NBA Finals, UFC & Conor McGregor, Euro Finals With Troopz And Segments

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On today's Pardon My Take, we have a full sports weekend. Holy shit, a lot of things to recap.
We have the NBA Finals, we have Conor McGregor going out on a stretcher, we have USA Basketball, we have the Euro Finals, we have our good friend Troops on the show to break down the Euro Finals. He was at Wembley.
He saw the scenes. He talks to us about everything that happened there.
We have some segments. We have a lot.
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Today is Monday, July 12th. And guess what? We've got ourselves a series.
bucks made sure sons and four didn't happen they beat the sons pretty soundly and i think i think a series is on well it's not a series still the home team lose true so series hasn't started yet the gentleman sweep is still in play i still think it's going to be for one sons um but johnny's is uh i think healthier than he's ever been in his entire life at this point he's going out there dropping 40 points like it's nothing back-to-back 40s just jamming on people he does look like the healthiest person on the court and it was also a little bit of an anomaly in terms of the jay crowder game he shot six for seven from three, and they still got their asses kicked. Well, it was what we said on Friday's show, that if the Bucs – Giannis can't do it all himself.
He had 40-plus on Thursday, game two. He has 41 tonight, 41-13-6.
But you can't do it all yourself. And we said if Chris Middleton and Drew Holiday could just hit a few more shots, the game is different for the Bucs.
And that's exactly what they did. They shot 50% combined.
They hit a few more shots. Drew Holiday especially shot well.
And that's the difference. He had his supporting cast around him chip in.
It also probably helps that Devin Booker had a horrific, horrific shooting night. He was three for 14.
Pretty bad. So I do think that the Bucs, like playing back games one and two in my head, I think this is going to be serious.
I really do. I think the Bucs, like they have enough guys to make this a series.
I do still think the Suns are going to win, but that was a great performance to come home game three, backs against the walls. Shout out to our guy Ryan Russillo who said you can't fake desperation because that's what it felt like.
They had Dana Beers in the crowd, Yuggin' Beers. That probably is why they won.
But the Bucs. That's what happened at the last game that he went to.
He chugged a beer and then they went on a roll. I'm officially calling it this is a series.
The Bucs, this was a very good game for the Bucs and I think they can compete. There's nothing that I've seen in the first three games that it's essentially who can play their top-level ball because when the Suns, like we said, when the Suns have their guys going, Chris Paul and Devin Booker hitting shots and DeAndre Ayton, they're impossible to beat.
And the same is for the Bucs when they have Giannis throwing in 40. Is that – oh, I just saw the stat.
First player with back-to-back 40-point games. Yeah.
He needs – what's the terrible saying that everyone keeps saying on – fuck, like ESPN SportsCenter use it, give him his flowers? Is that what they say? Yeah, give them their flowers while they're still here. Give Giannis his flowers.
I just know that I've seen it enough. As soon as Bleacher Report and the SportsCenter account does it, it's crossed the line.
So give Giannis his flowers, ironically. Okay, but not really give him his flowers now.
No, we're going to mock it, but also do give him some flowers. Before he retires, give Giannis his credit.
Give him some flowers right now. We should also, we'd be remiss if we didn't mention Frank Kaminsky's stat line tonight.
He had four rebounds, two assists, six points, the triple single. Listen, they should have been playing him longer because he kind of dominated the fourth quarter also the the coolest highlight of the game he dominated without a doubt was cam johnson yeah and the dunk on pj tucker the look on pj tucker's head when he on his face when he was like picking his head up off the ground he looked like he had just been born yeah he had no idea what was going on he was amazed he was like there's no chance that that dunk actually went in right what would you say big cat Cat, to the conspiracy theorists that say the NBA brought in Scott Foster to get Aiton in foul trouble because they know that playing Kaminsky will help the Bucs win? Well, I disagree because I'm looking at it right now.
I'm looking for a stat that would pack up what I'm about to say. Well, here's a fun Scott Foster fact.
I don't think there are any stats. Frank dominated the fourth quarter.
I think Chris Paul is 12 straight playoff losses.

12 straight playoff losses when Scott Foster has been officiating a Chris Paul game.

Okay, so they make him officiating.

There was one different one.

I think the Valleup game with Scott Foster.

So it's like 12 out of 13.

And that one was improbable.

And he didn't play in that game.

Oh, and he didn't play in that game.

All right, so then my point stands.

It's a series as long as they keep Scott Foster around in Milwaukee.

And then we can go seven.

Thank you. And that one was improbable.
He didn't play in that game. Oh, and he didn't play in that game.
Yeah. All right, so then my point stands.
It's a series as long as they keep Scott Foster around in Milwaukee, and then we can go seven. Give Scott Foster his flowers.
Yeah, give Scott Foster his flowers. I love it.
You know what, though? People, this is what we need for the NBA. The NBA, everyone will be like, oh, this is rigged.
Ayesha Curry, oh, I can't watch this anymore. I like that the NBA, when it needs a series to go a little bit longer,

will send a guy and you'll make sure that it goes a little bit longer.

I like that. Something that people need to quit doing is complaining about shit being rigged.

They rig it to make it better.

It's Buffalo Wild Wings.

They rig it to get us to as close to seven-game series as possible.

I want more sports.

Right.

Like a sweep in Milwaukee would have been, besides Suns and Four Guy, who he now he lost so much money tonight. He lost, his entire brand is gone.
We said it. If the Suns had swept the finals, he would have I think I said he would he'd be like a multi-millionaire and I actually kind of stand behind that.
But now it's done. He would be.
He would be the guy. At the very least, he would never buy another beer in Arizona again.
Right. He's probably going to try to get into another fight.
Yeah. That's really the only way out.
Suns in six. If you're the Suns in four guy, you have to get into a fight, have it be filmed, and then you have to make a new declaration afterwards.
I don't. And then have that go viral.
Then now you're the Suns in six guy, and if that hits, boom, you're back on the gravy train. I don't think he wins the next fight.
If he went looking for a fight, especially against a Milwaukee fan, I think he'd get his ass kicked because everyone's looking for him. Well, he should just beat the fuck out of Dana Beers.
Yeah. He would beat up Dana.
Dana cannot handle himself. He just got his second back.
Yeah. So he's probably a little weak in the arms.
No, I'm excited, though. I want this to be a series.
I do think the Suns are still going to win, but I'm happy for the Bucs. I do, too.
I do kind of like I feel gyps sometimes when I watch these games. Can't say that.
I feel screwed. There you go.
G-worded. I feel G-worded sometimes when I watch these games.
And Aiton fouls out early. Or he gets in foul trouble early.
Aiton has become one of my favorite players to watch just because he's always dunking. He's just always above the rim.
And so when he's out, it becomes a different game. Less fun for me.
Yeah. Yeah, no, I mean, I always think that they should change the foul.
You should get unlimited fouls. You should get unlimited fouls, and then it gets more punitive as you go along.
I think, yeah, your center should get unlimited fouls. But if you get to six, now you get three free throws and four free throws and you keep going up and up and up.
But I still want to watch the guys play. Yeah.
Yeah. I always go back to the Joe Kim Noah, Greg Oden final when they both got in foul trouble.
I was like, well, this fucking sucks. So series on.
Is everyone agreeing series is kind of on? on it's kind of on it's low-key on wednesday is going to be game four if the bucks win that then it is high key on it's very funny that the uh that during tonight's game major league baseball had its draft during the finals game and it was also supposed to be game seven of the stanley cup if it had gone seven so stupid i fucking fucking love Major League Baseball. They're so dumb.
They are geniuses. How do they not have the draft tomorrow when there's no sports on and it's the home run derby? Yeah, I don't know.
Do the picks in the middle of the home run derby. Do the first ten picks before the home run derby starts and then start the home run derby.
And there's always downtime during the home run derby. Start announcing the picks live while people are watching that baseball is like it's almost like they try to do everything wrong as a joke yeah which is what i've kind of learned to appreciate him like i'm yes i'm gonna give rob manford his flowers and be like listen this guy he fucks up so much that he's almost become kind of endearing to me yes yes um okay so anything else on Game 3? Series low-key on.
I'm seeing right now the Deer District is popping off. The dojo.
The dojo. They've got fireworks going off.
Looks like it's a good time. Everyone's going to party.
Oh, I had one other point. I'm done with the fans in 8K.
I'm over it. Milwaukee's not really an 8K town.
Well, no, it's not even Milwaukee. Here's why I'm over it.
Milwaukee, they should never have gotten HD television in Milwaukee. That's the standard definition.
Here's the problem. It's not that it's so high definition.
It's that the best fan moments that you have is when the fan doesn't know the camera's on with ak they have to get close enough so that you know that the camera's on you so it's everyone going crazy for the fan for the camera it's basically like watching a jumbotron i want to see like the euro final which we'll get to i want to see mario yelling at his girlfriend who's dressed up like a pizza yeah like that's what i want to see or they need to disguise the camera somehow they need to have it like in the mascot who's just walking around right and so that people don't know that it's happening also because they do they do start to show off for a little bit when you see camera in front of you throwing a dab yeah maybe then you bring me back i'm just i'm over it i think it was cool for a minute and now i think i'm done maybe i'll i'll change my tune when they go to game five back and yeah so i think i think in phoenix the ak definitely plays yeah but in milwaukee no give me give me those people and and as standard definitions you can find um all right so we had a crazy crazy uh sports weekend out of nowhere too this is this was one of those weekends when everyone's like we'll just get through covid because then all the would be happening at once. This was one of those weekends because we had all the sports kind of happening at once.
So UFC, Conor McGregor, his career is probably, well, it's not over as a legitimate fighter. It is definitely over.
They're already talking about the fourth installation of this rematch. So that's already tentatively been scheduled.
But it does feel like it's over. He was getting his ass kicked in the first round.
I don't think that Conor McGregor really feels pain because he stepped on his foot and it bent. It bent at a 90-degree angle.
And then he looks at it while he's on the ground and he just calmly diagnoses himself with a tib-fib fracture. While he's on the ground, continuing to fight back, doesn't really wince in pain whatsoever.
And then he has a presence of mind after that first round's over to just insist that they call it a doctor's stoppage. Yeah, he was pissed about that.
I think he eventually got that. They got that right.
He did. Because he made it to the end of that first round.
But, I mean, he was so cool, calm, and collected as his foot basically fell off. Yeah.
Well, afterwards, he was the Rick James sketch in the Chappelle show where he had no leg. And he was saying how he was going to beat Dustin Poirier's ass.
And it's like, dude, you just had a fight with him. It's the Monty Python.
It's a flesh wound. Right.
It's like, what are you talking about? You just lost the fight. So I will keep buying Conor McGregor fights forever because he's electric.
And part of whether you like it or not, guess what? The fight business, pay-per-views, it's about the characters behind him. It's about promoting the fight.
It's about your mic work just as much as it is about what's going on in the ring. So him as a legitimate fighter, that is over.
He hasn't won. He's won one fight since 2016, and the guy he beat has not won a fight in his last six fights.
So he's just not going to be able to fight at a high level. He had a great run, but enough is enough in that respect.
He's not a legitimate title contender. I'm still going to watch all of his fights.
I'm still going to buy all his fights. He was getting stretchered out of the ring and then telling the guy, like, your wife was in my DMs.
Which, that one hurt, though, because he said all week that he was going to make sure that Dustin Poirier left in a stretcher. And then he left in a stretcher and it's like, come on, dude.
And the world's cheapest ankle brace yeah yeah well yeah the the it was basically like two pieces of cardboard yeah it was a capri sun box um i do you think there'll ever be a day where we normalize like people liking to watch uh injury videos because i watched it so many times i wanted to talk about how many times i watched it but i knew that people because you know the instant reaction when someone gets injured, like, stop showing the replay, don't show the replay. I want to see the replay as many times.
I mean, I've said, I've professed this side of me many times, and I like to watch the injuries, and it's gross, and it's disgusting, but it's like fascinating. I figured out that, so I can watch these injury videos, but what I really like to do is I like to go find somebody that hasn't seen it yet and then watch that person's reaction to the injury video.

