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

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Speaker 1 See Mintmobile.com. On today's part of 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

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 He talks to us about everything that happened there. We have some segments.
We have a lot. Oh, the water dogs were good.
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Speaker 1 And guess what? We've got ourselves a series. The Bucs

Speaker 1 made sure Suns and Four didn't happen. They beat the Suns pretty soundly.
And

Speaker 1 I think a series is on. Well, it's not a series until the home team loses the game, so series hasn't started yet.
The gentleman sweep is still in play. I still think it's going to be 4-1 Suns,

Speaker 1 but Giannis is, 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.

Speaker 1 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 for seven from three,

Speaker 1 and they still got their asses kicked. Well, it was what we said on Friday's show

Speaker 1 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, and 6. But you can't do it all yourself.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 They hit a few more shots. Drew Holiday, especially, shot well, and that's the difference.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 I do think that the Bucs,

Speaker 1 like playing back games one and two in my head, I think this is going to be a series. I really do.
I think the Bucs, like they have enough guys to make this a series.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Shout out to our guy, Ryan Rosillo, who said you can't fake desperation because that's what it felt like. They had Dana Beers in the crowd, yugging beers.
That probably's why they won. But the Bucs.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 good game for the Bucs, and it's a series. I think they can compete.
Like, there's nothing that I've seen in the first three games that it's essentially who can play their top-level ball.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And the same is for the Bucs when they have Giannis throwing in 40.

Speaker 1 Oh, I just saw the stat. First player with back-to-back 40-point games.
Yeah. He needs...

Speaker 1 What's the terrible saying that everyone keeps saying on,

Speaker 1 fuck, like ESPN Sports Center use it, give him his flowers. Is that what they say?

Speaker 1 Yeah, give them their flowers. Give Giannis his flowers.
I just know that I've seen it enough. As soon as Bleacher Report and the Sports Center account does it, it's crossed the line.

Speaker 1 So give Giannis his flowers, ironically. Okay, but not really.
Give him his flowers now. No, we're going to mock it,

Speaker 1 but also do give him some flowers. Before he retires, give Yannis some flowers.
Give him some flowers right now.

Speaker 1 So 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.

Speaker 1 The triple single. He had the triple single.

Speaker 1 Listen,

Speaker 1 they should have been playing him longer because he kind of dominated the fourth quarter. Also, the coolest highlight of the game

Speaker 1 without a doubt was Cam Johnson. Yeah.
And the dunk on P.J. Tucker.
The look on P.J. Tucker's head

Speaker 1 on his face, when he was picking his head up off the ground, he looked like he had just been born.

Speaker 1 He had no idea what was going on. He was amazed.
He was like, there's no chance that dunk actually went in, right?

Speaker 1 what would you say big cat to the conspiracy theorists that say the nba brought in scott foster to get eight and in foul trouble because they know that playing kaminski will help the bucks

Speaker 1 that well i disagree because uh i'm looking at it right now uh i'm looking for a stat that would pack up what i'm about to say well here's a fun scott foster fact there are any stats frank dominates i think chris paul is 12

Speaker 1 12 what 12 straight playoff losses 12 straight playoff losses when scott foster has been officiating a chris paul game okay so no no no no no there was a no series. There was one different one.

Speaker 1 I think the Valley Oop game with Scott Foster. So it's like 12 out of 13.
And that one was a product.

Speaker 1 Oh, and you didn't play in that game. Yeah.
All right, so

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 You know what, though? People, this is what we need for the NBA. The NBA, everyone will be like, oh, this is rigged.
Aisha Curry. Oh, I can't watch this anymore.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 They rig it to get us to as close to seven-game series as possible. I want more sports.
Right.

Speaker 1 Like a sweep in Milwaukee would have been, besides Sons and Four Guy, who he now lost so much money tonight. Yeah.
Like he lost his entire brand is gone. And we said it.

Speaker 1 If the Suns had swept the finals, he would have.

Speaker 1 I think I said he would

Speaker 1 be like a multi-millionaire, and I actually kind of stand behind that. Yeah, but now it's done.
He would be.

Speaker 1 He would be the guy, and at the very least, he would never buy another beer in Arizona again. He's probably going to try to get into another fight.
That's really the only way I do.

Speaker 1 If you're the Suns and 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.

Speaker 1 Then now you're the Suns and Six guy, and if that hits, boom, you're back on the gravy train. I don't think he wins the next fight.

Speaker 1 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 it. Well,

Speaker 1 he should just beat the fuck out of Dana Beers. Yeah, he would beat up Dana.
Dana cannot handle it. He just got his second backs.
Yeah. So he's probably a little weak in the arms.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I do kind of like, I feel gyps sometimes when I watch these games.

Speaker 1 I feel

Speaker 1 screwed. There you go.
G-worded. I feel G-worded sometimes when I watch these games.
And Aiton fouls out early,

Speaker 1 he gets in foul trouble early. Ayton has become one of my favorite players to watch just because he's always dunking.
He's just always above the rim.

Speaker 1 And so when he's out, it's like, it becomes a different game. Less fun for me.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, I mean,

Speaker 1 I always think that they should change the fouling. You should get unlimited fouls.
You should get unlimited fouls, and then it gets more punitive as you go along.

Speaker 1 I think your center should get unlimited fouls. But you get, like, if you get to six,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I always go back to the Joe Kim Noah, Greg Odin final when they both got in foul trouble. I was like, well, this fucking sucks.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 1 series on. Is everyone agreeing? Series is kind of on? It's kind of on.
It's low-key on. Wednesday is going to be game four.
If the Bucs win that, then it is high key on. It's very funny that

Speaker 1 during tonight's game, Major League Baseball had its draft during the finals game.

Speaker 1 And it was also supposed to be game seven of the Stanley Cup if it had gone seven. So stupid.
I fucking love Major League Baseball. They're so dumb.
They are genius.

Speaker 1 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. You just...

Speaker 1 Do the picks in the middle of the home run derby. Do the first 10 picks before the home run derby starts and then start the home run derby and there's always downtime during the home run derby.

Speaker 1 Start announcing the picks on live while people are watching. That baseball is like it's almost like they try to do everything wrong as a joke, which is what I've kind of learned to appreciate them.

Speaker 1 Like, yes, I'm going to 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.

Speaker 1 Okay, so anything else on game three? 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.

Speaker 1 Everyone's going to party. Oh, I had one other point.

Speaker 1 I'm done with 8K. The fans in 8K.
I'm over it. Milwaukee is not really 8K.
Thank you, Ryan. Well, no, it's not even Milwaukee.
Here's why I'm over it. Milwaukee isn't.

Speaker 1 They should never have gotten HD television in Milwaukee. That's the standard definition.

Speaker 1 Here's the problem.

Speaker 1 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 them.

Speaker 1 With 8K, 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Because they do start to show off for a little bit when you see a camera in front of you throwing a dab yeah maybe that 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 in yeah so i think i think in phoenix the aka 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 well just get through COVID because then all the sports will be happening at once.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 it does feel like it's over. He was getting his ass kicked in the first round.

Speaker 1 I don't think that Conor McGregor really feels pain because he just

Speaker 1 stepped on his his foot and it bent. It bent at a 90-degree angle.

Speaker 1 And then he looks at it while he's on the ground and he just like calmly diagnoses himself with a tib-fib fracture while he's on the ground continuing to fight back.

Speaker 1 Doesn't really wince in pain whatsoever. And then he's...
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.
Not a CKO.

Speaker 1 I think he eventually got that. They got that right because he made it to the end of that first round.

Speaker 1 But, I mean, he was like, he was so cool calm and collected as his foot basically fell off yeah he was well afterwards he was he 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 porrier's ass it's like dude you just you just had a fight with it it's the monty python it's a flesh wound right it's like what are you talking about you just lost the fight i so i will keep buying conor mcgregor fights forever because he's electric and part of whether you like it or not guess what like 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 like what's going on in the ring so him him as a legitimate fighter that is over he hasn't won he's won one fight since 2016 and the guy he beat had has lost or has not won a fight in his last six fights so he he's not he's just not going to be able to fight at a high level he had a great run but it it enough is enough with in that respect.

Speaker 1 Like, he's not a legitimate title contender. I'm still going to watch all the fights.
I'm still going to buy all his fights.

Speaker 1 He was getting stretched out of the ring and then telling the guy, like, your wife was in my DMs.

