Hello and welcome to the third episode of casuals, the sports podcast that doesn't care what you know, truthfully.

Like bring your knowledge or don't't we're just here to kind of

chat shit uh i'm katie nolan your host i'm going to be joined today by dan soter a wonderful

stand-up comedian who you may know from uh billions on showtime or his HBO special son of a gary

or his youtube special on the road with dan soder or from putting a ring on my finger.

We're going to get married eventually.

We're going to talk about, listen, it's a lot of NFL today, very football heavy.

This is what happens when you launch a podcast in January.

It's just we're going to be very football heavy, but I want to make sure that our new listeners know that we will be covering all sports

mostly. It's just like so much football is going on right now. So we're going to talk a lot of

football. We're also going to talk about a very pricey baseball card that's out there. We're

going to talk about like head coaches in the NFL. There's a lot to talk about. And we're going to get

to all of it. But we start this podcast like we start every podcast by letting me yap. And boy, do I

have something passionate to yap about today. We are, we have reached that two week period of the

sports calendar where there's like nothing until the Super Bowl. It's like we're just kind of

building up to the Super Bowl. It's like we're just kind of building up to the Super Bowl.

And what we, what that usually means is, is ad content. And there's this thing that's been

happening these last few years, this trend that's like driving me nuts. And it was really driven

home during the conference championship games this weekend. I saw so many ads for ads. What are we doing with ads for ads? Like, I understand if you're a company that spends $7 million for the spot alone of a Super Bowl ad. 30 seconds,

about $7 million. I understand you want to get your money's worth. You're paying on top

of that $7 million, whatever talent you've decided to add into your commercial. And if the

recent years are any indication, all we're doing now is just shoving multiple celebrities into

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