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Prices and participation veryable supplies last. not available onw are party ordering platforms tax extra. Hey, Isabella, Hi for. Hi, I missed you Did you see we had a story about one of our former guests that went a little viral this weekend. Did you see Noah Khon set a new record at Citizens Bank Park on Friday night. He had a concert there and he set the all time attendance record at forty five thousand three hundred twenty one attendees, did you see? Oh wow, that's cool. Yeah' room. incredible. And then so the next day He tweeted, didid you see this tweet? He said If you have to poop at a show Please dear God, just go to the bathroom, LMAO. I've pooped my pants as much as the next twenty nine year old, but You guys gotta understand there's a venue worker out there with a thousand yard stare after dealing with that And then Somebody had more information on Reddit. I will read you now. The comment from a concert goer That was at the Noah Con concert where he said, if you have to poop, please go to the bathroom Hm. Okay, so the person who did this was one row in front of me in section AA. I guess they didn't want to miss a couple songs to use the bathroom So they just straight up shit themselves. Oh God. Mind you. Not liquid or anything in case anyone thinks this was an accident and so They started picking. They started picking actual pieces of poop. No But Put it on the floor. I thought you were gonna say put it in your mouth at God. Jesus Chist I mean, Philly, I guess m eagles directly farmed a table. U the sorry started picking actual pieces of poop out of their butt and put it on the floor She started trying to waffle stomp the turds And acted like nothing happened, but we flagged down security, one of the most unreal concert experiences I've ever witnessed And then I have since seen a TikTok of somebody who was there who experienced it, who let us know that this was during like The third or fourth song Oh. And so that person and again, if it's a medical emergency, we all got to eat our hat or whatever. But they were this was solid poop. So I think it could have been held. at the very least, you could have done the solid in your pants and gone, excuse me, pardon me. Ecuse pardon me and then done the removing of the poop from your bottom in pr. I would if I were her The one pooping or the one experiencing the poop. The one pooping. Yeah. If I was the one pooping and I already did the poop, I would just keep it in my pants and then walk to the bathroom I kn notot that you'd ever be, it's important that you say that part. Not that you'd ever be, you know, you wantna miss one Noah console like its just Some of them are kind of long. Pick a long one and go take care of it. Yeah.lease go take bare hands on the o and then plopping them out stopping on this. What's crazy is that everywhere she's gonna to walk now is gonna leave a trail for. Also you're gonna be like, where'd she go? Oh, that way The girl said she went over to security and she was like, You're not gonna believe this, but And they said, you have to be kidding me. And then they removed her. And then most of the people in the section were like I gotta go. It smells like poop. There's poop here.. Absolutely absurd. It' clearly No Kan's number one fan O number two This episode is presented by X Finity Oh my God, hi, welcome back. Welcome to casuals. The sports podcast for people that just want to know what's going on in sports. They don't probably remember stats or a lot of other stuff, but that's okay because you don't need to know it. you're just here because you're excited. I'm excited. I'm Katie Nolan, I host this thing Fresh off of a trip to France, which we could talk about in a little bit. I missed you guys, I missed the show. There's so much to talk about. We've got to talk about the World Cup We're into the round of thirty two now, which means that they can't have zero zero ties anymore. So if you're waiting to get in, now is a good time. It's kind of like a refresh. We'll get over all of that. We'll talk to you about the big headlines that have happened Since I've been gone, we got a lot of basketball, people moving around in the NHL and other stuff. and we'll get to all of that in a little bit. More importantly, we've got a full house of casualties today. Everyone from the production crew here at Series XM is in the building. We have our sports newbie Kicks champion, Isabella. Hello've got,,, Brady And back from a seven month walk aboutout throughout the interior of Australia. show us your calves. is our dear friend, our master editor, our resident Australian. Chris What's up everybody? Welcome. G to be back. How many shrimps did you put on the Barbie? Zero. Wow. Not even really doing the authentic Australian thing, huh No well, it's winter as well. You don't really have many barbecues during the winter time in Australia. you could. I mean, it really just rained. you could. absolutely. like it's not like you guys are getting heavy snow. There's good point Good point Just right But no shrimps this trip. Okay, well, maybe next trip. Let's talk about our trips. Let me go first because I'll go quick. I went to France for something called Can Lion. I don't know if anyone's ever heard of this, Can Lion. It's like a word that makes me feel like I want to say Kan. I always thought the film festival was Con. But we're calling it can Turns out, I can't liion. I am So it's like a marketing and sales conference that descends upon this beautiful, gorgeous coastal beach town in France along the French Riviera. And I want to I'm practicing gratitude. It was beautiful. It was such a beautiful town, a beautiful beach Wonderful people, incredible food. I mean, truly, I ate some of the most wonderful food over the last week. now I'm back to Dunkin' Donuts. So I really just crashed right back down to America Very grateful to go and spend a lot of time with Pablo and my friends Pablo. My manager, Rebecca was there. I never see her. Dan came along to try to have a lovely vacation after you guys know he just filmed his special, so he's in that period where he's getting ready to get back out on the road. And so I was like, o, come along to the French Riviera And while I'm doing this marketing conference, you can have a lovely beach vacation. Now now and now so the gratitude has been expressed clear I was grateful to be there. Has that come across? because it's time to get into the notes. I didn't know They were going to close our pool. Our hotel has a lovely pool. Dan was planning to spend the entire trip. He brought multiple books to just sit down there and chill. He needs to chill out. And the pool day one became an adobe activation. And so they put a little glass wall around the pool and removed all of the pool chairs and put instead like tables and chairs where you could sit and eat and have meals. And Dan went down to the front desk and he said, is this So I can't use the pool And they said, Well, sir, if you'd like to swim, we could remove a panel, you could go ahead in there. And he was like in a fish bowl. So you would want me to then swim back and forth in this like it wasn't an Olympic size pool, but it was like a nice he's like, no, that's That's okay. And then he wanted to go to the beach. Beach is u coovered in stages. For this marketing, Amazon built I forget the number, you know me in numbers, but it was something like twenty million dollars they spent on the pier can constructing what looked like a small European beach town whichich again we were at we were at the cer in Beach toown and they spent money constructing a fake one on the pier by the water. And it was just that vibe. It was like eating the greatest food a room that smelled like shit. You know what I'm saying? sensory wise, the marketing conference of it all. I think I knew before I left that I'm not cut out for that kind of thing, but I don't think I realized how in my face it was going to be and how much like we didn't really interact with France all that much. It was mostly likeike a high school reunion of a bunch of people who work in marketing. I could see why if that were my job I would in love going to Cann Lions, but because it's not My job, the marketing advertising sales part of it, it was like I didn't know anyone and also was hot. Did you hear it was record hot in France? They were like, donon't go outside, people are dying. They were like thirty people died today trying to get into the ocean because it's so hot outside and so cold in the ocean, their bodies went into shock and they drowned So it was so hot that they were like, please don't go outside. And I don't know, I'm sure you know this in France, they're not big on air conditioning. And so while our hotel had it Did it, you know, the temperature is in obviously Celsius, which is our fault. It's our fault that I was raised on Fahrenheit and that I don't know what eighteen is, But what I do know is eighteen. thirty. eighteen's not cold enough for me for sleep. We were trying to make it colder and it was like, no, we don't go colder. And you're like, what do you mean that you don't go old It was not eighteen, even if it was saying that it was It was bad. It was hot and it was a lot of marketing. Again, very grateful, cool to go. and I probably could have done a lot more with it if I were a different type of person entirely. Unfortunately, I'm only me And was happy to see all the people that I saw that I know. A lot of people I know were out there and I didn't even get to see them. I got a text from Julie Stewart Binks that was like, just saw your name that you were at Canne. That's gott to be a typo, right? You'd hate this. was like Here So anyway, it was fun. It was beautiful, but it was hot and we couldn't swim or I'm the exact same white that I was when I left. You know how disappointing that is? I wanted to get a little glow. I wanted to not look like You know, But I guess we'll have to do that here. So that's fine. lovely time. happy to be back Chris, let's talk about your trip How was it? I haveve one big thing I want to ask you about, but if you have any remarks you'd like to give first, I'll give you the space No, just clearly a lot less marketing, a lot less activations than your trip thankfully. L lot more on the calm Y family your family wasn't asking you how to leverage AI in your day to day They would had to interface with your It was a Adobe had this AI generated picture of a panda holding a phone taking a selfie that we had that was blocking where the pool would have been. And so you had to walk by it every day and we were like, You fuckkinguck hur you. There was a huge ad that was like right in our faces for a company called Optimizly. I'm like, o fuck teletubbies were there. I don't if you guys saw the video of the teletubbies partying at Cann Lions in the club. and everybody was like, hereere's a brand new sentence that I've never even conceived of. What are they doing there? Don't do that mad libs bit again, Katie. Also I mean, it's so funny. Also the flight out there was razy Somebody told me it was twenty thousand dollars to get a first class ticket But it was so we were in the, you know how they do that now there's like three classes right before the general boarding class. We're like, you're not getting anything fucking extra. But anyway, it was a bunch of people who clearly are used to being in first class that were not in first class. And we had to deal with all of those emotions, all of these people that were like for me It was crazy. The guy in front of me on the flight home I caught a glimpse of a deck he was building, a marketing deck to present. And it was I don't even know, should I was he was trying to he was pitching hooters the movie. And I was like, I gota get. I gotta get home. I gota need this plane to land. I gotta get home. I don't think I can be around this anymore. So shhout out to anybody who works in marketing and advertising. It it sound to an outsider It seems exhausting, I'll say Where is the running bit of the Seth Roganhit? wasas it the studio?ning bit It was C the movie Whers the movie sound so on bra. It's crazy, but a real treat to read through the seats Um, All right, Chris, you had told us that you you're explain, give us the backstory on Izzy