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He's a tough kid.

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I'm not going to say his name, I'm going to say his name.

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Hello and welcome to another episode of Sounders Guttelbutt.

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I'm your host Cameron Collins and I am here with the man I've been hyping up this way

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the last few episodes.

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It's the one and only Nicholas Bielo.

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What's up dude?

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Hey, you know what, I need you to learn to play the tuba and I need you to just kind

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of, you know, give me a little tuba intro, you know, that would be trombone.

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There you go.

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Yeah, I like it.

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I like it.

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Yeah, I was a saxophone player.

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I did not play trombone or two.

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My dad played trombone in the Notre Dame marching band.

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Oh, wow.

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The football team was terrible back then.

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I would say you dodged one, you dodged a bullet there.

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You could have been, you could have been a Notre Dame guy.

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Oh, I planned on being a Notre Dame guy and they didn't let me in.

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That's why I have my Santa Clara national champion shirt on because that's where I went

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instead.

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Nice, nice.

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Speaking of which, breaking news out of Princeton, New Jersey, where a former star soccer player

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for Wesleyan murdered his younger brother, former soccer star from Michigan.

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And I think we can agree murder is bad.

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Yes, murder is bad.

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But from Michigan, you know, maybe let him off because the guy went to Michigan.

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Okay, on that note, I need to crack one open.

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It's three o'clock in the afternoon.

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Why not?

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Oh, that sounded good.

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By the way, I was listening to the recording from from our last episode and our double

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or double snap came out really good.

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That's great.

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That is great.

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You don't always get to tell live while we're on the, you know, on the call.

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Absolutely.

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And we've got a fun show today.

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We've got a some non soccer scuttlebutt, which I'm excited about.

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We've got some soccer scuttlebutt.

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We've got a whole lot of soccer to talk about because guess what?

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A lot happened.

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Sounders won at a game yesterday that was super fun.

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That's right, we're recording on Thursday, February 27th, a day after the Sounders advanced

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in the CONCACAF Champions Cup.

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I almost said League Cup.

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Not even 24 hours.

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Yeah.

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And, and which means we're back next Wednesday, which feels like, oh my gosh, another one.

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I was thinking about how it was great.

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We were going to have a break, but you know what?

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Bring it.

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Let's go.

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Yeah.

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Yep.

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We'll take it.

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So how you doing?

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How's your last, let's see, the game was at 730.

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How's your last 20 hours been?

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Well, when the game ended, I came back to the house, dropped off Roma and Bernie, then

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immediately turned around, went to my work parking lot and took a power nap.

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This way, this way I can maximize my sleep because I got like, I like maybe an hour and

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20 minutes and then was, you know, basically set my alarm for 10 minutes before I had to

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start and, and got started at, you know, two in the morning and, you know, got done and

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yeah.

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So now I'll probably get a few hours of sleep today and do it all over again.

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Yay.

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I look forward to when you have a daytime job again.

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Yeah.

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Although I like recording during the day, it's easier for me than night.

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I often have meetings and work stuff in the evening, not 2 a.m., but you know, 7 p.m.

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Well, hey, you know, while I'm, while I'm waiting for the right opportunity back in

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my career field, you know, this is a good role that, you know, works with my schedule

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where it's not interfering with stuff too much.

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As long as I can put up with not sleeping at all.

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So I mean, what isn't the first time in your life you've done that?

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I'm sure when Roma was born, you had very little sleep.

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I mean, honestly, most of my life has been like that.

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I'm usually historically a, you know, three to five hours sleep a night kind of person.

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I mean, I go to sleep late, but I need eight hours.

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Now it's just at least once, at least once a week, sometimes twice a week, I'm not sleeping

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at all.

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And then the other days I'm trying to get, you know, between one to four hours of sleep

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and then maybe one day of just no alarms, letting my body just pass out.

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And I'm glad you have one day like that, at least not ideal, but we're working on it.

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So last 20 hours of great.

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The game was fun.

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Roma was really excited to go to her first game of the, of the season.

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She got to meet or not meet, but got to see Roman Torres again.

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Her name's think.

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Ish.

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And they know, does he remember her?

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When I was like, uh, when, when, when you went up to him, you know, uh, you know, said,

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oh, Romana, I think, oh, and he immediately was like, good to see you again, you know?

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And she was, she was being, you know, she was being her big goofy smile.

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And then, and then when we were on the jumbo Tron, she got a huge kick out of that.

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She saw herself.

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Oh, I didn't notice.

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I was like, I'm going to pop up on there and I should have taken a picture of her because

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for like the next, you know, two minutes, she just had this huge grin on, on her face.

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She was really excited as a five year old that, you know, that's a big deal.

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Oh yeah.

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I always loved being on the jumbo Tron at Mariners games and, and Seahawks games.

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So uh, Sounders equally, although we get less jumbo Tron time.

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So maybe it's even more significant.

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So, um, a really good day got to hang with some friends, including a scuttlebutt listener,

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Eric, um, got to hang with you, got to hang with a whole bunch of people and, and just

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great energy.

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Great.

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And what a beautiful night in the, in the stands.

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Little cold by the end, but that's okay.

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That was my fault for not dressing warm enough.

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How about you?

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Yeah, good.

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I mean, the match was fun.

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I went with my dad and it's always, you know, he's 84.

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So, um, every time I can hang out with them, especially Sounders is always fun.

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Uh, and, and lions council president, Duane Nakamura sits a few seats away from me now

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in the next section over.

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So it's always nice to see him and, um, just kind of hung out and then, um, little, little

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frustrating.

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Well, busy, busy day to day, I got my COVID booster.

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So I am boosted up.

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I was past due.

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So I thought I'd rather get that, but I'm also, uh, immunocompromised, right?

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So I need, I need my regular one.

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So I think that's my 11th shot in total in the, in the four years or something like that.

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Almost quarterly, semi-annually.

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Every three months is when I'm supposed to get it.

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And then I've had COVID three times.

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So that pushed it back three months each time.

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Gotcha.

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Um, so, uh, always, always glad to have that because I'm sure it's why COVID when I get

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it is not as severe along with getting to take the antibodies because I'm immunocompromised,

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but love it.

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And, um, then had some super hawks meetings because, uh, Sunday is the first super hawks

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game of the season at Wenatchee.

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So I won't be attending, but a week from tomorrow is the first home game.

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So if you're not doing anything Friday, what is that?

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March 6th or something like that.

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Seventh, uh, 7 PM start over at Seattle Pacific.

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Come on out.

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It's free.

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Uh, you can come watch the super hawks get to our, uh, Northwest.

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We won the Northwest division last year and we are West Conference champions the year

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before.

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So we're, we're looking to get Western or it's not Western conference, West Conference

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champions again and make it going to be tough.

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LA is always good.

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Uh, Eugene was the worst team in the league last year.

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They have some real players this year.

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They're going to be good.

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Uh, but yeah, so, uh, should be fun.

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And then, um, had to deal with the fact that my recycling hadn't been picked up in five

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weeks.

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Uh, they've just been skipping us and I've been on the phone with them three different

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times, not them, the city and the city's telling them what to do.

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And they, I complained last week, so they came and picked up only mine and no one else's.

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And then they picked up down the block one.

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And so I called them.

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I was like, man, this is stupid.

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Like, and they also, I put out extra because you can do that here.

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And they didn't take it.

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And so they finally today came and I didn't pay attention because I saw them pull up.

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I was like, sweet.

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And then I looked afterwards, they didn't take my extra bin or all the extra box of

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stuff I put out.

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I had to call again.

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I was like, look lady.

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I know it's not your fault.

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I am so frustrated.

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She's like, I'd be frustrated too.

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And so she's escalating it again because they're supposed to pick that stuff up.

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So it's been five weeks without recycling pickup.

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There's only one company that can do it.

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And so that's why they city has a contract with them and some employee is not doing their

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So I, I, if it had been a single mistake, whatever, but it's now, this is willful ignorance.

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They're willfully doing it.

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So I got fired up and that got me perfect, perfectly ready for us to come in and talk

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some socks.

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Hey, we can, before we do it.

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Oh, go ahead.

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Oh, we got it.

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We got it.

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We got a few things that have gone on in the last 24 hours, you know?

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Oh yeah.

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Yeah.

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I mean, for me, um, Gene Hackman dying is, I mean, he, he was dead yesterday, but he

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didn't find it until last night.

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Such a sad story.

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I don't know totally what happened.

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I don't think anyone does yet.

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I feel like, I feel like there's going to be more to the story that seemed very weird.

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He was 93, I think.

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So he, I think he, here's my guess and this is complete speculation.

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I don't know any facts.

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Uh, I do work on true crime documentaries, but they're non-exploitative.

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So I'm going to put on my true crime exploitative documentary hat.

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I think he probably died and then she took some pills and finished herself.

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Um, cause she was, had pills scattered around her, but also she could have died of the flu.

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And there was no one to take care of him or they both had the flu.

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I mean, I've known my parents have, my parents, you know, in their seventies and eighties,

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they have friends in their eighties that almost died.

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Um, because the flu is really bad right now.

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I mean, but the other side of that is though, the, the X factor is it sounds like the dog

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also passed.

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So that could also-

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One dog did.

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They had two more that were running around out, one inside the house and one outside

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running around.

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I mean, that, that makes me wonder if it's like a carbon monoxide situation.

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Yeah.

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Or the dog got into the pills that were left around the counter because the wife was covered

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with pills all over the place.

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And that could be the whatever dogs.

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I anyways, so I don't want to, I don't want to be-

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There's too much contraction that can happen regardless.

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Gene Hackman, uh-

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What was your favorite?

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Yeah.

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What was your favorite, uh, Gene Hackman role?

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That's tough.

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I mean, I think Hoosiers is hard not to, um, the love.

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So, uh, but what about you?

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I mean, for me, it's going to sound silly, but one of the first Gene Hackman roles that

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I can remember was, was a movie as a kid that I really liked.

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And that was the Poseidon Adventure.

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Oh, interesting.

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Yeah.

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Um, I mean, Enemy of the State is the one that always stands out to me because I was

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a senior in high school when that came out.

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Yeah.

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But, uh, I never loved the Superman movie, but he was good in that.

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Unforgiven.

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He was great in Unforgiven.

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In Crimson Tide?

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Yeah.

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I mean, he had so many good movies.

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Get Shorty is a classic.

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I loved Get Shorty.

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That came out, uh, 15 or 16.

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I saw that in the theater.

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Well, I think the interesting thing about him is that he just kind of went in, you know,

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whatever direction he wanted to really.

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He just kind of did his thing.

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And I kind of thought that was interesting.

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So even though I wasn't the biggest fan, I wasn't like, I wasn't like, oh, I got to

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see every movie he's ever been in.

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Um, I can respect the fact that he's been on in some, he's known for some very, um,

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memorable roles.

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Yeah.

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I think I view him and maybe this is overstating Harvey Keitel, but I view him as similar to

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Harvey Keitel.

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Okay.

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Even he's not the lead.

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He's an amazing actor that can steal the show.

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But because he plays a lot of these smaller characters, which not, Gene Hackman didn't

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always do, I think later in his career, he did.

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Yeah.

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Um, you kind of, Harvey Keitel is like one of my favorite actors though.

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So well, I'm also a Tarantino fan.

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So yeah.

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And, and, and, but Bad Lieutenant, it's such a rough movie, but he's so good in that.

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Um, but yeah, I mean, Gene Hackman legend.

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Um, you know, I think, I think people that are a little bit older than us that were into

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a bridge too far in the French connection.

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Yeah.

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They have a whole nother attachment to him.

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Oh, and in the bird cage, he was so good in the bird cage.

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How can I forget?

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Uh, I actually liked the bird cage better than La Cage aux Faux, um, even though I loved

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the original French films.

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I mean, we can go full PCU.

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I love, I love dropping PCU references from time to time, but you know, the, the Kane

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Hackman theory where, where at any time on TV, there's a movie starring either Michael

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Kane or Gene Hackman and then the bridge too far shower scene.

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Um, I wish TV isn't like that anymore.

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What's so funny about that is PCU was on TV like 24 hours a day, seven days a week in

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the early Comedy Central days.

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Like when it was in the, was it the haha network or the laugh network, something like that

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before it became Comedy Central and then switched to Comedy Central, they had to fill all that

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extra time where they didn't have original programming.

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And so I've seen, I saw PCU so many times because of that.

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I just rewatched it last few weeks ago.

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I own it on DVD because it's not available on streaming.

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And I love that movie.

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It holds up to yeah.

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Favreau, Jeremy Piven, David Spade, uh, really good.