So I got to do that like three times and said I would bring somebody new into the room and be like, you've got to watch this injury.

And then I'd just watch their faces and then I'd laugh.

I'd be like, yeah, you saw what I just saw.

I love it.

I mean, I don't know.

Something's a little bit wrong with me.

You think so, Hank?

A little bit.

Do you think there'll ever be a time where people be like, yeah, you know what?

You're right.

Like, show the replay again.

Yes.

Thank you. I don't know.
Something's a little bit wrong with me. You think so, Hank? A little bit.
Do you think there'll ever be a time where people will be like, yeah, you know what? You're right. Show the replay again.
Yes. Okay, good.
So I'm ahead of my time. Yeah, it's like what Rosillo said the other day.
It's like, say it now and then in 15 years, you're like, oh, there's no problem with that. Yeah, like now, half of every...
There will be an injury replay show. Yeah, right.
You should actually have a channel. The Red Zone channel.
I'd watch it. The Red is just blood.
By the way, shout out our guy, Scott Hanson, re-upping. Thank fucking God.
So we don't have to listen to stupid. Oh, no, I just took one of Billy's Who's Back.
Billy's Who's Back. Nice, nice.
Well, we still have DirecTV. No, fuck.
Damn it. But there should absolutely be a Red Zone channel for injuries or just play like highlights two things the internet's killed one is well really the main one that comes to mind is like watching football folly videos like bloopers there are too many bloopers out there now there was the NFL used to just sell a video that was just CTE in a can yeah it was like look at these guys getting knocked out this is crazy it was a blooper reel and it was just players being concussed yeah oh by the way scott hansen why he's the goat i saw at one of his tweets today gave me chills down my spine he said in nine sundays from now i'll be with you folks that's it yep yeah i was like holy fuck you are i want to kiss you on your lips scott hansen and i want to punch sicily on well no i what would i do to his balls.
That's awesome. I want to kiss you on your lips, Scott Hanson, and I want to punch Cicely on it.
Well, no, what would I do to his balls? He's so short. I would actually just trip into his balls, right? Step over.
Just step over while he's standing up. All right, back to the fights.
Yeah, UFC. I really enjoyed watching these fights, mostly because I feel like one of the things that America can do now, we can come together around very small.
There's only like a handful of things that make everybody happy to do together. One of them is watching Greg Hardy get his ass kicked.
Correct. And it was amazing.
That dude is soft. Yes, he would probably murder me, but he got caught.
UFC hardos all over the place being like, try Greg Greg Hardy on the streets no I know thank you I won't but I absolutely not I will gladly watch other big people beat the fuck out he should be on every card being like watch here pay $50 at the bare minimum you're gonna watch Greg Hardy lose yes give me like the have him fighting out of his weight class if that's even possible have me just just a guaranteed Greg Hardy gets knocked out event every single fight. I'm in, 100%.
He is the world's biggest scumbag, and nothing gives me more pleasure than watching him get punched in the face. And on top of all that, the guy who did it, Bam Bam from fucking Australia, who did a shooey after.
What a legend. There's something about the heavyweight division when you get a guy who comes in and he's visibly kind of sucking in his gut and he's an incredible athlete he's about to just do damage in the octagon but he still has that in the back of his mind like fat kid like all right there's cameras on me like just you know tighten it up a little bit but you can see it I instantly love those type of guys he was electric he was doing shoeies on the way out with the hot sauce which was disgusting but awesome that guy you could have picked a better guy to beat greg hardy's face in agreed when i first started watching that fight i was like oh i i think i may have bet poorly on this because he wasn't even sucking in that much yeah he was just kind of out there like yeah i've got a couple rolls i got a spare tire on either side but yeah that was it was just really cathartic to watch greg hardy get punched in the face that should be a sport of its own yeah it never gets old and he should do it if greg hardly if greg hardy had an only fans but every video like you could pay five dollars like punch him once in the face yeah i think he'd become a millionaire that way i had i had a question coming out of these fights so is conor mcgregor uh a loser? That's what people are saying.
Like, hey, he mentions Dustin Poirier's wife. Dustin Poirier, to his credit, I love when guys after a fight, the bad blood doesn't stop.
That's when you know it's real. He's like, fuck this guy.
I fucking hate this guy. But is Conor McGregor a bad sport or is he just the greatest heel who just keeps selling fights? I tend to lean latter, but I did see the sentiment that, hey, you're laying on the ground, you just lost, you broke your ankle, and you're talking about this guy's wife.
He's not a bad sport, he's just Conor McGregor. Right.
That's just what he is, and yes, Conor McGregor is a bad sport, but he's just being Conor McGregor.

Like that's his personality. And the reason why people watch the fights and the reason people get excited to tune in and watch him talk shit in a press conference is because he's Conor McGregor.
And he does have that like I'm a heel personality. So I think it's like it's too on brand for him to be like, oh, you're a sore loser.
Yeah, no shit. He's Conor.
Well, i people sometimes get confused with the fight game because i did see also dustin poirier after he's like listen i i like to fight i don't like all the other bullshit well unfortunately all the other bullshit gets people to watch yeah get you paid like connor mcgregor you might say oh asshole scumbag all these things guess what he does do as well he fucking breaks pay-per-view records all the time that's why we're sitting here right now saying hey he's not he's not a title fighter anymore but i'm still gonna buy every single one of his pay-per-views just like tyson at the end who they were giving him good opponents but tyson was the same where it was like he sucks now but guess what he's still mike tyson and one punch could do it all like that's yeah you might not like the entire package that goes into it but you have to so like for us the reason why we're able to get paid to do the show is because we have Glinny Ball's turnout burger reviews correct putting lights on putting money in her pocket in the engine yeah exactly so that we get to look good doing this podcast that's true so yeah's part of the fight game. You have to have somebody that's willing to stir the pot like that.
And it was very funny listening to the interview with Conor McGregor while he was on the floor of the Octagon right afterwards. I don't think I understood more than two words that he said.
Conor McGregor, I don't think, speaks. Is it Irish? He doesn't speak Irish.
He doesn't speak Irish. He's Irish.
I don't know if you saw. He just makes up words.
He's got the Irish flag. He just makes up words as he goes along.
I don't think that's an actual language. It's like a language he invented.
He also, it just shows how tough UFC guys are because his ear was bleeding. Maybe brain, ear, maybe just cauliflower ear popping.
And that's like a total secondary afterthought injury. Like, nah, he's fine.
His ear's bleeding. Let's worry about his leg.
Last thing I had about the fights, I actually wanted to ask is, you know, I'll admit it. I'm a UFC casual.
Like, I buy, I don't know, probably like 8 to 10 pay-per-views a year. They are on like every single weekend.
Do people like Daniel Cormier? That's my question because I love him. Yeah.
I think he's awesome. He he's the best but i don't know what the entire broadcast crew is is perfect joe rogan getting laying sitting down next to counter was fantastic but i love daniel cormier is one of those broadcasters where i feel like i'm learning something like he there was that moment i can't remember which fight it was but it looked like someone was about to get choked out and cormier was like no he's, he's good.
Look at where his arm is. And then two seconds later, he was good.
Yeah. I was like, holy shit.
How did he know that? I'm always amazed. Because he's a fighter, but he's awesome.
Right. He'll be watching two guys just wrestle on the ground.
And he'll instantly be like, okay, he needs to put his right shoulder here at this time. And then he can get out with a reversal.
Right, right. Which is something like, unless you've done it for years and years and years, it doesn't even comprehend how you're able to just look at two guys

and mentally untangle them in your brain from afar.

Right, right.

So we obviously do knock broadcasters from time to time, Andrew Siciliano,

but so when they do well, I want to say, hey, I love that guy.

