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

Episode Date: March 1, 2021

This. Is. March. We’ve finally arrived back at one of the best sports months of the year. Getting ready for the tourney (2:32- 14:39), Drew Brees is holding New Orleans hostage and JJ Watt free agency continues (14:39 - 28:57). Who’s back of the week (28:57 - 40:34). Our new colleague Troopz joins the show to talk about his path to Barstool, soccer in Europe, Arsenal and a ton more (40:34 - 96:10). Segments include sorry not sorry and kings stay kingsYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

Hey, pardon my take listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen, ad-free, on Amazon Music. On today's part of my take, very special guests. It is Troops, the most electric football fan, not our football, not real football, soccer fan, new colleague at Barstool Sports. You've probably seen him on streams. He's a wild, wild ride.

We talk some footy with him. We talk Arsenal. We have who's back of the week. 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. All of that coming up in a second. It's brought to you by our friends at 3C.

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Okay, let's go. Welcome to part of my take presented by 3C.com. Use code PARDIN at checkout 3C.com to get 5% off your order. Today is Monday, March 1st. Iso first. This is March. Yeah, January, February, Iso, April, we sleep in bed. I still never made sense to me because like you have the final fours always in April.

So it's like, okay, Iso 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. I'm looking, 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. 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 was a little later. It was a little later. Once things started to bubble up.

Yeah, I think about this time last year I was in Vegas. Yeah. And somebody on the elevator, there was actually a Chinese family that was visiting on vacation and they started coughing on the elevator and the guy was like, sorry, I have coronavirus. I thought it was hilarious at the time. Turns out I probably should have taken that as maybe he wasn't joking. Yeah. Maybe that was serious.

Wait, you just did the thing I was saying that people are going to start doing. Yeah, no, I'm starting it. The play. Okay. All right. Many people are saying. It's going to be miserable. It's also going to be horrible to go through this.

It's the one year anniversary of Tiger King. Yes. Yes. Well, yeah, that's a little bit later. But yes, exactly. So we're going to do the whole thing of, oh my God, this is the day that I found out like, oh, this is when we went into quarantine. Shut up.

This is real March. We got March madness this year. Yeah. We're ready to go. I'm very excited. I've started to get back into college basketball, spent all Saturday watching it. Nice. That was the time of year, like late February.

What I like to do is if you start watching college basketball in March, you're way behind the times. I started like two days early. Nice. So I technically did it in February, got really into it. 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. Even your 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 completed, I mean, Bill Self, this is Bill Self in Kansas. They are a cockroach. They just never die. Every year that you think Kansas is down, they're going to somehow just win the big

12 tournament. And that's what they do every single time and they figure out a way. 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.

I think Michigan should be number one. They're the best. Overall. Yes. They're the best team in the country. I think, I saw your tweet. I think people can agree with you and you shouldn't get a backlash for it. Jake, you don't want to embrace the debate.

No. I'm not going to debate. No. I'm going to 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.

What they, that, 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. Michigan playing, beating Ohio State, then beating Iowa, having a game against a very bad Indiana team who might be firing Archie Miller soon. Brad Stevens, Hank, we'll talk about that in a little bit. And then a game against Illinois on Tuesday. It was the classic letdown spot, but Michigan is that good. Like they are just killing people.

And I'm going to do a little shout out to the Michigan fans. What they do to the final score tweets is so fucking funny. I don't know if you guys saw on Thursday on Howard means, right? Yeah. On Thursday, so, so Michigan fans have been just every time a team posts the final score within, I don't know, maybe 10 minutes, there's 500 replies. And it's just all Michigan fan memes on Thursday night. They beat Iowa and Iowa refused to post the final score for like two hours.

It was a standoff standoff. I like that. And finally, I would post the final score and they were like, sorry, we were checking on a couple of injuries. Here's the final score. I like the social media, you know, manager is the one who's actually looking at everyone's knees. Yeah.

You know what they should do? They should just do the thing where you can select as an option that only people you mentioned are people that follow you can reply to the tweet and then really shut them down. Well, that's Wisconsin did that when they lost to Illinois yesterday, which I think that's you have to. It's cowards way up. You have to post the final score, but shout out Michigan fans for that.

I'm sure this will now become a trend for everyone and it will end up sucking eventually. But right now it's very funny to watch. And they're the best team in the country, Jake. They are the best team in the country. I think Hunter Dickinson is the best player in the entire country. I'm only saying that because he's an AWL. There we go. Yes.

So I, I mean, who else like Baylor obviously lost. That was the big story of the weekend. Gonzaga is number one. We'll stay number one because they're undefeated. Any other big stories that we need to be looking at, Jake, right now, I think we have three established number one seeds that fourth number one. I think if you're a bubble team or anyone, you want to be in that fourth region, right? Because there's such a heavy drop off after the three best teams right now.

So if we're in that fourth region, anything can happen. It could be Illinois, Ohio State, probably not Villanova. They're actually losing to Butler by 10 at the half right now. So yeah, I think if you're waiting on selection Sunday, if you're in that fourth region, your chances again in the final four are much better. How about, how about Roy Williams getting career victory number 900? Yeah. That's a daggum lot of wins.

Yeah. You know what that means? He's wearing some cool shoes. Lot down game against Syracuse tonight. Also, yes. After celebration. That was a great second half by them and he did do the humble brag of starting the press conference and being like, what's his name, the Florida State coach.

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

Yes. If Coach K did that, we would make fun of it. 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. Yeah. And also a big storyline. James Madison Dukes are the number one seed in the CAA, but they lost their best player

for the year. Dukes year. It's Dukes year. What if, what if JMU made the NCAA tournament and Duke didn't? Then they become, they become the actual Duke. Yeah. It's very possible. That Louisville lost.

Torch update. Yeah. I mean, it's going to be dicey for us to get in. It is. I have confidence. I don't think. It's March. This is March and this is when we thrive.

I don't think Coach K will accept standby, you know, be on the standby list. I don't think he will. Call up. We talked about that. It's kind of what Jake said. There's a great opportunity there to speak in and make some noise. But I don't think Coach K, I think that's the total slap in the face. He'll see that as a slap in the face and he'll do a big press conference and be like,

I want my kids to be safe. I'm not going to have them stand by and hope they can play. It would be fucking hilarious if Duke was in one of the first four games. Yeah. They should do that. That's what Michigan State. I tweeted it the other day. It's very possible.

That would be great. And Coach K and Izzo might both agree to not even play the game. Yeah. Michigan State's been hot. They've been playing really well. Yeah. Huge game today against Maryland. Yeah.

We're taping this before that. Right. But. It could change. Yeah. It's exciting. It's March. It's the best.

It is March. Our first show was February 29th that we recorded in 2016. So yeah. We've been doing it for five years. That's a kid going to kindergarten where babies go into kindergarten. My phone keeps sending me updates, flashback memories of things in the past. We both looked so different five years ago. It's insane.

You mean skinnier? Yeah. We can just say skinnier. Just healthier. We both had a young naive glow to us. Yes. Yes. Billy's not here because Billy, you know what, I'm going to be nice to Billy this week.

I'm not going to say that Billy just didn't listen to the text messages saying when we were going to record today and then woke up this morning and was like, hey, guys, sorry, I can't be there. I was partying all weekend. I'm not going to say that. I'm going to say Billy's just not here. That's big of you. That was big of me, right?

I decided I'm going to be nice to Billy. So everyone's like, oh, don't be mean. Listen, sometimes he does things that warrant it, but I'm not going to point those out. Billy's. Billy's not doing his job. He had some projects. Three shows a week is a lot. It's a lot.

It's a lot. Two out of three is not bad. I am woke to Billy getting sponsorships. Are you guys at all woke to that? What do you mean? So he had the. I was woke since he started getting like 300 packs of supplements sent to his desk. Oh, yeah.

And then he got a bunch of rabbit. Yeah. A bunch of dude wipes. And then he wore that. Sponsored by Elmer Fudd. He wore the pants that were super wrinkled. The next thing you know are great sponsor, Mugsy Jeans, stepped up and bought him like a whole new wardrobe.

And then his mattress gets eaten by his dog. Oh, weird. We have a new mattress sponsor coming soon. Huh. That makes. Yeah. That is where he's going to be like, man, I've been coming way too quick recently. Yeah.

If there's anything that can help me with that. I've been super sober and I really would like a nice cold beer. And then when I get when I get on sober, 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 with just like three 12 packs of course light. He sure he does treat the beer here like it is just free beer for anyone who wants to take home. So he had those 12 packs on the couches in the lobby and I walked past him and he had

his rabbit in one hand and he was standing next to all the beer and his lift had shown up and he was he was like talking to me like thinking like he was going to make his way towards the door. Once I walked away, I was like, Billy, why are you waiting to leave if your lifts here? And he's like, no reason, no reason at all is because he wanted to pick up those cases of beer and walk out, but he didn't want me to see him taking the beer for free. Right. It's like, Billy, there's like, there's you don't have to be ashamed of being you because

my personal preconceived thoughts of you are way worse than anything that you could actually do in front of my face. Correct. Correct. But yeah. So he's not here. Well, let's talk a little football though. So I have a couple, couple things from the weekend.

One is I'm officially done with the JJ Watt jokes of like deciphering his pictures and I think I saw one that was like JJ Watt is chilling, chilling starts with C. He's going to the Bears, Chicago Bears. Yeah. Those those jokes are done. You got to you got to do some actual like sleuthery on it on on Friday. I think you put up the picture of him doing front squats and I saw there was three hundred fifteen pounds.