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Jeremy sucks, but, uh, well, I mean, but, but I like them in that role.

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Yeah.

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I mean, he's always been kind of a douche.

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What was the other early Piven role that made me laugh one crazy summer?

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He was, he was one of the dude bros in that and it was like, Whoa, that felt like a decade

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before he should have even been involved.

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Yeah.

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But yeah.

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So poor Gene Hackman, of course yesterday also Michelle Trachtenberg.

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Yeah, that one I was just about to say that that one was weird.

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Like I growing up and in my young adult years, I really liked a lot of what Joss Whedon did.

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Firefly, Buffy, Angel really upset that him, Brian Singer, David's, uh, uh, not David Spade,

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uh, Brian Singer and Kevin Spacey turned out to be pieces of shit because a lot of their

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works were movies I used to watch all the time, you know, uh, midnight in the garden

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of good and evil, usual suspects, uh, you know, even the original X-Men with Brian Singer,

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Buffy the vampire slayer.

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Uh, I mean, Joss Whedon was involved with Toy Story, Avengers, all these things.

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And it just really bums me out when, um, when they turned out to, and she of course was

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a victim of Joss Whedon's creepiness.

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Yeah.

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Um, you know, it's funny cause she kind of got a diva, like treated her like she was

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a diva when she was younger, but now you learn what she was dealing with.

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And no wonder she was up in arms on that set and reckless and it's cause she needed, she

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needed guidance and help from adults.

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Yeah.

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I only looking back how like, oh, when, unfortunately when someone passes that young, it's usually

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not a good sign.

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Um, I mean, liver failure, she got a liver transplant a few months ago and it looks like

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her body just rejected it.

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Oh, okay.

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That, that happened.

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And I don't, I'm guessing she had a independent streak cause it's a bummer that she was living

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alone and continuing to get sick rather than like her mom found her.

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So I wish she had been able to get some care and taken care of cause she seemed like a

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nice person and, um, had some truly iconic roles, including in, uh, Pete and Pete, which

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I forgot about.

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Yeah.

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So, yeah.

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I mean, she, here's the funny thing.

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I hated her on Buffy at first.

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Oh, well the character, the character, character was insufferable and she, and, and spoilers,

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but not really the shows old.

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She came out of nowhere.

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Literally.

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She just returned the show and, and it was like, uh, the universe changed in such a way

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that she was created literally out of nowhere and then just existed.

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And everyone remembered her from then on because of the way that like she had been there the

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whole life.

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Yeah.

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But when Buffy's mom dies, that episode is what changed my mind in her.

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Cause she was such a fabulous actress in her grief episode that that's when her character

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won me over.

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Yeah.

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But at the same time, it was kind of a jumping the shark era of Buffy where it was like,

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who, who, who the hell is this?

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Like it was very bizarre.

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She it was, it was totally the bringing Leonardo DiCaprio into growing pains.

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Yeah.

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Like absolutely.

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So, so rest in peace to both Michelle and Jean.

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Um, yeah, unfortunately this is going to be something we deal with more and more.

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This is the second week in a row.

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We've, we've talked about that, that that's going to be happening more.

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And I guess you were rather, um, um, that's the word I was trying to come up with and

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I couldn't come up with it.

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So thank you.

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Hopefully it's the rule of threes and we're done now for a little bit, but we'll see.

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Are we counting?

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Nevermind.

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I'm not going to go there.

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Not going there.

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Uh, are we counting Antigua is the third death because they are out of the, no, um, that

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is right.

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Before we get to soccer, we have a couple, uh, scuttlebutts from our mailbag over on

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the discord.

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If you're not a member of our discord, please go join and get involved in the conversation.

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Uh, the scuttlebutt mailbag is where we go to, to answer your questions, comments and

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concerns throughout these episodes.

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A lot of fun going into the game as well too.

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A lot of fun going into the match day thread.

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Yeah, definitely during the match, a lot of people talking and it was nice where I could

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pull up the game on YouTube, but, uh, it, uh, it was nice having immediate, I guess

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people were behind us live at the game.

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So being like, was that offsides or was that onsides like real quick response?

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Yeah.

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Which we will get to.

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Um, but, uh, Kenny sloth asked us what's the best first spot.

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I mean, this would have been a question for a couple of days ago when it was pissing rain.

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Uh, that is the best time for far.

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And it is just Seattle sunshine, cold rain.

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That is, that is the full weather.

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Um, for me, honestly, I really do like, you know, tan brothers.

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I want my, I want my free cream puff at the end of, uh, at the end of my meal.

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Um, you can't see me.

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No, I was rubbing my nipples for you and everything.

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Oh, give you a don't worry.

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Don't that's something different.

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Cream puff is different than a cream pie.

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Wow, I'm just going to not go any further down that road.

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You are correct.

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Pan brothers is, uh, my spot as well.

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Uh, it's because for me as a, as a, uh, vegetarian now vegan, um, they have the best vegetarian

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broth and it's readily available.

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And um, yeah, I mean, I, when I wasn't vegetarian, I loved it as well.

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And the cream pie was cream puff was excellent.

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And I remember going over there with, uh, Larry Mazzell, who, uh, is, uh, you know,

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on the, who's on KXP does the afternoons on KXP and him putting like an entire container

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of that chili oil in there.

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And I was just like, man, Larry, that's going to kill me.

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But uh, yeah, I, that's, that's it for me.

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Any location I do have some, I like the Capitol Hill one better than some of the others.

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I also like some of the ones that used to be tan brothers that have spun off into their

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own thing that are now, so the kids have taken over tan brothers.

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It's no longer the parents.

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So I feel like the next 10 brothers, the next generation.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Um, I don't like, what's the one, there's one on like 12 between just, just east of

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12th and Jackson who wanted to do vigilante justice and beat homeless people up with,

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uh, fu, fu Bach.

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I don't beat homeless people up with bats.

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That one is apparently amazing, but I will not go because what they were posting on their,

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uh, Instagram about wanting to beat up homeless people with bats to get them away from their

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building.

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Um, not, not the way to deal with issues.

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Uh, Kenny likes, uh, lily on hilltop in Tacoma and damn dude, you're hanging out in hilltop

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props to you.

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I mean, honestly though, that also kind of feels like exactly where good fun might just

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have to live.

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Yeah.

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Down, down the hill, uh, right next to UW Tacoma, where I teach sometimes, uh, they

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did have, um, a tan brothers, uh, one that used to be tan brothers that isn't anymore.

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That's called like thin bros or something like that now, uh, that was good as well.

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So I've got to get props out to that.

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You know what?

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Anywhere you can get fuzz good.

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It is truly a fantastic dish, but it's different.

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It's you know, we treated as soup, I believe I'm not, if I'm correct, it's in, uh, it's

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actually a breakfast food generally.

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Oh, I thought so.

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You realize that I drive by lily every single day.

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Oh, really?

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On your route?

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Yeah.

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I literally, there's a, um, uh, so for right now I'm, I'm delivering some, uh, some bread

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to restaurants and, and grocery stores and such.

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And one of my stops is literally a block from there.

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So at like three in the morning, every day I'm getting out of my truck, delivering stuff

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there.

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And, um, yeah, uh, I kind of had my head on a swivel every day when I'm doing that.

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Yeah.

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Fuh gah is a breakfast.

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The chicken one, uh, is a breakfast.

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It looks like sometimes depending on the region in Vietnam, they have it for breakfast, which

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sounds like a good breakfast to me too.

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Yeah.

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Um, I mean, we are pretty lucky in this area.

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There's, there's so many options.

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There's so many really good spots to go.

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Um, definitely if you haven't had Fah, I think Tan brothers is a good starting spot.

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I think so it's quick.

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It's easy.

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Uh, what I like about them is the broth.

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They have giant, uh, containers of the broth already cooking constantly.

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So you don't have to wait for it to be prepared.

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You can bring it out fast.

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Um, my buddy Caroline and I went out there, uh, recently to Tan brothers and had a, had

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a nice meal.

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So definitely, definitely a fan of that.

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Alex Diaz also asked us what's our favorite liquid death flavor.

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I don't know if you got to have any.

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I know you bought some.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I've had, because you, you got me curious.

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Uh, when I, when you were, when you were watching my dog, I, I, I like to stock my fridge with

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stuff you like.

485
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:41,240
Yeah.

486
00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:46,880
And, um, that, the one with a little bit of lime, I do like a little citrus in, in my

487
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:48,680
water for sure.

488
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,800
So generally there, there's this a little weird though.

489
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:56,880
It reminds me more of like an agua fresca type flavor than a traditional lime that you

490
00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:00,640
might get in like a, a talking rain or a LaCroix.

491
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:01,640
Yeah.

492
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:05,960
Of course, talking rain, the Seattle OG, I'm always going to love that.

493
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:10,280
Uh, but liquid death is my favorite, but usually I drink the un unflavored.

494
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:14,080
See I thought the original OG is a glass.

495
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:17,280
That, that's, that's the original, uh, soccer.

496
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:18,760
I know, I know.

497
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:20,400
So that's yeah.

498
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:25,800
I, uh, problem was, uh, those of us that loved it, couldn't pay for it because we were so

499
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:28,920
used to just getting it for free at basically any event.

500
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:29,920
Yeah.

501
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:34,760
And then also Grelof C would always have our events at Galazzo, which was the old BMW dealership

502
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:36,520
out there in Capitol Hill.

503
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:39,440
And so we would get it for free all we wanted in there too.

504
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:43,840
So I had thousands of free cans of it and then maybe bought it once in the store.

505
00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:45,160
Cause it was four bucks.

506
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:46,160
Yeah.

507
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:47,160
Yeah.

508
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:48,160
Because they're giving it all away.

509
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:50,200
You know, someone had to pay for it.

510
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:51,200
Yeah.

511
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:52,200
Yeah.

512
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,600
Shout out, shout out to Galazzo there and move your bike mic back a little bit, Nick.

513
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:55,600
Am I a little too hot?

514
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,200
Oh, you got a little close up into there.

515
00:25:58,200 --> 00:25:59,200
Okay.

516
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:00,200
Yeah.

517
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,480
So definitely liquid death.

518
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:03,720
Um, love it.

519
00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:06,160
Uh, some of the, I get why people don't like the flavors.

520
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:07,160
The watermelon's weird.

521
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:09,720
Um, some of the other flavors are weird.

522
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:11,240
They have now introduced.

523
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:16,160
We talked about it before root beer, Cola and, uh, Dr. Pepper.

524
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,760
I like, I love the Dr. Pepper one is what I said on the show.

525
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:25,360
I I'm kind of over it now because, um, as you drank more and more, it's not actual Dr.

526
00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:26,360
Pepper.

527
00:26:26,360 --> 00:26:29,880
It's like flavored sparkling water that has a Dr. Pepper flavor.

528
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:34,480
So I am going to bust open a liquid death root beer.

529
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:35,640
We are not sponsored yet.

530
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,440
Alex set us up perfectly for that.

531
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:41,480
Um, it's okay.

532
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:48,200
Uh, but they also have teas and so low, low calorie sweetened with agave peach tea.

533
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:49,800
Give us, give us some money.

534
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:53,240
Uh, liquid death sponsor us.

535
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:57,400
Some of our rival podcasts are now being sponsored by Apple TV and the like.

536
00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:59,920
So, uh, you can give us some money.

537
00:26:59,920 --> 00:27:00,920
Uh, liquid death.

538
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:01,920
We love you.

539
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,420
Hey, we are, we are the people's podcasts.

540
00:27:04,420 --> 00:27:08,400
You know, we are, we are, we are here for, you know, number three on the charts.

541
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:09,720
Number one in your hearts.

542
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:14,360
Hey, ultimately the, the way, you know, the way I kind of describe it to people is, is

543
00:27:14,360 --> 00:27:20,000
really this is us and, and this is, we're talking about us being the collective us.

544
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:25,520
So I'm talking to you, the listener as well is we're all having a beverage talking sounder

545
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:26,640
soccer.

546
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:32,540
If you're anything like me, when I'm listening to, you know, my podcast, when I'm doing stuff,

547
00:27:32,540 --> 00:27:35,840
you know, I'm kind of talking out loud to myself as well going, oh, he's so full of

548
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:41,160
shit as you're probably saying about me right now.

549
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:47,280
So as we know, like hung out with Alex Diaz, one of our listeners last time, uh, you know,

550
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:53,000
uh, what is, I don't want to say his real name because I don't know what he, uh, Jose

551
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,840
Raza is his screen name here.

552
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,440
I had to look it up real quick to make sure I got that right.

