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Y your arch nemesis was named to the twenty twenty six class of the Radio Hall of Fame This week And that is Of course, Boomer Yeah. That's so unfair. Get me in there. I know. Wellll soon. and I don't know if podcasts count actually. But you did speak on Mike during the fan service this week for the first time. I also laugh really well on that show. Yeah, you do nicely in the background. It helps me. It's my favorite part. really great ambient noise. Yeah. And they must give away, Brady, you must know inside and out what could be won at the radio H. They honor people who do ambient noise stuff. There's the Andy Richter Ed Mcahon awward for just ambient light Exactly. And Isabell is obviously a she in for that. You gott also get some of my size. size S I G H S. And also sometimes we get some of her yawns. That favites. That's I'll in the middle of an ad read and she'll like the you're in a radio studio that is live on the air. I one time face always to her credit is like ike she's just like, o my God, I forgot. The other day we started the show and she looked at me with her bag of chips as if to ask, Cool if I do this right now Okay, how was you you the face one? I wouldn't I don't think I would do it right now. But then we did, we did and those were delicious chips. And I offered them to you. You did. Hall of fame. put her in it And welcome to Casual a sports podcast that doesn't care what you know. We think sports are for everybody. and so we talk to you about them and we try to be pretty fun about it. We're back home We're back home in our studio, I feel good. I'm kicking off my shoes I feel much more at ease and relaxed, although was I thought we did a great job in that other studio when we were displaced. Earlier this week. Good job everybody to the casualties and all. Also kind of a wonky week. We did our guest episode earlier on our Tuesday episode and today is just going to be me and the casualties. Now who are the casualties? They are The production crew here at SeriesXM we have Isabella, our sports newbie. Hello, Our master editor, Chris. What's up? And I believe the lobbying that's being done for your title, Brady is episode Duration manager Brady And have your regular EDM. I was just say, if that is your title, you're doing a very bad job because we're regularly pushing it to two hours on these things. Not today though, running a tight ship Boy do we have a lot to get to? First of all, if you want to reach out to us, you always can and we encourage it at casuals with Katie Nolan at Gmail d. com six four six eight zer one zo zero four three is our voicemail on Igene Tikok we here at Casuals the podcast. I know I asked you guys to send in questions for a mailbag episode that we're going to be dropping around Memorial Day. but also We just, I feel like should at some point make an announcement about one of those pret tapes, Brady, because people are going to want to send in stuff for that I'm speaking in code to try to read your eyes to see if I should do it now or we would start down this road not going Timeline wise, it would make sense to mention it next week instead, in which case we would edit this out We should do it multiple times. Okay, so Ashley's coming in Ashley Brayband, a former co host of a podcast I used to do that you may know. I know a lot of people may have started their journey with me with this podcast. and if you don't know of Ashley You know her is to love her and you will know her soon. But we finally figured out a date that we can do that works with her. So I figured, if we surprised people with that, that they might be like, I wish I had a chance to ask a question. And so anyway, I'm just saying it here so that if you have something you want to ask, you can call in and leave that But anyway, that's coming in the future. I can't even process what day that is, but it's soon, ish, right? So We'll see you then. Today, what we have to talk about, boy, we got to talk about that Nick win, Isabella, hold on to it. But we I got I want to hear all about your feelings. We also have a lot of incredible playoff games. We're basically at the same spot again in the NBA and the NHL post season. So we'll kind of reset the table for you on that and talk about the goings on over there. We also have a story ties together Romanian soccer in the Nathan's hot doog Eating contest Only on casuals folks only on casuals. And then there is a new Premier League champ and also an English soccer team that's doing a spy gate So we're going to hopefully get to all of that. But first we start with the Yap, which is usually where I just get my feelings out about stuff. I got a lot of thoughts and I usually say them around here. And now this week I was kind of circling the drain on the The enhanced games. Do everybody we've talked about them here before? Yes because we were fascinated by the fact we were doing steroid Olympics basically, but that's what it is. They' it's the let me just give you the official their website Enhanced Games is a new global sports competition designed to push the boundaries of human performance. The games challenge traditional models of sport by emmbracing science, innovation and measurable performance enhancement under regulated conditions. So that's so many words to say. it's the steroid Olympics. They're letting people compete in a bunch of areas like swimming tracks Weightlifting and they're going to let them use like steroids, testosterone, peptides, stimulants. U and this is on Sunday, this Sunday. So we've been kind of talking about it in the grander sense of like, Okay, we're doing that, I guess. But here we are. It is actually happening. It happens this upcoming Sunday, may twenty fourth in front of an invite only crowd of twenty five hundred people That makes me feel wrong. What's I've literally of all the years of covering sport I don't feel like I've ever heard that Come watch it live. Were we invited Wait, we, we really were. We were months ago, but it was under the guise of do you want to do live shows from the from the enhanced games? Hell no. Yeah But you know what? that also then makes me think of all my colleagues who'd say yes And now I'm worried that I gott to look ahead to you don't think. Nobody said yes to this, right?obody's I don't think anybody you'd like said yes. Well, I've thought that before, Brady, and you'd be surprised Yeah, it so it's really happening. twenty five lucky people who have been invited to this sporting event will get to watch live at Resorts World in Las Vegas. Has anyone here ever stayed at Resorts World? I've been to Resorts World we did. It's we did WrestleMania post game last year from It's kind of like Keddy corner to to the win. It's up in that end of the strip. It's not far away and it's fairly nice inside, but it's unremarkable. Yeah, I was gonna to ask because I couldn't tell I've never been and I don't wantan to speak on it, but it sounds like it's named like it sucks. It probably can be great But if you're like, what should we name our hotel? and you're like,, you know, it's like a hotel of Palza. I don't know. it's Resorts World. It's just like a such that's what I would call Vegas. Resorts W world. I wouldn't name that than Fountain Blue. So like it really stands out as being mundane in the middle. Yeah. And so anyway, shout out to the mundane. They're having the steroid Olympics there They're allowed to do like ozempic. they're allowed to peepides. I feel like I've been hearing a lot about peepptides lately and it made me go like, what is this then? if it's this And just so that people sort of understand it as as surface level as possible. They are short chains of amino acids and amino acids, we all know, are the building blocks of proteins. So basically a peptide acts as a biological messenger in your body that can instruct cells to perform specific tasks such as repairing tissue, regulating hormones, burning fat. And so the reason you're hearing peptide peptide, peptide everywhere because it's like medically a targeted thing. So you can you're hearing it in skincare, you're hearing it in, you know, hair stuff and it's just targeted stuff that can instruct your cells on how to be better at being cells There was a big story in the mid twenty tenens about an Australian football team getting suspended for an entire year because their team most of their team was taking peeptides. It was a huge story. probablybably the biggest story out of the AFL this century. And so I think most of our Austral listters at least would absolutely know what what peptides are because of the Es of football club. say and that befell the wallabies or the Underus who was it that got in trouble for the The bombers? The bombers got it the bumbers. Yeah. Are you saying bummers or bombers? Bummers. Imagine if he was saying bummers? I was say I was like, pay name the team After this, It was like the peeptide scandal happened and they were like, well, now we've gotta be the bummers Yeah, you can you can be on stimulants. You can't be and I love the way they specify this. Now this isn't a place where you can just be on cocaine Okay. So we'll let you do some drugs, but don't come in here yaked out of your mind. Okaykay. No geeked out swimmers at the at the Ehanced games. We are an official institution U scares the shit out of me. C be honest. It's just like a what are the rules and what are the laws? becausecause none of this seems like it should be legal. Now the it's forty athletes. correct. And they have all been training for the last twelve weeks with supervised PED usage at a five star resort in the UAE Now I do believe a lot of them came homeome given what was going on in that area So I think in the Vanity Fair article, they talk about somebody that like the training spot had to move. because it was supposed to be in the UAE and again things started to Bff So I think they are training under supervised. againg, I go like Doctor All the response I've been hearing from doctors involved with sports are like, you know, like Wada and all these other whatever like this is this goes against what we strive for, which is to provide a healthy competition between human b. This is unsafe. And so the thought of it being supervised, I'm like, who would agree to