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Speaker 1: It's time for the Kick Around the Tickets weekly show

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Speaker 1: all about soccer. Two hours of hso's and the clubs,

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Speaker 1: leagues and tournaments of the world's game. It doesn't matter if.

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Speaker 2: You're new to the sport.

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Speaker 1: Don't worry. This is the ticket. We're just kicking it

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Speaker 1: around now. Two guys who like to watch.

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Speaker 2: The ball go into the old Onion Bay, Andy Swift

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Speaker 1: It's an outlets the bull Mouth.

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Speaker 2: It's a great run from Ryan Ago.

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Speaker 1: Well then these helps who instroduce yourselves, I said, AFC

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Speaker 1: fullmut play out, that's a Premier League play out. The

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Speaker 1: nineteen year old is go full mouth level single handedly?

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Speaker 1: What were you doing when you were just nineteen years old?

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Speaker 2: Not scoring?

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Speaker 1: I'd to help you once and welcome to the Kick

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Speaker 1: Around back and comfortably placed in our natural habitat Saturdays

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Speaker 1: two to four here on the Sport Radio ninety six

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Speaker 1: seven and thirteen ten the ticket were you? The good

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Speaker 1: p One takes a break from a week of excellent

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl talk and discusses their love of the great

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Speaker 1: day and all that implies. Hi, it's me Peter, into

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Speaker 1: my left, but to your right on your broadcast or

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Speaker 1: streaming device. It's the world's most interesting man.

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Speaker 2: Andy Dalton Swift, Peter So four weeks ago. We've been

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Speaker 2: doing the show now several weeks in a row.

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Speaker 1: Svent four or five weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: When we started this streak, this hot streak were on,

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Speaker 2: maybe neutral. Then the week that now you're the next

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Speaker 1: I quit taking my medication.

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Speaker 2: Fast forward to this week.

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Speaker 1: You are.

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Speaker 2: I've never seen you happier. What's going on in your world?

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Speaker 1: Why suddenly I changed my medications, my mood enhancers.

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Speaker 2: I think your football clubs, oh, giving you something to route.

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Speaker 1: For for the first time that might have something to do.

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Speaker 1: So congrats, yes, and it would also pretend as to

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Speaker 1: why you have been snippy.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations for your top four finish too.

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Speaker 1: What's not over?

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Speaker 2: You're there now. I don't see the way you're playing.

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Speaker 2: I don't see Man United losing their grip on top four.

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Speaker 2: You can't lose anymore. You don't lose anymore.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna win out. Yeah, okay, well, thank you for that.

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Speaker 1: Prediction duly noted he accepted too. By the way, lots

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Speaker 1: of to do today, lots of soccer to do today

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Speaker 1: and talk about and discuss. I'm excited for this show

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Speaker 1: for many reasons. One because yes, my team had a

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Speaker 1: discussing that. I will admit that upfront, I'm not gonna tweet.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie or pretend. I also am excited

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Speaker 1: about today's episode of World Cup Nerd because we had

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Speaker 1: some news about mister Polisic that has everybody on edge,

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Speaker 1: which then got me thinking and saying to Andy Hay,

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Speaker 1: the specter of injuries in the lead up to a

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Speaker 1: World Cup on today's episode of World Cup Nerd, and

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Speaker 1: we will have a special visit from my hero, your hero,

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Speaker 1: Everybody's hero, the editor and founder of Third degree dot

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Speaker 1: Net Buzzcarac will check in live from Toyota Stadium. Andy,

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Speaker 1: we are a mere like eighteen days away from the

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Speaker 1: start of a major league soccer season. Yes, wow, doesn't wow?

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Speaker 1: And they're playing a preseason game against New York today

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Speaker 1: so call in a live call in, and we'll also

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Speaker 1: have a special announcement. What it's called special Okay, it's

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Speaker 2: Peter Wilton has been suspended for the next three weeks.

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Speaker 1: So we'll get into all that. Let's do the most

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Speaker 2: No, I have not seen the goal.

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Speaker 1: Holy I scored the winner as Napoli, despite playing down

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Speaker 1: Yesterday was interesting because we are just you know, months

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Speaker 2: There are three stages.

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Speaker 2: Other words, right, single aim nation highest plays lowest, and

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Speaker 1: Okay, so out of that final round, you have three

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Speaker 1: Mexico are almost certainly not going to play against each

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Speaker 2: One of them drops out of the top thirteen.

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Speaker 1: We wouldn't both of them have to oh between now

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Speaker 2: The top thirteen in conker cap not in the world.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's highly unlikely.

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Speaker 1: Very unlikely. This is the most fascinating story of the

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Speaker 1: Bayern Munich, going back to them, they've announced that they're

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Speaker 1: opening an academy out in California. Yeah. Now, I got

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Speaker 1: a ton of questions about this, Okay, Well, because you know,

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Speaker 1: currently Major League Soccer has a whole set of rules

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Speaker 1: terms of how they can attract youth players to their academies.

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Speaker 1: So for example, Houston players, it's difficult for them to

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Speaker 1: come end up playing at FC Dallas because they're from Houston,

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Speaker 1: and some of those rules have changed over the years.

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Speaker 1: But here's my question. Is FIFA really up for allowing

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Speaker 1: clubs from one country to open academies. I know there's

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Speaker 2: School here, it's done, it's done, but they will just operate.

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Speaker 2: It's not going to be like Byron and Byron Academy

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Speaker 2: with players from German I mean.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, but I know, But that means now

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Speaker 1: they're going to be draining players from La and San Diego.

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Speaker 2: There are other clubs, European clubs that presently have academies

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Speaker 2: Byron had one in the northeast.

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Speaker 2: And and there are other German clubs looking to do

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Speaker 2: But how do you legally stop that? Well that I

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Speaker 2: Why don't you why don't you write a letter sternly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, sternly worded letter to the FIFA.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'll do that. Uh, Christiano Ronaldo Andy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm fascinated with this. Can I ask you?

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Speaker 2: Are you up to speed?

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Speaker 1: Pretty much?

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Speaker 1: He's boycotting the entire league, is what he's doing.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. So basically, Ronaldo is unhappy because his

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Speaker 2: The Crown Prince thing. Okay, right, don't ask me.

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Speaker 1: And despite the fact that Rinaldo is making I think

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Speaker 2: Right, because they've reached their their spending limit. They're over

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Speaker 2: What I just have a question. Yeah, is it smart

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Speaker 1: Happened, I would I would say probably not, although he

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Speaker 2: Right exactly. That's a good point. Ronaldo has that leverage

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Speaker 1: Right exactly. If you're like a bench player for one

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Speaker 1: But yeah, yes, exactly. No, I think Rinaldo can probably

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Speaker 1: Crazy stuff. So Rinaldo's throwing a hissy fit, that's not

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Speaker 1: the day in the Premier League? Are SNOL has yet

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Speaker 1: won again? Next? On the Kick Around, we somehow it

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Speaker 1: got past me yesterday Andy that yesterday was the birthday

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Speaker 1: of one Lars Sibbertston.

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Speaker 1: Happy birthday, Lars. I guess my iPad's not turned up,

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Speaker 1: las Lar. That's all I really wanted. So Lars's birthday

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Speaker 1: do other p ones wish each other on their birthday, right,

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Speaker 1: I did that.

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Speaker 2: I don't recall you ever sending me a birthday wish, or.

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Speaker 1: You don't like birthday, aren't you one of these? I

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Speaker 2: No, I don't think so. I just don't make a

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Speaker 1: Well, anyway, my point being is I wished Lar's a

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Speaker 2: Right, well, doesn't he listen? Is he a p one

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Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, I think he pops in every

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Speaker 2: If you would know, right clearly, well listen.

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Speaker 1: With any regularity, Yes, you would know what that phrase meant,

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Speaker 2: Set on the ticket. I don't know why you're trying

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Speaker 1: Oh, I hope she woke you up in that special

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Speaker 2: Okay, so he's there's been a few So you tell

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Speaker 1: Happy birthday large. Hey all you kick around pe ones,

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Speaker 1: please go on social media and wish Lars a happy birthday.

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Speaker 1: He deserves it. He will be here in not too

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Speaker 2: So maybe at the studios, maybe we pull up a car.

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Speaker 2: That'd be awesome, because you know, like staying in Dallas,

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Speaker 1: of the Premier League. Arsenal hosted Sunderland and man, I

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Speaker 2: They're nine points clear. Now if City beats Liverpool, they'll

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Speaker 1: No, they're actually twelve points clear right now. If City

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Speaker 2: I would look up at the table, okay, and see

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Speaker 1: Back that's possible. I did math wrong? Me math bad.

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Speaker 1: Now let me make a comment about watching this game.

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Speaker 1: Did you did you get a chance to watch?

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Speaker 1: Sunderland I still admire greatly.

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Speaker 2: I was going to ask you that you are you

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Speaker 1: They were pushing Arsenal again looked weirdly edgy and this

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that would have been Do you do you have

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Speaker 2: Do you feel like they still have angst about this

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Speaker 1: I don't have a single one who are like, oh

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Speaker 2: So I don't know if you go to the Farmer's

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Speaker 2: he's like no, man, He's like they could all fall apart.

443
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Speaker 1: Hey, I'm like, dude, so gunshot, Yeah to a to

444
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:23,960
Speaker 1: a person, they are gunshot. And I get it. I

445
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,400
Speaker 1: get it. It's been a long time, man, I totally

446
00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:29,040
Speaker 1: get it. So Arsenal end up winning three nothing today

447
00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:32,280
Speaker 1: and uh, looking good, there you go. Uh and Yorker

448
00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:34,639
Speaker 1: is just scoring so good for them. The early morning

449
00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:37,760
Speaker 1: game I was concerned about. I'm just gonna be honest.

450
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:42,480
Speaker 1: Tottenham had beaten United multiple times over the last while. Uh,

451
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,000
Speaker 1: you know, things were just going a little bit too

452
00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:47,080
Speaker 1: good for one Michael Carrick, and.

453
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Speaker 2: So recap the game and then I have a follow

454
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Speaker 2: up question for you.

455
00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:53,960
Speaker 1: United end up winning the game to nothing.

456
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Speaker 2: Interesting.

457
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Speaker 1: The game was very tight up until good Lord Romero.

458
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:03,440
Speaker 1: I mean, that is the most self destructive human being

459
00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:08,120
Speaker 1: in the Premier League, an absolute goofy at. Oh well,

460
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:10,879
Speaker 1: actually I got a question for you. Was was the

461
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:15,520
Speaker 1: Romero tackle on Casamaro that resulted in a straight red?

462
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 1: Was that a reputation red?

463
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:22,280
Speaker 2: You wouldn't You don't think that.

464
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,359
Speaker 1: So if that had been if that had been making.

465
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Speaker 2: You know, but that happens, I think because what happens

466
00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:34,280
Speaker 2: the psychological aspect of who it was in sports. It happens.

467
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Speaker 1: Right, He's the first player of the season to get

468
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Speaker 1: two reds in the Premier League. This is his uh second,

469
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Speaker 1: I said second this year, fourth in the Premier leage.

470
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Speaker 2: I don't think it was an like a bad call

471
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Speaker 2: like I think it was.

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Speaker 1: I agree. I just am curious if you think if

473
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Speaker 1: it had been a lesser like somebody without his reputation,

474
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Speaker 1: would they would they have given maybe a yellow and

475
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Speaker 1: then varr would have said, no, it's a red. Anyway,

476
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,119
Speaker 1: it's his six total red as.

477
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Speaker 2: A small player. Well it was good for you.

