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Is It a Culture War If It's Just The Culture? Plus NFL Rule Changes, Fights & Bad Stadium Design · The Regulars

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  Holy hell, Sophie Cunningham makes an ass of herself, but that's just
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  a Monday. And frankly, we got a lot to talk about because people are stealing
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  our shit and we need to discuss that. I'm Cody Decker,
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  welcome to The Regulars. I'm Tanya Ray Fox and I am patrolling the
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  internet like a, like a little, uh, social media policeman trying to
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  keep our stuff together. But in the meantime, we got a show to do,
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  so let's do
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  this, Cody.
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  What a life. Our videos are going absolutely viral, but people are
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  asking exactly who we are. I'm Cody Decker, she's Tanya Rae Fox, and you
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  guys need to stop stealing our shit. Or if you're going to,
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  tag us. Just tag us. Throw us a tag. We love Cody Decker
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  and Tanya Rae Fox, or The Regulars Podcast, whatever you like. But you know,
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  goddamn, we'll be, we'll be getting into it. Um, this has been
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  Uh, quite a weekend in terms of good, good work content
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  for us. Yeah, you're preparing for a vacation. I am. Next, much needed. What a
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  boost, right? Have some good successful content right before you head out.
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  That's great, love that for you. Um, you're going to Hawaii?
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  I am going fucking to the North Shore of Oahu in a much-needed
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  vacation. I haven't had one in a year. I know. Um, and it was funny,
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  I was walking around the studio today down at the Fan LA, and you know,
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  we're in the same spot as K-Rock, we're in the same spot as, uh,
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  K-Earth 101, one of the K-Earth 101 people came out and was like, oh,
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  how's it going? I'm like, oh, you know, I'm just getting ready for this vacation
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  at the end of the week. Like, vacation already? We've been doing the show for
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  3 months. Yeah. And I had to explain to her, I'm like, yeah, but you
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  have to understand, this is our one vacation for the next year.
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  Yeah. And she's like, what? I said, no. Yeah, this is sports radio station.
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  Like sports radio. You don't seem to get— sports world is dead right now.
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  We are heading into the MLB playoffs and the NFL season
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  starting at the same time we're heading into. And then in October,
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  NBA starts. The WNBA playoffs will be happening and then,
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  you know, NHL starts and then like we're all through NFL season up
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  until the Super Bowl. There's no time. There's no time to be taking
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  a break. Fucking zero. In fact, I won't have a break. And I was trying
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  to explain, I'm like, no, there are no fucking days off. Yeah, I'm going until
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  the Super Bowl ends and even then likely not stopping there.
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  Well, because you're— the Super Bowl ending is always like a good little
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  space for me. And then midsummer. But that little space for
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  me is the start of baseball season for you. And so for me,
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  like, it's a little bit different. I don't start talking about baseball until the All-Star.
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  Yeah, I start talking about baseball 2 months before the season starts. I will now,
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  cuz I'm straight through, you know, spring training and all that. I will probably
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  talk way more than I ever had prior to— this next year we're going to
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  be talking a lot of baseball because there won't be any.
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  That's the craziest part, is by having no baseball,
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  we will talk more about baseball And the entire sports landscape will
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  talk more about baseball than we have in years. Yes, because it's going to be
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  the topic of all conversations, especially when December 1st hits. Dude,
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  fucking shit's gonna go kablooey in like the most embarrassing,
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  stupid fuck ways you're ever going to see. The narratives are
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  already out there. Don't worry, we've covered some of them and we're going to cover
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  way more of them as they come along because holy shit, the dipshits are
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  out. The fucking media moguls are out fucking carrying so much weight
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  for owners and truly I don't even think they know that they're doing it.
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  They're not smart enough to know that they're doing it. They're just fucking idiots that
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  think they're making really good points. Not unlike all of the idiots right now making
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  the good points, the really good points about trans athletes.
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  Boy, oh boy. Yeah, trans athletes seem to be a huge problem according
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  to, uh, 5 fucking straight dudes. All 10
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  of them. All 10 of them in all of the United States. Right. Embarrassing.
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  Um, so here's the thing, Cody. Uh, let's get into it. We're gonna get to
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  headline number 1, uh, which is We're going to talk
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  about the Sophie Cunningham and Dijonay Carrington situation as
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  a, as an inroad to this conversation, because what happened
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  over the weekend was Dijonay Carrington hard
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  fouled Sophie Cunningham, sort of a hook around or like a rake sort
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  of face rake neck thing. Yeah, it was, it was a hard foul. It was
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  definitely a hard foul. She got ejected. All the things that were supposed
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  to happen after a hard foul happened. And interestingly,
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  something that people noticed immediately was that it
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  was very similar, almost identical to a hard foul that
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  Sophie Cunningham committed on Jacey Sheldon last year. I saw the— I saw the comparison.
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  You saw the comparison? Very similar. Very similar. They're really like not much of a
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  distinction. No. But again, I want to make this abundantly clear. Hard foul. Hard fouls
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  happen. It's a professional league. Yeah. Yeah. And absolutely.
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  Like, let's not lie about it. We've been watching sports forever.
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  There are players who will hard foul other players a little harder because they don't
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  like them. Yes, that's, that's what I think happened with Sophie Cunningham,
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  most likely. And I wouldn't be shocked if that's what happened with Dijonay Carrington.
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  What we— yeah, dude. I mean, we've talked about it across
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  the course of NFL and NBA season, whatever. I mean, I got to be honest,
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  I don't think Myles Garrett swung his helmet at Mason Rudolph
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  because he liked him. You know what I mean? Like, people, people hate each other.
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  Yeah. And professional. So, okay, now you can't take it too far.
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  It didn't take it too far. It was, it was a hard foul, but it
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  was whatever. Now, afterward, the reaction was exactly what you would think it
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  would be. Absolute outrage. White woman tears over, you know,
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  Sophie Cunningham being hard fouled. And then any legislation suggested
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  yet? Not yet. But, you know, I'm sure it's coming. Let's hope. And then Dijonae
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  Carrington tweeted white privilege in
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  capital letters, which is really funny. I laughed,
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  but I, you know, what are you going to do? It's— and the thing is,
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  afterward, this is what I, you know, this is where we get— where things get
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  interesting. Now, she— I'm gonna, I'm gonna read you what,
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  uh, Sophie Cunningham said, and then I'm gonna tell you, because right before our show,
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  so, uh, Dijonay Carrington updated her explanation
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  about white privilege, what she meant by that. Can't wait to hear this. So Carrington,
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  uh, she got the flagrant 2, uh, shortly after heading to the locker room.
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  A post appeared on her Threads I mean, on her Twitter and then— or no,
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  it was her Threads. It was her Threads. Oh yeah, we saw it. Cunningham said,
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  I think the league is taking care of that. I mean, this has nothing to
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  do with race. Last year I did the same thing and I got kicked out
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  as I deserve to be kicked out. There's no reason to even play that card.
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  And she said that Dijonay Carrington is just trying to get attention.
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  You're right. She's the one getting all the attention. No one else is
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  trying to get fucking attention at all. I'm glad you mentioned that because
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  I hear Dijonay Carrington's name in the headlines so fucking
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  often that it's very clear this is an attention thing. That's her
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  M.O., right? Because I hear her name in print all the
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  fucking time for all kinds of shit not surrounding basketball.
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  Am I referring to the right person? Oh, no, I'm talking about Sophie Cunningham,
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  aren't I? All right, continue. And Dijonay Carrington has been in the league 2 years
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  fewer than Sophie Cunningham was already. She's already been in an All-NBA
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  defensive team. You know, like, she's, she's a real player. The last time she
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  was healthy, She's making her way back. We've all known about— nobody
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  knew who Sophie Cunningham was outside of the WNBA until she decided
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  to start getting attention. So I thought that those words were fascinating. I also thought
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  it was a really fascinating use of words considering that we are in the midst
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  of 2 of the greatest attention grabs,
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  one of the like most egregious attention grabs we've ever seen
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  from any former professional athletes with the 2 NBA
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  players. You're being generous. NBA players being fucking generous.
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  And since we last talked— so that we talked on Friday,
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  Mr. Freedom had declared himself a trans woman who wanted to declare for the WNBA
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  draft. Since then, Royce White did the same thing. Now, I would
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  like to clear something up about Royce White. Yes, it is not Royce O'Neal.
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  People are getting confused. One of them was a real NBA player.
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  One of them, Cody, the other one who decided to declare for the WNBA
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  draft as a trans woman, played 3 minutes in the W— in the NBA.
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  Yeah, 3 minutes in the NBA. That's not an exaggeration. He literally
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  only played 3 minutes, 3 games and 3 minutes. It's like coming in 5th in
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  a fucking swim meet. It's somehow worse. It's actually like somehow he has a less
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  exciting NBA career than Riley Gaines even had a swimming career,
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  which is like, that's wild. We're really like the dregs.
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  Less, uh, less, you know, well-known about
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  him, but is becoming well-known, is that he, um,
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  is an incredibly violent, dangerous man to women.
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  Uh, such— so much so that he was granted,
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  uh, his ex-wife was granted a 50-year restraining order. Wow.
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  I did not know that was a thing. They— so he had the
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  2-year restraining order for his kid and a 50-year,
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  which are very, as you clearly just laid out,
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  incredibly rare to even get granted a 50-year. I know
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  a lot of women who've been stalked, like truly have evidence of being stalked,
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  who can't even get a restraining order, a protective order at all,
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  let alone. So I don't know, that's— so right out the gate,
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  this guy's just a loser-ass fucking piece of shit. So it totally makes sense that
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  he wants to be around a bunch of women that he could harm. That makes
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  sense. And, and so these 2 people with all the attention grabbing— now
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  Sophie's seems to be fine with that, but Dijonais playing
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  basketball against her is a little too far. Well, let's be real clear. You have
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  to understand the, the trans thing that's being thrown in your face.
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  If you guys haven't noticed the buzzwords that are being said and the timing that
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  they're being said, let's be real clear. All of a sudden, trans women in sports
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  is the number one topic in America again, uh, and also communism on the
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  massive rise, which tells you one thing: we just lost a war and they don't
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  want you to talk about it fucking at all. That's literally what's taking place to
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  the point that they're going directly to a culture war that has no aspect of
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  culture whatsoever. It's not even taking place. This isn't a thing. I just,
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  that's why I'm so pissed off about this whole thing, 'cause it's not a fucking
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  thing. It's just a thing for fucking little people
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  trying to feel big and it's fucking embarrassing and makes me sick. Like,
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  I dealt with this during the Olympics a couple years ago. You and I famously
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  discuss it all the time. That one boxer who is a woman, by the way.
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  I was terrified she was going to get murdered over all of this bullshit,
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  all because of these dumb motherfuckers. I'm tired of dumb motherfuckers.
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  It's really, really— aren't you all tired of dumb motherfuckers?
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  Because I am. Apparently not. But there is, I mean, the fear about this,
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  you know, sort of transvestigation thing that's going to start happening where people demand
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  answers about just how a woman— a woman— like, it's really,
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  really dark. It's really bad. And as much as we like to shit on these
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  people, your intensity and, and genuine, like,
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  disgust with it is the right feeling to have because this is
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  going down a really bad path. Um, you know what's funny? Somebody once asked me
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  when I was talking about this, why are you so mad about this? And my
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  response was, why the fuck aren't you? That's you. I'm just gonna
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  turn this on you. The fact that you're not mad about this means you're a
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  piece of shit. Like, just fucking get that through your head. I'm mad about it
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  because I know the difference between right and wrong, and as do you. Yeah,
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  but a lot of people seemingly don't, and it really fucking It doesn't discourage me.
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  It just reinforces that we are not going to make it as a species.
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  Well, and the interesting part is that Sophie Cunningham, even in her advocacy
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  for— or in advocating against
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  trans women playing in sports, acknowledges that trans women exist.