John Anik crushes it too.

John Anik, best of the program. Yes.
So I think it's a great booth. It's a great night.
I love watching big fight nights. That's the other thing, the last thing with Conor McGregor.
Whether you like him, hate him, whatever you want to feel about him, he brings the big fight vibe where you just know it when you feel it. When you buy the pay-per-view, when you sit sit down when the main event starts and you you are so locked in it's one in the morning chills down your spine there's something that you can't replicate whether it be boxing or mma on a big fight night there's no other thing in sports like it and conor mcgregor does that he does asses in seats he does he really does so it was great it was it was just fun to watch uh a full card um all right let's talk some other sports before we do that ever had one of those days when it's just too cold to keep working nah neither has ariot ariot work jackets and boots are packed with all the cold stopping waterproof protection you need to get the job done under any conditions so you can take any job out there and always deliver check out ariot in your local workwear retailer or visit ariot.com work to get 10 off your first order when you sign up for email and whether whatever in ariot work gear okay we're going to talk euro final with troops so let's just talk about it real quickly with us um the only other thing i had that we missed with troops i well england england heartbreak was it was exceptional yeah i mean you knew it was coming too knew it was coming and it is very funny watching the horny cameraman try to find the one hot person from england in the crowd yeah still haven't found him yet they're still working on well the the chick who had a 69 yeah mrs grill is 69 i mean she 69.
I mean, she wants to fuck. Yeah.
There's something about that. Yeah, there's something about somebody being horny that's sexy.
I've always said that. There's also the Italian dude with the necklace and his shirt off.
The fan cam is unbelievable. The pizza in Mario was so great because I know that the conversation leaving that house could not have been going great when Mario turns to his girlfriend and put on this pizza costume.
It's not flattering whatsoever. You don't think that's probably part of their vows when you get married in Italy.
She should have been Luigi. Sexy Luigi.
No, you can't take your wife to a soccer game and then have her dress up as your brother. I think that would be hot.
You think that's in a weird way? That would be hot? Pizza. The fan cam to me was so entertaining today because every fan there was crying by the fifth minute, either out of nerves because you were in Italy and you were behind and you were like, oh fuck, we're going to lose this, or because you're British and you're like, fuck, I've seen this movie before.
We scored too early.

Yes.

Everybody was crying.

Everybody in that stadium was so, so nervous.

But I don't know.

After like the 20th, 30th minute, I felt like Italy had it in hand.

Yeah.

Even though they were losing at the time, this was a 1-1 Italy victory today.

They scored too early.

England scored too early.

Italy got the away goal, which is why they won.

They did.

Yeah.

On aggregate, they won the Euro final. I also credit to me, we're a huge soccer podcast.
Everyone knows that. I finally figured out that Gareth Southgate is the name of the English coach because for the longest time, when they would reference Southgate, I thought it was like a Scotland Yards situation where it was like the head of English footballs on Southgate Street okay and they're like Southgate says this no I thought which doesn't it's a kind of play I thought Gareth Southgate Southgate was like the name of the stadium in like Liverpool yeah right like it sounds like that like oh yeah the word out of Southgate is that we're going to have to start soccer today.
Yeah. So Southgate was on the British side.
Who's the coach of? Fabrizio. Manager.
Fabrizio? That's another thing that we should discuss at some point. At what point do you no longer become a coach and now you're a manager? Roberto Mancini? Yeah, Roberto Mancini.
I was close. Because if you're a college baseball coach, you're a coach, but then you're Major League Baseball manager.
Yeah. And if you're a soccer coach.
I think you might be a manager at college baseball. Really? Yeah.
No, I think it's coach. I think it's college baseball coach.
I guess it's coach. Yeah.
But yeah. Roberto Mancini did a great job with the guys out there today.

With that 4-3-3.

It's the little things in life.

Like whenever they announce the whole Italian lineup,

I just look at all the names.

I'm like, damn, that guy's really Italian.

They all look so Italian. Which makes sense because they are literally from Italy.

But I don't know why.

Like whenever you see a Luigi in the wild or Roberto or Fabrizio,

I think is maybe a guy on the team. Give us a couple guys on the team.
There was Immobile is one of them. Like, I just laughed.
Chiesa looks so Italian that he starts to look French. Yeah, a little bit.
He's the most Italian-looking person in the entire world. We got three goalies.
Salvador Sirigu, Gianluigi Donnarumma. Wait, wait, wait.
That's their starter, yeah. Gianluigi, yeah.
I don't know. It's very stupid.
I admit that it's very stupid to me, but I see them in the wild. I'm like, oh, fuck, that guy's Italian.
Yeah, so, Big Cat, the last goalie for Italy was also named Gianluigi. I think it's like number 10.
They give that to the best player.

The starting goalie for Italy always has to be named Gianluigi.

And then if you win a major title, that's him.

Gigi Buffon was Gianluigi Buffon.

Got it.

So it's like the Pope.

Yeah, then before him, it was like, I want to say Gianluca.

Gianluca.

I love it. Yeah, I love it.

Yeah, that guy was really good.

Give me a couple of other names. Give me a good couple good couple Giovanni Di Lorenzo Giorgio Cellini Leonardo Spinozola Emerson Emerson No last name Francesco Acerbi Leonardo Bonucci Alessandro Bastoni Leonardo Bonucci Yeah That's a fucking fire name Yeah I don't know Matteo Pesina Andrea Bellotti or Bellotti Lorenzo Insigne I love these guys they all sound like they'll come over your house smoke all your cigarettes I just fucking love them I don't know Rico Bernadeschi yeah so uh shout out Italy it's coming Rome um all right what else we have oh the water dogs are good.
Yeah, well, they're solidified in the middle of the pack right now. Yeah, they play well.
So it's kind of a log jam. I watched the entire game on Friday, skipped the entire game on Sunday, but I watched the entire game on Friday, and they played very well.
They kicked the shit out of Paul Rabel's team. Well, they're beating some inferior opponents right now.
Yeah, the only problem I had with them on Friday was they just stopped playing for the over, which we got to talk to the coach and figure that out. I had Billy crunch some stats.
Give it to me, Billy. So our strategy is simply just shoot more.
The Waterdogs shot the most out of any team in their game against the Cannons. There it is.
How many shots? 50 shots. Boom.
Versus the Cannons shot 28 times. That's all you got all you gotta do Just shoot the ball And they also had the second highest total With 48 shots in their other game So wait So we had first and second highest total Tied for second with the archers So this works Yep The results are there There was a curveball shot That one of our guys had Did you see that? No They like spun it off the ground And it bounced to the side Did it happen on Sunday's game? Yeah, it was today.
I didn't watch the second. I just saw the highlight.
I didn't watch the second either. I didn't even watch any highlights.
I was watching Euro. I was watching the global game.
Yeah. It's a beautiful sport.
Actually, no. I did turn it on for a second.
It was 0-0 five minutes in and I turned it right off. Yeah, so we won.
That didn't happen. Listen, we're a results-oriented management company here.
Good dogs. Good boys this week.
Very good boys. Yeah.
They get to sleep back inside. No more out in the doghouse.
All right. Let's do our Who's Back.
Then we have troops. Then we have some segments for everyone today.
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We're back. The whole crew is back.
Shout out to Jake and Tongue filling in. Much appreciated.
Tongue, Tongue. Big Tonguey.
We are back. Great to be back.
Hank brought back a sickness. Are you sick, Hank? Not a sickness.
Just a little hungover. It's called a vacation hangover.
Oh, you got the beach flu. Yeah.
Did you get sick on vacation? Well, I made it, you know, I went really hard out of the gate, and then I think I got the beach flu like halfway through, and I'm on the back end of that. I also, yeah, it was...
How many days is this beach flu on? Is this a two-day hangover? Well, it was well it was like you know it was a long vacation so it was like the first four or five days i went hard and then i got sick after that yeah and then i'm feeling better now but two more vacation questions how was uh was the shaming like curbed a little bit people were respectful of your vacation time yes somewhat, somewhat. Good.
For the most part.

Two, did you see Barry Alvarez retired

and he accrued 31 weeks of vacation?

Yes.

He got paid out a fat check.

But I don't know that I would do that

because he didn't take the vacations.

You got to just take the vacations.

I think he probably did and just, you know.

I mean, his whole life is a vacation.

Yeah, right.

He came back to take a job

that is essentially what he would be doing

in his free time anyways.

$300,000 he banked.

That's pretty fucking sick.

One other question.

Hank, did you fuck?

No.

What?

Thank you. came back to take a job that is essentially what he would be doing in his free time anyways.
$300,000 he banked. He's pretty fucking sick.
Hank, did you fuck? What? Just curious. Jesus Christ.
He's back to scratch. Okay.
Jose Altuve and the Astros are back. How so? And DK Metcalf.
Jose Altuve's back because of that game against the Yankees? Yep, Yankees blew a sixth run lead in the ninth. Altuve had a walk-off, took his shirt off.
They got the easiest punishment of all time. That was the only thing I wanted to note.
We talked about it in real time with COVID. They got let off more than anyone's been let off the hook in the history of anything.
Because fans are back back now but it's so long ago that they don't care i don't think i it's not right that he's able to take his shirt off and like play into that joke without have her having ever really been punished for that correct right it's also not laugh at it it's also very funny and sad for yankee fans that they got the ultimate punishment of all of this by signing Garrett Cole for a shitload of money who is only good.

Well, he had a great game on Saturday night,

but seemingly is only good when he can cheat with spider attack.

Right.

That really sucks.

Right, Jake and Billy?

Small sample size.

Of just Saturday night him being good?

Of what?