553
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:00,680
Uh, no Jose Raza in real life.

554
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:04,640
Get to hang out with them, especially during super hawk season on a weekly basis.

555
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:06,480
Um, also most sounders matches.

556
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:10,920
So always, always great to have listeners because you're as much a part of this podcast

557
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:11,920
as we are.

558
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:12,920
We're just the ones on the mic.

559
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:13,920
Exactly.

560
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:18,280
And I know as a matter of fact, Alex, um, looking forward to having Alex to join us

561
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:25,280
in ECS, uh, one, one or two times this year, get a chance to recently mentioned in the

562
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:30,920
discord that if you're, you know, curious about ECS, you want to see what it's all about

563
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:31,920
reach out to me.

564
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:38,040
I would love to be your Sherpa, your shaman to, to what I love about, you know, about

565
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:46,160
being a supporter, um, do it in a, in a hopefully unintimidating way, be there to kind of answer

566
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:50,240
any questions that you may have helped guide you to, and this is what we do.

567
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:51,440
This is why we do it.

568
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,840
These are, you know, just kind of feel out the community that we, we are.

569
00:28:54,840 --> 00:29:00,800
And fellow, like I said, fellow, uh, podcast listener, Eric 13 is usually sitting next

570
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:06,880
to me, uh, for a lot of the games and, uh, it's just, you know, it's just a great community,

571
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:10,760
uh, the whole soccer thing, you know, the whole, the whole Sounders community is not

572
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:16,720
even just this podcast, but you know, there are people that, you know, every day, I don't

573
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:21,760
know if I know it's what it's like for me, but I imagine it's the same for you, you know,

574
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:25,060
walking through the concourse before a game, you're going to inevitably run into someone

575
00:29:25,060 --> 00:29:26,280
you haven't seen a little while.

576
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:31,320
You got a hug for them and just kind of a quick catch up and it's great.

577
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:38,400
And there's definitely an energy right now in these first two games.

578
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:44,920
There's an energy in the stadium, uh, not just pregame during the games, post game.

579
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,400
It's it's exciting.

580
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:53,280
It feels like it's been a little while since it's been this kind of, um, this kind of energy.

581
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:56,220
And I was glad it carried through to the second game real quick before we go too far away

582
00:29:56,220 --> 00:29:57,220
from that.

583
00:29:57,220 --> 00:29:58,920
Um, yeah, last game was super fun.

584
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:05,040
Um, you know, Conca calf made us take pictures of everything we were going to put up.

585
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:09,600
And so I didn't have time to say, all right, I want to take a picture of all these flags.

586
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:13,200
So I just Googled gorilla FC banner, took a picture off the internet.

587
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,760
That was like a thumbnail, sent it to, to the Sounders to give the Conca cap.

588
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:17,760
And that's all I put up.

589
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:18,760
So I had a ton of extra time.

590
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:23,000
I was hanging out talking to Jay and Amanda who are on ECS pub league.

591
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:24,000
Oh yeah.

592
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:28,360
And, and Jay of course was on the bears with me last year and we won the championship in

593
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:32,040
classic and uh, it's going to be, she's won two seasons in a row, both seasons.

594
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,360
It's going to be rough for her when she doesn't win this year.

595
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:39,240
Uh, because, uh, not a phase FC is going all the way.

596
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:41,760
Uh, but, um, yes, we're named.

597
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,640
Hey, no, no, no reveals.

598
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:45,640
No reveals.

599
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:46,640
We're going to wait.

600
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:47,640
Cause we're named after emo.

601
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:48,640
Okay.

602
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:49,640
Okay.

603
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:50,960
But, but yeah, we're going to, we're going to hold because official reveals will come

604
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:51,960
out very soon.

605
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:52,960
That's true.

606
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:53,960
That's true.

607
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:57,440
So it'll be rougher, but no hang out, talk.

608
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:02,800
Uh, and of course Amanda's new friend from, uh, pub league who is because of public gotten

609
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:08,360
involved ECS completely outside person who went to Sounders matches, but had no involvement

610
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:09,360
with ECS.

611
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:13,160
And then through public got involved and now is setting up with ECS.

612
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:15,680
So I went and I put every flag that went out.

613
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:16,680
That wasn't the B BFG.

614
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:17,920
Is that what the big ones are called?

615
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:18,920
Yeah.

616
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:19,920
The BFG is the big fucking guys.

617
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:25,720
So not the two BFGs, but all the ones that go on the 16 technically BFFs, but yeah.

618
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:26,720
Oh, BFF.

619
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:27,720
Yeah.

620
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:28,720
Whatever.

621
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:32,720
Uh, but all the other flags, I'm the one who put them on the polls and taped them up.

622
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:34,520
So I was like, I got time.

623
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:36,200
I'm going to hang out and do it.

624
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:37,200
And so I did.

625
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:38,200
And that was fun.

626
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,400
Then I ran off to find you, but you got stuck in traffic.

627
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:41,400
Yeah.

628
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:42,400
But that's okay.

629
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,840
I still had a good time running around eating hot dogs, doing stuff.

630
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:47,480
Always a fun game.

631
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:48,480
Yeah.

632
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:52,320
Uh, what other kind of scuttlebutt do we got going on right now?

633
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,720
That's all of our outside soccer scuttlebutt.

634
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:56,960
Should we jump into, to soccer talk?

635
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:57,960
Yeah.

636
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:02,000
Why don't we talk a little bit about some of the results of the last couple of days?

637
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:03,920
Um, big, big results.

638
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:04,920
Yeah.

639
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:06,960
Well, non-sounders results.

640
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:11,080
Let's talk about the CCC, the champions league champions cup.

641
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:15,080
So Miami finished the job against sporting Kansas city, knocked sporting Kansas city

642
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:16,080
out.

643
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:19,760
Um, they advanced, uh, as did LAFC.

644
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:23,560
LAFC got a one, nothing victory over Colorado.

645
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:27,520
That's so frustrating because their goals should have never been allowed in that first

646
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:28,520
game.

647
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:29,520
And so they were concacapped.

648
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:34,400
Well, I mean, Atencio, uh, played 77 minutes.

649
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:35,400
Nice.

650
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,960
So good to see him get some, some more time.

651
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:45,760
Um, at the same time though, I do not anticipate LAFC or Miami making it to the finals.

652
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:48,720
Also give them some more fixture conjecture.

653
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:50,440
So yeah, why not?

654
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,440
Atencio played left mid.

655
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,440
That's okay.

656
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:56,680
Okay.

657
00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:03,680
And uh, I mean, it sounds like they're well, wait, well, first off Colorado is severely

658
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:05,460
caught the injury bug.

659
00:33:05,460 --> 00:33:08,040
They are just hurting all over.

660
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:10,640
So basically it's all hands on deck.

661
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:13,160
They did get Reggie Cannon back, thankfully.

662
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:16,320
And Mihailovic and Bassett are healthy and Kevin Cabral.

663
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:21,320
So they, they have most of their stars at least it seems like, but yes.

664
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:25,360
Yeah they were, um, I forgot Chris Armis was their coach.

665
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:27,680
Uh, yeah.

666
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:33,640
So like one, two, three, four, five, six players on their injury list.

667
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:36,200
Just, just, just nuts.

668
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:47,600
Um, then yesterday, uh, outside of the Sounders match, the, uh, the RSL match who is our next

669
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:51,440
opponent lost at home to Herodiano.

670
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:55,320
So fantastic ending to that one.

671
00:33:55,320 --> 00:34:00,680
I mean, one, one, it would have ended with Herodiano advancing, but they, they RSL had

672
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:05,080
to push so far forward that, uh, they had a breakaway going back the other way on a

673
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:08,720
counter attack and the goalie took them down somehow only got a yellow card deserved a

674
00:34:08,720 --> 00:34:12,680
red, but it didn't matter at that point since they were going through and RSL was going

675
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:14,160
to be out at the tournament.

676
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:17,440
So they put in the penalty to not lock that one away to one.

677
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:19,880
It was pretty, pretty fun ending in that one.

678
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:29,280
Well what's crazy is the first half, um, RSL had 14 shots to one for Herodiano and only

679
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,040
three were on target.

680
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:39,920
And then in the second half after Herodiano got their goal in the 70th minute, uh, RSL

681
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:41,240
had another 16 shots.

682
00:34:41,240 --> 00:34:43,920
They had 30 shots in that game.

683
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:47,400
Uh, so they were, they were definitely trying to push.

684
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:53,520
I just don't know if it was one of those things where, you know, just shots from all over

685
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:55,280
the place or some of it.

686
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:59,400
I mean, they were, they, they had a few where they should have been on target at the end

687
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:04,320
and just kicked them wide, but, um, it was so frantic that they were just trying to get

688
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:05,600
anything at the goal.

689
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:06,600
Yeah.

690
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:11,160
They're, you know, just trying to throw things and hope something would stick.

691
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:12,360
Yeah.

692
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:18,240
So with that in mind, and then we, uh, we advanced, I gotta say, well, no, we're not

693
00:35:18,240 --> 00:35:19,520
going to talk about this game just yet.

694
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:26,000
We will, we will talk about, about the Sounders game, but, um, we will, why don't we wrap

695
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:30,280
up with any other Scuttlebutt before we take a break and talk about the game.

696
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:31,280
Yeah.

697
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:36,000
Um, today, tonight is Saprisa Vancouver.

698
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:37,000
Correct.

699
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:44,920
In Vancouver and Vancouver is, uh, down to one, but they do have one away goals.

700
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:50,120
So you know, that could be, you know, that could be interesting.

701
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:55,920
I, I like, you know, I'm going to try and keep that game on, uh, see what happens.

702
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:56,920
Things are.

703
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:57,920
Yeah.

704
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,920
It should be, should be an interesting one.

705
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:07,880
Um, trying to think of anything else, any other signing, uh, going on and overseas or

706
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:09,480
anything, nothing, nothing major.

707
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:16,280
I don't think we've seen any, um, I mean, yeah, honestly, now that the season started,

708
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:22,440
I'm kind of more focused on domestic, uh, North American soccer more than, more than

709
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,160
anything else right now.

710
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:29,160
Just like, uh, premier league might be moving to Netflix.

711
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:30,160
Interesting.

712
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:36,560
So they're considering selling the rights to Netflix over from, uh, NBC slash PCAP slash

713
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:37,960
universal.

714
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:48,000
Did you watch any of the, uh, MLS, the MLS, uh, cereal that they got going on right now?

715
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,600
The China, I think what it's called.

716
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:51,600
Round.

717
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:52,600
I don't know.

718
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:53,600
Um, on the one side.

719
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:54,600
Yeah.

720
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,600
Uh, it's starting, it's last season.

721
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:01,720
I know in review, I, I, I have not, Dan Boniface told me about it.

722
00:37:01,720 --> 00:37:05,320
Frequent contributor to the show from out there in Colorado.

723
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:10,640
And, um, it sounds like, or from what I've been told that it is excellent.

724
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:13,600
And also it's from the guys that made the F one.

725
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:14,600
Well, yeah.

726
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:16,560
I mean, you know, it's going to be quality.

727
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:21,640
Kind of surprised me as we were, you know, we were driving home from the game yesterday.

728
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,800
Bernadette was telling me, oh man, I watched that second episode.

729
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:25,800
It was really good.

730
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:30,520
I'm like, just kind of usually show, she'll watch the Sounders game, but she won't necessarily

731
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:35,200
go to watch non Sounders soccer matches, you know?

732
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:39,920
And so, so the fact that she was getting into it, it was like, okay.

733
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:44,560
Um, so yeah, very cool stuff.

734
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:48,360
So one, one other question before we take a break here, the Epstein files are getting

735
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:49,360
released tomorrow.

736
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:53,760
Is there any, any reason for concern for the podcast?

737
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,600
No comment.

738
00:37:56,600 --> 00:38:02,880
And with that, listen to me talk about joining the Patreon.

739
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:06,480
Hey everybody.

740
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:19,520
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741
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:24,880
Now I know we said this time's time for a break, but really it's a time for me to talk

742
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:29,200
to you about our corporate overlords and our corporate overlords are us.

743
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:30,200
That's right.

744
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:36,040
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745
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746
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:40,880
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747
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:45,360
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748
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:47,200
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749
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:51,880
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750
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:56,960
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751
00:38:56,960 --> 00:39:02,960
Now we might put out promos or other things that include that, but the whole episode intact

752
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:06,840
will only be available for you Patreons, at least initially.

753
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:10,880
Now there will be other stuff that we put in there, but this is where we're starting

754
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:11,880
at.

