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Set 2: World Cup Brackets · Stugotz and Company

• 0:21
  Speaker 1: So Taylor has a conspiracy theory around Kawhi Leonard that
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: will get you in just a second. But yesterday we
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  Speaker 1: had two gambling snapfoos.
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  Speaker 2: For lack of a better word, there's no better words
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  Speaker 2: than snoo. That is the best word.
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  Speaker 3: Snap fo Yes, we had two of them. One was
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  Speaker 3: courtesy of Israel. Goody eras we'll start there is he
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  Speaker 3: what happened to you yesterday?
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  Speaker 2: So you were talking up Germany yesterday that was against Paraguay, right,
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: you were talking up Germany, Germany, Germany. And I was
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  Speaker 2: just like, man, all these people are talking about because
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  Speaker 2: of the result against the US, that's why they feel
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  Speaker 2: like Paraguay is very bad and that Germany is going
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  Speaker 2: to kill that game in that game. And I was like,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, I have a feeling. And so I
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  Speaker 2: went on the app and I put down you know,
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  Speaker 2: ten bucks whatever on Paraguay to win.
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  Speaker 1: Right, big underdog?
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  Speaker 2: Yep? Yeah yeah. So what I didn't realize after checking
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  Speaker 2: the app and being like, wait a second, why don't
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  Speaker 2: I have my money after the game, is that I
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  Speaker 2: chose them to win, which apparently is different than to advance. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: you chose is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: You chose them to win.
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  Speaker 2: A regulation is what you chose, right, So when it
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  Speaker 2: says to win, that means if you read the fine
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  Speaker 2: print in regulation or your ninety plus stop its time
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  Speaker 2: or whatever. So when it got to PKS, I had
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  Speaker 2: already lost the bet and I was cheering my behind
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  Speaker 2: off for Paraguay for nothing.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, is he When you see that and it says
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  Speaker 4: Germany Paraguay draw in your mine, are you saying, well,
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  Speaker 4: why would I bet draw? These two teams can't draw?
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  Speaker 2: We need a winner, right? Yes? I never looked at draw.
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  Speaker 2: I went specifically to both or to bet on them
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  Speaker 2: to win. So if I had looked down, I probably
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  Speaker 2: would have said, hell, wait a second, that's not right.
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  Speaker 2: They're just still people's money who chose draw. But also
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  Speaker 2: would have been good information to have yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: Taylor draws no longer in somebody's money, Yes they are.
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  Speaker 1: Well, draws no longer an option, I would assume, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: But through ninety plus stoppage, it's an option. So that's
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  Speaker 2: what I could have won.
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  Speaker 3: Also, did you watch the penalty kicks? Did you watch
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  Speaker 3: it in real time?
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  Speaker 2: Real time?
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  Speaker 1: Man, you're rooting for Paraguay thinking you're winning money.
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  Speaker 2: Like my house depended on it. It was ten dollars.
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  Speaker 2: I'm cheering against the Germans like it's nineteen forty one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, yeah, I was cheering for the Germans as well.
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  Speaker 3: That's because I had a gambling snapho and my snapho
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  Speaker 3: was listening to boardot Ricardo's advice.
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  Speaker 2: Do we remember the remember what he told us about Germany?
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  Speaker 1: He said, Germany needs to play well?
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  Speaker 2: No, even less than that. Well was it? Germany was
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  Speaker 2: gonna want to play well because their next game is
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  Speaker 2: going to be a tough one.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and because if they lose their out and they
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  Speaker 3: lost in their outs so didn't play well.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know who I'm more mad at Ricardo for
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  Speaker 5: giving that advice for me for being like, you know what,
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  Speaker 5: He's right, they do want to play well.
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  Speaker 1: Same it was like it was. It was such a revelation.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, I'm putting everything I have
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  Speaker 1: on Germany.
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  Speaker 3: And they lost in PKS. What happened during the PKS?
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  Speaker 3: I don't like penalty kicks anymore. It's either going to
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  Speaker 3: be all penalty kicks or no penalty kicks. It's the
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  Speaker 3: entire the game of soccer. The beautiful game that I
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  Speaker 3: have grown to love and a doore. Okay, it's not
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  Speaker 3: about five guys just getting a shot. You know, center
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  Speaker 3: caught easy shot from ten feet away. That's not what
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  Speaker 3: the game is. And suddenly soccer turns in. They decide
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  Speaker 3: soccer games with a shootout. That is not representative of
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  Speaker 3: what the actual beautiful game is.
