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Can't forget about Napoli in the Scudetto race - Ep. 301 Ft. Raffa from Napoli Rant · The Calcio Guys

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  Speaker 1: Episode three oh one of the Couch of Guys with
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  Speaker 1: the guest number one all time leader and guest appearance
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  Speaker 1: here on the Couture Guys was seven seventh appearance over
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  Speaker 1: the span of six years. Rafa Rispo from the Napoli
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  Speaker 1: Rant Rafa, I was awing my.
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  Speaker 2: Men, guys. It's it's great. I'm honored to know that
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  Speaker 2: I am the all time leading CAPS appearance holder. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and I beat out some names for that too. That's good.
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  Speaker 2: And I actually can't believe it's seven times six years.
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  Speaker 1: You're not captied to the culture, guys, dating back to
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  Speaker 1: June twenty twenty, so it's a long time. Six years.
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  Speaker 1: We've all grown since you still have you still have
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  Speaker 1: the same lushes, hair lushes, beard though. So everything's good.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much, thank you. I appreciate it, you guys.
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  Speaker 2: You guys look amazing too, and you guys do a
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  Speaker 2: fantastic job. And congratulations on three hundred. That's a that's
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  Speaker 2: a mile star. It's a great milestone.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, pretty soon, you guys will be more caps,
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  Speaker 2: more more caps, more podcast episodes than than than I've done.
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  Speaker 2: I think, I think all together with Sam pre Far
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  Speaker 2: from Vesuvius and and the rant. I think I'm up
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  Speaker 2: to like three forty or three fifty, but a lot
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  Speaker 2: of pauses between, a lot of pauses in between. But
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  Speaker 2: it's all good man. Yeah, you guys are killing it
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  Speaker 2: and I'm happy for you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate it. Thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, yeah, you could follow us on all your
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  Speaker 1: favorite podcasting platforms social media at the couch of guys.
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  Speaker 1: So no Johnny tonight, it is just me and Adriano
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know, one of the reasons we wanted
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  Speaker 1: to bring Wrath on this week. You had the pleasure
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  Speaker 1: of going to La A ten being the premiere of
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  Speaker 1: again the movie, the movie about Didnapolis Force Scudetto, and
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  Speaker 1: you got to talk to some pretty important people. Rafa,
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  Speaker 1: dealtis right here. Like when I saw this, Rafa, I
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  Speaker 1: was so happy for you. All the hard work you've
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  Speaker 1: put in as a as a podcaster, as a content
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  Speaker 1: creator to be able to go and interview the president.
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  Speaker 1: One thing I got to say watching this, man, you're
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  Speaker 1: so professional. You probably had to hold it in so much,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the big fan that you are. Yeah, tell
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  Speaker 1: us about that experience, how this came to be and
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  Speaker 1: what it was like to interview the president of your
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  Speaker 1: favorite team.
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  Speaker 2: Well, so how it came to be was, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember. If you guys all saw the the
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  Speaker 2: video of the interview from Sariah North America in conjunction
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  Speaker 2: with NAIAF.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you're you're you're clip there, Yeah, we saw it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So that was actually a monopoly actually decided to
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  Speaker 2: collaborate with that as well. So like I was on
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  Speaker 2: all three you know profiles and all that stuff, and
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  Speaker 2: it was actually that was released the day after my birthday,
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  Speaker 2: which was March seventeenth, so it was released on the eighteenth,
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  Speaker 2: the eighteenth. I was so busy at the shop here
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  Speaker 2: that I didn't have time. I didn't even know that
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  Speaker 2: the interview was out. Like I got a text from
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  Speaker 2: Marco Messina that I didn't read until like nine o'clock
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  Speaker 2: at night saying, hey check you know, check your Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: You're blowing up. And I'm like, well for what, And
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  Speaker 2: there was you know, and from that video, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in the midst of like looking at all the messages
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  Speaker 2: and I, you know, from you guys, from everybody else,
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  Speaker 2: just like you know, saying wow, this is great. Congratulus
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  Speaker 2: and that I stumbled upon a message from my buddy Quinton,
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  Speaker 2: who is involved with Cultronopotly Club USA with with myself
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  Speaker 2: and Biz and the rant too. He's got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of you know, he does a lot of behind the
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  Speaker 2: scenes help with the rant as well, saying and he
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  Speaker 2: he sent me test and he called me and he goes, hey, man,
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  Speaker 2: are you coming? And I'm like coming away. He goes
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  Speaker 2: A sixth Do you come into the sixth And I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: what are you talking about, budd And he goes l
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  Speaker 2: A Monopoly a d L and to be in LA.
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  Speaker 2: He's the and he told me about what was going
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  Speaker 2: on premiere and all that stuff, and I said, no,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't even hear about this. I had no idea.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And not long after this phone call where I was like,
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  Speaker 2: oh man, that would be so cool to go to
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  Speaker 2: Da Da Da, I get a message from Matthew Fuzer
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  Speaker 2: from l A Monopoly Club who said, hey, man, we're
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  Speaker 2: having this event. I don't know if you heard. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I want I want to you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: it's a VIP. It's like an exclusive vi P things.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have to like RSVP to it? And you
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  Speaker 2: got to tell me now if you're coming, And I'm like, whoa, whoa,
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  Speaker 2: hold on, you know, one wishes he could just swipe
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  Speaker 2: the card and fly out to La you know. But
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  Speaker 2: of course, so the next day I get a message
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  Speaker 2: from contact that I have at the City at North
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  Speaker 2: America office. His name is David Day. He's actually stationed
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  Speaker 2: in Italy, but he does like the the like he
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  Speaker 2: runs the social media, he runs like the kind of
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  Speaker 2: event planning sort of. He's kind of the bridge between
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  Speaker 2: the office in Manhattan and the office in Italy, so
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  Speaker 2: he's like the middleman, right. So he messages me and goes, hey,
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  Speaker 2: are you going to this event? And I said, I
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  Speaker 2: mean it's the most talked about event in the last
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  Speaker 2: twenty four hours, so I maybe I should try to
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  Speaker 2: get my ass over there, right, Yeah. He said, well,
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  Speaker 2: let's go, let's go, Let's do some let's do some content,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And I said, let's go. You know, we've
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  Speaker 2: done stuff before with him, you know, last year for
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  Speaker 2: the school for and in March against INTA and then
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  Speaker 2: and then I said to him, you know, and it's
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  Speaker 2: just a shot in the dark, right, I was like, Eh,
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  Speaker 2: shot in the dark. What if I tried to get
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  Speaker 2: credentials for press from Napoly and he said, I can
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  Speaker 2: absolutely help you with that. And I figured, you know,
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  Speaker 2: strike while the iron's hot. They just they know who
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  Speaker 2: I am now, They just they just collabed with me
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  Speaker 2: this and that. Let's see what I can get. If
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  Speaker 2: I can't get it, at least I'll be there for saidie. Ah,
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  Speaker 2: you know. So I made the arrangements and the Thursday
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  Speaker 2: before Easter, So the day before Good Friday, I get
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  Speaker 2: the email from Napoli saying, hey, just fill this out
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  Speaker 2: and you'll be credentialed to like come and and and
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  Speaker 2: you know, represent monopoly in English for press, which I
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  Speaker 2: already was like, oh my gosh, bucket list moment, right
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  Speaker 2: of course. So I fill out the form and you
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  Speaker 2: know it's it's it's Thursday and then Good Fridays. The
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  Speaker 2: next day. Didn't hear anything back. I messaged them with
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  Speaker 2: the form back saying, hey, here it is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and obviously is a plus one. So Quentin is coming
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  Speaker 2: with me, and I said, me and my guy are coming.
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  Speaker 2: Is there anything you guys need in particular, I'm just
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  Speaker 2: kinda gonna do my thing on North America, who also
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  Speaker 2: said hey, just go do your thing, you know, like,
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  Speaker 2: no instruction from us, just go do something. We trust you.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like that's great. But I'm now I'm
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  Speaker 2: dealing with Monopoly. So I'm like, Okay, well, maybe there's
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  Speaker 2: something they want they don't want. I don't know. Nothing back,
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  Speaker 2: nothing back Friday, nothing back Saturday. I didn't think I
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  Speaker 2: was gonna hear anything back from them at all. Sunday
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  Speaker 2: was Easter, So Monday morning, I'm just like, try and
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  Speaker 2: try and try, and like, what do you guys want?
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  Speaker 2: What do you guys want? And like, next thing you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. No direction, no preparation,
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  Speaker 2: no like, like I had no prep. The most prep
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  Speaker 2: I did for this interview was driving down to JFK Airport,
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  Speaker 2: envisioning myself next to AVL with a microphone and these
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  Speaker 2: questions a rose in my head. And as soon as
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  Speaker 2: I got on the plane, one of my phones broke.