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  She just doesn't think that they should play in sports. But what's happening is the
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  people who are supporting her are saying, because they're in our— they're in my comments.
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  I've received thousands of them over the weekend. Trans women aren't
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  women. They're men. No such thing as trans women. They're men. They're men. The men.
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  Okay, well, it's not— I'm not— I'm— I can't argue with
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  somebody who refuses to acknowledge that trans women are women. I do find it
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  interesting that if they are men and you
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  don't want men in sports, that you think that there's some sort of like statement
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  being made here about these cisgender men going
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  into the NBA when like you and I both know that none of these cis
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  men would be taking hormones to lower their testosterone,
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  to increase their, their female hormones,
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  to reduce, you know, certain sizes
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  of things, to have surgeries to remove certain parts of their bodies.
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  That feels pretty not cisgender men to me. That feels pretty much like something
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  that's different. They won't acknowledge it. Okay, fine. Uh,
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  as far as Dijonay Carrington, she wanted to clarify because again,
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  people are going to take everything you say out of context. Always. She said,
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  uh, responding to, um, yeah,
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  wait, oh, this is what it was. Okay, responding to a clip of former
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  NFL linebacker Emmanuel Acho— oh, I just
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  found out he was at a part of this— criticizing her for her reaction,
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  uh, she posted on X that she never once claimed that the assessment of the
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  foul was white privilege. Try exercising your critical thinking skills. I know you last—
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  I know you studied psych. Furthermore, I'm the last thing from ignorant or
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  asinine when it comes to speaking on white privilege. Do your research on that one.
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  I actually went to school in one of the top universities, might I add,
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  to educate myself on this exact subject. I would never use that term
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  as a rhetorical weapon knowing the history and social weight it holds without
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  having the proper evidence to substantiate it.
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  So, you know, good for her for standing up for herself,
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  for saying, you guys love to look at these accusations in
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  the public as like some sort of virtue signaling or whining or out
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  of context bullshit for attention. Meanwhile, that's exactly what
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  Sophie Cunningham has been doing. And Dijonay Carrington,
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  who's telling you, oh no, no, when I said white privilege, when I put that
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  out there, don't worry, I knew what the fuck I was saying. Oh,
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  you thought I— you thought I was just throwing out there? Let me
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  remind you, I know exactly the history of the phrase, and I'm using it
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  exactly how I fucking intended. I love that.
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  I love You know, whether you agree with her response in the game,
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  whether you agree with the— you can't agree or disagree with a hard foul in
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  sports. Yeah, it's a hard foul. But like, if you don't see the white
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  privilege and the difference between not only the way that the media and fans treat
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  Sophie Cunningham, Caitlin Clark, and some of these other white players, but in how the
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  league treats them. Okay. Okay. I just like—
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  I— the Venn diagram that exists
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  of the people that want to protect women's sports while at the exact same time
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  are truly using women's sports as a political theater
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  prop to honestly downgrade women's sports. It's not
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  even a Venn diagram. It's just one fucking circle. Oh, yeah. And some of these
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  fucking idiots like Sophie Cunningham, who truly don't understand how easily they're being manipulated
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  and used as political theater to only bastardize their own product,
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  is kind of mind-boggling to me. Well, she's going to come out of it
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  richer than she was ever going to be playing the— playing basketball.
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  No question. So for her, the grift works out really, really well. Caitlin Clark,
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  she someday will be on Fox News. Caitlin Clark's a little more quiet for an
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  obvious reason because she, she, her money could actually be in basketball. She has to
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  be good at basketball. Yeah, she is talented. So there's that part of it.
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  But yeah, absolutely. You know, you and I called
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  this a while ago, like, you know, right when we were starting this podcast.
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  This is a league built on Black women, built by
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  Black women, built by queer women. And that was always going to be a target
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  for a conservative fascist. Once they get their great white hope in
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  there. Oh, baby. Oh, baby. So now they got 2 on one team. Oh,
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  thank God. We've never— they've never had to contend with a league
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  being genuinely popular that, that highlighted
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  and, and foregrounded Black women and queer women,
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  especially Black queer women, right? They don't— they're not loving that
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  this is working out the way it has. They thought that Caitlin Clark would be
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  the star and everybody else would be talked down to. Now all of a sudden
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  everybody likes A'ja Wilson. Oh, everybody— we now know
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  A'ja's in a, in a power couple and one of the most famous women athletes
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  in the country. Oh man. Like, that's not what we were hoping for.
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  Well, that was what was always going to happen. And there's a lot of— I
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  do think that's a big part of this as well, is that there's just like
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  this massive discomfort. Because the other thing about this, again,
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  is the women don't shut up and back down. They don't— they
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  don't sit down and shut up for Mr. Nice White Guy owner like the NFL
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  and the NBA. Oh boy, boy, boy, do, do, do athletes love
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  doing that on the men's side. That is for, for goddamn sure. Yeah. And,
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  and so like everybody's like, culture war, culture war. What you're seeing is
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  not a culture war happening in the WNBA.
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  Not even a little. It is— what you're realizing is that there's an absence
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  of cultural honesty in all these other leagues,
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  right? There's no culture war in the NFL because
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  every time a Black player breathes the wrong way,
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  they are absolutely fucking lambasted. Not only in
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  the media but by execs and whatever else. We just did a whole segment
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  on it last episode. And the same for the NBA,
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  the same for the MLB. No, that— those
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  are, those are not accurate representations of where our culture is at
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  right now. The WNBA and the backlash
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  that Black women face and queer women face and trans women face every single day
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  is a very accurate
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  example of the culture and how these people are treated in every single everyday life.
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  So like, you can call it a culture war that exists in the WNBA,
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  but what you're actually seeing is the United States of fucking America. Mm-hmm.
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  How do you feel about in headline 2 talking a little bit of women's
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  ball? Actually ball? Sure. Okay. So I saw the roster.
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  I think it's a hell of a roster. Yeah. Headline number 2, the Team
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  USA 2026 FIBA World Cup roster. Uh, was released last week.
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  I saw a great video of the Atlanta Dream head coach telling Ryan
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  and Angel Reese that they had made the team. It was really sweet. Very cool.
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  Super cool. Um, the ESPN headline reads Clark-Beckers
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  on Team USA women's roster for FIBA World Cup. Um,
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  I found that interesting that those were the 2 players that they decided to share.
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  Boy, what, what do those 2 players have in common? Yeah, because, uh,
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  uh, oh wait, oh, A'ja Wilson's on the team. Didn't mention that though. A'ja Wilson,
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  uh, so fucking literally, like, guys, it's like
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  so fucking blatant that it's— are you not insulted?
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  Like, I'm actually insulted by the headline, and fucking you should be
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  too. Like, this is a fucking clown show. Especially because, like, I actually—
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  I fully understand that they might have been like, oh, we want to name some
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  people that might, like, may not have made the team. Like, we wanted to— like,
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  obviously we know A'ja Wilson and Brianna Stewart are gonna make it, but But in
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  that case, you— and if you want the clickbait, you go Caitlin Clark,
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  Angel Reese. Every— come on now. You go Angel Clark and Angel Reese.
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  No question. No, no question. That makes all the sense in the world. They're going
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  to be on the same team. That'll sell some fucking headlines. But instead you're like,
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  well, what are the 2 new white girls? Yeah, exactly. And we all
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  love Paige Becker. Yes, we do. But Jesus, absolute whatever. But she would agree with
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  us on this. So that's how I know, you know, if you're doing a marketing
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  thing. Yeah, that's a fucking layup. So as far as,
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  uh, the team itself, we have Aaliyah Boston, Paige Beckers, Caitlin Clark,
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  Nafisa Collier, uh, Ka— Khalia Copper, um,
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  Chelsea Gray, Ryan Howard, Kelsey Plum, Angel Reese,
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  Brianna Stewart, Asia Wilson, and Jackie Young. So by the way, Nafisa Collier being here
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  makes me very happy. She has been so fun to watch this season. I'm a
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  huge, uh, Minnesota fan. Like, that's, that's the team for me
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  because I don't have a team in Boston and I've never gotten like really— like,
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  I don't I haven't adopted Los Angeles as a— as my new sport
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  in that way. Well, I'll admit that the Sparks aren't good either, and Kelsey Plum
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  just quietly got traded a week ago, so that's not helping. To Chris's team,
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  the Mercury. Um, my husband's a huge Mercury fan, like has been like for a
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  very long time. Um, but Minnesota was the team I fell in love with.
• 19:27
  I really love Sheryl Reeve, and I have for a really long time. Um,
• 19:30
  and then on top of it, now they have Olivia Miles. Have you seen the
• 19:33
  videos of, uh, Lindsay Whalen like training with Olivia Miles? No, I haven't.
• 19:37
  Handles and stuff. No, completely missed. Really? Their videos are really sick.
• 19:40
  You gotta send that to me. Yeah, they're really cool. Um, but I wanted to
• 19:43
  say, you know, we've got 3— what is it, 3 aces on this team?
• 19:46
  We've got Chelsea, Asia, and Jackie Young. They're sort of a dynasty-type
• 19:50
  team. Um, 2 players from the Mercury, 2 players from the Dream, 2 players
• 19:54
  from the Fever, right? Because they have Aaliyah and Caitlin. Yep.
• 19:58
  Um, so that, like, I love when they have the team chemistry on,
• 20:01
  on teams like this, and I do think that they often build World
• 20:06
  Cup rosters or Olympic rosters so that there is a level of,
• 20:10
  um, you know, chemistry,
• 20:13
  but with among some of the players already. So there's very clearly
• 20:17
  specific teams being represented here, uh, and it
• 20:22
  all makes sense to me. I mean, there's definitely snubs. There's snubs on every list.
• 20:25
  I, you know, I think it's really funny that
• 20:29
  like after all the hullabaloo about the Olympic team and whatever
• 20:33
  Caitlin Clark's on the team and I have not seen any of
• 20:37
  these people like celebrating having— they're all so distracted by Sophie
• 20:40
  Cunningham that they're not even there to like to do their little victory
• 20:44
  lap about Caitlin Clark making the Olympic team. Funny about this whole thing. I almost
• 20:48
  felt bad for Caitlin Clark this last week when she did that interview where she's
• 20:51
  like, I just don't want anything to do with this. I almost kind of like—
• 20:54
  I almost found it commendable, but I was just like— and it was just so
• 20:58
  funny watching the people on the right fucking flip out about it. I'm like,
• 21:01
  yeah, Jesus Christ. I honestly sat there going like,
• 21:04
  This poor girl. Yeah, there's nothing— she can't do anything right now. Like, this is
• 21:08
  fucked. I mean, listen, her and Alyssa— Aaliyah Boston are
• 21:12
  obviously a pretty dynamic, very good duo on the
• 21:16
  Fever. They're gonna be a dynamic— like, I'm interested to see the, the lineups
• 21:20
  that they roll out with this team. Um, I do think that there's—
• 21:24
  Caitlin Clark plays a pretty specific style where it's
• 21:28
  like high turnover but really like a lot of assists, and the perimeter shooting is
• 21:31
  is crazy. Um, and I,
• 21:35
  I, uh, as somebody who lives with a Mercury fan, Ka Copper
• 21:39
  being on there is great. She's really underrated. Like, I— she's
• 21:42
  not underrated among WNBA fans, but I think that a lot of— in
• 21:46
  the zeitgeist— more casuals— I don't know enough about her. Exactly. So more casuals
• 21:49
  don't know as much about her game, but she's— she
• 21:53
  is an absolute fucking beast.
• 21:56
  And I— if I were to bet, like, who, you know, because I'm
• 22:00
  sure we'll watch these games and pay attention, like who's going to stand out to
• 22:03
  you as like, oh, that's my new favorite player on that team. I think
• 22:07
  Copper will be yours. So I'm just calling that now. Just, you know,
• 22:11
  you know, it doesn't have to be. It doesn't have to be. But I'm just
• 22:13
  saying, by the way, how bad are things going in L.A. that the moment Kelsey
• 22:16
  Plum's gotten over there to the Mercury, everyone's like, right? He's like, yeah, she's already
• 22:19
  a leader and everything's great. I'm like, I know the fuck just happened here.
