Well Played: Taylor and Caitlin Take KC, SportsTok Returns, and The “Hot Jock” of the NFL Postseason

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4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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While many NFL fans were swapping conspiracy theories about refs helping the Chiefs get a win, Taylor Swift and Caitlin Clark cozied up in their private skybox. Don’t worry, Taylor didn’t give anything for TikTok lip-readers to call her on as she whispered secrets to her new bestie. Blake and Caroline discuss what she might’ve been saying in the weekend's most widely memed moment. In this episode of Well Played, we’ll also cover: Ryan Reynolds invested in another football club while battling a $400 million lawsuit from Justin Baldoni Coco Gauff’s RIP message to TikTok, plus the role the app has played in elevating athletes in pop culture Caroline casts the four remaining playoff teams as the hot jock, boy-next-door, bully, and shy girl Brittany Mahomes bounced back to the sidelines after giving birth just days before Saquon Barkley is having a moment and Alex Cooper was there Our favorite Send Its of the week including Ilona Maher’s broken nose, Josh Allen’s Golden Retriever Energy on full display, and the Lions dirty dancing in the end zone Caroline’s Instagram: @cghendy Blake’s Instagram: @blaaakkkke theSkimm’s Instagram: @theskimm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.3	Hello and welcome back to Well Played, presented by the skim. I'm Caroline Henderson.
0:36.9	And I'm Blake Morgan. What's up you guys? Caroline, how is your weekend? Tell me about everything. I see on my script it says making bread. Oh, okay, I did make bread. What? No way. Okay, but like I had the laziest weekend. I think like, obviously it's January and it is frigid outside, so it's not really enticing
0:55.3	to go out and about.
0:57.7	But I just think that I am still in the recovery, like, post football season mode where I'm just
1:04.0	like, I was so busy.
1:05.7	I need to just soak in every second of downtime that I have.
1:09.2	So I did literally nothing.
1:10.8	When I say nothing, I did zero.
1:12.7	But you made bread so you didn't do nothing.
1:13.8	But it was like the, it was like bread for dummies essentially.
1:18.0	It was like you put the yeast flour and salt in a bowl.
1:20.8	Was it like a no need recipe?
1:22.0	Yes.
1:22.4	No need.
1:22.9	You put it water in, done.
1:24.3	Put it in the oven.
1:25.3	Love that. But those honestly turned out really good. It was banging.
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