755
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:12,880
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756
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:17,660
Well, we have bills to pay and we need to make sure that we can keep this show going.

757
00:39:17,660 --> 00:39:22,560
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758
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759
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760
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:39,920
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761
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:53,960
Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

762
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:54,960
And we're back.

763
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:55,960
Yes.

764
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:56,960
Please join our Patreon.

765
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:57,960
We'd love to have you.

766
00:39:57,960 --> 00:39:59,720
We're going to be giving away as cheap as $1.74.

767
00:39:59,720 --> 00:40:04,120
You can always give more, but we would be happy with anything.

768
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:05,840
It helps us keep the costs.

769
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:08,000
I mean, we're not making money, right?

770
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:12,080
It's covering the costs of keeping this podcast going.

771
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:17,600
And it'd be nice if we could get Nicholas a new mic.

772
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:24,600
It's not so much the mic, it's the trip back down to Mexico City for the Cruises All Match

773
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:27,080
that I did.

774
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:29,320
So we have what?

775
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:32,360
Ten days then to put that together.

776
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:33,960
Can't do it this time around.

777
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:34,960
Can't do it.

778
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:35,960
Maybe next round.

779
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:42,600
Well, I went in 2016 for the Club America game at Estecca.

780
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:47,920
I went in 2022 for the final against Pumas.

781
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:50,720
Mexico City has become one of my favorite cities in the world.

782
00:40:50,720 --> 00:40:52,800
I love Mexico City.

783
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:55,820
So if you're listening, take a look.

784
00:40:55,820 --> 00:40:57,020
Take a look at Aeromexico.

785
00:40:57,020 --> 00:41:02,040
Take a look at wherever you can find a quick flight.

786
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:04,840
If you're interested, reach out to me.

787
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:08,440
Let me know because I probably know a few people that are getting together, especially

788
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:12,040
with ECS.

789
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:18,280
Last time we did it for the final, basically I made the recommendation of a hotel that

790
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:22,740
I'd stayed at a few times and that ended up kind of being the ECS hotel.

791
00:41:22,740 --> 00:41:31,680
So we had something like 70 of our 100 people within a two minute walk of our hotel.

792
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:33,460
Mexico City is so, so amazing.

793
00:41:33,460 --> 00:41:41,620
So if you have the ability to make it happen, and thanks to Publiger Lars Gunther, who was

794
00:41:41,620 --> 00:41:48,980
my roommate last time, I can point you in the direction of some amazing street food.

795
00:41:48,980 --> 00:41:54,760
He definitely did his research and we enjoyed some of the best street food I've ever had.

796
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:55,760
Nice.

797
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:57,760
So can't say enough good things about Mexico City.

798
00:41:57,760 --> 00:41:58,760
Yeah, that's great.

799
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:01,960
I got a buddy who just went down there last week.

800
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:07,360
And obviously it depends on when you fly, but because of his schedule, his flight down

801
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:08,360
was only $158.

802
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:09,360
Oh, wow.

803
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:15,000
His flight back was 450, but that has more to do with when he was coming back.

804
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,640
I'm sure you can figure out different days, especially since it's a midweek match.

805
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:19,640
Yeah, yeah.

806
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:29,560
I mean, I think when I went, we had probably about 15 days notice and I think I got round

807
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:31,600
trip under $500.

808
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:32,720
Wow.

809
00:42:32,720 --> 00:42:36,920
Which was pretty good for such short notice.

810
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:41,480
So anyways, so, you know, something to consider.

811
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:49,000
I highly, highly, highly recommend thinking about any kind of, um, Coca Capa wait shirt

812
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:50,720
when you have the opportunity.

813
00:42:50,720 --> 00:42:52,160
They are legendary.

814
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaking of which, uh, I ran into some Antigua fans yesterday after the game and had a really

815
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:05,100
nice conversation with some, some people that came up from, uh, from Antigua, uh, flew out

816
00:43:05,100 --> 00:43:06,920
for the game.

817
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:08,880
Nothing but complimentary things to say to us.

818
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:15,000
You know, they were almost apologetic in that, in that, you know, your club is just

819
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:22,400
so much more superior and, and, and, you know, this is only our second time in the competition,

820
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:26,040
you know, and, and just kind of sharing, sharing with them.

821
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:27,040
Yeah.

822
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:28,040
We were there once too.

823
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:33,360
When, when we were first going to champions league games, getting, getting beat by the,

824
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:40,200
um, Monterey's of the world and the Santa Laguna's, you know, Santos Laguna's, uh, of

825
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:44,400
the world, you know, and, you know, it was just really great.

826
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:47,080
That's what I love about this competition.

827
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:52,480
So many people from Guatemala in the stands yesterday in a good way.

828
00:43:52,480 --> 00:44:00,560
Uh, I, I hope that continues with the Cruze Azul match.

829
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:04,720
Uh, never, we've never played Cruze Azul before, so this one will be interesting.

830
00:44:04,720 --> 00:44:11,200
Uh, the Pumas fans, Pumas fans were amazing, both home and away.

831
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:13,920
Pumas fans were great.

832
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:20,760
America fans and, and, and Chivas fans have been, you know, not always the greatest.

833
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:22,840
So we'll, we'll see, we'll see how it goes.

834
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:25,160
Uh, we'll see how it goes with Cruze Azul.

835
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:26,160
Yeah.

836
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:27,160
Optimistic.

837
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:30,480
Uh, I will say, I mentioned it in the, uh, in the, uh, in the, uh, in the, uh, in the,

838
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:37,480
uh, discord match day channel yesterday, but, uh, there was players of Antigua that came

839
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:40,560
over and were signing on the bromand after the match.

840
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:42,600
And there was a kid out there who had bought one of those jerseys.

841
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:43,600
They were selling outside.

842
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:47,240
Oh, the guy that was right in front of where, where I was standing the whole time.

843
00:44:47,240 --> 00:44:48,240
Yeah.

844
00:44:48,240 --> 00:44:53,200
So they came over and were signing, he signed autographs for Sounders fans, which I thought

845
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:58,040
was really, really cool that the players would be willing to come sign for the opposing team.

846
00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:02,800
Well, that, that, that kid was basically standing at the base of the stairwell for the whole

847
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:03,800
game.

848
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:04,800
Just, just, yeah.

849
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:10,720
And unfortunately he walked away.

850
00:45:10,720 --> 00:45:17,760
He was like grabbing, uh, food when they scored their one goal right in front of him.

851
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:20,200
I felt, I felt, I felt bad for the guy.

852
00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:22,560
He was a, the kid was a Sounders fan ultimately though.

853
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:23,560
So okay.

854
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:24,560
Okay.

855
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:25,560
Yeah.

856
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:26,560
He was supporting both teams.

857
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:31,240
I don't know if he was there, but yeah, I gotta say, I really thought their kits were

858
00:45:31,240 --> 00:45:38,000
sharp that nice purple and purple and you know, pinkish purple, you know, just really

859
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:41,520
nice two tone.

860
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:42,520
Really enjoyed that.

861
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:43,520
I love a good kit.

862
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:51,840
So before we, before we get to the match, uh, let's, let's, um, let's throw a few, uh,

863
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:57,720
questions that came out of the discord, uh, that are more general about the Sounders.

864
00:45:57,720 --> 00:46:01,800
Uh, Dan, the bastard said, where do I find the official Pepo apology form?

865
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:08,700
I mean, Hey, Hey, we're two, you know, if you heard coach Schmetzer's, um, post game

866
00:46:08,700 --> 00:46:14,920
press conference, he's doing everything he can to pump the brakes a little bit on expectations.

867
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:18,440
Um, I mean, that's his job though, right?

868
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:19,440
Yeah.

869
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:21,600
No, what's up with Smetcher's head?

870
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:26,640
He has like a giant looks like a brute, like a healing wound on his head up in his forehead.

871
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:28,040
Did you notice that from the press conference?

872
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:29,040
No, I didn't.

873
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:31,320
It looks like he got a cut on his forehead.

874
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:36,760
So it's kind of, uh, like a big gouge was taken out of his head.

875
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:40,640
I was like, man, maybe you got hit in practice or something.

876
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:41,640
Yeah.

877
00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:44,320
I mean, that very well could be, but yeah.

878
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:45,640
So that, yeah, tamper.

879
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:49,400
Well here until we have a reason to not be excited, be excited.

880
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:51,200
This is the Sounders fans need to be excited.

881
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:52,200
Yes.

882
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:53,200
Yeah.

883
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:57,840
So, but, but, but stay measured, you know, don't go all gloom and doom where, oh, this

884
00:46:57,840 --> 00:46:59,480
is the worst thing ever.

885
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:01,800
Hyperbole, keep the hyperbole down.

886
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:08,720
You know, Patrick GC also is 24 PDLV to 25 PDLV, the single biggest improvement over one off

887
00:47:08,720 --> 00:47:13,440
season that we've seen, I think again, goes to what you were saying right there.

888
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:14,440
Yeah.

889
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:18,800
I think it could be, but wait, but let's think about that.

890
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:22,520
Look, that's a really good question though.

891
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:28,600
Like, um, maybe 2015 to 2016 Christian rolled on.

892
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:29,600
Possibly.

893
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:34,920
Uh, who else might be in that conversation?

894
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:37,560
Brad Evans might be in there at some point.

895
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:38,560
I don't know.

896
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:44,560
He always seemed to be, he was solid, but he became like an integral, like he had to

897
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:46,680
be in the lineup every week type player.

898
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:48,000
I don't think it really counts.

899
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:49,200
I don't think it's really fair.

900
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:53,720
And I don't think it's in the spirit of the question to go with, you know, Paul Rothrock,

901
00:47:53,720 --> 00:47:58,680
you know, cause I, I, I see that I see the spirit of the question of a regular contributor,

902
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:03,520
not someone who broke out, but, but you could argue the same for Pedro that last year he

903
00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:08,240
was injured and just never got the chance to break out, but he got, he got enough appearances.

904
00:48:08,240 --> 00:48:09,240
Yeah.

905
00:48:09,240 --> 00:48:10,400
The sample size.

906
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:14,960
That's why, that's why I think the spirit of that question is valid for Pedro.

907
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:24,000
Um, but, but I, I want to say maybe Christian, uh, who else might be in that conversation?

908
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:25,960
Hmm.

909
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:29,760
Not a Joven Jones.

910
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:32,600
Uh, you seem to go the opposite way.

911
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:33,600
Sadly.

912
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:34,600
Yeah.

913
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:35,600
Not Gustav.

914
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:38,280
Gustav kind of always hit the ground, hit the ground running.

915
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:43,000
Uh, Will Bruin was, was like, yeah, I'm trying to think if there was anyone that really kind

916
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:44,000
of.

917
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:45,000
Will Bruin became a starter.

918
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:49,040
And I mean, I think he was always the same, but you could, you could argue stats wise,

919
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:50,360
Will Bruin could fit on that.

920
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:55,520
20, was it 15 when he, or 16 when he just 15, when he just took over as, I mean, became

921
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:57,360
a starter and was scoring goals left and right.

922
00:48:57,360 --> 00:49:01,920
Well, I think that was, that was coinciding with the same time that Dempsey had his, his

923
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:02,920
problems.

924
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:07,200
So he jumped in and I think that was his first season with us.

925
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:12,240
So I don't think, and he had just come from a long time career.

926
00:49:12,240 --> 00:49:15,480
Basically he was the Paul Arreola of Houston.

927
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:16,480
Yep.

928
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:20,600
Someone who had just been constantly delivering for, for that team.

929
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:21,600
Yeah.

930
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:28,760
Um, but yeah, I mean, I, it could be, I mean, maybe there's some youth, uh, knew who may,

931
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:35,560
maybe in that conversation from, uh, his first year on the, on the, uh, in the lineup, in

932
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:37,600
the lineup to after that, I mean.

933
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:38,600
Yeah.

934
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:43,480
His first year he was, it wasn't, he, uh, switching on and off with Dylan Remick.

935
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:44,480
Oh, Remick.

936
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:45,480
Yeah.

937
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:46,480
And then Brad Smith after.

938
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:47,480
And then Brad Smith.

939
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:48,480
Yeah.

940
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:52,800
Well, and Joe Van Jones, but, but, but I think Remick was the first run of that.

941
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:54,160
Yeah, for sure.

942
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:59,040
Dylan, uh, shaved my head at the, uh, cancer every year.

943
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:03,880
Girl, I used to do the shave your head for cancer thing through St. Baldrick's.

944
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:07,040
And so, uh, COVID killed that sadly.