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  Speaker 2: The main phone, my connection to Dobbydad, to Monopoly, to
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  Speaker 2: everybody broke. The screen is done. I had luckily I
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  Speaker 2: had a second phone, uh and but but I still
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  Speaker 2: didn't have any of that connection. So now I'm like
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  Speaker 2: in the plane. I forgot everything I had said to myself.
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  Speaker 2: I forgot everything I planned on down on the way
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  Speaker 2: to JFK. So what you saw me, ask abl was
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  Speaker 2: off the top of my head because I'm just telling
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  Speaker 2: you what. Then there was also issues getting in as
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  Speaker 2: press because no one had any idea of what I
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  Speaker 2: was doing that you know what I mean, Like, I know,
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  Speaker 2: you know Ratha Quinton said a monopoly, we're press credentialed,
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  Speaker 2: and like they were like, yeah, well, we're not letting
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  Speaker 2: anybody else in right now. And I'm like, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: you don't understand. I'm pressed. And they're like, yeah, now,
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  Speaker 2: we're not letting you in, and I'm like okay. So
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  Speaker 2: I get in and I'm just trying to find someone
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  Speaker 2: and say, yo, is somewhere from the club here, like
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  Speaker 2: is what's going on? It was disheveled, but at the
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  Speaker 2: same time everyone was just real chill, like yeah, man,
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  Speaker 2: just come in whatever, you know what I mean. And
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  Speaker 2: so like I was like, all right, so dude. The
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  Speaker 2: the thirty seconds before I shook ADL's hand to meet
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  Speaker 2: him before we start taping, I'm looking at Quinton, who
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  Speaker 2: also Dan Bowen and Phil from Philly and a couple
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  Speaker 2: other guys. Marco Messina, yeah, was standing right behind the
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  Speaker 2: camera and I turn around and I'm like, holy shit, guys,
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  Speaker 2: what am I gonna ask this guy? And Mark ooks
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  Speaker 2: Me goes, you don't know what you're gonna ask him?
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  Speaker 2: I said, no, I have no idea what I'm doing here.
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  Speaker 2: My gosh, I had a general idea, but like, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, I just didn't like, it didn't register. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh shit, I'm freaking out. I'm freaking out.
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  Speaker 2: And then it all just came together, like you know,
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  Speaker 2: breathe do it. And that's how I do things, man,
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  Speaker 2: Like that's how I got by school. Well, that's how
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  Speaker 2: I do things under pressure. When it's not written on
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  Speaker 2: a notes, you know, when it's not like when it's
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  Speaker 2: not like manuscripted. For me, is when I am fired
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  Speaker 2: and like, I don't know, I just did it. It's
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  Speaker 2: the first thing popped in my head, you know, well, Hollywood,
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  Speaker 2: Nopoly bah. And that's where the question came from. And
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: after that, me asking him about Co, he mentioned Conte,
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  Speaker 2: so I had to count the question. But like you know,
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  Speaker 2: after the fact, you think of all these other things
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  Speaker 2: you want to talk about. But then they're wrapping you
• 10:31
  Speaker 2: up on the other side because they're like, he's got
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: to make his rounds. And I'm like, all right, all right,
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  Speaker 2: you know, but yeah, I thought it was really uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a surreal moment, you know. Twenty twenty one
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  Speaker 2: years ago in five, I met this guy on the
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  Speaker 2: pitch at the Sampaolo. Uh it was it was a
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  Speaker 2: quick handshake and he had a phone call for some
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  Speaker 2: sort of movie and that was the extent of me
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  Speaker 2: meeting him. And that was a family like a family event.
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  Speaker 2: You know. My cousin worked for the groundskeepers that kept
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  Speaker 2: the grounds at the San Palo Maradona, and so she
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  Speaker 2: got us in and like, you know, we were just
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  Speaker 2: kind of met all the team in O five, so
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  Speaker 2: the City of Cheap team, you know, Eduardo, his son,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the coaches, all that stuff, the players, but
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  Speaker 2: they're adl like I never really got that chat with him.
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  Speaker 2: And then I was in the room with him again
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  Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen when they came to Michigan and I
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  Speaker 2: was there as press through Relevant, the company that runs
• 11:32
  Speaker 2: the you know, the the tour to North America. I
• 11:35
  Speaker 2: was in the same room as him, and I got
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: to ask questions to Ancelote and to Senior and that
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  Speaker 2: was great, but like there was never that like one
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  Speaker 2: on one. I think the most extent of me getting
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  Speaker 2: to talk to him was I yelled shouted at him,
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  Speaker 2: my president, my president. When he's getting in the car
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  Speaker 2: in Miami. Yeah to like to like to like drive
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: to the stadium for the game against Barcelona. There was
• 11:56
  Speaker 2: that other game that they played two games, but this
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  Speaker 2: was like, you know, this was something where like I
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: could smell his breath and I'll never forget how ADL smells,
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: you know, like like like to to be able to
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: say that dude smelled like my nun no when I
• 12:13
  Speaker 2: was like a teenager, and I'll never forget that. You
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  Speaker 2: never forget that. And he was just a d L
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  Speaker 2: was just so great man, like so great to all
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  Speaker 2: the fans that were there. He talked to everyone, like
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  Speaker 2: there were so many fans there, and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: there's no way he's going to get to everyone. This
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  Speaker 2: dude stood there and and people were lined up just
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  Speaker 2: to go say hi, take pictures, talk. They let he
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: let them tell his story. I got to tell him
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  Speaker 2: mine later on after the movie. What a what an
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  Speaker 2: amazing experience. Man, uh, and it all came together and
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  Speaker 2: so it's like it's so weird.
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  Speaker 3: So weird. Yeah, I listen, your storytelling is always always
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  Speaker 3: so great. We've had you want now set in times
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  Speaker 3: right including tonight, and every time you you bust out
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  Speaker 3: of the store, we know it's gonna be every single
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  Speaker 3: detail to the breath of ADL, right to the breath
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  Speaker 3: of ADL, nothing more, nothing less we expect from you, rapha.
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  Speaker 3: So listen, just hearing the story. We see a snapshot
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  Speaker 3: on social media, so obviously we're hyped, but just to
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  Speaker 3: get the maybe the behind the scenes details of the
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  Speaker 3: of the experience because nobody would know that, right, like
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: nobody would know the you know, the last minute, you know,
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  Speaker 3: are you coming? You have to be there, the press,
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  Speaker 3: the flight over. Listen, you know you're not you're not
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  Speaker 3: a hop skipping a jump away, but you know you're
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  Speaker 3: not far either, right being from where you are. So
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  Speaker 3: just honestly great experience on Easter wee like right after
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  Speaker 3: Easter weekend too. It's just a crazy thing because you know,
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  Speaker 3: as Italians, you know Easter weekends is another big holiday.
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  Speaker 3: So just it seemed to be it seemed to be
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  Speaker 3: amazing how was just bouncing off to all that and
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  Speaker 3: the interview and we know you we saw you speak
• 13:57
  Speaker 3: to obviously Marco Messina on the Blue Carpet as well. Well.
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  Speaker 3: How was the film? How was it perceived? Like what
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  Speaker 3: was what was the buzz? And like also another maybe
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  Speaker 3: a second part of that question, how did it become?
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  Speaker 3: Like how did it? Do you know how it came
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  Speaker 3: to be that it got premiered when it did and
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  Speaker 3: and how that kind of all took place.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I honestly don't have all the information on how
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  Speaker 2: it became a thing. I mean, you know, he's he
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  Speaker 2: I think, I want to say through the l a
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  Speaker 2: Monopoly club which is run by Matthew Faruja, who is
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  Speaker 2: such such a gem of a human being, like he is,
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  Speaker 2: He's the nicest dude ever. And he he has a
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  Speaker 2: contact there who's got a contact with with a d L.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's Hollywood. He ADLs in the Hollywood you
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  Speaker 2: know scene right?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And and I want to say they they they
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  Speaker 2: they Well, first of all, yeah, I think finally is
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: realizing that, you know, he needs to pay a little
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  Speaker 2: more attention in America here. Uh. And I had a
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  Speaker 2: conversation with Matthew after all of this went down the movie,
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: the panel that they had afterwards, then you know a
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: few more few more words with ADL right after it's
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: sort of like private, like you know, off the record stuff,
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  Speaker 2: and Matthew, Matthew gave me a good indication that that
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  Speaker 2: ADL is working towards like like recognizing the fact that
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  Speaker 2: there's seven something million Monopoly fans in America and you know, uh,
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  Speaker 2: they can't be ignored. You know, like like a lot
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  Speaker 2: of times you see the club like members of of
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  Speaker 2: you know, you've went through sort of older players of
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: you me Lante coming over here and like recognizing club
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  Speaker 2: club you know, you know, events going to club events
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  Speaker 2: because those club events are sponsored by the clubs, actually
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  Speaker 2: sponsored by the clubs themselves, you know, and they have
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  Speaker 2: a connection with you and Milan and so on and so forth. Roma,
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  Speaker 2: but not believe they don't have that. So uh, I
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  Speaker 2: think this is the beginning of the realization of, you
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  Speaker 2: know what, we need to make this a regular thing.
