Troopz Talking Soccer, This Is March, CBB And Drew Brees is Holding New Orleans Hostage

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Speaker 4 On today's part of my take,

Speaker 4 very special guest. It is Troops, the most electric football fan, not our football, not real football, soccer fan.

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He's a wild, wild ride. We talk some footy with him.
We talk Arsenal. We have who's back of the week.

Speaker 4 We're talking a little, it's finally March, so we're going to talk a little college basketball. We have some football news as well.
Drew Brees is holding the city of New Orleans hostage.

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Today is Monday, March 1st. Izzo 1st.
This is March. Yeah.

Speaker 4 January, February, Izzo, April. We sleep in May.
It still never made sense to me because, like, you have, the Final Four is always in April. Yeah.

Speaker 4 So it's like, okay, so Izzo is great for the first two rounds. No, that's actually exactly the point.
But he does go to Final Fours. So this is March.
We're finally here. It's great to be here.

Speaker 4 I'm

Speaker 4 most looking forward to 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.

Speaker 4 yeah they're already starting well now is like the time of year when i think this is probably the one year anniversary of big cat saying that he would inject himself no it's a little later

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 Turns out I probably should have taken that as maybe he wasn't joking. Maybe that was serious.
Wait, you you just did the thing I was saying that people are going to start doing.

Speaker 4 Yeah, no, I'm starting to play. Okay, all right.
Many people are starting to do it. It's going to be miserable.
It's also

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 Yeah. We're ready to go.
Dude, I'm very excited. I've started to get back into college basketball, spent all Saturday watching it.
Nice.

Speaker 4 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 baylor kansas game was listen you should have seen that coming it's senior night senior night is just it's a mushroom mario kart whenever you're playing a team that's better than you uh senior night is like you know perry ellis is getting trotted out there i don't know kansas has been playing really well recently they've they've They've completely...

Speaker 4 I mean, Bill Self, this is...

Speaker 4 Bill Self in Kansas, they are a cocker roach. They just never die.
Every year that you think Kansas is down, they're going to somehow just win the Big 12 tournament.

Speaker 4 And that's what they do every single time, and they figure out a way.

Speaker 4 Jake, would you like to do a debate real quick? Sure. That's 38 straight senior night wins for Kansas.
There it is. 38 straight.
There it is.

Speaker 4 I think Michigan should be number one.

Speaker 4 They're the best team in the country. Overall? Yes, they are the best team in the country.
I saw your tweet. I think

Speaker 4 people can agree with you, and you shouldn't get masculine. Jake, you don't want to debate.
Embrace debate.

Speaker 4 I'm the down-the-middle guy. I did win the debate.
Yeah. Michigan is the best team in the country.
What they've done has been insanely impressive.

Speaker 4 That game against Indiana, I bet on Indiana. People were clowning on me.
I have no, I would do that a million times out of a million times.

Speaker 4 Michigan playing, beating Ohio State, then beating Iowa, having having a game against a very bad Indiana team who might be firing Archie Miller soon. Brad Stevens, Hank.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 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

Speaker 4 Sean Howard memes, right? Yeah, on Thursday.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 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...

Speaker 4 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

Speaker 4 manager is the one who's actually looking at everyone's knees. Yeah, you know what they should do?

Speaker 4 They should just do the thing where you can select as an option that only people you mention or people that follow you can reply to the tweet. Yeah.
And then really shut them down.

Speaker 4 Well, that's Wisconsin. Did that when they lost to Illinois yesterday, which I think that's, you have to, it's cowards way out.
You have to post the final score. But shout out Michigan fans for that.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 They are the best team in the country. I think Hunter Dickinson is the best player

Speaker 4 in the entire country. They're the best players.
I'm only saying that because he's an AWL. There we go.
Yes. So, I mean, who else, like, Baylor obviously lost.
That was the big story of the weekend.

Speaker 4 Gonzaga is number one, will stay number one because they're undefeated. Any other big stories that we need to be looking at, Jake?

Speaker 4 Right now, I think we have three established number one seeds. That fourth number one seed, I think if you're a bubble team or anyone, you want to be in that fourth region, right?

Speaker 4 Because there's such a heavy drop-off after the three best teams right now. So, if you're in that fourth region, anything could happen.
It could be Illinois, Ohio State,

Speaker 4 Priam Villanova. They're actually losing to Butler by 10 at the half right now.

Speaker 4 So, yeah, I think if you're waiting on selection Sunday, if you're in that fourth region, your chances of getting the Final Four are much better.

Speaker 4 How about Roy Williams getting career victory number 900? 900. That is.
That's a daggum lot of wins. You know what that means.

Speaker 6 But he's wearing some cool shoes.

Speaker 4 Letdown game against Syracuse tonight. Also, yes.
After celebrating. Yeah, it was a great second half by them.
And he did do the

Speaker 4 humble brag of starting the press conference and and being like, what's his name? Florida State coach. Leonard Hamilton.

Speaker 4 He started, said Leonard Hamilton should be the Hall of Famer. Like, okay, Roy, we know, we know this is about you.
That's classy. He's making it fucking.
But if Coach K did this in full, it is full.

Speaker 4 Yes. Disclosure: if Coach K did that, we would make fun of it.

Speaker 4 But that's such like an old basketball coach move, is to like, 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.

Speaker 4 That's a big storyline. The James Madison Dukes were the number one seed in the CAA, but they lost their best player for the Duke's year.
It's Duke's year.

Speaker 4 What if JMU made the NCAA tournament and Duke didn't? Then they become possible. They become the actual Duke.
Yeah, it's very possible.

Speaker 4 Well, Hank, how are you feeling about that Louisville watch update? Yeah.

Speaker 6 I mean, it's going to be dicey for us to get in. It is.

Speaker 4 I have confidence. I don't think.

Speaker 6 This is March. This is March, and this is when we thrive.

Speaker 4 I don't think Coach K will accept

Speaker 4 standby, you know, be on the standby list. I don't think he will.

Speaker 4 We talked about that.

Speaker 6 But if they sneak, it's kind of what Jake said. There's a great opportunity there to sneak.

Speaker 4 But I don't think Coach Kevin makes some noise. I think that's a total slap in the face.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 It would be fucking hilarious if Duke was into one of the first four games. Yeah.
They should do that. Duke versus Michigan State.
That made it the other day. It's very possible.
That would be great.

Speaker 4 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 against Maryland.

Speaker 4 Yeah, we were taping this before that. Right.

Speaker 4 Big change. Yeah.
It's exciting. It's March.
It's the best.

Speaker 4 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 2016. So yeah, we've been doing it for five years.

Speaker 4 That's a kid going to kindergarten.

Speaker 4 Or babies going to kindergarten. My phone keeps sending me updates.

Speaker 4 Like flashback memories of things in the past. We both looked so different five years ago.
It's insane. You mean skinnier? Yeah, we just say skinnier.
We're just healthier.

Speaker 4 We both had like a young, naive glow to us. Yes.

Speaker 4 Billy's not here because Billy.

Speaker 4 You know what?

Speaker 4 I'm going to be nice to Billy this week. I'm not going to say that Billy just

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 I'm not going to say that. I'm going to say Billy's just not here.
That's pig of you. That was pig of me, right? I've decided I'm going to be nice to Billy.
so everyone's like, oh, don't be mean.

Speaker 4 Listen, sometimes he does things that warrant it, but

Speaker 4 I'm not going to point those out. Billy's like just not doing his job.
He had some projects. Three shows a week in this street.
It's a lot. It's a lot.
Two out of three is not bad.

Speaker 4 I am woke to Billy getting sponsorships. Are you guys at all woke to that? What do you mean? So he had the.

Speaker 6 I was woke since he started getting like 300 packs of supplements sent to his desk.

Speaker 4 Oh, yeah. 30 pounds of rabbit.
Yeah, a bunch of dude wipes. And then he wore the pants.
He was sponsored by Omer Fudd? He wore the pants were super wrinkled.

Speaker 4 Next thing you know, our great sponsor, Mugsy Jeans, stepped up and bought him like a whole new wardrobe.

Speaker 4 And then his mattress gets eaten by his dog. Oh, weird.
We have a new mattress sponsor coming soon. Huh, that makes that

Speaker 4 red. 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.

Speaker 4 And then

Speaker 4 when I get unsober, I get hungover. Is there anything you can do to help me out with that? I did watch him go to his car on Friday with just like three

Speaker 4 12 packs of Coors Light. He does treat the beer here like it is just free beer for anyone who wants to take home.

Speaker 4 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 like talking to me, like...

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 He'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 in front of my friends.

Speaker 4 Correct, correct. But yeah.
So he's not here.

Speaker 4 Let's talk a little football, though. So I have a couple couple things from the weekend.

Speaker 4 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,

Speaker 4 J.J. Watt is chilling, chilling starts with C.
He's going to the Bears, Chicago Bears.

Speaker 4 Those jokes.

Speaker 4 You got to do some actual sleuthery on it.

Speaker 4 On Friday, I think he put up the picture of him doing front squats, and I saw that it was 315 pounds. And I was like, that's Western New York area code.
Right. That could be a code.

Speaker 4 But then once you get into, yeah, you just start digging a little too deep.

Speaker 4 It's been done. It's been done.
So the J.J. JJ Watt

Speaker 4 free agency, though, everyone wants to know where he's going. Even though Warren Sapp, did you see Warren Sapp,

Speaker 4 shot across the bow? He called him a Jag today.

Speaker 4 A Jagoff? No, a Jag. Just another guy.
Oh, really? Yeah, he's like, who cares? It's a Jackson. He's confirmed.
He said, just another guy.

Speaker 4 So Warren Sapp thinks that it's not that important where he signs. I think JJ is enjoying this.
I think he's obviously enjoying the fact that people are, like, he's trying to drop cryptic hints.

Speaker 4 Like, he's like it's uh the summer 69 he's a zodiac killer yep he's like really loving people analyzing his shit uh but the fact is like there is a team out there that's offering him 16 million dollars a year and if he doesn't if he doesn't choose that then he's gonna kind of i would just take the 16 million from cleveland and call it a day right and be a hero because cleveland does we you know we we discussed it uh 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

Speaker 4 the history there. I think that in Buffalo.
Yeah, that in Buffalo, it becomes something bigger.