again. Set up this story and tell us how it went. because your daughter went to a Carlton match for the first time She went to her first ever football match, She went to her second ever football match and she went to her first ever FO training We went to watch Carlton after those two games because we didn't get enough Carlton in those two games. Wow. We had two wins. It was a phenomenal experience. Her favorite player is Jagga Smith. We've mentioned Jagg Smith on the show. before this stems back to beforefore the draft when Jagie Smith was going to get drafted, we had pick three in the draft, Collton had pick three And there was probably three or four players that were looking at drafting. And so I asked Izzy which players she wanted to draft and And she said, Jagger Smith. And we ended up drafting Jagg Smith and I told her after the draft that we drafted him And she got very, very excited. And since then He has been her favorite player. And she's been wanting to watch games with me. U She's got a Jagie Smith Gernsey with the number seven on the back that she w the games and she loved. So it was just it was really special being able to take her to her very first football match because last time we were in Australia she was too young, she didn't go And my son didn't go this time because he's too young, so it's just It was nice to be able to go and just share that experience with her and especially because we had two wins sort of icing on the cake. Yeah, I wouldn't have guessed two wins because last we have heard they haven't been doing as well as started this season one and eight wasasn't great right And they sacked their coach and have now won six in a row Wow So we're actually looking And how many more gam? I don't know any how many more games do we have to go S Is I think we just had round sixteen. Yeah, I think there's seven sevenven games left. Okay. so they could still We could still make we're only two games back of fourth place at the moment. interesterest sound it was giving first place energy, but it was fourth that you sent. So I was a little play compompared to we were like second last not too long ago. This is actually pretty darn good. And yes, we have playoffs. top eight make the playoffs and then this year is the first year that introducing a play in game between the ninth and placed teams, which hopefully you won't have to worry about. You'll be You'll be above that. So fingers crossed. Okay. so very exciting. So she's still in the Jagasmith of it all. She still loves It good. Ver much so. Okay, good. Very much so. Very exciting. And so I remember you saying before we left, you wanted me to interview her about her experience at the Carlton Games. So once we got back We go to my office. Yes. sat down And I interviewed her about her experiences. Do you want tona have a listen? Yes. All right, here we go Okay, let's go. Allright, Izzy, so I want to talk to you about the football games that we went to. Do you remember the football games we went to? Who do we see? Who do we watch J, Jag us What do you remember about the football games? I saw Jack Jmith and I watched and play. It wasas a lot of fun T fun. Too fun was it? What was fun about it? What did you enjoy about it? I must see Jgas Smith's number. What do you remember about what you ate at the football where did you eat . Dog and chips. M yummy Too yummy. How late did you stay up at the football Very late. Did you fall asleep at the game I fought to slleate at one game, but not at the other game. That's very true. Do you remember if Collton won the games on won two games. They won two from two didn't they? Yes, because that's very exciting. It was and it was all because of Jagger Smith, right Yes, he's the This player That's true. Not the bad player. just player. I agree And then do you remember where we went to watch Jagger Smith after that Did we go to Occultton training Y Yes and we saw the players close to us and I saw Janus Smith. Yeah, he was running really close to us, wasn't he? He just come out and see us when we were in the cafe did he? We saw every player Except for Judas Smith Yeah. It was still fun though, right? To still fun? Who still fun? Yes, that means too fun. What was your favorite thing about Australia My favorite thing was going to the football game and seeing Jagger Smith play football. Yeah, that's what I'd love to hear. Would you want to go back to another game with me at some stage? And I want to play football with Jagger. I play with him Yes, Aappy Number Oh just like jaget. Yes because I want to be just like him Good thing I have a shirt like him. You do have a Jager Smith jumping I really I want to play. I really do want to play football Oh, that sounds like a good idea Be it's gonna be really fun. Why does your office have a microphone? So you can talk. Okay. Maybe you can talk into this microphone and ask Jagie Smith play football with him next time you're in Australia. Can you do that? Can you pretend you're talking to Jagie Smith and ask him to play football with you Hacka Smith I'm in a place for barcue There we go Pretty good. So much to unpack. So much to unpack. So much to unpack. herer saying that the football was her favorite part of the trip. Yeah Yeah, she loved it. So T much fun. T fun. Too very much fun. That means too much fun. Did she just learn that from something? The way she goes like too late. She does it all the time. I don't know where she learnnt it, but it's definitely a thing that she says a lot of her. Oh my God, it's so cute. That whole thing was soute Whic Yes. halfway through. It' like not No player The bet not the little one Big one. Oh God, it's so funny. She's so cute. She's like cartoon cute Yeah, one hundred percent. She is gorgeous. So the reason why we went to the Clton training session in the first place is because when we were leaving the second game She saw on the screen that the players were going up to the kids in the front row and handing them balls and like taking photos with them and signing them stuff And my ader goes I want to meet the players I'm like, all right, well, I think they've got an open training session next week so we can go and hopefully Jagger Smith can be there and we can sign Somet for you. And so we went to the training session and there was a bunch of players that were signing stuff, but Jagersmith was not one of them. It was only the forwards But Clton have like a cafe in their facilities and so the players come and get coffee when people are just hanging out so you can like mingle with the players. And so we waited in a cafe for an hour and a half after training for Jaga Smith And he never came out And that was, you know, sort of annoying, right? Because every play would pass us and then Ey would be like U I'd be like, Hey easy, do you want to chat with this player? Nope, just wait for Jagger. Do you want to talk this player? Nope, just want to wait for Jagg So that was sort of a little bit disheartening, you know what I mean? But I reached out to Carlton And I got this message. What? Hizy? It's Jager Smith here from Carton Just wanted to send you over a quick message saying thank you for all the support you have towards the Carden Foty Club I'm sorry, mister that down in the cafe, but Next time you're here, let us know and hopefully I can meet you Thanks again, Iy, go blues. Oh my gos. So where their Jaggie Smith fans belong? Your super dad When I showed her this video because it was a video that they sent us, right I showed her the video And she just had this huge smile on her face, didn't say anything and then just gave me the biggest hug. I did it. I did it. because I'm That is so cool, Chis. That's I was sweetest. So excited. go man. I know 'use after I interviewed her, she's like, I want to be just like Jagg, I want to play football with them. I'm like, man, I got to reach out to Clt. So I reached out to Clton and I'm like, Hey, check out my daughter. Can I get Jagger to record something? And within a day, they're like Here it is. So kudos to the Counton football club Itirst to Claire to help me get this this interview, this chat with Jagger pretty cool So we didn't see him. we didn't meet hand, but we now have that video forever and she's watched it so many times since then cont That' which is why I did it. Yeah, yeah, of course. Oh my God, beautiful. What a gorgeous such a So so better than my trip, I think, probably a little bit. Yeahiling time maybe too much better than your much T much better. Okay, let's talk while we're talking soccer U We're fully in on the World Cup now. What a fun journey this has been. I don't know how much everyone's been watching. If you're not, you got to tune in. It doesn't happen all that often. We get a World Cup every Well the men's and then the women's are the consecutive year and then we go years without it two years without it. So fun jump in on it. We're in the round at thirty two, which means we're out of the group stages, a little confusing this year because they expanded the field So it wasn't just first and second place making it through. It was first, second and then a couple of the third place finishes. So things were confusing to keep track of, but one of my favorite things is obviously that last group day they do the two games at the same time between the four because it's four teams in a group. So those two teams played at the exact same time and you find out what's gonna happen. Lot of drama. Is there anything more ominous than when the two games are going on the same time and they play that like squid game style chime That little ch in the stadium. I hate it.ing put the f. It always makes me go like stand clear of the closing doors. sounds like're very much like a public transportation thinging. Green light Yeah Very weird and odd, but the vibes have been crazy around the World Cup. I know we talked before the World Cup started about like This feels kind of like a mess. We might blow it. and there have been mistakes, there've been issues with some of the infrastructure when it comes to the World Cup. Largely, it's been very fun. It's been very fun watching the crowds go nuts. It's been fun watching the People come over to support their team. I'm thinking specifically right now of like Algeria when they came and took up in Lawrence, Kansas, and the people of Kansas really embraced them and learned about their culture. It's just been very cool. I still don't know if that Freddy guy is real or not Have we gotten to the bottom of it? I see more people being skeptical But I just don't know it's I think you just got overtaken. There were so many other real threat. Yeah. and it's also like Why would you never post a picture of your face? You know, A at some point, you'd go like Here am I'm Fredd cash on your brand. Yeah. But so I don't know, whatever. I don't want to dampen any of it. It's been very, very fun. The most fun is that our teams, I'm assuming we're rooting for the United States and Australia Both throughound of them both through to the round of thirty two Chris, how are you feeling about your team Pretty good. I was a lot more confident after the first game. That two nil win over Turkey, we looked fantastic. defended really well and we took the most of made the most of our chances offensively since then second game had that hat really scored many goals Yeah U so less confident, but we're through. So that's all that matters, right? That is all that matters. Yeah, like the United States, we felt good after the first two And then that third one ended in a way that was pretty infuriating Last minute. You know, just pretty annoying. But it was the backups, you know sure going with our back We are the United States. We don't have a leg to stand on when it comes to soccer. Maybe we should put a couple of our starters in just to J just to see You know, against Turkeys are pretty good well, they're not through, so I guess it doesn't matter and A lot going on. The next team that the that Australia plays Chris is who We play Egypt. Oh tough Friday. boy. Mos Sala may or may not be playing They took him g hamstring injury. Yeah So he's going to be touch and go for that game. watch but that's Friday on at T. Did anyone here watch Iran Egypt? That was intense Outside of the festivities and seeing how they were being honored for