And I was like, that's Western New York area code. Right. That could be a code. But I but then once you get into, yeah, you just start digging a little too deep. It's it's it's it's been done. It's been done. So the JJ Watt free agency, though, everyone wants to know where he's going, even though Warren Sapp.

Did you see Warren Sapp? Little, little, little shot across the bow. He called him a Jag today. A Jag off? No, a Jag. Just another guy. Oh, really? Yeah.

He was like, who cares? To Jacksonville confirmed. He said, just another guy. So Warren Sapp thinks that it's not that important where he signs. I I think JJ is enjoying this. I think he's obviously enjoying the fact that people are like he's trying to drop cryptic hints like he's like it's the summer 69. He's a Zodiac killer.

Yeah. He's like really loving people analyzing his shit. But the fact is like there is a team out there that's offering him $16 million a year. And if he doesn't, if he doesn't choose that, I would just take the 16 million from Cleveland and call it a day. Right. And be a hero because Cleveland does, you know, we discussed it when he became a free agent, like that is the franchise you can go to that will embrace him, that you have

the chance to possibly win some playoff games that would be like you're the history there. I think that in Buffalo, yeah, that in Buffalo, it becomes something bigger. Yeah. And you become, you know, the 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 Bay. You know what I mean? So hopefully he does that.

All right. And then the other news, Drew Brees is officially holding the city of New Orleans hostage. So Drew Brees, there's a video of Drew Brees working out and he has yet to retire. And then on the other side, you have the mayor of New Orleans trying to woo Russell Wilson to the Saints and everyone in on the Saints, you know, Saints fans being like, could you imagine if we had Russell Wilson? And I, I'm starting to think there might be a chance. Drew Brees is like, you know what?

Fuck it. I'm coming back for another year. He's mad because like 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. And the video came out of him. He was doing CrossFit.

Drew Brees being a CrossFit guy is the most obvious thing ever. Well, Sean Payton. Sean Payton got him into it. Sean Payton did it and got everyone injured. Yeah. But Jesus was a CrossFit guy. Drew Brees is a CrossFit guy, which would actually be a pretty good workout to just like tape yourself to a wall for three days.

Hank did it. Look into it. Yeah. But yeah, he was pushing the sled up a hill and he's got hair now. He does have hair. So like he re-grew hair, which actually tells me that. He's going to TV. Going to TV.

Because Jason Witton. Jason Witton, Brian Ehrlacher did that after he retired. But I, he seemed to be staying in pretty good shape. Like he set a record for his gym when he was doing that sled push. Got that Carl Ravich going. Yeah. Yeah. Little bit of that Carl Ravich.

I think he is jealous of Russell Wilson, of the buzz, and so he wants to come back maybe. This is a very good way for, like if Drew Brees comes back, I think he actually will lose the City of New Orleans. I think Saints fans are finally like, please dude, enough is enough. We have a window here. Do not come back. But if he wants to come back, he probably is allowed to, right? You can't say no to Drew Brees.

Right. It's like Big Ben. Like Big Ben, the money, you're at the Pamela, but you can't say no to a legend like that. Yeah. It'd be very selfish of Drew if he came back, but like there's nothing that you could do to stop it. You'd just be like, okay, I guess we'll do another year of this. But when he walked off the field for the last time in that playoff game, and you remember

the look that he gave? He turned around, looked at the field, and then he went back out there with his kids and Tom Brady. Yeah. And they were like, Tom was throwing passes and Drew was like, damn, that's a much better pass than I could have thrown to my own son. And if you go back on all that, because we had our Drew Brees heartwarming moment at the end of that, 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 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. Yeah. Both my completion percentage last year, oh, I was still, you know, 65% on air, you know, two, two or three yard passes. Yeah.

Oh, I could do this. And his ribs are just starting to get healthy now. But if you're Drew Brees, like why are you doing CrossFit if your thorax is 70% still shattered? Just competitive guy. Overhead lifts and stuff. Just competitive guy. I also love almost the postmortem, the post mostly dissection of Russell Wilson's comments

about like, okay, I don't want to trade, but if I do want to trade these teams, because people are starting to like dig in a little bit in Seattle and figure out exactly why Russell Wilson is upset, and more and more it's coming out about like the nepotism with Pete Carroll and his sons. I actually think that Pete Carroll is, I think I've said this on the show before, but I think Pete Carroll isn't as great of a coach as people sometimes give him credit for. He's good at managing personalities, right? But he's not like an exes and owes genius, and I would rather keep Russell Wilson than

Pete Carroll if I was in charge of the Seahawks. Well, duh. Especially because Pete. I don't think that's even a question. Pete Carroll is 70. Yeah, no, I don't think that's even a question. 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 keep Pete. The problem is you have to ask yourself if you're the Seahawks owner, is Russell Wilson going to say that? And then in a year, be like, well, I want out anyway. But it's very funny also hearing Russell Wilson be like, I don't like the nepotism factor. Would you please trade me to a franchise that's got Duke Gruden on the staff or a franchise that has Stephen Jones calling the shots? Yeah, it will be interesting to see how this all plays out because both the Texans and

the Seahawks would be stupid to trade their franchise quarterbacks. But if they really want to push it, I think it was, I think we're still made the point, which is a good point that the quarterbacks in the NFL, like we're starting to see similar to all stars or top 10 guys in the NBA being able to essentially dictate where they go even while under contract. That's now happening with quarterbacks in the NFL. And we're kind of just getting to that point where people are starting to realize it because think about it.

This really hasn't, you have Russell Wilson and Sean Watson, two guys who are franchise quarterbacks who have, maybe you want to say seven years for Russell Wilson, but Sean Watson has a decade left in the prime of their careers, essentially saying, get me out of here. I want a new place. And it can happen now. This is totally different than what we've seen in the NFL 20 years ago. It's completely different.

The players starting to get more power, especially at the quarterback position. I think that there are still a lot of older owners in the NFL that are going to be very reluctant to do anything. It just depends on... I actually think that the Texans might not trade, they'll just let Sean Watson sit out. And I think that, yeah, there could be a chance to Sean Watson sits out. They would be stupid if he actually is going to sit out. Imagine if to Sean Watson was just like, you know what, I've made enough money, I'll just

Andrew Luck this. Yeah. But I think that Jack Easterby is going to not handle that situation well. Yeah. It's all very fascinating. It's also pretty pathetic to... I mean, I know I feel pathetic how much I would give up for either of those two guys in watching all the fan bases that need a quarterback very badly, just beg and plead.

But I don't care. There's no shame in that. Dude, I would straight up, as a Washington football team fan, I would change the name for Russell Wilson. Yeah. Washington Wilson. I'd give a pinky, whatever you want. The Watson Ting Red.

I also am a little nervous that Russell Wilson doesn't realize that the Bears facility is not in downtown Chicago. Like I think he doesn't fully realize that, so I'm just, that's my only nervous. I think he wants a big market, obviously. He thinks that the stadium is in the loop. Right. And so part of me is like, man, once he figures this out and he realizes he's going to be living in Lake Forest, is he really, and Ciara is going to be like, oh shit, it's pretty

cold here. There's not as much natural beauty as there is in Seattle. There are boaters though. So beautiful boaters. She 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. 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 a tough sell. He's like, well, if he's got a full season, maybe training camp of snaps. That is a tough sell, big cat. It's not going to work. It's not going to work. It's going to be a disaster. Anything else over the weekend, we're taping this before Brooks plays.

So Brooks plays and wins. We'll place Brooks winning in here. Hopefully we didn't jinx that. There is a story that's developing in DC with Dan Snyder and Jeff Bezos, which we addressed a little bit last week. But it's actually, it sounds like it's going to go to court. And it sounds like what Snyder is accusing Jeff Bezos of is like, it's some billions type shit.

Like Snyder is saying that Bezos paid to have a story planted on this Indian website saying that Snyder was riding on Jeffrey Epstein's plane in order to get him to sell the team. And now there's about to be a report coming out that's apparently independently done about Snyder and all the bad stuff that he's done. It's seriously like billionaires having dick measuring contests against each other. Bezos has the biggest dick though. Well, it's actually, it's an indictment on American society that Bezos doesn't already own the Washington football team.

Because if this were Russia, could you imagine the richest person in Russia wanting a soccer team and not being able to get it from like the 50th richest person in Russia? No. No, it would happen like immediately. It's, this is why we keep getting our asses kicked in Olympic powerlifting by these Eastern European and Russian countries. So what, 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. What's your best case scenario? Best case scenario. I mean, I would, I would welcome Jeff Bezos with open arms. Just because he's not Dan Snyder. Right. I'm at like anybody but Snyder right now. I mean, and he would potentially spend a shitload of money because he's got nothing

but money to spend. Yeah. That's, it is a hilarious when a super, super rich guy just wants to buy a team out of boredom. There's no investment or anything. He's not a bummer. He's like, I just really want to have, I want to have courtside seats and I want to be able to be friends with some of the players. Yeah.

But big guy, can you imagine being a billionaire? I would do if I was. Yeah. No, I'd do in a second. Let's say you were a billionaire. Do it. Call my own place. Can you imagine not owning a professional sports team?

No. I would call my own place. What is the point in becoming the richest person in the world if you can't buy whatever you want? Yeah. I'd be, I'd be, I'd be the GM. I would, I would, I would be Jerry Jones. I'd be Jerry Jones.

I'd hold a press conference before my coach held a press conference after every single game. I'd do it all. I would lurk on the sidelines in a trench coat like Arthur Blank. Yeah. This, it would be so much fun. I would probably fucking know what I would do is if we were winning a game late, I'd like, I would, 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. It'd be incredible. Landing a helicopter at midfield after the game was over. Yeah. Hell yeah.