Speaker 4 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 or with the Bears.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 So Drew Brees, there's a video of Drew Brees working out,

Speaker 4 and he has yet to retire.

Speaker 4 And then on the other side, you have the mayor of New Orleans trying to woo Russell Wilson to the Saints, and everyone on the Saints, you know, Saints fans being like, Could you imagine if we had Russell Wilson?

Speaker 4 And 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 year.

Speaker 4 He's mad because Russell Wilson gets all the comparisons to Drew Brees as being like one of the other shorter guys. And so, yeah, he's jealous.
Drew Brees is absolutely jealous of this.

Speaker 4 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 in the middle of the day.

Speaker 4 Sean Mayton got him in. And when Sean Payton did it and got everyone injured? Yeah, but Jesus was a CrossFit guy.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 But yeah, he was pushing this sled up a hill, and he's got hair now. He's like, he regrew hair, which actually tells me that he's going to TV.
He's going to TV. He's Jason Witten.

Speaker 4 Brian Erlacher did that after he retired.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 6 Got that Carl Ravitch going.

Speaker 4 Yeah. Yeah.
A little bit of that Carl Ravich. So I think he is jealous of Russell Wilson, of the Buzz.
So he wants to come back, maybe.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 We have a window here. Do not come back.

Speaker 4 But if he wants to come back,

Speaker 4 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 at the pay him a lot, but you can't say no to a legend like that.

Speaker 4 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,

Speaker 4 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?

Speaker 4 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 off dresses yeah and drew was like damn that's a much better pass than i could have thrown to my own son and if you if you go back on all that because we had our drew breeze heartwarming moment right at the end of that right if you take all that away then i think people in new orleans they'll start to they'll be like come on man like we have to let you back but please don't yeah no i he

Speaker 4 i think there's also the element of 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.

Speaker 4 What was my completion percentage last year? Oh, I was still, you know, 65%

Speaker 4 on

Speaker 4 two or three yard passes. Oh, I could do this.
And his ribs are just starting to get healthy now.

Speaker 4 But if you're Drew Brees, like, why are you doing CrossFit if your thorax is 70% still shattered? Like just overhead lifts and stuff. That's a competitive guy.

Speaker 4 I also love the almost the post-mortem, the post-mostly

Speaker 4 dissection of Russell Wilson's comments about, like, okay, I don't want to trade, but if I do want to trade, it's these teams.

Speaker 4 Because people are starting to dig in a little bit in Seattle and figure out exactly why Russell Wilson is upset.

Speaker 4 And more and more is coming about, coming out about the nepotism with Pete Carroll and his sons.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 He's good at managing personalities, right? But he's not like an X's and O's genius.

Speaker 4 And I would rather keep Russell Wilson than Pete Carroll if I was in charge of the Seahawks. Duh.
Especially because Pete Carroll. I don't think that's even a question.
Pete Carroll is 70.

Speaker 4 Yeah, no, I don't think that's even a question.

Speaker 4 If Russell Wilson went to the Seahawks ownership and was like, hey, it's mere Pete, they would absolutely fire Pete in a second. Yeah, you should.

Speaker 4 The problem is you have to ask yourself, if you're the Seahawks owner, is Russell Wilson going to say that? And And then in a year, be like, well, I want out anyway. Yeah.

Speaker 4 But it's very funny also hearing Russell Wilson be like, I don't like the nepotism factor.

Speaker 4 Could you please trade me to a franchise that's got Deuce Gruden on the staff or a franchise that has Steven Jones calling the shots? Yeah, it will be interesting to see how this all plays out because

Speaker 4 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 Russillo made the point, which is a good point, that the quarterbacks in the NFL, like that we're starting to see similar to

Speaker 4 all-stars or top 10 guys in the NBA being able to

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 Because think about it.

Speaker 4 This really hasn't, you have Russell Wilson and Deshaun Watson, two guys who are franchise quarterbacks who are have you know i maybe maybe you want to say seven years for russell wilson but shawn watson has a decade left in the in the prime of their careers essentially saying get me out of here i want a new place and it can happen now like this is totally different than than what we've seen in the nfl 20 years ago it's it's a completely different the players starting to get more power especially at the quarterback position i think that there are still like a lot of older owners in the nfl that are going to be very reluctant to do anything just depends I actually think that the Texans might not trade.

Speaker 4 They'll just let Deshaun Watson sit out. And I think that, yeah, there could be a chance Deshaun Watson sits out.

Speaker 4 They would be stupid

Speaker 4 if he actually is going to sit out.

Speaker 4 Imagine if Deshaun Watson is 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.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it's all very fascinating.

Speaker 4 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

Speaker 4 and watching, you know, all the fan bases that need a quarterback very badly just beg and plead.

Speaker 4 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 Red Wilsons.

Speaker 4 I'd give Pinky, whatever you want. The Watson Ting Red.

Speaker 4 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,

Speaker 4 I'm just, I'm, that's my only nervous, like, I think he wants a big market, obviously.

Speaker 4 He thinks that the stadium is in the loop. Right.

Speaker 4 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 Ciara is going to be like, oh, shit, it's pretty cold here.

Speaker 4 There's not as much natural beauty as there is in Seattle. There are boaters, though.
Uh-huh. So

Speaker 4 he loves the boaters. But yeah, I'm a little nervous about that.
I'm just hoping that we can just keep that under wraps until potentially a trade happens.

Speaker 4 And And then there was also the news that the Bears now might just have Nick Foles be the quarterback, which I've already done the process of just selling myself back into that. That is like, well,

Speaker 4 if he's got a full season, maybe training camp of snaps.

Speaker 4 That is a tough selling. It's not going to work.
It's not going to work. It's going to be a disaster.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 And it sounds like what Snyder is accusing Jeff Bezos of is like, it's some billions type shit.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 And now there's about to be a report coming out that's that's apparently independently done about Snyder and all the bad stuff that he's done.

Speaker 4 It's seriously like billionaires having dick measuring contests against each other. Bezos has the biggest dick, though.
Well,

Speaker 4 you can't. It's actually

Speaker 4 close. It's an indictment on American society that Bezos doesn't already own the Washington football team.
Right.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 No, it would happen like immediately. This is why we keep getting our asses kicked in Olympic powerlifting by these Eastern European and

Speaker 4 Russian countries. So what's going to end up happening? They're going to go to court and just no one's going to even care and it's going to, Dan Snyder is going to keep the team?

Speaker 4 What's your best case scenario? Best case scenario, I mean, I would welcome Jeff Bezos with open arms just because he's not Dan Snyder. Right.
I'm at like anybody but Snyder right now.

Speaker 4 I mean, and he would potentially spend a shitload of money because he's got nothing but money to spend. Yep.

Speaker 4 It is hilarious when a super, super rich guy just wants to buy a team out of boredom. There's no investment or anything.

Speaker 4 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 billion team?

Speaker 4 I would do if I were. Yeah, I would do an assessment.
I would say you were billing. I'd call my own place.
Can you imagine not owning a professional sports team? I would call my own place.

Speaker 4 What is the point at all in becoming the richest person in the world if you can't buy whatever you want? Yeah,

Speaker 4 I'd be the GM.

Speaker 4 I would be Jerry Jones. I'd be Jerry Jones.
I'd hold a press conference before my coach held the press conference after every single game. I'd do it all.

Speaker 4 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,

Speaker 4 I would come down from the rafters like sting and be like smoking a victory cigar. Yeah, dude.
And everyone would be cheering for me. Incredible.

Speaker 4 Landing a helicopter at midfield after the game was over? Yeah. Hell yeah.
No, it would be a joke. It's actually, it sucks that mostly losers end up buying these teams.
Because like

Speaker 4 Bezos will do, will spend money, but he won't do this cool stuff we're talking about. No.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 Thinking that you're smarter than everyone.

Speaker 4 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. It does suck when they're boring.

Speaker 4 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

Speaker 4 who know how to act with money. Yeah, and like that's not fun.
Yeah, they're just got old-timey, you know, etiquette and all this bullshit.

Speaker 4 No, I want a guy who will go to the bargaining table and talk about chickens fucking owls. Yes.

Speaker 4 And it's also disgusting that billionaires own these state their own fucking fucking stadiums and they own these sports teams and they still charge like $10 for a beer.

Speaker 4 If I were an NFL owner, I'd be like, I don't give a shit.

Speaker 4 I don't give a shit about making more money.

Speaker 4 I literally have a football team. What's the point of having any more money? It's free beer.
Yes.

Speaker 6 Hank? Well, that's why you're not a billionaire.

Speaker 4 Yeah. That's what this is.
No, I mean, obviously, everything we just said is why we're not billionaires. Well, we have the dumbest.

Speaker 4 I do own an Alex Caruso. I have an Alex Caruso Chased Down Block NFT.

Speaker 4 This bubble's going

Speaker 4 to be painful for some day. The top shot bubble.
The Ish Smith.

Speaker 4 Should Crusoe's birthday today. I don't know.
Someone did. That's the value.
Shout out.

Speaker 4 Maybe I should have $7 old. Tank, where are you at on it?

Speaker 6 I

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 4 But I think that's not.

Speaker 6 I'm at like exotic Joe.

Speaker 4 I'm never going to financially recover from this.

Speaker 4 Here's where I land on top Top Shot and where I hope other people will land on it is

Speaker 4 don't put in like 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?

Speaker 6 A couple grand.

Speaker 4 Couple grand. Couple grand.
All right. You got diamond hands or paper hands?

Speaker 6 My ROI is like a negative 60%.

Speaker 4 And the bubble hasn't even burst.

Speaker 4 Yeah, but once Taco Falls takes off, I have a Marcus Smart layup that's going to be worth a lot.

Speaker 6 Julius Randle, it's his first all-star season.

Speaker 4 So, Big Cat, I actually think that the money launderers finding Top Shot is a great thing. Yeah.

Speaker 4 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 Delevadova assist for $5,000 and get back $3,000 on that return, that's going to be a good day for everybody.

Speaker 6 The shit they did this weekend was insane.

Speaker 4 What?

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 And once you get the chance to purchase,

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 4 Oh, no. It is Adam Silver just creating money out of thin.
Just his own currency. All right.
Well, we'll, you know. Hold the line.