Speaker 1 Which that one hurt, though, because he said all week that he was going to put, he was going to make sure that Dustin Poirier left in a stretcher.

Speaker 1 And then he left in a stretcher, and it's like, come on, dude. But back to the-world's cheapest ankle brace.
Yeah. Yeah, well, yeah.

Speaker 1 It was basically like two pieces of cardboard. Yeah.
It was a Capri Sunbox.

Speaker 1 Do you think there'll ever be a day where we normalize people liking to watch injury videos? Because I watched it so many times.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I want to see the replay as many times.

Speaker 1 I mean, I've said that, 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.

Speaker 1 I figured out that I, 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

Speaker 1 to the injury video. So I got to do that like three times instead.
I would bring somebody new into the room and be like, you got to watch this injury.

Speaker 1 And then I just watch their faces and then I'd laugh. I'd be like, yeah, you saw what I just saw.
I love it.

Speaker 1 It's, I mean, I don't know. I think something's a little bit wrong with me.
You think so, Hank?

Speaker 1 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.
Okay, good. So I'm ahead of my time.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's like what Russello said the other day. It's like,

Speaker 1 say it now, and then in 15 years, you're like, oh, there was no problem with that. Yeah, like now, like half of everybody.
There'll be an injury replay show. Yeah, right.
You should have a channel.

Speaker 1 Yeah. The red zone channel.
I'd watch it.

Speaker 1 The red is just blood. By the way,

Speaker 1 shout out our guy, Scott Hanson, re-upping.

Speaker 1 Thank fucking God.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 3 Well, we still have DirecTV.

Speaker 1 No, fuck. Damn it.
But there should absolutely be be a red zone channel for injuries. Or just play like highlights.

Speaker 1 Two things the internet's killed. One is,

Speaker 1 well, really, the main one that comes to mind is like watching football folly videos. Like bloopers.
That's probably. There are too many bloopers out there now.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 It was a blooper reel, and it was just players being concussed. Yeah.
Oh, by the way, Scott Hanson, why he's the GOAT, I saw one of his tweets today, gave me chills down my spine.

Speaker 1 He said, in nine Sundays from now, I'll be with you, folks. And that's it? Yep.
Yep. I was like, holy fuck, you are.
I want to kiss you on your lips, Scott Hanson. And I want to punch Sicily on it.

Speaker 1 Well, no, I...

Speaker 1 What would I do to his balls? He's so short.

Speaker 1 I'd probably like...

Speaker 1 I would actually just trip into his balls, right? Step over. Yeah.
Just step over while he's standing up.

Speaker 1 All right, back to the fights. Yeah, UFC.

Speaker 1 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 what he that dude is soft yes yes he would probably murder me but like he he got caught but UFC hardos in all over the place being like try Greg Hardy on the streets no I don't thank you but I will absolutely not I will gladly watch other big people beat the fuck out of you he should should be on every card being like, watch here, pay $50 at the bare minimum you're going to watch Greg Hardy lose.

Speaker 1 Yes. Give me, like, have him fighting out of his weight class if that's even possible.
Have me just like a guaranteed Greg Hardy gets knocked out event every single fight. I'm in 100%.

Speaker 1 Like, he is the world's biggest scumbag, and nothing gives me more pleasure than watching him get punched in the face.

Speaker 1 And on top of all that, the guy who did it, Bam Bam from fucking Australia, who did a shooey after, what a legend.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 He was doing shooys on the way out with the hot sauce, which was disgusting, but awesome. And that guy, you could have picked a better guy to beat Greg Hardy's face in.
Agreed.

Speaker 1 When I first started watching that fight, I was like, oh, I think I may have bet poorly on this because he wasn't even sucking in that much. Yeah.

Speaker 1 He was just kind of out there, like, yeah, I've got a couple roles. 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.

Speaker 1 That should be a sport of its own. Yeah, it never gets old.
And he should do it.

Speaker 1 If Greg Hardy had, if Greg Hardy had an OnlyFans, but every video, like, you could pay $5, like, punch him once in the face. Yeah.
I think he'd become a millionaire that way.

Speaker 1 I had a question coming out of these fights. So, is Connor McGregor a sore loser? That's what people are saying.
Like, hey, he mentions Dustin Poirier's wife.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 like the sentiment that, hey,

Speaker 1 you're laying on the ground. you just lost, you broke your ankle, and you're saying 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.

Speaker 1 And yes, Conor McGregor is a bad sport, but he's just being Conor McGregor. Like, that's his personality.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 Connor.
Well, and

Speaker 1 people sometimes get confused with the fight game because I did see also Dustin Poirier after he's like, listen, I like to fight. I don't like all the other bullshit.

Speaker 1 Well, unfortunately, all the other bullshit gets people to watch. Yeah, he gets you paid.
Like Conor McGregor. You might say, oh, asshole, scumbag, all these things.
Guess what he does do as well?

Speaker 1 He fucking breaks pay-per-view records all the time. That's why we're sitting here right now saying, hey,

Speaker 1 he's not a title fighter anymore, but I'm still going to buy every single one of his pay-per-views.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Like, that's. Yeah, you might not like the entire package that goes into it, but you have to.

Speaker 1 So, like, for us, the reason why we're able to get paid to do this show is because we have Glenny Balls turn out burger reviews. Correct.
Putting lights on, putting money in our coat. Coal

Speaker 1 in the end.

Speaker 1 Yeah, exactly, so that we get to look good doing this podcast. That's true.
So, yeah,

Speaker 1 it's part of the fight game. You have to have somebody that's willing to stir the pot like that.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 has the Irish flag.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 yeah his ear is bleeding let's worry about his leg um last thing i had about the fights i actually wanted to ask because you know i'll admit it i'm a ufc casual like i buy i don't know probably like

Speaker 1 eight to ten pay-per-views a year.

Speaker 1 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's the best. But I don't know what the entire thing is.

Speaker 1 The entire broadcast crew is perfect for him. Joe Rogan getting laying sitting down next to Counter was fantastic.
But I love Daniel Cormier.

Speaker 1 Is one of those broadcasters where I feel like I'm learning something. Like there was that moment, I can't remember which fight it was, but it looked like someone was about to get choked out.

Speaker 1 And Cormier was like, no, he's good. Look at where his arm is.
And then two seconds later, he was good. Yeah.
And I was like, holy shit, how do you know that?

Speaker 1 I'm always amazed because he's a fighter, but he's awesome. Right.

Speaker 1 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 reverse. Right.

Speaker 1 Which is something like, unless you've done it for years and years and years, like, I don't,

Speaker 1 it doesn't even comprehend how you're able to just look at two guys and like mentally untangle them in your brain from far. Right.

Speaker 1 And I, so we obviously do knock broadcasters from time to time, Andrew Sisiliano. But so when they do well, I want to say, hey, I love that guy.
John Annick crushes it too. John Annicks, yes.

Speaker 1 So I think that 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 When you buy the pay-per-view, when you sit down, when the main event starts, and you are so locked in, it's one in the morning, chills down your spine.

Speaker 1 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 Connor McGregor does that.

Speaker 1 He does asses and seats, he does, he really does. So it was great.
It was just fun to watch a full card. All right, let's talk some other sports before we do that.
Give it up for Chicago.

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Speaker 1 Okay, we're going to talk Eurofinal with troops, but let's just talk about it real quickly with us.

Speaker 1 The only other thing I had that we missed with troops, I, well, England Heartbreak was, it was exceptional. Yeah, I mean, you knew it was coming too.
Knew it was coming.

Speaker 1 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 that.
Well,

Speaker 1 the chick who had 69. Yeah, Mrs.
Greelish, 69. I mean,

Speaker 1 she wants to fuck. Yeah.
Like, there's

Speaker 1 something about that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, there's something about somebody being horny that's sexy.

Speaker 1 I've always said that. There's also

Speaker 1 the Italian dude with the necklace and his shirt off. The fan cam cam is unbelievable.

Speaker 1 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's like, put on this pizza costume.

Speaker 1 And it's not flattering whatsoever. You don't think that that's probably part of their vows when you get married in Italy.

Speaker 1 She should have been leaving. She's not able to hold sexy little girls.
No, you can't. No, you can't take your wife to a soccer game and then have her dress up as your brother.

Speaker 1 I think that would be hot. You think that's a weird way? That would be hot.
Pizza.