• 22:23
  I know. Like, this was on paper. It's a fucking great team. Yeah,
• 22:27
  it's not a great team. Your teams are going to take a hit in this
• 22:29
  show because I have something later about the Raiders that's Really funny. I, I'm aware.
• 22:33
  I've talked about it this week already. It's fucking Raiders,
• 22:36
  man. Uh, we actually are gonna just head over to the NFL
• 22:40
  now. Um, headline number 3. I found this to be interesting.
• 22:43
  Headline number 3: The— an altered NFL rule now allows
• 22:47
  head coaches to select a staff member to initiate challenge calls on
• 22:51
  their behalf. This new change to the NFL rulebook will allow them to
• 22:55
  designate a member of the sideline staff to throw challenges on teams' behalf. In the
• 22:58
  past, Only the head coach was given the red challenge flag. Now they'll be able
• 23:01
  to select someone else ahead of the game to throw the flag for them.
• 23:04
  Rule 15, Section 1, Article 1 in the league's rulebook now reads, the head coach
• 23:07
  or a head coach's pregame challenge designee candidate, a challenge
• 23:11
  by throwing a flag. Why are they doing this, though? That's the only thing I'm
• 23:14
  not really getting. A league official confirmed that the
• 23:17
  rule change happened on Monday. All other rules
• 23:21
  around the challenge will still apply. Though most
• 23:24
  NFL rule changes are announced during the NFL's annual meeting in late March, this one
• 23:28
  was not. The league is allowed to make some adjustments to the rule book that
• 23:31
  don't need to be voted on by owners. So I can't fully confirm this,
• 23:34
  but it does sound like owners didn't vote on this. Um, so that's
• 23:38
  interesting. I'm assuming it's something along the— listen,
• 23:42
  I always want to think there's nefarious means behind every single thing, but this
• 23:45
  one doesn't seem like it. I'm just— are they just trying to make the challenge
• 23:49
  system a little more efficient and go by quicker? Um,
• 23:52
  I, you know, I— my thought on this is that it's like wildly
• 23:55
  unnecessary, which is why you have the, the questions that you're having.
• 23:59
  Yeah. Um, it really feels like potentially a way to
• 24:03
  like have teams use their challenges more often. It also seems like a good way
• 24:07
  to add confusion and problems. Definitely confusion and problems.
• 24:10
  There's definitely going to be a moment where a head coach is absolutely pissed.
• 24:13
  Yes, like, like, that's it. Don't want to see. Why is that gonna happen?
• 24:17
  Um, there, you know, I haven't seen in a weird— I've
• 24:20
  always looked over the numbers on how many challenges are being,
• 24:24
  you know, executed every year, which people are most successful with their challenges. I haven't
• 24:28
  seen any crazy numbers around challenges being like more or less successful.
• 24:32
  I do wonder if their hope is that by
• 24:36
  designating certain teams, designating someone rather
• 24:40
  than having it be the head coach, that there won't be as many of those
• 24:43
  post- game press conference, like what happened with
• 24:47
  Dan Campbell last year. It happened with a couple other where they're like ranting and
• 24:50
  raving about what was and wasn't overturned. That there
• 24:54
  was a bunch of arguments last season around overturned
• 24:58
  calls, calls that weren't challenged that should have been, calls that couldn't be challenged,
• 25:03
  that whatever. And I'm wondering if they are thinking like, well, if he
• 25:06
  designates some side head coach to do it or side coach to do it,
• 25:09
  it's not the head coach. Then the post-game press conference can't be them ranting
• 25:13
  and raving because they weren't the ones who got the challenge. I have no idea.
• 25:17
  Um, this is gonna be a fucking mess. It is chaotic, and I,
• 25:21
  I don't, I don't think it's a good idea. I do find I
• 25:24
  am interested. Oh yeah, like, I'm definitely interested. I'm definitely interested. But I think
• 25:28
  this is just a mistake to make things more convoluted than they already are.
• 25:31
  Like, that's, that's the problem with the challenge system. That's the problem with the rules.
• 25:34
  That's— fuck, that's the problem with pass interference. Like, no one actually
• 25:38
  knows what the fuck a pass interference is because everything's left for interpretation.
• 25:42
  You could make a call on probably every single play in the NFL, and then
• 25:46
  we're just throwing flags to throw flags. Like, it's a real— this
• 25:51
  is gonna be a problem, dude. I, I will say, uh, great news for Mike
• 25:54
  McCarthy: if he can hand that off, he should. There's certain coaches where
• 25:58
  I'm like, hand it off, babe, you suck at this. I don't feel good about
• 26:01
  anything in the Steelers this year. No, no, no, no. Um, it's so— I cannot
• 26:05
  believe, by the way, I still can't believe Mike McCarthy and Aaron Rodgers are back
• 26:08
  together. That's so fucking funny. It is going to be so fucking funny. But I
• 26:11
  will say, I do think that there's head coaches, like, there's only a few that
• 26:15
  I can think that would even hand that— that, um, that would even need to
• 26:18
  or want to hand that off to, uh, a coach that they trust
• 26:22
  enough to do that. Um, you know, like, Andy Reid
• 26:26
  has Spags But Andy Reid doesn't need that. Yeah, he doesn't need
• 26:30
  someone to help him. I look around the league and I'm like, who actually needs
• 26:34
  this help that badly? And I'm thinking about
• 26:37
  one head coach that might just, like, need all distractions off his plate, who has
• 26:41
  a very, very reliable offensive coordinator. Okay.
• 26:44
  And that is Mike Vrabel with Josh McDaniels.
• 26:48
  Yeah, he has a lot going on. He's had a lot going on. I wonder
• 26:51
  if the extra heat of the challenge flag might be better suited for old Joshy
• 26:55
  this time. I'm going to tell you right now, can I, can I just throw
• 26:57
  out a prediction? Oh sure. I, I think you guys are gonna have a not
• 27:01
  a great year this year. I think the Patriots— you were, you were in the
• 27:04
  room when I made my prediction the other day. I, I have— I'm, I'm giving
• 27:07
  them 11 wins. I'm impressed by that. I'm giving them closer to 8, and it's
• 27:11
  not because they're bad. I just think, one, they're not going to have the same—
• 27:14
  they had a cakewalk of the schedule last year. What are they— what is it?
• 27:17
  They're playing 4 games just against Jets and Dolphins. That is a huge help.
• 27:21
  I can't stress that enough. You always got to remember that. Fucking huge help.
• 27:24
  Okay, I take that back. Maybe they are playing the NFC North So let me
• 27:26
  get back to 9 wins then, if that's the case. That being said, I don't
• 27:30
  know, we'll see. Yeah, I, I do— I can definitely see a mild regression.
• 27:33
  I want to say a mild regression. I'm not saying they're gonna get back to
• 27:35
  like 4 or 5. Mild regression would be 11 wins. Well, I would, I would
• 27:39
  say a mild regression. I mean, I see them— 500 is a pretty big regression.
• 27:42
  I could see them being just on the outside looking in this season. And I
• 27:46
  do think it's just— there's a vibe issue going on here, man. And if
• 27:49
  things go wrong quick, you know how loud the fucking voices are gonna be.
• 27:53
  They could, they could fix it all with the challenge flag designation.
• 27:56
  You're not wrong, you're not wrong. You know what, I take that back. Fucking 14
• 28:00
  wins. Um, but like, yeah, they have to play the NFC North.
• 28:03
  That's fucking nuts. By the way, it's right here in the chat. Isaiah's got a
• 28:07
  good point. An assistant is going to get fired in November or December when they
• 28:10
  mess this up in a crucial game. I fucking agree. Like, this is fucking weird,
• 28:14
  man. It's a huge bummer. I don't love it for them. But now I'm like,
• 28:17
  now that he says that and I've seen that, yeah, Starting to get
• 28:20
  kind of excited about it. Yeah, I'm trying to think of like which team's the
• 28:24
  most likely to scapegoat their staff member, you think? But like,
• 28:28
  it's just because of the Jets, not because of— not because of their head coach.
• 28:30
  Yeah, because Aaron Glenn wouldn't do it. Aaron Glenn, their GM might. Somebody would.
• 28:34
  Yeah, yeah, somebody would. Or, or fucking one of the, the fucking owner's
• 28:39
  kids might fucking do it. Browns for sure can pull that shit for sure.
• 28:42
  Yeah, yeah, I could see it. Um, well, well John Harbaugh.
• 28:47
  John and Jim Harbaughs. Harbaugh squared.
• 28:51
  You got Harbaughed. That's what's gonna— you know what, if it's— I really hope the
• 28:55
  first person to get screwed by a challenge is someone that the Harbaughs
• 28:59
  elected so we can call it getting Harbaughed. That would be great.
• 29:03
  I love seeing the Harbaughs in pain. It's just so fun for me to see
• 29:07
  them in pain. It really legitimately brings me joy. The only time I was ever
• 29:10
  happy to see Jim Harbaugh happy was when Michigan won the title because I've been
• 29:13
  a Michigan football fan my whole, like, life since I was a little kid.
• 29:16
  Loved that. Then that was it. He was happy, and that was
• 29:21
  a byproduct of me being happy. So I was like, I'll allow it. And then
• 29:24
  day— the next day, I was like, back to hating it. When, when Jim went
• 29:27
  to the Chargers, I immediately said, oh, thank God, because I fucking hate the Chargers.
• 29:29
  Yeah, thank God. Oh, and thank God he's never gonna win a Super Bowl.
• 29:32
  Yeah, I don't have to listen to this ever. I'm really excited because I know
• 29:36
  Jon's not winning one in New York. Yeah, I hope to God he doesn't,
• 29:39
  at least. Oh no, based on the team he's got, he got a fucking shot.
• 29:41
  Remember John Harbaugh, who almost has one Lamar Jackson right
• 29:45
  now with his running back and quarterback. He thinks Jackson Dart is just as good
• 29:49
  as Lamar Jackson. They're almost like one Lamar. You know what you had for
• 29:53
  the last 5 years? If you put them together, they are one. They are one
• 29:56
  Lamar. If Lamar were asleep while he played football.
• 30:00
  Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Moving on to the
• 30:05
  second of our NFL topics and headline number 4.
• 30:09
  I think this is so fucking funny. I think this is so funny.
• 30:12
  Max Crosby and Kirk Cousins fought at Raiders
• 30:16
  practice, got into a heated altercation on Friday. The 5-time Pro Bowler hit
• 30:20
  Cousins twice during the team period, which is insane. When Crosby hit Cousins' arm
• 30:25
  a second time, the 15-year veteran had had enough. Cousins got into Crosby's face,
• 30:28
  grabbing the edge rusher's jersey while both exchanged words. They— I
• 30:32
  think they missed the next practice because of this. I can't
• 30:37
  even begin to tell you how funny this is. By the way, that was actually—
• 30:39
  that was one of 2 fights. There was also an offensive lineman and defensive Lime
• 30:43
  and they got into a fistfight, both punched each other like the fucking Raiders,
• 30:46
  man. We listen. It's not the first time we've seen like intra-team fights.
• 30:50
  Yeah, but like, but I will say Max Crosby
• 30:53
  versus Kirk Cousins is the funniest matchup I've ever heard in my life. It is
• 30:56
  the perfect explanation of how random and stupid
• 31:00
  the Raiders team is. Yes. Like it's such a goofy situation. First of all,
• 31:03
  Max Crosby clearly doesn't like Kirk Cousins. Not a great
• 31:08
  sign when the most famous player on your team, the most successful player on your
• 31:11
  team, hates your quarterback, and that's very clear. Now, do I think Max Crosby gets
• 31:15
  along with a lot of people? Probably not. Doesn't feel like he does. Probably not.
