The Daily Zeitgeist - Kohl’s Transfer Market

Episode Date: August 12, 2026

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Damn, where you go. Damn, bro. We got, that was that close, bro. I'm telling you, bro. It was fucking that fucking close. All right. I don't care what anybody said, we was right fucking there. Anyway, welcome to A&Fuddy, this transfer window edition as we wait for the community shield and the season to fully start so we can fully dive into our, you know, twisted, tortured relationship with the game of football.

I'm here with Jamel Johnson, Chris Martin. How are we doing? How are we doing this weekend? I guess we, let's just kick off right into it. Because we left the last episode, me going, I don't know if it's going to happen, but I need to believe it. I need to believe. We're going to sign Vinnie Jr. I was prepared for it to not happen, but it turns out, Benetius, he re-signed with Real Madrid to play for a manager who basically was telling him to shut the fuck up about racist abuse.

If you recall from last year, he was like, kind of need to get on with it, bro. Like, he shouldn't be doing that kind of stuff to provoke the people. I'm like, that's the manager you're about to play for, bro. But that's all good. you did your thing how we feeling though um you know he's a professional who can play for who ever he what am i talking about he's a coward you cowards fucking he's a coward yeah no didn't want to come at premier league where every game is a cup final playing in spain where you have one two tough games to see four i'll give you athletic oh and i'll give you Barcelona those

Four tough games. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Again, I just have to say, Viny, you're playing for a guy who's blamed you for provoking racists

for being black. Okay. Anyway, I'm not sour about it. I'm just saying, bro, you would, we would have to have you. But all good.

All good. I'm fine with it, man. Whatever, bro. They threw him the bag. They threw him the bag of all bags. That's what he asked for. That's what he asked for. He got it.

It's fine. That's fine. I'm upset with the idea that the arsenal is supposed to be getting cloned for trying to sign this guy and they're not working. I was like, what the fuck are y'all doing?

Yeah, we're trying to sign the best guy in the world. Yeah. And guess what? What else are we supposed to do? He fuck, when we texted W.D. He said nothing.

He replied. He ripped. We reached out. He said, yeah, bro. I mean, honestly, exactly. The only one I can see me leaving my current person for

is y'all. It's like imagine being at a party and the hottest girl in the party walks in and your friends think you won't talk to her and then you go up and talk to her and then she gives you the number but then it turns out to be a fake number. You offer her loads of money first.

Yeah, you pull out the check. You go, I'll give you loads of money. Just sleep with me. I'll give you loads, a decent proposal. I'll give you loads of money. And then she goes, this other guy is going to give me more money and they're like, all right, well,

at least I didn't have to pay for sex tonight. Right. I didn't even know this was prostitution. I had no clue. I didn't know. I didn't mean it like that. No, I mean, it's true. Even if we take out the sex work metaphor,

they go, bro, look at this bad. Look at this bad. He just walked in. Bro, you're not going to fucking talk to her. Watch this shit. Oh, my God, bro. You got the fucking number? Yeah, yeah.

Then her husband shows up and she leaves with him. And they're like, bro, what was that? I'm like, brother, she gave me the number. She just stopped with her husband. She was with him. I don't know. I tried it.

I don't know. She was married to Brock Lesnar, motherfucker. I just winning it. I just did that. Yeah. But then you're going to meet her and her husband at a really swanky party in Europe later that year. Right. And you're going to try and, I was going to say beat.

Beat. That's not the right word. I want to use this. But you're going to try and, no. Let's just a certain here. You want to try to beat like American style? I'm trying to think what the next level of the analogy is when you see them again with the other one.

You want her to have a really bad time at the next party. Because of the next party, you're with someone, you're with another lady. Yeah. I was like not as hot, but she's like really entertaining. Yeah. She doesn't have the same burst. Her name is Christina, Christina Solis.

She doesn't have the same burst, but she's tidy. she's good she's good at putting stuff on a plate she she she brings you the food she's like oh this is the crab cake did you see his streak is this something like 19 straight matches or he's either gold has scored or assisted kind of dumb streak he's got going obviously it's in front this too that's what I'm saying we got she's like yeah yeah the other thing though a lot of people are like oh my god bro I can't believe Arsenal got used they got used it's like well hold on bro like well what are you talking about like this is what happened This is what happens.

If you have value and you know your worth, you look around to see the best deal you can get. So you can ensure that you're getting the bag for yourself. So again, I'm like, I really don't understand any of this. It'd be one thing if, like, people were prematurely, like Arsenal as a football club was like,

they changed their colors to the Brazil national team uniform to get Venetius to sign for them. They've changed all of these things. It's like, bro, we're doing business. We said, the price. Oh yeah, we can do that. Let us know. And they're like, all right. And we just recycled the, uh, intro video for Bruno.

Just, yeah, because we filmed videos. Focused. Menacing. What a announcement video. I could, uh, also I got to say this, bro, I fucking John Obey McKell. I fuck this motherfucker. He always loves to shit on Arsenal. It's just so funny. This is, he said this about the Vinnie signing. I just have to say this because it's so outrageous. I said, quote, I don't know what the Arsenal fans were expecting. You win the league after 22 years and then you all of a sudden think,

that's it, you've arrived. You're one of the big boys again? No, you're not. They've just been humbled because I said it. There's no way Vinicius Jr. is leaving Real Madrid to go to Arsenal. A club that's won one title in 22 years. This guy wins titles. He's won lots. Blah, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, yeah, bro, we are the big boys again. That's right. Because when you, when you have the history of being big and you reassert your dominance again, you can say, yes, we are back. Yeah, I have re-become a big boy. And what place did y'all finish in?

Oh, okay. How's Chelsea Football Club doing or whatever Todd Bowley's going to change the name to when it's called? They played a team, hang on, last yesterday and a preseason friendly, and the name of the team looked like John Travolta trying to pronounce the name. Adelda Zim. That's all I could see when I kept seeing it, it's the team was called, hang on, what was it called Chelsea. It's just,

it's, hang on, Chelsea preseason. It was like, it's all like, Oh, yeah. Jehor de Rul Tazim. Literally there's,

literally the, literally the, yeah. Is that a character from Dune? Yeah, I was like, where is that? Sorry,

I don't want to be rude about that team. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It could be from a very good team from a lead, but yeah.

It's just, that's all I could think about when I was reading, I was reading the, the preseason. Right. Were you getting your warm-up match with. I was just like, John Travolta's said the name wrong.

Yeah. What team was it? Who did they play? They played? I guess. Where are they from? John Terol. John Terol, does it?

Yeah. Where is this? John Tarol? He played for Arsenal. They're a Malaysian football team. There we go. Oh, they played in Malaysia. Okay.

It was three old. For me, the biggest thing about the Venetius thing was like, it made me realize how in the gutter my self-esteem is still from having lived through the banter era as a like an arsenal supporter because it like it reminds you like when you're shopping for clothes and you're broke like it's like bro i'm i'm looking i don't i only look at a certain level bro like there might be other stores but i'm not even looking there because that's just not part of the reality like i'm not even like what's the fucking point like it's not going to work out of no business shopping there i'm i'm over here okay i'm doing

my thing at coals okay unerthing fucking gems like a fucking like the real recognized. Speaking of, beginning of the banter era, Coles was sick. Yeah. Coral. If they're worse,

Coles was at their best. Right. But I'm saying, like, now we're just pulling up to the Gucci store with money falling out of our pockets. And I'm even like,

is that us still? Oh, yeah. I'm like, yeah, yeah, you goddamn right, Venetius.