supervise it other than doctors that maybe would agree to do other things that maybe didn't align with an ethical code, it feels like how are we U But then I'm also trying to read the room and see if there's other people out there who are like, yeah, it's time for us to see what the human body can do when we use all available tools to enhance the human body. Like is that Do other people think this rules or There's a reason that we don't do that. It's not like's like no one's ever thought of this. There's a reason that we're like steroids. We shouldn't do those Yeah. I shouldn't do those. This isn't something S's something that Kev Nilam was joking about this forty years ago Ab about the all Drug Olympics. there's a reason these things are banned. They're dangerous. they're bad precedident. shouldhould not have you pus to the limit like this. It doesn't mean you should do it. Yeah. I think I'm with you on that. I also feel like What's it going to take? Somebody going have to D word I don't know what kids are allowed to say with these algos anymore. It just feels like don't someone's gonna Someone's heart's gonna pop Um, it's also the the payment structure is heavily incentivized to set world records. Isn't it every world record that they set in a sprint is a million bucks? Million dollars for sprints and swimming over anything over fifty meters, I think they're giving you a million dollars if you set a world record. Now, if you break the world record of the person who did it without steroids Wh you're doing steroids they're giving a million dollars. And would and record book wise, it wouldn't it wouldn't count. So it's like Where are they going to start their own book? ty much. I mean, there are there are records for If you go to like a record, you know, any place you'd find track and field records, it's like the official records, and then you'll see like Medal records off the off the books records the sick ass rec T two legit to quit records on a separate page under the FAQs, I guess Notable athletes doing this, we've got the mountain from Game of Thrones who we saw know it's I just didn't expect it You're wrong We got F more of a hound kind of girl Wait, who did win I don't remember They spoiler. Yeah. spoiler for Ging of Thrones, but day Eight years, ten years, It's been a while. Whver. They threw each other off a cliff. That's right that's right That's right's I forgot And then they reanimated a dead body. Was that guy or that was a dead he got reanimated. Right The zomie hound and the zombie The hound was the zombie, but the mountain wasn't a hound and wasn't a zombie. Mountain was a zombie. Mountain was a zombie. Hound It was just a guy, a big guy. was just a dude. Yeah, big guy. Isabella is dude. importantantly Fred Curly, the he's a United States sprinter. He won the silver in the twenty twenty one, twenty twenty the Tokyo Games and brronze in twenty twenty four likeike an Olympic medalist. who is, I believe thirty. He's not like a Um By the way, the World Athletics President Sebastian Co has said that track and field athletes who compete at the Ehanced games would be banned, quote for a long time. end quote So that's Not really They know this. Yeah. They must. know They know turning back kind of thing. British swimmer Ben proud who got silver in twenty twenty four in the Olympics. He's a freestyle swimmer. He's doing it. That's a notable athlete Isab P your snow I'm proud of him. Who's paying for it? Good question. Venture capitalists. We got Thankk you, Peter Tal. Peter sorry, I'm trying get into who's funding the steroid Olympics. what billionaire is responsible for the human testing on athletes. We've got more I dug into it, it was exactly who I know. It's Peter Teal and I think it's Ongermeyer is that how you say Christians I Ongermeyer and then Aaron Deuza. Aaron DeSusza, who you may have heard recently in the news, he's the founder and CEO of that new AI tribunal company objection. They like market themselves like anti cancellation tool that it forms a tribunal. Chris is Chris has tilted his head in dog curiosity. It's like a tribunal of AI bots that are supposed to objectively decide your fate in the public consciousness if you've been canceled. It's bleak. All of this is I don't know why everybody seems so willing to let incredibly rich people get richer off of the sale of us to robots. It's like what The fuck is going on kind of, do you know what I mean? It's like very crazy making, if you know what I'm saying. But anyway, this is on Sunday and it's backed by these venture capitalists and also Donald Trump Junr.' firm Shut out seventeen eighty nine Capital. That's an investor. We also have, of course, if if you had to guess Isabella off who else's money might be involved in this? Not to put you on the spot. Do you have any guesses? Comm Brady I don't want to say I don't want to say no definitively but I will say that's not who I was looking for. It's the Saudi royal family.. You just the I'm sure the is it the PIF? I'm sure that's someomewhere in there. So that's pretty cool. twenty five million dollars in total prizes, plus bonuses for every already said that, the worldld record thing Wata, the World Anti Drug Administration and the IOC, that's the Olympic Committee, said that it's a betrayal of everything we stand for, Promoting performance enhancing substances and method sends a dangerous message. Especially to current and future generations of athletes, such substances can lead to Serious long term consequences like death, blah blah blah blah., obviously everybody's unhappy with it except stududio analysts Abby Labar and Emanuel Acho Who are gonna gonna cover it in the studio for who? Roku? I assume. Roku So you can find it all on Roku and and Acho is going be there in the studio with Bby Labar. U and Brian Johnson A name that you may have heard if you spend any time online of like this weird guy who's trying to look old He's trying to cure aging by last I checked injecting like younger pers's blood into him And also tweeting about his wife's vaginal microbiome I don't know. this guy is so strange. Everything he does is to try to make him be less Okay old And uh I'm just looking at a picture of them and going He's forty eight. He looks forty eight but wet. He looks Like shhiny forty eight is the best way to describe it. just looks like a forty eight that maybe I took too long to eat between the ice cream truck and the baseball field. He's just like a melting forty eight year old. In fact, when I was mentioning that he's gonna be on the coverage, also he's credited as the first ever human enhancement analyst Okay. But when I mentioned that he was going to be on it, Brady, you seemed very excited to tell me all the men you thought were older and more handsome. than the guy who's clearly trying his hardest to be younger and more handsome. And I just wanted to give you a space. It seemed like something maybe a pet project you'd been working on for a while. jumpked at the chance. Keep a list of men you find sexy that aren't Brian Johnson. Entire part of my cortex. I I get older as I'm forty years old You know, you start looking at me like How do I want to age Yeah? How do I want to take this next step You know, I find myself oggling Aggl older men way more often. o where I mean, I look out and I'm like, Pierced resident. Yeah. seventy three years old. Yeah. He's good looking man. I know he looks right. I kind of want to get there seventy three. What about this se in Dante's peak, where he wraps his arm in a t shirt and plunges it into the acid lake to try to push the boat closer to the shore. I'm like your hand would be gone. I don't know what t shirt that is. To be fair, it didn't work because acid grandma had to into the water Aid Rue eats grandma. Oh, that movie recently revisited. Who else is hot to you, Brady, go ahead John Slattery, sixty three years old, Roger Sterling from M. Oh my go. Silver Fox forever, aging further into Silver Fox territory lookooks like a good looking sixty three year old man and sure not trying to be anything else. He was wasn't he a plotline on desperateousewives? He was running He was a weird manare and he slept with evvilong Gor. sex in the city And had his kink was that he liked to be peed on and he wass like, No, thank you. Thisabll that just came She came right out with the water sports. Okay I tell' I's No, okay, I'm sorry, I guess he's pretty hot. I'm just not into that, okay All right. goodood looking men who look their age But Pierce Brosden John Slattery Kanu Reeves aged sixty one. Yeah of course. Kanu Reeves has not aged in thirty years. He's looking pretty much likeu Reeves with a beard I know. sixty one years old and looks natural. Does not look like he's been jabbing himself with needles. This looks like just a fantastic looking sixty one year old man. Yeah, he's just aging. And I'm sure he probably is jabbing himself with some needles. It's You know what doing it well, doing it conservative. Sure, right. Twins manager Derek Shark. Okay, now we're getting a little specific I need to see a picture. Can we please put a picture up It's just not immediately coming to mind twins manager Derek Shelton, Although I'ly recently. w What did we talk about with him recently? When did he come up He got thrown out on opening day, I think Maybe that's what. relation to Blake or no. Although like if you ask my mom celebrity crushes, it's like Blake Shelton Derek Shelton. Yeah. And that's and one of those is right. And all have a tight. That's right. That's right. And we don't hold that against people. Some of us like to be peed on. I don't know why I said us. that's getting clipped. What are we the The cououtag Grave of twenty twenty six gentleman, the one that we all need to aspire to. I don't know how he's doing it, what kind of devil magic this is but if I can look eighty years old like Ernie Hudson. Ernie Hudson, the ghostbuster. I'm pretty sure did men's fitness last year at seventy nine pull me up Let me see the men's fitness, Isabella, please Ernie Hudson on men's fitness, please, justust for research research And he's got all of his clothes on her and I assumed at least no shirt No, he's got the shirt on. Oh Well, you can't just do the shirtless one up. Why not I gotta buy the mag Nobody wants the oh my go