Seattle's Pride Night which was which Yeah, it was. It was lovely that they kind of pushed back and went like you when in Rome You know, when in America, this is our culture, so you've got to just deal with it and we won't be hearing otherwise, which I did appreciate U but yeah, that game was good Wait, so what happens if there's a tie? Well, so this was in the group stages. So there there was you could have a tie. It was all about points and where you were seated. Whereas now from now on They're in the knockouts, which is like if you lose, you're out, it's done. You have to win Um, So there are no draws. It's if you if you're tied, you have thirty minutes extra time and if you're still tied, that's when you go to penalty kicks, you line up and just shoot until the there's no it's not like hockey there's no sudden death. There's no golden goal. So it's like if you enter into overtime, you play out the whole overtime period. You don't like because you know, in hockey as soon as overtime starts, if they score right away The game was over This would be like if they score, you still keep playing and the other team has a chance to score. whichich is interesting because one of the things I've noticed about announcers in soccer, like British announcers or announcers who like typically talk about soccer as a sport Um Whenever a late goal is scored, they always act like it's the deciding goal and the game is over, even if there's minutes left to be played. That happened in the Iran Egypt game, which ended up being crazy because they called the goal back because they were offside. So it was a very interesting call for them to be like, he'll be remembered throughout history for the rest of time. And then a minute later they were like, so no goal. So that's not the That's not a goal. But yeah, Mosala left that game early. We don't know. that's their big star. Something like eleven of twelve African nations got through out of the group stages, which is awesome. Um I know Mo was the reason Egypt got their first win. Uh, in the group. stage. I think that was game two for them, but a formidable opponent, Chris for Friday two PM Eastern. How are you feeling about it U better than if we would have had to have played Belgium. It was looking like we were going to have to play Belgium beforefore those series of games on Friday night, Belgium needed to win Five one against New Zealand and they won five one against New Zealand and they had to rely on that tie in the Iran Egypt game So In that sense, I'm Cfident But they're still ranked slightly above us Egypt and we haven't been able to score in the last couple of games. So we'll see Matthew Lecky is out with an injury for Australia. He's not going to be playing for the rest of the World Cup. Jacob Itelliano is out with an injury as well. So We're not really y at full health We're here. That's all that matters. Aziz Bayit, shout out to Aziz Bayit who I got Brady to try and pronounce his name on the show. I don't think he did it. I don't think he did it like that. did not do it that way at all, which is what I was terrified at making it sound like is his bitch, which. I don't. Don't think there's any way I would have made that sound correct.. He I grew up with him. so I know it That's cool thirty years He is almost about to become the sixth most capped Australian player of all time ret darn cool. So shout out to him. He'll He should be starting on Saturday. He started the the third game. came on late in the first game, didn't play the second game, but he should Hopefully gets some G's, bless you. onn Friday It she went away when you said that What h I rescind it then, donon't be blessed. U Damn You can't just have it We face Bosnia and Herzegovinia, which did you guys see that girl who got in trouble with the LA. reporter. Um Yup from ABC seven. She was trying to show her excitement for Team USA. And and did it in a way That I say was maybe not advised. pretty ill advised. Let's take a listen to her report. The next round Tam USA will play Bosnia next Wednesday. And one thing about Bosnia, I could not point out where it is on a map. I don't know the first thing about Bosnia and I don't want to know that's because TV USA, we're back. We're better than ever. That's next Wednesday. Get prepared, Bosnia because you don't want it. You don't want it like that But you're going to get it. That's next Wednesday C. I know is tough. Now look, I know the spirit. I recognize the spirit, okay Go fight, win, very exciting. We don't even care who you are. We'll beat you But we can't let's not do that. we can't do that with international. We can't do that with a country. You can't say, I don't know you. I don't care who or where you are. We're going to beat you. It's too much hubris. We got to be one of the cooler things about this World Cup is it's teaching people about other countries and other cultures and to just fully reject it and go, listen, Bosnia, I don't know the first thing about you. and I don't want to know the first thing about you. It is a little wild. I can't have us encouraging ignorance here in these times, especially with what's going on in our schools. So I figured this would be a good opportunity to grow, right? We'll grow through learning approached this with love, she has since apologized. herer name was Abigail Vaz. She apologized and I think said that she just like let it get ahead of her and she was you know, trying to show her excitement. So she is sorry. and we are too. So let's give Bosnia and Herzeoinia a little bit of shine. They are a mountainous country in southeastern Europe on the Balkan Peninsula. So they are bordered to the east by Serbia. Then beneath them, they've got Montenegro and then Croatia like curves around it as a country. So it's like those two. They used to be Yugoslavia. They were part of Yugoslavia, but that's split up in the ninetyies. And then they're right next to I think the Ca that's right there. they barely touch technically, but is the Adriatic. And then on the other side of that is the boot of Italy. Do you see where we are now? Do you recognize where we are in the world? Y, That's where Bosnia and Herzegovinia are is as one, they are one country. You can call them Bosnia if you want to. But it is two regions. It's Bosnia and Herzgoinia. Bosnia is the larger northern and central part of the country that has a lot of forests in the Alps U and then Hs Gavina or herers Gavina, I think I'm saying it correctly, but maybe I'm putting a little too much spice on the end. That is the smaller southern region. That's like a Mediterranean climate so it's known for its vineyards limestone plateaus, if you will Capital Sarvo whichich you may have heard of because it was an Olympic city. They had the winter Olympics there in nineteen eighty four. That was back when it was Yugoslavia And I know we all know the countries that made upuos Yugoslavia other than Bosnia and Herzegovina But in case we didn't, I would tell you that it's Croatia North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia This is the only Macedonia, which is confusing. I know, but you're nots there's a political reason that they make them call it North Macedonia. I don't remember what it was, but I know that it was like somebody's bidding. Because this came up when everybody was getting annoyed, we had to call Turkey turkey A And they were like, well, why don't we call every country by its natural? Did you know the reason is because they're Ler was upset that it was a Bird That like we makes s. People were making too many jokes about the Thanksgiving bird and so that he was like, we're actually Turkeyia was like, all right, but Th then we're gonna still make jokes. so We actually we got an email from and I don't have it in front of me, so I can't read it. but from our most passionate Turkish listeners was like, come on man. Stop with the bird jokes. and I was like, you know what, if I was from Turkey, I think I feel the same way. Yeah. I think I feel the same way. The bird jokes kind of played out. I do. but then I read somewhere, did't fact check that the bird was named after the country So Again, didnt fact check. So if that's not true. Our master editor's back and he's going to cut that out. Famous Bosnians, I Googled and it just basically told me the I mean, it's somebody who won like a Nobel prize or something, which I know I wish in a just world Those would be our most famous people But I it just the name didn't ring a bell and I didn't think anybody would know. It did they did mention Edin Jeko, who is their captain He's forty So he's widely considered to be one of the best strikers of his generation. It's just that he's a little on the older side. I don't know for sure if he's going to play against us. I think I've seen reports going back and forth. But he's globally recognized. He's his nickname is the Bosnian diamond She's just kind of sick kind of a sick nickname. He made a name for himself while playing for Wolfsburg. in the German League Bundesliga and they won in the two thousand eight zero nine season So I also think he was with Man City when they won But I don't know for sure. And then he also played for Roma in Siri A. And he became the first player to ever score fifty goals in three of Europe's top five major leagues. So a very impressive Bosnian who I know maybe you hadn't heard of until now, but now you know. And so let's treat our opponent with a little bit of respect They are a a country, an interesting country with interesting things and people And we're sorry that maybe we didn't know enough about you before this game. but I still hope we kick your fucking ass. You know what I mean? Hell yeah. You know what I mean? Are we good I think we're good. Okay. I think you are too. Yeah I think I think no matter what, you kind of need some shit to go right. You need some balls to bounce your way. You can happen Var review here and there. You kind of are really good. Oh yeah, they're VAR. ye, it's called VAR, but I don't think I've ever I don't it Var. No people call it Var. I save two syllables. You're just wasting your time. Oh, I just got coffee on my Japan kit just That's a bad omen. You know when you take a sip out of an ice coffee and it's a little bit of it sometimes misses and it squirts out, Is this happening to anyone or is just me? No Let's timeestamp this in real time. Wait becauseuse what's the score. It was one nill last I checked It is the eighty seventh minute right now. It is currently one one, Brazil, Japan. Brazil has already come back and tied this So this game is tied one one right now before you spilled on the Japan kit. Oh no. And listen, I told you guys I only bought this because I like the way it looks and I wanted to And I had also bought a France kit, which by the way is only it's reading very white The France kit on TV. I don't know if you guys watched that game We had to walk the entire length of L Cisette, which is the street right next to the beach where they do Can Lions Nbody had it on. I was at a party. I was like, surely they're going to have a thing come down and show us the France game. This was the one that ended up getting Rin delayed in the second half I'm like surely there's a projector is going to come down. Daniel Sturridge walks into the party and I go, no chance this guy wouldn't want to watch a little bit of soca U they didn't, it was a clutch sports party No game, game was not on. So we left I guys got a football man here. Yeah Pablo and I left with Dan and Rebecca and we walked. we went to a place called Sport Beach looking for it. No We found one bar that had it that was packed. We couldn't see it. We tried to find another walked all the way to someone else's hotel stayed in the lobby, watched it, and then by the time we got there, we saw a minute, then the halfftime, and then the rain delay. And then we were like Okay, guess we're not meant to watch any soccer tonight The time zone over there made it very difficult to watch a lot of these games On five hours. Six hours ahead So, you know, the some of those the US games started at ten o'clock the other night. Yeah And it was like it was like a late West cooast start I don't know, Maybe I just want everything to be convenient for me. I know. I just it has been nice being back in the states and going