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Hour One | World Cup Talk | USA vs Belgium Recap · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: To Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go from a championship backfield to your morning drive.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the Hester and Hester got it five out.
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  Speaker 1: A pie, your lucks in to off the bench.
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  Speaker 4: So describe control the.
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  Speaker 1: Live from the Raising Kine studio. Here's Jacob Hester and
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  Speaker 1: Matt Flynn. You here we go.
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  Speaker 5: Welcome in O t B on this Tuesday morning. Jake, Flynn,
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  Speaker 5: Tate and Pauli, Paul o' neil.
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  Speaker 3: My goodness, what year is it?
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  Speaker 4: Twenty eighteen PM.
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  Speaker 5: Hanging with Hester and Flynn and Flynn every now and then,
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  Speaker 5: and Flynn when he shows up, actually you show up
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  Speaker 5: maybe not by seven oh one though.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that evening traffic was tough.
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  Speaker 5: That same picture that I would get every time, hey man,
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  Speaker 5: interstate's backed up. It's like, God, those same cars are
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  Speaker 5: in front of you every time you're on the interstate.
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  Speaker 4: We're worth on the same schedule.
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  Speaker 5: It's so crazy, license plate matches and every a little
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  Speaker 5: nostalgia here in the studio. Yeah, then it's like freaky
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  Speaker 5: Friday because Tata is over on the audio board.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I don't I don't like it. I'm in a little
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  Speaker 6: corner like in order to get. Paul could block me
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  Speaker 6: in if he wanted to. Not not a fan of the.
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  Speaker 7: Very aggressive Ye same, Yeah, nobody puts baby in the corner.
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  Speaker 4: Huh except Paul's true. I don't know. It is the
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  Speaker 4: sidelo ones that are typically the baddest.
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  Speaker 6: We're we're close, we're close, Yeah, we got we actually
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  Speaker 6: have an appointment today.
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  Speaker 4: Stop it, so eleven thirty. I'll be over there.
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  Speaker 6: I'll just be there for support, stand there and kind
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  Speaker 6: of look like an idiot like I do pretty much
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  Speaker 6: every just.
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  Speaker 5: Be there like the So every staff has these I'm
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  Speaker 5: not calling any staffs out, but every staff has a
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  Speaker 5: coach that doesn't do anything, and all he sits over
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  Speaker 5: there does is not his head and go yep.
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  Speaker 6: Stop talking about the tight end coach like that kind
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  Speaker 6: of piggybacking off of what this coach he just said.
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  Speaker 4: The detack. Yeah, I'm supporting.
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  Speaker 6: I'm support staff for sure, an interior division of that coach.
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  Speaker 5: Not talking about anybody specifically, by the way, but yeah,
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  Speaker 5: a lot of times tight ends coach in most places,
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  Speaker 5: And look and that was twenty.
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  Speaker 7: A lot of times it's running backs coach that that's
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  Speaker 7: not that's very far off.
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  Speaker 4: Not all of them. Okay, the one we've had here
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  Speaker 4: usually pretty much. I'm talking more NFL.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, this is NFL or NFL Yeah, NFL tight end
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  Speaker 5: coach kind of coaching good route gates.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no crap?
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  Speaker 4: Cool? He really wait to stick your nose in there
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  Speaker 4: on that block. All right? Thanks, kid, that's the player talking.
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  Speaker 5: And look, I love my I love all the running
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  Speaker 5: back coaches that had in the NFL. But what do
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  Speaker 5: you really tell LT.
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  Speaker 3: On this play?
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  Speaker 7: Let's see, I was watching the film. Yeah, and it's
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  Speaker 7: a pretty nice job. So keep it up next week. Yes,
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  Speaker 7: go the Jets.
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  Speaker 4: That's about all you really like.
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  Speaker 7: Sometimes like the only responsibility a lot of times that
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  Speaker 7: running backs coach has, or the tight ends coach has,
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  Speaker 7: it's like he gets that one like breakdown in a
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  Speaker 7: meeting throughout the week, like.
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  Speaker 4: All right, you're in charge of the three to two
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  Speaker 4: to five.
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  Speaker 7: You're in charge of breaking it down and giving us
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  Speaker 7: that that installation. You're gonna tell us about that that divise,
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  Speaker 7: So study all week, Right, you're prepped next week.
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  Speaker 4: You're gonna do it every week. Yep.
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  Speaker 7: You're gonna give us their tendencies on third and two
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  Speaker 7: to five yards, right, that's it. They get up there,
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  Speaker 7: that's their moment to shine. Put it on the resume. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: goal line sometimes for running back maybe maybe short yardage
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  Speaker 7: depends on where you are. Sometimes oline coach, sometimes running
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  Speaker 7: make the Yeah. AnyWho, Yeah, we digress.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 7: Speaking of flashback, you said, it's kind of like twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 7: Are we is USA men's soccer like the same team
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  Speaker 7: as thirty years ago? Yeah, flash back to that.