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  Speaker 2: And I think just his connection in the film industry
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  Speaker 2: in Hollywood that kind of like helped it come together.
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  Speaker 2: And I and I also believe that him being a
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  Speaker 2: member of NIOFF, like the the National Italian American Foundation,
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  Speaker 2: the right people, because there's a there's also a couple
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  Speaker 2: of of of like council people in LA councilmen you know,
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  Speaker 2: and women that are Italian Americans that are in NIAF
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  Speaker 2: as well. So I think it all kind of came together,
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  Speaker 2: like they made they made a call to the LA mayor,
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  Speaker 2: Karen Bass, who decided, you know what, let's recognize this.
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  Speaker 2: Let's recognize him for his work in film and for
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: his you know, his soccer. Plus the World Cup is coming,
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: so they wanted a lot of press. It was covered
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  Speaker 2: by Vanity magazine, it was covered by Forbes, I want
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  Speaker 2: to say, and like a couple other like online news sources.
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  Speaker 2: But like like like yeah, it became a thing where
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  Speaker 2: like they decided to you know, recognizing his name and
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: who his uncle was. His uncle was Luis Luigi, No
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  Speaker 2: Luigi's son. Yeah, right, who's a big, big film guy,
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  Speaker 2: like bigger than him even. But you know, yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: want to say that that's what it was. It was
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: just a combination, a culmination of a bunch of things.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: That the movie was re re released in Italy already.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: I believe it's on it's on Netflix in Italy and
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: and I didn't get a confirmation, but I want to
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: say it's gonna come to Netflix in North America after
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: this premiere. You know, why why have a premiere in
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: LA and then just not make it available? You know
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: what I mean? It was, it was it was quite
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: the private screening. The movie was very you know, It's
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: just it was really just a documentary of the compilato
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: from last season, the winning discudetto you know, and a
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: d L being the film guy he is. He always
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: is filming. He's always got someone filming, filming, filming, even
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: when people don't want them to, don't or don't like it.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: But you know, he he's got his charm. He is
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: a charmer. Man. The guy is a charmer. You can
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: just tell the way he talks to people and looks
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: at them. He he charmed. He reminds me of my
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: freaking dad. Guys, like he knows how to talk, he knows,
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: he knows how to talk to people, he knows what
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: he's he's quick on on the in the answers, and
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: it might not be translated well, like he might be
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: one of those loss and translation type things where sometimes
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: you don't really. He says things like rewin when he
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: means win again. You know, he says he doesn't know
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: how to like articulate very well, but he gets the
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: point across and people understand him and he makes them understand.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: So it's like, oh awesome.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And his English, to be fair, was, you know,
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: it's pretty, it's pretty good, not bad? What it is?
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, not bad, not bad? Yeah.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Uh so let's move towards the pitch, Rafa. I don't
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: know if you had the chance to. I don't know
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: if you were back home Monday.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: No.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: So the premiere of the game. So here's another thing
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: that freaked me out. The premiere of the movie was
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: after the game. So the whole time, the whole time,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: for weeks, I'm going back and forth with Quinton, like
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: what if we lose this game and then have to
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: go to this premiere? Like what if?
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: And I said, the worst possible thing to do would
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: be to lose, and not just for us in the
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Company're not in this in the in the you know,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: in the in the in the standings, but but for
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: this event, like you know, so anyway, the game in LA,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: the match is not at forty five. It's at eleven
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: forty five am. And then so the the movie started
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: around like well, the event started. We had to be
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: there by four and the event started around like five
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: five thirty. But but but yeah, so we had the
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: match first and then the event. I was. I was
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: there from I traveled all day Easter Sunday, we were
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: there all day Monday, and then Tuesday morning I flew
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: back home. Uh uh. So I got to watch the
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: match at a place, a new place called silver Lake
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: United on Hyperion Boulevard in Los Angeles. And that's where
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: the La Napolis Club is going to be meeting from
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: now on. And he also this guy at this bar,
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: this pub, he's like a football nut like he so
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: so Quinton was coming from from Iceland because he was working,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: so he flew to New York, met me there, we
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: flew to La So at the club at the match,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: everyone was like, well, who flew the farthest? Who flew?
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: And Phil was like, I think it's me, but then
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: there's that's up in New York. And then I was like, na, guys,
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Quentin just came from Iceland and.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Everyone was.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: So so hm, but where was it going with that?
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: The point I'm trying to make it is we all
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: got together. Oh no, so the so the owner of
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: the pub took that as Quentin's Icelandic from there, lives
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: there or lives there or whatever, and he was like,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: oh man, we're ready. He goes, you're from Iceland, and
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Quentin's like, no, I'm from I'm from Virginia, but I
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: live in Atlanta and I work. And he was, oh,
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: I was, I was ready to start talking Icelandic football
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: with you. And I was like, what he is crazy?
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: He starts throwing off team names and like, like I
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: thought I was a nut. He's nuts. Like, so, you
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: know it's gonna be a good successful spot because he's
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: he's he's legitimately a cultural soccer football bar that his
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: things a big soccer ball outside on the facade, and
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: uh yeah, he's he opened up for us. It was
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: closed on Mondays, but he you know, because of this event,
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: he's like, you know what, I'm gonna open, which was
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: really sweet. Had had a few workers come in super
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: dope and that's where we watch the game over there.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: All that to say, give me your thoughts on the game.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: One nothing win goal from Politano. Nice set up play
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: from Alison and Mattelos Alveda on the goal, maybe some
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: bad defense from Melane definitely, so uh yeah, give us,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: give us your take on on the game. And then
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: obviously an important win, right big three points in the
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: you know battle Nounce Napoli.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: That's that's right, not right behind Inter.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: But it's no more talking about Melon fighting for the
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: second place in the race.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Now it's not police turn.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I fully agree with that. I think Milan
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: I have reached their limit and I think third is
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: going to be where they end up. I do feel
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: bad for me Lan because you know, they they really
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: had a great start to the year. They really had
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: a good good, a good go at it, you know,
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: And I don't know, I have the disappearance of of
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: of Layout and Polisic in twenty twenty six is is
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: mind blowing to me. But I didn't really have too
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: much of a doubt that not believe we're gonna come
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: away with this one, just because you know that when
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: we play the big teams were unstoppable and I don't
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: think we've lost at the Manadonna since December twenty twenty four.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: In Sadiyah, I think we only have one loss to
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Chelsea in the in the Champions League since so like,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: to me, it's just what it was. It was kind
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: of inevitable as far as the goal goes brilliant, no
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: look passed by Alison Santos, who I'm telling you. The
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: last podcast I recorded was with my kids. We recorded
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: an episode of the Ramp with the children, my rock
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: on and Paulie and Paulie did a little Yeah it
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: was fun, and Paulie did a little piece on Alison
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Santos because we had just signed him, and he is
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: like talking this guy up. Meanwhile Roco's like, we'll see
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: paul We'll see you know. And because you know, he
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: wasn't a huge name, he did things with Sporting. It
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: wasn't a lot, it was, you know, one I think
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: the biggest claim to fame for him at Sporting was
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: he scored the goal to get through to beat Real
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Madrid and get get or to get that second that
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: goal they needed to to qualify for the for the knockouts,
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: and then right right away he's gone a monopoly. So
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: it was one of those things where like like what
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: what are we getting here? Like what are we getting here?
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Like like you know, Paulie played with him on FIFA
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: or on twenty six and and and we don't know
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: what his real output's gonna be, but for the minute
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: he stepped on that pitch, he is like locked in.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: So I gotta say, man, class player, lots of lots
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: of skill. Oliveda is oliveda. He's gonna come through a lot.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: But what was that header by.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: The Winter?