• 31:18
  And yet he does like some people. We've heard it. And you
• 31:23
  don't hit your quarterback. You don't touch your quarterback in
• 31:27
  practice. Remember, has anyone seen The Replacements? Remember, red means
• 31:30
  stop, right? This is just in case everybody, like,
• 31:34
  thinks it's normal. Like, no, you don't do that
• 31:37
  ever. But also, you know what? I've never been the biggest Kirk
• 31:41
  Cousins guy. Hmm. Got to give him some credit for the balls
• 31:45
  on him because, listen, Max Crosby has his, but Max
• 31:49
  Crosby would likely rip his fucking throat out. So the balls on Kirk Cousins,
• 31:53
  this actually might have given me a little extra respect for Kirk Cousins that
• 31:57
  I didn't know I had. I do think there's a little aura building a little
• 32:01
  bit. I agree, because I could not give two shits
• 32:05
  about Kirk Cousins. I've always thought he's overrated. I think his like
• 32:08
  I'm like the cool guy who wears chains, but I'm Christian, but I'm cool.
• 32:11
  Has— is like one of the, like, dorkiest, most annoying, cringy things. He is
• 32:14
  a cringe motherfucker. Yet he was like, bitch, I let you go
• 32:18
  once, you touch me twice. And Max Crosby is a maniac.
• 32:22
  Yeah. Not only is he a huge defensive end, but he's also a maniac.
• 32:25
  Yeah. I'm starting to wonder, does Kirk Cousins have a screw loose that I didn't
• 32:29
  know about? Absolutely. All quarterbacks do. I mean, but yeah, but like, he was willing
• 32:33
  to go fucking fight Max Crosby. I gotta
• 32:37
  say, not a whole lot of quarterbacks, even the ones with a screw loose,
• 32:39
  wouldn't fucking do that. Perhaps he's trying to set a good example for
• 32:44
  Fernando Mendoza to sort of be like, always stand up for yourself. Don't take shit.
• 32:48
  Okay, listen, you know, listen, I will say this whole thing
• 32:51
  is the most Raiders fucking story I've ever heard. Them both being like suspended the
• 32:55
  next day is an extra Raiders story that I've ever fucking heard. This team's gonna
• 32:58
  finish last in the AFC West, and I do think they're going to be better
• 33:01
  than they have been Yeah. And I do think we're going to take a step
• 33:03
  in the right direction. But again, like, I now— like, I've been a Max Crosby
• 33:07
  fan. I've been a Max Crosby defender in this whole thing. I'm like, oh,
• 33:09
  let's just keep Max Crosby. But like, if this is the shit that's going on
• 33:13
  and the Freighters aren't going to compete, maybe they should trade him over to
• 33:18
  Dallas and get their hands on a couple of draft picks. Remember when he was
• 33:21
  on— wasn't he on the fucking Ravens? Yeah, for a solid
• 33:24
  2 days. Yeah. And then he had to come back. It sounds like he really,
• 33:28
  he, he, he came this close to playing on a team with Lamar Jackson,
• 33:33
  and now he's on the Raiders with another probably
• 33:38
  lame duck head coach. I don't know, I'm actually interested to see
• 33:42
  what Clint Kubiak can do. Um, I— we'll see, but like, I'm interested. I am
• 33:45
  the— so offensively, he's going to be good. He's a good offensive play
• 33:49
  caller. It's giving a little bit Mike McDaniels to me, where I'm like, where I'm
• 33:52
  like, do, do you have enough Of all the new head coaches, the young
• 33:56
  white guys they hired to every position, he's the least interesting to me.
• 34:00
  He is very milquetoast and boring in terms of just like even just his,
• 34:03
  his like, uh, what I've seen from his coaching and his experience. He's the least
• 34:07
  interesting to me. I think he would have benefited from staying a little bit longer,
• 34:09
  maybe. But, but listen, we just came off of Pete Carroll who was fucking 9,000
• 34:14
  years old. Also, I'm gonna be honest, I did not believe— when I tell you
• 34:17
  I talked so much shit about the Jaguars hiring Liam Cohen So
• 34:21
  much shit. Really impressive. Like, that one threw me. I was like, I have
• 34:25
  to— I had to be like, you know what, my bad. His opening presser like
• 34:29
  made me go like, wow, this is going to be the worst hire of all
• 34:32
  time. He just goes up there, Duval, the Duval, and all of that.
• 34:35
  I couldn't believe it. And just like, he had only been an OC for a
• 34:39
  year in Tampa. And like, so I have been surprised before.
• 34:43
  Um, anyway, I will never get over opening that headline,
• 34:47
  seeing Max Crosby and The shock of reading Kirk Cousins
• 34:51
  in the headline of who he was fighting, I will never get over how funny
• 34:54
  that is. I feel like if we had any level of any ability to laugh
• 34:58
  at things in this day and age, we would have been able to laugh more
• 35:01
  at it. Unfortunately, there's too much else going on, but that's funny as fuck.
• 35:04
  No, it's funny as fuck. And again, I didn't think there'd be a world
• 35:07
  where I'd be like, you know what, maybe Kirk Cousins isn't
• 35:11
  the worst. Yeah, I mean, I've always thought Kirk Cousins is definitely the
• 35:15
  worst, but at least he's not He's not a, a pussy.
• 35:19
  Yeah, at least he's not a little bitch. But like, listen, I don't think he's
• 35:21
  an amazing quarterback. I think he's going to be a stopgap. I actually on this
• 35:25
  show said, I think we should go get Kirk Cousins like months before it happened.
• 35:29
  Right. Because I thought he'd be a good stopgap to give Fernando Mendoza a little
• 35:31
  bit of time, maybe somebody to learn from if he was willing to do that
• 35:34
  gig. And clearly he is. Yeah. So you know what? This year is going to
• 35:38
  be a bit of a shit show, but I'm used to it because I'm a
• 35:41
  Raider fan. All I know is shit show. So it might as well be a
• 35:44
  shit show in the right direction. It also is objectively funny and kind of iconic
• 35:47
  to draft Fernando Mendoza and be like, let's have him mentored
• 35:51
  by old Fernando Mendoza. Like, that is— that was the right
• 35:55
  call. And it's very funny. I know a part of me was almost like,
• 35:57
  why don't you guys just bring back Derek Carr? If we're going to do that,
• 35:59
  just bring back Derek Carr. Why don't we just continue to employ Philip Rivers?
• 36:03
  He clearly needs the money. Let him— he needs the insurance, not the money.
• 36:06
  That's what I'm saying. Specifically, he needs the insurance. Well, insurance— 19 children.
• 36:10
  It's— that's money. I don't know if you know that. Well,
• 36:13
  he does have insurance for the next 5 years, to be fair. I know he
• 36:16
  locked it in. Good for him. Good for me. He might want to play one
• 36:18
  down to get that 6 the year. Yeah. Yeah. Okay,
• 36:21
  so the final headline is, is the
• 36:26
  one I'm kind of the most interested to hear everyone's thoughts about. Fucking missed.
• 36:29
  I'm just gonna start by saying that this is a disaster.
• 36:33
  The Bills debuted their new stadium that we've been hearing about,
• 36:37
  and it's dogshit. This gajillion-dollar stadium,
• 36:41
  and the complete dogshit. It was filled with 50,000
• 36:45
  to 60,000 fans of the 80,000 capacity for a preseason thing the
• 36:49
  other day. Yeah.
• 36:51
  Everywhere you look. Now,
• 36:54
  when this said obstructed views at Bills Stadium, I was
• 36:57
  like, oh no, there's like a section that has some obstructed views. Like, that's bad.
• 37:02
  It's way worse than that, Cody. Mocha, will you pull up the
• 37:07
  first of these photos? They are the— Highmark.
• 37:12
  Okay, so this is Highmark Stadium. This is obstructed view number
• 37:15
  1. Can't even see the fucking field goal post. Can't see that. You just got
• 37:19
  to look at that guy's shorts. Just sweet legs. Uh, how about the next
• 37:24
  one? And what a disaster. Not good.
• 37:27
  Not good, Bob. Not great. If that guy was out of the way, at least
• 37:30
  you'd sort of see the field somewhat. Big— all right, let's go to the next
• 37:38
  I mean, such dog shit. That is bad. By the way, can I just
• 37:42
  point out something before we get to more of the obstructions? How the fuck,
• 37:45
  how the fuck are all of those seats exposed to
• 37:50
  the fucking elements? It's Buffalo.
• 37:53
  What the fuck are you people doing? I thought they were building
• 37:56
  an indoor stadium. I had no idea they were keeping it. They were at least
• 38:00
  building an overhang over the seats. They are. There is an overhang over the seats,
• 38:03
  but not all of them. No, not the underneath ones. The underneath ones are very
• 38:07
  exposed. Like, this is Buffalo, you know. Fucking snow
• 38:11
  to the top of all your fucking garages, Buffalo. They love shoveling
• 38:15
  it out. The fans, they hire the fans. Actually, they don't even hire the
• 38:19
  fans. The fans go and do out of the kindness of their heart, shovel the
• 38:22
  goddamn stadium for them. Those idiots all like, what else have they got going on
• 38:25
  in Buffalo? Unreal. Uh, let's hit some more of those. We gotta, I think we
• 38:28
  have like 2 more. We have a couple more. I think we have at least
• 38:30
  one more photo. Yeah. Holy shit. That's bad. What a
• 38:35
  fucking shit show. That's bad. Is that the last one, Mocha? I believe it is.
• 38:39
  Yeah. So there's another one too here, Cody. I'm going to show you this one.
• 38:42
  Look at this. Oh yeah, that's good. That's— I mean, so,
• 38:46
  uh, this— the account that posted this, which was, um, you know,
• 38:49
  like the Bills, one of the Bills social media accounts on, you know, the fan
• 38:53
  accounts on X, was like, so I did the math on where all these are
• 38:57
  and how many of these obstructed views there would be. Thousands.
• 39:00
  Thousands of obstructed views. Thousands of obstructed views. He was
• 39:04
  like, there's no way that they've like This isn't just like, like a couple dozen
• 39:08
  seats. Did we learn how to build stadiums in like the last 45 minutes?
• 39:10
  We've been building stadiums in the United States at a high capacity
• 39:14
  for fucking 70 years. We couldn't figure this shit out.
• 39:17
  Like, it's really bad. I don't understand. Unreal.
• 39:21
  Now, correct me if I'm wrong, this stadium
• 39:24
  was at least partially, if not entirely, financed by the taxpayers.
• 39:28
  Yes, it had to have been, right? Yes. So they
• 39:31
  take the taxpayer money already. Some bush league bullshit move by
• 39:35
  the Pegulas. Then they fucking build
• 39:39
  it like a bunch of— like, do you know what this is? This is
• 39:43
  AI. There isn't— that architect, whoever the fuck it was,
• 39:47
  used AI, and there's no convincing me otherwise. Because what do you mean?
• 39:52
  How did you fuck that up? Like, this is— you can't just— the bills
• 39:55
  are like, oh well, we'll figure it out. Those are cement structures,
• 39:59
  gang. Like, you have— you got real work to
• 40:03
  do to figure that out. I got the number for you. Okay, would you like
• 40:06
  to know? So the total of this stadium— now, to the Buffalo Bills' credit,
• 40:09
  they did put in $850 million themselves.
• 40:12
  Wow, heroes. Problem is, $850 million also came from
• 40:16
  the taxpayers. Um, this is a multi-billion dollar enterprise.
• 40:21
  The fact that a single penny was paid by the taxpayers is
• 40:25
  a massive problem for me. It makes no sense, regardless of how
• 40:28
  well the seats are set up. Now, I'll sit around and say there are certain
• 40:31
  leagues and teams where I say you could do tax tax subsidies. Sure, maybe.
