The Daily Zeitgeist - Sand Blastin’

Episode Date: May 3, 2026

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Wow. Yeah. Oh, that's right. Shorty with the short hair. Yeah. Yeah. keeping this. The other one, not my favorite.

I liked in the order of just my 90s third. So obviously Pamela Anderson, the goat. Oh, oh, Shorty with the pixie. And then the pixie cut second. Okay. She was in there. And then, and then I like fourth on my board. Pixie cut?

Yeah, she only playing, she only playing carabout minutes on my team. Wow. For me, it was, it was those, because she had those 90s eyebrows where they were so thin. they look like lines of cocaine. That was, I'd never put it together like that. Everyone had, because even like Pam Anderson has straight up just little liens as they call it. All right. Let's fucking do this shit.

Hey, it's been a minute. Sorry about that. I've been jet lagged. But now I'm back and I'm ready to talk. I'm mostly excited. I think. I still think, I still have a pulse. I still feel okay. But welcome to A&F footy. We're going to go around the horn before we get to all the action, the Champions League, the Premier.

We'll preview what happened. We'll recap what happened. And also some violence in La Liga that was just shocked me. It really shocked my American sensibilities. I'm not used to seeing things like that on camera. But first, Jamel Johnson, words, feelings about the last few days. I'm feeling good I'm feeling like the new Jack City soundtrack

dude that's what I feel like front of the back bro I feel like it's for the love of money where we're up we're feeling good uh salute to the new guys

who played well on the road Zuba Mendi and Capier yeah the mascara getting a shot on and and

I'm thinking about the weekend thinking about having to shoot our brother I'm thinking about having to put some I'm thinking about having to put a couple of our boys down Yeah. Am I my brother's keeper?

I'm not so short. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If they're truly our brothers, they will just lay down. They will just lay their arms down. But you know, it would be so funny. It would be them that did us into. That would also be somehow the thing that everybody on the internet would love to see. Chris Martin, how about you?

A few words to describe how you feel going into this weekend. I'm a bit different to Jamel. I'm like, cut these moles off my back. Those are my work. and that might be because this morning for the first time be personal he went for a standard skin check

he cut two moulds off my back never had that before oh it's very painful he seemed not phased in two weeks we'll know how you know whether it was just some routines but I just feel like

with this season I'm so tired I'm just like get just cut him done get him cut them off baby do this to the fucking I don't need to right now. You're like, no, fuck it, bro. Cut them off.

Yeah. I went in and said, that's not even really a mold. Just cut it. Just cut, cut, chunk of my back off. Just take that. He's like, no, no, this is an M&M, man. I don't know how you got that stuck back there. Have you got a weird kink for doctors cutting skin off your back?

Oh, yeah, baby. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And I get an insurance pays for it. That's what I'm like. That WGA. That's why the writers guilds in a lot of, Death? My

fucking partner had that We were on that WGA for a year. Golly. The way they take care of you with that WGA health insurance. They just cut chocolate off your back. Yeah. Questions off. Get all the good

sounds and stuff, I bet. I had my toenails cut. The insurance coverage are so good. I was like, yeah, just come on to do that. They're like, we don't have to. I'm like, they'll cover it. And I can't get the hang nails like you do. For me, the term is still belief. I can't again, especially after, every

time I think I told you all this, every time I watch Arsenal when I'm in Japan, we do not do well. I've seen a bunch of fuck-ups whenever I've watched from Japan. The one time I didn't watch or like live was the Newcastle match because it was too early. I said, fuck it. I'm going to let God decide. And in the morning, you'll let me know. And luckily, and we just snuck through. So I was like, that was a good one. Then I watched, then at best I watched a draw in the Champions League. But still, I'm like, I'm not going to, I honestly, I was thinking about going full doomer and shit. I just fucking can't. I can't.

And also, I've been following this club for so fucking long. And I've seen us not do shit for much longer than actually be popping. So I'm trying to, like when I look at that large perspective, I'm feeling positive. I will stay positive. And the fact that city could only get one goal against Burnley helps me just feel a little bit more like, no, no, no. The fucking fingernails are still gripping onto the bumper. this fucking thing. We will not be flung off.

With that said, let's recap. The Champions League probably to start. Where the first match, everyone was like, we were about to get two sides, the yin and the yang of European football, with the PSG-Biron match,

and then pure, pure Haram ball with Athletical and Arsenal. Although I was actually, I was pretty exciting match still. Unpure Haram ball. Yeah. Unpure. They got a guy putting up ham in the fucking pro bro.

This shit ain't halal at all. We need a haram guy. Haramas. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Slice in the fucking Hamon. This shit is disgraceful, man. I want to know how he, I went to the Emirates twice and I, you know, they search you pretty good.

I'm pretty sure I can't bring in a whole ham to, into a football stadium. I want to know, is he sneaking that? Are they like, but it's one of those things. It's the ham guy. It's because I guess, you know, Hamon is so. like foundational. It's like a load-bearing part of Spanish culture. It's like a bottle of water.

It's like, you got ham? That's fine. That's how you live and it's how you survive. They're not even breathing air. Like he probably came in with the whole fucking leg like this, like a fucking 15 pound leg. And they were frisking him everywhere but the ham.

If you want to sneak drugs into a game, at Let's go, just shove them in a big ham. Just a drill a hole in some ham. Yeah, exactly. Put your fucking your blick in there and then you're good. I like the idea of like there's like a sign of like, you know, like you can't have like firearms and stuff,

but there's just a circle around. Come on. Lighters. Bring it in. Glass bottles. Hamon. All hams. Bing,

Bing, Bing, Bing, what would be the English equivalent of a hamon? Like something that isn't normally brought in, but like the security would like, oh man, what's he going to do with that?

It's a fucking, just a fry up. Just a full fry out. Yeah. Yeah. A plate of eggs. Yeah. A plate of eggs,

mushrooms, sausage. Yeah. Or just a York, maybe a Yorkshire pudding would be sort of, just a solitary Yorkshire pudding that you eat like an apple. Nice. What would be us for,

what would it be for us, Jamel? A gun? I mean, just out of gun. Yeah. Yeah. Just have a gun. Yeah.

They'd be like, yeah, yeah, you're good. They're like, hold on, bro. They're like, you can't wear that clipper shit in here. Yeah.

The, the, the, don't cause a fracker. Yeah, yeah. all right but anyway the fucking

the PSG Byron match holy shit what a fucking game that was one did you think who did you guys go like did you go

between okay PSG got this buyer got this buyer's gonna come back or did you always feel one way about it or were you just kind of being a neutral

and you're like oh shit it's not fucking stop the second one bro it's not fucking stop and I was like kind of busy

right I'm running errands. Every time I look up, there's two, but more goals have been scored. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

When it was 5-4, though, I was like, imagine if this is like 9-8. Like, it just kept, the pace was insane. And then,

because I weirdly, yeah, I had to do something with my child, and so it turned on at 5. I saw it's 3-2. I'm going to watch second half. I think I was like,

five minutes late, then it's already 5-2. Yeah. And then I'm like, well, the game's probably dead now, and then obviously buy-in, and then you're just like,

you know, they're not watching game like every attack you think is going to be a goal. Yeah. And then Louis Diaz's goal after Harry Kane's, oh my God, I, like I, if I'm ever feeling anxious,

I just picture that perfectly weighted pass by Harry Kane, who's not a place that doesn't play at Spurs anymore, so he can just talk about how phenomenal a football player is. And Diaz is, oh my God, it's just like, all my Liverpool fans are like, really glad we got rid of that guy. Yeah.

my God. They must be, I think that was one thing we talked about at the top, like when we first started the season, even maybe when we were first testing it out, is like they really fucked up not replacing Luis Diaz. Like they really, like Gapot,

as much as I lot, as much as I wanted to believe that, maybe he could do it. No, motherfucker. Luis is Luisito. You can't fucking, you can't replace him.

And like, I think the speed at which that the two goals came after the Dembele goal for like the fifth goal, the fifth PSG goal. Because, you know, Upo McConnell kind of could have done maybe a little bit better defending for that Dembele goal.

Then immediately what, like seven minutes later gets a goal back. And then the Luis Diaz goal was just three minutes after that. I was part of me was like, oh, maybe this could go. I was hoping it would go five five. Five five would have been. Yeah. For the amount of time, I guess for the amount of like time between goals, you're like, oh, it's five, four in the 68th minute.

Yeah, there's at least three more goals in this match. But it's crazy that like. you know, I was funny, I listened to Football Weekly, which is, you know, fantastic. Where you listen to real football analysis, rather than the ham analysis. Hey, listen. Hey, whoa, come on. Hey, hey, hey. They talking about ham over there?

Oh, yeah. And they even mentioned. What your mouth. The Gimon was not mentioned as specifically. Hey, the Gimon. Hey, all right, Michael, you got the gem on. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

Okay. All right. Chris, you might have a point. Sorry, keep talking about real football. Yeah, yeah. Guys. Yeah. Someone's listening, walking guy.