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: The Winter? Oh my goodness, Like, where are you putting
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: that ball? That's like one o one, you know, like,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: don't like at least try to head it, like like
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: heading it behind you, not knowing what's happening across the
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: face the goal instead of instead of outword towards the
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: you know, further towards the box. I'm telling you, if
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: the Winter had headed it outward, if he could have,
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: it would have ended in nil nil.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: So yeah, at least it's not the worst defensive mistake
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: by a melon based defender in the past week.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, what what.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: What's happened? Yeah? But uh, I think it's interesting because
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: I think obviously the stakes of the game, Rafa you
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: probably agree with obviously very high. Obviously that was two
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: to three. It could have seesaw it either way. The
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: thing I would say is that because I think even
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Milan two, right, like, despite the struggles maybe you know
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: as of late or you know, the twenty twenty six
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: output of like you mentioned, you know, Poli, Seech and
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: Leal has been on and off against the big teams too.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: Melan is the kryptonite has been the smaller teams, right,
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: the lower lower level teams in the city. That's where
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: they've dropped, you know, the most points. And you know,
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: going into this game, I think both teams, both sides,
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: were pretty confident, not only for maybe I'll win, but
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: just some sort of a result. And as the game
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: went on, I think and I ti me being trying
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: to be sold or trying to be better or whatever.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: You know, the game was what it was. But you know,
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: I think after seeing how the game was, you know, progressing,
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: I think a draw would have been the fair result.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: I think, you know, it's one mistake, and I honestly
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: I don't. I think it was really a nothing game
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: until that point.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: If I'm honest, it wasn't. Yeah, you're right, You're right,
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: it wasn't it. I didn't miss much in the first half.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: That's what I was gonna get to you know, I
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: was I.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Was having trouble with my microphone. I was trying to
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: prep for later, you know, for the event, of course,
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: and I was having trouble with my microphone, so most
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: of the first half because I was also going to
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: try to get some interviews at halftime and like, you know,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: interview the owner of the bar, which I got to,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: but to do that, I needed my mic. So my
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: mic was giving me problems with my phone. And I
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: spent most of the first half fixing this microphone, not
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: really paying too much attention to it. But then I
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: went when I got home last night and I watched
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: it again, I realized I didn't miss anything. I missed
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: nothing in the first half at all. Like, so most
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: of the second half was the similar. I mean, there
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: were a few closer calls, would not be a couple
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: more chances. Milan had a few chances, but nothing too dangerous,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: nothing too crazy, right, Yeah, one Spinut Sola shot that
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: like like came this closer.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah the shot, Yeah, it.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Wasn't It wasn't much of a game. And then you know, Paulitano,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: who's done almost nothing off season as well, now has
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: two goals in like three matches, so he could.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: Have scored that last week. Maybe would be singing a
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: different too and a raf right now. But joking aside,
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: he's he always seems to score against me. Line, it
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: seems to be. I think it's just like either fifth six,
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: seven something of that goal against me one you know,
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: in recent in recent times. So I guess if it
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: had to be anybody, who's going to be him. But again,
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: this game came down to one mistake, one chance, and
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: you know, he happened to be the right place right time.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Again the the defending from the winter, I think, like
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: you said, Rafa, you know, put that anywhere else, we're
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: probably singing a different tune tonight. Bartsaki gets unfortunately caught
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: you know, a bit ball watching, doesn't really know what's
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: behind him either. With again is it you know, sucks
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: to see because you know he's he's a young Italian
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: talent and and and I really like to his progression
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: this season. So that was unfortunate. But again that's what
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: it took. Like you said, the first half was nothing,
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: there was a few chances. I think if Pavlovich gets
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: on his chance and off the off, the off, the corner,
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: the header that he had that can potentially go in.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: We saw just before the international break he has a
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: crazy goal in his locker right, scoring from far from
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: far range there. So you know, I think in who
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: could have been better on on his small opportunity that
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: he had in the first half. So it became one
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: of this game, one of these types of games that
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: was really like who was going to make that first mistake,
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: Who's gonna blink first? And unfortunately for me on fans
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: and myself, you know, it was on me one's behalf
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: and you know not we jumps jumps into second. Again,
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: I think that that fight will go until the end.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's it's it's it's locked up. It's
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: only a two point gap. And again, anything can happen
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: from now to the to the end of the season.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: It's seven finals, Rafa, it's seven finals from now until
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: the final match day. We're going to go on matchually
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: thirty two after this week, so listen at the end
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: of the day. And again we'll probably bleed this into
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: the question now. But you know, I think I again,
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: we hadn't spoken in a while, so I don't know
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: what your thoughts were a couple of weeks ago when
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: the gap was a bit bigger and a bit larger
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: from from Inter, not only from my perspective for Melan,
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: but your perspective for Napoli, because a lot of people
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: were saying, you know, the school that too was pretty
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: much wrapped up right it was Inter's you know, when
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: it was what ten to thirteen points clear that they
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: were at whatever it was. Now that it's closer, and
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: now that you're in that seed of six points behind
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: where Melon was a week ago, is there a glimmer
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: of hope? Because if I speak to my uncle Franco,
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: who who's a Knapoi? Find him? He's like, who's wing
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: to school that? Until? So I want to hear what
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: you have to say, Rafa, Is there that glimmer of
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: hop on your end? Or is it really just sters
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: to lose with his last seven games left in the company?
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Not well regardless of Set's lose, But I definitely would
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: have liked for Roma to have gotten something out of
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: the game.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, of course.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: But however, I'm gonna stay optimistic because that's just what
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: I do. Right at this point, it's like a gimmick
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: at this point, right, I optimistic rapa, you know, of course,
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: but I don't know man like it is, it's it's
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: gonna be tough. We're definitely gonna be in it. But
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: but to think about Nopoly finishing the season, because right
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: now we're five games straight with with winning, say a
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: right to finish with twelve is asking a lot, especially
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: since we have to play Como. I think that's really
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: the only tough team. But all again are tough, right, Like, yeah,
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: so we say we say, you know, so we played
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: POTTERMA next, who knows what Potter is gonna get from us?
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? And in the play Como next,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: so who knows what's gonna happen there? So so I
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: wouldn't say anything is locked for sure. Uh, but I
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: do think it's interest to lose. But to answer your
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: question about a couple of weeks ago, not only we're
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: fourteen points behind in there, uh four match days ago,
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: and I started to see like kind of the riding
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: on the wall with Inter slipping up a little bit
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: and Napolice players coming back the moment we gained points
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: on Inter to go to negative negative eleven. I started
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: posting on the story every time we we gained points
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: on on in there or every week from there, I
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: would go negative eleven, negative negative nine, negat eight, said
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean, like like like that would
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: be my story and people would inbox me, flood my
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: inbox saying you're crazy, it's over, it's over. But no,
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: I had and I would hashtag io io io, eo,
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: credo and quota right like like like I still believe,
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: of course I I I can't say that I saw
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: it coming, but at but at the same time, I
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: kind of did, you know, like like the writing was
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: on the wall when it came to Nopoli getting all
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: their players back Conte one match a week, you know,
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: grinding it out, the fact that Conte has never finished
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: lower than second place, and said, ah, I just it
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: just is like everything coming together at at at the
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: same time, Like at the end, right, Lotado Martinez coming
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: back though, is the humongous because they were sorely missing him,
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: and the first game he comes back, they dropped Ivan Roma,
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: the best defense in like yeah, and all of a sudden,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Bardela wants to play. All of a sudden, you know,
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Charlonovlo's back scoring like it just looked like they were back.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: They looked like they were back. But at the same time,
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: it's going to come to the players from ind versus
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: the full squad of Monopoly. Because if you're gonna ask
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: me who's gonna outmanage, it's Conte Conte. Conte is gonna
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: out manage Kivu ten times out of ten until Kivu
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: gets more experience. And if it comes to that, if
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: it comes to a couple of guys, because you know,
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: dela and said, you know in in In the rest
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: of the interview too, he said, you know, we have
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: more players coming back, so anything is possible. We had
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: players come back, but now we still have four guys out,
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: but they'll be back soon. David Nandez will be back soon.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: God is gonna come back before the end of the season.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: You know we got Hoyland. Was that we beat We
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: beat Milan with it. Without Hoyland, He's gonna play you know,
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: luck who knows what's going on?