No, it would be, it would be a joke. It's actually, it sucks that mostly losers end up buying these things because like Bezos will do, will, will spend money, but he won't do this cool stuff we're talking about. No. That's why we actually, in a weird way, we give Jerry Jones so much shit, but he really does own the team how like the majority of people would do it. New money. Meddling it all times.

Yeah. Thinking that you're smarter than everyone, uh, running your franchise into the ground because of your own oversized ego, like these are the things that are relatable. That's exactly what I would do. Right. It does suck when they're boring. It's like on Titanic, when you had the new money, Kathy Bates, and then all the old money.

Yeah. You want Kathy Bates running your team. You don't want all these pretentious people. Correct. Who know how to act with money. Yeah. They're just got old timey, you know, etiquette and all this bullshit. No, I want a guy who will go to the bargaining table and talk about chicken's fucking owls.

Yes. And it's also disgusting that billionaires own these state, their own fucking stadiums and they own these sports teams and they still charge like $10 for a beer. If I were an NFL owner, I'd be like, I don't give a dollar beer night. I don't give a shit about making more money. I've already, I literally have a football team. What's the point of having any more money? It's free beer.

Yes. Hank. Well, that's why you're not a billionaire. Yeah. That's what they say. No, I mean, obviously everything we just said is why we're not billionaires. Well, we have the dumbest. I do own an Alex Caruso.

I have an Alex Caruso chased down block NFT. This is, this bubble's going to be painful for some people. One day. The top shot bubble. The Ishmith, which someone. I was Caruso's birthday today. Someone did. It's like the value.

Shout out. Oh, okay. 27 years old. Hank, where are you at on it? I am at the, like, you know, just stick my feet in and I don't want to admit that I'm wrong and just hope that I end up being right over time. But I think I made a terrible mistake. But I think that's.

I might, I might, I'm, I'm, I'm at like exotic Joe. I'm never going to financially recover from this. Here's where I land on top shot and where I hope other people will land on it is. Hold the line. Don't, 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? Couple grand.

Couple grand. All right. You got diamond hands or paper hands. My ROI is like a negative 60%. And the bubble hasn't even burst. Yeah. But once, once Taco Falls takes off, I have a MarketSmart layup that's going to be worth a lot.

Julius Randall is his first All-Star season. So big cat. I actually think that the money launderers finding top shot is a great thing. Yeah. It's perfect because like 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 Delvedova assist for $5,000 and get back 3000 on that return, like that's going to be a good day for everybody. The shit they did this weekend was insane.

What? They did another drop and it wasn't like a limited amount. Anyone could get one, but like you have, I got number 79,000 for example, and you just have to sit there and wait in line. And once you get the chance to purchase, it's, they, they're like, you, you're basically reserving your spot in line to purchase it in the future. So it's like you're paying money, but you're not even getting the cards until like a few weeks.

Oh no. It is Adam Silver just creating money out of there, just his own currency. All right. Well, we'll, you know, hold the line. I have a bunch of those auto porter mid-range jumpers, which that was the most disappointing part when people started gifting me auto porter shots. And then I watched it and it was the, it was the most underwhelming highlight of all time. It was, it was basically just auto porter 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 a top shot. I'm going to see how much, I think that's our problem is we need better, better highlights. I'm going to see how much my Caruso top shot is worth right now. It's standby. All right. Well, you look at that. Let's do who's back of the week.

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So it's never a good sign when you see that you paid $536 for it and then the top sale out of $133 is $536. So I am, I'm quite literally the sucker at the top. So you're setting the market. That's right. Yeah. That's right. Yeah.

I wouldn't want to pay any less than that. Right. It's like, it cheapens it a little bit. Right. Who's back of the week, Hank? I alluded to it earlier, but the Knicks. Yes. Julius Randall.

They're going crazy. First time All-Star, they won a game yesterday. They were like fifth in the East right now, they're a game above the Celtics, which is like the, the, it's pretty crazy. And there was a video last night of them winning and people going nuts outside the garden. Like they won the championship. It was crazy.

The Knicks being 500 was the happiest I've ever seen Knicks face. I mean, we've been here for five years. There's the Knicks have never even been in the conversation. There's never been any hope, any excitement, any hype around them whatsoever the entire time we've been in New York City. You were a team, Zion to New York. Yeah. You wanted it for the height.

Right. And our office is like, you can hit the MSG with a baseball. 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. It's good. Right. It'd be good if, you know, they're in the playoffs and there's a lot of hype and buzz and stuff.

Even though, you know, they're a division rival and stuff. 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. I'm actually not that surprised that they're having this type of year just because Tim, this is what he does. Right. He gets the most out of his talent always and he plays and in 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. It wasn't Julius Randall in our, our fantasy league with CJ McDonald. Yes he was. Yeah. I think we beat him.

And now there was some viral. We missed the playoff. Yeah. The viral tweet was like at his peak. No, no. I think it was like a big J. Oh, he said at his peak is Chris Boss was Chris Boss ever as good as Julius Randall. Was it a question?

Absolutely. Apex was Chris Boss ever better than Pete Julius Randall. The answer is no. 1.7 thousand quotes. Drunk with power, which I am. I think it's. I kind of agree with that. Yeah.

No, I don't agree with that. I don't agree with that. Boss on the big three. Yeah. Boss in Toronto. The Knicks. Boss in Toronto. Yes.

Boss in the big. Oh, stop it. The Knicks. The Knicks. Biggest rebound in basketball history. He literally doesn't get that rebound that he are eliminated in six games. Hank, your response. They brought out the yellow rope.

That was that was honestly the most heartbreaking game I've ever watched as a team that was not my own team. I've never been more upset and like just truly heartbroken after a loss. Never forget where you were for that. It is. I won't. It is. It actually tells you how bad the Knicks have been for and how long it's been because

I think people are actually rooting for Knicks fans, which that's hard to do right now. New York franchise to have people on Twitter and in general be like the vibe is hey, we want the Knicks to be good. It would be more fun if the Knicks are good because guess what? If the Knicks ever get really good, you're going to regret that. Yeah. So New York New Yorkers will rub it in your fucking face.

The last time that they were even like noteworthy to talk about was like a 20 game span in 2013 when Jeremy Lin. Mel took him to the playoffs. Mel took him to the playoffs. But now it's like the best moment of their last 10 years is a guy that's in the G League right now. Whoa. I thought he's on the Warriors.

No, I'm talking about Lin. Yeah. No, I think he's on the Warriors. I think he's G League. Is he? He was. Yes. He was in the Orlando G League bubble.

Okay. Was he not on the Warriors? When was he on the Warriors last year? You know, like every team. He has been on every team. He was on the Warriors. 2010, 2011. Oh, shit.

He's on the Santa Cruz Warriors. That's okay. That's okay. That's okay. So I saw him. I mean, yeah. He wears the Warriors. Yeah.

Wait. So that's the. He's on the. He's in the Warriors organization. Got it. That's where the confusion. Okay. That makes sense.

Yeah. But if the Knicks ever get really, really good, everyone's going to have to be reminded very quickly that, oh yeah, those are Yankees fans. Be very careful what you wish for. But enjoy the ride because I do think it is, it would be fun for the Knicks to be good for a little bit and have a little, you know, buzz going and there's nothing like the Mecca. Let's just be honest, boys. There's nothing like the Mecca.

In our time in New York, we've never really experienced a good team playing in that build. No. The best games I've gone to are college basketball games in the Mecca. Yeah. Florida was awesome. Yeah. That was a great one. I was there.

It was really great. You were at the game? Yeah. I flew in from Syracuse. That's looking weird. Why? Because we were too. Yeah.

Boom. And now we're here. That was big cat dabbing in sadness games. That's crazy. Yep. So we were in the same building. Wow. Great.

Nice. We had Jeff DeLoe in that building for the first time. Oh, okay. Yeah. A lot of great moments. I was behind the basket. So we were far away from each other. Ah, okay.

Yeah. But still, same building. Crazy. What are the odds? That's nuts. Jake, you go with your who's back. My who's back? Yes.

Josh Gordon. Oh, yeah. Yeah. For the fan control football. Yeah. Hopefully he can stay healthy and stay clean, make the right decisions and his career will get back on track. Wow.

So the great way to do that would be is teaming up to play with Johnny Manzell. Mm-hmm. Yes. Johnny Manzell was openly recruiting him. By the way, that absolutely just sounds like they got drunk together and Johnny was like, no, you should come play. It would be fucking awesome. Yeah, we're on the zappers.

He's like, you're right. Let's fucking do it. Let's ball out. Elite fantasy tandem back in the day. Yes. Uh, was it, was Josh Gordon's? They're on the Browns. Yeah, they were on the Browns together, but I don't think Josh Gordon's crazy run was

with Baker, right? Oh. I mean, I would with Johnny. Yeah. I don't know. He played way less games than we remember. Yeah. Johnny, did he take over for Hoyer?

Yeah. And remember, he got, he had that one run, I think maybe against Buffalo. He got jacked up. Um, but yeah, yeah, he's only had seven, seven touchdowns and seven interceptions as a pro. Yeah. He played a lot less games than I think we all, all remember. Are you counting the Canadian football league? No, that was his NFL stats.

Seven touchdowns total throwing. Uh, all right, Pity, who's your who's back? My who's back of the week is 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 as mock drafts, but he said there are too many good quarterbacks this year and too many teams that are in a position to trade out.

