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No place to hang out or wash in. And then I can't leave all on the sun.
Oh, no. We're gonna rock down to Electric Avenue.
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Izzo 1st. This is March.
Yeah. January, February, Izzo, April.
We sleep in May. I still never made sense to me because like you have the final four is always in april yeah so it's like okay so is those great for the first two rounds no that's actually exactly the point uh but he does go to final force so this is march we're finally here it's great to be here uh i'm looking most looking everyone doing the, wow, I can't believe a year ago today

was when we found out about coronavirus.

Those are going to be fun flashbacks.

Yeah.

They're already starting.

Well, now is like the time of year.

This is probably the one-year anniversary of Big Cat saying that he would inject himself

with coronavirus.

No, it was a little later.

It was a little later.

Once things started to bubble up.

Yeah, I think about this time last year, I was in Vegas.

Yeah. And somebody on the elevator, there was actually a Chinese family that was visiting on vacation.
And they started coughing on the elevator. And the guy was like, sorry, I have coronavirus.
I thought it was hilarious at the time. Turns out I probably should have taken that as maybe he wasn't joking.
Maybe that was serious. Wait, you just did the thing I was saying that people are going to start doing.
Yeah, no, I'm starting it. Okay, all right.
Many people are saying. It's going to be miserable.
It's also. It's going to be horrible to go through this.
It's the one-year anniversary of Tiger King. Yes, yes.
Well, yeah, that's a little bit later, but yes, exactly. So we're going to do the whole thing of, oh, my God, this is the day that I found out, like, oh, this is when we went into quarantine.
Shut up. This is real March.
We got March Madness this year. Yeah.
We're ready to go. i'm dude i'm very excited i've started to get back into college basketball spent all saturday watching it nice now is the time of year like late february what i like to do is if you start watching college basketball in march yes you're way behind the times i started like two days early nice so i technically did it in february got really into it uh the bay-Kansas game was, listen, you should have seen that coming.
It's senior night. Senior night is just a mushroom Mario Kart whenever you're playing a team that's better than you.
Senior night is like Perry Ellis is getting trotted out there. I don't know.
Kansas has been playing really well recently. They've completely – I mean, Bill Self, this is – Bill Self and Kansas, they are a cockroach cockroach they just never die every year that you think kansas is down they're going to somehow just win the big 12 tournament and that's what they do every single time and they figure out a way uh jake would you like to do a debate real quick sure that's 38 straight uh senior night wins for kansas there it is 38 straight there it is.
I think Michigan should be number one. They're the best team in the country.
Overall? Yes, they're the best team in the country. I saw your tweet.
I think people can agree with you and you shouldn't get back last for it. You don't want to debate.
Embrace the debate, Jake. No, you can't debate.
I'm a down-the-middle guy. Michigan is the best team in the country.
What they've done has been insanely impressive. That game against Indiana, I bet on Indiana people were clowning on me.
I would do that a million times out of a million times. Michigan playing, beating Ohio State, then beating Iowa, having a game against a very bad Indiana team who might be firing Archie Miller soon.
Brad Stevens, Hank. We'll talk about that in a little bit.
And then a game against Illinois on Tuesday. It was the classic letdown spot, but Michigan is that good.
Like, they are just killing people. And I'm going to do a little shout-out to the Michigan fans.
What they do to the final score tweets is so fucking funny. I don't know if you guys saw on Thursday.
It's on Vaughn Howard memes, right? Yeah, on Thursday. So Michigan fans have been just, every time a team posts the final score, within, I don't know, maybe 10 minutes, there's 500 replies, and it's just all Michigan fan memes.
On Thursday night, they beat Iowa, and Iowa refused to post the final score for like two hours. It was a standoff.
It was a standoff. I like that.
And finally, Iowa posted the final score, and they were like, sorry, we were checking on a couple of injuries. Here's the final score.
Like the social media manager is the one who's actually looking at everyone's knees. Yeah, you know what they should do? They should just do the thing where you can select it as an option that only people you mention or people that follow you can reply to the tweet and then really shut them down.

Well, Wisconsin did that when they lost to Illinois yesterday,

which I think that's...

It's a coward's way out.

You have to post the final score.

But shout out Michigan fans for that.

I'm sure this will now become a trend for everyone.

It will end up sucking eventually.

But right now, it's very funny to watch.

And they're the best team in the country, Jake.

They're the best team in the country.

I think Hunter Dickinson is the best player in the entire country. I only saying that because he's an awl there we go yes so i i mean who else like baylor obviously lost that was the big story the weekend gonzaga is number one will stay number one because they're undefeated any other big stories that we need to be looking at jake um right now i think we have three established number one seeds that fourth number one say I think if you're a bubble team or anyone you want to be in that fourth region right because there's such a heavy drop off after the three best teams right now so if we're in that fourth region anything could happen it could be Illinois Ohio State um probably not Villanova they're actually losing to Butler by 10 at the half right now um So yeah, I think if you're waiting on selection Sunday, if you're in that fourth region, your chances of getting in the Final Four are much better.
How about Roy Williams getting career victory number 900? That's a daggum lot of wins. You know what that means? He's wearing some cool shoes.
Let down game against Syracuse tonight. Also, yes.
After celebrating. That was a great second half by them, and he did do the humble brag of starting the press conference and being like, what's his name, the Florida State coach? Leonard Hamilton.
He started and said Leonard Hamilton should be the Hall of Famer. Like, okay, Roy, we know this is about you.
That's classy. He's making it not.
But if Coach K did this in full disclosure, if Coach K did that,

we would make fun of it. But that's such an old

basketball coach move, is to

every time the spotlight is on you,

intentionally use that to put the spotlight on somebody

else so people talk more about how

the spotlight should be on you.

Also, a big storyline.

James Madison Dukes are the number one seed in the

CAA, but they lost their best player for the year.

Duke's year. It's Duke's year.
What if JMU made the NCAA tournament and Duke didn't? Then they become the actual Duke. It's very possible.
Hank, how are you feeling about that Louisville loss? It's going to be dicey for us to get in. It is.
I have confidence. This is March, and this is when we thrive.
I don't think Coach K will accept standby, be on the standby list.

I don't think he will.

Call up.

It's kind of what Jake said.

There's a great opportunity there to sneak in and make some noise.

I think that's a total slap in the face.

He'll see that as a slap in the face, and he'll do a big press conference

and be like, I want my kids to be safe.

I'm not going to have them stand by and hope they can play.

It would be fucking hilarious if Duke was in one of the first four games. Yeah.
They should do that. Duke versus Michigan State.
I tweeted it the other day. It's very possible.
That would be great. And Coach K and Izzo might both agree to not even play the game.
Yeah, Michigan State's been hot. They've been playing really well.
Yeah, huge game today against Maryland. Yeah, we were taping this before that.
Right. It could change.
Yeah, it's exciting. It's March.
It's the best. It is March, and it's the one-and-a-quarter-year anniversary part of my take.
Our first show was February 29th that we recorded in 2016. So, yeah, we've been doing it for five years.
That's a kid going to kindergarten. Our baby's going to kindergarten.
My phone keeps sending me updates, like flashback memories of things in the past. We both looked so different five years ago.
It's insane. You mean skinnier? Yeah.
You can just say skinnier. Just healthier.
We both had a young, naive glow to us. Yes.
Billy's not here because Billy... I'm going to be nice to Billy this week.
I'm not going to say that Billy just didn't listen to the text messages saying when we were going to record today and then woke up this morning and was like, hey, guys, sorry I can't be there. I was partying all weekend.
I'm not going to say that. I'm going to say Billy's just not here.
That's big of you. That was big of me, right? I decided I'm going to be nice to Billy.
So everyone was like, oh, don't be mean. Listen, sometimes he does things that warrant it, but'm not gonna point those out like just not doing his job he had some projects three shows a week is a lot two out of three is not bad I am woke to Billy getting sponsorships are you guys at all woke to that what do you mean I was woke since he started getting like 300 packs of supplements sent to his desk.
Oh, yeah. And then he got a bunch of rabbit.

Yeah.

A bunch of dude wipes.

And then he wore the pants that were super wrinkled.

The next thing you know, our great sponsor, Mugsy Jeans, stepped up and bought him like a whole new wardrobe.

I did not know that.

And then his mattress gets eaten by his dog.

Oh, weird.

We have a new mattress sponsor coming soon.

Huh. That makes.
Yeah, that is where he's going to be like, man, I've been coming way too quick recently. If there's anything that can help me with that.
I've been super sober and I really would like a nice cold beer. And then when I get when I get unsober, I get hung over.
Is there anything you can do to help me out with that? I did watch him go to his car on Friday with with just like three 12 packs of Co light he sure he does treat the beer here like it is just free beer for anyone who wants to take home so he had those 12 packs on the couches in the lobby and i walked past him and he had his rabbit in one hand and he was standing next to all the beer and his lift had shown up and he was uh he was like talking to me like thinking like he was going to make his way towards the door once I walked away.

I was like, Billy, why are you waiting to leave if your lift's here?

And he's like, no reason, no reason at all.

It's because he wanted to pick up those cases of beer and walk out.

But he didn't want me to see him taking the beer for free.

Right.