Speaker 4 I have a bunch of those auto-porter mid-range jumpers, which that was the most disappointing part. When people started gifting me Otto Porter's shots, and then I watched it, and it was the, it was

Speaker 4 the most underwhelming highlight of all time.

Speaker 4 It was, it was basically just Otto Porter rolling off of a pick, and then hitting a mid-range jumper in the middle of a third quarter in a game in like January. That's that's that's the top shot.

Speaker 4 I'm gonna see how much I think that's our problem, is we need better, better highlights. I'm gonna see how much my Caruso top shot is worth right now.

Speaker 4 Stand by. All right, well, you look at that.

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Speaker 4 Okay, who's back of the week? How much is it?

Speaker 4 So it's never a good sign when you see that you paid $536 for it.

Speaker 4 And then the top sale out of $133 is $536.

Speaker 4 So

Speaker 4 I'm quite literally the sucker at the top of the game. Oh, no, you're set in the market.
That's right. Yeah, that's right.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 I wouldn't want to pay any less than that. Right.
It's like it cheapens it a little bit. Right.

Speaker 4 Who's back of the week, Hank?

Speaker 6 I alluded to it earlier, but the Knicks.

Speaker 4 Yes.

Speaker 4 Julius Randall. They're going crazy.

Speaker 6 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,

Speaker 4 it's pretty crazy.

Speaker 6 And there was a video last night of them winning and people going nuts outside the garden. Like they won the championship.

Speaker 4 It was crazy. The Knicks being 500 was

Speaker 4 the happiest I've ever seen Knicks face.

Speaker 6 I mean, we've been here for five years. The Knicks have never even been in the conversation.

Speaker 6 There's never been any hope, any excitement, any hype around them whatsoever the entire time we've been in New York City.

Speaker 4 You were Team Zions in New York. Yeah.
You wanted it for the hype? Right, we live, we live, our office is like, you can hit the MSG with a baseball.

Speaker 6 So it'd be nice, you know, for their, like, we're a sports podcast. You like the hype.
You like, you know, big events.

Speaker 4 It's good. Right.

Speaker 6 It'd be good if, you know, they're in the playoffs and there's a lot of hype and buzz and stuff.

Speaker 4 Even though, you know, they're a division rival and stuff, it's, it's still, 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 yeah i'm i'm actually not that surprised that they're having this type of year just because tits this is what he does right and he prints them all out and gets the most out of his talent always and he plays and and his he's still doing it his x's and o's will beat some teams just off of x's and o's like he just being a better coach team can beat some of the other nba teams that maybe they're not as talented as.

Speaker 4 Wasn't Julius Randle in our fantasy league with C.J. Randall? Yes, he was.
Yeah. I think we beat him.
And now there was some violence. We missed the playoffs.
Yeah, the violence beat.

Speaker 4 Was like at his peak. No, no, no, it was Chris Bosch.
Big J. Oh, he said at his peak is Chris Bosch.
Was Chris Bosch ever as good as Julius Randle? Legit question. I don't think it was good.

Speaker 4 Apex, was Chris Bosch ever better than Peak Julius Randle? The answer is no.

Speaker 4 1.7 thousand quotes. Drunk with power, which I am, I think it's I kind of agree with that, though.
Yeah, no. What? No, I don't agree with with that.
Sposh on the big three. Yeah.
Sposh in Toronto.

Speaker 4 Didn't Knicks? Sposh in Toronto. Yeah.
Sposhing the big three. Oh, stop.
Luggage. The Nick.
Biggest rebound in basketball history. Let's chicken.
That's true. Let's chicken.
Go, Jake. Go.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 He literally doesn't get that rebound. He are eliminated in the sixth game.
Hanky response. They brought out the yellow rope.

Speaker 6 That was honestly the most heartbreaking game I've ever watched.

Speaker 6 As a team, that was not my own team. I've never been more upset and just truly heartbroken after a loss.
That's all.

Speaker 4 I forget where you were for that one. It is.
I won't. is.
It actually tells you how bad the Knicks have been and how long it's been because

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 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, so New York, New Yorkers will rub it in your fucking face.

Speaker 4 The last time that they were even noteworthy to talk about was like a 20-game span in 2013 when Jeremy Lynn. Mello took him to the playoffs.
Mellow took him to the playoffs, but now it's like

Speaker 4 the best moment of their last 10 years is a guy that's in the G-League right now. Whoa! I thought he's on the Warriors.
No, I'm talking about Lynn. Yeah, no, I think he's on the Warriors.

Speaker 4 I think he's G-League. Is he? He was? He was.
Yes, he's in the Orlando G-League ball. Okay, was he not on the Warriors? When was he on the Warriors? Last year?

Speaker 4 He's been on like every team season. He has been on every team.
He was on the Warriors

Speaker 4 2010-2011. Oh, shit.
He's on the Santa Cruz Warriors right now.

Speaker 4 That's okay. That's what I saw.

Speaker 4 I mean, yeah, he wears the Warriors.

Speaker 4 Wait, so that's the. They're doing a bubble in Orlando right now.
So

Speaker 4 he's in the Warriors organization. Got it.
That's where the confusion. Okay, that makes sense.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 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

Speaker 4 you know, buzz going. And there's nothing like the Mecca.
Let's just be honest, boys. There's nothing like the Mecca.

Speaker 4 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.
Solid in the Mecca.

Speaker 4 That was a great one. That was a great one.
I was there. It was really great.
You were at the same time. Yeah, I flew in from Syracuse.
That's fucking weird. Why? Well, because we were too.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Boom. And now we're out of here.
That was Big Cat dabbing and said that. That's crazy.

Speaker 4 So we were in the same building.

Speaker 4 Wow.

Speaker 4 Mind blowing. Yeah.
That's premature. I met Jeff D.
Lowe in that building for the first time. Oh, okay.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 A lot of great people. I was behind the basket.
So we were far away from each other. Ah, okay.
But still, same building. Crazy.
What are the odds? That's nuts. Jake, you go with your who's back.

Speaker 4 My who's back? Yes. Josh Gordon.

Speaker 4 Oh, yeah. For the fan control football league, right? Hopefully he can stay healthy and stay clean, make the right decisions,

Speaker 4 and his career will get back on track. I'm sure him.
You know what a great way to do that would be? Is teaming up to play with Johnny Manzo?

Speaker 4 Yes, that's it. Johnny Menzo 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.

Speaker 4 It would be fucking awesome.

Speaker 4 He's like, You're right, let's fucking do it. Let's ball out.
Elite Fantasy tandem back in the day. Yes.

Speaker 4 Was it Josh Gordon? They're on the Browns team. 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

Speaker 4 Johnny. Yeah.
I don't know. Johnny played way less games than we remember.
Yeah, Johnny, did he take over for Hoyer? Yeah, remember

Speaker 4 he had that one run, I think maybe against Buffalo. He got jacked up.

Speaker 4 But yeah,

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 Are you counting the Canadian Football League? No, that was his NFL stats. Seven touchdowns total throwing uh all right pifty who's your who's back my who's back of the week is

Speaker 4 mock drafts mock drafts with trades mel kuiper put out mock draft version 1.0 last week uh but for the first time in the history of mel kuiper doing mock drafts he included trades and it's 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.

Speaker 4 So he didn't feel comfortable putting out one that didn't have trades. It's just sad.
It's just sad.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 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

Speaker 4 I guess he did it and I do love reading the mock drafts. I love them.
Yeah,

Speaker 4 the mock drafts with trades are the best. They're absolutely ridiculous.
Because you just make them up out of nowhere.

Speaker 4 Well and then you end up trading like picks that are in the third round and now you don't even know where you are. Yeah, and you can always.

Speaker 4 It's basically just taking you and doing a dizzy bat and then having you read a bunch of names.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 Yeah, exactly. And then you have an easy way out.
Mel Milk Kuiper should always just be like, here is how the first round is going to go. And every year he gets like two correct.

Speaker 4 And then he just keeps having a job.

Speaker 4 That's what happens in the Milk Kuiper Industrial Complex. Yes.
All right, Maya, who's back is

Speaker 4 me fucking up. I fucked up.
I didn't realize that today was not actually daylight saving. So my bad.
It's next week. I apologize to anyone who thought that it was.
Oh, I set my clock forward.

Speaker 4 Yeah, no, I totally fucked that up. I can't believe I did that again.
So apologies to everyone. Next week, next Saturday is Spring Forward.
So now, hang on, let me set my clock backwards right now.

Speaker 4 And then I'll send 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 Daylight See.

Speaker 4 My other who's back is just March. I'm just so fucking excited for March.
Today's first day of spring training. Yeah, there you go.
Spring training.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 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

Speaker 4 is going to be great for all the fans, is they 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.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 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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Speaker 4 Okay, here he is. Troops.

Speaker 4 All right.

Speaker 4 Back again.

Speaker 4 We now welcome on a very special guest. He is our colleague.
It is Troops.

Speaker 4 You can find him on Twitter. What's your Twitter? Troops? Troops AFC.
With a Z. Air of a Z.

Speaker 4 So if you haven't seen seen him, he is a London-born Arsenal fan, Super fan, very, very interesting,

Speaker 4 up-and-comer media world, AFTV. We'll get through all of it.
But first, we want to congratulate you. Big win over Leicester today.
Leicester.

Speaker 4 Leicester. Lechester.
Leicester. It's spent Leicester.
Listen, we've been talking about Leicester City for five years now. When they had Danny Drinkwater and they were 10,000.

Speaker 4 You probably don't remember it. You just got into EPL.
They were a big deal. We know how to pronounce Leicester.
Leicester.

Speaker 4 So all right, so let's start with your backstory because I actually think it's fascinating. You were just a regular fan and you got found by

Speaker 4 being interviewed outside Arsenal Stadium.

Speaker 4 What was the interview about?

Speaker 4 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 one.

Speaker 4 Because football's like,

Speaker 4 football's a funny game, innit? 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 skeptical to go on it.

Speaker 4 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, innit? He's like, go.
So, I went.

Speaker 4 And then, literally, from then,

Speaker 4 the thing just took off, Blood. What was the original interview? What were you mad about? You just ranted, right? Yeah, like at that point, it was like Wenga in, Wenga out.

Speaker 4 Now, who's Arsen Wagner, for the people who don't know?

Speaker 4 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 historically the greatest manager of all time or anything, right? Nah,

Speaker 4 he's top two for us. And you wanted him out.
Yeah, because

Speaker 4 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 that, though.