So he didn't feel comfortable putting out one that didn't have trades. It's just sad. It's just sad. It's like, it's like something, a story is 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 a cash in. Mel Kuiper should always be the old school guy who refuses to do trades and not, not bow

with whichever, whichever way the wind's blowing at any given time. But I guess he, I guess he did it and I do love reading the mock drafts. I love them. Yeah. I, I, the mock drafts with trades are the best. They're absolutely ridiculous. Cause you just make them up out of nowhere. 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 all, it's just, it's basically just taking you in and doing a dizzy bat and then having you read a bunch of names. And you can always say that if your mock draft doesn't turn out correctly. It's like, well, yeah, that's because the trade didn't happen for this reason. There's one domino that didn't fall. Yeah, exactly.

And then you have an easy way out. Mill Kuiper should always just be like, here is how the first round is going to go. And every year he gets like two correct. And then he just keeps having a job. Yes. That's, that's what happens in the Mill Kuiper industrial complex. Yes. All right.

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

No, I totally fucked that up. I, I can't believe I did that again. So apologies to everyone next week. Next Saturday. Okay. Is spring forward. So now, hang on, let me set my clock backwards right now. Yup.

And then I'll set it back forward. And then I'll set a reminder to put it forward next weekend. Yes. Yes. Hang on, let me just Google that to make sure that you don't screw this up again. And daylight saving. My other who's back is just March. I'm just so fucking excited.

And for March. First day spring training. Yeah. There you go. Spring training. Are they playing a full season? Yeah. 167.

Oh, they are. I believe so. Maybe 150. I don't know. I'll just draw out a number. I'll be like, oh yeah, that makes sense. How many DHS are there going to be this year? At least three.

Oh, I don't know. I also have a big story this year for baseball, which is going to be great for all the fans is they, remember they dead in 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.

And I just. 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. So make sure my apologies again. I fucked up.

I'm sorry. I won't do that again next week, next Saturday. We will do daylight savings. All right. Let's get to our interview with troops before we do that. Our friends from jack pocket jack pocket. You can start playing the lottery on your phone from the comfort of your own home. Jack pocket is super easy to use.

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All right, back again. We now welcome on a very special guest. He's our colleague. It is troops. You can find him on Twitter. Mr. Twitter troops troops AFC with Z. So if you haven't seen him, he is a London born Arsenal fan, super fan, very, very interesting up and comer media world AFTV will get through all of it.

But first, we want to congratulate you big win over Leicester today. Let's talk Leicester, Leicester, Leicester is spent Leicester, listen, we've been talking about Leicester city for five years now when they had Danny Drinkwater and they were 10,001. You probably don't remember it. You just got into EPL. Mm hmm. They were a big deal. We know how to pronounce Leicester.

Leicester. So, all right. So let's start with your backstory because I actually think it's fascinating. You were just a regular fan and you got found by doing being interviewed outside Arsenal Stadium. Yeah. Try what was the interview about? We just lost in the FA Cup.

It was the quarterfinal and I used to go on another show, but it was like more urban. Obviously, Arsenal fan TV is a bit more commercial in the YouTube one because football is like, football is a funny game in it. 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. But in that day, my guy wasn't there, so he was like, yo, go on Arsenal fan TV. I was like, I'm not good.

He's out of blood. If you don't go, I'm going to be mad in it. He's like, go. And then literally from then, the team just took off blood. What was the original interview? What were you mad about? You just ranted, right? Yeah.

At that point, it was like winger in, winger out. Now, who's Arson Wagner for the people who don't know? You wanted him out. Yeah, I wanted him out. So he must have sucked. At the time, he was kind of not doing too well. He isn't like historically the greatest manager of all time or anything, right? No.

He's top two for us. And you wanted him out. Yeah, because like every every story has an ending and that story got to that ending. It was true saying, get this fucking guy out of here. I think there's some truth to that, though. Like a lot of times somebody will stick around a little bit too long and you think like, OK, this guy is, you know, I can't imagine the team without him because he's been coaching or managing it for this long.

And so people are like reluctant to be that first person to be like, get him the fuck out. And you were one of the first voices that said that. I also heard that you like you stepped into a fight and you let you help to defend the guy that was going on one of these rants. And that's the reason that he pulled you aside. He was like, OK, I want to hear what this guy has to say because he helped me beat up this guy after the game. I didn't help that beat.

And that wasn't even Robbie. That was Kenny Ken. Kenny Ken was doing the interview. Great name. And then he come off and then one of the Wenger Inns tried to attack him that it was mad, bro. It was probably like Wenger Invy, Wenger Owl. I'm Wenger Owl.

Right. I've seen the eight that we used to call them AKB's awesome knows best, because that's what they say. Awesome knows best. AKB. Ever all follow. Awesome. Obviously they called us the Wobbs.

Wenger Owl Brigade. OK. So it was like AKB versus the Wobbs. So people don't follow like what I what I just said, the joke I made at troops expense about how Arson Wenger like he actually is basically Bill Belichick, right? Like he if you if you went through, he is one of the most acclaimed managers in all EPL history. Yeah.

So it's a it's a big deal when people are saying they want him out and he was older and it was kind of past the time. Yeah, it was kind of like going through a grander. Yeah. But it's it is a big, big deal in the fan base. So 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.

It was literally like the first I went on. I did my interview on the Sunday. There was a game on the first day. I couldn't get tickets for that game. So I watched that game on TV. Then there was a guy in the stadium, DT. He pulled out the banner, which said, Arson, thanks for the memories, but it's time. It's time to say goodbye.

And then obviously on Twitter, it's picked up a lot of he Ian Wright. Obviously, you know, right? Yeah. That's my that's my hero, my idol. Like to be cool with him now is a dream. So it's kind of like Brady and Dave. You get me where when you're cool, you're like raw, like it's it's bigger than Obama Young. You get me.

Me and that boy. That's like, yeah, right. He's 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 red tear tear and then DT called him he called him. So I think he said, fuck off, you melt or something. And I'm dead.

Like, bro, this is right. He like, how are you saying fuck off, you melt to like the legend of the club? Like fuck off, you melt. Yeah. What does that mean? Melt is like, I don't know. Like you wanker, you dutch bag. OK.

Fuck off. You jerk off. That way you could have a jerk off. I fuck these headphones. But your hair is too good for them. Yeah. Yeah. So like from then, like he said that he was he was going back and forth with

writing, but I I was in the middle because obviously I'm a big Ian Wright fan, but then I agree with what my man 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 the minute kind of thing. So I come I came out. I was like, I don't know my man at the time. I never knew him. Obviously, after that, me and him got together and we're together.

Not together like that. Like was where it hurt her me, etc. OK, 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. Like when I needs to go now, you get me like enough enough type of thing. And then from then it just like, I don't know.

I got I got two dumb questions. One arson wing. It's just like a total coincidence that his name is the first sound of arson. Right. It's a total coincidence. Yeah. Because they used to call it arson FC. So we say it's Arsenal FC, not arson FC.

Okay. 1886, not 1996. But he did. If you do the. I saw. 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. He has more wins than like Tottenham. Yeah. He won more games. Right. The other thing I've always. Like, do you understand to have more wins than get me dead?

What are your thoughts on Harry Kane? Fuck them. Spits when he talks. Something like that. He doesn't get he doesn't like when I say that because you're not supposed to. You don't like Harry Kane. So yeah. Do you root this as hard for like the English national team as you do for Arsenal?

Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. But not full coming home. What? Yeah. Which one is number one? It was supposed to come.

Arsenal. Okay. Not even close. See you the look you gave me like you would you would sacrifice England never going to a cup again if Arsenal would had a great run. Right. Yeah. Because like England is like every every four years every two years.

Arsenal's week in week out. 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? Do you remember that goal that that David Seaman gave up to Ronaldo in the World Cup when it was a free kick? That was Ronaldinho.

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

You already won four league titles. You get me one of England's greatest ever managers. Arsenal's goalkeeper. Sorry. You get me. Yeah. David Seaman's a legendary keeper better than any goalkeeper that played for that shit was West Ham.

Let's get that. Yeah. Well that's I mean that's a pretty low bar was in my in my deep history of West Ham. Yeah. I'm a Jorge Campos guy though. Throne through. Who's that? Campos man.

Short King. Who's that? Mexico's goalie. That's the longest. Yeah. You're thinking you're thinking he done the he done the score. Remember that. Yeah.

You ever see that show him that clip. Yeah. And then he's flipped forward and gone like what mad to say when a Benham with Beckham came out. Was it is that one soccer kind of exploded in England too. No it was. Bro you deleted. Brother the only thing that's not big in England is fucking NFL bro.

The England's big in NFL. Have you seen the fans dressed up? Yeah. Everyone's a Jaguar. Yeah. They wear like face pain. Yeah. For a day.

For a day. You don't watch. You don't watch. I actually love the troops on Super Bowl Sunday was like where what's the best channel to watch the Super Bowl on. Yeah. I don't know bro. Like you get me man.

They're like it's only on one channel. I'm like brother do I watch fucking NFL bro. Like man. Why are you laughing at me for like when football's on this beer channels you can watch. If the World Cup finals when you got it on fucking BBC one you can have on ITV in being it will be on fucking last sky will have a little bit of coverage BT you don't just have like where's the CBS. Yeah.

Yeah. You get me. So I was comfortable. I wanted to I'm trying to get into it. Right. So I like that. 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. That's like from your parents. It's a family thing because even if you live in London you could you don't support London team. You get me. Like a lot of my friends like my era the best teams were Arsenal man United. So a lot of my friends are Arsenal man United. And then the next day that the generation under that is like Chelsea.