It's like, Billy, there's like, there's, you don't have to be ashamed of being you because my personal preconceived thoughts of you are way worse than anything that you could actually do in front of my face. Correct.
Correct. But yeah, so he's not here.
Let's talk a little football, though. So I have a couple couple things from the weekend.
One is I'm officially done with the J.J. Watt jokes of like deciphering his pictures and being like, I think I saw one that was like J.J.
wad is chilling chilling starts with c he's going to the bears chicago bears yeah those those jokes you gotta you gotta do some actual like sleuthery on it on yeah on friday i think you put up the picture of him doing front squats and i saw there was 315 pounds and i was like that's western new york area code right that could be a code but i but you get into, yeah, you just start digging a little too deep. It's been done.
It's been done. So the J.J.
Watt free agency, though, everyone wants to know where he's going. Even though Warren Sapp, did you see Warren Sapp? A little shot across the bow.
He called him a jag today. A jag off? No, a jag.
Just another guy. Oh, really? Yeah.
He was like, who cares? Just another guy. no a jag just another guy oh really yeah he's like who cares to jacksonville confirmed he said just another guy so warren sap thinks that it's not that important where he signs i i think jj is enjoying this i think he's obviously enjoying the fact that people are like he's trying to drop crypt cryptic hints like he's like it's uh the summer 69 he's a zodiac killer yeah he's like people, analyzing his shit.
But the fact is, like there is a team out there that's offering him $16 million a year. And if he doesn't choose that, then he's kind of more.
I would just take the $16 million from Cleveland and call it a day. Right.
And be a hero. Because Cleveland does, you know, we discussed it when he became a free agent.
Like, that is the franchise you can go to that will embrace him, that you have the chance to possibly win some playoff games that would be, like, the history there. I think that and Buffalo.
Yeah, that and Buffalo, it becomes something bigger. Yeah.
And you become, you know, if you're the final piece to bringing a Super Bowl to one of those two franchises, it's a totally different level than signing, no offense, with the Titans or with the Packers. You know what I mean? Yeah.
So hopefully he does that. All right, and then the other news, Drew Brees is officially holding the city of New Orleans hostage.
So Drew Brees, there's a video of Drew Brees working out, and he has yet to to retire and then on the other side you have the mayor of New Orleans trying to woo Russell Wilson to the Saints and everyone in on the Saints you know Saints fans being like could you imagine if we had Russell Wilson and I I'm starting to think there might be a chance Drew Brees is like you know what fuck it I'm coming back for another back for another year. He's mad because like Russell Wilson gets all the comparisons to Drew Brees.
Right. As being like one of the other shorter guys.
And so, yeah, he's jealous. Drew Brees is absolutely jealous of this.
And the video came out of him. He was doing CrossFit.
Drew Brees being a CrossFit guy is the most obvious thing ever. Well, Sean Payton.
Sean Payton got him into it. Sean Payton got him into it.
Remember when Sean Payton did it and got everyone injured? Yeah, but Jesus was a CrossFit guy. Drew Brees is a CrossFit guy, which would actually be a pretty good workout to just tape yourself to a wall for three days.
Hank did it. Look into it, yeah.
But yeah, he was pushing this sled up a hill, and he's got hair now. He does have hair.
So he re-grew hair, which actually tells me that- He's going to TV. Going to TV.
Because Jason Witten. Jason Witten, Brian Urlacher did that after he retired.
But he seemed to be staying in pretty good shape. Like he set a record for his gym when he was doing that sled push.
Got that Carl Ravitch going. Yeah.
Yeah. A little bit of that Carl Ravitch.
So I think he is jealous of Russell Wilson, of the buzz. And so he wants to come back maybe.
This is a very good way for, like if Drew Brees comes back, I think he actually will lose the city of New Orleans. I think Saints fans are finally like, please, dude, enough is enough.
We have a window here. Do not come back.
But if he wants to come back, he probably is allowed to, right? You can't say no to Drew Brees, yeah. It's like Big Ben.
Like, Big Ben, the money, you're going to have to pay him a lot, but you can't say no to a legend like that. Yeah.
It'd be very selfish of Drew if he came back, but, like, there's nothing that you could do to stop it. You'd just be like, okay, I guess we'll do another year to this.
But when he walked off the field for the last time in that playoff game, and you remember the look that he gave? He turned around, looked at the field, and then he went back out there with his kids and Tom Brady. Yeah.
And they were like, Tom was throwing passes. And Drew was like, damn, that's a much better pass than I could have thrown to my own son.
And if you go back on all that, because we had our Drew Brees heartwarming moment at the end of that. Right.
If you take all that away, then I think people in New Orleans, they'll be like, come on come on man like we have to let you back but please don't yeah no i he i think there's also the element of uh a month and a half after the season ends his body probably feels great and he's saying to himself i could still do this yeah what was my completion percentage last year oh i was still was still 65% on two or three-yard passes.

Oh, I could do this.

And his ribs are just starting to get healthy now.

But if you're Drew Brees, why are you doing CrossFit

if your thorax is 70% still shattered?

Just competitive guy.

Overhead lifts and stuff.

Just competitive guy.

I also love almost the post-mortem, the post-mostly dissection of Russell Wilson's comments about,

okay, I don't want to trade, but if I do want to trade, it's to these teams.

Because people are starting to dig in a little bit in Seattle and figure out exactly why Russell Wilson is upset.

And more and more is coming out about the nepotism with Pete Carroll and his sons. I actually think that Pete Carroll is I think I've said this on the show before but I think Pete Carroll isn't as great of a coach as people sometimes give him credit for he's good at managing personalities right but he's not like an X's and O's genius yeah and I would rather keep Russell Wilson than Pete Carroll if I was in charge of the Seahawks especially because i don't think that's even a question pete carroll is 70 yeah no i don't think that's even a question yeah if if russell wilson went to the seahawks ownership was like hey it's me or pete they would absolutely fire pete in a second yeah you should the problem is you have to ask yourself if you're the seahawks owner is russell wilson going to say that and then in a year be like well i want out and yeah but it's's very funny also hearing Russell Wilson be like, I don't like the nepotism factor.
Could you please trade me to a franchise that's got Deuce Gruden on the staff or a franchise that has Stephen Jones calling the shots? Yeah, it will be interesting to see how this all plays out because both the Texans and the Seahawks would be stupid to trade their franchise quarterbacks. But if they really want to push it, I think it was, I think Rosillo made the point, which is a good point, that the quarterbacks in the NFL, like, we're starting to see similar to, you know, all-stars or top ten guys in the NBA being able to essentially dictate where they go even while under contract, that's now happening with quarterbacks in the NFL.
And we're kind of just getting to that point where people are starting to realize it because think about it. This really hasn't – you have Russell Wilson and Deshaun Watson, two guys who are franchise quarterbacks who have maybe you want to say seven years for Russell Wilson,

but Deshaun Watson has a decade left in the prime of their careers,

essentially saying, get me out of here.

I want a new place.

And it can happen now.

This is totally different than what we've seen in the NFL 20 years ago.

It's completely different.

The players are starting to get more power, especially at the quarterback position.

I think that there are still a lot of older owners in the NFL that are going to be very reluctant to do anything. It just depends.
I actually think that the Texans might not trade. They'll just let Deshaun Watson sit out.
And I think, yeah, there could be a chance Deshaun Watson sits out. They would be stupid if he actually is going to sit out.
Imagine if Deshaun Watson was just like, you know what, I've made enough money, I'll just Andrew Luck this. Yeah, but I think that Jack Easterby is going to not handle that situation well.
Yeah, it's all very fascinating. It's also pretty pathetic to, I mean, I know I feel pathetic how much I would give up for either of those two guys.
And watching, you know, all the fan bases that need a quarterback very badly just beg and plead. But I don't care.
There's no shame in that. Dude, I would, straight up as a Washington football team fan, I would change the name for Russell Wilson.
Yeah, the Washington Wilsons. I'd give Pinky whatever you want.
The Watson Ting Red. I also am a little nervous that Russell Wilson doesn't realize that the Bears facility is not in downtown Chicago.
Like, I think he doesn't fully realize that. So he – I'm just – that's my only nervous.
Like, I think he wants a big market, obviously. He thinks that the stadium is in the loop.
Right. And so part of me is like, man, once he figures this out and he realizes he's going to be living in Lake Forest, is he really – and Sierra's going to be like, be like oh shit it's pretty cold here uh there's not as much natural beauty as there is in seattle there are boaters though uh-huh so beautiful loves the boaters but yeah i'm i'm a little nervous about that i'm just hoping that we can just keep that under wraps until potentially a trade happens uh and then there was also the news that the bears now might just have nick falls be the, which I've already done the process of just selling myself back into that.
That is a tough sell. If he's got a full season, maybe training camp of snaps.
That is a tough sell, Big Cat. It's not going to work.
It's not going to work. It's going to be a disaster.
Anything else over the weekend? We're taping this before Brooks plays. So if Brooks plays and wins, we'll place brooks winning in here hopefully we didn't jinx that uh there is a story that's developing in dc with with dan snyder and jeff bezos which we addressed a little bit last week but it's actually it sounds like it's going to go to court and it sounds like what snyder is accusing jeff bezos of is like it's some billions type shit.
Like he, it Snyder is saying that Bezos paid to have a story planted on this Indian website saying that Snyder was riding on Jeffrey Epstein's plane in order to get him to sell the team. And now there's about to be a report coming out.
That's apparently independently done about Snyder and all the bad stuff that he's done. It's seriously like billionaires having dick-measuring contests against each other.
Bezos has the biggest dick, though. Yeah, he does.
It's actually an indictment on American society that Bezos doesn't already own the Washington football team. Because if this were Russia, could you imagine the richest person in Russia wanting a soccer team and not being able to get it from like the 50th richest person in russia no no it would happen like immediately it's this is why we keep getting our asses kicked in olympic powerlifting by these eastern european and and and russian countries so what what's gonna end up happening they're gonna go to court and just no one's gonna even care and it's gonna dan snyder's gonna keep the team what's your best case scenario best case scenario i mean i would i would welcome jeff bezos with open arms just because he's not dan snyder right i'm i'm at like anybody but snyder right now i mean he and he would potentially spend a shitload of money because he's got nothing but money to spend yeah that's it is hilarious when a super super rich guy just wants to buy a team out of boredom.
There's no investment or anything. It's a bummer.
He's like, I just really want to have, I want to have courtside seats and I want to be able to be friends with some of the players. Yeah, but big guy, can you imagine being a billionaire? Which I would do if I were, yeah.
No, I'd do it in a second, Steve Ball. Yeah, I'd call my own place.
Can you imagine not owning a professional sports team? I would call my own place. What is the point in becoming the richest person in the world if you can't buy whatever you want? Yeah, I'd be the GM.
I would be Jerry Jones. I'd be Jerry Jones.
I'd hold a press conference before my coach held a press conference after every single game. I'd do it all.
I would lurk on the sidelines in a trench coat like Arthur Blank. Yeah, it would be so much fun.
I would probably fucking... you know what I would do is if we were winning a game late, I'd come down from the rafters like Sting and be like smoking a victory cigar.
And everyone would be cheering for me. It'd be incredible.
Landing a helicopter at midfield after the game was over? Yeah. No, it would be a joke.
It's actually, it sucks that mostly losers end up buying these things because like uh bezos will do will will spend money but he won't do this cool stuff we're talking about no that's why we actually in a weird way we give jerry jones so much shit but he really does own the team how like the majority of people would do it new money meddling at all times yeah thinking that you're smarter than everyone. Running your franchise into the ground because of your own oversized ego.
Like, these are the things that are relatable. That's exactly what I would do.
Right. It does suck when they're boring.
It's like on Titanic, when you had the new money, Kathy Bates, and then all the old money. Yeah.
You want Kathy Bates running your team. You don't want all these pretentious people who know how to act with money.
Yeah, I that's not fun yeah they're just got old-timey you know etiquette and all this bullshit no i want a guy who will go to the uh bargaining table and talk about chickens fucking owls yes and it's also disgusting that billionaires own these state their own fucking stadiums and they own these sports teams and they still charge like ten dollars for a beer if I were an NFL owner owner i'd be like i don't give a dollar beer night i don't give a shit about making more money i've already i literally have a football team what's the point of having any more money yes it's free beer yes hank well that's why you're not a billionaire yeah that's what no i mean obviously everything we just said is why we're not billionaires. We have the dumbest business brains out there.
I do own an Alex Caruso. I have an Alex Caruso chase down block NFT.
This bubble's going to be painful for some people. That could be one day.
The Top Shot bubble. The Ish Smith.
Alex Caruso's birthday today. I don't know.
That's the value. Shout out.
Oh, okay. Maybe I should have a cell today.
Hank, where are you at on it? I am at the, like, you know, just stick my feet in, and I don't want to admit that I'm wrong and just hope that I end up being right over time, but I think I made a terrible mistake. But I think that's...
I'm at, like, Exotic Joe. I'm never going to financially recover from this.
Here's where I land on Top Shot and where I hope other people will land on it is... Hold the.
Don't put in money that you ever expect back. Have fun with it, but let's not pretend that this is going to be your retirement account.
How much have you invested, Hank? A couple grand. Okay.
All right. You got diamond hands or paper hands? My ROI is like a negative 60%.
And the bubble hasn't even burst. Yeah, but once Taco Falls takes off, I have a market smart layup that's going to be worth a lot.
Julius Randle, it's his first all-star season. So, Big Cat, I actually think that the money launderers finding Top Shot is a great thing.
It's perfect because now that's injecting a whole new level of cash into it where you have like, once El Chapo figures out that you can buy like a Matthew Della Vadova assist for $5,000 and get back $3,000 on that return, like that's going to be a good day for everybody. The shit they did this weekend was insane.
What? They did another drop and it wasn't like a limited amount. Anyone could get one, but like you have – I got number 79,000 for example, and you just have to sit there and wait in line once you get the chance to purchase it's it they they're like you you're basically reserving your spot in line to purchase it in the future so it's like you're paying money but you're not even getting the cards until like a few weeks oh no it is adam silver just creating money out of there just his own currency all right well well you know hold the line i have a bunch of those auto porter mid-range jumpers which that was the most disappointing part when people started gifting me auto porter shots and then i watched it and it was the it was the most underwhelming highlight of all time it was it was basically just auto porter uh rolling off of a pick and then hitting a mid-range jumper in the middle of a third quarter in a game in January.
That's the top shot. I think that's our problem.
We need better highlights. I'm going to see how much my Caruso top shot is worth right now.
Stand by. You look at that.
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Who's back of the week, Hank?

