Taylor Swift’s Patient Zero music video is a sports movie, Bill Belichik *swears* Jordon Hudson isn’t involved in UNC football, and Jalen Brunson’s horny SNL episode

Testing, testing. Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Mayday, mayday. Mayday. I repeat, repeat, repeat. Let's see if this works. One second. Okay, let's see. We'll be right back. Hi, Charlotte. Hello, Madeline. We're back with another episode of the Sports Gossip Show presented by us. Yay, yay, yay, yay, yay, yay. We are back. Yes, we are. We didn't have shows last week, but we're back now. Happy to be with you all. I feel like more has happened over the past weekend than it happened over the past week anyway. There was like a weird lull in the sports gossip drama. Well, I feel like we had like a lot of sports gossip drama and then none and then some, you know? I don't know what was going on there. But you know, it's tough to say. It's really tough to say. Yeah, well, that's for sure. Well, you know what? I think that we have to start. You know, I was thinking about something. What? When Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey started dating, that's when sports gossip, I feel like, you know, you've talked about this with your newsletter. We've talked about this with it sort of being an inflection point for sports gossip. Taylor Swift was kind of patient zero for sports gossip. I see what you're saying. Did there. See what she did there. No, it's true. I feel like she is. Yes. I yes. I don't I don't have even have a follow up. I just yes. And yes, agree. Yes. And of course, we have had more dramatic sports gossip figures before her, obviously. But yes, it did feel like there was a before and after in terms of media coverage, at least of how people talk about sports. Oh, it looked quite literally the day Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey were first like there was a headline about them. Dating. I got a spike in newsletter subscribers like you can actually see it so that no, I agree. Math. Quantifiably, that is accurate. Quantifiably. Mathematically. Right. Scientifically, that's true. So it's only fitting that we. Oops. I had you know what? I'm going to just break the fourth wall here. I had a little I have a little lamp set up and it's like shining directly at me, which means. The light is in my eye and I had put a piece of paper over it to try to like. Mute it. So, yes. So now that just. Well, all right. Let me. Well, I'm just like holding my mic for dear life. I hate a loose mic, but that's what we're working with since I'm still in a different undisclosed location. But we'll be back in person soon. Thank God. OK, there we go. I shoved it into the I shoved a piece of paper into the crack in my window, which is such a New York. Oh, and the light went off. So never mind. You know what I will say? Can't really notice. I don't notice a difference in the light. Great. In your light level right now. Perfect. So. OK. Sorry about that, everybody. Anyways, Patient Zero. Speaking of Patient Zero, we need to talk about Taylor Swift's music video for her new song, Patient Zero, which is on her new album, I guess you could say, extended version of Life of the Showgirl, the encore. She has four additional bonus tracks and she put out a music video for one of them. And it is sports. It is sports. Yeah. It's called Disc Two of the Life of a Showgirl, the encore. Disc Two. And I'm like, which is this? No, I'm everything you said was correct. I'm just like, she said for so she said so many times we're not getting more tracks. And then she gave us four new songs. And I just, you know, it's a lot. She is a content creator. She she is like the ultimate content creator, I think. She also like lurks online, you know, even though she says she doesn't. But we do know you see I've seen her like TikToks, you know, like that's a thing. So someone on her team is is liking them on her behalf. So she's lurking and she's also putting out content, engaging in the Easter eggs, engaging in the online discourse. She is very online, I would say. She's she's present on the Internet is a way that you could put it. So the thing about the Patient Zero music video, a lot of people, if you've been on the Internet, have been talking about how Matthew Stafford, the Rams quarterback, is in the music video. And Madeline, you pointed something out here about the timing of when she put this music video out. Yeah, the music video came out. Wasn't it during her VMA speech or right around the VMAs? Because she won an award. Don't even artistic director are I don't remember the name of the exact word. But while the video was coming out, Matthew Stafford was playing in an NFL game because as Charlotte mentioned, he is the quarterback for the Rams and he was playing against the Broncos. So I'm like, did he know the video was coming out during the game or did Taylor Swift do that strategically to have the video roll out in the middle of a Rams game? I mean, here's the thing. We know that Taylor Swift gets really into whatever she does, right? I don't think that's a controversial thing to say. So now she is married to a man