478
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,680
Speaker 1: Well it changed the game and United ended up winning

479
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,800
Speaker 1: the game to nothing goals from Mimbuelo, who scored again,

480
00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,840
Speaker 1: and Bruno Fernandez. By the way, Fernandez now has had

481
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:23,359
Speaker 1: two hundred goal involvements in all of his time, in

482
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,600
Speaker 1: three hundred and fourteen games. That is up. He got

483
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:28,680
Speaker 1: to two hundred and three hundred fourteen games. The only

484
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,359
Speaker 1: player in United history that is faster than that was

485
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Speaker 1: Wayne Rooney. Your favorite player, Wayne Rooney?

486
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Speaker 2: Right, No, not Wayne Rooney. Hey, So this is my question.

487
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Speaker 2: When United beat City Michael Carrick's first game, I'm like, oh,

488
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 2: Michael Carrick for life, and You're like no, too early, man.

489
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Speaker 2: And then they beat Arsenal and I'm like, okay, you

490
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Speaker 2: beat City, you beat Arsenal. They got to hire him,

491
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Speaker 2: And you said, and this was last show because they

492
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Speaker 2: played on Sunday last week, so we hadn't you said

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Speaker 2: the following, No, what I need is a result or

494
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Speaker 2: two against in fear opposite opposition. I need him to

495
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:14,960
Speaker 2: beat bad teams right before I start talking about KRC

496
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Speaker 2: being handled or hired full time.

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Speaker 1: Right.

498
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Speaker 2: So since then they beat Fulham and they beat Spurs

499
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Speaker 2: Fulham and we said Fulham is a decent side. Okay, okay,

500
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Speaker 2: Spurs sucks.

501
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Speaker 1: Spurs is a Champions League team into the knockouts.

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Speaker 2: So are we ready?

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Speaker 1: No, I'm not going to be ready until the end

504
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Speaker 1: of the season. What in the world was that I

505
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:38,120
Speaker 1: was a toilet? Oh? No, I am not. Look. Let

506
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Speaker 1: him play out the season. I want to see what happens.

507
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Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not gonna I'm not. I'm not getting

508
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Speaker 1: baited into that hook man. No, I love it. I'm

509
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 1: so happy about it.

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Speaker 2: He's a club here.

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Speaker 1: It looks great on the sideline. Did you see the

512
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,159
Speaker 1: smile on his face when they scorned that set piece winner?

513
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Speaker 2: Just so it is wrong.

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Speaker 1: Why not just do it because it's too early, because

515
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:02,359
Speaker 1: that's what we did under Ola, and it bit us

516
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Speaker 1: in the.

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Speaker 2: Ass because he because you got Ronaldo, that's what happened.

518
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 1: We did get Ronaldo.

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Speaker 2: That's the problem.

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Speaker 1: Then, yeah, I feel bad for Thomas Frank. Let me

521
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 1: you know, Lars is one hundred percent done with Thomas Frank.

522
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Speaker 2: He was a while back.

523
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,440
Speaker 1: But let me say, before the red card, Thomas Frank

524
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 1: had set this team up with again with three in

525
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:23,879
Speaker 1: the back. He was doing this really interesting thing with

526
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 1: Paulinia playing as one of the back three, pulling into

527
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 1: the midfield. They were giving United a little bit of trouble.

528
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying it was, but they were playing positively.

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Speaker 1: The game was in the balance, and I thought he

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00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,119
Speaker 1: had done some really good things. And then his own captain,

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Speaker 1: who by the way, earlier in the week caused a

532
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Speaker 1: whole lot of controversy by going on going on social

533
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,119
Speaker 1: media and making a lot of noise about how pissed

534
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 1: off he was about the club not signing enough players.

535
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,200
Speaker 1: And now he went out and got a really unnecessary

536
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:57,359
Speaker 1: red card. Reminder, this is his second red card, so

537
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Speaker 1: it's not a three game suspension. It's a four game suspension.

538
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 2: Does when he comes back, will Frank still be the

539
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:06,720
Speaker 2: coach the gaffer?

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00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 1: Oh that's a great question.

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Speaker 2: I say no.

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Speaker 1: Their next four games at host Newcastle, the North London Derby,

543
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Speaker 1: oh wow, at Fulham and hosting Palace. So they're going

544
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,120
Speaker 1: to miss all those games. You'd think The Fulham game,

545
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 1: the Palace game are games they would potentially have something

546
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:30,959
Speaker 1: at and hosting Newcastle.

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00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:37,639
Speaker 2: If they get hosed in the derby, he's out. Where's

548
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 2: that game?

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Speaker 1: The North London Derby? It's at Spurs and they're better

550
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 1: on the road than they are at home.

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00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 2: This season, they lose at home in a bad way.

552
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: Yeah. But see, here's the thing. I don't know where

553
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 1: you two, who else is going to do anything better

554
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 1: with this collection of players. They're all They've got the

555
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 1: deepest injury list in the league, and they've not only

556
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Speaker 1: I mean more importantly than that, it's the deepest list

557
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 1: of important starter level players injured. And now their captain

558
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 1: is out for four games because he's an idiot.

559
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I just feel bad for Frank and I feel like

561
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: they're going to cut their nose off despite their face,

562
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 1: and they're gonna regret one day firing him because I

563
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 1: still think he's a really good manager.

564
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 2: Maybe United can pick him up once he gets fired,

565
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 2: just hire him full time for next year next send

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Speaker 2: kerk on his way.

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Speaker 1: That good okay, all right?

568
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:32,959
Speaker 2: Then aston Villa good enough for Spurs but not good

569
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Speaker 2: enough for my club. Okay, I see that's fair Aston Villa.

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00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 1: Now this is starting to This is the culmination of

571
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 1: a long running thing with Lars who has been trying

572
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 1: to tell everybody that Aston Villa may not be as

573
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 1: good as their record in the CADS.

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Speaker 2: Where do you stand on that? I think they're a

575
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 2: well coached club.

576
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:57,959
Speaker 1: I think they're a fantastically coached club. But that said,

577
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Speaker 1: they end up getting a one lead on the road

578
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 1: at Bournemouth today. But oh my gosh, we used the

579
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Speaker 1: goal call as the opener today Rayon Ryan Ryan, I

580
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:14,440
Speaker 1: guess they pronounced it. The young eighteen or nineteen year

581
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Speaker 1: old Brazilian they got from Vosco de Gama for thirty

582
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 1: four million dollars. He scored twenty goals in fifty games

583
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Speaker 1: last year for Vosco and now he's with Bournemouth and

584
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 1: on his debut picked up the ball in Villa's half

585
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: of the field and went straight to goal and hit

586
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 1: the most interesting little finish at the near post.

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Speaker 2: Did the seas open up for him? There a little bit?

588
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 1: It did, But you're nineteen in your debut in the

589
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Speaker 1: Premier League.

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00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it was great.

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00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 1: I mean, how many kids do that and go I

592
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 1: gotta get the ball away?

593
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:50,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's this?

594
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 1: I don't want this?

595
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 2: But they kept giving him space and he was like

596
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 2: until he was four yards from the goal. Did you

597
00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 2: see it?

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00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 1: Yeah? I Anyway, it's an interesting deal. Villa, now, by

599
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,720
Speaker 1: the way, have only won one game and they're one

600
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 1: two three last five, only two of their last six,

601
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 1: and they've lost three of their last two of their

602
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 1: last four. So Villa's form has taken a spill of late.

603
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 1: Emmy Martinez had to make seven saves in this particular game.

604
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 1: So there you go. Bournemouth. Uh still, I know, but

605
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 1: that they've you know now they got somebody chasing them.

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00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 2: Cherry's eleventh right at thirty four point.

607
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 1: Yes, correct, Cherry's just reloading. Man. They sell off some

608
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 1: meno and they take a fraction of that money and

609
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 1: converted into a nineteen year old Brazilian wonder kid.

610
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 2: Some people were saying Bournemouth was going to go down

611
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 2: this year because they lost so many people.

612
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: And look at them, who, by the way, looks like

613
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 1: a full, full on grown ass man at the age

614
00:31:55,160 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 1: ninth Ryan. Yes, believable, Holy cow. All right, it's time

615
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 1: to take a break. HEA's very mad at me for

616
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 1: going over. Let's take a break. We come back, let's

617
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 1: get into the best game of the day Newcastle and Brentford.

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Speaker 1: Next on the Kick Around, with the disturbing news that

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Speaker 1: mister Polissick has an injury. Let us to today's episode

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Speaker 1: of World Cup nerd the specter of injury leading into

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Speaker 1: a World cuple do that here in about fifteen minutes

622
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Speaker 1: on the old Kick Around. Welcome back on Peter. He's Andy.

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Speaker 1: We are in the middle of reviewing the day's action

624
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Speaker 1: in the Premier League.

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00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 2: So before we talk about the other games, we do

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00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 2: have a resident gunner with us, one Michael Dixon. Why

627
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 2: don't we just ask him?

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00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 1: All right, so, mister Dixon, our resident newsman, Yes, what's

629
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 1: all this angst?

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Speaker 3: The last few years City Liverpool they set a ridiculous

631
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 3: pace and going back to the last and full of years,

632
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:03,239
Speaker 3: it feels like ninety five points is what you need

633
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 3: to get to to win.

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00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 1: And you also you you stand by Andy's assertation that

635
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 1: I was wrong about the standings in point spread. Yes,

636
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: this point difference.

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00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 3: And I knew that because we'll tell everybody what it is.

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00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 3: It's it's nine after today and if City went to Mortal,

639
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 3: go back to six.

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00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 1: Okay, so it's nine.

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00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 3: City have a game in hand.

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00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 1: That game is at Liverpool.

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00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 2: So Andy was right and Peter was wrong.

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00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 1: That's what he really want. Yeah, that's what he wants

645
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 1: you to say, is Andy.

646
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 2: But I got to communicate with Dixon through you. We

647
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 2: rarely converse with each other, but that's okay. You know

648
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 2: radio dynamics. Sometimes people don't really get to see what

649
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 2: happens behind the scenes.

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00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:51,479
Speaker 1: Right exactly. All right, Well, you hold your water, mister Dixon.

651
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 1: Everything's going to be just fine. I'm here to tell

652
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 1: you actually, of all the things, I.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, mister Dixon.

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00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The best game of the day was the last one,

656
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 1: which was Newcastle hosting Brentford. Now I didn't know this,

657
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:09,239
Speaker 1: but halfway through the second half, the whoever was doing

658
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 1: play by play announced this fact that I didn't do.

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00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:15,359
Speaker 1: You know that the Brentford Newcastle pairing is what is

660
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,399
Speaker 1: like I think he said, it's the it's the one

661
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 1: pairing that's the highest average goals per game in the

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00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:27,319
Speaker 1: Premier League. It's the average four goals a game year.

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Speaker 1: It didn't he didn't give a time for him. He

664
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Speaker 1: just said in the Premier League. Interesting, which is crazy.

665
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Speaker 2: Well, we saw it today, didn't we?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Boy did we? Ever? Goodness gracious, Newcastle took a

667
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: one goal lead, had the lead, and it just and

668
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 1: it just kind of went back and forth from there.

669
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 1: It was. It was really I mean, I just I

670
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 1: gotta say Newcastle fans just have to be completely frustrated.

671
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 1: But Lars insists that Eddie Howe does not have this

672
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Speaker 1: hotest seed as you think he does.

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Speaker 2: And I wonder why that is because expectations after Newcastle

674
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 2: changed in a row now, yeah, and after they changed ownership.

675
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:13,320
Speaker 2: Has it been four years now when the Saudis that

676
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 2: the country of Saudi Arabia essentially bought Newcastle. Our expectation

677
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 2: was that they would become one of the one of

678
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Speaker 2: the powers, right, one of the what was it six

679
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 2: then now seven clubs, and they would always be competing

680
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 2: for European spots. So when they would dip to twelfth

681
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:37,839
Speaker 2: midway through a season, you would think that the coach

682
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 2: would then be in trouble. So why why are we not? Like?

683
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 2: Why is Newcastle Nation not up in arms about this?

684
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Speaker 2: With all them?

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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it's more uh, maybe they're more upset about

686
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:53,360
Speaker 1: it than you, and I realized now I should say this.

