Pardon My Take - Wayne Rooney + The Mt Rushmore Of Monuments/Statues

Episode Date: July 16, 2018

We're live from the MLB ASG in Washington DC and the French are World Champions. Wrapping up the World Cup and Mbappe is still 19 years old (for now) (2:27 - 7:17). Mt Rushmore of Monuments/Statues because we're in DC (7:17 - 16:53). Who's back of the week (16:53 - 30:21). Soccer Legend and now DC United striker Wayne Rooney joins the show to talk about his transition to America, playing at the highest level of soccer, how awesome it is to score goals and rates our English accent (30:21 - 47:24). Segments include Sorry not Sorry for bat flips. Thoughts and Prayer to Mike Matheny and Boltman retiring and Take QuakeYou 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 pardon my take, we have DC United legend Wayne Rooney, he's one of the most accomplished soccer players of all time. We also have a very contentious Mount Rushmore, Mount Rushmore of monuments and statues because we're in DC, I don't think it's going to actually be that contentious, well actually no, you know what?

Never know. It could be the most scintillating Mount Rushmore we've ever done. Yeah, tell you what, here's another Mount Rushmore that's going to suck, put a timestamp in the thing and then make it fast forward through it. Yeah, people just know they can just not even listen to this Mount Rushmore. Alright, we also have Who's Back of the Week and we are live from DC, like I said. Before we get to all of that, the Cash App, the number one app rated by us and award-winning listeners, it is your favorite finance app because it does everything.

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Yeah. Allez les bleus. France gagne l'équipe des footballes. They avenged the curse of Zidane. Yeah. The curse that I just invented right now has been put away in the closet, never to be mentioned again. I've heard talk already of this being a golden generation.

Yes, dynasty. The third golden generation on ESPN today, just want to say I called that last week that they're the golden generation. They have a long way to go if they want to match Belgium's record of losing World Cup games. The World Cup is the best tournament to win because you get to be champion for four years. Yes. That's pretty fucking sweet.

It's like being president. Yeah. And great trophy, great trophy presentation. Putin stole the show with basically the entire field getting drenched in a downpour and then Putin had one sorry sap holding an umbrella for him. Yeah. Pays to be king. Good to be king.

I wouldn't be surprised if Putin walked around Russia and it was just raining all around him except for directly above his head. Right. It's basically the set of the Truman Show. Yeah. So what are they going to do now? They're going to release like all the homeless people and stray dogs that they put in that big house upstate somewhere.

Yeah. And return Moscow to normal. And the people who streaked onto the field, they're definitely dead. Dead. Well, that's pussy ride. Yeah. That's an interesting move to streak onto the field in the World Cup final in Putin's backyard.

Right in his face. Yeah. You know what? We're going to get out of this though. We're going to get to hear Bob Lee say the words pussy ride. And that is such a treat. That really gets it going. So World Cup is over.

Sad to see it go. France team of the tournament, team of destiny, Mbappe, Mbappe, 19 years old, 19 years old and he wins the, I don't know, did he win the golden boot? No, I don't think so. No. He didn't get the, Harry Kane, got that. Harry Kane spits when he talks, scored like half his goals from PKs and kicking it in from two feet out.

He won the golden boot. And yeah. They should have actually given it to own goal. He scored a lot. Yes. Own goal scored a lot. It's including the first ever own goal in the World Cup final. A little fun fact for you.

So there was some, the actual game itself was pretty entertaining. There were a lot of goals scored. There were a lot of boners. There was a big goal keeping boner. Yeah. By France, but like that's pretty cool that the French goalie got to make the worst mistake of his life and nobody's going to remember it. Yes.

Yeah. Exactly. Because that could have been a disaster for him. And then the, we tried to get soccer to stick in America by going straight from the World Cup to an indoor game on a football field in Atlanta. Hmm. That worked really well. I turned that on.

I was just like, what is this? What am I watching right now? Yeah. But yeah. I love soccer. We have Wayne Rooney on. We'll talk about that in a minute. I was a little bit disappointed from this World Cup that we didn't get any tweets or

any stories about like how when they had the Olympics over in Sochi a couple of years ago and there were like spiders and rats running around the hotels and stuff. We didn't get any of those stories. Like I didn't hear about anybody getting their laptops infected, although I'm sure they all are. You know who's fault that is? Jimmy Kimmel. Yeah.

He's so obsessed with politics and tweeting at all different politicians every day that he can't do these funny stunts and gets everyone to basketball games that he can't have a wolf walk through the hallways of the hotel. Yeah. There's a hole in the punked world because Jimmy Kimmel has his brain broken by 2018 politics. Sasha Baron Cohen is picking up that torch though. That's true. There's some crazy shit going on.

That's going to be very, very fun. So we are in DC, the home of politics. We're going to stick to sports though all week. For sure. How are we going to do that? Well, we're going to maybe go to the west wing. Oh, interesting. Actually, probably not.

Yeah. That probably fell through. Yeah. It's good to be at our back-to-back all-star games. We made back-to-back all-star games. So credit to us. A lot of credit to us. We love the all-star game.

We love. Is there a rule in baseball that they have to have all-star games in the most humid cities in America? Well, I think that's summer. But I agree. It's going Miami to DC. It's pretty tough. Houston next year.

Is it? I don't know. I think we'll skip that. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe they have one in New Orleans. Yeah. Popped up a stadium for us.

That'd be really nice. Yeah. It is hot as shit here. DC. It's a swamp. They don't talk about that enough. Yeah. DC was built on compromise because Maryland and Virginia both gave up equally shitty parts

of their states. They're like me here. You take that. You take that. Yeah. All right. So because we are in DC, because we're here in the home of monuments, we're going to do the Mount Rushmore of monuments slash statues for today's Mount Rushmore.

Hank, you seem nervous. No. Why would I be nervous? Hank was actually excited about this. All right. He was a little bit nervous as he didn't have a computer. All right. So he was doing it.

He was doing like old school shoe leather reporting using his phone to Google stuff. Here's what we'll do, Hank, so that you have a second here. We'll have you go PFT me, you. Okay. All right. We'll give you some time. Yeah. We'll give you a little time here.

