Show Me Something - Sophie Cunningham on Unrivaled League TEA, Tom Brady’s dog & viral dating drama

Episode Date: November 6, 2025

This week on Show Me Something, Sophie Cunningham of the Indiana Fever and West Wilson of ‘Summer House’ dive into everything from NBA and World Series ratings to the new Unrivaled Basketball League rosters. Sophie breaks down what makes the new women’s league so exciting—and why it’s changing the game for WNBA players who want to stay stateside. Plus, the duo discuss the end of Six Flags, whether NIL is ruining college sports, react to Tom Brady cloning his dog, and help our listener out with some dating drama.All lines provided by Hard Rock Bet00:00 - START 00:30 - Sophie at Pacers game 2:00 - Netflix’s Starting 5 2:30 - World Series Game 7 Ratings 5:00 - AD READ FOR SKIMS 6:20 - MLB VS NBA popularity issues 9:30 - NBA Playing too many games? 12:00  - Tom Brady cloned his dog  14:00 - AD READ FOR HARD ROCK 15:10 - Sophie caddying adventures 17:50 - Travis Kelce saving six flags? 19:20 - AD READ for Cozy Earth 21:00 - World Of FUN memories 23:00 - Hot Girl Of the Week 28:00 - NIL ruining NCAA sports? 30:32 - Dating, DMs & dogs? 34:00 - the friend zone #VolumeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I've never heard that. Okay, this is our second one of the week. So there's not a lot of catching up to do. There's more just talking about what's going on in the crazy, silly world we live in, I suppose. I saw the Pacers tweeted you last night, fun, cute, awesome. That's a good picture of you. Really? I thought it was a good picture of you.

Oh. Oh. Well, thank you. Thank you. I had actually a lot of fun. The Pacers are kind of not having the best year yet, but they have a lot of injuries. But honestly, Brooklyn Nets aren't either. So I thought that maybe this is the one that the Pacers were going to get.

But we didn't get it, which is okay. I still had a really good time. Of course, said? Not that it's about me, but I had a great time. The Pacers want, if they lose, they still want you to have a good time. Sure. It's like that's important to them. Yeah.

Yeah. No, I hung out with Tyrese's fiancé Jade and she is such a gym and met a couple of her best friends. And they were just so fun. Like, love them. She go to Iowa State also. She did. Yeah, she's a cheerleader. That's right.

That's right. That's right. Wait, have you watched the starting five on Netflix? No. Oh, it's good. You should. What is that about? It's about basketball and they just felt like they picked five guys last year and there's five guys this year that they follow and just go throughout the season and just like kind of go into their lives every day.

And Tyrese and Jade are one of the starting five. It's like quarterback. Yeah. Like how they did it with all them. Yeah. Oh, I would watch. Yeah, it's good. I'm curious your thoughts.

I should take a second and apologize for not even addressing. We recorded on Monday and I forgot to mention how fucking awesome the World Series was. I don't know if you actually... Dude, the best game seven, maybe ever,

there were like ten separate moments where either team could have won. The Blue Jays were inches away from winning multiple times. The Popfly and Deep Left Center were the two dudes from the Dodgers ran into each other.

Kike Hernandez, and I forget, their center fielder's name. Well, he's the one who subbed in. It's not their starter. They subbed him in. Yeah. And then two nights before when the ball got stuck,

then when the dude, a base is loaded, they throw him out at home as Will Smith's foot comes up. Like, it was such a good baseball game. One of my, my favorite thing watching that last game seven, though,

is when the pitcher through and, like, hit two guys damn near. Yeah. So he hits someone. And then the next guy, he like almost knocked his face off. And they're like, what are you doing? And then that guy, he swung and the ball went back and hit the pitcher. Did you see that?

Yes, ball. I'm very bald, don't lie situation. Yeah, I thought it was so funny. I loved it. I actually did catch that in real time. That was good. It was just incredible. And Yamamoto is their not Otani, but their jabber.