Ansome. Look at you Hello. Yeah, this is a good list, Brady. Brady likes old naturals. is finding That's hisp to be in my life. It's what catches my eye. Well, so I guess Brian Johnson, sorry, maybe next time. mayaybe next time you'll be good enough to be included in this list of It's just like, here's the here's the part about the Enhanced games that really sticks in my craw. Here's what really gets my goat ennhanced d. com So like it's like if Olympics d. com right? That would be the website of the thing. So ennhanced. com directly sells many of the drugs that the athletes are using It takes one click on Get Ehanced in the upper right of their website. to get testosterone treatment, anti aging, weight loss, etcetera, just I assume mailed to you So that you could be watching theoretically these games and hearing them talk about it in the Vanity Fair article was as if aspirationally, obviously, they're just getting this thing off the ground. They're planning into the future of how the enhanced games will grow. And the plan is that you'd be watching it And they'd be able to put on the screen what this particular cocktail of drugs this specific athlete is using to, let's say, break this world record. And you could just like click order And it would and then you'd get it literally selling the idea that you can be this elite athlete, as if A training doesn't come into play, as if B monitored training because Every average person can't just take this cocktail of drugs and wake up an award winning record breaking athlete, that's obviously not how it works. But but that's exactly how it would be sold to a population that is not's just we're gonna to get a Great heill drink spprite ad but for like Fred Curly. Do drugs. Pepid. Do testosterone I mean, I don't know, man. it makes me kind of go like, well, I guess those, uh I guess those a big hurt steroids commercials weren't so bad after all. I guess the commercial for u what's that thing called? It sounds like eugenics, Eugenics I guess at the end of the day, Eugenics was just the tip of the iceberg. It could have gotten so much worse and did We're on the verge of this also like exploding. becausecause currently there are nineteen restricted peptides and Um, One of Robert Kennedy, one of our junior big. One of his big movements is to eliminate the restrictions on twelve of those pros. available to just be sold by domestic distributors like ennhanced dot com d What is keeping them from being like what is the thing they're going to eliminate the like it's bad? What How are they proving? normally I would think you'd have to prove that they're not dangerous before you could remove the restrictions put on them The rhetoric, and it's crazy because it's the exact they're doing the weed discussion in other directions the rhetoric around it is that by banning it, you've just created a black market for it and people are going to China to get their peptides. They're getting these things shipped in from China. have less regulation on the creation of it. There was one study where someone was they took these Chinese ship peptides and one of them had MDMA in it tell ye, it's party. Lose weight, but also party. you know. So It's like the sports gambling angle, like a big reason why they wanted to intro sports gambling legally is because it's also when they go like if you ban guns criminals are gonna to find them anyway. it's the rhetoric we use for everything. and So okay, great You know what? onene of these days I really do think I might just wake up and go, Sounds awesome You know, I might just start becoming that lady. I might go, great. And be sure to tune into the Ehanced games So Be it just fuck had MDMA sometimes. I wish everybody was as scared of needles as me because then they wouldn't have to worry so much about injecting random stuff into their bodies in the hopes of This just feels so transparently evil. And so I just it scares me. Speaking of transparently evil, Did Anybody get a chance to watch Pablo talking about doctor Oz the mentalist, who I'm gonna go back. I don't think he's a doctor. I'm gonna be calling him Oz. Oh, he's not. I' run by doctor Oz. No, he doesn't doctor I'm thinking of doctor Oz, who's a different guy. Great. Samey. I'm not sure he's a doctor any. B bothoth Ch charlatans. Pablo did a takeakedown of Ozs the mentalist, Oz It was Oz F first time I heard somebody say o, it was Pat McAfee and you never know what that guy. He says everything weird. He says everything weird on purpose. So I thought he was just doing a bit And then I heard, no, that's what he wants us to call Os, which great. So O's the mentalist U Pablo did he had on amateur magician Stevie Baskin to sort of, I guess Stevie put out this five hour Magnum opus of like, hey, y'all, here's what's going on with O's the mentalist. Isabella, had you heard or interacted with or seen anything of this Oz guy anywhere in like because he's been popping up across sports media. I have not. He was also at the White House correspondence dinner that went Ary He didn't mentalize that, I guess. Didn't see that coming. Oh God, if I'm in the room and I'm, goh Little heads up, man. Maybe you could have seen this one and let me know. Well basically this this amateur magician I don't want to spend too much time unpacking a video that unpacks a video, but he this guy comes out and says that Oz's stuff is basically fraudulent in a way. Oz always says he's not a magician, he's a mentalist and that what he's doing is analyzing minor adjustments you make body language and your speech patterns and where your eyes move And by analyzing you so deeply He can suss out what you're thinking out of thin air And he's been on like inside the NBA. He's been on Kay Adams had him on her show at Super Bowl Media Row. He's been across a bunch of Bustsing with the Bys a podcast. I hope you still don't know anything about, but that we have mentioned a couple. Perfect. Exactly right.'s just shown up on a bunch of Pat McAfee had him at his big night at or whatever the at it and, um, And he just does these little things where he'll basically tell you your ATM pin or he'll tell you that you think of a player and he'll pull he'll pull it seemingly out of thin air Well, this ammateur musician, Steve Stevie Baskin was like, listen, he violates a lot of rules of magic. Now listen, I know that sounds silly. But in any sort of art, there are usually codes of conduct, unspoken rules. And one of them is that all of the aspects of a trick that are happening on camera for an audience going out to a mass produced audience All of the elements of the trick have to occur on camera You're not supposed to have a pre show meeting in which anything is discussed or decided because that's sort of violates the magic of the trick. You're also not supposed to edit out anything that could hide part of the from the thing. And so basically they go bit by bit using video evidence and he points out all the ways in which the manipulation happens. and once you see it, it's obvious. It's so Ovious. It's so obvious that you're like, how did I not notice before that like for example, Kay Adams is going, oh no, we lost the thing on the phone because the phone was locked. A phone that we were being told was being scrolled through had been locked by O' the mentalist so that it would remain on the same thing it was on when he looked at it So it's like a trick Even the like the subjects are kind of giving away the game once you know the game And and this I liked this magician's angle because he was basically like and Pabla pointed this out too, is that like Oz is using the fact that magicians do not speak on other magicians. You never reveal another magician's trick, even if you know it, you don't give it away. Oz was kind of relying on that from other magicians. He was going out and doing all this press, promoting he wrote a book, He used this to sell his book. He was again, he's with the president. He's on all of the sports media. He's like doing well for himself with this trick that he's doing, these tricks that are And know this sounds weird when talking about magic, but are deceptive in the way they're being presented to an audience. And so this guy was being like, hey, the rule doesn't apply to you because you don't follow the rules. So actually, magic's coming for your ass and what you're doing is fraud And it was sick. It was like an hour long episode. I got to go back and watch I got to watch this whole five hour thing, but yeah, Pablo had him on and it was eye opening Eye openening that Will Compton being too dumb to Google the name He was supposed to Google someone's name and because he doesn't know how to spell Googled it wrong and it ended up being the name of another player. So you watch this play out once you know that he used this Google thing to capture That's a fake Google sign. He like So when Will Compton typed in a name, o somewhere somehow received what was typed. But then Will Compton corrected his mistake O's prepped on another player that has a name similar. Breece Hall and Bryce Hall was the distinction And so Oz is trying to get him to say Bryce Hall and and Will Compton keeps going like, you're not describing the guy I'm thinking of. And then when he goes Bryce Bryce Hall and Will Compton goes, Yeahah, Bryce. and these are two different players. So once you see that you go like, I get it. this is So anyway, that's fraud and And that's it's just there's just a lot of Hopefully he get kicked out of magician's Alliance for that That's not a real thing, right Swet op I don't know I just' go for r rest of development. No, there's a whole magicians have a whole bunch of I mean, they're guilds and professional or.. Are you in the magicians I c tel hand. I could see that too. And I actually the only thing that would make me upset is that you didn't disclose. I thought legally that you guys had to let us know when one of you was in the room. and I wouldn't be surprised Yeah, I bet have an extremely high track record of being pulled onto stage for magic shows. and nothing makes me giggle more. Yeah. I love that. I bet. Then actually while we're doing this, it's not fraud. so I will distinguish the difference here, but we've talked a lot about Tom Dundan doneuned Dundon, the owner of the Blazers and' being cheap and