And speaking of, Real Madrid better be glad Spain don't got a Pablo Torre running around because I know damn well. they are hiding some money. They're throwing this. Yeah, money on top of money.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's also nice to be in Spain where you can just make up the financial rules. We got everybody up our ass on our books, a bunch of guys in powdered wigs looking at our books every fucking day. Yeah, Chris, tell them. Tell them to get off our eyes,

sorry, man. Sorry, guys. We need Spanish tax laws where players just go, like, here's your tax bill and they go, no. Yeah. It's after 9 p.m. I'm not looking. I don't have taxes.

No, man. I'll have a suspended sentence in 10 years or a fine of 5 million. It seems to be more a lot of them do. Get the fuck away from me.

Also, dude, but Bruno Gimaris, Gimerich, now signing. We've done it. 75 million pounds. Our midfield, you can say whatever you want

are not getting Vinny. But our midfield is absolutely diabolical in terms of how deep the bench is and the quality and the number of combinations of midfielders we can play.

And I felt like last season when we signed Zubi, I was like, okay, this is the fucking midfielder that's gonna fucking open it up. Like he's gonna break up play, just sit in front of the back four. He's good at finding like a good pass. Unfortunately, the pace of the Premier League just caught up with him and then his performances fell off a cliff.

But he's adjusting. But with Bruno, when you actually, like you think about all those times, I feel like we talked about this all last season when they're like, there was like a hesitance to just play a ball, like just in behind, just to fucking see.

You know what I mean? If like, can we risk giving up possession? And Bruno is like one of those people. He's like, bro, he all, the only thing he can do is find that pass and play it. And so I think I, I cannot wait to see what the offense looks like, like what we look like in attack with Bruno, you know, setting people like Yaccharez on a fucking run, Martinelli, whoever, Saka. It just feels like a real, like a real missing piece has finally fallen into place. Did you read that we asked the one of the son four years ago

and weirdly everyone thought Eddie just like pulled the pin but it was Mikkel. I saw that. My one friend was on Mikkel Hader was like, look what, see? He's like, this is still your guy? I'm like, bro, he won us the fucking league, man.

Shut the fuck up. Oh, you've got one of those. Yeah. This guy won't be happy. How many times does he have to win the league for this guy to shut up? Yeah, I mean like we won the league. I don't know what to say after this.

You know what I mean? Like he did what he did. But, but Bruno's one of the few men with a full goatee who I now can't hate. I rarely see a full goate on a guy and I'm like,

that's a cool guy. I'm like, this is a full... He looked like a broke wizard. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a magician. Yeah. But he's not had a red card.

He hasn't had a red card. And the problem... How the fuck? I was just looking at... Jamil, you think I'm joking? I looked because I saw a bum-ass tweet that I was like, this is just some AI bullshit.

And I looked on ESPN. and I pulled up his Premier League sets, not a single Red car. Jesus Christ, well, that will change that real fast. Yeah, yeah. The second they see you even like raise your arms just in a direction, they'd be like, that was violent play, man. I don't know what the fuck. Yeah. But yeah, it reminds me of like when the Lakers

signed Ron Arte's where I fucking hated playing against Ron Arte's. Everyone hates playing, you know what I mean? Like Bruno's one of those guys. Everyone fucking, they fucking hate him. Because he's intense. As he kept saying in his first interview, a warrior. I'm a warrior, which is

true, come out and play. But when he becomes like your asshole that's a weird way to say it. But you know what I mean? When he's yours, then it's immediate, I'm like, bro, I think I love Bruno the whole fucking time, even when he was fucking elbowing Georgino in the fucking dumb. I think I

loved him the whole time, actually. I think I just misunderstood him. The asshole that we we need. It seems like, here's my theory, Gabriel Ainsay is that he's his name? I think the imaginary man stands next the mackel or it might be mackle we still don't know we haven't got to the bottom of that is Tyler durden um he he's gone we need more assholes so he's gone bruno and then we were

linked with romero and i was like this is who that's too much asshole way too much assort isn't there gonna be fighting that practice he can't have i know gabby and romero as a center back bearing they are going it's gonna look like was it leon lea boyer and kieran was it kieran dyer and lee boyer yeah yeah with that a big fight yeah like you had teammates scrapping in the middle of a match on the field. With maybe, actually with the same, yeah,

a bit of racism thrown in too. You just reminded me of when I, I can't remember if I told it on this podcast, but I was, lived in Newcastle and, I love local taxi man's rumors about football players. They always seem to know is there. And they,

and Kieran Dyer hadn't played for like ages. And he went, you know, he's got AIDS. He just, he just started, he started a rumor that he had AIDS. And I was like,

Harry, why do you know that? I don't know one else. It was funny. I love how that shit is universal. You know that celebrity got AIDS. Like, that's an American thing, too. You can't go missing for six months without a public thing before we start a rumor that you have. Jamel.

How many musicians can you name had AIDS as a rumor? Like, off some shit like that. I don't, I'm thinking of two prominent, two prominent people, right? One of them being Kaya, who's saying my neck, my back. because of the song being like, you know, sexy or whatever, sex positive. I remember me, like, you know, she got AIDS, right? And I was like, what? That's why she hasn't done anything yet.

And you're like, I don't know about that. And then people said Lil Flip had AIDS, I remember. What? I've never heard of Lil Flip had AIDS. That was another thing that people were saying in L.A. at the time. I do miss the time pre. And this is the before time, so any young listeners. But at my school, there was two rumors.

one was the Keenan from Keenan and Kel who obviously knows quite successful he died in a car crash get out of here! They were saying that shit in the UK yeah because also about then you're like probably

there's no way of knowing. Yeah yeah big enough that people are like I don't care enough to look into it. Him and him and also Mark Paul Gosler from from say by the ball had died but basically if you were in a kids TV show that's popular

there's a chance that More of a rumor to go around British schools that you died in the car crash. Yeah. Yeah, Jabbar, we had AIDS rumors and stomach pumped. Yeah, like Lil Kim had to get her stomach pumped because she was like, she'd like suck so many dicks. I remember that was a thing people said.

Oh, yeah, I did hear about that. Yeah, I heard that one. Then they said it happened to Britney Spears. It becomes like a smear that people, like, it evolves, right? But the gerbil and the asses will always be Richard Geard. Thank you, Brian. That's that's funny. That's funny.

That's funny. nobody yeah nobody that took a life of its own you can't you can't stop yeah people respected that like it was Genesis in the Bible even the pygmies know that everybody know that

they're like no bro that's there is only one celebrity had gerbils in their ass and that is Richard gear okay yeah I don't even know where the fuck we were going with that um

rumors oh yeah the rumors the rumors the rumors the rumors Kieran Dyer Kieran Dyer what that back line looks like that is the new ecosystem we live in which

is got just gossip now is about football players that may or may not sign or join. So there is a, there is, there is a, there is a window in the, in the no people that we all follow to, to start a rumor about. Right. Has he sat, you see like, oh, someone, is that person to sign in my club? They're like, actually, Vanessa Jr., it's not gone to Arsenal. He's too, he's got too many gerbils up his bum in, in Madrid. They're better gerbils for the bum fun.

