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7-06-26 Hour 1 - The right side of FIFA corruption/LeBron will drag this out/Moser's Belgian friend · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is Mosher, Lombardy and Kine on demand. Listen live
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  Speaker 1: every weekday morning from seven to ten on Altitude Sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio ninety two five and on the Altitude Sports Radio app.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, I hope you all had a great weekend,
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  Speaker 2: two hundred and fiftieth birthday of this great country. This
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  Speaker 2: great country will be on display again tonight, and I
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  Speaker 2: gotta tell you.
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  Speaker 3: We're so in. Now, we're so in.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't mean we're in because the US won
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  Speaker 2: and they advanced to the round of sixteen. I mean
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  Speaker 2: we are so in because we finally joined the party
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  Speaker 2: of countries who will put their thumb on the scale
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  Speaker 2: and say I won't stand for what you just did
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  Speaker 2: to us, FIFA. I don't care what we gotta do.
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  Speaker 2: I am going to make a phone call to the
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  Speaker 2: powers be. I will threaten you. Our leading will score
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  Speaker 2: is not going to be suspended for tonight's game.
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  Speaker 3: It was never a red card.
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  Speaker 2: Again that notwithstanding, I think everybody, especially in this country,
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  Speaker 2: agrees ridiculous call him playing tonight is the thing that
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  Speaker 2: should be happening. But when they give him a red
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  Speaker 2: card and they tell you there is no way to
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  Speaker 2: appeal this, it's done, and then you find out the
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  Speaker 2: game starts.
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  Speaker 4: Basically it's this, don't look at our face there you
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  Speaker 4: have zero recourse audios.
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  Speaker 3: And then.
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  Speaker 5: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know if this is the case.
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  Speaker 2: You guys, remember Clay Travis, right, former sports radio host,
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  Speaker 2: is now a conservative radio guy, said Trump. Tommers Secretary
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  Speaker 2: Howard Ludnick. Whitehouse Task Force head Andrew Giuliani put together
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  Speaker 2: an elite team of lawyers from outside the government to
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  Speaker 2: challenge the red card, and now, all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: Baligan's back. And I gotta tell you, I love it.
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  Speaker 2: If I were president, I would put my thumb on
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  Speaker 2: the scale for teams around here. I would say, what
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  Speaker 2: do you mean there's no second apron that exists for
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  Speaker 2: the Nuggets executive order, I would do all of it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, I know everyone. Oh the rest of
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  Speaker 3: the world is going to turn this into a political affront. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I get it, I get it. My response is, I
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  Speaker 3: don't care about the rest of the world. It's us
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  Speaker 3: against the world.
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  Speaker 6: You guys are amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I don't care the fact that these Belgian people,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't even know what the hell Belgian did besides
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  Speaker 3: avoid wars I don't even know what you did. The
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  Speaker 3: fact that you're gonna send a statement and talk about
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  Speaker 3: the integrity and the morals of sport. Shut the hell up,
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  Speaker 3: Belgian Belgium, whatever the hell you are, Belgium, shut up
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  Speaker 3: there of Belgian. Yeah, US against the world, US against
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  Speaker 3: the world. Let's go. I'm perfectly happy with that. Let's go.
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  Speaker 3: I will in the sake of fairness.
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  Speaker 2: If we were playing Argentina and Messi got a red
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  Speaker 2: card in the same way Baligan did, and they gave
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  Speaker 2: it to him and said you're suspended for the next game,
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  Speaker 2: and then the day before the game they said.
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  Speaker 3: That Messi's played, I'd be pretty upset. Well, you should
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  Speaker 3: be upset, because Messi had a similar incident that occurred
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  Speaker 3: that did not even get a red card. That is true.
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  Speaker 4: Ronaldo what Ronaldo also had a three game suspension dropped
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  Speaker 4: down to way one.
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  Speaker 3: I love how the rest of the world all of
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  Speaker 3: a sudden appeals to favoritism and corruption, when the rest
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  Speaker 3: of the world has undergone this crap for years before
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  Speaker 3: even the US joined the party. All of a sudden,
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  Speaker 3: you know what this is? What is the rest of
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  Speaker 3: the world fearful that the US has arrived and is
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  Speaker 3: finally going to take this sport seriously and is finally
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  Speaker 3: going to do something to get better at this sport
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  Speaker 3: and then take it over. That's what's happening. You understand that, right?
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  Speaker 2: If I thought we sucked, Yeah, that's what they all
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  Speaker 2: told us that.
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  Speaker 3: I thought we sucked.
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  Speaker 2: And so if we suck, it doesn't matter who should
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  Speaker 2: be playing and who shouldn't you we should get bounced, right,
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  Speaker 2: that's what I thought.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I heard mos. I heard that.
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  Speaker 4: Well, listen, I don't know that there's anyone on this
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  Speaker 4: program more patriotic than myself. Now, you might be as patriotic,
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  Speaker 4: vic I know.
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  Speaker 3: Wait, wait nobody. I don't want to hear crap like that.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody's more patriotic than the next person. Hold on, don't
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  Speaker 3: tell me you're more patriotic, because.
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  Speaker 2: What I totally agree with what Vick saying. But I'm
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  Speaker 2: way more patriotic than you.
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  Speaker 3: That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. You're no more
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  Speaker 3: patriotic than Nelson, You're no more patriotic than somebody who
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  Speaker 3: hates politics. You're no more patriotic than any other American.
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  Speaker 6: I just love this country.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, fly my flag, proudly proud member of Sons
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  Speaker 4: of the American Revolution. Pow damn right you and me ig,
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  Speaker 4: what's up that being said? Yeah, if it was the
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  Speaker 4: other way around, be flaming. So I can see where
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  Speaker 4: the Belgians might be, like.
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  Speaker 3: What what?
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  Speaker 6: What the guff chet?
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 2: What would either Belgium this morning? This morning?
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  Speaker 3: Belgi on me?
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  Speaker 2: Belgium did appeal this morning. I don't know if anything's gonna.
