Soccer World Cup Preview

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I did Delivered to the studio today, courtesy of our friends over at Carvvel that I didn't know he had. But I'm happy to know we do have is a cake, an ice cream cake What does that say? Rokie fan championship taste. Yeah. It's a b and it says rookie in blue, it says Rokie fan championship taste. The problem is the only implement we have here at SSXM to cut it is this pllastic knife here. and as I've been trying to do it It's just not It's not ready still it's not ready. Okay. let's check in through I think Yeah. I'll just leave it here on this table and then and then throughout the podcast, we can try to cut it. cut into it because If you want someone to blame, I very seriously think they purged this place of all large knives when the Vice president was in yesterday. And I'll just blame him anyway, you know, always happy for a reason to. Um, Yeah. So thanks, JD Vance. Now I can't eat my ice cream cake. but we' excuse me my ice cream cake. You're absolutely right. Can I have some? Yeah All right, we'll checkking on this throughout the podcast. Hopefully by the end here, we'll be eating because I'm starving. Yeah. Let's start the pod This episode is presented by Xfinity. Hello Welcome to Casual, the sportsodcast for people that want to love sports even if they think maybe they don't know enough about sports. We don't care about that We think sports are for everybody. I'm Katie Nolan, I'm your host, bigig S showow today. Lots to talk about, lots to get to as always. No guestess, but that's okay because like I said, we have a lot to talk about. We got a T talkk World Cup. We've got an update on some of the Stanley Cup stuff that we didn't get to talk about enough during that wacky Sunday night My flight got canceled podcast from earlier in the week. We've got an update on Isabella going to the parade end to the Brendan Soreresby drama and also just a fun update for major League baseball in regards to Pride night. Let's start by introducing you to our casualties. It's just two of them today as always because Chris hates us. I really, I'm starting to feel I know we knew he wasn't gonna to be here, but er he is away, it's starting to feel personal, it's starting to hurt my feelings, but let's talk to the ones we've got with us here. We have Isabella who is a rookie fan, but has championship taste. Hellah, hi. Hi and a new haircut, which we really like. Thank you. Very adorable and And Brady Hey, does his accent come back thicker do you think? Chris? I think so. I bet he says stuff like Arvo instead of afternoon. I bet he just starts dropping in all the slang that he's gotten out of. I mean, he's been there long enough that I think he's going to come back fully Australian. If he doesn't bring Tim Tams I think he's got shapes though. There's shapes for everyone Yeah Chicken flavored? Yeahen chicken flavored shapes. Chicken flavored shapes sounds like a fake sentence about something that you like to eat. But I'll just take his word for it that that's actual food. Like I said, lots to talk about today. Let's not waste any time. The World Cup. What a fun beforefore the World Cup started, I really felt like this was gonna be a mess. And while there have been parts of it that have been a mess was watching the local news last night, the New York City News about the transit worries and issues of people leaving met life. And they are there. I know we can't call it metet life. I know it's New York, New Jersey Stadium Pardon me. But it's I do feel like there's also been a lot of joy in watching this World Cup and just on the pitch on the pitch during the match and also off the pitch and around the match U We have a voicemail that it says in here from Leah Can we start by listening to that, maybe Hi, Katie. This is Leah from Buffalo. I'm just l to the pot right now. You guys talking about the World Cup and I just want to call in Because every time the World Cup rolls around every four years. It's just magical to me because you just get to fall in love with these other places and learn about these cultures. And yes, I'm a cultural studies teacher, so I am really biased in that aspect you start to just love humanity a little bit, even when these places W major issues because it's all such a great reminder Oh worth fighting for. So go USA, go underdogs worldwide. Oh humanity Love you, mean it. And all y'all, you're great. Yeah, Just Gre? Oh I'll take great. Isabelle's gotten a note Also I I got championship taste baby. I My note was God, the cake has gone to her head. It's an ice cream headache. My note was gonna be All of us, I don't know about Chris But that's, you know, neither here nor there. Shout out, Leah. loveove you meanute. what a great It's so true. The energy around this worldorld Cup and how exciting it is. I will say. Social studies was my worst subject. I sucked at social studies. I hate. Social studies also became history at a certain age. They start calling. Social studies. Yeah, I sucked at all of it. I sucked at all of it. But I do know all the countries. That's something I made sure I did for jeopardy and now I'm up on a high horse about when I'm seeing people online go, whereere even is Cape Verdie? I'm like, excuse me. It's off the western coast of the top of Africa. It's up there But it's not Saut Tomeay and Prinpena. that's down off of the coast of. And so I know all the places and where all they are, but it was weird see somebody was like what even is Cot divoir every coast, you know, Cape Verdy is the one I had to Google. Yeah. And I've learned since that I guess Massachusetts has the largest population of Cape Verde and people outside of Cape Verdy. So I guess it does make sense that that's a country I was more familiar with from a young age. It was just always kind of part of the landscape in Massachusetts. But speaking of Cape Verdie, the reason we are is because they faced off against Spain in their first match of this World Cup And now listen, on paper if you said, hey, your team's going to score zero goals in its first match. you'd go,s that sucks. But actually This was like a huge national victory for them. They tied A nill nill tie draw, I guess, if we're doing socer words against Spain, who is, I believe the odds on favorite to win this tournament They won the Euros this year. So they have a team that Everybody thought would come in and be pretty dominant. And then they tied a team who has never played in a World Cup match before Um and has a forty year old keeper their netminder, their goalie, forty year old Um what's his name? Voina Vosinia. Vosinia who had roughly fifty thousand Instagram followers before the game and now is over twelve million in case you need some sort of context and perspective for soccer fans and the U passassion that surrounds the game internationally He went from fifty thousand Instagram followers to over twelve million Um, Kind of amazing. Spain didn't play Leminam M all, their superstar They said he's dealing with a minor injury. They didn't play him until the seventy first minutes Clearly, they thought this team was going to suck Clearly they were already looking ahead to their next match and that bit them in the butt. I saw their coach, Luis dea Fuenta said, quote, this team was clearly inferior to us did the things they had to do well. And I just want to say to him sports work my guy. you can if all that matters is what it comes down to on paper then you wouldn't play the games. If on paper they are the worst team, Cool You still do have to beat them. And so in your post game press conference, don't tell me that they're a You're a better team than them. You had your chance to show that and you couldn't even score a goal There was a shot where they had like an empty net they still missed. It was a nightmare of a performance for Spain Very embarrassing and embarrassing how they handled it afterwards, which actually also reminded me of Australia's opponent in their first match. They played turkey and Turkey's captain after the game. Are we did we get any, um Official word row that syllable on the. we'rerow that syll in the end. Okay, P peopleople called us to let us know No, but I did go digging. The smart people are on on the internet They're putting the syllable on it. Okay. So Turkey A's captain after their game against Australia said something about how they I think we dominated them. We dominated that team and then you're like, okay you lost to nothing. So I just I don't know And I thought they were the ones that got two. No, they lost to Australia to nothing. but I guess time of possession wise, I think they had the ball more And that's very much like what was the one we were talking about a couple of weeks ago? Cleveland Cavaliers Yes. Analytically they were they were up three one or something. And analytically they dominated. If you look at the numbers, we I think won a couple of these and meanwhile they did not. So very funny the way people are trying to cope with we were supposed to be better. When really, what that should be doing is making you self reflect and sort of become introspective. And instead, everyone's going, well, according to the numbers, I actually thought we did great. So u I don't know what this trend is in sports and why it's It seems to be so popular right now, but cut it Respectfully it out U, o ye What else? didid you guys watch? I watched the Argentina, Algeria game last night, that was what Tuesday night on This was a big one because Algeria I've started to get a little soft spot for from watching their team and the people who live in Lawrence, Kansas take to their team and be very supportive of them. So was K kind of, you know, you pull for the underdog. Argentina is a defending champion. They've got Leonel Messi, who is of course, one of the greatest, if not the greatest Soccer player of all time Still pretty devastated that he just recently announced he'll be partnering with our friends on at Kalhei because this is like your last World Cup, probably. and now every time I it just feels like you're giving them too much. That's what they wanted. Kalshei probably had to pay a pretty penny to sponsor him And he's at the infinite money stage of his career Exactly exactly And it's Dan and I were going back and forth trying to decide if he's gotten a hair because he's got a nice full hairline Dan could not say definitively, which sometimes if you're really rich, you can hide it well enough. I should say for the record, if anyone doesn't know, Dan, this is my fiance has had that surgery himself. So he's not like judging. He can spot it because he got the back of his head cut off and put on the front of his head. So nothing but respect. But he said he thinks Messy dyes his hair, brrown. Oh deil, yeah Yeah, and you respond a forty year old man But I'm looking at your hair and I would say it's the same brown as Messy'. You dye your hair, Brady? No, but there's, I mean, there's gray in there. There's gray in the temples. I think his is a little brown. Dance that it's so brown, it's almost pur. And I'm like, okay So that's what we're watching the game for. That's our scouting report. But on top Patrick is thirty eight. was on top of the died, Har he's thirty eight years old. And by the way, thirty nine next week him and Dan share a birthday. So he will be thirty nine next week, which is my big age. and he scored a Hatrick. That first goal that he scored against Algeria, lookook it up if you haven't seen it. J such a classic messy goal. What's up is? Thank you for noticing that Yeah, I see. Isn't there a hat trick in hockey too? Yeah, it just means three goals, three goals in one game. Isabella, what's two goals in soccer callall? Oh, I just learned this. It's a brice. Yes. Hell yours. A brice. A brice. ice and then went bse? I don't know it's something like this. It's a brace. You got it? You got it. Brady, I'm sorry, I yelled. We just talked about it on the radio and I wanted to test her knowledge.'s a brice for I screamed at it. Yeah, One goal in having your blood taken out and put back in your body is called a brace. Two goals is a brace Um, So yeah, Messi scored a hatrick on Tuesday. That first goal, gorgeous. just he finds a way You know, he just always finds a way to put the ball where