Yeah. Yeah. But the one thing I will say, though, like with Bruno now, like with Bruno, Rice and Odegaard, we are basically have the top three midfielders in most performance,

like statistic categories, like in the Premier League. So it's looking good. It's looking good on paper. The Arsenal midfield does look very, it does look very tight. We should be kind of looking at who's like crushing the transfer window in general

is like Arsenal are kind of a bit slow. Their midfield does look stacked. Liverpool is struggling. They can't get anyone. They want to get this. They seem to want to get Barclola, but the deal is just not happening. 145 million pounds.

Hey, Bezos got it? Bradley Barcola. Jeffrey got it? I mean, yeah, they're going to need that deal pretty fucking soon. He comes in as minority stakeholder, and they deliver Bradley Barclure in a box. It's way too big for him. Yeah, right.

He actually dies during transport in the box. Oh, my God. You didn't cut out air holes? Fuck. They open a hearing. Here's, here he is. Oh, shit. Oh, close it, close it, close it.

We've got the wrong box, folks. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. That shit stink, man. God damn. Yeah, I mean, to that, there's also these, the reports are that Jeff Bezos

is going to be buying a minority stake in Liverpool with that guy Severin, who is one of the characters from the social network who helped Mark Zuckerberg start Facebook. It's a pretty, it's like a 30% stake, isn't it? It's something, it's, even though they're going to be minority owners, a lot of people have speculated that like, if you are going to sell 10%, you can just argue that you're just trying to sort of broaden what the ownership group looks like. And people are like when you go to 30%, it looks like maybe FSG that's the current owner, Fenway Sports Group, they're like they are going to do like a phased selloff to maybe eventually this could be Bezos's and LeBron's team, who know, who fucking know.

It's 30%, but it's only 20% on Prime Day. I'm so fucking stupid. I know I like this. No, this is a good. This is good, mate. This is our late. This is our shiny full version of the show. We just make Amazon jokes.

It's funny. On the Liverpool subreddit, they go, well, that's our right wing sorted. Hey. Hey. Okay, Scalzers. It doesn't feel very true to Liverpool, though, the working class, you know, like, yes, club that it is to be owned by a, I mean, they're already owned by FSG, I guess, which you have been.

But they're more like a private equity. You know what I mean? Like they're not like a guy. You know, like obviously John Henry is the face of it. Yeah. But like to have like they're fully now like in, you know,

like we have the cronkeys. It's like who's your fucking oligarch that is, you know, is dabbling in sports ownership. And are they good at winning? It's the real question. Bezos. Yeah.

I mean, let's see that they, they does seem like they need. It's weird. I mean, they spent so much money last year though. And then, but they just didn't.

by the right players. They seem to be doing the same thing again this year. They don't have any sense. It's very strange. Liverpool fans get in touch. How are you feeling? I know. We got to ask Michael O'Brien how he's feeling.

He's texting me. A lot of stressed texts last week about him and in the preseason. My other homie Dylan, who's a Liverpool fan, he all, he's stressed the fuck out. Like he thinks it's a disaster right now

because he's like, we're so short in the back, middle. There's so many glimals. wearing holes and weaknesses and things to iterate on. And it just feels like nothing is working out. And then you were saying like Eerole is like famous for his like death match training sessions.

No days off, mate. No days off. The comment he made after they, I think they lost to leads in a friendly. They were up two nil and then lost. Like they shipped two goals and they're like, oh, all right. Well, there goes that lead. He's what he said after. He said, quote, I think we played really good in the first half, especially the first

30 minutes. but right now probably we don't have much more in terms of the level required to play like this than they were much better in the second half in the same way we were better in the first half, they were much better in the second half and they deserved to turn the game around. I think they were in different levels,

but mostly they were in a good place. I think the ones that it was their first game or even ones that it was their second game, they had energy. The problem is right now, probably they don't have the energy for 90 minutes and they start to get tired. It will take them time.

We need more training with them. And I'm like, bro, if you are, If that's your boss, you're not happy to hear that are you? Yeah, and if you are used to, like, training a certain way, you're probably being like, uh-oh, uh, what, what's the manager saying? We got more training to do. Yeah. There will be no fucking days off.

You will. You will. They're like, have you heard of summer Fridays? And he's like, no. Every day. No, no, no, no. I don't even know what Fridays are. Yeah.

Every day's work day. That's all I know. I just call today work day. You mean fifth Monday? Yeah, yeah. What? Every day is Monday. Seven Mondays?

Seven Mondays a week. Are you talking about Monday 5 or Monday 6? Friday. Okay, we call that Monday 5. Okay. And yes, we do have training Monday 5 and Monday 7. See, wrong team, wrong strategy. Chelsea should be having no days off.

They're the ones with 40 guys on the fucking payroll. Yeah, for real. Did you see that somebody posted a picture that they could post, three different racialized starting 11. Oh, shit. Here's a black starting 11. Here's an all white starting 11. And here's like a kind of light skins and Latinos.

Yeah, yeah. And it's such. So stupid. But yeah, they got, I mean, diversity. And they got Madrid back. Speaking of diversity. Hey. The whitest guy in their team.

He's bad, baby. Yeah. How much are they going to sell him to someone for? Do we think who maybe they can buy someone else for for a lot of money? in a deal that's completely above board. Oh, God. I mean, he just, he needs at least a half season worth of highlights.

He just has no highlight tape at all. I feel so bad for the guy. Although he signed his seven-year deal with him, you know, I always feel kind of sorry for his place. You think this guy's gonna be amazing. Yeah, and then they fucking tether themselves

to a sinking ship like that, who has, like, they're like, I'm sorry, bro, you're going down with us. Yeah, man. You signed the deal with the devil. You signed the fucking, uh, Def Jam, South. You signed a

you signed a TVT records, bro. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What did you think it was? Aw. They had a run. They had a run. Go to Turkey. He'll be in Turkey soon with the rest of the guys. Yeah, he will. All right, let's take a break.

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And we're back. Have you seen Alexis McAllister since he came back? He came back to training. They were just posting videos of him coming back to training today. Oh, how's the stone? And he's got that, like... Let me see. It's looking...

It's scarring up, but you know what? I think he's going to be all right. He's going to be all right. I mean, I forgot about when Mo Salah did. He did his way sneaky. Listen, Mo Salah. Did he? Yeah.

Yeah, like, we didn't catch him healing in the same way. Like, when Gabrielle came back, like, that shit scabbed up. And he was like, well, bro, it's just going to look like ass for, like, the first fucking couple months. And then... I feel like Wayne Rooney was the first professional player to get a hair transplant that then doesn't seem to it works. But you just realized you should have.

waited a little bit long for that technology. Because he did the LeBron. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He just, he went for it when the front started fading when he really also, he didn't realize he was going to have to attack the back too. Could do the whole thing. Yeah. You got to, it's like a, it's like a football team. You can't just, you can't be good in, in the front. You've got to be good at the back. You got to, you got to in the middle. Every player, total hair. Total hair is going to play in. You can't be a halo and just have an attack and no midfield. Exactly. Because that's what Rooney was, Rooney was just looking all attack before.