What the fuck is this? Yeah, yeah. Angry vegan. If they can see the background, you got to, you're saying this all with a Liam or a senior background right now. Exactly. Rest in peace, my guy. Rest in peace, Liam.

What was I said? What was I talking about? Oh, yeah, but they were talking about, like, Jonathan Wilson was like, it's not his favorite game because he was just like, it can't be your best game. The defending's that bad. Right.

Which is an interesting take, and I do think it has some merit. But just for sheer, just like, if you're not, team isn't playing, you're just like, this is what,

this is what young people, this is going to make young people watch football. Get off Minecraft. Get off. Stop watching KSI. Watch this. Although that charity match, was it,

the sidemen? that charity match, that KS, that one's like had like 72 goals in it too. But that's also not real. Do you know what's really funny? I played football. He's played this called comedians football in London.

So you play with like love. All the comedians, like loads of pretty like well-known comedians from the UK. And then you play with him, you go, that's like, he's pretty decent. Yeah. You know, and then you watch them play one of those charity games on TV

and you're like, that is the slowest man I've ever seen with the football. You do realize how good, like, how, it sounds stupid, how, like, quick and, like, amazing professional athletes are compared to, compared to Milton Jones just running down the wing. Well, yeah, when 45-year-old Anton Ferdinand is just, like, blowing by them, you're like, Anton Ferdinand.

Oh, shit. I tell you guys about when I played against Tino Asprea in a charity game, you know, the ex-Newcastle strike is called a hatchet of a weekend. Yes, I remember. He was so slow. He was. But he was like, he couldn't have given, like, for me, I'm like, I'm playing centerback against Tino Espria. And he didn't get past me.

But he was not in a, he was, he was, he rolled up. He rolled up like he'd done an all-nighter. And he was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. He was the cool. He didn't even get above walking, but I do get to say that I kept him in my pocket, mate. Pocketed him. Yeah. Love that.

Oh, man. But yeah, 5-4 was that match. A lot of people talking shit. I think Erling Holland was posting shit on Snapchat. He's like, so much this is, people would think the game is boarding when you watch Arsenal compared to this. Oh my God, man. You know what? I'm not scared of either of these teams.

They can fucking run around like fucking freaks all they want. Yeah. Do you know what? In my head, I'm like for absolutely no reason. I'm like, there's no way anyone on Snapchat's going to win the league. I don't know what. It's just like, I'm like, he's on Snapchat, mate. It's like, well, you're on Bebo.

Come on, man. Come on. I don't mind losing to someone on Instagram or even TikTok, but we're not going to lose a league to someone on Snapchat. Yeah, look, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I guess it's his thing. Company, not on the touchline. Did that play a role in all of this?

If company wasn't suspended with Byron of play defense? I mean, if you look, right, between PSG and Byron, they've conceded 19 and 21 goals. Between, like, they've, so I don't know if him being there. or not, they've been letting goals in the Champions League. So I don't know if that really matter. Although, see, when I watched them too, I was like, man,

this is some sloppy fucking defending. I'm like, if the game, we don't play a match that's ever this wide open. So I was also like, shit, I mean, we've beaten both teams. Although PSG over two legs and that didn't go so well because we didn't really have a striker or any attacking threat.

And even now, I'm wondering, do we still have any attacking threat? Listen, don't worry about that. That's the one part that does scare me is that they have plenty of attacking threat, but, you know, we've typically been able to defend well. But yeah, the other thing, too, I think a lot when looking at this match, a lot of people are doing this just sort of like one of those opta analysis about, you know, how the opposition rating of the teams that they each face. And by far, Arsenal plays much more competitive matches in terms of like the league rating because Byron AMPSG, they don't have to play against the same level of competition. domestically week in, week out. Also, they don't, like, none of their players,

but I think I read a thing that Nuno Mendez has never completed a full 90 minutes for PSG. Right. They just, and he's played like, they play like, no, they play like 20 games a seat. They literally just know they're going to win the league so easily that they just get them tuned up for the Champions League. So, yeah, the fact that Arsenal, if they, you know,

or even at this stage, really, and even Athletica, I guess, like, you've got a, that has to come in, into account. It's like impossible to to beat these nation. But no, they don't talk about that enough, I feel like in the analysis of this stuff. It's like, no, that it's completely different. It's like somebody who, I don't know, has to take

care of like a gigantic 15 kid family. And then someone who's like childless shows up, you know, like what their energy levels are like. You're like, yeah, of course the dude, the childless dude is going to pull up with a ton energy versus someone who's trying to fucking hold down the crazy ass household.

I don't know why I'm using a parental analogy here. I didn't know where they're like an orgy or something. What are they doing? The Bay-Base kids got a situation. But yeah, that's also cope coming from me too. Cope mixed with a little bit of hope. Well, at least a reason why when you look at these two teams,

like, yeah, of course, they're completely different situations when they pull up to these Champions League matches. And then there is us, an athletic O Madrid. Big, big match. one that I was, I felt, I felt like we could get a win in this match. I felt like we could get a win. I was fine with us drawing. I just definitely didn't want to walk out of there without winning.

Or like, at least with by losing. And we did get man, just a two pen match. Or it could have been three. Should have been three. Let's be honest. Did you watch, have you seen the other angles of it too? There's one angle that makes it look like my fucking ain't shit happen. the contact

Yeah, yeah, and I was like, huh. But from what I saw in that moment, I have to honor my heart and what I saw in that moment, and that was some bullshit. And so was the Ben White penalty. Again, like, there was a similar penalty in the Bayern match where I think Davies also went off,

like it was a deflection onto the hand and they gave a goal. But that was with Ben White, he wasn't even looking for that. That was so incidental. That was cheap as fuck. It's so, it's the worst rule in the world. And actually, I'm really glad the Premier League doesn't do it like that because it's like, it's just crazy,

giving 80% of a goal for just, right. It's like going wide and doesn't know anything about it. But at least in Europe, they just always, that's just, I just saw it as like, oh my God. Yeah, here we go. But the, as a one, regardless of whether it's soft or whatever, once it gets given, can't overturn it. Yeah, that's never gets overturned.

It's not clear and obvious because there's an angle where he touches him. And in real time, it looked like it. It's like, yeah, it's like, yeah, of course he's made. milking it. It's still a penalty. You can't change your mind. How often would that get called in the Premier League, you think? I think that gets, I think when I saw it in real time, I thought Penn, just like the, you know, and you just get in touch it before the guy, it just, it looked like one.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think it's one of those, I think it would have gone 50-50 in the Premier League. I don't think it would have, I could see it being, I think in the, in times it would frustrate me as a fan, it would be given, like, to be like, to be like, they gave it to that motherfucker, but I don't know it'll be given up. It's like, it's like I see this whole Champions League thing and how the Premier League calls

things tighter and better in a lot of cases. It's like Capcom versus S&K. You get to play on your own league settings. Right, right, right, right. So we're doing Premier League stuff and they're on but it's fine. You know, I think it's fine. Us getting out of there with a draw

and the fact that we ended the game well again. The problem for the last month is these last 10 minutes. It gets to like 78 and you see everybody fucking sweating and jogging. Yeah. And that felt different and I loved that. Yeah.

I thought Artetta did well with it. So just on the penalty, by the way, being overturned. I was watching it downstairs. You know, you know you've reacted like a psychopath when I walk upstairs and my wife's in her room and are you okay? Oh, shit.

She just heard me like the way I was just like You can't ever try. Like, I was you... The amount of swear words coming out of my mouth just in my house at like two in the afternoon. Were you going full voice? Mate, I went, I went, I went full... Were you screaming? It sounded like you were trying to choke it back.

Like, are you okay? No, no, because currently my son is asleep upstairs. And if I... Oh, that's the current one. If I went as full reenactment, he would wait. He'd wake up from nothing. And he would be like, are you okay? Daddy scared me through my dreams.

Daddy's scary. So no, that's the most annoyed. I'm normally whatever, refereeing stuff I can kind of, but that was like, I kept going, you coward. You coward.

Hey, come on, man. Yeah, of course he's a coward. There's a guy with a knife slicing ham up. Right over there.

Him and the mob boss, Simioni, just standing right next to him. I mean, I would absolutely buckle under that. This guy is full black, suit with his black tie just fucking Undertaker. Don't he

look like he about to accept the Avian Award? Best gang bang scenes goes to Cholo Simeone. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Oh, man. But to your point, Jamel, I thought he

actually rotated. It was like, you know, was it the season before last when they had villa in between the two PSG games, was it? Two Champions of games. He, like, rotated out the team. I don't know. He just screwed it up. It'll see what he does

against Fulham, but it felt like he was like, all right, power up. All the attackers can't play full 90. It sounds like Odegaard might be injured from what I heard today. Yeah. Hopefully, you know that guy. I'm assuming that. Yeah. Guy. I haven't even seen anything. Assuming it, though.