the defenders aren't, where the keeper isn't, he just picks his spots. It's gorgeous. I also feel really bad for whoever his teammate is. someomebody on his team, Argentina. During the highlight of that first goal, you really should go look this up ground a player on his team trips compleomtely on his own, trips and falls and then gets back up and then you just see Messi score this gorgeous goal and I'd be like, God damn it That's how everyone's gonna you would think maybe nobody saw. And then you go, oh, it was in the background of the very famous highlight of Messy's first World Cup hatrick. Kind of funny and I feel pretty bad about that U sixteen goals in his World Cup career, he's now tied with Closa, Mir love Mirras love Closa. for the most goals in the World Cup. So we might see him actually break that record It seems like it because he's already got three in his first match. Th notothing three Nil was the final score on that one. So not as close as you want You know what's crazy about that record? I was looking at the all time list. So he's at sixteen. I think Iba's at fourteen. What? And Ebape's like twenty seven. That's crazy. So yeah, that record might not stand for very long. It might not stand for another three weeks. Yeah. And Messi would have to keep going at a hatchrick a game clip in order to get a comfortable enough lead ahead of Embape, I feel like, with how young he is Um It sucks because Algeria had a goal early in that game that they called back and it's just those are such a bummer Because it was like off sides, but it was his shoulder basically that was off sides. And then you go can't even usees You're like, it's Please let it stand? It's such a bummer when the underdog scores against like the defending champion and they go, yeah, we got to take that off the board. You go, do you have to? What if you left it? You know, what if it stayed Yeah, so Argentina won, and that's not the only way they're trying to be victorious. Did you see the story about the Safe Sts program Is didid you see this? I don't think. Okay, so the Buenos Arires city government has sent US authorities a database of thirteen thousand parents that are in arrears on child maintenance, which I assume is child support payments in their country who will be denied access to the twenty twenty six World Cup stadiums. According to Lenacion The sanction targets Argentine parents who have not paid court ordered support after the Capitol shared the list with U. S. officials. So they basically said, hey, here's a list of everybody who owes money in child support. Do not let a single one of them into the stadium I love that. Yeah, safe Stance. Yeah, safe Stance. It feels important. It also is like I feel like you should go, and can I have that money? byy the way, so don't come in, but also did they let them buy the tickets? It say they got World Cup ticket money I wonder if they would then refund it, but instead of giving them back the money, they can just keep money. I don't know' asking a lot of CFA. I know And I also don't know how the law works in in in Argentina. so. I don't know what they're able to do, but hey, look. ay your child support. Yeah. You know what I mean I also feel like I hope nobody on the Argentinian National team owes child support because if so Rules for thee, but not for me, you would say, well, they can't come in either if they owe any. So hopefully everybody's no one's in arrears 's not to get dark, but you've seen the story of the Ganaane player No. U fromrom G at Thomas Party He has outstanding He has outstanding sexual assault charges in the UK is not being allowed into Canada to play Ghana's games you're just leaving with the boiler. You can't get in there, Sorry budd standing Meaning like he's got he's awaiting trial or something Aaiting trial? Yeahah awaiting trial in the UK. So Kama is just not letting him into the. I think I got the ch. I think I would do the same thing. If you're if we don't know yet If we haven't looked at the evidence yet to decide if you're A real bad guy, then don't come in All right, shout out Canada Speaking of, I guess Canada, not sexual assault trials. Justin Trudeau Katie Perry's boyfriend and the former Prime Minister of Canada was seen at USA Paraguay at the opening match because Katie Perry performed pre game. Did you see it? Did you see her performance? Was it a bar as loud? I saw her there? I didn't hear it. and I don't think I missed much. No, I don't I don't and I'm not a huge fan. fan in general Um takeake my opinion with a grain of salt, but it's just like who wanted this Yeah You know, who asked for this U But anyway, Justin Trudeau was there. He said sometimes supportive boyfriend duties call, but you know who I'm rooting for to take the cup? He posted on social media, adding a Canadian flag emoji. So he did not go to Canada's first game, he went to the USA game to support his Astronaut girlfriend It's okay Yeah, I don't really feel either way Yeah Jo Canada, man You think he should be canned? I mean he's not being caned. Crently the primeinister. And I also think they're not happy with him. I don't remember Remember the tides turning on Treau a little bit? I just don't remember I don't know enough to know if it was by bad people or good people. I just know that people soured on them I think if you're going to play the, you know who I'm rooting for card, then you got to you have the means to go You can be there, you're choosing not to be there It's bad luck. ad. I D Berry has perform many times on her own. It's not like this is a once in a lifetime opportunity for her she did su Sperow halftime She can do this on her own It's okay to say I got to go to this World Cup opener because my country is hosting The World Cup Yeah Yeah, well, he doesn't care. He said screw you, I'm here for Katie. Yeah, what more do you want from her? Did he go to space with her? Is? Did he or her hang?aybe you would like to Isabellel, does the phrase lefte shark mean anything to you Oh now Nothing at all, huh H See, put that Yeah, it's like twixs. Some people like the left one and some people like the right one Yeah. putut that in the docket, Brady, of stuff we gott to teach Isabella about at some point. I shouldn' look it up. No, don't look it up yet. We'll talk to you about it at some point, but not today because there's so much to talk about There' something else was going to say about Trudeau but it's it left my brain. and so We must keep moving Um If FIFA put a piece of blue tape over the word Goillette on every single one of the sixty four thousand one hundred and forty six seats at Goillette Stadium FIFA did, quote unquote, FIFA. So who actually did it? Be I know it wasn't Giant baby. I know it wasn't emy crackking his knuckles. I know he definitely wasn't the one doing it. What set bladder up to Did he do it? He put the tape on the seats? Look, I I'm all for the World Cup. They're trying to erase all of the corporate sponsors that are prevent throughout the at least United States venues, but I believe all of the venues in general. So that's why you're seeing Metlife being referred to as New York, New Jersey Stadium and Foxborough oddly enough is being called Boston Stadium and so they've been rele like covering up all of the branding But it's gone a little too far. L I saw people using ketchup and mustard in the sweets at these stadiums and there was tape over all of the brand names on the bottles. And it's like, I hate ads as much as the next guy. But it does feel strange that we can't see the word Hindz get picked up in the background of a shot can take a full ass commercial break during the hydration break. It feels like if you're against corporate sponsors then be against corporate sponsors, this is so strange to me And then I'll see some good tape. Makes me want to buy that tape. You're so You're such a capitalist, you can't You're such a consumer, you can't stop If you're telling me that FIFA doesn't have an investment in a tape company, I will be surprised because otherwise why are we buying so many rolls of a tape?te of tape. Yes, I completely agree. because also I didn't realize every seat says Gillette on it at Gillette Stadium. Now you do. Now you're thinking about Gillette. Streice and aected Gillette into your brain. Yeah, Razors know not to try to sell to me because they know I'm pretty lazy and I don't use them all that often U By the way, Sep Bladder my hesitation was that I had to double check is officially No, but he is banned from partaking in all FIFA activities until the end of next year. Just just corruptionuring general corruption. Corruption. Yeah, buts that's how I go, Well, how any of you have jobs? I don't know how you could possibly have a worldorld Cup in Qatar and we could all just go like That tracks. that's good There couldn't be Nothing here is nefarious So all right, sorry to set Bladder for getting caught in the When he works for the organization that doesn't really seem to care much, I don't think about that. And the organization that ended racism. We nevert We never talk about that Remember that? Where did he get the peeace Prize? They started the end racism Cncil and then a couple of years later, they were like Okay We did it And so they ended the end racism Okay, it is time now for your soccer spotlight presented by Xfinity. This summer, you'll need a good connection for your watch party. Xfinity has Wiifi so reliable. You can host the world and now you can lock in a price for five years. Xfinity. Imagine that We've got a lot of little stories throughout the World Cup that we wanted to talk about and draw your attention towards number one, most importantly, did you see that Tunisia Um fired their head coach afterfter losing their first World Cup game So they came here They lost a game and they were like coaches out Asolutely crazy strategy when playing in a tournament. This isn't like a season that they're going to have to get through. It's just a tournament So they lost their first game and then went let's start over And that feels insane to me. Their head coach Sabri Lamucci U they lost five one to Sweden. Not a not a great score Firing your coach and bringing in a whole new coach. When you're already there After all the preparation Fes absurd to me. No A lot of travel going into that. L just planning a trip all the way to the US. from Tunisia ust the logistics of it coach was like, Oh no, like, why don't you do like what the Mets are doing and hold on to Carlos Mendoza just a little longer to how he's going Notice how her attention has shifted. Notice how she's gone and I love this is a good thing how she's gone like, you know, the Kicks did it Now I got other blue and orange. Check back in on the Mets. She sees her manager still there when we were all telling her he was going to be out early in the season. I know the Mets are doing all better. Are they? Yeah. Yeah than they were. Yeah Right better than all the other teams, but how is your team doing Really shitty Isabella thans for asking.. We really shitty, but at least we had Scottish people dressed in kilts at our gam singing songs. made It made a Red Sox game worth going to. You know what I mean The amount of bars in Boston that's sold out fully out of beer because of Scottish fans is remarkable and hilarious So Tunisia, they fire their coach, Sabri Lamucci after just one game and then they have to obviously appoint a new head coach. And who do they get Erve Ryenard, who you may know He was Saudi Arabia's manager. They fired him in April Before that he managed the French women's team. the last Wen's World Cup And u And and the reason you would know or remember that is because Isabelle, you are you taking a look at his face Yeah U, what am I looking at You're looking at probablyably the newest I I got to bump somebody out of my list of best looking men over fifty Okay, yeah, he's he's got a jaw line that's Okay, so he's not Isabella's type I mean, this isn't for for a football coach, you don't go like, damn, that's the coach looking man. Yeahah. Now it feels like she's doing it because she feels bad. Is it because we're old? This guy doesn't strike you as immediately like, Damn, he's got a credit score. No Yeah. I mean he does look like he has one. Yeah, he's diversified his portfolio. He's got an