he's uh you know, doing a lot of bad stuff. He he laid off thirty five percent of the team's business side staff That was reported by longime Blazers reporter Sean Hkin Tuesday said seventy over seventy employees from the business operations of the team have been laid off This is in the wake of the a recent game over podcast episode that featured Dundon speaking about his perceived frugality. Remember Isabella, we talked about how the Blazers weren't going to bring their two way players to San Antonio for the first round series against the Spurs. Um This is I just want to play what Tom Dundan said as his excuse his reasoning, his explanation For why? Some of the stuff that was blamed on money is actually not one hundred percent true that I f about. the money like on traveling players, you know, I just made a mistake. I just don't understand the league and hockey, we don't travel extra people because it's we're not on vacation. We're here to win So we don't wantce a distraction. The NBA seems to live with those distractions. It's not how I think about it So you sort of got to learn You know, what's the differences between the two weeigs? Yeah, you sorta gota What a pretty big big investment into that team. You should probably know what's going on. What hockey team does he own again Hurricanes. Yeah U and look, they seem to be fine with it. I um to go out and say, you know, actually, it wasn't a money thing. It was I'm a dumbass. It wasn't a money thing. It's that I didn't think that hockey and basketball were different. and who's never found themselves in that position to own a hockey team and a basketball team and to And to be expected to know that they're different, 's kind of crazy. So actually I'm not cheap. I'm just Unprepared and stupid you know? I figured if we invited all these two way players, they werere just gonna put on inner tubes and go do cannon balls in the pool. do you think they're on vacation? What do you mean? distraction for everyone posossibly So congrats to him or good luck or whatever U let's let's do this. Let's take a break so I can renew my faith in humanity. I know it's there I know, it's I just have to take a break and think about happy thoughts. which I'm going to do and then when we come back, Isabella is nexts We get to talk Isabel's Ns and we get talk to Chris about Wemby because I finally, I'm on I'm on the train. I'm on board. The hell, that guy's crazy. It was crazy. Game one was Nuts and And we're going to talk about it right after a quick break. This is c Casual. we'll be right back Ladies, tired of sunglasses ripping your hair out? I know I am. Meet shady rays tangle free sunglasses becausecause once the weather warms up and you're outside for those park days and beach trips, the last thing you want is your sunglasses ruining your hair. These are designed with smooth, no snag nose pieces that glide through your hair, not yank definitely not ruin your fresh blowout. They're lightweight, polarized, so you're not squinting in the bright sun and cute enough to wear with everything. 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That's shipstation. com code casuals, shipstation. com code casuals, taxes and fees apply. Okay, hi, welcome back the playoffs. Ain't they something? you know people don't people forget. The playoffs are the best part of the scene We're in the pointty end. The schedules have aligned again. So we are down to two teams in the East and two teams in the West in both the NBA and the NHL. So let's reset the table. Let's get everybody reacquainted with what we've got left going on, what the action is and how we got here. We will start with the NBA. And we will start with the Eastern confonerence finals because that is between Isabella's Beloved Nicks and the Cleveland Cavaliers. Now the Cavaliers have gone to seven. Both series. prior to this one. they are exhausted And that showed up. Last night in game one of the Eastern confonference finals. It's last night to us because it is Wednesday here. I know, I'm sorry. But I want to capture Isabella's excitement. This happened last night. The Kicks came back D a twenty two Yeah in the fourth quarter to take the game to overtime to ultimately win it one hundred fourteen to one hundred and four. They ended the game on a forty four to eleven run. U larargest comeback win in New York Kicks franchise history, the second largest fourth quarter playoff comeback. in the play by play era. What's the beginning of the play by play era? ninety eighties It's usually the sually it gets detined by like eighty eighty one. I think was one of the three ninety six, ninety seven is the playway than we thought. That's why I ask Brady while we' questions while we're asking questions, your videos off to the races. You are three minutes behind your audio. I don't know if you want to like refres or anything or if you just want to roll with it It looks crazy, but funny U the So Isabella, did you stay up and watch this whole game? Oh Yes, our little sports fan. How was it? How was the experience? It was lovely Listen Kitty next thing that you gave me, It's magic. It's magic. I have it set up a very particular way And it seems to be working for the Ks. Okay That just reminded me of something that there's another there's another hidden hello kitty in that room with you. But I don't know if this if that so you saying Hello Kitty made me want to send you to find it But then I was like, I don't want to bump into the other to any luck There's another hello Kitty in there with you in that room. Why are you somewhere? Kitty has just been in here? The whole time. The whole time? Yeah Did you want to take a look for it? you? Did you want to It so fun? I know, I know. Isn't it crazy? Do you remember where Kitty was hiding last?? It's where I'd start if I were a person that had a kitty I had to find. We find elseid I don't know. crazier things have happened. I. Good day So I just want I like to capture these moments. Bring your face to the camera And we're back. Hi. so apparently Hello Kitty wreaked havoc on our studio I thought that she was hidden somewhere safe. Turns out she was hidden next to some important wires. But Isabella, why don't you go ahead and describe for everybody what it is that caused such a ruckus just now in the studio It's a cute ruckus. Hello kitty Bobblehead. A m' Hello Kitty Bobblehead. So cute. It's a light up one too, I think. I think its's little bow lights up. Yeah, suuper cute and it has its on its little like pl on. Nice. I don't love the. Whoa, okay. Nes on the gift. interesteresting. Really Interesting stuff.ess I'll see if I could get you another one. Here's my thing, Isabella. I'm just hoping because what you were saying and I want you to dive into how this works that the Hello Kitty Nick thing you have is bringing them a lot of luck. So I just figured now would be a good time you'd have also a hello Kitty M thing since I don't know if you saw but the Mets did allow him inside the park. Grand slam the other day The ball didn't leave the field and all the two outs everyvery runner on base plus the guy who hit it Gore I didn't watch that game because I was watching the Knicks. Right. and good choice. Now talk to me about the Hello Kitty luck that's happened for the Knicks. What's the? Yeah, so I always keep Hello Kitty right on the back of my couch. standanding up. Cute. And I know it works because my boyfriend believes it because every time the Knicks do well and come back or something like last night he'll pick up Kitty. Kitty. Wait Even in the post season run, he's not rooting for the Knicks for now No He hates the Knicks so much, Katie and it makes the viewing experience so annoying. Yeah He's not even at all he doesn't think it's adorable when you're happy He likes the nets I know, but that's they're not gonna be a factor. So it's maybe, you know I don't know he this hatred Yeah It's got to be like a chip on his shoulder because the Nets are the less beloved franchise and so he would never root for the popular kid because he's a fan of the underground loser So he's a f of indDT Yeah. tootally. But man, I thought he would have at least been like, you know, into you being into basketball and like such a comeback like that. I know. Are you being obnoxious in his face? Please say yes. Y. I' like go to the script. Yeah. I mean, what a comeback and alternatively, and maybe we make Chris speak to this, what a collapse Cleveland The fuck was the plan there. There was no they had plenty of time outs and they just didn't Wan to use them Yeah, so I I don't know how to feel about this because on the one hand It was clearly not the right decision from a coaching perspective to not call any time outs. I think he called one throughout their entire But it was at the the last It was it was like a it was too late. It was way too one one was at that Yeah But Man, I love watching again when there's not a whole lot of time out to's cold, especially that last five minutes of the game went so quickly because neither team were really calling timeouts. even on the last few possessions. Viewing experience wise it helps. Viewing experience wise was awesome and that's the Whenever I'm watching a game, I hate that teams Coaches don't trust their team to just go and play and to make the right decisions. You've trained all year for these specific moments. You shouldn't need to stop and have a time out a set play. you should trust your team. I think a lot of that is because I grew up watching AFL and there is no timeouts in AFL. so you just play until the end, there's no stopping whatsoever. And so I think a lot of it is that. And so I hate the fact that have lost because they didn't call the timeer because now there's just more you know support for calling more time exactly which I actually ultimately hate. And I get thatcent. But when a team is going on a run, when they get hot, when they are just everything's falling for them. you're in their building. You got to maintain you got to just like stop especially after going seven games in two series. they just need in general He's got to give them a little break, a little refresh. and it felt like their offense was not running through the proper. They needed to switch stuff up and they didn't s like, Harden was very involved. and I don't think