A lot of Chelsea fans came into it because obviously Barovic went there with the money and then their club came alive because nobody fucking knew Chelsea until Barovic come. You understand. They had a cup team. They used to do well in the cup competitions. So the FA Cup the Coca Cola Cup. They do well in Europe as well. Not the Champions League but they had like a UA for Cup Cup winners Cup.

But when it came to that consistency in the league the man that was shit. You understand the consistent teams were Arsenal Liverpool man United Man City Chelsea Tottenham all these man ever earned. They knew well they're not new but like they knew to come into the top of the of the pile because there was only three teams back in the day Arsenal United Liverpool. What happened to Tottenham? Was it Robbie Keane that switched around or was it new money coming in? Tottenham was I say they started getting better when it was the Robbie Keane era.

So it was like when Martin Yor was manager. So they had like Robbie Keane Jermaine Defoe Michael Carrick before he went to United Berber Toff and then man started to come in. So it was from around 2000 and 2005 when Tottenham started to come into the fold. And you hate Tottenham. That's a big right. Tottenham and Man United. So what list all the teams in in London in London.

Yeah. All right. In the EPL. Manchester United. That's not me saying. Yeah. The Chicago play. The Chicago Bears playing LA.

Yeah. I want to talk about Kronke in a second. Yeah. List list list them. All right. So you got Arsenal Chelsea Tottenham West Ham Fulham. Who else is up? Who else in the Premier League?

No. Liverpool is not. Yeah. Liverpool is in Manchester. Yeah. Liverpool is about 45 minutes from Manchester. So that's like up north. So how does season tickets work?

Do you have season tickets? Yeah. And you get like how does it work? Is it super expensive? I pay. So I pay like fifteen hundred pound which is probably about two like two thousand two hundred dollars. 20 games.

20 games. You get all the home games. So that's 18 in the Premier League. More time we're in Europe. So that's you'll get free 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. So it's about it's about 25 games.

Now the game days. So I would love to go to a game. We got to go. Yeah. When we go London. Yeah. I'm going to get West Ham Arsenal tickets. Yeah.

I'll get you. I'll get you. Lions and all that. Blowing bubbles and shit. Yeah. You can blow your bubbles and I'll be fucking popping in me. So do you go like every game day you go to the pub for a few hours before and then roll into the stadium.

I don't really do the pub thing because obviously I'm filming in it. So I've got a lot of match day if like if like 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 from my wake up. And who sits down and comes up with the songs that you guys sing? Does Arsenal sing? Yeah. We've got better songs.

Yeah. Not better than Liverpool. Liverpool we should. Don't. Don't. Don't don't don't don't duck. Don't don't. I got songs, which one is which one is.

We got. So. America. Let's go Liverpool. Let's go in. Liverpool like you're so flat resurfaces. You see that. I don't know.

Who do youTime. It. You cela. You pantalla Utolian time you tell us the term. In Timmy Timmy says it. So what's yours? Like I'm gonna. I'm gonna.

Hello for the Tottenham song. So we'll say hello. Hello. We are the Arsenal boys. Hello. Hello We are the Arsenal boys, and if you are a Tottenham fan surrender or you die Hello, hello, that's pretty good. Yeah, what do you think of Tottenham? Yeah, I'll say what do you think of Tottenham? And then the whole crowd will go shit What do you think of shit? And then someone will go Tottenham. And then we go. Thank you. That's all right We ain't talking to him. We ain't talking to him shit like that. I like that. Yeah, we're not the scarves Wait, what do you mean? Just what about him? Like how come scarves became the thing that everybody has? Yeah, this is actually a really underrated color scheme. I feel like more sport seems around the world should use

I don't mind West Ham. You understand like we used to have beef back in the day Your famous hooligan Cats had a ting with the gunners back in the day and there's actually a film on it as well Mean street hooligans. No, no, no, no, you need to watch What is it gunner? Oh, yeah, what is it? Yeah, what is it? Me too a gun is like a patriot. So I'm a gunner I'm a gunner. You're a swan. Yeah, but I but they're Custing him, bro. No, no, I know. I know I own They're not up yet

I'm a gunner. You're a swan. Yeah, but is that they're not up yet? Like look big cat swan, you're just bare-pink panther. You're just one Have you ever met a swan? Of course, I've met a swan's like fucking they'll break your arm They don't come up because they're in the they're in the league below the English Championship remember fucking the aristocats. Yeah, when they bought the geese the French ones Yeah, when they're bopping and that's me just going like we'll do we'll do them You're the drunk. You're the drunk granddad on with the half hat. Oh, unfortunately hiccups. He's like Unfortunately, I'm a gunner right now and there's nothing you can do about the Arsenal fans actually like you

Yeah, weird reason because I like they think PFT is a very knowledgeable on the game Okay, and they like you for some reason. Yeah, I do know a lot about soccer. Yeah, especially and it's He's wearing this jersey he didn't he did this just by accident. Yeah, I didn't know that you were gonna come in This is what I wear typically usually in the NFL games. I'm rocking my I got one eye on the epl one eye on the NFL I actually 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 state of virginia It got a hundred on it. You see I think people do know that do they said it? No, I said on twitter I said it to me. Yeah, I remember when it was in the corridor

I was like, right, you might have to get involved in the FA fam, dude I know everything but I fucking hate VAR not because it gets things wrong But because it takes away jobs from actual referees like me our VAR is shit Right. I like VAR. It's just the people I get now the people that run it just don't know how to use it You hate all the rafts though. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they all suck everything. So what's up with Arsenal this year? They stink It's it's there's a lot of things you get me Yeah, like tell us what like what do they have to do to to get back to what you were saying

The when they're the top of the table. We need to buy some serious players. Okay We need to invest in so here's a good follow-up stan Cronkey. What are your thoughts? He's an also 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 No, I don't know about that every time the Nuggets fan base is probably You know the LA Rams fans like them because they brought yeah the Nuggets don't fuck with him the rapids hate him So why don't the only ones you like him are probably the Rams. So why don't you do Cronkey out? I saw you did our teta out right you let that I didn't know I am our teta out

I didn't do our teta out, but wait difference. You also were you were uh winger out Yeah, and now you're our teta out. Don't you feel like Maybe you fucked up you like hey if winger's looking pretty good to us right now Now because if he had left earlier then he wouldn't be in his position We're in now. He held on and made us drop to that state to the state. We're in now Which is a sad state which is not awesome. Right. It's not awesome. Simple as but maybe this is arsenal Maybe this is what you are. We're not the chicago beds. Yeah, but that's like right. You could say we're a serious team But you could say we're not clowns. You 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 now But we're not going to be in the middle of the table 20 years or not. This is the lowest we've ever been in our We we we we were founded in 1886 and since 1886. This is the lowest we've probably been We've never been relegated. You guys were almost relegated. You were in relegation position like just a few weeks We've never been relegated. Yeah, there's actually like three four teams right arsenal ever an Liverpool Manchester United have never been relegated. Oh, they did wait. How do you pronounce everton? That was sweet ever ever Okay, so I love it

What uh, so all right, so what are people like? We're 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? Less flopping What do you mean less flopping less flop diving the embellishment now diving's part of the game. No, it's like that part I don't I don't I don't like it but it's part of the game If you 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

A point where a thing where people are like some people dive intentionally like kane vardy Greelish madison, but I rate I rate greelish. I take him arsenal and if he dies and gets a penny I'm not complaining if it happens against me. I'm gonna complain but that's part of the game Okay, but it shouldn't 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, we not roll over seven times and and have them, you know Go out on the field with the spray and the brazilian wet sponge That they put on your knee and magically your acl regrows like you don't you don't have to go to that extent

You can get you watch games with me and you've seen people get tackled and nothing happens Right, you have to roll to get the decision That is how it is if you don't if you get hit and you don't go, oh, that's gonna be like you ain't got fouled You're not screaming. You're not rolling. Okay. So part of the game It is how they I I do agree in the Point that it is how the refs like the refs dictate everything It's the same thing happens with the mba when when guys flop I'm always like listen if they're gonna call it. They're gonna flop because they know they'll get the call

So the rest have to be better. Um What happens if crocky doesn't spend enough money though, then he needs to fuck off How do we get crocky out? We gotta make is there a crocky out? Yeah, um, I will fully do crocky out like t-shirts like fucking You see that double rzl thing. I want to do that. Yeah. 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 crocky lives in new york. Maybe we can find out where he lives go Play me a little visit. We don't have to be

We don't have to be like aggressive or not. We can just talk. Yeah Do you guys we can just we can talk? You know, do you guys not like it when americans buy uh teams? No, I don't mind. Okay, as long as they spend money. Yeah, I don't care where you're from, bro As long as you spend the money. Okay. That's yeah, that's that's john henry's at livapool. He does uh, he's doing a good job there Uh, they're their best season ever you got the glaziest that plays right now Who's put them in debt, but they still give their money. So But the man United fans are also not happy with their owners got it How many how many teams and the 20 teams that are in the epl right now? Would you say are happy with their owners?

man city He just spends he's the oil guy. Yeah, he just spends everything. Chelsea Uh, everton Yeah uh liverpool I know what messed up. Oh Because he he he didn't really spend this year

That's why I think they've dropped behind because when you win the league you always have to improve You can't just stand on your laurels. Right everyone trying to catch up. But didn't they just win last year? Now they had their best year. Yeah, you got to be that's got to buy at least like two years of goodwill, right? Now, but they've had that squad for like three years at the top So this is getting it's getting everyone knows how they play you you get found out you have to bring new New firepower to the team for you to kick on and get to the next level That's where we flopped is that we haven't added enough firepower. We add abamayang and then it's like will I am? Yeah, you go get abamayang and it willy and you get me