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  Speaker 4: That sucked last night.
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  Speaker 5: For one Belgium like forty to one by far the
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  Speaker 5: better side, not even close. So when I say this, this
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  Speaker 5: is not as slight as them, because they would have
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  Speaker 5: won the game regardless.
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  Speaker 3: You gave up four goals that none of them.
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  Speaker 5: Were class just the first goal just laziness, the second
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  Speaker 5: one you got big boyd.
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  Speaker 4: The third one I.
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  Speaker 5: Haven't seen in a ten U soccer game ever, and
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  Speaker 5: then the fourth one was just you quit.
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  Speaker 2: Sucked.
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  Speaker 4: God. The crowd was awesome.
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  Speaker 5: They tried Every time you like completed a pass that
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  Speaker 5: didn't get turned over, which wasn't very many, they were
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  Speaker 5: chanting and trying to get you involved in the game.
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  Speaker 5: You had a couple of players that you could tell
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  Speaker 5: were trying everything they could and just no help around them.
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  Speaker 5: It felt like the old soccer days where for the US,
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  Speaker 5: I'm talking where you just kind of kicked it around
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  Speaker 5: to the outside and you would send like just a
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  Speaker 5: meaningless cross in and hope somehow someway and find the
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  Speaker 5: head of one of your players instead of like all
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  Speaker 5: the things that built up to that game, where you
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  Speaker 5: had class and you had incredible ball you know, passes
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  Speaker 5: and runs from players that were getting in different channels
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  Speaker 5: and you were fighting them and they were finishing. Man,
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  Speaker 5: it felt like we took twenty five year step back
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  Speaker 5: and that that's what it looked like. And not that
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  Speaker 5: the US didn't have you know, good moments twenty five
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  Speaker 5: years ago. They certainly did two thousand and two. You know,
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  Speaker 5: they get to the round of sixteen, and that World
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  Speaker 5: Cup is you know as well. But oof, man, that
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  Speaker 5: was that was very, very tough to watch. Your stars
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  Speaker 5: certainly did not shine brightest. Christian polistic m i Ah
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  Speaker 5: turned the ball over on almost every touch that he
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  Speaker 5: had early in the game. Every time he touched, he
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  Speaker 5: felt like he turned it over. There was nothing dynamic
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  Speaker 5: about his play. And then look he got he got
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  Speaker 5: he kicked somebody's ankle, But then he goes out of
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  Speaker 5: the game. Man, it's a bad look for Christian Polistic.
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  Speaker 5: He's no longer. He's no longer your best player. I
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  Speaker 5: think that's pretty obvious. World Cup a bad player.
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  Speaker 4: He's no longer he was our best player. I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't like every time.
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  Speaker 7: So I'm watching, I'm watching the two teams play, and
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  Speaker 7: I'm just judging what I'm seeing on skill level.
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  Speaker 2: It was.
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  Speaker 7: A huge difference of skill level, and I'm just like
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  Speaker 7: looking at basic things like okay, well, when they passed
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  Speaker 7: the ball to themselves, they for a lack of a
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  Speaker 7: better term, because I'm not a soccer guy, they catch
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  Speaker 7: it and get it down pretty quick and are moving.
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  Speaker 7: Our guys are like it's bouncing off of them and
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  Speaker 7: bouncing four yards in front of him, and they just
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  Speaker 7: they didn't control the ball very well. They made terrible passes,
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  Speaker 7: like and like, look there was Belgium was playing pretty inspired.
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  Speaker 7: I assume, like all the things happening lead up to
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  Speaker 7: the game, they played pretty inspired.
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  Speaker 5: Like remember they in the eighty six minute of their
• 8:07
  Speaker 5: of their game Loser Go Home, they were down too nil.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, gegal right, and so they found a way
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  Speaker 5: to tie it up, get the extra time, win it
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  Speaker 5: an extra time, and you know how that is. You
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  Speaker 5: get some just like us in two thousand and seven.
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  Speaker 5: Don't let us get in because if we get in, Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And that would be bad.
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  Speaker 7: And I know USA played bad, and I know that
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  Speaker 7: there was a discrepancy in talent, But like that, ain't
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  Speaker 7: the Belgian team that I saw playing against Senegal?
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  Speaker 4: No, most of the world really, seriously, it was.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you were this close to playing Senegal, and
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  Speaker 5: I look, I don't that performance last night. I am
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  Speaker 5: not going to sit here and tell you that that
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  Speaker 5: team could be anybody.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think Senegal is a better team than Belgium. No,
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  Speaker 5: I mean I don't. It didn't matter if you played Senegal.
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  Speaker 5: It didn't matter if you played Kate Verde. It didn't
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  Speaker 5: matter if you played give me a give me a
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  Speaker 5: team in the World Cup. Right, even maybe some of
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  Speaker 5: the teams you already beat in this World Cup that
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  Speaker 5: that wasn't gonna win you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was bad.
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  Speaker 7: It was an embarrassing It was the way that you
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  Speaker 7: gave up goals was embarrassing.
