Sophie Cunningham answered a question she never volunteered to answer, and by the next morning the headlines wanted her suspended. Covino and Rich spend the first hour on the part nobody bothers reporting: who is actually outraged here? Then the show turns to Glenn Powell being cast as Lou Gehrig, which opens up two hours of the greatest performances ever by an actor playing a real or fictional athlete.

Covino makes the distinction that gets skipped every time. She didn’t call a press conference. Someone asked her a question, she answered it honestly, and the people who asked decided they didn’t like the answer. Rich follows with the clickbait test he’s been running since the Victoria’s Secret window display story a decade ago: name one person you know who is genuinely angry about this.

Manny in El Paso has the sharpest read of the hour, that the story is a convenient way to move the spotlight off how the WNBA has handled Caitlin Clark. Rich turns it into a business-model critique of a league that keeps chasing the ugly kind of attention instead of the fun kind.

Second hour goes to the movies. Barry Pepper as Roger Maris in 61*, which Covino says is the answer nobody remembers. Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson in 42, back before anyone knew who he was. Quincy Isaiah as Magic Johnson in Winning Time and Adrien Brody as Pat Riley. Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed, which is Rich’s pick. Plus Rich on why Will Smith was always too Will Smith to be Ali, and Covino on Joe Montana refusing to let anybody enjoy Rudy.

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