But McAllister, like, yeah, it's, he's going to have a, yeah, he can't, you should be able to wear, like, or something over you the top of that. Like, he can header it, they said, that's the main thing. But you know, if you're the other player, the other player is going to say something to him. Oh, sure, you have to. I wonder if they, like, did Landon Donovan, like, did he, like, open the, the gate, like, like, was his so bad that now nobody's can be as bad as his and everybody's going to get, Like is he officially the bar, like the lowest

Possibility? His looks not good. Yeah. It is odd. It almost feels like he was trying to be like, I didn't like the way my, like my hairline before I started balding look. I want to bring it lower. Like there's something just about the proportions of his face that's different.

I'm like, hold on, bro. You had kind of a bigger forehead. Yeah, the shit still. But now I think you've changed your face. It still looked like a toupee. It looked like he stapled a toupee on. there. Yeah, yeah, no, it's not good. It felt like it was also like a branded thing,

because he kept like trying to be like, this is my journey. You know what I mean? Like, so he did it for like a deal, which is not good, bro. Don't trade hair plugs in for promo. No, and also like, can these guys just not afford, like he must have money, right? From being a- He fucking better with that asshole. He looked like he went to work right after he got that drunk.

He definitely doesn't have enough money to take the proper time off to let it heal. Remember when he was like, I think it was in the middle of the transplant, he like rocked a hat once and he had the wild hair coming out the side and was like, what the fuck is going on with? That was the funny one where he had the like half of it there, half of the minute. Yeah, yeah, it looked like he was growing like, heyas, like an orthodox Jewish person, like off the temples. And people were like, well, why has that shit all along right there? But the back looks like it's tapered. What is that?

That's crazy. Anyway, so yeah, there's that. That's the state of hair bloke's. but elsewhere with Liverpool, Mosala signed the deal to Trabson Sport. He is going to be earning a base

annual salary of 8.5 million pounds alongside a guaranteed 7 million euro annual signing bonus netting him 17 million euros per season, 34 million net over two years.

As Drake said, it's gross what I net. Okay. Pretty good. 34 fucking million pounds. I was like there was a, I was reading an article about, about how usually it's like

the big three Istanbul teams, Galatasarai, Fenar Bacea and Besiectis are like the only ones people will listen to offers for. And Trabs on Spore is like, they said it's similar to Liverpool and that like, it's outside of like the major city, which is Istanbul,

but has like, the fucking die. hard fans. Like the fan culture is way more intense with Travis on Spore. And I don't know if you saw that unveiling. Yeah, that video was crazy. But they fucking was, it was like, it looked like it was

twice sold out. Like, it was truly like they were getting as many bodies into that arena possible. And everyone had at least seven flares on them, because it was blinding the amount of fucking flared. They love it. They do not to stereotype, but the Turkish fans do love a flare. Like, if you

feel like if you don't have, it, it feels like you have to a flare to get into the stadium. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The opposite of other stadiums. Like, well, we'll give you a flare, mate. Come on. Otherwise. They pat you down to see if you have a flare.

Yeah, yeah. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I thought that was an erection, but luckily it's just a flare. Yeah, there would be something wrong if it was on that side of your hip. But hey, uh, come on in. Come on in. But yeah, I didn't realize, like in Turkey, like the way it's paid, everyone's paid net. Like, the club covers the tax liabilities, which is good.

Like, for me, I remember being really financially ignorant. and one of the first jobs I had, and they're like, how much you need to be paid? And I just said the number, like, that was net, what I needed. And they're like,

oh, yeah, we can do that. And I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, sorry, sorry. I meant like net. Like, I need, I need to take home that much every much.

This is my first time negotiating for a job. What did they say when you tried to, try to walk it back? They were like, what the, they were just confused

because, like, who the fuck says that in a thing? But luckily, I was clearly, like, the best candidate, and they gave, they were like, they're like, fuck.

All right. Yeah. Here. Here it is. It wasn't that far off. But I just was like completely, I didn't, I didn't know what I was doing. So I was just like. The job was cold stone creamery.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. I was like, yeah, bro. If I'm bringing back like $4,000 a month, like $48,000 a year. Yeah, we could do that. We could do that. Yeah. Like $48,000 a year.

They're like, yeah. And I was like, oh, no, man. I'm sorry. I meant like $70. Yeah. Turns out it was. But yeah, the other thing that was crazy is like the, this is like an interesting thing. This is from the Guardian article about his signing.

It said the commercial return was immediate. Within 24 hours of Sala landing, Travzon Sports sold more than 17,000 season tickets, generating 11 million pounds. Another club representative confirmed that the total projected revenue from tickets, sponsorships, and merchandise during the Sala era is expected to reach 22, million pounds in effect self-funding the transfer. There we go. That's fucking awesome. That's smart. I like that.

Self-funding. I like that. Logic there. It's like, come on. There's a real. What if that had gone wrong, no. They're like, he's injured.

No one turns up to the, I'm being like, right, right. Two years ago. I wish I had gotten that trabs on sport jersey. I've been eyeing one from the

Nicola Pepper. Bay era. Oh, shit. Yeah. Trabs on. You should have got one. That's got a year. He was on classic football shirt for like a year and a half.

It's a good niche football shirt, isn't it? Yeah. It's like the maroon. It looks a bit like a motherwell shirt, I think, kind of maroon and blue. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's that villa kind of look, but I can't wear villa shit anymore. I'm in too deep.

Well, you can't. Yeah. You are in too deep, bro. Don't. Do you think he's going to like? There you go. Do you think he's going to do well two years and It's always like, or is you going to do what Ozil did and just become an absolute beefcake in the gym and take a lot of selfies?

Yeah. Eating crazy grilled meat. I mean, you could tell you. I mean, you could tell you. The protein levels out there. Because Erzl looked like a little, you know, like bean pole. He looked like the kind of guy who was, they're like, look at you, man. Look, what you're going to do?

What's you going to do? And then he's like, I'll show you what I'll fucking do. It's where like him and Fernando Torres just got huge in their post-playing careers. Ozell was pretty getting trash talk to playing Fortnite by some kids. He's like, all right, I'm going to get big enough to beat you. teenagees out. You beat the shit out of your dad, you and your grandfather,

all in front of you. You ready for this shit? I don't know. I think, I feel like Salas still has, you know, the ability,

obviously what he's like 34. Right? Isn't he 34? He's 34. He's 30, he's 304, definitely. Right.

So, like, I thought he was 34, four years ago. Yeah. Anyway. I think, I think he'll be fine.

I don't know. I mean, like, it just feels like truly his most competitive years are behind him. So it's like more like we'll see how much of that like Jordan mental illness he has in him where he's like, bro, I'm not about to get fucked around. I don't give a fuck what league I'm in.