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  Speaker 4: It was very embarrassing.
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  Speaker 7: It was this guy with the man button got big boy,
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  Speaker 7: he got a big boy he.
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  Speaker 5: Did, yeah, and I thought he played eight years old.
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  Speaker 5: Last World Cup.
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  Speaker 7: They had to step up and play amazing defense when
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  Speaker 7: they got the red card last game, and that defense,
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  Speaker 7: I don't know where they were. And I get it
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  Speaker 7: you're playing a different class of player, but it was
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  Speaker 7: it was very night and day on who the better
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  Speaker 7: soccer team was. First goal, Serginio Desk. Only this guy's face.
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  Speaker 7: How's he so much better than our guys? No, Serginio Desk.
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  Speaker 5: Just the lazy didn't close out the second one you mentioned,
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  Speaker 5: reim got big boy. The third one the goalie like,
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  Speaker 5: come on man, and it's like, I mean that, just
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  Speaker 5: that that At that stage in the World Cup, you're
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  Speaker 5: down to sixteen, you know, sixteen teams and.
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  Speaker 7: Oof, that's what happened. It looked like it was And
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  Speaker 7: I get it. There's a lot of pressure on them.
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  Speaker 7: It's a big stage. Yeah, And these dudes have never
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  Speaker 7: especially the guys that play at MLS, Like there's these
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  Speaker 7: dudes have never played anything close to this, So I
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  Speaker 7: get it. Like the guys Rebelsium, they're playing in that
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  Speaker 7: and packed out stadium.
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  Speaker 5: And most of our players, most of our players do
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  Speaker 5: play in top flight Premier League over in Europe Syria.
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  Speaker 4: We not the goalie. The goalie doesn't That's what I say.
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  Speaker 5: So Tim Marie plays for MLS, the thirty eight year old,
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  Speaker 5: but he played for Fulham forever in the Premier League.
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  Speaker 5: They're the goalies and an MLS player And that felt
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  Speaker 5: like a moment that was far too big.
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  Speaker 4: He panicked and.
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  Speaker 5: Then now, unfortunately that's going to be anytime he's mentioned
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  Speaker 5: like that's going to be the first thing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 7: There was just I don't understand the miscommunication when there
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  Speaker 7: was a like a ball in no man's land. Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 7: let's just take the bad goal aside, like the third
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  Speaker 7: goal they scored, Let's just take that one out of it.
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  Speaker 7: There was a couple other times where the defenseman didn't
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  Speaker 7: know if the goalie was going to come out and
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  Speaker 7: get the ball. There was times that I think it
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  Speaker 7: led to the second goal where there was a ball
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  Speaker 7: bouncing around and there's three of them around it and
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  Speaker 7: they all thought each other.
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  Speaker 4: Was going to get the ball and they just stood there.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, they just stood there, And I don't know, it
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  Speaker 7: was it was frustrating to watch for somebody that doesn't
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  Speaker 7: know soccer, like me like sitting there and watch and
• 11:39
  Speaker 7: just see him just like look like they were nervous, certainly,
• 11:43
  Speaker 7: and I'm sure they were, and I get that, but
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  Speaker 7: at some point it's like, all right, we're fifteen minutes
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  Speaker 7: into this thing, this is just soccer, now, let's play. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: they just they couldn't get out of their own way.
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  Speaker 7: So it sucks because they had everything for him. If
• 12:01
  Speaker 7: they had even played soccer, had everything tied up.
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  Speaker 5: For doubt, if they would have played like they did
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  Speaker 5: in twenty fourteen against Belgium, now that was Tim Howard
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  Speaker 5: being a superman, but if they would have lost a
• 12:13
  Speaker 5: game like that one that was like back and forth,
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  Speaker 5: and it's like had moments where one kick here, one
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  Speaker 5: kick there you could and they lose. I think, I
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  Speaker 5: still think, and I'm mind in the moral victories at
• 12:24
  Speaker 5: this point. I'm tired of that with US soccer. But
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  Speaker 5: it's at a point where you feel much better about it.
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  Speaker 5: It's how you got beat, It's the way you got beat.
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  Speaker 5: It's the performance by people that are supposed to be
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  Speaker 5: your best players.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: That's what's so maddening about what happened last night.
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  Speaker 7: What's maddening as like just sitting and wanting USA to
• 12:43
  Speaker 7: be good at everything is You're sitting and watch watching
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  Speaker 7: them play a small country, right, Yeah, I know they
• 12:49
  Speaker 7: have this amazing soccer. I know, true, I got it,
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  Speaker 7: but like from like a size standpoint, yeah, and you're
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  Speaker 7: watching everybody on their team is bigger, stronger, faster, Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: And I'm like, how is that possible? And I and
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  Speaker 7: we all know why it's possible because your name another
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  Speaker 7: sport that Belgium. Yeah, exactly, everybody plays that sport and
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  Speaker 7: most of we are we argued about last week about
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  Speaker 7: most of the youth is going to play the other sports.