He had three bad starts and one good one. That's not enough yet.
Okay. He'll get a grip.
I like you, Billy. He's back.
Okay. And then what was the other one? DK Metcalf.
For what? He did like a one-legged box. Oh, yeah.
That was pretty sick. 42 inches.
It was insane. I was thinking.
Holding a 12-pound medicine ball. I mean, I can't even do a one-legged without any weight.
I would imagine most people can't. Yeah, like 20 inches.
I think it's a lot. Maybe.
He's a beast. Yeah, but he also struck out twice in the Celebrity All-Star game tonight.
He did? In slow-pitch softball. Yikes.
Tough luck. That gets aired tomorrow or today? Well, I don't know.
There are people at the game that were giving me reports on his box score. Yeah, I think they might air it

after the home run derby or something. It's super weird.

I need to see his two strikeouts, though.

We need those.

Alright, PFT, your who's back?

My who's back of the week is Shark Week.

Shark Week's back.

Shark Week, boo. Shark Week.
Although,

I do have kind of a shot that I'm

kind of pre-calling on this one. I think

that we're overdue for a summer of the shark. The media hasn't really like had anything to like keep us in fear about after COVID has kind of started to become an afterthought.
The median, they are overdue for another summer. You weren't scared about the story of the, the like shooting that was planned in Denver.
That was pretty scary. Oh, that one was, that one was pretty scary.
That one wasn't really... They were saying that they found a shitload of guns, and it could have been like a drug deal that was going on.
It was very scary. They were selling guns, maybe not necessarily like a planned massacre.
Yeah, but that's how the media... I'm saying the media definitely got me scared on that one.
Exactly. When you find...
Kick all your house. If a reporter finds a room that's got seven guns in it, they're going to be like, crisis a uh but i do think i do think that we're overdue for some of the shark like there might be one shark attack on the east coast of the next month and then everybody will just freak out and be like some of the sharks back sharks are back shark week sucks shark week does suck i it doesn't take a genius to figure out how to make yeah how to make shark week good again and give us an eating.
Give us a feeding frenzy. Don't make someone die just for Shark Week.
Just get more cameras out in the ocean so when someone does die, naturally, we can put it into Shark Week. I'd like to say if I get eaten by a shark and it's on camera, I want you to use that for content.
Correct. Correct.
Don't let me die in vain. Tease it up on Shark Week.
All right, my who's back is the goats because it was a big weekend for the goats. Messi wins his long-eluded international trophy with the Copa America.
Is that what it's called? Yeah. Sure.
Why doesn't he play in the fucking... Euro? Yeah.
Because South America is in... South America.
South America. Oh.
Not Euro. True.
Was that? No. No.
That was real? No, that was a joke. No.
I'm back. We're back.
Hank's back. Just kidding.
You had us going for a second, Hank. Come on, Hank.
So, you're confused because he plays for Barcelona, which is insane. It was a big tournament and, yeah.
It was South America instead of Europe. Yeah, so Copa is like, right.
And then they all play the World Cup. It's basically the World Cup except not Brazil and Argentina.
Right. And Colombia.
Totally understood. It was totally a prank.
Yeah, but he won. He, we won't, we'll just pretend that the ending didn't happen when he just totally missed from like two feet away argentina won argentina won messi carried my goat my goat so now uh ronaldo and and messi have the same amount of trophies international trophies i believe and that's really the only thing that was separating them at this point because Messi's kicking his ass and everything else.

Everything else.

And then Djokovic, it's over.

He won his 20th Grand Slam title, Wimbledon.

It's over.

He tied Federer and Nadal.

He's slightly younger than those guys.

He's going to win at the U.S. Open.

That's the calendar year Grand Slam. Actually, they were saying it might be the Gold Slam if he wins at the Olympics as well.
He's the GOAT. Jake, what do you say to this? Because you've been on the wrong side of history, and I'm wiping the floor with you.
You're a Federer guy. We all know that.
No, you're a Federer guy. You're a Federer guy.
Three-way tie for 20 is great for the sport. You're a Federer guy.
We need all three in the semifinals. Kiss my feet and say I was right.
At Billie Jean King Tennis Center in two months. All in the semifinals.
There's no chance that Federer comes back and adds to that 20, right? The 20 has a period next to it. He had a good run this tournament.
Not really. He lost in the quarterfinals.
Yeah, he's not getting 21. What you're doing right right now talking about federer could you imagine five years ago being like he had a good run he lost in the quarter yeah you're right you're right it's over it's over see in queens no actually we were talking about it we might go to one a game is this the one that he got kicked out of a couple years ago when he like he tried to kill a? Defaulted.
Yeah. Whatever.
Shouldn't have been standing there. I don't know.
It's very funny when I hop into tennis for, I would say, I'm a tennis. Four times a year.
I'm adding it all up. I'm probably a tennis fan for an hour and 15 minutes a year.
Yeah. And people are like, dude, what do you say about all this controversy? He's like, I don't fucking care.
He he's the goat i i'm not a huge jokovic fan however if he pulls off the joke slam yep this year the golden slam the joke slam yes the joke the joke slam by winning an olympic gold medal and then the u.s open and the u.s open that's something that we'll never see accomplished again in our lifetime. Ever.
I choose to appreciate greatness wherever I might find it. That's exactly right.
No matter who you root for, someone's doing something great, you appreciate it. We should just sell Jokeslam t-shirts.
Yes. You can also become the first player to get disqualified one year from the U.S.
Open and win it the next year. That's true.
That's a great fucking thing. That's not confirmed, but without doing research, it's probably...
Why do you get disqualified? He's got a hit in the neck. He's got a range.
He's got a judge with a ball. In the neck? Yeah.
Adam's apple? Was she okay? If it was a female, probably not the Adam's apple. Was it a she or a he? It was a she.
It was a she. And it was just, you know, tennis ball, whatever.
Oh. Oh, it was an older woman.
Yeah. Fuck, I forgot about this.
Yeah, they had to call over like. No, he put his hand up.
I'm watching it right now. He did the, hey, my bad, immediately.
Then it's all good. If you put your hand up right after you hit someone by accident.
Yeah. Hey, my bad.
Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Just do like six sorries in a row.
It's all good. If you put your hand up right after you hit someone by accident Hey my bad, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry Just do like six sorry's in a row It's all good.
You have to just say after it hits him you gotta go, heads up! Yeah, oh, sorry, sorry, sorry You okay? That's it, that's good That's enough punishment. Alright, Jake your who's back? Did she die? Yes, my who's back? No Billy is chomping at the bit to grab the mic.
Who's back is Nigeria basketball. Yeah.
They took down USA in an exhibition, so I don't think it's time to panic yet. 90 to 87.
But they have some solid players. A lot of them are in the NBA.
They do. I don't think it's as embarrassing as people are saying.
I have a take. Exhibition.
I have a take that people are not going to like, and they're going to twist against me and say that I'm anti-American. You ready for it?

This is good for basketball?

I love those people.

No, I don't care about basketball.

It's shown

all the good that the United

States has done on an international level.

The fact that these teams who

used to just look up to us and get

autographs from our players after the games

are now able to compete. It really goes to show you what a great job United States basketball has done in spreading the game.
Right, right. I think that David versus Goliath trumps all fandom and nationality and everything.
When there's a true David, you might say, hey, Nigeria is way better than David, so it's not David versus Goliath. I would say, hey these are a collection of the best NBA players.
They're the best. We're the best.
We should win every game. We beat Nigeria by 80 points six years ago.
Any David versus Goliath is so much fun to watch that I didn't really care. Even if it happens that even if it happens in the regular tournament, I think I wouldn't – I want U.S.
to win, but if they lost to a team that they should – like, when they're 28-point favorites, there's part of me that's just like, that's incredible. It's almost like Appalachian State versus Michigan.
Like, if a division – like, if Coastal Carolina played Alabama and they beat them, that would be such an incredible sports. Army Oklahoma game.
Yeah, UMBC Virginia. There's something about that where you have this like, hey, this team has no shot, and then they pull it off.
It's so fascinating to watch it. I wasn't bothered by it.
I was like, that's fucking cool for Nigeria. You're rooting for humanity at that point.
I don't know. As a journalist, you're rooting for the best storyline possible.
I just, it just dawned on me that I was like, I think that I would always, if a David versus Goliath event happened like this, I would always kind of sit there and be like, that's fucking cool. Hypothetically, Big Cat, if it was Appalachian State versus Wisconsin.
Of course, it'd be terrible. Yeah, yeah.
But I would understand that everyone else would be like, that's incredible.

I completely understand

where people would come from.

In this circumstance, I'm like,

yeah, good for Nigeria.

If it's in the Olympics, I'm USA all the way, baby.

No, I'm USA all the way, but if it happens,

I still would step back

and be like, you know what?

That's crazy and cool because we should

beat the fuck out of everyone.

I also think that Pop is doing some nice little behind-the-scenes chess moves here.

This was the best thing that could have happened to the USA basketball team is to lose before the Olympics.

Yeah, just don't give up 50% for the victory.

And they don't have the full team because they have guys in the finals.

That's true.

That's true.

Also, shout-out to Luis Scola.

He's still playing for Argentina.

Hell yes.

My favorite European team.