whose job is football. And I feel like she is a football sicko to the point where she's like memorized the schedule. Of games, not even that she's got like the primetime games down. Like she knows week 14, who's going to be on Monday night football. Yes. Oh, 100%. Yes. I feel like she, do you remember the, um, God, what was it? It was some kid who memorized like every team that won the Superbowl or something since the Superbowl existed and knew the scores. And he was a kid. It was at one of those like sports broadcasting camps or something like that. I feel like that is Taylor Swift now in a new life. Like, that she, because she's married to Travis Kelsey, she is like, hi, yes, I'm going to come speak at a student, uh, broadcasting summer camp. And I am going to recite every chiefs starting lineup players names since the beginning of time. Oh my God. Wait, do you know what just occurred to me? What? The funniest, oh my God. The funniest outcome here is that Taylor Swift becomes a color commentator for the NFL. Think about it. Think about it. And this is actually a great segue into the piece of sports gossip we have for everybody today, which is that yes, Matthew Stafford was in the patient serum music video because Matthew Stafford and his wife, Kelly are friends with Travis and Taylor, Travis Kelsey, tight end for the chiefs. You all know that. Um, but you know, Madeline, I was looking at this, um, with a forensic, uh, magnifying glass as one does, because I think that's what Taylor Swift would want of the people consuming her art. Yeah. Because it is what she wants. Um, and notice that not only, and this is like some sports media sicko brain. This is, this is where I have to out myself and, and you as well as a, an absolute maniac. Cause not only is Matthew Stafford in this video, Aaron Andrews, the, the broadcaster for Fox, her husband, Jarrett Stoll, who's a former hockey player. He is in the music video as well as Carissa Thompson's boyfriend, Steve Kundari, who's like a business guy. Carissa Thompson is also a broadcaster for Fox and Amazon prime. And so, and, and, and Matthew Stafford's wife, Kelly is also in this. And these are all the people, this is like their little crew of friends who go to Montana together. They go to like the Yellowstone club and they go skiing together and Taylor put, look, they're not random guys, but they certainly are guys. You know what I mean? They are guys. No, no, no. I would say they are random. They are random guys. It's like, I get that they are friends 100%, but even so I feel like there's a difference between a Heim sister being in a Taylor Swift music video and a Carissa Thompson's boyfriend. Even if yes, they are friends. Like I get it, but I'm like, I feel they were all at dinner one night and Taylor Swift was talking about, she was going to do this video and there's going to be a big party. And Taylor was like, what if we just call Taylor up myself? And I'm going to invite you guys to just, what if you want to just be in this music video? And they're like, well, yeah, of course, of course. Who doesn't want to be in a Taylor Swift music video? Yeah. Yeah. I guess my question is like, why wasn't Aaron Andrews and Carissa Thompson in it? That would make more sense to me than they're like significant others. That is a great question. Were they busy? I don't know. I feel like you can make time to be in a Taylor Swift music video. Aaron and Carissa, if you're listening, I would love to know what happened. Maybe they were in it and then their scene got cut, perhaps. I mean, because there's a lot of people in the background of that like event scene. So maybe they were there and they just didn't make the final cut. Yeah. I, yeah, I was just like, this is, this is where everything we have trained for our entire lives comes into play watching that music video. No, yes. I mean, I think the first thing I texted you was everything. This is sports. I mean, it is everything is sports, but this in particular is on such a deep level. This music video sports also interesting little tidbit here, given that we have a Georgia alum right here on this very podcast. Um, Matthew Stafford went to Georgia. He played at Georgia and he and his wife Kelly met at Georgia and Steve Kundari went to Georgia. He was just like one of Matt Stafford's like non-famous friends, Matt Stafford and Kelly introduced Steve to Carissa. So that's how they started dating. I mean, so it's just all, it's like, you know, famous people are famous. But it's also just like normal people stuff where you're just like, you have a friend group and then everybody knows each other. And instead of ending up in like a Facebook album, you end up in a Taylor Swift music video. Right. Yeah. It's like if you got invited on a work trip to Barbados and you had like, you could bring someone with you. You're like, Oh, just come on my work trip. This is her version of taking someone on a work trip. She's like, just come to my music video set and just come. It'll be fun. Take your friend to work day. Yeah. We'll put a tux on your husband's and like toss him in the video. Yeah. Anyway. So there's that. And