like there's games all. yesterday was kind of weird. Sunday was a little weird. They just had one of the first they the first game in the next round, but there was no other games around it, which was like K of annoying, but Canada one. so they are like around ahead of everybody else except the people that are playing right now, which will be the day you know what it happens. So anyway, France, let's talk about a lot of the stars are going off in this World Cup because that's who drives a lot of soccer. Ebape was the big star a lot of people were talking about in France, but obviously also Usmondembelle who had a crazy was that game Three or game two the Dbelle w I think it was the second one. Nuts. Absolutely Nuts performance. France won their group. That was group I and they will face off against Sweden who Dan' kind of tangentially rooting for because Sitor, I guess his last name is Swetish. She gets very like, didn't you know? I'm like no, but it's also like fine, you know U So Ebape and Dbell have both been incredible four goals a peiece tied in the golden boot race. England. Harry Caine. What Tied second in the goen who's the who's in first? Messy. oldest guy out there. The only I mean, he was up until that third Argentina game. He was the only one scoring goals for Argentina. was kind of I gotta call out. We also did get a lot of anger emails last time when Messy tied for the goat when he tied and took the lady for Yeah, we didn't say of just men only Didn't say just men because Marta is way out in front of all of them. But then no but then he has since beat Marta So has he really passed Marta? Yeah So Br' sorry for fucking it up again. Temporarily. Yeah England, Harry Caine had a good game and but also a couple not good games, didnn't he They look like they were pull another England classic against Panama and just crap themselves. I know Like it was tied Nil, nil at halftime in that third game and I mean, I guess they they came out Bellingam, but oneon in like the sixty third minute. Hey Isabella, sorry, Bradyy realick. Isabella. Have you been and we don't objectify athletes on this podcast. Okay. But have you have you been seeing any of their of anyone's haveave you been seeing any of the faces of the Have you noticed any hotties in the world? I guess is my question. Maybe in passing, I haven't really you know, I haven't really locked eyes with one. Right. Jude Bellingham, you haven't you didn't see or have any thoughts. I don't think so, let me No, And we wouldn't even it wouldn't really be an appropriate place to share them. I just didn't know if you had interfaced if you guys had synchronized your branding and had all you know, it is a handsome face. It's got really strong Bridgerton vibes. By what team is he on Is England. England Yeah, yeah, Mhm sounds nice when you say it Isabella Bellingham rolls right off the I just was saying. All right, so that's France, England, Spain, One Group H. They are the Euro champions, right? So they will face off against Austria on Thursday at three Eastern. U manan, they beat up on Saudi Arabia didn't they? They did they they needed they needed some action because they went almost three hundred minutes without scoring a goal in the W worldld Cup. I think it was two hundred and ninety nine minutes for Lin Yamal scored and then from there the floodgates opened and ended up scoring for the rest of the game because they had that no no draw against Cabo Verde in their first game Um, spepeaking of Leminemol, he's what now, eighteen or nineteen eighteen eighteen. He's their young star Isabella on Spain. Laminia Mal.. And I assume you've never seen this, but a couple years ago, these photos surfaced. click on that thing that says, don't click till I tell you to. Okay, I can click on it now. Yes. Okay. So what you're looking at there. She walked in while I was looking at it and she I was like I just see it. And I said, chill out. So that's Leonele Messi, the socer star. That's him at age twenty. Long hair Mhm. Okay. Bathing a child who had entered a raffle. So at the time Barcelona players would do this calendar. was for the club's charitable foundation put it together with UNIF where they would do this draw to choose a child from Catalonia that would pose with one of the players from Barcelona.. And that child who is appears to be being baptized by a great soccer player is lominal That's crazy. That six months old. Isn't that nough Wow, that's insane. And the photographer hadn't realized what he even captured until I think a couple of years ago, I think last World Cup, this was a big. Isn't that nuts? A Wow. so cool. What are the odds of that? Have either of them like addressed it yet or no? I think I think so. I don't have it in front of me, but I would imagine so. I think it had its big news cycle last time we did this. Oh, yeep, I see that baby face in his face now. Isn't that crazy? Isn't that I mean he's only a couple years older than that. I know such a child and Yeah. So that's fun thoseose two teams could face off against each other, right? But it wouldn't be until the final, I think, the way the bracket shakes out. Yes So that would be that and while we're speaking of it, Argentina, that's Messi's team. They won group J and they will face off against Cabo Verde on Friday at six Eastern U veryer exciting stuff. He has extended his all time men's World Cup scoring record to nineteen goals D didid we mention we didn't even mention Portugal because they're not really a favorite are they But Ronaldo did eventually score what did he get two goals in that one game? Yeah got two in the second after And somehow Nike had a commercial rady to go there like you said he was done. still. He does I'm sorry to say love commercials. He does still look done. I have started to understand the fandom, the crazy fandom around him a little bit more. I guess something to do with like a lot of international people who love or like soccer fans only had access to watching games that were either like had Messy on the team or had Ronaldo on the team people got really and he was so good It's just I don't think the conversation still the like messier Ronaldo. I don't know. correct me if that just feels like at this point. He's got so much like political sway that like he He just is always he starts. He plays a lot and he probably shouldn't Because he's forty. Yeah.s he's what two years older than Messy. I think. yeah, he's my age. Well, Messi just had a birthday. Dan's birthday was Messy's birthday J something I noticed Yeah, it's like he U What ninety sixth minute. Brazil just went out to Japan It's just the day you did it.! Oh, all of those sad Japanese kits A look cool shark Brazilian teams going crazy. And that's and you know what? they were the favorite. That was the obvious. And I love Brazil as well. I grew up celebrating Brazil when they did anything in the World Cup because A USA wasn't gonna and B like fifty percent of my high school was Brazilian. So it's a near and dear to my heart, that culture. I was saying on the radio the only reason I bought this is because it's cool and my dad texted me and said, Ahem, your father was born in Japan. And was That's right. Thank God. You know, it was just war, you know, That's kind of why, but yeah, he was technicalorn dad text you.orn in Jap He listenens to the radio and he texts me during it and I'm like, I can't do the live fact check, Tony reality. Okay. C we maybe put this in a segment at theember one time he texted you and he's like, Oh, remember when blah, blah, blah blah E day talked to Literally every day he does this to me. Remember when you bought me tickets to the Sper Bowl And usually it is a good node It's just like I'm trying to, I'm talking. It's a clean goal. it's gonna standuck Well, the game is the game over I mean there's one minute to go. Yeah basically. Well, they'll be like a minute in change. And that's the other thing. I made this point on the radio, but it's important to me to make it here as well Americans who start paying attention to soccer and then stop as soon as the World Cup is over, please stop trying to change the rules of soccer. We know that you don't understand it and that's fine. But to say like why does the clock work that way? it should work this way, consider for a second That they thought of that and that it works this way for a reason. And just be a little smarter. If it says ninety plus five, that doesn't mean that at ninety five, the game is over. They take into account if a goal was scored at ninety two and a minute was spent celebrating it because everybody's clearing every bench to celebrate in all these goals. I've never seen that before. Maybe I haven't been paying enough attention But it's taking quite a bit of time. So then just know that they're not it's probably going to be ninety six because they stoppage within stoppage and add it to the you just kind of trust that it is They say it is. I know that feels weird because VAR is so specific Al also learned this year that the World Cup VAR, FIFA's VAR does not have a margin of error that they use for like the EPL VR so VAR will be like, okay, his kneeca was offs side by a sliver, but That's within the margin of error FIFA does not have that. It's like, if you're over it, you're over it And that's that. We've seen that take a couple cononsequential goals off of the scoreboard throughout this tournament. I think it keeps it interesting. just stop trying to fix the sport. okay? It's good the way it is. It works this way on purpose. If there's one note, it's these hydration breraaks, they fucking suck. Breaking this thing up into quarters does not work. It needs to be two uninterrupted hves. And I understand that they need water and I understand that the temperatures are getting hotter It's weird to me they can't address that anywhere else. But in soccer, they're like, yeah, global warming is real. So now you have to let us put a commercial break in between each half. Very convenient But you know, I know they need hydration, but we gott to figure out a different way to do it because I do Fun stories to follow, Cabo Verde has been great. They were the third smallest nation population wise to ever qualify for the World Cup. And now that they're through to the round of thirty two, they're the smallest to ever get that far. so fucking cool to watch them celebrate and to see how much it has meant to them for them to have this. This is their first Um, World Cup And so they are going nuts and it's been awesome and exciting U the Democratic Republic of Congo or as Dan is calling them Dr. Congo. He's calling them M loovingly and showing them much respect U They've been really exciting to watch. They play who England. someomebody important somebody big a favorite plays them Yeah, the' England Wednesday Tough one, a tough draw, but another fun team to root for sort of a cool run that they're on. They've got a a guy who goes by Lamumba Vea, which means Lamumba lives and he pretends to be the statue of the leader. Have we talked about this on this podcast? I was gone for a week. My memory was wiped. He was denied his visa to come back into the U. S. so he wasn't able to go to their last game. and I think He has since gone back home U So that sucks If you haven't heard that story, please look it up. It's fascinating and very interesting and there's a lot of history there that I know I was not aware of, but was very interested to learn about. Scotland, unfortunately, out of the tournament. they drank Boston dry Did you see them? my favorite clip? They gave me my favorite clip from the whole World Cup with Scotland fans in New York before the parade, which we will get to, Isabella before the Nicks parade. They had come up from Boston. They were in New York, and the person interviewing them was like, So what do you think in New York? They werere like People are great, very lovely, very fun. And they said, you should stick around for the Nicks parade next week. And they said, Oh no, got to go we gott to get back to the better American city. We gott to go back to Boston Scotland and that's why Patriots fans are petitioning to try to get the Patriots to play in Scotland. It's that relationship's gonna to live forever. Are they switching all these fields back to turf When the World Cup is over, that's