Sick, no. But having all those three attackers rotate was sensible. Makes me think maybe Saka can start on Saturday. I'm going to say it now. Maybe he starts Gabriel J-Zus against Fulham, but I don't know.

I feel he's giving him minutes for a reason, which I'm not delighted about, but he kind of You got to go with Yoke. You got to go with Vic, man. Yeah. I mean, right now, he has juggings on. From what I saw in that match.

You didn't go, well, he actually, to be fair, but he looks different in Europe. I watched him at the Emirates live against New England. We'll get to it, I'm sure. that misplace pass the screenshot. Every Arsenal fan we were having

that screen show everyone did the fucking head slap from airplane where it was like like everyone hit their hands on it just the fucking whole world collectively did it in that one I did I got an

Are you okay after that? I blocked that out my girl and two cats was like are you are you I just I just started I just started shouting from the stats

you coward you coward It's a five-yard pass into space, you cow. Oh, my God. He waited into the perfect wrong time. But then he comes up with the penalty, man. And he goes left. He always goes left.

It doesn't matter. And got it. He got the contact. As much as infuriating as it was for the athletic fans. I'm like, nope, given that. Sorry. Can't do that. Can't do that.

You can't do that. One interesting thing about this match, this is the first Champions League knockouts. stage match with more than one goal to see 100% of them come via penalties since the 2001 final between Bayern Munich and Valencia. That's how legendary these fucking managers are. You want to see real tactics? Because that's the other thing.

It was just pure. Once they went to a back five, we started. Everyone was adjusting in their way to frustrate the other thing. And that's what I was like, see? Like with even rice dropping deeper, that also helped a ton. just kind of, you know, throwing Madrid off. But, yeah, it felt like a couple that know each other really well, like when you argue and you know exactly what to say to wind up your other half.

You'll be like, you'll just say like, oh, that's an interesting point. You know I hate when you say I just argue. You're a coward. Oh, so you really care about that? I thought you were joking. You thought I was joking? Yeah, yeah. I thought that was your mom's thing.

I didn't know. No, no, no, no, no, no. That's a suplex. Yeah, bro. You'll fucking see, it'll fucking turn to an anime. The fucking, just somehow a different color background shows up with your fucking partner.

It's like, paching, you're like, come on, dude. Your torso's been cut in half. He's just going, flopped into, I don't have focused.

I'm like my mother. Yeah. Who do you think is going to win the next legs of each tie? I think, I think, I think, I don't know, I think Byron could, I think Byron might, I don't know, I want to say Byron. Yeah. I mean, they both, just for fun.

They both own, they both only have to play these games. Haven't they both won their leagues already? It's like good. There's done. It's all done. Yeah. Shit, man. Yeah, I'm saying Byron too.

Why not? Home team. I mean, PSC, I mean, I feel like, I don't know. I think, I guess I'm trying to think of who do I want to face less. And just with the history with PSG, but also seeing the way Byron. and played. You know, because Kvarj Skelly,

bro, he's scary as fuck to me. That guy fucking finds a goal like when he really wants one. And I'm just, I'd rather not. I just feel like whoever is playing on that right side for us, I don't know.

Unless we can get Jury and Timber some kind of put him in that tank from fucking Star Wars where he's just like floating his shit to try and get his body back. Easily. Yeah, yeah. But then again,

and it's also him. It's also, could be Luis Diaz. So, you know, I guess I don't really care. I'd rather play Byron. We've already beat him.

Even the way, with the way, but also, Oly-Say is also playing like a fucking madman. Oh, man, yeah. He scoffs some shit.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. For sure. I guess I'm not really, either one doesn't matter because I just feel confident.

Either one is like, it's going to be the same game plan against either team if Arsenal gets it. I mean, Athletical. They gave up five goals. Yeah.

Do the same. Athtico and Arsenal will be like trying, even athletics aren't as defensively like forward as they used to be. You know that they'll be like, we're not going to have as much of the ball. We'll press you and see what we can do. Do we know what was the extent of Julian Alvarez's knee thing? Do we know if that's keeping him out?

He kept looking like he was going to go off injured and he didn't. And then he did. He's expected to play. Okay, okay. I mean, the second one just felt like, no, motherfucker. If I keep going, I'm going to, I will miss the second leg. It was sort of how he first sort of, I think that's, that was, that's what his body language felt like. Interesting way, he doesn't like, he doesn't really, he doesn't really look particularly physically, intimidating, impressive, but he just somehow always pops up and like gets away, like an insanely, like, decent shot off.

Like, with no, one is that no backlift strikers, which is always like, I like to see. Yeah, so like Alexis Sanchez was the exact kind of same. You think Austin will win? Yeah. I think so, yeah. I mean, I don't feel, I don't feel shook about it. No, I feel confident. Yeah.

What were you saying, Jamo? Yeah, I think we had control the most of the game with the B minus team. Yeah. Although, then our A team kind of comes on. They're kind of still getting their shit together. Because at the end of the day, right, they definitely got, we got saved by the crossbar and

Adamal Lippment's finishing. First half, Arsenal, I was like, this is a great performance. And then until like Eza and the three subs came on, I think I, again,

I'm stealing this from, I listen to podcasts and I pretend stuff's my own opinions. Yeah, yeah. That's what I'm from end. I think on ask, yeah, I think on Ask cast,

they said, um, the first, like 30 minutes at the second half. It was, they had 70% possession of that's okay? So they like really turned it around. And then when Arsenal made the subs,

they had 64%. So it's weird though because like both teams sort of were still trying to. I think Arsenal was kind of trying to score. Definitely. And then they were kind of happy with the draw, which I kind of hate that because you're like, you fuckers, you're like, you know something we don't.

You're like, you're happy to go away from home with a draw. Yeah. Dark arts. You just know they're going to do something scummy. Now we just have to, And now just treat that home match like a final. And we don't have a... Arsenal, a final?

Yeah, yeah. But I think, again, just also seeing like that, that their goal came from like a scuffed shot that just deflected that. And although we didn't do much better offensive. Although we did look like we had a bit of threaten us. I'd still felt good about the way we were, like, the way we're playing defensively. That, to me was like, they get the weekend off though as well. You can remember that as well, which is so it's, it's, it's,

if Ez's, the key to Arsenal doing well for me at this point is if Ezza stays fit. Because he, that man is the most, he's the coolest, he has the best men's house. You just hear him in interviews and he just, I'm like, oh, I think you could win the Premier League. The other one, like more so than like Declan Rice is all about, yeah, you know, giving it, you know, just like, yeah, 100% all this stuff. And then Ez is just like, I don't care, man. He's just like, I'm going to, he's got the confidence of a man who knows he's going to heaven. that everything he does on earth is a relevant. He's just like straight up what it is.

Maybe. Maybe I win the league. Maybe not. But this is just the starter for my main objective, which is going to happen. I'll be in half. God, God. Okay. And that's all you need to know.

That's all you need to know. All right. Let's move on to the Premier League where we didn't get to recap the Newcastle match. We did just touch on a very frustrating moment. when we had the break. And, you know, Giacarez on that left side, all he had to do, didn't even have to finesse it

or put much spin on the ball to get around the defender. He could have just played it diagonally into space ahead of him. But for some reason, thought, let me just, let me just pass it into the man's ankles to completely kill the counterattack.

There were so many angles of it of people in the stands, like, what the fuck, Chris? You were saying, you coward, there's that clip of Califiori from the bench. throwing his hands up like, motherfucker. And then even Bukayo, you could see him on the pitch when he didn't get the pass off.

He was like, what the fuck? It felt like one of those things like, we've been working on shit like this. And we still can't fucking get it done. There was something, the frustration from the players felt a little bit like, there was just another dimension to that that felt like a different level of frustration, like one that felt a little bit more existential than sort of like, that was a fuck ass. It feels like with Victor, like, that everyone's, I feel like everyone's been pretty supportive of them. Everyone wants him to do well.

But in the back of everyone's mind, it's like, it's a bit like with a kid, you know, like, hey, hey, good, buddy, even your head. You're going like, this is not good enough. Yeah, you'll get him next time. You ain't starting next time, though. Don't even think of it. But amusingly afterwards in the pub,

I was drinking with the Tuesday club crew, if anyone. Oh, yeah. If anyone's a more clear, three just Arsenal fans just all my Arsenal, listen to that. but, and they're all great and lovely and funny, but I was chatting to one of them and he was like, you know, when it happened, he was like, yeah,

you know, at the time I was like, he's trying to feel sorry from him going to get, it's on his left foot, it's on his wrong foot. And I went, be honest, though, do you think he would have made on his right foot? And he was like, yeah, nah. Yeah, he went down. Nah, it wasn't, he wasn't the foot he was on.

Hey, man, I mean, just a month ago, this guy was the, we all thought he won us to lead. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. He was... And now it's just, you look like a fucking piece of shit again. I know, man. I know he always looked dumb as shit, but damn it, man.

