23. It was a 1 nil win between Cruiser and Atletico MG in this was on Sunday. It was in the Monero championship final. Mass brawl erupted seconds before the final whistle and resulted in 23 red cards. It started with 3030 seconds left in stoppage time. Massive brawl. We also have the California Palms head coach Maddie Buss who ran onto the field and took down an opposing player in the WLL final, which is the Women's Lacrosse League.

[Brady]

Yes, it is.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay. This is in the league. I mean it's crazy. The stakes are very high in these games for there to be fights in such high stakes games. Late in the first half, New York was leading 97 when forward Kendall Halpern seemingly barreled into Anna Brandt of the Palms who then ran into teammate Jill Smith, causing them both to fall. Halpern then swung her stick and appeared to hit Smith in the head, which did not sit well with Bus, who again is the coach. The Palms coach immediately stepped onto the field and seemingly shoved Halpern to the ground. Great. And then the last best fight is there were multiple fights in the first 10 minutes of the Sabres Lightning game. We got an email from Christie in Western New York who said hello, casualties crew. As a lifetime parenthesis, Tennessee's suffering Buffalo Sabers fan. Did you see that? My. Did you see that? Is the Sabers versus Tampa Bay Lightning game from Sunday night that ended 87 Sabers win a game with a combined 15 goals and 102 penalty minutes and for first place in the Atlantic. It was one of the craziest Games I've ever seen. Love you mean it. Go Sabers. It was a crazy game. There was a point where. Where they would show on the Jumbotron the Lightning, there was like, three guys in the penalty box, and everybody would be like, boo. And then it would cut to the three guys in the Sabers penalty box, and they were like, yeah. Just a perfect back and forth between those two energies. Also, Rasmus, Darlene had a Gordy, Howe, Hatrick always got to shout out one of those. That's when you score a goal. You get an assistant cyst and you get in a fight. It's the three.

[Chris]

Sick.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. So which one gets best? Fracas is how we're saying that word.

[Chris]

Frea. It's frecka.

[Katie Nolan]

Chris says Brady says fracas, and Isabelle has never seen it in her life. So I was saying frus, but I think that's because my brain was marrying it to ruckus the same way some people have started to say manurism because they're marrying mannerism and aneurysm. And so I think I am doing that with. Because fracas sounds crazy. It sounds like a thing that we tried to make illegal and then immediately brought back. So, anyway, I'm gonna pick. I'm picking that Sabers game. That was awesome. It was. Buffalo's doing something right now that feels kind of magical. And so I'm picking that. And that's it.

[Chris]

23 red cards is hilarious. Hilarious.

[Katie Nolan]

It is.

[Chris]

That's mine. Okay. It's such a big number.

[Katie Nolan]

Sick. It is 23. I don't even. I'm shocked they have that many. They must have had to go like.

[Chris]

Yeah. Did he actually have.

[Katie Nolan]

This is a red card.

[Chris]

Different red, guys.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. You'd have to go like. And actually, I can't. You can't take it. I have to. You don't get to keep the red card. You should.

[Brady]

No, you don't get to keep.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, well, you should. That's absolute. You should laminate them. Keep a deck in your back pocket.

[Chris]

You have to wear it like a. Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Like it's a. Yeah. Fix that.

[Chris]

Like the letter A.

[Katie Nolan]

Fix that. All right, that feels like a good time to take a break. Since we're already halfway through the another episode of a podcast, we'll take a quick break, and when we come back, what we always do at the beginning of the week here, Chris is going to tell us what we can watch. If we want to watch some sports this week, this is casuals. We'll be right back

[Dan]

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[Katie Nolan]

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[Brady]

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[Dan]

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[Brady]

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[Katie Nolan]

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[Brady]

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[Dan]

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[Brady]

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[Katie Nolan]

Wow.

[Isabella]

Whoa.

[Katie Nolan]

Spatial Audio Are you hearing me from different sides of the Is that how it works?

[Chris]

Gonna need multiple microphones for that or a specific Dummy.

[Katie Nolan]

You couldn't just say yes?

[Chris]

Unfortunately.

[Katie Nolan]

You couldn't just say yes, Binaural. I wasn't gonna check. You couldn't just say yes. Mannequin Chris, while I have you, if people wanted to watch some sports this week, can we tell them where they can watch it?