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  Speaker 4: Happen here's but here's here's what cracks me up. You
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  Speaker 4: know what we're gonna do for Belgium. We're gonna write
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  Speaker 4: a really mean letter.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Every everybody keeps telling me it doesn't matter anyway, because
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  Speaker 3: Belgium stomped the US five to two.
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  Speaker 4: Prior to we may look, we may very well may
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  Speaker 4: lose tonight Seattle, very.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it doesn't matter. You know, I've had this conversation before. See,
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  Speaker 3: I have precedence here. I come with precedents. Who on
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  Speaker 3: this show, every time the Nuggets or the Avs or
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  Speaker 3: the Broncos played another team, who always said I would
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  Speaker 3: rather play against the best. I've always and I always
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  Speaker 3: thought that was silly. Exactly. Yeah, I've always said I
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  Speaker 3: want to play against the best because I think if
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  Speaker 3: you beat them at their best, it means more. That's
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  Speaker 3: I've always I've always maintained.
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  Speaker 4: Is that why you wanted Okay, see in the first
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  Speaker 4: round exactly, I've never changed to but that's still that's
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  Speaker 4: still a really weird way to look at it. Or really,
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  Speaker 4: then what happened, Well, you lost the Minnesota Yeah, So
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  Speaker 4: I've always wanted to play the best with their best always.
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  Speaker 4: And the fact that Belgium is crying about this, Wait
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  Speaker 4: a minute, didn't you just beat What.
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  Speaker 3: Are you afraid of? What are you afraid of? You
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  Speaker 3: gonna stand me and you're gonna send another sternly worded
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  Speaker 3: chat GPT statement. Is that what you're gonna do?
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  Speaker 2: I just I can't tell you how happy it made me,
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  Speaker 2: because this is to me the indicator winning that that
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  Speaker 2: game in the round of thirty two. That's yeah, that's great.
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  Speaker 2: That was awesome. The way you did it. You're down
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  Speaker 2: and man, you hang on to the lead. Then the
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  Speaker 2: free kick one of the greatest cakes in American soccer history.
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  Speaker 3: All of it amaze.
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  Speaker 6: So somebody says Belgium the waffle people, But I.
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  Speaker 2: Know that this team is some it is a team
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  Speaker 2: to be taken seriously. We start getting our hands a
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  Speaker 2: little dirty in the fief again. We start we start saying,
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  Speaker 2: all right, who do I gotta pay for somebody to
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  Speaker 2: say this is allowed to happen. Now.
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  Speaker 4: I'm actually surprised that the people in Italy vic oh, I've.
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  Speaker 3: Been throwing bombs. I've been throwing bombs that way.
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  Speaker 4: I'm actually surprised that they that they haven't gone back
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  Speaker 4: the past couple of qualifiers. Hey, whoa like, well they lost, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I know that's tough.
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  Speaker 6: During the course of the losing, say hey, hey, hey, hey,
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  Speaker 6: we're Italy Italy.
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  Speaker 3: I've I've had I've had the countrymen, I've had my
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  Speaker 3: own cousins say, aren't you ashamed? Said no, I actually
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  Speaker 3: I said no. You should be ashamed for not being
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  Speaker 3: at not qualifying for the Cup in twelve years. You
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  Speaker 3: should be ashamed that you lost to the same Bosnia
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  Speaker 3: team the way handle the US was down. Man, they
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  Speaker 3: won the game.
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  Speaker 6: Who are you talking about, Fernando, I'm talking about Italy. No,
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  Speaker 6: I'm talking about is that that cousin.
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  Speaker 3: Other cousins Okay, good, my cousin of Domenico. You should
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  Speaker 3: be ashamed that you couldn't overtake Bosni the way the
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  Speaker 3: US did. You know what your jealousy shows. You should
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  Speaker 3: be ashamed that your soccer program sucks right now, that's
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  Speaker 3: where you should be ashamed.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, hey, you tell these people I know where they
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  Speaker 4: live and I know how to get there.
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  Speaker 3: No, man, I am so tired that the red cards
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  Speaker 3: are not the same. Even the car given last night.
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  Speaker 3: All right to England. The guy goes studs up to
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  Speaker 3: make a tackle. Then he intended to hit the ankle.
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  Speaker 3: Probably not, but he went steads up. Balligan didn't go
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  Speaker 3: studs up. He fell backwards into a guy that was
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  Speaker 3: going toward him. If you don't see the distinction between
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  Speaker 3: the two plays, you're a moron, or you're making this
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  Speaker 3: about politics, or you're antire American, or all of the love.
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  Speaker 6: But vic again, it has the feeling of.
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  Speaker 4: If a guy got thrown out of let's say the
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  Speaker 4: AFC title game.
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  Speaker 6: You know, it's just it's one of those things.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, well, oh but it was a bad call in
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  Speaker 4: the first place, so now he's back in. Yeah, we
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's like once the rule is ruling has
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  Speaker 4: been made.
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  Speaker 2: How about this a college football targeting thing where what
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  Speaker 2: happens in the second half they're suspended for the first
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  Speaker 2: half of the next game too, that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 6: Right, But but it's a.
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  Speaker 3: Really crap call.
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  Speaker 4: Let's say it's a crap crap call, which is what
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  Speaker 4: this was a crab call. And what I understand they
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  Speaker 4: were looking at what frame by frame VIC your famous
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  Speaker 4: slow motion frame by framing your you gotta do it
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  Speaker 4: in real time and not just.
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  Speaker 3: Go look at it. The dude came up from behind
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  Speaker 3: him battle then didn't even know he was there. It
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  Speaker 3: was not even close to the same call. And all
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  Speaker 3: these soccer purists to say, you in America don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I know what I'm watching and I know the same
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  Speaker 3: thing you're watching. And I love that this this is
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  Speaker 3: the point that it's a point of no return now
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  Speaker 3: to us against the world. Screw you. You know what
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  Speaker 3: this feels like, I'm in.
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  Speaker 6: I'm in.