Speaker 1 The fan cam to me was so entertaining today because every fan there was crying by like the fifth minute either out of nerves because you were at italy and you were behind and you're like oh fuck we're gonna lose this or because you're british and you're like fuck i've seen this movie before

Speaker 1 we scored too early yes everybody was crying everybody in that stadium was so so nervous uh but i don't know after like the 20th 30th minute i 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 scored too early.

Speaker 1 England scored too early. Italy got the way goal, which is why they won.
He did. Yeah,

Speaker 1 that on aggregate, they won the Euro final.

Speaker 1 I also, credit to me, I am, you know, we're a huge soccer podcast. Everyone knows that.

Speaker 1 I finally figured out that Garris 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 Yard situation where it was like the head of English footballs on Southgate Street.

Speaker 1 Okay. And they're like, Southgate says this.
No, I thought. Which doesn't it kind of play? I thought Gareth

Speaker 1 Southgate was like the name of the stadium in like Liverpool. Yeah, right.
Like it's a statement. It sounds like that.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Who's the coach of

Speaker 1 the manager? Fabrizio?

Speaker 1 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.
Roberto Mancini. I was close.

Speaker 1 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 in college baseball.

Speaker 1 Really? Yeah. No, I think it's coach.
I think it's college baseball coach. I guess it's coach.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 But yeah.

Speaker 1 Roberto Mancini did a great job with the guys. Yeah, Roberto.
He's there today.

Speaker 1 It's awesome. He's at 433.

Speaker 1 It's the little things in life. Like whenever 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 Italian.

Speaker 1 Which makes sense because they are literally from Italy. But I don't know why.

Speaker 1 Like, whenever you see a Luigi in the wild or Roberto or like, you know, or Fabrizio, I think, is maybe a guy on the team. Give us a couple of guys on the team.

Speaker 1 There was, well, Immobile is one of them. Like, I just laugh.

Speaker 1 Chiesa looks so Italian that he starts to look French. Yeah.
A little bit. A little bit.
He's the most Italian-looking person in the entire world.

Speaker 3 We got three goalies: Salvador Sirugu, Gian Luigi, Donna Rumo.

Speaker 1 Wait, Gian Luigi. Wait, wait, wait.
That's a starter. Gian Luigi, yeah.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so Big Cat, the last goalie for Italy was also named Gian Luigi. I think it's like number 10.
They give that to the best player.

Speaker 1 The starting goalie for Italy always has to be named Gian Luigi. And then if you win a major title,

Speaker 1 that's him. Yeah, yeah.
Gigi Buffon was Gian Luigi Buffon. Got it.
And it's like the Pope. Yeah, then before him, it was like, I want to say Gian Luca.
Gian Luca.

Speaker 1 I love it. I love it.
Yeah, that guy was really good.

Speaker 1 Give me a couple of other names. Give me a good couple.

Speaker 3 Giovanni DiLorenzo, Giorgio Cellini,

Speaker 1 Leonardo, Spinozzola,

Speaker 1 Emerson,

Speaker 1 Emerson. No last name.

Speaker 3 Francesco Acerbi, Leonardo Bonucci, Alessandro Bastille.

Speaker 1 Leonardo Bonucci? Yeah. That's a fucking fire name.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 I don't know. Matteo Piscina,

Speaker 3 Andrea Bellotti, or Bellotti, Lorenzo Inseñe.

Speaker 1 They all sound like they'll come over your house, smoke all your cigarettes.

Speaker 1 I just fucking love them. I don't know.

Speaker 3 Federico Bernardeschi.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So shout out Italy.
It's coming, Rome.

Speaker 1 All right. What else do we have? Oh, the Water Dogs are good.
Yeah, well, they're solidified in the middle of the pack right now. Yeah, they play.
play jam.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Well, they're beating some inferior opponents right now.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I had Billy crunch some stats. Give it to me, Billy.
So, our strategy is simply just shoot more.

Speaker 1 The Wire Dogs shot the most out of any team in their game against the Cannons.

Speaker 1 There it is. How many shots? 50 shots.
Boom. Versus the Cannons shot 28 times.
That's all you got to do. Just shoot the ball.

Speaker 1 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 Archer. So this works.
Yep.

Speaker 1 The results are there. There was a curveball shot that one of our guys had.
Did you see that? No. He spun it off the ground and it bounced to the side.
Did it happen on Sunday's game?

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was today. I didn't watch the highlights.
Well, I just saw the highlight. I didn't watch it.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I turned it right off. Yeah, so we won.

Speaker 1 We won. That's all.
Listen, we're a results-oriented management company here. Good dogs.
Good boys. Very good boys.
Yeah. They get to sleep back inside.
No more out in the doghouse.

Speaker 1 All right, let's do our who's back. Then we have troops.
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Speaker 1 Okay, Henry is back. We're back.
The whole crew is back. Shout out to Jake and Tongue filling in.
Much appreciated.

Speaker 1 Big Tongue. Big Tonguey.
But we are back. Great to be back.

Speaker 1 Hank brought back a sickness. Are you sick, Hank? Not a sickness.
Just, you know, a little hungover. It's called vacation hangover.

Speaker 1 You got the beach flu. Did you get sick on vacation?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 How many days is this beach flu on? Is this a two-day hangover?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Two more vacation questions. How was

Speaker 1 the shaming curbed a little bit? People were respectful of your vacation time?

Speaker 1 Yes, 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.

Speaker 1 But I don't know that I would do that because he didn't take the vacations. You got to just take the vacation.
I think he probably did and just, you know. I mean, his whole life is a vacation.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Hank, did did you fuck? No. What? Okay.

Speaker 1 Just curious. Just curious.
Jesus Christ. Just curious.

Speaker 1 Just curious. Back in scratch.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Jose Altuve and the Asteroids are back.

Speaker 1 Well, how so? And DK Metcalf.

Speaker 1 Jose Altuve is 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. I really.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 They got let off more than anyone's been let off the hook in the history of anything. Because fans are back now, but it's so long ago that they don't care.
I don't think I.

Speaker 1 It's not right that he's able to take his shirt off and play into that joke without having ever really been punished for that. Correct.
Right? It's also... Not laugh at it.

Speaker 1 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 a shitload of money who is only good.

Speaker 1 Well, he had a great game on Saturday night, but seemingly is only good when he can cheat with Spider-Tech. Right.
Hilarious. That really sucks, right, Jake and Billy?

Speaker 3 Small sample size.

Speaker 1 Of just Saturday Night him being good? Of what?

Speaker 3 He had three bad starts and one good one.

Speaker 1 So not enough yet. Okay.
He'll get a grip. I like it, Billy.
He's back.

Speaker 1 Okay, and then what was the other one? DK Metcalf. For what? He did like a one-legged box.
Oh, yeah, that was pretty insane. 42 inches.
It was insane. I was thinking.

Speaker 1 He was holding a 12-pound medicine ball. Damn, I can't even do a one-legged without any weight.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 In slow-pitch softball. Yikes.
Tough.

Speaker 1 That gets aired tomorrow or today? Well, I don't know. There were people at the game that were giving me reports on his box.
Yeah, I think they

Speaker 1 might have aired after the home run derby or something. It's super weird.
I need to see his two strikeouts, though.

Speaker 1 We need those.

Speaker 1 All right, PFT, your who's back?

Speaker 1 My who's back of the week is Shark Week. Shark Week's back.

Speaker 1 Shark Week. Boo.
Shark Week. Although I do have kind of a shock that I'm kind of pre-calling on this one.
I think that we're overdue for a Summer of the Shark.

Speaker 1 The media hasn't really had anything to keep us in fear about after COVID has kind of started to become an afterthought. The media, they are overdue for another Summer of the Shark.

Speaker 1 You weren't scared about the story of the

Speaker 1 shooting that was planned in Denver? That was pretty scary. Oh, that one? Well,

Speaker 1 that 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. That's very scary.

Speaker 1 They were selling guns, maybe not necessarily like a planned massacre. Yeah, but that's how the media...

Speaker 1 Sorry, the media definitely got me scared on that one. Exactly.
When you find... Kick out of your house.

Speaker 1 If a reporter finds a room that's got seven guns in it, they're going to be like, crisis averted. Yeah, right.
But

Speaker 1 I do think that we're overdue for a summer of the shark like there might be one shark attack on the east coast in the next month and then everybody will just freak out and be like summer the shark's back sharks are back shark week sucks shark week does suck i it doesn't take a genius we figure out how to make yeah how to make shark week good again and that's just give us give us an eating give us a feeding frenzy i don't even have it like don't

Speaker 1 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 can put it into Shark Week.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 All right, my who's back is the GOATs because it was a big weekend for the GOATs.