I alluded to it earlier, but the Knicks.

Yes.

Julius Randle.

You're going crazy.

First time All-Star.

They won a game yesterday.

They were like fifth in the East right now.

They're a game above the Celtics, which is like the – it's pretty crazy. And there was a video last night of them winning and people going nuts outside the garden like they won the championship.
It was crazy. The Knicks being 500 was the happiest I've ever seen Knicks fans.
I mean, we've been here for five years. The Knicks have never even been in the conversation.
There's never been any hope, any excitement, any hype around them whatsoever the entire time we've been in New York City. You were Team Zion to New York.
Yeah. You wanted it for the hype.
Right. We live.
Our office is like you can hit the MSG with a baseball. So it would be nice, you know, for there.
Like we're a sports podcast. You like the hype.
You like, you know, big events. The Mecca.
It's good. Right.
It'd be good if, you know, they're in the playoffs and there's a lot of hype and buzz and stuff. Even though they're a division rival and stuff, it's good to see an actual team in New York doing something good for once.
I mean, from a personal standpoint, just for you, it'd be cool to be able to go to a playoff game like the Celtics against the Knicks just down the street. I'm actually not that surprised that they're having this type of year just because this is what he does.
He gets the most out of his talent, always. He's still doing it.
His X's and O's will beat some teams just off of X's and O's. Just being a better coach team can beat some of the other NBA teams that maybe they're not as talented as.
Wasn't Julius Randle in our fantasy league with C.J. Mcollum? Yes, he was.
Yeah, I think we beat him. And now there's some viral tweet.
Yeah, the viral tweet. At his peak, was Chris Bosh...
Oh, he said at his peak, was Chris Bosh ever as good as Julius Randle? It was your question. Chris Randle's good.
Apex, was Chris Bosh ever better than peak Julius Randle? The answer is no. 1.7 thousand quotes.
Drunk with power, which I think it's awesome. I kind of agree with that, though.
What? I don't agree with that. Bosh on the big three? Bosh in Toronto? Bosh in Toronto, yes.
Bosh in the big three. Oh, stop it.
Biggest rebound in basketball history. That's true.
Go, Jake. Go.
Keep going. He literally doesn't get that rebound.
They are eliminated in six games. Hank, your response.
They brought out the yellow rope. That was honestly the most heartbreaking game I've ever watched.
That was the best. As a team, that was not my own team.
I've never been more upset and just truly heartbroken after a loss. Never forget where you were for that one.
I won't. It actually tells you how bad the Knicks have been and how long it's been because I think people are actually rooting for Knicks fans, which that's hard to do.
A New York franchise to have people on Twitter and in general be like, the vibe is, hey, we want the Knicks to be good. It would be more fun if the Knicks are good because guess what? If the Knicks ever get really good, you're going to regret that.
Yeah. Because New Yorkers will rub it in your fucking face.

The last time that they were even noteworthy to talk about

was like a 20-game span in 2013 when Jeremy Lin...

Mello took him to the playoffs, too.

Mello took him to the playoffs,

but now it's like the best moment of their last 10 years

is a guy that's in the G League right now.

Whoa.

I thought he was on the Warriors.

No, I'm talking about Lin.

Yeah, no, I think he's on the Warriors.

I think he's G League.

Is he?

I think so.

He was on the Warriors 2010-2011. Oh, shit.
He's on the Santa Cruz Warriors right now. That's what you're saying.
He wears the Warriors. They're doing a bubble in Orlando right now.
So he's in the Warriors organization. Correct.
Got it. That's where the confusion...
Okay, that makes sense. Yeah, but if the Knicks ever get really, really good, everyone's going to have to be reminded very quickly that, oh yeah, those are Yankees fans.
Be very careful what you wish for. But enjoy the ride, because I do think it would be fun for the Knicks to be good for a little bit here and have a little buzz going.
And there's nothing like the Mecca. Let's just be honest, boys.
There's nothing like the Mecca. In our time in New York, we've never really experienced a good team playing in that building.
No. The best games I've gone to are college basketball games in the Mecca.

Yeah.

Florida.

Florida, Wisconsin.

That was a great one.

I was there.

It was really great. You were at the game?

Yeah, I flew in from Syracuse.

That's fucking weird.

Why?

Well, because we were too.

Yeah.

And now we're out of here.

That was big cat dabbing and sadness.

That's crazy.

Yep.

So we were in the same building.

Mm-hmm.

Wow.

Great night. Mind-blowing.
Yeah. That's where I met Jeff D.
Lowe in that building for the first time. Oh, okay.
Yeah. A lot of great moments.
I was behind the basket, so we were far away from each other. Ah, okay.
Yeah. But still, same building.
Crazy. What are the odds? That's nuts.
Jake, you go with your who's back. My who's back? Yes.
Josh Gordon. Yeah.
For the fan-controlled football league. Hopefully he can stay healthy and stay clean, make the right decisions, and his career will get back on track.
I'm ready for him. You know what a great way to do that would be is teaming up to play with Johnny Manziel.
Yes, that's it. Johnny Manziel was openly recruiting him.
By the way, that absolutely just sounds like they got drunk together, and Johnny was like, no, you should come play. It would be fucking awesome.
Yeah, we're on the zappers. He's like, you're right.
Let's fucking do it. Let's ball out.
Elite fantasy tandem back in the day. Yes.
Was it... Was Josh Gordon's...
They're on the Browns. Yeah, they were on the Browns together, but I don't think Josh Gordon's crazy run was with Baker, right? Oh.
I mean, with Johnny. Yeah.
I don't know. Johnny played way less games than we remember.
Yeah, Johnny, did he take over for Hoyer? Yeah, remember he had that one run, I think maybe against Buffalo. He got jacked up.
But, yeah, he's only had seven touchdowns and seven interceptions as a pro. Yeah, he played a lot less games than I think we all remember.
Are you counting the Canadian Football League? No, that was his NFL stats. Seven touchdowns total throwing.
All right, Pifty, who's your who's back? My who's back of the week is mock drafts. Mock drafts with trades.
Mel Kuyper put out mock draft version 1.0 last week. But for the first time in the history of Mel Kiper doing mock drafts, he included trades.
And it's kind of sad to see an old school guy update things just because it's like the way that the tide's going. Because he's always hated doing trades in his mock drafts.
But he said there are too many good quarterbacks this year and too many teams that are in a position to trade out, so he didn't feel comfortable putting out one that didn't have trades. It's just sad.
It's just sad. It's like something as stories like Chick-fil-A not opening on Sundays, and then one year Sunday is on 420, and they're like, you know what? We got to do it this year just to cash in.
Mel Kuyper should always be the old school guy who refuses to do trades and not bow with whichever way the wind's blowing at any given time. But I guess he did it, and I do love reading the mock drafts.
I love him. Yeah, the mock drafts with trades are the best.
They're absolutely ridiculous. Because you just make them up out of nowhere.
Well, and then you end up trading picks that are in the third round, and now you don't even know where you are. It's basically just taking you and doing a dizzy bat and then having you read a bunch of names.
And you can always say that if your mock draft doesn't turn out correctly, it's like, well, yeah, that's because the trade didn't happen for this reason. There's one domino that didn't fall.
Yeah, exactly. And then you have an easy way out.
Mel Kuyper should always just be like, here is how the first round is going to go.

And every year he gets like two correct.

And then he just keeps having a job.

Yes.

That's what happens in the Mel Kiper Industrial Complex.

Yes.

All right, my who's back is me fucking up.

I fucked up.

I didn't realize that today was not actually daylight savings.

So my bad.

It's next week.

I apologize to anyone who thought that it was.

Oh, I set my clock forward. Yeah, no, I totally fucked that up i i can't believe i did that again so apologies to everyone next week next saturday okay is spring forward so now hang on let me set my clock backwards right now and then and then i'll set a reminder to put it forward next weekend yes yes hang on let me just google that to make sure that you don't screw this up again and uh daylight my.
My other who's back is just March. I'm just so fucking excited for March Madness.
Today's first day of spring training. Yeah, there you go.
Spring training. Are they playing a full season? Yeah, 162.
Oh, they are. I believe so.
Maybe 150? I don't know. Yeah, I feel like there's...
You could just throw out a number. I'd be like, oh, yeah, that makes sense.
How many DHs are there going to be this year? At least three. Oh, I don't know.
Also, the big story this year for baseball, which is going to be great for all the fans, is remember they deadened the ball. So we're just not going to have home runs anymore.
That's going to be sick. Who's back? Small ball.
So excited for that. Way to go baseball.
I just looked it up. Daylight savings time is, in fact, this Saturday night slash Sunday morning.
Correct. You're right this time.
Okay. So make sure, my apologies again.
I fucked up. I'm sorry.
I won't do that again. Next week, next Saturday, we will do Daylight Savings.
All right. Let's get to our interview with troops before we do that.
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A-R-V-Z. So if you haven't seen him, he is a London-born Arsenal fan, super fan, very, very interesting up-and-comer in media world, AFTV.
We'll get through all of it. But first, we want to congratulate you.
big win over leicester today let's start light

leicester leicester it's spent leicester listen we've been talking about leicester city for five years now uh when they had danny drink water and they were 10,001 you probably don't remember it you just got into epl and they were a big deal we know how to pronounce leicester leicester so all right so let's start with your backstory because i actually think it's fascinating you You were just a regular fan.

Yeah.

And you got found by being interviewed outside Arsenal Stadium. Yeah.
What was the interview about? We just lost in the FA Cup. It was the quarterfinal and I used to go on another show, but it was like more urban.
Obviously, Arsenal fan TV is a bit more commercial in the YouTube world. Because football is like, football is a funny game, isn't it? Like you don't really get people like me talking about football or people from like my kind of environment.
So I was always kind of sceptical to go on it. But then that day, my guy wasn't there.
So he was like, yo, go on Arsenal Fan TV. I was like, I'm not going.
He's like, blood, if you don't go, I'm going to be mad, isn't it? He's like, go. So I went.
And then literally from then, the ting just took off, blood. What was the original interview? What were you mad about? You just ranted, right? Yeah.
At that point, it was like wenger in, wenger out. Now, who's Arsene Wenger, for the people who don't know, is you wanted him out.
Yeah, I wanted him out.