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  Speaker 2: This feels like back the day, maybe like early two thousands.
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  Speaker 3: If you've.
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  Speaker 2: If you found out that your college football team maybe
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  Speaker 2: had some improprieties recruiting wise, you're like, oh, dude, we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be so good this year. Like that's that's how
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  Speaker 2: it feels it's like, oh, we're getting into the corruption game.
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  Speaker 2: Our soccer team must be pretty cool. That's that's how
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  Speaker 2: it feels to me. It's like when Ole Miss out
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  Speaker 2: of the Blue one year, had the number one recruiting
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  Speaker 2: class in the country, and you're like, how the hell
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  Speaker 2: did that happen?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I know how that happened?
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  Speaker 6: Big time, Buckos goes.
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  Speaker 3: You remember Roy Jones Junior? Remember the fighter Roy Norton.
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  Speaker 3: Do you remember how he got blatantly screwed out of
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  Speaker 3: a golden medal in the Olympics? Absolutely? Okay, payback, world, payback.
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  Speaker 4: Listen if you don't think that Argentina, France, England, all
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  Speaker 4: these Spain, all these countries have put their thumb on
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  Speaker 4: the scale of justice in soccer over the years, you're
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  Speaker 4: out of your mind.
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  Speaker 3: Out of your mind. I just I'm telling you one of.
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  Speaker 4: The most famous goals in the history of soccer today
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  Speaker 4: would be disallowed.
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  Speaker 3: I want.
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  Speaker 2: My country to be soccer corrupt, not actually corrupt, just
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  Speaker 2: soccer correct.
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  Speaker 3: I want That's what I want. That's when you know
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  Speaker 3: you're in the club. You're exactly right. How do you
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  Speaker 3: know all those years of asking the question, well, is
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  Speaker 3: the US really is soccer is Are they ready yet?
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  Speaker 3: We're ready now? Yeah, because we added corruption to your
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  Speaker 3: layers of corruption, we are now there.
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  Speaker 2: I told you, if I were Belgium, if there is
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  Speaker 2: a Belgian that is listening to this show that is
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  Speaker 2: screaming at us about how hip hip critical you.
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  Speaker 3: Even know a Belgian?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, who, I've got a couple of friends who live
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  Speaker 4: in Belgium for my World War two friends.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's call them.
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  Speaker 2: If they if they are, call them if they're listening
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  Speaker 2: to this show and screaming at us through their radio,
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  Speaker 2: through Twitch, through YouTube, the comment section, the ex line whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Here's my response to you, blanket statement. You're totally right.
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  Speaker 2: You're totally right. I don't care, but I don't care.
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  Speaker 2: You're totally right, and everything that you would say that
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  Speaker 2: you're like, this is unfair, this is unprecedented, almost happened
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  Speaker 2: once in the sixties. Everything you can say to me,
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  Speaker 2: you are so correct, and I don't care at all.
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  Speaker 3: And the reason I don't care is because the red
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  Speaker 3: should have never been called in the first place.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, and so that's how you justified. I'm cool with that.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, my third grade teacher's brother is.
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  Speaker 6: Buried in the Netherlands.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care about that.
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  Speaker 6: I know you don't.
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  Speaker 3: I'm really sorry are the comments. I mean, I don't care.
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  Speaker 2: He's buried in Belgium. You know what, Vic they take
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  Speaker 2: pretty good care of it. You're so wrong on this.
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  Speaker 2: I woke up needing to know where his third grade
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  Speaker 2: teacher's brother was buried.
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  Speaker 3: I had to know that this morning. Most most you
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  Speaker 3: want to add some you want to do something productive
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  Speaker 3: for the show, and sure, stupid comments. Sure, let's get
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  Speaker 3: a hold of one of your Belgian friends and call
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  Speaker 3: them and put them on shore.
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  Speaker 6: Right, I'll send I'll send them a message during the break.
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  Speaker 3: What time is it there?
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  Speaker 4: It's uh, it's like nine hours ahead, so it's it's
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  Speaker 4: in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: They're fine, Prime time Prime You know they're busy right now.
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  Speaker 3: They're drawing up more statements. It's all they're doing is
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  Speaker 3: drawn up statements. What else are you gonna do in Belgium.
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  Speaker 3: They're eating waffles and drawing up statements.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, I looked up famous things and people
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  Speaker 2: from Belgium. We'll get to that list a little bit later.
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  Speaker 2: Things that you can start to hate for just tonight
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  Speaker 2: if you would like to so I have a list
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  Speaker 2: that is built. Speaking of Altitude Sports Radio inviting you
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  Speaker 2: to go watch fee World Cup twenty six with michelob
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  Speaker 2: Ultra for the US and Belgium in the round of sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: The party starts at Stoney's on Lincoln at five thirty.
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  Speaker 2: Michelob Ultra will be on site with a ton of
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  Speaker 2: fun and ultra giveaways. Coach Samford gonna be hosting and
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  Speaker 2: giving away tons of great prizes, so you don't want
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  Speaker 2: to miss it. Michelow Bultr the Superior Light Beer and
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  Speaker 2: is worth playing for and now we're cheering for two.
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  Speaker 2: Be sure to enjoy an ultras you cheer on your
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  Speaker 2: favorite team. We'll see what Stony's on Lincoln night at
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  Speaker 2: five vic.
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  Speaker 6: Sounds pretty American this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I'm just ticked off. Man. You can't have it
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  Speaker 3: both ways. You can't come crying and talk about crap
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  Speaker 3: like this and then talk crap behind our backs. I
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  Speaker 3: mean even my own countrymen in Italy talking crap. Shut up,
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  Speaker 3: get your soccer program figured out before you come over here.
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  Speaker 3: Talk crap.
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  Speaker 2: You said, feeling pretty American this morning? Moj I was
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  Speaker 2: just it's in the heartland. Over the weekend I was
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: in Nebraski. I know there was a lot of firework
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: restrictions here in Colorado.
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  Speaker 3: Those did not exist in Omaha.
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  Speaker 6: No, you can ase a lightning show.