687
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 1: Brentford ended up. This game was two to two for

688
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 1: a while, and then in the eighty fifth minute Atara

689
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 1: scored and Brentford won the game three two. And look,

690
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:07,399
Speaker 1: Brentford now have the second best form over the last

691
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Speaker 1: three games in the Premier League. They are six two

692
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:12,359
Speaker 1: and two.

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00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:15,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, they sit seventh right now.

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Speaker 1: It's and this great story.

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Speaker 2: This is a club that all the pundits were picking,

696
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 2: or not all the punnit but a lot of people

697
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 2: were picking them to get relegated. They lost their coach.

698
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,359
Speaker 2: The coach that got hired in his place was an

699
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 2: assistant coach. People weren't happy about that, but ultimately Brentford

700
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 2: just goes back to the way they run. They stick

701
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:39,760
Speaker 2: to their system, They rely heavily on analytics. Almost doesn't

702
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:41,719
Speaker 2: matter who the coach is. The coach just has to

703
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 2: handle things in the in the locker room and just

704
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:48,280
Speaker 2: run their system. That's how they acquire players. That's how

705
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 2: that strategies they use in game. Strategy they use is

706
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 2: dependent on analytics and it works. This club is a

707
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:58,320
Speaker 2: small club that keeps doing really well in the Premier.

708
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 1: League and they keep adding players.

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00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 2: I mean, but they're really good about being efficient with

710
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:04,240
Speaker 2: their dollars.

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00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: Okay, so question if Brentford end up in a European spot,

712
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 1: let's just let's say that yes or conference whatever. Sure,

713
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 1: so right now they're in eleventh.

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00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 2: No, they're in seventh.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm looking at the wrong table. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: I was looking at the I looked at Born with

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00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:26,640
Speaker 1: the set of Brentford. It's my dyslexia. So now they're

718
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Speaker 1: in seventh. If they end up in the Europa League

719
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 1: not Conference league, is Keith Andrews manager of the Year?

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Speaker 2: Well do you base it on that? Would that would

721
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 2: mean that they finished top six in EPL? Right, like

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00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 2: independent of the Europe thing.

723
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm saying if they qualify. If they end up

724
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Speaker 1: in six and qualify.

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00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 2: For Europe, but they finished top six EPL, that's I

726
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 2: think that's all you have to say.

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00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 1: Okay, fair, Yes, Okay, So even if Arteta wins the Premier.

728
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 2: League, yes, because yes.

729
00:37:56,520 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 1: See I agree, so like if Sunderland, if Sunderland continues

730
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:04,359
Speaker 1: to play as well as they had been and ended

731
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:08,439
Speaker 1: up in six, that to me is more deserving of Manager.

732
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Speaker 2: Of the Year. So as the manager of the year,

733
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 2: the one that guides his team to the title every year,

734
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 2: I mean, I.

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Speaker 1: Think that it's a popularity contest. I suspect to some

736
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 1: degree and Arteta, after this entire journey finally winning the

737
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 1: Premier League, you could kind of see a compelling case

738
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:26,399
Speaker 1: for that. But I'm like.

739
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 2: Where they have one of the favorites heading end.

740
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Speaker 1: But I'm like you, I'm like, what is the actual

741
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:37,880
Speaker 1: hardest achievement as a manager, And it would be Sublin

742
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:40,880
Speaker 1: or Brentford for sure, one hundred percent agree with you

743
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: on crazy. The only thing Brentford did wrong in this

744
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:45,959
Speaker 1: game is they didn't wear their brown kits. They should

745
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 1: have Warren Brown today, poor que because it would have

746
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 1: looked better instead of a light.

747
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Speaker 2: Blue Jim James, Yeah, but you don't like those.

748
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:57,879
Speaker 1: I mean they're nice, but I like the brown ones

749
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 1: better and that would have been more visually interesting today. Yes,

750
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 1: we'll keep an eye on what happens with Newcastle. Crazy stuff.

751
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 1: Good game, Okay, let's run through this real quick. West

752
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 1: Ham got another win. They are sneaking up on Newcastle.

753
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 1: Not Newcastle, excuse me, Nottingham Forrest. They won over Burnley

754
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 1: today to nothing. By the way, mister Smmerville, this is

755
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: his fifth straight game with a goal. Prior to this

756
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:25,960
Speaker 1: he had only scored once for the Hammers and now

757
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 1: he's on a five games streak. And Toddy Costianos the

758
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:36,800
Speaker 1: former NYC but with a brilliant patter to score. Fulham

759
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 1: lost at home today after going up to one to Everton.

760
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:49,279
Speaker 1: Now Everton is now unbeaten in their last five. Yes,

761
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 1: and old man Moys has got him up there. I

762
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: don't know if you saw the winning goal. I don't

763
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 1: know how you let an opposing player on a corner

764
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 1: kick eventually body up next to your goalkeeper because Leno

765
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: came in to try to clear it and the Beverage

766
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,319
Speaker 1: player just kept him from getting to it and he

767
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:11,399
Speaker 1: essentially just knocked it into his own goals. So there

768
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Speaker 1: you go. Fulham now've lost three or of the last four.

769
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Speaker 1: Chelsea Resenior now has won five of his six games

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Speaker 1: as manager of Chelsea. I think that's ready. It's either

771
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 1: five or six of six or seven. Whatever it is is.

772
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Speaker 1: They beat the worst team in the league, which are cooked,

773
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Speaker 1: three to one.

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Speaker 2: Last week we said man Wolves aren't as bad as

775
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:32,839
Speaker 2: their eight points, but today they looked fully as bad

776
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 2: as their eight points.

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Speaker 1: Crazy note out of this game, mister Cole Palmer had

778
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:40,759
Speaker 1: a natural first half hat trick. I don't know if

779
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 1: you saw this, but they announced that that means that

780
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 1: with this hat trick, he is now the Chelsea leader

781
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 1: of all time for hat tricks.

782
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:55,840
Speaker 2: Wow, young, but yeah, Frank Lamper also became the first

783
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 2: one in Premier League history. Did you read this one

784
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 2: or hear about this one? To score three first half

785
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 2: hat tricks?

786
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 1: Oh? Wow, that's a crazy Nobody's done that to me.

787
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 1: I just when I heard that, he instantly already is

788
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 1: the club leader with that club and some of the

789
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 1: you know hazard and I mean some of the players.

790
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 2: It's crazy.

791
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 1: Yeah he did. Okay, does that ruin it for you?

792
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 1: The hat trick? Do you not count?

793
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:23,440
Speaker 4: All?

794
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: Right? Tomorrow the games are of importance. Excuse me? Brighton

795
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:31,759
Speaker 1: is hosting not yeah, Brighton is hosting Crystal Palace in

796
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:34,320
Speaker 1: the eight o'clock game, and then the big one? Andy,

797
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:39,279
Speaker 1: are you ready for this? Liverpool hosting man City at tenth? Am?

798
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 2: I ready? What do you mean? Am I ready for

799
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 2: the big loss? Am I emotionally ready for I'm gonna

800
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:49,359
Speaker 2: there's a when? Give me? Maybe you've looked this up.

801
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 2: When was the last time?

802
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:53,280
Speaker 1: When was the last.

803
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 2: Time City beat Liverpool twice in league play in one year?

804
00:41:57,840 --> 00:41:58,920
Speaker 2: Like the League double?

805
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:00,360
Speaker 1: I don't know that.

806
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 2: Nineteen thirty six thirty seven. So so if they if okay,

807
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 2: the last time City beat Liverpool twice in league play

808
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 2: in one year was thirty six thirty seven.

809
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 1: So you're saying Liverpool is going to win.

810
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 2: This well, if the streak stays alive, if City, if

811
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 2: City beats Liverpool, it'll be the first time in like

812
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:23,240
Speaker 2: almost one hundred City win the first one.

813
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: Yeah?

814
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 2: Three zero?

815
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 1: Oh that's right?

816
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:27,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I didn't get my type feil for it. Okay,

817
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 2: you got me so clearly this is the City's zero

818
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:34,720
Speaker 2: for Liverpool. But I just found it hard to believe

819
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 2: that City hasn't done like all those great teams that

820
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,800
Speaker 2: they had and the teams and notts and whatever.

821
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 1: Right, Yes, I'm curious to see how this I'm really

822
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:47,839
Speaker 1: fascinated to see how this game goes, mostly because, uh,

823
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:50,520
Speaker 1: you know, City's got this whole back line thing going on.

824
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:52,919
Speaker 1: They haven't been playing well.

825
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 2: Up to sell teams have a whole back line thing

826
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 2: going on, Peter, well like in terms of having to

827
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:02,719
Speaker 2: do stuff to fix a leaky back line. Okay, is

828
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:03,720
Speaker 2: that what you mean by.

829
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:08,839
Speaker 1: Uh No, What I'm saying is City has won one

830
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 1: game in their last six once and.

831
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 2: How many Liver? How many has Liverpool won in their

832
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:18,239
Speaker 2: last six? Look it up, one one exactly. Get out

833
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 2: of here with your stuff.

834
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:22,799
Speaker 1: But you're gonna be fine, Andy, I'm trying to make

835
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:23,879
Speaker 1: you feel better about your.

836
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:28,880
Speaker 2: Eight points ahead of Liverpool. City is if Liverpool the

837
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:32,760
Speaker 2: gold differential twenty six plus twenty six for City plus six.

838
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 1: For Liver if Liverpool finishes.

839
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:35,399
Speaker 2: I am hoping for a draw.

840
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:39,239
Speaker 1: Really, two, you're hoping for your draw?

841
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:44,839
Speaker 2: Yeah? Mighty Pep City vine for first chasing Arsenal Lars Oh.

842
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:47,319
Speaker 1: By the way, breaking news, Lars is convinced Pep is

843
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:48,280
Speaker 1: out after the season.

844
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:50,240
Speaker 2: He's going to retire for a personal decision.

845
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:51,799
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yeah.

846
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 2: Most people are saying that Dixon. You're rooting for Liverpool

847
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,920
Speaker 2: right because this will help your club. Absolutely there, Thank you,

848
00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 2: Steve Man. Dixon and I found new connection today. We

849
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:03,760
Speaker 2: are connecting today, connecting today.

850
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 1: Such BFFs. I got your back, Peter, I love you,

851
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 1: Thank you. You're the one. You're like a big old bear.

852
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 1: I just need somebody to hug.

853
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:14,320
Speaker 2: You're rooting for City because you need Liverpool exactly.

854
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:14,920
Speaker 1: You are right.

855
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:15,880
Speaker 2: I mean in terms of what.

856
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 1: You need to keep liver a pool down.

857
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:19,560
Speaker 2: No, you want top four.

858
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. I need to keep Liverpool away. Yes,

859
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 1: stay away from my top four spot, right bird?

860
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, man.

861
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:32,839
Speaker 1: And if Liverpool ends up beneath United at the end

862
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:34,439
Speaker 1: of the Premier League season.

863
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 2: We cancel the show. There's no more kicked around, no

864
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:43,840
Speaker 2: reason to talk Premier League moving forward. If that happens,

865
00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:47,680
Speaker 2: we are doing more. Andy Dixon will go out on top,

866
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 2: Arsenal will win it all. Why do we need to

867
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 2: continue at that point? Oh?

868
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:54,879
Speaker 1: Very good, Okay, We're going to take a break. That's

869
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 1: it for the day in the Premier League. When we

870
00:44:56,840 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 1: come back, let's do some World Cup nerd the of

871
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 1: injury next on the Kick Around, believe it or not,

872
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 1: the new season of Major League Soccer and FC Dallas

873
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:18,880
Speaker 1: is nigh around the corner. In fact, as we speak,

874
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 1: they are playing a preseason game up at Toyota Stadium

875
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:26,799
Speaker 1: against New York Red Bull and checking in from the

876
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:30,479
Speaker 1: stadium will be our friend Buzzcarrick to tell us all

877
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 1: about it, and we'll also make a special announcement here

878
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 1: in about fifteen twenty minutes here on the kick around

879
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:41,480
Speaker 1: in Germany. That's time for our favorite.