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  Speaker 2: The problem is, Stu, if it is representative of the game,
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  Speaker 2: it would be exactly what you hate. Yeah, it could
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  Speaker 2: be hours upon hours of goalless soccer with a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of tired people because you can't make any more substitutions.
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  Speaker 2: And then are you really judging who the best team
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  Speaker 2: is there or who the most fit team is there?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's more representative of what the game actually is.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it'd be like instead of going to overtime
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  Speaker 3: in basketball, that just hey, two guys take Yeah, you
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  Speaker 3: know what, why am I complaining?
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  Speaker 2: I was just about to say, this seems to be
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  Speaker 2: your wheelhouse.
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  Speaker 3: I am the guy who wanted to do away with
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  Speaker 3: extra innings that just have one player come out from
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  Speaker 3: each dugout and have a home run derby.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, what am I doing?
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  Speaker 4: Stud who says no to this? This proposal here we
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  Speaker 4: shrink the field in half. Yeah, we bring the goal
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  Speaker 4: in and then we play five on five on the
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  Speaker 4: smaller field, golden goal.
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  Speaker 2: It's better. That's better. I mean it's more. I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: a smaller field with less player is it more sort
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  Speaker 2: of indicative of what the game actually is. They's just
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  Speaker 2: a different fun version of it. I think it's b
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  Speaker 2: but I also think that might be better than PK's
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  Speaker 2: it's soccer. Yeah, so before it got to PK's actually
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  Speaker 2: there was a really frustrating part where Germany had scored
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  Speaker 2: would look like go ahead and what would be would
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  Speaker 2: have been potentially a winning goal. Var I feel like
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  Speaker 2: has gotten out of control. Like it's it's as if,
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  Speaker 2: you know, let's just say, since we talked about the
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  Speaker 2: og Annobe tip earlier, right, it's as if the og
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  Speaker 2: Annobe tip happens and then the referees just huddle up
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  Speaker 2: and watch a replay of every angle of the play
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  Speaker 2: from all levels of the floor and then potentially find
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  Speaker 2: an offensive foul that happened just before he tipped it
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  Speaker 2: in and said nope, that doesn't count. Like Var is
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  Speaker 2: an out of control official right now, out of control
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  Speaker 2: because even when it's a questionable call like that one.
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  Speaker 2: There was a goalie in the in the the studio
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  Speaker 2: show who said, I didn't think that was a foul,
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  Speaker 2: and that's a goaltender, right, yeah, And so the foul
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  Speaker 2: happened against the goaltender, and so you would think a
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  Speaker 2: fellow goaltender would say that's definitely foul. It's not a foul.
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  Speaker 2: But they reversed that country's magical moment over something that
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  Speaker 2: was controversial. I thought it was supposed to be clear
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  Speaker 2: and obvious, and that to me, it wasn't clear and obvious,
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  Speaker 2: was it, Taylor? To you?
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  Speaker 4: Uh, I thought it was a foul. But I would
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  Speaker 4: have understood in that situation where if they don't call
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  Speaker 4: it a foul, because you could make an argument both
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  Speaker 4: ways that the goaltender ran into the defender or the
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  Speaker 4: defender blocked the goaltender, so it was called a goal
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  Speaker 4: on the field. I think you probably should have just
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  Speaker 4: just kept it. The second they go to Vaer, though,
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  Speaker 4: that's signaling that they're they're most likely going to reverse
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  Speaker 4: the decision. It was Jonathan tah He's a center back
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  Speaker 4: from Bayern Munich and then he found himself in more
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  Speaker 4: controversy later in the penalty shootout, because at one point
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  Speaker 4: in that penalty shootout, Paraguay was dead. I mean Paraguay
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  Speaker 4: was winning, Germany was dead. They needed Paraguay to miss
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  Speaker 4: those last two penalties and to even have a chance,
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  Speaker 4: and he was heartbroken.
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  Speaker 2: Even though I had already lost the bet.
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  Speaker 4: Paraguay misses the last two penalties to force sudden death
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  Speaker 4: and Germany has the sixth kick coming up, and they're
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  Speaker 4: looking around who's trying to kick? Who's trying to take
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  Speaker 4: the kick.