So he must have sucked.

At the time, he was kind of not doing too well.

He isn't, like, historically the greatest manager of all time or anything, right?

No, he's top two for us.

And you wanted him out.

Yeah, because, like, every story has an ending.

And that story got to that ending.

It was troops saying, get this fucking guy out of here. I think there's some truth to's some truth to that though like a lot of times somebody will stick around a little bit too long and you think like okay this guy is you know i can't imagine the team without him because he's been coaching or managing it for this long and so people are like reluctant to be that first person to be like get him the fuck out and you were one of the first voices that said that i also heard that you like you stepped into a fight and you like you helped to defend the guy that was going on one of these rants and that's the reason that he pulled you aside he was like okay i want to hear what this guy has to say because he helped me beat up this guy after the game i didn't help that beat and that wasn't even robbie that was kenny ken kenny ken was interview.
Great name. And then he come off and then one of the Wenger Inns tried to attack him.
It was mad, bro. It was probably like Wenger In v.
Wenger Out. So obviously I'm Wenger Out.
Right. I've seen the AK, like we used to call them AKBs.
Arson knows best. Because that's what they say.
Arson knows best. AKB.
Everyone follow Arson. Obviously they called us the the Wobbs.
Wenger out brigade. Okay.
So it was like AKB versus the Wobbs. Wob worldwide.
So people who don't follow, like what I just said, the joke I made at troops expense about how Arsene Wenger, like he actually is basically Bill Belichick, right? Like he, if you went through, he is one of the most acclaimed managers in all EPL history, correct? Yeah, facts. So it's a big deal when people are saying they want him out.
Yeah. And he was older and it was kind of past the time.
Yeah, it was kind of like going for your granddad. Right, but it is a big, big deal in the fan base.
So it's kind of a right place, right time, right? Yeah. Because this is, I would imagine that was a lightning bolt through the fan base of who wants him in, who wants him out.
Because literally, I did my interview on a Sunday. There was a game on the Thursday.
I couldn't get tickets for that game, so I watched that game on TV. Then there was a guy in the stadium, DT.
He pulled out the banner, which said, Arsene, thanks for the memories, but it's time to say goodbye. And then obviously on Twitter, it's picked up a lot of heat.
Ian Wright, obviously you know Wright, that's my hero, my idol. Like to be cool with him now is a dream.
So it's kind of like Brady and Dave. You get me? Where when you're cool you're like raw, like it's bigger than Aubameyang, you get me? Me and Abba, that's like, yeah, but Wright is the one that.
And then Wright, he went for DT like saying, oh, you're a prick. Why are you doing that? Have some class, rare, and then And then DT called him, he called him, so I think he said, fuck off you melt or something.
And I'm there like, bro, this is right, Eli. How are you saying, fuck off you melt to like, the legend of the club? Wait, fuck off you melt? Yeah.
What does that mean? Melt is like, I don't know, like you wanker, you douchebag. Okay.
Douchebag for you, innit? Fuck Fuck off, you jerk off. Like, where are you going to call him a jerk off? I'll fuck these headphones, brother.
Your hair's too good for those headphones. Yeah, my hair's too fresh, bro.
Yeah, that's right. So, like, from then, like, he was going back and forth with righty.
But I was in the middle because, obviously, I'm a big Ian Wright fan. But then I agree with what my man's saying about wanger.enger so then on the Sunday now I've gone on because a lot of people are not like they're going against the minute kind of thing so I come I came out I was like I don't know my man at the time I never knew him obviously after then me and him got together and rare tear tear not together like that like what does rare tear tear mean etc okay got it I like that then I came out on my, and I was saying like, yo, like,

I don't know this brother,

but I agree with what he's saying.

Like,

Wenger needs to go now.

You get me?

Like,

enough's enough type of thing.

And then from then,

it just like,

I don't know.

I got two dumb questions.

One,

Arsene Wenger,

it's just like a total coincidence that his name is the first sound of Arsenal,

right?

Total coincidence?

Yeah,

because they used to call it Arsene FC.

So we used to say,

it's Arsenal FC, not Arsene not Arsenal FC. 1886, not 1996.
But he did, if you do the... I saw a statistic.
He topped two managers. Yeah, no, I saw the statistic that it's like games won, or maybe it's trophies won in the EPL.
He alone is like number four on the list. He has more wins than Tot Tottenham.
Yeah, he's won more games than Tottenham. Right.
The other thing I've always wondered. It's not hard, like, to understand to have more wins than, get me, Demi.
What are your thoughts on Harry Kane? Fuck them, man. Spits when he talks? Something like that.
He doesn't like when I say that because you're not supposed to say that. You don't like Harry Kane? So, yeah, do you root this as hard for like the English national team as you do for Arsenal for Arsenal? Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely.
Is it coming home? Yeah, which one is number one? It was supposed to come Arsenal. Okay, not even close.
See, the look you gave me, like, you would sacrifice England never going to a World Cup again if Arsenal had a great run, right? Yeah. Because, like, England is, like, every four years, every two two years arsenals week in week out it's it's a constant in my life it's from august until may there's only a two-month gap and then i'm back in again do you remember that you remember that goal that uh that david seaman gave up to ronaldo in the world cup when it was a free kick that was ron, yeah.
He was supposed to cross it and just like went right over his head.

That was embarrassing.

It wasn't really embarrassing.

The man was like 39,

you get me.

He already won four league titles.

You get me.

One of England's greatest ever managers,

Arsenal's goalkeeper, sorry.

You get me.

David Seaman's a legendary keeper,

better than any goalkeeper

that played for that shit.

For West Ham?

Let's get that.

Yeah, well, that's a pretty low bar

in my deep history of West Ham. I'm I'm a Jorge Campos guy, though, through and through.
Who's that? Campos, man. Short king.
Who's that? Mexico's goalie? Who? No, that's not him. That's the Colombian one.
Yeah, you're thinking of... At England, he done the Scorpio.
The Scorpio. Remember that? Yeah.
Did you ever see that? Show him that clip. Yeah.
He took a shot, yeah. And then he's flipped forward and gone like, bloody mad as safe.
When Bendham with Beckham came out, was it, is that when soccer kind of exploded in England too? No, it was, bro, are you deluded? Bro, the only thing that's not big in England is fucking NFL, bro. England's big in NFL.
Have you seen the fans dressed up? Yeah, what are you talking about?

Everyone's a Jaguar.

Yeah, they wear like the face paint and shit.

Yeah, for a day.

No?

For a day.

You don't watch Super Bowl.

I actually love that Troops on Super Bowl Sunday was like,

what's the best channel to watch the Super Bowl on?

Yeah, I don't know, bro.

You get me?

Man, they're like, it's only on one channel.

I'm like, brother, do I watch fucking NFL, bro?

Man, why are you laughing at me for that? So when football's on, there's beer channels you can watch. Do you understand? If the World Cup final's on, you got it on fucking BBC One.
You can have it on ITV. Be in.
Be in. It will be on fucking like, Sky will have a little bit of coverage.
BT, you lot just have like, where is it? CBS or? CBS is what it was on. ESPN.
Yeah. You get me? So me? So I'm trying to get into it.

Right.

I like that.

I appreciate that.

So going back to like when you first started becoming a football fan,

how do different Londoners pick which London team they're going to support?

Is it a neighborhood thing?

Or is it something that's like from your parents that's passed out?

It's a family thing because even if you live in London,

you don't support a London team.

You get me? Like a lot of my friends, like like my era the best teams were Arsenal Man United so a lot of my friends are Arsenal Man United and then the next the generation under that is like Chelsea a lot of Chelsea fans came into it because obviously Baroavich went there with the money and then their club came alive because nobody fucking knew Chelsea until Baroavich come. You understand? There was a cup team.
They used to do well in the cup competitions. So the FA Cup, the Coca-Cola Cup, they do well in Europe as well, not the Champions League, but they had like a UEFA Cup, Cup Winners Cup.
But when it came to that consistency in the league, the man, they were shit. You understand? The consistent teams were Arsenal, Liverpool, Man United, Man City, Chelsea, Tottenham, all these men, Everton, they're new.
Well, they're not new, but they're new to coming to the top of the pile because there was only three teams back in the day. Arsenal, United, or Liverpool.
What happened to Tottenham? Was it Robbie Keane that switched around or was it new money coming in? Tottenham was, I say they started getting better when it was the Robbie Keane era. So it was like when Yor was manager So they had like Robbie Keane Jermaine Defoe Michael Carrick before he went to United Berbatov and their man started to come in So it was from around 2000 and 2005 when Tottenham started to come into the fold And you hate Tottenham that's the big the big rival.
Tottenham and Man United. Man United.
So list all the teams in London. In London? Yeah.
All right. In the EPL.
In the... So Arsenal.
Manchester United. You dickhead.
That's like me saying, yeah, the Chicago Bears play in LA. You understand? Oh, I want to talk about Kroenke in a second.
But go ahead. Fuck them, man.
Yeah, list the teams. Fuck them.
All right, so you've got Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, West Ham, Fulham. Who else is up? Who else is in the Premier League? Liverpool? No, Liverpool is not.
Liverpool is in Manchester. Yeah, Liverpool is about 45 minutes from Manchester.
So that's like up north. So how do season tickets work? Do you have season tickets? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And you get like, how does it work? Is it super expensive? I pay, so I pay like 1,500 pounds, which is probably about $2,200. Oh, for how many games? 20 games? You get all the home games.
So that's 18 in the Premier League. More time, we're in Europe.
So you'll get three of the group stage. And then you'll get the FA Cup if you get drawn at home.
The EFL Cup if you get drawn at home. So it's about 25 games.
Now, the game days. So I would love to go to a game.
Yeah, when we go London, you man are rolling. I'm going to get West Ham Arsenal tickets.
I would love it. I'll get you in the away end so you can go with your irons and all that.
Blowing bubbles and shit. Yeah, you can blow your bubbles and I'll be fucking popping at me.
So do you go like every game day, you go to the pub for a few hours before and then roll into the stadium? I don't really do the pub thing because obviously I'm filming, isn't it?

So I've got a lot of match day.

If the game's on on a match day and I'm in the country and we're allowed to go to the stadium, I am so busy for my wake up.

And who sits down and comes up with the songs that you guys sing?

Does Arsenal sing?

Yeah, we've got better songs.

That's like...

Not better than Liverpool.

Liverpool, which one?

I've got songs that I can't even sing Which one is Suarez Which one is We got Suarez Let's go Liverpool Let's go Liverpool You're so white blood Who are you going to intimidate You're supposed to intimidate the players You're supposed to intimidate the fans Intimidate the opposition So what's yours like I'm going to cut you. I you going to intimidate? You're supposed to intimidate the player.
You're supposed to intimidate the fans.

Intimidate the opposition.

So what's yours?

Like, I'm going to cut you up?

Like, we'll sing hello for the Tottenham song.

So we'll say, hello, hello, we are the Arsenal boys.

Hello, hello, we are the Arsenal boys.

And if you are a Tottenham fan, surrender or you die.

We will follow the Arsenal.

Hello, hello.

We understand?

That's pretty good, yeah.

You get me like, what do you think of Tottenham?

I'll say, what do you think of Tottenham?