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  Speaker 4: What I'm guessing is like a dude from two like
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  Speaker 4: two towns over brought is Sherman tank pretty much.
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  Speaker 6: Just blasting into the woods. Right, hey, kiddies, watch this?
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  Speaker 2: Uh three oh three five O four nine two five
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  Speaker 2: back after this. God bless our troops, God bless America,
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  Speaker 2: and gentlemen start.
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  Speaker 3: All right, We'll get back to the World Cup here
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  Speaker 3: in a bit.
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  Speaker 6: I'm working on my Belgian angle right now, Vick hang
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  Speaker 6: on the second.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And then Mexico England game was maybe the most entertained
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: soccer game I've ever watched. It was unreal last night.
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  Speaker 3: It was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: There's a few of them. Our boy Aland continues to score.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, everybody, all the big dogs. What's fun about
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: this tournament? I mean, the big guys are showing up
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: over and over again. But we'll get back to the
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: World Cup in a bit. I can't shake this feeling
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: because I don't know where you guys stand. I mean,
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: we last left on the idea that Lebron and the
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: Nuggets was just kind of floated out there. I think
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: it was a wind horse clip, and then it became
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: rich Paul has put them in with four other teams
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: as a possible destination for the James And.
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  Speaker 3: What did you think about that whiteboard? Dumb well.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: I want to play this for those who missed it,
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  Speaker 2: because my first reaction is this.
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  Speaker 3: My first reaction is, boy, their milk in this one, like.
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  Speaker 2: They they are And I don't know the purpose of
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  Speaker 2: it other than just he doesn't need attention. It's not
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: going to build them. Everybody's in the market for Lebron James.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: If he wants you to be like that's nobody's gonna
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: say no to it. So my first reaction is, man,
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: this seems really self indulgent that your agent is going
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: on a podcast TV thing with Max Kellerman with a
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: literal pointer in whiteboard pointing at teams saying they have
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: this guy, this guy, this guy. They're doing it like
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: it's a first take episode.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: My favorite thing was under Dallas oil Oil. Okay, so
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: Lebron wants to get in the oil game.
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: Now I guess he's golf, no way.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: But he gets to the Nuggets and I just want
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: you guys to hear something, and it's something that happens
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: right off the rip. So Nelly, go ahead.
• 17:03
  Speaker 7: Now let's get over here to the male high right,
• 17:07
  Speaker 7: Murray Johnson, Gordon jok jop.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: He is bothered, Yeah, because you gotta just learn his name.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Learn the name. There's no ju, there's not a just
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: sound in there. You can call him joker. But if
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: you're gonna say Jokic, you do the yu, not the ju.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: You're an agent, a superagent of the NBA. Your best
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: friend is Lebron James. You you watched him get eliminated
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: by this man in a sweep in the Western Conference finals.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: How many how many MVPs does it take before someone
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: gets his name right? Seriously?
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Or just say Joe read If you have problems saying
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: on Teta Koompo, then just say Yannis. Everybody will get it.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Or say the Greek freak, just say Joker.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Whatever.
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: Continue, Nelly, they got one big hurdle. They still got
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: Peyton Watson, who's restricted free agent.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: His client by the way, correct, he's the guy negotiating
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: with the knowledge for Peyton Watson so keep that in mind.
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: Continue Kronky family, we're close to so ownership, touch to Franky,
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: He's won and everything. Josh Harrison Blitz love those guys.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: You got, Let's go back to Let's go back to Denver.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Now you got k is Denver? Is Denver actually a
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: legitimate destination? It wouldn't be on the board? Okay, ask
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: you a question.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Why would And I'm not even saying it's the wrong
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: thing to do? Why would he re emphasize the number?
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: They look because guys like Mexica, because Max Killman is
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: a typical East Coast.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: But but I feel like everybody who's in Max's situation
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: would ask that question. I really do, and are I
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: think everybody'd be like the Heat get it Cleveland, get
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: it from there. Well, and Rich Paul said, this wasn't
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: a question. He was gonna go to the Knicks, but
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: then the Knicks won a title, and now he doesn't
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: want to go there.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: It's because guys like Kellerman still think Denver's Topeka. Yeah,
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: that's why. Yeah, still treat Denver like Boise, Still treat
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Denver like what name another city on the west side
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: of the country. Sure, Polkatella.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: I will say, though, like here's I think people are
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: missing a big detail in why it would be remarkable
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: if lebron for whatever reason decided to come here, which
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: according to his best friend and agent, is a legitimate spot.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's gonna happen.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: I don't either, but this is what would make it insane.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: First of all, you become like an immediate NBA Finals favorite,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: championship favorite like that would happen. It would make your
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: basketball team miles better than it is today.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: So we know that stuff. You know what it would
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: really do, though.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: And you guys correct me if I'm wrong, because I
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: wasn't here for this, but I'm trying to imagine what
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: this would be.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: This would be the biggest thing.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Even I would.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: I would argue, bigger than Peyton, bigger than Peyton Manning.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: If it would, it would open It would open the
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: free agency floodgates for Denver, Colorado. That's it. Yeah, but.
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: Really would it? Yes?
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: I would?
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Yes, it puts you on the map. Yeah, Peyton Manning
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: going to the Broncos. The Broncos were seen as a
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: gold standard organization fill in the league. The NFL is
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: different than the NBA, But hang on When a big
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: free agent goes to the Avalanche, nobody bats an eye.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, if they got Lebron. I think it
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: changes the entire way that people viewed den I.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: Think I think that the guys who are big buck
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: free agents guys, I think that they'll look at it
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: as a one off that he you know, he went
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: there for one specific reason. It doesn't apply to me.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: I I don't believe that it would open the floor.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: I would like it to. I just don't believe that
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: would be the case.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: So why does it apply to hockey players coming to
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Denver for the Avalanche.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: Then it's it's for some reas in basketball is different
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: than football. But I think it's respect the money.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Why is it different.