• 40:35
  Um, but maybe, maybe the WNBA, a league
• 40:39
  that's on the rise— you're talking about like our, um, anything where the owners themselves
• 40:42
  aren't— yes, well, the WNBA is billionaires, but, but I will say who owns
• 40:47
  it's— no, yeah, um, if you have billionaire owners, there's no
• 40:51
  excuse for this. Yeah, because the MLS tried to do this shit too. Billionaire owners,
• 40:53
  shut up. I'm just looking like this team is worth probably— I'm just
• 40:57
  guesstimating— they're probably worth like $5 to $6 billion.
• 41:00
  They're in the NFL. NFL already, which just is an ATM for
• 41:05
  every single owner. And we have no idea how much they make because,
• 41:08
  you know, you know, antitrust laws don't matter anymore. And, um,
• 41:12
  the fact that the taxpayers had to pay anything for obstructed
• 41:15
  views and not even a goddamn roofed-over stadium in
• 41:19
  fucking Buffalo, New York, is just mind-boggling
• 41:23
  to me. Mind-fucking boggling to me.
• 41:26
  It's mind-boggling. Um, and Of all, you know, it's just such a
• 41:30
  fuck you to the fans. It really is. Because these are not— when I say,
• 41:33
  you know, for them to be able to capture this many obstructed views in different
• 41:37
  parts of the stadium is incredibly alarming. And this
• 41:41
  is like, love them or hate them, Bills Mafia is diehard
• 41:45
  for that stupid fucking team. This team lost 4 Super Bowls in a row and
• 41:49
  they didn't lose any goddamn— they've been put through the goddamn wringer. Josh Allen
• 41:53
  refuses to get them to a Super Bowl. He doesn't
• 41:56
  have pressure, though. No, no, I'm just kidding. I know you guys love Josh Allen.
• 42:00
  I'm kidding. I actually like Josh Allen quite a bit myself. We like Josh Allen,
• 42:03
  but that's a funny thing to say, and everybody can laugh if you have a
• 42:05
  sense of humor. However, uh, what I don't have a sense of humor about is
• 42:08
  these fans being fucked over by this fucking stadium. I think it's so insane.
• 42:12
  I do think that the architect used AI. There's no
• 42:16
  convincing me otherwise. And, um, these billionaires having really like—
• 42:21
  they're being so— the thing is, they don't actually care because they know that someone's
• 42:24
  going to sit in those stupid seats. Now, it's one thing to sit in Fenway
• 42:27
  Park with an obstructed view of a park that was built in the early 1900s.
• 42:30
  By the way, no obstruction in Fenway Park is
• 42:33
  even as bad as those ones. No question about it. Behind a pole. Yankee Stadium
• 42:37
  has some. Yankee Stadium does have some, but they are very few and far
• 42:41
  in between and they are not very obstructed. And like, all you got to do
• 42:43
  if you're in— listen, not ideal, but if you're in one of those seats,
• 42:46
  this will do the trick. That's not doing the trick. No, it's not.
• 42:49
  There are some— there are some that we just showed you where, like, you cannot
• 42:53
  sit there. You're going to miss roughly 30% of the game also.
• 42:56
  And I like— it's like, okay, so, you know, a brand
• 43:00
  new stadium with no ambiance, your obstructions aren't cute.
• 43:04
  Like, this is not Wrigley, it's not Fenway. Like, get the fuck off.
• 43:08
  No, there's no history to this. It's a brand new stadium. You didn't make
• 43:12
  it look anything special. I'm actually— it's not a cool looking— I'm massively
• 43:16
  disappointed in every aspect of this stadium because it's a $2 billion
• 43:20
  stadium. And it looks like any other fucking stadium.
• 43:23
  The fans and taxpayers paid $850 million for that,
• 43:26
  and they just deserve way more.
• 43:30
  Every fan base deserves better than that. But like, man, you're going to do that
• 43:33
  to Bills fans? Like, there's some fan bases that you can look at and say,
• 43:36
  like, they've been diehard loyal. I love a Packers fan,
• 43:39
  like, you know, who's really stuck it out here and there. But like,
• 43:42
  most by and large, I don't— I'm not like impressed that Packers fans are a
• 43:46
  fan of the Packers. They have had historic success and always been a really,
• 43:49
  like, well-liked, well-discussed team in the media.
• 43:53
  They've always gotten a ton of credit and they've always had good quarterbacks. Like,
• 43:55
  they literally have 4— like, if Jordan Love ends
• 43:59
  up being a really good quarterback, that's like insane. Yeah.
• 44:02
  4 decades of great quarterbacking. No question. But it's— but when you look at—
• 44:07
  that's why I always respect Browns fans,
• 44:10
  Bills fans, Raiders fans. Yeah. Raiders fans who've been like,
• 44:14
  their team, by the time you guys die, The team's going to be
• 44:18
  out of the country. They're going to be the goddamn London Raiders. Probably. I mean,
• 44:22
  this is a disaster. They never have it. So it just sucks. And I,
• 44:26
  and I am angry on behalf of— if,
• 44:30
  if I sat in one of those seats, man, I'd be fucking livid. Furious.
• 44:34
  Livid. For one, I have to go to Buffalo for it. You know, it was
• 44:37
  $100. Oh yeah. Like, because I think those were PSL seats, by the way.
• 44:40
  Like a lot of the— please don't even get me started. Absolute dogshit.
• 44:43
  Terrible stuff. But what do you say we get over to Media Corner? Because this
• 44:46
  This is interesting. Yeah. The discourse around the W
• 44:50
  is just fascinating. And I do, you know, I don't love a lot
• 44:55
  of Bill Simmons's takes. Yeah. I don't think he's entirely wrong with this
• 44:59
  take at all. It's just I don't—
• 45:03
  Bill Simmons is going on and basically said, I will bet anything that the WNBA
• 45:07
  commissioner, Cathy Engelbert, will be replaced. And here's the
• 45:11
  thing. I think he's right. But the context of where he's going into
• 45:14
  it because of all of the stories that are being surrounded by
• 45:18
  the WNBA is such distraction and distracting from the actual
• 45:22
  good stories, of which I totally agree with that
• 45:26
  point. Right. I'm having trouble understanding how it's Kathy Engelbert's
• 45:30
  fault, though. Right. So the— I will say I found out about
• 45:34
  this because my friend on Threads was like, me agreeing
• 45:37
  with Bill is very rare, dot, dot, dot. And it was like,
• 45:40
  please respect my privacy. At this time. I get that,
• 45:44
  like, because I don't agree with Bill often, but he is right. I do think
• 45:48
  Kathy Engelbert is very much on her way out. Yeah, listen, you know the,
• 45:50
  you know the old Onion heartbreaking, the worst person you know just made a great
• 45:54
  point? Oh God, I fucking hate him. And he— and the— and it's not— I
• 45:57
  will say, you know, I don't want to give Bill Simmons too, too much credit.
• 45:59
  I'll give him credit, but like, it's been pretty clear Kathy's not got a full
• 46:03
  grip on the league entirely prior to all of this. There was some drama
• 46:07
  and whatever else. Even like, there's just a lot going on marketing-wise with the team.
• 46:11
  His point about like, like Olivia Miles is like one of the great young stars
• 46:15
  in all of sports and you guys are doing fucking nothing with it is a
• 46:18
  great point. He's not wrong. Um, Cathy herself,
• 46:23
  I think it's a really hard conversation to have because she's
• 46:27
  not— I don't super respect her as a commissioner, by the way.
• 46:30
  Name one I do. I don't. I don't respect commissioners. So this isn't unique
• 46:34
  to the WNBA. I don't like Roger Goodell. I don't like— I mean, for a
• 46:37
  while I was okay with Rob Manfred, but he's going to let this shit go
• 46:40
  down. Don't worry, he's going to really fuck up. Adam Silver has become an absolute
• 46:43
  supervillain. Don't even get me started on Gary Bettman. So Adam
• 46:48
  Silver has a lot to do with what Cathy Engelbert is up to in this
• 46:52
  job. He is really pulling the strings and she has become a
• 46:56
  puppet. And I'm not sure how willing she is in that other
• 46:59
  than to say, like, she knows she's fighting for her job. And so, like,
• 47:02
  she kind of has to do what they're asking her to do. And a lot
• 47:04
  of this is coming from Adam Silver. Who's positioned himself as sort of the people's
• 47:08
  commissioner for a while and was clearly full of shit. So that,
• 47:12
  that was one part of Bill's point that I can't fully get on board with.
• 47:16
  Not that she's a good owner, but that like this is
• 47:21
  in some way, shape, or form like we're watching someone sort of autonomously
• 47:24
  run a league because we're not. It feels like this. It feels like
• 47:28
  she's the video game character of other people doing this. And all
• 47:31
  of the evils of the league are being put on her. And by the way,
• 47:35
  I don't think she's doing an amazing job. Yeah, but I also don't
• 47:40
  think she's being put in a position to do an amazing job because of all
• 47:44
  of this shit and all of the distractions in the WNBA,
• 47:49
  in my opinion. And this is where I disagree with Bill's point.
• 47:53
  It's not coming from the WNBA. It's coming from everything outside
• 47:57
  the WNBA, including the ESPNs of the world, including the fucking politicians
• 48:02
  of the world, including some very, very, very, very— how do I
• 48:06
  put it— shady players in the WNBA
• 48:09
  who are taking full advantage of these distractions and then complaining
• 48:13
  about the distractions that they themselves caused. Sophie Cunningham.
• 48:17
  Well, to your— yeah, he— so he said, I've never seen a league more determined
• 48:21
  to not push fun stars and fun storylines and fun people. I'm sort
• 48:26
  of wondering, you know, Yeah, leagues can absolutely promote their
• 48:29
  stars, but the media has to play ball.
• 48:33
  The fans have to play ball. Yes. Do I think that the fans, the real
• 48:37
  WNBA fans, would love to see more Olivia Miles? And I'm on WNBA
• 48:41
  threads. Those girls, those women, those men who are really into that sport
• 48:45
  are— and they're talking about it. Yeah. The media is 60%
• 48:49
  of this conversation. And Bill himself
• 48:54
  prizes himself as a basketball media. You do it, Bill.
• 48:58
  Start it up. And I'm not, I'm not even being a dick about this because
• 49:00
  I actually think this is not a bad faith take by him. But like,
• 49:04
  okay, start talking about Olivia Miles. Because here's the thing, start— talk
• 49:08
  to your boys, talk to your guys all over your— you own a media company.
• 49:12
  Yeah, start making it. Because we know about
• 49:16
  the players. And I— and to say like, oh well, WNBA market isn't marketing them—
• 49:20
  are you watching the games? Can you see the stars? Can you see the the
• 49:23
  tweets and the threads because it's all there. Talk about it. You know,
• 49:26
  I'm not— you and I are not basketball media. Yeah,
• 49:30
  we are MLB media, we are NFL media, and we cover these leagues, but we
• 49:34
  don't— we're not— we have— at the end of the day, we're all going to
• 49:38
  have one real beat and niche and then like our side beats and niches,
• 49:41
  right? And the things that we can really, really cover. So when the Olympics start,
• 49:45
  like, I become a gymnastics reporter.
• 49:48
  Like, genuinely, I know that sport in and out. I know so much about
• 49:52
  it, right? So I'm like, okay, that's going to, going to be like the niche
• 49:55
  that I adopt. But when it comes to like,
• 49:59
  like what we are able— the kind of conversations we're able to initiate on
• 50:02
  this show, you know, we don't have an established
• 50:07
  reputation enough to talk about Olivia Miles and make everybody
• 50:10
  care. Like, that's just not our— that requires somebody like Bill Simmons.
• 50:14
  Honestly, yeah. Yeah, he can. He owns, as you said, he owns a media company.
