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Napoli continue the push for the Scudetto - Ep. 261 Ft. Raffa Rispo · The Calcio Guys

• 0:13
  Speaker 1: The Scudetto race is still one and we're back on
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: here on the couch of guys.
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: Agiano was back from Italy. U Nicholas.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: Johnny can't make it this week, but we do still
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: have our Napoli representative, our good friend Raffri spoke from
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: the Napoli Rant, the raff and raff Rant Raft.
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: It's been a while. I was going with my man.
• 0:30
  Speaker 3: Guys. It's been great man, and it's good to see
• 0:33
  Speaker 3: the two of you again. It's unfortunate Johnny couldn't be here,
• 0:36
  Speaker 3: but it's been a while. It's been a it's been
• 0:40
  Speaker 3: a long time since. We probably needed some monopoly representation, right.
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, and you've got you got the you got
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: the Scudetto flag behind We had you a lot on Nazis.
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: And you know we're talking reason for that, right.
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: Talking before the pod. You know how lot year you
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: know it wasn't so it wasn't so easy for Napoli fans.
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: There was a lot of.
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: Lot to talk about on the podcast here, but you
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: know they're they're right here.
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: Raft.
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: I'm hey, listen, might as well. I know, Adri, you
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: probably wanted to talk before we get into it, just.
• 1:14
  Speaker 4: To say, hi, Hi, I'm back quick quick tript Italy.
• 1:19
  Speaker 4: Uh yeah, my cousin's wedding, uh last week. So just
• 1:24
  Speaker 4: came back trying to get adjusted back to the to
• 1:26
  Speaker 4: a reality at the time zone now here uh here
• 1:29
  Speaker 4: in North America.
• 1:30
  Speaker 5: But I'll have you back and happy to have rough
• 1:32
  Speaker 5: like on again and like we said, off off air
• 1:34
  Speaker 5: management way too long. So it's it's always a pleasure.
• 1:37
  Speaker 5: But I think we should dive right into a rough.
• 1:40
  Speaker 4: You know, just crazy season Antonio Conte not really battling
• 1:45
  Speaker 4: for first yet again uh this matchday kind of they
• 1:49
  Speaker 4: had that chance of of getting you know, a point
• 1:54
  Speaker 4: closer to uh two tweens at the talk, but.
• 1:57
  Speaker 5: It wasn't to be. Just I guess we haven't had
• 2:01
  Speaker 5: you on this season. I don't believe.
• 2:02
  Speaker 4: So I just want to maybe get your thoughts of naps,
• 2:05
  Speaker 4: you know, seasons so far and obviously we'll get into
• 2:07
  Speaker 4: the nitty gritty you know, going going later on into
• 2:09
  Speaker 4: the show. But just what have you made of of
• 2:12
  Speaker 4: of this not under quante and where there are right
• 2:15
  Speaker 4: now and it's the business end of this.
• 2:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're.
• 2:25
  Speaker 3: Your audio, just either muted yourself or.
• 2:32
  Speaker 2: We'll let we'll let we'll let you go rap while
• 2:34
  Speaker 2: you figures that out.
• 2:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. So to answer the question of how I
• 2:39
  Speaker 3: feel about the season, it's a it's a that's kind
• 2:41
  Speaker 3: of like a loaded question, I think, right because there's
• 2:45
  Speaker 3: there's so many mixed sentiments you know that that that
• 2:50
  Speaker 3: I'm going through and me being one of the most
• 2:54
  Speaker 3: positive you know, you Knownopoly fan that I know, right,
• 3:02
  Speaker 3: like like optimistic. It's one of those things where like
• 3:07
  Speaker 3: even I at three points behind Indad with seven games left.
• 3:15
  Speaker 3: You know, normally you'd be thrilled about a season like that,
• 3:18
  Speaker 3: but there's something about this season that that even even
• 3:23
  Speaker 3: though the Scudetto race is as tight as it is,
• 3:27
  Speaker 3: doesn't feel the same as the Scudetto season that we
• 3:31
  Speaker 3: blew the whole league out of the water, right like
• 3:34
  Speaker 3: like maybe because it's been thirty three years since we
• 3:38
  Speaker 3: had won it and finally here's the season. You know,
• 3:41
  Speaker 3: my father and I were making like plans jet at
• 3:45
  Speaker 3: the end of January it was lock. It was a
• 3:48
  Speaker 3: lock even for this most superstitiousnpoly fan. Now that it's
• 3:52
  Speaker 3: an exciting race, define exciting? Are we playing very exciting football? Not? Really?
• 3:59
  Speaker 2: Is in there?
• 4:00
  Speaker 3: The the in there of old of last season or
• 4:03
  Speaker 3: that that also steamrolled through the season. Not really. So
• 4:07
  Speaker 3: it's it's one of those seasons where like, yes, I'm
• 4:11
  Speaker 3: happy to be back in second place. Antonio Conte came in,
• 4:14
  Speaker 3: we got Bonordo, which helped the defense out. We you know,
• 4:18
  Speaker 3: unfortunately lost ustin Man. We lost Cobada in the middle
• 4:22
  Speaker 3: of the season, but we gained experience and we went
• 4:25
  Speaker 3: a certain different way about the the Mercato in in
• 4:30
  Speaker 3: in in the summer that we normally do, right, signing
• 4:33
  Speaker 3: older players, signing players for on a free you know,
• 4:38
  Speaker 3: spin a dola free, you know, Lukaku thirty and and over,
• 4:42
  Speaker 3: you know, spending the money on the on on you know, mcconmina.
• 4:46
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean. You look at that and
• 4:50
  Speaker 3: you say to yourself, okay, as compared to last season,
• 4:55
  Speaker 3: we're right back to where we need to be. A
• 4:58
  Speaker 3: lot of pundits out there will we'll pretty much like
• 5:02
  Speaker 3: talk about how knopoly we were in tenth last year
• 5:04
  Speaker 3: and look at what Conte is doing with the tenth
• 5:06
  Speaker 3: place side. While that same tenth place side also won
• 5:10
  Speaker 3: the Scudetto, blowing the whole league out of the water
• 5:13
  Speaker 3: the season before, right that team wasn't very different than
• 5:17
  Speaker 3: the team that won the Scudetto and the season before
• 5:21
  Speaker 3: that competed for the Scudetto. So so what was the
• 5:24
  Speaker 3: real team? Was the real team this team that Spiletti had,
• 5:27
  Speaker 3: or was the real team from tenth place? Nevertheless, content
• 5:32
  Speaker 3: brought that our status back from tenth to second. But
• 5:38
  Speaker 3: we are missing the dynamism the Vossy man and I
• 5:43
  Speaker 3: would say Cavada as well. The defense we fixed. But
• 5:49
  Speaker 3: something there's something very boring about this team. As excited
• 5:54
  Speaker 3: as we all are about this race, it's not capturing
• 6:00
  Speaker 3: my heart. It's not capturing my emotions the way now. Granted,
• 6:07
  Speaker 3: I went to napoly Inte. We'll talk about that later.
• 6:10
  Speaker 3: Maybe Bus and I took a trip. We did some work.
• 6:14
  Speaker 3: It was fun. We went to napoly Inted and the
• 6:16
  Speaker 3: place was just electric. So I've been hearing from you know,
• 6:22
  Speaker 3: family friends that go to these games week in week
• 6:25
  Speaker 3: out at the at the Maradona that it's the same
• 6:28
  Speaker 3: electricity every week, even though the product on the pitch
• 6:32
  Speaker 3: is let's you know, to compare. You could compare the
• 6:36
  Speaker 3: stats for the two seasons, the Spiletti season and the
• 6:39
  Speaker 3: Conte season, but you there's no comparing the excitement of
• 6:43
  Speaker 3: the team. Everybody was excited to watch Monopoly and now
• 6:47
  Speaker 3: it's you know, it's come down a wrong in the
• 6:50
  Speaker 3: excitement factor. But but but but it does winning a
• 6:54
  Speaker 3: title have to be exciting, No, So to sum up
• 7:00
  Speaker 3: my answer, I feel better about the season than then
• 7:07
  Speaker 3: after match day one when we lost three notes of
• 7:09
  Speaker 3: Rona and we're like, oh shit, here we are again.
• 7:12
  Speaker 3: But but I still don't feel the same way as
• 7:16
  Speaker 3: I felt the way. You know, we could end up
• 7:18
  Speaker 3: winning this scudett though, for sure, and I'll probably change
• 7:21
  Speaker 3: my mind to be excited and happy again. But even
• 7:26
  Speaker 3: even at this stage last two seasons ago, when when
• 7:30
  Speaker 3: we were like five weeks from this from the season
• 7:33
  Speaker 3: and we won this fudetto, and even before we clinched it,
• 7:39
  Speaker 3: every game I was excited to watch, even though we
• 7:42
  Speaker 3: were like it was done, you know, and I was
• 7:46
  Speaker 3: always still excited to watch it. Now you watch it
• 7:48
  Speaker 3: and you're like, uh, you know, this is one point
• 7:52
  Speaker 3: at the Maddonna where I was sitting here like like,
• 7:55
  Speaker 3: you know, hands in my everybody else is around me
• 7:57
  Speaker 3: up and moving, and I'm just like, these guys are
• 8:01
  Speaker 3: killing me, you know, so hopefully that paints a picture
• 8:05
  Speaker 3: of how at least my season Like, Like, I see
• 8:10
  Speaker 3: positives and negatives on this team, and I'm I'm quick
• 8:13
  Speaker 3: to point the positives out, but like the negatives, although
• 8:19
  Speaker 3: probably very minute, they are affecting me for some reason
• 8:22
  Speaker 3: this year. So I don't know, it's crazy.