He's all we got. But you are right, essentially, that he is always fit and available. So that's why I think we're all, I mean, this is like the safe. We are like, come on, man, you've got to do it. But you are like, seriously, man, just like, you're testing. You're testing my mind. Yeah. I feel like I know Artetta is really probably on top of like the mental health,

like the performance, probably has ways of like talking to players that won't get them too out of their shit like about mistakes like this. They need to have one of us. But by that I mean Jamel or I just really getting his ass. Because the stuff like, you know, was that going on? I'm like, bro, sit your fucking ass down, man. How much fucking money are we paying you, bro?

I'm fucking tired of looking stupid. as fuck to my friends when they go what's up with your boy what's up with your boy um in the beginning I can make excuses you're getting adapted to a new league and it's only year one I get that that does count for something but God damn it man

the stakes are so fucking high speaking of fucking podcast I've been listening to handbreak off uh huh and okay so it was a few weeks ago and the host I forget he's a comic but I forgot my man's name but he's like hey all right so

We need to talk about Victor, man. What the fuck is going on? He's looking like some shit. And then Amy Lawrence, like, let him have it. She was like, no, what the fuck is wrong with you? Oh. These fucking play, well, she didn't like say what the fuck. Her energy was like.

Amy Lawrence, yeah, yeah. She actually started yelling at him like, yo, you need to support this man. But then the episode after Victor missed that pass, even Amy was like, You don't gain. He was like, all right. It was like, all right, so things are, you know, and I'm not giving up on him. But I'm telling him, bro, you got to do fucking better.

And I'm behind you, but you got to do fucking better. I'm not going to be like, okay, man, next time, no. I support you, motherfucker, but you got to do better. That's just it. They fucking know if Sandra butts about it, man. You got to fucking find another gear because the other thing, too, is he came on after we took off Kai Haverts and we really realized, oh shit, bro.

This ain't it. Like everything looks so different once Kai Haverts came on. There was a play. He got his own he got his own pass for himself. It ran that shit down. And even that, it was like not enough. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

We haven't even talked about the goal though. My funny from the stadium moment there was I managed to get another after the Bournemouth game. I was like, this can't be. I'm leaving London in like three days. Got to get a ticket.

Managed to get one. And you know people, I thought the fans were fantastic, by the way. The Bournemouth game was an early kick of and I could feel the tension. This time I think everyone was like, all right, let's get ourselves together. Three home games to go, let's do this.

And then the crowd were great throughout. Obviously got a bit nervy. But I was also in this weird mentality where I think if you were watching that, you were watching that live, weren't you, Jamel? So on the computer, were you stressed? Because I was like watching it.

And in my head after we'd scored one goal, I like, for the whole, even though like we played terribly and like didn't have the ball and didn't really have any chances. In my head, I kept, I kept thinking we were going to win like, we're going to score two or three still. Like even by like the eight. Oh, right, right. And literally I hadn't even entered my mind that Arsenal might lose until it was like seven minutes of injury time. And I was like, oh, that's a bit tasty.

Right. But in front of me, despite the Arsenal fans being great, you do get this like perception of Arsenal fans like kind of middle class and like not really proper. like, whey. But in front of me, there was a man in his 60s who from the first minute was just on his phone

doing the Guardian crossword. He missed. He missed the Eza goal. I promise you, I'm not making it. What? They did the same corner three times. He was like,

no, I think he was like, well, I've seen this corner before. Yeah. And what is seven across? Another word for medium. Like, that was his,

yeah, he literally was on his phone for the whole game. I was like, this, dude. Playing UK Whartle. People would kill for this, these tickets.

But no, it was good to be in there. And the goal was just, but it was on his goals as soon as I was like, kind of behind that goal. So as soon as he hits it, I was like, that's just such a nice feeling when you're like.

And that's why he's the guy. If he stays fit, he, now, it's seeing how Saka, he like, Saka didn't look, he just looked rusty, right?

And he's clearly kind of having to nurse this, this, like, Achilles thing, right? So God knows how fit he actually is, but as is the one, I'm like, you can pull that out. And I don't think anyone else in the team can do that.

He's got the individual flare to him that I, that's like the one person. Like, you got, you have that little spark, man. You have it. And I just let's just, let's, let's ban that shit so it turns into a fucking inferno.

Please. Is Newcastle okay? Because they've lost nine out of their last. They're basically not in contention for relegation because there are so few games left. the season, but the fucking momentum they're on is like, be- they lost four in a row with that one. Yeah.

Baltimore's hanging out in fucking Williamsburg. Yeah, he got the Trader Joe's canvas shopping bag and shit. Yeah, he's fucking all type of little pop divas. Oh, I feel so bad. Did you see that? This is in L.A. I think in a couple weeks ago, some dude got knocked out of the Best Buy.

No. It got jacked for his phone. Like this guy, like this hipster dude had like a Trader Joe's bag. This dude fucking sucker this guy And he went down The Trader Joe's bag

I think he got I think he got He got I think he was like Hold on Let me Profiled him Yeah I'm pretty sure

He was like He got a Trader Joe's bag Yeah he's not going to put up a fight And I just Sorry That's why I don't have one Honestly

Everybody walk around With these Trader Joe's bags You look like food You look like food Yeah Yeah My big ass

Yeah Yeah I'm having a picnic. No, I'm not walking around with that. I'm sorry. I don't want to propose, because that shit is senseless fucking violence, senseless, despicable violence. But I know this guy, he got picked because he had the Trader Joe's bag.

And I'm sorry. And that brings us to Nick Volta mater, okay? You said, he, no one, no one's going to suck a punch that guy. Because he is, you know, he is. You need a step ladder out. Yeah, you need a fucking ladder. Yeah. Or like an air ramp from that the MTV Sandblast, whatever that beach.

Remember that beach obstacle course show on MTV? And they would go on a pneumatic air rank. Anyway, I remember that shit. It's honestly crazy that I don't, but I remember VIP. I should I should remember that. You don't remember that? Oh, man. What's it called Beach Blast?

Hold on. Now I have to, this will all get edited. Sandblast. You don't, oh, man. See, this is for millennials. of a very old age. That sounds like, that sounds like,

um, something like a bro describes a sexual act as a sandblast. Dude, you know, dude. Hey,

we down to Malibu, dude, at that bonfire road, you come into the sand. You come into some sand, right? And then you like, kick it.

You like kick it up like the dog. Dude, actually like, it's actually like, in the textures feels kind of. I don't know. You think you'd be gritty?

It's kind of like not, it's not as, it's not as, it's kind of, it's kind of, it's like, first ball, dude, you got to find a spot where there's mad hermit crabs, dog.

And then you dig a little hole, man, you go fucking hips down. Nobody knows a thing. The crabs are doing their thing, bro. Boom. Sandblast, dog. MTV sandblast. Just the idea. The image of a bro borrowing a hole in the sand.

But looking for hermit crafts? You do see the sort of white, naked bomb of it. They do. It's my type of boarding, boarding, dude. No, I'm not popping up off this one, dude. I'm not popping up, dude. Sorry, don't worry about me, Doug. He's just, it's a dude walking around the beach,

just asking like an old man who's fish. He's like, hey, dude, you know if there's like little sand crabs around here? He's like, uh, no, maybe it's down that way more. Yeah, cool, dude, cool. Thanks, man. Thanks, man. He's walking down the beach with a bunch of his friends. And they've go, hey, dude, you're going to hit those waves?

They're pretty big. They're pretty sick waves. He goes, nah, dude, I saw a pretty sick hole over here. I'm going to just shove my johnson. you know. No, I'm good. This lady just pulled up her some umbrella she was using

on the beach, but there's a pretty good boring hole still in there. You know, don't want to redouble anyone's efforts. You know what I mean? It's called redundant work. Work smarter, not harder, dogs. This guy gets paid to make holes for people's brothers that won't get in the sand.

Yeah, just get the bro to sandblast that hole for you. Don't worry. Don't worry, my guy. Yeah. He's just like shamed. Right down over here, miss. Yeah, this will be perfect for your umbrella. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Perfect for your big parasol. Don't worry. It's, yeah, ignore the sticky stuff in there. That's, that's, that was free. That's, that's on the house. It's all good. It actually anchors it better into the sand. Um, but anyway, Nick Volta mater.

He just has not, he, he, he started being that guy. We thought, oh, shit. Look at them falling ass backwards into a, a pretty decent striker. Um, And now it looks like his, his, like, fit posts are the only thing doing anything worth a fuck. The guy, he's, he got, he got good style. I can't, I can't, I can't really lie about Nick Volta Mott's, uh, drip. He's definitely bringing mid-drift back for the fellas.

Oh, yeah. I mean, yeah, I mean, yeah, everyone loves the high waist with the crop jacket. Oh, yeah, baby. If you're like, he's like, doesn't get to play, like, all of their summer signings don't seem to start. And then, WISA? Oh, me, that we did. That Wisa missed, by the way. Oh, my God.