Speaker 4 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 it or managing it for this long.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 I also heard that you, like, you stepped into a fight and you helped to defend the guy that was going on one of these rants. And that's the reason that he pulled you aside.

Speaker 4 He was like, okay, I want to hear what this guy has to say because he helped me beat up this guy

Speaker 4 after the game.

Speaker 4 I didn't help, like, be and that wasn't even Robbie, that was Kenny Ken. Kenny Ken was doing the interview, great name, and then he came off, and then one of the wenger ins tried to attack him.

Speaker 4 It was mad, bro. It was probably like wanger in v wanger out.
So, obviously, I'm wanger out, right? I've seen the AK, like

Speaker 4 we used to call them AKBs, Arsene knows best because that's what they say: Arson knows best, AKB. Everyone follows Arsenal.
Obviously, they called us the WABS, Wanga Out Brigade.

Speaker 4 Okay, so it was like AKB versus the Wubs.

Speaker 4 So people who don't follow, like what I just said, the joke I made at Troop's expense about how Arsen Wagner, like, he actually is basically Bill Belichick, right? Like,

Speaker 4 if you went through,

Speaker 4 he is one of the most acclaimed managers in all EPL history, correct? Correct facts. So it's a big deal

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 So it's kind of a right place, right time, right? 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, like,

Speaker 4 I went on, I did my interview on the 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.

Speaker 4 He pulled out the banner, which said, Arsen, 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, right,

Speaker 4 that's my hero, my idol. Like, to be cool with 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 Abama Young.

Speaker 4 You get me? Me and Abba. That's like, yeah, but right is the one that.
And then right he went for DT, like saying, oh, you're a prick. Why are you doing that? I have some class, rare, tear, tear.

Speaker 4 And then DT called him.

Speaker 4 He called himself. I think he said, fuck off you melt or something.
And I'm there, like, bro, this is righty. Like, how are you saying fuck off you melt to like

Speaker 4 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 you douche bag okay

Speaker 4 you jerk half like where you could call him a jerk half oh fuck these headphones blood

Speaker 4 your hair's too good for the hair's too fast for me

Speaker 4 but like so like from then like he listened like he was he was going back and forth with righty but i i was in the middle because obviously i'm a big ian right fan but then i agree with what my man's saying about wenger so then on the sunday now i've gone on because a lot of people are not like, they're going against him in it kind of thing.

Speaker 4 So I came out and I was like, I don't know my man. At the time, I never knew him.
Obviously, after that, me and him got together and rare tear tear, not together like that.

Speaker 4 What does Rare Territer mean? Etc. Okay, got it.
I like that. So 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.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 I got two dumb questions. One, Arsen Wang, 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 Arsenal FC.

Speaker 4 So we used to say it's Arsenal FC, not Arsenal FC. Okay.
1886, not 1996. But he did, if you do the,

Speaker 4 I saw Arsenal. He's top two managers.
Yeah, no, I saw the statistic that it's like games one or maybe it's trophies one in the EPL. He alone is like number four on the list.

Speaker 4 He has more wins than like Tottenham. Yeah, he's won more games than than Tottenham.

Speaker 4 The other thing about the game is that. I was talking about shit.
It's not hard, like, do you understand to have more wins than Yet Me Denny? What are your thoughts on Harry Kane? Fuck them, man.

Speaker 4 Spits when he talks? Something like that.

Speaker 4 He doesn't like when I say that because you're not supposed to see it. You don't like Harry Kane? So, yeah, do you

Speaker 4 root just as hard for the English national team as you do for Arsenal? Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely. Okay.
But not fully. Is he coming home? Yeah, which one is number one? It was supposed to come.

Speaker 4 Arsenal. Okay, not even close.
See, the look you gave me, like,

Speaker 4 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 years.

Speaker 4 Arsenal's 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?

Speaker 4 Do you remember that goal that David Seaman gave up to Ronaldo in the World Cup? When it was a free kick? That was Ronaldinho.

Speaker 4 That Ronaldinho. Yeah, he was supposed to cross it and just went right over his head.
That was embarrassing. It It wasn't really embarrassing.
The man was like 39. You get me.

Speaker 4 He already won four league titles. You get me.
One of England's greatest ever managers, Arsenal's

Speaker 4 goalkeeper. Sorry.
You get me.

Speaker 4 David Seaman's a legendary keeper, but better than any goalkeeper that played for that shit. Was for West Ham? Let's get that.
Yeah, well, that's, I mean, that's a pretty low bar. Was he?

Speaker 4 In my deep history of West Ham. Yeah.
I'm a Jorge Compost guy, though, through and through. Who's that? Compost, man.
Short King. Who's that? Mexico's goalie?

Speaker 4 Oh, no, that's not him. That's not the one.

Speaker 4 Yeah, you're thinking

Speaker 4 of England. He's done the Scorpio.
Yeah. Remember that? Yeah.
Did you ever see that? Show him that clip. Yeah,

Speaker 4 but it's such a shocking.

Speaker 4 And then he's flipped forward and gone like...

Speaker 4 Madison. When Benham with Beckham came out,

Speaker 4 is that when soccer kind of exploded in England too? No, it was... Bro, are you deluded?

Speaker 4 Brother, the only thing that's not big in England is fucking NFL, bro.

Speaker 4 England's big in NFL. Have you seen the fans dressed up? Yeah, what are you talking about? Everyone's the Jaguars.
Yeah, they wear like a face paint and shit. For a day,

Speaker 4 for a day. You don't watch, you don't watch.

Speaker 4 I actually love that troops on Super Bowl Sunday was like,

Speaker 4 what's the best channel to watch the Super Bowl on? Yeah, I don't know, bro. Like, you get me, man.
I dare like, it's only on one channel. I'm like, brother, do I watch fucking NFL, bro?

Speaker 4 Like, man, I look like, why are you laughing at me for? Like, so when football's on, there's beer channels you can watch. Do you understand? If the World Cup finals on, you got it on fucking BBC One.

Speaker 4 You can have it on ITV. Be in.

Speaker 4 Be in. It will be on fucking like Sky will have a little bit of coverage.
BET. You not just have like, what is it? CBS or CBS is what it was on.
ESPN. Yeah.
You get me? So I was. I wanted to.

Speaker 4 I'm trying to get into it. Right.
So I like that. I appreciate that.

Speaker 4 So going back to like when you 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?

Speaker 4 Or is it just like from your parents? That's fast.

Speaker 4 It's a family thing because even if you live in London, you could you don't support a London team. You get me? Like a lot of my friends, like my era, the best teams were Arsenal, Man United.

Speaker 4 So, a lot of my friends are Arsenal, Man United. And then,

Speaker 4 the next day,

Speaker 4 like, the generation under that is like Chelsea. A lot of Chelsea fans came into it, but obviously, Baron Rich went there with the money, and then their club came alive.

Speaker 4 Because nobody fucking knew Chelsea until Baron Rich 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.

Speaker 4 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 like consistency in the league, the man there was shit. You understand?

Speaker 4 The consistent teams were Arsenal, Liverpool, Man United, Man City, Chelsea, Tottenham. All these men, Everton, they're new.

Speaker 4 Well, they're not new, but like 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?

Speaker 4 Was it Robbie Keene that switched around or was it new money coming in? Tottenham was.

Speaker 4 I say they started getting better when it was the Robbie Keene era. So it was like when Martin Yoll was manager.

Speaker 4 So they had like robbie keen jermaine default uh michael carrot before he went to united um burbatoff and their man started to come in so it was from around 2000 and 2005 when total started to come into the fold and you hate totnum that's the big rival tottenham and man united man united so where list all the teams in in london in london yeah all right in the epl in the prep so manchester united you dickhead

Speaker 4 that's like me saying yeah the chicago play the Chicago Bears play in LA. Yeah, that's that.
Well, I want to talk about Cronky in a second, but

Speaker 4 yeah, list the teams. Spot them.
Alright, so you've got Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, West Ham,

Speaker 4 Fulham.

Speaker 4 Who else is up?

Speaker 4 Who else is in the Premier League? Liverpool? No, Liverpool is in.

Speaker 4 Liverpool is in Manchester.

Speaker 4 Liverpool is about 45 minutes from Manchester. So that's like up north.
So,

Speaker 4 how do season tickets work? Do you have season tickets to

Speaker 4 and you get like how does it work?

Speaker 4 Is it super expensive? I pay, so I pay like £1,500,

Speaker 4 which is probably about

Speaker 4 $2,200. Oh, for how many? Get 20 games? You get all the home games.
So that's 18 in the Premier League.

Speaker 4 More time we're in Europe, so that's you'll get three of the group stage, and then you'll get a couple, and you'll get the FA Cup if you get drawn at home, the EFL Cup if you get drawn at home.

Speaker 4 So it's about 25 games. Now,

Speaker 4 the game days, so I would love to go to a game. We got to do it.
Yeah, when we go to London, you man are rolling. Yeah, West Dam Arsenal tickets.
Yeah, I would love it.

Speaker 4 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 them, man.

Speaker 4 So do you go?

Speaker 4 Do you go, like, every game day you go to the pub for a few hours before and then roll into the stadium? Nah, I don't really do the pub thing because obviously I'm filming, innit?

Speaker 4 So I've got a lot of match day.

Speaker 4 If the game's on on a match day and I'm in the country and that 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?

Speaker 4 Does Arsenal sing? Yeah, we got better songs. That's like...
Not better than Liverpool. Liverpool.

Speaker 4 I got songs that I like.

Speaker 4 Which one is Saraz?

Speaker 4 Which one is

Speaker 4 we got Saraz?

Speaker 4 Like,

Speaker 4 let's go, Liverpool.

Speaker 4 Let's go, Liverpool. Like, you're so wonderful.

Speaker 4 You see, like,

Speaker 4 who are you going to intimidate? You're supposed to intimidate the players. You're supposed to intimidate the fans.

Speaker 4 Intimidate the opposition. So, what's yours? Like, I'm going to cut, I'm going to, I'm going to cut the song.
Like, you're going to sing hello, like, for the Tottenham song. So, we say, hello, hello.

Speaker 4 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 this. That's pretty good.

Speaker 4 You get me? Like, what'd you think of Tottenham? And then, some, like, I'll say, what do you think of Tottenham? And then the whole crowd will go, shit. And what'd you go, what'd you think of shit?