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: I don't know. I don't know. VIC.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: I think it's respect.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: I think they're seen as a respected organization within the NHL.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: I think the Broncos are a respected organization in the NFL.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: The organization the Rockies are not. They're not in the MLB.
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: No, they'll come here.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: I mean if you throw enough money at They threw
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: money at arms and they came here.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: But it's it's okay, but you had to overpay to
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: do it, is my point.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what I'm saying about the Nuggets is they have
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: been incredibly successful recently, but doing that in an organic build,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: which is the only way they could do it, it.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Would, I think, open up another avenue for them.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: If somebody says Denver was cool enough for Lebron, I
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: think that changes the way you're viewed.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: I totally agree with you. I think I think Lebron
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: coming to Denver which change the perception and thus would
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: change the free agent window and opportunities here.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: I think that existing big dollar free agents would look
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: at it and go. There are extenuating circumstances, including his
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: relationship with the owners, including that this is his last
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: kick at the Canny wants won you know, you get
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: to play with this particular guy. I just think again,
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: in the NBA, the fewest amount of players have the
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: most effect on the game, and the NBA loves to
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: market individual players rather than teams and so on, and
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: I think they.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Will always still be pulled to the.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: Biggest markets in the most glamorous areas.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Someone needs to change. Someone needs to tell me then,
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: why the Denver Broncos can attract free agents they have
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: over the years. They attracted the biggest name free agent ever.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: The Avs have attracted free agents since they set foot
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: in Denver. Why can't the Nuggets.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: And the biggest attraction can't be I will pay you
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: the most money. Why that's Somebody answer that question for me.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: I need an answer before the show expires.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: I'm with you, Vick. I think it is. It's what
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: I told you.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: I just don't think they're seen as a respected enough
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: organization for whatever reason.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Just want a championship.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you've never had the big name free agent
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: come here before. And I think if you do, you
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: become part of the kids.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: In the cool club. I think it changes. So wait
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: a minute. You realize that this almost feels like a
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: setup right now. It's a setup because I think Denver's
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: involved in the talks. I think if it would have
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: happened fast, I give Denver the great chance to land
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: to Lebron. The fact that this is gonna get be
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: played out, and who knows how long it's gonna take.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: The more days go by, the less inclined, I think
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: it's gonna he's going to be to come here. Oh
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: my mind's gonna be talked out of it. The first
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: thing that hit me when.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: I saw the whiteboard is there's at least two and
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: maybe three teams that are being strung along in this
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: for whatever reason like that have virtually no shot landing here.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: And I do think that Denver's one of those teams.
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: I do too.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: I just feel like, again, we're just cannon fodder for
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: his decision.
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: But let me go back. Who thinks that Denver.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: Colorado was a dusty old calatown and was hoping that
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: of its wouldn't get to the final because he didn't
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: want to come here? Steven, Ah, you think Lebron coming
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: to Denver's gonna change his perception about Denver, Colorado.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's gonna change. It's gonna change. You know
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: why most see most you're not thinking ahead. You're right,
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: I'm not by Lebron being here. The camera's going to
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: be here, the attention is going to be here, the
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: microscope's going to be here. People are going to find
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: new things about Denver that they never knew before. We
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: know it, we know, but I'm talking about people outside
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: of Denver. He's going to bring a huge microscope to Denver, Colorado.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: I also saw.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: I also saw that he's what filming a television program
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: this year, right that too, whether it's a it's a
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: what do.
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: You call it?
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Documentary? Docuseries? Yeah, but yeah, I guess a docu series.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: But it's it's gonna take you through the course of
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: the seasons. The camera's gonna be everything.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: A full swing quarterback.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: I want to read of this. You may be correct,
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: but let me say I'll believe it when I see it.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: Otherwise I'm not going to believe it.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: I want to know why the Denver Nuggets, among the
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: other teams that share a spot in our city, why
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: the other teams can attract free agents and then Nuggets cannot.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: And I have yet to hear a reasonable response from
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: anybody I keep hearing here from the text line. What
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: about Ellen Iverson? He wasn't a free agent.
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: Trade, it was a trade.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: That was a trade. He basically forced Alan Iverson to
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: come here. Basically it was a trade. I'm just I
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: need to know why is my respect thing? Not a
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: reasonable answer? But you know what, Dion did the same
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: thing for Boulder. Never thought it was possible that Boulder
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: could get Dion Sanders. It happened.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: It happened in Boulder, indeed, and that became a cool
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: place to people. Lil Wayne was doing rap concerts there.
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: Only for Coach Prime.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: When Prime's gone, you think of Little Wayne's showing back
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: up and being a Buffalo fan.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: No, you don't think. You don't think he opened up
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: some some floodgates for for Seu. You don't think he
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: gave people a little lesson on what CU boulders about.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Maybe left now.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: Every little bit helps vic. I just don't know if
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: it's enough to turn the tide once they're gone.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: So so why are hockey players coming here?
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: Because they have a chance to win. You got a
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: chance to play with McKinnon and mccarr and you have.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: A chance to win with yo kitchen Murray.
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: Uh agreed. I don't know.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: You keep saying that, and you're not giving me a
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: valid reason.
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: I don't know what reason you're looking for. I've I've
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: just laid it out for you. The NBA free agents, dude,
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: they are They are pulled to gigantic markets New York, Miami, Boston, Philly,
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: l A.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: That that's that's where their bread is buttered.
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: That's where the nightlife is.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: That's where the biggest.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: Chunk of of of sponsorship money is that's where you
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: can be glamorous and all read this, and because these
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: guys have big egos, all of that figures into it.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Are you saying that hockey the NBA players are more
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: egotistical than other other athletes.
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: I'm saying that.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: Those that like the attention, those that like the attention,
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: that's where they want to be.