That was the one bit where Yeah, I like I said, Wisa in danger. Okay? Are you fucking Jar Jar Meeks? So Lisa was the only one who scared me It's because he looked like my friend Romaine. And I always want Romaine to do well.

I always want to see Romaine win. And every time you check in, I'm like, fuck, man. I'm not going to be mad if he scores. Yeah, oh, that's why you felt, you know, that's what felt dangerous because you couldn't just full on energetically curse him as a player. Yeah. Like, nah, you look too much like my guy, Romaine.

what's Romaine up to he's a chilling man he's just from Maryland yeah okay all right shout out of Rayne does he listen to the podcast my guess is no can he play nine

send him yeah yeah I let him up he can get Newcastle are lacking a nine Osula you see that him fresh air the ball first by saying to the game

man that great hitting the standing foot if you're a professional player and you hit your standing foot instead of you should you should immediately get sub you should have to sub yourself off

when that happens. You just got to go, you know what? That's on you. Just sit down. Just sit on the thing. It's like you got an injury. Just sit on things and go. Yeah, yeah.

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Learn the Hardway. Open your free Our Heart Radio app. Search Learn the hard way and listen now. And we're back. The other match, though, that was, we were definitely had our eye on, which actually happened before the Newcastle match, was the city

Burnley match where there was only one goal in that one and that was an early goal from Erling Holland. Interesting. Fifth minute, I was like, oh, fuck, bro. Because that happening in the fifth minute, I'm like, okay, this is going to be a fucking goal zone.

But luckily, it was fucking not. You know, the goal difference, right now it's on 37 goals. I mean, obviously they have a game in hand, but they've scored only two more goals than us total. Because if we had to go down to numerous metrics, you know, were to end up the same on points, that would matter. but I was funny because when it happened I had the same feeling I was like

all right we all thought it'd be at least 4-0 and so you're like oh this is yeah but then they're all right and then I saw Arsenal play Newcastle's like well if it goes to goals difference Arsenal are not going to win the league either way because you know they're just it's very dysfunctional Arsenal

to a yearly relegated Newcastle yeah only get one goal yeah yeah it was a good result by Burnley and it is that weird thing where like even though city outperforming on XG by a lot it was like last minute the game there's a corner.

You just don't know. I say every week, but every away game is not easy. So, yeah. I mean, that, everyone just assumed they'd win that game. If they'd not won it,

then I'd be like, was Arsenal going to win the league? But I think both teams will drop some points somewhere in this running. Don't say that, Chris. Don't say that, Chris. Don't say that, Chris. I can't be, I can't be.

Chris, you've been getting deep into the matchup metrics. done the match. I've been looking at the week-by-week dynamics and looking at what results want. So, like, Everton, I've got something to play for Monday night. Home Under the Lights.

That's going to be a tough game for... And they always got to play on Monday. They're used to that. Everton is the fucking Monday guys. They have to play on Monday. Beto I saw was fit. And weirdly, I saw a stat. Everyone kind of mocks Beto,

but he's like one of the most informed strikers in the league. He scored like the most guys. goals in the last like two months of any striker in the league. Apparently he's fit. But so I was like, right, they've got something to play for. And then I thought Fullen would have nothing to play for, but they've, they can get into Europe.

Yeah. Turns out they got the most to play for. That's fine, though. And then it's West Ham away after Athletico, which is going to be tough. But then Tottenham are playing Villa, which you were like, oh, I think, Tottenham won this, but I think Tottenham are home and Villa have been atrocious away. and Villa of basically already qualified for Champions League. So that, if they win that and West Ham don't be,

who are they playing, Brentford or something? Then West Ham are going to have to do, like, you want West Ham to, like, not have to beat Arsenal, but they are going to have to be Arsenal. Or they're going to have to, like, perform against Arsenal. Every game they have to, like, do well in, basically. And then what's, and then it's this whole city, now city are trying to do this whole thing of like,

it's unfair with the fixtures, because we've got games and they want to play Palace or Bournemouth. I can't remember. They want to swap the games round to play in the... Yeah. It's so city. They're so used to like just breaking rules. They're like, can we just...

Why do we extend the season by weeks? Sorry, I need more time, teacher. You need more time? The paper was due today and it's professor, motherfucker, not teacher. This thing's great. Sorry, teacher. I just needed more time, dude. I can get my dad to make a donation to the school or something if that'll help.

But like, I'm not turning that shit in today. So try and do it. Have you seen that the... fan created a website called the run-in. Live. It's just for anyone who wants to obsess over the rest of what's to play for in the league. It's just showing the

side by side who we got coming up. It shows who's like, as in competing, like they're competing for stuff. They got something to live for. Oh, so. Yeah, do they? That's really good. So yeah, the Burnley home game is the one and that Bern, so the Arsenal's last two games, Burnley and Palace, you're like, that's big. So this Fulham game has been the

I'm most scared about as an Arsenal fan. So Brentford are competing, but Brentford are not going to get any points away at the Etihad. And then currently it's Palace are going to play. That's a good time to play Palace. And then Bournemouth, Bournemouth before Villa. Yeah, and Bournemouth will be competing for stuff. Yeah, that's going to be.

Formuth with an extra bit. Yep, yep, yep. Wait, what happened in the Europe? What happened in Palace's Europol? Palace won 3-1. 3-1 away at Shaktas. So Palace is looking really good to qualify. And then.

say. And that's the other thing too. They're kind of in a situation too of like who do they rest against us knowing that you know the league isn't that big of an issue but they got the Europa League. They also have some calculus, some calculi to make. But again, this is just all for us to obsess over. But if Sissy be Everton though, then I'll be like my, that'll be. Yeah. Yeah. Time to worry. But they got Chelsea. You know what I like? I like Chelsea. I like Chelsea. in that F.A. Cup final. Chelsea is, these guys, they don't have anything to live for.

That thugs, mate. They're fucking thugs, dude. They're going to kill someone. Well, and also think about their manager, McFarland. Last I checked, he beats it. Remember that? Well, they drew. They drew. Oh, last minute drive was the Enzo goes down. I remember it well.

I was in IKEA, and I was very excited. I just remember just that somehow was like, Enzo, you somehow did it. And then in comes Liam Ross Sr. Speaking of which, Liam, goodbye, as they say on America Online. You have been sacked. I was thinking sacked.

If you split up the word sacked, you've got sacked. And Ed is short for education. So actually being sacked is an education. I'm really grateful for the free education. Thanks, Chelsea. It wasn't free though. He's getting a check. He's good, getting a little bag out of the door.

I got paid. Got paid to learn. Yeah, exactly. So. It's like being in the military. In the GI Bill. And I got this sick Dodge fucking Challenger too. So, yeah, I walk with a limp now.

But either way, this shit's on 22s. Okay. Yeah. I mean, he's, he looked like from what everything I've read from the sort of like, what it was like during Liam R. Senior's ring, everyone basically was like, this guy is a fucking goofball substitute teacher who we do not respect. And while there were.

some results along the way that people were like, oh, okay, look, he's not doing so bad. I think it was just happening in spite of everything, because by the end, they truly, like, like, that Brighton match, it looked like, they're like, should we just get it fired? We should get him fired, huh? Yeah, it's definitely what they did. So here are my tools, and they are going down. They're going down. Yeah, I feel kind of bad.

I feel, I feel, I do, I mean, he is a bit of a figure of fun, but he's sort of like, you've got to, like, hide the crazy, like, Arteta hit it. kind of, he hid the LinkedIn chat pretty well. Now he's fully, now he's lighting fires and he's, you know,

he's got enough, even though he's not won anything big for Arsenal yet, Art Ted has got enough of a sort of consistent performance results-based kind of, you know, season by season to be like, fire.

And then light a fire. And you're like, this crazy, this guy's a crazy genius. Liam's just, seems like a crazy, you know, moron,

sadly, because he's not got the results to back it up. But yeah, he went in. Football does not like, does not accept these kind of, and it doesn't like people being different or different stuff. So I feel bad for him because I actually think it's, why not? You're younger and you're trying to do something different to engage these professionals.

But just keep a lid on it, mate. Don't let the cavemen such as us learn about it because we will mock you. We will look for you. We will find you and we will mock you. We will mock you. At first the rumor was he was getting cashed out of $2. 24 million for the rest of his deal. Turns out it's probably closer to something like four because at this point,

I feel like Chelsea has maybe paid as much in severance packages for managers as they have for transfer fees for players. Based on everyone, they're like, ah, fuck, what was that guy on a 42-year deal? How much were you paying him? 15 million a year? Okay, so I guess I got to pay that shit out, too. I think they must have learned. I think Todd Bowley must have learned a little bit about how shit works, but I don't know.

who the fuck is going to take this Chelsea gig ever at this point when all the rumors are the people running the club don't know what they're doing like truly have no clue about what's going on the players are just like a mishmash of personalities they don't really conform to one style of play like they they're definitely have individually talented players but trying to figure out what manager comes in is like oh yeah yeah I can work with that um yeah I don't know I hope it's not Cess Fabragas because I actually did read this but I was sort of secretly, obviously a lot of people's mileage varies as Arsenal fans on CESC after he went to Chelsea, but I still love him. And he looks like he's going to be a really good coach and is a really good coach. Combo. Yeah, no como. Yeah, they're fucking cruising, bro. They're doing well. And then I think I read that there is a sort of vague hope of a succession plan at some point that he would manage Arsenal.