Speaker 1 Messi wins his

Speaker 1 long-eluted 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

Speaker 1 South America is in South America

Speaker 1 not Europe

Speaker 1 was that no no no that was real no that was a joke I'm back

Speaker 1 just kidding

Speaker 1 you had his

Speaker 1 second hang

Speaker 1 so

Speaker 1 you're confused because he plays for Barcelona which is no it's like it's like it was like a it was a big tournament and and yeah it was South America instead of Europe yeah so Copa is like right it's and then they all play the World Cup it's basically the World Cup except not Brazil and Argentina Right.

Speaker 1 And Colombia. Totally understood.
Fuck. It was totally depressed.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but he won.

Speaker 1 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 won.
They carried him. My goat.
My goat.

Speaker 1 So now Ronaldo and Messi have the same amount of trophies, international trophies, I believe.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And then Jokovich, 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.
He's going to win at the U.S.

Speaker 1 Open. That's the

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 Because you've been on the wrong side of history and I'm wiping the floor with you. You're a Federer guy.

Speaker 1 Everything. No, you're a Federer.

Speaker 1 You're a Federer guy.

Speaker 3 Three-way tie for 20 is great for the sport.

Speaker 1 You're a Federer guy.

Speaker 3 We need all three in the semifinals.

Speaker 1 Kiss my feet and say I was right.

Speaker 3 Billie Gene King tennis center in two months.

Speaker 1 All in the semifinals. But there's no chance that Federer comes back and has, you know, adds to that 20.
Nope, right? Nope. Like the 20 has a period next to it.

Speaker 3 He had a good run this tournament.

Speaker 1 Not really. He lost in the quarterfinals.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's not getting 21.

Speaker 1 What you're doing right now, talking about Federer? Could you imagine five years ago being like, he had a good run, he lost in the quarterback? Yeah, you're right. You're right.
It's over. It's over.

Speaker 1 See,

Speaker 1 Queens?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 Actually, we were talking about it. We might go to one.

Speaker 1 A game. Is this the one that he got kicked out of a couple years ago when he tried to kill a ball? Defaulted.
Yeah, whatever.

Speaker 1 Shouldn't have been standing there. I don't know.
People,

Speaker 1 it's very funny when I hop into tennis for, I would say,

Speaker 1 I'm a tennis tennis. Four times a year.

Speaker 1 Well, 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? Like, I don't fucking care.

Speaker 1 He's the goat.

Speaker 1 I'm not a huge Djokovic fan. However, if he pulls off the Joke Slam this year, the Golden Slam.
No, the Joke Slam. Yes, the Joke Slam.
The Joke Slam by winning an Olympic gold medal. And then the U.S.

Speaker 1 Open. And the U.S.
Open, that's something that we'll never see accomplished again in our lifetime. Ever.
And I choose to appreciate greatness wherever I might find it.

Speaker 1 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 always

Speaker 3 become the first player to

Speaker 3 get disqualified one year from the U.S.

Speaker 1 Open and win it the next year.

Speaker 1 That's true. That's true.
That's a great question. That's not confirmed, but without doing research, it's probably disqualified.
Why do you get disqualified? You got hit in the neck?

Speaker 1 You hit a judge with the ball. In the neck?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Adams Apple?

Speaker 1 Was she okay if it was it was she probably not the Adams Apple

Speaker 1 She and it was just you know tennis ball whatever

Speaker 1 oh oh yo it was an older woman yeah fuck I forgot

Speaker 1 yeah they had to call over like now

Speaker 1 he 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 sorry's in in a row it's all good you have to just say after it hits him you gotta go heads up yeah yeah

Speaker 1 that's it that's good that's enough punishment uh all right jake your who's back did she die yes my who's back no okay billy is chomping at the bit to grab the mic uh 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 like a lot of them are in the nba i don't think it's as embarrassing

Speaker 3 as people are saying. I have a take.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 This is good for basketball.

Speaker 1 I love those people. None of them are saying like

Speaker 1 basketball. You know what?

Speaker 1 It's shown

Speaker 1 all the good that the United States has done on an international level. Global reason.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 It really goes to show you what a great job United States basketball has done in spreading the game. Right, right.

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 I think that

Speaker 1 David versus Goliath

Speaker 1 trumps all like fandom and nationality and everything. When there's like a true David, you might say, hey, Nigeria is way better than David, so it's not David versus Goliath.

Speaker 1 I would say, hey, these are a collection of the best NBA players.

Speaker 1 They're the best. We're the best.
We should win every game. We beat Nigeria by like 80 points

Speaker 1 six years ago. Any David versus Goliath is so much fun to watch that I didn't really care.
Like, I know that even if it happens in the regular tournament, I think I wouldn't, I want U.S.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Like, if a

Speaker 1 division, like, if Coastal Carolina played Alabama and they beat him, that would be such an incredible

Speaker 1 Oklahoma Oklahoma game. Yeah, UNBC, 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 that.

Speaker 1 I wasn't even, I wasn't bothered by it. I was like, that's fucking cool for Nigeria.
You're rooting for humanity at that point. You know what I don't know.

Speaker 1 As a journalist, you're rooting for the best storyline possible.

Speaker 1 It just dawned on me that I was like, I think that I would always, if a David versus Goliath event happened like this,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 But I would understand that everyone else would be like,

Speaker 1 that's incredible. Right, exactly.

Speaker 1 I completely understand where people would come from. Yeah.
So, yeah. In this circumstance, I'm like, yeah, good for Nigeria.

Speaker 1 If it's in the Olympics, I'm USA all the way, baby. No, I'm USA all the way, but if it happens, it's like I still would step back and be like, you know what? That's fucking...

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Like, 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%.

Speaker 3 And they don't have the full team because they have guys in the finals.

Speaker 1 That's true.

Speaker 1 That's true. Also, shout out to Luis Scola.
He's still playing for Argentina. Hell yes.
My favorite Eurofinals. Is nobody out there?

Speaker 1 That'd be awesome. Yeah.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 He's just,

Speaker 1 through sheer force of will, has got himself back in who's back. My who's back of the week is football guys.

Speaker 1 Kevin Zeitler was doing pass pro footwork. Badger.
In while his wife was giving labor. Yeah.
Giving birth.

Speaker 1 Actually,

Speaker 1 the best part of that was someone... I think a teammate of his replied

Speaker 1 and was like, if you know Kevin, he does this everywhere. Like, if he's waiting in line at Chipotle,

Speaker 1 he's doing some pass pro. I also like how it's referred to as, like, I'm getting a couple of sets in, a couple sets of pass protection.

Speaker 1 What that really means is, like, you're just shuffling your feet to the side real quick. No, that's one set done.
You could see mentally he was critiquing his own.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 It's just very funny that it's got its own term for like doing that one specific dance move. It's actually a set.

Speaker 1 And yeah, 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 everywhere that you go.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Hank, he was like,

Speaker 1 can I say my Who's Backs right now so that no one steals it? And I was like, oh, okay. So

Speaker 1 he just powered through. And I like it.
I thought one of you guys was going to take it. He captured it back.
We did take, which one did we take? Scott Hanson. Scott Hanson is back.

Speaker 1 All the way fucking back. Are you a Scott Hanson guy, right? Oh, in.

Speaker 1 Wait.

Speaker 1 Hard O'Journos?

Speaker 1 No, we're doing that as segments. Okay.

Speaker 1 Let's get to troops. PFT.
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Speaker 1 And here he is, Troops.

Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on our good friend, Troops.

Speaker 1 He was at the game, England versus Italy, Eurofinal.

Speaker 1 You can listen to his podcast back again with Troops AFC.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So, troops, you joined. We can tell that it's not exactly a great moment.

Speaker 1 My first question is,

Speaker 1 well, it's not a question. Your haircut looks great.

Speaker 1 Then the question comes in,

Speaker 1 when did you get that haircut?

Speaker 7 My boy, man. You get me? He looks after me.

Speaker 7 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 um

Speaker 1 literally today blood no true so you got it 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

Speaker 7 how could you Nah, but like, it's a big game, blood. So man has to come correct.
You get me? Like, I can't be going in there and flipping, I'm looking like a madman

Speaker 1 the trophy and they get me it it's a final man you have to go there looking correct okay all right so 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

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So what was it like walking to the game and beforehand and outside of the stadium?