Speaker 4 And then someone will go, Tottenham. And then we go, thank you.
That's all right. We ate Tottenham.
We ate Tottenham. Shit like that.
I like that. Do you understand?

Speaker 4 What about the scarves? Wait, but

Speaker 4 what do you mean? Just what about them? Like, how come scarves became the thing that everybody had? That's just like the colours. Is that certain? Yours is like

Speaker 4 clarot and blue. Yeah.
This is actually a really underrated colour scheme. I feel like more sports teams around the world should use

Speaker 4 Burgundy. You understand? Like, we used to have beef back in the day.

Speaker 4 Your famous hooligan, Cass, had a thing with the gunners back in the day. And there's actually a film on it as well.

Speaker 4 Mean Street Hooligans? No, no, no. You need to watch.
No, not Green Street.

Speaker 4 What is a gunner? Oh, my God. Yeah, what is a gunner? Yeah, what is a?

Speaker 4 Me, too. A gunner's like a patriot.
So I'm a gunner. I'm a gunner?

Speaker 4 You're a swan. Yeah, but they're deaf.
You're not cussing him, bro. No.
I'm not cussing him. No, I know, I know.
I own. He's a swan, bro.
I own swans. These teams are swans.
But he's a hammer.

Speaker 4 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 swanner right now. Like, look, big cat, swan, you're just bare pink panther.

Speaker 4 You're just one fucking fan. Dude, swans are fucking up, though.
Like, real talk,

Speaker 4 have you ever met a

Speaker 4 troops? Have you ever met a swan? Of course I've met a swan. Swans are like, fuck.
They'll break your arm.

Speaker 4 If they don't come up, because they're in the league below the

Speaker 4 England championship.

Speaker 4 Do you remember fucking the Aristocats? Yeah. When they butt the geese, the French ones.

Speaker 4 When they're buppling and the boss is just going like, wudoom, wudoom, you're the drunk, you're the drunk granddad with the half hat. Unfortunately.

Speaker 4 That's

Speaker 4 you.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 Because I like 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 the...

Speaker 4 Yeah, he's wearing this jersey.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 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.
Got 100 on it.

Speaker 4 I think people do know that. You said it.
No, I said it on Twitter. No, you said it to me.

Speaker 4 I remember when we were in the corridor. I was like, rah, Tidban, you might have to get involved in the FA Fab.
Dude, I know everything.

Speaker 4 I fucking hate VAR, not because it gets things wrong, but because it takes away jobs from actual referees like me.

Speaker 4 VAR is shit, right? I like VAR. It's just the people.
Do 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.

Speaker 4 Every single one. So, what's up with Arsenal this year?

Speaker 4 They stink.

Speaker 4 There's a lot of things, you get me? Yeah, like, tell us what, like, what do they have to do to get back to what you were saying? When they're the top of the table.

Speaker 4 We need to buy some serious players. Okay.

Speaker 4 We need to invest in that. So here's a good follow-up.
Stan Cronke, what are your thoughts? He's an asshole.

Speaker 4 He's your owner. He's an awesome.
He owns the Rams. He owns the Arsenal.
He owns the Nuggets. He owns Colorado Rapids.
And every fan base hates him.

Speaker 4 No, I don't know about that. Every fan base.
I think the Nuggets fanbase is probably the Rams.

Speaker 4 You know, the LA Rams fans like him because they brought him. The Nuggets don't fuck with him.
The Rapids hate him.

Speaker 4 The only ones who like him are probably the Rams. So why don't you do Cronky out? I saw you did Arteta out, right? You let that one.
I didn't know. I am Arteta out.
I didn't do Arteta out. But

Speaker 4 difference. You also were.
you were Weng 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.

Speaker 4 Nah, because if he had left earlier, then we wouldn't have been in this position we're in now. He held on and made us drop to that state, to the state we're in now.

Speaker 4 Which is a sad state.

Speaker 4 Which is not Arsenal. Right.
It's not Arsenal. Simple as.
Well, but maybe this is Arsenal. Maybe this is what you are.
We're not the Chicago Bears. Yeah, but that's right.

Speaker 4 You could say that we're a serious team, but you could say that we're not clowns.

Speaker 4 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. Nah, but we're not going to be middle of the table 20 years or now.

Speaker 4 This is the lowest we've ever been in our.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 You were in relegation position just a few weeks ago, right? We've never been relegated. Yeah, there's actually like three four teams, right?

Speaker 4 Arsenal, Everton, Liverpool, Manchester United have never been relegated. United got relegated.
Oh, they did. Wait, how do you pronounce Everton? That was sweet.
Everton. Everton.
Yeah. Everton.

Speaker 4 Okay, so... I love it.
This motherfucker.

Speaker 4 So, alright, so what do people like...

Speaker 4 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?

Speaker 4 What do you mean less flopping? Less flopping. The diving.
The embellishment. Nah, diving's part of the game.
No, you like that part.

Speaker 4 I don't like it, but it's part of the game.

Speaker 4 If you don't dive, then the referee is not going to give this. You have to drop and roll like you got shot for the ref to give the decision.
It's not even like

Speaker 4 a point, a thing where people are, like, some people dive intentionally, like Kane, Vardy, Grealish, Madison. But

Speaker 4 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 it shouldn't be.

Speaker 4 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.
No, you can't.

Speaker 4 We 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.

Speaker 4 You don't have to go to that extent.

Speaker 4 You've watched games with me and you've seen people get tackled and nothing happens.

Speaker 4 You have to roll to get the decision. That is how it is.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 Okay, so part of the game,

Speaker 4 it is how they ref. I do agree in the

Speaker 4 point that it is how the refs, like the refs dictate everything. It's the same thing happens with the NBA.

Speaker 4 When guys flop, I'm always like, listen, if they're going to call it, they're going to flop because they know they'll get the call. So the refs have to be better.

Speaker 4 What happens if Cronky doesn't spend enough money, though? Then he needs to fuck off. How do we get Cronky out? We've got to make Crony out.
Is there a Cronky out? Yeah, I will fully do Cronky out.

Speaker 4 Like t-shirts, like fucking... You see that Deblasio thing? I want want to do that, Blanche.

Speaker 4 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 in New York.

Speaker 4 Maybe we could find out where he lives, go and pay him a little visit.

Speaker 4 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 talk.
Do you guys

Speaker 4 talk, you know, do you guys not like it when Americans buy teams? No, I don't mind. Okay.

Speaker 4 As long as they spend money. Yeah,

Speaker 4 I don't care where you're from, bro. As long as you spend the money.
Okay, that's yeah, that's John Henry's at at Liverpool, he does a he's doing a good job there. Uh, they had their best season ever.

Speaker 4 You got the Glaziers at Man United, who's who's put them in debt, but they still give them money. So, but the Man United fans are also not happy with their owners.
Got it.

Speaker 4 How many teams in the 20 teams that are in the EPL right now would you say are happy with their owners? Man City,

Speaker 4 he just spends, he's the oil guy, right? He just spends everything, Chelsea,

Speaker 4 uh, Everton, yeah,

Speaker 8 uh,

Speaker 4 Liverpool. I know.
Must have just picked up.

Speaker 4 Because

Speaker 4 he didn't really spend this year. That's why I think they've dropped behind.
Because when you're in the league, you always have to improve. You can't just stand on your laurels.

Speaker 4 Everyone's trying to catch up. But didn't they just win last year? No, but they had their best year.

Speaker 4 That's got to buy you at least like two years of goodwill, right? No, but they've had that squad for like three years at the top. So

Speaker 4 it's getting, everyone knows how they play.

Speaker 4 You get found out. You have to bring new

Speaker 4 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 Abamayang and then it's like Willian.

Speaker 4 Yeah, you'll get Abamayang and then Willian.

Speaker 4 You get me? It's like you'll get Gabrielle and then David Luis. You'll get Teeny and then fucking Bellerin.
It's like, come on, bro.

Speaker 4 Like, back in the day, it was Ashley Cole, Lorraine, Campbell, Cole, Torre, Vieira, Burkham, Henri, Perez, Jungberg. These players will walk into any team in world football.

Speaker 4 Now, it's probably only Abama Young that could probably get into teams. Where'd you get the name troops from?

Speaker 4 That's my nickname from childhood, from like the streets and that.

Speaker 4 My name was Trooper. And then my mom was like, if you're going to do this YouTube thing, obviously you can't go with Trooper.
That sounds a bit like...

Speaker 4 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 a Z for me, innit? So I was like, yeah, I'll fuck with that.

Speaker 4 And then, boom. Look at that.
Mom came up with the best marketing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 She gave my real name, which is Wavy. I ain't going to say that.
but you get me. She gave me the nickname as well, Black Smith.
Wait, your real name is Wavy? No.

Speaker 4 No, I'm saying I'm not gonna say my real name. Right, yeah, yeah.
I don't like to scream the government. Yeah, yeah, you we don't have to get into distrust of the government overall.

Speaker 4 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,

Speaker 4 when 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. Yeah.

Speaker 4 All right, so what about the you've you've traveled everywhere, right what's the coolest place you've seen a game you've traveled everywhere in 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

Speaker 4 probably the the last preseason tour which is which is america like we went la we went la denver vegas atlanta

Speaker 4 Charlotte and DC. And you guys just go and get drunk and have a great time.
No, it's fucking awesome. Yeah, we get drunk, but like we, the content still flows, innit? We're still like,

Speaker 4 it's an enjoyable job. Right.
You get me? Kind of like for you, lot. Yeah.
Where you where you're it's enjoyable. Like, I don't really see it as a job.
It's just like I'm following my team. Yeah.

Speaker 4 It's a dream.

Speaker 4 What does America need to do to get good at soccer?

Speaker 4 I mean, we could be if we wanted to be, right? Well, you got that, you got that puller situation there, Mandar. You get me? You just need, you just need more.
I think you need better coaching.

Speaker 4 So European coaches coming over here well. So we don't bring Bruce Arena back for like a fifth tour of duty.
Nah, you need to get like a like when you got Klinsman, you had a good team. Yeah.

Speaker 4 You get me? Youth Academies. You get me.
You understand?

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 We've got the philosophies. We know everything.
If it's basketball, then you man, run your thing in it. Well, what about South America?