But not that would... I would be involved in the ownership, you think? Yeah, yeah. I mean, people hate. I mean, people, most people online hate. For everyone's, when I get a, you know, taste of the posts of when, when Suss comes up,

people fucking hate him. I don't. He was like one of the few bright spots in a truly dark transition period out of like, Highbury when I was like, this fucking guy can actually change a match. I still think of that Darby goal he scored

like with a kickoff somehow. If he was on, FIFA, he has negative 42 pace and still somehow scored that solo goal. But, you know, I also get the transfer to Barcelona was so fucking frustrated, especially after that

after they won the World Cup and Pepe Raina put that fucking Barcelona jersey on him on that stage. I was like, get that fucking shit off of him. He didn't, he nearly, he didn't have anywhere near the career that he had at Barcelona. But then, and also, like, we had a chance to sign him back too, before

the Chelsea thing. And, you know, Arson Venger. He kind of said, you know, in his best, Jackson, what's his face? My boy from American Idol, he said. It's definitely a known for me, dog. Randy? Yeah, Randy Jackson.

Randy Jackson. Yeah. So I don't know. I don't know how bad I feel. I just remember he, I have so many good memories of that period. Like there was like that goal against Milan and the championship. There were just so many things that I was like, oh, man.

It is what it is. So what else should we cover before we look ahead to the future? Oh, Spurs. They got their first win in, what was it, since December 28th against wolves, only to find out that Zabi Simons blew his ACL. He's out until 2027. That means they have Madison, Caduce, and now Simons all with ACLs, which is fucking wild.

And then at the same time you drop a Peppa Pig collection. Did you see that shit? Yeah, man. Yes, they're doing Peppa Pig merch. It was like of everything that's happening. You know what I mean? They're like, it felt like a truly bizarre old arsenal type shit because we always have like some new collab. They're like, hey, you want to buy some shit?

Every week. You know, they're like, you know, there's always that theory. It's like whenever we have a loss, they're going to release some new capsule collection. They're like, well, we got these throwbacks and it was like, oh, okay, yeah, throwbacks. I like that. And then our songs like, uh-huh, okay,

keep them just round the two. Okay. They didn't fucking, they completely lost, forgot about the L. But this is the shit the last week. In light of all the dark shit going on,

like they didn't address anything in the fucking transfer window. They got Simons now blowing his ACL. And then here they go. Spurs X. Peppa Pig, y'all. Get on in. Get your scar.

Wow. Get your backpacks. Get your fucking, get your head out of your ass, man. You guys are about to be relegated. Listen, man, also clearly not haram ball, clearly not kosher, not halal in the slightest. No, no, no.

Messing with that pig? No. Couldn't be us. I did not want any pork on my fork. I once did a panel show for a kids TV, like a kids TV panel shows, like comedians and kids. And I sat next to the voice of Pepper Pig. Oh, okay. She was, she had a, let's just say she had a little bit of a, she had a little, she had a little,

bit of a, just a diver energy to her, you know? I mean, why wouldn't you, though? Why wouldn't you? She was way more successful than me. But I don't think that does very well with Tottenham.

You need, you need, she's too, pepper pig's too big for Tottenham is what I'm saying. Oh, yeah, yeah. Pepper Pig is a winner. Pepper Pig is a winner, guys. Yeah, yeah. Pepper pig ain't getting relegated. That's for damn sure.

Maybe like Bob the builder. You know what I mean? Yeah. No, because shit, I'm thinking below that, Like SWATs or something. Can we fix it? Yes, we can. That was the phrase of Bob's this is spurs.

Can we fix it? That's true. You actually can't. No, but we can put on a, we can put a very expensive NFL game on. Yeah. That's good. Yeah. Got that going.

And there's Salonki. Selanky also out with an injury too. Yeah, they should be doing fucking cocoa melon. Yeah. No, but see, I guess so because Cocoa Mellon is gradually degrading the mental capacity of the youth of the world. Yeah, kind of like watching. Yeah. Okay. I like that. I like that. Um, deserve you now, bro, he doesn't have shit to work with.

I don't know. If he honestly gets it done, credit to you, bro, because you got, you have nothing. You have 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife. You ain't doing it. I don't know. I don't know what to say. It is tough. I've been saying for weeks, they only needed one win, and now they got it.

And I'm like, ah, I don't want them. I obviously, I don't want them. Yeah, I don't want them. But you're right, though, because at the same time, we got to talk about West Ham. Callum Wilson. Oh, man. Callum Wilson, who I'm still convinced I read that was leaving the club and then just popped up with... Now, what convinced, there was a story like, they're looking to get rid of this guy,

and then he pops up with that goal? What a story. Yeah, what a story. They've been looking to get rid of him for like two years. Yeah, yeah. I mean, do you remember when he... I think he signed in the summer for free, but I do agree with you that even before he signed, they were like, can we get rid of this guy?

He's got an injury, terrible injury record, and I've, I've, I've won't... quite like Callum Wilson. He's sort of weirdly like he's been caned by injuries, but he's always kind of a decent generally, he's always a seven-outs. He always causes you more trouble than you think he's going to cause you.

He fucking caused us a fuckload of trouble when he was at Newcastle. He kind of fucking, he put the nail in the coffin against it, which is crazy because I know a guy who's a Spur supporter named his son Callum after Callum Wilson because on some Arsenal troll shit.

And I thought of him That's an insane way of naming you a child. And that's such a spurs-ass way to name your kid too. To be like, bro, that wasn't even you. What are you talking about? He's like, yeah, but you did, but look what happened. You didn't like that, though. I'm like, bro, get the fuck.

So what you don't want me to like your kid? Yeah. Look the fuck, dude. I thought this kid was cool. And then you, I just thought his name was fucking Callum on some regular fucking shit. But now you're telling me, you're telling me, oh, you like, honestly, you like this. Oh, get this.

fucking get out my face. But wow, just to have all that happen for Callum Wilson to score in the, you know, in injury time, just to take away what little advantage you thought you had. The gap is still two points. So we'll see. We will see. And that's with them playing what Villa next? Or no, yeah.

Yeah. They're playing Villa away. I think, by the Vitter away, the way. Yeah. Villa away. So, you know, but also Villa. also has an eye on that Europa League second leg too because they

went down one goal yeah that was a one-nill yeah to Forest forest forest looked pretty almost well forest kind of looks safe but then they had that 5-0 win and you thought but then because the other two teams below in one it's that's still and then there's the

outside chance if everyone wins their games and Newcastle just keep losing the Newcastle get relegated which would be really all also funny but I don't think it's going to happen I just need one they literally do need just one win Jamelco rather than Tottenham's in theory 1-0

let's see that would mean if Tottenham scores what you got four matches 12 points yeah I guess so I guess so could you imagine Newcastle's just like fuck

well maybe the Saudi the Saudi Arabian government pull their funding like well they're getting out of golf they're getting out of LIB golf so that'd be tight if Newcastle gets relegated and let's say

we we finally beat city for a fucking title. Maybe they start pulling some cash off the table. Yeah. Well, Saudi Arabia, there are rumors because they pulled out a, like, what do you, is it called live live golf or LIB golf?

Yeah, live golf. Because, you know, they're like, nah, fuck it, bro. We're done with this shit. Everyone's like, wait, uh, I kind of left the fucking PGA tour for this shit. What?

Um, that the fear is that it could also be, uh, Newcastle could be next. Remember the fans were twerking for that shit? And everyone was like, bro, this is despicable. Come on. See, they're pulling out of everything because all of the like, all of these like, all the people

with the bread, all their kids is growing up. They bought all this sports shit for their kids. And now the kids is like, you know, they probably finally got families or whatever. They're like, I'm not impressed anymore. Yeah, they're doing it because it's sports washing. They're doing it. They're like, hey, bro, don't look at our human rights record, man. Come on, bro.

Look at this great golf tournament we got going on. Look at this. soccer team we got going on. They also pulled out of Chabari said out of boxing. They've also pulled out of snooker, which I know is going to be... Oh, really?

You guys are big... You guys are they actually in snooker? They were the guys? They had a tournament that was like as well paid as the world championships, which is happening now in Sheffield. But the Saudi one, I think they've pulled their funding out of.

Yeah. Yeah. See, that's what I... I do think that there's like a family. There's like a weird Nepo baby thing connected to this. They'll find some other way to wash their shit. They're moving on from sports, though. Well, I think they're probably like, bro, this war is kind of fucking shit up.

We kind of need to get our coins in order here for the long haul. Don't need to bring geopolitics into this one. But hey, there it is. Sorry. Anyway, elsewhere coming up this week, what else are we looking? Who else we're excited about? Oh, okay, with our match with him, I just have one question. Noni Madueke.