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: And and and that was one question I I I
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: bit my tongue for Thank god they wrapped me up
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: because I was like, how's Luca.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's that's it, but.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: No, so so you never know, man, I like It's
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: hard to say because because in the past, like this
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: big of a lead is a lock, right, But I
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: don't know, man, I don't know. I never say never,
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: never say never. I will say if in the beat Como,
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: it's gonna be very very very difficult, but we'll see.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: And in terms of the overall season, so obviously they
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: won the super Copa but O in the Champions League,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: in the knockout Fees quarterfinals for cop Italia. I know
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: that there's been the injuries.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: I know it's been tough.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I know you're coming off to the Scuto season, so
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: you can't complain too much. But I know you want
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: to remain optimist as well. But a part of you
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: kind of look at this and say, this is maybe
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: a disappointing season in a way. Maybe not necessarily a
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: failed season, but part of it is disappointing to not
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: get that Cope Italia or or go further in the
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Champions League.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Maybe personally I would have liked to have gone out
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: of the league phase of the Champions League, right, Copalia,
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, we should be winning that thing every year,
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: like like you know, I don't know how, I don't
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: know how, Like Knopoly Milan. Don't win that thing every
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: single year, you know. Yeah, But but I gotta say, man,
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: like disappointing maybe, but not not a failure like you said,
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: and also not as disappointing as I as I guys,
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: we're coming when we want to screw that in twenty three.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: The next season was an order of a shit show. Yeah,
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: So when you want to compare the to the two
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: defenses of the title, right, like, we might not defend
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: the title this season, meaning win it again, right of course,
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: but but we put a freaking much better fight together, man.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: And I'm telling you right now, if you give give
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: us half of those knock half those injuries off the list,
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: there's a much different story if we had a Luca,
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: if we had Lukaku back earlier, and if we had
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: uh you know, uh, you know, not that huge netis injury.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: I don't think that we're like in second man. I
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: think we're fighting with ink debt. And I'm not saying
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: we're in first thing gonna win, but we're definitely fighting.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: We're definitely we're definitely like closer, but we're fighting now too.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: So like the attitude, that's the thing is that the
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: attitude in the fan base. I want to say fanbas
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: I mean like like the cour of you know, the
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: people in Naples. There's gonna be some online people who
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: are like, you know, in the quarterfinal the cup out
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: in the league phase, Yeah, what do we do? Blah
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: blah blah, and and and you know there was some
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: there were a few comments on the posts of the
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: interviews saying things like, you know, responding to people saying
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: you know Grande president there or you know that's my
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: guy saying yeah, that's your guy, but you know he
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: failed to this and that, and I'm like, fail to what? Man?
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: We won two scoot at the three seasons and were
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: we may be keeping like like like by now Conte
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: is out of favor with the teams and and and
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: and packing his bags in other teams, and he's actually
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: thinking it's like okay, either I'm gonna stay here, I'm
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: gonna take the national team with ADL's blessing. So it's like,
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: you know, there's a much different thing going on here
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: than than it ever did with Conte. So that so
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: everybody is like, like like most Snopoly fans, I think
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: we'll look at this and be like, you know what
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: it was pretty successful. It was fun, it was we
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: were still we were never completely out of it, even
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: when we thought we were, we were never completely out
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: of it. So win the scud though this year would
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: be the bonus obviously. But if we don't, we're back
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: in the Champions League. You know, Conte is either gonna
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: stay or we may get someone you know, younger with
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: fresher ideas with all these fresh players, like like, think
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: about it, right, next season could look like, you know,
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: it could look like Santos, Ornettis, Vegata or Politano with
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Hoyland in the front. That's that's promising. It's promising. And
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: and de Bruyne is gonna stay, and Atomine's still there
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: and on Gisa and you know, it's a it's a
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: it's a beautiful team. I think what we need to
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: do is figure out our like physio staff and see
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: what's going on. And I also think that the training
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: facility thing has to has to happen. That was another
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: question I wanted to get to him about, but I
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: didn't have that much time. Hopefully Marco Masina got to
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: ask him those things and when that comes out we
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: can see. But I don't know, man, I I'm happy.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: Put it that way. I'm happy with how the season
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: has gone, you know, And a couple hundred fans in
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: LA that showed up on Monday seemed to be pretty
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: happy too, you know. I mean there was there was,
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: vibes were up, positivity. You can't you can't ask for
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: more than that.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And honestly, I don't think it could have gone worse,
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: right from from your title defense in twenty four, right, like,
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: like you mentioned Raff, so, I think anything above what
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: that was it was, it would be a bonus. Obviously,
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: different circumstances, Obviously different caliber coach, Obviously you know, some
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: additions well actually quite a few additions in players too
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: from that time. So I think anything up was gonna
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: be was gonna be a plus. Am I am? I
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: outsider perspective.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Right, well, no, one hundred percent. And what's cool though,
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: is I think a majority of the Knopoly fans recognize
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: that too. Where in the past you have to in
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: the in the past, it would be different. Well that
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: was also before we want Sudetti, So like, you know,
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: if we never won these Fudetti, you know, okay, if
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: we're finishing second again, come on, man, like we got
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: to figure something out. But now it's like, hey man,
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: all notwithstanding all the injuries, to finish in second, at
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: least I would even have been happy with the third
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: behind Milan, to be honest with you, because it's so close,
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: you know, yeah close, you know what I mean, as
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: long as we didn't like pull away too far to
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: stay there and to make it like the third isn't
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: too shabby either, man, Like you know, yeah, I'm fine, yeah.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Another like, I had a couple more questions that
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: I know I wanted to get out. I don't know
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: if what Nick has as well, if if you.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: Have, maybe one I think I have won and you
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: probably will ask you, but we'll see.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: Okay, Well, because no, I have a couple, I don't
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: know which one I want to get to first, but
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: I'll maybe we've Is it about content, Nick, Yeah, of course, okay,
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: so we'll leave the content because we both had that
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: in mind. We'll leave the Conte. One to add to
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: the end is spec like well later on, especially with
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: him circulating in the news, and we all know what
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: we're hinting at, right, So one thing I wanted to
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: to kind of mention and again I hate to kind
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: of bring you know last week's uh, just disappointment up
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: again and.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: Anniversary your three hundred.
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: It's unfortunate, raugh. It was either for us, it was
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: either going to be doom or gloom. Unfortunately, you know
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: it was both exactly alright, So sorry, just want to
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: be a higher or a low.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: Hundred and then the third straight miss what a mess man?
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, one thing I kind of wanted to to hint
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: at because it was only I don't know, I want
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: to say only, but as an outsider looking at it,
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: it seemed to be the only reason why we got
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: to see you know, a guy like Antonio Vergata play,
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: is because of these injuries and because of you know,
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: the lack of options that Conte had and being a
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: I don't want what he's what twenty three? I believe
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: like he's he's still young, right.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, right, he's not.
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: He's not you know, you know Camar the younger, still young,
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: but you know he's still in that young bracket, right,
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: twenty three years old, finally getting a crack on the
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: first team quality minutes in that span of time. Obviously
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: you know a bit of an injury now, but just
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: what has been your take on on him as a player,
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: him emerging, him being from the area, right. I don't
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: want to put the comparisons of you know, in sens
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: because you know they're they're two different players and and
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: two different stories. But just with our our our lack
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: of we always like to say the youths right, uh,
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: with with Italian with with the Italian football, right, and
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: all that negativity that we kind of spoke about last week.
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: But just your your your take on Vedgarda as a player,
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: your you know, his his role in this in this
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: team of this year, and hopefully his role you know,
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: for the future, for Napoly and for potentially the national team. Peak.
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: I think it's a shame that we don't And again
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: I don't want to bring what I lost these conversations
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: up again, but it's just a shame how we've come
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: with these you know, youth players and these youth talents
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: that aren't getting the quality minutes, aren't getting the look.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: It took, if you speak to most people, it took
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: half the Knoposi line up for him to even get
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: a crock on the pitch. Just your take on all
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: of that, and just him as a player, and maybe
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: his future would not plain potentially.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: Well, what I what comes to mind for me with
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: Bergotta is that if you're not going to be given
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: your break, you need to you need to take it.
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: So like when these injuries happened, he said, I'm not
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: missing right and and he and he didn't miss, He
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: didn't miss. He's you know, he has a little to
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: work on. But that I can also you know, chuck
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: that down to like inexperience and you know, coming on unexpectedly. Right,
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: of course, I will say this did the Conte did
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: see something in him? Otherwise why would you get rid
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: of him? Well, why wouldn't you get rid of him?
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: He he was looking for a move away to play, like
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: a permanent move away. I don't remember what team, but
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: he was looking to move away and Conte denied it,
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: denied the move, said I don't want him to go anywhere.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: I want him on this team. So so obviously there's
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: something there. But like it is kind of a shame
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: that these kids don't get a chance, because you know,
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: it's it's it's it's it's debilitating to football, to culture.