also she has a song, one of those, one of those four songs. It's called Cleveland. Why is it called Cleveland, Madeline? Because Travis Kelsey is from Cleveland. Yep. Period. All right. Well, and there you have it. I think that that is, I think that's just the most concise, beautiful way of putting it. Well, I mean, it's like, yeah, yeah. I don't, I don't really have anything else to say about that one. He's just from, he's from Cleveland and she was like, song about Cleveland kind of sounds like that Christmas tree farm song. A little bit, a little bit of a jingle. Yeah. I don't know why there are jingle bells in it. I do. I think that the fact that Taylor is in an era where she's releasing songs called Florida and Cleveland, that both have exclamation points in them. Like, you know, there was that tweet that said it's a recession indicator when she goes from singing about Paris and London to Cleveland and Florida. I do think though, that if, if my friend were releasing music about Florida and Cleveland with exclamation points, I would probably just like check in. Yes. Just so that, Hey, what's going on here? What's going on here? Yeah. No, no, no. I agree. I agree. I admire your creative drive, but like just making sure everything's good. Well, they did buy that house in Cleveland. So I guess she's on a Cleveland kick right now. Yeah. That's a cool song. Cleveland kick. There you go. Cleveland kick. Oh man. Wow. Well, you know, there it is. There it is. Well, moving right along to some other main characters in the sports gossip, cinematic universe, Bill Belichick and Jordan Hudson, Bill Belichick, head coach of UNC's football team for now. We'll see, um, was spotted scouting potential players at a high school football game with Jordan Hudson. And they're sitting together in the press box, which listen, I get it's a high school press box, but why is Jordan in the press box? Well, that's a great question. Uh, especially because Bill Belichick recently spoke on the record to the wall street journal, Allie Jones, great reporter. She also writes the newsletter gossip time, which is not to be missed. Um, she went to a UNC game and got bill after the game outside the locker room. And what's interesting to me, Madeline is that, um, basically he is the first quote, um, he gives Allie is about how Jordan Hudson has no official role in the UNC program. And he says the way the story was picked up was a long way from that. He said, which also isn't a sentence that makes sense, but that's fine. Um, like he said, like she's trying to be the general manager of the team. And it's so ridiculous. When I took the job here, it was December. And at that time I was doing five TV shows, the radio show, I had a book coming out. I had a lot of other things going on when I took the job. So I sent an email when I got here and said, can you please forward any request to Jordan about my personal appearances so that I can coordinate them? Blah, blah, blah. Didn't have anything to do with the university that was leaked as released as Jordan's involved in every single thing that I do. And she's copied on every email. That's a flat out lie. So he gives this like long for Belichick. That's so many words to say at once. That's more words. I've heard him say in a long, long time. It's a lot of words for him. It's longer, maybe. He said more words there than he did in that CBS interview. Honestly, he did. No. Yes, he did. So he did. So he, he used, he used up his like 10 years worth of words to say that Jordan isn't involved in the football program. Um, and then she shows up next to him scouting at a high school football game. And I, yeah, maybe he would say like, oh, well she was just around and decided to come. But you don't have to do that. You don't have to decide to go. You could stay in the hotel room or, you know, I don't know, get a coffee somewhere, um, or go take yourself out to dinner. No. Yeah. She doesn't need to come. I think when I first saw the article from Allie and the quotes from Bill, I was in some ways impressed by a good PR move on his part by just kind of addressing the record, whether we know what's true or not. And it's a little bit late on his part to finally speak out about this. But, I do appreciate that at least he said something. So I was like, oh, okay. I mean like, yeah, he didn't really give that much more information, but to your point, he spoke more words than he has in at least the past two years about this subject. So it's like, okay, that felt like actually a smart PR move on his part, considering there's so much bad PR going on right now with his work and his department as a whole, as we've talked about on the investigation investigations that have been going on and people getting fired or stepping down, including his son and his little pal, Mr. Michael Barty. Oh, his little buddy. His little foyant. Little foyant. Which by the way, did you see that Michael Marty launched a sub stack? Yeah. What? Well, yeah, we can unpack that on a future episode. But yeah, I think he's on sub stack. No, no, no, no. You have got to be kidding. I know. Michael and Barty. Yeah, I'm pretty sure