Should he try getting rid of the headband? I'm just wondering. Because his hair line is strong as fuck. It's not like he's doing the LeBron thing, trying to hide the male pattern baldness with the fucking headband. Do the brain get in his way? It probably is. But part of me is like, bro, there are plenty of people with braids getting it.

Just try something, man. Try something. I'll be honest. I think if anything, he doesn't need something that restricts his vision. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. That's the last thing he needs with his final ball as it is. Let's just shave the whole head off.

Just shave the whole head off. cut his head off. That should be the next way. Yeah, it's like on some, yeah, everybody's getting their head shape. Even, sorry, Gabrielle, I know you paid a lot for that Turkish airline, bro. We're gonna have, we're everyone's. We're chopping that. We're all coming down to a one.

His eyes stuck, like, peel back like that, if anything. Yeah. Wait a minute. So, Gabriel's got the Turkish hairline. Can you decide to be bald after that? Or are you locked into a permanent hairline? Yeah. It probably feels like a waste of money, right?

Yeah. You pay for the new hair just to fucking shave it down. like a one. They'd be like, bro, what the fuck is this? You could have just got the bejeon. It's a much easier version of getting a tattoo that you then don't really like and you've got to sort of put a new tattoo on it. This one is much easy. Just

shave your head. Yeah, and I'm because like, I'm just wondering what like all these like 80 year old former footballers are going to look like with like crispy. Just the part. Yeah, just the front part. That's so funny because I've met a guy with the and I had the same thing. He had a really crispy

hair. It is like it's a weird No, but he just meant the hair He meant like your hair line is like Sead Kalazanatchez. Like it's painted are so fucking strong. But now you're 86 with it. Yeah. Because I feel like look, look what happened to fucking Wayne Rooney.

Remember he got the shit started up in the front then realized he was going in the back and he had to go back to do the whole thing because they're like, man, you got, the front gates is active. But people are coming into the back, man. It's funny he did that. It's funny he did that whereas the rest of his body

have never seen a professional athlete take less care of that whole body. He was like, why bother? Just go all in on just not caring. Even LeBron, only really handle one part of the equation, too. And every time I'm like, man, LeBron, you might have to go handle the rest of it, man. You got to go back for a round two. Yeah.

That's the tricky thing about playing that game. You know, you're going to be chasing the dragon the whole time. You know, I don't want to play in this full-ham game. Leandro Trussard. I'm done with it. Oh. Send it back to Belgium, dog. Okay.

Just for a couple weeks, man. It's not like I got one of them off the team, but clearly he needs a realignment. We definitely need to begin looking ahead with certain positions. I think Trossard could be one of those for sure. He hit the age curve hard. He hit Christmas. He ate one too many meals at Christmas. And then he was like, I'm now officially 33.

Yeah. Hit him in terms of him. Mo Salah got his for the start of the season. Yeah. And then Leo, I think is he 31 or maybe just 1032? But he dried up. Yeah. First time of the season, I was like, they gave him a pay-orice, this is great business.

And then he was like, no, no, no. Got me. Yeah, sorry, bro. He's like, are you okay? Are you fucking around? I'm trying my best, man. I'm trying my best. You don't believe me?

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around the league, United in Liverpool, that's always a fun one to watch for me. I just, it just, it feels like, like, you know, it feels like old school primarily. But right now, United Liverpool and Villa could all could potentially solidify their places in the Champions League with the right results. So like if United win against, if they defeat Liverpool and then the, what was it, then they would basically, they're fully locked in going to the Champions Week. Champions League. Champions Week? Champions Week. Champions week.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I do not need to say. is we. Look, I'm jazz, I can't even talk. And then Liverpool, so if they win at Old Trafford, but also need Brighton

and Bournemouth to drop points, they could secure Champions League football. But I think for United, it's less of a pressing scenario. But I still think, you think Michael Carrick should keep the gig?

I feel like they, feel like they got something. I don't know. Does it get better than him? Who's going to make it better? I guess a lot of, I guess some people could. but it feels like right now they're kind of ascendant or right where they want to be.

And then also Bruno Fernandez, he could break the Premier League assist record, or he would tie it at least with 20 assists because he's on 19 right now, which is kind of wild because that's 20 because what, Tierra Rehead 20 in 0203 and then DeBreina in 1920. Those were the previous high. So 19 with this many masses ago, I feel like Bruno Fernandez probably has this one. Pretty good, pretty good stuff

when you only have to play the legal minimum required amount of games in a fucking year. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But anyway. Yeah, he's like, he's kind of looking like the favorite to get player of the season,

which is kind of strange to have someone in third. I mean, Declan Rice, depends who wins the league, I guess. Yeah, exactly. We just had so many different lineups. Yeah. Yeah. Well, the thing also, Raya could get

his third consecutive golden glove if he gets a clean sheet against fullom because he's on 16 right now yeah he's on 16 so doneruma could match it and then they could do it they could have a joint golden gloves but you know uh riah had to share one previously i remember with cells from forest last season so i don't know he's also david raya also looking for some personal handwear gold handwear yeah in the he's He's in the club, just in the club of his golden gloves on. He's peacocking. Just can't even hold a fucking drink because the shit are so rigid. He's like, yeah, yeah. They're like, cheers, man. He's breaking all the glasses. People are bleeding.

They're like, bro, would you bring that golden glove in this fucking place? Oh, this whole thing. Oh, I always leave that. This is my third, bro. Yeah, three in a row. You know what I mean? Kind of a good company. Because I think, who was it?

Joe Hart Edison. and Pepe Rana have had three successive Golden Gloves. So he would join that crew. And then let's see, I think Heart and Check have the most with four. So he's interesting. Yeah, he could, he might be able to do something. That David Wright might be able to do something. Shall we go on and just check out some shit,

just some weird stuff that we were looking at around the weekend. Go for it. Did you see the pick of Jack Grealish, knocked the fuck out, passed out after, it looked like brunch? Jeez, he's in a brunch stands too. It looked like brunch. Yeah.

Did you, Chris, did you see that picture? Yeah, I've seen that's, that's a man. That's an injured player who's not playing for like PEP's team anymore. So he's like, I've deserved it. He's been under Peps, you know, scrutiny for like four years or whatever. So he's like, I need a mimosa. Yeah, six or seven apparel sprints. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

He's also good. What is he? Holland is on 525 a week Jack really is on 225 a week They got I don't believe this They said Jeremy Doku is on Only making 2.6 million a season

That's 50,000 pounds a week He's getting youth player money But I guess also They got him for I don't know what they paid for him But shit Okay I'd feel some type of way

He's only 23 And also has his end product He does say that His end product If I could score goals, I could be one of the best players in the way. Like, that is true, bro. You get in front of that goal and then somehow your feet switch up on you. I don't know how.

But yeah, Jack Grealish. Hey, man, look fun, though. I don't know what club that was at. That's a classy, sassy way to be passed out. With your legs crossed like that. Yeah, with the arm. He looked like he caught the vapors. He's a gentleman.

But, you know, like in the UK and Europe, men crossed their legs. Because in the U.S., yeah, I crossed my legs, too. But like in the in the US, motherfuckers don't cross their legs, bro. I don't cross my legs, dude. My nuts are shown to the world. Just out.

Yeah, but that's school at a young age in the UK, you get used to sort of pulling your sack. Just do you sort of just. Oh, you know. Yeah, yeah.

You actually normally sort of, normally a creepy teacher has to go around and pull all young boys' sacks down. No. I went to an all, I went to an all-boy school. That was one of the lessons. Whoa.

Okay. All right. It was sack pulling. It's called sack pulling. Pretty direct title. It was that all Conkers, which is actually a real of British thing. You know Conkers? Not bad purday?

The N64 game? Yeah. Conkers. Conkers. Yeah, I know that. The little nuts from the tree where you like swing them into each other. Is that the game? Oh, shit.

Oh, no, but I mean, we had like clackers. Type in Conkers. Like. British conkers. So at school, you'd get these things called conkers from a tree, and you try and make them really hard, and you put them on a string, and you try and hit other conkers to see how many wins you'd get and rack up, like, mine's on 20, because it's got 20 matches undefeated. But then people would do stuff like, put them, like, in a, in a bunker for a year to make him harder. Oh, shit.

I mean, it is a children's game, isn't it? No, no, no. All the best adults play conkers. I've never played this game before. You've never got the text. What are you supposed to do? That's better. That's good. That's good. Okay. No.

Okay. Okay. We used to do pencil fights. You hit it. Yeah. There. Okay. Oh.

Thank goodness. And that really speaks to the American education system. We was breaking our pencils. Yeah. Yeah. I was just taking shit out the, out the trees. Yeah. I mean, that a fully grown adult playing it is, that's a worry.