Donoan Mitchell, like madeade a shot in the towards the end of the fourth quarter And then harden on defense harden on defense man. Yeah Jayalen Brunson was just attacking him play after play and was like, all right, let's put old Jalen Brunson slower and slower. Jayalen Brunson has got to be towards the top of the list of guy you want on your team late in a fourth quarter and like like he's so much fun to watch you go like he'll get that in too He'll be being pushed out, no foul called pushed off the court and he'll find the angle to get the ball into the net because he's like he has to and he knows that And that's one of my favorite kinds of players to to root for, but that was absolutely Wild. Brady, I know you love M WWE angle on this. I gott to be honest, it has not hit my Teline as much as is probably yours, but you seem to think Isabella I it Isabella's kitty Isabella is a Hello kitty doll had nothing to do with the luck. You think it was Dan Hausen again. Well you made it weird now. I'm sorry Dan Hausen was on ESPN before Game. rem He is the demon character from WWE and he had Do you restst He wrestles occasionally. But barely he's more of like a comedic relief character in the WWE Isabela. Yeah R Right. She doesn't find it funny at all. She's looking at a picture It is me. Sing a you sorry in that order, in that inflection. is the clip It's the clip for me. I need it. I need it. A you sorry. Sorry I realize now you're a guy. I Okay, tellell the story. tellell the story. She's sorry. okay? She's sorry. curse on the cavs A new one or a a new one. Okay The first one was the anti it was the uncursing the of the knit for Stephen A. Smith R he went on ESPN on Tuesday morning. put a curse on the calves. The Nicks comeb back with a historic. I mean, historic come back against the squad. Should we listen to him on and what he said? Let's play the thousand post. Dan Housen told you the cururse was real. We did it. Dan Housen has cursed the Cavaliers The it a one And downhus in his one and now his old quartitit in between Timothy Chalise I general Yes, that's right. and then the car' working ginger Okay. Isabella wor does not worseg Isabella does not like this. She I'm watching her face go from like the voice didn't help. The voice made it worse. I think the fact that he calls himself Dan Hausen, I don't think she likes that either. I just She's not into this Thanks for the love. But if it works, it works. Yeah. Um, All right a mitch. l Okay, speak on it Solen It's just like when it was happening last night, I was just like All right, whatever. I get it, but also at the same time, Mitchel Robinson, I need you to practice your free throws, man. It is like a it's as a non listen, casual basketball viewer here, but it is the thing where I go like, what do you mean the free ones they're bad at? You got to get them they're the same every time. You got to get them in. Now, Chris, at what point Um actuallyually, can you explain like the hacka michch hacka shack like what the to a person who maybe isn't watching a lot of basketball, what that is? Sure. So teams will actively seek out Pers on the opposition who have bad free throw percentages putut them at the line because if they shoot fifty percent from the free throw line, for instance, they're only getting one point per position or sometimes less than if they're really bad free throw shooting rather than giving the team an opportunity to have a proper position where they can score two or three points in a possition. And so it's just a way of like eliminating the amount that the opposition can score. And Mitchell Robinson from the free throw line is forty percent this season, fifty percent for his career, I think. so a little bit higher, but yeah, not good. whatso. And so what at what point do you start to consider The grandma The diaper Three years ago? Right. So it's like it really there's no reason the only reason Who that they the Pler that pioneered, it was Rick Barry many, many years ago. He had a fantastic free throw percentage. I think he shot like ninety percent from the free throw line throughout his career, Rick Barry doing the underhand bucket shot And maybe I would been play because you know that position. I love watching where her thoughts go because I was like I wonder where she's going to go with this. And then when she goes Well, then I gotta get my shit together. I should be out there. I can shoot like that You should like if you are struggling from the free throw line and hacker Mitch isn't just something by the way that has started in this post season. This has been going on for quite a while. Sure. You have to do whatever you can possibly do as a player to win games for your team. If you are not willing to attempt the underhand free throw because you think it looks silly And that's I don't accept that as an answer. It does look a little bit silly, but no what else looks silly is being called to the line over and over and not being able to hit a single shot. So it looks one hundred percent straight L I don't know what you call that, but like there's just like less arc to the sh's less it looks so straight and I'm like a little bit or so That was always that was the key for Papaot to me, notot to teach you how to do your job, Mitchell Robinson, but I the key to Papaot was when I learned that like stop trying to Push it and let it roll. let it like roll off your fingertips becausecause that benef the back spin you put on it benefits the shot. But it does just seem like he's too far in his own head. I just you know, the crowd I feel like the crowd would go nuts if you went up to the line and set up to do it under.. I feel like people would be like, let's go. get around it. L he makes it though. They're very supportive Yeah your back at a certain point the support is enabling. You have to go like try other things and then we'll support you if it still sucks, but switch it up my guy. They're not going to stop sending you to the line So P it like it is like Scientifically, it is an easier shot to do a bucket shot. Right because they there are less movements that are required. Whereas if you're try to shoot you know, the traditional way There are so many different you ways that your arm and your wrist and your fingers can move. There's just a lot of variables. You're eliminating the variables with that undershot. If he made a switch during the playoffs, I feel like that would be momentous it would be. So maybe he's keeping that card in his pocket so that he can like play it Should they need it? I don't know. Sould bring it out soon then Maybe it's like a time out that you can't hold onto it for forever. We learned that from Kenny Atkinson, who by the way, after the game said, I like to hold my time outs. I mean You know, I didn't want to get one time out at the end of the game one or two point game. I tryed to hold them. Yeah, all right, Kenny. Well, there's diminishing returns on that he still has those time out to this day T this day. And I hope they age well in your pocket. Okay in the West, we saw game one between the spurs and the Thunder. Also we haven't I think said this yet that we got our MVP for the season And it's SGA from the Thunder. So congrats to him. Th then immediately, this was during the game where I think they nam the night they named him MVP. He got, I mean, Weemby just made his life hell Um, that he Dctor Webinyama, a man we've talked to you about so much about how thrilling and exciting he is to watch. and even still with all that context watching that game the other night, I still found myself going like Is this guy real He's he can do everything. He's and it's with ease and he's so picture of him when he goes over the video where he goes over to his teammates and he's like And they're all like, you're the man It sick. It like it made me it's like electrifying Um, that three that he took Yes the Everybody, it was like a must hit three basically from center Court. And as he pulled up to shoot it, Dan goes, oh and I was like no but watch. I literally was like, no, but wait and it went in. It was like a must hit and he did. It was absurd. Double over time, the game went to one, twenty two, one, fifteen, the sppurs ultimately won that was in Oklahoma City. so they stole one. byy the time this is out, they will have played their second game, right? So we're not going to be able to fully recap that. I just wanted to make sure people are paying attention to Wemy and you know, end that whole series. It should be a really good I mean, what a game that was. Chris, you love that game U I didn't watch that game because I was watching the hookkeie And I was doing some work at the same time. So I only had my one screen in front of me, but I knew it was game seven. it was the Canadians and the Sabers you were talking about how exciting that series was. So I'm like, all right, you know what It's Game one of the NBA, it's game seven and the NHL. I'm going to prioritize the NHL tonight. So honored I'm sor. I'm honored NB game. Really sorry because it was a good game as well, though that NHL game seven. Yeah, it was. And let's use that as our pivot to the NHL. So in the east for the NHL, we have Carolina who hasn't played a game in three years and up against the Canadians who did, of course, beat the Buffalo sabers in game seven. Alex New hook scored the overtime winner against the Sabers. This was Monday night to give his team a three two victory and an Eastern conference finals match upp against the Carolina hurricanes. a bummer we were root I think as a podcast, we were rooting for the Sabers. Yes, I think we all kind of agreed we were We were hoping for that, and you know, I hate the Hs and I'm sorry to Hs fans. It's not personal. It's literally I taught this from birth and I can't. abandon that. It's just don feel. Okay. And who asked you, I guess would be my next quest? I don't know, you know, like who even? ask you So no, that is. It is a cool city and it's a they're a good team. They're a good young team. It's an exciting It's an exciting matchup Bills Buffalo But Montreal who you were talking about. I know you could see how things got a little. And then that's and and that's my fault. that's and I apologize. Yeah. I am so sorry. Let's now. So again, Josh Allen, Buffalo, Bill's Sabers out