Hockey Gold, The Elephant in the Room, and Winter Olympics Superlatives

Casuals with Katie Nolan

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

4.8 • 877 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Hello! It's the podcast that will graciously accept any stuffed animal it's handed, any time. Today, Katie and the Casualties wrap up the Winter Olympics with a look at the figure skating exhibition gala, Kung-Fu Panda, and new boundaries being pushed, before getting into Team USA's gold medal in men's ice hockey, a historic game on Sunday, and the unsettling reality of the president interjecting himself into the postgame celebration to diminish the accomplishments of the women's team. In a happier conversation, the team then takes a look [23:05] at the accomplishments of the athletes themselves, Connor Hellebuyck being unbeatable, JACKHUGHES scoring the game winner with his front tooth missing, Team USA's celebration of Johnny Gaudreau, Nathan McKinnon's performance, Nathan McKinnon's acceptance of the Olympic stuffy, Nathan McKinnon's assertion postgame that Canada was the better team, and a dramatic re-enactment of an all-time Olympic moment - Mike Tirico interview the Hughes brothers and Connor Hellebuyck after significant postgame celebration. Katie and the Casualties then award the Winter Olympics Superlatives - taking a look at the most dominant, most romantic, most impressively non-human, and most relatable performances throughout the games in Italy, from Alysa Liu and Elena Meyers Taylor to giant wolf dogs and benevolent robots. And finally, Chris wraps the show with a look at what to watch in sports this week, and the Paralympics ahead.

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0:00.0	Hey, Isabella, did you see by any chance that figure skating gala? I did. I saw some parts of it online. What parts of it did you see? Well, I saw Lissa. Great, beautiful. I saw Amber's where she was doing that back bend. Stunning. Stunning. And the camera work deserves, I think, more credit than it's getting for that. Yeah, for sure. Not physics-wise? How is she bending like that? I have no idea. I've thought of it. I tried it on
0:25.2	my own. I'm just kidding. I didn't. Um, in my mind I did. Did you see by any chance the men's
0:32.7	individual gold medal winning skater dress up as Kung Fu Panda?
0:38.2	No!
0:39.8	Wait, this is not on my for you, Paige.
0:42.4	What should I search?
0:43.6	Kung Fu Panda.
0:46.7	Gold medalist?
0:48.1	Yes, and Kung Fu Panda.
0:50.4	It should be the first video that comes up.
0:53.0	In a full Kung Fu Panda costume, he completed a triple.
0:57.8	I think it's an axle, but honestly, if you can tell just by looking at it, go ahead and roast me in the
1:03.5	comments. It's with a full fluffy costume. That's so cute. And then he, but he also at one point farts and knocks over two other skaters with the
1:15.6	lethalness of his fart.
1:17.6	And I was just wondering if you ever thought you'd see something like that in what was technically
1:21.6	officially the Olympics broadcast.
1:24.6	I didn't.
1:25.6	I was going to say figure skating's really making, they're really
1:27.8	pushing boundaries. I know. And I love that. I think this is what the closing ceremony should be.
1:33.2	I think the closing ceremony of the Olympics should be a talent show where everybody shows us without
1:37.7	any rules, without any judging, no medals. They just all come out and go, okay, so I'm a cross-country
1:43.5	skier. And because of that, I learn that I can do this.
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