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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the Best of Stegotson Company Live podcast.
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of Stu Gotson Company Live on
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  Speaker 1: We are out in Lake Tahoe for the American Century
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  Speaker 1: Pro Am Golf Tournament. We're out here every single year.
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  Speaker 1: I am praying that all this equipment works. I have
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  Speaker 1: no idea and I have no confidence because mikey A
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  Speaker 1: currently can't hear me right.
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  Speaker 3: Now, so that is problematic.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sitting okay, I am sitting very close to Taylor,
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  Speaker 1: about ten feet away.
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  Speaker 3: Taylor, can you hear me?
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  Speaker 4: I can hear you because I'm ten feet away from you,
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  Speaker 4: and I can hear you because I think the connection
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  Speaker 4: is working.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Well, that's a good sign.
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  Speaker 1: We have the we can observations coming up here in
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  Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Roger Bennett Gold to join us as well in hour number.
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  Speaker 1: Two, Monday Night Football Tonight as the United States plays
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  Speaker 1: the biggest soccer game in the history of United States soccer. Taylor,
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  Speaker 1: I am told before we get to your evening last night,
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  Speaker 1: I am told there's been an appeal of the of
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  Speaker 1: the appeal of a red card for our guy.
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  Speaker 3: So what has happened here with Belgium?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so FIFA Appeal committee has rendered the request by
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  Speaker 4: Belgium inadmissible and said Baligan is allowed to play tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: The Belgians, however, they continue to fire a warning shot
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  Speaker 4: saying that they will continue to contest the eligibility of
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  Speaker 4: Belligan and say they told us Soccer they reserve all
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  Speaker 4: options if he is selected on the team sheet tonight.
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  Speaker 5: But what do you what are the options?
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  Speaker 3: Wow? What I do, Mikey? I do?
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  Speaker 1: I believe I've identified one of the technical problems here.
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  Speaker 1: Taylor is so close to me, And what a slight
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  Speaker 1: delay here in Lake Tahoe. And we'll be out of
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  Speaker 1: the driving range tomorrow. We'll have all the sights and
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  Speaker 1: the sounds and the guests and the stories that you
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  Speaker 1: want out of a Lake Tahoe week. But I can
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  Speaker 1: hear Taylor, okay, actually saying what it is he's saying,
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  Speaker 1: and then it comes into my headset seconds later, and
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  Speaker 1: so it's a little bit problematic.
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  Speaker 3: He's sitting a little bit too close to me. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: so I don't know what to do about it, other
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  Speaker 3: than kick tailor around and tell him to get further away.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know what to do.
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  Speaker 4: No, No, now walking away?
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  Speaker 3: Now walking away?
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  Speaker 5: The only one of us that watches soccer.
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  Speaker 1: No, Well, listen, I watched soccer last night. It was
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  Speaker 1: the greatest game I've ever seen last night. Who played
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  Speaker 1: in it? So we're gonna get to the weekend observations.
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  Speaker 1: Taylor is currently moving five feet to his left. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not certain that's gonna help it all, but he is
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  Speaker 1: making the effort to try and move in Israel Goudiere.
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  Speaker 1: As of course, we can't find him today, so we
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  Speaker 1: have no idea what is going up. But we're out
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  Speaker 1: in Lake Tahoe. It is the biggest soccer game in
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  Speaker 1: the history of soccer tonight. I'm looking forward to watching it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how I feel about the red card
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  Speaker 1: being overturned.
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  Speaker 3: Mikey.
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  Speaker 1: It's unprecedented, It's never happened. But I will tell you this.
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  Speaker 1: Taylor's walking outside now. I will tell you this is
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  Speaker 1: tah a week at its best. Right now. I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you this. It is unprecedented, But I feel like we've
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  Speaker 1: arrived as a soccer country, as a soccer team, because
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  Speaker 1: now corruption. We are into the corruption of FIFA and
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  Speaker 1: the World Cup where everyone is seemingly making it up
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  Speaker 1: as we go along here, and for me, it's a
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  Speaker 1: sign that the United States men team has made it.