945
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:10,280
And also during COVID I lost most of my hair.

946
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:13,440
So now I have to, I don't have hair to grow out to shave.

947
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:15,200
But that is a good question, Kenny.

948
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:19,300
Um, or, or sorry, Patrick, that was, that's, that's a really fun.

949
00:50:19,300 --> 00:50:21,440
That is a really fun question.

950
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:25,640
Just trying to, it also gives us some excuses to do some member berries and think about

951
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:32,560
some, some of the people, oh, you know who, oh, you know, who may be a candidate for that.

952
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:36,600
And you can pick a couple different eras of this player Lamar Nagel.

953
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:38,320
Yeah, it's possible.

954
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:45,800
Although I think especially when we, you know, that 2014, when he was a 10 goal, 10 assists

955
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:46,800
player.

956
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:47,800
Yeah.

957
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:53,920
But my hope is that we have a whole nother level of Pedro.

958
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:54,920
No 100%.

959
00:50:54,920 --> 00:50:58,280
But we're just trying to think of people who had like those kind of, those kinds of breakouts.

960
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:06,920
It's just unusual, the type of player that we are talking about, there's not a whole

961
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:12,640
bunch of players that would qualify for that.

962
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:20,760
So just anyways, um, which front three was more dangerous from Alex Diaz?

963
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:25,240
Well, I think let's, let's talk the match first, because I think those, that's a specific

964
00:51:25,240 --> 00:51:27,100
question about the match.

965
00:51:27,100 --> 00:51:30,520
And so let's, let's go through the match and then we'll come back to the Sounders schedule.

966
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:33,360
But just because I think, look at you moderating.

967
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:36,800
Yeah, it's, it's, it's good to keep it going.

968
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:40,280
And the Sounders of course came away.

969
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:41,320
Was it three one?

970
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:42,320
Was that the final?

971
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:43,320
I lost track of you.

972
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:44,320
One through one.

973
00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:48,560
I had, I literally walked down the steps and was about two steps behind you when the Sounders

974
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:49,760
scored the third goal.

975
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:50,760
Oh, I know.

976
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:53,120
Cause in the highlights there's you and me hugging and yeah.

977
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:54,120
Oh really?

978
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:55,120
Yeah.

979
00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:57,200
I love those highlights.

980
00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:00,480
So yeah, Sounders three goals, Pedro had two.

981
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:04,840
And uh, I do have a question.

982
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:11,400
Was Jordan offsides on the one that they took forever to look at VAR on Pedro's goal?

983
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:12,400
No, no.

984
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:13,400
He wasn't?

985
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:14,400
Okay.

986
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:18,840
I have no other replay, but what I saw and granted I'm behind the play, but I said on

987
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:23,440
the equivalent of the 45 yard line on the side they scored, he was offsides and then

988
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:28,480
he came back around onsides and then went, but he must've come back onside before the

989
00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:32,260
pass occurred because he was in front of the defender at one point.

990
00:52:32,260 --> 00:52:37,040
So I'm glad it was close enough that they went to VAR though.

991
00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:48,260
I mean, in the end, I was a little annoyed that for Antigua's goal, they took a long

992
00:52:48,260 --> 00:52:50,400
time to VAR it.

993
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:57,040
They probably, I think they correctly got it right that he was onside.

994
00:52:57,040 --> 00:53:00,920
It's very, very, very close from what I could see.

995
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:02,320
His elbow was off in my opinion.

996
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:03,720
And that counts.

997
00:53:03,720 --> 00:53:05,400
I don't think so.

998
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:07,240
Cause there are two of them side by side.

999
00:53:07,240 --> 00:53:08,240
So keep that in mind.

1000
00:53:08,240 --> 00:53:12,760
So if you're looking at the wrong person, that other person didn't touch the ball.

1001
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:14,940
So that, that didn't get in the goalie's way.

1002
00:53:14,940 --> 00:53:15,940
So keep that in mind.

1003
00:53:15,940 --> 00:53:18,600
Cause it's the guy on the outside, not the inside.

1004
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:25,720
But more importantly in the lead up to that, Jonathan Bell got absolutely cleared out.

1005
00:53:25,720 --> 00:53:26,720
Yeah.

1006
00:53:26,720 --> 00:53:28,960
I don't know how you don't review that.

1007
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:31,600
So now with that in mind, you know what?

1008
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:36,600
It didn't, it moving on.

1009
00:53:36,600 --> 00:53:40,040
I'm not going to, that's all I'll say about that moving on.

1010
00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:41,040
Whoa.

1011
00:53:41,040 --> 00:53:43,720
Did you hear that loud noise there?

1012
00:53:43,720 --> 00:53:44,720
I did not.

1013
00:53:44,720 --> 00:53:45,720
Okay.

1014
00:53:45,720 --> 00:53:48,840
I was just looking at the lights and it, and it made a bit of a noise there.

1015
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:51,800
Cause I thought I'd play them, but I realized they're not available in English.

1016
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:57,160
And so it would just be us talking over the top of them since neither of us speak Spanish.

1017
00:53:57,160 --> 00:53:59,480
I speak a little bit.

1018
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:04,880
I mean, I speak enough that when someone got in the elevator and they asked me or they

1019
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:11,480
asked someone to press number three in Spanish, I was, I pressed it because I knew enough.

1020
00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:12,480
I don't though.

1021
00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:17,960
I did knowing the number three is not a, he said push number three.

1022
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:18,960
Okay.

1023
00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:21,200
So I still got, I heard the push part too.

1024
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:22,200
Okay.

1025
00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:23,200
Trace.

1026
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:24,200
Okay.

1027
00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:25,200
Three.

1028
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:26,200
Yeah.

1029
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:27,200
Jackass.

1030
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:28,200
I mean, come on.

1031
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:29,200
He also had his fingers up.

1032
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:30,200
So, but that, but that's okay.

1033
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:34,960
I mean, I did take duo lingo for Spanish for at least three months before I switched back

1034
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:40,160
to French and I'm doing beginner French, despite the fact that I have a degree in it.

1035
00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:47,440
So yeah, I took, I took French in seventh and eighth grade.

1036
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:49,880
Then I took Spanish from ninth through 12th grade.

1037
00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:54,160
And then I did three semesters of Spanish.

1038
00:54:54,160 --> 00:55:00,720
My problem is that with my hearing issues, that when it got to total immersion where

1039
00:55:00,720 --> 00:55:04,840
the teacher was teaching in Spanish, I have a hard enough hearing.

1040
00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:09,560
I have a hard enough time hearing in English to understand.

1041
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:14,160
So when I'm reading and writing in the language, I'm usually pretty good.

1042
00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:20,600
It's the, it's the speaking and, and hearing and comprehending on that part.

1043
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:22,440
That, that's always a challenge for me.

1044
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:23,440
Yeah.

1045
00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:24,440
That makes sense.

1046
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:25,440
Yeah.

1047
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:28,200
So what did you think of the lineup going into this?

1048
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:36,200
Because I think we had a number of changes from the last match, I think seven changes,

1049
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:44,120
six changes, Thomas, Bell, Leyva, Paolo, Gianpaolo, Pedro, Jesus, and Paul.

1050
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:47,800
I mean, I viewed it as four changes or three.

1051
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:48,800
Yeah.

1052
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:52,080
Because to me you're going back to the first game lineup.

1053
00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:58,840
I viewed last game as a, the, the Charlotte game, Charlotte game as we were playing backups

1054
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:00,600
for a lot of those positions.

1055
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:05,280
And so to me, I saw Bell, Thomas, and then our both center defensive meds were different.

1056
00:56:05,280 --> 00:56:10,720
Those were the big ones for me that, so, made sense to me.

1057
00:56:10,720 --> 00:56:12,440
I'm going to disagree slightly.

1058
00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:17,520
And what I mean by that is it's funny because you, you, you, you, you clarify as, you know,

1059
00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:18,520
backups.

1060
00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:22,720
When I, when I look at these lineups and I think about, you know, I think about traditional

1061
00:56:22,720 --> 00:56:27,680
previous years when we, we look at these mixed lineups where we have multiple players who

1062
00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:29,720
maybe aren't starters.

1063
00:56:29,720 --> 00:56:37,560
So when I look at this lineup, for example, obviously Andrew Thomas, not our starter,

1064
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:43,720
but is starting caliber, you know, Jonathan Bell, not a starter.

1065
00:56:43,720 --> 00:56:45,640
You back off that mic a tiny bit.

1066
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:46,640
Yep.

1067
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:52,320
Danny Leyva, not a starter, but everyone else definitely, you know, so I think, I think

1068
00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:55,520
we're looking at, you know, three players that are not started.

1069
00:56:55,520 --> 00:57:00,880
And then you look at, you know, Charlotte, that Charlotte lineup.

1070
00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:07,360
I mean, but Roth Rock's not starting for the Sounders this year, unless it's spot starts.

1071
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:10,600
He's no longer, he's fourth in line at that left mid problem.

1072
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:14,520
I know, but that's, that's what, that's the point is that that depth, not because of lack

1073
00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:15,520
of quality.

1074
00:57:15,520 --> 00:57:16,760
Oh no, I agree with that.

1075
00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:23,480
I agree with that, but I'm saying I, from who our projected starters are, we really

1076
00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:26,880
only had three players that were not regular starters.

1077
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:27,880
Okay.

1078
00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:28,880
Okay.

1079
00:57:28,880 --> 00:57:33,600
And JP, I think sadly is relegated to the backup now, even though it may, there may

1080
00:57:33,600 --> 00:57:36,280
be a point this season where he, he becomes a starter again.

1081
00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:41,440
I don't, I don't know what they'll do with Christian and throughout the season, but I

1082
00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:44,440
mean, I loved what I saw from him yesterday.

1083
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:45,440
Christian?

1084
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:46,440
JP.

1085
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:47,440
Okay.

1086
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:48,720
As I say, you loved him on the bench.

1087
00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:49,720
I loved him.

1088
00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:54,080
Yeah, although funny enough after the game, as we were leaving the stadium, we took our

1089
00:57:54,080 --> 00:57:55,320
sweet time.

1090
00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:58,080
We ran into Steph Fry walking over to the ferry.

1091
00:57:58,080 --> 00:57:59,080
Oh nice.

1092
00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:02,120
So Bernie was like, wait, is what?

1093
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:03,120
Yeah.

1094
00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:04,120
Yeah.

1095
00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:05,760
He walks to and from every game.

1096
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:06,760
Yeah.

1097
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:09,560
But JP, I thought had a great game.

1098
00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:12,360
Both JP and Danny Lava both had great games yesterday.

1099
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:14,840
I was very, very pleased to see that.

1100
00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:17,720
I mean, that's what we've come to expect from Danny.

1101
00:58:17,720 --> 00:58:22,440
So let me, let me, let me, let's go back to Alex's question then, because I think we were

1102
00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:26,680
talking about the subs, but then let's stop the subs in the game.

1103
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:28,720
What front three was more dangerous?

1104
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:33,560
Arreola, Ferreira and Pedro de la Vega or Rothrock, Rusnak, Georgie.

1105
00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:35,600
I guess Rusnak wasn't in this match.

1106
00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:38,400
We saw who was, who was paired with them at that point.

1107
00:58:38,400 --> 00:58:47,080
It was partially Pedro and partially blanking when the subs happened.

1108
00:58:47,080 --> 00:58:49,280
But Pedro played the full 90.

1109
00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:50,280
Okay.

1110
00:58:50,280 --> 00:58:51,760
So it was Pedro with Georgie and Rothrock.

1111
00:58:51,760 --> 00:58:55,520
I mean, I think Rusnak we've seen his passing.

1112
00:58:55,520 --> 00:58:56,520
So yeah.

1113
00:58:56,520 --> 00:59:03,880
And yeah, I mean, to me, first half, second half of this match versus last match in this

1114
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:05,360
match are the two questions.

1115
00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:10,900
Well, the thing is Paul Arreola and Jesus Ferreira have connected on, on multiple goals

1116
00:59:10,900 --> 00:59:12,200
now this season already.

1117
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:13,200
Yeah.

1118
00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:14,200
They clearly know.

1119
00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:15,200
Not even close.

1120
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:16,200
Yeah.

1121
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:21,320
So, so they kind of know, they know each other really well.

1122
00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:28,600
And that's just adding to, you know, that's just adding to our, our dynamic attack.

1123
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:31,440
And I think that's the word I really want to use is it's dynamic.

1124
00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:32,720
It is.

1125
00:59:32,720 --> 00:59:35,600
It's it's fun.