I'm good. Okay. Mount Rushmore monuments. Let's go. Monuments slash statues. Let's fucking go. Let's do it. Let's get it.

By the way, we were, side note, we were going to do Mount Rushmore of things chicks dig, but we realized we already did that in honor of chicks dig the long ball. Yeah. So add that to list. Chicks dig for forgetful guys. Yes. Forget like, you know, anniversaries. I just want to say, no matter what happens during this Mount Rushmore, we're all going

to be friends afterwards. Yeah. What happens in this Mount Rushmore state is Mount Rushmore. Yeah. Okay. My first pick is going to be. Oh, no. Mount Rushmore.

Okay. I was actually about to punch you in the face. Why? Because my first pick is going to be the MJ statue. Okay. I was nervous there for a second. When you said, when you preface it with that, I was like, you motherfucker. My first pick is going to be Mount Rushmore itself because you got four guys on there.

You can hypothetically, you could use it to extrapolate sports debates and fill in dead air over the summertime and make arguments out of nothing. So Mount Rushmore really does it all. The best presidents in the world are on there. George Washington. You're still talking about Mount Rushmore trying to sell this, huh? Ben Franklin and Alexander Hamilton. Okay.

All right. So I'm going to MJ statue. Iconic statue. It's a logo that everyone, you know, it's basically the coolest logo in the world. That's the number one sport statue in the world in my mind. Not totally unbiased. Hey. Well, the Mount Rushmore is for monuments, not just sports.

We're about to hear it. Yeah. Monuments and statues. The Harry Carey statue, though. I think, I think the MJ is more iconic. Okay. Just because Nike, but whatever. Well, my.

What came first? MJ or Nike? Nike. Who was MJ born? Now I think MJ. What the? He was just a bunch of fucking Steve pre-fontane shoes. We're going to have that.

Yeah. Walkmaker before that. Come on. Darren Reveller wants to tell us when Nike was invented. Yeah. My first monument is going to be the great sphinx of Giza in Egypt. Oh. Okay.

Okay. So this body of the line, head of a man. What do you mean? No. My second one is going to be Lincoln Memorial. I think the best monuments are the big giant ones. Like that's how you know you really ran shit when you were alive. You got a statue that's three or four times the size of you.

And especially the Egypt one, when they had to get people to build it for like 40 years. Yeah. The sphinx is cool. It got its nose blown off. Mm-hmm. It looks like that cat's been doing a shitload of cocaine. Yeah. And there's probably aliens involved.

So. That's true. Easy number one. Good point. All right. I'm going to stick with statues here. I'm going with the second most iconic sports statue in the world, the Rocky statue. Yep.

That's a good one too. Yeah. That one's basically, it's everything Philly has. Well, no. And they have the Super Bowl. Hank said that today they put on the Super Bowl replay on a Jumbotron in Philly today. They shut down a street. That's pretty fucking awesome.

During the World Cup final? That's pretty awesome. I love it. That's the most Philly thing ever being like, fuck this. Fuck this football. This is football. Yeah. They're going to have like, you know, some cities do outdoor films like in parks and

stuff over the summertime. Philly's just going to have like a giant screening of the Super Bowl like every Friday. Yeah. Every over and over. Every Friday on the Art Museum steps. Yeah. Did they have to grease up? Yeah.

Yeah. I don't, you know, but they, Philly, they're just going to keep playing the Super Bowl. Did they have to grease up the Rocky Statue where people try to climb that thing? I don't know. I think they probably should. Probably. They should just have a guy whose job it is to keep it greased up. Yeah.

All right, P.F.T., you got two. All right. I'm going to go with Statue of Liberty. Mmm, that's a good one. Shocked that it lasted this long. That's a good one. Statue of Liberty. Yep.

She's beautiful. She's kind of a babe. And then my third one is. Also French. Also, haha. Yep. My third one. My third one.

What if the Statue of Liberty is a giant Trojan horse and France has been like keeping some sort of like secret weapon in there for the last 120 years? Coolest Statue of Liberty moment when that movie that no one saw, that title wave hit it. Oh, Day After Tomorrow. Oh, no, I did see that. That's a great movie. I did see that movie.

Shit. Yeah. Randy Quaid walks from Philadelphia to New York City. You're talking about 2012. No, you know what I'm thinking of? And also the Geostorm movie I didn't see. I thought that was. You're thinking of the weather machine one.

Yeah. No one saw that. And then for my third one, I'm going to go with the Great Pyramids of Egypt. So kind of versatile. They're tombs. They're also used to like tell the stars. They're also used for grain storage. They can really do it all.

Okay. All right. I will come. I'll go get off the statues for a moment. Not really monuments or statues, but it's all right. We're not really a monument. It's more of like a grave. It's a great site.

It's a monument. It's a monument for their fairs. It was a house first. Yeah. Nobody lived in Great Pyramids. Yeah. Dead people did. You said ghosts aren't people?

No. I'm saying it's not a house. Okay. For a ghost, for dead people it is. Well, the world is really a house for dead people. You could make that. So my next one is the earth. Great monument.

All right. I'm surprised this one lasted. The Washington Monument. Get it? Yeah. Selis. Right? See that?

It's a dick. That's too right. Do you think that when they made the Washington Monument, it was just a bunch of super mature people that didn't have any immature people putting that together and being like, hey, guys, this looks like a huge fucking dick. Well, I need to go back and figure out when it was built because if Ben Franklin was around, Ben Franklin was like, that's definitely a piece of shit. Well, no, there'd be spots and sores on it.

Yeah, it would leak out of the top. Just a glove. Nice pus leaking out of the top. So this is some, you know, okay, so it was designated in 1966. That can't be when it was built, right? Yeah. Oh, 1848. So yeah, they definitely didn't do dick jokes back then.

Dick jokes, I feel like, became popular in like the late 60s. Yeah. People didn't even have dicks until 1946. Yeah. The baby boom. Mm-hmm. That's when people started having sex. All right.

My third one. I'm stunned this one made it this long. Uh-oh. The Jerry Richardson statue. Okay. That's a good one. Very problematic. In our country.