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  Speaker 3: We have arrived at corruption.
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  Speaker 1: We have arrived at a president calling the head of
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  Speaker 1: FIFA and overturning a red card, something that has never
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  Speaker 1: been done in the history of soccer.
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  Speaker 3: Yet it has been done for us, and I'm excited
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  Speaker 3: about that.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sure everything you just said was profound and wonderful,
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  Speaker 6: but I couldn't help just watch as Taylor carried his
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  Speaker 6: laptop outside and took a walk. I've been admiring the
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  Speaker 6: scenic view of Tahoe.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, just been.
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  Speaker 6: It's breathtaking and I'm jealous that I'm not there. But
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  Speaker 6: it is good that we finally arrived to a place
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  Speaker 6: where we're throwing our weight around at the United States,
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  Speaker 6: where we're like.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, no, no, no no no.
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  Speaker 6: Our best player plays, don't care what you have to say,
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  Speaker 6: and this is what we're gonna do.
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  Speaker 3: Let's kick it to Taylor, who's outside. Now, Taylor, go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Let's just call this what it is. Belgium wants an
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  Speaker 4: easier matchup. If I'm a Belgium player, I'm looking around
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  Speaker 4: at this outrage from the Belgium side and saying, I
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  Speaker 4: don't think they think we could win this matchup without
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  Speaker 4: Belligan not playing for the United States.
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  Speaker 1: We do have sound, I am told back, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Sherman Oaks of Donald Trump explaining that, explaining his.
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  Speaker 3: Role in it.
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  Speaker 1: And I do want to hear that because the United States,
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  Speaker 1: for lack of better term, played their trump card. Let's
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  Speaker 1: listen to that sound. This is the President of the
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  Speaker 1: United States explaining his role in all of this.
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  Speaker 3: Gut.
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  Speaker 7: It will look like two guys collided, which is really
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  Speaker 7: what happened. They got sort of entangled. He didn't do
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  Speaker 7: anything wrong, and he's our best player, or one of
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  Speaker 7: our best players. A very any game, a red card.
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  Speaker 7: I didn't know what that meant. I didn't think it
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  Speaker 7: meant much. Then I started hearing that that means you
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  Speaker 7: can't play in the next game, at least in the
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  Speaker 7: next game. I said, boy, that's a big You know,
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  Speaker 7: if it happened to another player, it would have been unfair.
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  Speaker 7: But when they take your best player or just about
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  Speaker 7: They have some great players. But and they say you
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  Speaker 7: can't play. That's very unfair. That's you know, it's one
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  Speaker 7: thing to penalize somebody for the game, but how do
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  Speaker 7: you penalize them for a game that hasn't been played yet.
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  Speaker 3: It's very unfair. You can't do that.
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  Speaker 7: So yes, I asked for a review by FIFA.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So that's Donald Trump's role, like, congratulations to
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  Speaker 1: the president. And he started watching soccer right around the
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  Speaker 1: same time as the rest of us.
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  Speaker 3: He had no idea what a red card was. What
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  Speaker 3: do you got like, so.
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  Speaker 5: Peek behind the curtain. Here.
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  Speaker 6: I went and watched soccer with my friend who gets
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  Speaker 6: up every every day that there's soccer in England and
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  Speaker 6: he watches Bundesliga, he watches Premier League champions right, he
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  Speaker 6: watches all that stuff. And I went to his house
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  Speaker 6: to watch the game. And I have never sounded so
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  Speaker 6: much like Donald Trump that when he said, what's a
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  Speaker 6: red card? What does that mean? He has to stop?
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  Speaker 6: Red means stop? What do you mean he can't play tomorrow?
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean he can't play in the next game?
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  Speaker 6: That was exactly my reaction.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we all agree. In the moment, no one thought
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  Speaker 1: it should have been a red card. No one thought
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  Speaker 1: that he should be out not only for the remainder
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  Speaker 1: of that game, but for the entirety of the next game.
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  Speaker 3: We all agree with that.