he launched a sub stack. Okay. Well, we'll put a pin in that. I'm going to go read. Yeah. The rest of my day is shot. No. Good. I'm glad. I'm glad I gave you that. Oh my God. But yeah, I think it's like, it was a good PR move, but then it's also like that article just came out. What? Two weeks, a week and a half ago or something like that. And now Jordan is sitting in the press box, even if she's not doing anything to participate in the act of scouting high school football players for her boyfriend's job, it does not look good. And the optics don't look great. So, and that's really all that matters. Is optics honestly. Well, perception is reality. Yeah. Yes, it's true. Perception is reality. And the thing that's really interesting is that he even said at the end of his time talking to Allie from the wall street journal, he said a few minutes later, Belichick, this is Allie writing Belichick returned to the topic of Hudson's role in his communications with the media, reiterating that he needed her help managing his commitments outside of coaching. And then bill says, and if you met Jordan, I mean, football's not really at the top of her list and then gets cut off because he sees Jordan coming around the corner and says, there's Jordan right there. And then Jordan sees bill talking to Allie, a reporter and goes, oop and turns around and walks back around the corner. So first of all, I do take a little bit of issue with bill throwing, like to say that football is not at the top of Jordan's list when like that is essentially the business. And I think that's a really important thing to think about. could be an element of this where it is. I mean, I don't think they're good enough at PR given the way we've tracked these two, but like it would be kind of smart to trot her out again and be like, what's going on with Jordan and the program to distract from the actual potentially very, very bad things that are happening. Totally. Totally. But I also do know that they operate in their own world. So they could have just done that without telling anyone. And there was nothing strategic about it. And what do we say in the show? Occam's razor, the simplest explanation. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Okay. All right. Um, I have missed them. Yeah. Oh no. I have deeply. I miss the Instagram posts. Oh God. I miss them. That was such a, that was like a gift. What a time. What a time. That was such a time. You know what? I think that there is still time for that. And there is still a place that that will happen. I feel it in my soul. I don't think, I don't think that chapter is closed for them. I really hope so because I feel like maybe because we had just started the show when that started happening. I don't know. It was like, I don't know if we realized how good the good times were in terms of what we're like, you know, we definitely did, but because we hadn't been like, if that happened now, we would be like, okay, well let's, it's time to cook, you know? But as it was, we were like, well, this is just the show. This is what we do. But that was, that was just an unbelievable time when we could just dissect her Instagram captions. Forever. Forever. I recommend if anyone hasn't listened to those episodes, just go back because. Just go back. The lore is deep there. It was kind of a simpler time. It was a simpler time. Oh, a hundred percent. A hundred percent. You know? Yeah. You know? Yeah. It hadn't gotten grimy yet. No, no, it was just fun. Just fun. Just fun. Just fun. Oh, well. Well, what's next? Well, you know, in the document here, which is really nobody cares who's listening to this, but I'm, I'm going to just, I'm going to move one thing around so that we just keep going with football, you know? Yep. Okay, great. Because then we've got some basketball stuff. I like what you just did there. You see what I'm doing there? Approved. Okay. Approved. Yep. Because not only is it football, but it's also the New England Patriots, Madeline, which is, you know, which is Bill Belichick's old team. There. I will say, I would imagine to some degree, Bill Belichick feels a sense of glee about what's happening with his former employer, because things are not going so great for your New England Patriots or his former New England Patriots. They really kind of couldn't be worse. I'm going to be honest. Yeah, I, you know, I think that they have some of the worst vibes in any professional sports team currently. They, something spiritually is wrong there. And I don't know what, I mean, there are lots of clear issues, but it feels like there's something on a spiritual level that has cursed them. Well, right. I mean, I think when your team is owned by Benjamin Netanyahu, it's kind of, I mean, sorry. No, but here, but here's the thing. Robert Kraft is. He's the owner of the Patriots, right? And we talked about this. Sorry, I can't believe I just said that. That was a good joke. Well, it was taken from a different joke on Twitter, which I can't say because it was deeply inappropriate. But I do think that we talked about Robert Kraft two weeks ago because of the whole, he wouldn't let Macklemore play