He's pitcher who's like... So good. The best I've ever seen. I didn't know that he pitched the night before. Dude, and the two games before the night before, he threw two complete games, which means... That's insane.

It's all nine innings. Like, so crazy. Could he get MVP? Yeah. Not Otani. Yeah, it should have been him. But, dude, Toronto had so many times that they could have won that ball game. Could you imagine being a fucking Toronto fan?

there? Oh, I just felt so bad. Like, I thought this was going to be their year. And the fans, like, just everyone deserved it. And there's just so many opportunities that they just didn't or couldn't capitalize on. And I felt so bad. That's going to be the most excruciating loss of any sports fandom in a minute. I know.

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And I've been feeling this way for like a good maybe two years. Okay. Good. Game 7 of the World Series drew 50% more viewers than Game 7 of the NBA Finals. Yeah. It says 2025 World Series game 7, 25.9 million viewers. And I believe this is nationally. 2025 NBA Finals, Game 7 was 16.4 million.

I've kind of felt like the NBA is in a weird no man's land right now where like their old stars like the Steph, LeBron, KDs are kind of. of like, their exit has begun. And the MLB has just kind of been really fun the last few years. I don't know. And I just think baseball had obviously its window where like no one caring, people made fun of it. But I do think people do like baseball.

And it's gotten cooler and people appreciate going to a game and hot dogs and then the playoffs. And there's a lot of cool guys in baseball. But I'm curious your take WNBA fully aside on the state of the NBA as a product. There's so many routes that my brain goes with it because maybe it's like, you know, they tried adding in the tournament game, you know, where they can win money. That didn't work. No, has not worked.

The All-Star, they've been trying different things with that to get more attention and more draw there. That hasn't worked. You know, I don't know. I really don't. And it just seems messy. It seems like you have these guys. Because like we say they're on their way out.

They're still playing great fucking basketball. Yeah, I agree. They're still there. But they are just getting older, which is weird. So there's like a new flow of guys, but the old heads are still killing it. You know? From what I've heard also like the newer guys, one, they're all, they're like foreign dudes who don't have any interest in being. American celebrities necessarily.

Like Luca and Wimby and those guys have no, they don't care. Yeah. And maybe Cooper Flagg will be the guy, but it just feels like the new wave of NBA stars are less interested in being stars. Stars, which is, I kind of admired that for me, honest. It's kind of cool if they don't give a shit.

For sure, there's pros and cons there. But I also think, too, you see a lot of teams, but a lot of like, a lot of the groups of people that could win championships are splitting up. Like everyone's just like kind of like, like, you don't

see like StarPact teams anymore. You know what I mean? Like I, like it's just weird. The NBA is weird to me right now. I don't know what it is. People hated. People hated the KD Warriors though. Yeah. I don't know if that was good for the NBA either.

It's hard to say. But I also, a part of me wonders if, but you can't really argue this because baseball, they play a shit ton of games too. But like, oh, cut the games? Fuck yeah. But like, I know, I know you really can't because of how much they're getting paid. But the amount of games, like these athletes are exhausted. Like, are they putting on the best products that they could possibly put on every single night? I mean, I'm sure they try to, but I don't know if their bodies can withstand it.

You don't know when guys are going to be sitting out. You don't know, you know what I mean? Like, it just, there's just a lot of games. It seems like they don't put the best product out there. I mean, last year, the two finals, like, it was cool because Indiana hasn't been there in years. So, like, they really gathered around. Indiana gathered around, but I don't know. I don't know.

The fact that the finals was two teams from Indiana and Oklahoma, I was obsessed with. Yeah. Not the Warriors, not the Lakers, not the NICs. Like, I love that it was such landlocked fucking. corn-fed states. I know that was really fun. And I will say, too, like with MLB,

you have a team Dodgers who would go back to back. So they're making history. You also have Toronto, who hasn't been there in how long? 30 years. 30. So like there's history there.