expensive tan You know, this guy's got He's got nice little nice little bangs coming down His haircut over under five hundred dollars. You think Oh yeah. No way. I't know European soccer coach with I don't know why But I know that cut exists and like maybe you just bright hair. When your Jamie Lannister vibes are this strong, I pretty like Jamie Lannister He really is. Once you said it, it's like I do wish I could see his teeth in either of these pictures because sometimes soccer coaches go a little hard paint with the teeth. I know You know, like whitening? Yeah, sometimes it's more like a blue inning where you go like, man, that is an unnatural color that does not appear on its own in the wild But yeah, handsome man. So if anybody's looking for Someone to look at, I feel like watch Tunisia matches Capital Tunise. It's one of the easy ones to remember because it's just a shorter version of there And maybe it the right? I was what That's the thing that Star Wars was shot in Tunisia. I think that's the big That makes sense. They' big tourist attractions. Yeah, that would make a lot of sense funny thing about You know, I make all this noise about how I know every country and pretty much know all their capitals. I did teach them to myself So sometimes you bump into something where I confidently say the name of the capitol and someone goes, It's Tunis. Why are you saying it like that? And I'm like, o Figured it was T nice So I guess I should just stop saying them because no one's asking's not I have no idea. I don't know how to pronounce any of them. I make it up. Like one of them I think is pronounced Funa Futi, but if I were to find out that that's not how you say the capital of Tuvalu, which could also be Tuvalu. When you teach yourself, Yeah, it's harder. You just sort of are guessing. And you know what? that just says that you're a person who reads a lot and doesn't watch a lot of TV And there's nothing wrong with that I also think within a certain margin of error, you still get credit on jeopardy if you pronounce it wrong I think what' in the margin is just I think it's if they can tell that you're saying it the way that it's spelled. I think they give it to you if you mispronounce it but I should Pro probably checked the rules on that. I also just realized I didn't start my timer. So at some point someone's going to have to tell me if we're going too long, notot like I usually listen to it anyway. Um All right, thank you again to Xfinity for sponsoring this week's soccer spotlight. Stay on top of what everyone's talking about with Xfinity. It's Wi Fi so reliable. You can host the world. and now you can lock in a price for five years. Xfinity, imagine that Let's talk about some of the fan behavior across World Cup ike I mentioned, the Scottish fans in Boston have sold out many of this. I think the Sam Adams brerewery itself said they ran out of Boston Lager because of Th Scottish fans We also saw them trying to go down that the cop slide, the famous cop slide in Boston that launched a cop at like light speeds is that the one that's like that went viral because the like, alumin? Yeah, but it was but everybody else I've ever seen try to um use that slide it has not had the same effect that it had on that one cop. So I don't know if it's just a slide that has morals or something, but it seems like it really picks and chooses who it gets mad at Algerian fans Did you see the Algerian fans in Kansas City gathering in a park, lighting flares But if you looked at it, it looked like they were like the whole park was on fire. It looked terrifying that they just took over this part. Oh, that is terrifying. is Isn't it? Oh my gosh. Look your face. It looks like the trees are on fire.. It's like they're calling in an airirstrike in Lawrence Kansas. S I don't know.ess have fun. Do whatever, I guess.. That was the thing that stood out to me when I started paying attention to international soccer, justust like watching how some of these stadiums will let you light stuff on fire in the crowd And you're like, what do you What do you mean you're allowed to bring a personal torch? That doesn't feel like Safe can't bring a fanny pack and they can bring a torch. My bag has to be clear, but this guy can light that on fire. I don't See how that's very fair. I saw a one of my favorite videos, I think of all of them A woman in a Germany kit, a German fan Dancing in Houston at a bar I believe the song is Wipe Me Down and who's that? Is that little boozie I think By, yeah. Oh Yeah. Oh. W watching your eyes track her emotion It's a beautiful encapsulation of the melting pot. I love I'm not even joking. I know this generation, younger generations don't like dancing in public because everybody's recording all the time. I know Chrisl Yeah I like I do appreciate that this woman's like, I'm in America Dance to their music. I'm going to dance to their music and join in with peopleople that are celebrating culture she probably has she'll never hear that song again in her life. I mean, we also have jazz. we have Yeah Bluegrass. We've done a lot of I don't know if that has to be like The flagbearer for our entire culture. I think in Houston. I think so I think White Me Down is the anthem of Houston. It just fits. She's really into it and I'm not being sarcastic when I say I'm into her being into it. I think it's a beautiful image of like, look When in Rome, when in America Dance to wipe me down in your own little way Did you see the Norwegians on the escalator of the tea? The rowing up the escalator of the tea is So we can't organize a tenth of that as a fanbase anywhere. We struggle with the wave. they could They have a rowing crew So they're sitting calator. So the T is the train. It's like the subway, but it's a train. And so they're on the escalator facing backwards. on their way up and they are pretending to like row And that's so funny. Yeah.'s And they do this in the crowd at games and's just amazing coolest thing. It's amazing. Norway E of them together. Traditions. Dan says that he has to performatively hate Norway because he's Swedish. I didn't realize there was such beef. two nations againain history, not my subject I guess he once wore a Swedish t shirt or something and the comments section was all like, Boo Norway, and he was like, okay Um, so He didn't think it was cool that they were rowing up the escalator, but I did. I thought it was quite neat and The Japanese fans, we always talk about Japanese fans because they surprise us with their courtesy with their kindness, with how clean and well like clean up after themselves in a way that reallyally doesn't resonate with American culture. American culture is very like, well, somebody's job is to pick this up. so I'll just leave it here. And and Japan, like across international sports competitions, their fans are always remarkably u just like clean and respectful of the space that they occupy during the game. And so I've seen a lot going viral from that angle, but I also did you guys see the Japanese fan on the Dallas News? Yeah. I This was my favorite thing. Let's play a clip. Yeah Nice to meet you. Okay My name is o. Yeah, My name is Hirochian Nakaki. Oh wow.be? Okaybe Y it's. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How excited are you? You were so excited, right? Japan, right? Excuse me. Okay. I cannot speak English, but o I'm excited I'm excited. It's like a. First of all, yes, you can. That's a lot better English than I would be able to speak Eng. We elected worse. Excuse me. You can speak in full sentences in a way that people I know cannot. So I he's doing himself a diservice saying he doesn't speak English, but to have practiced Specifically, the way he went like, is this live Yeah I would like to get this out to the people. Are we live right now? She's like, yes And he's like, I am Ecita. And she matched his energy, which I think is fantastic Its awesome, makes me proud to wear that Japan jersey that I bought. France one Yeah. I'm still pissed about it I'm so pissed about it because I'm going there and I would have liked to wear my wonderful France kit and I ordered it before Everybody else did, and I was proud of it And you just don't know where it is. No clue. It says that it was delivered and it's not. so somewhere along the way. Itally like a threatening note in your mailroom in your building and be like, hey, whoever has my France jersey, like give it back to me or else kill you I will steal your package.. I will talk shit about you on a podcast. Yeah, I'll kill you, actually. I think I'm just gonna write, I'll kill you. Okay U we got a voicemail. Yes, from Adam in Boise. Can we take a listen to that Hey Katie and the casualties. This is Adam callalling from Boise, Idaho. My wife has been loving watching the World Cup and loving seeing all the news around the World Cup, Freddie being a perfect example. but You told me this evening, Wow, honey, did you see One of the World Cup players, I think it was on the Iivory coast team was recruited to play via a message on LinkedIn And I thought, wow, I know at least four people who will be curious to hear that news Supposedly this player originally got the message in Portuguese and thought it was spam, so they did not return it and only ended up responding after they the team sent a follow up message in English. but I that was fun, thought you guys might want to know. Ke doing your thing. Love you mean it Love, you mean it. firstirst of all I say Biseie wrong, huh? They say boiseie They say Boise, I got to work on that.. Second of all, things have escalated very quickly with this cake. know It's starting to melt in a way that we're not going to be able to contain pretty quickly. So I don't think we planned for this. I thought it would take a long time, but I forgot that it's a million degrees in this studio. Soake break I think we may have to take a little cake break U And then I could probably put it in the freezer. Yeah. let's answer that let's talk about this voicemail first and then we'll take a cake break and then we'll just come back because this is Holy cow, The chocolate's starting to leak out the bottom All you cut, I'll fill you an Adam hadad. The story rightight The Country wrong was a defender from Cape Verde Roberto Lopez, known as Pico was recruited originally for the national team just directly off a LinkedIn message when he was younger How is that possible I think you find players however you can. Yes, but then shouldn't you doesnn't LinkedIn, I'm not on it because I thought once you're in career that isn't like an office culture, you get off of LinkedIn. That was what I thought, but turns out Mendoz is on Yeah now that all these athletes are on it, I'm like, I guess I should get back on it Sometimes it's just hard to get aold of people. You' like know.t have your contact information. isn't that the? No, it's about you have to no, have you have to like hit connect through LinkedIn. It doesn't just give you the email. You have to email through the LinkedIn website. They won't sureurely this guy played somewhere that they could reach out to to want to they found out about him on LinkedIn No way. No, I didn't find out about him but like you find out about a guy and you're like I have no idea how to get a hold of him. The only thing I see is that he has a LinkedIn page. So we're going to reach out to this guy that we've heard about, Heard he's great. We've seen him play somewhere The only way we can get all of them is do is LinkedIn page. Be I too would go, that's not real. I'm not gonna respond to that So that I understand where the guy's coming from because what an insane way to get a hold of someone. But then sometimes people email you and say, hey, we've got a celebrory Carvel ice cream cake for you. They emailed you. That's how this came through too your personal email or to the T to the show's email. B big fans of Isabella Dam. any eat the cake. I know it's really rather melty. All right, cake break. Okay, taking a quick cake break. Okay, cake breakover. I and it' and look, we didn't show you ads during it. So that was that's you didn't watch us eat it because that's content you have to pay. That's behind a paywall. but you but we didn't give you ads. so we're better than FIFA. And we've also arrived at the bit I'm the