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: But but that's not the only issue, and it's one
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: of the big issues. But it's not the only one.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: It comes from within, it comes from the structure. So
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: so yeah, I mean, you know, when you when you
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: look at not you know, six six six Italians on
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: the nine Italians on Milan and a monopoly one Italian Indies,
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: two Italians in Como. You know, lich it doesn't have
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: any towns either. It's like but then Licha and these
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: teams win you know, Prima Veta, you know, tournaments and
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: and and stuff like that. But they're not doing it
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: with Italians, so it's even less. But I will say
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: that you know, a lot, a handful of good Italians
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: like left Italy to go play elsewhere and they're doing
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: pretty good too, like Ko, they like ADLG and like
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: a couple of other younger there's another younger Italian I
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: can't remember his name for the life of me, but
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: he's that's I think, who are Yeah, you know, at
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: least they're getting playing time somewhere and somewhere good. But yeah,
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: we have to figure that out. But you know that
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: here's the thing is, it's not on the club. It's
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: not on the club to say, hey, we need to
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: pay attention to the Italian national team. The club is
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: out to make money for the club. And I've realized
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: this and I've changed my stance on it in the
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: past few years. In business owning, like you have to
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: do what's right for you, you know. And I've had this
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: issue with like hiring friends of mine or hiring acquaintances
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: that you know they're doing favors for acquaintances, friends, family, whatever,
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: and it's not working out, and having the tough, you know,
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: the tough responsibility to say, hey, man, you're out. It's
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: not working. I just had to do it two weeks
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: ago to a guy I really really like, man, but
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: it's just he's not working out. Got to pull the plug.
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: And that's on. Like I could spend more time on
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: like building him up, but I just don't have the
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: resources and the time to do it. So you got
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: to pull the plug. And I feel it's the same
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: way with owning a club, you know, a football club,
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: a coach, a soccer team, know a sport, a sports team.
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: You have got to do what's best for your team
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: and your and right now Italian Italians, young Italians, that's
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: not the answer. And and as much as that sucks
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: to say, it's the truth. The problem is is that
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: you know some of these clubs will go ahead and
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: loan these players out to Setia B. Like you know
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: what I mean, they would bring a guy up from
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: the prima Veda. Instead of giving them a slot, they
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: get loaned out to Setia B so they can get
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: more playing time. Well, I think a lot of a
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: lot of of players get just as much experience by
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: watching the senior players play by training with the senior players,
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: by training with Setia players, you know, So maybe that's
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: the issue, like like offloading these young kids that come
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: up instead of giving them one. You know, if it's
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: one two roster spots, Let's keep these two guys here.
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: Let's let's let them grow with the team, because it
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: can only help you and it can only help you
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: in selling them off later. It can only help you
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: in growing your own squad. It can only help you
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: in growing the Italian national team, which is good for
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: cho as a whole. It is your you know, but
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, the allow is looking
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: out for Sscnopoly and film Audo and his Ventures, so
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: you can't really put it on the you know, A
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: lot of fans get mixed up in that because they're
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: deeply passionate as I am about the Italian national team.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: But it doesn't work like that. It just doesn't work
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: like that. So we need to figure out how to
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: develop the kids to be able to keep them like
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: a Lamina male, like a you know, the KUBARSI, like
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: the kids from Madrid, like the kids that play you know,
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: Barti Sagi. I don't know how he started. I I
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: don't remember. If it was an injury, you might know
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: better for me out the day. I know how he
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: got involved with with with uh with But I think
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: it depends on the manager too, you know, a leg
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: They they keep these kids around because they know that
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: their quality in case something happens, and it did in
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: this case. But Gatta is a good player. I'm very
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: excited to see what he does in the future. I
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: believe we're gonna keep him. I believe he's gonna be
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: an Insenia esque player and you know, hopefully help Italia
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: do something in the euro And you know, but that's
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: another thing, and maybe we can get to this when
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: we talk about Italia later. You can't just throw these
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: kids into the situation like pos suppose he thought for me,
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: him taking the first penalty, biggest mistake ever him coming
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: on like like like I don't know, man like like,
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't have. I wouldn't have substituted moist Ken. I
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: would have I would have somehow found a way for
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: supposed to play with Ken, you know, maybe give Ken
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: that first penalty, Maybe give Tonali that first penalty. Not
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: is supposed to. He's so green. When it comes to
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: the national team, the nerves get set in. You know,
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: he could do anything he wants with in there, because
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: these are guys they train with all the time. He
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: played in the in the in the youth. He's league wise,
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: he's he's set because he's familiar. National team wise, you
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: can't give someone their first couple of caps or their
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: first few like really important starts towards the end of
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: qualifying campaigns where we have to win. So I feel
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: like the next cycle will be involved these kids that
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: are coming up and hopefully they grow. As they grow,
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: they grow with the national team too, and they all
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: get to know each other. That's the thing you have
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: to have. This it's a camaraderie thing. But also let's
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: you know, and I was going to talk about the
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: national team. Maybe we'll get into that after, but.
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean's gonna lead Who's going to lead
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: the national team? That's what?
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: Right, I feel like that's that's exactly what we want
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: to ask. So many rumors of Conte that a d
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: L would give his blessing. First of all, Okay, I
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: want to ask because the quote that I saw, it
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: almost seemed as if like Adel was saying like, oh, yeah,
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: I'll bless content to go to the national team. But
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: it's almost like like, I don't know how to explained.
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: It's like, okay, you could coach the national team and Napoli.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I know that doesn't make sense,
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: but I know the caretaker coach from a few years ago.
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: I forget his name, Cob. I know there was also
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: a Dutch a Dutch.
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: We know it's it's possible. It's not like it's illegal
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: or anything. Maybe that was just miss the quote, like sure,
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: maybe it seems like Conte would leave Napoli for the
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: national team, so maybe you could clear that up, and yeah,
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: what do you what are your thoughts on Content rejoining
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: the national team potentially to lead the episode.
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: I actually watched him do that interview. I want to
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: say it was with Fox Deportes okay that he did
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: the interview with but they asked him if they would
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: be he would be okay with Conte going to the
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: national team, and he said that he would. He would
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: give his blessing, but that if he wants it, like
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: only if he wants it, like like right now, he's
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: monopoly and that's what he wants. If he wants to go,
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: I would let him go because he he he also
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: feels that Conte would be in good hands go into
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: the national team because of who's rumored to go into
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: as the president of the of the Fijichi. It's a
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: close yeah, it's a close friend of ADL who is
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: being heavily, heavily rumored, and you know, so he he
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: feels comfortable letting him go. This also might mean that, listen,
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: the way ADL works, if there's any sort of doubt
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: about the coach for the next season, it's right around
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: now where he's like locking in the replacement and we
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: none of us know about it, none of us the movie.
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: In the movie, it confirms what we already kind of knew,
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: but like you know, didn't have a confirmation. The movie
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: confirmed that Conte and Adel had a chat midway through
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: the disaster season, and ADL wanted him in midway through,
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: and Conte said to him, I want to come in
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: at the end of the season so we can start
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: again and make something beautiful and start fresh instead of
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: coming into a mess, because if we don't get out
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: of the mess, I'm gonna get I'm gonna get blamed.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna get you know, it's gonna be my fault.
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: Da da da. He's let me come in June. So
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: but but the thing is is that this has happened before.
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: A bunch of times Sadi had entered Saudi gon Adel,
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: had Antilotti ready to go. You know, there were other
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: instances where the Spaletti where the manager was ready ready
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: to go by now. So if that's the case, and
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: Conte said, hey, listen, there's there's an opportunity. We need
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: to fix the grassroots of Italian football, which a d
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: L is very passionate about as well. So we're lucky
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: in that case in that sense, So I wouldn't be
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: surprised if I wouldn't be surprised that either if Contes
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: stays or Conte ghosta national team and a d L
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: is working now on getting the replacement right now as
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: we speak.
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, wouldn't It wouldn't shock me to it. But again
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: I think with the whole and again you're another fellow Italian, right,
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: so you follow as much as we do. I'm just
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: hoping and obviously the rumors even for the president, like
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: forget the coach, like we need to obviously find the
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: top and then we can kind of trickle down. And
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: there's been a bunch of rumors for all those positions
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: right from the from the president of the coach. I
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: even saw Aegrity again rumored with Conte for for the
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: national team coaching job. Uh. They're even saying to bring
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: back Mancini, right, Roberto Mancini as another candidate. So I
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: think the president one as well. We've seen the names
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: of Malago, We've seen I'm biased. I would love Maldini there, right,
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: but I know I'm biased. But again, we spoke a
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: bit about last week like maybe we just need to
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: bring back these legends and and put that they know
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: like they are, you know, guys of football, guys of culture, right,
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: you know, and you know, if it be bad Joe,
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: if it be you know, Maldini, if it be del Piero,
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: like you know, these these types of figures. Again, it
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: wouldn't I wouldn't shy away from from from going that avenue.