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  Speaker 7: And but but still on that stage, you're like, yes,
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  Speaker 7: we've like we've been building this thing for thirty years.
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  Speaker 4: We got it. We got our guys, yeah, we got.
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  Speaker 7: We got we got our dude just he beat a
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  Speaker 7: red card. He's bad, Like everything's happened in our way.
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  Speaker 7: And then you see these guys like man, that guy's
• 13:35
  Speaker 7: taller than us. Oh, those guys jump higher than us,
• 13:37
  Speaker 7: those those are faster. But like I was really impressed
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  Speaker 7: by there that like the angles they played on defense,
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  Speaker 7: like they took all like their their angles and they're
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  Speaker 7: disciplined on like playing defense was perfect and obviously the
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  Speaker 7: American guys.
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  Speaker 4: Just had not seen that in the world.
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  Speaker 7: Kept yet like all the lanes that they were in,
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  Speaker 7: all the all the plays they were trying to run,
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  Speaker 7: put it in a under they were they were outmatched
• 14:02
  Speaker 7: and to the to the point and you're like, look,
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  Speaker 7: I mean there is a middle ground of what the
• 14:08
  Speaker 7: argument we had last week about soccer, and I was
• 14:11
  Speaker 7: talking about you know, how many players do play in
• 14:13
  Speaker 7: this country and soccer mom term and all that, and
• 14:15
  Speaker 7: I mean, but you are right about like our best athletes.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying they do. I think when you look at.
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  Speaker 5: How you soccer is like it's too hard for somebody
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  Speaker 5: to be able to do it in this country and
• 14:30
  Speaker 5: stay with it sometimes like the expense of soccer and
• 14:34
  Speaker 5: the youth systems and like how like it shouldn't be
• 14:36
  Speaker 5: what it is so like sport now right a little
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: a little bit like baseball's falling.
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  Speaker 4: Into that a little bit.
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  Speaker 7: Soccer's just always been club. Now everything's like catching up
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  Speaker 7: with it as being club, right.
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  Speaker 5: And so I think there's some people that by the
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: time you get to twelve thirteen years old, even it's
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: like we like as a family, like, we can't really
• 14:56
  Speaker 5: do this anymore.
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  Speaker 4: I've talked to Paris that there minn soccer.
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  Speaker 5: My dad, I mean, my brother and sister they you know,
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  Speaker 5: they are much younger than me, and they did it.
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: They did it through like FC Dallas system and man,
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: I remember my dad driving from Treeport to Dallas, Shreeport
• 15:16
  Speaker 5: to Little Rock, Treeport to Memphis like every weekend. They're
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: like two three years and you know, look, well balling falling.
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  Speaker 4: On a budget.
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  Speaker 7: But like look look at the mirror, pal you know
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  Speaker 7: what I mean. It's like, look in the mirror. I'm
• 15:30
  Speaker 7: just saying, like soccer has always been like that. Everything
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  Speaker 7: else is like catching up to that. I think it'd
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  Speaker 7: go in that club route. So it is a challenge
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  Speaker 7: to do. But I mean because even with like but
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  Speaker 7: I don't think that's the main reason if people want
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  Speaker 7: to they don't play.
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  Speaker 3: It's a part of it.
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  Speaker 4: Nothing main.
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  Speaker 5: But like God, this morning on the radio, and I
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: knew I was gonna hear it's like if we had
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: Lebron playing goalie.
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  Speaker 3: I hear you sure, like no doubt.
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  Speaker 5: And in other in other countries, like it's the main sport,
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  Speaker 5: so they're gonna get the best athletes, but also, man,
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  Speaker 5: our countries gigantic, huge, like you can still just dedicated
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: a couple of states. I just don't like the excuse anymore.
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: If we had Tyreek keel up top.
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  Speaker 4: I get it, I.
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  Speaker 5: Hear you, I do. That's true, though, I hear you right,
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  Speaker 5: it is. But that's not gonna happen. And our country
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: is big enough that we should be able to find
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: eleven Jimmies.
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  Speaker 7: And Joe's that Belgium. Can I know you know that's
• 16:26
  Speaker 7: what I'm sating there watching. Man, we're a lot bigger
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: than Belgium. But can we just dedicate Arkansas? Y'all be
• 16:33
  Speaker 7: the soccer state, y'all. Just y'all all your talent. Y'all
• 16:36
  Speaker 7: are not allowed to play football, baseball, basketball, y'all do soccer.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see Arkansas.
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  Speaker 6: We're gonna get the state of Washington throwing Utah.
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  Speaker 4: I wan Arkansas.
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  Speaker 3: I was kind of got fullbacks there, Bud.
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  Speaker 6: We got some good line. That's a good play. We
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: need the lineman. I was watching that game.
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  Speaker 7: Last night, and I was thinking about our conversation last
• 16:59
  Speaker 7: week that we argued about after the game.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, well, all right, kids, USA kids. Everyone
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  Speaker 4: back to the normal sports. Let's go.