most excited for. So one of my favorite things about is that all of these teams have to establish a home base at a hotel or resort somewhere in the United States. And there is a list online of all the hotels that they're staying at, which I've just been fascinated by because some of them are staying in four seasons and others are staying at like a Hilton Garden inn And so I thought it would be funny Because one of my favorite things about the interternet is one star reviews of any sort of business that you frequent. And so I thought it would be funny if we took a look at some of these team hotels where national teams are stationed And took a look at some of the one star reviews they've received online. So Brady has been tasked with gathering some of these together. U, Brady, which country did you say you'd like to start with? Let's start with Algeria. Algeria at the Double Tree by Hilton in Lawrence, near Kansas City. Shout out the warm welcome cookie Uh Okay, one star review from Nia. I am extremely disappointed with the way business was conducted at this location. The front desk agent refused to give me his name, saying, quote I prefer not to give out my name over the phone, and I normally don't, so no. E quote. I spoke with a newer associate, Hannah, who was very helpful at getting my reservation together. She had no idea on next steps, so she transferred me back to the front desk where I was given the same associate who refused to give his name. After calling back again for the sixth time now, I asked for a manager and got Matthew. He says, quote, believe you were speaking with a new associate Josh. Matthew's Mercy If you like hospitable service at check in with the front desk, avoid no name Joshers Avoid Josash, Algeria. I can't even tell what this lady's issue is. I just know the name of everybody who works at this location now. Sve maybe the guy who just started. Okay, so that's Algeria. We' mad that Josh wouldn't get his name out. That's so funny. Also funny, Saudi Arabia, guess where they're stationed the four seasons in Austin, Texas, whichich I bet, you know, at least all of their favorite comedians are nearby. They got a one star review from Payton. Pton says So a seven hundred dollars a night stay looks a lot different in my eyes. when the toilet seat is half cocked And I pinch my butt cheek on the toilet seat, that hurts One star I and I and I get that Can we get a visual of what Yeah, it is weird to say something is half cocked when you're talking about toilet someing is partially up. I would think so, yes And the toilet seat pinch my butt cheek. Why would it be Oh, maybe it's because it's maybe it's haveave you ever sat on a toilet seat that's off? It's like sideways, it's slid to the side a little bit. And so it maybe he tried to slide it back and it pinched his butt cheek. Either way, this does sort of feel like user error. I don't know that I would give the review to the entirety of the four seasons in Austin seven hundred dollars a night not with a toilet seat that pinches my butt. I don't know if I would But that's Payyton wood, and that's all that matters. Who else, Brady, who else do we have? The Iivory Coast, the Cote de'voir. U I hadd probably a little culture shock going from the Ivory Coast to the hotel Du Pont near Chester, Pennsylvania. Jeez, Louise. Okay, so this is a one star review from Josephine. She says, I love this hotel But the new woman at the valet station doesn't understand the purpose of valet. I paid for valet And when it was time to pick up my car She gave me my key and said it was parked at the end of the block That is not valet. I could have parked on the street for free I was stunned because I have parked here before and I've never had that issue. If I see her at the valet I will find somewhere else to park If you could have parked on the street, why didn't you? I guess is my question. If it's free and it's right there, then do it. othertherwise I'm kind of with the valeet girl, who's like tosses the keys. It's down the block there I make a lau. A lot of gen zZ energy there. Yeah. He, go grab it. Sorry I'm little busy. I'm eating my lunch All right, we got one or two more. Yeah, let's go to Egypt. Egypt is staying at the NorthernQuest Rort and casino near Spokane, Washington Common point for anything that has and casino here. they have one hundred one star reviews out of three hundred and fourteen total reviews. Oh my. Also what do we do and letting athletes stay at a resort and casino? Do't Do we not care anymore? I guess No we don't don't care anymore. Okay, so this is where the Egyptian team is staying, which means Mosalah Egyptian King is staying at the NorthernQuest Resort and casino. I'm going to read this one star review from Kurt Hmm. The comedian Sebastian Maniscalco, Friday, august eleventh in the outdoor venue He did the best he could with loud nitro drag racing happening at the adjacent raceway under the same ownership as the casino. How could they double book events like this? It threw him off his game a bit, stopping his bits and he actually mentioned not getting to his punchlines twice and being thankful when he could get all the way through a joke. Imagine trying to listen to a music concert, what an alien way to say that. A music concert with dragsters competing. We'll not be back. Okay. Nitro drag Yeah Itounds loud Drag racing is impossibly loud. Drag racing' super, yeah, very, very loud. So. And so is Sebastian Manescco. Veracing' competing. It's to quote Sebastian Maneskelco. You booked Nitro drag racing the same night as my show Wver just said to him, Why would you do that? That's my best That's me doing an impression of Dan doing an impression of Sebastian Manascalco. said, Hey, you're going to be going on next to a drag show. Are you okay with that? He's probably like Totally. very progressive. I'm not gonna lie That's when I first read this, I was like, o, what's the proble were they loud? They were just voguing very loudly What could possibly? They're just lip syncing for their life. . Yeah, please. Mine's just melted into a mushy. It's crazy how quickly that devolved into madness, the Carvell ice cream cake. Lastly, let's do the US. even though we live here, they do still station themselves at a hotel. What hotel is that, Brady? They are at the Marriott Irvine spepectrum in California, Team USA. Okay. And here is what Christina had to say in her one star review of the Marriott Irvine Spectrum to the GM Chris I will never Walk into this establishment again. I will also tell all of my friends, family and social circles about my awful experience at this hotel I highly suggest you air quotes reedistribute. someome of your employees talents I would rather go to BBC than this God awful place and TBH BBC is not my cup of tea Freddy, what is BBC Um You know, I don't know. so I Googled it on my work computer and apparently I'm getting fired tomorrow Well, it's not That's what they meant Now I chose not to Google what I chose not to Google what this is and just take my own interpretation of Christina's. Okay becauseuse I was I was trying to chase it down and I searched BBC Hotel. California and it gave me every time the song Hotel California has been played on the British broadcasting network or whatever. the best case scenario for that Google. Yeah. Yeah. so I guess Christina would rather go to in Brady's mind, porn category then stay at this hotel ever again Now I know there's only three of us here, but I feel like I There we go You'd rather go to BBC All right And That's it for that U We've got to talk about everything going on in the in the U.S. We've got to pivot to a devastating and embarrassing and sad It's Pride Month, which we're happy for. We love Pride Mth. We celebrate Pride Month here. All our welcome insp Oh Brady And what p hood is there? Oh whereere is it from? What is it what is it I think this is from back when cared. I think this was an older line of a Yeah, we're not m like that at this point. So Bleep what he said. Bleep where he said it was from. Right? Yeah, yeah, that sounds right. But back then you just got it I love that. You were just shopping and you grabbed yourself a Now the downside, I did not think this through that the Pride hoodie, it is June ye' a hoodie. Yeah How often am I ever going to get to wear a hoodie? Yeah Well you you know, you're allowed to care about gay people in any month And I do just a little sweaty today. Yeah, a little sweaty today, but that's okay. We appreciate the Ally ship The UFC fight was happening while we were recording that wacky podcast we had to do over the weekend. And so we said we were keeping an eye on it. Obviously, what we missed was the biggest story that came out of it, an actual national embarrassment, if I may This is nationally embarrassing to me because this event, everybody involved in it, was like, it's a celebration of America two hundred fifty. We're kicking off the two hundred fifventieth anniversary of this great country. That's why we're having it at the White House on the White House lawn, a UFC fight, not even like our number one most popular sport, just a sport that's pretty divisive because of how Tuff it is to watch. You know how many times I've watched a UFC match, Isabella and watched somebody break their leg by snapping it around somebody else's leg while kicking in like the cage Yeah. Okaykay. It's a very violent sport. Now look, I don't I'm not saying I dislike UFC and I know there are people who have a higher tolerance for it than me. I am a big baby and when I watch someone and hear someone's bone break I have to take a little break from it. You know what I mean? No pun intended. but I'm not UFC is not maybe our most accessible sport to all. So certainly, if we're taking them at their word that this was for all Americans to celebrate the kicking off of America two hundred fifty weird to choose Already? and It was also just a weird event. They had Military heroes ocking out the fighters. it was like the fighter escorted by somebody who I know, in one of the cases was like, Damn, he's want a purple heart or whatever And then a Palm Beach cop. It was like incredibly decorated military hero, UFC fighter who's about to fight P personon who I'm pretty sure is just friends with Trump. It was just like first responder they were calling it, but it was just like a Palm Beach police officer at the sheriff's office. They're doing there Who am I to judge? So the big headline, of course, is that Josh Hocett, one of the fighters, won and then decided to use his moment of victory when everybody's looking at him as we're kicking off this two hundred fifteth celebration of this wonderful and great nation. And he looked at the crowd and said lastly, Michelle Obama is a man. Am I right, America And then Joe Rogan said Nothing said nothing, and then ladies and gentlemen Josh Hoket. Right. So u You know, it is a a a Incipient, is that the word I'm looking for? It is a disgusting conspiracy theory that has spread in recent years that alarming number of people accept as truth. and are angry if you deny them their truth It is to me A symbol of just how far backwards we are sliding as a country and it scares the shit out of me. This shit sucks. Um, too have it on the lawn of the White House with an illuminated White House behind this dickhead as he says this shit to these people. Um Just embarrassing to me. The Dana White responded in a text message to Time magazine when asked for comment because a lot of people were like, have nothing to say about that, which is fucking crazy that is the former first lady of this great nation Dana White responded, I understand that the Obamas are public figures, but I'm completely against saying nasty and false things about people's families Everyone knows my position on free speech But I hate that kind of nonsense What a jumbled statement Why butud Why? but I understand the Obamas are public figures, but. I'm completely against saying nasty and false things about people's families. should Okay, so he's against it, I guess. I could have used stronger terms from Dana White. I could have used any terms at all from Joe Rogan. I wished that, you know, to me if this had happened and I don't think a cage fight would have happened on the White House lawn years ago, but if