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: So sounds like a typical Antonio Conte ride.
• 8:30
  Speaker 3: You know, look, you know, you're you're definitely familiar.
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: With it, right exactly. You know, I was just thinking
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: back the twenty eleven twelve VIE season. Sure they went undefeated,
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: a bit different in that regard, but they won the
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: Scudetto by four points over Melan.
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: They needed that game.
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: With the controversial not you know, no goal against Melan
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: to pretty much help them win the Scudetto. And you know,
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: you look back on that team, they had twenty three
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: wins and fifteen draws. Yeah, again they were undefeated, but
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: fifty draws not exactly the most exciting team. Sixty eight
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: goals for twenty goals against. That's Antonio Conte, you know, Footbridge,
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: you know, uh, the only the only difference that the
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: next two seasons you've a bleue the league out of
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: the water with Conte.
• 9:18
  Speaker 3: But I ask you a question. I'm sorry to cut
• 9:20
  Speaker 3: you off, but while we're there right with that experience, right,
• 9:27
  Speaker 3: obviously you went through was the first letto since chuckle.
• 9:30
  Speaker 3: You came back to city to city. You guys had
• 9:34
  Speaker 3: you know, a really good season year one, but then
• 9:36
  Speaker 3: year two and three or whatever it was, you guys
• 9:39
  Speaker 3: were were dead in the water seventh place. We were
• 9:41
  Speaker 3: killing you guys. It was great. Conte comes in, You're undefeated,
• 9:47
  Speaker 3: but you got these fifteen draws. The play style is
• 9:50
  Speaker 3: what it is. The players on the on the field,
• 9:53
  Speaker 3: weren't they You guys weren't very deep team you were,
• 9:55
  Speaker 3: but you were a compact team. You you did it,
• 9:58
  Speaker 3: when you did it, How happy were you? I mean,
• 10:02
  Speaker 3: of course you you're back to you know, you're back
• 10:04
  Speaker 3: to the glory now and it kickstarted a nine season
• 10:08
  Speaker 3: in a row. You didn't know that at the time,
• 10:10
  Speaker 3: but like, like, like, like how excited were you for
• 10:13
  Speaker 3: that scud that though as compared to other scudetti, you know,
• 10:18
  Speaker 3: sort of being in this Conte situation like we are
• 10:22
  Speaker 3: kind of right now minus the four losses.
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: Well, I'll be honest, I didn't watch Juve as much
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: as I do now, just because back then it was
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: a bit harder to watch, so you know.
• 10:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're also younger.
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: But for me, like, first of all, I know how
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: important that Scudetto was to the fan base, especially you know,
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: like you said, the first one since culture Opoli. But
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: for me personally, my most favorite Scudetto was the twenty
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: fifteen to sixteen just because the game versus inter the
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: three to two to come back whin.
• 10:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: So you know, I started watching religiously and fourteen fifteen season,
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: so I got to see what six of the nine
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: scudetti in a row. Obviously enjoyed every single one, but
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: for me, that one was the favorite because it was exciting.
• 11:11
  Speaker 2: You know, there were other skudetti where you know, it
• 11:14
  Speaker 2: was it was more of a.
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: Formality again, right, no doubt I enjoyed watching it. I enjoyed,
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: you know, waking up every Sunday morning, Saturday morning watching them.
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: But you know, I I understand that that feeling raph
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: especially you know, I don't I don't want to say
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: this arrogantly, but when you've seen your team win so
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: many Scudetti's after a while, you know, it does get
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: a bit boring, you know, as you're a fan at
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: this point. I'd love to I would absolutely love to
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: see again.
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: That first one is always special.
• 11:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, definitely. Sorry to throw you off track. I
• 11:51
  Speaker 3: just you And I also forgot how old I am.
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: So that dates me man, No, no, no, no, no worry
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: you know roughly, I don't think you're that much older
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: than us. It's just it's you think about technology, and
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: like twenty eleven twelve, it was so much harder to
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: I know, there probably was streams, but it was no.
• 12:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we had we in the States, we had a
• 12:13
  Speaker 3: mean to watch it. We were on we were on
• 12:16
  Speaker 3: being sports at the time, So okay, it wasn't It
• 12:19
  Speaker 3: wasn't every match. It was maybe like four matches a
• 12:22
  Speaker 3: week a week, sort of like how Rye used to be, right,
• 12:26
  Speaker 3: the old Rye International. But eventually that stream ended up
• 12:31
  Speaker 3: going with like a full slate of fixtures, and then
• 12:34
  Speaker 3: they did the ESPN and then and then now with CBS.
• 12:37
  Speaker 3: But there was a way to watch. I just turned
• 12:41
  Speaker 3: forty two years old, So you guys say I'm not
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: that much older, I am. I'm pretty old. So twenty
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: eleven twelve, I remember, like the back of my hand,
• 12:52
  Speaker 3: the whole thing, So, you know, sorry about that.
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: Well, while we're on the topic, it's it's funny because
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: the U games I would watch were pretty much championship
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: games then because they were on they were on cable TV,
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: they were on TSN. But I remember one game, I
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: think it was the twenty thirteen I think either around
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: the sixteen or quarterfinals.
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: They're playing Bayron. Yeah, and I remember being.
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: So excited coming home from school one to go turn
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: on the TV and the sports channal TSN had like
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: some stupidity on, like curling or something, and I remember
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: being pissed because I really wanted to.
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: Watch the UV game. But different times, different times. Yes,
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: back to Napoli.
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: Interesting weekend because intertied Parma. It was on Saturday, right, uh,
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: and then so Napoli went into their Monday night game
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: knowing that they could you know, make ground on Inter.
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: They had this huge opportunity thanks to Parma. But obviously
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: they weren't playing an easy opponent. They're playing away, they're
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: playing a good team, they're you know, I guess we
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: could say a surprisingly season for Bologna again, and they
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: come out and you know it tie. It was angry
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: sigh and then sorry for for Bologna. It was late
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: later on, so they had the lead for quite a bit,
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: they had to leave for quite a bit. But Ralpha,
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: what did you make of the game, and and would
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: you would you say this was a would you say
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: this was a missed opportunity?
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: Missed opportunity is one of those one of those games
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: where you go into the game and a draw is
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: a respectable and good enough result, especially since Inter dude
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: to Padma on Saturday, you know, especially since Intera were
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: up to no against Padma and squandered the lead. I
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: think it's obvious Inter's mind is elsewhere right now, you know,
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: especially with yesterday's win against Byron. But I was very,
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: very very upset with the way Monopoly just allowed Bologna
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: to get back into this game. So one of the
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: things that really upsets me about this Monopoly team this
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: season is that they have an inability to play two halves,
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: something inside of them. They blow their whole load in
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: the first half, and then in the second half they
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: just kind of stay back and defend no matter the score.
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: And it's super frustrating. And I had said to Ralph
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: biz on last week's edition of the Knopoly rant that
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: I would be okay with a draw. He was not
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: having it. He was like, we need to beat Bologna,
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: no matter what. We need to make a statement after
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: we beat me Lan, we need to beat Bologna. I
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: was more practical, like, look, if we can come away
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: with a raw and hopefully part of my take points
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: off of the in there, then then then we're we'll
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: be okay. But it's should that second half just I mean,
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: you know, it's one thing to do it against a
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: team like I don't know, you know, Udines or or
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: or or lick chair, you know whatever. But but but
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: this is Bologna, you know. And it's funny to say
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: that because normally Bologna is a cakewalk, right, I mean,
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: I remember when we beat them seven to one ones.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: But but this team is no joke. Bologna is no joke.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: And you're right, uh uh Nick, You're right, man, A
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: surprise is an understatement. After they got rid of uh
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: Zerze and Calafioti and then Tiaga Malta, I know they
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: brought a Taiana in, but I mean I was even
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: sort of down on Italia. I know at fiord Dina.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: You know he was sort of slipping. This guy came
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: in and completely revolutionized that team. They did so well
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: in in in keeping that form for SETI. I wish
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: they did a little better in the Champions League, but
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: you can't really fault them for that. They beat Dortmund
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: that one week, which was crazy. But was it Dortmund
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: or was it it was Dortmund?
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: And they created Bayern Munich. Didn't they draw to Bayern
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: Munich as well?