• 50:18
  Fucking make a whole WNBA show. Like, have multiple WNBA
• 50:22
  shows. And by the way, if he were talking about it and pushing it,
• 50:24
  if The Ringer were talking about and pushing those, those stories and successfully,
• 50:28
  then you and I are the kind of like, then we can make complementary
• 50:32
  programming to those types of things, just like we do with other things that are
• 50:35
  maybe outside our niche but still within our niche of sports. Can I also tell
• 50:38
  you, like, there's also— I don't think this is bad faith by Bill. I want
• 50:42
  to make this abundantly clear, this is how I'm going to phrase this. But in
• 50:44
  no way do I think this is bad faith by Bill at all, because I—
• 50:47
  but I do think he is aware that even though I completely agree
• 50:51
  with his thing on specifically Nefisa Collier, couldn't agree more. Should be at
• 50:55
  the top of every single WNBA story, but isn't. But you
• 51:00
  know what would happen if she was? We're going to hear all of the
• 51:03
  same assholes who are trying to bastardize the WNBA with words like DEI and shit
• 51:07
  like that. Literally, that's what's going to happen. And then we're going to
• 51:11
  be battling that nonsense. Like, that's what's going to take place,
• 51:15
  not like might take place. That's exactly what will fucking happen.
• 51:19
  And everyone's like, why aren't you talking about the real stars like Caitlin Clark?
• 51:23
  That's literally, not figuratively,
• 51:26
  literally what will take place. And then we're gonna have to deal with that shit
• 51:29
  show. And like, there is no winning in this scenario. That's a really
• 51:34
  good point and very well taken because Part of this is a disingenuous
• 51:38
  thing that I think we do in the media that you and I have probably
• 51:42
  been guilty of, which is like, why aren't we talking about this thing? But the
• 51:45
  reality is, no matter how much anybody does try to push the
• 51:50
  great players in this league right now, it is going to be overrun
• 51:54
  by the, the fans and the bad actors and the
• 51:58
  media who are actively working against it. So you can blame
• 52:02
  Kathy Engelbert, you can blame the WNBA for their mistakes, Fine. But I
• 52:06
  know where Kathy was getting all her grief last year, and it was
• 52:09
  about them not putting Caitlin Clark in— like,
• 52:13
  you know, they were— every time she didn't foreground Caitlin Clark,
• 52:17
  Colin Cowherd and Stephen A. Smith and, and Pat McAfee would tell
• 52:21
  her she was a fucking idiot who was blowing it with her cash cow if
• 52:24
  she didn't make Caitlin Clark the center of attention. The media flipped out.
• 52:27
  I watched it over and over and over again, and it was a lazy take.
• 52:31
  And now I've got— I don't know where this came from, but some
• 52:35
  idiot in the media, perhaps many, must have told a bunch of fucking idiots
• 52:39
  that Sophie Cunningham is the most efficient WNBA
• 52:43
  player of all time. I have seen this in no less than 50
• 52:48
  comments on Threads. Fucking what? So now Sophie— now they're
• 52:51
  just straight up lying about Sophie Cunningham might be out of the league basketball-wise in
• 52:55
  a year and a half, maybe. I don't think she's going to next year.
• 52:57
  She's not really good. I don't— and, and because she's become
• 53:01
  a more efficient 3-point shooter, she has like a higher efficiency rate, but she doesn't
• 53:04
  play that much. And she like— it's not like she's like a starter, right?
• 53:07
  And she's also not even close to the most efficient basketball player in the history
• 53:11
  of the WNBA. So again, so you can— the misinformation and
• 53:14
  the, and the real battle is happening, and it can't
• 53:18
  be ignored just because we would love— and I'm not gonna blame the
• 53:22
  marketing department of the WNBA for, again,
• 53:25
  an unprecedented influx
• 53:29
  of racism, transphobia, misogyny, and fascist white supremacy
• 53:33
  into a league's fan base and media. I recall
• 53:37
  wanting to talk about something other than Colin Kaepernick kneeling in the
• 53:42
  2016 season. Oh man. Boy, oh boy. I recall wanting to turn on ESPN
• 53:46
  and read anything other than Tom Brady deflated footballs and Colin Kaepernick is,
• 53:50
  is kneeling and he should be out of the league. It was everywhere
• 53:54
  all the fucking time. If you even wanted to add
• 53:59
  all— this is the NFL, they could have controlled the narrative all they wanted.
• 54:02
  The narrative was controlled. The narrative was, we're about to blackball
• 54:06
  Colin Kaepernick, so we're gonna make sure all those media that say Colin Kaepernick's actually
• 54:10
  not that good at football get highlighted, right? We're gonna make sure everybody hears
• 54:13
  those takes. Now, FiveThirtyEight screaming from the rooftops that they did all the fucking metrics
• 54:18
  and analytics they could possibly do and it made no sense for Colin Kaepernick to
• 54:21
  be a free agent after— in August of 2017, it made no sense
• 54:25
  that he wasn't signed. There had never been a free agent of his caliber at
• 54:28
  his age of— at that position to not be signed.
• 54:31
  That didn't matter. The narratives become what the narratives all,
• 54:35
  like, become. And you had 2 choices at that point: ignore that
• 54:39
  Colin Kaepernick was the biggest story in the NFL or talk about
• 54:43
  it. So to your point,
• 54:46
  If we, if we act like we can just talk
• 54:51
  about whatever we want in the WNBA and people are going to listen,
• 54:54
  that's simply not the case. We have a job to do, and it's a fucking
• 54:57
  lie. And there are plenty of accounts, by the way, plenty of
• 55:01
  people doing— smaller content creators, smaller beat reporters, or people
• 55:06
  who are talking the ins and outs and doing great jobs. And I'm— guess what
• 55:09
  I'm doing? Engaging with their content, reposting it, sharing it,
• 55:13
  following them. But you and I cannot get on here and act like,
• 55:18
  great, let's do an Olivia Miles segment. Let's see what our fucking comments look like.
• 55:22
  It doesn't help. No, it doesn't. And by the way, it doesn't mean we don't
• 55:25
  like talking about— we want to talk about it. The problem is, yeah, and we
• 55:28
  will. Some— she's going to be out of the league. Caitlin Clark's going to be
• 55:31
  put in her place, figure her shit out. I have to hope that that's what's
• 55:34
  going to happen. Fuck Sophie Cunningham. She's out. Fuck her. Like, the one
• 55:38
  thing that she has been good for is that I'm no longer that mad at
• 55:41
  Caitlin Clark. Right now I'm distracted because that—
• 55:45
  if you are going to be a fucking— if you're going to be an absolute
• 55:47
  pain in my ass with these storylines, if you're going to be a
• 55:51
  trash person who can't stand up for people when you know that your name is
• 55:54
  being used for bigotry, at the very least, be very good at basketball. Listen,
• 55:57
  I'm just telling you, at least be very good at basketball, but be trash at
• 56:01
  basketball too. Well, let's be real clear. There is some good news in this.
• 56:03
  Some good news. We're not going to hear much from Riley Gaines in one year.
• 56:06
  In one year, Riley Gaines will be gone entirely because she will be replaced by
• 56:10
  Sophie Cunningham because like, oh, we actually have someone who's played in an actual league
• 56:14
  that is actually not just only coming 5th in a— in a— now, am I
• 56:17
  happy that Sophie Cunningham is going to eventually become this new, uh,
• 56:21
  Fox News host that's going to be spouting all kinds of bullshit?
• 56:24
  Absolutely not. Am I annoyed that she's going to be on Gutfeld and, and we're
• 56:28
  going to like fucking see dipshit clips of 5 people who should never
• 56:32
  be taken seriously a day in their lives? Absolutely not. But am I happy we're
• 56:35
  not going to see Riley Gaines ever again? Fuck yes, I am very excited for
• 56:39
  that. There can only be one. There can only be one blonde transphobe
• 56:43
  on Fox News really as the mouthpiece. Yep. And yeah, we found our girl.
• 56:47
  Yeah. So there you go. So congratulations to that. Sorry.
• 56:51
  No, really not sorry that Riley Gaines will be gone. I think the, you know,
• 56:55
  they're— what's his name? Royce. Not Royce O'Neal.
• 56:59
  I'm not even going to say his real name. I think he's attempting drag
• 57:03
  as part of his little his little stunt. Okay, so maybe they'll have him in,
• 57:07
  in his, um, drag wig too. Maybe she can have sort of
• 57:11
  do a tag team situation with— well, I, I hope he goes
• 57:14
  the full way and chops his dick off. And well, you know, Sophie Cunningham at
• 57:18
  this point probably deserves to, um, hang out with a guy who clearly
• 57:22
  beats his wife. Yes. Well, I, I hope she has fun with that. So I
• 57:25
  hope this works out well for everybody involved. Um, let's continue on our
• 57:29
  little media corner because, uh, Boy, oh boy, we went fucking viral
• 57:33
  this week, huh? Sure did. I mean, listen, it did really, really well on our
• 57:37
  accounts. Our videos about the NFL rankings last week and
• 57:41
  then specifically about Jalen Hurts and Lamar Jackson and
• 57:44
  the article around how much pressure they're under in 2026 did really
• 57:47
  well on all the platforms we posted. We love that. We gained a lot of
• 57:50
  followers. We are loving all the feedback that people are giving and the fact that
• 57:54
  they're feeling not only, you know, represented and understood, but that they're enjoying the content
• 57:58
  itself. Really excited about that. Yes, me too. Um,
• 58:02
  it's also gone— like, the reason it is such a popular video
• 58:06
  is because it's being disseminated across the internet in places that are not being posted
• 58:11
  by you and I, of which we're not being tagged, which is some fucking bullshit.
• 58:14
  For instance, I just found out literally 20 minutes— and I'm not kidding, 20 minutes
• 58:19
  before the show— the clip has been going fucking apeshit specifically on Twitter,
• 58:22
  which, by the way, I used to be very popular on Twitter, but I don't
• 58:25
  fuck with Twitter anymore because it's become a massive cesspool and probably the worst of
• 58:28
  the sites, right? But I was happy to see that it's got 500,000 views,
• 58:31
  so I went ahead and quote tweeted it because somebody said, these 2 cooked with
• 58:35
  this one, tag us, bitch. What the fuck? Um, so I decided to
• 58:39
  quote tweet and say, yes, we did. Um, that's got 500,000 views
• 58:43
  on our account on Instagram. It's got a nice 225,000 views.
• 58:47
  I've seen a couple other spots on TikTok where it's not our tag in there
• 58:51
  where it's got a ton of views, so I'm glad the content is getting out
• 58:54
  there. I just don't like that people are stealing our content. So this is the
• 58:58
  thing is what's bothering me, and this is part— this is in Media Corner because
• 59:02
  this is a massive problem that podcasters and content creators are experiencing across the
• 59:06
  internet. You and I are not the only ones. We are in the majority of
• 59:09
  people who are experiencing this. Um, but when you're growing an organic brand
• 59:13
  from the ground up, grassroots promoting it, um, it's incredibly harmful
• 59:17
  because what happens is all throughout the comment section are people being
• 59:21
  like, who are these 2? Where can I follow them? Where's the podcast?
• 59:24
  What's the podcast? And of course, the people who
• 59:28
  are ripping the content are not answering that question. Now, we have great
• 59:32
  Samaritans, followers, viewers who are doing that work as often
• 59:36
  as they can when they see it ripped. Yes, very cool. Incredible allies on that
• 59:39
  front. Um, and I've had multiple people tell me that they're making sure people know
• 59:42
  and trying to tag me in it. So that's how I was able to go
• 59:45
  to to Twitter and find it, um, because I also don't use Twitter. I have
• 59:49
  an active Twitter, so I was, I, I was tagged in one of them.
• 59:52
  Um, Isaiah just said, I stumbled upon y'all via a Reddit link.
• 59:56
  So, okay, apparently it's popular on Reddit. Fuck it, I'm not even on Reddit.
• 59:59
  And Reddit does, um, also do that too, but usually on Reddit, I— he's
• 1:00:04
  saying they found us via a link, which means Reddit linked us.