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  Speaker 1: But the call was made and a red card was given,
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  Speaker 1: and that means he's supposed to be sitting out tonight.
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  Speaker 1: And the President of the United States, because he finally
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  Speaker 1: figured out we're pretty good at soccer like the rest
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  Speaker 1: of us. I am not criticizing him, decided to make
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  Speaker 1: a call. And I do wonder how soccer fans feel
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  Speaker 1: about it. The President making a call to FIFA to
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  Speaker 1: overturn a call which is unpresidented, and having a guy
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  Speaker 1: who shouldn't be playing playing in tonight's game, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: is it is kind of crazy.
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  Speaker 4: European soccer fans right now ste are outraged over this.
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  Speaker 4: But there was a similar incident that happened before the
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  Speaker 4: World Cup. So in Portugal's second to last competitive match
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  Speaker 4: before the World Cup, Ronaldo earned a red card and
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  Speaker 4: FIFA decided, hey, you're going to be suspended three games now.
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  Speaker 4: So he was suspended once before the World Cup, and
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  Speaker 4: then he was supposed to be suspended the first two
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  Speaker 4: games of Portugal's group stage, but FIFA looked at it
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  Speaker 4: and said, we kind of need Ronaldo in this World Cup.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna lift his band. Let Ronaldo play because of
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  Speaker 4: the spectacle of Portugal and Ronaldo in the World Cup.
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  Speaker 4: I don't remember hearing anybody really that outrage that FIFA
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  Speaker 4: said Ronaldo's allowed to play. But the second America gets
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  Speaker 4: involved in this, you would think we were the back
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  Speaker 4: to back to back World Cup champions. With the way
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  Speaker 4: people are outraged over Bawgan being allowed to play.
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  Speaker 1: They probably agree that Ronaldo. They do need Ronaldo and
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  Speaker 1: they want to see Ronaldo, and so they probably agree
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  Speaker 1: with that. And from the United States standpoint, the reason
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  Speaker 1: they disagree with this is we haven't earned it. We
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  Speaker 1: haven't earned corruption, we haven't earned the president making a
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  Speaker 1: call to the head of FIFA and trying to get
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  Speaker 1: something over turned, and so they're outraged. They don't want
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  Speaker 1: the United States like, listen, the last thing the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the world wants because this is Europe's game, this
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  Speaker 1: is South America's game. It's like us taking hockey from Canada.
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  Speaker 1: The rest of the world doesn't want us to take
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  Speaker 1: men's soccer, because we already dominate women's soccer. They don't
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  Speaker 1: want us to take men's soccer away from that. That
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  Speaker 1: is something that is European. That is something that is
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  Speaker 1: reserved for France, for Norway, for South America, for Brazil.
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  Speaker 3: They do not want.
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  Speaker 1: The United States getting any sort of advantages when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to this sport, a sport that we started four
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  Speaker 1: minutes ago.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Mikey, while I agree with you, and I think
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  Speaker 6: you're one hundred percent right, how outraged would you be
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  Speaker 6: if all of a sudden, like Switzerland was dominating American football?
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  Speaker 6: You'd be outraged. You'd be so angry back, No, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 6: they can't have that.
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  Speaker 1: Right, like Switzerland had the best team in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: somehow we expanded out to Europe at Switzerland had the
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  Speaker 1: dominant team in the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd be upset, I would, and so WoT you, Taylor.
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  Speaker 4: Not if they came and earned it and you saw
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  Speaker 4: the struggles of the Switzerland team coming up, where it's
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  Speaker 4: it's loss after loss after a loss, and then all
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  Speaker 4: of a sudden you're hearing the Swiss report saying they've
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  Speaker 4: got a golden generation coming, and people, people even in
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  Speaker 4: Switzerland are doubting this so called Golden Generation, and then
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  Speaker 4: the Golden Generation finally shows up and they start performing.