No more dead. dead in the water bye to them. like that's like Best of luck to everybody sorry to everybody in Buffalo, a tough way for it to end Tage Thompson looked like shit He looked horrendous in that game and I was eating it up. I he looked there were like multiple turnovers, bad. There was a he should have put a shot on net that could have won the game doesn't then the ball the puck goes the other way and they scoren it's over. Lo to see Tage Thompson have a bad game, unfortunately was rooting for the Sabers in spite of that, but to see them go down and him be a huge part of the reason why I guess would be the silver lining. Carolina, the favorite to win this Eastern conference final, but it could go either way the Canadians are young. They're exciting. They thrive in chaos. So this is going to be fun series to watch. I don't want to make Christmas anymore basketball games, but I will say, I do think this will be a fun, high powered series to watch. just and Carolina are my second favorite team, so I feel like I should. Yeah. And they got Rob Brindemore, who that's a fun story. Everybody loves Rob Brindemore, former player now, coach. She's been a part of this Carolina team know for a while. So Exciting stuff. and then in the West it is the Vegas Golden Knights, but don't say anything You know, it's the Vegas Golden Kights but we're not talking about it No no media, no press. Okaykay? Please, no questions, no pictures. facing off against the the Colorado avalanche, who are the favorite in that series. A lot of people's favorites to win the cup. The games are Wednesday, Friday, Sunday, That's games one, two, three for that series. So difficult to talk about as we were recording before it's happened, but just putting it back on your radar that that's who we've got. It's a lot of goalie talk around that series because Vegas is goalie, who I'm on the record of not being a huge fan of Carter Hart is actually playing well now after not so great of a start to the post season and the end of his season, I think was bad as well. And then in Colorado they have the two the the the lumber yard They call them. the two goalies Blackwood and watered Wedgewood. Bella I listen to your radio show. a ex I don't just I'm tired, but I'm not asleep. So that's exciting. Also in hockey Now, this series has been extra difficult to talk about in the PWHL. They are in their you know, their equivalent of the Stanley Cup final. They' in the Walter Cup final, it's a five game series in the PWHL between the Montreal Victoire. Isabele's favorite city, I guess.'s pretty up against the Ottawa Chge. Now, of course in a five game series, you just got to win three and Montreal one game one In over timee they won three two. They won game two in overtime twow to one And then game three looked like it was about to go to overtime. until Otta scored a game winning goal. They won that game and staved off their They kept their season alive for at least one more game. They won that game two w one. Game four is happening it will have happened. So it's possible that Montreal has won at this point. It's also possible that Ottawa is still alive. What I think is most important out of the PWHL is I've got an update on that merch that I ordered that is I don't know where to be found did order it I told you last time that the email I couldn't like said, thans for your order, but then nothing in there was about that. I think I ended up Googling track my order from this company with my order number and it like let me it took me to a thing where it said Unfulfilled. It showed me the order and that the order has been placed And then it says track. So I clicked, Yeahah, I'd love to track. and it just said unfulfilled. and the tracker showed my address. And I was like, yeah, that's. Tracking me. I'd like to track the package.. I want to know where the package is. And then I Googled it, found a subreddit where everybody was like, yeah, this place takes months to randomly fulfill your order will just show as unfulfilled until they feel like it, I guess. So I'll let you know when it arrives. I'm not holding out hope for the quality of the items. although that same subreddit people were like, actually the stuff was pretty nice. It had no rhyme or reason when it was shipped New update in Sad merch My French Awake kit for the World Cup is showing us delivered nowhere to be found in my building. So I believe I believe it was a hot item and I believe it was just taken. not by I imagine somebody along the chain of command was like, this is a France cup jersey. I want it and they took it. And I And I get it Actually You know, I'm going to write it off on my taxes as a donation, but it's gone. B expense. Pretty upsetting as I will be in France this summer and was really looking forward to told if you see somebody in New York City in a French away kit Please no vigil ani justice. Yeah, it's gonna be a men's small so I can take them And I might on the street. my p. Now we got a voicemail from somebody about the Walter Cup, I believe. I have not heard it, but I heard that it was incredible and that we need to play it. So can we please do that now Hi taking in the casuals. This is Kara shhout out to my favorite Isbella Oh I am calling to out read a word about the PWHL playoff cinema I hope everyone tunes in. But I want to tell you about game one. that was in Montreal Auto is up two to one late in the game in the third period. Montreal has this top line that they're known for. Abby Rock. Laura, Stacy, A you planan the greatest women's hockey player alive is that Sfy and Pulen are married They call it the Wifeline.y Rck is an honorable member of the Wifeeline Anyway, it's late in the game Montreal is down to one at home attacked against the boards legally, but her leg gets caught up under her. she goes down M Gen, her teammate and wife comes over and is like obviously distraught, very concerned about her She's down for a long time. eventually Cin helps her off the ice down the tunnel for the bench and things are dire. Montreal is on the roppe. They just lost one of their best players They have less than two minutes left in the game. They're down at home, game one ese this is the final round So the crazy thing is that they pull their goalie and Montreal scores with two seconds left in the game to tie the game and head to overtime and everyone's like, okay, like this is it. It's going to happen And then at the beginning of overtime, Stfy comes out on the ice, you're thinking she's not coming back. She shows up. the crowd goes these nuts Momentum is all on their side and Montreal scored a game winner three minutes into overtime, Abby Rock on that whipeline puts it away and Montreal comes back from down with two seconds left to win game one. It was absolutely electric and every game has been electric. Most of them have gone overtime Anywways, just a moment for PWHL. loveove the pause so much. loveove you all, especially asZa Oh my god. I love that. I love the show. It's so cute. Yeah, shout out Abby Rock, former guest of casuals, esteemed guest. We got our hot off a trip to Disneyand world. Where were they just coming back from? I think it was Florida. Yeahah I think so too. So thought they were drinking at Epcot. Yeah, that's right And shout out to the Wifeline. I think I saw and you never know what's misinformation now, but I think I saw that they have like friendship bracelets that say Wifeline. A Thank cute, so electric. shhout out to the PWHL. Hey didn't they just announce they're getting a new team team four new teams but no teams next year they announced the fourth one yesterday. So on Tuesday U They announced that San Jose is going to be the fourth team Oh ye adding to the PWHL that expand to twelve teams for the twenty twenty six twenty twenty seven season. Okay, Chris, so does that mean? because you're a sharks fan? Yes. So does that mean that you're going to be a San Jose PWHL fan? Yes. Oh just if it's harder to watch. Yeah. and I'm not going to be able to go to many games And I've already seen how tough it is to follow my teams on the West cooast, but I gott to do it. Yeah. I got to do it. And I do think they're at least putting their full games on YouTube for a while longer. so at least it might be a little easier to watch. It's just the getting the recaps of the games that's actually difficult But I've seen people starting to make a lot of noise about that. so hopefully It'll be fixed. What do you think they should name them then? because you got the sharks. What do we think the what's any ideas for the Make sure it has an S so Brady's head stays on his what was that The dolphins Oh o Y. ' douphins a girl shucks the boys, everyveryone miss them The way that cats are girls and dogs are boys? Yeah That is just science. Yeah. And dolphins are really smart and sharks are dumb. That's also science. So faster dumb. But isn't there can't dolphins be a little scary also Are you are you talking about the fact that sometimes they write that article? Yeah Yeah. Well, and that's u And that's we don't have time to unpacking that. So maybe Great job, as well. Now they're not going to be called the San Jose Dlphins Now now we got to come with something with no S and now Brady's going to lose his mind U So congratulations to them. Brandon Soresby, Brady, we've been keeping an eye on this because he was the number one What Trfer portal Transfer quarterback Yeah in this post off season for college football and he got in trouble for gambling. And one of the things we talked about in this podcast was how strange it was that they were talking about it as if it might affect his season. Not that it was immediately like he will not be playing. You have an update for us on this story whereere we at So he filed a suit that they filed an injunction on Monday I believe it was Monday to have his eligibility reinstated and they wanted an expedited ruling on it because if he is ineligible, then he can apply for the NFLs supplemental draft being Basically, he can try to go to the NFL and hope that someone will spend a draft pick on him and hope that they don't care about a quarterback who gambles, which that's its own thing U filed this lawsuit on Monday, had a whole bunch of details in it Um The first one was that when he was at Indiana in twenty twenty