Are you okay with Jeans Friday? No. I just think he was a great owner. He defended the shield. You guys are defending the shield, guys. He's a great owner. Okay. He was a big protective shield guy, but also he was kind of some bad stuff that happened.

It's a real statue of limitations, if you ask me. And then my fourth one is the 9-11 Memorial. So very legit, obviously not to get too serious, but it's a very powerful statue, great memorial. Yeah. Okay. I've gone there like five or six times and I don't want to go ever again. Yeah. All right.

Okay. Way to keep it light, Hank. My fourth one is going to be the Jaguar statue, but only when the kid's head was stuck inside. That's my fourth. That's a good one. So I want that specifically written down. Jaguar statue with little kid's head in it. Okay.

My last pick is going to be, I'm going to go with the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. Oh. The one that looks out over the city and the beach. Yeah. Iconic. It's only, you see it in like awesome movies. It's iconic.

Yeah. If that, if that is in the world cup and the opening credit of a movie, I will go, I will go see that movie. If you were, if you were a challenge watcher, PFT, they once had to, they got to the top of it and then they had to like parasail down. Yeah. It's pretty sweet. But you aren't.

No, I'm not a challenge watcher. All right. What do we miss? I have one specific one we missed. We missed the Pat Tillman statue. Oh yeah. That one's fucking awesome. Yeah.

The look on his face is pretty sweet. Yeah. Sure. The Saddam Hussein statue that got taken down. Yep. That was pretty cool. When we won the Iraq war and everything was good and the mission was accomplished. The JFK eternal flame.

That's pretty badass. Yeah. Like to have an eternal flame is pretty awesome. The, I personally don't like this one, but I would argue that it's somewhat iconic, the Vince Lombardi statue in Green Bay. Yeah. That one. I have my nominee for the worst, the Arch in St. Louis.

Yes. That one sucks. Let's just put like a big piece of metal on your front lawn. Yeah. It looks like a leftover part from the air conditioner. Yeah. Like, hey, somebody just threw it out on the Mississippi River. If you put that up in your neighborhood, someone's calling like the town and being like, hey,

can they get this off their front lawn? Yeah. Like the homeowners association would never allow that to be, you know, constructed. Yeah. It's called what the gateway to the Midwest. Yeah. Does the Midwest really need a gateway? No.

You're just saying it. Nobody's out there like wondering, am I in the Midwest yet? No. If you're getting a pizza. You're in St. Louis. No. If you're just being served a pizza that has ketchup and tomato sauce, you know you're in the Midwest.

Yeah. We don't need any official announcement. Don't. Let's be careful there. St. Louis. You know you're in the shitty part of the Midwest is what you're trying to say. And I agree. Okay.

All right. So embrace debate. What do we miss? Arch de Triomphe. Oh, that's a good one. That's very, and it's also very topical. Yes. Plymouth Rock.

Plymouth Rock. Yes. The Mayflower. The Tomb of the Unknown. That's a badass one. Yeah. World War II Memorial. And oh, Steve Gleason one is awesome.

Two in New Orleans when he was walking the park. Yeah. That's pretty sick. That's a sweet one. Yeah. All right. Well, I guess tweet us what we missed at Pardon My Take. This one's going to be really contentious, guys.

I feel it. I feel it. Mount Rushmore Monuments. All right. Let's do our who's back. Ready for it? Let's go. Let's do it.

All right. Hank, why don't you go first? My who's back. The week. I got a couple. The first one is Novak Djokovic. Ooh, the Joker. I was watching Wimbledon the other day and it's it's very graphic.

Like we joke about it and I don't really watch Tess, but it is. Do you remember Monica Sells? Yeah. She was even worse. Yeah. But she was like, what? What? What?

And then that's when she was getting stabbed. When she was playing tennis. It was like. All right. So what do you got for the Joker? I won his first title since 2016. First major title. First non-fedder and Rafa major title in like 10 majors.

It's Rafa off the PEDs. Many people are asked. Do people complain about tennis having too many super teams? I feel like they should. It's the young. They say that the the old guys won't give it up. Yeah. They won't give it up to the young guys.

Yeah. Oh, speaking of the super teams, did you see the very topical and Bape is going to join the Warriors? Yes, I did. That's pretty fucking good. I think we're going to I think we're going to hold on to this one as long as possible. No solid. And then my other who's back the week is Giant Pandas.

Oh, good. So last week they got taken off the Endangered species. Yes. Okay. So that's a real who's back. Good job. Good job everyone. Yes.

Guess how many adult Giant Pandas there are in China? Like in the wild? Yeah. 900. On record. 900. 2000. 1864.

All right. I love it. That doesn't count the ones that are living off the grid. Yeah. True. There's some real like rugged wilderness pandas right there. That's pretty awesome. Like, you know, people say a lot of bad things about humanity, but hey, we stopped killing

Giant Pandas long enough so that they could get a thousand of them in the world. We took a 40 year break from eating Giant Pandas at all our important banquets to another back. Yeah. Hot seat though. Good for us. Eastern Gorillas got put on Endangered. All right.

Okay. Well, I think actually that's how the food chain works. You put one, you take one off the Endangered species, you got to make sure you kill enough of another to put it on. Exactly. There's only enough oxygen to go around. Right. Right.

We got to keep it balanced. Yeah. All right. By the way, let's just, instead of like endangering all these awesome animals, can we just put mosquitoes on the Endangered Species list? Yes. Can we just kill those fuckers off? Mosquitoes, rats, pigeons, like there's so many snakes.

Careful. Pizza rat is my spirit animal. You know what? I don't want you to go after them. Do you know what the worst, do you know what the worst animal of all time is? And it's one of the smallest. I don't understand. Someone fucking tell us why this animal exists.

A wasp. And I'll tell you why you're an asshole. A tick. Yeah. Ticks. Ticks literally exist to just like kill people with diseases and makes it so that when you're in the summertime, you can't like enjoy walking around without pants on. Yep.

They give you lime disease. Yeah. Is that scurvy? Yeah. There's another one too. There's another like disease. Rocky Mountain spotted fever. It's a fucking, it's a good one.