It's like you'll get gabriel and then david louise You'll get teeny and then fucking bellerin. It's like come on, bro Like back in the day. What's actually called loren cambo colt? Torrey fiera burcam ornery pires jungberg these players will walk into any team in world football now It's probably only abamayang that could probably get into teams. Where'd you get the name troops from? That that's my that's that's my nickname from like childhood from like the streets and that Yeah, my name was trooper and then my mom was like if you're gonna do this youtube thing like obviously you can't go with trooper That sounds a bit like

So I was like what should I go if she was at troops But she was out but put it with a z z for you lot but zed for me in it So I was like, you know, I'll fuck with that like and then boom look at that mom came up with the best mark Yeah, she gave my real name, which is wavy. I ain't gonna say that but you get me She gave me the nickname as well blood. Wait, your your real name is wavy. No. No, I'm saying I'm not gonna say my real name I don't like to scream the government. Yeah. Yeah, you we don't have to get into your distrust of the government overall I think it's healthy to have He doesn't trust any government. Yeah, I'm not with it. Yeah, I we 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, all right. So what what about uh, the you you've traveled everywhere, right? What's the coolest place you've seen a game You've traveled everywhere in England. You went to russia for a world cup You've been to america a bunch. What's like the the best most fun time that you've had traveling for uh, soccer Probably the the last preseason tour. Okay, which is america Like we went la we went la den va vegas at lan are Um charlotte and dc and you guys just go and get drunk and have a great time Now it's fucking yeah, we get drunk, but like we the content still flows in it

We're still with like with it's an enjoyable job, right? You get me kind of like for you lot. Yeah, where you where you wait? It's enjoyable like I don't really see it as a job. It's just like I'm following my team. Yeah, it's a dream Yeah, what does america need to do to get good at soccer? Oh, we could be if we wanted to be right? Well, you got like you got like pull a stitch in there, man there You get me you just need you just need more. I think you need better coaching So european coaches coming over here will help you we don't bring bruce arena back for like a fifth tour of dude Nah, you need to get like a like when you got clingsman. You had a good team. Yeah, you get me youth academies You get me understand you have to you have to spend money right on grassroots

Is that the lower route and you need to get like europeans in because like it or not We're the ones that understand the best football. We got the philosophies We know everything if it's basketball with a new man run your team in it, but what about south america South america as well, but your aim is to get to europe So more learn the european style of play, but wouldn't you say that it's it's a uphill battle because Soccer's not the most popular sport in in the country like in england. That's it, right? I mean, what's the other sport that you watch rugby? You got cricket. You got tennis, but it's not even close to It is yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it is

Rugby still get 80 files and sell out just like football but in terms of tv tv every people watching. Okay. Yep. Yeah Okay. Yeah, they watch it because Rugby's for the rich people You get me football's for the common man. Got it. So obviously all the yuppies will watch that Got it. You get me and I also just I mean, I kind of that rugby as well. I can't lie. Who's your team in rugby? Um, oh, they live they're on sarasens. Okay, because they literally like 10 minutes from my house from like them I like bath. Oh bath. I went to a game out way up north in bristol, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah I went to a game there one time

Best cider in the world Is it out west? Yes, man card blackthorn. Um, it's all they saw Oh, shit. Is it rain all the time in england? No, that's a myth Really? Yeah, yeah, I'm from london. We got sunshine bro. london's hot right now Hot like what do you mean hot like like it's it's february It's february and it's like I caught because you look a weird with your fucking numbers, but we do it different Oh, we do we do it the correct way so right now in so right now in new york, it says seven degrees Oh, whoa, Celsius. Yeah, okay, and in london. It's 11

What is that at 46 degrees? It's hot. That is hot. So it's nice right now Yeah, do you have a beach? My kids can roll around in in a just a tracksuit. No jacket. No hat loving like Like yeah, london's like Manchester rains a lot, right london's the capital So I think like they maneuver the weather and they push it up north like you fuckers get that down south Do you have a beach? Yeah, no in london. What are the what are the english beaches like they're beautiful like if you go to that summer set

They're very like sandy beaches like you got like the cottages along the beach You get me very nice man Brightons are shit. Oh you get me bare fucking crack needles and fucking crackheads on the beach and they got pebbles So it's not even sandblood. So you're there like imagine sitting there and you got bare pebbles going up your batty and everything there You're like, yo, you understand this. I'm my ting family Where are the uh peaky fucking blinders from the peaky blinders? Yeah, Birmingham. Do you know the peaky? Birmingham, they're from Birmingham. Birmingham. Do you watch that show peaky blanders? Yeah. Yeah. Is that real? Do you need some? I'm not sure. No, I don't need some time. Oh, okay. You understand it. Yeah

Do you yeah? Oh, yeah, brother. I don't understand that we speak english. Why don't you look understand? We understand you? Oh my god Like why can't you understand? Oh, what's the problem? What's happening? Mike? You follow your t's. What are your thoughts on the royal family? Yeah, but you pronounce everything Yeah, correct. Then you pronounce everything wrong like the caribbean. It's the caribbean Everyone else do we pronounce wrong? chips or water Water Yeah, me water. It's water

Yeah, it's water water Like every word water Cheese cheese. What do you think what's your 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. Obviously princess diner as well. Right r.i.p. You get me and then everyone else You're like I like I like harry. You get me a car in a ratio and emptying that big He's the one who left. Yeah, he's with mega. So he's not even a royal. He said he is a real. He's no he disavowed Yeah, no, you're actually big guy. He's one of ours. He came out and said it. He's a royal, but he's not doing duties

No, no, no, you can't you can't have it both ways. He's not a royal No, he's out. He's out. He moved to america. You can't be a royal and then we enter the throne Yeah, he denounced it. He disavowed. No, he denounced his work. So he's still a royal But he's just not doing that royal duties. Well, how come how come he lives over here when they go to like pedophilia Whoa, oh, shit. That's what's his name. Whoa. That's Andrew. Yeah, but that's more that that's that's all you look with That's you look with your island That's you look with your dodgy island. Yeah, it's a little Caribbean

Shit around here blood Yeah, that's one of the royal duties for real like you go to like, um, you'll go to I don't know like you go to that children hospitals Make a black yummy make make make appearances. You understand like go to people. I don't know go to like flipping weddings Yeah, like, you know something come come america Say a lot of Fuck Biden That's pretty good. That's it. Get dressed up and then you get your picture taken and you wave at things Yeah, hello. Hi. Yeah, who's the guy that looks like he's dead all the time prince and no prince philips

That's my brother. No, no boyfriend boyfriend husband. They got married. So why is he the king? Because she's not because she's in the she's in the hierarchy. He's not he married into it, but she married The husband of the queen should be the king blood. It's a blood thing. Yeah, I understand, but he's not 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 marry. I don't know. Say you had a sister She's the queen. I'm married your sister, but I'm not related. I've I've married No, it should be like a bounty on her where like if you are able to marry this woman Then you become he gets the king. He gets it's king and name king and name alone

That's you see you're being sexist now. Why because why can't there be a queen? What should be the other way around the queen still is the boss But the king is just like hey, it would be nice if you know, give him a little respect Yeah, he's the prince. He's the boyfriend then. He's a boy. He's a king. No, he's a boyfriend. He's not a king Sorry, he's the prince. He's the husband. He bedded down a queen. You should become king, right? Now the queen should still be the boss, but you don't have a queen or king. Yeah, right because we fought a whole war Right, exactly. Remember that when we kicked your ass. No false idols. Yeah, but let's not forget how small we are We nearly whooped your ass blood. Yeah, you nearly whooped her ass. Imagine if we were bigger. We had a navy

We were to talk this shit You're the world power You were the biggest power in the world, but we're like the smallest country. We're like one of the smallest countries in the world Okay, New York is bigger. So you're all New York is nearly bigger than England. Yeah, but no bite You do know that in it. The sun never sets. We're all bark. No, but now we're pure bite blood You know, son How come you keep fighting wars against the French? Why do you keep fighting wars against the russians? That's like me picking why do you keep fighting what they're worthy of blood my brother? They've got nuclear weapons. I like who in blood

No Because you want him to own arsenal I actually respect that I would welcome putting no only the watching the football team. You know what it is. Yeah, my my aunt is from um Azerbaijan, um, not Azerbaijan Armenia. Okay, so obviously the russian kind of influence influences. They obviously they don't get on But right you get me. It's kind of yeah, it's mad. Um, all right. Wait. I had a Oh, uh Who's the goat?