two, he was redhirting and not playing in any games. So he' was red shirting, kind of taking his off year, only practicing placed bets on Indiana football. which is absolutely a no go saidid that he did it only so that he could feel close to the team so that he could feel like he had a stake in the action. you know, because he wasn't suiting up on game dayay. he felt like I only did it. I owe it that feel like I had a real stake in the games They' out there not involved. Yeah, they're sacrificing their bodies. so the least I could do is sacrifice my bread. I gotta put some money on the line So I also care because without that, I don't care. So I had to I had to do it, you see in addition to betting on his own team. So he only bet on them to win. He said he bet on them to win. And then he also said he bet on like the quarterback to go over a yardage number and to like certain players have rushing touchdowns. and that is its own problem as well because then you have inside information on game plans, which he claimed he didn't That's even sadder. I'm on the team, but they don't tell me anything He said he also admed that he battled major Lague baseball also admitted that he bet on UFC. Doubles tennis Romanian soccer. Okay, what? Turkish basketball, WNBA games and the Nathan's hot doog eating contact. Wait a second. You can gamble real human dollars money on the Nathan's hot doog eating Is it like is it over under? Is that what the You can do a win overunders and then there's betting odds on the winner. likeike Joey Chestnut would have they'd say he's like a minus two hundred favorite or whatnot. And Romanian soccer is that league popping off? What sort of a That is like man, I'm down fifty bucks for the day I got to go put some action on whatever is on. Yeah, that is like a step abve time zone. That's like a step above. H you ever seen those like sport farms? This is really bleak and we don't have time, but I think they're Russian in nature where it's just like an overhead shot of two guys or people sitting in chairs, but their feet are playing soccer and you can gamble on like that video feed of if the ball will go. It's like the crate the kind of gambling where you go like We got to we got pull you out of this. This is like Romanian soccer is I believe the The trigger the canary in the coal mine that makes you stop before somebody goes into gambling on that, but okay, what else did we learn And then this one actually wred itself, the Originally the judge that was assigned to his lawsuit because everything's just nothing's crooked in the NCAA. everythingvery judge was assigned to his lawsuit on Monday that was going to rule on whether he would be eligible to play for the Texas tech football team in twenty twenty six W Judge Philip Hayes A Lubbock, Texas native and graduate of Texas Tech University. Yeah. so we can't have that. And so they did they fixed it He recused himself today. According to on three as of Wednesday, he did recuse himself in the case. they don't Chivalry not dead. Okaykay? He stood up and said guys, listen, I'm going to go ahead aboutow out of this one because I have a vested interest in what happens here. Okay, that gives me a little bit of face I dont I don't see the we also had a fifty dollarars bet on whether or not he would recruuse himself. So I shouldn't even joke my that definitely cash in. Okay. And then let's talk about the NFL. Remember Isabella around the Super Bowl when they gave away the the awwards for best Ething in the NFL and and what's his name? The comedian U mispronounced JSN's name at the Yeah, Drewki went out to the ceremony and like made an off color joke about Jon Smith in Jigibba's name. He like pretended he didn't know how to pronounce it and called them something else. He has now received his offffensive player of the year trophy When I saw this story originally reported, it said that he got that it said defensive player of the year on it. So that's what it looks like on the trophy, but a league spokesperson said, no, actually we didn't put a D at the front. It's an O. So it's closer to offensive player But it's O E F E Oh, that's not about horrifically. It. Okay. so instead of the second letter being an an F, we made it an E. But did not make the first letter a D and the second letter an E. It's an O So it's technically just one keystroke off. But it obviously reads like it says defensive player. It did look like defensive. When you have a look at the video that Jackson Smith and Jigibber posted, it does look like it says Let let's play that clip and take a listen to what he says. Now I really want to expose them though This is it's getting disrespectful guys St comeonga. It is getting is getting a little is say though, Jackson Smith and Jigm, if you're gonna to bitch about this on on Instagram. muture goddamn TV in the background. Okay, this is If youan to make a a specific note for the guy whose phone vibrates every single episode we make of this podcast, but fair enough Um yeah, it's just I feel I don't know. it's not a big story, but it is It's not crazy, but it is weird. It's happened twice to the guy everyvery time he keeps trying to get this honor he's supposed to feel, he keeps feeling dishonored by it Yeah. But you know, it is what it is. Speaking of Dishonor, Aaron Rogers. this one just came through. I just got the Notification He has announced he will be retiring after this upcoming twenty twenty six season, which he has last week or earlier this week, we told you he signed with the Steelers, reunited with his coach, Mike McCarthy. They played together for the Packers. He is retiring after that. So we're going that basically sets us up for the year of Aaron Rogers where he goes on his little retirement tour and does DMT with every team. I don't know what he's got planned, but he's got to, you know, go around and get all of his little chochkis from all of his little What if he doesn't want the attention which I guess we should reserve space for that being a possibility. U Did some people were get misinformed by something with his wife this week? There was a u There was a AI post on social media going around you know, they had released their first picture of Aaron Rogers and his wife, Brittneany with an eye. And it's him and a very alt looking woman with dreadlocks and seashell necklace tattoos all over her and like a tattoo on her forehead And it's not E I mean, it was one of those things where it's like, oh, of course he was someone who looks different. It's not real. I don't blame anyone for getting getting got by it because you don't It looks real. L there is no different this tatoo Yeah, I I mean, it looks like there's nothing There's nothing It makes you think this is not realistic. Yes. veryer few. F head tattoo You think Eon Rogers married somebody with a it just does that's where Earon Rogers is though. likeike it's not out of the realm of power. And I don't mean to besmirch the idea of forehead tattoos. I just if you're trying, if you're saying nothing maybe flagged this as a fake image, I would have started with well, the forehead tattoo does call into question the validity of I would need to see a second photo of this whatever you just called her al looking woman who's got what gaues? Doid she get big gauges in her ears? No, I don't think she does, which actually may have been the biggest red flag because you know she would if she were real. Yeah sure.. So welcome back and goodbye.ing this woman who doesn't exist. No, that's what she ain't real No. From football to football and Arsenal Congratulations to Arsenal. They won the English Premier League. They' They they Manchester City dw is a is the post tense of a tie they drew No. Yeah Yeah You really would say they drew at at Bournemouth. Okay. sure. They did that. It was a tie, you guys. They tied. This is Arsenalals's first title in twenty two years. They still have one game left to play That's sort of how it works in the Premier League. they can They don't do the post season Isabella. They do just like whoever's at the top of the table at the end of the day season They win. So that's sort of how that works Um and whoever's at the bottom of the table They get kicked out down to the And do we have any update on anybody being relegated or no? Probably not. I keep putting you guys in this tough spot to know. T, we have the update on whos getting promoted. o, and that would be this scandal that we have Yeah, but wait, I want to play was some didnn't we get a voicemail from a gunners' fan I want to make sure we give him his time to shine Yes, We got a voicemail from Anthony from Michigan. Let Let's listen. Hey, Katie, Hey casualties. It's Anthony from Michigan. One one draw on a night between Bournemouth and Man City Give the title to my beloved A arsenal gunners I over the moon. It is difficult, however, to not see your team celebrating on the pitch. It would be really nice if this wasn't like a math nerd thing to figure out that now I have a championship in my back pocket. Let's go Arsenal I love you guys. I mean it Arsenal is The champion of England North London is read forever Yay. It's so exciting. but it is a funny situation where you're like, so we've won. without being there. We didn't do it. There's no triumph. There's no game is over And I'm sure they'll celebrate after their last game, but it just is a funny way that it works Congrats to Anne Hathaway, who must be having a great month, isn't she? I think she's a fan It comes down to the final weekend, the the big thing is that it'll there's a scenario where Tottenham gets relegated and there's there's still it's still possible I think it's still a It's likely. I'm looking at the table and it looks like it's more likely that West Ham because West Ham is in eighteenth on the table Wolves and Burnley are both being relegated But I believe there's a spurs is safe acccording to what I'm looking at. I think the spurs are safe. Well, and who could know for sure? So look it up from a different podcast. You know what I'm saying? That's the best that we can do. Some men in blazers I'm sure that they could tell you. But what we can tell you about Spy gate. Brady. we've got British spygate, it sounds like. So what's American, Spike? And we don't have time. Unfortunately Isabella. Unfortunately I