• 1:00:07
  So fine, phenomenal work. Fine, right? Like, I don't mind that at
• 1:00:11
  all. Promote us by linking or tagging.
• 1:00:14
  That is— that's the coolest thing, is that like, hey,
• 1:00:17
  and hey, if, if while you're at it you garner like 20,000
• 1:00:22
  views and make a few bucks and you've linked us and you've promoted us,
• 1:00:25
  thank you. Great. I'm not going to be a fucking fascist about this.
• 1:00:28
  I don't care. Like socialism, let's spread the wealth. But you
• 1:00:32
  cannot— you cannot. So this is— I want to show you an example of
• 1:00:36
  perhaps the most egregious one that I found. And by the way, this probably not
• 1:00:39
  the only one that did this. Mocha, will you pull up the screenshots
• 1:00:43
  of, uh, this video that was posted to TikTok? Dude, fucking one,
• 1:00:47
  your makeup is fucking on point because you look, you look fucking fantastic
• 1:00:50
  in that shot. Fucking zoomed the fuck in and some sort
• 1:00:54
  of fucking 100 times zoom on the face card holding up really
• 1:00:58
  well. Good job on your makeup. Really good. Thank you so much. And then,
• 1:01:01
  uh, well, let's go over to Cody. There's— there
• 1:01:05
  he is, right up in the mix, right on your face. Now granted, not,
• 1:01:08
  not as attractive, but I'll take it. I disagree. I think our face cards are
• 1:01:10
  both holding up really well zoomed in from— I
• 1:01:15
  mean, like, you could practice— practically see our pores if this didn't have a
• 1:01:19
  filter on it, right? Um, but what I love about this is the Pro Fantasy
• 1:01:22
  Football watermark on our zoomed-in faces
• 1:01:26
  covering up our own fucking watermark. Oh no, there's a watermark
• 1:01:30
  there, Cody, because They zoomed in so far that you don't even
• 1:01:33
  have— so what, what this guy was trying to do was he was trying
• 1:01:37
  to not only not show the regular thing behind you, not show our
• 1:01:41
  watermark, no identifying features. So, I mean,
• 1:01:44
  there was a purposeful way about it. Yes, it was. That's straight up stealing our
• 1:01:48
  shit. Full up, full on. Like, I want people to think this is, this is
• 1:01:51
  my account and me saying this, or these are my people. By the way,
• 1:01:54
  is that on TikTok? Where is that? It's on TikTok. I barely fuck with TikTok.
• 1:01:57
  I'll go on TikTok and comment on this motherfucker. So they— I mean, people and
• 1:02:00
  alerted the— oh no, you know what's even crazier? What's up? No one on
• 1:02:04
  TikTok even alerted me to that. They hadn't seen it yet. I— someone had—
• 1:02:08
  okay, this is what's so annoying. Someone had pulled that video from TikTok,
• 1:02:12
  posted it to Threads, also not credited because they didn't know who we
• 1:02:16
  were. So then somebody on Threads was like, hey, that's Tiny Ray Fox,
• 1:02:20
  that's the regulars, blah blah blah. And then I went to TikTok and found it
• 1:02:23
  and then commented on it. But like, this is— to throw your own watermark
• 1:02:27
  Now you're getting a copyright violation. I'm— I don't care how— yeah,
• 1:02:31
  TikTok's not good at it. They might not do anything, but like, I'm at least—
• 1:02:34
  that's the kind of shit that really pisses me off. So my point is like,
• 1:02:38
  here's the thing people say to me all the time, and increasingly us
• 1:02:42
  now that they know our podcast. I'm sure they've said this to you before.
• 1:02:46
  Why aren't you guys like— why isn't this show a bigger deal? Like, why— you
• 1:02:49
  guys should be on ESPN. You should be First Take. You should be these things.
• 1:02:52
  Now, Grant, we've both been in, in traditional media. We've both done the thing.
• 1:02:56
  Um, that is not going to
• 1:03:00
  happen. No universe. Because of the type of content we do. But what
• 1:03:04
  can happen is you— we can build enough of a platform
• 1:03:08
  where we can monetize our platform, or we can be paid
• 1:03:12
  for the work, good work that people say that we do. And then you wouldn't
• 1:03:15
  need ESPN. You don't need ESPN. YouTube is just as acceptable. But what's not
• 1:03:19
  going to happen is us being able to monetize and really be able
• 1:03:23
  to do what we want to do with this show and make it into something
• 1:03:26
  that can supplant and, and, and replace the content that you don't love if
• 1:03:29
  you're gonna fucking steal our shit? Yeah, like, stop.
• 1:03:32
  Everybody's out there complaining that nothing good is— there's no good sports
• 1:03:36
  media, everybody sucks, blah blah blah. And then they're gonna come and,
• 1:03:39
  and take this. Hey guys, if you
• 1:03:43
  want us to be successful, you have to help us be successful. And I'm not
• 1:03:46
  saying this to our viewers, they're super— no, our viewers are amazing. They'll be the
• 1:03:49
  first people to like help monetize us when we figure out how we're going to
• 1:03:53
  continue to build this show. But like, this is— it's so
• 1:03:57
  frustrating for all content creators. Like, we have to respect
• 1:04:01
  the, the social contract of giving each other credit and making sure everybody knows where
• 1:04:05
  to find the content so that— because we can all be making money. Yeah.
• 1:04:08
  Why do we all act like— like, you didn't have to cut my— our faces
• 1:04:10
  off. You didn't have to throw pro fantasy football Philly bullshit
• 1:04:15
  over our faces. You could have pulled that video and like
• 1:04:19
  God forbid you stitch it and have an opinion, by the way. God forbid you
• 1:04:23
  make your own content. I'm not even asking you to make your own content.
• 1:04:26
  That would be too much. What I'm asking you to do is a great clip
• 1:04:30
  from the Regulars podcast, great clip from Tanya Ray Fox,
• 1:04:34
  great clip from Cody Decker, so that people can find us. That's it. That's all.
• 1:04:37
  I'm letting you monetize our shit because you don't have your own opinions.
• 1:04:41
  I literally just want you to fucking credit us. That's it. Because quite frankly,
• 1:04:44
  like our grassroots nature of this show. And I got to tell you,
• 1:04:48
  like, I'm really proud of what we're doing. I'm proud of the content that we're
• 1:04:51
  doing. I'm proud of the work that we're doing. I'm proud of the, of the
• 1:04:54
  followers that we have gained. I'm proud of the people that are joining our little
• 1:04:57
  pirate fucking ship that we are fucking out here sailing on. Because you're right,
• 1:05:00
  this, this show will never ever see the light of day on ESPN,
• 1:05:04
  never ever see the light of day on Fox Sports. We both worked
• 1:05:08
  at Fox Sports. We know the content they do. It ain't this. And that's why
• 1:05:11
  we're doing this show. That's why we're doing this. It's almost like an— it's almost
• 1:05:15
  like, uh, more or less us punching back at the industry that we think
• 1:05:19
  is honestly doing a disservice to its fans and, and sports fans.
• 1:05:23
  Um, we love this and we want— we're going to continue doing
• 1:05:27
  this for a long— what are we, 5 months into doing it? 4 months into
• 1:05:29
  doing this? No, we're— we are, uh, 6 months? 5 months and a half,
• 1:05:33
  I think. And I, I have to say, this is one of my favorite things
• 1:05:36
  I've ever been a part of doing, because I really think the
• 1:05:40
  work we're doing is good and more importantly
• 1:05:44
  important. Yeah, because I feel like we're covering shit that others won't,
• 1:05:48
  and we're speaking very honestly about it, and especially the things that
• 1:05:52
  are taking place in the media world, because the media world is just the wrestling
• 1:05:55
  industry. Well, that's the thing is we also like— about— you can
• 1:05:58
  rip our content all you want, but what you can't do is manufacture our combined
• 1:06:03
  like 30-plus years of experience playing sports and covering sports.
• 1:06:07
  And when we talk about the media, like, you don't get media critique from places,
• 1:06:11
  from other podcasts like we're doing it. That's— now, I'm not saying nobody else does
• 1:06:15
  it, but not like we're doing it. And certainly there's not a lot of podcasts
• 1:06:18
  with our level of experience. And so, you know, yeah, currently there
• 1:06:22
  was a comment. It was really cute on our most recent video where it was
• 1:06:25
  like, remember me when y'all blow up? Like, I just like— I want you guys
• 1:06:28
  to remember that I was here this year early. And I was like, I will.
• 1:06:31
  I actually will. Well, real quick, Zion the Meek just says, been lurking. And hope
• 1:06:34
  you guys continue. Excellent show and work. We're not going anywhere.
• 1:06:38
  I want to make that abundantly clear. We are here to stay. And the reality
• 1:06:41
  is, the reality is we are going to blow up. Like,
• 1:06:44
  that— I— and I don't— I'm not saying that as like a,
• 1:06:47
  like a brag or like being overly confident.
• 1:06:51
  We're going to. The ma— it's a matter of time.
• 1:06:54
  Even, even if my friend Joe Ciarallo is trying to replace me. Joe, stop trying
• 1:06:58
  to replace me. What are you doing? Yeah, Joe was like, I mean, I'll I'll
• 1:07:00
  fill in for Cody. Yeah, it's my studio. He's— well,
• 1:07:04
  I'd have to adjust the shot. He's so tall, I'd have to figure out how
• 1:07:07
  to get him in there.
• 1:07:10
  Um, but yeah, so I like— we're gonna— and I do think it's gonna be
• 1:07:14
  a successful show, and I— and it already is. Like, we are
• 1:07:18
  already doing so well. But at the end of the day, this is less
• 1:07:22
  about me being worried that we're gonna succeed. We're going to. This show is going
• 1:07:25
  to succeed. It's more about people understanding that when you want something to
• 1:07:29
  succeed, and not just a show, but a type of content that is independent of
• 1:07:32
  major media companies, you need to not only support
• 1:07:37
  it in the ways that you do, but when you share it, to correctly,
• 1:07:41
  you know, attribute it. Because I do
• 1:07:45
  it all the time. If I even name a person who wrote an article,
• 1:07:49
  I'm making sure that I'm shouting out who wrote it and from where. We have
• 1:07:52
  to do better about that with each other while we— while these corporations
• 1:07:56
  have taken everything over. We have to do better about it. I don't think that
• 1:07:59
  people doing this— I don't even think Pro Fantasy Football Guy was trying
• 1:08:02
  to be a piece of shit. I don't think he was either. Just become— it's
• 1:08:05
  become very self-centered and focused, and we have to
• 1:08:09
  think a little bit more broadly about what we're doing. When I promote people's stuff,
• 1:08:12
  I promote their stuff, and I, you know,
• 1:08:16
  I would suggest people not rip other people's content entirely
• 1:08:20
  and post it as if it's their own. But if you're gonna do
• 1:08:23
  it, you know, say this is from Tanya Ray Fox and Cody Decker,
• 1:08:27
  this is from The Regulars. Okay, fine. And if you make a couple bucks on
• 1:08:30
  it and I make a couple bucks on it too, you know,
• 1:08:33
  we'll hit you when the trademark is
• 1:08:37
  there. And yeah, but I can't stress enough, and I'm not saying this
• 1:08:41
  because you're here, like, Tanya, I love working with you. I think what we're doing
• 1:08:43
  is phenomenal. I love— I really— I look forward to doing this
• 1:08:48
  show every single time we do it. I'm, I'm going to Hawaii next
• 1:08:52
  week on vacation. I, I, I'm sad I'm missing the show. In fact, I'm going
• 1:08:55
  to try and convince you to tape 2 extra shows this week so we can
• 1:08:58
  just play them next week as evergreen content. Like, we'll do a— we'll do
• 1:09:02
  a show where we, uh, don't really talk about anything topical.