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: I don't remember. Potent potentially, I don't remember.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't either. They got some big results at
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: the end when it was too late. The bottom line is,
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: I don't know if it had something to do with
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: Cnte not being on the touch line because he was
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: serving his suspension, or if it had something to do
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: with just like you know, the way that they that
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: they've been playing, because they did it to Milan. They
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: almost let me line back in right, and and I
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: just think that the inability for them to shut down
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: like close step on the neck, like we mentioned in
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: this and this week's edition of the Rant to step
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: on the neck is going to be the downfall of
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: this team this season. It will be the reason Monopoly
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: don't win this for death though, is because they're not
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: ruthless enough and they need to find that ruthlessness in
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: them for these next games. I mean, I would venture
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: to say the next three games are the most important
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: games in Knopoly season. You know, home against Emplye, away
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: to Monza and then home against Torino. Has to win
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: every game in my opinion. But as far as the
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: game goes, the way not Poly played in the first
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: half was beautiful. They had chances, they had shots, they
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: had squandered a lot of opportunities, but still they held
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Doudnas to very minimal chances. I think the end of
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: the half is their best chance. And on Gisa was
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: just beasting it in the first half. You saw that
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: coast to coast that he did, you know, stealing the ball,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: taking it down, getting past Skorupski, taking Scrupski out of
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: the game essentially and just tapping it in like a boss.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: And I thought we were gonna capitalize on that. Even
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: in the second half, Nopoly defended and did well defensively,
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: except for when they let Bologna in and let them
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: have the opportunity that run by Who was it that
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: that assisted the cross guard that run by Oudguard? I
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: as soon as I saw Oudguard run past Mia di Lorenzo,
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: I said, this is gonna result in a goal. And
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: what happened in Dey's insane touch the back heel flip
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: like whatever, that was just just killed us. And we
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: never recovered from that because they kept pressing and pressing,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: and and that's what scares me. The result is a
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: good results at the end of the day. You know,
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: we stay three points behind. I always maintained this knopoly
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: can stay a touching distance to Indad. One of these
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: weeks we're going to capitalize. But when's it gonna happen.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: I know it's Bologna, And I know if you asked
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: me which game would I be okay with dropping points,
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: and from from from Milan on to the end of
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: the season, it would have been Bologna, right, So that's
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: what happened. We better not drop points, especially in the
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: next three games. We better not drop points.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I was in rough.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: I think you summed up perfectly and even and even
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: not like not to mention like you're saying, like the
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: tail of two hovesnopo. It seems like it's it's almost
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: weekend and out, especially lately, but like when they were like,
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: would you say just a bounce off and to echo
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: off to that point those points, like even at the point.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Where Adrian again your your audience, just yeah, maybe just
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: try like muting and immune.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: It seems like that worked last time. I don't know
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: what's up.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: You come back from Italy, you bring these bad vibes
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: her electronics.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Well where in Italy? Was he? In?
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Uh in uh in Tuscany? That's the problem exactly.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: You need to be sued. That's not a knock on Tuscany.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: I actually know the Huskany is beautiful. Floren's my favorite
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: city in Italy.
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: This mic mine, I don't know what's going on tonight,
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: this mic I don't know, but it's like.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: It's like Napoli has a good first half, falls off.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: It's been bugging since we came on before. Nothing now that.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: We're on, it's no, that's how it usually goes.
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: Oh my god.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: But even like I was saying, like even how kind
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: of like let inter back into you know, they gave
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: up first place. They went them back into first place
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: that they've put I've been playing kind of catch up
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: ever since.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: Is that something else that's attributed.
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: To to to to this season kind of like you're saying,
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: how you know, the Tale of two Halves and all that, Like, like,
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: what do you Because like I thought once they had
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: like a good enough cushion.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: And they could have held other teams at Bay they're
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: only playing once a week, and you know, preseason I
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: had picked up with as my school to winner based
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: on the fact of Conte being in one one game
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: a week and having his his his his partner in
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: crime Lucaku upfront as well. Uh, you know, just them
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: losing that step and giving inter not want to say giving,
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: but like allowing them to crawl back into the into
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: first place and now having to play catch up in
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: this business end of the season. Is that bit of
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: a like does that hurts as a fan of Rafa?
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it does because we had the lead for what
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: eighteen weeks of the season, right and of course, of
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: course Nopoly relinquished the lead in the league the week
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: before BIS and I decide to fly to Italy and
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: go cover the game that would totally happen, of course,
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: and it did happen. And once again we're going back
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: to the inability to close the deal. Right. It was
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: against Lazio where we were up because we you know,
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: we had just beaten Juva and Atalanta or Atalanta and
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Juve in that order, right like like, then we had
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: to play against who I think it was Latio or
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: or and Roma. I don't remember exactly the order, but
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: it was the game against Lazio where we were down
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: one nil but came back to take the lead to
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: to one and then squandered that lead once again with
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: an eighty fifth minute goal by Dia, ruining things for us.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Then then the draw to Udinese, which was really a shame,
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: but it was off a really really nicely taken shot
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: by Ecklenburg and that was rough as well. Then the
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: draw to Roma. I think the Roma draw was a
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: very big disappointment because there was no time left and
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: we just let them back beck In. If you take
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: any one of those three games and turn it into
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: a monopoly win, you know we're singing a different tune here,
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. Absolute, But because it happened
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: in all those games, and then we can't get a
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: result against Como, which was pathetic. Not taking anything away
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: from Como, but we should have been able to beat
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: them then not being able to even score a goal
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: against Venetia is also completely pathetic, you know, absurd, And
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: to top it all off, you know, we went from
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: going on a ten game winning streak or unbeaten streak
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: with seven wins and three draws, right yeah, to a
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: five game on a five game winless streak at the
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: inter draw, right just like that, And now you're you're
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: talking about a team that we we could have gained
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: gained ground on more than once since then and still
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: haven't been able to do it. So again it was
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: it's Bologna. Credit to Bologna. They're doing a fantastic job.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: I think they're going to finish fourth place this season,
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: I really do. Atalanta can't buy a goal now and
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: you the still question for me, but I feel like
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: Bologna get to that fourth spot. But knowing that ink
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: there is within, you know, reach, you need to take
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: advantage of that. We're gonna have that again this this weekend.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: We're gonna know what in did I feel like if
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: InCred wins and we play after them, we already know
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: a pressures off, we're you know, we just go out
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: there and have fun and do what we do. And
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: that's what happened against Milan, right inc there had just
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: beaten es Udines was trying to come back to it was.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: It was a tight game. They could have done it.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: They didn't do it. Pressures off, Let's go kick the
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: ship out of Milan now, right, But the pressures back
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: on when in the dropped the Pointsnopoly, don't finish the game.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: I just That's all I asked for them is to
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: play half of another half and finish the freaking game. Yeah, exactly,
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: give me two, give me one and a half first
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: halfs and I'm good, you know. So that's the thing is,
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: you know, not where's the goal is gonna come from,
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: because we know where they're coming from. They're coming from Lucaku,
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: They're coming from the midfield. Not you know, can we
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: do it? Can we?
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: You know?
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, we give up a goal game now? And
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: before that we were like the best. I mean, I
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: think still think we're the best defense in the league.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: But we were. We were ruthless on defense. Now we're
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: letting teams score on us. That's an issue too, But
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: my thing is just finishing it off. This Antonio Conte
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: is so animated on the touch line. I don't know
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: how his teams don't just finish a freaking game off
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: and how they don't have he doesn't have them that motivated.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: It can't be a motivation thing. It could be a
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: fitness thing, right, I mean, none of the injury is
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: that monopoly. It's sustained. Aside from I don't know the
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: prognosis on mcdonmin ay, he did get hurt during the game.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: I think he'd be the first player that we would
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: miss due to injury all season long because of something
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: that happened in a game. Everybody has been injured on training, training,
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: pre match training, everybody. That's another thing to think about
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: is we have a thin squad and we're training like
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: mad men because we're not playing two games a week.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: So can that cost us as well? And I think
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: that that's what's been costing us some of these games,
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: is just the fact that we're winded. Conte doesn't really
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: make substitutions a lot. You know all about that, and
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: and you know something's got to give here, something's gotta give.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: We did get one question on social med pretty much.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Answered it not chances a scudet though, but if you
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: have to give a number, Rafa.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: First of all, I was gonna say hi to my man, Michelangelo.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: That's my dude, right there. Chances on the scudett though,
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: I mean, if you want me to give you a percentage,
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say it's fifty to fifty.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: I think it's I think it's right down the middle.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: I was gonna give the slight edge to Intend, but
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: I can't do that. I can't do that in good faith,
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: give the slight edge to Inter. The reason why is
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: because look at the next three games, not really play
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: like I mentioned right, Empoli, Monza Torino. In that time frame,
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Inter will have played Bayern Munich KAGYETI Bayern Munich again,
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: Bologna Milan in the semifinal and then Roma. If they
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: don't drop points within those three three league games, with
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: all those other Cup games Sandwich in between those games,
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: then then then interre are gonn to win this. For
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: that though firmly believe it. If they drop points, whether
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: not ply rebound or not, I still Thinknopoli have a
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: chance because it just especially if they beat Bayern Munich
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: next week too, or they hold on to like you know,
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: qualified for the semi finals, which looks like it might happen,
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: then either you're in a serious trouble. I still think
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: that the fact that Napoli don't have to play in
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: between is a very big advantage for us. I know,
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: you know, I know some people have come out and said,
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: you know, that's that's not a thing. You know, it's
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: it's it's it's not real advantage. It's just, you know,
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: one of those things that that that someone might take
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: take into consideration. Others think it is an advantage. I
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: still think because of the fact that we're still in
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: touching distance, we're still within three points. That's one game.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: All we need is to recover one game. That's it,
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: and then we're in the driver's seat. So I'm to
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: say fifty to fifty because I in ink there's you know,
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: on on the ink there side like to to speak
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: up on them. They have a fantastic team no matter
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: how they're playing. They're a great side, right who's deep
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: and and and can get the job done any and
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: I said it was it was annoying how ink dead
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: have become. You've a light in which don't worry this
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: guy's not scoring. Dog mean is good for a goal
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: here or freaking b sec is going to score a
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: goal out of nowhere, you know what I mean, Like
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: like they can find the goal. So I'm not worried
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: about that with them like that, think they they still
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: have as good a chance as not only does even
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: with the congested schedule because it's in dead and there's
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: such a deep squad and and yeah, that's that's fine.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: I think it's the fitting two teams to fight as
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: close for Scudetto as they are. Right, like Napoli destroyed
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: the league in twenty three, inc there destroy the league
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: in twenty four. Now the close races those two teams.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: Who's the better team? Right? I think that's a pretty
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: interesting storyline as well.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Just oh sorry, go ahead, no, just make a point
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: of there.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: I hate to say this, but if you're gonna make it,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: you know, talk about better two teams. I think Interer
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: the depth that they have kind of helps because of
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: you know, help them with the amount of games they play.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: I understand it's Champions League and scud at the race.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: They need to put their you know, best eleven out
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: for both games. But you know, if there's one area
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: in which inter is better, is is definitely that depth.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: You know, when you get to Cope Italia. Maybe Melan,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: you know, adri maybe you will be happy that they
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: are gonna they They might advance the champions again. They
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: might not play their best eleven in the in the
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Copia Italia semi final.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: I went, when when is that?