Speaker 7 Like, from I woke up, like, I was just, I was nervous. So finally,

Speaker 7 anything can happen, you get me. But the excitement is there as well.
So when I'm in the shower, I'm playing Free Lions. I'm playing Vindaloo.

Speaker 7 I'm playing fucking

Speaker 7 the streets. Like, I'm playing Park Life.

Speaker 7 I'm on the Geezer team today. You get me? And like, went to the ground, literally, like, from I got to Wembley Way.
I couldn't move, blood. Like, I could not fucking move.

Speaker 7 I've been Wembley a lot of times. Like, I've been there for FA Cup final with Arsenal.
I've been there for England games.

Speaker 7 And today,

Speaker 7 I have never seen it like that in my life, blood.

Speaker 7 In my fucking life. It was like Corona didn't exist, blood.
There was no masks. There was nothing,

Speaker 7 blood. it was just like it was like 2019 vibes you get me but

Speaker 7 it was like everyone was just up for it like it was just it was it was literally like if when you man come london i want to bring you like august times in it so i can bring you to carnival carnival's like the caribbean carnival you get me and then we go around 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 it smoke your weed drink your drink your vibes in girls would just jump on you you get me me like they would just jump on you bro like you're bopping a girl would just jump on you 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 because they're like fresh cans blood they're just throwing them in the air like you just catch the cans blood boop you get me like it was crazy bro like you know the english man there the football man there they love the white stuff they always bear that blood like my yo troops you want to cheat you on i'm like yo brother you might know me.

Speaker 7 Like, you get me, I'm a member, blood. You understand? I bud my team, man.
When I snort my thing, you understand. So, I'm just there rash in my zoobies.

Speaker 7 And then, like, when we went up to go in now, because I never see the ambush in it when people ran up and was moving to fucking stewards and they broke in into the actual stadium.

Speaker 7 I never saw none of that. But I was vibing on Rembrandy Way because I've got my ticket.
I ain't got to worry about that. So, I'm just cooling.
So, when I've gone up there now,

Speaker 7 obviously, because the man names gone up there earlier, and everyone's just like, Don't give a jib, gang, everyone's doing the jib thing.

Speaker 7 This,

Speaker 7 it took me, like, I literally 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.

Speaker 7 It would take me a minute, like, yeah,

Speaker 7 and it took me 45 minutes.

Speaker 7 I never got to the fucking turnstile until 6:45.

Speaker 7 Then, when I got in, I got upstairs, everyone's on the concourse getting mad. Beers are flowing.
Beers are flying again. You get me? Like,

Speaker 7 it's just seams. Everywhere you go, it's just seams.
Like, everyone's up for it. It's a feel-good vibe.

Speaker 7 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, where are you at? That was a different team, Blood. You get me?

Speaker 1 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 Wimbley Stadium?

Speaker 1 That sounds like it would have been more fun if you didn't have a ticket.

Speaker 7 Nah, you're just a madman, blood. You understand? Like, I got fucking, I got fucking thrown out of there with fucking jet skis for vlogging, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, what happened? Vlogging? You were vlogging? For vlogging, bro.

Speaker 7 So we were vlogging, yeah.

Speaker 1 You get me?

Speaker 7 For vlogging, blood. You understand? I heard all you fucking pricks were walking around the next day in the office saying, for vlogging, blood, for vlogging.

Speaker 7 You managed to kid cats. I swear that I'm blood.
So like, even that situation, like

Speaker 7 they threw man out because I think it was the size size of the camera. Yeah.

Speaker 7 Because the worst thing is, yeah, I even told Jets, I could tell, I told Jets, obviously, I spoke to you, like, the man that threw man out,

Speaker 7 I saw him at the semi-final, blood. He's come up to me with seven of them, blood.
Yeah, I'm chilling there. Two of my man there, I'm chilling with.

Speaker 7 And there's that couple fans that fuck with me, innit? Like, supporters, they're there. I'm just chilling with them.
It's like a group of us. He's come in front of me, yeah.
And then he's like,

Speaker 7 you all right, mate? And I was like, I looked at him, yeah, and I was like, this pussy old.

Speaker 7 In my head, I was like, in my head, I was like, it's pussy old, it's him. And then I looked here to the side of me, I just see, like, at the corner of my eye, I just see bear like orange,

Speaker 7 like fluorescent orange. So I turned, yeah, and I just see seven of them.

Speaker 1 Like, bear. I'm like, brother, I turned to him, yeah.

Speaker 7 I said, big man, what the fuck is your problem now? I said, you're gonna throw me out again. I said, what are you throwing me out for this time, blood? He said, no, no, no.

Speaker 7 They notified me on the camera that you're here. So I just thought I'd come up and see you and just apologise and say it was nothing personal.
Wembley were telling me in my ear to get you out.

Speaker 7 Your friend was rude. You try to blame him on Jetsky, blood.

Speaker 7 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, blood.
We've even held back certain shit you said, blood. Yeah.

Speaker 7 And released what we wanted to. We could have made you look even worse, blood.
Yeah. I said, what it is now is nobody here fucking.
I said, you don't feel sorry.

Speaker 7 I said, what it is, is you feel pressure, blood.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 7 You felt the heat, blood. Yeah.
You realize, blah, blah, car. Your friend was telling you, yo, this is troops.
Like, this is what he does. Like, he's not filming the game.
He's filming his reactions.

Speaker 7 That's what he does.

Speaker 7 Like, you, you, we managed to put you saying on the, on, on the vlog, oh he's arsenal oh we've got a problem i said so what are you tottenham is that the problem i said is that the problem blood i said what because sack was running riot and came came

Speaker 7 all at that time i said is what you're jealous or something blood you understand he's like nah nah nah your friend was rude direct i said whatever anyway man then he goes to me oh where are you sitting i said a seat

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 You get me? You know me, blood. You understand me? I'm saying, fuck this man, blood.
I'm saying, I'm in a red seat, blood. What? What do you mean, what seat am I in?

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 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, blood. And then he's like.

Speaker 7 And Daly actually, he was actually like, please, can I see your ticket?

Speaker 1 I said, he's a steward.

Speaker 7 I have to show him in it. I said, all right, cool.
So I don't know if he thought I jibbed and I never had a ticket. And when I back up my ticket now, he's like, oh, okay.
And he just walked off black.

Speaker 1 So you're a wanted man, so you had to get a ticket. So

Speaker 1 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.
All right. So let's talk about the game.

Speaker 1 Do you think,

Speaker 1 and this is no troll, but it did feel England scores so early. It was actually, they said

Speaker 1 on the telecast, fastest goal in Euro Euro final, right?

Speaker 1 Do you think that that actually ended up like,

Speaker 1 I mean, it kind of hurt them because they played to,

Speaker 1 you know, like a defensive game after that. They didn't keep attacking.
Were you, did you see it when it was happening?

Speaker 1 Like, oh, this might actually be a problem because we're just waiting for the game to end, hoping that nothing bad happens.

Speaker 7 At 1-0, I was saying to the people 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.

Speaker 7 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

Speaker 7 angle blood it was a game of two halves and an extra time it could have gone anyway blood you get me first half we had it second half they had a man pinned against the wall blood you understand And we couldn't get out.

Speaker 7 And I think Southgate, I think he took too long to make the changes, but because when he brought on Saka is when they equalized. He straight brought on Saka.
You understand?

Speaker 7 When Saka were 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.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 But then you've still got Phillips, Rice, and Mount as the three in the midfield. Blood, that's too defensive, blood.
You understand?

Speaker 1 You need to be off.

Speaker 7 You need, as you lot see, as you lot saying, you need to be offensive. You need to be on the attack blood.
Because at 1-0,

Speaker 7 1-0 is a day. They say the most dangerous scores in football are 1-0 and 2-0.

Speaker 7 Because 1-0, 1-1, 2-0, 2-1. They're back in the game.
They could get the ascendancy. Bank.
2-2. I'd rather be 2-0 up, love.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 I disagree. I'd rather be.

Speaker 1 It is funny when people say 2-0 is the most dangerous lead. It's like, I'd rather have two up than one-up.