Fuck ticks, man. They're just little bugs. Wasps and hornets. You guys can fuck off. Whoa. Miss me with, miss me with that shade. I don't want it's not bees because they're dying. Have you ever been bit by a wasp?

I've been, no because you don't, you get stung by a wasp. You don't get bit by one. I thought, which one do you get? You don't get bit by anything. I think a wasp you get bit by. You get bit by a dog. I think by wasp. You're confusing a dog bite and a wasp sting.

Okay. Well, I can actually go on for days by wasp and know a lot about them, but I won't. Okay. Just letting you know that. You sure you don't want to? Yeah. They're smooth. They don't have like the jagged edges on them like bees do.

There's sort of bee stings you and it pulls out. It tries to pull out, but instead it gets its guts ripped out because its stinger gets pulled out. Wasp, it's got a nice, smooth stinger so it goes in and out and in and out and in and out. It basically fucks you with its stinger and then it gets to go on living. Okay. Anything else?

I can talk about hornets too. Hornets are similar to wasps. Hornets are the ones that bite you? No. Nobody bites you. I thought something bites you. Bumblebees. I love bumblebees.

I don't have anything else going on. Bumblebees, I love bumbees. I want to get a bumbee flies by you like, what are you going to do? You fucking fat bee? I want to get a pet bumblebee. Yeah, we should. Yeah. Or lightning bugs.

Oh yeah. Those are awesome. Yeah, lightning bugs are sweet. All right. So that was talking about bugs. Okay. So pandas are back. I guess.

All right. Who you got, PFD? Okay. My first who's back is going to be TJ Oshie. Oshie and his drinking is back. So he's kind of become a legend for drinking beers through his shirt. I think that's a move he invented. I've never seen that before.

But I like it. Yeah. I like it. But only TJ Oshie can do it. Anybody else that does it, it looks like kind of a try hard weird move. Yep. So that's his thing. He played at a golf tournament this weekend.

And before he teed off, he chugged a beer through his shirt. And he also played with a foam dome on his head drinking beer during the tournament. Nice. So TJ Oshie. He drinks. He drinks. Okay. Well, I mean, you know, sometimes chugging beers, it can get monotonous.

It's like, you know, a relationship in your sex life. You got to spice it up. You got to try new positions. You got to like, you got to invite your friend over to drink your beer for you while you sit in the corner and watch. That's the thing. Keep it lively. My next who's back is Hulk Hogan.

Hulk Hogan's back. He got reinstated to the WWE Hall of Fame. Nice, brother. So they, they, I guess, removed his statue if he had one. They took his name out of all their materials because he said he didn't exist. Because he said the N word. But now the Papa John got in trouble for saying the N word in America. We have like a one in one out policy for racism.

So Papa John's racist now and because he's in the club, Hulk Hogan is now out of the racism club. Yep. It's like a daedric species. Exactly. So Hulk Hogan maintains the racist ecosystem of America and he is back in the WWE Hall of Fame. I've got another one.

You want me to, you want me to keep going? Yeah, for sure. Do it. The course, the course is back. We'll talk about the course. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we got the British Open or the Open, excuse me. Yeah, the Open Championship.

The Open Chump, Chump and Chip. Yep. I, Karnusti. Yep. Karnusti, which is perhaps my favorite name of the golf course. It's just very, very, very Scottish. Interesting. I don't think I've ever thought of my favorite name for a golf course.

Karnusti. Okay. So this thing, this thing is like. Mount Rushmore of names of golf courses. Have you seen the pictures of Karnusti? Yeah. And how dried out it is. Very burnt out.

It looks like they're playing on Mars. Yeah. And people are driving the ball like 500 yards, which I don't know if I can consider that to be the course being back because people are just like abusing the shit out of the course and, and you know, hit the ball a million miles, but we're talking about the course. Yes. So talking about the course is back.

I love talking about the course. There's nothing better. There is Fescue. There's Fescue on that course. Yeah. It's a Lynx course. Yeah. Yeah.

You're just playing on a beach. All right. My who's back. I got two. The first is Manny Pacquiao. He's still fighting. So that's pretty sad. He was like a day before and it wasn't a pay-per-view as ESPN plus, so.

That's a pretty hot app. But he did win. But he did win. So who did he fight? I think he fought Lomachenko. He beat him and knocked him out in the seventh. So that's not bad. He knocked him out.

There's just nothing set. Porn stars and boxers, like an aging porn star and aging boxer watching them is one of the saddest things you can do. Well, aging porn stars. At least you know, you know when it's done, you know when it's done and everyone knows and then they always hang on for a couple extra years and you're like, let's just try to remember the good times because this is depressing the fuck out of all of us. And they both end up doing like farewell tours at strip clubs with boxers going around

like signing autographs at strip clubs. So I don't know. I don't know how I feel about that. And then my other back, who's back is Jabari Parker. He is back. Hank. Yep. Hank's a big Jabari guy.

You know who else is back is Ja. Oh, is it? Okafor? Where's he going? He posted an Instagram video where he looked nasty. Okay. He's definitely going to be back. Yeah.

The Duke boss of the last few years, Jabari Parker, two year, two year, 40 million. But it's not even really a two year. It's one year. It's a one year with an option. It's actually the perfect. Yeah. It's the perfect like, it's actually the perfect risk by the bowls to do that. But it is very funny when you see the number 40 million and you realize that a guy who's

got two, he's 22. So we've got two torn ACL is getting 40 million. Pretty nice. And he's back. He's going to be great. Big signing like this happens with the, if it's the Cubs or, you know, the bowls or the Blackhawks, it's fun to watch big cat talk himself into it. Oh yeah.

And so we've gotten to witness that in real time over the last couple of days. I also like to do the thing where I look at everyone on the roster and where they were drafted and it doesn't, it's like the Kevin White. It doesn't really matter like if they stink. But if they were like a top 10 pick, it's like, well, that's an asset right there. Like he could have been like, Darko is still an asset in my mind. He was the second pick in the draft. You can't just throw that out.