So it's like both kind of big headlines and people wanted to be a part of it. You know what I mean? So that could be something there too. Yeah. Well, see. I mean, I guess the question would be like,

okay, if the Lakers and LeBron or God, even LeBron Bronn, that combo. Like, do they need a storyline to make the final or make the finals or make the finals? I don't know. I really, no idea. But, okay, last thing I'll say, the game, I don't know, there was a game on in a bar the

the other night and, I forget who was playing. Am I in like the Kings and someone else? Who cares? They had 71 points with like two minutes left in the first half. And I was just sort of, to me, that's gross. and there's no defense. Is that weird to you? Or is that, does that?

I mean, yeah, it just screams that there, it's just offense only. But I do think that's why people were getting behind, like, the thunder last year. Because, like, they're younger kids, and they all just play really fucking hard. You know what I mean? Like, it's just,

so, I mean, everyone always complains about how there's no defense in the NBA. Not in the W. Yeah. Is there offense in the W? Who knows? Yeah. Oh, okay. We're going to hop into a little something called,

Is This Something? Did you see Tom Brady cloned his dog? Dude, that's fucking weird. I agree. That's really weird. I agree. And I like Tom Brady. I think he's a funny, normal, handsome guy.

But why did you do that? That's like, I think you're right. I don't have a problem with him, but he does some weird shit. Also, people are always like, when your dog passes away, the sentiment is, you know, you'll never replace them.

You'll just get a new family member, you know? Why are you trying to replace your old one? Dude, how do you even clone a dog? I'm sure they take DNA and put it in a blender and then put a bunch of weird stuff in it and then put it in a MRI machine and then incubate it and then...

See, this is why rich people do weird shit, because they have fuck you money and they just find ways to do weird shit. If you can clone a puppy, can you clone a human child? Like, is that soon? Yeah, that's fucking weird to me. But still like him, just weird guy. Weird guy. Okay.

Well, I interviewed Tom Brady this summer and he was fucking awesome. Dude, I'm sure he's awesome. No, I know. Whenever you have a good interaction with someone, it carries for a long time. But I will also say, I would like to. go on the record and say, I was expecting Tom Brady's crew to be a nightmare. His team is like two dudes, two dudes who are in mid-30s.

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Actually, not a bad. I have a pretty good short game, too. Think, think, think, pink, think. Yeah, mini golf is your thing. Yeah, yeah, I would kill people at mini golf. But, yeah, I have no idea what I'm going to be doing. I don't really know how I even got invited to an event like this. But I'm really excited for it.

It's in Florida. Caitlin will be golfing. Me and Lexi will, I have no idea what we're going to be doing, but I know me and Lex will be having a great time. Um, yeah. Hey, actually, speaking of great time. This is, uh, this is really funny. This is really funny. Stupid. Stupid.

Oh. Yeah. See, my, my next one now, I fixed it. Idiot. Who are these hot, hot girls? Oh, is that, oops. That's probably Tyrese's fiancee. One of them is. Which one?

The one on the very left. Oh, who is the middle one? Yeah, Abby. I've had a lot of people ask about Abby. What is her story? I'll hook you up. Come to Indy. You bet you're asked him coming to Andy.

We're going to St. Elmo's. Meet Abby. Yep, and meet Abby. I bet a lot of people do. They're like, who's the girl in the middle? I was like, name's that. Okay, well, I'm asking you on a podcast, which carries more weight. There you go.

Very sweet. But I was going to tell you is fun time. Dude, six flags is closing. I only know this because I guess Travis Kelsey is trying to help restore six flags. And the internet is like, this is probably one of the more serious issues in Travis Kelsey's life is him trying to restore six flags, which is. Wait, he put money into six flags and now they're closing. I don't know if it's just a PSA or something, but anytime people make fun of Travis Kelsey for being a little, like, dumb,

it's mean, but it is so funny. Because have you seen his old tweets that are always brought up? Yes. Just so funny. It's so funny always. So I guess this is something he's trying to work on. He's trying to help bring back six flags. Actually, let's have Kev.

