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Casuals with Katie Nolan

Ambition, *NSYNC, and Making Friends with Serena | with Maria Sharapova

Casuals with Katie Nolan

SiriusXM

Society & Culture, Women's Sports, Comedy, Pop Culture, Katie Nolan, Sports

4.8877 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Hello! It's the podcast that's officially petitioning for an RL Stine-themed NWSL squad. Today, Katie and the Casualties talk about Spanish bullfighting for probably the only time ever, and only because the bull won, and get into barefoot heroics at the Boston Marathon, a new American women's record for an old friend, the Celtics dropping Game Two, Bill Simmons dropping the boomer-est take of the NBA Playoffs, a potential gentleman's sweep, the Bruins bouncing back, Mike Vrabel's surprise press conference and his quasi-apology for the thing he said he didn't do, an update to the World Cup, FIFA's ticket sales, and a bit of good news for fans in Philly, Leicester City being relegated AGAIN, Tottenham being on the brink, and potential names for the brand new $205 million NWSL squad in Columbus. Then, Tennis Hall of Famer Maria Sharapova joins the show [40:18] to talk about being part of the long engagement club, her new podcast "Pretty Tough" (Available now on all major platforms and YouTube!) talking to top performers across industries and its celebration of female ambition, what she's learned about how hard it can be for some people to acknowledge competitiveness in women, starting her professional career at 14, growing up in the public eye and staying centered, her first social media page, when she first started to understand the power of her fans, her boy band preferences, criticisms of her inability to be friends with other tennis players, winning Wimbledon at 17, her relationship with Serena Williams and going from fierce rivals to then asking her to speak at her Hall of Fame induction, and the respect that persisted through it all, the isolation and pressure of being alone on a tennis court, her coaches, her father, her love of candy, eating someone else's birthday cake, owning her sense of style, her business ventures, her competitiveness, parenting and the advice she's traded with Serena, pickleball, and finally getting to be a tennis fan. And finally, Katie and the team wrap with your e-mails and voicemails from the week, with a particular focus on Portland Trailblazers ownership.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, Isabella, did you see that, well, why would you have?

0:03.5

Did you see that Spain's most celebrated Matador, Moranta de la Puebla,

0:09.4

best known as King of the Bullfighters,

0:12.1

was seriously injured on Monday after being gourd up the rectum

0:18.3

as he was running away from a bull at an event in Seville.

0:22.4

And Gord is?

0:24.5

Gour, yes.

0:25.8

Stad.

0:26.2

It went in.

0:27.6

The big sharp horn went inside of him.

0:31.4

Actually, there's a photo in the dock that we linked.

0:34.4

If you want to click on that now.

0:35.4

I'm scared to look at there.

0:36.5

It's somehow not gory while also being gore. Okay. Just click on it. All right. Oh. Oh my God. I don't know what I was expecting, but it's still a surprise. The way his legs are just like closed and, oh my God. He's sort of, and don't, if you're squeamish, you can look this up. Yeah, there's no blood. I guess, Brady, I should say, if they Google this, will they be, are there other ones that are gory? No, I've seen their surprisingly clean photos of a literal bull's eye. Yeah, I've only seen this one where the bull is... It has him up in the air, and he's like perpendicular to the... And then I've seen the one where there's just a hand covering his butthole. He's laying on the ground, and there's just... Someone has their hand over his hole so as not to, I guess, open a portal into another realm. This one would be shown Isabella, though. The bull has this man up like he's toasting a marshmallow. Yes. Yeah, right, he looks hung on it. I know, I know. And honestly, I'm team bull. Team Bull all the way. I mean, this is, this, I can't believe we're still doing this sport.

1:44.6

This is what, also kind of impressive that of all the places he could stick the horn, he chose a hole that was already made. Yeah, like, I'm surprised that he went for that. A pre-made hole. He didn't make a difference. You know when you like, you know when you need to move a picture, but you can't put the nail hole too close to the already existing nail hole.

2:03.5

That's what I feel like a... You get a pilot hole already drilled. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, my God. The bull's name should be in the headline. Shout out to this guy. It's the most accurate bull of all time. We don't even know who it is. No respect for the Bulls. Marante required an hours-long sphincter reconstruction

2:21.7

thanks to the four-inch gash left by the bull.

2:29.2

I hate this sport so much.

2:30.8

I hate this.

2:32.7

This is, I mean, this led me down a, I, we looked into what

2:36.3

they do with the Bulls after they win or lose these competitions. And it's, this is bad,

2:42.7

you guys. We should stop doing this. If only just because they're going to stick their horns

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