Sucker. No, no all time. Oh Uh, give me the goat in England all time and the goat for arsenal. I mean the honoree for arsenal Yeah, honoree for arsenal and then michael owen for england. Nah, dude. Remember when you spoke about this? Never played when you were 16. That was sick. No, I had a great goal. Yeah, he was 16 years old. Really fast. Pull gas going or David Beckham or Rooney. Oh, okay Gazel 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. What they're just pricks. What is it? What is it like? There's like they were pictures in the in the mags in the newspapers. No, they even went for me

Really? Yeah proper went for me. It's like paparazzi on steroids, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so they just follow everyone everyone You've got it easy out here. Why'd they go for you? Because i'm black and the way i talk i'll take you straight. Yeah What's different about the way that you saw they see me as a fret like they're politically correct And they've been media trained and i've come in this world and just Like rocked it You know standing people Your game changer. Yeah people value my opinion more than these old fucking has been they're afraid of truth. Yeah, i'm a fan

So I I like it. It's it's more to me than these man. Let me they they go to college and shit I haven't I've just grew up back to my team. Yeah, that's what people want to hear. I mean, that's like us We're just fans. Yeah, it's raw. So so the so Rooney he he had like a ton of stories, right? Like yeah of all kinds of shit. Yeah, one with a that he's known to he's known to like grannies apparently Oh, okay. No hating on that. I kind of like that. Oh, oh, you like the gilfs. Oh You like the gilfs. No, I respect a man that likes gilfs. Oh, do you like gilfs? I'm an admirer certain gilfs. Sure I'm sure there's always who would you say is a gilf? Uh, the queen. Yeah

I was going like more meryl streep queen mom. Okay Uh, yeah, meryl streep. Sure. Mm-hmm. You know, what is it calendar girls? They're all beautiful ladies Who calendar girls? It was like the the the older ladies meryl streep was in it. Um, what's the name game duty gench What is it? It was a movie. Oh the calendar girl. Yeah, it was like an older ladies But they were all you could tell they was all do you guys watch american movies? Of course, we do we grew up on it like what's your favorite movie? What mine? Yeah um Forest Gump

Boys in the hood probably. Okay. My favorite one. Okay. You get me because I named my son's name is trey and the main character is trey There you go. You ever see uh the patriot Mel Gibson. No, you ever see braveheart kicks. Yeah, of course. I did that's in scotland. Like yeah braveheart was cool They make mel Gibson makes a lot of movies about just 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 I think yeah, me and my chick were to watch that blood I was I'd love to like have the have like have that blood like you're sitting there. Yeah, and she's just cussing you off And you're like, I don't know what you're saying blood

You think I don't know what you're saying blood like isn't it would be sick to know what they want, bro Because my girl never knows what she wants, but I don't know if she's coming or going blood So it would be amazing to get into like a woman's mind and she probably says the same thing about you Now i'm coming all the time Straight Quality cross you understand. Yeah, what are the words? What are the words that you're not allowed to say on british television? cunt okay That's a great word. Yeah, that's a football word. What about twat? I can't say twat

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That's the only thing I like watching 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? No, 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 a Winning is winning playoffs is so much fun. That's where you have the cups in it. That's a cup which is f a cup the efo cup You've got champions league got the Europa League and then in spain. They've got their team france Everyone's got their own cup competitions to cover it explain the f a cup because I think that's my favorite tournament f a cup

Yeah, so the f a cup starts in january and it runs until may we've won that the most times But we're out of it this year. We won it last year. So we're the reigning holders obviously until whoever wins it this year That comes in um january and it's just literally Normally like without corona It could be like you play the first it's one game But if it's a draw you'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 so any team in the any any

Football team in england can enter the f a cup that's why f a cup so sick Right because you could be a grassroots team Like just playing sunday league with your mandem and then you could get to the third round and get a man united away A live up all the way and then that's like what dreams are made of yeah That's the shit that marky mark would make a movie out of yeah, 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 Ever that in the whole world even america was the f a cup final It was always on an in england back in the day the f a cup final the whole day would be

Strictly for the f a cup final so from you wake up at nine in the morning They'll have like sections on this team on both teams that are playing history of their things. It's a super Yeah, it's it's literally it's yeah, it's like the super bowl But the cup one but it's the super bowl if the nfl played a tournament where like we could have a team play Barstool could have a team the dallas cowboys Exactly and we get killed but that moment where you know, they'll have Arsenal a huge fucking club go and play like a ymca team in front of like a thousand people, right? So what's the smallest what's the smallest team that's ever won that tournament?

Tottenham I don't know recent years probably smallest team was wiggin When they beat mancity in the final that was like a sh that was like a fuck me, bro I remember man city got a man set off in the 83rd minute and then wiggins scored 90th minute Literally 90th minute from a corner boom and wiggins not even in the are they in the worst thing is championship league The worst thing is the year they won it they got relegated So they got relegated on so they won the f a cup on the saturday It came to us they played us on the tuesday

We beat them for one and relegated and they put all because that that's the other thing is that There becomes this like do we put all of our best guys playing an f a cup game or or your Ropa game or the epl So if is is the f a cup would you rather win the f a cup or the league the league? Okay, so that's not even close. Yeah, but f a cup is is second, right? We would say or no not talking about european You'd rather win you'd rather win champions league one, right? Yeah, so the first one would be a european trophy and that is explain that to people the champions league

so the champions league is in england is the four best teams in spain is the four best italy is the third the friday free best portugal two best germany germany two free best and then russia Yeah, the little countries The so to say no disrespect the so to say smaller Minnows so that russia will have one latvia will have one poland will have one and then they get split into

A, b, c, d, e, f, g, h so eight groups of four north six Yeah, you play each other two times so home and away the top two go through The third team drops into the european league So at the end of the group stage everyone gets six games after six games top two go through the third one drops into the european the fourth One's out of europe Then it drops it then it goes into knockout competition. So you have two legs So every so so so after that you got the last 16 you get two legs there, but then you got away goals So if you play away from home if you score one that counts as two

Right, so that's why you're always like when you get the out like when you go away you always like brother if we lose two One, that's good. We drew two two right, so we're ready. Yeah, that's that so It makes it get the away go blood like yeah So that it's it's mad because you could you could go you could win the home leg one nil No, you could So what so it'd be way better to lose two one than one? Watch this you could on the road you could um

You could win your home leg one nil But then lose two one and now draw two two Away and you're out because away goals right right? Okay, you've seen people go through on lower scores because they got the away goals and it doubles it and so champions league is so to to use an analogy for American sports it would be as if There were competitive leagues to the nfl in like all of our neighboring countries And then after the super bowl it's like all right these four the teams that went to afc and nfc championship now play

The top four teams from mexico and so i love it now, but it's not even like it's not even it's it's it's not even like that Because it runs in the same season right right right everything right it's 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 club let's say the big clubs are arsenal 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 There's teams that just have the league and then you got like the efo cup and the f a cup So it's mad. There's so much

Fixed your pile up and then when christmas comes you're playing like you're playing like maybe Six games in the space of like 12 days So it sounds like there's just so many different tournaments and so many different cups and Competitions that you play and is there actually like when is the off season for soccer? So from may until august That's when everyone has a break But then when it's international year you're fucked because there's 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 you Would you international team and then you train with them do your tournament until you get knocked out Then you go go away for two weeks then you're back training again. Yeah, so you it's mad You basically have like a two weeks to go sit on a yacht with a model Or your wife and your kids. Yeah, remember that remember the time uh, uh, the marion goza He had a big fucking boner on the yacht. That was pretty funny. Yeah, I bet you the germany guy Do you remember that? I don't remember. It was very funny. Yeah, I'll show you. Um, now he has that Yeah

Don't try to pretend you don't know what i'm talking about Oh, yeah, that's a semi and it was like Even that semi semi He had just won the world cup and then he's like all of a sudden everyone's after Yeah, he scored the winner. Yeah, because he's got a and he's got a rock hard boner on and he and he does have a beautiful wife I don't I don't say a beautiful semi I don't know about that. How can you get mad? How is that insulting somebody? Oh, look at this asshole that just won the world cup now. He's got a boner around his hot wife on vacation

That's supposed to be like oh owned That's what it is. They're trying to like just belit that they're trying to like throw dirt on his name because he's done well So it's like, okay, how can we look at his dick? Yeah, how can we bring him down now? Okay, look, he's got a boner What's a farmer's league the farmer's league. Yeah, that's the european league. What does that mean? I know but i've just heard a lot of people talk about things like oh, it's a farmer's league It's a big insult, right? Yeah, because like there's not it's not the serious teams like the sit There's it's it's all the big teams are in champions league, isn't it? It's the big teams that are kind of that that fell off

Are in the european league so that us united Tottenham, you get me wearing it. Yeah What 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 um every team that played in uh, the uh, uh, italian, whatever it is syria Everyone that played in the bundesliga and everyone that played in spain Which country has like the best players that are currently playing in their league right now? I don't know man Nah

Yeah, no russian premier gave one the most uh champions league have they not no, but when you look at But if you if iron 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 the brain Are sterling you got kane the scumbag you got a bameyang You got who's the best player in the world right now? Right now right now for me the best in the world for me like the best i'd say the best year like All right, the best is for me is ronaldo CR seven yeah, but for me right now

I'm bapping Okay, that makes sense. They're not coming close to him, bro. That kid is something else, but the way he just goes Now will he eventually Like get transferred to the epl at some point or is he just gonna be psg for like now he'll leave psg There's rumors that he's going madrid really. We actually had talks with him Uh, when our tried to sign him on a free Uh, he was 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, so we could have him back here now. So last question for me explain this transfer windows And like being out on loan that's a transfer window is That's that's in the office. So you got transfer window from june until september the first Where you can just buy any player you want Do what you want rare teteh

So it's not even a trade you can just say I want this guy. Yeah, I want messy. I'm gonna pay 200 million. Yeah, and now he's on my team. Yeah, that's why Obviously the club have to accept the bit and then contract talks and whatnot and then You've got two transfer windows. So you've got it from june until september and then you've got one in january January not a lot happens more people go out and loan the loan thing is where You can go to another club and then say can we loan your player for a season? We'll give him back to you, but we'll pay his wages for the year Okay, what if that player just really likes it on the new team though?