Yeah. I remember on the R words, like they signed a guy, big Mike Williams, who is a pick out of Texas. And I was like, you know, he's the first round pick. This guy could be pretty good. He weighed like 450 pounds and he was living in his buddy's basement at the time. And then he played. I think he came to one practice and he just retired and I was like, oh, well, it was worth

the shot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All those guys, whenever they get drafted really high, you're just like forever. Okay. Yeah. Maybe we're the ones to figure this out.

To Marcus Russell keeps talking about combat like every, yeah, David Boston. Yeah, that one. Good. Yeah. There was who else was it? There was there's a bunch of those guys. Kevin White obviously is going to be really good. Matt Jones, the receiver.

Yeah. Matt Jones, Justin Blackman still out there somewhere. Yeah. He's got to he's got to do something. Yeah. He's yeah. He's hanging out in that bar that the scout was at. Yeah.

All right. What should we do? Should we do? Let's do our interview. Yeah. Let's do it. So this is with maybe like our biggest guest ever. Yes.

Like globally. I don't know about that. No, it's pretty. Yeah. Biggest global name recognition. Yes. Well, not physically because he's actually smaller than I am. Yes.

I was shocked. Yeah. So I could be a football player. So yeah, this is Wayne Rooney. He doesn't do a lot of interviews. He's done, you know, just a handful here over in the States and he has been burned many times by the British tabloids. They're big capital J's.

They are. And he, yeah. So Wayne Rooney, like this all came about. We actually, it felt good to get back in the, kind of to peel back the curtain here. How part of my take used to work was we basically had to like hustle for every single interview and like go random places and wait up late at night. And that hasn't happened in a while because we actually have a little bit of success where people want to get interviewed.

But going to DC United, we had to do that because Wayne Rooney is such a big star that it's like the only way we can get him is if we interview him literally in front of a bunch of stationary bikes at 11 PM after the game. And cause he doesn't do interviews. He really doesn't do interviews whatsoever. So this was fun. He's not a huge talker, but I think we got him to laugh a little and have a little fun. Yeah.

He was joking around. He was having a good time. I think it was a little bit different than any interview that he's ever sat through before. So we basically bust his balls for a while. We take the piss, Mike. That's what his manager said. So you guys take the piss out of people. You what?

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It is Wayne Rooney. Wayne, I'm going to ask you the first question. You're in America. At what point do you think we can get you to start calling it soccer? I think it is what it is in the States, it's soccer, England, it's football. So I'll respect it and the people over here. It's okay. We actually don't really care what you call it.

Yeah. But I'm going to hold you to that. If you're going to respect the culture over here, you have to call it soccer every chance you get. No problem. You have to make a fine jar for you like every time you call it football. Yeah. You have to give me $5 personal.

Yeah, exactly. Here's the easier question. You're in America. Have you bought a gun yet? No. No. Okay. I'm afraid no.

There we go. So you just moved here. You're on the DC United, you're your entrance to the MLS. You're coming from Manchester United, you've won all these trophies. You're such an accomplished soccer player and then you come here. The team's obviously towards the end of the table. How do you bring your winning culture to a team like this? Just beat myself.

Yeah. Beat myself. I want to win them and I know the other players, they can see that. They can see that I've come here to work and to try and help us move up the table. So hopefully I can have an influence on the team and we can do that together and move up the table. Yeah. I mean, you did it tonight when you had basically, was it credited with two assists or one?

No. One. You set up the other one with a little back heel. It was an all-class back heel. It's a Wayne Gretzky assist. Yeah. Yeah. So that was a nice assist.

But you showed right away that like you have the ability to set everyone up. Do you notice, did you notice even your 30 minutes on the pitch that everyone's kind of focusing on you and your teammates can kind of open everything up because they have a little more leeway? No. I think, I think a big thing is the hardest thing in football to do is to keep it simple, very simple, and it possibly is one of the most effective things. So I actually kept it very simple today and created chances for my teammates, which is

great. So my teammates obviously scored the goal. So, but no, I was pleased with the 30 minutes and obviously delighted with the victory. I did notice that you were playing the way you faced a lot, kind of just redirecting the ball a lot. And that did open up a lot of runs on the other side of the pitch. Is that something that you've kind of dealt with in practice with your teammates, or is that something you just kind of adjusted to in the course of the game?

Yeah, I think you have to play what you see and play what you think is right at that moment in time. And tonight I played what I thought was right and obviously it worked. Are you a little disappointed that you didn't get the man of the match trophy, the guitar? Because I hear that you're a big guitar player. Yeah, I am actually. I tried to steal it off Paulie, but he's got it back now, but no, I collect the ties. So is that is that every game or yeah, yeah, every game.

I guess so. I guess so. Yeah. No big deal. What's your best guitar? Probably Paul McCartney. Oh, okay. That's not bad.

Well, I was going to ask you, do you think you're the most famous liver puddling of all time? No, not all. I think obviously the Beatles, Roger Bennett, I was going to say. Yeah, Roger Bennett, probably, probably number one, number one, speaking in England. So they obviously had an unbelievable World Cup. How closely were you in touch with some of those guys on the team because you played with some of them and, you know, you were obviously a huge member of that team for so

many years. How were you keeping closely with those guys, talking to them throughout the World Cup? How we're talking through the World Cup, obviously keeping touch and play with some of them a long time, both at club level and international level. So yeah, you're keeping touch, your friends, and wished them luck before games, but they done excellent, I thought. Had a great tournament, and just ashamed we didn't get the final. Yeah.

A storyline that was kind of going throughout the World Cup was England always has kind of the pressure of the nation, and this team was young and kind of playing themselves. Did you feel that every time you went out there, like the pressure of the nation and the history of England, whether it be penalty kicks that went wrong in the past, or what not? Not really, I think. We knew there's, of course, there's a pressure you go through World Cup. You're playing for your country, every player, whichever country you play for has that pressure.

I think it was just, you know, almost when they're going to fall apart, when are we going to get knocked out. Right. It was sort of that, but, you know, as players, that was almost outside of the squad as players. We were always focused in, we were unlucky a few times, but that's football, and I think the lads who went into this World Cup done really well, they seemed to play a lot with a lot of freedom, which I believe has come from the manager. Yeah, speaking of Gareth, were you the one, did you text him and tell him to unbutton

the bottom button on his vest, because I noticed he switched that up, kind of played more loose after that? Yeah, I told him to take it off, to be honest. Yeah, let it breathe, let it breathe. Yeah, but no, I thought he looked quite smart. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he did. He was dapper.