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  Speaker 4: Just a reminder, the United States has not beat Belgium
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  Speaker 4: in a competitive match since nineteen and you would have
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  Speaker 4: no idea of that stat with the way that Belgium
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  Speaker 4: is acting so outrage over the fact that a red
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  Speaker 4: card that shouldn't have even been a red card. Vv
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  Speaker 4: R broke their own protocols even handing out that red card,
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  Speaker 4: which is something that they're seemingly leaving out of every time.
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  Speaker 4: They're saying, this is the darkest day in FIFA FIFA history,
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  Speaker 4: organization that has been littered with corruption, but somehow this
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  Speaker 4: is the darkest day.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, now, they've had darker ones, and they'll have darker
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  Speaker 1: ones moving forward. Here I assure you of that the
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  Speaker 1: darkest day will be if the United States men's team
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  Speaker 1: wins the entire Cup. No one's going to know what
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  Speaker 1: to do with themselves if indeed that happens.
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  Speaker 3: I do understand the outrage. I do.
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  Speaker 1: There was a red card issued, and that red card
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  Speaker 1: signifies that he's supposed to be sitting out tonight's gabe.
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  Speaker 3: And if you're Belgium.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, if you're a fan, if you're a member
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  Speaker 1: of that team, you are upset because you have spent
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  Speaker 1: a week preparing for a team without him, and now
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  Speaker 1: you have to prepare for him, And so I understand
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  Speaker 1: why they're upset. No one disagrees. There is not a
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  Speaker 1: single person on the planet that disagrees. It never should
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  Speaker 1: have been a red card, but it was, and now
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  Speaker 1: they're doing something that's fairly unprecedented at World Cup.
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  Speaker 4: Plot here here, Belgium. Here's my world's smallest violin that
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  Speaker 4: I'll play for the off the way out here.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, we will get the technical difficulties sorted out
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  Speaker 1: at some point here, hopefully by tomorrow when Lake Tahoe
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  Speaker 1: and the celebrity program really kind of kicks in here. Taylor,
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  Speaker 1: we are not the first media members to show up here.
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  Speaker 1: You were making fun of us earlier on the podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I did see part of my take as well, so people,
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  Speaker 1: we're not the only ones who showed up on a Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Look how excited he is, Mikey just at the mere
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  Speaker 1: fat big Cat at BFT or here.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, so, I was listening to part of my
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  Speaker 4: take on the plane ride here. I was downloading a
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  Speaker 4: bunch of episodes on the plane and they they asked
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  Speaker 4: a question or they had somebody like call into their
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  Speaker 4: podcast and ask a question that I wanted to bring
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  Speaker 4: to you. Guys, somebody breaks into your house. They don't
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  Speaker 4: steal anything, they don't do anything. They just come pin
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  Speaker 4: you down and tickle you for ten minutes. Do you
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  Speaker 4: report that to the police.
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  Speaker 1: So someone breaks into my hat, Well, I report them
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  Speaker 1: to a mental institution for doing that. I'm not certain
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  Speaker 1: if I, Well, do I report them to the police.
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  Speaker 1: They have broken into my house, they haven't taken anything,
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  Speaker 1: but they decided to tickle me. I'm not ticklish, by
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  Speaker 1: the way. Uh, and they just decided to tickle me
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  Speaker 1: for ten minutes? Am I calling the cops? Mikey calling
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  Speaker 1: the cops?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I don't know that I could feel more
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  Speaker 6: violated than if you size down and tickle me till
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  Speaker 6: I can't breathe.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so you're selling.
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  Speaker 3: The cops right.
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  Speaker 1: You're saying, hey, take my money, Like, stop tickling me,
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  Speaker 1: take my money?
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  Speaker 3: What do you do it here? Take a bunch of stuff?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Mikey. Now imagine this scenario. Officer Smith pulls up
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  Speaker 4: to your house and is like, what's the police report
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  Speaker 4: you want to file? And you have to look this
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  Speaker 4: officer in the face and say, another grown man pinned
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  Speaker 4: me down and tickled me, and then the officer is
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  Speaker 4: gonna be like, and then what and then he's you're
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  Speaker 4: gonna be like and then he just left.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he assaulted me, is how I would say it.