Is she nobody out there? That'd be awesome. Yeah.
Euro finals. Well, Hank, a lot of those people in Argentina, they do have German ancestry, if you know what I'm saying.
That's true. Yep.
Billy. My Who's Back of the Week.
Billy's back on Who's Back. He's just, through sheer force of will, has got himself back in Who who's back my who's back of the week is football guys kevin zeitler was doing pass pro footwork badger in uh while his wife was giving labor yeah giving birth i labor actually the best the best part of that was someone i think a teammate of his replied uh it was like if you know Kevin he does this everywhere.
Like if he's waiting in line at Chipotle, he's doing some pass pro. I also like how it's referred to as, like I'm getting a couple sets in.
A couple sets of pass protection. What that really means is like you're just shuffling your feet to the side real quick.
That's one set done. You could see mentally he was critiquing his own form.
You do the shuffle to the side, you bend at the hips, you get your arms in tight, and you're ready to punch. It's a set.
It's definitely a set. It's just very funny that it's got its own term for doing that one specific dance move.
It's actually a set. If you're an offensive lineman, you just find yourself doing this all the time in places.
Just like if you're a golfer, you just work on your swing. Right.
Everywhere that you go, you just take air reps. Right.
It's an art form. It is.
All right. So, Billy, welcome back to Who's Back.
Thank you. Good Who's Back, Billy.
Yeah. Hank, he was like, can I say my Who's Backs right now so that no one steals it? And I was like, oh, okay.
So he just powered through. And I like it.
I thought one of you guys was going to take that. He captured did take which one did we take scott hansen scott hansen is back all the way fucking back are you're scott hansen guy right oh and wait hard ojournos no we're doing that in segments okay uh let's get troops pft you have a quick word from our friends all protein bars generally generally taste the same, but not OneBars.
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And here he is, Troops. Okay, we now welcome on our good friend, Troops.
He was at the game, England vs. Italy Eurofinal.
You can listen to his podcast, Back Again with Troops AFC. He will have an extended breakdown this

week on his podcast. He's also

got a bunch of videos out, so go follow him.

He was at the game.

Troops, you joined.

We can tell that it's not exactly

a great moment.

My first question is,

well, it's not a question. Your haircut looks great.

Then the question

comes in, when did you get that haircut?

My boy, man.

You get me?

He looks after me.

There's only really two people I trust with my hair.

One's in New York and one's over here.

So if I'm in London or New York, the trim and fade is always on point, blood.

You get me?

But what day?

Literally today, blood.

No!

True!

So you got it thinking like I need to look good for all the pictures that are going to come out when it finally comes home. No.
How could you? No, but it's a big game, blood. So man has to come correct.
You get me? I can't be going in there and flipping. I'm looking like a madman.
I'm in the trophy. And you get me? It's a final, man.
You have to go there looking correct. Okay.
All right. So before we talk about the game, I want to actually ask you about the scene.
It looked insane all day in England, in London. Like, what time did you get up and start going to the game? Like, what was the scene like outside of the stadium? Because I think one thing that everyone just loves, like, I always talk about the big game feel.
When you wake up in the morning, you're like, today is different. That's such a great feeling to have as a sports fan.
So what was it like walking to the game and beforehand and outside of the stadium? Like, from when I woke up, like, I was just, I was nervous. So if I know anything can happen.
You get me? But the excitement is there as well.

So when I'm in the shower, I'm playing Three Lions.

I'm playing Vindaloo.

I'm playing fucking the streets.

Like, I'm playing part life.

I'm on the geezer team today.

You get me?

And, like, went to the ground.

Literally, like, from when I got to wembley way i couldn't move but

like i could not fucking move i've been wembley a lot of times like i've been there for fa cup with arsenal i've been there for england games and today i have never seen it like that in my life In my fucking life

It was like corona didn't exist

There was no masks

There was never seen it like that in my life blood in my fucking life it was like corona didn't exist blood there was no masks there was none none blood it was just like it was like 2019 vibes you get me but it was like everyone was just up for it like it was just it was it was literally like if when you might come london i want to bring you like august times in it so i can you to Carnival. Carnival's like the Caribbean Carnival, you get me? And then we go, you walk around West London, they got floats, you follow the floats, you can just walk around, they got food selling, jerk chicken, you can just smoke your weed, drink your drink, your vibes in, girls will just jump on you, you get me? Like, they will just jump on you, bro, like you're bopping and girls will just you.
It was mad. You get me? It was that kind of, it was that kind of vibe, bro.
You understand? Like, people had their flares out. There was fucking, people were throwing beer in the air.
You had to, like, make sure you don't get licked down. Look how they had, like, fresh cans, blood.
They're just throwing them in the air, like, you just catch the can, and be like, boop. You get me, like? Yeah.
It was crazy, bro. Like, you know the Englishman there, the footballman there,

they love the white stuff.

There was a bear of that, blud.

Like, yo, Troops,

you want to cheek you?

And I'm like, yo, brother,

you man know me, like,

you get me?

I'm a member, blud.

You understand?

I won my team.

When I snort my team,

you understand?

So I'm just there

rassing my zubies.

And then, like,

when we went up to go in now,

because, like,

I never see the ambush,

when people ran up

and was moving

to fucking stewards

and they broke in

into the actual stadium I never saw none of that because I was vibes on a rembley rate because I got my ticket I ain't got to worry about that so I'm just cooling so when I've gone up there now obviously because the man name's gone up there earlier and everyone's just like don't give a jib gang, everyone's doing the jib thing.

It took me like,

I literally,

I left my spot at like six o'clock,

yeah?

And it literally would take

where I was

on a normal day

to get to where I wanted to go,

like up the stairs at Wembley,

it would take me

a minute,

yeah?

And it took me

45 minutes,

I never got to the

fucking turnstile until 6.45, then when I 45 minutes, I never got to the fucking turnstile

until 6.45.

Then when I got in,

I got upstairs,

everyone's on the concourse

going mad,

beers are flowing,

beers are flying again.

You get me like,

it's just scenes.

Everywhere you go,

it's just scenes like,

everyone's up for it.

It's a feel good vibe.

I never saw no madness.

You get me like, at the start of the game, I never saw no madness. You get me?

Like, at the start of the game, I never saw no madness.

At the end of the game, that was a different team, like, you get me?

Yeah.

Yeah, did you feel like a little bit of a sellout having a ticket to the game

instead of being one of the, you know, a man of the people breaking into Wembley Stadium?

That sounds like it would have been more fun if you didn't have a ticket.

Nah, you're just a madman, like, you understand that?

I got fucking thrown out of there with

fucking jet skis. For vlogging.
Right, yeah,

what happened? Vlogging? You were vlogging?

For vlogging. Bro, so, we were

vlogging, yeah?

You get me?

For vlogging, blud. You understand?

I heard all you fucking pricks were walking around the next

day in the office saying, for vlogging, blud.

For vlogging. For vlogging, blud.

You man are dickheads, I swear to God, blud., so like, even that situation, like, they threw man out because I think it was the size of the camera, because the worst thing is, yeah, I even told Jets, I could tell, I told Jets, obviously I spoke to you lot, the man that threw man out, I saw him at the semi-finals, blad, he's come up to me with seven of them, blud, yeah?

I'm chilling there.

Two of my men there I'm chilling with,

and there's a couple fans that fuck with me, innit?

Like, supporters there, there.

I'm just chilling with them.

It's like a group of us.

He's come in front of me, yeah?

And he's like, you all right, mate?

And I was like, I looked at him, yeah?

And I was like, it's porciole. In my head, I was like him, yeah, and I was like, it's pussy old.

Like, in my head,

I was like,

in my head,

I was like,

it's pussy old.

It's him.

And then I looked, yeah,

to the side of me.

I just see, like,

at the corner of my eye,

I just see bare, like, orange.

Like, fluorescent orange.

So I turned, yeah,

and I just see seven of them.

Like, there.

I'm like, brother, I turned to him, yeah, I said, big man, what the fuck is your problem now? I said, you're going to throw me out again. I said, what are you throwing me out for this time? He said, no, no, no.
They notified me on the camera that you're here. So I just thought I'd come up and see you and just apologize and say it was nothing personal.
Wembley were telling me in my ear to get you out. Your friend was rude.
You try to blame me on Jet Ski, blud. These times I'm telling him, bro, when you was throwing out my guy, he was filming the floor.
So we've got all what you said, blud. We've even held back certain shit you said, blud.
And released what we wanted to. we could have made you look even worse.
Yeah. I said, what it is now is nobody fucking, I said, you don't feel sorry.
I said, what it is, is you feel pressure. Yeah.
You feel, you feel the heat. Yeah.
You realize that my car, your friend was telling you, yo, this is true. Like, this is what he does.
Like, he's not filming the game. He's filming his reactions.
That's what he does. Like, you, we haven't even got you saying on the vlog, oh, he's Arsenal.
Oh, we've got a problem. I said, so what? You talking? Is that the problem? I said, is that the problem, blab? I said, what? Because Saka's running riot and Kane went there and fuck all at that time.
I said, is he what? You're jealous or something, blab? You understand? He's like, nah, nah, nah. Your friend was rude.

Dread it.

I said,

whatever anyway, man.

Then he goes to me.

Oh,

where you sitting?

I said,

a seat.

You get me?

Yeah.

Then he's like,

then he's like,

what seat?

And because Wembley's full of red seats,

I said,

I said,

a red seat.

You get me?

You lot know me,

blud.

You understand?

I'm saying,

fuck this man,

blud.

I'm saying,

I'm in a red seat, blud. What, what seat am I in? I said, why do you want to know what seat am I in he's like oh I want to come I want to come next to you I might want to come in your vlog again I said move from me bruv then he's like you know I can ask you for your ticket I said say please and I might show you blud and then he's like and then he was actually like please can I see your ticket I said he's a steward I steward.
I have to show him a minute. I said, all right, cool.
I don't know if he fought. I dripped.
And I never had a ticket. And when I back up my ticket now, he's like, oh, okay.
And then he walked off black. So you're a wanted man.
So you had to get a ticket. So for vlogging is a great, we should sell shirts for vlogging.
Vlogging is not a crime. Yeah, vlogging is not a crime.
You can't arrest me for vlogging. Alright, so let's talk about the game.
Do you think, and this is no troll, but it did feel England scores so early. It was actually, they said on the telecast, fastest goal in Euro final, right? Do you think that that actually ended up like, I mean, it kind them because they they played to to you know like a defensive game after that they didn't keep attacking were you did you see it when it was happening like oh this might actually be a problem because we're just waiting for the game to end hoping that nothing bad happens at one no i was saying to the people that around me in the crowd it was all talking as you do.
I'm saying to them, yo, you can see that, yo, Rice is getting tired. We need to throw on Henderson because we need speed in the midfield now.
The midfield were kind of getting overrun. You could see that Mount weren't getting on the ball.
They were controlling the game. I'm saying, yo, we take off Mount and put on Grealish.
We need to have a man that can hold the ball and give us control of the game. Because you could see they were coming.
You understand? Pause. They were coming every fucking angle, blab.
It was a game of two halves. And an extra time it could have gone any way, blab.
You get me? First half, we had it. Second half, they had a man pinned against the wall, blab.
You understand? And we couldn't get out. And I think Southgate, I think he took too long to make the changes, blud, because when he brought on Saka is when they equalised.
He straight brought on Saka. You understand? When Saka weren't even the one to bring on, because when he brought on, I hear what he's doing, though, because when he brought on Saka, he went to a four, because we were playing a five.
So when he brought on Saka, we went to a four. So then, boom, you get me,

you've got Sterling on the left,

Saka on the right,

Kane down the middle.