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: By the way, because they already yeah, they already played
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: the first league the second leg.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: That's in two weeks.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: That's yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, because yeah, it's true.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Is the this week, next week, then the week after
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: the other?
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: I believe it. That's it.
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: But because it's because it's Milan, see that That was
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: my That was my other point on the show. Because
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: it's Milan. If it was any team other than Milan,
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: maybe even okay, maybe if it was Juventus too, you know,
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: you don't you know in the and youvez the rivalry,
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: but the but the real, the fact that Milan, the
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: fact that the don't have a win against Milan at
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: all this season yet you know, four points in the
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: league for Milan versus versus just the one for Inter
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: and and and Milan beat them in the Super Cup
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: of Finals. So not only did they cause them to
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: lose a trophy albeit small, everybody wants to win trophies.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: You saw how disappointed in there were, right, Do you
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: really think Inded want me Lan to knock them out
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: of the Culpa Talia semi final as well? Like playing
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: two games in the same stadium together, you know what
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: I mean, There's no chance in my opinion, they're not
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: just the fans that want it, the players. The players
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: don't want me Lan to beat them, whether they win
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: the Kopetaler or not. In Dead there's there's no shot
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: that int thed are gonna let me Lan just roll
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: all over them. And in the Kopa Taler just because
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: it's the Colpatalia, that's a big deal. I think to
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: the players, to the coaches, to the staff, to the
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: it's still a big deal in my opinion. So for me,
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: that's why I I agree one hundred percent with you, Nicholas,
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: what you said about how they're built for the three tournaments.
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: They're built with their depth, but they're also a little injured.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: And I know some of their players are coming back
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: now and stuff like that. That's fine, but but it's
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: it's it's literally all the games that Monopoly have to
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: play in the same time frames. So somewhere they're going
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: to falter somewhere and and I don't think they're gonna
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: beat Bologna at their home. They also are going to
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: have a really hard time in as Roma where the
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: freaking in form team is set up, right, I mean,
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: those are two back to back games that if Napoly
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: don't win while they drop points there, then I don't
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: think Knopoly wins the scudetto.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: Well, those those those those three games that you mentioned
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: that that needs to be nine out of nine right
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: for points that needs to be in.
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: My opinion, Yes, it needs to be nine out of nine.
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: Yes, it has to be because that's you know, and
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: going off to your point of.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: Unless Inter lose, unless Intern lose a.
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: Game, right, which is so obviously possible, and it's.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: Possible, but but but but it's in dead so you
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: can't really like, you know what I mean, They're not
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: going to lose to Kayey Kayety might sneak a point
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: of against them, but I doubt that too, right, I
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: doubt that highly. It's gonna be Bologna Aroma who who
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: and Bologna Away I think is gonna be the one.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: So while while they played Bologna away, we played Monza away,
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: we should be able to wipe the sp and floor
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: of Monza. I don't want to see a Venetia again,
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: not to be Monza.
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: Have to no, absolutely, So that's why I'm saying.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: So that has to be nine out of nine and
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: and and that's not a wife fle and like just
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: not having to play multiple competitions.
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: Like I know you said earlier, some people kind of
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: believe that.
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: Some people don't there For me, there is something to that,
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: you know, especially especially with a contest content team. He like,
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: there is no excuse for not to get up and
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: play Saturday, Sunday, Monday, whatever day it is.
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: For that setia match. Like you know, I don't know
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: what it is you're saying.
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: Maybe you know they're getting driven into the ground, which
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: is the case with content run teams, but h and
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: on the flip side fore into it's just it's another thing.
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: It's like we hate to be the ones to say,
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: but there's still they're still a possibility.
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: For them to do. You know, the trouble wants to travel.
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: We don't want that.
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: We don't want that in the atmosphere obviously, but you
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: know that's still something that's in play, uh currently free
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: into there there's still involved in all three competitions. There's
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: still you know, uh in touch and reach of of
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: of these of these competitions. And obviously we don't want
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: that to happen as as rival fans, but it's still
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: could be a reality as well.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: So and for Culcho's sake, it's it's a good thing, right,
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: for cal Cho's sake, because because you know, an Italian
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: team winning the Champions League, you know, winning winning, I
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: don't want to say winning the trouble. Who cares about
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: the trouble, but if they win in Europe, it's good
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: for us. But I've never been one to care about
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: that as much, right, only if it benefits my team, right,
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: So if not, we're dwindling in fifth place, then yeah,
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: go ahead, win, win, win the champions they go go
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: right ahead. For me, Inte need to get to the
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: semi final, that's all. Like they beat Bayern Munich, I'm
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: happy Barcelona could throw them around all they want if
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: if for all I care, because the final of that
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: isn't until the last game of the season, like all
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: the leagues will be done, right, I'd love for no
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: offense to you, Adriano, because I like Milan way better
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: than I like in the trust me that's true. But
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: for me, what I need is for int there to
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: get to the final copy Talia, and I need them
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: to get to the semi final of the Champions League
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: because that will guarantee that they're playing every other week
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: until the end of the season. And I did that calculation.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: It's every week, every single week they have a mid game.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: If they make it all the way to to to
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: the Semis and the Champions and in the final Cup Italia.
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so there there you go. And I think Nick,
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: I think we got a question on Instagram something about Inta.
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: I know, like we're kind of on the topic. I
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: don't know if you saw.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: I didn't know. I didn't. I didn't I didn't see it. Actually,
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: was it on the post?
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah? I think it was on the post. I think
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: it kind of has to do with more with Inta.
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: But since we're kind of on the topic, I.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Can Yeah, here, I'll post it. I'll post it here.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Uh second, all right, with the inter dominating city of
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: the season, is the rest of the league falling behind?
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Or are we witnessing the rise of a new Italian
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: dynasty that's honestly a good question on Instagram.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, are they dominating city of the season, that's the question.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: Are they dominating city out of the season? They they
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: I don't think Inter have a win against any of
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: the top four teams.
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: Oh, we have to fox check that we need a
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: producer in the back with Yeah, I'm.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna look well, okay, So so
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think you could say the
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: rest of the city is falling behind because Napolis three
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: points behind. Atalanta is what.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: Nine or twelve? Now twelve there, it's twelve.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Bologna, Bologna is in the top four. Yes, your typical runners,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: you've aen lane you know, even want to throw in Roma,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: even Lancio, they're not there. But it's just different teams
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: that are fighting instead instead of the typical teams.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: You know what I was wrong because Inter did beat
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: Atalanta early in the season and they're still in fourth,
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: are they not? Or does Bologna overtake them already? No?
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: No, they're they're actually third Atalanta Atalanta and third okay, yeah,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: and Inter beat them twice, all right, Bologna Bologna.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: Inter did tie Bologna and they play against them.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: Yes, So no, I think I think what I think
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: the stat that I said, there was a stat I
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: saw somewhere. I think it was inked against Milan, Juve
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: and Napoli. They've never gone a season where they didn't
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: beat one of those teams. Yeah, and one a scudetto.
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: Oh all right, So.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: That I think was what I saw. And now that
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: I now that I think about it, Yeah, two draws
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: against Napoli, a loss and a drug against Milan, and
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: I want to say it was a draw and a
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: loss to you there, right, Yeah, so yeah, that this
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: this would be the first time in ever win a
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: Scudetto without having beaten one of those three teams in
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: the city. So okay, but dominating, I don't know if
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: you can say dominating. Are they the best team? That said? Yeah?