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: That was gonna be one of my points to finish
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  Speaker 5: off this first segment.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't even gonna bring it up because I didn't
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: want to throw shade.
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: But since you did, the thing I hate the most
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: because I've been in this my whole life. I remember
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: watching the ninety eight World Cup, me and my older
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: brother Adam.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: We were dialed in. I was thirteen years old.
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: I remember every moment of it in France and just
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: really when I fell in love with soccer. And I
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: watched it before, but that was the moment. So I've
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: been in this for a long time, thirty years almost,
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: and not many times certainly where I live in this
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: country do I have friends that watch it with me
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: and I can talk about it right, and I can
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: sit here and I can come to work. Did you
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: see last night? It just doesn't happen. It's me and
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: it's Gordy Rush. We wake up on the road when
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: we're covering LSU games. There's two people awake in the lobby.
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: It's me and Gordy and we're watching the Premier League
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: and everybody that comes through there, oh, watching the economy sport.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Huh, every person, everyone that walks by.
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: I've been dealing with it for years, and so when
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: we finally get some pot in this with us, we
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: get some.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: People watching with us, and we can talk about it.
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: Man, it's such a good feeling because, like it's a
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: sport that we love, we talk about it often, and
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: then when you have people that are loving it with you,
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: it's fun just because like every other time, it's the
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: same old thing that people say.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, soccer, blah blah blah.
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: And then like immediately after the game was done, I
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: had two group texts, one from this guy saying, all right,
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: now back to our normal sports.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: I'm like, man, I hate that.
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: I hate that that and I know it's true, but
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: I know that's going to be the feeling for most people.
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: I had another one that said, all right, back to
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: hating this version of football and they spelled football.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: I'm like, schedule, I hate it, and.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: I know it's coming every year unless you did something
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: remarkable and they got close to doing it.
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: Look, it's unfair, right, it is unfair, but it is
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: reality that it's a what have you done for me lately?
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: Situation?
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: And as well as they played and as exciting as
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: it was, it's sports. It's what if you've done for
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: me lately. That's the taste that's gonna be left in
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: everybody's mouth. Is what is that? And it's and like
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: you said, if they just played it close and played
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: with effort and made it like made it like kate
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: Verde like that, Like if they finished off their tournament
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: like kate Verde did and it looked gritty, they looked
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: the part you could tell maybe they weren't, like they
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: were definitely not the best team. But guess what that
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: free kid goes in. It's one one. Like I had
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: the Jesus. I was running around the house screaming gold.
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: My kids are like, Dad, what's wrong with you? It's sucker,
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: And it's like I'm excited because I love my country.
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: I want us to be good. And I was like,
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: it's one one.
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: Then like literally forty five seconds later, they score and
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: it just looked bad, unfortunate, and it's not fair because
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: they did do some really good things and they did
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: do a lot of awesome things to prop up USA soccer.
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: But because it ended that way, it's gonna be a
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: regression from where it could have been.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: And that sucks. I'm sorry, Jake. All good. Let's see
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: here around your golf telling me you've gotta.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: Have more.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Tigers turn talkers. This is off the bench.
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  Speaker 7: Stop.
• 21:07
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• 21:08
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  Speaker 7: is doing yep audio. We're we're on audio today, firm.
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  Speaker 4: It's weird.
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  Speaker 6: I do audio like semi frequently for hunt Oh do You,
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• 22:14
  Speaker 4: I do audio for the least but funny enough you
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  Speaker 4: hear every day I dabble. Have you ever done both
• 22:19
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you had all tried to.
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  Speaker 4: Do it on remote that one time, but that's what
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  Speaker 3: I know, somebody was going back and forth. Was it
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  Speaker 3: when I was sick?
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  Speaker 3: Which I guess on the remote a little like a
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  Speaker 4: I've done it. I don't know what I'm talking for
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: midday for like five minutes.
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  Speaker 7: We don't even know how to push the on button
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  Speaker 7: in here, Bud. Actually I know how to turn the
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• 22:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah you do, Paul. Get that microphone ready over there, Bud.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: So Paul was with us back in the day, hanging
• 22:55
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• 22:57
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• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Paul.
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: I know this is basically the same as the one
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: you do every day. I mean attention to detail. I
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: want to make sure that we have everything ready to
• 23:08
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• 23:12
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• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Dealing with right now, Paul. So we appreciate you being here, Bud.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a lot of work and double duty pretty much.
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: I mean, we're asking this video and that video and
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: play with this audio, and it's just a lot.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: I'm working on the first segment right now. Get a
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: little distracted. I'm sorry you hadn't posted it yet, A
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: little behind. Hey, so the Brave loss last night, Paul unfortunately?
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so yeah, I was watching US soccer and I
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: was doubt and I saw Matt Olsen hit a home
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: run to tie it up, and then then I got
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: back to being bitter about US soccer.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: So it was finally remember, uh, I believe it was
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: seven six?