Speaker 4 South America as well, but your aim is to get to Europe. So more learn the European style of play.

Speaker 4 But wouldn't you say that it's an uphill battle because soccer is not the most popular sport in the country? Like in England, that's it, right? I mean, what's the other sport that you watch?

Speaker 4 You got rugby, you got cricket, you got tennis. But it's not even close to

Speaker 4 it is? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is.

Speaker 4 Rugby still get 80,000 sellout just like football. But in terms of TV,

Speaker 4 people watching, okay? Yep, yep, yep. Okay.
Yeah, they watch it. Because

Speaker 4 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 me?

Speaker 4 And I also just, I mean, I kind of like rugby as well. I can't lie.
Who's your team in rugby? Um, oh, they live there on Saracens. Okay, they're literally like 10 minutes from my house.

Speaker 4 I like them. I like Bath.
Oh, bath! I went to a game

Speaker 4 out in Bristol, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I went to a game there one time.
Uh, best cider in the world

Speaker 4 out west, yes, man, card, Blackthorn. Um, that'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.

Speaker 4 We got sunshine, bro. London's hot right now.
Hot.

Speaker 4 What do you mean? Hot. Hot.

Speaker 4 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, yeah, we do it. We do it differently.

Speaker 4 So right now in New York, it says seven degrees. No, whoa.
Celsius, yeah. Okay.

Speaker 4 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 to be honest?

Speaker 4 My kids can roll around in just a tracksuit. No jacket, no hat.
Loving light time.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 Down south.

Speaker 4 Do you have a beach? Yeah, not in London.

Speaker 4 What are the English beaches like? They're beautiful. Like, if you go to like Somerset, they're very sandy beaches.
Like, you've got the cottages along the beach. You get me.
It's very nice, man.

Speaker 4 Brighton's a shithole. You get me bare fucking cracked needles and fucking crackheads on the beach.
And they got pebbles. So it's not even sandblood.
So you're there.

Speaker 4 Like, imagine sitting there and you got bare pebbles going up your battery and everything there. You're like, yo, you understand? It's a mad thing, fam.
Where are the peaky fucking blonders from?

Speaker 4 The peaky blinders. Birmingham.
Do you know the peaky blinders? They're in Birmingham, yeah. They're from Birmingham and Birmingham.
Do you watch that show? Peaky Blinders. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 Is that real? Do you need subtitles? I'm not sure. No, I don't need subtitles.
Oh, okay. You understand understand it? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Do you? Yeah, of course.

Speaker 4 Brother, I don't understand. Like, we speak English.
Why don't you understand? We understand you. Oh, my God.

Speaker 4 Like, why can't you understand us? What's the problem? Like, what's happening, Mike? What are all your teas? What are your thoughts on the royal family? Yeah, but you pronounce everything.

Speaker 4 Yeah, correct. And then you pronounce everything wrong, like the Caribbean.
It's the Caribbean. And what else do we pronounce wrong? Chips are good.
Water.

Speaker 4 Water. Yeah, water.
It's water. Yeah, it's water.
Water.

Speaker 4 every word. Water.

Speaker 4 Cheese. Cheese.

Speaker 4 What are your thoughts on the royals? I like the Queen Mother R.I.P. Right, she's dead.
You get me resting. You like the mom of the queen.
Yeah, she was a lovely lady. Okay.

Speaker 4 Obviously, Princess Diana as well. Right.
R.I.P. You get me.
And then everyone else, you're like,

Speaker 4 I like Harry. You get me, but interracial and everything there.

Speaker 4 He's the one who left. Yeah, he's with Megan.
So he's not even a royal. He said that.
He is a royal. No, he disavowed.
Yeah, no, actually, Big King, he's one of ours.

Speaker 4 He came out and said that he's a royal, but he's not doing duties. No, no, no, no.
You can't have it both ways. He's not a royal.
He is a royal. No, he's out.
He's out of out. He moved to America.

Speaker 4 You can't be a royal. He's like flipping

Speaker 4 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 like royal duties. Well, how do you do? Because what?

Speaker 4 What is the royal duties?

Speaker 4 When they go to like

Speaker 4 pedophilia. Whoa, whoa.
Oh, shit. That's what's his name.
Whoa, that's you lot. Andrew.
Yeah. Yeah, but that's more.

Speaker 4 That's all you lot with your fuss. That's you lot with your island.
That's you lot with your dodgy island. Yeah, Yeah, today Caroline.
Don't ever try coming to Epstein shit around here, blood.

Speaker 4 All right, what are the royal duties for real? Like, you go to like, um, you go to, I don't know, like, you go to like children's hospitals, make a like, yummy, make, make, make appearances.

Speaker 4 You understand? Like, go to people, go to like flipping weddings, yeah. Like, you understand, come, come, America.

Speaker 4 What are you saying?

Speaker 4 Fuck

Speaker 4 Biden. Pageantry.

Speaker 4 Sounds pretty good.

Speaker 4 And you get dressed up and then you get your picture taken and you wave at things. You wave.
Yeah. Hello.
Hi. Yeah.
Who's the guy that looks like he's dead all the time? Prince Andrew.

Speaker 4 No, no, Prince Philip. So that's the queen's brother.

Speaker 4 No, no, boyfriend. Husband.
Boyfriend. Husband.
They got married? Of course they got married. So why isn't he the king?

Speaker 4 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 king should be blood. It's a blood thing.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I understand, but he's not the bloodline. He should still be the king for while he's alive.
No, because he's not blood. That's like you.
That's like me marrying. That's like me marrying.

Speaker 4 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 her.

Speaker 4 You should be the king. I've been married into the kingdom.
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.

Speaker 4 It's king in name. King and name alone.

Speaker 4 You see, you're being sexist now. Why? Because why can't there be a queen? Well, it should be the other way around.
The queen still is the boss.

Speaker 4 But the king is just like, hey, it would be nice if, you know, give him a little respect.

Speaker 4 Yeah, he's the prince. No.
He's the boyfriend then. He's a boyfriend.
No, he's a king. No, he's a boyfriend.
He's not a king, sorry. He's the prince.
He betted down a queen. You should become king.

Speaker 4 Right. Now, the queen should still be the boss.
But you don't have a queen or a king. Yeah.
Right, because we fought a whole war. Right, exactly.
Remember that when we kicked your ass? No false idols.

Speaker 4 Yeah, but let's not forget how small we are. We nearly whooped your ass, blood.
What? You nearly whooped our ass. So imagine if we were bigger.
We had a navy. I don't mean we had a navy.

Speaker 4 We would have taught this shit. We would have taught this shit.
You were the world power.

Speaker 4 You were the biggest power in the world. No, but we're like the smallest country.
We're like one of the smallest countries in the world. Okay.
New York is bigger than England.

Speaker 4 New York is nearly bigger than England. Oh, bark, no bite.
You do know that, innit? The sun never says that.

Speaker 4 Oh, bark no bite. Nah, we're pure bite blood.
You understand?

Speaker 4 How come you keep fighting wars against the French? Why'd you keep fighting wars against the Russians? That's like me picking up. Why'd you keep fighting what they're worthy of?

Speaker 4 My brother, they've got nuclear weapons. Yeah, I like Putin Blood.
No, I'm cool with Putin Blood.

Speaker 4 Yeah, because you want him to own Arsenal. Yeah, but that's what you mean.

Speaker 4 I actually respect that. You come Putin Blood.
Yeah, I would welcome Putin owning the Washington football team. No, you know what it is? Yeah, my aunt aunt is from Azerbaijan.
Not Azerbaijan, Armenia.

Speaker 4 Okay. So obviously the Russian kind of influences there.
Obviously, they don't get on, but you get me. It's kind of, yeah, it's mad.

Speaker 4 All right, wait. I had a...
Fuck.

Speaker 4 Oh,

Speaker 4 who's the goat? Saka. No, no, no.
All-time. Oh.

Speaker 4 Give me the goat in England all-time, 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 spoke to him?

Speaker 4 Remember when he played when he was 16? That was sad. He had a great goal.
Yeah, he was 16 years old. He was speaking really fast.
Paul Gascoigne or David Beckham. Or Rooney.
Oh, okay.

Speaker 4 Gazzar or Rooney. In the world.
Do you think the press was too mean to Rooney? Rooney. Yeah.
That's just the English press. They just go crazy, they're just pricks.
What is it? What is it?

Speaker 6 Like, they there's like no pictures in the magazine, in the newspapers.

Speaker 4 Nah, they even went for me.

Speaker 4 Yeah, Proper went for me. It's like paparazzi on steroids, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So they just follow everyone, everywhere. They've got it easy out here.
Why'd they go for you?

Speaker 4 Because I'm black and the way I talk, I take you straight. Yeah.

Speaker 4 What's different about the way

Speaker 4 that 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...

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 I like it. It's more to me than these men.

Speaker 4 They go to college and shit.

Speaker 4 I've grew up in my team. Yeah, that's what people want to hear.
I mean, that's like us. We're just fans.
Yeah, it's raw.

Speaker 4 So, Rooney,

Speaker 4 he had like a ton of stories, right? Like,

Speaker 4 of all kinds of stuff.

Speaker 4 He's known to like grannies, apparently. Oh.
Yeah, yeah. Okay, no hating on that.
I kind of like that.

Speaker 4 Oh, you like the Gilfs? Oh, you like the Gilfs? So he respect a man that likes Gilfs. Oh,

Speaker 4 do you like Gilfs? I'm an admirer. Certain Gilfs, sure.
Okay. I'm sure there's a lot of people.
I respect Galway. Who would you say is a Gilf? The Queen? Yeah.

Speaker 4 I was going like more Meryl Streep. Queen Mum? Okay.

Speaker 4 Yeah, Meryl Streep, sure.

Speaker 4 You know, what was it? Calendar Girls. They're all beautiful ladies.
Who? Calendar Girls. What was that?

Speaker 4 The older ladies. Meryl Streep was in it.
What's that?

Speaker 4 Game Duty Gench. What did you say? Dame Duty Gench.
It was a movie. Oh, the Calendar Girls.
Yeah, it was like an older ladies, but they were all... You could tell they were all.

Speaker 4 Do you guys watch American movies? Of course we do. We grew up on it.
Like, what's your favorite movie? What, mine? Yeah.

Speaker 4 Forrest Gump.