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: For sure? Last year they dominated. Yes, Like I said earlier,
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: this year, having the two teams be incre monopoly, I
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: think is poetic because you know, those two teams dominated
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: those two seasons and now you have the class here, right,
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: And I only just fell out of the race. To
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: be honest with you, it was almost a four horse
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: race for most of the season, right, So you've you've
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: slipped up and then Atalanta slipped up. So now now
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: that it's the two horse race. But I mean, I
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: I'm okay with maybe agreeing that were witnessing the rise
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: of a new Italian dynasty. I mean, they've been in
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: the conversation ever since the fall of the Juventus, right
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: they It's not like they haven't been in and around it,
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: you know, so to Scudetti in the last four seasons,
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: maybe three, with Italy doing so well in Europe, and
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: when I say Italy doing so well, at least one
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: team in each like quarterfinal, semifinal, because you know, there's
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: been a lot of times where we see teams just
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: fall off the first few stages of Europe. I think
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: with the fact that Italy have been so good in Europe,
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: you can't really say that the league is faltering because
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: clearly it's not. Clearly these teams are are pretty credible,
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: right I would say the first like you know, the
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: top seven, right Fiarentinas on the track to go to
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: another European semi final. Hopefully Latio are doing really well
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: in the Europa League. You know, even though more Italian
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: teams didn't make it to the round of sixteen in
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: the Champions League than they should have. I think Italy
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: still are having a really good Champions League. Look at
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: what Atalanta did before Bruges. Look at what In did,
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: only giving up three goals all Champions League so far,
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: and having beaten Bayern Munich the way they did, having
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: having had beaten an Arsenal team with their bench that
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: just beat Real Madrid three noo. Yeah, you know Milan
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: even though they you know, craped the bed in the
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: Champions League, they they had that that big win against
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: Real Madrid, Bologna beating Dortmund. Like, you know, I can't
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: say that the league is suffering because inc ded are dominating,
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: because not they dominated two seasons ago. Because if if
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: if that was the case, then why are all these
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: teams playing deep into these into these European seasons? Right? K,
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: they didn't win it, aside from Roma winning the Conference League,
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: but you know twice, three times four times they got
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: the finals, right So I think I think there's a
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: lot to say about the city and how it still
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: gets disrespected. You know, I never was one to disrespect
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: the league, but you can definitely comment on the lack
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: of quality that it had five years ago. Now, different story,
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: way different story.
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: Absolutely, and I think there's listen, is our leak perfect?
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: Absolutely not. Are we still in the stoney age and
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: some certain aspects. Absolutely we see it all the time.
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: But uh no, I agree with both your points.
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: And even when Nick said earlier, like I think it's
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: just you're not seeing you know, the big three maybe
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: at the where they should be, and it's kind of
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: maybe kind of worrying some people's vision. But it was
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: a great question by Sicilian g On on Instagram, because
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: you know, it's it's it's.
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: It's the city, yeah, that you know.
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: Uh is. Besides like the blowing outs of last season
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: and the Napoli scored that two years or even if
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: you want to go back to, you know, the Juventus runs,
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: that's when, like I think that that the league was
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: so far off and Uventus were just so far ahead
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: that you know, the Melan teams weren't where they were
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: supposed to be, the Roman teams weren't where they supposed
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: to be.
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: Now we started creeping up.
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: On them, you know, later on in their runs, you know,
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: and now that we've been seeing some like close races
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: and some and some exciting CIA campaigns like down the
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: stretch until the final match days. You know, it's it's
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: hard to say I agree with what you're saying. I
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: feel like it's hard to say that you know the
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: the you know the league is following following, you know
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: further apart. Can two things and and also I think
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: two things can be true. Like I don't think just
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: because this inter you want to call it dynasty is
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: maybe happening, I don't think that also means.
• 46:58
  Speaker 5: That the league is in the bed and we're so
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: far off either, right, So I'm on.
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: Board with that for sure.
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, So like I don't know, I think it's
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: it's it's the way you want to look at it. So,
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: but no, great question. Honestly, I wanted to move ahead
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: a bit more. What not we something that I don't know,
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: Maybe we didn't.
• 47:20
  Speaker 5: We spoke about it obviously, but like, you know, not
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: one game, maybe your perspective. You know, he scored today,
• 47:25
  Speaker 5: so it sometimes hurts to see.
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: But how like what was your reaction and and and
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: how has the loss of cavirus scalia maybe impacted you know, yourself,
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: not we fans or just because for me personally, a
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: move like that that happens in January is very significant,
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: like not that I don't want to say, you know, well,
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: I would maybe say it's probably one of, if not
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: your best player, I would say probably the best player
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: on the team as a pont at that point in time.
• 47:54
  Speaker 5: So what did what did you make of all that situation?
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: And kind of.
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: I guess it obviously has to be addressed maybe in
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: the summertime, because you know.
• 48:03
  Speaker 5: Bringing an okaphor on a on a loan, whatever deal
• 48:06
  Speaker 5: it was from you on wasn't the ultimate solution.
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: But yeah, sure your thoughts on kk leaving and uh,
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: you know just what I like, how has not we
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: missed them over these last couple of months.
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: Well, if you look at the results, you can definitely
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: sort of maybe link the two, right, Uh, you know,
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: Kvada leaves, look at what's going on and not really
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: lose first place this and that. But in my opinion,
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: I think that came down to more of too many
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: injuries in too many areas. Like one point, our whole
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: left side was injured. You know, there is less options.
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: Neddis was hurt, right exactly. I fully believe if Neddis
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: didn't get hurt, we'd be still in first place. So
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: I don't know I mean, of course is quotascalia right.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: Earlier today my kid asked me if I was going
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: to get rid of this because we all saw the goal,
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: and I said, I said, no, I'm not gonna get
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: rid of this. He want us to scudetto and he goes, no,
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: the whole team won. I said, yeah, but he was
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: the m v P in his rookie season. He was
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: the m v P there, I said, I said, I
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: can't part with it because of how he brought us
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: glory right normally for me anyway, personally, I I I
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: personally tend to have an attachment to these these players
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: even after they leave. Except for Guayn. Sorry sorry, Nick,
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: You have to understand that that.
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: Was that was like completely accepted.
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: I'm not discounting his ability. He was a fantastic footballer,
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: great goal scorer, can't deny that. But the way he
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: did us dirty so one might like one might liken
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: you know that to Kuwada leaving mid season, right, and
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: I wasn't happy about that. That that that really did
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: piss me off. If he really really wanted to go,
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: he should have been adamant about leaving in the summer
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: so we could properly prepare for this, but he was
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: convinced by Conte to stay, and all the while his
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: agents were still chirping' with PSG, we can get you more,
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: we can get you more, even when we had presented
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: a new contract. Because we did. We presented a new
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: contract to him more than once, and it was a
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: lot more than what he's making now. But because PSG
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: will PSG, they came up with a big figure. The
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: the you know, the the you know, it's no secret
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: that he wanted to move on at some point from Monopoly.
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: No one ever disputed that, and you also have to
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: respect that someone wants to move on. They want to
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: move on. That's just the way it is. The problem
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: is is that his agents kept talking, talking, talking, talking,
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: and convinced him to you know, to convince Conte and
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: staff to get rid of him in the winter. So
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: that left a sour taste in my mouth for my
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: personal feelings about Cravada. He made the video, the tribute video,
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: which I do believe was genuine, but also thought was excessive,
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: because if you're gonna leave Monopoly mid season, you're just
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: gonna leave them stranded, then just go quietly, you know what,
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: I mean, you prefer go quietly. It's not the end
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: of the season. You didn't accomplish a second Scoodett though
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: you didn't. You didn't give it a shot even you know,
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: if it was the summertime and he left and did
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: that video, no problem. But you fucking made excuse my language,
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm sorry about the cur but you
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: made this video in the middle of a Scudetto challenge
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: and just left for the easy PSG title win, you know.
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: And and I'm not saying he made PSG much better.
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: Look at PSG in the champions he compared to when
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: to the league phase. Right, they're a lot better now.
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: They are very much better team. One might say they're
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: a better team than when they had Himbappe, Neymar and
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: you know, Dembla or whatever, because they're cohesive. They worked
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: for each other, they work together and Kawada helps with that.
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: The problem with me is that he sold out for
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: the cash in the middle of the season, like money talks,
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: and that left the sour taste in my mouth as
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: a footballer. We do miss him for sure, but again,
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: if Neddis didn't get injured, I don't think we lose
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: first place. And I'm not as upset about the Sanuary
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: Merkato as everybody else in napoly Land is I really
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: am not got honestly, because here's here's a thing. You
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: got a player that doesn't want to play on your team.
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: He's gotta go, no matter if it's January or June
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: Kavada stayed. If Kavada stayed, he'd probably be miserable. He'd
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: probably be paying playing miserably. Just let him go. So
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: when when some Monopoly fans get on Napoli on about
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: selling him in in January, get off of EAFC twenty five, please, okay,
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: because because this is not just a video game where
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: these characters on the video game have no emotion, no families,
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: no no things to think about. This is real life.
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: He had to go playing and simple. Now, as far
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: as his replacement goes, okay Oka is a fourth pretty
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: much fourth string in the He was fourth in line
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: in the replace you know, a line there. And because
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: Garnacho was way too expensive, right, what's he doing? Nothing? Now?
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: Is that to say that if Conte took him in
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: he wouldn't be better? Maybe maybe not. The fact is
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: he sucks. He's not worth the eighty million they wanted.
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: So sorry, he's not number one, number two. At A Yemi.
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: At A Yemi was a player on Byron on Brusha
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: Dortmund that was not opposed to coming to Nopoly. He
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: still even said afterwards, Hey, I don't mind the interest
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: from Monopoly. I will entertain it. But in the summer,
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: I don't want to leave Dortmund yet. I don't want
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: to leave the team behind. I want to continue where
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: it's still in a Champions League race. I don't want
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: to leave respect yet, respect full respect. Right then there
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: was the one guy that plays in in his name
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: is escaping me? But everybody was like, oh yeah, we
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: should get him.