Can you feel like I'm standing here because if you loan a player, you can always put an option to buy Ah, so if you loan him and he does good, then you've got that option to call the club and say, yo You know what? You've done well here. We want to keep him how much you don't want for him 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 not going to compete for the top. We're not going to get relegated. We're right in the middle like an arsenal right now Uh, you can loan out one of your best players and be like, let's at least get some money for it Now fuck that they don't do that. No one does that Not your best players

Okay, 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 you can't get them game time now So you're gonna send them on loan to get game time Why don't you loan out your best players and then just get a shitload of money for that's what i'm saying Yeah, that's what we do here in america because in because loan fees are much That that loan fees like a million pound you can't buy no one for a million pounds I wish we had I wish we had that element in in pro sports here like loans would be so sick Yeah, we're like, all right. Uh, we need a hit. All right. We're gonna loan

Mike trout from the angels for two months and then he's back on the angels. That'd be awesome That would be I mean, I think that would make sports very interesting Yeah, the caroline of hurricanes that their owner is just straight up like a payday loan guy anyway Yeah, like come to playoffs just load up on guys from these like reserve roster. Yeah, that'd be awesome All right. Do you have any questions for us about america? We love having you here. Why do you Why do why don't you look fuck with football? We do we do Why don't we talk soccer all the time no america on the whole so I care more about women's soccer because we win at it

So I enjoy watching the women's national team I like obviously like when the u.s. Is playing the world cup. I watch every game I watch every mostly like every game of every world cup regardless But it sucks It's very hard for an entire country to get into a sport when we sometimes aren't even like a top 30 team in the world at it You know, so from my perspective I think we're getting there But to me it's when you have like the mls

So I watch the epl then I watch the mls It's completely different and you can notice it if you watch both and that's no knock on the mls Because it's obviously a growing league, but it would be like saying I want to watch Division three football instead of the nfl like if you have the choice of both you're going to watch the nfl So I think when we're not we don't have the best league because you think about it, you know nhl nfl mlb and mba those are the best leagues in the world for those sports mls is not that way. So I think it's a little bit harder and I think they're getting there. I don't know. It's it's definitely growing. It's never going to be the top tier sport america

It's just not it's not gonna happen. But can it rise to top three top three? Which one are you kicking out? I Because I wouldn't be shocked. I'd say what nfl in in 50 years nfl have always been number one It's like nfl basketball and in football. Well, not always number one. That's the thing So you you could make the argument that it could because it has you know baseball was america's pastime, right? And and now mba and nfl have jumped it. So I 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 would be crazy over. Yeah, now it's It's not impossible because things things do change in america like Like you said horse racing boxing and baseball used to be the biggest sport. It's just like racing 70 years ago 80 years ago things do change and I mean the game obviously has global appeal And the more that america becomes a melting pot and more people from different cultures move to this country You're going to see television stations paying more money for those rights because they're like, oh, shit now They're like 30 million people that might watch

Soccer on a sunday morning as opposed to 10 million people just a couple like 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 gold. I mean the goals like You have to I've seen it twice this year now arsenal has played two games Where the opponent has scored a goal in the second minute and then that's it That sucks. Yeah, I know

And you could say the same about baseball, but even in baseball when it's like a one-nothing game Then it's a pitchers duel. You know what I mean? So When it's a zero zero 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. Yeah, it's just that the keep the keepers are the ones that are just moving We like home runs touchdown. Obviously you like goals, but beer. We're american. Well, here's what you should do What we did here in america is we we sat down and we took

Our football and we said, you know what if we just make every time you score worth seven points It seems like there's more scoring like what if every goal was worth five That would be cool. That would get like a five-nothing game. Yeah, you guys watch that you beat lichester 15 to five today That's you see that doesn't that sound way more exciting. Nah, that's that sounds like tennis, bro. That's way Oh, how about it is 15? It sounds better 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 Yeah, and then maybe every corner kick is worth a third of a goal. Yeah Nah, because nah, and then

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. No, that sounds like a cool sport and then you wear pads. We'll keep it 11 on 11. That works The only pads we're wearing is shim pads. No headguards. No mouthguards. No shoulder blades. None of that And you could tackle each other physically tackle each other and you can throw it home's place. Yep This sounds like a good sport. I think we fixed it. That sounds bullshit. I think you just ruined it We'll get rid of var though and we'll have my prayer just to keep keep var Just get the people to fucking that's so that's what I feel like I'd be very good at that is to be like the var guy Because you got your badges blood like it or not. Uh, nobody really knows what a handball is

Because it's so subjective. They change the rules so much They change it so much and they're 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'll always be an instance where okay, you can say Only if it's an intentional handling of your hands in an unnatural position What does that mean like an unnatural position elbow? Yeah, but it's it's tough because sometimes someone's crossing the ball You're doing that. That's that's unnatural. It leaves too much up to the official sometimes. Yeah looking like a hot dog. Yeah Do you get me? Everyone go, uh, listen to troupes podcast with zah. It's called back again with troupes podcast

Is there like a little redundant of a name back again? No, isn't it the same thing? It's the catchphrase We're back because you'll come back again to listen. We're back and we're back again this week. Yeah Martial winds you're like we're back again even though you're 10th In the table 10th when I bring you london. That's average when I bring you london I'm gonna I'm gonna bring I'll be back again. Yeah, you won't come back again. I'll bring an umbrella You better bring more than an umbrella. What I bring a vest. Oh pads. So we can play some football Troops, thank you everyone. I appreciate you. Let me come on man. Seriously. Watch his live his live Watches are awesome. So anytime arsenals playing. He's live on youtube. They're so much fun. Thank you. Yeah, I appreciate you man

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Okay, let's wrap up. We got a couple segments. Uh, we have a state classy for our guy max homa Who did not wear red on sunday in honor of tiger woods shame Who does he think he is shame max? How dare you unbelievable disrespect people are actually mad at max for this Because he he didn't know that tiger woods was going to get into an accident before he packed his clothes To fly to this golf tournament and so now people just decided a couple days ago to wear red and black on sunday Are they all well? Yeah, I think a lot of them are but tiger's not dead. Is he no It's it's kind of weird very weird to be like we're doing this uh to pay respect To tiger words, right? 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 long life after this and also be like, hey The reality of it is he's not dead. So we probably shouldn't memorial 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 Yeah after cash in 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. See max was ass. See ya buddy. Uh, all right. We got a sorry not sorry This is from uh, tommy fam who had uh an unfortunate incident in october So october he was stabbed outside of a strip club and then apparently uh because of spring training and he's back Uh, he's back healthy, but he told bob nightingale that doctors told tommy fam after he was stabbed that if he wasn't so Muscular he would maybe be dead or paralyzed which is the greatest flex of all time Being like if I was a weak fucking scrawny bitch boy, I'd be dead But instead i'm an alpha male with a shitload of muscles so I can handle a stabbing That's uh, that's the erin donnell excuse for training with knives

I can do it because i'm 300 pounds with a six pack Imagine the doctor saying that's you'd be like listen man if you were a bitch you would have been dead So so his his ab muscles were so strong that the knife couldn't cut through him and hit his spinal cord That's pretty fucking cool. It's it's gotta be one of the greatest things that a doctor would ever say to you I don't know if they phrased it that way Yeah, but I'd like to imagine the doctor came in and been like dude. Thank god you did those fucking crunches all those years I like the thing the doctor just walked in and said who did this fam? Yeah, yeah

And then he and then he pulls up a picture of uh of a verge and he's like see this guy dead Instead you him is a lad 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 show and uh he said that mj Talks such great shit and then he so we all obviously know those stories But he added on a story that he saw michael jordan recently And k g started talking a little shit and mj responded was like i put whatever like 40 on you one night

And k g tried to dispute it and mj pulled over a guy was like here show him And a guy just walked over with it with all the highlights ready to go in a phone. So Now this is probably Going too far like we probably are just assuming one little anecdote is how mj lives But i like to believe that mj has A full staff walking around with highlights ready to go Depending on which mba players he runs into i i think it's even one level further than that I think he has remember the jeremy renner app that jeremy renner made just for fans of jeremy renner

Like facebook for for renner stands. Yes, i feel like jordan Has an app that he developed for himself that nobody else really has access to he doesn't care if you or i can log on to it But just his guy has the mj app and depending on who he runs into You just search that person's name in the mj app and the entire game highlights of mj giving that player his career high Yes, that comes up immediately for him and the guy just walks over shows it to you and then walks back into the like pack Yeah, he's so rich that he developed an app just for himself to use right and he has someone he doesn't even know how to use it himself No, he's got one guy that someone else who knows how to use it. Yeah, who understands how how the entire app works 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, did you absolutely because what else does he he smokes cigars? Gambles watch his basketball and then just holds grudges. Oh, that's his full-time job also mj's at a point now where he any interaction he has with someone he can just Uh Make it so much more memorable and have that person just go tell the story and then his legend grows You know what I mean like any little interaction You know like, you know what? I'm gonna do this to this person when I see them next and I guarantee you they'll tell the story on a podcast or a show

Wherever it may be because that's what that's gonna be their best story Think about 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 that's their jimmy kimmel late night story I'm gonna do you a favor by being an asshole to you 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 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. Do you see he uh had a little? Back and forth with Zlatan. Yeah, I did see that Zlatan was like stick to sports Yeah, and then lebron's like i'm not gonna stick to sports I also would like to see I feel like it made no sense that Zlatan the interview is it was just one little clip I didn't see the whole thing. Well, I wanted to see the whole thing I mean Zlatan just gives out his bits of his advice in little clips. He just says yeah He says ridiculous things for his entire career. Um, all right that is our show We'll see everyone wednesday. I think we have a big guest on wednesday. We'll see how it goes hall of famer

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