Kev, Needsia. Can you Google Travis Kelsey Six Flags? And pull that up. Yeah. Let's see. Travis Kelsey. Six Flags. Investing in Six Flags, the genius moves is MSN.

Let's see more. Dda, da, da, da. He's teaming up with activist investor from Jana partners to buy a 9% stake in Six Flags for $200 million. Oh. I feel like we got to crunch those numbers some more. To try to like keep it. Yeah, right? That doesn't make any sense.

Yep. I'm going to buy a 9% stake for $200 million, probably to keep this thing afloat. Six Flags share price is down 50% this year. I'm not an investor. It sounds like a lot. He's going to have to buy more than 9% if they're all closing. Like, right? Or am I being dumb?

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Oh, the Mamba? Remember the Mamba? At Worlds of Fun. Ooh. Do you remember Rockbridge student section roller coaster? Remember that one? Matt. Yep, yep, yep. Yeah.

Shout out Matt. Dude. What a trend he started. Hell yeah. Oh, he started it? well i don't i know he started like the roller coaster itself but at rock bridge you did guys real quick picture this okay crazy student sections sophie's probably got it's an off night we got we got to we got to fire sophy back up she's probably got six points um four boards

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Right? Oh my God, that was so fun. Shut up roller coasters. Wasn't it like the first time out in the third quarter or something, right? Or like going into the fourth? Between third and fourth. Yes, so fun.

Great experience. Hey guys, it's time for the latest segment. The Hot Girl the Week. Of course we door dashed our Arbyes this week. We ordered the gobbler and the apple pie shake, which was fucking banging. It was awesome. West ate his actually before.

So I think what we're going to do for this week because the unrivaled rosters all just came out. So it's going to kind of be a little bit fun of who's actually playing in it. And so, West, you're going to pick your team and I'm going to pick my team who I think's going to win. Oh, I'm already going. I'm already fucking locking in the breeze. No offense. Page and Cameron, Camman Brank. I think that's a pretty easy one.

I do see their highlights on my T. I'm sure. Every single day. Yeah. Who else? I mean, I'm just now seeing who's even playing in it. I kind of think that the hive might be the sneaky winners. Hive.

Because of K. Mitch? Dude, you have Kelsey Mitchell. Sonia, she could have been rookie of the year last year. It was like her page and she's a beast. Oh, right, right, right, right. Really, really good. Ezi, she's like 6'5. Can shoot really long, athletic, great.

right. Natica Heideman, she's part of the Sted Buds. She's a fucking beast too. Lefty, very fast, good ball handler, can shoot the shit out of the ball. Minnesota? Yeah. Yep. Yep. Yeah.

Looking at you on your stuff. Damn. Diled. Sanaya, she just like brings the hustle. She can shoot the ball. She does a little bit of everything. Good mid-range. Oh, Lexi's on here. Rose. Yeah, Rose. So they won it last year. They're the defending champs, I think. Can someone explain me real quick, like I'm two years old? Is this, like, is it a tournament? I know it's a league, but like, obviously these women are not playing 40 games during the off season. Yeah. So what it, what it is, it's like 3 v3. And so I'm pretty sure, yeah, 3B3, but they also play 1v1. But there's a lot of, this is good. This is kind of some T.

So both of these girls, great fucking players, right? Like, yeah. phenomenal. Can't say enough good things about them on the court. But they're also a part of our exec board. And so that could be a little conflict of interest because W and unrivaled. I guess because this is 3V3

and over the course of how long, I'm curious. Oh, fuck me, nine weeks. Oh, okay. I was going to say if it feels like just a little one-off maybe and then the WNBA can get behind it, support it for a little bit. Nine weeks is a long time. That's why there's some conflict of interest a little bit.

Huh. Mm-hmm. So that's interesting. But I will say, I think it's cool that they're paying these players because now they're allowed to stay stateside. Oh, yeah, yeah. I think that they're the first year I think they're it went actually pretty smoothly and a lot of people really did enjoy it.