it had I would have expected someone to like yank a mic away and be like, apologies. Th the thoughts do not reflect those of this organization or of the president The White House was asked to give a comment and they were like, we don't we're not gonna comment on that. Um And if what you claim to be true is that this event was supposed to get everyone in America, all Americans excited about the two hundred fifteth anniversary of the country I would say I'm going to need you to make a statement on that then because that was an embarrassment to our country. That made us look Uneducated, hateful U transphobic Racist? misogynistic? an incredibly respected womoman who was the she was married to our president, our first black president. I just like, Where has respect gone? This is the type of shit that's so depressing that it's like incredibly difficult to talk about because I didn't know we lived in a world where this many people would just go, Yeahah, that's Yeah, he said that, That's fine by me This is mortifying This is an actually mortifying sports headline. peopleople Political people were paying attention to sports. this weekend because they were watching this And this is what they saw. This is the representation of sports that they saw So u sccrew that guy And uh and And I hate this. But while we're here, last week we talked about Pride night at the Dodgers game Blake Tryin and is it Ax call was the other player on call that we said just so people know they are not safe spaces for members of the LGBTQ plus community because that's what it means to me when you refuse to partake in a Pride night. because Pide night again, does not mean let's all be gay. It does not mean you are gay, I am gay. It just means gay people, we respect you enough to know that your life is your life and you are welcome here. It doesn't matter who you love. It doesn't matter how you identify. If you love baseball and our team, you are welcome here And players choosing not to participate in that, to me, are letting you know, I'm not safe for you. I am not a safe space for you. And so the giants this week, you'll notice Isabella Those hello kitties that we got from Dan I left those at home I don't think we I don't think u I don't think we need those necessarily this week, the giants the San Francisco I just want to make sure it's clear because that is a city That is seen as one of the places of the LGBTQ movement, of a lot of the advocacy that is done. It a lot of it is rooted in San Francisco There's a lot of history for the community in San Francisco. MLB has issued warnings about uniform violations after three giants pitchers, Land and Rp. JT. Brew Baker and Ryan Walker inscribed some variation of Genesis chapter nine verses twelve through sixteen on their hat on Friday night. on their pride caps A fourth player, Sam Henches. declined to wear the hat altogether and opted for San Francisco's standard black hat with orange lettering The writing was large and it was across the front. it was written with And this isn't my main note, obviously, but just no respect for graphic design. There was no attempt to try to make it look like part of the hat or be not it's just like crashing into the SF logo that has the rainbow flag on it Um Now MLB's uniform regulations say a player may not write, attach a fix, embroider, or otherwise display nicknames or messages on apparel or playing equipment The verse itself in question twelve through sixteen in Genesis chapter nine is and God said, This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come. I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind, never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth. It's even just for a second, a snippet of the Bible, you see just how much repetition there is in there. to get the messages across, and yet still People still hear no gay. whichich it doesn't say anywhere in there. All people on this earth. I actually think that would probably include gay people, wouldn't you? It's a covenant between God and all people on the earth Um, Landon Roop in his postgame u comments said It's just about God's covenant and a promise that He makes to us that, you know, his faithfulness and hisis mercy That's just kind of something I believe in and I stand firm in that. I'm thankful we live in a country where, you know we have the freedom to believe what we want and express what we want Yeah, you can believe and express what you want up until it infringes upon somebody else's ability to believe and express what they want. You cannot Tell somebody else they can't be a certain way because of your quote unquote beliefs. Again, and I say this a lot But it's worth repeating. Just like the Bible. they repeat things that are important If not being gay mattered so much to God. It would have made it into that list of ten things you need to know from God The ten commandments that were handed down about how you should live put it in there. If it was that important But what does make it in there is loving thy neighbor And and I feel like it just doesn't make a lot of sense to me. The way these people act like their Bible verse in any way counteracts. Are they trying to say that the rainbow on my hat is about God Well, that's crazy because everybody knows a rainbow like an actual rainbow is Royie Biv and and the rainbow of the flag has like brown and other colors in it that are not un anatural. So that doesn't even just make sense, I don't know, do they believe in science? That doesn't make sense on a science standpoint at all Um to go out of your way to go I'll wear the hat Gay people shouldn't feel like it's about them is mortifying. This whole thing is mortifying. We are sliding backwards as a country. This is embarrassing to me This is I don't know, I don't have any other better words to put that in I'm so embarrassed by the fact that people are still acting this way. Wh do you think you are to tell people who they can love. Who do you think you are to tell your God? creates human life the one that they made this way is not looved by God. Who the fuck are you Like resespect your religion. so gay people can't be religious Gay people can't lesbians can't be members of a church. Like you it's so U It's just such a basic and simple way of thinking that completely rejects the more important and crucial parts of God's teachings canan't believe we still Do this Of course, it is worth mentioning that then a bunch of politicians chimed in. Matt Dory, the representative of San Francisco's board of suupervisors that I think this is just what they call like they they're local, they're like city polishing, like they're Oh okay You seemed like an important guy. Okay. And he says, Oh, and he says the right thing. I was going say you better not be sitting that on that board and be anti gay. It says, as a person of faith, I'll be the first to defend Bible verses and prayer as sources of inspiration and strength for many athletes. I have no problem with that, but I am bothered to see biblical cherry picking used to score political points on a single occasion, and it's hard to argue this was anything other than that Which yeah, I agree, because otherwise put a Bible verse on your hat every single day. Why does it only matter today As a gay man, I'm disappointed that a universally recognized symbol of LGBTQ plus visibility and inclusion is still seen by some as controversial in twenty twenty six. And I agree with that completely. It's what I'm trying to say is like how how how are we back here? I thought we moved past this. I thought we were in a place where we Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday quote tweeted Sports Illustrated post about this story and said Trump won, we don't have to do this anymore Okay and then Josh Hawley on Tuesday sent a public letter to Rob Manfred citing patterns of discriminate You couldn't even say that. you couldn't even say that. Patterns of discrimination against Christian players You must answer for what appears to be a pattern of discrimination within MLV against baseball players who profess their Christian faith. MLB has said this is a content neutral policy and that MLB respects players' rights to free expression. But this is dubious, given that MLB is openly promoting a political viewpoint and possibly compelling adherence It is not a political viewpoint to be gay It is not a political viewpoint T be a man who loves a man A woman who loves a woman It is not a political viewpoint. Exress that more clearly. It's not a choice. This is not a I'm I choose to take up this It's not a team affiliation. It is an identity that we have historically not allowed to exist to the point where gay people had to come up with their own language to talk to each other in public because we made it not okay to be the way they were born. And so this it's like, how are we it's like letting people continue to think the earth is flat, which is a whole other Can of worms that does still exist of these people that I'm not gonna meet you halfway on your ignorance This isn't political viewpoint. The same way when women talk about women's issues, it's like this is like This is the way a person is and is born. And all that a pride hat says is like if you don't feel safe at a sporting event because sports maybe haven't been that great to the gay community, well we here at the San Francisco Giants want you to know We appreciate you as a fan. You are welcome here to give us your money You are welcome to spend your money on our product It's not even that It's just saying you're not we're not going to hate you for who you are here You should be embarrassed to play for a San Francisco team And to think anybody gives a fuck What you think about people who are gay or are part of and when I say gay, I mean all of it. any part of the gay community.'s this is so embarrassing to me. The freedom to live out this is from this is the Josh Haolly thing. The freedom to live out one's faith does not end at the ballpark gate. Okay, but you know where it does end at where I begin. You don't get to tell me your faith doesn't like who I am. unless who I am is a murderer, a rapist, anything bad that is antim moral. It is not immoral to be gay. I don't care who interpreted the book to you and told you that it says that It does not say that That is not God's teachings. to Catholic school. I'm confirmed I'm also sweating. We did get an email that I really liked about this topic and Brady, I think we should end on this. Can you read the email that we got from Ryan from Massachusetts, please? If not if you'd rather I do it, I can do it. Well I got this. Thank you Hi Katie in the casualties. I was reading an article about how some San Francisco giants players decided to put Bible verses on their hats I suppose there ass a way to protest prride Month or the giant special prride hat. One player wouldn't even wear the hat, instead he came into the game in just a regular giant' hat, those same hedges. Of course, after the game when speaking to the media, all the players made sure everyone knew they don't have any quote hate in their hearts. It's funny how people who often quote the Bible are the ones most likely to say that Even the one player who refused to wear the Pide hat because it went against quote, his morals, said he didn't have any hate in his heart So what's in there then? because it's not love Putting on a rainbow colored hat is literally the least you can do What are these giants players actually protesting anyway? People's right to exist, be happy, enjoy baseball Your podcast is built on the phrase, quote, spports are for everyone Unfortunately, there are too many athletes who believe sports are for everyone, kinda. but not really, but maybe, but only if you stay in the closet I know these giants players aren't the first athletes to protest a Pride night, and they likely won't be the last. But at some point we need to really think about who the everyone is in the phrase sports are for everyone Ryan from Massachusetts. Ryan, thank you for your email. loveove you, mean it. 