880
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:47,320
Speaker 2: You got Granada World Cup ner, Norway, Turkey, Finland.

881
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 1: Okay, I know, Andy, I know, I know all the country.

882
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:53,839
Speaker 1: Stop it all right. First off, I want to ask

883
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 1: a question. Can somebody, Andy, you explain to me how

884
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 1: we now live in a universe, a soccer world where

885
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 1: a European club has decided they need an American striker

886
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:11,439
Speaker 1: with a broken arm more than they need forty four

887
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 1: million dollars. That makes blown no sense.

888
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:22,719
Speaker 2: I think collectively, US soccer nation was amazed with that

889
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 2: decision by PSV to no, we're not gonna sell him

890
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:26,200
Speaker 2: after all.

891
00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 1: So, for those who don't know, Fulham wanted to buy

892
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:32,880
Speaker 1: Ricardo Peppi, who is out with a broken forearm, for

893
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:37,799
Speaker 1: I think another six weeks. Okay, PSV the Dutch club

894
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:40,880
Speaker 1: that owns him, who doesn't even play him on the regular,

895
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:44,319
Speaker 1: They can't now, well, they weren't when he broke his arm,

896
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 1: even though he was scoring goals for him, He wasn't

897
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 1: their starter. They have a seventeen point lead, they've dropped

898
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 1: only seven points all year, and yet they've decided they

899
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 1: would rather have Ricardo Peppy than forty four million dollars.

900
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 2: FC Dallas is affected by this too, right, because they

901
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 2: got don't.

902
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 1: Trickle down money money. Yes, I'm sure Clark is putting

903
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:07,279
Speaker 1: in a phone call for sure.

904
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 2: So I guess your point was they're rolling the dice

905
00:47:10,040 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 2: for a World Cup, and.

906
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 1: That's the only explanation is that they think if he

907
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:17,920
Speaker 1: plays for the US and scores a goal, yeah, and

908
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 1: suddenly now is worth fifty four million dollars. I just,

909
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:25,320
Speaker 1: to me, being in a longtime American fan, the idea

910
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,759
Speaker 1: we live in a universe that that's actually a thing

911
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:31,399
Speaker 1: just seems so improbable to me and remarkable. It's nuts.

912
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:34,280
Speaker 1: Now that leads me into this whole thing about injuries,

913
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:38,239
Speaker 1: because obviously, I hope everybody is aware Christian Polisic has

914
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:43,280
Speaker 1: not been playing for Milan because of a recent injury

915
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 1: battling I think a presides sack in his hip or

916
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:50,840
Speaker 1: something like that. As now, I've read several things indicating

917
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:54,399
Speaker 1: that he may be back enough to feature for them

918
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 1: against Pisa tomorrow. Okay, there's still some question as to

919
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 1: whether or not goes, but I every.

920
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:03,959
Speaker 2: Time, are you hopeful? Like, maybe don't play them? Yeah?

921
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:08,000
Speaker 1: Could you guys just lay off on the Christian Polisic overuse, please?

922
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:10,480
Speaker 2: Christian, can you maybe just pretend you're hurt a little

923
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:11,400
Speaker 2: bit more than you really are?

924
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:15,960
Speaker 1: Right, because we now are in that very critical window

925
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 1: of time where you begin to look at the men's

926
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:21,280
Speaker 1: US men's national team roster and you realize, Okay, Tyler

927
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: Adams critical piece is fighting to come back from an

928
00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:29,320
Speaker 1: MCL injury. Ricardo Peppi is a broken arm. Now, Christian Polisic,

929
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 1: oh no, just when you think the poor guy can

930
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:34,360
Speaker 1: keep himself healthy, he's hurt again.

931
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 2: And the timing of these injuries is key because we've

932
00:48:38,719 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 2: had cases where players go down for national teams right

933
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,360
Speaker 2: ahead of the World Cup, like the week before the

934
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:49,319
Speaker 2: last friendly. That is really impactful. An injury that happens

935
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 2: in January not as critical because you have a little

936
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:57,839
Speaker 2: bit of time for recovery. Bull a sick. I think

937
00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:00,680
Speaker 2: it's in an okay time frame. Now, I would assume

938
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 2: I'm more worried about Tyler Adams and recovery, yes, and

939
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:09,880
Speaker 2: form and form due to the nature of his injury.

940
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 1: Because he will have gone several months without playing.

941
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:16,080
Speaker 2: Right exactly, and the position requires that PEPPI the least

942
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:17,920
Speaker 2: worried broken arm.

943
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 1: You know, he although he was in an interesting run

944
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:27,080
Speaker 1: of vein of a run of form, so that he's

945
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 1: gonna have to regain that.

946
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:32,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so yeah, I mean it's worried. Welcome to

947
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:35,920
Speaker 2: following a national team heading into a World Cup. I mean,

948
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:38,160
Speaker 2: I you know, I don't know what country that has

949
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:40,239
Speaker 2: played in a World Cup hasn't had to face these

950
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:41,360
Speaker 2: kind of similar issues.

951
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:44,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was. There was a period of time where

952
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 1: I never had considered that, even in the early days

953
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 1: of when I was regularly watching the sport. And the

954
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:53,400
Speaker 1: one thing that will never I will never forget this.

955
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 1: So my wife and one of the the very first

956
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:56,880
Speaker 1: time my wife and I ever went overseas to go

957
00:49:56,960 --> 00:50:01,040
Speaker 1: watch soccer included a trip initially to go to the

958
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:05,400
Speaker 1: first Manchester Derby in forever. It was the first season

959
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:06,799
Speaker 1: City was back in the.

960
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:08,919
Speaker 2: Premier League and it would have been the first there.

961
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:12,440
Speaker 1: Well, we were going to be there, but United had

962
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:15,359
Speaker 1: progressed far enough from the Champions League that that game

963
00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:19,600
Speaker 1: got bumped and we ended up being at the famous

964
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:24,920
Speaker 1: Champions League game against Deportivo La Coruna. Famous because David

965
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 1: Beckham went down with an injury before the end, before

966
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:32,880
Speaker 1: the end of the first half, and it was in

967
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:37,600
Speaker 1: April of two and I so I had never been

968
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:41,479
Speaker 1: to Old Trafford before. It was an absolute electric scene

969
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:43,560
Speaker 1: on like anything I had ever experienced in my life.

970
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:46,320
Speaker 1: And I will never forget as he comes off the field,

971
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:51,879
Speaker 1: how the mood just completely went the other direction. Now

972
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:57,000
Speaker 1: remember kids, this is before smartphones. So at halftime I

973
00:50:57,040 --> 00:50:59,719
Speaker 1: will never forget watching all the people like run to

974
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:02,399
Speaker 1: tell visions to see if they could figure out what's

975
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:04,040
Speaker 1: going on. And I turned to somebody and I said,

976
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 1: what's going on? They're like, it's the World Cup, mate,

977
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:09,080
Speaker 1: he may not get to play on the World Cup. Now,

978
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:11,880
Speaker 1: remember this would have been the World Cup after his

979
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 1: disastrous red.

980
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:16,879
Speaker 2: Card and by now he was he was a top

981
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:19,400
Speaker 2: top player for the national team. I mean, he was

982
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:22,520
Speaker 2: kind of it free kick specialist, and this is heading

983
00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:25,080
Speaker 2: into the two World Cup in Japan, South Korea.

984
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:27,840
Speaker 1: Yes, and so they were very It was the first

985
00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 1: time I had ever really put any hard consideration into Oh,

986
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:34,719
Speaker 1: that's right, the World Cup's coming up. People don't need

987
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:35,520
Speaker 1: to be getting hurt.

988
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:38,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, and do players like let I had a

989
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:41,160
Speaker 2: similar personal experience. For me, it was, you know, my

990
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:45,440
Speaker 2: my idol growing up in soccer as Zico and Xico

991
00:51:45,719 --> 00:51:47,879
Speaker 2: part of the eighty two World Cup team, Brazilian team

992
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:49,480
Speaker 2: that didn't win the eighty two World Cup, considered the

993
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:51,720
Speaker 2: best team not win a World Cup. But in eighty

994
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:55,719
Speaker 2: six they were going to again field a pretty good

995
00:51:55,719 --> 00:51:57,919
Speaker 2: team with a decent chance of winning that World Cup.

996
00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:01,480
Speaker 2: And Zico got injured a few weeks leading up to

997
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:04,279
Speaker 2: the World Cup, his knee. He had had any search,

998
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 2: any cry, and so that was a lot of angst

999
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:09,960
Speaker 2: and it ended up hurting Brazil. I mean, Brazil probably

1000
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 2: would have advanced to the final if they beat Maradona

1001
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:13,840
Speaker 2: in the final or not, who knows. I mean they

1002
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:17,799
Speaker 2: lost to France and the quarters on pks. But you

1003
00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:22,319
Speaker 2: know that Zeko going down gave the Brazilian populace a

1004
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:22,960
Speaker 2: lot of angst.

1005
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:23,600
Speaker 1: Yeah you know.

1006
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 2: Pele though got injured in group play in the sixties

1007
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:31,120
Speaker 2: and the sixty two World Cup in Chile. Now this

1008
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:34,399
Speaker 2: isn't at the group stage. This is after they won

1009
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:37,760
Speaker 2: in fifty eight, So the whole country's up in arms.

1010
00:52:38,239 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 2: What happens they win? Anyway, some player named Garensha became

1011
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:45,600
Speaker 2: the new hero. And so depth matters a lot. And yeah,

1012
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:48,000
Speaker 2: so if you're the US national team, it's.

1013
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:49,680
Speaker 1: The number one thing we talked about.

1014
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:53,840
Speaker 2: Yes, you know, Johann Kroif missed the seventy eight World Cup.

1015
00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:56,680
Speaker 2: His team got to the final, so that wasn't as

1016
00:52:56,719 --> 00:52:59,399
Speaker 2: impactful because that team had a lot of depth. Now

1017
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:04,319
Speaker 2: do you remember one Nedved what was this his first name?

1018
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 2: Petro Nedved or Pavel Nedve, Czech Republic, the dark horse

1019
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:14,879
Speaker 2: to win the six World Cup. He gets injured right

1020
00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 2: before that World Cup, leading up to one of the

1021
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:20,239
Speaker 2: last friendlies they played, and the team really wasn't They

1022
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:22,320
Speaker 2: didn't even get up at group stage. So that shows

1023
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:25,800
Speaker 2: you when you're not a brazil or a Germany or

1024
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:28,800
Speaker 2: a Argentina and you miss your star player, it really

1025
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:29,520
Speaker 2: is impactful.

1026
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:32,560
Speaker 1: It is and this is something to think about because

1027
00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: while the United States is a far deeper squad in

1028
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:39,719
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six than it ever has been before, it's

1029
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 1: not like England deep or Argentina deep, and you know

1030
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:46,440
Speaker 1: you lose a Christian Polisic.

1031
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:48,719
Speaker 2: Or a Tyler Adams or Tyler I think those are

1032
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:50,840
Speaker 2: the two more important players they have. And Chris Richards

1033
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:52,319
Speaker 2: now who's shown himself to that.

1034
00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:56,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's yeah. I guess if there was one player

1035
00:53:56,800 --> 00:54:00,239
Speaker 1: currently right now the US could not bear to lose,

1036
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:03,560
Speaker 1: it's probably Polisic. Yeah, don't you think is that fair?