But then you've still got

Phillips,

Rice,

and Mount

as the three in the midfield,

like,

that's too defensive,

like,

you understand?

You need to be off,

as you lot say,

as you lot say,

you need to be offensive.

You need to be on the attack,

like,

because at 1-0,

1-0 is,

they say the most dangerous

scores in football

I'll see you next time. as you lot say, you need to be offensive.
You need to be on the attack plan because at 1-0, 1-0 is a they say the most dangerous scores in football are 1-0 and 2-0. Because 1-0, 1-1, 2-0, 2-1, they're back in the game.
They could get the ascendancy bang, 2-2. I'd rather be 2-0 up.
I disagree. I'd rather be...
It is funny when people say 2-0 is the most dangerous thing. It's like, I'd rather have 2-up than 1-up.
If you're 2-up and then you lose the lead, then that's worse, though, than if you're just 1-up. But still, I still would take up 2-goal.
Well, there's an old saying in American football that all a prevent defense does is prevent you from winning. And that's kind of what England did.
They got too conservative with it in the first half after that early goal.

And you do get out of a rhythm.

You have to be able to establish the connection between your midfield and your attackers.

And if you're not even trying to, if you're only just trying to counterattack,

then you don't have that rhythm already established to fall back on later

in the game when you actually do need a goal.

And I was curious to know what you thought about the substitutions. You know, they put on a lot of subs, essentially four penalty kicks.
That, to me, always feels weird when a player gets in and maybe they've only been on the field for a few minutes and then they're expected to go out there with the weight of their team on their shoulders and score a goal on a PK. Do you kind of feel that same way? Like, if you're going to put a guy in who's going to take a penalty kick, let him get his legs loose a little bit.
Let him play a little bit of football before it's time for him to go up there and score. With me, yeah, if you're good at penalties, then you're a set piece, man.
You can come on. You don't really need time to get into the game to hit the ball in the back, to hit the ball from 12 blood you understand you're seen as a specialist in that position so i understand when it's been 20 when it's like the 29th minute in extra time and you see a man like yo you're like yo we're getting him on now we're getting him on now fuck fuck there's a minute left we're just getting him on so he can take a penny it's like you even see certain you see certain games where they would bring off the goalkeeper

and change the goalkeeper because the goalkeeper on the bench is better at penalties.

Yep, right.

You understand?

Wait, I love the way that you say penalty.

Can you say penalties again?

Penalties.

Penalties.

This fucking guy.

I love it.

Do you think Sterling should have kicked O before or Grealish?

Because it did feel – I I mean to PFT's

point you had guys who had no

flow of the game taking

penalties there and you're right like the

specialist aspect I don't really fully

understand that but it's similar to

having like a guy pinch hit at the end of

you know an extra inning game it's like

alright he might do something but it also

might be really hard because he hasn't

been he hasn't had any flow of the game

when you come into the penalty situation

as well you don't really need the flow because you're just literally walking up from the halfway line to the penalty spot. It's literally you and the goalkeeper.
It's not like you against, you understand? It's a bit more different when it comes to penalties. So when it went to penalties, were you like, it's over we're fucked nah like anything can happen in pennies isn't it well well yeah anything can happen but it always pretty much ends up in english heartbreak right yeah that's true but we broke that but we broke that in it we broke that in russia when we beat columbia on pennies so you understand we kind of have that hoodoo off our back.
We haven't beaten Germany since the fucking 66 final. We beat them in now.
You understand? Croatia knocked us out of the fucking Russia semi-final. We beat them first game.
So, there's things where, you understand? We have improved on what we did in previous years. But you can't blame the players.
You have to blame Southgate because we shouldn't have got to Penny. Right.
He took too long. So my question is, so it seems like, obviously, devastating loss.
But do you feel, is it different than other English devastating losses? Because it does feel like England's building something for the future.

And things are going in the right direction.

So is there optimism even in a terrible, terrible loss like that?

Yeah, this time, even like Russia, it was optimism because we knew who was coming through the ranks,

who would come into the Euros.

So there was optimism from then. So right now, I'm even more confident, you get me, that we could go on and do bits of the World Cup.
Might not win it, but maybe we could get to a semi-final again. You get me? But in previous years, it was a bit different because when we lost, we were like, yo, this is the end of the whole Beckham, Gerrard, Lampard era.
This is bullshit. The next one we're going to be shit because we're building.
Right now, we've built. You understand? And we just need to continue.
The only fuckery is that with fucking three black players missing, you already know what's going to happen at full time. And before, as soon as Saka missed his fucking penalty, you go to his you see a monkey emojis you see him black this black that you understand yeah i see fuck i see a video of a fan being thrown into the river thames which is the equivalent of the fucking of the hudson river you understand being thrown into it i don't know like somebody says it was somebody said it was an italian fan somebody It was a black guy Like There's been fucking People saying That people are Running around With knives In fucking Chadwell Heath Or something Chasing black people Trying to stab up Like bro There's a mad thing Going on right now In London Like it's like A race war blood You understand And I'm like Why are you doing this bro Like This is Like come on bro It's 2021 now You understand We need to stop all this bullshit you get me like booing the fucking knee and all this bullshit like you're booing the knee but then stern and bangs it top beams and you're fucking there like oh you're saying fucking you're saying sack as a child sack as a prodigy we need to start sack sack a missus eyes a black cut this that you're begging for sancho to be Sancho comes on.
Oh, fuck Sancho. Fucking this, that.
These men are fucking deluded, blood. They pick and choose when they want to like us, blood.
You understand? And it's gone beyond that point now, blood. The man's had enough of this shit now, blood.
You understand? It's fucking bullshit, blood. You have to look at the majority of this team as well.
The majority of this team is black. You understand? The best players are black, blood.
Yeah? If you want to get technical. And then you understand, it's the black players that kind of carry this team to get to the final, black.
And now you want to turn them in because we missed the team. But then where do experienced players? You understand? Why are they making the kids take the team? How are you making a 19-year-old take the final penalty? How can you make a 19-year-old take the final penalty? Was he the youngest player to take a penalty in a Euro Cup final? I think I saw that somewhere.
And he's your favorite player. Why not my favorite? I'm curious to know how you feel when you're watching the English national team play because there are so many players on the team that play for your heated rivals.
You're an Arsenal fan first and foremost, I think, but you also support an English national team. Do you feel bad? Do you feel like a traitor to yourself when you're cheering for Harry Kane? No.
Because he's playing for England. He's playing for the country.
Who's the guy who made the other penalty kick? Who scored? No. Yeah.
Who scored? No. Maguire? That guy was the most English caric guy of all time.
Oh, the guy that put it top shelf? Yeah. He couldn't get a tan if he sat out in the sun for five years straight.
Ooh, truce. Do you think that maybe Pickford should have taken your advice and gotten a haircut today before the game? Oh.
Because his hair sucks. Yeah.
No, but he made two saves.

Or is it one?

I think he saved two shots.

Yeah.

Two penalties.

Yeah.

One was missed, right?

I don't know if it was a miss.

I think he had two saves.

Yeah, he might have been two saves.

Yeah, he had two saves.

He had two saves because they won.

Yeah, they won three-two.

Yeah, because, yeah.

He saved the first one, and he saved the last one.

Yeah.

I don I know. I know.
Okay, we're smart. We're big football fans.
We know everything about the history of the game. But we have realized that a lot of our listeners don't really – they don't follow football as much as we do.
We do, yeah. And I do.
So what – for them, can you explain to those people what it's coming home means? It's coming home. Like, football was founded in England.
You get me? It's not like, oh, we're bringing, yeah, the trophy's coming back home.

You understand?

That's what we say, like, football's coming home.

You get me?

Football's coming back home where it started.

You understand?

That's where it's coming home comes from.

You get me?

Obviously, other people will have their other analogies of it.

But for me, it's because football was made in England. So if we win a trophy, we're bringing football back home.
I got it. The sport's coming back home to the place of its birth.
Yeah. So that song was made in 96 for the Euros when we got to the semi and then Southgate missed the penny and we lost to Germany.
And that song's been around since then. So after the game, was it just everyone was as sad and terrible as it could be? I don't want to sound like I'm – but this is really like what sports are.
They obviously show people in the crowds who are dying a million deaths for a reason because it's the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.

So how truly miserable was it in the stands?

I wouldn't say miserable.

I'd say heated.

Okay.

You get me?

These men are so lucky that I don't film what they do.

I swear to God. Oh, my God.
Yo, man's also madness tonight, bro. Yeah, I'm watching this video right now of the person being thrown into the Thames.
It was like an old-fashioned toss. Thames.
The Thames River? Bro, it's like there's two of them. There's two men, and they literally just dash him into the Thames Maybe it was celebration.
Yeah, it could have been Italian. Nah, that's not us.
They were Englishmen, and they threw in a person. Somebody said he was Italian, and somebody said he was black.
I don't know, because you can't tell from the video. Well, maybe.
When I came out. The English aren't known for bathing.
Maybe he was just getting a little quick bath in. Boy, we started this whole hooligan thing.
You get me? So, yeah, that's done. Yeah.
I did see. It's what it is, man.
Here's what I'll say is that I do think, and obviously we have no idea because we're not on the ground. We're not at Wembley.
But from the reaction in the media, I do think that 2021 people are, like, getting in front of it being being like, you can't blame these guys,

like blame the coach and like also penalty kicks.