Yeah, he looked real good. Big Cat was talking about some of the, some of the pressures that you face from the outside over in England. Those are some real capital J journalists over in England. They don't pull any punches. How have you found the United States media? Because we're kind of like the watchdogs of the U.S. sports journalists. So if you have any problems, come to us.

We'll take care of it for you. We'll crack some skulls for you, but how have you found the U.S. media? No, seriously, he's right. Like in England, if the media does something wrong, you sue them. If the media does something wrong in America, you tell us and we make fun of them till they just tumble around. They just give up and they turn into a puddle. Yeah, any problems I have, I'll come to you.

Yeah, you tell us. But how have you found the United States media so far? Okay, I think all media is, they have a job to do, and we're assholes. I understand that, so yeah. Do you like us? You're okay. Okay. All right, so another thing that happens in sports culture in America is we have to debate

everything till you're exhausted and you don't want to debate anymore. I don't know if you know MJ vs. LeBron, that whole thing. Ronaldo vs. Messi. Who's better? Messi. Ooh, that was quick. And you played with Ronaldo too. Yeah, I think I've said it before, but the both, probably the best we've ever played

in the game, and I just think Messi is, in my eyes, the greatest. We're Messi guys, so you're in good company here. And by the way, we're going to cut out the part where you said you said that before, because we want to have this like the first time ever Wayne Rooney has finally declared a winner of Ronaldo vs. Messi. What about MJ vs. LeBron? Honestly, that's no idea. That's a good answer.

That's a better answer than most people, because otherwise, like you had answered. I had LeBron doing space jam too. I think so. He's supposed to, but I don't know. He's called on purpose. After he's done that, I can judge him on that because my children love space jam. Sanchez won, okay. So I can judge them on that.

I think you're going to be good in America. I think you got it. They got Michael's secret stuff, the bottle of water, LeBron is just going to be like a Cabernet Sauvignon. Yeah, exactly. He loves that one. Exactly. It's a tattoo and it says, just enough education to perform.

I just wanted to say that's awesome, because like we're kind of the same way. We have just enough education to be dumb enough to start a podcast and pretend it's real. So what made you get that tattoo? It's actually from a band, music band, a Welsh band, Statofonics, and it's the name of the album. Okay. It's a band which I like. One of my favorite bands.

So, and I just thought the lyrics in it was actually represented who I am. It represents us as well. I think we need to get the same one. Someone say we almost have just enough education to almost be able to do it. Yeah. We're like just dumb enough to do okay at our job. We're dumb enough to make you think that we're not as dumb as we actually are. Right, right.

So that makes any sense. Perfect way to put it. That's what we should get tattooed. Yes, thank you. I appreciate it. So I'm interested in talking with you a little bit about some of your sleep habits because I did some research on you, meaning I looked at your Wikipedia page and I followed two links from that.

And it said that you like to have some noise going on whenever you sleep. Are you a fan app guy on the iPhone or I read somewhere that you like to have a hairdryer going? Yeah. What's up with it? Does it make you like more just relaxed while you sleep? It just puts me asleep there. No, obviously at home when my wife's there and we have it for fun.

Yeah. Do you have the app on your phone though? No. We have a fan. But do you have the app for when you're on the road? I've tried it. I don't like it. You don't like it?

When I'm in the hotel alone, I have a hairdryer in the bathroom. Okay. Then you just turn on, you leave going all night. I leave it on cold air. That's smart. See, I would be, see, you're smarter than I am. I would not think to hit the cold button on it. Yes.

That would end up burning down the hotel. Yeah. I actually, I do the same thing as you. I have the fan at home and then when I'm on the road, I have the fan app on my phone. So that I always sleep. Yes, enough education to not set off the fire. Yeah. That's our common denominator.

How much fun is it to score goals? That's a tough question. That's a great question. Thank you. Thank you. As a striker, it's the best feeling. You want to score and when you do score it, it's difficult to describe the feeling, but what's your, what's your favorite celebration?

Um, double backflip. Oh, do you still have that? Never had it. Oh, okay. Well, that is, that's a great celebration. Have as your favorite celebration. Would you ever like that? Would you ever go into a game thinking, okay, if I get one goal, here's celebration number

one. Goal number two is going to be this one and have that all planned out or was it all straight at the moment? Yeah. Like it's, yeah. I've never, to be honest, I've never planned the celebration. So it just happens. Not even the boxing one?

No. Really? That one was my favorite. Yeah. No, it's, I don't know. It just happened. I've never planned them. Okay.

Do you still keep in touch with Ricky Haddon? Um, now and again. So he's, obviously he's a, he was a great fighter, one of the best fighters in Britain has, has produced so, um, but obviously he's living his life and enjoying his, his life with his family. Yeah. I mean, when they did the fight, that song, there's only one Ricky Haddon. I, if I'm a sucker for like a good song.

So if you have a good song, I'll immediately become a fan of his for life. Yeah. Like I became an England fan for It's Coming Home. That was a, that's a great song. Yeah. That's a great song. Do you still train? Do you still train boxing?

Um, not really. Now, if, now and again, if I'm, if I'm injured, then I think it's a great way to keep fit. Um, but other than that, not very good. When was the last time you were in an actual fight? Um, can't remember. Okay. All right. Well, we'll ask harder questions and see if we'll make it there.

Yeah. I'll make you punch me like this by the end of this interview. Um, so we have a lot of fans who are listening to this right now who might not be the biggest soccer fans. What's something that, uh, the casual fan doesn't understand about the sport? For me, it's the, the greatest sport ever created. Okay. I'll ask you, I'll ask a little more detailed.

I always wonder like you guys walk around a lot. What's up with that? Are you just saving your energy or are you tired? There's no point in running if you don't need to. Yeah. Yes. Worst to live by. I've seen that went to baseball game.

They walk a lot. There's no standing around in baseball. Basketball, they walk a lot. They stop NFL. They stop. No, there's no stop. True. True.