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Join me each week as I talk about pop culture, fashion, my personal life, and just a warning. I'm going to be giving my opinion on everything. I'll also have some really fun guests to join in on the fun. The Morgan Stewart Show is out now. Listen and follow wherever you get your podcast or watch full video on YouTube Okay, we're back, sorry about that. I'm really sorry I yelled. I also can feel my cheeks are getting really red. I just it's so it's like, what fucking year is it? You know? I thought we made so much progress and then You look and we haven' itt. And also really gets in the way of like this podcast is supposed to be about being funny about sports, okay? So can y'all just put the fucking hat on and grow up? I told myself I was going to calm down and here I am still fired up about it. Isabella Yes. Congratulations still Because you are still the champions, the Kicks, your team, the New York Kicks this this plate of soup is evidence of that. Would I have a plate of soup if the Kicks hadn't won the championship? No. just take one Yeah. Im just gonna to take a quick little scoop of soup here. The parade is coming up The parade is technically today when this episode is released. Yes. The Kicks will be parading through lower Manhattan. In the Canyon of Heroes for their tick or tape parade Last we spoke You had a bit of a conflict there in your schedule What was it again? my twin nephews kindergarten graduation. Right. And so We said, while that is Not nothing It's nothing. And so it felt like maybe missing the Kx parade for that was a mistake. Now I also didn't want to blow up your family But if we could have an update on where we're at with what's going on Thursday for you, that would be I think people would appreciate it I decided to not go to that graduation anymore. Fuck then kids. I was like, I cheked to my system and I was like, Hey ye Yeah, so I'm going I'm going. You're going to the parade. I'm going to the parade and everyone's saying til get there super early. So I was like, I can't go after the graduation. Crazy, so I'm going to wake up super early and take a train in Okay, so the parade's kicking off at ten. What time is super early? When are you planning to get there? Okay, I think there's people there now Yeah, I think so too. It's Wednesday Saturday. I hear that there's people there now. So I kind of feel like regardless, it's going to be madness. And so in my head, I'm kind of just like I'll choose the earliest time that I'm willing to do, which I'm assuming is going to be like. seven thirty M And I'm already hearing that that's way late. It's just gonna be a little packed. I know. but I was like, when I'm gonna stand there for four hours, What' I have to pee Yeah, you're supposed to do that ahead of time. Yeah, but what is Yeah, and and Nice, okay, sick.ave you planned? Let be clear, you took the day off, right? Yes, I did. After on the radio, I was like, arere you gonna come in afterwards? 'causeuse actually I kind of love that. No. Okay. Unfortunately, no, we don't get drunk Isabella. Have you decided what your dr choice is gonna be Oh, what I said we do need you to just record copious video. Oh, of course. yeah. Well then technically not a day off. That's making her work. Let's just say it's suggested. I won't put my most producer brain on when I'm recording these videos. How about? Fantastic? That'll be my compromise. Fantastic. Also somebody put in our dock. Did you see the Hello Kitty Jayen Brunson? Yeah, so this is not new to me, thanks. I wow Yeah. t I don't like it. I honestly, I know I kind of don't really love it. I don't like it. I like the little Jayalen Brunson stuffy that that one girl has where she like ices his leg that one's really cute. This one kind of like I don't like the mix of the two.''s I don't like it. It's like Hello Kitty' body, but it's Jalen Brunson's like hair and skin and goat and beard. Yeah And and I and it's just like u a mash up that I don't like. It doesn't sit with my spirit. I don't. I don't I don't need Hello Kitty to have dreads. I don't know what to to do with it And I just or twists, I guess, I just don't know again, and now I'm in dicey territory. I don't even know what I'm saying. Also why is the bow Yeah, skin colored. I just I'm not what, I don't need this Yeah, like I like a Nix themed Regular Kitty? Yeah. Right. Kitty in a Brunson jersey. But not Kitty who became Brunsons after being cursed. I don't know what I don't know how we ended up with it, but it's something about it. I don't Like and I don't judge anybody who does. I'm just letting you know it doesn't sit with my spirit. So I will be moving on I'll scrolling down so as not to Thanks for sending that, Joanna, but we will move on. Yes.es. I appreciate it, but I don't think I need to look at it any longer U How are you feeling a couple days in as a champion? I'm feeling good Sord From screaming from No, just like you knowt . You didn't see me on TV, but like I was kind of there.uge. Right. Right. You had to do the the dribbling. Yeah in the shooting. Yeah. You had to protect the rim. Exactly. Yeah And so you're tired. But I'm feeling good. I'm excited I want to try to go to the MSG store again so that I can now actually get like An even more expensive something? Champions merge because before it was just the finals merge, but I do want something that's like NBA Champions. Yeah Okay So go and get that. You're averse to ordering it online No I guess it's just more of like I just wanted to see like what it is. Yeah what they have there. because I may make get other stuff I know like Nike has a cool shirt that I might want to get, but It does feel different when you know you bought it there. Yeah. Yeah. you put it on, you're like, you have that, like you know where it came from. You know, And I have the access of like, you know, living near here. so it's just like, you know, if I can buy it this st, it's going cool That true. I just my brain immediately goes, well, they're going to jack the price up on that by a million, but I guess they'll do it online too Yeah. Isn't that cool Isn't that cool? Everything just you have to accept is gonna to be the most expensive thing on Eth when people want it. That's one of my favorite ads. We're out of cpe. You need to get Can we get you the happy voicemail? I just I'm having such a cranky day and everything's bothering me. We have a happy voicemail? Yeah, Isabella give her Liz Hi, Katie and the casualties. This is Liz from Massachusetts, by the way to North Carolina I have been a North Carolina hurricane fan since Game seven of Eastern Conference Finals in two thousand six against the Buffalo Sapers where I got picked up randomly by my dad to go to game from school, had no idea what I was getting into. I fell in love with hockey but day Fast forward twenty years later, my dad died two years ago and seeing this happen while I'm wearing his Stamily Cup two thousand six Champions shirt is extra special. So What you guys mean it. happappy to be with Isabella. being very excited for our teams to be winning this year Shout out. Free That are so sweet I don't know if I would have called it happppy, Brady. I feel like it's heartwarming. Yeahah But if there's an element of tragedy in it that's sad But this is why we do fandom.. This is why we are so devoted to these moments because we have all the lows, we have The people we've lost along the way that we shaare these experiences with and then the highs feel so high when we get there shout out Liz. shhout out Liz's dad Cheout out hockey. the hurricane shout storm me. Look, I had people in the comments of that You know, we started beef with the mascot a little bit earlier this year. and it was only because in defense of my guy grritty Um, we started a little bit of beef about how he had no bio on his website that it was just his pricing list, which felt like the team was treating him like a commodity in a way I didn't feel comfortable with And he has since changed, they changed the website. they gave him a bio. If anything, we advocated for Stormy, I think you could say You you called him out for being a very low effort mascot. He changed the bio. You know what he's done since they won the Stanley Cup? What's Stormy has not done a damn thing. Stormy has not posted on Instagram since the end of since the end of the Stanley Cup final. Stormy is not on at Stormy Kenes. Stormy is not on at Kenes. I have no evidence of Stormy even being at the celebration. Stormy was not on the ice when they won. Stormy. It just disappared. The season ended. Stormy's hourly checks not rolling in Well, because what I was going to say is people flocked to the comments of that after they won and started saying stuff like aged like milk and And you're like, what? it didn't That doesn't make expect to change. Itor Aed like milk. It changed because of what we said. It wasn't like I said because your mascot sucks, you can't win a Stanley Cup. That would be aged like milk. I didn't It didn't have anything to I think we're advocating on behalf of Stormy and now that Brady points out that he hasn't tweeted or posted. I'm on Storm E Watch. Stormwatch. I got whereere is this guy? Is everything okay I worry. I'd need some proof of I need Stormy holding a newspaper Storm if you're out there, give us a call or a text or something. just give us a maybe he's working so hard on his winning post that he's overthinking it and now he's like, I got to get this up. I gotta get this up. It's been days. Their parade is on Saturday So maybe I mean, he if the if Storm is not at the parade That's messed up. He's dead. If Stormy's out at the parade he's at the very least, taken hostage somewhere And we need to figure out where Now I'm just looking at Gritty' now. I gotta look at Gritty's Instagram. which in the off season. Whats the plate of bacon probably Yeah While you look for Gritty, and that's okay. Coughing's allowed pecially Gritty posted fifty two minutes ago. Gritty has not takaking a break. What's he posting about Gradyiona Zip line I feel like he's just here for the zip line. very gritty energy. Speaking of the Kynes, they also they won the cup while we were doing that podcast. So we really didn't talk about it much. I wanted to shout out Rod Brndemore. that's their coach He was on the team when they won it last and then now has led the team to winning it again U alsoso kind of a fun story that we saw was that been having them do something they call the blue collar lift at the end of their workouts. It was basically a cinder block that weighed about Is it thirty five pounds? Sounds about right Um that they would at the end of a workout over their head and put it down. and the story I heard about it was that they told them to think about all the blue collar moments in their lives that got them to where they are right now. The times they had to get use their hands and get dirty and like to work on stuff. Um They u It turns out that's the same weight as the Stanley Cup. And so basically what he was doing the entire time was training them to lift the Stanley Cup over their heads should they win it and then They did And they did and Also worth noting RBA took his shirt off to lift the cup. And looks like he has no problem lifting that cuff. Oh wow He's Jad He's like fully jacked He's got more abs than I knew you could keep into that age. That's like when he's standing up straight Isabella, the definition on those abs It'sot like fifteen of Yeah. Like you know you're really, really fit when it's like you see like the side abs almost. Yeah Yeah, the oblique one. Yeah there you go Yeah Where I will be like, oh, I think I have good obliques. and then you see someone with the actual muscle and you go, o I don't look anything like that. don They just don't stick out, I guess His arms The whole thing How old is he now? fififty five. Holy. so is he on your list I don't know who'sumping off. I gotta expand that list. H. I think you're bumping them all off let's go to we got an email from Ryan. Can you read that one, Brady Hi, Katie in the casualties. As us kidiacs celebrate our cup victory, I noticed something y'all might find interesting. Freddy Anderson is an unrestricted free agent next year, and given his injury history, people are unsure he is worth signing again. T O go one second. Let me just remind everybody. Freddy Anderson was their starting goalie who they took out in game. So I wish I remember for Th. Yeah they took him out and then he never came back in