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I just I just got an update. I think uh,
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: pulistic still turning the ball over right now? Another another
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: one just now.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: It just happened, man, I have I have.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: Been on some big stages, like we were fortunate to
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: be on some big ones, but like I've never been
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: the player that everybody was hoping counting on like like
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: that in that situation, how do you bounce back after
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: like you're supposed to be the guy and then you
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: play poorly, then you literally limp off the field and
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: get subbed off.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know, that's tough. I don't know.
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: I think there was a little If you look closely,
• 24:32
  Speaker 8: I think there's a little piss on his leg too. Yeah,
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: shocking how big the moment was for some I know,
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: and maybe it wasn't. Maybe it was just a bad
• 24:40
  Speaker 8: day and that's the look. But that's the that's that's
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: what we all saw. Yeah, that's it. You can't unsee
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: what you saw. There a goalie that say the stage
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: is too big for the goalie.
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: You said it perfectly in the group chat. Nervy the
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: very first kick, it felt nervy.
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: They look nervy before the before the like are the
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: goalkeeper the one like he made a great save within
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: like a minute and a half into the game, maybe
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: made a great save, but like everybody looked like they
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: were stuck in mud like.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Around that guy.
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: And they would try to clear, like they try to
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: clear the ball and they'd kick it right to the
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: other team. They were like passing the ball. I mean,
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: this is like youth sports. You never passed the ball
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: blind like in football, quarterbacks never make a blind throw.
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: They were just passing the ball blindly. I'm sorry, I
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: know you don't want to talk about it again.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: Let me ask you this.
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: There has been a lot of push towards the US
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: United States Soccer trying to you know, hopefully get better athletes,
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: more athletes playing, and man, this is you know they
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: had the some some decent runs early in two thousands,
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: said like this is the youth group to be able
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: to make that that push. Maybe it's not like a
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: ultra world class push, but like to improve you soccer.
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: Is US men's soccer better today than it was? Let's
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: take it like four years ago is a better day
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: that was twenty years ago?
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: Definitely better than it was eight years ago. Remember you
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: didn't qualify, Yeah, World Up.
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: And I guess I'm not just talking about just like
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: I guess I'm not talking about the team, like like
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: the specific results, just like the foundation they're like what
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: we're putting out there. Like I get it, like maybe
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: one year you had a better result at the end
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: of the World Cup, But like as a whole in general,
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: is it in a better place today than it was
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: twenty years ago? It was supposed to be, But the
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: question has to be asked, like after seeing how much
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: better Belgium was and like knowing that US got a
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: really good drawing pool play, they looked a ton better.
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: But like the quality of you know, a team that
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: they're playing are they in a better place.
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, uh and gosh, so it's it's a great question,
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: but it's tough to answer. I mean, Belgium is a
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: bad matchup for them. Belgium beat US five to two
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: back in March. I mean, so I guess we shouldn't
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: be as surprised.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: As as we were. Just a little friendly.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: I'll say this though, I mean, like.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: You've got Anthony Robinson place for Fulham, Chris Richards place
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: for Crystal Palace, Tyler Adams place for Bournemouth. Malik Tilman
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: plays in the Bundesliga. We mentioned, Christian Polistic plays for
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: AC Milan Baligan plays for in the top league in France.
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: Death plays, you know, at a respectable club.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: In PSV Balligan looked like he belonged on the field.
• 27:58
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and maybe a couple of maybe a couple of midfielders, yeah,
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: look like they're like, okay, these guys look like they blonde.
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: But most of the guys, yeah, everybody saw it. They
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: just didn't know where to go.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: So like I bring up all those clubs to say, like,
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: your team's not made up of LA Galaxy and Chicago
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: Fire anymore, which no disrespect to MLS.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: It's a young league. It is what it is.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: It's got some good players in it.
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: But I mean, Messi plays in the MLS, all right,
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: Messi's doing pretty good in this World Cup. But I
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: do think it's in a better spot because you have
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: your your starting eleven is playing in the top leagues
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: in England, Germany, France, Netherlands.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: So I mean that part of it.
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: Yes, is it a giant leap from where you know
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: where it was ten, twelve, fourteen.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: No, yep, it's not.
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: Unfortunately, it is a foundation better, like how they're approaching
• 28:56
  Speaker 7: the game a little bit, not not a lot. Honestly,
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: it just takes it didn't even have to be foundationally
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: be that much better. It just takes a couple of
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: like badass own braids like that are that are young, yeah,
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: and hunger and they're just like, really, it takes some stars.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: You got your volume up on the Twitter fronts over there.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: That's that's intentional. People need to know. I think it's
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: on purpose to your point.
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: And Baligan did look like he belonged to the field,
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: like he was like even if even if you didn't
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: notice it, like the runs he was making in different
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: channels to try to get the ball like it was
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: really strong.