fucking crazy, right? that they made them get grass for this and now they're going Turf and that nuts Yeah, but I mean, the reason they went to Turf in the first place is that, you know like players saances It's never play your safety Maintenance, cheaper Yeah, well, and we gott to look out for the bottom line for all these billionaires. Otherwise how would they possibly afford to charge us for them to get new stadiums Um South Korea also out. That was kind of a shock We didn't see that coming. Then their coach quit and then their president was like, somebody look into that Why were we so unqualified So that's u That's been fun And Uruguay also out And then they cancellled their private for all the athletes back home and made them fly commercial So very interesting. Yeah. I think I saw somebody online say like that's tyypical in a tournament like this where it's winter there And maybe they want to just stay a little longer in Mexico where wherever their team was based out of and just like enjoy the I don't know, but it did sound kind of crazy that they were like, you lost, find your own fucking way home because as someone who's been flying commercial a lot over the past few weeks, it's not great it's not going great I wouldn't say the flights are leaving on time Oen Um Oh, and then we didn't even talk about the giant messy statue, justust go look it up. We've talked a lot before on this podcast about statues of athletes and whether they look anything like the athlete. And I would say giant messy statue which was Rushed because they wanted it to get out during the World Cup. That is insane. Yeah From position that he's sitting in or where he's got his legs spread open and the World Cup trophy between is whyy am I seeing his ass? And then there's that there's the fact that they left the bottom half completely unpainted. So it looks like he's got on the Argentinian kit but with no bottoms. He looks like he's Donald Duck in it. Um, When you put something vaguely penis shaped in front of the statue, you need to make sure that you can't see that vaguely penis shaped item between the statues legs from the rear view becomes an issue you can see it from the front u til you see it from the back. You know what I mean Um Also Do we think this looks more like Leonell Messi or less than the giant inflatable Lowe's lawn ornament that we've spoken of previously on this podcast.ion. I think it looks more like him. You think the statue looks more like that than the Yeah. Okaykay. statue looks more like him because I look at the Low statue and the Low is inflatable and still all I see is Desmond from Lost. Yeah, it it really doesn't look anything like him But then again, this statue really doesn't either. And why am I seeing so much of the, if I may, Gch? Why Why can I go underneath his sorry ball sack and look up at the Yeah. It's it's he's doing a goal celebration and They had the option to put the knees together. They did. they could have done this. They had a lot of options. And I'm just, I guess I'm confused by the ones they chose I'm going to pick the lawn ornament because to me, I'd just really rather look at that And I never want to see that giant statue. How tall is it Eighty five feet? Good. That's fucking absurd And then the lawn ornament is big, but it's not that big Die falling Can you die at that? I'm forty years old. Hell yes I can die from of the street, you know. We a ten foot ladder is fatal. There's a million other things about the Wor Cup to talk about. unfortunately, we've spent an hour on the A bllock. So let's go ahead and take a quick break. Send us an email or write us voicemail. If you've got something to say about something we missed. We can gladly get to that later in the week and I'm really sorry, but we got there's other stuff to talk about that has happened in sports. So we're going to take our first break and when we come back, we'll get into a little bit of movement happening in the NBA as well as the NHL. We'll talk a bit of baseball. Isabele's manager got fired. And we have to talk to her about the parade. Chris, We're a basketball podcast And you haven't been here in in eight to nine months. So we've got to get you caught up on all of that and we will do it. On the other side of this break. it's casuals. We'll be right back Ladies, tired of sunglasses ripping your hair out? I know I am. Meet shady rays tangle free sunglasses becausecause once the weather warms up and you're outside for those park days and beach trips, the last thing you want is your sunglasses ruining your hair. 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Get started with Shipstation todayod and get sixty days free at shipstation dot com d Code casuals. That's shipstation. com code casuals, shipstation. com code casuals, taxes and fees apply. Okay we're back. Wow. whoa, what a break that was. I missed you guys. I know it was just a few minutes there, After a week without you, then the few minutes I'll like come back. But here you are, your're back. And we're back, casual's the basketball podcast podcast that only talks for the last month or two about Chris's favorite sport and yet Chris was in Australia and was not here for An of it didn't get to see that the basketball fan we basically made in a lab O of Isabella won all of it. So we figured we would run through some of the biggest stories with you, Chris, that you missed when you were gone and you could tell us your thoughts on all of them. Does that sound good? Perfect.ove. Wonderful. Okay so number one The Kicks won the championship Wh you were gone. Saturday, june thirteenth, the Nicks beat the sppurs ninety four to ninety to win their first NBA championship in fifty three years. And then on the eighteenth, Thursday, the Kicks hit the streets of Manhattan for a championship Pade U Isabella. Y. I know you were there. I was. Chris, did you want to say anything about the Kicks winning the championship before we get into Isabella's parade experience All I want to say is you bloody rippa Nicks Oh bloody. Not because I elect the Nicks. Right because I like Isabell Yeah. and that was good. A bloody ripper is a good thing It's a compliment. Oh, bloody ripper. Absolutely. Okay, cool. Yeah. Isabella, you bloody ipid to the you Kelly Ripppid to the brain. Let's talk a bit about that experience. I know it was kind of a It felt like a real exodus of people onto everyone was descending onto the city. It's a very short parade route there at the Cyon It was super packed. I woke up at like three AM to make a four AM train Still didn't get a spot. Still didn't get a spot. Man train. Yeah. And I just feel like the way that it was like managed with the entry points were kind of messy. it's just like I kept going near what seemed like lines and I was like, is this a line to an entry point? And peopleople were like,h, I think so.'m like It was still fun. It was like a block party basically. Yeah, you know, Still had a good time. earliest I've ever had a beer. And what time did you crack that first? Maybe like eight AM. Yo. Wow. super noon. That also tells me that it was at six she just doesn't wantna s. That feels like like, Oh, it was around eight thirty, I think. It was no I was processing my coffee. I needed a break with coffee That's probably your stomach probably thanks you. Yeah for that. I texted Isabella on my way to the airport to go to France and I was like, hey, I'm feeling really guilty because I told you to blow off your little nephew's graduation to go to this parade and you didn't even get into the parade. So I'm feeling like you probably should have gone and I should never use your sports fandom against you like that again. It's totally fine. She wass like it's okay. I had so much fun and also I brought my nephews to see Toy Story five, so they're good. How was it? was so? It was I really suggest everyone to watch it. Okay Was it three that left me horrified? Yeah with what's his name Lzo? Yes. I remember seeing three very late and watching it with like children in my family and going at the Endish, there's a part where I was like Oh yeah. They're in the incinerator. They're like going you see these toys accept their death. Oh Have you not seen it b at all? No becauseuse my kids are terrified of the first toy stories because we' never watched it watch. That part and that third one is really crazy. The one is creepy too. Yeah. so it's but the fifth is good and lighthearted. It is good and made up for the fact they didn't go Okay, good. So the nephews don't hate you. Thank goodness. What a monster I? I was like, You gotta go, Isabella. She's like, Okaykay, I canceled all those little shitheads who are graduating kindergarten Oh Did you see that woman that emptied out the trash can so that she could keep it I saw that and I was like, okay, I get it. but like, damn, I think trash on the side. Yeah. I think if it hadn't been full of trash, you might have I'm still kind of uncomfortable with the idea of somebody catching something on camera and that costing you your job. I always feel like that's a little wild At the same time, you cannot take a trash can full of garbage and dump it out on the streets of Manhattan and walk away. that's just like Not okay. So I'm sort of seeing both sides. I don't love the panopticon of it all, but I do also feel like don't fucking do that. Yep U I do tend to think like if I get caught dumping a trash can out Jared's not going to be like, that's it, you're fired. You're done here. Like there's like that's just me being an idiot. Yeah. I don't think that's a that's not exactly a capital offense. Just dumb V veryy dumb. Well, I don't know if they've confirmed yet that whether or not she's been fired from that incident. And I also had heard that the reporting of it as an executive at JPMorgan Chase was a little misleading because I think she became they bought out another company and that is ultimately owned by JP Morgan Chase It sounded like it was less of a she was like a literal bank executive and more of like an executive at a company bought out by a bank. But as with most pieces of information these days, it was tough to chase down what actually was true. So we'll just leave it most salacious stories about JP Morgan executives. Oh yeah because this is anotheral and after that guy said like massive honkking bizongas or whatever he says Honkin canons. madeade me go that's probably not what that woman said. I don't think I've ever called mine cannons before and that's not just a size issue. All right, moving on to other basketball stories, Chris, Janisantenta Kumpo is now on the heat. Now listen, I'm not going to make you answer for this trade because You had nothing to do with it. But why the fuck did I go to bed in France thinking that Boston was going to get Yanis? And I woke up to finding out Janis was on the heat. What happened there question. It was a very Obviously it was down to Celtics. It was down to the heat. It look like if Jaranis had his choice between the two, you would have thought that he was going to go Boston. because We would have been able to trade less of our entire team than the heat did. and now Jaranis goes to the heat in a situation where it's probably going to be the same as Milwaukee because they just traded away all their pieces. Right. But yeah, in the end, they chose well who was it? Tyl the Hero Hark is bunch of first round picks overver the Celtics offer, which was Brown and a bunch of first and a couple of first rmpics I think Very strange. Stone the Crows is what I say Stone the crows. Stone C couldouldn't believe it. It was Stone like crows. P could not believe it. What is that? Is that like killing two birds to kill two crows with one stone just couldn't believe it couldouldn't believe it is what stone the crows st The crows sounds like a direction like telling someone to go don't I the crows. here. But you okay. It's like I'll be damned. Stone the Crows. I think it's like screw you, Oh, stone the Cows. Yeah. Isabella says it means screw you. so that's different. You should We're going to change the meaning of it. If you could because she's the coach of the Kicks. So That's true. She's kind of important. And also the met's coming up soon too, maybe. Oh,'ll see. We'll get there. Little cheese for you from Chris in the midst of