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: In my perspective, do you what is your kind of
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: thought on who maybe you would like to see in
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: terms of candidacy for you know, the FIGC president and
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: then the coach. Obviously we spoke about Conte. Is that
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: is that a name that forget that he's obviously your
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: coach at Napowi, but is that a name that you
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: would have liked regardless of that fact? Because when I
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: heard that again, I'm I was been on the fence.
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure he brought us wonders you know, ten
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: years ago, right, but again we're we're now in twenty
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: twenty six. It's a it's a different time, it's a
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: different era. Does his brand of football match where we
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: want to go? You know, football and wise Again, there's
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: a lot of questions, just your thoughts on the names
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: that are fluttering around, who you would like to see
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: and just yeah, your your thoughts on all that.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: So Malago is the guy I was referring to as
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: far as of course, he's very good, he's very close
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: with Della and this they have the they have the
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: same ideas and they have and and with kind of
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: ADL in his year, I can see a lot of
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: really good things happening, like if if she's an a
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: d L guy gonna run the like honestly, and this
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: has nothing to do with bias. I mean, I'm a
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: monopoly fan. I'm gonna be a little biased normal. I
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: wouldn't mind seeing a DL take the presidency of the
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: freaking well, I was.
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: Gonna say, I saw a lot of guys screaming that
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: at the event.
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: You know, at the event, yes, but I was specifically
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: asked not to talk about that with like, you know,
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: don't talk about that. Okay, I got you, all right, prob,
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: But does that mean it's gonna happen? I don't know,
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: Like what's what's gonna happen, of course, But honestly, I
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: I I I wouldn't like, I wouldn't be mad at
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: Maldini or Bojo. Bojo is the one who wrote that
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: nine hundred page reform in twenty ten, twenty eleven, whenever
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: it was, and it's it's still holds up that that
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: that reform, you know, of course it still holds up
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: Man like if he comes into the equation here, we
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: might be in good hands. Maldini too, like like getting
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: these guys that went through all that, they know what
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: to go through, they know how to win, they know
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: how to you know, take care of business. They need
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: to apply it. But it kind of scares me a
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: little bit because we had guys like that in Gatuzoi.
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: You know that Rossi was in when when we won
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: the euro you know Marcini, Yeah, Marcini Viali like like
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: we had that and it didn't work? Did it? Is
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: it because we were too far gone that they couldn't
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: bring us back? Is it because of the top? I
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: think it was the top the top. He had to be,
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: he had to go, he had to go, and and
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: step one was he's gone. So that there's that. So
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: I think anywhere we go is a step in the
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: right direction, honestly because because when it comes to when
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: it comes to the of the Fiji manager wise, I
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: mean Conte did what he did with that team that
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: only only lost out to the UH to Germany for
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: the semi final of the Euro that year. You know,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: we beat Belgium in their hottest hottest uh you know,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: uh phase there we beat Spain, we beat big teams
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: in that you know, uh we we were looking really
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: really good and I was I was very unhappy to
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: see Conte go then, you know. So so for me
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: to say Conte back not its just it's not just
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: not poly uh bias. It's look at what he did
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: to with guys like Graziano Pele and and who's there,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: Jack AINI there, come on, come on, you know. But
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: but you know, uh, I think if it's not Conte,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: it needs to be someone young with young ideas for
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: the young kids. I think it needs to be a
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: youth movement. And if that means okay, we might crash
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: out of the next year or two, like you know,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: not not not qualify, but you know, not show up. Well,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: if it means by the time twenty thirty comes around,
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: these guys are a couple of years older, they're a
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: little more mature, they're they're grown with each other. You know,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: if if Infantino wants to raise it to sixty four,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: team bro, we might make that. It's funny how we
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: said it's funny, how we said our forty eight teams.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: No way we're in of course, yeah, look at us now, Well, right, Yeah.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. So I just think that whatever happens with
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: with with the Adzuri right now is a positive. No
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: matter what it is, it's gonna be a positive because, uh,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: the dirty rat what's his fucking name? I forget na Vena?
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: Oh my god. I couldn't stand that. And the responses
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: after the game too, We're so like you got you
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: got guys like Gottuso, who by the way, I don't
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: blame yeah for anything. So I don't know how you feel, Nick,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: but I don't blame God for any of this stuff.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: He we also had injuries in the national team.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: We also had he came he came in mid not midway,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: but already.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: Perspectively practically because because because you know, but so did so?
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: Did you know? Sort did uh Spalletti? Spalletti? You know?
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: Hot take. I wouldn't have gotten of Spalletti after the
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: three and the loss to Norway. Hot take.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't have Yeah, thank god you said take, because
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: I don't know how I feel about that, but it's hot.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't have done it. I wouldn't have done it.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: I would have given him, I would have given him
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: this qualifying It's only one game. It's only one game.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: And look, look we won every game except for the
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: Norway game. Later. I think Spalletti improves the team as
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: as you know, I don't. I don't think Spalletti should
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: have should have been let go. That's a it's a
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: hot take for me, but that's my thing. Gattuso was
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: Gatuso was inserted in a character is basically caretaker.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 3: Basically the only one that took the job. Nobody wanted.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: The job he did was the sarcrificial he took it,
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 3: and you know, you have to respect that.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: He did it a monopoly too exactly when when I mean, but,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: but the teams after Gatuso end up working out well,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: like if you notice the pattern right, like like Milan
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: after Gatuso ended up doing pretty well, ended up doing
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: pretty well. You know, it's the same thing with Conte
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: comes in win Street, with Juventus boom, my legacy takes
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: over bang their European giants to an extent, Uh, the
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: same thing with not same thing or not. Here he
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: comes in and we're in a pretty rough go. He
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: comes in, he shapes us up, he's gonna leave, We're
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: gonna be in better hands, like like these are managers,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: and these are types of managers that do that right.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: So hopefully, hopefully Gottuso being there, you know, made the
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: made to realize, hey, we could have done this, We
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: really could have done this, but we're being handcuffed at
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: the top. Bang. You know, this is what needs to change.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: Gatuso not taking I don't know if you guys heard
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: this or not, but he refused to take the seven
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: money right, he made sure that his his staff got
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: the money. And sitting there and Gravina sitting there like
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: I don't need to be I don't need to be fired.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: I don't need to leave.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 3: We're used to this. This is why I know how
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 3: this press conference is going to go, Like you cannot
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 3: say that I.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: Don't need to be fired. That's why we have we
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: have elections for these things. And you know what, then
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: you the Prime minister calling for his head and the.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 3: Minister of Sport too. Maloney you're talking about Maloney.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: Maloney went, they went to Parliament and he was like
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: like no, he's got to go. Yeah, like are you kidding?
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: It's it's crazy and just another point on Gatuso there,
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: like he's done it. I forget if he did it Anapoi,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: but he I remember when he was on Meulan and
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 3: and and again with Delta cards. He was dealt. It
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: didn't work out, was very close to Champions League qualification.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 3: They finished I think fifth uh, I think it was
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: fifth year and and you know, didn't take the money.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 3: What the club either keep it or his guys, his
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 3: staff get paid. That's just the type of guy he is.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 3: And again I'm I'm again I'm biased. You said about
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: biased before. I know I'm biased because he's a mean legend.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 3: I love Gatuzzo, He's he's he's a he's a favorite
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 3: of mine. But yeah, man, it just uh listen, it
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 3: is what it is. I'm unfortunate to see a legend
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 3: of him, his stature, bouffone stature that we have to,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 3: you know, get rid of these guys for for a
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: fresh start. But like you said, Rafa, a fresh start
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 3: is needed. And you know, if it be the Mologos
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 3: of the world, if it be the Contes of the
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: world in coaching, or like you mentioned Badjo or Maldini,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 3: like I said, it's going to have to be. And
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: I think you know, there's no worse than missing three
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 3: World Cup and we cannot get worse than this, right, Like,
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: I think we've hit unfortunately rock bottom. I don't want
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: there to be anything worse than this, or I don't
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 3: think any of us want anything worse to happen. But again,
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: we're hopeful. We said it last week. Rough, it's not
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 3: an overnight thing, kind of like what you alluded to.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 3: Let's see how this qualification for the euro b and
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 3: how they do there and then you know, twenty thirty.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 3: But this has to be at least at a very
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 3: minimum of a four year cycle with this new coach.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: The presidency is a different thing, but at least the coach,
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: it's gonna have to be a four year project at
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 3: the very minimum. It's not going to be an overnight thing.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 3: Me and Nick were even shooting the name of of
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: the youth coach now Baldini, right uh to kind of
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 3: you know, you want to insert, you know, that youth movement,
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 3: different idea. He's a bit more for change. I think
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: I've seen in his press conferences back when he was
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: in Palermo, back now when he was in Pascada, right
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 3: Like he's he's kind of said these things in the past,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 3: and he's taken over the you twenty one s. They're
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: doing what they're doing. He's now the interim coach. We'll see.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 3: I think it's another name that I know. Me Nick
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: spoke about off air that we kind of said, why not,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: like it's it's it's a new name.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: You know who that's gonna piss off. That's gonna piss
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: off the fair weather fans who don't know who Borghini is.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: It's gonna piss it's gonna, it's gonna it's gonna turn
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: them off. And I hope like like like to me,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: the Gravina thing to you would be to go get
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: the big name.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: When I think when I think about the future of
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: the national team, I think youth, I think start over.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: I think Baldini is a good shot, and I haven't
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: thought of that until you guys just said that. Yeah,
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: but one I would go with it because when you
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: when you play at a at the youth and and
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: the thing is, we also have to get the managers
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: at the youth level to play the same system as Baldini.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 3: Does, or as whoever everybodys to the same page.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: They have to ban the same page. You can't have
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: you know, a four three three here, and then three
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: five two there, and then a press here and then
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: you know, like laid back here and the defense again. No,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: you can't have that. You have to you have to
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: grow as a unit. These guys should be growing together
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: together together. That's how Spain, Germany, France, That's how these
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: that's how these teams like they grew up together. And
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: and every now and then you're gonna get that young
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: young kid that's gonna break in. But you know he's
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: got so much experience around him that he can't fail,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: you know, like so so I just I'm worried about it.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: I am worried about it. I'm worried about you know,
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: going the wrong direction because it's just it's Italy. It's
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: how it is.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm Italians. What do you expect anything else?