Speaker 1 If you're two up and then you lose the lead, then that's worse, though, than if you're just one-up. But still.
I still would take up two goals.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And if you're not even trying to, if you're only just trying to counter-attack, then you don't have that rhythm already established to fall back on later in the game when you actually do need a goal.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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, you know, and score a goal on a pk do you 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 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 if you're good at pennies then you're a set piece man you can come on you you don't really need time to get into the game to to hit the ball in the back to hit the ball from 12 yards blood you understand

Speaker 7 you're seen as a specialist in that position so i understand when it's the 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.

Speaker 7 We're getting him on now. Fuck, fuck, there's a minute left.
We're just getting him on so we can take a penny.

Speaker 7 It's like you even see certain, you even see certain games where they would bring off the goalkeeper and change the goalkeeper because the goalkeeper on the bench is better at pennies.

Speaker 1 Yep, right. You understand? Wait, I love the way that you say penalty.
Can you say penalties again?

Speaker 1 Penalties. Penalties.

Speaker 1 This fucking guy.

Speaker 1 Do you think Sterling should have kicked, though, before or Grealish? Because it did feel...

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 But it's similar to having a guy pinch hit at the end of an extra inning game. It's like, all right, he might do something, but it also might be really hard because

Speaker 1 he hasn't had any flow of the game.

Speaker 7 When you come into the Penny situation as well, you don't really need the flow because you're just literally walking up from the halfway line to the pennies.

Speaker 1 So, what happened?

Speaker 7 It's literally you and the goalkeeper. So, it's not like you against you understand.

Speaker 7 It's a bit more different when it comes to pennies.

Speaker 1 So, when it went to penalties, did you were you like, it's over? We're fucked.

Speaker 7 Nah, like, anything can happen in pennies, isn't it?

Speaker 1 Well, well, yeah, anything can happen, but it always pretty much ends up in English heartbreak, right?

Speaker 7 Yeah, that's true, black.

Speaker 1 But we broke that, but we broke that, innit?

Speaker 7 We broke that in Russia when we beat colombia 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 locked us out of the fucking um 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.

Speaker 1 You have to blame Southgate because we shouldn't have got to pennies like right so all 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 like things are going in the right direction so does it feel is there optimism even in a terrible terrible loss like that Yeah, this time, even like Russia, there was optimism because we knew

Speaker 7 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

Speaker 7 like confident, you get me, that we could go on and do, we could do bits at the World Cup. You understand? Might not win it, but maybe we could get to a semi-final again.
You get me?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 7 But in previous years, it was a bit different because when we lost, we were like, yo, this is the end of like the whole Beckham, Gerrard, Lampard era. This is bullshit.
Like,

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 The only fuckery is, is that with fucking three black players missing, you already know what's going to happen at full time. And before,

Speaker 7 as soon as Saka missed his fucking penity, you go to his Instagram, you see a monkey emojis, you're seeing black this, black that. You understand?

Speaker 7 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?

Speaker 7 Being thrown into it.

Speaker 7 I don't know, like, somebody says it was, somebody said it was an Italian fan, somebody said it was a black guy that, like, there's been fucking people saying that people are running around with knives in fucking Chad.

Speaker 7 Well, he forced 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?

Speaker 7 And I'm like, why are you doing this, bro? Like.

Speaker 7 This is like, come on, bro. It's 2021 now, innit? You understand? We need to stop all this bullshit.
You get me? Like, booing the fucking knee and all this bullshit.

Speaker 7 Like, you're booing the knee, but then then certainly bangs it, top beans, and you're fucking there. Like, oh,

Speaker 7 you're saying, fucking, you're saying, sack as a child, Zaka's a prodigy. We need to start Saka.
Saka misses, eyes are black cut, this, that, da, da, da, da. You're begging for Sancho to be played.

Speaker 7 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?

Speaker 7 And it's got beyond, it's gone beyond that point now, blood. My man's had enough of this shit now, blood.
You understand?

Speaker 7 It's fucking bullshit, blood. You have to look at the majority of this team as well.
Majority of the team is black.

Speaker 7 You understand?

Speaker 7 But the best players are black blood. Yeah.
If we want to get technical.

Speaker 7 And then you, and you understand, it's the black players that kind of carried this team to get to the final, blood. And now you want to turn them because we missed the team.

Speaker 7 But then we're the experienced players. You understand?

Speaker 7 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?

Speaker 1 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.
Yeah. So do you feel...
like not my favorite?

Speaker 1 Do you feel 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.

Speaker 1 And, you know, you have to be, you know, you're an Arsenal fan first and foremost, I think, but you also support English national team. Do you feel bad?

Speaker 1 Like, do you feel like a traitor to yourself when you're cheering for Harry Kane?

Speaker 7 Nah, because he's playing for England. Who's the guy? Playing for the country.

Speaker 1 Who's the guy who made the other penalty kick?

Speaker 7 What? Who scored?

Speaker 1 No, yeah, yeah, yeah. Who scored? No, the Maguire.
That guy was simple. He looks the most English caricature guy of all.
Oh, the guy that put it top shelf? Yeah.

Speaker 1 He couldn't get a tan if he sat out in the sun for five years straight. Ooh, truce.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 7 No, but

Speaker 7 he made two saves. Or is it one?

Speaker 1 One or two. I think he saved two shots.
Yeah. Two penalties.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 no one was missed right

Speaker 1 uh i don't know if it was a miss i think he's i think he had two saves yeah he might have been two saves yeah he had two saves

Speaker 7 um two saves because they won yeah they won free two yeah yeah yeah because yeah he saved the first one and he saved the last one the last one yeah and then zapper missed how many times in the last two weeks have you said it's coming home

Speaker 7 A lot.

Speaker 1 Like, are you sick of it?

Speaker 7 It's not coming home now, boys.

Speaker 1 I know. Can you know? Okay, we're smart.
We're big football fans.

Speaker 1 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, Kat and I do.

Speaker 1 So, what, for them, can you explain to those people what it's coming home means?

Speaker 7 It's coming home.

Speaker 1 Like, football was

Speaker 7 founded in England. You get me? It's not like, oh, we're bringing, yeah, the trophy's coming back home.
Like, you understand?

Speaker 7 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?

Speaker 7 Obviously, other people

Speaker 7 will have their other

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 1 I got it.

Speaker 1 The sport's coming back home to the place of its birth.

Speaker 7 Yeah. So it's been, it's that song was made in 96 for the Euros when we got to the semi.
And then Southgate missed the penny and we we lost to Germany. And that song's been around since then.

Speaker 1 What, um, so after the game, was it just everyone was as sad and terrible as it could be?

Speaker 1 I don't, I don't want to sound like I'm, but this is really like what sports are.

Speaker 1 Like, they obviously show people in the crowds who are like dying a million deaths for a reason because it's the you know thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.

Speaker 1 So, how truly miserable was it in the stands?

Speaker 7 I wouldn't say miserable.

Speaker 7 I'd say heated.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 7 You get me?

Speaker 7 These men are so lucky that I don't film what they do.

Speaker 7 I swear to God. Oh my God.

Speaker 7 Yo, man's also madness tonight, bro.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 I'm watching this video right now of the person being thrown into the Thames.

Speaker 1 It's an old-fashioned toss.

Speaker 1 The Thames room?

Speaker 7 Bro, it's like there's two of them. There's two men, and they literally just dash him into the Thames.

Speaker 1 Maybe it was celebration. Yeah, it could have been Italian.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 1 Well, maybe. You get me?

Speaker 7 But when I came out...

Speaker 1 The English aren't known for bathing. Maybe he was just getting a little quick bath in.

Speaker 7 Boy, we started this whole hooligan team. You get me? So, you understand?

Speaker 1 Yeah. I did see this.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 But from the reaction in the media, I do think that 2021, people are like getting in front of it, being like, you can't blame these guys. Like, blame the coach.
And

Speaker 1 also penalty kicks. Actually, this is a question that I want to know your take on.
Ending a game in penalties.

Speaker 1 Are you for it or 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.

Speaker 1 You get some of the most incredible moments in the sport from this. But where do you side on that?

Speaker 7 No, I'm with it, man. It's part of the game.
You get me? If you can't win it in 120,

Speaker 7 then it's got to go to a penny shootout.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. At some point, the players just get too tired.
You can't keep playing forever and ever and ever.

Speaker 7 Yeah, because they're playing at high intensity, blood.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I thought what they should do is walk around a lot.