And so now a lot of new people are back. A lot of the same old people are back. And so it's going to be, I think people liked it for the most part. Damn. Okay. Yeah. My hot girl of the week if anyone cares is my friend Alyssa who ran the New York City Marathon. And she posted a video of her hugging her mom at the end of the finish line and I cried a little.

Oh. Oh my God. So since you've been sending those like couple stories. Are you getting them now? Oh my God. My four you page is, but not even just like the New York Marathon. It's like marathons in general.

And like I'm over here just like crying nonstop. It's so it's like people in wheelchairs. Someone had like there's this veteran who like someone, I don't know what happened, but like amputated both legs and he still did it. Like there's so many amazing stories. Was that the one? where his friend was filming with him and he was pouring the water on his head throughout the

I saw that one too but that's not no that was not but I did see that one so just so many good little moments yeah so awesome fuck yeah so I know we're only supposed to pick like one hot girl but that was our hot girls of the week thank you to Arwe's for helping us highlight all the hot girls out there we know there's more hot girls so send us to pick up you and your Arwee's order to our Instagram at Show Me Something and we love to feature some of you and your stories on the show. Whoop. Okay.

And to close it out, per usual, we're going to hit Tell Me Something and hear what the listeners have to say. Oh, gosh. Hi, Sophie. Hi, Wes. This is Anna from Pennsylvania. I enjoy your podcast. I can tell you've been friends for a long time. My question is, do you think the NIL is ruining the purity of college sports?

I get it that everybody's invested a lot of time, energy, and they want to get the fruits of their labor. But do you really feel that college students need to be paid extra? Again, enjoy your podcast. I'll go real quick because I have strong feelings. Yep, go for it. Do I think players should be paid or deserve to be paid? 100%.

Yes. They deserve the money that they are made. or like to make back that they're making the school. They're making the school a lot of money, especially football and men's basketball and now a lot of women's programs can make the school a lot of money. The part of it that it has ruined for me

is the transfer portal and the lack of loyalty to schools is gone, which sucks because, I don't blame a player if another school is offering them, hey, like, I went to an FCS school, Montana State. The second we have a player who is really, really, really good, a bigger school is going to offer them more money than Montana State can offer them, and we lose great players. Same for basketball.

That part fucking sucks. And it also makes it hard when it's hard for coaches. It's hard for fans. Your team is not, there is no nucleus. There's no growth. People just leave. And I do miss when a player would commit to a school and then stay there for four years and they love that school. And then they can always come back.

And it's really fun. And I think I could do a full episode on NIL Transfer Portal and why it like makes me sad. And I think the purity and the loyalty is gone. And that's something that I've always loved. However, like when I was in college before meeting sometimes we would. they would put us in these, they would send us into these rooms to sign stuff for 20 minutes before we had film or whatever. And then I was like, do we just go sign our names for the school to sell for like however much money? Like there are sometimes where you are like, what the fuck are we doing?

Like, so yes, players deserve the money. But I also think it's like kind of ruined things. So there we go. Yeah, I agree everything with what you said. All right, guys. Next question for you here is a dating question. Hey guys, big fan of the podcast. I'm Sam. I hope recovery is going well, by the way. I don't have great luck with the ladies, so I was hoping you could help me out with this situation I got.

So I was interested in this girl at work. We actually started DMing a little bit. The issue is she'll only message me through her dog's Instagram account. So we do have some conversation, but it's like through her dog account as if we were dogs, might I add. So the texts are kind of borderline flirty, but on very dog-heavy topics, like chasing squirrels, playing with bones and toys. What type of bones? So I'm really not sure where to go with this. Is that out of my wheelhouse? Is this like a good sign?

Do I ask her out? Do I ask the dog out? No, this is not normal. You know, I guess I can't rule out that it's not actually the dog talking to me. But anyway, so what is my, what's my next move here? I really want to know. Lock and run. P.S. I think, I speak for a lot of us.

But fingers crossed at the core of the fever stay together because it's an awesome vibe and great to watch. So let's get this done. No. All of it. No, West don't even try to make sense of it. That's weird as fuck. I would stop. You guys are not dogs.