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: I'll read it.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Not everybody, but that that's where they want to be
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: eight five six three. Basketball players are not into mountains.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: Veil is not appealing to them. It's for hockey players
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: and football players. Well, val was appealing to Kobe Bryant,
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: that's for sure. I can tell you this the mountains.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: I'm not a big mountain guy. You know my take
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: on the mountains. Not big into the mountains. You think
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: there are a bunch of Bronco players that can't wait
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: to go to the mountains. You think that's the Are
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: you crazy the mountains? I just you know, when it
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: comes to let me ask you this question.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: After the Nuggets won their championship in twenty twenty three,
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Let's say they entered free agency and they had a
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: boatload of money to spend some out which is not
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: how championship teams can do it. But Vic, let's just
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: say they had they had a max contract roster spot available.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Do you think they would have landed somebody that was
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: worthy of that contract in the free agency had they
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: had the opportunity.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: I don't know. That's why I'm asking the question about
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: That's why I'm asking the question about why won't free
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: agents come here? Stu says. The major difference is organizations
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: Broncs an Avalanche have a pedigree of winning and being
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: top dogs. The Nuggets have won one championship in the history.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Same goes for the Rockies. That's why free agents don't
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: necessarily want to come here. History does matter, Stu. When
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: the Avs won one championship, right, they had that thing
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: going that. The advantage of the Avs had is that
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: there was no salary cap back then, and you can
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: name their price. You can buy whatever you want. And
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: that's what they did, and that's what they did in
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: the late nineties two thousands. That's what there was no
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: salary cap about whoever they wanted about. It didn't always
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: do with.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: The city, if it didn't always work, and they didn't
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: necessarily buy guys. I mean Pierre Laquavvic made a lot
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: of really awesome trades too, guys wanted to stay.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Bottom line is, I'll tell you this the I think
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: the Nuggets are acting like a team that believes they
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: got a shot at Lebron. And here's why. Do I
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: see the report from Mark Stein over the weekend that
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: the Nuggets have rebuffed several trades for Cam Johnson.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Yes, why would they do that?
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: If if Cam Johnson is the one guy you want
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: to offload to stay below the aprons that if you
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: signed Peyton Watson, you're still not in that that death
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: salary cap area area, why would they do it? My
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: only conclusion to that is it's one of two things.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: One they don't think they're gonna be able to keep
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Peyton Watson for whatever reason when they have the rights
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: to them, so that doesn't make sense. Or two they
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: think Lebron might come here on a minimum contract something
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: like that.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: I just maybe I just think the longer this plays out,
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: the more difficult it becomes. The Nuggets have four roster spots,
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: four not one, not to four roster spots that they're
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: currently juggling that they have to figure out. And I've
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: been reading a lot of stuff too. How the Lakers
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: suddenly might have interest in Yonas. Valanciunas is a backup
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: big to Walker Kessler. Yeah, and I'm thinking about it.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: I'm saying, how could they make that happen? Well, think
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: about this for a second. The assumption is Yonas is
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: going to go back to Europe. He has a team
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: option contract nine million dollars. There's a bonus in there
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: of two million, which he's owled. No matter what, what
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: if the Lakers could possibly convince Yonas to stick around,
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: they trade for him, adopt that contract, pay him that money,
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: and the Nuggets actually get something in return for Yonas
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: rather than letting them walk, they actually get a player
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: or picks. Yeah, because they don't have to make the
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: Yonah's decision until July ninth. What's the date today, Uh,
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: it's like sixth Okay, they have three days to make
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: the Yonah's decision to cut them, wave them, trade them
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: one of those things. They're not keeping them. They're not
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: keeping Yonis fell On Chewnis on this roster right. So
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: there are a lot of things at play, and there
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: are so many things at play. The longer this goes on,
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: with the lebron whiteboard. The more difficult it gets, it's
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: a bang or bust here right now. So you're saying
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: trade yonas for Bronni. Hey, I'm just saying there's a
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: lot of things going on here.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Bro listen to this, just real quick, mos. Speaking of
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: the Lakers. You know where the Lakers are at, where
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: they sit right now. They have no tradable first round
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: picks over the next seven seasons. Seven and they are
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: committed to four hundred and seventy five million dollars to
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: just Luca, Austin Reeves and Walker Kestler.
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: How about that?
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: No tradable first round picks for seven years and four
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: hundred and seventy five million to that trio of players.
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: Amazing.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: It doesn't look great on paper. Maybe I'm wrong, you
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: get you?
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: Do you guys want to talk to a Belgian or not?
• 32:24
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• 32:26
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• 32:28
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• 32:31
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• 32:34
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• 32:34
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  Speaker 6: Larry, go let me welcome in.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: Our buddy Robbie Meers all the way from Belgium works
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  Speaker 4: with my buddy Donnie Edwards with the Best Defense Foundation.
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  Speaker 6: Is friends with.
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  Speaker 4: My good buddy Ralph Peters, whom we've talked to on
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  Speaker 4: this program before.
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  Speaker 3: Or how good buddies do you have.
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  Speaker 4: I've got a lot of European good buddies, including Ralph
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  Speaker 4: and nol Robbie who uh, they're in the same kind
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  Speaker 4: of work that that I've done in the past with veterans.
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  Speaker 6: Robbie, good to see you. How are you, buddy, I'm
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: doing very good. Are you doing good? Uh?
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  Speaker 4: Let me apologize and advance here for my two co
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: hosts who are fired up today. They want a piece
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  Speaker 4: of your butt, So go ahead, guys, let him have it.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Robbie, I mean, I'll start it with this, what's
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: your problem?
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  Speaker 5: I don't have any problem?
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  Speaker 3: Why? What's what? The statements and all this credit statements
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: about red cards, so many statements like I don't know
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  Speaker 3: the guys saying just play. What's your problem?
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: Well, and according to me it was a clear red card.
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  Speaker 6: Well then yeah, yeah, okay, well then you're wrong.
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  Speaker 4: Now now it's pretty against one, Robbie, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 6: Now it's three.
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  Speaker 4: Now it's three against one.
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  Speaker 5: According to most of the world it was the right card.
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  Speaker 2: Now, well, you know what, Uh sucks for you. I
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: don't know what to tell you, Like, you could write
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  Speaker 2: all the letters that you want.