Speaker 1 They should, at the start of extra time, take two men off per side yeah and have it just be nine a side and then maybe if it goes to the second overtime

Speaker 1 then you go seven on one and then you end up just one-on-one full-sized field and then first to ten goals wins

Speaker 1 harry kane's just tapping it in over and over and over This is why you men do NFL and basketball. You can't be off sides if there's only one guy on your team.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Like, they both start at the 25, and then they just score and score and score. It's awesome.
It's fucking awesome.

Speaker 1 The only 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.

Speaker 1 It's a 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,

Speaker 1 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 your direction, need to figure out a better way to solve it.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 When you have a team like Italy that wins a couple games in penalty kicks, it does feel like a little cheap, right?

Speaker 1 You're able to defend, defend, defend, stretch it out until overtime, stretch 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.

Speaker 7 Yeah, but if that's your tactic, that's your tactic. That's how you're going to go at it.

Speaker 1 It's tactical. In tournament.

Speaker 7 You understand?

Speaker 7 It's who wins a tactical battle.

Speaker 1 I have some silver linings for you, if you'd like to hear them. Number one is

Speaker 1 2016 Euros. France lost in the final at home

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 mini car.
The mini car.

Speaker 1 What do you think about the mini car? Pretty cool, right?

Speaker 1 The mini car that brings the ball out.

Speaker 7 I think they got that idea from an American.

Speaker 1 That's something I can see.

Speaker 7 Blood, that's something I can see at that fucking Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 7 I wish. You're just coming out and then Brady just picking it up like, oh, hey.

Speaker 1 I want everything on a mini-car. Like, that is the coolest way to start a game is to just have a mini-car driving the ball out.

Speaker 7 Well, I knew you would like it.

Speaker 1 Of course. Why wouldn't you like it?

Speaker 1 What do you have against the mini-car?

Speaker 7 Nothing. It was just

Speaker 1 different. Sounds like you don't like the barnyard.
No, it sounds like you don't like the mini-car. You think that it's one of the corporate American innovations to sport? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Which it is, I think, is conscious by DHO. If something bad happens to the mini-car, I think troops would be the first person I'd look to.

Speaker 1 you can blow the mini car up

Speaker 7 i ain't gonna whoa are you mad

Speaker 1 dude do you better not i'd be so mad i love that

Speaker 7 i'm trying to get back in the country blood yeah

Speaker 1 so all right so you're back back again is his podcast when are you coming back i'm back on thursday

Speaker 1 you're coming home on thursday

Speaker 1 yeah wow

Speaker 1 okay well um I feel bad for you. I really do.
I do think that I was rooting for the most pain because

Speaker 1 why not and then when it happened i i was like damn i the fact that it was socca 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 like england lose and watching the pain but i did feel bad for you in that moment thank you That's nice of me.

Speaker 1 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.
Yeah. I think we actually

Speaker 1 may have manifested that into happening. Because it's, I mean, it's a good storyline.
And it's good for ratings, truth. And when you finally win it all, it's even better.

Speaker 7 And let me just say, fuck Gaza's World Blood.

Speaker 1 Oh, what did he do? What did he do?

Speaker 7 Fucking talking about a sucker, blood.

Speaker 1 Oh, no.

Speaker 7 Fucking dickhead. So what Dave, so what Dave let him out of the pocket?

Speaker 1 Oh, last question. Do you think Harry Kane's a bullhog? Because I do.

Speaker 7 What do you mean a bullhog?

Speaker 1 He just, he like intercepts other people's passes that are directed to someone else. He dribbles.

Speaker 7 He did it to fucking. Yes.

Speaker 7 He did it to Grealish in the semis.

Speaker 1 Yes. He's a ballhit.

Speaker 7 Yes.

Speaker 7 Sterling whipped it and it was for Grealish and then he came and tried to and then he done some bullshit with it. But like he's a striker in it.
I remember Ornry used to do it as well.

Speaker 7 Like I remember fucking Pirrez would whip it in and Onry would take it off Berkham.

Speaker 7 Because it's just that striker mentality when the ball comes across, your natural instinct is to go. You're not going to let it go.
That's how you've got all these goals.

Speaker 7 because when it comes to you, it's just boom, when you see it, you just rasse it. So, I want to really say it's a bullhog.

Speaker 1 Okay. 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.

Speaker 1 There were no VAR controversies. Are you starting to come around on VAR?

Speaker 7 VAR was very good in the Euros.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 7 I've never had like my problem with VAR is the people that use it,

Speaker 7 not actual VAR, because VAR does what it's supposed to do. Do you understand?

Speaker 7 It's the

Speaker 7 people that make the decisions that fuck up VAR.

Speaker 1 It's like guns don't kill people,

Speaker 1 people kill people.

Speaker 7 You understand?

Speaker 7 So the people that was running it in the Euros should run it in the Premier League. Then it would work.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I actually thought it worked really well. I was shocked at how seamless the VAR experience was in this tournament.
I'm just

Speaker 7 surprised that Saka's. I was surprised that

Speaker 1 when cellini pulled soccer that i didn't want to be in hell i uh i'm a big uh 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

Speaker 7 they said they was looking at doing something like that yeah and they were gonna and and what they would do is the decisions would favor the striker not the defender yeah just make it a little bit thicker that way when you look at it you're like okay well it's harder to figure this out boom goal stand because some of the decisions are mad tight like even yeah the anal the anatovich goal that was scored against um italy

Speaker 1 that was disallowed that was literally like that was like a that was like that was like a fucking a nose hair black yeah i i think that when they show the replay of the offsides call where they have like the different colored lines for each 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.

Speaker 1 And if the offensive guy is standing in 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.

Speaker 1 I don't like the whole like tiny yellow line, tiny red line. That's too, it looks too much like math for me.
So it gets me confused.

Speaker 7 That's why they do it because it's this, it's tight decisions. So they have to do the two lines like that.

Speaker 7 And they pull it.

Speaker 1 I'm just too dumb, I think, is my problem.

Speaker 1 All right. Well, troops, we'll see you on Thursday.
Safe flight.

Speaker 1 Sorry again. Three Lions coming home.
We'll just wait till you go to the desert in the AC.

Speaker 1 Where is it? Cutter. You'll get them in Cutter.
Cutter. Yeah, you'll get him in Cutter, dude.
Cuta. Oh, also, just a little heads up because I know you care.

Speaker 1 The U.S. is actually about to win a trophy.

Speaker 1 Are we in the Gold Cup final? This is, I think, the opening round of the Gold Cup. Well, that's close.
You got it, step one.

Speaker 1 Gold Cup. Well, you did see our CONCACAF Champions League Final Cup that we won against Mexico a couple months ago.
Do you remember that? So our trophy case is full, and yours is, I don't know what.

Speaker 1 I mean, you guys haven't won anything. They were doing it like if you're 65 years old and English guy is 65 years old.
You've never seen a major trophy win.

Speaker 7 No one cares what you won.

Speaker 1 Were you happy for Messi, though? Some people do. Were you at least happy that Messi was able to

Speaker 1 go?

Speaker 7 Fuck Messi.

Speaker 1 Oh, fuck you.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Sweet!

Speaker 1 All right, well, troops, we'll see. A safe fight, man.
We appreciate you coming on. In a bit, man.

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Speaker 1 All right, breaking moves before we get to our segments.

Speaker 1 Founder McGregor has released his statement. Should we listen to it live on the show?

Speaker 1 Let's listen to it. Let me get it on.
How many times is he gonna say fook?

Speaker 1 Alright, here we go. This is Conor McGregor.
He releases 20 minutes ago. We're gonna react live.

Speaker 9 Once out five fans, the notorious here, just out of the surgery room, everything went to plan.

Speaker 9 Everything went perfect. I'm feeling tremendous.
We got six weeks on a crutch now, and then we begin to build back.

Speaker 9 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.

Speaker 9 21,800 fans in attendance. The place was absolutely electric.

Speaker 9 It would have been, it was a hell of a first round. It would have been nice to get into that second round.
And then, you know, to see what's what. But it is what it is.

Speaker 9 That's the nature of the business. A clean break of the tibia.
And it was not to be. You know, Dustin, you can celebrate that illegitimate win all you want, but you've done nothing in there.

Speaker 9 That second round would have shown all. And, you know, almost and upwards we go, team.
We dust ourselves off, we build ourselves back, and we come back better than ever. Let's go, team.

Speaker 1 That's it? Okay. I mean, that was kind of...

Speaker 1 I was expecting something. I was a little disappointed, actually, from Connor.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I wanted him to just 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 to the list.