And then the whole crowd will go, shit.

And what do you think of shit?

I'm sorry. Arsenal Hello Hello We understand That's pretty good Yeah What do you think of Tottenham And then I'll say What do you think of Tottenham And then the whole crowd Will go shit And what do you think of shit And then someone will go Tottenham And then we go Thank you That's alright We ain't Tottenham We ain't Tottenham Shit like that I like that Do you understand What about the scarves What do you mean Just what about them Like how come scarves Became the thing That everybody has That's just like colors that everyone holds up.
Obviously, yours is like claret and blue. This is actually a really underrated color scheme.
I feel like more sports teams around the world should use the blue and the burgundy. You understand? We used to have beef back in the day.
Your famous hooligan, Cass, had a ting with the Garnets back in the day. And there's actually a film on it as well uh mean street hooligans no no you need to watch uh no not green street what is it gunner oh my yeah what is it yeah what is it me too a gunner's like a patriot so i'm a gunner i'm a gunner now you're a swan yeah but i but they're down i'm not cussing him bro no i'm not cussing him no i know i know i own swans i own swans teams are the swans but they're They're not up yet You're a hammer You're a hammer I'm a gun Anding him, bro.
No. I'm not cussing him.
No, I know, I know. I own Swans.
I own Swans. His teams are the Swans.
He's a hammer. They're not up yet.
You're a hammer. You're a hammer.
I'm a gunner. You're a swan.
Yeah, but they're not up yet. You're a swan, blood.
Look, big cat, swan. You're just bear.
Pink panther. You're just a swan.
Dude, swans will fuck you up, though. Like, real talk.
Have you ever met a swan? Of course I've met a swan. Swans will, like, fuck you.
They'll break your arm. Yeah, but right now, they don't come up because they're in the league below the England championship.
Do you remember fucking the Aristocats? Yeah. When they butt the geese, the French ones.
Yeah. When they're bopping and the ass is just going like, you're the drunk granddad with the half hat.
Unfortunately. You got hiccups.
He's like. That's you, man's you, man.
Unfortunately, I'm a gunner right now, and there's nothing you can do about it. The Arsenal fans actually like you for some weird reason.
Because I like it. They think PFT's very knowledgeable on the game.
Okay. And they like you for some reason.
Yeah. I do know a lot about soccer.
Yeah. Especially in that.
Yeah, he's wearing this jersey. He did this just by accident.
Yeah, I didn't know that you were going to come in.

This is what I wear typically, usually in NFL games.

I'm rocking my, I got one eye on the EPL, one eye on the NFL.

Fun fact, a lot of people don't know this.

I scored the highest on the referee test, the FIFA ref test,

of anybody in the history of the state of Virginia.

It got 100 on it.

I think people do know that.

Do they?

You said it.

No, I said it on Twitter. No, you said it to me.

Yeah.

But I remember when we was in the corridor. I was like, rotted, man.
You might have to get involved in the FA fam. Dude, I know everything of it.
I fucking hate VAR. Not because it gets things wrong, but because it takes away jobs from actual referees like me.
VAR is shit, right? I like VAR. You like it now? The people that run it just don't know how to use it.
You hate all the refs, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah. They all suck.
Every single year. So what's up with Arsenal this year? They stink.
There's a lot of things. You get me? Yeah, like, tell us what do they have to do to get back to what you were saying, when they're the top of the table.
We need to buy some serious players. Okay.
We need to invest in them. So here's a good follow-up.
Stan Kroenke, what are your thoughts? He's an arsehole. He's your owner.
He's an arsehole. He owns the Rams.
He owns the Arsenal. He owns the Nuggets.
He owns Colorado Rapids. And every fan base hates him.
No, I don't know about that. Every fan base.
I think the Nuggets fan base is probably okay with him. The LA Rams fans like him because they brought...
The Nuggets don't fuck with him. The Rapids hate him.
The only ones you like him are probably the Rams. So why don't you do Kroenke out? I saw you did Arteta out, right? You led that movement.
No, I am Arteta out. I didn't do Arteta out.
There's a difference. You also were Wenger out.
Yeah. And now you're Arteta out.
Don't you feel like maybe you fucked up? You're like, hey, Wenger's looking pretty good to us right now. Nah, because if he had left earlier, then we wouldn't be in this position we're in now.
He held on and made us drop to that state, to the state we're in now. Which is a sad state.
Which is not Arsenal. Right.
It's not Arsenal. Simple as.
But maybe this is Arsenal. Maybe this is what you are now.
We're not the Chicago Bears. Yeah, but that's like...
Right, you could say... We're a serious team, Blah.
But you could a serious team But you could say We're not clowns You might not realize it But in like 20 years from now When you are still Middle of the table That is what you are No but we're not gonna be Middle of the table 20 years now This is the lowest We've ever been in our We were founded in 1886 And since 1886 This is the lowest We've probably been We've never been relegated You guys were almost relegated You were in relegation position Like just a few weeks ago But We've never been relegated. You guys were almost relegated.
You were in relegation position just a few weeks ago, right? But we've never been relegated. Yeah, there's actually like four teams, right? Arsenal, Everton.
Liverpool, Manchester United have never been relegated. No, United got relegated.
Oh, they did. Wait, how do you pronounce Everton? That was sweet.
Everton. Everton.
Yeah. Everton.
Okay, so I love it. This This motherfucker.
What, uh. So, all right.
So, what do people like? We're soccer fans. Yeah.
Football. Soccer.
Football. How can we make the sport bigger in America? Work with me.
Yeah. Well, okay.
So, then what else? Work with me. Less flopping.
What do you mean, less flopping? Less flopping. The diving.
The embellishment. Nah, diving's part of the game.
You like that part. I don't like it, but it's part of the game.
It's awful. If you don't dive, then the referee's not going to give the decision.
You have to drop and roll like you got shot for the ref to give the decision. It's not even like a thing where people are...
Some people dive intentionally, like Kane, Vardy, Grealish, Madison. But I rate Grealish.
I take him at Arsenal. And if he dives and gets a penny, I'm not complaining.
If it happens against me, I'm going to complain. But that's part of the game.
Okay. But I don't think that it should be part of the game.
You can play sports and you can fall down when you get hit and not roll over seven times and have them go out on the field with the spray and the Brazilian wet sponge that they put on your knee and magically your ACL regrows. You don't have to go to that extent.
You can get knocked down. You've watched games with me and you've seen people get tackled and nothing happens.
You have to roll to get the decision. That is how it is.
If you get hit and you don't go, oh! You're just going to be like, you ain't got fouled. You're not screaming.
You're not rolling. Okay okay so part of the game i it is how they i i do agree in the uh point that it is how the refs like the refs dictate everything the same thing happens with the nba when when guys flop i'm always like listen if they're gonna call it they're gonna flop because they know they'll get the call so the refs have to be better um what happens if kronky doesn't spend enough money though then he needs to fuck off how do we get Cronky out we gotta make is there a Cronky out yeah I'm I will fully do Cronky out like t-shirts like fucking you see that de Blasio thing I want to do that yeah I want to do that how do you get somebody like how do you get an owner to sell a team though I don't know I heard that Josh Cronky lives York.
Maybe we can find out where he lives, go and pay him a little visit. We don't have to be.
No, we don't have to do that. We don't have to be, like, aggressive or not.
We can just talk. Yeah, we can just have a discussion.
Do you guys. We can talk, you know.
Do you guys not like it when Americans buy teams? No, I don't mind. Okay.
As long as they spend money. Yeah.
I don't care where you're from, bro. As long as you spend the money.
Okay. Yeah.
John Henry's at Liverpool. He's doing a good job there.
They're in their best season ever. You've got the Glaziers at Man United who's put them in debt, but they still give them money.
But the Man United fans are also not happy with their owners. Got it.
How many teams in the 20 teams that are in the EPL right now would you say are happy with their owners? Man City. He just spends.
He's the oil guy, right? He just spends everything. Chelsea.
Everton. Yeah.
Liverpool. I know West Ham just.
Oh. Because he didn't really spend this year.
That's why I think they've dropped behind. Because when you win the league, you always have to improve.
You can't just stand on your laurels. Everyone's trying to catch up.
But didn't they just win last year? Yeah, they had their best year ever. That's got to buy you at least two years of goodwill, right? No, but they've had that squad for three years at the top.
So everyone knows how they play. You get found out.
You have to bring new firepower to the team for you to kick on and get to the next level. That's where we flopped.
Is that we haven't added enough firepower. We add Aubameyang and then it's like, Will.I.N.
Yeah, you'll get Aubameyang and then Will.I.N. You get me? It's like, you'll get Gabriel and then David Luiz.
You'll get Tierney and then fucking Bellerin. It's like, come on, bro.
Back in the day, it was Ashley Cole, Loren, Campbell, Cole, Torre, Vieira, Bergkamp, Henry, Perez, Jungberg. These players will walk into any team in world football.
Now, it's probably only Aubameyang that could probably get into teams. Where'd you get the name Troops from? That's my nickname from childhood, from the streets and that.
yeah my name was trooper and then my mom was like if you're gonna do this youtube thing like obviously you can't go with trooper that sounds a bit like so i was like what should i go with she was at troops but she was like but put it with a z a z for you lot but z for me in it so i was like yeah i'll fuck with that like and then boom look at that mom came up with the best mark yeah yeah she ever had. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
She gave me my real name, which is Wavy. I ain't going to say that.
But you get me. She gave me the nickname as well, bludgeon.
Wait, your real name's Wavy? No. No.
I'm saying I'm not going to say my real name. Right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't like to scream the government.
Yeah. Yeah, we don't have to get into distrust of the government overall.
I think it's healthy to have a decent distrust of the government. He doesn't trust any government.
Yeah, I'm not with it. Yeah, we drove down to West Virginia together.
We got deep into the distrust of the government, which, again, we don't have to talk about. All right, so what about the – you've traveled everywhere, right? What's the coolest place you've seen a game? You've traveled everywhere.
In England, you went to Russia for a World Cup. You've been to america a bunch what's like the the best most fun time that you've had traveling for uh soccer probably the the last pre-season tour okay which is america like we went la we went la denver vegas atlanta um charlotte and dc and you guys just go and get drunk and have a great time.

That's fucking awesome.

Yeah, we get drunk, but the content still flows, isn't it?

It's an enjoyable job.

Right.

Kind of like for you lot.

Yeah.

It's enjoyable.

I don't really see it as a job.

It's just like I'm following my team.

It's a dream.

What does America need to do to get good at soccer?

We could be if we wanted to be, right you got that you got that pull a sit in the manda you get me you just need you just need more you i think you need better coaching so european coaches coming over here we don't bring bruce arena back for like a fifth tour of dude nah you need to get like like when you got klins. Yeah.
You get me. Youth academies.
You get me, you understand? You have to spend money on grassroots. Grassroots is like the lower route and you need to get like Europeans in because like it or not, we're the ones that understand the best football.
We've got the philosophies. We know everything.
If it's basketball, then you man run your ting, innit? Well, what about South America? South America as well, but your aim is to get to europe so more than the european style of play but wouldn't you say that it's it's a uphill battle because soccer's not the most popular sport in in the country like in england that's it right i mean what's the other sport that you watch rugby you got cricket you got tennis but it's not even close to it is it is yeah yeah yeah it is Rugby still get 80,000 sell out Just like football But in terms of TV TV everything People watching Okay Yep yep yep Okay Yeah they watch it Because rugby's for the rich people You get me Football's for the common man Got it So obviously All the yuppies will watch that Got it You get I also just, I mean. I kind of like rugby as well.