• 1:09:06
  I mean, we can. I'm just saying it's a great idea because we— there's a
• 1:09:09
  bunch of stuff we could do a full throw, like Oh, I could— this
• 1:09:13
  would be such an exciting thing for me. We could try something different. I'm just
• 1:09:15
  saying. So maybe— well, no, but I mean, in general, I'm just gonna— I'm
• 1:09:19
  just gonna miss you. I'm gonna miss you too. I always miss you for 2
• 1:09:22
  weeks and then this is— okay, this— I was thinking, this is the first time
• 1:09:25
  that you're leaving instead of me because I've been on multiple trips since
• 1:09:29
  we started the show. We've done, um, we've done remote shows for a couple trips,
• 1:09:32
  which by the way turned out really— with the exception of missing out on mocha,
• 1:09:35
  I fucking loved our remote. Yeah, yeah. I don't like them nearly as much as
• 1:09:38
  as these shows all the time. We did a great job because we're professionals and
• 1:09:41
  they came out really well. Being in person with you is— that
• 1:09:45
  you can't— that type of feeling and chemistry cannot be replicated
• 1:09:50
  via Zoom. Yeah, no matter what people try to say, because we are ADHD and
• 1:09:54
  talk over each other a lot, which is like much easier in person than it
• 1:09:56
  is on camera because it's more of a conversation. And I do love that some
• 1:09:59
  people get mad that we talk over each other, but that's what I actually also
• 1:10:02
  love about this show because it's an actual actual conversation. It's an actual conversation
• 1:10:06
  of 2 people that work in this industry who are very fed up with this
• 1:10:10
  piece of shit industry, and we can't help but talk over each other because we're
• 1:10:14
  both very fucking passionate about how shitty this industry is. It's really funny
• 1:10:18
  because the first time that it happened, people were on you about it, and then
• 1:10:20
  the last time it happened, people were on me about it. People were like,
• 1:10:22
  would you stop talking over him? No, we talk over each other. That's what
• 1:10:27
  friends do at a bar. We try very hard not to fully interrupt
• 1:10:31
  the middle of a thought. I think we do a really good job at that.
• 1:10:33
  We're both quite professional. And I also think there's a lot of people who think
• 1:10:37
  that they would be great on a microphone until they're in front of one,
• 1:10:40
  right? Like, oh boy, there's a lot of— oh boy, there's a lot of Monday
• 1:10:44
  morning quarterback. There's a lot of backseat drivers. Yeah. Who are like,
• 1:10:47
  what? And then you put them on a mic across from you and you'd be
• 1:10:50
  like talking to a goddamn pet rock, dude. It's— I got very lucky how I
• 1:10:54
  kind of got my start in the radio industry. Yeah, like very lucky. Like,
• 1:10:56
  I've been very lucky in all my shit. Like, I started in radio
• 1:11:00
  at the age of 16. Yeah, I was a frequent caller
• 1:11:04
  into KLOS out here in Los Angeles, a show called Mark and Brian,
• 1:11:07
  and they had no idea I was 16. They thought I was like in my
• 1:11:10
  30s. I love this. And I was constantly calling in, talking so much shit and
• 1:11:14
  just making jokes. I was calling about baseball. And one person on the show actually
• 1:11:17
  knew who I was because he worked out of my gym and I was like
• 1:11:19
  this up-and-coming local baseball star. Absolutely. And then I eventually,
• 1:11:23
  you know, went to UCLA and then Mark and Brian became
• 1:11:28
  became my friend. And Mark specifically became my friend and honestly my radio mentor.
• 1:11:30
  Hired me during when I was at UCLA. Really cool. And then when I got
• 1:11:33
  to pro ball, like when I got drafted, I got to announce it on their
• 1:11:36
  show. I got the— you know, they came out and saw me
• 1:11:40
  play professionally. Mark used to come to my college games, and then he hired me
• 1:11:43
  when I was playing for the Padres in the offseasons to work on his new
• 1:11:47
  show at 100.3 The Sound, which is a station that doesn't exist anymore.
• 1:11:50
  So I got my start like in morning radio at the age
• 1:11:53
  of 16, and then I got a job in it at the age of like
• 1:11:56
  23 while I'm playing professional baseball. The crash course
• 1:12:00
  I got in sports media while being an actual athlete at the time was
• 1:12:03
  staggering because it wasn't sports media. I was getting a crash course in media
• 1:12:07
  along with my past film school work that I'd already done,
• 1:12:10
  and I'd already been a part of a theater company. So I had this very
• 1:12:14
  unique upbringing around the media industry. I've been
• 1:12:18
  exceedingly lucky, exceedingly lucky. But I do
• 1:12:22
  know how to handle a fucking microphone, and I've learned that because I
• 1:12:25
  got to be in front of a microphone at a very young age, and I
• 1:12:28
  got to learn from fucking 5 Radio Hall of Famers. Yeah, I'm also
• 1:12:33
  aware that's not a normal thing. Yeah, so I'm very fucking lucky,
• 1:12:36
  to say the least. The thing is, like, a lot of people have— because the
• 1:12:39
  average person can pick up the front-facing camera and become, you know,
• 1:12:42
  really successful talking on their camera to themselves. People have decided
• 1:12:47
  that they're experts on how to communicate when a microphone and
• 1:12:51
  cameras and lights are set up. And it's a very different thing.
• 1:12:54
  I do both. But this, this thing is a very different thing
• 1:12:58
  than saying, I'm just gonna talk to myself in the camera. They're 2 different vibes.
• 1:13:02
  They're 2 different skill sets. And one requires
• 1:13:06
  a lot more, like you said, experience on how to do these things,
• 1:13:09
  how to keep a show flowing. Like, you and I hit the same mark almost
• 1:13:13
  like within minutes almost every show without even— without a timer. We don't have a
• 1:13:17
  producer in our ears. That's instinct, which, God, I love, you know.
• 1:13:20
  And I know, God, I love not having a producer in my ear. And the
• 1:13:23
  reality is, uh, most people could not do what we do.
• 1:13:26
  So if you're— if you're annoyed by the interrupting,
• 1:13:30
  um, you know, that's— we're— then we're not for you, you know. That's totally fine.
• 1:13:34
  Absolutely, we're not for you. Um, but also You know, it's really funny because they'll
• 1:13:38
  see like the most animated clip of like an hour and a half podcast.
• 1:13:40
  I'm like, we go on monologues where the other one's not talking for
• 1:13:44
  fucking minutes at a time. We're usually listening to each other. It's just there are
• 1:13:47
  some moments where we both get hot that we haven't— we have to get our
• 1:13:50
  points in, which is like, because we're going to forget them. Like, have you ever
• 1:13:53
  heard sports radio? Like, I grew up listening to Boston sports radio. I don't think
• 1:13:57
  one person ever finished a sentence before the next. Yeah, I think every single thing
• 1:14:00
  ended with, no, fuck you. No, fuck you. Before the last
• 1:14:05
  sentence was over, the next one was starting from the next guy. And that's— I
• 1:14:08
  was like, okay, that's— yeah, but we love Brady. Yeah, fucking Brady. There,
• 1:14:11
  there's all Boston radio for 25 years. So one time someone found
• 1:14:15
  out, like, every, every— I tell you this, every couple few months, uh, people figure
• 1:14:18
  out that I'm a Patriots fan because I— because people don't realize it because I'm
• 1:14:21
  really good at my job. And, and,
• 1:14:25
  uh, somebody said, said whatever. I was like, listen, yes,
• 1:14:29
  I'm a Patriots fan. I, I'm, you know, I was like, I am,
• 1:14:32
  I am not insufferable Patriots fan. I'm insufferable adjacent. I know a lot
• 1:14:36
  of babies and dogs named Brady, and I will give you that,
• 1:14:39
  but like, I'm not one of those, you know. It's really funny though,
• 1:14:42
  because like, yeah, there's just, there's just some stuff you can't deny. And,
• 1:14:46
  um, every once in a while the, the Boston accent comes out too. Uh,
• 1:14:49
  by the way, it says right here, y'all are a mess. I fucking totally
• 1:14:53
  agree with you. We're a mess. Yeah, we're a mess, but like it's only because
• 1:14:56
  we drink a lot. Oh, that— I see who it is. He's being a brat
• 1:14:59
  now. I know who the fuck that is. Oh, fuck you. Ah, fuck you.
• 1:15:02
  Say Boston radio. We just did it. That's OG. He's being a dick. That's fine.
• 1:15:06
  That's kind of fucking, fucking dick. Yeah, no, that's, that's, um, that's some good-natured
• 1:15:10
  East Coast ribbing that's going on right there. That's really funny. When you show me,
• 1:15:14
  I always have to like see who the handle is, and then I'm like,
• 1:15:16
  oh, I see. Um, all right, shout— I mean, thank you for, thank you for
• 1:15:20
  tuning in. Genuinely, that's what— we thank everybody for tuning in today. It's been a
• 1:15:24
  lot of fun. So so far. And, uh, it's in the chat. I just want
• 1:15:26
  to go ahead and throw this out there because I don't think we mentioned it
• 1:15:28
  the other day, so we, we should. Okay. Uh, Mocha, when was
• 1:15:32
  your birthday, bud? Uh, July 17th.
• 1:15:36
  We missed it. Yeah, we did. Well, we were— I was gone. That's right,
• 1:15:40
  you were gone, so we completely missed it. So Mocha, I would like to officially
• 1:15:44
  say happy belated birthday on the air. Happy belated birthday on the
• 1:15:48
  air. He is a— he's a Cancer. I don't— do you, do you know about
• 1:15:51
  your astrology sign, Mocha? Oh, I thought you were just calling him a Cancer.
• 1:15:55
  I'm like, I agree, he's a fucking Cancer. He's a Cancer and a blight on
• 1:15:58
  this show. Yeah. Do you know about your astrology sign?
• 1:16:02
  I know about Cancer. Yeah. My, my little sister's birthday is
• 1:16:06
  July 20th. She's also a Cancer, but she was born— she's a couple of years
• 1:16:09
  older than you because you're '98. Yeah. Yeah. She's '95. So we
• 1:16:15
  like Cancers. What was that Bo Burnham joke that I really love so much?
• 1:16:18
  My grandmother was a— was a, uh, uh, the sign was a Cancer,
• 1:16:21
  which is really crazy because she was actually killed by a
• 1:16:25
  giant crab. Nice. Like, good joke, good joke.
• 1:16:28
  I love a good— I got a well-written joke. Uh, we did it.
• 1:16:32
  Our pop culture corner was us talking about ourselves, which I love for us.
• 1:16:35
  Dude, I fucking love that. I love when we get to have a self-centered chat
• 1:16:40
  where we're just like, hey, how good are we? We are so fucking good.
• 1:16:43
  We're so good. God, we're so good at this job. We didn't get to the
• 1:16:46
  bloody sock and all the things around Curt Schilling. Yeah, I mean, you— but I
• 1:16:48
  mean, most of the people in the chat know the bloody sock was real iconic.
• 1:16:51
  Wasn't real and fake. And Curt Schilling fucking sucks. I mean, listen, we are
• 1:16:55
  never going to end a show where I agree that the bloody sock wasn't
• 1:16:59
  real. What I'm always going to agree with, as long as you guys like,
• 1:17:02
  share, and subscribe, is that, um, fuck Curt Schilling. Oh,
• 1:17:05
  fuck Curt Schilling. Guys, we're the Regulars. We will
• 1:17:08
  see you on Thursday this week, not Friday. So make sure you check
• 1:17:12
  us out live on Thursday. Like, share, and subscribe wherever you get your favorite podcast.
• 1:17:15
  The podcast will be up. Check us out over there at The Regulars Pod
• 1:17:19
  on Instagram. Like, share, and subscribe there. We will be posting clips. Maybe the next
• 1:17:23
  one will go viral. Help us do that so we can keep growing this fucking
• 1:17:26
  pirate ship. And we thank all of you for being a part of it.
• 1:17:28
  And fuck Kurt Schilling still. Oh my God, fuck Kurt
• 1:17:33
  Schilling.