Speaker 1 The great spin zone.

Speaker 1 You liked that one? That was good. That That was Northern Irish.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I don't know if he picked it up, but that was more football. Where Rory McElroy's from.
Yeah, it's Belfast. Yeah.
But speaking of, not Dublin.

Speaker 1 How awesome was that guy who just walked and grabbed that club from Rory? Endless respect to that guy.

Speaker 1 He strolled up there. And then Rory, I got to take Rory's man card on that one.
Rory was just like... And

Speaker 1 Haddie, 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I didn't want to come out the gate too quickly and beat him up in the first round. That's real young.

Speaker 1 That's real life us saying, yeah, because 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?

Speaker 1 He said, chill out in the first half and then go the fuck off. Second half, go the fuck off.
He was about to go the fuck off.

Speaker 1 All right. So a couple segments.
uh we have a respect the biz so

Speaker 1 this is uh mma journalists getting very upset uh because addison ray tick tock star

Speaker 1 people are saying she's not a celebrity she's got like 38 million uh instagram followers i think she's a celebrity that counts yeah um she posted a tweet being like LOL went to three months of journalism school and now look at me here.

Speaker 1 And people got big mad. They got very upset.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So where do we land on this in the respect the bits? I feel like we should ask Jake about this.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 3 I don't think she should have been banned from the arena, but it's the way life works.

Speaker 3 You got to get lucky in the business, too.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I do think that journalists kind of miss the point sometimes when it comes. Sports journalists.
We're not talking about other big J's. Yeah.

Speaker 1 She gets people to watch.

Speaker 1 She's also fucking around. Yeah, she's fucking around, but she also, like, when

Speaker 1 people will criticize her and be like, she doesn't have any talents. Like, well, she has 38 million Instagram followers.
Like, if people care about her,

Speaker 1 like, you can't do that. Guy who's sitting there who's got a Syracuse degree, you know, gathering dust.
You should have been hotter

Speaker 1 and had people care about you more.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So, yes, I don't think that you necessarily have to have a J school degree to ask Conor McGregor, like, hey, Connor, are you going to let your family watch you in this guy's life tonight? Right.

Speaker 1 Robbie Fox, our guy here, great UFC journalist. Yes.
Not really. I wouldn't say that he's the hardest hitting

Speaker 1 question to asker of Connemor Gray.

Speaker 1 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 on. Correct.

Speaker 1 If Addison Ray is breaking down, like if there is a big controversy in the UFC, money embezzlement or some like dark

Speaker 1 side of the UFC. And you're asking Addison Ray to do the investigation on it, then yeah, I would probably be on your side, Journalists.
You're probably right.

Speaker 1 Addison Ray's not the person for that job. A red carpet where you could probably get actually better answers when you have an attractive celebrity TikToker.
I mean, she is. That's why she got.

Speaker 1 Are you going to say she's not? Bonk me. How old is she?

Speaker 1 She's definitely over 18.

Speaker 1 Right?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Thank you.

Speaker 1 My point is,

Speaker 1 I would actually argue that she probably can get more out of some of these guys than if you have

Speaker 1 a guy standing in a suit, a frumpy guy standing in the 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,

Speaker 1 what's your grappling strategy in the second round going to be like?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I'm looking at her Instagram page right now just for research. I followed her.
I think that she's... I did.

Speaker 1 She looks to be more than qualified. Good job to get a white.

Speaker 1 Robbie Fox

Speaker 1 has the success story himself, and he's interviewing Dana White. He didn't go to journalism school.
Robbie's also hot as fuck. Right.
Is that long hair? Insane. Fuck.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 People were saying he should get a haircut. No.
Wrong. Big time wrong.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 I had one more respect to biz for you, Jake. We're going to put you on the hot seat.
What do you think about Colin Coward as a broadcaster?

Speaker 3 Like, as a talk show host?

Speaker 1 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 over the weekend.

Speaker 1 He 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.

Speaker 1 How guys talk on a course.

Speaker 1 What do you think about that?

Speaker 3 I think the way that things are going, you're going to see a lot more alternate broadcast options.

Speaker 3 Spread zone, like you've talked about multiple times.

Speaker 1 I feel like there's going to be an option one day. Yes.
The injury zone. Yes.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
Red bone. Yeah.
Red bone.

Speaker 3 Me and you on the spread zone.

Speaker 1 Spread zone.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 card. Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 What the fuck, dude? 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.

Speaker 1 Come on, that's between us. Colin, they're chicks that follow you on Twitter.
Yeah. What the fuck, bro? Wait, this was from over.
Oh, it was? I saw this.

Speaker 1 Oh, so it was from the last time the match happened. I think it got resurfaced because it was the match last week.

Speaker 1 So 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.

Speaker 1 You're only allowed to cuss on this channel. Yes.
Yeah. Just fuck.
Fuck. Fucking pussy.
Yeah. Fuck shit.
Colin, you have a podcast now.

Speaker 1 You can fucking swear. I mean, let's see it.
Let the cunts fly, Colin. Yeah, do it.
All right. Last one.
Thoughts and prayers to Lamar Odom.

Speaker 1 So Courtney Kardashian, or sorry, Chloe Kardashian posted an Instagram picture of her looking attractive. She was in a bikini with an outdoor shower.
How old does she follow her, too?

Speaker 1 I don't. I don't.

Speaker 1 But she, listen, you can follow people. Instagram's there for a reason, buddy.

Speaker 1 What do you mean? You follow people. Oh, I'm just saying you brought up Asin Rai.
Oh, I just started following her. I started following her.
No, I don't know.

Speaker 1 I started following Ashley, where you're like, I follow Kim. I'm just

Speaker 1 trying to get in here. Yeah, I'm trying to get in your journalism strategies.
I get all my news through Kim.

Speaker 1 But anyway,

Speaker 1 Lamar Odom said hottie in the comments section. And Tristan Thompson said, God brought you back the first time.
Play if you want. Different results.

Speaker 1 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 Jinders probably killed

Speaker 1 seven or eight dozen people. Yeah.
What was the Dick Carter clip? Lamar Odom. Oh,

Speaker 1 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.
Like, if you come back from the dead,

Speaker 1 you should be, you know, shooting your shot everywhere. House money at that point.
Yeah, what do you care? You also know it's Lamar Odom.

Speaker 1 Like, he's unbunkable almost because, like, 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, that's the final boss of horny.

Speaker 1 Yeah, all of the blood from his heart went to his dick. And that became his heart.
It stayed there. Yeah, and that's where his head is now.
And then when his brain is.

Speaker 1 And then when his boner died, he died. Yeah.
That's exactly the science behind all that. I say let Lamar shoot a shot.
He's probably going to break it anyways. Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 Anything else? Billy, do you have a recap?

Speaker 1 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. Hmm.

Speaker 1 The plot thickens. So, just came out.
So, wait, you don't have a recap, though, because that was something we just talked about. You just popped in your head about that.
But the other stuff.

Speaker 1 Got it. That's cool.
Kind of discussed everything. Yeah, okay.
All right, I'm looking at this picture.

Speaker 1 Okay, all right, all right, that's fine. You think that's a green screen? Yeah, something weird.
Yeah, the lighting is off there, isn't it? Wait, what is this picture? Wyoming.

Speaker 1 He's just trying to put mountains in the background. He just heard her podcast last week.

Speaker 1 Say fuck out on the golf course.

Speaker 1 Best part about being in Wyoming. Oh, he follows me.
I don't follow him. He only.
Oh, Coward, he re-followed you? No, on Instagram. Oh.
Yeah, he did unfollow me.

Speaker 1 Wait, which picture are you talking about? Because he unfollowed me on Twitter. Really? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Fucking pussy. All right, numbers.
By the way,

Speaker 1 what was the number? Oh, 69, Billy. You missed it.
I know. That was bomber.

Speaker 1 18.

Speaker 1 61.

Speaker 1 Last time it was 69. 18 followed.

Speaker 1 Squirrels can survive terminal velocity.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 Fuck. Oh, what is that?

Speaker 1 Oh, fuck you. Are you kidding me? 69? What? Back to back 69s?

Speaker 1 That is unbelievable.

Speaker 1 Bonk on the lottery machine. Am I the first double winner?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 Maybe. Fuck.
He is. Damn it.

Speaker 1 Still got it. Sucks, too, because you just didn't do your job the entire show, and then you get 69.
Now you're the winner. Damn it.
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