It's tough when any, when you can, when you make fun of any sport, no, I know, I know. But like when you say like, when I ask a question, like I ask and someone from outside of America is like, but what about baseball where they're just standing around the entire time? It's like, you got me there. That's true. That's a good point. That's a good point.

Do you have any goals in mind for the season, personal and also for DC United? Like what do you want to accomplish at the end of this year? No, I think personal goals, they, they change as the team progresses or, or doesn't progress. So I think my goal is to try and help this team move forward, move up the table and, and see how far we can go from now to the end of the season. That's my, and my goal now is to try and help us win the next game. So when you decided to make the trip across the pond and come over to the States, what did you, like, what was the big draw for that?

What was your, the driving force behind coming here? Great question. Thank you. Do you want to compliment my question too? Not really. It's a track. I've been able to do it five times this week. Okay.

Well, I asked it better. Yeah. I'll try and answer it. No, I think, as I said, I met the owners and I've seen the new stadiums you've seen tonight, new training ground. I've watched the team, I was excited, some very talented players and I could see myself fit in. So that was the main reason.

I think Beckham hasn't opened his Miami team yet. He didn't add that to it. Also the beer is coming. That's coming. The beer is colder over here. The beer is colder. Have you noticed that? I have not.

Yeah, so. Oh, okay. We've got to fix that. All right. The Seeky question. We'll wrap this up in a second. So we do a Seeky question. You can, if you want to come to DC United game, you put in promo code take and you get ten

dollars off your ticket. So anyone who wants to come watch Wayne Rooney, put in the promo code take, you get ten dollars off. What can we teach you about America? Like what do you need to know? Use us right now. Like a question that you've like, I really want to ask this question, but I'm going to look silly.

You're in the trust tree. Okay. What date is Thanksgiving? That's a good question. That's a good question. We'll put you in touch with our Thanksgiving correspondent, Blake Bortles on this one. It is the second. No, third.

It's the third Thursday in November. Yeah, third Thursday in November. It's not on the same date. Are you looking forward to that? I am not. Yeah. Okay. Third Thursday.

All you got to do, you basically wake up, you just start eating. You watch football, American real football for the entire day and then you just keep eating and then the next day you wake up and eat all the leftovers. Pretty good. Okay. It's great. It's pretty good. Did you celebrate 4th of July?

Yeah. I went down to the national mall. Yeah. Nice. Watch the fireworks. Does that make you a trader? I just took it in. It was a nice thing.

I wouldn't say about that if she knew that you were celebrating us defeating Britain in a war. She'd be upset. He just took it in. I just took it in. I went to see the fireworks. Is it weird being here and having people not recognize you on the street constantly? No, it's nice.

It's nice to have a bit of freedom, a bit of downtime without having to stop every couple of minutes. Right. Right. Walking around. I love it. I love it. I have one last question, but go ahead.

If there's any additional pressure coming over here the way that you did, you're still almost at the peak of your performance and your capabilities right now. Is there any additional pressure to grow the game in the United States? Are there people asking you to do outreach things to try to help American soccer while you're over here? No. Are you just kind of focused? I'll do what I can to help this team and if that helps in any way.

We need all the help we can get. Soccer grow. Thank you. Okay. In the United States then. Yeah. That's a good answer. All right.

My last question. We were actually thinking about doing this entire interview in English accents and seeing if you'd catch on. So radar English accents. You go first. What might? It's rubbish, isn't it? It was madness when you scored.

Bruv. Bruv. The assist was well class, isn't it? Bruv. It's coming home. Bruv. Is that trying to be cockney? I don't know.

You tell me, was it cockney? Was that good? A little bit. That was a peeky fucking blind. Yeah. You watch that show? I actually haven't watched it. Oh, it's pretty good.

It's good. You might have to turn on subtitles because it's hard to understand the accent. It's very difficult accent to understand. Yeah. Yeah. The Birmingham. Yeah. Birmingham, Bruv.

Birmingham, Bruv. All right. Last, last question. Do you read Harry Potter? I've read it, yeah. Okay. We're not nerds. Not all of them.

So we don't read it. So tell us, should we read it? Yeah. I think it's both for children and adults. You know, one of the greatest, well, not one, seven, I think it is. Yeah. Seven or eight. A lot of books.

We don't read very well. But to watch the movies. Okay. There we go. Now you're speaking our language. Yeah. All right. Wayne Rooney.

Thank you so much DC United. Best of luck for us a year. And you passed this test. So you're now officially an American citizen. Thank you. This was your citizenship test. Thank you. All right.

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Boltman costume on sale on eBay that it also includes all intellectual property rights for the Boltman character. This is sad to me. First of all, because Boltman is awesome. The best. He's probably the most municipally active mascot of all time. He goes to city council meetings. Yeah.

In full Boltman. Later with Robert's Rules of Order, the guy knows his shit when it comes to town councils. It's sad that he's retiring and it's even sadder that he's putting this up on eBay. I was hoping at least he would have an offspring, a male offspring to pass down the Boltman costume to keep it in the family. Isn't that how the Badger was done in Wisconsin for a while? What? He was passed down through a family, like the mascot?

I don't know. I probably just made that up. I just know that there was one guy who lived in the same building as me and he was the Badger mascot in the shared washer and dryer room. Every now and then, I was like, I should just steal this. Oh, you would see that as a costume? Yeah, I would see it being washed. I'd be like, I should just steal this right now.

I'm shocked that you didn't actually take that. I think it's like a felony in Wisconsin to get it put to death. It's very Wisconsin-nice. Yeah, right. So yeah, it sucks because I would like to see him keep it in the family or it doesn't have to be a male offspring. It could be Boltwoman. Yes.

Up next. But it's sad. This is like the end of an era. It really is. And it's like, this is the official move of the Chargers 2LA. They moved. They already played there. But when Boltman retires and he's like, I'm done, I've been pushed too far.

I love these fans like Ragnar, Marlins Man, Detroit Don and Superfan in Detroit when they got kicked out, Boltman, these diehard fans that the organization just pushes them a little too far and they have to announce their retirement. Right now, on eBay, Fireman had $16,000 for Boltman's costume and all intellectual property rights. That's it? Yeah, that's it. Wow, I thought it would be a lot more than that.