[Chris]

Absolutely. The first thing, this is gonna be a catch all for all of college basketball Champ week is this week, all week. So between Tuesday is, most people are gonna be listed to this and Sunday, which will be selection Sunday. There will be 23 conference champions crowned, specifically in men's college basketball. You'll see all these teams punching their tickets to the big dance, which is next week, a week and a half away. So plenty of men's games, plenty of women's games on this week. Games are on ESPN, USA Network, Peacock, CBS, FS1, Thursday and Friday games are starting at, like, noon. So you can pop a nooner on those days. Days these champ week is almost as good as the opening round of March Madness, where there's just games on all day, every day on all these different channels. It's a lot of fun, a lot of drama. So there's no specific time that you have to be anywhere. There's no specific channels that you have to be. Just put on the TV and watch. It's so much fun.

[Katie Nolan]

It's also really helpful for you to, if you're somebody who wants to fill out your bracket with a little bit of knowledge, it's a good way to see teams. If you haven't been, let's just say, paying close attention to maybe men's college basketball. Women's champ week was last week. Are they mostly. I feel like I thought I saw this weekend a championship game. I watched a little bit of Most

[Brady]

of them are done. Some are wrapping up tonight.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. Okay. All right. And then we're going into full March Madness mode. And we've got stuff planned right, for this podcast.

[Isabella]

We're so mad.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. What we're gonna be.

[Isabella]

We're gonna be mad.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh, madness. Yeah. Yeah. March angriness. That's right. All right, what else can we watch, Chris?

[Chris]

Formula One. The Chinese Grand Prix is this weekend. It'll be the second race of the 2026 season. It'll be Sunday, March 15th at 3am Eastern on Apple TV. Plus, we had the first race of the season last week. That was the Australian Grand Prix. George Russell won that one with fellow Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli coming in second. Now, Cadillac, remember, the American team made their debut last week in the Australian Grand Prix. They didn't have a great debut. Sergio Perez finished 16th. And name of the podcast. Valtteri Bottas got a DNF.

[Katie Nolan]

That's right. Name of the podcast.

[Chris]

So not a. Not a great. Not a great start for Cadillac there.

[Katie Nolan]

No. Did you see Charles Leclerc got married?

[Chris]

He did.

[Katie Nolan]

He got married. And they. And it was really pretty. And did you see the dog in the suit? They brought their little dog. I forget his name.

[Chris]

Did they really?

[Katie Nolan]

And he's so cute in his little suit in their wedding pictures. I can't take it. Do you have his name? Brady. Is it on?

[Brady]

Leo.

[Katie Nolan]

He's so cute.

[Brady]

He's got a little bow tie. What a gentleman.

[Katie Nolan]

God, I can't. Myrtle would. Could never. I really wish we could have her be part of our eventual wedding pictures. I assume we'll take. But I. She just wouldn't be able to behave. And he's so tiny.

[Brady]

We had our bulldog. Our bulldog Joanie had an orange tutu that lasted like 90 seconds and it was just long enough to get pictures. So the.

[Isabella]

Her dress is really nice.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, I know. It's really a beautiful wedding and beautiful people. It's rude.

[Chris]

Shall, by the way, finish third in the Australian Grand Prix.

[Katie Nolan]

Congratulations, Charl. Cool. What else? What else can we watch the Oscars?

[Chris]

That's Sports Sunday.

[Katie Nolan]

That's sports for sure.

[Chris]

It counts.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Chris]

Sunday, March 15, 7pm Eastern is when the broadcast will be starting. It'll be hosted by Conan O'. Brien. Now the film's nominated for best picture. Begonia, F1, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Mighty Supreme. One Battle after Another. The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value, Sinners and Train.

[Katie Nolan]

What's the Secret Agent and what's Train Dreams? Where have I been? Who are these films?

[Chris]

Gotta. Gotta check him out.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah.

[Brady]

You don't know.

[Katie Nolan]

So he hasn't seen him either? No, I haven't gotta check.

[Isabella]

I heard the secret Agent's really good. Who's in it? I forgot his name. But the main character he 1. I think the Golden Globe I'm gonna

[Brady]

say is I'm gonna mispronounce this, but Wagner. Mora. Is that a Wagner?

[Katie Nolan]

Feels pretty, right? I think. Okay. And that's just about, I assume, a secret agent.

[Brady]

Only one of these films co starred a casual's guest.

[Katie Nolan]

That's right. And it would be Begonia.