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  Speaker 6: Well, what he did was he made it so I
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  Speaker 6: couldn't breathe he touched me in an inappropriate manner.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, well he brought let's let's listen for starters. He
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  Speaker 1: broke into your home. Okay, he's not supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: in your house, and somehow he lands inside your house
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  Speaker 1: and then doesn't deal with a normal you know, person
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  Speaker 1: who's trying to break into a house would do, which
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  Speaker 1: is steal stuff. This person decides so most people, when
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  Speaker 1: they walk in, they're trying to make sure you stay
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  Speaker 1: asleep so they could steal everything. This person is now
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who this person is. This is crazy.
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  Speaker 1: This person decides to break into your house and not
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  Speaker 1: keep it quiet and not try to steal anything, actually
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  Speaker 1: wakes you up by tickling. I mean it's yes, I
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  Speaker 1: would call the cops now that I'm thinking about it.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, he stole my dignity, steal my stuff. Don't take
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  Speaker 3: my dignity, I mean, I'm with you. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: what word just came out of my mouth right there.
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  Speaker 3: I was trying to say dignity. It's a tough word
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  Speaker 3: for me, anyway, go ahead tell it.
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  Speaker 4: So the biggest follow up question I saw from this
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  Speaker 4: discourse on part of my take about this tickler, it
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  Speaker 4: matters what the tickler looks like, because they made the
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  Speaker 4: argument if the tickler is a beautiful woman, maybe you're
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  Speaker 4: not reporting that, because then it's even more embarrassing that, oh, oh,
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  Speaker 4: what happened to you? Oh beautiful woman held you down
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  Speaker 4: and tickled you for ten minutes and then left your
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  Speaker 4: house without saying anything else.
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  Speaker 3: Right, So the cops are like, what do you want
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  Speaker 3: me to do with that? Yeah, Mikey's been I'm waiting
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  Speaker 3: for that night for a long long time. Michael's Mike.
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  Speaker 3: He's not calling the cops. He's inviting him back.
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  Speaker 5: Same time next week.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god. So good.
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  Speaker 1: The United States, this is gonna be so interesting Today
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  Speaker 1: Roger Bennett and joined US an hour number two, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm very much looking forward to to speaking with him.
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  Speaker 1: This is so interesting because I think there is I
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  Speaker 1: think there's part of the US soccer soccer fan base
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  Speaker 1: that wants the United States to kind of win this
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  Speaker 1: thing and win it the right way.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: And this doesn't feel right now.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Maybe it does in terms of FIFA because corruption is
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: everywhere when it comes.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: To that entity.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: But this is the part of soccer that really frustrates
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: a lot of people.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: It seems like the rules are being made up as
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: we go along.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: There's too much acting, there's too much you know, gamesmanship,
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: there is too much making it up on the fly
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: in terms of the referees at FIFA and how they
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: decide on these. So I'm guessing there is a portion
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: of the American fan base that is not happy that
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: this red card was overturned. Only from this standpoint, the
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: pressure is all on the United States to win this game,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: and if they win, they're still going to be criticized
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: for winning this game.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: You know, if I could draw a parallel to the
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: Knicks postseason run, when the Knicks are going through Atlanta
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: and Philadelphia and Cleveland along the way in the Eastern
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: Conference and everybody's saying, oh, you didn't beat Boston, you
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: didn't really beat this challenger. We're going to put an
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: asterisk next to your title if you win a title.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: A title with an asterisk is still a title at
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: the very least. So if the United States does go
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: on this magical run and they win the World Cup
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: and the rest of the the rest of the world
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: wants to say, hey, your World Cup title has an
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: asterisk next to it, I'll still take that World Cup trophy.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: I try telling Jim Harbi he didn't win a national
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: championship in Michigan. I mean, is the point I guess you,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: mikeyy okay, with a World Cup championship that has an
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: asterisk next to it.
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: You could put twelve asterisks.
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: Necessarily, I'm taking that trophy, and I'm telling the rest
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: of the world come get it, and if you don't
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: like it, my president will call your president and take.