• 55:07
  Speaker 5: Oh man, I forget too what team.
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: He's owned by? Like, he's owned by a team in
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: in in Qatar. No, sorry, Saudi, he's owned by a
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: Saudi team, but he plays in I want to say
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: England somewhere. Who's his name is escaping me? Anyway, he
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: was willing to come to Monopoly. He wanted to come Tonopoly.
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: The problem was the Saudi team wanted to sell him Tonopoly.
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: The problem was he was still on loan to this
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: English team and the English team was being stingy didn't
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: want to give up the loan, didn't want to negotiate,
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: so that the tabe that that's off the table. We
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: couldn't get him. What is his name?
• 55:55
  Speaker 5: God, can you have to look it up? Look it up, Nick,
• 55:57
  Speaker 5: look up the transfer window.
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Napolie transfer rumors.
• 56:01
  Speaker 5: What were man I wish from Saudi?
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll be honest, I don't.
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: I don't know, but he was us a name, a
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: name that like people remember, let's get hit okay, so
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: so okafor was admittedly a last minute decision. It was
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: something that we had to do just to fill the spot.
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: Vaccine that's him. Yes, yes, some Maxine. I was gonna
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: say French.
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: From February twenty twenty five, Napoli set to sign Lightning Fast,
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: Saudi Pro league star.
• 56:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the report, there's the report, the classic.
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: This is why I don't really pay attention to the
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: transfer news anymore.
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: Just now we were set to sign Bonie in this
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: in the winter. We're also linked with who is the
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: Ample league defender in the summer. I don't believe any
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: of it until I see it. But anyway, that right, right,
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: some Maxine, that's right. So we end up with Okaf
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: and everybody's really Killingnopoly for this, like, you know, not
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: replacing Kavadascalia. You guys, tell me, Okay, you said it
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: yourself out of Dano. It's a very weird move in January.
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: The only other big move in January that I can
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: think of is Vlavivich s Juventus. That's the only one
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: that comes to mind when I think of big money,
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: big money transfer in in city, I especially, right, can't
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: think of anyone else. So what do these people want
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: us to do? They want us to just find this
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: diamond in the rough in January. January players either don't
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: want to leave, are fed up with their clubs aren't
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: good enough, you know, like like it's sort of like
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: the okay, what do we need here? We'll take a
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: pickings from here and here. It's very rare that a
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: player like Kvadascalia leaves in January for the money that
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: he did, But he did. I don't think we did
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: a bad job of replaying Kadascalia because I don't think
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: we replaced him yet, right, I just don't. I don't
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: think we replaced him yet. So so that's my take
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: on this whole thing. Quada was Kavada had numbers when
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: he left Monopoly, but he wasn't playing the way he
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: normally plays, like the Kavata I see on PSG. That's
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: the Quada that I know twenty twenty three, and it shows.
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: It shows in his attitude. I watched his first game,
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: because his first game was right after we beat Uventus.
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: I watched it and it was wow, and I was like,
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: that's the Quada I know. But you know what, It's
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: because he got paid. It's because the contract dispute is over.
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: It's pressure was off. He's happy, he's in Paris. Blah
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: blah blah blah blah. That's why you saw that Kladausclia.
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: That's why you see him now. I guarantee you Klada
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: wouldn't be saving us. I mean, listen, sometimes it does
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: take like a like a stroke of brilliance here and there,
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: right from a player like Vada. You can get that.
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: But we just weren't getting it at the time. So
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: there was nothing we could do but to let him
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: go that you know, what are you going to do?
• 59:14
  Speaker 5: It made the most sense.
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: It made them and listen, Okay, fine, we were in first,
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: but without clud Australia, we're still three. Points behind with
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: seven games. Whether not Paly win the school that of
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: this season or not, you can't say this was a failure.
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: They may have failed to win the school that, though
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: they may have there may be reasons for that. But
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: at the end of the day, is this really a failure?
• 59:36
  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't see it as a failure.
• 59:41
  Speaker 4: As well said, because especially especially after the season that
• 59:45
  Speaker 4: they had last last last year, right like anything that
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: was going to come from this season I think was
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: going to be a positive, no matter what I would say,
• 59:54
  Speaker 4: and with it as not a failure, but the way
• 59:57
  Speaker 4: that they did it and where they are current and
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 4: where they could you know, ultimately end up come match.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 5: K thirty eight. It's it's that.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I do agree that that cannot be listed as
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 4: a as a failure. But if there's one thing, it
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 4: would be of course winning actually giving the schooldet to
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 4: a way to inter and and allowing them to to
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: go on this this bit of a run in these
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 4: last you know, four or five years.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 5: So no, I totally agree. Next, yeah, go ahead, I'm sorry.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: For for the dynasty. We're going back. We're still with
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: the dynasty question.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 5: No, No, think you got something that That's why I
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 5: thought I cut you off.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: Sorry, Okay, go ahead, go ahead, Rafa.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 3: No I the only the only Again, you can look
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: at it two ways, right, what team is this? Is
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: this because most of these guys were on the Scudetto team, right, Okay,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: I know we lost my we lost Zelenski, we lost
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: that lost, we lost Lozano. We looked we did lose
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: a good chunk of that team. But there's still Scudetto
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: winners on there, man, like, like you know, Rachmani di
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: Lonzo Politano, looka mad at a guisa, you know there,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: Raspadori Simione. There's still still a good amount of Scudetto winner.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: Olivea Scudetto winners on this team that know how to
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: win the Scudetto. So what's the real team is? It
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: was that tenth place team the real team? Like I know,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: I know the rebound, I know it's drastic first tenth second, right,
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: you know it's pretty drastic. But like, but like it
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: was there was the only real problem with last season
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: was Kim and Jay and Spalletti. That was it, right,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: You take those two players away. We saw what we saw.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: But when you add Conte and Bonardno. Now now you
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: even taking away Assimen and Cravadascalia, we're doing so much
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: better than we did last season, right, Like, like one
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: can argue, Okay, Nedas and Lucaku are not Clada and Omen,
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: but Lucac who's got eighteen goals goal concert nineteen goal contributions.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: Uh Nedas was electric in his first few games and
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: scored a bunch of goals and assisted. Not the same,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: but fine. I think Boniorno and Conte are very like
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: kim and and Spiletti in in quality. So we've rebounded
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: from that. So when you when you look at this
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 3: team for real, we've not only rebounded from the issues
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: that we had last season, but we got worse because
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: we lost Asmen and Klada and are still fighting for
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: setto against inded right, not Atalanta with some fluke, not
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: Bologna with some fluke against inded right. So there's something
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: to say about about that too, Like like you can
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: be happy about where we are as far as where
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: we were last season, but also we're kind of where
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: we should be in my opinion, you know, like we
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: were we never belonged in tenth last season. That's why
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: last season is such an an anomal anomaly amore it is,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: it's such an anomaly for for me, right absolutely, yeah,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: so so yeah, I mean, I guess what I'm trying
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 3: to say is I can see why people would be
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 3: really upset that we don't win this schood that though,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 3: but I also understand we're still you know, progressing from
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: where we were last season.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 4: And I think and just even to bounce off of
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 4: that upa like what like again, only only only time
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 4: will tell what happens at the end of the season,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 4: who wins the school that so, but win or lose
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 4: for Napoly this season, Like what do you want to
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 4: see or where do you what aspects do you need
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 4: to see kind of continue to build to not make this,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 4: you know, a one and done season and next year
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 4: it's going to be another fall off and we're gonna
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 4: have to restart and and the you know, whole new cycle.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 5: Like what needs to build off this current Napoli team
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 5: and this current Napoly season to kind of allow this
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 5: to progress not only like I said, a one a
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 5: one shot deal and make it more of a you know,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 5: a continuity thing.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 3: Well, there's there's two really like big aspects of what
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 3: we need right one, for the immediate future, for next season,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 3: we need we need a deeper bench. I have faith
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: in the in the starting eleven. It's just when they
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 3: get to the sixty fifth, seventieth minute, we're starting to
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: lose some steam. We're putting in guys like with five
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 3: minutes left. That's not going to cut it, you know,
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 3: it seems, which is a shame, because I think Simiona
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 3: should get more minutes than he does get because I
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: rate him still very highly. RASPADORTI should be able to
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: see more of the pitch too, because you saw what
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: he did when he came in right, scored about like
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: scored like three or four goals in five or six games.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: He should be playing a lot more too. But the
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: rest of the field, the rest of the bench needs
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: to get better. So what we need to do and
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: for the immediate future is take the Kvada money, Take
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: the Awcomen money that we sell when we sell him
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 3: in the summer, because that's also gonna happen. Take the
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: Champions League money and reinvest in you know, between bench
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: and starting eleven players, right because I mean, you know,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 3: you and Geesa resigned, but he's already expressed his desire
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 3: to leave to go to do something new, which is fine.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 3: I respect that. You never know if Politano I know
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 3: he resigned to but who knows. You know, we could
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 3: do better on the right hand side. You know, you
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: never know what's gonna happen with guys like Labotka because
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 3: he's sought after, you know. So what we need to
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 3: do is build another half a team so that we
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: have two teams to be able to field when we
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 3: play in the Champions League. Because I'm telling you right now, Lukaku,
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: as great as I think he's doing this season, even
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 3: while not being as flashy as he normally is, eleven
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: goals and eight assists for me is pretty decent. The
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 3: fact is there's no way that Knopoly can go into
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 3: next season, whether we win the school that door or not,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 3: with this team and to be able to compete in anything,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 3: because yeah, conta team can focus on one tournament, He's
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 3: done it before, fine, But without the ability to make
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: a significant amount of of of of rest for the
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 3: bench rotation, whatever in those other competitions, we won't do anything.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: So that's first and foremost. We need to take that
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: money and reinvest it into the into the squad. Then
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: we really need for the long haul is to finally
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: build a new facility for training and for the youth
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: and reinvest in some of that, because that's also very big.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: Not sure if you guys are following or no, but
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: Monopoli's current deal with where they are at Costell Lotuno
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: is up and they need to find a new home.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 3: I think starting twenty twenty seven. Jesus, so that has
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: to happen now like it should have already real it
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: should have already been. But I think I think delaud
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: In this is trying to balance all of this, you know,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 3: because because he you know, he's got to he's got
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 3: to build on this season and then he's got to
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: do that. He's not the wealthiest of owners in football,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 3: but he runs the club well. So the club has
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: the funds. It's just a matter of splurging a little bit.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 3: You have to at this point twenty years in, you
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 3: have got to do this and you know, a state
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 3: of the art facility for training the youth to be
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 3: able to train at and you know, some investment in
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 3: the youth, and I think we'll be okay. I honestly
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 3: feel very safe with Conte but once again, we have
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: to we have to make a deeper team because if not,
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 3: we'll we'll shoot ourselves in the foot.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 5: It's not going to cut it.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: No, absolutely, Uh before wrap up, Raph, I'm all great points.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: Love listening to your insight. I know it might be
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: too early, but do you have early expectations for next season?