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  Speaker 3: To and I get it. I said this earlier.
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  Speaker 2: Any Belgian fan that is upset with Baligan being able
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: to play and reversing that call twenty four hours before
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  Speaker 2: a game, I think, yeah, you have every right to
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  Speaker 2: be pissed. And at the same time, enough he's gonna play.
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  Speaker 2: Stop writing letters.
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  Speaker 3: It's over.
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  Speaker 8: Fair enough, fair enough, But Ali, we didn't have We
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  Speaker 8: didn't have to write a letter to get him into playing. Luckily, okay,
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  Speaker 8: we didn't have to write a letter for our players
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  Speaker 8: to get back into play.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: True, you didn't have to write a letter. But you
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: barely got into this round. You know that they haven't
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: been playing well of late Belgium for whatever reason. Uh.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: They barely squeaked by Senegal. The game was over with
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: very seven minutes left, so what what is wrong with Belgia?
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: Why aren't they playing up the standards and why can
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: they be defeated? Because I see holes in that game.
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  Speaker 9: Our golden generation is long gone, but we still keep
• 35:13
  Speaker 9: playing with players from the golden generation like Lukaku and
• 35:16
  Speaker 9: Kevin de broy And and Kurt trust still there, but
• 35:19
  Speaker 9: trust urtois is still very good. I think we lack
• 35:23
  Speaker 9: new talent other than Golku. We don't really have any
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  Speaker 9: bird class young players in our team, which is too bad.
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  Speaker 9: And I think all our players are very well independently,
• 35:36
  Speaker 9: but I think they have difficulty.
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  Speaker 5: It doesn't seem to work that. It doesn't seem like
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: they're very well in playing with each other.
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  Speaker 4: Robbie, what time is the game? I guess it'll be
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: this morning? Your time?
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  Speaker 3: Is it?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 6: Three am? Belgium? Is that what it is?
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  Speaker 5: For me? It will be two am, two am.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, So what's the plan here?
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  Speaker 4: Are you going to get together with all your people
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  Speaker 4: and all gather around and take a nap and then
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: get up and watch this game? What what's it gonna
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: be like in Belgium?
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  Speaker 5: That's the plan?
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  Speaker 9: I think most people will set the warm at a
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  Speaker 9: little before two am will get up, especially for the game.
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  Speaker 5: But there we also have all over the country.
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  Speaker 9: There's a whole bunch of big screens, big screens outside
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  Speaker 9: and pounds will come together to watch the game and
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  Speaker 9: all types of types of things because this will be
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  Speaker 9: a very important game for us.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody will be drinking at two am, though, will they?
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: Nobody will be having any drinks whatsoever.
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  Speaker 8: How We're still in Belgium, so I think it's it's
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  Speaker 8: quite possible, quite a.
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  Speaker 3: Few Why does the world hate us all of a sudden?
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  Speaker 3: What's up with? Why are we hated? What's going on now?
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  Speaker 5: I don't think you hate it.
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  Speaker 9: I think it's just the whole red card incident that
• 36:53
  Speaker 9: the world is starting against a little bit more now.
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  Speaker 5: But I don't think you're hit that hated. We take
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  Speaker 5: it to us. It looks like you're being.
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  Speaker 2: Favored, okay, yeah, every other country US.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're like every other country has been favored at
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: some point or another by FIFA during the history of
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: this game game.
• 37:18
  Speaker 9: I don't think Belgium has ever been favored before Belgium.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know what language you guys, do you
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  Speaker 2: think if this happened to MESSI would they have done
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: the same thing for MESSI do you think, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So so here's where I want to ask you, is like.
• 37:35
  Speaker 8: A different mass, is different type of thing.
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  Speaker 3: You know what you so is the US because you
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: know full well, if the US gets good at this sport,
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: like really good, it's over. And that's what the rest
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: of the world fears. That's at the heart. Your heart's
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: beating very fast right now, because you know, if the
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: US gets good at soccer, just turn in your cards
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  Speaker 3: and let's end it. It's over. You know that, you
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: know that deep down.
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: Why why isn't you as good at soccer as of
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  Speaker 5: right now? Then? I think you've had plenty of time
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  Speaker 5: to get good at it. How long? How long has that?
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  Speaker 4: How long we have football, we have baseball, we have hockey,
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  Speaker 4: we have basketball.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's only been two hundred and fifty years.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: I mean in the grand game, give.
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: Us give us a little time here, Robbie.
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: Fair enough, fair enough, fair enough. Belgium hasn't been playing
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  Speaker 5: soccer for longer.
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  Speaker 2: Have a legitimate question here. The US has always been
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: seen as sort of a patsy in these things. They
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: can be eliminated really quick. In all of that and
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: even when they beat Paraguay in the first game four
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  Speaker 2: to one, it was like, oh, Paraguay stinks. Turns out
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  Speaker 2: Paraguay wasn't that bad. He took a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: to the to the limit, including France. So what is
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: your rd on on the US? You think they're a
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: legitimately good team?
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  Speaker 5: Now I have improved past Belgium.
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  Speaker 9: I don't think you would win to either Spain or
• 39:05
  Speaker 9: or Portugal, but I think you have improved. Yes, okay
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  Speaker 9: you're not You're not world level yet, but you have
• 39:09
  Speaker 9: definitely improved.
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  Speaker 6: Robbie.
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  Speaker 4: Last thing for you, has it do you know anybody
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  Speaker 4: that's come over here to America to watch Belgium in
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: the World Cup.
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  Speaker 6: Do you have any close friends who have traveled over here.
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: The dad of a friend of mine has traveled over
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  Speaker 5: here to watch the game.
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  Speaker 6: And what was his reaction.
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  Speaker 8: All for the eighty He was quite happy that he
• 39:39
  Speaker 8: went to the first eighteen minutes.
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  Speaker 5: He was quite Uh.
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: I think, Robbie, he's somewhere he's buried.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: Similar to face, rob what language do you guys speak?