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: There was no progression from the two thousands, the early
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: two thousands, and as time as time moved on, Italy
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: as a you know, Nazi but also as a country,
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: just haven't I mean, I mean, you know, there is
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: influencers now, and there's phones out there, and this it's
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: not like it's not like there you know, it's not
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: like they're desolate. It's not like they're without. But also
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: I just think that the way the country is run,
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: the way the infrastructure is done, the way there's a
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: lot of things that are so far back thinking that
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: they're not addressing, and unfortunately the national team is one
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: of it. But guys like dill Out at this who
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: is very forward thinking, if it's a mile ago, then
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: I'm I'm excited, not just because he's boys with Dad L,
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: but because he thinks like ADL, who has brought monopoly
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: from nothing to what it is now to something, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and it didn't take twenty years. It took twenty years
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: to win a school that though, but it didn't take
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: twenty they were they were the talk of the town,
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: you know, ten years later, you know. So it might
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  Speaker 2: take a while, but we have to do it. We
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: have to make sacrifices to move forward. It should have
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: been done four years ago, it should have been done
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  Speaker 2: eight years ago. But it's gonna have to.
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  Speaker 3: Say some say it should have been done after nineteen ninety, right,
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 3: iteallya ninety right, so oh yeah yeah right like where
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  Speaker 3: you know. But again that's a whole other conversation. I know,
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 3: we can probably speak on that. For Hout you should
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 3: have been on our three injured episode. I think you
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  Speaker 3: would have had a to say on that too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you could go.
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  Speaker 1: We could probably go three hundred hour hours with you, Rafa, just.
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  Speaker 3: On that topic alone.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred hours on a three hundred episode. No, I
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: don't think I was in the right headspace to come like,
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  Speaker 2: oh no, no, no, no. We went somewhere to watch it.
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  Speaker 2: We went somewhere to watch it. A really cool bar
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  Speaker 2: in Albany called wolf Spear Garden, And uh, they're a
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: huge so they are a huge soccer bar. Is a
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: huge amp. That's there's a huge soccer bar. Uh. And
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: and it's about twenty minute drive from the house, and
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: everyone in the car is screaming about the game, and
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: I'm like, guys, shut up. I can't even listen to
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: this right now. Like I'm tears coming out of my eyes.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I can't hear this. Guys, please don't talk.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's been it's been a rough little bit
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 3: and I don't think it'll go away, probably for a
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 3: little while longer, if I'm honest with you, Rafa. But again,
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 3: just just to wrap up and closing here, uh again,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 3: you now officially eight your seventh cap on the Culture
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  Speaker 3: Guys podcast RAFA. So again, we're super grateful for that.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 3: I know Johnny's not here tonight, but I know he
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 3: extends those same regards and compliments towards you, Rauffa. Uh,
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 3: you've always been gracious with your time for us. We
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 3: don't take that for granted. Uh. You know you've supported us.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 3: We've supported you on the flip side along the way.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 3: We've been in contact for for forever. Now it seems
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 3: like the next thing is is to physically meet in person.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 3: I think that's like the next go next go out
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 3: of it. So we have to make that happen one
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 3: way or another down the line here. But again, just
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 3: thank you. I know you're at the shop. I know
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 3: you didn't you said you didn't work today, but you're
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 3: at the shop, you know, hooking it up for us.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 3: So again, wherever you've been, you've you've you've done it.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 3: I still remember, you know, going back like the Maradonna
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 3: episode after he had past, Like that episode will always
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 3: kind of be in the back of my mind, like
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 3: it's just one of those ones. I know it was.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 3: It was a sad one, but again at the same time,
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 3: it's a memorable one for us. Listen, bro, you've been
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 3: on the on on the ride with us forever, it
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 3: seems like, so again, we appreciate your time again tonight.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 3: And I know you said you took a bit of
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 3: a hiatus before we wrap our normal stick that we do.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 3: I know you said you took a bit of a
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 3: hiatus on on the content, but you you'll still find
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 3: a way to do something and to be relevant on
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 3: on social media. So anything you want to plug, my friend,
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 3: the floor is yours.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So the Nopoly rant obviously, you know it still exists,
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: It's not dead. Check it out. You can look it
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: up on I G on X on Facebooknopoly Rant. Also,
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: you know, I want to shout out the Tri State
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: Napotly Club as well, because I'm still kind of a
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: member of that. It's we haven't done much there either,
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: just a lot going on. But I do want to
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: try to plug culture Andnopoly Club USA because that's something
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: where we're trying to like bridge connection to all these
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: clubs that are that are that are forming in the
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: US now. It started out as a Facebook group, just
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: a group where like we can chat with other people
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: from the US and Canada, you know, to like you know,
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: North America right to it says USA, but really it's
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: a North America thing. It started out as a Facebook
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: group like in twenty sixteen, seventeen eighteen, maybe even and
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: we're moving it to what we have been, you know,
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: for a while, moving it to like this, this one
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: stop shop for clubs in the US in Canada where
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: you know, we can like you know, big ups meet,
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: club meets here, and club meets there, and like you know,
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: events that clubs are doing for charity or whatever it is.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: You know. So so check that out to Calltronopotli Club USA.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: It's on on on on Twitter. I believe it's c
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: N c U s A twenty six. Give it a follow,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: my man, Quentin's working really hard on that and and
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: biz as well. Yeah, man, and just keep checking my
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: page Rafa Rispo anywhere you can find it on on Facebook,
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: on Rafael my full name Rafaanopoli eighty three, on X
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I would, I would keep my eyes glued
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: on the IG because we've got something a little special
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: plan there too.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 3: So perfectly.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: Man, Thanks thank you again once again, you know we
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: appreciate it. You've been on for a total of two
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: percent of all episodes.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 3: A lot.
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: It's a lot of you know, all things considered. But yeah,
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: thanks again, yeah, Adri. Where can people find us on
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: social media?
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah? We we would like to wrap it up always
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 3: the same way, guys. You guys know that. But uh
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 3: again before I say that, just again, everything that raf
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 3: up plug there, just again, follow, go support. I sound
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 3: like a broken record every time I say this, But
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 3: the content, the idea, whatever the page does, could do
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 3: whatever it needs to do, but the people behind it
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 3: is what really makes it go. And I'm a big
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 3: believer in that, and I think we all are. So.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 3: Not only is it good content or good whatever they're providing,
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 3: it's better people behind it. So again, go follow, go support, guys.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 3: It doesn't take much to do. And that's the same
• 1:16:30
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• 1:16:32
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• 1:16:35
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• 1:16:38
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• 1:16:49
  Speaker 3: good stuff guys, and yeah, this was episode three oh one.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 3: We'll be back next week for three to Oho two,
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 3: and we'll be back most week to talk a lot
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 3: more culture. Yeah, exactly, Thanks for listening.
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  Speaker 2: Nine