at his stadium after Macklemore said free Palestine. Robert Kraft has a lot of business interests in Israel. He is a strong, strong. Staunch defender of Israel in like every way, I would say. And I, this feels like karma on, on several different levels because Ed Sheeran didn't even end up playing those concerts. No, he, they got canceled because there was a Nor'easter, which is, I mean, talk about a spiritual curse. That is mother nature intervening. That's, that's the natural world saying you're not, no, no, just no, just no, no. I love it. So, so not only do you have Bob Kraft, you know, trying to go around the first amendment and stop someone from saying that there's a genocide happening in his own stadium, but never forget Mike Vrabel, head coach of the Patriots was seen with a foreigner, former, uh, NFL insider, Diana Rossini, holding hands at an adult only resort in Arizona. So, and I think when, when, before the season started, we had Mina Kimes of ESPN on, and she said that, you know, none of this is going to matter if the Patriots are winning. The Patriots are, are one and two now. And Madeline, not only are they not winning Drake May, the quarterback, I mean, I feel bad for him. I feel bad for him because I feel like he is a victim. He is being cursed in the name of the, he's, he's the son being cursed in the name of the father and the Holy spirit. The father being Mike Vrabel, Bob Kraft being the Holy spirit. And he is paying the price because he tried to throw a ball on Sunday, tried to try to throw a ball, just dropped it, just dropped it through three interceptions. Um, it's, it's horrific football. It's really bad. It's, it's. There's bad football. And then there, there is, um, deep seated trauma, bad, traumatically bad football. And there feels like something, like I said, with Drake May, like, you know, he, I think as someone who can lock in, of course, he's a very good quarterback and watching him really just quite fumble, literally the ball, um, just feels like there is something so off within that organization right now. And I don't see a world where things turn around for them. It just does not feel like for the season. I mean, at least I cannot imagine a world where things really turn around for them. If you have bad vibes starting at, um, the ownership level and the literal stadium you play in and mother nature against the stadium you play in, I think you're going to be set up to fail the whole season. Sorry. I just think that's probably what's going to happen. I also think, you know, Vrabel was giving, um, Drake May coaching on the sideline and trying to give him pep talks and you just saw Drake May's face. And it was like, not good. You know, he wasn't receiving what Vrabel was giving him. And I know that all the players have said, nobody cares about what happened in the off season with Vrabel and that they're all, you know, everybody makes mistakes and, and they still love him. And I believe that that's true. I think that the players, um, you know, Vrabel is a player's coach. Players love him. I do. I can't help but wonder though, if when someone, they seem to trust him so deeply and then, and he did something that is against the values that I would assume he is preaching to his players, I feel like you can't help but have a little bit of that seep in if you're, especially if you're a younger guy like Drake May and you're kind of looking at this guy being like, okay, you're saying all these things, but also like, what have you been up to? Do you know what I mean? Right. Yes. No, no. I agree. I agree. I think things aren't looking great for them and I feel sad for the players, honestly. I feel sad. Yeah. I feel sad for the players because I think leadership has, has let them down in a lot of ways. And I know they say it doesn't affect them, blah, blah, blah, blah. I just don't think that's true. That's like being like, I'm fine and you're not fine. You know, it's like, I just don't, I don't think that's true. No, it's, and, and I think it's on, it's so often what happens when there's like a cosmic level of screwing up at the ownership or coach or like, you know, the above your pay grade level for these players. And the players are like, I don't know. The players are the ones who end up, um, paying the price for it because also people don't realize a lot of NFL players. Um, I mean, all NFL players have incentives in their contracts. Like if you make it farther in the season, if you have a certain number of catches, if you're a receiver, if you have a certain number of blocks or sacks, like there is actual money tied to performance as well. Yeah. Um, and so when you're let down on a level that goes over your head that you can't control, but it affects your pay, it doesn't affect you. It doesn't affect, I mean, I'm sure Vrabel has some incentives too, but nothing affects craft. That's for sure. No, that's for sure. Oh boy. So, you know, well, that was fun. That was fun to watch. Really just, it's just kind of remarkable, but we will see what happens. I'm not, I don't have high hopes to go from being in the Superbowl last year. Well, that tracks though. Honestly, let's