I'm going to fucking bust my ass. Or if he's like, yeah, bro, thanks for the check. I'll score like a loose free kick here and there and I'll be on my way after two years. I don't know. Him and Leo, mate. Him and Leo carving it up in Turkey. I know. If he signed for Bissecdis, I would have been like, that's a team to watch with Leo and Mo Salips in that front three.

but he'll be at traps on Spore. So good luck to you there. Good luck, mate. Good luck. The new retirement league in Turkey. Every couple of years, the retirement league does change. It was China, MLS, Saudi. Now it feels like Turkey are having their moment for the seniors.

Yeah, they are going for it, at least. Yeah. It's a beautiful place. You know, because most people are like, bro, this place is fucking beautiful, actually. Yeah. And the way the contracts are, they pay tax? It seems like one of those weird things. Like things were like, come to Turkey.

We pay the tax. And people are like, shit, okay. Yeah, we pay the tax. And you got some falafo and some hummus and some minty. It's a good time. International Florida. Yeah, bro. You're right there at the crossroads of Eurasia, basically.

Nice. Did you see the little anecdote? Like, did you watch Bruno Gimerize his first interview that he did for Arsenal? I don't know if you watched that clip. I watched a little bit. Did you know, like, why his number is 39? Yeah, from when he was a kid, right? What was it?

Yeah, it's because his dad was a taxi driver. And he's like, he's like everything, my entire life was provided by this taxi, my father drove. Our home, our food, my boots, my ability to get to. Yeah, and he's like, my grandfather, my father drove taxi number 39. So when I was trying to pick out a number, he's like, my dad said, it should be 39 because we owe everything to this taxi in this family. Like we owe everything that I even have a taxi to drive to give people like sustenance. Damn, the taxi was alive. Yeah, bro.

He was driving Christine around. Exactly. And he was saying that Bruno said the first time. So when he got signed to his first contract and it was time to go talk about like his kit number, he was still like, you know, like a younger person in the squad. He like, like he opened up his kit and they had just, just by chance that his squad number was 39. And the kit man was like, hey, man, do you need to change your number? and Bruno was like, he said he was like, he was like, no, like the fact that it even happened like this. He started crying on the spot.

Oh, man, that's so Brazilian. He's like, dad, you won't even, you don't even believe it. They gave me 30 nights. Like, see, I told you, son, this means good things are going to happen. Good things are going to happen. The car started honking and crying too and spraying water fluid. Yeah, yeah, just jetting out the front. Yeah.

So it was a nice, nice anecdote to see that he's a human being. What number would you guys be? Apart from 69, obviously, that's the one we'd all be. Yeah, I can't fit 4.20 on it. Because they're cowards. 75. 75 is an important number. I wore that in American football, but, uh.

Oh. Why 75? Um, his dad drives taxi number, number 75 for this whole life. Yeah. We all have the same story. So, yeah, my, my dad, did he look really like ketchup? Yeah, my dad really like Heinz and 57 was taken. So he was just kind of flipped in.

Yeah, so it was reverse. He was dyslexic. Andy liked ketchup. He's got a tear in his eye. He's like, my own son wearing number 57. Like, Dad, that's seven. You know what? He saw me banging the bottom of that bottle the whole time.

And I just showed him if you just keep trying, eventually you'll get a little bit of sauce out of that bowl. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And right now he's getting a little bit of sauce out of that shirt as he gets to the first. He's so tortured. What number would you have, Chris? I mean, my lucky number is 14 for obvious reasons. I lost my virginity on 14.

No, because of Caterion, that definitely didn't do it. That's a joke. Cotieri and Reeves 14. Although, what would it be, though, if it was not going to be? I actually chose, I haven't picked it up. I played a pickup game, and I haven't played for a year because someone just got too angry and it really annoyed me. But I played twice, and I was like, you've got to buy kits.

And I just bought, anyway, I got 77 on the back because it adds up for 14. And I was like, and I figured no one else is going to have 77. Early Bucayo.

Yeah, yeah, it's also my favorite, it's also my favorite sexual position 77 as well. So, yeah. That's when two, both people are on their phones.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Both people are slap machines. Yeah, yeah, both people are spooning, but they're on their phones. A classic 77. It's a classic 77.

What would yours be? Uh, I don't, I wish I had a number that, like, I could be like, and that number was magical for my family. It's hard to follow the Bruno story with, uh, yeah, yeah, like that number. Jamel probably is in the first position, the fact that he was even able to come up

up with that catch-up backstory. I will just say, I will actually say on 14, this is how much I love the number 14. I've used it in roulette and it's like done well. And then my wife went into labor early on the 13th of a specific month. And then I was like, how long was this going to be? like, can you just like hold on until the 14th? Because of my life, anyway, my son was born on the 14th. Well, it was like she actually, she was,

it basically became a parent who was going to take a long time because the water broke before the other stuff. And they kind of had to induce her. And I was like, is this going to come? I thought it happened like an hour and the nurse like, it's going to take a while. And I was like, looking at the clock, you're like, hold on. Just, just get to the four. Anyway, so he was born on the 14th.

So it's the magic number now. 14th. 14th. T.H. 14, Tierion Rhee. Oh. Your child will do a sit-down interview with Mayor Zoran, Kwamey,

Mamdani. Yes. Exactly. Exactly. That interview that Zoran, he's straight up just talking to Tyrion Rie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Being like, he's like, I don't know if you saw the whole interview, but he starts

off being like, you said New York City is like one of the best cities, right? It's like how this whole thing starts. He lets Henri kind of get, like, his love of, like, the melting pot that is New York City come out. He reminds me of his how he grew up, how the world looks, how the world should be. And then, like, then Zoran's goes, so, man, like, you know, you're memorable to a lot of people for a lot of many different moments. And, you know, Henri's like, clearly he's, like, heard this fucking 700,000 times people saying she's like, like, he goes, oh, no, no, you're fine. He's like, he's like, but he's like, can I share a memory with you?

And we went to Chris Farley for real. Yeah, he's like, is it true that the love you take is equal to the love you make? No, he then goes, okay, so 2012, the comeback and tear out, he does go, oh, look, goosebumps. I've got goosebumps. It's the first time I played as a fan. Yeah, he played like, he just breaks down the whole story. And the way Zoran's looking at him, he's like, so, it's like he's take, he's like, he's like, he's so dreamy. And I'm like, that is exactly how every, I think, Arsenal fan, which is the sad or

cross from Thierryon, but I love that he's used the power of the mayor's office to make this all happen. It's his version of like Trump, just playing golf all the time. Like he, he, he, uh, before he was the mayor, he, he went on football weekly on the Guardian one, which is a, is if you don't listen to it, is a great football podcast. And, uh, they were like, yeah, we've, we've had a, the, a mayor oral candidate for the New York mayor's race. He's just requested to be on.

So it's going to end. He poured up on him. And he's just like, he's basically gone. I'm just going to flex this as much as I can and just fanboy it into stuff and now he's the mayor of new he's he's playing a blinder his comms is top notch he knows his shit

so like there's no you cannot accuse him of being any kind of bandwagon fan because he his knowledge is if you was the mayor acceptable who you get if I'm mayor of Los Angeles I get Bellarinner like

just a lot of something crazy I feel like we could get I feel like he get Belorin now on the podcast. Bro, I'm digging up Kobe's grave. If you're the mirror. It's a weird.

