Hockey (Smut)’s New Fans, Wide Receiver Divas, and Travis’ Wood with Gisele Thompson

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🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Heads up — this episode may contain references to Taylor Swift’s “The Life of a Showgirl.” Actually – it definitely will. You’re welcome, Swifties (Caroline). Sorry skeptics (Blake). The NFL’s week 5 delivered on upsets, which has some analysts saying that Drake Maye has arrived, Trevor Lawrence can’t fumble, and Jalen Hurts’ offense needs help. It’s us. We’re analysts. In this episode of Well Played, we also cover: A Caroline-approved haiku about week 5, written by Blake AJ Brown not beating the wide-receiver diva allegations How Cathy Engelbert responded to Napheesa Collier’s scorched-Earth presser Dissecting the hate Ayesha Curry received for her Call Her Daddy interview How Gisele Thompson really feels about playing without her sister + former teammate, Alyssa Thompson Send Its: Reese Witherspoon gives advice to highdiver Molly Carlson: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPUGhmvDdKW/ CeeDee Lamb is…daddy?: https://www.tiktok.com/@flockcarter/video/7557773703849823518 Jerry Jones apparently flips the bird at Jets fans: https://www.instagram.com/p/DPcthGgjP_3/?img_index=1&igsh=d3N0amcyMTdnOGQ Isaac Rochelle references (almost) every track from “The Life of a Show Girl”: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPckmk8kQL5/?igsh=Y3Zveng1d2ZpcDRo Gisele’s IG: @giselethomp Caroline’s IG: @cghendy Blake’s IG: @blaaakkkke theSkimm’s IG: @theskimm Want more sports? Sign up for theSkimm’s sports newsletter at theskimm.com/sports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Well Played, presented by this game. I'm Carolyn Hendershoff.
0:18.5	I'm Blake Morkin. Hey, what did you get up to this weekend? Missed you? I went to the best city on earth, St. Louis, Missouri. Oh, that's the best city on earth? No. That's what my friend told me who's from there, who's a wedding I went to. Oh, gotcha.
0:20.1	And honestly, it was a lot better than I thought.
0:20.8	Oh, that's good.
0:20.8	I think the Midwest has slept on, especially in the food department, who's a wedding I went to. Oh, gotcha. And honestly, it was a lot better than I thought. Oh, that's good.
0:36.5	I think the Midwest has slept on, especially in the food department, but like genuinely, I think because it's kind of a confluence of Midwest plus the South, people there, I think, very much identify with Southern culture in some ways. Interesting. And so I think there was a lot of delicious food. I had the best pancakes in my life.
0:38.6	Those pancakes looked insane. They looked dense if you just looked at them,
0:40.1	but then you cut them open.
0:41.0	They're really fluffy and crispy on the outside. Yeah, they looked like 10 out of 10. The only thing that was missing was chocolate chips, but that's okay. Honestly, I liked enjoying them in their pure form. I also had cornmeal pancakes, which were really good. Whoa. I like that gritty texture. Okay. I know what I mean? I also had the best hot chicken of my life.
0:56.1	It was so good.
0:57.7	And when I told people that I went to the Southwest Dider to get chicken, they were like,
1:00.4	why did you do that?
1:01.4	Yeah.
1:01.7	And I said, you had no idea that they had the best chicken on planet Earth.
1:04.8	Yeah.
1:05.6	I'm telling you.
1:06.2	You're a big time foodie. Well, yeah. We know this about me. I'm going back for food tourism. I just don't know one yet.
1:12.5	Okay. I'd love that for you. I also feel like, was it as nice of weather there that it was here this weekend?
1:19.4	It was summertime there. It pissed me off. I know. It was gorgeous, but it's October. Okay. Get out of my face with the sunshine.
1:26.2	Here's the thing. Here's the thing. Not get out of my face with the sunshine. Here's the thing. Here's the thing.
1:28.1	Here's the thing.
1:29.1	Not get out of my face with the sunshine.
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