be real to have the highest of highs and then you're at your lowest of lows. I do think that actually is like one of the most logical outcomes, unfortunately. They flew too close to the sun, Madeline. Can't repeat. Can't come back. The wing. They didn't even win. But no, they didn't. Well, that game was terrible. It's like, that wasn't a good game. That was just bad. So it didn't really even count as a Superbowl appearance, you know? So yeah. Yeah. No, it's true. The wings are falling off. Anyway, um, let's transition to some basketball, shall we? Yes. Speaking of basketball. Um, sort of, well, yes. Yeah. Uh, the New York. liberty beat the minnesota links very exciting um and i i must admit i did not see this game you know i did um and it was interesting because the liberty are an eight seed the links were so good all season the liberty kind of couldn't get their act together and um we will have a more in-depth wmba playoff episode coming um later this week with our dear pal jessica smitana um but we're just going to give a quick thing here because um brianna stewart really took over to to propel the liberty to victory i mean she had an unbelievable game and what was interesting madeline from a sports gossip angle is that stewie was posting after this game she was she was on her instagram stories it was like a bunch of dots you know where it's just like a lot of completion rate is way too low that is too many slides yes and it's interesting because they won one game it's a best of three for the first round of the wmba playoffs which i also don't like and i i want to know how players feel about this because it should be best of five but what are you going to do um and so they won one game like the links can still win the series and yet brianna stewart was was posting a ton she posted her tunnel fit which was a nice little tom brown outfit um i actually i actually really liked it it was a good you know sometimes tom brown is like tom brown can be like so much tom brown but this was like yeah i enjoyed it um i just found it was interesting she she uh candace parker former player and now um uh commentator tweeted something where she said stewie was like y'all forgot i do this and brianna stewart re reposted that on her Instagram. Um, and I kind of feel like this is maybe her keeping it momentum. How do you feel about, cause it's almost like, well, relax, you haven't done it yet. I like it because it feels like she's participating in the online discourse in a way to fuel her own motivation. That's what it feels like to me. I don't feel like it's cocky or anything like that. I just think it's something to boost her own ego and help her play better. And I'm all for it. I, I, I think it's a good idea. I don't think it's, I don't think it's a bad idea. I don't think she's posting if she was like, well, that was so easy, you know, then I'd be like, all right, relax. What are we doing here? You know, you only say that if you win, you know, but I think it felt like a, an appropriate amount of, of cockiness, you know? No, I agree. I think she's, she's not tempting fate with these posts. No, no, no. It was like Riz. Yeah. Not to be, not to be a millennial using that word, but I was like, all right, I see what you're doing here. I'm picking up what you're putting down. Amen, sister. I see what you are up to. I mean, obviously living in New York, I want the Liberty. I mean, I, I like the Lynx, but of course I want the Liberty to win and it would be very exciting comeback because they're not favored to win. So I'm all for it. Yeah. Keep posting, Stewie. Keep, Stewie, keep post up and post on. Air high five. Hell yeah. We still got it. Oh man. What was the other big New York basketball? Situation this weekend? New York Knicks starter, man of the hour, man of the city, uh, uh, metaphorical, symbolic mayor of New York city, Jalen Brunson hosted the SNL season opener and the starting five all made an appearance during the monologue, which was amazing. Um, and I thought Jalen Brunson did as good of a job as an athlete can do hosting SNL. I don't know how you feel about it. I think, I think Jalen Brunson did as good of a job as Jalen Brunson could do hosting SNL. Yeah, but I do feel like there's also like the athlete element where, you know, a lot of athletes aren't, I know, but they think about like Peyton Manning or Travis Kelsey. That's true. That's true. That's true. You know, or Charles Barkley, like those guys, they're hams, you know? Yes. I think Jalen was, was, um, a little funnier or a little, a tiny bit easier on camera than maybe I thought he was going to be. Um, but somebody I want to talk to you about is that a lot of the sketches for lack of a better way of putting this were just, um, like horny. Yes. Yes. It was kind of surprising. I like the sketch with the glasses. Yeah. That was like the shark tank. I was like, it felt, I'm like, is that what he wanted? Like, I know Lorne Michaels, like what is that dress rehearsal isn't what's in the final thing, but like, what was his creative input on the sketches? That's what I would like to know. I mean, I was pretty surprised. Like one of