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  Speaker 2: Because dude, they only announced the first five? Sure right,
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  Speaker 2: thank yous?
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  Speaker 4: Probably yes, The players are going around and asking like
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  Speaker 4: do you want to take the six kick? Do you
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  Speaker 4: want to take the six kick? And according to the
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  Speaker 4: German media and reports and what you could see the
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  Speaker 4: players shaking their heads on the field, they just have
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  Speaker 4: players lining up being like I don't want to kick this.
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  Speaker 4: And with penalty kicks, it feels like one of the
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  Speaker 4: few moments in sports where you could see like the
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  Speaker 4: moment is just getting way too big for players out there.
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  Speaker 2: It's so huge. It's just the one thing that I
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  Speaker 2: wrote down in my notes after that, after two straight pks,
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  Speaker 2: it was the pressure of pks. It's just so intense
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  Speaker 2: because like I've seen plenty of pks over the years,
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  Speaker 2: especially even like in an MLS right with since Messi's
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  Speaker 2: gotten there and stuff, so it's like you can you
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  Speaker 2: get a feel for what they feel like they don't
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  Speaker 2: feel anything like this, Like this is super intense. You've
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  Speaker 2: got guys that are just missing the frame altogether. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know the last time I've seen somebody miss the frame.
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  Speaker 2: And there was like three of them just in that
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  Speaker 2: actual pek in that session there, and so it's funny
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  Speaker 2: to me because you've got guys doing it the way
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  Speaker 2: they would always do it. Like there was one guy
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  Speaker 2: I want to say from Paraguay who hit the post
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  Speaker 2: where he was basically a no look. He'd basically got
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  Speaker 2: the goalie to go one way but kept his face
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  Speaker 2: looking that way and kicked left and missed. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: in that situation, you're dropping a no look, I mean no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: I'm staring him meat down at that ball, making sure
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  Speaker 2: I make contact, making sure it's going exactly where I watch.
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  Speaker 1: So Jonathan Ta wanted to take the kick.
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  Speaker 3: He was willing to take the kick because it sounds
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  Speaker 3: like everyone else with Jonathan nah, I'm good, don't walk
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  Speaker 3: the pressure and STU.
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  Speaker 4: Jonathan Ta has never taken a PK before in his life.
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  Speaker 4: He was willing right, and when he went up there
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  Speaker 4: and kicked it, yeah, it looks like he had never
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  Speaker 4: taken a PK in his life before because he put
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  Speaker 4: that not his fault. That game was played in Jellette Stadium.
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  Speaker 4: That kick looked like it went through the uprights of
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  Speaker 4: Jillette Stadium right where you have other players on the team,
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  Speaker 4: players that said said no, Like some of those players
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  Speaker 4: are like the penalty kick takers for their club team. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: and you just saw in the moment they were like,
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  Speaker 4: our nerves are way too big for this. We don't
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  Speaker 4: want to be the ones that mess this up.
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  Speaker 2: And think about that roller coaster of emotions for Todd, right,
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  Speaker 2: so it's not nerve wreck nerve wracking throughout the game. Man,
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  Speaker 2: what a disappointment If we don't win this game, it's
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  Speaker 2: a joke. Oh I scored the game winning goal, yes,
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  Speaker 2: and then it's a full three four five minutes later, No,
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  Speaker 2: you didn't.
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  Speaker 3: It's a great move by Todd because he could say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: at least I was willing to take the kick. I've
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  Speaker 3: never done it before, but at least I was willing
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  Speaker 3: to take it. The rest of my teammates are cowards.
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  Speaker 2: And the rest of his teammates are probabular and their
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  Speaker 2: heads are like, no, we can justify picking him because
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  Speaker 2: he had the goal taken away, so he should have
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  Speaker 2: gotten the glory to get the peak A Now, man,
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  Speaker 2: go take your goals, Go take your pks. If you've
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  Speaker 2: done it before, don't let somebody who's never done it
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  Speaker 2: before take it.
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  Speaker 5: Don't wonder Americans aren't embracing this sport, Like can you imagine,
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  Speaker 5: like in the NBA, them saying, Okay, we're gonna take
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  Speaker 5: free throws to see who advances. Who's going to take
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  Speaker 5: the next one. Can you imagine a bunch of NBA
• 9:58
  Speaker 5: players being like, Nope, I don't want to take the
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  Speaker 5: free throw.
