Hudson Williams’ Peloton Play, Coco’s Critics Get Shut Down, and WNBA Draft Orange Carpet Recap

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🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Coco Gauff sported her natural hair in a recent ad for Miu Miu and the internet showed us why we can’t have nice things. The no. 3 ranked tennis player shut down criticism about her appearance and more importantly, to encourage young Black girls to embrace their natural hair. Meanwhile, the WNBA rolled out its orange carpet for the 2026 draft, and this year’s draftees showed up and showed out on one of the biggest nights of their lives. In this episode, we also cover: Propaganda we’re falling for, AKA Hudson Williams’ Peloton ad Well Played friends of the pod who showed up to Coachella The Australian runner who beat Usain Bolt’s 20-year record in the 200m sprint The shocking pay difference between the 2025 and 2026 WNBA draft class, thanks to the league’s new CBA A self-indulgent recap of the Alix Earle and Alex Cooper beef Send It: Meet Gout Gout: https://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/article/australian-sprinter-gout-gout-breaks-under-20-record-with-blazing-200m-time-surpassing-legendary-olympian-usain-bolt-184411317.html Pope Leo balls out with Harlem Globetrotters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IYKsgfO0HQ Laufey, Hudson Williams, and the Council of Wasia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNa8jP4zoJo&list=RDyNa8jP4zoJo&start_radio=1 This couple at the Pacers game is all of us: https://www.threads.com/@thedankbrew/post/DW__SuSEZJE?xmt=AQF0MSzRnAYJn5UQchQP8TGsWhUf5ilzN3tp0mLpbd49Ot5K5HfogDuEUdsLI0GQi_giHrRo&slof=1 Plus, when Shaq offered to buy their engagement ring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVxAaY4ZBss Follow Well Played: @wellplayedbytheskimm Follow Blake: @blaaakkkke Follow Caroline: @cghendy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Well Played. I'm Caroline Henderson.
0:06.0	I'm Blake Morgan. I hear the tired in your voice. I know. I really just like heard it myself and I was trying to like, okay, let mustard go.
0:13.0	No, it's, I'm trying. I forgot mascara. That's how tired I was. I did notice you weren't working for. No, that wasn't a choice. That wasn't like a fashion choice.
0:21.2	That was like me on the way here in my Uber because, of course, I was late.
0:25.1	And I was like, oh, that's why.
0:27.5	I don't have mascara on.
0:29.0	It's so funny.
0:30.1	Okay.
0:30.5	Did everything but love it.
0:31.5	I was like, oh, she's trying something new and I kind of like this.
0:33.9	No.
0:34.2	No.
0:34.6	But thank you. I appreciate that. Of course. I just have to share one completely
0:40.4	random factoid, but that it will lead into what we're about to talk about. Last night,
0:47.8	Blake sent me an Instagram of Sophia Vergara's. And it was, I'm going to cry while I'm telling the story.
0:56.6	And it was of her, you know, Jay from Modern Family.
0:59.6	It was like her hugging him, wishing him, like the actor himself.
1:03.2	I don't know his name, sorry.
1:04.6	Kissing him and like wishing him a happy birthday, whatever.
1:07.8	She sends it to me and she goes, I straight up thought this was Gino.
1:11.9	I feed my pants because I was like, I can kind of see it.
1:18.2	And I also accidentally wrote Gino Ariana.
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