the sketches was about how a support group for men whose, whose wives and girlfriends had gone up on stage with Usher and Chris Brown, which also, I'm sorry, but given Chris Brown's history was just gross that they, and they didn't like, um, and then there was one, the, and then there was one where Mikey day, one of the cast members was basically like having a sexual experience in, um, a massage chair at an airport and Jay, like, and then he was a part of a thruple in another one. And I just, I don't, my, my question is, do you think he knew that he could say no to things? Yes. I do think he knew he could say no to things, but it is odd. The, the high concentration of similarly horny sketches, like what, like maybe, yeah, I don't know. Clearly he was cool with it. I, I personally didn't love them. I thought some of them were funny, but I didn't love the overall vibes of, of some. Um, but yeah, no, I mean, I think he clearly was into it or he would have been like, I'm not comfortable doing this seat, you know, the sketch. So, yeah, I mean, I don't know how that writer's room, works, but I'm going to guess he has some input. So I was like, was this the nineties? I was like, I'm sorry. Is it 19? And I know, and it's not like a pearl clutchy, like it's, that's what I mean. It just like, wasn't, I just didn't think that, I think there was more they could have done with him. Yeah. You know, I just think there was more they could have done that didn't involve those themes in every sketch. And this is not like, I'm not like, Oh my God, I need to see not a horny sketch. It's just like, can we see something else? Cause you didn't. Or. If you, if you're going to do a horny sketch, can it just be funnier? Yeah. Well, that's a whole different conversation. That's a whole different thing. Yeah. I guess I just, I, you know, it's not exactly, it's not in the sense of like, you know, I'm offended. It's more of just like, Oh, okay. Yeah. Well, that's a choice that you made. Yeah. Yeah. But here's what I'll say. When the starting five were in the opening monologue, all I wanted was like, wait, I want to see all of them host SNL. That's really what I thought. I was like, each of them should, should host. You know what they should have done? What? The Knicks starting five should have just hosted. Yes. Yes. Because OG and Inobi with his straight face, like, I mean, he was so funny. Even Kat, who's Kat whipping off the sunglasses. Yeah. He's got charisma. He made a joke about, can you foul out of SNL? Um, Josh Hart's funny. I'm just like, they all, it should have been the Knicks starting five is hosting SNL. I think it would have made things better. Yeah. I agree. I agree. I do too. Well, there's always next championship. Oh, Oh, wow. Okay. Wow. You heard it here first. Heard it here first folks. Um, well, our last story of the day has nothing to do with basketball, but it does have to do with corruption. Um, man city, the premier league team. I don't know if anyone saw this, but they were found guilty on 114 out of 115 financial rule breaches, which is a lot of financial rule breaches in the premier league. Um, the league there, they haven't announced what the sanctions are going to be yet. Um, but for those who aren't familiar with the story, they were first charged in February of 2023 after a bunch of alleged financial breaches between 2009 and 2018. Um, according to the athletic, who has some great reporting on this, um, the premier league accused the team of quote, failing to provide accurate financial information and details of payments to players and coaches. Um, basically they hit a bunch of money, um, as fake sponsorship, deals to just funnel a bunch of money into the team. And then the, this was exposed in 2018 by a German paper through emails where they were basically these executives of the team were joking about moving the money around. And that is kind of what spurred the original investigation. Um, so it's just a whole lot of corruption and stupidity on so many levels, so many levels, like you're putting this all in emails and you didn't think maybe if those emails got leaked, perhaps some of this would come out at some point. Right. You're not even using signal to joke about your corruption. Right. Right. Be a little, you're not using airplane. Yeah. End to end encryption. You ever heard of it, buddy? Right. Yeah. I mean, it's really, I guess when things like this happen, when people do a couple of corruptions and then just like joke about it, I guess you understand why they did the corruptions in the first place, because if you have the hubris to like joke about a doing corruptions, you're not going to be able to do it. You probably think that you're just going to get away with anything you try to do. Yes, totally. Totally. Yeah. Because clearly you're like, oh, I'm not concerned about any possible, uh, sanctions or punishments based on my behavior. They don't, they don't care. They're like, oh, whatever. You know, men, you, you've, said this before, men don't think about PR. Men do not think about PR. That is, truer words have never been spoken. Bill Belichick doesn't think about PR. Man