1126
00:59:35,600 --> 00:59:44,680
It's fun sitting in ECS watching the body language of defenders as Georgie's coming

1127
00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:47,840
up on the wing because it's one V one.

1128
00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:51,800
And each time I could just feel like the defenders like, Oh, fuck, here we go again.

1129
00:59:51,800 --> 00:59:53,480
What's he going to do this time?

1130
00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:58,120
And it's almost like they're guessing more than reacting.

1131
00:59:58,120 --> 01:00:02,080
And it's just really exciting.

1132
01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:09,600
Seeing Rothrock in front of me multiple times this last game, he was trying to cut to the

1133
01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:11,200
inside.

1134
01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:15,080
And I like that when, when he's mixing it up, sometimes he goes to the outside, but

1135
01:00:15,080 --> 01:00:22,400
like, I like when he's cutting to the inside because you get by that defender and now you're

1136
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:24,600
in golden position.

1137
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:26,760
It's a, you know, it's a high risk reward.

1138
01:00:26,760 --> 01:00:31,080
Unfortunately, if you don't get by them, you're, you're just turning the ball over in possession

1139
01:00:31,080 --> 01:00:32,520
right there.

1140
01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:41,400
But, but I thought that, I thought that they were balancing it out in, in different ways

1141
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:42,400
to attack.

1142
01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:47,320
And I really like seeing that where it's not just, and I think sometimes I see some comments

1143
01:00:47,320 --> 01:00:52,120
and it makes me laugh because I realized that we're so used to previous seasons.

1144
01:00:52,120 --> 01:00:53,480
Oh, here we go.

1145
01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:54,480
We're just doing this.

1146
01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:56,600
It's like, but we're not watch what we're doing.

1147
01:00:56,600 --> 01:00:59,080
Watch the different ways we're attacking.

1148
01:00:59,080 --> 01:01:05,680
And I've got to, I've got to say, I hope he's not getting it inside his own head because

1149
01:01:05,680 --> 01:01:10,640
Musavsky was creating dangerous opportunities.

1150
01:01:10,640 --> 01:01:12,000
I think he is getting in his eye.

1151
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:13,000
I do think so.

1152
01:01:13,000 --> 01:01:17,720
Unfortunately, I don't want to get several that he could have scored on that he just,

1153
01:01:17,720 --> 01:01:21,080
and that's, you know, and they weren't easy chances.

1154
01:01:21,080 --> 01:01:24,400
Like the one where the goalie spilled the ball and he just turned, cause he knew he

1155
01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:27,560
had, he, he just had to fire it and he went high.

1156
01:01:27,560 --> 01:01:29,840
He leaned back, it's, it's boobs over ball.

1157
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:30,840
Come on man.

1158
01:01:30,840 --> 01:01:37,040
He, but yeah, I mean, I think Danny, I mean, we, I, I spent some time talking to him last

1159
01:01:37,040 --> 01:01:38,680
year at the rave gala.

1160
01:01:38,680 --> 01:01:39,680
Nicest dude.

1161
01:01:39,680 --> 01:01:40,680
He wants to perform.

1162
01:01:40,680 --> 01:01:41,680
He feels that pressure.

1163
01:01:41,680 --> 01:01:46,280
And I think in that moment, he wants nothing more to succeed for the fans.

1164
01:01:46,280 --> 01:01:48,280
And there's a lot of pressure on him.

1165
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:51,200
And I think it'll get less throughout the season as he gets playing time.

1166
01:01:51,200 --> 01:01:52,880
That's something that he didn't get a lot of last year.

1167
01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:54,200
And so that was the problem.

1168
01:01:54,200 --> 01:01:58,600
I think it's also going to be a matter of, you know, when he gets that first one, I hope

1169
01:01:58,600 --> 01:02:00,240
to God it's at home.

1170
01:02:00,240 --> 01:02:04,480
I hope it's at home where he can have his Pedro moment.

1171
01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:10,640
Like yesterday, hearing the whole stadium screaming De La Vega and just, you could,

1172
01:02:10,640 --> 01:02:16,200
he seemed a little shy after the match though, Pedro, he didn't, when it was like Pedro Miamor,

1173
01:02:16,200 --> 01:02:19,040
he like clapped and was like sheepishly walking away.

1174
01:02:19,040 --> 01:02:21,440
I don't know if he likes that song.

1175
01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:28,440
I mean, it's, you know, is that going to be what the permanent song is or is a new song

1176
01:02:28,440 --> 01:02:29,440
going to evolve?

1177
01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:30,440
Who knows?

1178
01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:32,320
I don't think we had enough.

1179
01:02:32,320 --> 01:02:34,760
We didn't have enough reasons to use it last year.

1180
01:02:34,760 --> 01:02:38,880
So I think we got some work to do.

1181
01:02:38,880 --> 01:02:42,240
You know, things often kind of come organically on that.

1182
01:02:42,240 --> 01:02:47,120
I mean, for me, if we're talking about it, I know you believe that Georgie isn't a one

1183
01:02:47,120 --> 01:02:49,040
tool player.

1184
01:02:49,040 --> 01:02:50,560
I also believe that now.

1185
01:02:50,560 --> 01:02:52,600
Thank you.

1186
01:02:52,600 --> 01:02:57,920
But to me, there's, despite the fact they didn't score, they aren't going to score more

1187
01:02:57,920 --> 01:03:00,320
goals this early in season because we didn't finish.

1188
01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:09,020
But I think Arreola, Ferreira, PDLV is going to ultimately be more dangerous goal wise

1189
01:03:09,020 --> 01:03:11,160
than Rothrack, Rusnak and Georgie.

1190
01:03:11,160 --> 01:03:14,800
And it's only because you have more talent there.

1191
01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:24,280
I think if you throw in Rusnak in there for either Ferreira or Arreola, and I don't see

1192
01:03:24,280 --> 01:03:25,280
that's the problem.

1193
01:03:25,280 --> 01:03:27,720
We have four players that makes it really tough.

1194
01:03:27,720 --> 01:03:31,620
Either of those guys, I think you then are killer.

1195
01:03:31,620 --> 01:03:36,280
Like it's just an embarrassment of riches for the Sounders on the attack side right

1196
01:03:36,280 --> 01:03:37,280
now.

1197
01:03:37,280 --> 01:03:45,000
And then the blast being in the front of the stadium, front row of ECS.

1198
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:51,560
So almost eye level watching the pace that Arreola is putting on those crosses when he's

1199
01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:52,680
whipping a ball in.

1200
01:03:52,680 --> 01:03:59,680
Oh, it's going to beat that first man.

1201
01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:05,440
And then it just becomes a matter of, is it going to come in at enough of a, you know,

1202
01:04:05,440 --> 01:04:11,160
technique for someone to get on the end of it?

1203
01:04:11,160 --> 01:04:14,720
Really, really impressed with this team right now.

1204
01:04:14,720 --> 01:04:16,720
I'm very, very happy.

1205
01:04:16,720 --> 01:04:17,720
Yeah.

1206
01:04:17,720 --> 01:04:24,400
I will say the game was a little physical at times.

1207
01:04:24,400 --> 01:04:32,000
Their goalie took just a collision where Rothrack came flying in.

1208
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:37,000
Just couldn't avoid him and it made me cringe.

1209
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:38,000
Yeah.

1210
01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:41,600
Because on the opposite side, their goalie, when he got hurt in the game and was down

1211
01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:44,600
for a while, it was his own player that did it.

1212
01:04:44,600 --> 01:04:45,600
Oh no.

1213
01:04:45,600 --> 01:04:48,600
And that also happened.

1214
01:04:48,600 --> 01:04:49,600
That also happened.

1215
01:04:49,600 --> 01:04:55,600
I think that's when Musavsky went high because he came out, got his hand on it.

1216
01:04:55,600 --> 01:04:56,600
He injured his defender, right?

1217
01:04:56,600 --> 01:04:57,600
The goalie landed on his defender.

1218
01:04:57,600 --> 01:05:02,600
Exactly.

1219
01:05:02,600 --> 01:05:09,600
But then a few minutes later, Rothrack just cleaned him out and it wasn't intentional,

1220
01:05:09,600 --> 01:05:12,600
but it did look painful.

1221
01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:13,600
Yeah.

1222
01:05:13,600 --> 01:05:14,600
Totally.

1223
01:05:14,600 --> 01:05:17,600
So who was your man in the match?

1224
01:05:17,600 --> 01:05:20,600
Alex Diaz asked this and I think that's a good question.

1225
01:05:20,600 --> 01:05:23,600
I mean, you got to go Pedro with two goals.

1226
01:05:23,600 --> 01:05:24,600
It's just destroying.

1227
01:05:24,600 --> 01:05:28,600
But let's take away who was your secondary man of the match.

1228
01:05:28,600 --> 01:05:33,600
I mean, that's really kind of the more interesting question for me.

1229
01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:37,600
And I mean, Bell was solid.

1230
01:05:37,600 --> 01:05:38,600
Areola was solid.

1231
01:05:38,600 --> 01:05:41,600
It's tough, right?

1232
01:05:41,600 --> 01:05:43,600
For me, it's either JP or Danny Leyva.

1233
01:05:43,600 --> 01:05:45,600
I thought they just bossed.

1234
01:05:45,600 --> 01:05:50,600
I think JP, I would put above just a little bit above Leyva.

1235
01:05:50,600 --> 01:05:52,600
Leyva had a great game.

1236
01:05:52,600 --> 01:05:58,600
He didn't get as many opportunities to pass the ball up the field, which we've seen what he can do passing at an angle.

1237
01:05:58,600 --> 01:05:59,600
But he did.

1238
01:05:59,600 --> 01:06:06,600
He had a few up to Jordan that were fantastic that either bounced off the back of Jordan's feet or, you know,

1239
01:06:06,600 --> 01:06:14,600
I think that's going to be a very interesting process there to see the two connect throughout the season because we've seen

1240
01:06:14,600 --> 01:06:22,600
and I think maybe that's why Atencio became a little bit expendable was at the end of last season, we saw what Leyva could do on the field.

1241
01:06:22,600 --> 01:06:31,600
We saw the kind of passes he could put down and saw his continued development in a way that meant that he is going to get minutes.

1242
01:06:31,600 --> 01:06:36,600
I mean, taking it into account, it's probably JP.

1243
01:06:36,600 --> 01:06:41,600
I mean, he was 95 percent passing, went the full 90, 80 of 85.

1244
01:06:41,600 --> 01:06:54,600
So 80 of 84 passing, 96 touches, five for six on long balls, 83 percent, three for three on tackles, five clearances, seven recoveries.

1245
01:06:54,600 --> 01:06:58,600
Just had a really good game.

1246
01:06:58,600 --> 01:06:59,600
Two interceptions.

1247
01:06:59,600 --> 01:07:04,600
You know, he had a really good game.

1248
01:07:04,600 --> 01:07:11,600
Just but a lot of good stuff going all around.

1249
01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:15,600
Andrew Thomas came up when he needed to.

1250
01:07:15,600 --> 01:07:21,600
That goal, I'm not going to put any blame on Andrew Thomas on that one.

1251
01:07:21,600 --> 01:07:24,600
And he had some really good saves when he needed to.

1252
01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:25,600
Yeah, totally.

1253
01:07:25,600 --> 01:07:32,600
I actually felt bad for Andrew Thomas that on that goal that he didn't have a clean sheet because he deserved one.

1254
01:07:32,600 --> 01:07:34,600
I agree. I agree.

1255
01:07:34,600 --> 01:07:35,600
It's frustrating.

1256
01:07:35,600 --> 01:07:36,600
What about you?

1257
01:07:36,600 --> 01:07:39,600
So, yes, you're going with JP.

1258
01:07:39,600 --> 01:07:40,600
JP? Yeah.

1259
01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:41,600
Yeah.

1260
01:07:41,600 --> 01:07:43,600
I think we saw some flashes of what Danny can do.

1261
01:07:43,600 --> 01:07:45,600
Danny Moosa.

1262
01:07:45,600 --> 01:07:48,600
Danny the Moose is what I meant to say.

1263
01:07:48,600 --> 01:07:52,600
Danny Mazofsky off the bench could do.

1264
01:07:52,600 --> 01:07:54,600
Alex mentioned that he was a letdown.

1265
01:07:54,600 --> 01:08:02,600
But I think from where he was coming from last year, just seeing him get some minutes and get himself in really dangerous positions was huge.

1266
01:08:02,600 --> 01:08:08,600
And so hopefully he still gets those opportunities moving forward and he will start finishing those.