I don't, this don't even go there. If you have to ask that, don't go there. Here's what you need to do. Stop pretending your dogs on Instagram. Get her in person and not a dog park and don't bring the dog. Go get a beer with her. And if she starts sniffing you and being weird, then maybe we move on. But I can't help but here

In the beginning you mentioned You're not on a hot streak with the ladies right now So this might be kind of the one egg in your basket No No this is why I said don't try to make sense of this Yeah get her to meet you out So that we can get rid of all the dog stuff Because that part of it we got to get rid of

No this is a huge red flag just stop I would not even go there Dude, you're acting like you're a dog He said just some time, just a little Next, or maybe you'd be into it You don't know until you go chase a squirrel No I'm rooting for you

Just get her in person and get out of the DM Because DMs people can It's like a fantasy You gotta get out of there Clearly, she thinks she's a dog Or she just she embraces the dog That's fucking weird. Hey, Kev, would you talk to a girl who thought she was a dog?

I would say he's barking up the wrong tree. That's a Sophie joke. I feel like that rubbed off on me. Such a Sophie rubbed off on you, Kev? Oh, dude. See, I got to be so wary with what I was there. I like this. Hello, my name is for Coral, and I am from New Mexico.

I would like to ask West and Sophie if they have ever had a close. friend of the opposite sex who wanted to be more than just friends after a long friendship and if you don't feel the same way and you don't feel the same way how would you let that friend off easy if that is even possible

I would like your opinion or your answers I love your podcast thank you very much that's cute she seems nice yeah she does seem nice so west why don't you tell us about your history of

Girl best friends. I'm trying to think if any of them have, I don't think anyone has like one day just been like, hey, I love you kind of thing. Yeah. I've hooked up with friends before. And you just had to hopefully both know it is what it is. But what if someone catches feels?

I don't think anyone who's done that would be susceptible to catching feels. at least in New York, people are pretty, have their heads on pretty straight and keep things moving. I can imagine, I could only imagine. I've never heard that before. People in New York have their heads on straight. With dating, yeah, no one's like, oh my God, like, you know, people just like, let's get it going.

How would you let someone down? I think you just have to be honest. Yeah, you hook up once and then you got to be honest afterwards. But I think she's saying they haven't even. I know. I know, I'm kidding. Oh, oh, oh, oh. That's actually funny.

Okay, that's funny. Oh. I don't. I just feel like you have to be honest. But I don't know. I guess she's not feeling it. Sovi, Sophie's probably had maybe a teammate in her history.

Anyone ever told you they have feelings for you? No, because they're always like, yeah, you're strange as fuck. Damn. Okay, how would you let someone down? So, any idea here? I mean, if you're not feeling it, then just say that. Or just like, say you don't want to ruin the friendship you have.

And like, like, it's different. It's like, if she was to feel kind of the same thing, then that would be like, oh, I've been wanting you to say that. But if you're not, then you just have to be like, you know, I just don't want to ruin what we have. I love you to death, but just don't see you in that light. I don't know. Yeah.

But do it at dinner and a movie so they know you still. While you're holding hands. Yeah. Yeah. And then... Like this close to each other. I just want to be a friend. Yeah.

I just, I just want to be friends with you. Don't send any mixed signals. I feel something in my pants and it's friendship. I knew you were going to say that. I knew you were going to say that. But we both think that you sound very lovely. And if we were in New Mexico, we would love to have a coffee with you in the morning. We would love to go get dinner with you.

you. Yeah, we just want to get dinner and get to know you really well. Just as friends. Just as friends. I'm less. Cut. Yeah, I love. Unless. Unless. I'm less. Why say, thank you, did a great job today on the podcast. Thanks, Sophie. And I hope you listeners had a really great time with us on this Thursday. I'll see you next week. Bye, guys. Love you. That was hot. American soccer is exploding. The knockout rounds are here. The U.S. won their group. And now every match is winner go home. I'm TAB Ramos. And I'm Tom Bogart.

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