It's a weird YouTube video from Mayor Miles Gray. Hey, he's knee deep. He's knee deep at the graveyard. Hey, here's the thing I learned, Kobe. You got to have that Mamba mentality, right? Like, if you want something, you got to go after it. Am I right?

Oh, shit. No, I don't. I'm sorry. I just, I was like, It's the most out-of-pocket shit I could say. It's that. If it was an Arsenal player, I, I would give, I gotta give love to Dennis Bergkamp, but that motherfucker don't fly.

So I have to go to him. Patrick Vieira, I would love to talk to Patrick Vieira. And you honestly, I would talk to anybody who's ever played. Fuck, I'll talk to Den Wilson. You know, I'm like, bro, Den Wilson, what was it like, man? Like, that was some shitty times, bro, but you was there. And I remember you had that one long-range effort, and you did this one celebration where you moving your head like this,

and I remember it was the most confounding celebration I'd ever seen a play. Have you seen? Do you remember this, Chris? That's no. I want to say it. There's a, it's like an exorcism type. It's just weird. He looks like a fucking puppet whose head just starts malfunctioning.

Yeah. This rip. Yeah, I remember this goal. I remember that goal. And then watch this one. What the fuck is it? What the fuck was that? I remember that.

I remember that goal really clearly. I remember too because Denison wasn't really scoring a lot of goals and he just had that rip and I'm like, God damn. And I think it's probably because he even short-circuited. He was like, what the fuck did I do? Yeah, I'm tweaking. Bro, I'm tweaking. I just, I'm out of my body.

Yeah, a player that isn't used to scoring, celebrating is always great because they're just like, I'm not choreograph this at all. I don't know what I'm doing. There was this kid. I remember grade school. We'd always play football, like it during recess or whatever. And there's this one kid, Brandon, who was not athletic at all.

And he was kind of like one of these last to get picked kids. And there was one game we all remember because he had a pick six that like reversed the game and like won it for the team he was on. And when he caught it, he couldn't even believe he intercepted it. He caught it. And he went, interception! And everyone was like, run, motherfucker, go! And he like just barely got his ass. to what we were calling the end zone at the time.

And it was one of those moments, too. I'm like, bro, this guy, this motherfucker's short-circuited from catching the ball mid-game. It would be hard to believe. I've definitely had my radio moment. I got a fumble recovery and a big rivalry. And I'm just like, yeah,

yeah, I know what you do. Shit. So anyway, I'd pick DeNilson. Also, my number would be 22, because that was the number I played the most with. Just to answer that question for a full circle moment. 22nd 2s for you, mother.

Day. Yeah. And you were the 22nd child, your mother gave birth to, and you owe everything to her. Exactly. Yeah. 22 cabs later. Yeah, here I am. 22 Cabernet Sauvignon's later.

22 cabs. I'm here, baby. And I'm fucked up. Okay. There were Cain rumors. Harry Cain. that he was going to put, there were,

people are talking about and maybe he'd go back to Tottenham or whatever, but it turns out that he is set to sign that deal, which is such a weird moment too. And I was like, I got to say,

Tottenham's been signing, they're building something. For sure. Does it work right away? I don't know, but like they have solid players. Like as much as I want to shit on this rebuild,

I really can't. I'm just curious, like, and I think Mickey Vandevan just also re-signed. So they're maintaining most of the group. And I don't know, there's a, for the signing video that they showed, they showed Deserby come in to kind of like congratulate him.

Like, all right. The way Deserby moves, he's like, there's something about him, bro. I don't trust. I don't know if it's in a good, funny way or a bad way. But there's just something when I look at him. I'm like, what's going on with you, bro? What's going on with you? In what way?

He seems like he moves like one of the guys. No, no, no. He's kind of got like that, like one of the. periphery of the soprano crime family kind of characters. Like he's not a maid guy yet, but he's, it's clear that he wants to be a maid.

Like, he looks like he's willing to do fucking anything. Yeah. That's what I mean. I'm like, there's, there's something wily about you that I don't know if I let it makes me makes me nervous. He wouldn't let him walk your, walk your other half home, that kind of thing. He might.

I wouldn't let him walk me home. Right. He's, he's sticking anybody, yeah. Yeah, I'm like, why are you trying to to walk me on. Oh, because I'm just making sure you're safe guy. Come on. I'm like, what the fuck, bro? Whoa. Why are you touching me like that?

You're so tense, man. You're so tense. You might have a knife in one of your 27 zip pockets on your jeans, and I am worried. Exactly. I couldn't even guess. I tie myself out trying to guess. Look at the way he just comes in right here, bro. He looks like a porn director. I mean, this. He looks like he looks like a, like, peak, Bang Bus Miami porn director. The way he comes in with his spiky hair and his shorts. Whoa.

He's got, he's sort of got the, he has a short length, a bit longer than you expect on our coach as well. He's kind of got the... Watch out for Bobby D, bro. I'm gonna keep my eye on top of him. He is moving different, yeah. Like he might, yeah.

I don't like how he's moving, bro. I feel like Rico in belly. When he sees him come to town, he's eating the banana by the pay phone. Mm-mm. I don't like this shit. it is it is questionable for sure yeah we'll see we'll see there's also rumors that they're trying to sign balligan too but i don't know do we talk about romara and we just talked about romara

we touched on it but we can i mean that's that's not happening it's not happening but like that would have been that would have been a funny one because the tottenham fat like i think the tottenham fans don't like a thing totting fans want him to go so it would have been a weird one if he'd gone to it's kind of like point scored but i feel like they they were too happy about him wanting to go to Arsenal. Who was happy about him going to Arsenal? Once a lot of them put away, the ego, they're like, the guy is just a walking red card.

He's a liability, yeah, for sure. Yeah, it's like, yeah, it would have been... I mean, he was also, like, one of the few people that was scoring consistently for them last season. So I don't know how much you want to be like, yeah, bro, get rid of him. Like, I don't know, man, he... She would look a lot different without his goals. So I don't know if you want to say,

and I'm sure you could argue the other way with his fucking stupid decisions like what would the table look like like? I feel like as an Arsenal fan I've had enough just stupid players like in the last few years I'm just like can't have another guy

just that guy like every time this guy just he's the mate he's the friend of yours you know at the party he's just like oh shit he's drinking he's drinking again

yeah yeah you're like oh fuck Romero is drinking again I'm getting out bro Chris is drinking bro yeah Chris Romero Chris Romero bro he's drinking yeah Christian's drinking No, his girlfriend.

His girl's not here to stop him, bro. We're getting the fuck out of here. No, I don't even be here. He's going to say something racist again. He's going to know. He already did, bro. Oh, he already did. He's taking a little charcoal briquettes at the cookout.

He's using it to fucking crepe black. He's trying to black up with it. The fuck is this? It's all primitive. God damn. Get him out of here. Get him out of here. Oh, shit.