Actually, this is a question that I want to know your take on ending a game in penalties.

Do you, are you for it?

Are you against it?

Because there's a lot of people who think it's terrible, terrible way to crown a champion.

It's obviously thrilling.

You get some of the most like incredible moments in the the sport from this But where do you side on that? Nah, I'm with it, man It's part of the game If you can't win it in 120 Then it's got to go to a penalty shootout At some point the players just get too tired You can't keep playing forever and ever and ever Yeah, because they're playing at high intensity Yeah intensity, blood. Yeah, I thought what they should do is they should, at the start of extra time, take two men off per side and have it just be nine a side and then maybe if it goes to the second overtime then it goes seven on one and then you end up just one on one full-sized field and then first to ten goals wins.
Harry Kane's just tapping it in over and over and over. This is why you might do NFL and basketball.
You can't be off sides if there's only one guy on your team. People love to say like their retort is always like, could you imagine if you ended an NFL game or a college football game? Well, college football overtime kind of is that.
Like they both started the 25 and then they just score and score it's awesome it's fucking awesome penalty kicks is shooting a ball and then saving a ball which is a pretty big part of soccer so it's not saying like it's completely unrelated to the rest of the game it's a pretty big pretty big part of the game that you're doing to crown the champion i do understand why people are like you know it's not there's no passing it's not a team sport at that point. It's just an exhibition.
But those people, Mike Greenberg, I'm looking in your direction, need to figure out a better way to solve it. Besides, like, I think we just did with our one-on-one.
But they need to have a smart person sit down and take a look at it and see, is there a way that we can do this a little bit differently? Because it does, when you have a team like Italy that wins a couple games in piddly kicks, it does feel like a little cheap, right? You're able to defend, defend, defend, stretch it out until overtime, stretch it out into PKs, and then all you have to do is make three shots from 12 yards out, and you end up winning the game. Yeah, but if that's your tactic, that's your tactic.
That's how you're going to go at it. It's a tactical game.
You understand? It's who wins a tactical battle. I have some silver linings for you if you'd like to hear them.

Number one is 2016 Euros.

France lost in the final at home and then went on to win the World Cup.

So England just lost at home in the 2020.

They're calling it the 2020 Euros.

So they'll go and win the World Cup, I think. I think that's pretty much a lock, guarantee, in the desert that no one's going to watch because it's going to be in the middle of football season.
My other silver lining is your haircut looks great, even though you probably shouldn't have gotten it right before the biggest game of your life. And then three is the minicar.
The minicar. What do you think about the minicar? Pretty cool, right? The minicar that brings the ball out I think they got that idea from an American That's something I can see That's something I can see at like fucking Super Bowl Yep I wish They're just coming out and then Brady just picking it up like Oh hey I want everything on a minicar Like that is the coolest way to start a game Is to just have a minicar driving the ball Vlad I knew you would a minicar.
Like, that is the coolest way to start a game, is to just have a minicar driving the ball.

I knew you would like it.

Yeah, of course.

Why wouldn't you like it?

What's not to like?

What do you have against the minicar?

Nothing.

It was just different.

Sounds like you don't like it.

No, it sounds like you don't like the minicar.

You think that it's one of the corporate American innovations to sport.

Yeah.

Which it is, I think, sponsored by DHL. If something bad happens to the minicar, I think Troops would be the first person I'd look to.
You can blow the minicar up? I ain't going to... Whoa, are you mad? Dude, you better not.
I'd be so mad. I fucking love that.
I'm trying to get back in the country. I'm mad.
So, all right. So, you podcast when are you coming back i'm back on thursday you're coming home on thursday yeah wow okay well um i feel bad for you i really do i do think that uh i was rooting for the most pain because why not and then when it happened i was like damn.
The fact that it was Saka and it was, you know, you're there, I felt really bad for you. I just want to tell you that as a friend.
I truly did. I still liked enjoying watching England lose and watching the pain, but I did feel bad for you in that moment.
Thank you. That's nice of me.
It is. I think we did say over the last several weeks that we're rooting for England to get to the finals and then lose in penalty kicks.
I think we actually may have manifested that into happening. Because it's a good storyline.
And it's good for ratings troops. And when you finally win it all, it's even better.
And let me just say, fuck Gaz as well, blood. Oh, what did he do? What did he do? Fucking talking about a sack of blood.
Oh, no. Fucking dickhead.
So what, Dave let him out of the pocket? Oh, last question. Do you think Harry Kane's a ball hog? Because I do.
What do you mean a ball hog? He just, he like intercepts other people's passes that are directed to someone else. He dribbles too much.
He did it to fucking. Yes.
He did it to Grealish in the semis yes he's a ball of minute yes sterling whipped it and it was for greelish and then he come and tried and then he done some bullshit with it but like he's a striker in it like i remember all these to do it as well like i remember fucking perez would whip it in and all he would take it off berkham because it's just that striker mentality mentality when the ball comes across your natural instinct. It's the goal.
You're not going to let it go. That's how you've got all these goals because when it comes to you, it's just boom.
When you see it, you just brass it. So I wouldn't really say it's a bullhawk.
I have one last question. It seems to me that maybe the biggest champion of all in this Euro tournament was VAR because I feel like VAR got it right.
For the most part, there were no, there were no VAR controversies. Are you starting to come around on VAR? VAR was very good.
Yeah. In the Euros, but I've never had that.
My problem with VAR is the people that use it, not actual VAR because VAR does what it's supposed to do. Do you understand? It's the people that make the decisions that fuck up VAR.
It's like guns don't kill people, people kill people. Do you understand? So the people that was running it in the Euros should run it in the Premier League.
Then it would work. Yeah, I actually thought it worked really well.
I was shocked at how seamless the VAR experience was in this tournament.

I was surprised that when Cellini pulled Saka that I never went to VAR.

I'm a big VAR should just get a thicker line believer.

If they just made the line like three times as thick,

it would make the game a lot better because a lot of the goals would go in. They said they was looking at doing something like that.
And they were going to... And what they would do is the decisions would favor the strike comp, not the defender.
Yeah, just make it a little bit thicker. That way when you look at it, you're like, okay, it's harder to figure this out.
Boom. Goal stands.
Because some of the decisions are mad tight. Even the Anatovic goal that was scored against Italy that was disallowed, that was literally like a fucking nose hair black.
Yeah. I think that when they show the replay of the offsides call where they have the different colored lines for each player player and like where their shoulders that's too confusing for me just turn like the offsides position that entire side of the field should be like bright red and if the offensive guy is standing in like what appears to be a giant lava pit you know to the right behind that last defender that's how i can tell if it's offsides i don't like the whole like tiny yellow line tiny red line that.
It looks too much like math for me. So it gets me confused.
That's why they do it. Because it's tight decisions.
So they have to do the two lines line up. And then they pull it.
I'm just too dumb, I think, is my problem. Troops, we'll see you on Thursday.
Safe flight. Sorry again.
Three lions coming home. We'll just wait until you go to the desert in the AC.
Where is it? Qatar. You'll get them in Qatar.
You'll get them in Qatar, dude. Qatar.
Oh, also, just a little heads up because I know you care. The U.S.
is actually about to win a trophy. Are we in the Gold Cup final? This is, I think, the opening round the gold cup well that's close you got it step one gold cup well you did see our conca calf champions league final cup that we won against mexico uh-huh a couple months ago remember that so our trophy case is full and yours is i don't know what i mean you guys haven't won anything they were doing it like if you're 65 years old and an English guy is 65 years old, you've never seen a major trophy win.
No one cares what you won. Were you happy for Messi, though? Some people do.
Were you at least happy that Messi was able to accomplish something? The GOAT. Fuck Messi.
Oh, fuck you. Why do you hate Messi? Is this Falkland Islands beef still or what? Pinaldo? You're a big Pinaldo guy? Ronaldo.
No, his name is Pinaldo because he only hits penalties. Sweet! All right, well, Troops, we'll see you.
Safe flight, man. We appreciate you coming on.
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All right, breaking moves before we get to our segments. Conor McGregor has released his statement.
Should we listen to it live on the show? Let's listen to it. Let me get it up.
How many times is he going to say Fook? All right, here we go. This is Conor McGregor.
He released this 20 minutes ago. We're going to react live.
What's up, Fight Fans? The Notorious here. Just out of the surgery room.
Everything went to plan. Everything went perfect.
I'm feeling tremendous. We got six weeks on a crutch now and then we begin to build back and you know i want to thank all the fans all around the world for your messages of support i hope you all enjoyed the show i want to thank all the fans in attendance at the t-mobile arena 21 800 fans in attendance the place was absolutely electric and it would have.
It was a hell of a first round.

It would have been nice to get into that second round and then to see what's what.

But it is what it is.

That's the nature of the business.

A clean break of the tibia.

And it was not to be.

Dustin, you can celebrate that illegitimate win all you want.

But you've done nothing in there.

That second round would have shown all.

And, you know, onwards we go, team. We dust ourselves off, we build ourselves back, and we come back better than ever.
Let's go, team. That's it? Okay.
I mean, I was kind of... I was expecting something bigger.
I'm a little disappointed actually from Connor. Yeah.
I wanted him to say something about Dustin Poirier's wife. Yeah, just check my Instagram DMs, and there she is again.
Yeah.

Hey.

I was also hoping...

Well, I really liked what he did there.

Add that to the list of the great spin zone.

The great spin zone.

You liked that one?

That was good.

That was Northern Irish.

Yeah.

I don't know if you picked it up.