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: They just could even to him even like trying to
• 29:40
  Speaker 7: make runs and the guys just didn't see him, Yeah,
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: to pass the ball to him like he's he's sitting
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: there streaking, hoping and then they didn't pass it.
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: It's like, so he's twenty five years old, he'll be
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: back next World Cup.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: He'll be twenty nine, Okay, what about ten more.
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: Like somebody like That's and Tillman and like those that's
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: gonna be your stars the next World Cup. And you
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: just hope that their DNA, their presence on the field
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: is better than what the stars were supposed to be
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: in this World Cup. And that's that's it's harsh, but
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: it's just facts. I mean, the guys who are supposed
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: to be your stars didn't have.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: A good tournament.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Let's act like son, act like yesterday.
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: Was the only the only game that Christian Polisic didn't
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: show up. I know he had an injury, but name
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: a moment for him this World Cup set out that
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: one game exactly. So like that's another thing that you
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: have to like, look at what Holland's doing for Nory
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: and look, I know the level of player he is
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: I mean, he's world class compared but I'm just saying.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: Nory didn't have the strongest side. But you know what
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: they have. They have got a badass leader up in
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: the front.
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: It literally looks like a Viking that is going to
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: raise his level of play in a World Cup, so
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: the highest level that it can go.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: And he's gonna for three weeks, four weeks, however long.
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: He's gonna do.
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: Everything he can to put all the other ten on
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: his back. Now, they got some good players to play
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: for Arsenal and other you know, major clubs, but like,
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: he's the guy.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: That's what I want for you, Like I want that guy.
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: And look Donovan and Dempsey studs and they tried to
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: do it. But even more than that, like another level
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: of class, and again those guys are incredible, Like one
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: more level of class is.
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: What you Well, I heard it before the World Cup
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: started talking about how it's gonna be really hard for you, say,
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: to make a run because not one player on their
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: roster was a top one hundred player in the world.
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: And I guess they rank them that way, they don't know.
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: I mean, they included two US players in that. But
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: there was even debate about that. Yeah, yeah, so.
• 31:54
  Speaker 7: And you could tell it like the ball. Look now,
• 31:56
  Speaker 7: it got stuck on their foot every time they got
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: the ball.
• 32:14
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  Speaker 3: All right, what's left in the World Cup?
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: As we uh you know here in the first hour
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: obviously all of us watched it last night, Still mad, bitter,
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: pissed off the result.
• 33:05
  Speaker 7: No more home field advantage anymore for anybody now the
• 33:08
  Speaker 7: North American.
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, some boy Danny, Danny Cardinals was trying to throws
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: shade at me in Tibab last night like Danny, Mexico
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: went home the same route. Yeah, but it was a
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: close game, I said, for shoe and hangger nads but
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: many and you also lost a ten englishman yep for
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: bulk of the game.
• 33:25
  Speaker 7: Yeah, which does think because the Mexico City game and
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: this last night those those places were rockets. Unfortunately, I'm
• 33:35
  Speaker 7: assuming Canada had a weak crowd.
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: But they played in the US, but they still would
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: have had a week chan and baby cakes. So what's
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: left in the tournament? On July the ninth, it is
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: France and Morocco. France Morocco would be I believe a
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: three pm game on July the ninth. On the tenth
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: it is Spain versus Belgium. On the eleventh it is
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: Norway versus England. That's gonna be awesome. And then you
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: still have a game today. It's gonna be Argentina Egypt.
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: Winner of that plays the winner of Switzerland and Colombia.
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: And that's what the rest of the tournament looks.
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: When does Switzerland Columbia play?
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: They played today, There we go, we got seven.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I got some background noise in the.
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: Office, Argentina Egypt at eleven am, and then Switzerland Columbia
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: at three pm. So you can watch Argentina Egypt in
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: the office at eleven absolutely and I will.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: I did have it on yesterday. I forget.
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: I think I guess it would have been the Spain
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: Portugal because I'm on air on the NFL channel. Uh,
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: you know, like you're talking whatever. I think it hit
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: one of those ooh impact goes who scored you knew.
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: I was watching the game and we were all there.
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: I was like, oh man, I was like, I see
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: you into Ronaldo.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: That's it, Spaine wins.
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: Ronaldo no longer going to play for the national team.
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: Last time we'll see him for Portugal, which is crazy.
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: I mean, think about how long, like two decades, two
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: decades you've seen him.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: Play for Portugal. You know what, six World Cups. Yeah,
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: that's two decades. That over two decades. It's over two decades.
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: I'm just saying, it's not it's not quite. It's a
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: long time.
• 35:16
  Speaker 7: And yeah, you're seeing the end.
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: Of a couple eras. Yeah, and it's gonna be.
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: I even recognized the dude from Croatia. I recognized them magic. Yeah,
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: they a card. No, because from the last World Cup,
• 35:30
  Speaker 7: you know, just lasts last World Cup.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: Messi's Ronaldo a big generation.
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: Last time we'll get a chance to see them on
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: this stage. I mean, I guess it's Messi's I mean,
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: I don't know if I want to count him out.