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  Speaker 2: Right Simmons, Shaquille o'neillses are a take again.
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  Speaker 1: What I'm talking about?
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  Speaker 5: All the guys on the bench like, let me be
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  Speaker 5: the hero man.
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  Speaker 3: One of my favorite things in the NBA is when
• 10:14
  Speaker 3: Mitchell Robinson gets fouled and Jalen Brunton steps of the line.
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  Speaker 1: They noticed me.
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  Speaker 4: Mikey just made a point that made me think of
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  Speaker 4: something if in the NBA a game was tied and
• 10:27
  Speaker 4: we didn't want to go to overtime during the regular season,
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  Speaker 4: save some of the players, players are taking off more
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  Speaker 4: games than ever. Now, what if we just had a
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  Speaker 4: free throw shootout?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, sounds pretty boring.
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  Speaker 5: Play knockout.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's the equivalent of what they're doing, right,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, but the pks are more exciting than the
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  Speaker 3: actual game.
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: I like what we used to do on our eight
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  Speaker 2: foot rim in the front yard is just just try
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  Speaker 2: to dunk on somebody. You're the blocker, you're underneath the rim,
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  Speaker 2: I'm the dunker. Let's go. Anytime you get a dunk in,
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  Speaker 2: that's a score.
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  Speaker 3: Can you dunk on an eight foot rim? Of course, Taylor,
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  Speaker 3: do you think you could dunk it at eight foot rim?
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  Speaker 3: I'm thinking six for me.
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  Speaker 1: What do you no?
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  Speaker 4: Eight foot rim?
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  Speaker 2: It's easy. Yeah, I'm Derek Jones. I'm just gonna say
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  Speaker 2: that was a real confident.
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  Speaker 5: Of course, I can from a guy who hasn't gotten
• 11:14
  Speaker 5: a hitting softball.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just saying yeah, but he's good as a
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  Speaker 1: real confident. But he's good at basketball, Like I've seen
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  Speaker 1: him play basketball.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I would like to announce I am not a
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  Speaker 2: poor athlete. Okay, I am not a poor athlete. I'm
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  Speaker 2: a forty nine year old who'd never played softball before.
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  Speaker 2: All right, that's totally different.
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  Speaker 1: You're like Jonathan not taking a PK when you play softball.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead, stude.
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  Speaker 4: The other game yesterday Morocco Netherlands was banger, an absolute
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  Speaker 4: banger of a game. Exactly is he where Netherlands they
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  Speaker 4: win their group and and their reward for winning their
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  Speaker 4: group in the round of thirty two is playing a
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  Speaker 4: team that's also ranked in the top ten ahead of them.
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  Speaker 4: A tough draw for Netherlands getting eliminated there on pks two.
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  Speaker 4: But that was such a great day of soccer yesterday
• 12:00
  Speaker 4: that again Americans can't help themselves and want to fix soccer.
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  Speaker 4: People want the World Cup now every year.
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  Speaker 3: Every year, and in the States, in the United States
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  Speaker 3: anywhere else. Yes, yes, you want us to love soccer.
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  Speaker 3: Bring that thing to us every single year.
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  Speaker 2: Let that thing be in Japan. And all these games
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: are at three in the morning, and they're like, what
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  Speaker 2: is it with this sport?
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  Speaker 3: I gotta tell you us soccer fans are making me nervous.
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  Speaker 3: They are acting like they're already on to the round
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  Speaker 3: of sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: Don't do it. We don't deserve to be this confident.
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  Speaker 3: We have no reason to be this confident that our
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  Speaker 3: team hour is going to breeze to a round of
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  Speaker 3: thirty two victory. I don't even know who they play.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care who they play. We should not be
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  Speaker 3: as confident as we are that the United States is
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  Speaker 3: going to.
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  Speaker 2: Advance twov one. It's US versus Bosnia and Herzego.
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  Speaker 5: Be wow, Taylor, did you just cut that audio from
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  Speaker 5: a month ago when he said the same thing about
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  Speaker 5: the Knicks. Oh, we can't be too confident. Everybody's sitting
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  Speaker 5: here talking about how competent, right, but we're not that good.