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: What do you speak? I think I think we lost
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  Speaker 3: I think we lost it.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Robbi Mere, Robbie Meres, thank you very much for coming
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  Speaker 4: on the program.
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  Speaker 6: You wanted a Belgian, I got.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: You a Belgian. The first guess you've gotten in the
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: long term job. Mostr What language do they speak? Is
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: it French?
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  Speaker 5: Is it?
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: What is it? It depends on kind of where you are.
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  Speaker 3: So he speaks great English. Hey, the one thing that
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: they've got going over there in Europe that we can't
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: seem to maintain. They all speak multiple languages English.
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  Speaker 2: Three official languages in Belgium that's Dutch, French and German.
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  Speaker 6: That is correct.
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  Speaker 4: So he's down he's down by, he's down by the
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: Netherlands part, so he's on the south or Robbie is
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: is like southeast by my buddy Ralph who's in the Netherlands.
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: Victor's a finger that comes down between Germany and Belgium
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: Belgium and it's the Netherlands. So mostly there is like
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: Dutch and German.
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  Speaker 2: So sixty sixty percent speak Dutch. That's usually the north.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: The south region primarily speak French. That's about forty percent.
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  Speaker 6: Well that's on the that's on the west side.
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  Speaker 3: People speak German.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's very.
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  Speaker 3: Small, but obviously most of them all speak English, A
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  Speaker 3: lot of them do.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he works with you know Donnie Edwards's former NFL
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: line background. Yeah, okay, No, Donnie and his wife very well.
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: They are They run the best defense foundation, so they
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: do what what we used to do as well, and
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: and they're doing a great job.
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  Speaker 6: We've obviously pivoted to the to the.
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  Speaker 3: Robbie seems like a fine young man.
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  Speaker 2: He was way too nice to I didn't want to
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  Speaker 2: go after him.
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  Speaker 3: It's too nice. He's too nice of a guy.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: Now, I will say this, when he said that the
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: rest of the world doesn't hate you, they hate that you.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's saying what we were saying, that you
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: put your thumb on the scale to get balliging back
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  Speaker 2: in this game. And to me, don't care, don't care.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: It's it's so funny, you're so right about that. We
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: have watched from Afar right well, you know, watching your
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: little games, and we've seen FIFA, the corruption of FIFA.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: Hell Cutter got an entire World Cup through corruption. We've
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: seen corruption for years, and all of a sudden we
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: partake in the corruption and now we're the bad guys.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: Do you think this would have happened if we weren't hosting,
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: if this was like in London.
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I you know, listen, deep down, I think everybody
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: understands the value of having the USA top notch, having
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: the USA still with the pulse. The other two host
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: countries got knocked out. Mexico's out, Canada is out. Nobody
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: really cares about Canada. Let's be totally honest here. Nobody cares.
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, are we being honest or not cool?
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: Carl?
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: You mean nobody cares? In what about?
• 42:32
  Speaker 6: What?
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: Like about Oh, Canada's that's going to carry the soccer
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: culture for North America. No, nobody cares. Now Mexico people
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: care about That's that's that's still a very that that
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: country and its soccer history.
• 42:47
  Speaker 6: That was a huge, huge game list Hey man, Apparently.
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: Apparently Mexico was not a very pleasant host at least
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: that's the reactions that I've been seeing online.
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: Is that I thought was going to break out last night.
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: The Ecuadorians are like, get bent Mexican, Like, you know,
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: apparently there's a real different vibe down there that like
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: it's not a rivalry, it's like real and it's mean.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'll tell you this much I know that
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: Canada was complaining that it's like they they're a host country,
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: but they couldn't host anything past the group stage. And
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: I'm like, well, when your group go win your group
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: and then maybe you have an argument for it, but
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: you didn't.
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: I tell you what. All credit to England though, to
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: go into Asteca where it's almost impossible to win, to
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: do it on that stage, and to do it with
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: a man down. Are you kidding me? That was a
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: phenomenal performance by England last night. Those two goals in
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: two minutes were tremendous. They kept their composure, They played
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: the bulk of the second half down a man, just
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: trying to play team defense, and they did a great job.
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: That was dude, Mexico.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: Was out for blood, you know, It's funny to me,
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: and they.
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: Were so they were so close to tying that game up.
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: I mean so close.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: Every time they talk about as Teca, they pretend as
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: if this thing is halfway to the moon.
• 44:14
  Speaker 6: Altitude wise, it's higher than Denver.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: It is. It's seven thousand feet.
• 44:20
  Speaker 6: That's that's that's up there, eighteen hundred feet higher than us.
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: But it's always can't do anything here, can't breathe. Who
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: were you pulling for last night, Mexico or England. I
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: wanted Mexico.
• 44:37
  Speaker 6: You did neither one thing.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: I saw people talking about this. I wanted Mexico to win,
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: and there was like old school, not old school, but
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: you're purest us men's national team fans that were like,
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: if you don't root for England, then you don't understand
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: the history.
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: Of our rivalry. I was like, I wanted Mexico to win. Yeah,
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: and see here's how I here's how I looked at it.
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: I wanted Mexico to win that particular game, but then
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: I want Mexico to lose every other game. See how
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: easy that is? True? See how I categorize that last night.
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: I want Mexico to win, but any other game Mexico plays,
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: I want them to get slaughtered. It's pretty easy.
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: Well they're out now, it doesn't matter.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: I don't like how the English talk about us me.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: Neither that bothers me. Yeah, it's a hotty elite all
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: the things we're aspiring to do.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the way they talk about me is the way
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: I want to talk about I do talk about them,
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: but I.
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: But to be honest, to be honest, to be honest,
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: I want to take over their game. Like I've told
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: my cousins in Italy, I said, you guys are just
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: jealous because we were able to do something in America
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: you couldn't do. We beat We beat Bosnia a man down.
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: You couldn't do that.
• 45:49
  Speaker 6: We did.
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: So now we're taking over your game.
• 45:53
  Speaker 6: Eat it.
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: I want to say the same thing to England
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: Three oh three five four nine two five back after
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  Speaker 2: this