the outback U The Hornets traded Lameello ball to the Timberwolves. This was on Thursday Ball and Josh Green to Minnesota Nas Read and twenty thirty three unprotected first round pick and three first round pick swaps. I'm asleep, I'm asleep. and also three second round picks. I don't care. What is the what is the impmlications of this? Are they excited is the team who is receiving Lameella Ball excited Good question. I was coming to it from a Charlotte Hornet's perspective. I thought it was strange getting rid of a player that I sort of thought as the centerpiece of that franchise. Right along with Conk Knipple as well But when I spoke to my brother in law who watches a lot more shallow Hornets games than I do or follows them closer than I do because any famously you cannot watch any shallow Hornets games in North Carolina. Yeah Um Oh, that's right. He He said that Proably a good thing for the franchise because of how Lameello sort of The way that he was playing towards the end of the year, especially in those playing games just showed that he was sort of a It's an AAU type basketball player. veryer all about me type basketball player didn't want to buy into the system had to get rid of him. they didn't get a lot for him back or as much as I would probably expect in a trade for someone of that talent level Um, I guess that was all they could get for him based on how much he's making and how his style of play translates to success in the NBA, which seems to be very little. St out in the Pros Isabella, you got any idea who Lavar Ball is? Only when you guys mention him H We get Lavarbal and A Rd together in Minnesota Oh yeah. T business moguls, two men of empires. I'll tell you who loved can lions and that's A Rd. It's like made for him. That's like very think of that vibe. That's what's going on there So he was probably having the time of his life on a yacht shhooting very organic social media content for Citibank or something.. Ver very natural tootally. It' a lot of like. Wlcome to Can. I'm synergizing Um Okay, next one we've got the Mavericks hiring Dusty May from Michigan. On Tuesday, the Dallas Mavericks officially announced the hire of Dusty May as their next head coach. on Tuesday A day after it was first reported that the Michigan coach was taking the job, May forty nine guided the Wolveres to a thirty seven and three record and an NCAA tournament title in his second season in Ann Arbor. Chris, what do we think about that I was a bit filthy about this one because I had initially thought that he was going to come to UNC, got excited about the prospect of him coming to UNC deccided he was staying in Michigan. That's fine. You're in a good spot. G a good contract. I understand. that's fine Then he turns back around It goes to the maps. Yeah. what's going on Flitits your Marsa or whatever Curt and Sil Susha on that one. Yeah, for real Wouldn't you say, Chris? No, I wouldn't. No. What would you say that you were you were filthy, filthy about it? It sounds like you pooped your pants. It sounds like you're at a Noah C show. J still grab it with your hands. Yeah, please, please don't throw onto the ground and stomp it. And waffle stomp it. Waffle stomp is so fun. It's really hilarious. Not to be conf dusty may, not to be confused with dust in May who we know from choking on a piece of lettuce Yeah Right wasasn't that the pitcher that almost died because he ate a sharp piece of lettuce. I carved his whole ass sa off, I guess a baseball player. Yeah. Dusty May is a baseball name, I think we can all agree That is right. Yeah sounds like Yeah, definitely absolutely does U Okay, and then the NBA draft happened. I don't think there were any surprises here, Chris. So I don't know if you have anything important that you wanted to say U It was boring as bad shit I felt like it was what sorry what is bad shit See, we tend to use badit I mean boring. this is as boring as bad shit. And that actually makes more sense to me because it's bads shit. It's not interesting. it's boring We use it as like that is batshit I'd say bats shit is an adverb only in the way we use it. You're not saying like adjective. It's like it describes the it's bit crazy. It's like You know, two You know, like your daughter uses the word. I mean that shit could be kind of interesting if you saw it Really? Like an aentur when I think it's like in a different it's like a r. It's the blot is in a interesting shape Yeah, I don't know Well, you said it is Yeah Yeah mayaybe if it's like mice poop. Have you ever seen a Wbat? Wait, have you ever seen Wombat's poop? Oh cu. It's a cube How? science check L the gum? Like ice littleakers likeike ice brereaker cubes of gum. Kind of yeah, but brown poop instead.y Google. Let's I don't know if I would Google Do walnuts? No Wow. They look like like charcoal bouquettes Like I maybe go start a grill. Look a crouton ye. Yeah. And again like Don't bring them to a Noah Kon concert. So anyway. Yep s. So there were two reasons to me why I felt like I didn't live up expectations. O there was no big trades throughout the draft, I was sort of anticipating that something would happen maybe with Jalen Brown. Not that I necessarily want him to get traded, but I do like B trades, I like a lot of action. So the fact that that didn't happen throughout the draft that made it boring. The first four picks were raw chalk There was no other really egregious picks that we could look at and laugh at And because they split the draft into two nights, the day one being Round one and day two being round two The first round just got completely blown out. L normally it's long. This year was even longer and it just takes forever in between picks and it's just I don't know. you know I haven't enjoy it in the last couple of years as much as I used to. I used to love it. You used to my favorite night of the year? Now not so much Research published in the Royal Society of Chemistry expands on the discovery that Wombat poo forms its distinctive shape within the womombat's intestines, not at the point of exit as previously thought 've got slow pass head out the round hole Right And then it resquares, I guess on the way out. That is incredible. Yeah, wow. I'm glad we know that ad we know where it becomes a square. Google the rest of this later. This is ye. I mean, if you're looking at it's like it is notightly reading trarapping out a brownie. Like it's an amazingly perfect shape every time. Yeah. All right, Brady, this is bad shit. Come on. And we don't mean boring. or do we? And then the last thing I guess Chris for headlines in the NBA, free agency starts today, the day this podcast comes out Tuesday The new rumor that I'm seeing mostly is about the warriors because Draymond Greene, I guess, opted out And that means that opens up a bunch of possible money that could be used for What people are speculating is bringing in LeBron and also, I believe getting Anthony Davis from a trade And so how likely does this seem to happen? Is this real or are we all just tryrying to make some big team out of a bunch of guys we know in life. T them they're dreaming Tell them they're dreaming, which I assume means it's not gonna to happen Yeah, this is actually a quote from a very famous Australian movie, probably the most belovedustralianvie of all. Wait hold on let me Did you say it yet I did, but if you didn't hear me. I didn't, but I also I think you said something that sounded not like what I was gonna to say. What are you gonna say? I was going to say it st there's a movie that stars Russell Crow Okay you guys really forget it. you go. goo ahead Hold the castle. came out in the nineties and that phrase has become part of the Australian Lexicon, essentially, it's become their dream. The phrase from that movie that everyone quotes tell their dream and tell them. and it's very apt considering that a lot has to go right in order for them to land both AD and LeBron. I just don't see it happening. And LeBron would want to would have to want to leave his son Go Good point. Somewhere else So it's certainly interesting, and we will, I'm sure talk about it at long length forever until we can't anymore I don't know. about it. T too many old guys on one team. That just seems extreme risy. As an old guy I'm surprised you said that There could only be so many of me on the court before it just becomes like a hazard. You just become you're worried about all of them playing together. Like you hope there's an orthopedist somewhere nearby shhout out Jay, who shows up to our Saturday morning games and pops shoulders back into su. Oh, that's so nice of him. Is that pro bono or is he making you pay for it? I mean, he plays. He's on the court for us. Yeah. his shoulder comes out like Jay, you got this? And he does and he does have it? Yeah. okay. I I've seen Jay pop a couple shoulders back into place right there on G good for you, Jay. Shoulders are the ones that hurt because there's no cartilage when the bone dislocatesase it's ititter miss. Sometimes it feels like nothing. sometometimes there's a scre I add my elbow dislocated I'm a brother Baby. playing on a car mat. I got in the way. He kept asking me to move in his defense, which everybody does defend him so I shouldn't even But he asked me to move a lot and I wasn't listening. I wanted to play with him And so then he like yanked me to pull me off and he said that I was like And that's when he knew that he really fucked up. and then They popped it back in. It was totally fine. I'm okay. The reason I tried to guess at Australian movie is because technically I took an Australian cinema class while I was living in Sydney. That was the study abroad class, the blow offff class that I took During my summer abroad, I just remember Nothing from it. So much young Einstein. They would have spoken about the cosle. Probably I probably have seen it even, but is it about jail? No. So now I don't remember love. Is it about love friendriendship? it's about family and home. the importance of home fast and f. It's not a house it's a home. is another big important one because it's about the government try to take away someone's home to build a freeway or something like that They're trying to displace them and they're like, No, it's not house it's home. Damn Th those all sound great. I've seen summer heights high so reativity account Um, All right, that's basketball Congratulated Isabella, and now it's over for you.. Let's talk about your Mets. Isabella broke news to me This past week. I received sports news from Isabella She said, I'm sad about this. and it was a screen grab of a post that said Carlos Mendoza no longer with the Mets. Isabella has been taking up the mantle for the Mets manager, Carlos Mendoza for the whole season. because early in the season everybody thought he was going to be the first manager fired. The Mets have had a pretty tough year. They stuck with them. They stuck with them while the Red Sox fired their entire coaching staff Other coaches fell, but not Mendoza then u This week by. They parted ways Um How do we feel about it Initial first thoughts. That was kind of sad because you know, I was kind of, you know, this is my first baseball coach, so he kind of feels like dad, you know what I mean. I was like, I don't know what it's like to lose your baseball coach. But Oh you would have love Terry Collins. Oh, my god You would have loved to Tarry Js. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah But now I'm also at a point where I'm like, if you're gonna fire him, you should have just fired him like a couple months ago, I feel like. Yeah, probably. That not at his head. That's what I think becauseuse it's almost like I understand if you wanted to keep him a little bit longer, but then like At this point, it's like, I don't know, not much can really change, right? I feel like it's going to be even harder to really make it past anything with a new coach now at this point. We'll see I mean, it's been done before Sometimes it helps, you know, jump start a something. Oh, I was on a met' game this weekend too, by the way. What who they play? They played the Phillies. It was the one that they won. Oh, good. And it was really, really fun. Oh, how about the Phillies?ames have sorry, how many MTs games have you gone through this season U four maybe That's like Legit. That's a lot of M's games. Yeah. Okay, sorry, what's your thing you said? What's up What? What's up with Brandon Marsh's hair? Oh, it's wet. Why wouldn't you put it up? It's wet. He likes it wet Sorry I said that. And he He keeps it wet, sorry again that I said. I know it's it's wet and and I get it, you do you do sweat. You sweat I think I think he dunks it in water Yeah.'s It's like to keep him cool. I think it's Yeah, we love Brandon Marsh. He's doing well this year, right? He's having it's finally clicking for him. I feel like I've been waiting for this since he was on the likeikely all star? Yeah. Oh, I love him. I love him. it's always clean. It's always clean. People ask about the hair. It's always clean. I didn't know about the whole like wetting it so that it keeps you cool. That's actually interesting. It's like a towel in regard. It's like still wet hair on. No know, it's a weird look. I would w want to like, I know tie it up But not him not Branda Marsh. So that's kind of how he gets down Couch Warber also broke a record. Did't he? that was against the Mets, I think? dont Thty ding don. was like the quickest to that many ding donongs, I think At least in Philly franchise history And Bryce Harper's first cycle while you were on while you Oh yeah. Yeah, I saw that. push notification hours after I was asleep or something like that Very exciting. Things are looking up for the fills, I guess, huh They got rid of their manager and look how that worked out. So Let I'm just say Well, let me try to cheer you up we got an email from Anthony in Michigan. Chris I know you've been gone a while. You still know the password to the email. Can you read us that one ye me have a look here. Anthony from Michigan. Here we go. He says, Hey, Katie in the casualties, but Isabella The Mets fire the manager, but They signed a golden retetriever to the roster with eleven month old Howie being introduced on Friday. Does this saves the season? Are we back? Whoa. Yeahes, so they hired Uh Dog named Howie. He's eleven months old. This's the ball cllub's philanthropic arm, the Amazing Mets Foundation and America's vet dogs are co raising a future service dog for a United States veteran or first responder disabilities. Howie, who was named for legendary New York sports broadcaster Howry Rose, will undergo basic training I assume that's not like military basic training, but like basic dog training and socialization with foundoundation, staff, Mets players and Mets fans for the next fourteen to eighteen months. So basically you guys are fostering Dorable service dog He's living in the front office. Great. And that's great. And you think that's gonna turn it all around? No. Lord's gonna really fuck up that dog Yeah, that get the guy outt of there. You know? Okay, hold on. Get the poor guy out of there before his prospects fall through. You know what I'm saying? Dogs have dog getting f. That's crazy crazy that poor dog Um This is also reminded me that the U.S men's national team, I believe, has dogs on they're using to help the players cope with high stress situations, basically like emotional Dogs I love that. But My problem with this is this isn't that. they have to this dog's got work to do. So it's like they can't really I don't think you're just allowed to snuggle with. pu It's like having a dog around that you can't touch, which is actually kind of torturous. If you're like hello, good day to you, Howy. Think of how you talk to dogs outside of a venue you're trying to wait insecurity to go through. You can't go like, comeome here, buddy. you have to go like I I say that to my wife at the airport. like you can't touch him, but he's really cute. And you just want to go Let him hear this I actually get nervous around them. I'm like, I know I have nothing on me, but for some reason I feel like they can smell. They're gonna find something. Yeah. I get nervous because all my bags smell like weed. Whether or not there's some in there, I'm not sure, but they do all smell like it. So unfortunately, I'm popular with the dogs that you can't touch. U Speaking of dogs, did you guys see the story from the Marlins? The Marlins had Bark at the park? which is, you know, bring your dog. My dog couldn't do this. So this is a To me, a dream. I would love to bring Myrtle to the park. She's Not socialized like that. She wouldn't sit still. By the way, there was a dog at one of my panels in Cannes There's just dogs everywhere. Dog sitting on a chair with a little handkerchief tied around its head. I was like W was a human or just the dog showed? was the human. Although I don't have a lot of dog fans, but I was like, wait, this dos it was way too hot outside for dogs. Anyway, the Marls had bark at the park and there was a video of one dog being treated to a hot dog, a glizzie, as Isabella's generation calls it, and that dog was just going town on a hot dog, but you see the background of the clip Another dog just looking Forlorn at the dog eating the hot dog. thinking When do I get a hot dog Are there any hot dogs for me? And it was very sad, sad enough that the Marls looked for the dog. They said, we want to know where this dog is. We want to offer them a great day at the park. They have since located the dog. The dog's name is Jonah And they reached out and they're going to give him his dream day at the park on july twelfth. So God because it was so sad watching that dog just be like enough for everybody in He was such a good boy. I know he just Myrtle again, would have been like pulling against a leash like This dog was just like, o, Some dogs get hot dogs Okay. But they found him and hopefully, I want to see a picture of Jonah like in a ballpit worth of hot dogs. I just want to see Jonah descend into a giant pile of hot dogs. That's what he deserves Keep an eye on that you guys U While we're doing baseball, we should probably talk about we quite a bit about the giants San Francisco Giants And they're dealing, I guess, I will say, with Pride Night, a couple of the Players felt it necessary to draw Bible verses on their hats. and then they received fines, Brady, right? They weren't suspended They doing so. They just got warnings. They just got a warning I think they got fined? No muchuch ado about nothing than the way these people are saying they were discriminated against. But anyway, they violated the rule of writing on your hat. You're not supposed to do that in general The there was a lot of talk about this that Senator is he a senator Yeah wrote a letter about it saying they were being discriminated against. Rob Manford came out and this is the update. Rob Manford addressed that and basically said that the giants, he put it on the giants. He said the team failed to properly explain to players they didn't have to wear it. So it's the giant's fault for not letting their players know that not everybody has to wear these which is interesting. and then Giants P president Buster Posey, formerly, one of Dan's favorite giants, but it's been interesting watching his opinion sort of shift a bit in this handling of all of this. U He declined to address the controversy in a in a press conference. They were I saw a clip of them asking him and he basically was like, I'd like to focus on baseball want to answer like baseball questions, which, yeah, I think people would have felt that way unfortunately, something other than baseball has happened and you guys have kind of used baseball in a way that we don't love. I also saw a video of someone with a sign that said baseball is for everyone and it was in all rainbow letters I saw somebody from the park walk up to them and basically make them put the sign down, which I was like, What the fuck's going on San Francisco? This is a city that should know better than to do this. and it's actually very alarming and scary to me, especially because like your fans are supposed to matter enough to you that you would some sort of a stance on this. U and I was starting to feel kind of depressed about it all until I saw what happened with the York Revolution. Now we got an email Write an email about this Ym find out about the story there. Chris, can you read us Audrey from Massachusetts Yes, so Audrey Riton and says, didid you see the minor League baseball team that forfeited their Pride night? The York Revolution forfeited their game on june seventeenth after backlash from players that didn't want to wear the Pride jerseys. However, they did still hold a Pride night event for fans to attend and donated the proceeds to charity. The thing that really wore my heart was one player, Jacob Teter showed up to meet fans and show his support. He gave a really nice interview about how representation matters in baseball Yeah, they put out a press release and said it's with great disappointment that the York Revolution have issued important changes to our eleventh annual Pride Night on Thursday, june eighteenth. Most significantly, the game won't be played. I'm skipping through this a little bit now. Pride will be hosted as a free admission event. Everyone's tickets for the game will be treated as a rainout and can be redeemed for any future game dececision was not reached lightly. seeveral of our players have refused to wear the jersey, and the club decided that hosting the event is more important than forcing players to wear jerseys they're not comfortable with in playing the game. As a result, out of respect for the Pride community and the York community as a whole, the Yew York Revolution has decided the game on Thursday will be forfeited. And Pride Night will continue on as a feature element of the evening at Wellspan Park They are York PA. that's the York in the revolution. U A member of the Atlantic League, they're not a minor leag team for any one club, but a part of an independent partner league that MLB occasionally uses for rules testing. That's very confusing They're an independent league and MOB will like that's where they start that's where they first tested out like replay reviews and first tested out like the DH extra innings rules and stuff. But they are an independent leag like Jacob Teter is not a part of like any organization. likeike he's not like a Yankees, minor leager. He's on an independent team. So that's the the update on that. this is all very I don't know, upsetting to me, depressing to me. feel like You don't think to lighten this though. likeike the players there were players. Yes, it sucks that the players said we're not going to wear these jerseys. We want to be like the giants. We're going to say that we're not going wear the Pride Night jerseys And the Yrk Revolutionss GM said if you want to You know, you want to act like kids about this. fine. We will cancel your game. We will still go on with every single festivity we had played for the night We had planned for the night. We will invite all the vendors in. All the fans can come in free of attendance. everyvery dollar that we're going to make, we're going to donate to charity. And Jacob Teter still showed up to come talk to fans. you know, be a part of this, the team just had to take the loss because they decided we're not going to wear these jerseys. So guess what? you played yourself. The whole team just took a loss for the night. Yeah. and I you're right. I see the light in this and I think the way they handled it especially in the Stark contrast to the way the giants handled it. I would much prefer this. Just I guess what bums me out is that it's the eleventh annual Pride night And this is happen we've been doing this for so long and now we're at a point where people are like, I refuse It just feels to me like we got to get whatever that is that appears to be spreading rapidly back under contontrol Because it's not reflective of American culture, which is supposed to be about freedoms and personal liberties. And I just think in a world that's full of so much hate, it's crazy to litigate in any way the way that people love. And it bums me out. But good for the York Revolution for the way they handled it. I very much appreciate that. And giants get it together because we got two tiny little hello kitties sitting in a box at my house. Those things will not see the light of day until that team starts acting right I mean, and winning. they also suck. So maybe that's