the last couple games. he actually, I don't think he even dressed. I don't think he was team He also was dealing with some personal stuff as well. But so that's who Freddie Anderson is, Go ahead, keep going. So our goalies next year could be Brandon Bussy S no I know in love and Pyotr Kochakkov who kainiacs affectionately referred to as i So our goalie rotation next year could be busussy and Cchy. Do get that information, watch you will. L loveve you mean it, Ryan I'm over here, cchie Could you Bnd fussy I mean, it is two solid choices to have. as a goalender. Sure, which which it's just the There's too many jokes. My brain's short circuing. I like say something about the five hole two holes on in the five ho. That's crazy Bussy Cuchy? How would you choose? How would whoever feels natural? Okay, so shout out this crazy team and their crazy goalies, I guess. The defending champs may have Bussy and Cucci in it. and that's where could you can't go wrong You can't go wrong. Use them both. Be safe about it Um Okay, sad news kind of. I saw this yesterday. I couldn't believe it. I had to Google it to make sure I wasn't just not understanding it because I'm in the United States Hockey Canada is hockey Night in Canada is ending. Um On Tuesday, Sports Net and CBC said the pact that had kept NHL games on the public broadcaster had come to an end. The announcement means the country's longest running weekly program, hockey Night in Canada, HNIC, which began airing in the fall of nineteen fifty two will also cease to exist in its current form. seventy four years of this And u because of a, you know Because the way the world works, now it's not going be that way. So if you want to watch hockey, you're going to have to pay the whatever to watch it wherever. It's no longer going to be available for free. It's like a real end of the end of an era. for Canada and hockey, which is tough Canada loves hockey so much, but its actions within the hockey world in the last even just like calendar year have been kind of drawwn a lot of questions for me So that's a real bummer. We're sorry to everybody in Canada I know we have a bunch of Canadian listeners, so That sucks, and hopefully somebody swoops in and does the right thing somehow there. Do the wrong thing which is the opposite of doing the right thing. That makes me think of what happened with the new seventy sixers Pobo Right? He's the president of basketball operations. They got a new or is he just president President of basketball operations. Yeah, Mike Ganzy. that That's the new Sixers president of the of basketball operations. He jinxed Jesus Hazus? Heazus. N Jesus. I'm just that was Ron Burgundy of me He jinks Jesus Lizardo's no hitter. on Tuesday. So Mike Ganzy is on the Phillies broadcast. And it's the fifth inning. The Phillies are up eight nothing And let's take a listen to the interview and how it went. best Operations, Mike Ganzy And head coach Nick Nurse As we go to the top half of the fifth big feells, Thankks for join us. Mike welcome to Philadelphia. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Yeah. How's everything going? your first couple of days? Good, good. Yeah. glad we're out to a eight oh star. Here we are. First game, man. Noerecale still at. Oh boy, Lizardo's been o Wh said it. All right. What's the equivalent of that when it comes to basketball? I don't know. I think it's you know, you say don't shoot. That goes in, you know Yeah, you hope it's that You hope it's yelling don't shoot and it goes in. That is a is that the all time worst debut as the new guy to come in and just jinx across sports, a different Team Why did you even bring it up, Mike The immediate karma of it Mentions it. John Krut goes, o boy. And on the very next pitch, seconds later. single through the infield. Why? Why even go hey a no hitter, huh Would you think everyone was gonna to go, Ohh, he's right, it is a no hitter You should know the superstitions of this. You should be aware of the fact that we don't say if they have a no hitter. Certainly not On the broadcast. You were Brady, you said there's a reason specifically he should be familiar with superstition, correct? So Ganzy was the guy when he was at West Virginia, he was on thatein Pitznagle basketball team. Isabella, you're familiar with Kevin Pitt' snoggle, of course. Yeah He looked exactly like a six foot ten guy named Kevin Pitsznogggle, you think he looks U But they were like they were fun to watch. They made a tournament run. Ganzy had this thing where he would come out in pre game warmups and this was like the early two thousands. He had a big baggy white undershirt on He' go out in pre game warm upps and if he wasn't hot he'd go back and put on another baggy white undershirt. Not instead of it, he wouldn't change out. He would add white undershirts. Like when Joey put on all of Chandler's clothes, couldould I be wearing any more undershirts? He would just keep stacking undersirts until he was like, all right, now I feel like I'm in rhythm. that was It' Stange I would call it a superstition. It was just strange quirk. Like you see him out there like sweating like a maniac in thick layered cotton This guy knows. This guy knows, you don't throw anybody off a ryth And it's like the worst mojo that you can have in baseball. You don't talk about it 's such an odd chice to go, Hey, first day here No hitter, huh Why just don't say that. don't Say that The man can't believe you haven't knocked this Jena tower over yet. You're doing a great job Crazy U All right, so that was stupid and dumb and not good, you guys. Not good U Also not good, Brendan Soreresby. We've been following this as much as we can, Texas tech Brendnon Sresby transferred, got a bunch of money in the NIL money in the transfer portal. thenen it came out that he's Can we say addicted to gambling that he has He said it gambling issue that he gambled how many times hundreds thousands of times? Yeah ninety thousand dollars were the bets. Sometimes on his own team, sometimes on such small teams and sports that you go, that's You know, you got a problem And then the NCAA basically said because of the injunction that he was going to be allowed to play Uh, then that was june eighth he won the injunction that on june ninth, multiple schools threatened to boycott Texas tech On june eleventh, Texas Texas is AG Athleticnorney general., the state G attorneyastic The attorney general threatened the big twelve if they sanctioned Texas tech On june twelfth, the Oklahoma atttorney generenal threatened the bigig twelve if they don't sanction Texas tech. june fifteenth, Michigan Volleyball cancels Texas Tch game over the Sresby scandal Also on june fifteenth, bigig twelve filed federal lawsuit against Texas tech And then june fifteenth, hours later, Texas Tech Board of Regents announces the team has parted ways with SSby. S We will reportedly apply. This is the news, Aly for the NFL supplemental draft. somewhere in that timeline There was like a twenty one minute video that three dudes at Texas Tech put out that I'm assuming was probably like the athletic director and somebody else all wearing athleisure sitting around a round table saying they wanted to address what happened I saw the runtime on the video and I was like, sorry boys. no fucking chance. I'm listening to you talk for twenty one minutes about this U In their announcement, this recent announcement, Texas Tech Border Reents say they will not to get Sresby's NL money back Which is what five million do? I think it was about four million dollars was the reports. So four becausecause nothing is transparent. We don't know the exact number, but the reports about four million. All we know is that he gets to keep it. He didn't ever play for one second for Texas tech His name, you can argue has sullied the name of your school because it's been included in the headlines with this guy who again play a down for you yet. and you now will give him However much money you give him in secret because because No one knows how any of this works anymore and The question now becomes will any NFL team want him Uh, I know how the world works anymore. I used to feel confident in going, No, of course an NFL team won't take them because the NFL teams at the combine ask questions like if your mom was a prostitute, what would you they're always trying to get to the bottom of who you are as a person to try to find in these crazy questions any red flags that may come up in your behavior. This guysy would have been theoretically walking into an interview like that waving a giant red flag over his head So it's it would be strange to me if an NFL team, it's weird we're already shifting to treating this like it's adversity. He must overcome Has he in any way, Brady shown us that he's in treatment, finished treatment, going through treatment. Has there been any sort of like I understand the mistake that I've made and and I need to get to work on fixing this because I would like to be a football player who can help a team And the best way to do that is to treat this disease from which I'm suffering No last we heard was his him going. He hasn't made a pub statement. We haven't heard from him specifically. We just heard that he was going to treatment when the scandal initially broke It's Ag, I should stop myself from saying stuff when I'm just in a completely sour mood and and just frustrated with the state of the world. People are so comfortable excluding other people from sports based off of other criteria. And I just want to let everyone know, I am that comfortable going if you have a active gambling addiction. You don't get to play sports professionally and I'm sorry Sports are for everyone But you do not get to play sports professionally if you are actively fighting a gambling addiction 's the same way like if you take steroids, you can't play. It's like It calls into question the integrity of the entire And so u donon't think that you should take a risk Cumbling the entire foundation of the sport. for a a for this guy. is that too mean spirited to say, I'm empathetic to any struggles. I know that addiction is a disease. I know that It is one that we don't do a great job of talking about and destigmatizing and I don't mean to add to the stigmatizing of gambling addiction But I do think when you are the athlete playing and you have shown a history of No gag reflex when it comes to gambling on your own team It's just too risky. It's too risky for a sport that's actively coping with how it's going to partner with these gambling companies and athletes that are starting to partner with these gamb you can't Is that okay? Is that am I going to get yelled at for that? That feels like a pretty obvious no thank you I think there's a knot I think there's a very difficult question of like, can you punish kids for what they did in college in the NFL? Like before they ever got there, do you really want to punish them for past. And I think in certain circumstances, definitely. like Joe Mixon is one who had a you know, I don't want to equate all crimes the same. and Brendon Sorsby didn't really commit a crime. Joe Mixon had a domestic violence incident at Oklahoma that was just completely ignored and he was drafted in the NFL and like No one ever mentioned it again because it was in college and it's almost like they wiped a slate clean. Um So you don't want to punish him for pass transgressions, if you don't have to because there is a pre like what is the precedent in the NFL? the same time, like Yeah, I think you would need him to show that This is something he's dealing with and something he's trying to move past, something he's getting treatment for Are there any steps, any reasons to believe that this is in his past and not in his future. And that is a really hard thing to prove in any sense because addictions don't really go away. know, You just treat them forever It's a tough one Could I interest you in a monkey's paw scenario, where the Cleveland Browns draft Brendon Sores me? And because of that, they cut Dehaun Watson So it's like, are they doing better Hm. Um, no Um because they made it clear. they're not going to cut Dean Watson until they have made it clear that he might be the starter that he's got there is a real QB competition. For Isabella, do you have did we have