1037
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:06,840
Speaker 2: Yeah? Or it's all about how much of a drop

1038
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 2: off to next up in line? And is there more

1039
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 2: of a drop off at the Sixthler Adams and I

1040
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:14,840
Speaker 2: think there's a pretty decent drop off there, so they

1041
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 2: tests Yeah, okay, fair? By the way, I think what

1042
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:25,200
Speaker 2: adds to your angst and all those with this is

1043
00:54:25,239 --> 00:54:27,840
Speaker 2: a next This is a World Cup, and this national

1044
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:30,480
Speaker 2: team that has the highest expectations we've had for a

1045
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:33,480
Speaker 2: national US national team in a long long time. It

1046
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:35,719
Speaker 2: used to be like we qualified, let's hope we got

1047
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:38,440
Speaker 2: out of group stage. Now it's no, we got to

1048
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:41,760
Speaker 2: get out of group stage in advance and advanced well

1049
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:46,160
Speaker 2: into the second round, and missing players like this definitely

1050
00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:48,360
Speaker 2: impacts that, and I think that's creating a little bit

1051
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:48,840
Speaker 2: more angst.

1052
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:50,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just kind of running through and thinking

1053
00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:53,480
Speaker 1: about other national teams who are like freaking out about

1054
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:56,239
Speaker 1: players being injured, and I'm sure there's a long list

1055
00:54:56,320 --> 00:54:58,920
Speaker 1: of them currently running right now that people are like,

1056
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:01,640
Speaker 1: could we couldn't bear to lose? Well?

1057
00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:04,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I also think players, I mean, this.

1058
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 1: Is like Jude Bellingham's injury current right, you know, like, yeah,

1059
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:09,840
Speaker 1: Osaka is not one hundred percent right, you know that

1060
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:14,480
Speaker 1: for England, Naymar with Brazil, we don't even know if

1061
00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:15,640
Speaker 1: he's going to play with Brazil.

1062
00:55:15,719 --> 00:55:17,759
Speaker 2: And remember what happened to Neymar when he got injured

1063
00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:19,759
Speaker 2: during the World Cup and how devastating that was for

1064
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:23,040
Speaker 2: the fan base for the team. They just they bombed out.

1065
00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:27,480
Speaker 2: Do players hold back a little bit like certain star players?

1066
00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:31,239
Speaker 1: I would assume that when you get towards end of

1067
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:33,719
Speaker 1: your league season and you know you're lining up to

1068
00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:37,560
Speaker 1: go join your national team for the World Cup, especially

1069
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:39,759
Speaker 1: if you're on a club team that has nothing to

1070
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:40,279
Speaker 1: play for.

1071
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:43,360
Speaker 2: What about if you're a veteran player. It's going to

1072
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:45,520
Speaker 2: be your last World Cup. You've already got all the

1073
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:48,439
Speaker 2: skins on the wall club wise. Yeah, and you got

1074
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:51,120
Speaker 2: to watch what you do because you're older to right

1075
00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:51,839
Speaker 2: Van Dyke.

1076
00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:56,600
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's not that's not a bad show. Mohammed Sola.

1077
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:06,920
Speaker 2: Why No, you just wonder they're human, right, I mean

1078
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:09,319
Speaker 2: even if it's subconscious.

1079
00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:12,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, I completely agree with you. Yes, it makes me

1080
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:15,560
Speaker 1: wonder if Earling Holland may just kind of like, you know,

1081
00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:17,919
Speaker 1: if they don't think they're going to win a lot

1082
00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:20,080
Speaker 1: this year and he's he wants he does not want

1083
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:22,479
Speaker 1: to miss out for Norway. You know, you just begin

1084
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:24,799
Speaker 1: to wonder. I would hate to put that on any

1085
00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:27,480
Speaker 1: one guy, right, But like you said, they're human. Real

1086
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 1: quick question before we go. I got to meet my

1087
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:33,240
Speaker 1: soccer hero once. Did you get to meet Zek's soccer

1088
00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:37,960
Speaker 1: hero ted Ek Did you get to meet account?

1089
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:44,839
Speaker 2: I met Zeko through one paston Pomakle really yes, because

1090
00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:47,480
Speaker 2: he's at the All Star the World All Stars, and

1091
00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:50,440
Speaker 2: he sat next to Zico on the bus and he

1092
00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:51,360
Speaker 2: said hi for me.

1093
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:53,800
Speaker 1: So you've never met Zico?

1094
00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:57,520
Speaker 2: I mean there I did, I saw him.

1095
00:56:57,680 --> 00:56:58,520
Speaker 1: Zeico's still alive?

1096
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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, Well, I don't know. Yeah, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Oh are you gonna is this a Christmas wish? You're

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Speaker 2: gonna give you.

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Speaker 1: Super super late? All right, we're gonna go. All right.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, we're gonna get him on the phone,

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Speaker 1: our hero Buzzcaric and live from Toyota Stadium. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: all about f C Dallas next year on the Kick Around.

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00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:28,760
Speaker 1: We have breaking news Andy, Oh, this is important for

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Speaker 1: all nervous soccer loving p ones. Via Twitter from p

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00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:38,520
Speaker 1: One Macho Nadal, Hello boys, just an f y. I

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Speaker 1: I just now got an email from FIFA notifying me

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Speaker 1: that I won two tickets to a Netherlands game in

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00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:51,880
Speaker 1: Houston and a four ticket pack to the Japan game

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00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:54,440
Speaker 1: at AT and T. And my buddy just won tickets

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Speaker 1: to four games three here one in l A good

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00:57:57,680 --> 00:58:03,800
Speaker 1: luck to everybody. People really do win, Andy, Yes, ticket

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Speaker 1: tickets are going out. Ticket announcements for the third round

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Speaker 1: or getting.

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Speaker 2: The third round, Yes, the lottery.

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Speaker 1: So Andy, did you get an email from FIFA?

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Speaker 2: I checked my email immediately once you read that Twitter.

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Speaker 1: And did you? Andy Swift?

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Speaker 2: Let me tell you that I got an email from FIFA,

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00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:28,400
Speaker 2: that says Andy Swift congratulations, we are pleased to inform

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Speaker 2: you that your ticket application was partially successful. So I did,

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Speaker 2: I did. I did win the lottery. I guess which

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Speaker 2: means I get to pay.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, my favorite party is he's calling this winning tickets

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00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:46,520
Speaker 1: when he's got probably a three thousand dollars credit card.

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Speaker 1: I have the right to buy now.

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Speaker 2: I think I have bought, because I think once you

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Speaker 2: enter that you have to buy one here.

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Speaker 1: And then I checked my email and I said, Peter,

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Speaker 1: did you get an email? Sorry, Peter, no email from FIFA.

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Speaker 2: Just keep trying, Just keep trying, and one day.

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Speaker 1: To soothe my aching heart, let's go to the Diamond

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Speaker 1: Factory ticket hotline and live from Toyota Stadium. It's my hero,

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Speaker 1: your hero, everybody's hero. Editor, founder of third degree dot

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Speaker 1: Net and the original soccer influencer himself, buzz Carick Howdy,

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00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:25,880
Speaker 1: buzz hey.

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00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:27,520
Speaker 4: Fellas too can leave. You did the whole things here

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00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:28,080
Speaker 4: on the tation.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well you deserve it, man. How's uh the you

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Speaker 1: believe it in MLS seasons right around the corner.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just up here in the sunshine and joined

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00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:40,440
Speaker 4: one hundred and thirty five minutes of soccer with some

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Speaker 4: construction going on.

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00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:44,560
Speaker 1: Wait wait one hundred and thirty five minutes.

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00:59:45,320 --> 00:59:53,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, three forty five minute periods preseason scrim soccer. It's hockey, soccer, yes, soccer,

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00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:56,360
Speaker 4: whatever it is. How is uh eight minutes ago?

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Speaker 1: How does Toyota Stadium look with its massive reconcial reconstruction projects.

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Speaker 4: Oh beautiful. I mean it looks amazing. It's not even

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Speaker 4: close to halfway done. But the roof part looks fantastic.

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01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:12,400
Speaker 4: It's got all the soccer vibes and all that stuff. So, hey,

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Speaker 4: buzz looks fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Hey buzs Hey any.

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Speaker 2: Hey, So is the roof like completely built and you

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Speaker 2: can get a sense of how the sound will be improved?

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Speaker 1: Or is that atmosphere?

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, the atmosphere, Yeah, the roof.

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Speaker 4: The roof is completely structurally built. The tarts are only

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Speaker 4: half in place. But there was only about you know,

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Speaker 4: five thousand people here today, so it's not like there

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01:00:39,360 --> 01:00:41,200
Speaker 4: was a lot of good crowd noise to be bouncing

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Speaker 4: around the stadium. Maybe not even five thousand anyone.

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Speaker 2: But in your expert opinion, as you've been too many

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Speaker 2: tech stadia, is it legit? Are we? This is something

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Speaker 2: to really look forward to now, oh.

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Speaker 4: Yes, it's fantastic. I mean when they once they finished

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Speaker 4: fielding in the structure, that roof and then eventually they

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Speaker 4: have a sadicals are going to you know, hold the

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Speaker 4: sound in and I think if you've been to any

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Speaker 4: sort of European soccer stadium, you will feel right at

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Speaker 4: home with the vibes here with this. He feels like

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Speaker 4: a soccer It doesn't feel like a dome. It feels

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Speaker 4: like a soccer stadium with the with the overhang and

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Speaker 4: then and the harps and all the stuff coming down

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Speaker 4: off of it. Yeah, it feels legit awesome.

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Speaker 1: Well, then probably would be appropro to since the season

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Speaker 1: is about to start there they what is that the

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Speaker 1: twenty first is the first game against Toronto? Is that correct? Oh?

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Speaker 4: That sounds right off the top of my head. Up,

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Speaker 4: Sorry but yeah, but yeah.

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Speaker 1: So, uh, they played in New York Red Bull today

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Speaker 1: and I don't know if the game is still going on.

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Speaker 1: How does the team look so far to your veteran eyeballs.

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Speaker 4: Well, Peter Mussa was out. He missed some training this week.

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Speaker 4: He's not hurt. It was just like I believe it

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Speaker 4: was a personal matter.

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Speaker 2: So they didn't play an I think I think somebody's

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01:01:50,680 --> 01:01:52,360
Speaker 2: trying to hold back a little bit with the world.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, no, I lie, I lie, I like I lie, I.

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Speaker 4: Like, yeah, I'm on your Hanson was kicking up a

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Speaker 4: d so, so he was not around. So basically we

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Speaker 4: got starting eleven. It was it was sort of the

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01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:08,480
Speaker 4: dudes left over from last year without any of the

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Speaker 4: star players. So it looked a lot like the mediocre

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Speaker 4: parts of last year, to be honest, because you're missing

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Speaker 4: some of the key editions and you're missing some of

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Speaker 4: your best pieces. Today Delgado didn't start. You know, you

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Speaker 4: had a Kayit, Capus, Ramiro triple midfield. So build out

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Speaker 4: of the bat was pretty rough.

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Speaker 1: Who played the ten out of those three?

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Speaker 4: Well none really, It was more like a single Pitot

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Speaker 4: was two and eight, you know, playing in a flat

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Speaker 4: line most of the time, so you know, I think

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Speaker 4: on paper they might have claimed Capus did, but he

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01:02:42,480 --> 01:02:45,760
Speaker 4: was back there in flat line with everybody else. You know,

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Speaker 4: it was a whole lot of this back five with

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Speaker 4: three in front sitting deep. What they always do. They're

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Speaker 4: getting out played in like eighty percent of all the

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Speaker 4: phases of the game, and yet they're winning three nothing, because,

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Speaker 4: as they always do, they sit in that shape and

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01:02:58,240 --> 01:03:00,640
Speaker 4: then they turn you over and transition you and get

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Speaker 4: down forty five yards down with Berniy Comingo or with

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Speaker 4: Logan Farrington and they steal a goal and this three nothing.

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Speaker 4: So you know, it's not sexy, beautiful soccer, but it's effective.

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Speaker 4: I guess I'm going.