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: Care of it.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Do you think of the World Cup we're being played
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: anywhere else that red card would have been overturned?
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, what do you think?
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: Probably not, because then it wouldn't be as big of
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: a draw to have the United States in. You have
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: the home country still in. Canada is already out, now
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: Mexico is out. You've got one left that can possibly
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: make a run to keep some of these home fans involved.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: Why not keep them in a little longer, Yeah, or
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: at least give them the opportunity.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: I guess what do you think would draw bigger ratings
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: tonight's game, which is Monday Night Football? Or if the
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Raiders played the Chargers on Monday Night Football?
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Wrong two teams, wrong two teams, wrong teams. I think
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: it would be Raiders Shorgers. I did, and it would
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: be a landslide.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: And even if it were a preseason game, that game
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: would still get higher rating than the soccer game tonight.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: I am so wrong about this.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of Stu Godson Company
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Live weekdaycent three pm Eastern, twelve pm Pacific.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Roger Bennet could have joined us at about fifteen minutes
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: get us ready for tonight's game.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Got an interesting text here. We're out in Lake Tahoe.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: We'll be out on the driving range tomorrow talking to
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: many of the participants, players, celebrities that are out here.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: We come here every year. We love it here at
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: the Edgewood Tahoe Resort.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Taylor is currently in a tent right outside the media
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: center because I'm in the media center and our MIC's
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: were too close together.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: But I did get an interesting text here.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Over the fourth of July weekend, we all did in
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: a group text from Mikey A, might need to play
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: hand up early this week. Just did something I am
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: both embarrassed and extremely proud of myself for doing. And
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: it was it was set with a picture of Mikey
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: I believe, at a beach on the fourth of July. So,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Mikey A, we don't have time for hand up, but
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: we do have time to hear this story about you
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: being both embarrassed and extremely proud of yourself for doing.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: You didn't break into someone's house and tickle anyone, did you?
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: I mean, no, no, no, I didn't do that.
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: But I was, like I said, we were at the
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: beach and a bunch of the kids were out on
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: floats and they're having a good time.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: And there was.
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: One kid who was somebody's who lives down the blocks,
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: grandson or whatever, and he was how do I put
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: was he was.
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: Not a well behaved child, right, And this kid was
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: he had a water gun and he's shooting my kids
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: in the face with it and they're going, all right, stop,
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: and I'm like, all right, come on, leave him alone,
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: leave them alone, and it got to the point where
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: the kid started like they were on paddle boards and
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: he was knocking them off the paddle boards.
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: And I'm like, okay, now, now I've had it a
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: few drinks.
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I swim on out there and I said, I'm
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: just going to go out and tell the kid to stop.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: And I got out there and I flipped his raft.
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: And I'm thinking about it now, Yes, and I don't
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: think I'm embarrassed anymore. I think I'm just proud of myself.
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: I just went out there and flipped the kid's raft.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Yes, But you went out there and did the thing
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: that you were upset that he was doing to everyone else.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: I mean, he was being a bully. You know.
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: He happens when you were a bully. There's always a
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: bigger bully.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: You get flipped over on your paddle board, right, you
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: fight fire with fire, I guess. I mean, you know, Taylor,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: how do you feel about this?
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: Do something different?
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: But you went out there and you went out there
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: with the idea of let me talk to this kid,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: let me talk to him rationally, let me teach them
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: a lesson, let me tell him why it is he
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be doing what it is that he's doing to
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: all these other kids. And I'm telling you, it's just
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: a kid being a kid, and there's always that kid
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: who's going to do that kind of stuff. You went
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: out there with good intentions, and when you got out there,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: somehow those good intentions turned into you being a kid,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: being the kid that you were angry at, being the
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: kid that you despised in that moment.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Yes, Taylor, if I was that kid's parents and I
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: saw mikey A flip my kid, no matter what my
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: kid was doing, mikey A is about to catch these hands.
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: First off, nobody saw it because I did it stealthily.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: I did it from right, Okay, so I did it stealthily.