I can't lie.

Who's your team in rugby?

Oh, they live, they're around Saracens.

Okay.

Because they're literally like 10 minutes from my house.

I like them.

I like Bath.

Oh, Bath.

I went to a game out there one time. That's way up north.

Out in Bristol, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I went to a game there one time.

Best cider in the world.

Is it?

Out west, yes.

Man card.

Blackthorn.

Oh, shit. It's all they sell.
Oh, shit. Does it rain all the time in England? Nah.
That's a myth. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You sure? I'm from London. We got sunshine, bro.
London's hot right now. Hot.
What do you mean? Hot. It's February.
It's February, and it's like, I can't, because you lot are weird with your fucking numbers, blood. We do it different.
Oh, Celsius. We do it the correct way.
So right now in New York, it says seven degrees. Oh, whoa.
Celsius, yeah. Okay.
And in London, it's 11. What is that? 46 degrees.
It's hot. That is hot.
So it's nice right now. Yeah.
Do you have a beach? My kids can roll around in just a tracksuit, no jacket, no hat. Loving life.
It's summertime. Yeah.
Like, yeah, London's, like, Manchester rains a lot. Right.
London's the capital. So I think, like, they maneuver the weather and they push it up north.
Like, you fuckers get that. Got it.
Down south, we're getting light. Do you have a beach? Yeah, not in London.
What are the English beaches like? They're beautiful. Like, if you go to, like, Somerset, they're very, like, sandy beaches.
Like, you got, like, the cottages along the beach. You get me.
It's very nice, man. Brighton's a shit hole.
You get me bare fucking crack needles and fucking crackheads on the beach, and they got pebbles. So it's not even sand blood.
So you're there, like, imagine sitting there and you got bare pebbles going up your batty and them ting there. You're like, yo, you understand? It's a mad ting family.
Where are the Peaky fucking Blonders from? The Peaky Blinders. Birmingham.
Do you know the Peaky Blonders? Birmingham, yeah. They're from Birmingham.
Birmingham. Do you watch that show? Peaky Blinders.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Is that real? Do you need subtitles? I'm not sure. No, I don't need subtitles.
Oh, okay. You understand it? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Do you? Yeah. Of course.
Brother, I don't understand. We speak English.
Why don't you lot understand? We understand you. Oh, my God.
Why can't you understand us? What's the problem? What's happening, mate? You swallow your teas. What are your thoughts on the royal family? Yeah, but you pronounce everything.
Yeah, correct. And then you pronounce everything wrong, like the Caribbean.
It's the Caribbean. What else do we pronounce wrong? Chips or crisps.
Water. Water.
Yeah, water. It's water's water.
Yeah? It's water. Water.
Cottage. Not every word.
Water. Cheese.
Cheese. Cottage.
What are your thoughts on the royals? I like the queen mother, RIP. Right.
She's dead. You get me rest in peace.
You like the mom of the queen. Yeah, she was a lovely lady.
Okay. Obviously, Princess Diana as well.
Right. RIP.
You get me. And then everyone else? You're like, who cares? I like Harry.
like Harry You get me Bakar Interracial and them thing He's the one who left Yeah he's with Meghan So he's not even a royal Nah he is a royal No he disavowed He's a royal Actually big gang He's one of ours He came out and said it He's a royal But he's not doing duties No no no You can't have it both ways He's not a royal He is a royal He's out How is he out If he's fucking dead You can't be a royal And then leave Yeah he denounced it He disavowed No, he's not a royal he's a royal no he's out he's moving out if he moved to america you can't be a royal it's like flipping and then we to the throne yeah he denounced it he disavowed no he denounced his work so he's still a royal but he's just not doing that royal duty well how come what is the world over here when they go to like pedophilia whoa oh shit that's what's his name whoa that's you andrew yeah yeah but that's more that's that's that's all you lot with your island that's you lot with your dodgy island yeah it's in the caribbean i'll ever try come, that's you. Andrew.
Yeah, but that's more, that's all you lot with your fucking, that's you lot with your island.

That's you lot

with your dodgy island.

Yeah, it's in the Caribbean.

Don't ever try to come

with that Epstein shit

around here, blood.

You understand?

All right, what are the

royal duties for real?

Like you go to like,

you go to, I don't know,

like you go to that

children's hospitals,

make appearances.

You understand?

Like go to, I don't know,

go to like flipping.

Weddings.

Yeah, like,

you understand?

Come America.

A lot of. Fuck Biden.
Pageantry. Cut out.
That sounds pretty good. You get dressed up and then you get your picture taken and you wave at things.
Wave. Yeah.
Hello. Hi.
Yeah. Who's the guy that looks like he's dead all the time? Prince Andrew.
No. No, Prince Philip.
That's the queen. That's the queen.
That's the queen. No, no, boyfriend.
Husband. Boyfriend.
Husband. They no no boyfriend husband boyfriend husband they got married so why isn't he the king because she's not because she's in the she's in the hierarchy he's not he married into it but she married the husband of the blood it's a blood thing yeah i understand but he should still be the king for while he's alive no because he's he's not blood.
That's like you. That's like me marrying.

That's like me marrying.

I don't know.

Say you had a sister.

She's the queen.

I marry your sister, but I'm not related.

I've married into the family.

You should be the king for a while.

No, it should be like a bounty honor where like if you are able to marry this woman,

then you become king.

He gets the king.

It's king and name.

King and name alone.

You see, you're being sexist now. Why? Because why can't there be a queen? Well, it should be the other way around, too.
No, the queen still is the boss. Yeah.
But the king is just like, hey, it would be nice if, you know, give him a little respect. He's the husband.
Yeah, he's the prince. No, he's the boyfriend, then.
He's a boyfriend. No, he's the king.
No, he's a boyfriend. He's not a king, sorry.
He's the prince. He's the husband.
He betted down a queen, you should become king. Right.
Nah. But the queen should still be the boss.
But you don't have a queen or a king. Right Because we fought a whole war Right exactly Remember that when we Kicked your ass No false idols Yeah but let's not forget How small we are We nearly whooped your ass Blood Yeah You nearly whooped our ass So imagine if we were bigger We would have took this shit What do you mean Imagine if we were bigger We would have took this shit We would have took this shit You were the world power You were the biggest power In the world Yeah but we're like The.
But we're like one of the smallest countries in the world.

New York is nearly bigger than England.

All bark, no bite.

You do know that, innit?

The sun never sets.

All bark, no bite.

Nah, we're pure bite blood.

You know what I'm saying?

How come you keep fighting wars against the French?

Why do you keep fighting wars against the Russians?

That's like me picking fights.

Why do you keep fighting?

They're a worthy opponent.

They've got nuclear weapons.

I like putting blood.

No.

I'm cool with putting blood. Oh yeah, because you want him to own Arsenal yeah what do you mean I actually respect that you can't put in blood yeah I would welcome Putin owning the Washington football team you know what it is my aunt is from Azerbaijan not Azerbaijan Armenia so obviously the Russian kind of influences obviously they don't get't get on, but you get me.
It's kind of, yeah, it's mad. All right, wait.
I had a, fuck. Oh, who's the GOAT? Saka.
No, no, no. All time.
Oh. Give me the GOAT in England all time, and then the GOAT for Arsenal.
I mean, Henri for Arsenal? Yeah, Henri for Arsenal. And then Michael Owen for England? Nah.
Dude, remember when he played when he was 16? That was sick. He had a great goal.
Yeah, he was 16 years old. He's fast.
Really fast. Paul Gascoigne or...
David Beckham. Or Rooney.
Oh, okay. Gazza or Rooney.
Do you think the press was too mean to Rooney? Rooney. Yeah.
That's just the English press. They just go crazy.
Yeah, they're just pricks. What is it? What is it? There's like naked pictures in the newspapers.
Nah, they even went for me. Really? Yeah, proper went for me.
It's like paparazzi on steroids, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they just follow everyone everywhere? You've got it easy out here.
Why'd they go for you? Because I'm black and the way I talk, I take straight. Yeah? What's different about the way that you talk? They see me as a threat.
Like, they're politically correct, and they've been media trained, and I've come in this world and just, like, rocked it. You understand? And people...
You're a game changer. Yeah, people value my opinion more than these old fucking has-beens.
They're afraid of the truth. Yeah, I'm a fan, so I...
I like it. It's more to me than these men.
I mean, they go to college and shit. I've just grew up watching my team.
Yeah, that's what people want to hear. I mean, that's like us.
We're just fans. Yeah, it's more to me than these men get me day they go to college and shit i'm i've just grew up that's my team yeah that's what people want to hear i mean that's like us we're just fans yeah it's raw so so the so rooney he he had like a ton of stories right like yeah of all kinds of shit yeah one with a he's known to he's known to like grannies apparently oh yeah okay no hating on that i kind of like that oh you like the gilfs oh you like the gilfs So he could be king I respect a man that likes gilfs It's different Do you like gilfs I'm an admirer Certain gilfs sure Okay I'm sure there's Who would you say is a gilf The queen Yeah I was going like more Meryl Streep Queen mum Okay Yeah Meryl Streep sure You know what was it Calendar Girls They're all beautiful ladies Who Calendar Girls

What is that

The older ladies

Meryl Streep was in it

What's her name

Dame Duty Gents

Dame Duty Gents

It was a movie

Calendar Girls

Yeah it was like

An older ladies

But they were all

You could tell they was all

Do you guys watch

American movies

Of course we do

We grew up on it

Like what's your favorite movie

What mine

Yeah

Forrest Gump

Thank you. movies? Of course we do.
We grew up on it. Like, what's your favorite movie? What, mine? Yeah.
Forrest Gump?

Boys in the Hood,

probably.

Okay.

Probably my favorite

one.

Okay.

You get me?

Because my son's

name's Trey, and

the main character

is Trey.

There you go.

You ever see

The Patriot?

Mel Gibson?

No.

You ever see

Braveheart?

Yeah, of course I did.

That's in Scotland,

like. Yeah, Braveheart was cool.
Mel Gibson makes a lot of movies about just kicking English ass, right? He's a quality actor. I like his films.
I think What Women Want was a fucking hilarious, blud. You like that one? Yeah, me and my chick went to watch that, blud.
I'd love to have that, blud. You're sitting there, and she's just cussing you off, and you're like, you think I don't know what you're saying, brud?

You think I don't know what you're saying,

brud?

It would be sick to know

what they want,

brud,

because my girl never knows

what she wants,

but I don't know whether

she's coming or going,

brud.

So it would be amazing

to get into,

like,

a woman's mind and see.

She probably says the same thing

about you.

Nah,

I'm coming all the time.

Oh,

okay.

Straight contract.

That was nice.

That was nice.

That was nice.

Set you up for the barrel.

Yeah,

line me up,

brud.

That was a whole run.

Boom!

Quality cross.

You understand?

Yeah.

What are the words,

what are the words

that you're not allowed to say Thank you. That's nice.
That's nice. Set you up for that.
Yeah, line me up. That was a whole run.

Boom.

Quality cross.

You understand?

Yeah.

What are the words that you're not allowed to say on British television?