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Speaker 1: To dare to ask. Was there a Paxton palmercall sighting today?

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Speaker 4: No, not even in any kicked the ball around warm

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Speaker 4: up capacity, that's zero.

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Speaker 2: You know, Paxton even here.

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Speaker 4: In street close because I was looking where Mussa was

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Speaker 4: sitting and he was not with them.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, you know Paxton met Zico before I didn't.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, An he is still all these years bitter

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Speaker 1: about Paula call.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 1: Uh anything else? Forward to look to this upcoming like

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Speaker 1: what's the word on them signing a ten? Are they

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Speaker 1: going to get that done before the start of the season.

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Speaker 4: Well, it doesn't really seem like much is happening fast.

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Speaker 4: You know, there have been a couple of reports of

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Speaker 4: you know, connections and toxin with various people. Some of

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01:03:59,840 --> 01:04:02,440
Speaker 4: them aren't necessarily DP caliber players, some of them are

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01:04:02,520 --> 01:04:05,160
Speaker 4: kind of young, so you know, we're kind of all

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Speaker 4: this waiting to see what happens. I don't know how

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01:04:07,840 --> 01:04:09,880
Speaker 4: effective some twenty year old kid coming in would be

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01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:13,320
Speaker 4: necessarily who might not be a DP And honestly, it's

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01:04:13,360 --> 01:04:15,800
Speaker 4: pretty quiet. You know, we've now seen a couple of

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Speaker 4: games this spring where they're playing a shape but doesn't

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01:04:18,360 --> 01:04:21,640
Speaker 4: have a ten, so they may be planning on not

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Speaker 4: having one the start of the season.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 4: The other side of that coin is Logan Ferrington. Looks

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Speaker 4: absolutely fantastic and I think if things go the way

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Speaker 4: they are right now, he's going to have a heck

1243
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Speaker 4: of a season with a good amount of assists to

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01:04:33,120 --> 01:04:35,120
Speaker 4: go with a solid amount of goals and support of

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Speaker 4: Peter Mussin.

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Speaker 1: All Right, we got two other things to talk about,

1247
01:04:38,240 --> 01:04:40,760
Speaker 1: So I'm going to give you sixty seconds to preview

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01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:43,280
Speaker 1: the twenty six season for the good p one and

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Speaker 1: I'm hoping you'll do so. And like, who's like the

1250
01:04:45,880 --> 01:04:49,280
Speaker 1: one player everybody should have their little beady eyeballs out

1251
01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:49,800
Speaker 1: looking for.

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Speaker 4: Well, I already maybe spoiled that for you because I

1253
01:04:53,720 --> 01:04:55,840
Speaker 4: think it's actually Logan Ferrington. I think he's going to

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01:04:55,920 --> 01:04:58,480
Speaker 4: have a breakout. You know, ten goal, ten assists the

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01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:01,600
Speaker 4: season and put himself up there and conversations for one

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01:05:01,600 --> 01:05:05,600
Speaker 4: of the great offstrikers in the league, the beaver the

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01:05:05,640 --> 01:05:08,920
Speaker 4: Beaver Green. Yeah, you know, he he's gotten better every

1258
01:05:08,920 --> 01:05:10,960
Speaker 4: single season, and honestly, this is the first season he's

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01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:13,560
Speaker 4: come in as thus starter. Even last year. You remember

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01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:15,760
Speaker 4: they're playing assistant with a couple of wings that he

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01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:18,080
Speaker 4: wasn't getting on the field at the beginning. So he's

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01:05:18,120 --> 01:05:20,040
Speaker 4: now going to be the guy with Musa full time

1263
01:05:20,080 --> 01:05:22,320
Speaker 4: and Moss attracted so much attention, I think Logan Ferrington's

1264
01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:25,520
Speaker 4: due for a in realtive terms, breakout seasons.

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Speaker 1: All right, awesome? Uh So on your website third degree

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01:05:30,040 --> 01:05:33,600
Speaker 1: dot Net, the number three rddegree dot net. The other day,

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01:05:33,840 --> 01:05:38,240
Speaker 1: your core cohort Dan Crook once again put out his

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01:05:38,400 --> 01:05:42,800
Speaker 1: prediction of the new FC Dallas kit and buzz, I

1269
01:05:42,840 --> 01:05:45,720
Speaker 1: think it's finally happened. I think you and I are

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01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:50,240
Speaker 1: finally getting the dream FC Dallas kit we have wanted

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01:05:50,360 --> 01:05:52,600
Speaker 1: ever since they switched to FC Dallas.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, from the people that have said something to meet today,

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01:05:57,360 --> 01:06:01,200
Speaker 4: apparently Dan's prediction is very very close, and so yes

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01:06:01,240 --> 01:06:03,000
Speaker 4: and me we were finally getting the dream red and

1275
01:06:03,040 --> 01:06:06,320
Speaker 4: blue hoops. Obviously, we don't love necessarily the fact that

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01:06:06,320 --> 01:06:08,240
Speaker 4: there's a back panel that keeps it from being a

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01:06:08,280 --> 01:06:11,360
Speaker 4: real hoop, as you would say, right in the modern world,

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01:06:11,360 --> 01:06:12,960
Speaker 4: this is the hoop that you're going to get. It

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01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:15,720
Speaker 4: looks absolutely fantastic. It has all the white highlights making

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01:06:15,760 --> 01:06:17,560
Speaker 4: it give it a little pop. Don't get the white

1281
01:06:17,560 --> 01:06:20,400
Speaker 4: shorts who want it, but this is absolutely gorgeous. Gorgeous

1282
01:06:20,480 --> 01:06:21,720
Speaker 4: jersey they're going to have this season.

1283
01:06:22,320 --> 01:06:24,720
Speaker 1: Are they going to be able to continue to use

1284
01:06:25,080 --> 01:06:28,720
Speaker 1: last season's throwback archive burn jersey this year is like

1285
01:06:28,760 --> 01:06:29,400
Speaker 1: a third kit.

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01:06:30,360 --> 01:06:32,120
Speaker 4: Well, the news sort of came around today that that

1287
01:06:32,240 --> 01:06:34,040
Speaker 4: was not going to be happening, that they're the league

1288
01:06:34,120 --> 01:06:37,040
Speaker 4: is not letting anybody keep those special kits from last

1289
01:06:37,080 --> 01:06:40,160
Speaker 4: year for this season. So the word is not that

1290
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:42,720
Speaker 4: one hundred percent like an announcement the league, but that's

1291
01:06:42,760 --> 01:06:44,440
Speaker 4: the word that circulated today, is that that's not going

1292
01:06:44,480 --> 01:06:46,520
Speaker 4: to be happening. It's a shame because that is an

1293
01:06:46,520 --> 01:06:47,959
Speaker 4: happeningly beautiful jersey as well.

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01:06:48,280 --> 01:06:50,800
Speaker 1: That would be a real disappointment if they put out

1295
01:06:50,840 --> 01:06:53,000
Speaker 1: that product and they only got to wear it what

1296
01:06:53,200 --> 01:06:53,920
Speaker 1: three times?

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01:06:55,760 --> 01:06:57,560
Speaker 4: I think it was a little more than that, but yeah,

1298
01:06:57,600 --> 01:06:59,920
Speaker 4: half of the season basically is yeah, they're going to

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01:07:00,040 --> 01:07:02,600
Speaker 4: have gotten out of it. That would be a shame because,

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01:07:02,600 --> 01:07:06,080
Speaker 4: as you say, it's that throwback burn jersey is one

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01:07:06,080 --> 01:07:08,160
Speaker 4: of the best jersey jerseys in club history. But I

1302
01:07:08,160 --> 01:07:09,880
Speaker 4: think this new one here is pretty commonly going to

1303
01:07:09,880 --> 01:07:11,240
Speaker 4: be in the same short of conversation, all.

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01:07:11,200 --> 01:07:14,520
Speaker 1: Right, before we go Monday night last week, we were

1305
01:07:14,560 --> 01:07:19,080
Speaker 1: recording Buzz's podcast, The Third Degree of the Podcast, which

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01:07:19,120 --> 01:07:21,160
Speaker 1: I've been doing with Buzz and Dan Crook, which is

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01:07:21,160 --> 01:07:30,240
Speaker 1: a very dfw FC Dallas centric podcast, and unbeknownst to me, Buzz, now,

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Speaker 1: this is something I've known was in the works for

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Speaker 1: a while, but I didn't know he was going to

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Speaker 1: do this. Buzz used that as an opportunity to announce

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01:07:36,600 --> 01:07:39,520
Speaker 1: to his followers that Buzz is moving.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, he's not. As unlive. You come to

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01:07:42,200 --> 01:07:45,120
Speaker 4: it a point where for family reasons, you need to

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01:07:45,160 --> 01:07:47,920
Speaker 4: move to another part of the US, And for my

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01:07:47,960 --> 01:07:50,160
Speaker 4: wife's family, we are my life and I'm moving up

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01:07:50,160 --> 01:07:53,120
Speaker 4: to Spokane, Washington, to the Northwest. But you know, we

1317
01:07:53,160 --> 01:07:55,760
Speaker 4: live in a world now where every game of every

1318
01:07:55,800 --> 01:07:58,320
Speaker 4: team I cover is streamed and I can see it,

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01:07:58,840 --> 01:08:02,080
Speaker 4: you know, on the net. Whether it's archive or live,

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01:08:02,160 --> 01:08:04,560
Speaker 4: and then every press conference is on a zoom, so

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01:08:04,600 --> 01:08:06,280
Speaker 4: I can get on there and listen to the coaches

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01:08:06,320 --> 01:08:09,320
Speaker 4: talk and ask questions, and you'll do pretty much everything

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01:08:09,320 --> 01:08:11,040
Speaker 4: I do remotely, and a lot of people will do

1324
01:08:11,080 --> 01:08:12,480
Speaker 4: that in this day and age, and we have a

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Speaker 4: lot of people that help contribute to the website.

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Speaker 2: So I think, so there is nothing for us to

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01:08:19,120 --> 01:08:21,320
Speaker 2: worry about. I would be like Buzz say it ain't so,

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01:08:21,600 --> 01:08:25,200
Speaker 2: but things just go on as normal, because Buzz, what

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01:08:25,320 --> 01:08:28,719
Speaker 2: you've meant to the club and your coverage since almost

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01:08:28,840 --> 01:08:31,839
Speaker 2: day one is really, really, I don't.

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01:08:31,640 --> 01:08:33,880
Speaker 1: Know, it's unprecedented, it is.

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01:08:34,080 --> 01:08:37,360
Speaker 2: And for somebody that worked at the club the first

1333
01:08:37,680 --> 01:08:40,599
Speaker 2: eight ten years of the club, how important you were

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01:08:41,080 --> 01:08:44,080
Speaker 2: to our success and to our growth and development as

1335
01:08:44,080 --> 01:08:46,960
Speaker 2: a as a franchise and a brand and all that it.

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01:08:48,200 --> 01:08:50,880
Speaker 2: People don't realize because we had nothing then. We you know,

1337
01:08:51,320 --> 01:08:54,920
Speaker 2: talk no talk radio, and very little coverage. It was

1338
01:08:55,000 --> 01:08:56,480
Speaker 2: Buzz's daily reporting.

1339
01:08:57,160 --> 01:08:59,960
Speaker 1: You guys used to take him in pre season trips.

1340
01:09:00,160 --> 01:09:01,679
Speaker 1: This is how their countries, this.