Bargain. That's really sad. I wonder what the full intellectual property rights like look like. There's only one way to find out. We have to put a bit on that. We should go fund me. We have to definitely put a bit on that. It's sad.

It is sad. It's very sad the way that it happened. You should have obviously cut the cord last year when they moved to LA, but we've all been in a long distance relationship like that. Try to make it work. You try to make it work. It's only an hour and a half away. We'll FaceTime.

We'll FaceTime. We'll see each other every Friday. I'll drive up or you'll drive down. That one day goes by where you don't FaceTime and you don't text. Then it leads to multiple days and then she sees you at a college baseball game on a Sunday instead of watching the Chargers. It's like just unravels from there. Boltman's done.

Next up we have Sorry, Not Sorry. This goes to A's outfielder Mark Kanha. Kanha. Yeah. Kenya. Huge A's fans here. He bat flipped against the Giants, big rivalry, and said sorry, but then updated it and said actually, this was the exact quote, people getting offended by bat flips are so silly.

I'm not sorry. I'm not really sorry. It's part of our game. I fucking love this. Yeah. Originally he said that he would like to apologize to anyone who got offended by it. It wasn't even just a sorry, not sorry, it was a sorry, not sorry if you were offended. Are there people who are still offended by bat flips?

I don't think so. I think pitchers. I think this might be a straw man now. I think we've gotten to the point where like a few years ago, like the Jose Batista one was the big one where it was, you know, there was still some people like that was disrespectful and it got overwhelmed by people like, no, actually make baseball fun. Now I think we might just be arguing against no one and maybe Peter Gammons. That's how boring baseball can be is the way to make it fun is by like tossing your bat

after you hit a home run. That's how we decide what fun is in baseball, but yeah, I don't think that there's anybody, it's only the pitchers. It's the pitcher that gets the home run hit off of them. That guy is the one that's offended by it. Yeah. It's like basically the last people offended by bat flips are pitchers and anyone who's in the St. Louis Cardinals organization.

Yes. That's it. Oh. Good segue, PFT. Nice. So thoughts and prayers to Mike Matheny. Dumb Dumb Brains is what I have been calling him over the years. So he got fired mid.

I think that probably had a lot to do with his firing. Dumb Dumb Brains? Once you get labeled as Dumb Dumb Brains, who kid? It was after 2015 when he was, he botched that series against Cubs. I was happy about that. You can't come back from that. Dumb Dumb Brains, Matheny got fired by the Cardinals mid season, which doesn't happen. like the Steelers like they don't they don't fire managers they don't they always have

long-term managers this is how they do it doesn't matter how many DUI's you get you're with us for life right so he got fired and he he I mean he got fired for like for sucking but also he had Bud Norris basically hazing the entire team and like being the cop in the team and he wasn't talking to Dexter Fowler and he's dumb dumb brains being a cop on a team full of cops yeah so thoughts and prayers to him here's that cops from cops so should Bud Norris just become the new manager did I read that that his replacements name is his last name shit that makes sense I think it's like Matt shit I need you know what I need I need Yachty to be Yachty the player yeah they would not like him Yachty to be the player

manager or I said it Jim Edmonds would be a great just anyone that used to play for the anyone can restore the cardinal way yeah that's been lost just Joe bum dumb brains Joe Buck should be the manager Joe Buck should just come and hang out and then but be like I'm actually not I'm not rooting for any team yeah what's with any gonna do my first inclination was he's definitely running for Congress at some point I don't know he's probably gonna have another failed real estate investment or something yeah probably brains I could see Bethany really fitting and just hanging out at a hardware store yeah and just like criticizing people's choice of like oh you're hanging a door with that that size screw I don't know about

that yeah I don't what I don't want to see your measurements I don't know I don't trust rulers I go with my gut huge dip in his mouth yeah standing in the parking lot yeah offering unwanted advice to people doing weekend projects yeah I don't want to I don't want to you know stick on this on the Cardinals and bash in the Cardinals but I just want to throw this out there into the ether Yachty or Molina 35 years old on pace for the most home runs in his career hmm hmm hmm very interesting hmm hmm hmm in the launching pad known interest field hmm and the seams have been raised so it's actually harder at home runs that's true hmm very interesting hmm okay all right let's wrap it up with we have a take-quake PFD laid on us yeah this is from my

good friend Sheriff Clark I think he's from Milwaukee right he's you might recognize Sheriff Clark as he's the sheriff that wears a big cowboy hat okay he's not from the south yeah and he wears a military uniform even though he never served in the military yep he's pretty cool guy he says Serena Williams here's his take on Serena Serena has been a great tennis champion and role model for young girls media highlighted that she played for all moms today moms means they let their pregnancies go full term will the left now call her anti-reproductive rights hmm so that took a hard left turn there take wake yeah that's a big time take wake I like that Serena did have that one match boarded though people forget about that when she was all yes she was all like loopy from the

pain pills or whatever oh my god about that that was that's a legitimately hilarious video to watch now what the video where she she has to withdraw from that doubles match yeah because she's either like drunk I think I think she said she was exhausted yeah but she was obviously screwed up it's yeah when someone like like Jason day who has vertigo so it's not really funny to laugh about but when he like collapsed and like it was laying on that hill in the golf course that was I mean or coach K yeah like that's I mean it's hard as long as the person is all right after I think I think you could have to wait like maybe six months and if the person everything checks out and they're okay we can laugh at someone just randomly fainting yeah having a very funny thing to laugh about yeah

so yeah everyone knows liberals hate Serena Williams so Sheriff Clark yeah is absolutely right about that by the way if you want some more take-quicks from internet commerce hard factor hard factor download it good point check out hard factor daily news I call it daily news cocaine who comes out that's a great every morning 15 minutes or less get your news in listen part of my take then hard fact yeah after after part of my yeah it's like you come down yes well yeah but with the cocaine yes we're like we're like news mess speedball we're news meth we act we're longer acting yes because it goes for over an hour yeah but they're the cocaine that you take before you take your math yes all right so that is our show we will be at the bullpen bar on Monday and Tuesday

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