Speaker 4 Boys in the Hood, probably. Okay.
Probably my favourite 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.

Speaker 4 You ever see Braveheart? Kicks. Yeah, of course I did.
That's in Scotland last year. Yeah, Braveheart was cool.

Speaker 4 Mel Gibson makes a lot of movies about kicking English ass, right? He's a quality actor. Yeah.
I like his films. I think What Women Want was a fucking hilarious blood.
You like that one?

Speaker 4 I think, yeah, me and my chick went to watch that blood. I'd love to

Speaker 4 have that, bruh. Like, you're sitting there, yeah, and she's just cussing you off, and you're like, you think I don't know what you're saying, blood?

Speaker 4 You think I don't know what you're saying, blood? Like, isn't it?

Speaker 4 It would be sick to know what they want, bruv, because my girl never knows what she wants, but I don't know whether she's coming or going, blood. So it would be amazing to get into a woman's mind.

Speaker 4 She probably says the same thing about you. Nah, I'm coming all the time.
Oh, okay. Straight contract.

Speaker 4 Yeah, feel me. Set you up to the marrow.
Yeah, line me up.

Speaker 4 Hold on. Boom.
Quality cross. You understand? Yeah.

Speaker 4 What are the words that you're not allowed to say on British television? Cunt. Okay.

Speaker 4 That's a great word. Yeah.
That's a football word. What about a football word? Can't say twat.

Speaker 4 Prick.

Speaker 4 Bitch.

Speaker 4 Blood.

Speaker 4 You could say blood. What? Say fam.
What up?

Speaker 4 But they tried to stop me from saying it one time.

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Speaker 4 And now, more troops. So wait, Arsenal is ninth right now in the table.
Now we're tenth now. 10th? Fucking

Speaker 4 scumbags all that. That literally just happened.
So realistically, so for people who don't understand, the top of the table, top four go to the Champions League. Top three go straight through.

Speaker 4 The fourth goes into a qualifier to get into it. And then fifth and sixth go to the

Speaker 4 Europa League, which Arsenal's in right now yeah and so that's big like do you think that the epl should have playoffs that's the only thing i like watching the epl i understand it now i think that's the biggest problem is uh i for a long time i didn't understand all the tournaments and how it all worked but do you think it would be cool if you guys had a playoff nah because for me like if you finish top then you've won why should you finish fourth and then get a chance to play for a trophy you've lost because having eliminated winning is

Speaker 4 really so much fun that's where you have the cups in it that's the fa cup which is fa cup the efl cup you've got Champions League, got the Europa League, and then in Spain they've got their thing, France.

Speaker 4 Everyone's got their own cup competition to cover it. Explain the FA Cup because I think that's my favourite tournament.
FA Cup. Yeah.
So the FA Cup starts in January and it runs until May.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 That comes in January, and it's just literally... Normally, like without Corona,

Speaker 4 it could be like you play the first,

Speaker 4 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 pennies.
Okay, so it starts.

Speaker 4 So, any team in any

Speaker 4 football team in England can enter the FA Cup. That's why the FA Cup's so sick.

Speaker 4 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 on Man United away, and Liverpool away.

Speaker 4 And then that's like what dreams are made of. Yeah, so they call it the majority of the maps.
That's the shit that Marky Mark would make a movie out of. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 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,

Speaker 4 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

Speaker 4 strictly for the FA Cup final. So if you wake up at 9 in the morning, they'll have like sections on this team, on both teams that are playing, history of their things.
It's the Super Bowl.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it's literally.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it's like the Super Bowl.

Speaker 4 But the Cup one. But it's the Super Bowl if the NFL played a tournament where we could have a team play.

Speaker 4 Arsenal could play the Dallas Cowboys. Exactly.
And we get killed, but that moment where

Speaker 4 they'll have Arsenal, a huge fucking club, go and play a YMCA team in front of a thousand people, right? So what's the smallest team? That's awesome.

Speaker 4 What's the smallest team that's ever won that tournament? Tottenham.

Speaker 4 So there's never actually been.

Speaker 4 That was a setup.

Speaker 4 I don't know. Recent years, probably the smallest team was Wiggin when they beat Man City in the final.
That was like, that was like, fuck me, bro.

Speaker 4 I remember Man City got a man set off in the 83rd minute, and then Wiggin scored 90th minute, literally 90th minute from a corner. Boom.
And Wigan's not even in the... Are they in the

Speaker 4 championship league? The worst thing is, the year they won it, 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.

Speaker 4 We beat them 4-1 and relegated them.

Speaker 4 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 in the FA Cup game or a ROPA game or the EPL?

Speaker 4 So, if is, is the FA Cup, would you rather win the FA Cup or the league? The league. Okay, that's not even close.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But FA Cup is second, right? You'd say?

Speaker 4 Or no, not talking about European.

Speaker 4 You'd rather win Champions League one, right? Yeah, so the first one would be

Speaker 4 a European trophy. And that is.
Explain that to people. The Champions League.
So, the Champions League is in England, it's the four best teams. In Spain, it's the four best.

Speaker 4 Italy is the third, the three best,

Speaker 4 Portugal, two best, Germany, Germany, two, three best, and then

Speaker 4 the little countries, the so-to-say, no disrespect, the so-to-say, uh, smaller minerals. So, like, Russia will have one, Latvia will have one, Poland will have one, and then they get split into

Speaker 4 A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H. So, eight groups of four.
No, of 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.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 Then it goes into knockout competition. So you've got two legs.
So every... So after that, you've got the last 16.
You get two legs there, but then you've got away goals.

Speaker 4 So if you play away from home, if you score one, that counts as two.

Speaker 4 Right. So that's why you're always like, when you get the like, when you go away, you're always like, brother, if we lose two, one, that's good.
We drew two, two, right. So we're ready.

Speaker 4 You understand? So as long as you get your way, it makes sense. Get me away, goal blood.
Like, yeah. So that's it's mad because you could you could go, you could win the home leg 1-0.

Speaker 4 No, you could.

Speaker 4 So what? So it'd be way better to lose 2-1 than one-nil. So watch this.
You could on the road.

Speaker 4 You could win your home leg 1-0,

Speaker 4 but then...

Speaker 4 Lose 2-1 and

Speaker 4 draw 2-2

Speaker 4 away, and you're out because away goes. Right, right.

Speaker 4 You've seen people go through lower scores, but because they got the away goals, it doubles it. And so, Champions League is.
So,

Speaker 4 to use an analogy for American sports, it would be as if there were competitive leagues to the NFL in all of our neighboring countries.

Speaker 4 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. So I love that.

Speaker 4 It's not even like that because it runs in the same season. Right, right, right.
So everything

Speaker 4 every so in the season, you'll have you'll be in your league competition. That's a confusing part, I think.
Yeah, because you because Arsenal, like the big clubs, let's say the big clubs are Arsenal.

Speaker 4 So we will start off in four competitions because we'll have the league, the two cup competitions, and then the European tournament we're in.

Speaker 4 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

Speaker 4 you're playing like maybe

Speaker 4 six games in the space of like 12 days.

Speaker 4 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?

Speaker 4 So from May until August. That's when everyone has a break.

Speaker 4 But then when it's international year, you're fucked because if there's World Cup 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.

Speaker 4 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.
Yeah, so it's mad.

Speaker 4 You basically have like two weeks to go sit on a yacht with a model for your wife and your kids. Yeah, remember that.
Remember the time the Marion Goetze, he had a big fucking boner on the yacht?

Speaker 4 That was pretty funny. Yeah, I bet you.
The Germany guy. Do you remember that? I don't remember.
It was very funny. Vague.
Yeah, I'll show you. Nah, he has that.
I remember. Yeah, see you too.

Speaker 4 Of course I know, dude.

Speaker 4 Because that picture went viral.

Speaker 4 Don't try to pretend you don't know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 4 Oh, yeah, that's a semi. And it was like, he had just won the World Cup.
He's even not semi. That's a semi.
Semi.

Speaker 4 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. And he scored the winner.
Yeah, because he's got a rock hard boner on his wife.

Speaker 4 And he does have a beautiful wife. I don't know.
I was going to say a beautiful semi. I don't know about that.
How can you get mad? How is that insulting to somebody?

Speaker 4 Oh, look at this asshole that just won the World Cup. Now he's got a boner around his hot wife on vacation.

Speaker 4 That's supposed to be like owned. That's what it is.

Speaker 4 They're trying to throw dirt on his name because he's done well. So it's like, okay, how can we bring it down? Look at his dick.
Yeah, how can we bring him down now? Okay, look, he's got a boner.

Speaker 4 What's a farmers league? The farmers league. Yeah.
That's the Europa League. What does that mean?

Speaker 4 That's the one that wins. 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

Speaker 4 it's not the serious teams.

Speaker 4 All the big teams are in Champions League, innit?

Speaker 4 It's the big teams that are kind of that fell off are in the Europa League. So like us, United, Tottenham, you get me? We're in it.

Speaker 4 Yeah, what if you took an all-star team of everybody that played in the EPL, every team from there, every team that played in League Un, every team that played in the

Speaker 4 Italian, whatever it is,

Speaker 4 Syria, everyone that played in in the Bundesliga, and everyone that played in Spain. Which country has the best players that are currently playing in their league right now?

Speaker 4 I don't know, man.

Speaker 4 I don't know.

Speaker 4 Nah.

Speaker 4 Yeah. Nah.
Russian Premier Sea. They've won the most

Speaker 4 Champions League, have they not? Nah, but when you look at...

Speaker 4 I think I'm right. But if you...

Speaker 4 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 got De Bruyne, Sterling, you got Kane, the scumbag, you got Abame.

Speaker 4 You got...

Speaker 4 Who's the best player in the world right now?

Speaker 4 Right now? Yes, right now. For me.

Speaker 4 The best in the world for me. Like, the best, I'd say it, the best, yeah.
Like, all right, the best is for me, is Ronaldo. Boom.
CR-7. Yeah.
But for me, right now, Mbappe. Okay.
That makes sense.

Speaker 4 They're not coming close to him, bro. That kid is something else, blood.
The way he just goes. Now, will he eventually

Speaker 4 get transferred to the EPL at some point, or is he just 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.

Speaker 4 Wengar 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.
Okay.