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  Speaker 2: It's the same argument.
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  Speaker 5: We are going to the round of thirty to sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: Well why stop? There?
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  Speaker 1: Have us won the whole damn thing?
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  Speaker 2: I mean what, I don't want that, But I Harden's
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  Speaker 2: not waiting for us in the next round.
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  Speaker 1: Just play the team in front of you.
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  Speaker 2: I get it. Yes, I don't want more Americans to
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  Speaker 2: show their ignorance when it comes to like world history
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  Speaker 2: or geography or whatever, because there's just one clip of
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  Speaker 2: this newscaster saying I don't even know where Bosnia is.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know anything about Bosnia, but we're gonna kick
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  Speaker 2: their button. And it's just like, man, there is a
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: great story there if you just did a little research,
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: I got news for you. Say it's too late for that.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't talk about the other team. Just talk
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  Speaker 2: about the US team. We're idiots.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we feel like we own soccer.
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: We do geographical, historical and soccer idiots.
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  Speaker 3: H Taylor, don't you feel like the fan base, the
• 13:56
  Speaker 3: US soccer fan base, I'm guessing the soccer zealot who
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: would be who have been behind this team for a
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: while now and want this team to succeed. They're throwing
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  Speaker 3: up at the notion of all of us. Johnny cum
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  Speaker 3: lately staking hey, we're gonna breeze through the round of
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  Speaker 3: thirty two. I'm guessing they're thinking more like I'm thinking,
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  Speaker 3: which is, hey, we shouldn't be confident against anybody, don't you.
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  Speaker 4: Think to an extent? But I think a lot of
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: even those fans are looking at this team right now.
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  Speaker 4: People call this the golden generation right now of US soccer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what was that Jesus for you know, man.
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  Speaker 1: I mean there's a golden generation back in nineteen eighty four.
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  Speaker 2: Can you call it a golden generation when what is
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  Speaker 2: your ceiling? It's not winning any gold long generation's like
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  Speaker 2: maybe finishing in the semis of a big tournament.
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  Speaker 4: It's the golden generation because for the first time in
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: US soccer history. To contrast Stew's point there, USA has
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: never had their best players playing in the best leagues
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: in Europe. Like you look around right now, if you
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: turn on a Premier League game, a La Liga game,
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: a Italian Serie A game, there's most likely going to
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: be some kind of American influence in this team. And
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  Speaker 4: I think that's the reason why a lot of people
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: are confident in this team. Where I cannot emphasize it enough.
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  Speaker 4: Baligan right now is giving so many USA fans confident
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  Speaker 4: because we have never had a player up top like
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: when you when he doesn't play in the Turkey game
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: or the Turkey A game, excuse me, and you see
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: Timothy Weya starting at striker. That's the problem with the
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: USA teams in the past. They just don't have a
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: clinical goal scorer. And right now with Balgin, we're looking
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: at all these other teams and saying, why not US.
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: I believe that we will win, so think that we
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: will win.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: It's a terrible it's the best of the worst, but
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: you're right, we're bad at it, but we own the sport.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: So the Golden Generation is just hey, we caught up
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: to the rest of the world, like, hey, we're like
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: you now playing your league. And the T shirt so
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: Stu Gott says they should never be over confident, right,
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: because we don't have a history of doing anything, so
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: that you'd feel better if the US came out with
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: T shirts. It says, trust us, we're scared.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: We're scared too.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: We really don't know what's gonna happen here. That's on
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: the back.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: But I think you would get that level of nervousness
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: from the fans if they just had a worst draw
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: in the bracket, like if they got if Ivory Coast
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: was their second placed game, if if the Morocco was
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: their second place game. Yes, the fact that the USA
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: in this in this path has Bosnia and then the
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: winner of Senegal Belgium Belgium has given this USA team
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: historical problems in the past.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: But they're also a disappointment of a team too correct.
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: I think that's where a lot of the confidence from
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: the USA is coming, just the draw being so favorable.
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: I don't think any USA fans are looking at the
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: bracket and saying, you know, if we get to the
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: quarterfinals and it's Spain waiting for US or it's Portugal
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: waiting for US, I think you're going to see that
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: confidence dip. But at that point we were ridding a
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: lot of momentum and Stu, you know this. You get
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: to the quarterfinals, anything can happen.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, my brother already has them in the semi finals.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: He started watching soccer yesterday and his reason is, well,
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: his reasoning is we be Paraguay by by three goals,
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: and Paraguay be Germany, and Germany is one of the
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: best teams in soccers.