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: Secondly, the kid was spoken to several times by several people.
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: The whole rational be becind that went out the window
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: once once you started flipping my kid in the deep end.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Right right.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: But I guess Taylor's point is, hey, don't parent my kid.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I'll parent my kid. And your response to that would
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: have been, hey, well, then, parents that you done it,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: we're all telling him to stop, and you're the only
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: people not telling him to stop.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: You're encouraging it. Yes, you want to know what happens.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if your kid is entertained, and if
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: entertaining means flipping other kids over on paddleboards and your
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: kid's not bothering you on the fourth of July at
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: the beach, you're okay with it.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: As the parent it's.
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: And you're absolutely right, and that you also have to
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: be okay when another father comes out there and flips
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: that kid on.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: The raft do you have to be But I mean,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: that's really the genesis of all of this. But those
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: parents not baroning their kid is they were happy for
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: the first time all afternoon. Their kid was finally leaving
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: them alone. And they don't care what the kid is doing.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: They don't care if the kid is breaking into a
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: house at tickling. People just leave us alone. We're having
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: beers at the beach. And therefore they weren't barning their kid,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: and you decided to go do it.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: For that, I'm proud of you. Mikey.
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: Hey, my kid And by the way, Taylor, my kid
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: is seven and this kid was like twelve. So we're
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: not talking like, oh, this is two eight year olds
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: having a good time. We're talking like, okay, this is
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: this is borderline psychotic.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: Here, Yes, Taylor, what happened to you last night?
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Because we had an interesting scenario where you're trying to
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: get into a hotel. Now, listen, we don't want to
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: bash anyone here out in Tahoe.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: We love it here. We're invited back. There are very
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: very few media entities that are invited out here. We've
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: been coming out here forever. There was a time where
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: it was just me in a local radio station in
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Kansas City, and now it's grown just a little bit.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Dan Patrick's going to be out here. He's got a
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: big set. PFT and Big Cat are going to be
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: out here.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Part of my take, So everyone is going to be
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: out here in Lake Tahoe. I kind of enjoyed it
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: a little bit more when it was just us because
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: you know, the guests would come on more frequently. It
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: was easier to get guests on. But last night we
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: got in here. It's a tough place to get to,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: especially from South Florida Reno, Nevada. You have to take
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: at least two flights to get out here, and then
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: once you take those two flights, it's like a forty
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: five minute drive. And I got out here early yesterday.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I'm at the edge of Tahoe, a very nice resort
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: in a beautiful room, and I might have a second
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: room for Taylor. Depends on my wife and what she
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: decides to do. But Taylor, what happened last night with you?
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Because you got to your hotel and apparently your hotel.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: And the only reason I'm asking is I woke up,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: had to go to the bathroom about one o'clock in
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: the morning, which is four Eastern time, okay, And what
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: I saw on my phone terrified me.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Mikey. What I saw on my phone.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Was four misscalls from Taylor in seventeen texts coming from Taylor.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: And I didn't know what to do because I was
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: exhausted and I just needed to sleep.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Taylor, what happened last night?
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: So I have a flight from Fort Lauderdale to Denver.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: I have a layover in Denver and then Denver to Reno.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: Then I have the Uber drive, the hour plus Uber
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: drive that Stu is talking about, to get from Reno
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: to Lake Tahoe. By the time I get in it's
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: ten thirty. I've been traveling for ten plus hours. At
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: this point, I just want to smooth experience. When I
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: get to the hotel. I get to the hotel and
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: I say, hey, I'm here to check in Sunday to Saturday.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: They're saying, hey, we see your name. You're not supposed
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: to be here till tuesday. And I go flatly, that
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: just can't be right, That just logistically cannot be right.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: So they're looking and they're double checking, and the manager's
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: coming over. And then the manager comes over and says, Okay,
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: we figured out a way to get.