1341
01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:05,240
Speaker 2: Is how important Buzz's coverage was for us. Buzzy, I

1342
01:09:05,320 --> 01:09:11,000
Speaker 2: know you know what I'm gonna say. We went to Chili. Chili,

1343
01:09:12,040 --> 01:09:17,120
Speaker 2: My my, my, one of my home countries. Two years

1344
01:09:17,160 --> 01:09:21,040
Speaker 2: for preseason. I went one year. The second year, we

1345
01:09:21,120 --> 01:09:24,280
Speaker 2: had a little bit amount of seats and I thought

1346
01:09:24,320 --> 01:09:27,320
Speaker 2: it was really important that Buzz go and and cover

1347
01:09:27,800 --> 01:09:30,320
Speaker 2: the team on a daily basis during preseason, so I

1348
01:09:30,360 --> 01:09:32,400
Speaker 2: gave him my seat to go.

1349
01:09:32,600 --> 01:09:35,640
Speaker 1: Holy Es, I did not know this story. Yeah, you

1350
01:09:35,720 --> 01:09:39,240
Speaker 1: gave up as to go to your motherland. Yes, so

1351
01:09:39,320 --> 01:09:42,400
Speaker 1: Buzz could go in your place, right, did you know that, Buzz?

1352
01:09:43,200 --> 01:09:43,400
Speaker 4: Yeah?

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01:09:43,960 --> 01:09:48,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how important I felt as the GM that

1354
01:09:48,160 --> 01:09:53,679
Speaker 2: his coverage was to the club. Unreal because fans couldn't

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01:09:53,720 --> 01:09:56,280
Speaker 2: get coverage of preseason. Yeah any other way.

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01:09:56,479 --> 01:10:00,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, Look, I realized that Buzz's website and his social

1357
01:10:00,400 --> 01:10:03,679
Speaker 1: media presence and our podcast that we do is going

1358
01:10:03,720 --> 01:10:08,280
Speaker 1: to continue. But Buzz not being here and daily interactive

1359
01:10:08,320 --> 01:10:11,760
Speaker 1: with the club is just it's gonna be different for me.

1360
01:10:12,160 --> 01:10:15,400
Speaker 1: And Buzz is my lifelong I've known Buzz for thirty years.

1361
01:10:16,479 --> 01:10:20,479
Speaker 1: I love talking soccer with him. So the reason why

1362
01:10:20,479 --> 01:10:22,519
Speaker 1: I talk about this is that we found out on

1363
01:10:22,600 --> 01:10:25,639
Speaker 1: Monday that he was telling everybody publicly he's leaving, which

1364
01:10:25,760 --> 01:10:29,160
Speaker 1: left me mere days to scramble to put something together.

1365
01:10:29,600 --> 01:10:32,719
Speaker 1: So I am letting everybody know right here, right now,

1366
01:10:33,000 --> 01:10:37,440
Speaker 1: Monday night at Petticolas Brewery down in the Design District.

1367
01:10:37,800 --> 01:10:40,519
Speaker 1: Doors open at six o'clock, which, by the way, Michael

1368
01:10:40,560 --> 01:10:44,400
Speaker 1: Pettacolas couldn't be cooler because they're closed on Mondays. He

1369
01:10:44,520 --> 01:10:46,960
Speaker 1: is letting us have the facility. He's not charging us

1370
01:10:46,960 --> 01:10:49,960
Speaker 1: any money, although we're charging five dollars at the door

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01:10:50,000 --> 01:10:52,040
Speaker 1: to help cover the cost, you know, give some money

1372
01:10:52,080 --> 01:10:53,320
Speaker 1: to the bartender and the staff.

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01:10:53,920 --> 01:11:00,519
Speaker 2: We're going to do that, and we're recording Degree the

1374
01:11:00,560 --> 01:11:02,920
Speaker 2: podcast live in front of a live audience for the

1375
01:11:02,960 --> 01:11:03,559
Speaker 2: first time.

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01:11:04,040 --> 01:11:07,160
Speaker 1: I hope Andy you'll be there, yep. And so Buzz,

1377
01:11:07,240 --> 01:11:09,000
Speaker 1: Dan and I are going to record the podcast. And

1378
01:11:09,000 --> 01:11:11,840
Speaker 1: he gives everybody who loves Buzz as much as I

1379
01:11:11,920 --> 01:11:14,800
Speaker 1: do an opportunity to wish him well as he moves on,

1380
01:11:15,200 --> 01:11:19,479
Speaker 1: but moves on in the sense of changing locations anything

1381
01:11:19,600 --> 01:11:22,720
Speaker 1: dealing with coverage. Is that fair, Buzz, Yeah, that's fair.

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01:11:22,880 --> 01:11:27,200
Speaker 4: You know, there's people that have gotten involved that are

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01:11:27,240 --> 01:11:29,640
Speaker 4: around more day to day, like Dan Crooks picking up

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01:11:29,680 --> 01:11:32,040
Speaker 4: some of the weight, you know, in terms of being

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01:11:32,120 --> 01:11:35,400
Speaker 4: around the actual facility and that kind of thing. And

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01:11:35,400 --> 01:11:37,640
Speaker 4: Andy's right when you know, you guys know that I

1387
01:11:37,680 --> 01:11:40,639
Speaker 4: work in media, and when I started this whole endeavor,

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01:11:41,160 --> 01:11:44,240
Speaker 4: it is because nobody was covering the DAAs Byrne, you know,

1389
01:11:44,280 --> 01:11:46,759
Speaker 4: and I wanted somebody to cover him, so we created

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01:11:46,760 --> 01:11:50,160
Speaker 4: that thing. And you know, over the years, other people

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01:11:50,200 --> 01:11:52,760
Speaker 4: have gotten involved in start there's you know, covering the team,

1392
01:11:52,800 --> 01:11:54,439
Speaker 4: and so maybe it does not as much of a

1393
01:11:54,520 --> 01:11:56,720
Speaker 4: hundred percent need for us as there used to be,

1394
01:11:56,760 --> 01:11:59,439
Speaker 4: but you know, you still think and what you would

1395
01:11:59,479 --> 01:12:02,800
Speaker 4: call sort of the major normal coverages, there's just not

1396
01:12:03,040 --> 01:12:05,960
Speaker 4: the day to day coverage that I think this sport

1397
01:12:06,040 --> 01:12:09,439
Speaker 4: deserves that compared to the other teams of the pro

1398
01:12:09,479 --> 01:12:12,679
Speaker 4: teams in the metroplex yet or even other pro soccer

1399
01:12:12,760 --> 01:12:15,960
Speaker 4: teams in the markets get you know, it's just not there.

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01:12:16,080 --> 01:12:18,360
Speaker 4: So I've done what I could, you know, and and

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01:12:18,400 --> 01:12:19,960
Speaker 4: we're going to continue to do we can. And there's

1402
01:12:20,000 --> 01:12:21,800
Speaker 4: a bunch of more teams coming to this market, and

1403
01:12:21,800 --> 01:12:24,519
Speaker 4: we're adding people to their coverage teams so we can

1404
01:12:24,560 --> 01:12:26,360
Speaker 4: pick up a slack on all those other teams too,

1405
01:12:26,640 --> 01:12:29,559
Speaker 4: you know. So I feel like there's a lot of

1406
01:12:29,560 --> 01:12:32,040
Speaker 4: people are now involved that can help carry some of

1407
01:12:32,040 --> 01:12:34,640
Speaker 4: that slack, and it's okay, time wise for me to

1408
01:12:35,439 --> 01:12:37,240
Speaker 4: step off, you know, for my family to another part

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01:12:37,280 --> 01:12:38,800
Speaker 4: of the United States. So you know, I'm a miss

1410
01:12:38,800 --> 01:12:41,640
Speaker 4: senior guys, I'm a miss pulling out the games. But

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01:12:41,640 --> 01:12:43,519
Speaker 4: I'll be able to watch them on TV and we

1412
01:12:43,600 --> 01:12:46,160
Speaker 4: can still chat on the interweb.

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01:12:46,320 --> 01:12:48,320
Speaker 1: It can still be crushed emotionally at the end of

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Speaker 1: a season together.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you know, and maybe if i'd have gotten

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01:12:52,920 --> 01:12:54,880
Speaker 4: that email from Andy with my dad my World Cup

1417
01:12:54,880 --> 01:12:57,520
Speaker 4: tickets in it, you know, maybe something.

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01:12:57,960 --> 01:13:01,160
Speaker 2: Well, where do you choose Addle matches now or do

1419
01:13:01,200 --> 01:13:03,960
Speaker 2: you choose US matches? I mean Dallas matches?

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01:13:04,920 --> 01:13:07,960
Speaker 4: Well, I chose uh not through my credit card. I

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01:13:07,960 --> 01:13:09,479
Speaker 4: had a chance to apply for some tickets, and I

1422
01:13:09,479 --> 01:13:13,880
Speaker 4: went ahead and applied in Seattle on Vancouver try get

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01:13:13,920 --> 01:13:15,800
Speaker 4: a ticket or something. But I haven't heard yet on

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01:13:15,840 --> 01:13:16,439
Speaker 4: any right.

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Speaker 1: Very good, well, Buzz. I hope every I hope everybody

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01:13:19,120 --> 01:13:22,280
Speaker 1: comes out Monday night at Petacolas down in the Design District.

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01:13:22,680 --> 01:13:25,880
Speaker 1: Doors open at six o'clock. We'll start recording the podcast

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01:13:25,920 --> 01:13:31,840
Speaker 1: episode shortly thereafter and everything. Please do yes and come

1429
01:13:31,880 --> 01:13:36,479
Speaker 1: wish the great buzz Carrick well Man, I thank you

1430
01:13:36,520 --> 01:13:38,880
Speaker 1: for coming on today and sharing that stuff. You know,

1431
01:13:38,920 --> 01:13:41,120
Speaker 1: I love you and I look forward to Monday night

1432
01:13:41,160 --> 01:13:41,400
Speaker 1: with you.

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01:13:42,280 --> 01:13:44,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're welcome coming on and I would ford it

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01:13:44,800 --> 01:13:45,120
Speaker 4: on that too.

1435
01:13:45,160 --> 01:13:48,120
Speaker 1: If we'll get to see everybody there, Yes, that would be fantastic.

1436
01:13:48,479 --> 01:13:52,120
Speaker 1: The great Buzzcaracter, third degree dot Net. Thank you, dude.

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01:13:52,880 --> 01:13:55,240
Speaker 1: We will take a break when we come back. We

1438
01:13:55,280 --> 01:13:57,880
Speaker 1: will do our final segment known as the Dribble next

1439
01:13:57,920 --> 01:14:11,760
Speaker 1: here on the kick around. All right, very good man.

1440
01:14:11,880 --> 01:14:14,960
Speaker 1: I'm still reeling from that factorid you just dropped on

1441
01:14:15,040 --> 01:14:18,479
Speaker 1: me about giving Buzz your seat on the plane to Chile.

1442
01:14:19,080 --> 01:14:21,160
Speaker 1: Love me away. Thanks for sharing that, Andy.

1443
01:14:21,200 --> 01:14:23,599
Speaker 2: I appreciate that big statement, right.

1444
01:14:23,680 --> 01:14:24,559
Speaker 1: No, it's awesome.

1445
01:14:24,680 --> 01:14:27,000
Speaker 2: Yes, a big statement about buzz.

1446
01:14:27,120 --> 01:14:31,080
Speaker 1: Buzz in the time and all that stuff. I completely

1447
01:14:31,080 --> 01:14:33,320
Speaker 1: agree with you. It's really great. Let's do America's favorite

1448
01:14:33,320 --> 01:14:37,280
Speaker 1: soccer segment, known as the drill All Dribble theme song

1449
01:14:37,360 --> 01:14:38,360
Speaker 1: right here on the ticket.

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01:14:38,479 --> 01:14:39,280
Speaker 2: You do, I have it.