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: I mean we're on the topic, so you have any
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: early expectations?
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah. You know, it's funny because Ralph biz actually predicted
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 3: that if not Believe were to win the Scudetto this season,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 3: that they could win one next season too and do
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: a double. And but that was back when we were
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 3: not letting goals in and we were winning one mil
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 3: and we were you know, we had beaten Atalanta and
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 3: then beat Juventus. And now the very real fear of
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: dropping this Fudetto and like in the manner that we're
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 3: playing is setting in. So I was on Ralph Buz's
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: take for if we you know, we can we can
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 3: go on a run here. But next season, again, it
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: really depends on what we bring in, like if we
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 3: can build off of this team and not sell off
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: too many guys and and really get some quality like
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: either depth or replacements for the starting eleven. I can
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: see Knopoly having another run at the Scudetto, not winning it,
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 3: but like having another season where they're there. Right, Conte
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 3: knows what to do with when it comes to that,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 3: he knows, So you know, it's it's not out of
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 3: the realm of possibility that NAPOLYI will fight for another
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 3: Scudetto next season. But I don't see them doing well
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 3: in Europe. Like, okay, the new the new format will
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 3: be in the third pot, I think, so, like we're
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 3: we're guaranteed to play two teams from the first pot,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 3: two teams from the second pot. It's gonna be difficult.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 3: It's gonna especially since they're they're they're not going by
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 3: who won the league's title for the first pot. It's
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 3: you know whatever it is, ten or eight, whatever the
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 3: number is, uh, you know ranked, So so you might
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: you might get a sneak. You know, you might have
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 3: to play against a league champion that came from pot two,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. So, I mean, look at us,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 3: we might be league champions in part three, right, So,
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 3: so I don't want to say that they won't make
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 3: it out of the league phase, but I don't think
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 3: they go very far in Europe. I think domestic is
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 3: where we might really shine. Yeah, so so I feel
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 3: like an early ish knockout stage exit from the Champions League,
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 3: maybe go after Copalia would be nice. And in the
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 3: fight for scudetto next season.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 5: Second third competitive competitive for.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 3: Surepetitive Conte's team is going to be a competitive team.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 3: When was the last time they weren't? Right? So, and look,
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 3: it took Conte to this whole time for some reason.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 3: I thought he took in there and won season one.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 3: He actually won it in season two with INDD. So
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 3: sometimes it does take a season right. Well, remains to
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 3: be seen. We'll see what happens. Again. I'm very confident
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 3: under contes, so I'm not worried about that. I'm just
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 3: worried about how we how deloud Into and Giovanni Manna,
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 3: who I like a lot runs the team in the
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 3: office or in the off season.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 5: That remains to be seen. Absolutely.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 4: One last thing there I wanted to kind of bring
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 4: up before we wrap this up, Rafa, Again, we.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 5: Appreciate your time and uh and you're inside like.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 4: Always, but we kind of hinted a bit before and
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 4: you mentioned rough biz and just want to just want
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 4: you to kind of explain and maybe uh, you know,
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 4: share your experience of you know, your time in Italy.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 5: With h with the biz.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 4: For for for the not we rant U saw the
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 4: saw the post on social media. It was it seems
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 4: like a cool little experience for you guys, just if
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 4: you want to you know, tell tell the story and
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 4: uh and I think not that we could probably wrap it.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 3: Up, Yeah, for sure. So we had approached say uh
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 3: North America or for us to we had some ideas
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 3: for some content. Originally we were going to go around
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 3: like you know, wherever the inter club hangs out, you know,
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 3: day before the game, sort of kind of see if
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 3: anybody walking by in and or in and out or
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 3: inter fans talk to them, do the same thing at
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 3: our spot where we go Pizza Tlo. But also to
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 3: kind of track our friends down and just like get
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 3: their you know, you know whatever their their opinion.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 3: So I presented this to the city and and and
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 3: they loved it. But they came back and they were like, well,
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 3: what if you guys went to NAPO and did it
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 3: and like found people on the street to do that.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 3: And I was like, let's go I'm in. So we
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 3: got flown out there, we got you know, the tickets.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 3: It was. It was really cool, you know, we put
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 3: that video together and I got to say respect to
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 3: people who do video content because a minute and forty
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 3: second video took us seven hours on the streets and
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 3: like another seven in the editing. Right, super super fun,
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 3: but a lot of work. City. I had told us, listen,
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 3: I know you're in Naples, but you know, if you
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 3: can find some English speaking you know, maybe ain't there
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 3: fans or maybe fans of other teams, so we can
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 3: get their perspective too. And I told them, sure, yeah,
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 3: we'll figure it out. Thinking, you know, it's impossible, but
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 3: nothing's impossible, right because as soon as we get the
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 3: piazza Plebiscito. Mind you, we had our guy Quintin with us.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 3: He helped us with filming and he was the man
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 3: we get the piazza the plebischito. And even before we
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 3: filmed our intro in that video, there was a couple
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 3: and a couple of friends of theirs asked us to
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 3: take a photo of them, you know, behind, you know,
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 3: in front of the plebichitto, and Ralph did it. Now
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 3: while he's doing it. I'm looking for other you know,
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 3: they just looking for people like just to walk up
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 3: to right, just kind of like gazing like and seeing
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 3: who's fair play here. So Ralph takes the picture and
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 3: they they're speaking English and he notices they have Italian accents,
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 3: so he says, where are you guys from? And they
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 3: said Milano and he goes oh, and and me, I
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 3: had like my ears kind of like you know, what
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 3: a dog, here's something there even to flap up. I'm like, yeah,
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 3: I'm like my back is to them. I'm looking around
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 3: for people. I have my phone in my hand, and
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 3: and when I heard Milano, I was like huh and
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 3: he goes, oh, oh cool Milan or Inded and they
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 3: said Indedu. We were like like like we celebrated, like
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 3: we just scored a goal we thought we thought it was.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 3: I put myself in their perspective, going who are these
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 3: guys in Naples looking for ind fans and being happy
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 3: they found one. But then we told them what we
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 3: were doing and we interviewed them first before we did
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 3: our intro. So so that was that was like mission accomplished.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 3: Now is everything is easy? We get we get setiaut
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 3: what they want. Now we're gonna do what we want.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 3: It was great. Setia is suit the office in Manhattan
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 3: for the North American. They're so great. I recommend anyone
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 3: who's visiting New York and Manhattan to to to get
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 3: in touch with them. DM them on Instagram and ask
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 3: them to do a tour. They let you do tours.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 3: You can go up to the office and go hang
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 3: out and go talk and go see that. It's great.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 3: Definitely do that. Italy was fantastic. Nopoly was amazing. Of
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 3: course we had the best food. We I got this
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 3: visit my Zia after all the commotion was over. But
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 3: the highlight of the trip we go to a barber
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 3: near my Zia's house and where Myzia lives in Quarto.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 3: In Quarto, they have this Zelenski mural and we were
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 3: I was thinking, okay, let's go get some content at
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 3: the Zelensky Mural because it's Knopoly in dead it correlates, right,
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 3: is some stuff more stuff for Citi A possibly, And
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 3: then when we got to Quarto, a couple of the
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 3: locals were like, no, no, no, the Zelensky Mural is
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 3: three stops down and we were like, oh my god,
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 3: because because right near my Zia's house is where the
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 3: Maradona and Hamstick mural is in Quarto, that that the
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 3: famous painter Julie is painted. So he did this one
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 3: for Zielinski. But Zelenski lived further in in Quarto, so
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 3: we missed that opportunity. Then I said to myself, well,
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 3: I need to get my beard done, so let's go
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 3: to the barber that's over here. I also know for
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 3: a fact that guys like Labuka, like met At, like
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 3: Alan was there before, like Georgino had been there before.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 3: Ziolenski used to go there because they Cuarto. So this
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 3: was a famous I don't know how famous, but like
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 3: I know that they went there, right. So this is
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 3: a Friday games Saturday Friday, at like four point thirty
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 3: in the afternoon. Five maybe we go up to the
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 3: We go up to the barber and outside is the
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 3: owner smoking a cigarette, and so we go up to
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 3: him and we're telling him, oh, you know, do you
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 3: have any time for the beard? No, you have to
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 3: make an appointment. You can't do it. I had also
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 3: asked for a little fade here. I said, well what
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 3: about the beer? And he goes, where are you guys from?