1267
01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:13,600
Let's do a thought thought process or thought exercise.

1268
01:08:13,600 --> 01:08:14,600
Yeah.

1269
01:08:14,600 --> 01:08:28,600
So the last basically the last four years in that role, we've had Danny Moosofsky, Eber, Freddie Montero, Dylan Tethers.

1270
01:08:28,600 --> 01:08:35,600
That's basically been our options up top in a backup role.

1271
01:08:35,600 --> 01:08:37,600
Would you am I missing someone?

1272
01:08:37,600 --> 01:08:38,600
I don't think so.

1273
01:08:38,600 --> 01:08:39,600
No one. No one.

1274
01:08:39,600 --> 01:08:49,600
One, the offensive positions are always going to be, you know, a bench player.

1275
01:08:49,600 --> 01:08:56,600
It's very hard to find that balance of getting dollars.

1276
01:08:56,600 --> 01:08:58,600
I mean, we're used to a Will Bruin type players, the thing.

1277
01:08:58,600 --> 01:08:59,600
Yeah.

1278
01:08:59,600 --> 01:09:01,600
And that's not realistic, probably.

1279
01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:02,600
No, no.

1280
01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:04,500
And that was that was kind of the

1281
01:09:04,500 --> 01:09:20,400
special circumstance for sure. But now with that said, I do think I do genuinely think Moosofsky is the best of those four for the for the role that they're being asked to play at this time.

1282
01:09:20,400 --> 01:09:29,400
I mean, I think at the time that the players came in, Eber was he was putting up basically the same numbers as well.

1283
01:09:29,400 --> 01:09:37,400
Per 90. Yeah, just, I think, aged out. He just yeah, I mean, his drop, his drop was alarming.

1284
01:09:37,400 --> 01:09:38,400
Yeah.

1285
01:09:38,400 --> 01:09:45,400
And I'm for yeah, like going into signing him. I was really excited about bringing in a neighbor.

1286
01:09:45,400 --> 01:09:53,400
Yeah, everything showed that he was going to be I wouldn't say a star, but he was he was a for a for talking like baseball, not AAA.

1287
01:09:53,400 --> 01:10:06,400
Like, here's a guy that's coming off the bench and could start for some teams. Exactly. So yeah, I yeah, that was but but you're I mean, Moosofsky, we've talked about it before in the show has been successful everywhere he's been but here.

1288
01:10:06,400 --> 01:10:19,400
But I still think there's time. There is. And so they believe in him because they kept him around as the backup. Yeah, he had a contract but he's getting paid enough that they couldn't get him to play.

1289
01:10:19,400 --> 01:10:29,400
And by the way, Eber is in the Chinese was in the Chinese Super League had eight goals last year and 24 appearances. Okay, just as a as an FYI.

1290
01:10:29,400 --> 01:10:39,400
I think I think he needed a change of pace. Got in his got in his own head and I hope that doesn't happen.

1291
01:10:39,400 --> 01:10:54,400
It was frustrated. You could see like I went to practices where he couldn't do anything. Well, he also had like a nagging injury after he scored his first you know, he scored early and then yeah, anyways.

1292
01:10:54,400 --> 01:10:57,400
So,

1293
01:10:57,400 --> 01:11:10,400
so great to see Rienzi get even just a short appearance in the game, you know, we signed him for short term learn clearly at fan family there too because he was he was pretty excited.

1294
01:11:10,400 --> 01:11:35,400
Waving at them after the game. Now, what I really liked is the fact that we subbed on Musavsky in the 46 minute the beginning of second half. We subbed on new who and Roth Rock in the 57th minute, and then Georgie in the 74th minute so so we, we found a good way to balance getting

1295
01:11:35,400 --> 01:11:50,400
Jordan off early getting game are getting who's the other player oh I Paul areola off early and I think that's going to come into play on Saturday so I thought I thought that was encouraging to see.

1296
01:11:50,400 --> 01:11:59,400
Do you think the game are I mean when you mark him off it was two to one game. Yeah. Do you think taking him off.

1297
01:11:59,400 --> 01:12:14,400
I mean, I think that's one of the options here is it just that he's older, and that's going to happen more often, which I think is a strong possibilities clearly at the present moment, not at the fitness level he was most of last year,

1298
01:12:14,400 --> 01:12:29,400
he was missing a step or just the season just started yet to be seen. Do you think it was that or do you think it was, we don't want another, like if he if he gives up another late goal like that.

1299
01:12:29,400 --> 01:12:38,400
It couldn't really hurt his his head at the moment and so it was almost like get him off so that he doesn't have a chance to make a mistake, because we've seen him make quite a few.

1300
01:12:38,400 --> 01:12:49,400
But I don't think it's that, because we still had a little bit to play with we had a little bit of, you know, I don't I don't think it was that.

1301
01:12:49,400 --> 01:12:56,400
I think it's we're going to see that happen a little bit more next time it might be Jackson Reagan, you know, previously it's been you knew who.

1302
01:12:56,400 --> 01:13:09,400
I think we're being afforded this opportunity to change up and sub, because now we've got two more games added to our schedule.

1303
01:13:09,400 --> 01:13:26,400
And I'm recognizing that you, you cannot just go oh yeah well game are in Jackson King go the full 90. No, you gotta find opportunities to get them little rest here and there.

1304
01:13:26,400 --> 01:13:45,400
And also, not a bad idea to make sure players like Jonathan Bell, make sure players like Danny Lava get more minutes in cup competition, given that we may be needing them as we, you know, we take on the cruises rules of the

1305
01:13:45,400 --> 01:14:02,400
game, just in general and getting them more minutes so that when they come on they've already had minutes that let them be in position to succeed now because they've, they're, they're fresh. Yeah, and interestingly enough sharp, excuse me sharp, they're fresh because because they're having breaks but they're sharp because they're getting minutes.

1306
01:14:02,400 --> 01:14:16,400
I'm gonna go quick before you say that, because we mentioned john bell. How lucky are we to have a player that can start at left back start at center back and move in between them in the game i mean the, the fact that he was able to move over was awesome.

1307
01:14:16,400 --> 01:14:24,400
Well we have two of them knew who could do it as well you know I was actually surprised I thought knew who might come in at center back but clearly they like john bell better at that position.

1308
01:14:24,400 --> 01:14:41,400
Uh, we have a lot of tactical flexibility in our in our roster, and that's not just limited to our, our offense. I mean keep in mind Alex rolled on as a right back but he plays plays center attacking.

1309
01:14:41,400 --> 01:14:59,400
He plays attacking center attacking mid and off the off the wing for El Salvador. When, when he was playing with them I don't think he's going to be playing with them much anymore, because their Federation doesn't really have their shit together, and there were

1310
01:14:59,400 --> 01:15:11,400
some. Yeah, there were problems with the players getting paid. And so, they were refusing contracts call ups and going on strike.

1311
01:15:11,400 --> 01:15:23,400
So unfortunately, until until they get something sorted out. We may not see much of Alex and El Salvador, going forward even though he was a former captain of them.

1312
01:15:23,400 --> 01:15:38,400
They just they just got a new coach. So at least that's a move in the right direction, Hernan Dario Gomez. Well that also happened if you even you were Joven Jones, also maybe there's maybe there's change in the foot so that could, because I know that happened with

1313
01:15:38,400 --> 01:16:04,400
Kevin Tobago with Joven Jones. They were having similar issues a few years ago. Sometimes, sometimes countries that don't have strong high level soccer. These international games are unfortunately ripe for exploitation and and corruption.

1314
01:16:04,400 --> 01:16:13,400
And we saw Chuck Lazer, and many other people in CONCACAF. Yeah, I mean it was CONCACAF Champions League but what was that one.

1315
01:16:13,400 --> 01:16:27,400
The one owner who I feel like maybe it was a club from Trinidad, who made it he was like 50 and he put himself on the team and he was out there playing in a Champions League match.

1316
01:16:27,400 --> 01:16:30,400
Unbelievable.

1317
01:16:30,400 --> 01:16:35,400
Any other any other things of note from the game yesterday.

1318
01:16:35,400 --> 01:16:48,400
No, it was exciting. I think some of the non scoring, we will see more of once the game once, you know, Jordan's one on ones.

1319
01:16:48,400 --> 01:17:04,400
Roth Rock. I think Roth Rock is probably a little not sharp, just because he hasn't been getting minutes. I mean he started last game but he even in preseason he was only playing, you know, 45 minutes tops.

1320
01:17:04,400 --> 01:17:33,400
So, Pedro has taken over that midfield. He's the, as we saw in preseason so I think as more minutes get played early in the season we're going to see a lot more success from our offense because we see that the game of the ball, I will say I was frustrated that at half time, just before the half, when we were still dangerous still pushing we just started passing it around instead of trying to have one more chance because we had their backs against the wall and couldn't finish it and it really bugged me.

1321
01:17:33,400 --> 01:17:42,400
But ultimately obviously it didn't matter but I would have liked to see us throw a few more crosses into the box just to try and make something dangerous happen.

1322
01:17:42,400 --> 01:17:44,400
Yeah.

1323
01:17:44,400 --> 01:17:57,400
And by the way, just in case you're like me and you have a wandering I, you can get the Mexico City right now for that March 10 match under 500 bucks.

1324
01:17:57,400 --> 01:18:03,400
Yeah, I looked at arrow Mexico and it was a little expensive but that sounds better.

1325
01:18:03,400 --> 01:18:17,400
But yeah, so so just something to think about and I know arrow Mexico does have a non stop and that doesn't suck. It's almost worth because I know 550 I see I see a non stop

1326
01:18:17,400 --> 01:18:22,400
round and you can take them one way and come back on another flight I think they are much cheaper down than they are coming back.

1327
01:18:22,400 --> 01:18:37,400
Exactly. And then and yeah, back in the day, what was really nice is back in the day Southwest flew to Mexico City. So for the 2016 Champions League I went to.

1328
01:18:37,400 --> 01:18:51,400
I went through Southwest. Unfortunately they they cut off that line because that was really affordable. Yeah, I think when I went. Well, 2013 maybe 2014 somewhere in there for my birthday.

1329
01:18:51,400 --> 01:19:01,400
I was on Alaska but we had standby passes so it was free two bucks, but coming back you don't forget you do have to pay the country of Mexico a fee to leave the country.

1330
01:19:01,400 --> 01:19:05,400
So you have to add that on. I think we paid 60.

1331
01:19:05,400 --> 01:19:16,400
Yeah, I mean the the hotel I always stay at is usually it's like a three star three star equivalent here kind of like a courtyard Marriott type of vibe.

1332
01:19:16,400 --> 01:19:25,400
In the Roma district Roma district within a 20 minute walk of four of the top 50 bars in the world.

1333
01:19:25,400 --> 01:19:36,400
You can walk to Lucha Libre if you want to go check out some luchador wrestling matches Nicholas I thought we weren't supposed to walk alone in the city of Mexico.

1334
01:19:36,400 --> 01:19:37,400
Oops.

1335
01:19:37,400 --> 01:19:57,400
One of my favorite memories is walking with my buddy John. Mexico City at night just going okay we're not going to cross these four streets and gave ourselves like a, you know, a, you know, a, you know, walking from one street to the other if we were going all the way it'd be like a 45 minute walk,

1336
01:19:57,400 --> 01:20:04,400
give it give ourselves a huge wide area to walk and just wander. Yeah, it's, I love that city so much.

1337
01:20:04,400 --> 01:20:07,400
Anyway, so, so back to the game.

1338
01:20:07,400 --> 01:20:19,400
I have nothing else to add to have any more scuttlebutt about the game. I don't think so I think just, you know, we've got RSL coming up, which we will talk about we've got Cruz Azul.

1339
01:20:19,400 --> 01:20:31,400
Eric 13 s What do you think the rotation will be with four hard games in the next 11 days because we also have lafc of course on the eighth.

1340
01:20:31,400 --> 01:20:54,400
You are so okay calf. Yes, yes you you you have to bring your best possible lineups and not the code of our best possible lineups that that need the rotations you bring your best possible lineups for the two matches Oh someone asked a really interesting question I can't

1341
01:20:54,400 --> 01:21:08,400
answer that. But it was yeah it was Alex DS again in competitions like this. Would you rather have the home league first or be away first, rather play away from home in the first leg and finish the match at home.

1342
01:21:08,400 --> 01:21:22,400
Yeah, I think that's usually my, my preferred matchup and as a matter of fact the way this tournament is set up is that based on the results in the previous round that's kind of determines who's going to be the home team and who's going to be the away

1343
01:21:22,400 --> 01:21:35,400
so it's a benefit to be the home team first. No, it's benefit to be the home team second. Oh yes, yes, correct. Which I just assume that Cruz Azul is a higher seed than us that's why we didn't get it.