just don't think we're gonna have time to explain the Patriot scandal called Spygate where it was alleged that they were filming from an un disisclosed and not allowed location on a field practices of other teams. Genit only in sports, you cannot spy on your opponents while they' Gerally You know, you can't record with video, you can't just watch them practice because they're doing secret tactic stuff. Southampton football club very old Stork one Um been expelled from the final of the second league of English soccer Champions isn't a championship Championship, the English football Championship. They were going to be able to play to be promoted They have been just expelled from that game They've been kicked out of of playing it because they were found guilty of spying on the training sessions of multiple opponents during the season u It's like two hundred million at a minimum that they will miss out on because they are not going to get the money from the national broadcast contracts. of the Premier League It affects what they can pay the players. it affects stadium renovations, bring in new players. It affects so much. The fact that they're just being booted out with no chance to be promoted is insane. Does it affect Rob Mclaney and Ryan Reynolds in any way or they? No, it's not going to make them get promoted or They're not Um But it was basically so this all happens over like a week, two days before Middlesborough's home leg against Um of their playoff semi against Southampton. Those players were training at the clubs U home turf and a member of Middlesborough staff spotted a figure hiding behind a tree filming their session. Like they got caught because somebody was like, who is that guy? And it's just like Spice Adams. It looks like Spice Adams rubbing his hands. There is a guy behind a tree with binoculars in a camera and there are photos of him circulating. That ising behind The English League opens up an investigation they Just dig in. They have other photographs, they have other It's like if you're on camera, just your lead analyst. It was like their first team analyst intern was the one just leaning out from behind a tree U And basically their only defense was like look, I guess we did it guys, but at le least they didn't win the games where we cheated And That's not a good enough excuse. No. It's like, I didn't even enjoy it. Yeah, yeah. had I had sex with that person, but it didn't mean anything. I didn't even enjoy it. So it doesn't count. It was just cheating. Just we didn't even It didn't work. She didn't fall in love with me, so it doesn't count, you know? So now the players are threatening to sue the team. like the players of South Aam are going to file suit against their own team because they are missing out on this h so the money of their that they would the money of being promoted. They the right to get promoted. Yeah, that's Well I would be annoyed if like I obviously don't know anything Yeah. Yeah You're sitting around like, you didn't give us any intel to use. What spying for What was the point of hiding behind the tree? ye. C can you imagine being that guy and you're like, I think they see me. I'm gonna not D. I'm gonna not move By the way, Bred is right, the sppurs can still be eliminated. Oh don't you dare save me for Yeah also we gott to save you for that. Spurse. Sorry. Isabella Walber're here. If they lose at home to Everton and West Ham win, then suppose to win. Yeah, Isabella while we're here. Tottenham Hotspur. Okaykay is the name of this team They go by you can call them spurs You cannot call them. The spurs. You can call them hotsur you can call them Burrs You could call them Tottenham You can call them Totem hotspur. What about hot Toty Let's ask Let's ask them and they'll let us know Um All right, so then they can't play for their they can't what's it called on drag race? They can't L lip sync for their life. they're not allowed to do that anymore. They got kicked out of the possibility of moving up into the champion champions no into the Premier League That's unfortunate. So Buying is bad And I guess we'll keep an eye on if theyd sue their team. That seems crazy to me But we'll see Hey speaking of crazy stuff happening in soccer Thank you erfect without didn' miss a beat Um, low's. The place with the helpful hardware folks is selling a That's ace. Shit.mediately. I'm sorry I'm defensive a local hardware it's just in my mind. That sounds right to me. Dan butchers people's slogans. He thinks that it's all this chicken is Popeyes like all this chicken, this is all all this chicken is pop. He also says Ace is the place. It's a helpful hardware store. and that's not it. That's not what it is. So anyway, neither of those low's The other one is selling a tenose the other one. other one is selling a ten foot inflatable messy They've created a ten foot light up inflatable effigy of Leonel Messi, soccer star who has he confirmed he's playing? because I saw a lot of articles about Christiano Ronaldo goes for a record sixth World Cup. and I'm like it would be Messi's as well There's gott to be a reason they're not specifically also mentioning Messi. and maybe it's because he hasn't confirmed. He's on the preliminary squad. We don't have most final rosters yet. Right But the US. is not till next week. Right. So anyway They made a ten foot light up effigy of Leonel Messi, which fans can proudly display on their lawn for the duration of the tournament. The inflatable is roughly twice the size of Messi himself and includes Well, Damn, that feels like a slight., you're like twice the size. Two Mess' and includes Messy standing holding a football while dressed in a low's kit. Oh thank God, I've been waiting for this. Yeah. I need my low's jersey. He plays for low's U they're takaking on the highs. The likeness, not entirely accurate is what I'm reading in this doc, but I'm not looking at a picture. So if somebody could please pull up for me. a photo of inflatable messy because we like to do on this podcast. if somebody has a statue, we like to say how realistic it is. We didom we showed Isabella Tom Brady's old courtroom sketch to see how accurate that was, which is, again, about twelve percent accurate, ironically enough. And so let the jagged lines right though. Let's take a look. I mean truly. They were ahead of their time with what Tom Brady's face was going to look like U Let's take a look at what the ten foot again twice the size of real Oh my God. what do you mean? Zoom in for me. Can we give a pinch to that? I am Kidding me Nothing like him othing like him Um All right Well he's got facial hair, which is correct. The part is wrong They've got him part in his hair almost like a middle part Like a side middle and that's not right They also made his hair. I mean, I don't know Messi's hair like that, but like it looks culling longer Yeahet, it's too long And also, I gotta be honest, something like that, if you're not going to put a lot of effort into creating like a photore realistic face The jersey would help So we need the jersey. I know there's a ten on his leg Playing for lows really does not help your case here It the arm tets at least. Yeah You're right. I get a lot of Desmond from Lost. I don't get Leonel Messi What an old pull that was. Desmond from Lost Um yeah, it doesn't look like anybody I've ever seen. It kind of looks like Michael Phelps with a full beard. I'm not I'm not seeing messy at all. So I might buy an inflatable Michael Phelipps. Yeah. Why would you want that on your I'm just not understanding the J not understanding the But listen, if it's that or Ronaldo,'m team get me that thing and put it in the studio with me. I'm team messy all day. I'm a messy girl. Hit me with the fart noise because we've got the FIFA vice president Facing ethics complaint, Alejandro Domeningz the leader of Are we saying Cmable I think so And that stands for the Federation of North Amer I thought it was like a Mexican Yeah the South American soccer orrganization at the center of the sprawling FIFA scandal in twenty fifteen. This guy is the headad of that. And he's facing an ethics complaint that he received millions of dollars from the funds that had been recovered from that case. The complaint was made by a whistleblower. Wh claims to have direct knowledge of the payments, mr. Domingue is one of the biggest power brokers in the sport, also serves as one of the eight vice presidents of FIFA You could see how that might be a okay. And then the complaint accuses him, along with another senior Conmabol official of receiving more than five million dollars from the money recovered by the so Soccer Federation after it secured the return of millions of dollars lost to corruption schemes. So what it sounds like they're accusing him of is being corrupt in the resolution of a corruption agreement or whatever He my money that wasn't going into a corruption scheme. He's like, Well, this needs a new corrupt scheme. He was like, Well, this labeled corruption so I should take it. O the check, there wrote four and it said corruption scandal. And he said, sounds good to me. And took it. Let's take a quick break not caused by Hello Kitty And when we come back on the other side, we'll do a couple of checks into our mail bag, which is just really a preview week's full blown mag mailbag E extravaganza. But we'll dip our toe in to get us ready. Right after a quick break, this is casuals, We'll be right back. 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Is this our first Email from Alaska No because Sean from Alaska emailed us a few weeks ago about whether he should go to the Steph Tollev showh or the Porton Fire game That's But I don't think we knew he was from Alaska because I remember we were struggling to figure out who he was rooting for or where he was going. So Okay. interesting. Let's hear what he had to say in his email Sean says, thought I'd give a quick update on me and Rhonda seeing Steh or the Portland Fire game. After listening to the podcast, I went to get tickets to see Steh Tolev and unfortunately for us, the show was sold out.. So we did get tickets to the PDX fire against New York Liberty Game. Unfortunately for us again, it was not the fire last second put backack victory game at the second game they played, which was a trouncing of a win