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: Two transitive property.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: He's never called me with a soccer take before.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Wow, He's invested. He goes, this is our year, Come
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: get out of here. He thinks it happens every year,
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: doesn't he.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: So your brother having USA in the semi finals already
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: made me think of this other point that US fans
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: are making right now. And I hate to tell people this.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: The rest of the world is laughing at USA fans
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: right now. Nate Silver.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Nate Silver yep tweeted that Nate Silver, Yes, that date's silver.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: Nate Silver tweeted, I think the World Cup should pause
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: for about three days in between the group and knockout
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: stages so people can fill out brackets.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: They need three days. Nate a thirty two team brack.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: Too. He expanded and said, granted, mostly an American thing,
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: but this is a very important mechanism for the NCAA
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: tournament for bringing casual It's like the World Cup really
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: needs to try to bring in casuals.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: He ever, took three days to fill out a bracket.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: They got me and my brother. They're fine.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Also, you can fill out the bracket before the knockout
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: group stage the group stage is over because by the
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: last day pretty much everything.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know what, here's what Nate listen. Nate
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: does research when he fills out of bracket. It's not
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: the way to fill out a bracket. It's not the
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: fun way to fill out a bracket. Just you know,
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: look at the games and choose from your gut. You
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: know what, does your gut tell you? That's how you
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: do should take you five seconds, Nate.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: It is so perfect that you look at or you
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: look across the World Cup and you look at some
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: of the fan bases Colombia, Spain, Brazil, countries that live
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: and die with their national teams, and Nate Silver comes
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: along and being like, hey, Columbia fans, you know how
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: you can be even more excited about this tournament?
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: All the bracket it's.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Because soccer is ours and they.
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: Just wincket picking for the five twelve upset can board
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: ofp Ricardo?
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Tell me who has to play well today? Who wants
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: to play well? Who wants to play well today? Who
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: does he have?
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Mexico? Oh right, Mexico wants to play well.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they do want it today.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: You know what? Thank you for telling me that, because
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: I was considering putting a flyer on Ecuador.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: I am. I am?
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Now who was it that ruined a goal for us
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: yesterday that we were watching Brazil Japan? Was that was that? Ricardo?
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Because I saw a video the other day of a
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: group of people watching an Ecuador game. Who did they
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: did they score late against Germany? Is that who that was? Yeah?
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: They scored in the seventy seventh minute against Germany and
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: it's a big group. Everybody's in their flag colors on
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: their t shirts. And one guy in the front picks
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: up his phone, gets really excited, stand up and starts
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: jumping up and down in the front of the room,
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: and everybody's like, what the hell's going on. In like
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: thirty seconds later, boom, everybody explodes because they saw it
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: on their TV. His phone was ahead. I'm telling you
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: people need to put their devices away if you just
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: want to watch and experience that, because everybody's watching it
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: at different times, like at least thirty second delay.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: So you guys are trying to find an edge in
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: this Mexico Ecuador game tonight. Yeah, I saw a report
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: online from a Mexico reporter where she said fans have
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: arrived with their cars, trumpets, motorcycles and everything they can
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: to make noise outside of the Ecuador hotel last night,
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: so they were trying their best to keep Ecuador up.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: And in this video, it is comical because it's just
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: people standing outside this hotel and they're just blasting their
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: car horns where you could see in the video like
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: players are like peeking out their window being like what's
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: going on, but also it's the nine pm game tonight.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure that they have plenty of time to
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: get rest.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: I don't care. That's some gamesmanship right there, they care more? Right?
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Do teams have to hide where they're staying? Now? Do
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: they have to be all incognito for situations like this?
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Because I feel like this happened to non soccer teams, right,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: we hear this about what college football teams maybe pro
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: football teams during the playoffs.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Did someone go to Wemby's Hotel again?
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Didn't Michael Jordan famously in their theory that pizza. Yes,
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: but I think World Cup is probably going to consider Hey,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: why do we have to tell people where we're staying.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Let's just be quiet about it.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Yes, the flu game sounds much better than the food poison.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah right, Yeah, that somebody poisoned my pizza game and
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: doesn't really roll off that tongue.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Sounds cooler, though, It's a better you defeated What sounds better?