Speaker 4 So we could have Mbappe now. So, last question for me.
Explain this. Transfer windows and like being out on loan.

Speaker 4 That's a transfer window is

Speaker 4 that's that's in the offs. So you've got transfer window from June until September the first

Speaker 4 where you can just buy any player you want do what you want re ter ter so it's not even a trade you can just say I want this guy yeah I want Messi I'm gonna pay uh 200 million yeah and now he's on my team yeah that's what you know not like not not like not easy like obviously the club have to accept the bid

Speaker 4 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?

Speaker 4 We'll give him back to you, but we'll pay his wages for the year. Okay, what if

Speaker 4 the player just really likes it on the new team, though?

Speaker 4 Because if you loan a player, you can always put an option to buy.

Speaker 8 Ah.

Speaker 4 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 done well here. We want to keep him.
How much do you want for him?

Speaker 4 So in the middle, in the second transfer period in January, if your team is shit and you're like, all right, well, we're we're not going to compete for the top. We're not going to get relegated.

Speaker 4 We're right in the middle, like an arsenal right now.

Speaker 4 You can loan out one of your best players and be like, let's at least get some money for it. Nah, fuck that.
They don't do that? Nah. No one does that.

Speaker 4 Not your best players.

Speaker 4 You loan out people that can't get in the team. Or you loan out people that you want to play, but you can't give them game time now, so you're going to send them on loan to get game time.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 Because Because loan fees are much

Speaker 4 like that. Loan fees like a million pounds.
You can't buy no one for a million pounds.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 That would be, 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 anyways.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Like, come come to playoffs, just load up on guys from these like reserve rosters. That'd be awesome.
All right, do you have any questions for us about America?

Speaker 4 We love having you here. Why do you

Speaker 4 why don't you fuck with football? We do, we do. We fuck with football.

Speaker 4 You talk soccer on all whole. 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.

Speaker 4 is playing the World Cup, I watch every game. I watch mostly like every game of every World Cup regardless.
But it sucks.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 So from my perspective, I think we're getting there. But to me, it's when you have like the MLS, so I watch the EPL, then I watch the MLS.
It's completely different.

Speaker 4 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

Speaker 4 Division III football instead of the NFL. Like, if you have the choice of both, you're going to watch the NFL.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 It's just not always going to be the end. It's going to happen.
But can it rise to top three? Top three.

Speaker 4 Well, which one are you kicking out?

Speaker 4 Over NHL?

Speaker 4 I wouldn't be shocked. I'd say what? NFL?

Speaker 4 NFL have always been number one. It's like NFL basketball and then football.
Well, not always number one. That's the thing.

Speaker 4 So you could make the argument that it could because it has, you know, baseball was America's pastime, right? And now NBA and NFL have jumped it. So I,

Speaker 4 you think in 50 years there could be a world where it's NFL still number one, NBA, and then maybe soccer? I mean, it'll be globalists take over. Yeah.

Speaker 4 It's not impossible. It's totally impossible.

Speaker 4 Things do change in America.

Speaker 4 Like you said, horse racing, boxing, and baseball used to be the biggest sports.

Speaker 4 Horse racing. 70 years ago, 80 years ago.
So things do change. And I mean, the game obviously has global appeal.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 Now there are like 30 million people that might watch soccer on a Sunday morning as opposed to 10 million people just

Speaker 4 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 goals.

Speaker 4 I mean the goals like

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 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?

Speaker 4 So, when it's a 0-0 game, can you ever walk 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.

Speaker 4 It's just the key. See, we like goals.
The keepers are the ones that are just moving mad. We like home runs, touchdowns.
Obviously, you like goals, but beer. You're American.

Speaker 4 Well, seriously, here's what you should do.

Speaker 4 What we did here in America is 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.

Speaker 4 Like, what if every goal was worth five? That would be cool. That would get like a 5-0 game.
Yeah, you guys.

Speaker 4 You beat Leicester 15-5 today.

Speaker 4 Doesn't that sound way, more?

Speaker 4 Nah, that sounds like tennis, bro. That's way better.
That's not 44.

Speaker 4 4-15. 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.

Speaker 4 And then maybe every corner kick is worth a third of a goal. Yeah.
Nah, because nah, you just have to. And then you can add penalty.
You can also get it. Yeah, exactly.
So

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 That sounds like a cool sport. And then you wear pads.
We'll keep it 11 on 11.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 And you could throw it from Mahomes' place. Yep.
This sounds like a good sport.

Speaker 4 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...

Speaker 4 Keep VAR, just get the people to fucking.

Speaker 4 I feel like I'd be very good at that, is to be like the VAR guy.

Speaker 4 You got your badges, blood.

Speaker 4 Like it or not, nobody really knows what a handball is. Because it's so subjective.
They change the rules so much. They change it so much.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 Well, your hands in an unnatural position. Or what does that mean? Like an unnatural position

Speaker 4 in the air. Yeah, but it's tough.
Because sometimes. Someone's crossing the ball, you're doing that.

Speaker 4 That's unnatural. It leaves too much up to the officials sometimes.

Speaker 4 Yeah. Looking like a hot dog.
Yeah. Do you get me?

Speaker 4 Everyone go listen to Troops Podcast with Zah. It's called Back Again with Troops Podcast.
Is that like a little redundant of a name? Back again?

Speaker 4 No. Isn't it the same thing? That's just the catchphrase.
We're back again. We're back again.
You'll come back again to listen. We're back again.
And we're back again this week.

Speaker 4 Yeah, and every time Arsenal wins, you're like, we're back again, even though you're 10th

Speaker 4 in the table. 10th.
When I bring you London. That's average.
When I bring you London. That's average.

Speaker 4 I'm going to be back again. Yeah, you won't come back again.
I'll bring an umbrella. You better bring more than an umbrella.
What up? You better bring a vest. Oh, pads? So we can play some football?

Speaker 4 Something like that. All right.
Troops, thank you. Everyone follow.
Nah, I appreciate you leaving me. Come on, man.
And watch his live watches are awesome.

Speaker 4 So anytime Arsenal's playing, he's live on YouTube. They're so much fun.
Nah, thank you, man. I appreciate you, man.
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Speaker 4 We have a stay classy for our guy, Max Homa, who did not wear red on Sunday in honor of Tiger Woods. Shame.
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He's not. It's kind of weird.

Speaker 4 Very weird. To be like, we're doing this to pay respect to Tiger woods

Speaker 4 you can 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 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 memorize 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 less tough to say that 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 certain things you know what you told me all that PFT I don't care Max you're canceled okay canceled his ass see you buddy all right we got a sorry not sorry this is from uh tommy fam

Speaker 4 who had an unfortunate incident in October. So October he was stabbed outside of a strip club.
And then apparently because of spring training and he's back, he's back healthy.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 Being like, if I was a weak fucking scrawny bitch boy, I'd be dead. But instead, I'm an alpha male with a shitload of muscles so I can handle a stabbing.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 Imagine the doctor saying that to you, be like, Listen, man, if you were a bitch, you would have been dead. So,

Speaker 4 his ab muscles were so strong that the knife couldn't cut through him and hit his spinal cord. That's pretty fucking cool.

Speaker 4 It's got to be one of the greatest things that a doctor would ever say to you.

Speaker 4 I don't know if they phrased it that way, but I'd like to imagine the doctor came in and been like, Dude, thank God you did those fucking crunches all those years.

Speaker 4 I like to think the doctor just walked in and said, Who did this, fam? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 And then he he and then he pulls up a picture of uh of a verge and he's like see this guy dead dead instead you

Speaker 4 chad you're you are alive because you are so goddamn strong uh and then finally we have king stay kings this comes from kevin garnett kevin garnett went on jimmy kimmel's show and uh he said that mj

Speaker 4 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 and was like, here, show him.

Speaker 4 And a guy just walked over 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.

Speaker 4 But I like to believe that MJ has

Speaker 4 a full staff walking around with highlights ready to go, depending on which NBA players he runs into. I think it's even one level further than that.

Speaker 4 I think he has, you remember the Jeremy Renner app that Jeremy Renner made just for fans of Jeremy Renner? Like Facebook for Renner stands. Yes.

Speaker 4 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 MJ app.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 And the guy just walks over, shows it to you, and then walks back into the pack behind you. He's so rich that he developed an app just for himself to use.
Right.

Speaker 4 And he has someone, he doesn't even know how to use it himself. No, he's got one guy that he's used to it.
Someone else who knows how to use it. Yeah.
Who understands how the entire app works.

Speaker 4 I just love this story because we can just assume that that's how he operates all the time. I actually, I do believe that.
Yeah, do you do? Absolutely. Because what else does he?

Speaker 4 He smokes 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

Speaker 4 make it so much more memorable and have that person just go tell the story and then his legend grows. You know what I mean? Like any little interaction, he'd be like, you know what?

Speaker 4 I'm going to do this to this person when I see them next.

Speaker 4 And I guarantee you, they'll tell the story on a podcast or a show, wherever it may be, because that's what that's going to be their best story.

Speaker 4 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 that's their jimmy kimmel late-night story uh-huh i'm gonna do you a favor by being an asshole to you

Speaker 4 i'm gonna 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 that yeah

Speaker 4 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 uh anything else lebron could never never ever although he did you see he uh had a little s b uh back and forth with Zlottin?

Speaker 4 Yeah, I did see that.

Speaker 4 Zlottin 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 the, I feel like it made no sense that the Zlottin interview is.

Speaker 4 It was just one little clip. I didn't see the whole thing.
Well, I wanted to see the whole thing. I mean, Zlottin just gives out his bits of his advice and little clips.

Speaker 4 He just says, yeah, he says ridiculous things for his entire career.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 6 Hall of Famer?

Speaker 4 Yes. Yeah.
Yes. Two Hall of Fames.
Two different Hall of Fames. Oh, yeah.
Love you guys. Wait, hang on.
Oh, numbers. And Animal Fact.
I'll look up the Animal Fact while you run numbers. 99, 18.

Speaker 4 21. Oh, my God.
8. I think it's.

Speaker 4 It's 22 or 20. I mean.
93.

Speaker 4 What is it? 93. 93.

Speaker 4 Studies have shown that wild chimps in Guinea drink fermented palm sap, which contains about 3% alcohol by volume.

Speaker 4 Another first timer, 93. Whoa, back-to-back first-timers.

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