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 3: So we start telling him the story. We're here, we're
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 3: working with Sadie. Ah, we're doing this, we're doing that,
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 3: and he goes, ah from America. I said yeah, I said,
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 3: my aunt lives right around the corner. And she goes, oh, okay,
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 3: what's her name? I told her name, so I think
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 3: I know her. Okay she goes. He goes, ah, you
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 3: know what, can you wait? And I was like, well,
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 3: maybe we could wait a little. He goes, okay, he's
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 3: in here right now. And I'm like, who, who's in there?
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 3: Lobuka Lavoka? What you start? Lobuca? And I was like,
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 3: no way, and the two of us were like stop.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, yeah, we could wait. We could wait, yea.
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 3: So he lets us in there he is Leabuka is
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 3: getting a cut. So now I'm in freaking my glory
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 3: because I'm not only on am I looking at Lebuck
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 3: you get his hair cut, but I'm also in a
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 3: barber shop in Italy, like I'm freaking out about even
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 3: how like the owner forget I know my other two boys,
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 3: Ralph and Quinton are galking at Zielinsky, I mean at
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 3: Lebuca and I'm looking at this barber and what tools
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 3: he's using and how he's fading differently, and I'm like, guys,
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 3: and I'm trying to tell them and ship too, like
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 3: like look at what he's doing there.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: Look what he's doing.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 3: And they're looking at me like, yeah, stan Lebook is
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 3: sitting over there getting a fad.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: Did Lebuka have twenty thousand women around him?
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 3: I wish he was by himself. No, but Lebuka's ride
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 3: king like right up to the door, and we knew
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 3: it was Loboka's ride because it was a it was
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 3: a Lamborghini, one of the Lamborghini SUVs, and it had
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 3: it was it was a it was a Slovakian plate.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 3: So we're like, oh, Lobos, Lobos people are right here.
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 3: So I was like thinking of myself, I like, there's
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 3: no way he's gonna stop to talk to us these
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 3: guys right here. His his bodyguards outside waiting for he's
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 3: getting finished. So during we're sitting there, they bring out
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 3: espressos for us. They were like, you know, they asked
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 3: me questions because I'm a barber and stuff like that,
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 3: and then the owner gets up at so it gets weird.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 3: One guy cuts his hair, the owner goes to style it.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 3: At the end, he comes over and he goes, chink
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 3: with me, NotI so okay. So now they have to
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 3: they have to like wash his hair and style it.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 3: And then he comes back over and he goes, okay.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 3: I thought I was ready for my beard, but Labuka
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 3: is coming from the other side and he's just like, hey, guys,
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 3: you're from America. And I was like, oh my gosh.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 3: But it's funny because you think I'd be starstruck, right,
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 3: I felt like I was talking to you guys with him.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 3: He was so easy to talk to. He was so nice.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 3: He did a little video to say hi to my kids.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 3: He did a little video to say hi to the
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 3: rant followers. He gave us some time, you know what
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 3: I mean. Like I thought he was gonna be right
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 3: out the door, see you later. But it was. It
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 3: was incredible. He was awesome. We told him to score
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 3: a goal for us, and he goes, ah, I'll try,
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 3: and then he almost got the assist. If Billing's shot
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 3: initial shot hadn't been saved, he would have had the assist.
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 3: But that to me was the highlight of the trip. Uh.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 3: You know, I had a bunch of annoyed friends of
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 3: mine with me, you know, Biz and Quintin, because we
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 3: didn't get the Zielensky thing, and I made up for
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 3: it by by delivering LEBOOKA. I had no idea he
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 3: was there. I just knew that he goes there. As
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 3: a matter of fact, the picture that there's a picture
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 3: of him getting a cut with us, like a like
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 3: a Gratchato, like the scudetto, like a like a cape on.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 3: And I actually had that Kate made inspired by that
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 3: photo and I showed them that and they were like
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 3: freaking out about it, like, oh my god.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so so is incredible. Man, It's yeah, incredible.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 3: And then the game is the game. Man, we we
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 3: we we loved it. It was electric. The place went
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 3: nuts when Billings scored. In the last few minutes. We
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 3: almost scored again. Very everybody was very happy with the
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 3: result because we stayed one point behind and then we
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 3: go lose to Como.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: Crazy.
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, was insane, it was. It was fantastic, five days,
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 3: quick in and out, you know, beautiful, beautiful to do
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 3: it again in a heartbeat.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 4: So shout out to City of North America. Yes, that's
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 4: that's huge, man, that's sick. I didn't know all the details,
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 4: so list and rop. I just I'm glad that you
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 4: were able to to share that with us, because you know,
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 4: you you will never know all these like intricacies and
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 4: all these things. You see what you see on social media,
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 4: but they get the behind the scenes. It adds another
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 4: layer to the story. So uh no, that's amazing, man.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 4: I'm glad that you guys were able to do that.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 4: You guys were able to experience that. Yeah, man, And
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 4: I think we need more of that, like not only
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 4: once every blue moon. I think that should happen hopefully more,
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 4: maybe you know, with with with different content, with different
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 4: creators and and and you know, getting that chance to
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 4: go abroad is always it's always the special experience.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 5: So listen, hots off to you guys.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 3: Man. Yeah, thanks man. And it's funny because Ralsis and
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 3: I were Bus and I were just thank you. Bus
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 3: and I were just talking about how like, oh, you know,
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 3: we gotta we gotta do something, man, because we've been
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 3: doing this for too long. We gotta figure something out.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 3: We gotta we gotta expand we gotta this. We got that.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 3: We gotta grow somehow, hopefully some some point we can
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 3: monetize because we don't monetize yet, and then that opportunity
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 3: came up and it was like, let's do it, Like
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 3: this is crazy. It's like literally the next day. So yeah, man,
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 3: it was. It was amazing. Definitely, you're out there watching
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 3: reach out to City out North America. They're so cool.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 3: They're really responsive. They care about the fans, and they
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 3: care about the fan clubs and and and you know
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 3: we we've done work with them prior. That's why I
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 3: was able to like comfortably ask and you know, if
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 3: we could do something with them, and they were so cool.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 3: It was just so so dope. Like I have nothing
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 3: but nice things to say about the offices, the people
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 3: that run the offices here, they're very good.
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 4: So shout out man, shout out for for real raff.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 4: I think that's I think that's where we'll end it.
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 4: On a on a beautiful, typical, beautiful rap rap rustbel story.
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 5: We always loved them.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: I love I love listening to your stories.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 5: It's it's always it's always a blast.
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 4: You know, we've had timeless ones, you know, I remember,
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 4: you know, just going cool.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 5: I remember the.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 4: Moto Dona episode that will always be in my head,
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 4: like in my heart, like you could be anywhere and
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 4: like I could always remember that, uh to today today
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 4: and and you know the.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 5: Experience of of you and Biz, you.
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 4: Know, going across the pond and and and covering and said,
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 4: yeah covering not and for city of North America. That's
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 4: awesome man, So West and on that, like we always do.
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 5: With all our guests. Raff, the four is yours.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 4: Just to plug anything that you need to plug, that
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 4: you want to plug, where we can find you, your show,
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 4: anything you want to plug.
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 5: My friend, The four is yours.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 3: Thanks Man at Napoly eighty three on X at raf
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 3: Arrispo on Instagram. I'm also on Facebook, but not a
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 3: lot of people use Facebook anymore that I know. Also
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 3: at Napoli rant on both Instagram and X look us
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 3: up man. My barber shop is at b SPA Barber Club,
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 3: So it's b sp A Barber Club. You can look
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 3: that up too. I also have a barber page where
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 3: I just post like cuts and stuff. That's at Ralphie
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 3: the Barber ur a l f i E. The Barber.
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 3: If you go to my regular page you'll find all
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 3: the links there too. But yeah, man, that's pretty much
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 3: how you can find me. I'm always open to listening,
• 1:27:03
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• 1:27:07
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• 1:27:11
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• 1:27:14
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• 1:27:17
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• 1:27:26
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• 1:27:31
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• 1:27:35
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• 1:27:38
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• 1:27:41
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• 1:27:43
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• 1:27:48
  Speaker 3: that's that's about it. I appreciate you guys having me on.
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry we didn't get to talk more about the
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 3: rest of the league because, I mean, this is a
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 3: big topic, right, Monopoly is a pretty big topic this year.
• 1:28:00
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• 1:28:01
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• 1:28:01
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• 1:28:04
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• 1:28:07
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• 1:28:08
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• 1:28:29
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• 1:28:34
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for listening, John