City doesn't think about PR. Mike Vrabel doesn't think about PR. No. Men just do things and then think and then go, oh, oopsie. Whoops. What's going on there? And it's interesting because women, I mean, I feel like we kind of move through the world having to think about PR on a daily basis. Because you're like, how am I going to, like, you're in a meeting and someone says something really unbelievably stupid. You can't just be like, that's unbelievably stupid. You have to think about the public perception to how you tell someone they're an idiot because then it would become your fault that they're an idiot because you told them that. From birth, women have been doing PR from birth. Yes. Since they were sharing toys on the playground. Just. Concerned about how others are perceiving us. Yes. And you know what's interesting here, Madeline, is that in the time that they have been owned by this guy, Sheikh Mansour, who is the high up in the United Arab Emirates ruling family, they have won eight Premier League titles, four FA Cups. They've won seven League Cups and one Champions League. And six of those things have happened since they were charged with the 114, 115 corruptions, essentially. And it's just worth noting that Sheikh Mansour also owns New York City FC. And he has been, human rights groups have said that he is trying to sportswash his image because of the UAE's controversial human rights record. This guy has made deal with war, made deals with war criminals, done some. What appears to be some really sketchy stuff. I would advise everyone to go look at his Wikipedia page and do your own research in the words of Aaron Rodgers. But this guy also, he's in control of the UAE Central Bank, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, and control a few other things. Also controls, I think, three sovereign wealth funds. So again, this is an example of, we talked about this a lot with the FIFA stuff when FIFA president Gianni Infantino tried to sell FIFA, essentially, tried to sell the World Cup. It's, it's, sports are so often tied in with the political realities and are, and are, and then people say, well, you have to look the other way because it's sports and it's supposed to be fun. Yeah. People are like, look the other way. And I think the thing here that just reading what else he controls for him doing this little baby corruption, with his fun little soccer team, it is like nothing to him. And that's, I think the thing that is truly so sad, it's like, this is so shocking of them being found guilty of 114 out of 115 sanction or, you know, punish whatever thing breaches, blah, blah, blah. But it's like, the sad thing is, is it doesn't even matter. They're going to have to pay the fines. I'm sure they're going to have some punishments. It may impact the players who knows, but ultimately this guy has bigger, corruption fish to fry. And I feel like he's like, I don't even care. It's like, it doesn't even matter. And that's part of the problem because people are allowed to sports wash via owning these sports teams and commit more corruption when they're committing in some ways, worse acts of corruption and human rights violations with their other corruption going on somewhere else. It's like, yeah, this is like their fun corruption. And it's like, there are no consequences even when there are consequences. And that's the most depressing thing about this story. Beautifully said. Beautifully said. It's sort of, they're probably kind of, they probably like giggle a little bit with these sorts of things. They're found guilty. They're like, wait till you hear about the big ones. I think that's true. And I think that probably there's an element of it where men who are in charge of, or people who are, who have this kind of wealth and are in charge of this kind of things. I feel like the corruption is sometimes the point. It's like, what can I get away with? You know, if you're not cheating, you're not trying. Right. Right. So yeah, it's, it's not great. No, it's not great. It's not great. What are you, what are you going to do? What are you going to do? I'm sure we'll hear soon about what their punishments will be, but sadly, I don't feel like they're really going to have much of an impact on any, no one's going to learn their lesson. You know, you said something the other day, a famous person who we don't need to name right now, but about just not learning your lesson. Yeah. And, and I think that that is a real, that's something that happens. So much of our show is about people who haven't learned. Yes. Haven't learned their lesson. Men who haven't learned their lesson. No, it's like such a beautiful way of putting it. Men who have not learned their lesson. It's like, it's pretty simple. It's simple. Well, just a little bit of housekeeping. We are, we, we recorded this on Monday. So, if something huge happened overnight and we're not talking about it, fear not, we will in upcoming episodes. Other than that, that's our show. That's our show. As always, please rate, review, like, and subscribe. It makes a huge, huge difference. 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