we told you context for Deshaun Watson? think I think so. It involves massage therapists independently all coming forward and saying that Desheun Watson made on unwarranted, unasked for advances on them. seexual Is this one that was in like Maryland No Well, same story, but Justin Tucker. And then sometimes when we're trying to teach her the sports and bring her in, I go, we're hitting a real wall here and I get it. If I were her, I'd go What you mean that was a different guy But yeah, the original, the OG was Deheaun Watson. And then after all of that was known, after all of that was known, Cleveland gave him more money than anyone. They gave him like a huge amount of guaranteed money to come play for them and then because Of course, he sucked. He sucked really bad. and then he got hurt And then now they're saying he could be he's in competition with Shador Sanders for the starting job guy that u didid all that. So anyway, I just feel like Brendon Sorsby is the first time we're having to wrestle with this. This will not be the last. As Brady mentioned, this isn't illegal for young kids now. This is not illegal for the people that are coming up. They are coming up in a world where gambling has been decriminalized. And now with these prediction markets, They can they keep harping on the fact they can do it in all fifty states. You can trade on anything in all you can predict in all fifty states. So it's legal technically to do this all across the country And so the Browns, the Browns is this just this dot just connected for me? The Browns owner also owns the Milwaukee Bucks. The Milwaukee Bucks biggest superstar is the one that most publicly most publicly controversially has a partnership with a Predictions market company that they just clearly have feels like you're going to have to figure out how what the league's approach to this is at some point. And it's better now than never. figure it out. Start thinking this through because if it won't invalidate getting into the NFL How are you going to tell your players that they can't do it because this guy did it and is a player now and has not in any way demonstrated he's done doing it that he's got the care he needs Like I could see a world where this ends with NFL teams having to employ a doctor to treat gambling addictions actively U while to their players while they're it's just this is a mess Somebody step in and figure it out Can we go to a good story Happy story me to a happy story. The first part of this happy story, chapter one is in the shirt that I'm wearing. As you can see or here. I know I was going to explain it in a second, but I had to move the mic so that people could see My fleet merch came in. Remember I ordered it from a website and then I had no recourse. I didn't even get a receipt that was like, you bought this. So I was like, I hope that shows up. It did It's actually really nice quality. Thanks cute I got my fleet shirt. I do think the back was printed a little crooked, but I'm just gonna pretend it's fashion And I should mention the Boston fleet because the good news is Boston Fleet goalie Earon Frankl was named MVP of the twenty twenty five twenty six PWHL season on Tuesday night. became the first minder to win the award in the League short history now granted, it is a very sh history of the league but it's not every dayday you're se see NVP in hockey go to a goalie. And she got it. The award was presented to her by tennis leegend and PWHL advisory board member Billy Jean King, who is also the MVP trophies's namesake. So she won the Billy Jean King PWHL NVP trophy She's twenty seven, she was steady all year. She led the fleet to a second place finish in the regular season. herer nineteen wins, including fourteen in reggulation tied for most in the league and set a new single season record. Um Brady, I told you to check in. She's got that Instagram account where she rates every Caesar salad that she eats across the world, pain by romaine Is she still going on that St'sill going strong, and I put up her most recent post and since then she just posted a new review two hours ago. Oh, what'd she say Um We have the first time for anything, the Motor City shaking things up with a chicken Caesar salad with a sccotch egg and a whole anchovy.a And a Scotchish is again a Ite'xt of one with like the sausage wrapped around the egg. And then fried, I think. Oh, whoa. Yeah, and then the I was way off And then the egg is like runny on the inside. It kind of is. It's a fried something on a hard boiled egg Yeah, maybe it doesn't have to be sausage, but This thing looks damn good. She's also just really good at photographing Caesar salads to makear salad pizza looks really good. I love a Caesar salad. That was the one I put in. hot crust co salad really It's to die for She gave this one an eight point six out of ten. That was the one for Marinara Pizza in New York City. Yeah, that beats the Scotch egg. The Scotch egg Caesar salad in Detroit. It's a seven point six out of ten.. She loves a point six, it seems I don' think there is a really intricate scoring system. think you think she's got it down to the like, well, let me do the math on it and see what happens I did not realize She's got merch now Pain B by Romain Merch Pain byy Romaine Merch. It is a t shirt with Pain byy Romaine on it and it's just a picture of Aaron Franl holding up a Caesar salad. Okay kind of like that. If I order it, will I get a receipt Will it let me know when it will arrive at my house? Businesses usually do that. Yeah. Okay, Yeahah. because this one didn't. But again, it's I think it's based in Canada. so I think that's where the confusion was, but did feel like they were taking advantage of my United States female hockey fandom and going like, yeah, buy a shirt here. We'll ship it to you eventually, I guess But now it's here and I'm happy it U All right, Is that everything was there I feel like I skipped something. Did I miss anything in the dock that we needed to talk about cut out we need to cut out all weekend. I'm so I'm in such a bad you ever have that where you're just in such a bad mood and every news story you see, you're like, can every When do you fly Saturday Saturday night and we get there Sunday morning So I've got a couple days to calm down. Am I ready to go to France? Thanks for asking. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. That flight getting canceled on Monday or on Sunday really screwed me. I had a lot planned on Monday that I needed to knock out in order to be ready for the And so we're behind. But did you see Landon Donovan, soccer star from the U S had the same issue that I did, Ian Dark as well. They were tweeting about how their' pilot timed out They were like, how crazy is this that this pilot timed out? And I saw a lot of people going like, that's the law. What do you want a pilot to fly when he's tired? And if I may answer for Landon Donovan, no, that's not what we want. But why are we just starting to hear about this now? I feel like's backu There used to be backup. I feel like you used to go like, damn, grab a pilot from the break room. We got to get a pilot on this flight because we sold and oftentimes oversold the seats for this flight. The amount of money they will take from you to then go, I was getting on the replacement flight Monday morning. They were like, we hate to break it to you. No Wi Fi, no TV on this flight Okay, so then what amount of the money Do I get back? Because the person that paid for this same ticket on a different flight and has those amenities has a very different experience from me And I'm flying back on a Monday now. I need to be available online because I had to fly back on a Monday 'cause you cancellled my other flight. And it's getting to a point. You know what I mean? I just think everything's getting to a point where people are like drowning and trying to make it work and companies go, the fuck you want from me course You're so happy to take our money. You never go like, dude, you can have a thousand of it back. My bad My bad for not having that tech up to date. sorry. Otherwise, what's going to stop a plane from just letting its entire thing fall into disrepair? I expect for the Okay, let's take a break and then And then when we come back emmails and voicemails because it's Thursday and we got to hear from you, which I know we have been doing throughout. So we're not going to do too many, but because it's been three hours. but we're going to take a quick break when When we come back, we'll jump into our mail bag. It's casuals. We'll be right back I love you. I'm sorry Summer is the perfect time to rethink what clothes you're reaching for every day. 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Dear Katie and the casuals. When you discussed the jello shots at the men's College World series, I was reminded of something inconsequential that I feel is controversial. The contest is measured by purchases not consumption So people will call into the bar and buy shots to add to the team total I always have conflicted feelings. On one hand, you're not present for the contest and stuffing the ballot box On the other hand, you're kind of a legend for just buying shots for people you'll never see What's your official ruling? Love you mean it, Gerald from San Antonio. Also, Google Texas pitcher Ruger Rojas A picture from picture from Texas named after a gun with a huge mustache. Almost two on the nose.. Rruger's fantastic. That I didn't miss that one. to name your child But whatever Um, Here's my question If somebody buys jello shots Do they have to be consumed Meaning because he said you don't have to drink them. They can just call in and buy them Do they are they consumed by someone because That will, I think my ruling would hinge on because if no, I think it's just how many were purchased. But I'm saying like if I call in and I go, I'd like to buy seventy jello shots What should then happen is the shots should count, but only if distributed out to the people at the bar and are then Um, actually consumed becausecause otherwise the integrity of the whole thing is called into question 'cause otherwise then again, kind of in the same line of everything else I've been bitching about. this place can charge you for this. and then never make the actual product. and now you've skipped the line, you've just bought your way to the top. It's pay to play and that I think the jello shots don't have to necessarily be consumed by you, the purchaser. do have to be consumed in order to count Because otherwise, what's crazy about it is how many jello shots are getting consumed What's crazy about it is that that much alcohol is being consumed by their fanbase. And so if these shots are going directly into the trash, Like Isabella's melted plate of frosting Then I feel like that doesn't count. It' then just make it be whoever donates the most money because it's just paying for a seat at the top I mean, donating the money is good. I mean this at Rocos, they do donate a portion of all of these shots that are sold. They do go to local food banks.. So we'll put that out there. That is good is Ver competitive tryrying to pull up the scoreboard from this year. I remember like the big one everybody talked about was twenty twenty three, which was I think the Paul Skiines LSU year They ended at sixty eight thousand jello shots for LSU sixty eight thousand jello shots ordered by LSU fans at onene bar. The next up was like seven thousand. Right. And the reason that's a headline that's interesting is people go, whoa, they drank sixty eight thousand jello shots The reason they're not saying the amount of money is because that's not what it's supposed to be about. It's supposed to be about the jello shots. And I bet when it started, it was just people who came into the bar buying the jello shots and it was to try to get that number up while you're at the bar. So you go like, oh, shoot, we're behind them. I'll buy twenty right now. Nobody wants to do twenty jello shots at a bar But you have to for your team Otherwise this whole thing, yeah, I think as they need to be consumed. that's my official stance You want to take a wild guess at which teams f base is pounding the most jealous shots in Omaha this year Mm. I mean, Really all of them seem pretty drunk to me