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: You defeated the flu or you defeated somebody trying to
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: poison you?
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Right, somebody sneezed on you or somebody trying to kill you.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: I believe the latter is better, so I can't believe
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Mexico did that. That's like taking a page at of
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: hour book. We don't know how to celebrate and do
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: these things. We would arrive at a hotel the night
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: before nine pm.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Game, you know, I wouldn't. I'd just be at home watching.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: I'd be getting reports from Taylor Fez. Yeah.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: I don't like pks now. It's the only thing I
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: liked about the sport. Now I'm not certain whether or
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: not we should have him at all.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. Thank you, Mikey was
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: waiting for it. I didn't leave an opening, did I.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: I wasn't listening anyway.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Taylor has a conspiracy theory surrounding Kawhi Leonard here, and
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: any time I hear conspiracy theory, I want to hear more.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: So what is the conspiracy theory here with Kawhi?
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: So?
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: Kawhi Leonard's camp is saying he's only signing an extension
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: if he goes to Toronto. Correct?
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Is he correct? It's current reporting.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: And that's strange because after winning the title there in
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: twenty nineteen, he was so adamant about leaving there. So
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: I'm trying to figure out what changed for Kawhi Leonard,
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: which brings me to the smoking Gun. Oh wow, what
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: would you do if you were the target of a
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: federal investigation and you knew you were guilty?
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Go to Canada?
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: I would go to Canada.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: You'd flee the.
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: Country through my backyard.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's the first thing I thought of when
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: I heard Smoking Gun.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: By the way, So that's what you're thinking. He's going
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: to Canada anyway from.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: The Witness Protection Program. Baby, Like, he's gonna be in
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Canada and he's not gonna win another title, so nobody's
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: gonna remember he's out there.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: So the biggest flaw in this theory is the fact
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: that he would still play half his games in America
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: and half his games in Toronto. But I think this
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: would almost be like a remember when the Yankees were
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: trying to lure Roger Clemens back from retirement and they
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: were like, hey, Roger Clemens, if you come here, like
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: you might not have to go on road trips, you're
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: not pitching, well, will cater to whatever Roger Clemens needs
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: to come back. I think that might be what we
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: have working.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Here, Like we will man phrasing, we will manage your
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: load so well that you won't even have to leave
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Canada phrasing.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: So he's running away from the from from from US
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: law enforcement essentially, is what you're saying.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: It'd be great to Pablo Tore prevented Kawhi Leonard from
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: coming to the Heats the.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Old I mean, he didn't do anything crazy illegal, He
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: didn't do anything illegal. Actually, he just circumvented the salary cap.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: And that's not even him doing it illegally, that's the uh,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: that's the Clippers doing that. But I do think there's
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: something to that in this sense of all right, Look,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: I literally swung as big as I can swing. I
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: went to La try to be bigger than the Lakers
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: in LA, brought my boy Paul George with me, effectively
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: built a you know, today's version of a super team
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: and failed miserably. And now they're all up in my pocket.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: And I don't want to talk about this. I know
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: there's gonna have to be something to be discussed. I'm
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: going to go back to my comfort zone, my little
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: cocoon up in Toronto, where no matter what happens, they're
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: gonna love me forever.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: Is he is there a team that would retire Kauwhai's
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: number because it feels like a rare spot that a
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: two time Finals MVP, seven time first or second team
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: All NBA selection wouldn't And it feels like maybe his
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: only path to getting his jersey retired is going back
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: to Toronto and trying to build on that legacy.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: I think if he never spends another day in Toronto,
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: that jersey is still getting retired, don't you.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: I do, because one year it'll be title their only title. Yeah,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: It'll be fifty three years from now when I'll be saying, wow,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: are the Raptor's ever going to get that second title?
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: It's going to be very New York Knicks like, except
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: only in Canada, and so yeah, I wouldn't be surprised
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: at all if he retires his number there. I also
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: wouldn't be shocked at all if an organization that has
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Bruce Bowen's number retired would retire Kawhi Leonards as well.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: I like could plant a tree in his honor right now,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: not if Bill Plashky has anything to say about it.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Splashky