All right, let's take a break. We'll come back. And we'll wrap up with a lawsuit and someone who went into the Great Beyond at a Brazilian professional match after this. Oh, yeah. You've heard the chaos. Now you can see it. Hello. My gosh.

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That video, man. Yo, the worst place for a big-ass pit. Obviously. First off, I'm pretty sure, was that match played at their home ground? And the goal was disallowed.

So my man is at his own home field and jumped straight. Okay, so I'm, and I know I'm acting like this is a video everyone's seen. So there's a video from the Brazilian League. This guy scores a goal, and he jumps over the ad boards like to celebrate to go.

Because like, you know, some stadiums are like kind of more Olympic track stadiums. So there's like a huge chasm between like the goal line and where the stands begin. So you can kind of, you see it in Italian, like stadiums a lot, huge space to kind of run around it.

But the thing is, there's like a dugout where like the, like players or whatever people come out of. So when he hops the fucking ad board, he doesn't realize that there's nowhere to land except for him into this, like,

chasm where the stairwell goes down. The hoardings took another one. The hoardings, man. I was just thinking of hoardings, dude. Bro. The hoarding. It's like a horror film about,

he's also doing the like he's just like his wife's pregnant the baby he does the baby celebration straight into a pit which is not particularly um

does not it's not bode well yeah and then and then the goals disallowed everything about it is perfect the goals disallowed I had to start like

there was that one angle you sent I think Chris I think did you send it first yeah I think I did the one angle is just so good he just disappears it's like perfect angle Then I saw a couple other ones where he clearly landed on one of the steps.

Like, he didn't just go like, it's not like one of those videos you see like from New York City where people just go into the fucking cellar door. Like, peace. Yeah. He, like, he landed on a step. And you could tell he didn't just fucking go into like the void. Yeah, he hopped up pretty quick. Yeah, yeah. You do see him come out.

Although that could be one of those things where you fuck yourself up, but you can't, like the adrenaline won't allow you to be like, ah, nope. I'll fuck myself up. And he got, no, I'm good, I'm good. I'm good. Hey, I'm a goal, though. I'm going to get in my car right now, and I'm going to leave right away. No one talked to me. And my leg always does look like this.

It is possible. That happened to a guy at Summer League on the Wizards. The dude who was guarding Darren Peterson. Uh-huh. Darren Peterson, like, did a crossover on this guy. And he, like, he almost fell, but he didn't, right? And the crowd went like, ooh, ah. And then he finished the game.

And then a week later, they reported that he tore his ACL. So he, like, played, like, 40 minutes in Vegas with a torn ACL. Because this happened, like, kind of early in the game. I feel like getting a silly injury like that as a professional. It must be the worst. Jimmy Wilkins. I feel like it took him a while to post it. Like, I think he got the surgery pretty soon after, but he was like, dude, I need, like,

I need to talk to a therapist before I let anybody know that I tore my knee up trying to play defense on this guy. Oh, my God. Hold on now I get to see this shit. I'm just sorry. know this is not a basketball podcast. Oh, was it that? Oh, yep. Yep.

And that was, that was just a real nice, just stopped on a dime and left him behind. No, it was a good move and you saw it go, man. And then I was shocked that he kept playing. Honestly, sign him to another job. If you did your ACL like that and you kept fucking playing,

that is absolutely bonkers. in a preseason game. But is Jim, wait, how old is Jimmy Rokkins? He's like, he's a little older, what is he like 25?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, like 25, I think, or 24. Damn. You just never know.

You never know, folks. I mean, the hoardings are that we, they've, they've taken a lot of good men this summer. They continue to hoard. They are.

But Hendley, he'll be all right, even though his arm, completely twisted there. Yeah, that's the one thing he did in the World Cup. And then, and then Alonzo's like,

we need this guy. Look at that. Hey, who's that guy that shattered his wrist jumping over the hoardings? That's the example we need. Yeah. Who's that guy that Dan Byrne

absolutely deceived into thinking that he was also six foot seven? What division is that team in the Brazilian league team? I need a Brazilian league team. I think Cori Chiba is in the premiere. Would that be funny if I started doing that type of bit? I've been seeing like girls and stuff be like, hey,

it's week three of me picking my Premier League team. I know we talked about it before, but like, What if I was like, hey, it's week five of me picking my Brazilian second division team? No, the one that's dope. There is one, oh, fuck, I remember. I think it's host. I want to say there is like one team like in Brazil that they have like the hardest drum line like I've ever seen.

And I'm like, that's the thing that the Brazilian gives you, bro, because they have, they're so rhythmic. And just like the energy of those matches is truly like what you'd want to be. Like it's like, bro, everyone is jumping up and down the entire 90 minutes like singing together. And I'm like it's and they're not they're not fucking around. Cortiba are 10th in the league just to give you some idea. They're in the, they're in some form of Europeans. Well, not Europe. They'll be in some.

They've got a little, what does that mean? Brazilian Europe. No, they're in Brazilian Europe. They're in the, they can't get into the Coppa Libertores, but they can't. get into the copper Sudamilicana. Now, don't get mad at me if I end up frontrunner. I might go with Palmyra's honestly.

Listen, do you say all that? I was like, I'm fucking with Palmyras or something. Wow. Well, look, Brazilian Zayang, let us know. Because there's so much interesting texture behind all the clubs, too. Because I were like, oh, really? They're like, so you are pro-slavery?

You're like, oh, fuck, no. Yeah, that's a good. If Palmeiras has some strikes on A record, please let me know. This club was started by revolutionary, you know, Capoeira practitioners that transition to football

and you're like, oh shit. I don't need more. And then finally, before we head out, got to check in with Evangelos Marinaquis, the gang, I'm not a gangster. Don't do that.

The owner of Nottingham Forced, who does have some, there were some interesting allegations about his behavior in Europe and all the continent and Greece, etc. But not now, not now. absolutely not. But I mean, I think last summer, that transfer saga with Morgan Gibbs

White basically been like, yeah, he's going to Tottenham. And then then there's like, no, he's not. And now here's a video from Morgan Gibbs White telling you how happy he is with Maranakis right behind him, cracking his knuckles. It's very cool, a very normal thing to see. That was just like, that was like one of the big talking points

in all of the transfer sagas last summer. And then early in the like end of August last year, when Forest played Palace, the palace fans unveiled a banner that referenced the gangster aura. And Jamel, have you seen it? Yeah,

I'm looking at it right now. I need to put this on a t-shirt really fast. Oh, that is a dope. Actually, that's an amazing t-shirt. Even if it's just without the graph, like without the text,

like the marriage- holding a beer wearing that t-shirt? Just the amount of effort that went into making that is, yeah. That's a real art project. I love the power. I got to say.

Good people. And I wish Tommy Asu good up with them. It feels like it'll be hard. Yeah, Tommy, go on there. Tommy Assy. Can you think of a more likable footballer? I don't think so. No.

He's so likable. It feels like, not that I know, law, I'm a legal expert. I feel like it'd be quite hard for him to win that because they've written he's not involved in black male match fixing, drug, trafficking or corruption.

And they've literally, they've written. The statement is unadwevel. of what he's saying. Yeah. And it's parody, right? It's a parody. For those that have seen it.