• 35:44
  Speaker 7: Actually he looks still looks pretty good, like like that
• 35:48
  Speaker 7: seven goals, like even Ronaldo, like the other you know,
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: older older guys out there, they do a lot of
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: walking around getting ready and and I get you got
• 35:57
  Speaker 7: to pace yourself throughout the game because you along gotta
• 36:00
  Speaker 7: run a long way, but you but you could tell
• 36:03
  Speaker 7: like they're conserving a lot of energy and they can't
• 36:05
  Speaker 7: hit that go butt as much. Yeah, Messi's not really
• 36:08
  Speaker 7: doing that. He's running a lot and even more than
• 36:11
  Speaker 7: maybe he normally does. He still got the speed. So
• 36:15
  Speaker 7: we'll see. Four years is a long time we do.
• 36:18
  Speaker 7: We need to figure out how to move this up
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: to two years. I know you said Europe was against it.
• 36:26
  Speaker 7: Europe's against everything. Europe sucks. I mean they're against ice makers,
• 36:31
  Speaker 7: automatic transmissions, like the technology is there. Just grow up,
• 36:36
  Speaker 7: let's have this thing every two years. We'll still without Europe,
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: specifically Belgium.
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: Real quick, do y'all's papers. Ain't no live right here? Yes, yeah,
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: there is a live at Russell Pools.
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: I don't know what to screwed that up. Somebody did
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: here one day one time. I give you all this
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: credit for us being the OG crowd And.
• 36:59
  Speaker 7: Come on, all right, well doesn't want doesn't want to
• 37:02
  Speaker 7: talk about Canniball season.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, I think everything that we picked, Yeah
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: it is. Are we all out? We're all out. We'll
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: tell you who it was.
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: One more segment and then we'll wrap up the World
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: Cup talk for today.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: We'll dive into L s U in Saints.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: It's just it's the World Up Tour de.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: France locked in on L s U Football twenty four
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: to seven you're listening to off the bench.
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: All right, welcome back again here on this Tuesday morning,
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: Tuesday Tuesday, the best day of the week. Uh So,
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: to finish up our World Cup discussion for today and yeah,
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: in a full hour. But the US men's national team
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: is no longer, so obviously some of this conversation is
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: going to die down.
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: And I hate it, but I know what it is
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: and I get it. Hey, we'll always have four years
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: from now. Thanks, we'll bring it back that mindo soccer.
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: You went Netherlands, they're out. I went Germany, they're out.
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: You went Croatia, Tata, they're out. Alandra and Mexico they're out.
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: We didn't even make it to the quarter finals.
• 38:37
  Speaker 6: Think we're matt What are we worse at US Open
• 38:42
  Speaker 6: picks or World Cup.
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: Picks, I would say, I think only one of us
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: made the cut. No, we both did.
• 38:51
  Speaker 6: But your guy was plus fourteen milos plus eight by
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: the way, freaking Chris got her up.
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah he won the tournament? Oh all right? Who won
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: the Travelers another one this weekend? What was this weekend?
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: So that was the We're not don't pick him? He
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: does well?
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: Sure, all right, so let's reassess. Yeah, France, Morocco, Spain, Belgium, Norway, England,
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: and of course you said Argentina, Egypt, Switzerland, Columbia. New
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: team is gonna win.
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: The World Cup.
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna go with probably the single greatest team to
• 39:30
  Speaker 7: ever be as symbol.
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: Belgium.
• 39:33
  Speaker 7: Okay, best thing I've ever seen, Spain, Okay, I want
• 39:40
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna cheer. I want to cheer for Norway. Cheer
• 39:43
  Speaker 7: for Norway because the Viking row.
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: Uh, France, Morocco is gonna be awesome.
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go Argentina to run it back. Not gonna happen.
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: You saw it?
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: How awesome would it be a Norway won that?
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: Though? It would be cool.
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: Norway winning it would be like a seventh seed winning
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: the NCAA tournament in basketball.
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: A seventh seed.
• 40:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it'd be like Indiana winning the football national championship.
• 40:14
  Speaker 7: Because Erlin Holland has scored as many goals as Norway
• 40:18
  Speaker 7: has ever scored in the World Cup before this one combined.
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: Is that that big? Is that good? Is good?
• 40:26
  Speaker 7: They've scored seven goals ever in the World Cup and
• 40:28
  Speaker 7: he scored seven Norway.
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: Norway's thirty first in FIFA rankings in the world. To
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: kind of give you an idea, the US typically hovers
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: between fourteen and seventeen. So for Norway to be where
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: they're at thirty first, you're you're probably right. It's probably
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: like an Indiana football situation. And I'm just saying where
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: they've been in like the history. Yeah, they have a
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: generational player, which you know, Indiana thinks that, you know,
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: we'll see if Mendoz is bad, but sure looked like
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: it this year for Indiana.
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: So they're good. Good comt they're good at you go
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: make you like soccer whether you like it or not.