[Isabella]

Oh, true.

[Katie Nolan]

I don't know if I'd say co starred. I do think. Yeah, let's say he makes an appearance in it.

[Brady]

There's only like four people in this movie. He's one of them.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, true. Shout out Stavros also it's a reboot remake. I managed to a long time ago see a spoiler for it. That is because it's been a movie that has existed before.

[Chris]

Like a Korean movie, right?

[Katie Nolan]

I think so.

[Isabella]

Something that's one of the ones I haven't seen yet.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. And then. And did you see F1?

[Isabella]

Yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

Oh. Not a fan.

[Isabella]

It's. I don't understand why it's Oscar nomination.

[Katie Nolan]

I think it was. I think they said it was because of the way that it was filmed. That they wanted to encourage the filmmaking.

[Chris]

That's why you got the borderline categories though. That's.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Chris]

I'm with Isabella.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. This is also a lot of best picture nominations. There's so many expand the field recently

[Brady]

it was after Dark Knight. Dark Knight didn't get dominate nominated and they were like, all right, we need more nominees so that something like Dark Knight can fit in.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. And now everything fits in. So that's good. I gotta look up what train dreams is Conan. Being the host will be fantastic. That'll be great.

[Chris]

He's. He's perfect for it.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah. I gotta.

[Chris]

Here's like the modern day Billy Crystal. Like you can't really stray from Conan. I feel like gotta remain the perennial host.

[Katie Nolan]

I don't want to misspeak, but I think there may also be some sports you could watch if you wanted to. I think my celebrity Jeopardy All Stars might be this week. The date keeps getting moved. So I'm. I don't want to speak out of school, but I have a feeling it's on. I. Something last I had heard. I think it's on Friday. I think it airs, but I don't know. And check your local listings. Okay. But there's a. It's coming up. Head on a swivel. I've got a celebrity Jeopardy Masters or celebrity Jeopardy All Stars, whatever they're calling it game coming up at some point. That'll be on I think abc. I don't know if that's universal for where they are, but find it and I'll be there soon. So. Gotta love the. Wait until the thing airs that you know about. That has. Was a long time ago. It's been a lot of. You'll see.

[Brady]

There are plenty of people who are under the impression that you are doing that live. So just let them.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, just let.

[Brady]

Let them carry that.

[Katie Nolan]

I wonder if Kalshi will let you bet on what happens.

[Chris]

Probably.

[Katie Nolan]

I wonder if Cal. She would let me bet on what happens. There's no rules anymore. So I can just do it. Right? Right.

[Brady]

If you don't show up to work next week, we will know that you did.

[Katie Nolan]

Man, I don't know. I think at some point we're going to have to dive in on what's going on with that Cal sheep. Did you see Underdog cut off? Like laid off everybody. Oh, cut all of their content, cut all of their. They're now just leaning fully into prediction markets. Oh, cool. Sign of good things to come. Everyone should be totally normal about all of it. Hey, that's the end of the podcast. I always like to end it on a real big bummer. And that's the one I chose for today. Thank you so much for listening and for hanging out with us and for calling in and for writing us emails. We love you guys so much and we mean it. I think we got to everything we said we were going to get to. What do we. Who do we have this week? Brady as a guest.

[Brady]

Joey Avery. Coming up on episode two this week.

[Katie Nolan]

Yeah, a return guest, Joey Avery. He was so much fun last time and I think he has a new special out. Yes.

[Brady]

Yes.

[Katie Nolan]

Okay, cool. So we'll be back with him to laugh and joke about sports and probably talk a little bit of football free agency and. And preview his new comedy special on Thursday on audio mediums and Friday on YouTube. We love you. We mean it. We'll see you then. Bye. This episode is presented by gmc. We are professional grade. Oh joy. Another day, another buzz delayed. Look on the bright side, you can finally catch up on podcasts. You don't mind running late. What's your deal? What's my deal? I saved at Metro with no active activation Fees. I got one line of 5G for just $25 a month. Kept the phone I love and a 5 year price guarantee for my talk text and data. Only $25. I'm going to Metro when we hop off. Get that more for your money feeling only a Metro by T Mobile. Just bring your number. $30 first month and $25 after with auto pay price guarantee exceptions apply. See site for details. Why have we asked our contractor we found on Angie.com to be our kid's legal guardian? Because he took such good care when redoing our basement that we knew we could trust him to care for our our kids.

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