That was more where Rory McIlroy's from.

Yeah, it's Belfast.

Yeah.

But speaking of...

Not Dublin.

How awesome was that guy who just walked and grabbed that club from Rory?

Endless respect to that guy. He just...
He strolled out there, and then Rory, I got to take Rory's man card on that one. Rory was just like, and you know what? He's catty too.
You know what it really shows is that you can do anything that you want as long as you do it with enough confidence. And people will think like, oh, maybe there's a chance he's supposed to be taking my club and doing a practice swing with it because he certainly looked like he was meant to be there.

But I like what Connor was saying.

Like, if you had only gotten to see the second round,

that's when I was going to kick his ass.

I didn't want to come out the gate too quickly

and beat him up in the first round.

That's real life.

Yeah, it's Vince Young.

It's also us being like, I would have matched

if something had happened that never ended up happening.

Totally.

What was Vince Young's? I'd chill out in the first half and then go the fuck off half go the fuck yeah he's about to go the fuck off um all right so a couple segments uh we have a respect the biz so this is uh mma journalists getting very upset uh because addison ray tiktok star people are saying she's not a celebrity she's got like 38 million Instagram followers. I think she's a celebrity.
That counts, yeah. She posted a tweet being like, LOL, went to three months of journalism school and now look at me here.
And people got big mad. They got very upset.
Journalists got very upset that they were being mocked, that someone else was getting an opportunity, even though they went to Syracuse or Northwestern or Missouri, and they don't have the same opportunity. So where do we land on this in the respect the bits? I feel like we should ask Jake about this.
It hit him hard. As somebody who spent money going to college to get a degree to do this professionally, do you think that she should have been banned from the arena? I don't think she should have been banned from the arena, but it's the way life works.
You got to get lucky in the business, too. That's how it works.
There are a lot of different ways to get into the business. Right.
And I think it was just mostly the fact that she said that she spent three months in journalism school. Yeah.
She should have just been like, I didn't go to journalism school and look, I'm here. Yeah.
But the three months is really twisting that knife a little bit. I do think that journalists kind of miss the point sometimes when it comes.
Sports journalists. We're not talking about other, you know, big J's.
Yeah. She gets people to watch.
Like, she's also fucking around. Yeah, she's fucking around.
But she also, also, when people will criticize her and be like, she doesn't have any talents. Well, she has 38 million Instagram followers.
If people care about her, you can't do that. Guy who's sitting there who's got a Syracuse degree gathering dust.
You should have been hotter and had people care about you more. Yeah.
Does this hurt? No, I understand. Well, it's that, and it's also like the UFC isn't really a bastion of journalistic integrity to begin with.
You don't have Woodward and Bernstein covering Dana White. It's the fight game.
It's just all about getting eyeballs on as many things as possible. Correct i don't think that you necessarily have to have a j school degree to ask conor mcgregor like hey conor are you gonna let your family watch you in this guy's life tonight right robbie fox our guy here great ufc journalist yes not really i wouldn't say that he's the hardest hitting no question to ask her of conor mcgregor he's a fan and he treats the sport like it's fun, which I think that a lot of times people have gotten sick of watching sports like it's something bad that they're watching.
Correct. If Addison Rae is breaking down, like if there is a big controversy in the UFC, money embezzlement or some like dark side of the UFC and you're asking Addisone to do the investigation on it.
Then, yeah, I would probably be on your side. You're probably right.
Addison Rae is not the person for that job. A red carpet where you could probably get actually better answers when you have an attractive celebrity tick toctor.
Well, I mean, she is. That's why she.
Are you going to say she's not bonk me how old she's definitely over 18 right i hope how old is she what do you think she was going to college when she was 16 oh yeah good point thank you thank you my point is uh i would actually argue that she probably can get more out of some of these guys than if you have a guy standing in a suit, a frumpy guy standing in a suit who went to Medill with a mustard stain on his tie being like, hey, before you have this big fight of your life, I want to ask you, what's your grappling strategy in the second round going to be like? Yeah, listen, she's not going to be getting into the ins and outs of performance-enhancing drugs and how certain fighters may or may not be skirting those tests. I'm looking at her Instagram page right now just for research.
I followed her. I think that she's...
I did! She looks to be more than qualified. Good job, Dana White.
Robbie Fox has the success story himself, and he's interviewing Dana White. He didn't go to journalism school.
Robbie's also hot as fuck. Yeah, he is.
That long hair. Insane.
Yeah. People were saying he should get a haircut.
No. Wrong.
Big time wrong. All right.
I had one more respect to biz for you, Jake. I'm going to put you on the hot seat.
What do you think about Colin Coward as a broadcaster? Like, as a talk show host? Yeah, like, yeah. His career.
Like, do you have respect for what he's been able to do yeah all right so he had a tweet uh over the weekend said if you're offended by golfers dropping f-bombs on a hot mic on tv we can't be friends non-negotiable if i ran a network i would demand six f-bombs per round, totally authentic, how guys talk on a course. What do you think about that? I think the way that things are going, you're going to see a lot more alternate broadcast options.
Spread zone, like you've talked about multiple times. I feel like there's going to be an option one day.
Yes. The injury zone.
Yes. Yeah.
Yeah. Red bone.
Yeah, red bone. Me and you on the spread zone.
Spread zone. One day.
I love that Colin Coward said this. This is how guys talk, and he still did F-bomb instead of saying fuck.
He didn't say fuck? Yeah, how guys talk. Respect.
I also think that if you just say how guys talk, then you're not a guy. Like, you just already broke guy code.
It's literally like saying man yeah right guys don't guys don't actually we don't sit around taking each other's man cards yeah don't off besides on this show don't fucking tell everyone how we talk on the course come on that's me dude colin they're chicks that follow you on twitter yeah what the fuck bro wait this was from over oh was it was from august 2020 oh so it was from the last time the match happened i think it got resurfaced because it was the match last week so i i i just grabbed it and i was like i wanted to bring it up you know to your attention when you came back colin i think that there's actually a better idea than this you're only allowed to cuss on this channel yes yes. Just fuck.
Fuck. Fucking pussy.

Yeah.

Fuck.

Shit.

Colin, you have a podcast now.

You can fucking swear.

Let's see it.

Let the cunts fly, Colin.

Yeah, do it.

All right.

Last one.

Thoughts and prayers to Lamar Odom.

So, Kourtney Kardashian, or sorry, Khloe Kardashian, posted an Instagram picture of her looking

attractive.

She was in a bikini with outdoor shower.

How old is she?

Follow her, too.

I don't.

I don't know. posted an Instagram picture of her looking attractive.
She was in a bikini with outdoor shower.

How does she follow her, too?

I don't.

I don't.

But she... Listen, you can follow people.

Instagram's there for a reason, buddy.

What do you mean?

You follow hotties.

No, I'm just saying you brought up Asin, right?

You brought up the story.

Oh, I started following her.

I started following her.

No, I don't follow her.

I follow Kim. I'm just trying to get in here.
Yeah, I'm trying to get your journalism strategies. I get all my news through Kim.
But anyway, Lamar Odom said hottie in the comment section. And Tristan Thompson said, God brought you back the first time.
Play if you want different results. I just fucking love that.
Tristan's like, I'm one phone call away from OJ. Yes, I will absolutely end you.
I actually do think that Chris Jenner's probably killed seven or eight dozen people. Yeah.
What was Nick Carter clip? Lamar Odom. Oh, I think he did.
I think he's okay. Lamar Odom, though, it's actually the other.
Tristan Thompson doesn't realize it's the other way around. If you come back from the dead, you should be shooting your shot everywhere.
House money at that point. Yeah, what do you care? Also, it's Lamar Odom.
He's unbunkable almost because everyone knows he's the horniest person maybe ever. He died at a fucking cat house.
Yeah. That is, you can't, that's the final boss of Horny.

Yeah, all of the blood from his heart went to his dick.

And that became his heart.

It stayed there.

Yeah, that's where his head is now.

That's where his brain is.

And then when his boner died, he died.

Yeah.

That's exactly the science behind all of it.

I say let Lamar shoot a shot.

He's probably going to break it anyways.

Yeah, that's true.

All right.

Anything else?

Billy, do you have a recap?

Colin Coward also posted a weird photo with his daughter where he said he was in Wyoming,

but the background looked like a green screen or like a picture.

The plot thickens.

So wait, you don't have a recap, though, because that was something we just talked about you just popped into your head about that but the other stuff got it that's cool kind of discussed everything yeah okay we're just changing you think that's a green screen yeah something weird yeah the lighting is off there, what is this picture? Wyoming. He's just trying to put mountains in the background.
He just heard our podcast last week. Say fuck out on the golf course in Wyoming.
Best part about being in Wyoming. Oh, he follows me.
I don't follow him. Oh, coward, he re-followed you? No, on Instagram.
Oh. Yeah, he did unfollow me.
Wait, which picture are you talking about?

Because he unfollowed me on Twitter.

Really?

Yeah.

Fucking pussy.

All right, numbers.

By the way, what was the number?

Oh, 69, Billy.

You missed it.

I know.

That was a bummer.

69.

61.

Last time it was 69, 18 followed.

Squirrels can survive terminal velocity. Oh, my God.
Fuck. Oh, what is that? Oh, fuck yeah.
Are you kidding me? 69. What? Back-to-back 69s? That's unbelievable.
Bonk on the lottery machine. Am I the first double winner? No.
Maybe. Fuck.
He is. Damn it.
Still got it. It sucks too because you just didn't do your job the entire show and then you get 69 and now you're the winner.
Damn it. Love you guys.
I'll be your dream. I'll be your wish.
I'll be your fantasy. I'll be your rock.
I'll be your love be everything that you

need. I love you

more with every breath

truly madly deeply

too. I will be

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I want to stand with you on a mountain. I want to play with you in the city.
I want to play like this forever. Until the sun falls out

on me

falls out

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