So, yeah. It's Morgan Gibbs White standing there and it's Maranakis with a gun to his head. And the speech bubble out of Morgan Gibbs White is Mr. Maranakis is not involved in blackmail, match fixing, drug trafficking, or corruption. It's like, yeah. So Maranagan is, because he is like, what's happening? Yeah.

I mean, I don't know how, I don't know how like, they did put the nod in red, though. look, you see what they did? They're emphasizing. They're emphasizing. They can just be like, yeah, no, it's my favorite color rule. I mean, not. Notting ham forest. Guys, well, what?

There, it is an OT when you want to do. What do you want us to do? I don't know, like, is, like, lit, like, how the British, is it, people don't strike me as litigious as they are in the U.S. They're not, but you can get, like, arrested for more, like, the laws of the are much more like, they've been doing a lot of clamping down on people just protesting,

any sort of light protesting. Yes, yeah, yeah, and what was the other one? I think when the, the king got, um,

oh, got annoying, someone had like a sign that said like, fuck the king and, and then they got thrown in the back of a wagon for that. It was just like, right, right, right.

All right. So, yeah, so we're on about America, but you can call, political leaders here. A-holes and get away. Look, generally.

Colonial nations unite together. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it just feels like, I don't know if like in the U.S., right, you would do that just to be like, all right, bro, look, how much you want, man? Like, what are we doing this for? Like, I don't want to spend all this time in court, even though we know we'd win. But I know you're going to just try and bleed us out and just draw this out in court so we just end up paying more and more and more money for legal fees.

What the fuck do you want in a settlement? Just get the fuck off me. feels like the kind of thing, like in the U.S. that's how like a lawsuit would work when people are like, there's no point in filing this. It's like, yeah,

I'm filing it to put pressure on you to settle with me. How did Maranacters get his money? How did he get his money? That is legal. That's not blackmail. It's shipping. Shipping.

This one fucker did this season two and a wire. Yeah, bro. Oh my gosh. He's at the port, man. He's just to ship. Shipping. Shipping magnate.

He's the son. of a mag. So he's like a Nepo magnet. Okay. The worst. Magnate. Only ever really used in these contexts.

Yeah. No one, you ever say, that guy's a magnet. Look at that magnet. God damn. What a magic. It's a shipping magnet.

I think it's the only time I'd use magnet is shipping magnet. Shipping magnet. He's a shipping magnet. At the party. Have you met my friend, he's a, he's a,

he's a, I don't know, he's a comedy magnate. The, uh, what is he? That'd be so funny. Some neck beard with a podcast about like reviewing standup shows.

They even put tithies on the drawing. That's a really good. This is a really good cartoon, man. That's why, again, and everyone knows the most gangster shit you can do is sue somebody over her feelings. You know, like Drake did. That's true. That's, that's, I think you're letting people know. If he got the idea from Drake, that's hilarious.

Yeah. What's also crazy, too, is the palace was already, like, they got charged, by the FA with misconduct over the banner because they're like, bro, you got to get your people to control. And then in February, the FA FIND Palace 50,000 pounds over it. And the ruling noted, the fact that Crystal Palace had a policy to prevent

banners being smuggled into the stadium demonstrates that it was aware of the risk. Okay. Anyway, the plots. It's a big, how do you smuggle that bigger banner? Like, do you have a really big,

massive poster tube over your shoulder? You know, what's in there? just a javelin. I don't know. I don't know what you pretend is. Why is it 40 feet long? That's my walking cane. It's my walking cane.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, I'm trying to think of how well, like, Marie Kondo's style. You'd fold it. Yeah. I mean, like, it's, it's going to be in a bag.

Do you hire, like, a group of, like, Sikh supporters to pull up in their turbines? And then be like, nah, bro, this is. Piece it to go? Mine's just kind of bigger, bro.

I kind of run, I kind of run the temple. That's, that's what my shit is. We're all, it's 40 of us on our hands and knees and it's going through our jeans and we say we're a human centipede.

So you're saying down one person's pant leg, then up to the next leg and then we're going like this. Yeah, yeah. And then we better crawl in. Did you imagine going through the turn styles? One person fucks up.

Like 100 people take it. 100 people take a patch each and then you quickly, you get there early and you pregame sew it together. Sew it's got to be. It looks like it might be in panel. like long panels. But I don't mean, it looks pretty seamless.

Either way. I have no idea of TIFO technology or these shit's like Velcro. Is it like command strips? I mean, where you could just a couple times I've been at like a match at the Emirates or they've had it like suddenly just some other like a nylon sheet is coming down. And you're like, send it down. Send it down, maybe. Yeah.

But hey, good luck to you. Good luck, man. I hope you get your money. Yeah, yeah, sure. We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. Apologies to Mr. Marinacquez. You are not to those things.

And I know you are not a listener of this podcast. But for the people that are, Chris, Jimel, anything to plug? Where are you going to be? I'm going to be in Seattle on the 20th and the 21st of August. And but just generally, we do need to say, like, subscribe on the feed. Because we're no longer on the eye heart. We're transitioning off. This episode, we're going to be awesome.

We're transitioning. So come with us, you know. Yeah. Tell us, tell us your thoughts on anything. Tell me you love me. Just say anything. People have me sending nice messages, guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, shout out to everybody's listening. And once the season starts, motherfuckers tell everybody, okay? And we're going to be trying to do some. We'll be doing some new things too, because we're going to be tinking around. I feel like some, like some. live match watch along so we could

live stream. Yeah, can you guys do, yeah, you're the ones with kids, man. I can watch a football. I could be at a, I'll live stream on 4 a.m. I don't give up.

I'll just have to put a Spider-Man mask on my kids so nobody sees his face. And then I can let him run around the stream. My dad's hot right now. He's going to love my kid, Spider-Man, and that's Chris's kid. Loki. You know what I mean?

Oh, yeah. But he's black. That's not even a full mask. Yeah. Hey, August 20th, I'm in D.C. as well. If you are in Washington, D.C., please come. Also, everybody who bought tickets to the Big Slim's Taste Test Food Tour. That event got canceled as well.

So please come to, I'm honoring all Big Slim's taste test food tour tickets at the Jamel Johnson Show at Pub Key, August 20. I love that. What happened to Big Slim's Tash Tish? Yeah. He just didn't sell enough tickets, dude. I just saw him post it. It's this guy Big Slim from back home. He does, like, food reviews.

And he's like, hey, what's up? What's going on? Yeah, yeah, yeah. His what's going on. Oh, come on, man. He got like, like, a band. Yeah, he got, like, a band. And he was like, he was trying to get it popping.

He got, like, a party bus. And I guess, yeah, I guess he didn't sell enough tickets. And I hit him up. I was like, dude, come to my shit. Yeah, yeah. Come on in a footy, Big Slim. Yeah. We'll live a taste test right here.

Let's see what this podcast is hitting on. Yeah. Get on. It was talking about football. You wouldn't know NFL. And it was some sexual innuendo. That's damn. Yo, I don't know.

Jamel says something about a cop, bro. He thought it was sexy. Uh-uh. I'm off that. All right. We find us at Ain't a FootyPod on Instagram. Make sure you subscribe. Tell your friends.

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