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: You in today.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: You're gonna have to check out Tuesday, then go to
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: your original room assignment Tuesday, and then check out Saturday.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: Because everything was moved in the reservation by two days,
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: so they had me checking in two days later and
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: checking out two days later. They say, we could get
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: you in this room stud the price they gave me
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: because the room the room rate had changed. The price
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: they gave me was not a price that I could afford.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: So that's when I'm texting Scott Shapiro. I love Scott
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: Shapiro does a great job helping us out here.
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: President.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: iHeart I'm texting the the the contact he gave me,
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: the third party of the person who did the booking.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: I'm texting both those people. But now at this point
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: it's eleven pm out here. Yes it's even later on
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: the East Coast with the time change. So now I'm thinking,
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: I don't know what to do right now. So I
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: finally think, hey, let me just call Stu Gots and
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: see what Stu Gotts has to say. Yeah, Mikey, I
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: called Stu Gotts. I called Stu Gots. I text you Gots,
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: I text you Gots. I'm just sitting in this lobby
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: thinking I can't get a room right now. I don't
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: know what to do. I don't know anybody out here.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Let me let me call Stu Gots, because Stu Gotts
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: is a mentor of sorts. He could at least help me.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: He's less than a mile away. Stu Gotts goes, why
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: are you? Why are you reaching out to me? That
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: was basically the response I got from Stu Gotts when
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: when he woke up. I'm not in charge of your
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: room handling. I'm like, hey, I need help, buddy.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Yes, I had visions of Taylor. I was going to offer.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: I was going to offer for him to sleep in
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: my room, which and had I offered for you to
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: sleep in my room. If you had a choice sleeping
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: right next to me in my room or sitting in
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: the lobby and just sleeping in a chair, which one
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: would you have chosen?
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: I mean.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: I probably would have taken the chair.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: I mean, what did you want me to do? I
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: texted you at nine o'clock last night, which is which
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: is midnight Eastern, that I'm exhausted that I had to
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: go to sleep, and I went to sleep. I don't
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: know what you want me to do.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: I mean, stude the second you texted me at eight
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: thirty Lake Tahoe time, I'm exhausted, I'm going to sleep.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: I'm looking at my phone, my ETA saying ten thirty.
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: I go.
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: If I even run into a slight hiccup, I know
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: I am in trouble because Stu Gotts is out for
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: the count.
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: Okay, here's my question, Yeah, Taylor, if roles were reversed,
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: how is ste Gootts handling that situation?
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: And you are a mile away?
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: Huh?
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: If Stu Gotts is deploying the Navy seals to try
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: to get me waking up to come down to whatever
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: hotel he's at, he would have he would have he
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: would have found my location broken the door down, dragged
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: me out, tickled you to help.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: And now that's what I would have done. I would
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: have gotten a key from the person at the front desk.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: I would have broken.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Into his room and just started tickling him. Hey, teller,
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: it's me Tom a week let's go. I'm sorry. So
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: what happened?
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Like, so listen, they had you right where they wanted
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: you because you're a sad person. You've traveled a long way,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: you're tired, you're exhausted, you're sitting in the lobby looking sad,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: and so of course they jacked up the prices on you.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, so what happened? What was the end result here?
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: The end result was, luckily Scott Shapiro, our boss, waking
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: up and having the credit card authorization form for him
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: to fill out and get over, which he submitted in
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: the first place. Somehow, again in this in this mess
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: up by the hotel, and something got lost in translation
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: in terms of the actual dates.
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: That I was supposed to be there.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: It all got figured out. I got back to the
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: room at I probably got into the room at midnight,
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: so what time that's probably two o'clock Eastern.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: I was very tired, Yes, so Scott Shapiro came through.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: But Scott is saying he originally did the reservation correctly.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: I know he did. He showed it to me right.
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: So I was in all the original emails. I saw
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: the original emails. Everything was squared away. I saw when
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: Scott Shapiro put in the dates of Sunday to Saturday.
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: So that's when I got there and they said you're
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: not supposed to be here till Tuesday. And I'm looking
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: around and thinking it's eleven o'clock PM. I don't think
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: I have much luck contacting anybody right now.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: Now, only twenty five hours to go till Tuesday. At
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: that time