Cunt.

Okay.

That's a great word.

Yeah.

That's a football word.

What about twat?

Can't say twat.

Prick.

Bitch.

Blood.

You can say blood.

What? You can say fam. What? They tried to stop me from saying it one time.
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Why should you finish fourth and then get a chance to play for a trophy? You've lost. Because having elimination games is really cool.
That's where you have the cups, isn't it? The FA Cup, the EFL Cup. You've got Champions League.
You've got the Europa League. And then in Spain, they've got their team, France.
Everyone's got their own cup competition to cover it. Explain the FA Cup, because I think that's my favorite tournament.
The FA Cup. Yeah.
So the FA Cup starts in January, and it runs until May. We've won that the most times, but we're out of it this year.
We won it last year, so we're the reigning holders, obviously, until whoever wins it this year. That comes in January,'s just literally normally like without Corona it could be like you play the first it's one game but if it's a draw it'll go to a replay because there's Corona now they've kind of cut it and said if it's a draw at full time it goes straight to penalties so it starts so any team any any football team in England can enter the FA Cup.

That's why the FA Cup's so sick. Right.
Because you could be a grassroots team, like just playing Sunday League with your man them. And then you could get to the third round and get a Man United away, a Liverpool away.
And then that's like what dreams are made of. Yeah.
That's the shit that Marky Mark would make a movie out of. Yeah.
Or Tony Danza. Yeah.
So they call it the magic of the cup. and then back in the day,

the one game that was always on,

the whole world,

even... Yeah, or Tony Danza.
Yeah, so they call it the magic of the cup. And then back in the day, the one game that was always on, the whole world, even America, was the FA Cup final.
It was always on. And in England back in the day, the FA Cup final, the whole day would be strictly for the FA Cup final.
So if I'm going to wake up at 9 in the morning, they'll have sections on both teams that are playing, history of their things. the super run up yeah it's literally it's yeah it's like the super bowl but the cup one but it's the super bowl if the nfl played a tournament where like we could have a team play like that barcelain the dallas cowboys exactly and we get killed but that moment where they'll have Arsenal, a huge fucking club, go and play a YMCA team in front of 1,000 people, right? That's awesome.
What's the smallest team that's ever won that tournament? Tottenham. Oh, man? So there's never actually been...
That was a setup. I don't know.
Recent years, probably the smallest team was Wigan when they beat Man City in the final that was like that was like fuck me bro I remember Man City got a man set off in the 83rd minute and then Wigan scored 90th minute literally 90th minute from a corner boom and Wigan's not even in the are they in the championship league the worst thing is the year they won it they got relegated so they got relegated. So they got relegated on, so they won the FA Cup on the Saturday.
They came to us. They played us on the Tuesday.
We beat them 4-1 and relegated them. And they put all, because that's the other thing is that there becomes this, like, do we put all of our best guys playing an FA Cup game or Europa game or the EPL? So is the FA Cup, would you rather win the FA Cup or the league? The league.
Okay, so that's not even close. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But FA Cup is second, right, you'd say? Or no, not talking about European. You'd rather win Champions League one, right? Yeah, so the first one would be a European trophy.
And that is, explain that to people, the Champions League. So the Champions the Champions League is In England It's the four best teams In Spain it's the four best Italy it's the third The three best Portugal two best Germany Germany two Three best Russia And then Latvia The little countries The so to say No disrespect The so to say Smaller Minerals So like will have won, Latvia will have won, Poland will have won.
And then they get split into A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H. So eight groups of four, no, six, yeah.
You play each other two times, so home and away. The top two go through.
The third team drops into the Europa League. So at the end of the group stage, everyone gets six games.
After six games, top two go through. The third one drops into the Europa.
The fourth one's out of Europe. Then it goes into knockout competition.
So you get two legs. So after that, you got the last 16.
You get two legs there. But then you got away goals.
So if you play away from home, if you score one, that counts as two. Right.
So that's why you're always like, when you go away, you're always like, brother, if we lose 2-1, that's good. We drew 2-2.
Right. So we're already, you understand? So as long as we get away, go bloodline.
So it's mad because you could go, you could win the home leg 1-0. No, you could.
It'd be way better to lose 2-1 than one so watch this you could on the road you could um you could win your home leg 1-0 but then lose 2-1 and nah draw 2-2 yeah away and you're out because away goals right right okay you've seen people go through lower scores but because they got the away goals and it doubles it and so champions league is so to use an analogy for uh american sports it would be as if there were competitive leagues to the nfl in like all of our neighboring countries and then after the super bowl it's like all right these four the teams that went to the afc and nfc championship now play the top four teams from mexico and so i love now but it's not even like It's not even all right, the teams that went to the AFC and NFC Championship now play the top four teams from Mexico. So I love that.
No, but it's not even like that because it runs in the same season. Right, right, right.
So in the season, you'll be in your league competition. That's the confusing part, I think.
Yeah, because Arsenal, the big clubs, let's say the big clubs are Arsenal. So we'll start off in four competitions because we'll have the league, the two cup competitions and then the European tournament we're in.
There's teams that just have the league and then you got like the EFL cup and the FA cup. So it's mad.
There's so much fixture pile up and then when Christmas comes, you're playing like, you're playing like maybe six games in the space of like 12 days. So it sounds like there's just so many different tournaments and so many different cups and competitions that you play and is there actually like when is the off season for soccer so from may until august that's when everyone has a break but then when it's international year you're fucked because if there's world cup then in your football player you literally finish in May you get like two weeks off and then you're bang

you're gone to train

with your international team

and then you train with them

do your tournament

until you get knocked out

then you go away for two weeks

then you're back training again

so it's mad

you basically have like

two weeks to go sit on a yacht

with a model

or your wife and your kids

yeah remember the time

the Marian Goza

he had a big fucking boner

on the yacht

that was pretty funny

the Germany guy. Do you remember that? Yeah.
I don't remember that. It was very funny.
Vaguely. Yeah, yeah.
I'll show you. Nah, he has like, I remember he had Yeah, see, you do.
Of course I know, bro. Because that picture went viral on Twitter.
Yeah, see? He did like tight shorts. Don't try to pretend you don't know what I'm talking about.
Oh, yeah, that's a semi.

And it was like he had just won the World Cup.

See, even that semi.

It's a semi.

Semi.

He had just won the World Cup, and then he's like all of a sudden everyone's after him because he's got a fucking...

Yeah, he scored the winner.

Yeah, and he's got a rock-hard boner on him.

And he does have a beautiful wife.

I don't know.

I thought you were going to say a beautiful semi.

I don't know about that.

How can you get mad?

How is that insulting to somebody?

Oh, look at this asshole that just won the World Cup. Now he's got a boner around his hot wife on vacation.
Is that supposed to be owned? That's what it is. They're trying to throw dirt on his name because he's done well.
So it's like, okay, how can we bring him down now? Okay, look, he's got a boner. What's the Farmers League? The Farmers League? Yeah.
That's the Europa League. What does that mean? That's the one in the Arsenal.
That's the one that we're in. I know, but I've just heard a lot of people talk about things like, oh, it's a Farmers League.
It's a big insult, right? Yeah, because it's not the serious teams. All the big teams are in Champions League, isn't it? It's the big teams that have fell off are in the Europa League so that us United Tottenham you get me we're in it yeah what if what if you took an all-star team of everybody that played in the EPL every team from there every team that played in Ligue 1 every team that played in uh the uh Italian whatever it is Syria everyone that played in the Bundesliga and everyone that played in Spain.
Which country has the best players that are currently playing in their league right now? I don't know, man. Bundesliga.
Nah. Yeah.
Nah. Russian Premier League.
They've won the most Champions League, have they not? No, but when you look at...

I think I'm right.

But if you...

Bayern.

I don't know, man.

I think England's got a good team.

A very good team if you put this All-Stars.

Because you've got De Bruyne, Sterling.

You've got Kane, the scumbag.

You've got Aubameyang.

You've got...

Who's the best player in the world right now?

Right now?

Right now.

For me.

Today.

The best in the world for me. Like, the best, I'd say the i'd say the best yeah like all right the best is for me is ronaldo cr7 yeah but for me right now mbappe okay that makes sense they're not coming close to him bro that kid is something else but the way he just goes now will he eventually like get transferred to the epl at some point or is he just gonna going to be PSG for life? Nah, he'll leave PSG.
There's rumors that he's going to Madrid. Really? We actually had talks with him.
Wenger tried to sign him on a free. His contract was running down at Monaco before he signed his new deal.
We actually had talks with him, but he never chose us. He chose to stay at Monaco.
So we could have Mbappe now. So last question for me.
Explain this. Transfer windows and being out on loan.
So transfer window is... So you've got transfer window from June until September the 1st where you can just buy any player you want.
Do what you want, rare, tear, tear. So it's not even a trade.
You can just say, I want this guy. I want Messi.
I'm going to pay 200 million. Yeah.
And now he's on my team. Yeah.
That's fucking awesome. Not as easy.
Obviously, the club have to accept the bid and then contract talks and whatnot. And then you've got two transfer windows.
So you've got it from June until September and then you've got one in January. January, not a lot happens.
More people go out and loan. The loan thing is where you can go to another club and then say, can we loan your player for a season? We'll give him back to you, but we'll pay his wages for the year.
Okay. What if that player just really likes it on the new team though? Can he just feel like I'm staying here? Because if you loan a player, you can always put an option to buy.
Ah. So if you loan him and he does good, then you've got that option to call the club and say, yo, you know what? He's've done well here We want to keep him, how much do you lot want for him? So in the middle, in the second transfer period In January, if your team is shit And you're like, alright, well we're not going to compete For the top, we're not going to get relegated We're right in the middle, like an arsenal right now You can loan out One of your best players and be like, let's at least get some money for it Nah, fuck fuck that.
They don't do that? Nah. No one does that? Not your best players.
Okay. You loan out people that can't get in the team.
Got it. Or you loan out people that you want to play, but you can't get them game time now, so you're going to send them on loan to get game time.
Why don't you loan out your best players and then just get a shitload of money for them? That's what I'm saying. Yeah, that's what we do here in America.
Because loan fees are much...

Loan fees are like a million pounds.

You can't buy no one

for a million pounds.

I wish we had that element

in pro sports here.

Like, loans would be so sick.

If you were like,

all right, we need a hit.

All right, we're going to loan

Mike Trout from the Angels

for two months,

and then he's back on the Angels.

That would be awesome.

I mean, I think that would

make sports very interesting.

Yeah, the Carolina Hurricanes, their owner is just straight up like a payday loan guy anyway. Yeah.
Like come the playoffs, just load up on guys from these like reserve rosters. That would be awesome.
All right, do you have any questions for us about America? We love having you here. Why do you...
Why don't you lot fuck with football? We do. We fuck with football.
We talk soccer all the time. No, America on the whole.
So I care more about women's soccer because we win at it. So I enjoy watching the women's national team.
I like, obviously, like when the U.S. is playing the World Cup, I watch every game.
I watch mostly like every game of every World Cup regardless cup regardless but it sucks it's very hard for an entire country to get into a sport when we sometimes aren't even like a top 30 team in the world at it you know so from my perspective i think we're getting there but to me it's when you have like the mls it so i watch the epl then i watch the mls it's completely different and you can notice it if you watch both and that's no knock on the MLS because it's obviously a growing league but it would be like saying I want to watch uh division three football instead of the NFL like if you have the choice of both you're going to watch the NFL so I think when we're not we don't have the best league because you think about it, you know, NHL, NFL, MLB and NBA. Those are the best leagues in the world for those sports.
MLS is not that way. So I think it's a little bit harder.
And I think they're getting there. I don't know.
It's definitely growing. It's never going to be the top tier sport in America.
It's just not going to happen. But can it rise to top three? Top three.
Which one are you kicking out? Over NHL? I wouldn't be shocked. I'd say what? NFL.
In 50 years. NFL have always been number one.
It's like NFL. NFL, basketball, and then football.
Well, not always number one. That's the thing.
So you could make the argument that it could because it has. Baseball was America's pastime, right? And now NBA and NFL have jumped it.