That's a worry. He was really excited too. Playing N64 Conquers Bad Fur Day is also a wild look for an adult right now. Because that was a raunchy fucking game. I remember that game was fucking controversial when it came out. It's nuts. I was wearing a Conquer's shirt at the gym today. Played terrible.

Play basketball like a fucking. You actually have a Conquers Bad Fur Day T-shirt? I do. My man, he's got two fucking machine guns. Anyway, I think the thing that's really worth talking about, though, is the fight that was in, I don't even know if it was a fight. That's not a fight. Yeah, that wasn't a fight.

So in the, in this La Liga match, that was between Juesca and Zaragoza, the keeper Esteban Andrada of Zaragoza, I got to say it, bro, you got to really honor those Zs, punch the shit out of Jorge Pulido in the face. The buildup was wild because I don't even know,

I just, I've only seen the clip of the fight. Clearly there was some kind of call where the keeper wasn't happy with the ref. and then my man comes up to the keeper, gets pushed in the back, and it all goes haywire from there. Pass the halfway line. The way this guy falls down is fantastic. So first he gets pushed.

He went down like he got like a headshot from a like a firearm. 10 out of 10 on the full. Brainstemmed offline. Also, he decides to break his ball at the very end. Halfway, the first half, he's like, I'm going to go full log. Yeah, he's at the last.

second, he was like, I can't. Then the screams. Then he gets up. He's like, Russ, did you see that shit? I got hit by card. Red card. So, okay, at this point now, the keeper. Now I'm going to get my money's worth.

Yeah, exactly. He said, well, fuck it. Let's do this shit. Comes up. And for a dollar and for a... Boom. Hit him with the... He punched him with the wrist.

Wasn't a great punch. No, no, no. But what's funny is... He thought about swinging through, but then he remembered, I actually need my fingers to play goalkeeper. Yeah, maybe I'll mess up. Yeah, let me just hit you like this, like a four-wheel punches.

Hey, I get you, man, you're a professional. Then you're not trying to get assault charges. The funny part, though, was if you look, right, I thought Polito was going to be on the ground, like really selling that shit because he got punched in the face. It's funny how, like, in the first instance of the push, he went down, he folded like it was nothing, right?

Because he was trying to get, he was trying to get him sent off. But then once he got actually punched in the face by another grown man. He activated fucking street man mode got up and tried to get his also. He was like, hey.

Yeah, he was like, hold on, bro. No, fuck that. And also, since the red was already given, it's like, it's not like you're going to go down and get, what is you going to get another red card? Yeah. I never fell down in my life. Yeah.

Turns out. Sorry if I was, sorry if I was distracted. I was trying to stop a dog barking for the last minute that was going to interrupt. Oh, no. You're fine. No, no, no. He's barking at the Liam pick.

He can see Liam behind you. Yeah. Did you see? Okay. But, okay, we found out what happened to Esteban Andrada after that. You know how long his ban is? How long? I guess the season.

Even more. Even more. What is it? 13 matches. Damn. He's banned. Because it's only like four left this year, right? Yeah.

Yep. And then it's him to start next year. Because I guess one was for the red card. So that was standard. But I guess they were like, but for the punch, that's a 12 match. to ban for that one. Unless you play for Real Madrid. If you do that for Real Madrid, it's what?

You get like, you just have to take ice bath? Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Just, yeah, yeah. Sorry. The only thing I can, I've seen anybody he actually punch somebody like that. No, the only thing is that I can just, I just throw over at a karate kicking up.

I mean, that was a full season he got banned for, I think. That was, yeah, that was crazy. What a lot of those two is like, real Ferdinand smoked weed. And he smoked that whole season, too. those were when bands were absolutely ludicrous. But yeah, that's going to be 13. I mean, how do you even get fucking hired after that? You know, when you're like, bro, you can't even play a fucking third of the season.

What type of glove does he get? What type of glove does he get for that? You don't get a golden glove for that band. He must get some of it. Yeah, he gets a 13 ounce glove. 13 ounces, yeah. Just a boxing glove. Yeah.

By winning. Yeah. Or Fair Tech. You know, the kickboxing place. He had a job with the Nashville soccer club. or whatever the fuck they call. Yeah. Oh,

sorry. Am I last, baby. Do you know what you just made me think? Did you read that Hurtzler,

the Brighton manager, has hired a UFC fighter for the last two months to help the players defend corners? No. Stop. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. What? Which is funny because, you know, he has this whole, like, you know, he was trashing Artetta

and talking about how annoying it was in that game. But I think they have a UFC fighter helping him with training. They got Rampageageeis Jackson coming by? Yeah. They got Ken Shamrock just helping them.

In an interview, Jack Hensselwood said that the fighters understood to be the German Christian Eckerlin had been brought into help players, quote, block from corners better. Because Brighton have conceded 13 goals, third of their overall total from set pieces. Hey, it's about margins, man. But I wouldn't, I would probably get somebody like a like an NBA player or NFL player who like actually understand. hands like how to get in front of somebody or how to get around somebody. Not somebody's just like, yeah, man, I'm kind of unhinged, man. I got a couple. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Don't look at my address record. The guy who's like CET or whatever. Yeah, yeah, like, just like some fucking maniac who punches people. Just like gouging eyes and stuff. Just like rip the dude's ear off and shit. Yeah, yeah. You just, you just see Brighton for the next quarter. You just see that thing where they're just on the floor like,

ground and bound. Yeah. You know, they just don't move. for like four minutes. And he's like, is he like, is he anything happening?

He's like, yeah, yeah, he's fine, he's fun. He's, shh, he's, he crossed both hands

and turned his wrists over to choke the guy with his own kit. That's called a ghee choke in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. And that's what he did. That would be, that would be so,

last game of the season, they've got nothing to play for and you just see a guy just full ankle locking just, just some of that. Wait, also,

a English boxer, Harlem, U-Ban, said he's gotten in the ring with Herschler before. That'll be Chris Eubanks son, I assume, one of his sons. Yeah, it must be. The dude from Jay Leno, Kevin Eubanks. That's Kevin Eubanks.

We have a different U-Banks. We have a different U-Banks. Yeah, Kevin Eubanks in the Tonight Show band. My bad. Yeah, he said he's done training alongside Hurtzler. I've done a couple with him and his family. He's a great guy and incredible match. He can throw hands a little bit.

bit. Boxing training is a great way to get fit. Oh, so okay. So he's doing, he was doing it for Hursler. Is there some, some inadequate man shit going on with him? He's going to punch somebody. He's going to punch somebody one of these days. Yeah. Fabian, I don't know. I don't know if that's what you need. You need somebody like, you need like Ben Wallace. Okay, somebody who could pull down rebounds, you know, somebody who can fucking, oh, who owns the rim. You got to use that ass. You got to learn how to use your ass. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. You something. I'm always, like, I always feel like, too, for us, too,

I like, I want like a defensive end showing people clubbing and ripping and shit getting through like, get the fuck off. I'm getting, I'm getting this fucking ball. Those are the skills. Those relate to somebody who does that professionally. Yeah, man. Show us how to do that. And also how to, um, hire escorts in Florida.

You know, like, get like Warren Sapp. That's it. Yeah. Or like, our taxes always like talking about winning the duel. Yeah. Win a duel. He should hire a knight. Yeah.

The knight of the realm to show them out of win a duel. Oh, well, you know. If we win this fucking Premier League title, you know a guy in chain mail is coming next year. Guys. This is Lancelot, guys. Guys, guys, I want you to meet someone. This is Erin Burr, guys. He had a famous duel against Alexander Hamilton, guys, the American president, guys.

He fucking, he murked the president, guys. Have you seen the musical Hamilton? guys. This is the guy. This is the guy. I'm imagining this is after they all go see Hamilton as a team, he brings out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And during the performance of... Yeah, Eric, a really good shot for real, like

like Rust style, like Alec Baldwin. Shit. But as a song, there's a song know that in the middle of Hamilton where the lights pan on the team and he's always be ready to sing, guys. Always be joining guys. Three, four, guys, go. Aaron Burr, guys.

He's the best guys. One of the best. I think there was one, like, I feel like there's a famous photo of like the last French duel that was like legal like in the 20th century. Like motherfuckers were still doing pistols and shit.

Anyway, cool, Europe. Real cool. That's going to do it for us this week. Chris, Jamel, anything to plug. I'm going on the road. I'm in Sunnyvale, Sacramento, Chattanooga. Where else?

Chattanooga. Charlotte's Greenville, D.C. Tickets all on A.chrismartin.com. A.chrismartin.com because of the other guy. What about you, Big Baller? I was just in Sunnyvale. I'm May 5th, free show at Blind Barber in Highland Park. It's called Fresh Produce. Follow.

Fresh Produce underscore L.A. For some details. We're really bad at taking pictures. Some. Some details. You'll see something. Yeah, you'll see something. They might not be details, though. They might not be details.

I know. All right. Next week, one step closer when we'll all be together in studio lounging on couches. So look forward to that one. We'll be back together again and it feels so good. All right. We'll see you later. Peace.

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