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01:14:40,000 --> 01:14:42,840
Speaker 1: I have it. Sorry about that, that's my paulton. I

1452
01:14:42,960 --> 01:14:46,840
Speaker 1: thought you had it. I have it, all right. Some

1453
01:14:47,000 --> 01:14:53,000
Speaker 1: interesting developments on other fronts and the soccer professional soccer

1454
01:14:53,080 --> 01:14:56,240
Speaker 1: landscape here in the Dallas area. I think this is

1455
01:14:56,760 --> 01:15:02,720
Speaker 1: huge news. Dallas Trinity and Tegna announced this week the

1456
01:15:02,760 --> 01:15:06,719
Speaker 1: broadcaster Tegna, which owns Channel eight and several other stations,

1457
01:15:06,720 --> 01:15:11,760
Speaker 1: announced that Dallas Trinity games will be airing on KFAA

1458
01:15:11,880 --> 01:15:14,680
Speaker 1: twenty nine, the same channel mav games are shown on

1459
01:15:15,200 --> 01:15:20,439
Speaker 1: and Wings games and also streamed for free on WFAA

1460
01:15:20,479 --> 01:15:23,719
Speaker 1: plus on the app. On the app. So they played

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01:15:23,800 --> 01:15:27,240
Speaker 1: tonight in Fort Lauderdale. I think it's at seven point

1462
01:15:27,240 --> 01:15:31,719
Speaker 1: thirty that game will be streamed on WFAA plus. Next

1463
01:15:31,760 --> 01:15:34,439
Speaker 1: week's game will be on both the streaming platform and

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01:15:34,720 --> 01:15:37,720
Speaker 1: broadcast on Channel twenty nine. I think that is a

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01:15:37,920 --> 01:15:39,080
Speaker 1: huge development for ye.

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01:15:39,439 --> 01:15:43,799
Speaker 2: No, that's great. I mean, second year in this new

1467
01:15:44,040 --> 01:15:47,599
Speaker 2: women's professional league and by the way, they're in third

1468
01:15:47,680 --> 01:15:49,760
Speaker 2: now because they were out of the playoff picture for

1469
01:15:49,800 --> 01:15:52,400
Speaker 2: a while and they've gotten some results lately.

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01:15:52,520 --> 01:15:55,360
Speaker 1: They've got a new manager, yeah, the new manager the

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01:15:55,439 --> 01:15:59,240
Speaker 1: other So all the games had been and have continue

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01:15:59,280 --> 01:16:01,559
Speaker 1: to be available on Peacock, but you got to pay

1473
01:16:01,600 --> 01:16:03,920
Speaker 1: for a subscription. This is free, so I think this

1474
01:16:03,960 --> 01:16:06,479
Speaker 1: will be a boost for them. I'm really excited and

1475
01:16:06,520 --> 01:16:15,200
Speaker 1: pleased about that. Atletico Dallas on February the twelfth is

1476
01:16:15,280 --> 01:16:18,479
Speaker 1: going to reveal and they're having a party over at

1477
01:16:18,560 --> 01:16:22,080
Speaker 1: happiest hour where they will reveal their very first manager.

1478
01:16:22,479 --> 01:16:24,080
Speaker 2: February twelve. What day of the week is that.

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01:16:24,439 --> 01:16:27,839
Speaker 1: I think it's Thursday, This Thursday, okay, yeah, Thursday, Yes, Okay,

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01:16:28,640 --> 01:16:30,880
Speaker 1: they're very first manager. That's a huge development for a

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01:16:30,920 --> 01:16:33,800
Speaker 1: club that is not that far away from kicking their

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01:16:33,800 --> 01:16:34,320
Speaker 1: first ball.

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01:16:34,680 --> 01:16:37,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is next season, a year ahead of when

1484
01:16:37,760 --> 01:16:42,120
Speaker 2: USL officially becomes a division ie league, right, that's in

1485
01:16:42,160 --> 01:16:44,280
Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight. Yeah, and these guys kick off in

1486
01:16:44,320 --> 01:16:46,160
Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven when you're ahead.

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01:16:46,439 --> 01:16:50,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, they'll be playing in the second Division championship and

1488
01:16:50,040 --> 01:16:52,880
Speaker 1: then we'll find out what happens with the Premier Division

1489
01:16:52,880 --> 01:16:54,240
Speaker 1: when it finally all gets final.

1490
01:16:54,320 --> 01:16:56,120
Speaker 2: Any leaks on who that manager may be.

1491
01:16:56,160 --> 01:17:01,120
Speaker 1: Well buzz for a long time throughout this crazy conspiracy

1492
01:17:01,160 --> 01:17:05,360
Speaker 1: theory rumor. So there is a guy involved in the

1493
01:17:05,439 --> 01:17:10,439
Speaker 1: ownership group and the management of it, Corcoran, who has

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01:17:10,560 --> 01:17:13,960
Speaker 1: been in US soccer circles forever. His son played for

1495
01:17:14,080 --> 01:17:19,519
Speaker 1: FC Dallas. His college roommate was Caleb Porter. Oh noted

1496
01:17:19,600 --> 01:17:22,519
Speaker 1: MLS manager. Wow, who would be does it currently? I

1497
01:17:22,560 --> 01:17:25,479
Speaker 1: think have a job. I don't think that because if

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01:17:25,520 --> 01:17:28,880
Speaker 1: you hire somebody like Caleb Porter for a USL team,

1499
01:17:29,160 --> 01:17:33,360
Speaker 1: you are screaming ambition, and that's a big paycheck to

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01:17:33,439 --> 01:17:37,680
Speaker 1: pay for this level. I would be shocked if it's

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01:17:37,720 --> 01:17:39,920
Speaker 1: Caleb Porter. I think it's going to be somebody probably

1502
01:17:39,960 --> 01:17:41,360
Speaker 1: a tier a little bit lower than that.

1503
01:17:41,439 --> 01:17:43,840
Speaker 2: But I can see maybe Caleb Porter down the line

1504
01:17:43,880 --> 01:17:46,320
Speaker 2: one day at the club is successful and the Division

1505
01:17:46,320 --> 01:17:47,280
Speaker 2: one thing works and.

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01:17:47,240 --> 01:17:50,920
Speaker 1: The friendships are a big deal. Yes. The other thing

1507
01:17:50,960 --> 01:17:53,880
Speaker 1: that happened this week is, you know, the Olympics are

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01:17:53,920 --> 01:17:56,320
Speaker 1: coming to the United States in twenty twenty eight. In

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01:17:56,560 --> 01:18:01,599
Speaker 1: lay Well, they announced that the soccer part competition of

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01:18:01,640 --> 01:18:05,080
Speaker 1: the Olympics is going to be played in six different

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01:18:05,200 --> 01:18:10,200
Speaker 1: US cities. Dallas is not one of them. New York, Wow,

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01:18:10,320 --> 01:18:13,080
Speaker 1: Columbus now to New York's. They're going to play in

1513
01:18:13,120 --> 01:18:17,040
Speaker 1: Red Bull Arena, the New York f C place in

1514
01:18:17,080 --> 01:18:21,720
Speaker 1: the Queens is going to be done. They're playing there, Columbus, Nashville,

1515
01:18:22,439 --> 01:18:25,679
Speaker 1: Saint Louis, San Jose, and San Diego.

1516
01:18:26,040 --> 01:18:29,320
Speaker 2: And they do this in Olympic soccer. Now they whenever

1517
01:18:29,320 --> 01:18:31,439
Speaker 2: the Olympics are held, Summer Olympics are held and the

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01:18:31,479 --> 01:18:34,120
Speaker 2: soccer takes place, they do it in multiple venues. Not

1519
01:18:34,120 --> 01:18:37,400
Speaker 2: necessarily all the venues can be not all games can

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01:18:37,400 --> 01:18:39,599
Speaker 2: be staged than where that city is having the Olympics,

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Speaker 2: so they have to spread them out in other parts

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Speaker 2: of the country. By the way, quick question for you.

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Speaker 2: You know what the impetus was for the US being

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Speaker 2: considered a World Cup host in nineteen ninety four.

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Speaker 1: Venue?

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Speaker 2: You know this story.

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Speaker 1: I would assume it's because we had a bunch of

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Speaker 1: high volume capacity venues.

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Speaker 2: It was the six that Olympic Soccer had in nineteen

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Speaker 2: eighty four at the La Olympics. And how well those

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Speaker 2: tickets sold. Oh really, and FIFA noticed, and the ball

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Speaker 2: started rolling for the US to host the ninety four

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Speaker 2: World Cup.

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Speaker 1: Well, we were a few a little while ago. We

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01:19:16,920 --> 01:19:18,920
Speaker 1: were talking about the fact that FIFA is starting to

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01:19:18,960 --> 01:19:21,559
Speaker 1: send out announcements that if you were selected in the

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Speaker 1: lottery for tickets, and they've begun charging your credit cards

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Speaker 1: at a very hefty rate. The other thing that I

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Speaker 1: think is quietly gone under the radar is because a

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Speaker 1: lot of people have been questioning how hard it's going

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Speaker 1: to be for people to get into the country, and

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Speaker 1: US Soccer has announced, along with the government, that they

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Speaker 1: now have a FIFA prioritized appointment scheduling system for people

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Speaker 1: trying to come into the country to make it easier

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Speaker 1: for people coming here for the World Cup to get

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Speaker 1: their visas cleared. And I think that's a significant development

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Speaker 1: for a lot of people who are really freaked out

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Speaker 1: that the World Cup is going to be an utter

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Speaker 1: failure because people aren't going to be able to get

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Speaker 1: in here.

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Speaker 2: By the way, we talk about each World Cup game

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Speaker 2: being like a like a like a super Bowl mini

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01:20:07,120 --> 01:20:11,599
Speaker 2: super Bowl. You know what the cost of the average

1554
01:20:11,600 --> 01:20:14,160
Speaker 2: cost of a ticket lower price tickets for the Super

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Speaker 2: Bowl are four to six thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: Cryst al mighty. I'm just saying, yeah, right, I mean yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: So a lot of people think that they're you know,

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Speaker 1: people trying to get into the country from some of

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01:20:26,760 --> 01:20:30,040
Speaker 1: them the State Department list. There's a detail on that

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Speaker 1: a lot of people have forgotten. The pause on this

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Speaker 1: applies to the issuance of immigration visus only, not on

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Speaker 1: non immigration visus like tourist visas for athletes, family and

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Speaker 1: met media professionals.

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Speaker 2: Right, and so for those countries that are coming to

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Speaker 2: the World Cup that are on that list. Yeah, there's

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Speaker 2: a bunch of yeah, but Brazil is one of them,

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Speaker 2: and there was that worry. What this actually means is

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Speaker 2: that because the visa types, the immigrant visa types are

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01:21:01,720 --> 01:21:06,200
Speaker 2: are suspended, those that are now in line or having

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Speaker 2: appointments for visas to come as tourists, for example, to

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01:21:09,880 --> 01:21:13,280
Speaker 2: come to the World Cup, their appointments are actually happening

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01:21:13,360 --> 01:21:17,880
Speaker 2: faster now because the the immigration visas are on hold

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Speaker 2: and they're not taking up time at the consulates.

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Speaker 1: That makes sense, Yeah, totally makes sense. Yeah. So uh

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Speaker 1: you know again, this is my confidence that this thing

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Speaker 1: is going to go off very well. I think the

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Speaker 1: World Cup is going to be a huge says a

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Speaker 1: huge banger. Yes, all right, very good. We've gotten here, Andy,

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Speaker 1: all right.

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Speaker 2: You holding it together there, Peter, I am holding it okay.

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Speaker 2: I'll see you on Monday, I hope.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it would be nice if.

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Speaker 2: If you would be there. We're going to raise the beer.

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Speaker 1: We raise a beer, all right.

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 1: Thank you to mister Dixon for doing tickers. Thank you

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Speaker 1: to EA for producing. Thank you to Promil for running

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Speaker 1: of the show so very well. Thank you to Buzz

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Speaker 1: for checking in today. Hope to see everybody out of

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Speaker 1: Pedacolist tomorrow night. We'll be back next week for another

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Speaker 1: consecutive show. Pe Ones We Love Anadoria, going out there,

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Speaker 1: get stuck in, and when your fifties