So you think in 50 years there could be a world where it's NFL is still number one,

NBA, and then maybe soccer?

I mean, it would be crazy.

It's a globalist takeover, yeah.

It's not impossible.

It's not totally out of the realm.

Because things do change in America.

Like you said, horse racing, boxing, and baseball used to be the biggest sports just like horse racing 70 years ago 80 years ago so things do change and i mean the game obviously has global appeal and the more that america becomes a melting pot and more people from different cultures move to this country you're going to see television stations paying more money for those rights because they're like oh shit now there are like 30 million people that might watch soccer on a Sunday morning as opposed to 10 million people just a couple decades ago. So it's going to grow.
I don't know if it'll ever reach over like baseball or basketball, maybe hockey. It might be able to be hockey.
More goals too. Yeah.
Make the goal bigger. I mean, the goals, like you have to say, I've seen it twice this year now.
Arsenal has played two games where the opponent has scored a goal in the second minute, and then that's it. That sucks.
Yeah, I know. And you could say the same about baseball, but even in baseball, when it's like a 1-0 game, then it's a pitcher's duel.
You know what I mean? So, when it's a 0-0 game, can you ever walk away from away from it being like that was electric yeah because there are some games that are just you can have a great no-no where it's just end-to-end yeah it's just that the key we like the keepers are the ones that are just moving man we like home runs touchdown obviously you like goals but beer we're americans here's what you should do we've what we did here in america is we we sat down and we took our football and we said, you know what? If we just make every time you score worth seven points, it seems like there's more scoring. Like what if every goal was worth five? That would be cool.
That would get like a 5-0 game. Yeah, you guys won 15.
You beat Leicester 15-5 today. You see, doesn't that sound way more exciting? Nah, that sounds like tennis, bro.
That's way better. Yeah, it sounds better.
40-15. It sounds better.
How about if you score a goal, it's worth four, and then you get an immediate penalty kick for the extra point? Yeah, I like that. And then maybe every corner kick is worth a third of a goal.
Yeah. Nah.
Nah. And then you can also use...

Yeah, exactly.

Nah.

Also, troops, you can use your hands, and if you carry the ball over the end line, that's

a touchdown, we'll call it.

Nah.

That sounds like a cool sport.

And then you wear pads.

Well, keep it 11 on 11.

Fuck pads.

That works.

The only pads we're wearing is shin pads.

No head guards, no mouth guards, no shoulder blades, none of that.

And you can tackle each other, physically tackle each other.

And you could throw it.

Patrick Mahomes plays.

Yep.

This sounds like a good sport.

I think we fixed it.

That sounds bullshit.

I think you just ruined it.

We'll get rid of VAR, though.

And we'll have Mike Pereira just do.

Nah, keep VAR.

Just get the people to fucking actually know what to do.

I feel like I'd be very good at that, is to be like the VAR guy.

You got your badges, Bloods. You're sure F.
Like it or not, nobody really knows what a handball is. Because it's so subjective.
But they change the rules so much. They change it so much.
And really, if you try to legislate what a handball is and isn't in soccer, you can't ever reach the perfect place. Because there will always be an instance where, okay, you can say, only if it's an intentional handling of the ball intentional handling of your hands in an unnatural position.
What does that mean? Like an unnatural position. Elbow.
Yeah. But it's, it's tough because sometimes someone's crossing the ball, you're doing that.
That's unnatural. It leaves too much up to the officials.
Sometimes looking like a hot dog. Yeah.
Do you get me? Everyone go listen to troops podcast with Zah. It's called with troops podcast is there like a little redundant of a name back again no isn't the same thing it's the catchphrase we're back again we're back you'll come back again to listen and we're back again this week yeah and every time arsenal wins you're like we're back again even though you're 10th in the table 10th when i bring you london that's average when i bring you london that's average i'm I'm going to bring you.
I'm going to be back again, even though you're 10th in the table. 10th.
When I bring you London.

That's average.

When I bring you London.

That's average.

I'm going to bring you.

I'm going to be back again.

You won't come back again.

I'll bring an umbrella.

You better bring more than an umbrella.

What else?

You better bring a vest.

Oh, pads?

So we can play some football?

Something like that.

All right.

Troops, thank you.

Everyone follow me.

Nah, I appreciate you letting me come on, man.

Seriously.

And watch his live watches are awesome.

So anytime Arsenal's playing, he's live on YouTube.

They're so much fun.

I don't know. Thank you.
Everyone follow me. Nah, I appreciate you lot letting me come on, man.
Seriously, man. And watch his live watches are awesome.
So anytime Arsenal's playing, he's live on YouTube. They're so much fun.
Nah, thank you, man. Yeah.
I appreciate you, man. Big Cat, you're a troll, but you get me.
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We have a stay classy for our guy, Max Homa, who did not wear red on Sunday in honor of Tiger Woods. Shame.
Who does he think he is? Shame, Max. How dare you? Unbelievable.
The disrespect. People are actually mad at Max for this because he didn't know that Tiger Woods was going to get into an accident before he packed his clothes to fly to this golf tournament.
And so now people just decided a couple of days ago to wear red and black on Sunday. Are they all? Well, yeah, I think a lot of them are.
But Tiger's not dead, is he? No, he's not. It's kind of weird.
Very weird. To be like, we're doing this to pay respect to Tiger Woods.
Right. You can.
maybe just wear socks that are red and black yeah you can hope that tiger woods gets better and plays again and lives a long life after this and also be like hey uh the reality of it is he's not dead so we probably shouldn't memorialize the guy when he's not dead yeah it's it's strange but people are actually mad at max for not having pre-packed red and black uniform and they're like why don't you just go to the store and buy them and max is like well i'm not i'm not super rich and my sponsors that pay me that's tough to say that yeah after cashing the check well he didn't say i'm not super rich but he did say like the sponsors that pay me i can understand how like you're contractually obligated to wear a certain thing. You know what? You told me all that, PFT.
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Okay. See you, Max.
Canceled his ass. See you, buddy.
All right. We got a sorry, not sorry.
This is from Tommy Pham, who had an unfortunate incident in October. So October, he was stabbed outside of a strip club.
And then apparently, because it's spring training and he's back, he's back healthy. But he told Bob Nightingale that doctors told Tommy Pham after he was stabbed that if he wasn't so muscular, he would maybe be dead or paralyzed, which is the greatest flex of all time.
Being like, if I was a weak, fucking scrawny bitch boy, I'd be dead. But but instead i'm an alpha male with a shitload of muscles so i can handle a stabbing that's uh that's the aaron donald excuse for training with knives he's like i can do it because i'm 300 pounds with a six pack imagine the doctor saying that to you be like listen man if you were a bitch you would have been dead so so his his ab muscles were so strong that the knife couldn't cut through him and hit his spinal cord that's pretty fucking cool it's it's got to be one of the greatest things that a doctor would ever say to you i don't know if they phrased it that way yeah but i'd like to imagine the doctor came in and been like dude thank god you did those fucking crunches all those years i like the thing the doctor just walked in and said who did this fam yeah yeah and then he and then he pulls up a picture of a verge, and he's like, see this guy? Dead.
Dead. Instead, you, Chad, you are alive because you are so goddamn strong.
And then finally, we have King Stay Kings. This comes from Kevin Garnett.
Kevin Garnett went on Jimmy Kimmel's show, and he said that MJ talks such great shit, and then he, so we all obviously know those stories, but he added on a story that he saw Michael Jordan recently. And KG started talking a little shit.
And MJ responded and was like, I put whatever, like 40 on you one night. And KG tried to dispute it.
And MJ pulled over a guy who was like, here, show him. And a walked over with it with all the highlights ready to go in a phone so now this is probably going too far like we probably are just assuming one little anecdote is how mj lives but i like to believe that mj has a full staff walking around with highlights ready to go depending on which nba players he runs into i i think it's even one level further than that I think he has you remember the Jeremy Renner app that Jeremy Renner made just for fans of Jeremy Renner like Facebook for for Renner stance yes I feel like Jordan has an app that he developed for himself that nobody else really has access to he doesn't care if you or I can log on to it but just his guy has the app, and depending on who he runs into, you just search that person's name in the MJ app, and the entire game highlights of MJ giving that player his career high.
Yes. That comes up immediately for him.
And the guy just walks over, shows it to you, and then walks back into the pack behind you. Yeah, he's so rich that he developed an app just for himself to use.
Right, and he has someone, he doesn't even know how to use himself. No, he's got one guy.
Someone else who knows how to use it. Yeah.
Who understands how the entire app works. I just love this story.
Yeah. We can just assume that that's how he operates all the time.
I actually I do believe that. Yeah, absolutely.
Because what else does he smoke cigars, gambles, watches basketball and then just holds grudges. That's his full time job.
also mj's at a point now where he any interaction he has with someone he can just uh make it so much more memorable and have that person just go tell the story and then his legend grows yeah you know what i mean like any little interaction he'd be like you know what i'm gonna do this to this person when i see them next and i guarantee you they'll tell the story on a podcast or a show, wherever it may be, because that's going to be their best story. Think about how cool that is to be like, any interaction with me is that person's best story of their life.
That is pretty cool. That's their Jimmy Kimmel late night story.
I'm going to do you a favor by being an asshole to you. I'm going to give you a story that you can tell as an icebreaker for the rest of your life.

It's actually,

he's the nicest person in America.

Yes.

Yeah.

I'd actually agree.

Is Michael Jordan such an asshole

that he's actually really polite?

He's been making small talk interesting

for the last 30 years.

Yeah, good job.

Just by giving people stories.

Anything else?

LeBron could never.

Never, ever.

Although he did,

do you see he had a little

back and forth with Zlatan?

Yeah, I did see that.

Zlatan.

Slotin was like stick-to- LeBron could never. Never, ever.
Although he did. Do you see he had a little back and forth with Zlatan?

Yeah, I did see that.

Zlatan was like, stick to sports.

Yeah.

And then LeBron's like, I'm not going to stick to sports.

I also would like to see.

I feel like it made no sense.

The Zlatan interview, it was just one little clip.

I didn't see the whole thing.

I wanted to see the whole thing. I mean, Zlatan just gives out bits of his advice in little clips.

He just says, yeah, he says ridiculous things for his entire career.

All right.

That is our show.

We'll see everyone Wednesday.

I think we have a big guest on Wednesday.

We'll see how it goes.

Hall of Famer?

Yes.

Yeah.

Yes.

Two Hall of Fames.

Two different Hall of Fames.

Oh.

Yeah.

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