also a reflection of of their values. Let's go to the NHL now Let's move to the NHL because we've got we had a draft over there as well. and listen, you know me, I'm not a draft gal. So there unfortunately is nobody on this that was watching the NHL draft before, you know what I mean? It's the way Chris loves the NBA draft, we don't have it would probably be me and I hate drafts. So It was on mute above the bar at a restaurant. Brady watched it. Brady was on it.. Also a ton of movement. The way that Chris said there weren't a lot of trades heading up to the draft, everybody in the NHL moved around. Now again, I was trying keepep my eye on it. One that I saw that stuck out to me, Brady Kachk, the former captain of the Ottawa Senators has been traded to the Florida Panthers That was on Sunday for the number nine and number twenty five pick in the twenty twenty six draft and then other picks, please, don't make me list them. He got traded. So now Brady Kachuuck and Matthew Kachuuck The two brothers, you'll remember from Team USA Hai fucking hate are now on the same team. And it's that team that I fucking hate. So congrats to them. There is something about Brady pointed this out to me. The consolidation of people that you hate on one team is a bit C convenient. So I guess I appreciate that, although they do still have Brad Marshan, and I don'tate him at all Not even a little bit ical. Not at all. What's that line from ten things I hate about you? But mostly the thing I hate about you is that I is how I don't hate you at all. Not even a little bit That's Australia, right? Beause Heath Ledger. he's isn't he from Western Australia? Yes Okay, Dorfiev is on the Rangers now. That's a name you probably heard a lot through the NHL post season. He was on the Golden Knights and at one point was leading, I believe, the entire league in postseason goals. He got a little bit more expensive than they could afford, I guess, and he was traded to the Rangers. So that's exciting. If you're a Rangers fan, that's something I think you'd be happy to hear Another fun thing, the Sabers had a lot of movement, Alex Tuck got traded U while he was at the wedding of his former Sabers' teammate, Beau Byram Bow earlier in the week. have been traded to Chicago. And then at the wedding Tuck found out he had been traded. So it's like a very interesting vibe getting traded at your former teammates wedding You know At least it's a good place say goodbyes Yeah, with the with the open bar of it all I guess you. I'm like, well, cheheers do an open bar wedding they say no shots. Yes. Whats the fuck? And so you know what I did? I said Can I have a tequila neat? Straight up, Yeahah, exactly. Yeah. And they know what you're doing. Like they're nuts, but you have to like walk it away from the bar and like C have a line of twelve tequilas needat. Yeahable. Yeah. Eactly. Weird. Just do the shots. You know, we're gonna find a way to get fucked up anyway. All right? Just do the shots. And if you're not doing the shots, don't call it open. Call it like call it like a jar, a jar bar, which is like, yeah, it's kind of open, but it's not all way open. It's just cracked a bit. U Okay. And then the draft, which we were just talking about, Gavin McKenna was projected to be the number one overall. He had that it wasn't there like a dicey little issue that happened last year where he walked into a bar and punched somebody in the face. very story came out that that person had said something about his mother And then as I recall, the charges were dropped and we all just did what we do, you know, off all the times we do this with a player, that one I felt the most I guess comfortable going Well if they say it's a big deal U So anyway, he got drafted by with the first pick as we thought they would by the Lafs, Toronto Maple Lafs who had the first pick, which is a real nightmare for Bruins fans. But anyway, introduced by and picked by Justin Bber I don't know if anybody saw that. He showed up booed a little bit. Yes. As I was watching that, he was known as, Hey, that guy kind of looks like Justin Bieber Yeah. As we're on our tiny TV muted above the bar. and it turns out, it was Justin Bieber. Yeah, prettyretty cool. People didn't think it was very cool because I heard he was booed And then after a big long Talking about stuff. It was kind of unceremonious the way he announced the pick. Let's take a listen I'm ready Should I go for it mr. McKenna We would like to drag you to the Toronto May Police. Was there no rehearsal? Did they not block this? He looked so confused when he got up onto stage was like, what do we do now? And he's sort of just talking to Ium was Gary Betman, right? It was who he was standing next to. And they sort of look at each other And at one stage U Justin sort of Says something to Gary and then they're like, Yep, okay, we going for it And that's when I mean, should I goic of the draft, the Toronto Mapel Leafs would like to select out ten state Every draft ever has gone. E. And it said he goes, should I go? And then mister McKenna? Was he afraid he wouldn't land the plane on Gavin? Was there a concern about the did he think it was maybe Gavin? What could possibly mister McKenna, we'd like to all right, you know what? whatever, you know? Congratulations, Gary Bedman. Your plan to not get yourself booed, I guess has worked. he just brings up somebody to absorb it because I mean, we boo him relentlessly. He's been booed everywhere he goes. I'm pretty sure when we were watching the I When Ov scored that goal and they stopped the game to do the ceremony for him, I think they booed B there. It's just like that guy can't go anywhere without getting booed and that's the way it should be Um, How'd the sharks do, Chris, you get anybody good I think we got a bunch of good players. So we drafted Iva Stenberg with the number two overall pick. I think there was two guys that were sort of known as these tier one talents. I think Stenberg was the other one outside of Gevin McKenner. So get to the big one. We drafted a seven foot one, two hundred and eighty pound defenseman, Alexander Karmanov with the two hundred first overall pick. seeven foot one Yeah. So we did a lot of, you know had a lot of activity in those early rounds, got a lot of really talented youngsters to play with Maclan Celebranian and Wilsmith and these guys. They we've got a seven foot one then a giant guy, Isabella or somebody canan you Google how tall Zadano Chara is? He was six nine. See Y was gonna say yeah. se'm I'm crazy. I'm the very, very very. Hockey casual. Yeah At what point is it just is How beneficial is it to be seven foot one as the defensemen? I would char withink good. 'causeuse they is like novelty huge Ch the thing with Char was he had to get like a change to the rules to extend his stick because otherwise his stick wasn't going to be long enough. I assume this guy gets to use a tree. I have no idea how you can possibly make a stick Long enough We'll see, I guess if he's good with the two hundred first pick, I guess it's worth it just so that you can go get to the big guy on a podcast. You know what I mean? It's worth it just to get people talking about the sharks. If I get to watch him get into one fight I mean to pick a fight with him would be the stupidest J constantly as the little sister of the small guy on his hockey team. My brother was always the small guy who like defied the odds because he was fast. And, but it just reached a point where it was like it's not going to be big enough to know that he if they ever got into a fight. That would just be craz. Karminov's going put the arm out and hold the guy by the forehead and just let him swing Absolutely Fom Moldova. Oh, capapitol I don't know how to pronounce it, but I do believe it's Chisinw. Damn, you're absolutely right. Yes. Yes, yes, yes. I got one wrong on a podcast.. I was at O Chisa now. Okay.. asked on a podcast the capital of Cabo Verde, and I realized it's Priaya and I said Apia because they were the same letters just switched and and I messed up and now I feel stupid forever. So anyway I guess I'll just beat myself up about that for two weeks and then get over it. Last story here, and we're only getting to it because there's a bit with Brady that I need to have paid off. Jake Paul has gone on a podcast I don't care who's or what it's. He went on one of these podcasts and said that once he's done chasing boxing titles, he wants to become Dum roll. a slot receiver in the NFL and eventually play professional football. I want to play on the Stanford football team actually. I'm being serious. I was originally thinking I'll just go straight to the Cleveland Browns or Dallas Cowboys probably going to want to see me play first. Yeah maybe E quote. So I guess that out of respect for them, I guess if they must he'll go play at Stanford Uh and as a as a thirty year old. He's not young. He's not as old twenty nine as he looks. Okay, twenty nine, which is allowed now in college because there's no ules And so he's just going to go to Stanford and be a slot receiver, a very specific dream that he seems to know he can fulfill. And because nothing matters anymore, let's watch him do it 'cause I wouldn't be surprised. Um, But Brady, this had me thinking Brady initially asked in our production meeting, If you had the money and a year to train, what do you think you reasonably could do? And I said, none of these things, I'm forty almost I'm more interested in the five that I know Brady thinks realistically he could do. because this is a bit of a running trend on this podcast, isn't it? Brady? You overestimating maybe your athletic skill? I mean, thought apparently I overestimated everybody else's estimations. I thought you'd all have one We know that Isabella probably thinks she could do even the hardest one, but we encourage that, and we love that for her She really does think that she could manage the Mets or or coach the Kicks and five agree with her. but you I don't know. I've got more skepticism. So let's hear the five things that again, if you had all the money Paul, is Jake, right Y, Jake Paul has nothing it matters and a year of training What Do you think you could actually go pro If I had one year and Jake Paul Logan Paul Ron Paul money, I think I could one of the five I think Olympic curling I think if you give me a year on the ice, I think I can figure that shit out If I have like six hours a day train drilling. I'd like to take a long lunch. I feel like just enough reps at it I feel like I can make it happen. And it's look, it's tough to refute. I know I I'm sure if you're a curling person, I bet you're like, you idiot. There's a thing you're not even thinking of. We probably don't even know enough to know how little we know. But that one I think with a year, I think Brady could get there. I don't know. I have nothing but respect for professional bowlers I think if you give me a year to just bowl every day I feel like I could get pretty good at bowling. Now And this is maybe not a groundbreaking conversation where it's like if you practice really hard, you get good at something but they would here. I think here's thing about bowling is I do feel like it requires a skill a natural skill that if you had, you would already know Youve played enough, you've bold enough in your life. Are you good I think no. Okay. I'm probably average. like completely average at it. But I think with reps I could get that up to. At least is the ceiling for bowling, right? Like three hundreds the most you can go. So if you're averaging like one hundred fifty already, you're already halfway to being perfect. Sure All right, the next two, I think ress Tangentially pro athletes I think I could be a professional golf caddy Thats does this count? They get a good cut of the money. They have an essential role They have to advise. Do you know enough to advise? I know all the golf words. I think I could learn somebody's club distances and get a good lay of the land, be able to judge I'm a very good judge of distance. like like what's one hundred fifty yards? Bags are kind of heavy. How do you know that you're a good judge of distance? I mean, if you say, how far is that out there? I could probably be like about one hundred fifty yards All I db to know how far things are. Are you kidd