1344
01:21:35,400 --> 01:21:44,400
I believe it's because Cruz Azul in the previous round had more

1345
01:21:44,400 --> 01:21:58,400
goals. Or actually you know what I may have that back it may also be and I got to think about this. It may also have been that.

1346
01:21:58,400 --> 01:22:17,400
Yeah, because they won five nothing on their one leg and two nothing on the other syrup seven nothing, but it may also be that the first two legs were predetermined by seeding and then in the next round. It's based on the results in the first two rounds of the tournament.

1347
01:22:17,400 --> 01:22:22,400
Either way I don't like that. I mean it takes into consideration.

1348
01:22:22,400 --> 01:22:33,400
Those things. Yeah, I mean, let's see Cruz Azul yeah because the teams, the team Cruz Azul played was much easier than us. But it's a draw.

1349
01:22:33,400 --> 01:22:41,400
It's not like that's just how the draw went, you know, the draws were random, you know, it's so that that happens.

1350
01:22:41,400 --> 01:22:57,400
Anyways, the other thing that was interesting is keep in mind the Sounders have not lost a CONCACAF Champions League game since 2018. They're on I believe an 11 or a 12 game unbeaten streak.

1351
01:22:57,400 --> 01:23:17,400
That's very impressive to see that very impressive. And, and this is this is just the, this is just the payoff of years of emphasizing even like the inaugural leagues Cup showcase where only eight teams were involved.

1352
01:23:17,400 --> 01:23:31,400
All the way down to us scheduling friendlies against, you know, Tijuana against Boca. That's who we were supposed to be playing against us prove that we could hang with them.

1353
01:23:31,400 --> 01:23:35,400
Exactly. So it's just so great to see.

1354
01:23:35,400 --> 01:23:46,400
I'm not gonna say it, I'm not gonna go full a team. I'm not gonna do it, but it's great to see that, that planning payoff.

1355
01:23:46,400 --> 01:24:00,400
Yeah, so, so really well done by Garth, because that was a Garth thing to to prepare the team for those things. And, and obviously Brian Schmitzer.

1356
01:24:00,400 --> 01:24:12,400
It's almost taken for granted sometimes when when you hear him say it. But we're the Seattle Sounders we play to win every competition that we're in.

1357
01:24:12,400 --> 01:24:28,400
Not true, but yes, I disagree. I don't think we play MLS I think we play to win MLS playoffs, but not them. No, I disagree playing to win does not necessarily mean it's your starting 11 your best starting 11 each time.

1358
01:24:28,400 --> 01:24:44,400
I guess so I would I would argue it is because then you would want to win but also we know that Brian likes to disobey orders on who to bench so maybe he does mean that when he's playing players that are supposed to be sitting and resting.

1359
01:24:44,400 --> 01:24:48,400
Because he he has a different.

1360
01:24:48,400 --> 01:24:50,400
What's, what's the word.

1361
01:24:50,400 --> 01:24:52,400
It's his butt on the line. Yeah.

1362
01:24:52,400 --> 01:24:58,400
You know, I mean as a, as a manager.

1363
01:24:58,400 --> 01:25:01,400
You're hired to be fired. Yeah.

1364
01:25:01,400 --> 01:25:21,400
So, so back to the rotation question. Yeah, I just think I think we put on the the the top players in this case I expect to see our ideal starting 11 for both cruises all games or at least the first cruiser was all game at home is going to be our, our, you know, our best 11.

1365
01:25:21,400 --> 01:25:28,400
The only question I have is, will it be rust snack, or will it be ariola.

1366
01:25:28,400 --> 01:25:37,400
I mean, to me that's everyone else we know who's going to be playing if they if we're playing our best 11 that's, that's what it's going to come down to is which of those two players.

1367
01:25:37,400 --> 01:25:39,400
Yeah.

1368
01:25:39,400 --> 01:25:42,400
So we'll see.

1369
01:25:42,400 --> 01:25:45,400
So, so great, great stuff. Yeah.

1370
01:25:45,400 --> 01:25:55,400
So let's talk RSL real quick. We let's we can leave Cruz Azul till after this because I'm sure we'll have time to talk them in between matches there so yeah.

1371
01:25:55,400 --> 01:26:01,400
We're playing at Salt Lake Saturday, March 1 at 1 30pm.

1372
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Traveling out to Sandy Utah is never easy as we talk is that 130 our time or 130 mountain time. It's 130 our time. Okay.

1373
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Because that's what FIFA, I mean sorry. Google is telling me and it tells me local time yes all times are Pacific.

1374
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According to Google Salt Lake is a 39% chance of winning we have a 32% chance and there's a 29% chance of a draw.

1375
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I think that's fair, considering we haven't won there since 2012.

1376
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Yeah.

1377
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I also love that it's part of now we're going to have matches all day long on Apple not just in at 730pm or whatever. So we can again watch soccer all day.

1378
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Yeah.

1379
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Oh you sound disappointed.

1380
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I'm not gonna be. I need to sleep at some point during the day. Well you only need to watch the Sounders match you don't need to watch the rest.

1381
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But, but I really I really was enjoying the 360 watch around show in the, in the first, first week of the season so so we'll see.

1382
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Yeah, so who should we look out for do you think from RSL side have you been. Did you get a chance to look at anything that they've.

1383
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Oh yeah, right now they're a fucking hot mess. Yeah. They are. They are struggling right now.

1384
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So, really, they they they lost their, their best players over the offseason.

1385
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So taking a quick look at who's in who started yesterday.

1386
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Yeah.

1387
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Yeah, I don't.

1388
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I don't want to say I don't fear them.

1389
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But they got their, you know they they.

1390
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They got their asses handed them against RS, I got San Jose on week one. Yeah.

1391
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Then they lost in Champions League.

1392
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So, really, I mean, I don't even want to say Diego Luna might be the closest thing they got to, you know, dangerous Pablo Ruiz, but they're just, I don't know, I hope I hope they don't figure it out over the next, you know, four days.

1393
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I mean, it would be surprising their fans are in a revolt right now, because they sold off their best players and raise ticket prices, yet didn't bring anyone in to replace them.

1394
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Also, they raised beer prices a domestic beers now 1499 in their stadium.

1395
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They have beer in Utah.

1396
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Yeah, you can get beer in Utah only on certain days and sometimes it might be near beer but the craft beers are 1699 that's what's way more than we pay isn't it.

1397
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I don't know I don't drink beer at the stadium. Yeah, I try to avoid it right now. So, yeah, it's, it's their fans are upset they they're upset with the players quality they have.

1398
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I feel like they are where Sounders fans were at last year, but with proper reason to be there.

1399
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Yeah, I think that that's probably fair.

1400
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So we'll see I mean losing to them would be bad.

1401
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It would not reflect well on on this team, I think we have to get a draw there in my opinion.

1402
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I don't want to use ultimatums. You like we just had this conversation losing already dropped two points to Charlotte, we can't. Yeah, I get that.

1403
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But let's put it this way. What would what would be nice is getting our first win there since 2012 and I think only our third win all time there. Yeah, I mean I'm with a draw at this point.

1404
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But, but I mean yeah if we can get a win there, to me, that cancels out the Charlotte. Yeah, you know because because because a draw in RSL and a win at home, you know that that cancels that out so points does, I mean it come back to hurt us in.

1405
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So that was the year where we went to that matchup and did you come up with us into the in Vancouver in the suite, and then no founders know that game and we fell out of first place and finished I think third instead.

1406
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Yeah, because that was your Colorado one though. Yeah, conference. Yeah, so it was it was rough like Sounders dropping points in matches that they should that they look like they were going to win really, really came back to bite us that year so I mean those, though, let's be honest,

1407
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that game is going to drop matches in the course of a season.

1408
01:30:58,400 --> 01:31:07,400
We have a natural proclivity to remember when it happens to us. So that that's going to happen.

1409
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Right now, as long as we keep looking like we're playing attacking dynamic soccer like this. I'm not going to. It sounds weird but I'm not going to worry as much about the results right now and focus on Champions League, Champions Cup.

1410
01:31:27,400 --> 01:31:47,400
As long as we're looking like we've got the talent to win these games I think gone are the days where we're punting a midweek game against Austin with five teenagers and three of them being call ups and Raul Ruedas against Austin.

1411
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Yeah.

1412
01:31:48,400 --> 01:31:53,400
So, that's a great thing that that's definitely a great thing.

1413
01:31:53,400 --> 01:31:57,400
I even believe.

1414
01:31:57,400 --> 01:32:09,400
I mean, honestly, in our worst case scenario, our starting attacker is is Danny was off ski.

1415
01:32:09,400 --> 01:32:20,400
But then you look at any of the attackers behind them. And that's still a lot of talent to put some chances up there. Yeah, agreed.

1416
01:32:20,400 --> 01:32:32,400
I just I can't say it enough. It's it's it's such an impressive roster right now. I mean, I would I would expect our starting lineup to be Danny up top.

1417
01:32:32,400 --> 01:32:47,400
Yeah, I mean Jordan wants it but I think he's got to sit sometime he didn't sit. I guess he only played a half. So potentially, he could but I'd like I would love to see him fresh for the match at home on Wednesday.

1418
01:32:47,400 --> 01:32:53,400
Yeah, because that's coming up that Tuesday, Tuesday, March 4. Oh, it's Tuesday now. Okay.

1419
01:32:53,400 --> 01:33:02,400
Well, wait, they they match was Wednesday last night. So it's it's a guy like our tickets, our tickets were called.

1420
01:33:02,400 --> 01:33:14,400
Your card is being charged tonight. Get your tickets now. Cruises or March 5, March 5. Okay. Foot Mob has not updated their, their thing.

1421
01:33:14,400 --> 01:33:30,400
Yeah, because I think we largely have had the I think the other side of the bracket has had those Tuesday games. Okay, so far. So Wednesday, and then, you know, I, you could have any combination of those but I would expect Georgie and Rothrock to start again.

1422
01:33:30,400 --> 01:33:43,400
It's hard for me to make a prediction on this but at the same time, they've got options, they've got a lot of options. Yeah, I just think it's better seeing you know Russ knack, like you did, or just a player like that coming off the bench.

1423
01:33:43,400 --> 01:33:53,400
I mean, I won't say Russ knack as he could start, he might they might want to give him the minutes. It's better to see our starters come off the bench than to start and take them off after 45 minutes, generally, is what I think.

1424
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Because you might not need them.

1425
01:33:55,400 --> 01:34:09,400
But speaking of which, we need to kind of talk really quick about our winners from yesterday's match as far as our prediction standing. So, I think that's a good way to end the show. Are we done? Are we done with RSL?

1426
01:34:09,400 --> 01:34:27,400
So, prediction. Well, yeah, we'll talk about we can we can talk about our prediction right now. One one is I'm going to say for RSL. I'm going to say to nothing else. Yeah, I love it. I do. I think this I think it's time. Good. It is time. It is time. I mean, we are a much better team.

1427
01:34:27,400 --> 01:34:32,400
They should not be a threat. We should win this. This is a game. This is one of those games we should win.

1428
01:34:32,400 --> 01:34:53,400
So, with that in mind, we had not one but two people get all five points. They predicted not only the correct final score, they also took the over and they also they also got the they also got the.

1429
01:34:53,400 --> 01:35:07,400
Are you falling asleep over there? What's happening? No, I'm I'm looking at the the chart and I'm I'm wondering if I somehow screwed up my sorting. So, I gotta go check the I gotta go check the thing. I we had two people get everything right.

1430
01:35:07,400 --> 01:35:27,400
But now, I just need to make sure over yes and then because I think when I pasted it in it, something didn't work right but the points the points are correct. So, the two people that got everything right were the gentleman that was sitting right next to me, Eric, Eric thirteen.

1431
01:35:27,400 --> 01:35:35,400
Yeah. And Jeff Ram. So, congratulations to both of you.

1432
01:35:35,400 --> 01:35:52,400
I know I only scored. Why should I score the取 right. Well, for me, um, one didn't like what this girl was going to be. Do you have What's that? I thought I said three one but I must not have. You put in here Let's see here you put Cameron, I know I got the

1433
01:35:52,400 --> 01:36:01,680
I got the score right? Yeah. Yep. You took the under. Oh, there you go. So you took the

1434
01:36:01,680 --> 01:36:10,000
under you said it was going to be two, two, one, two, one. Okay. Yeah, two, one. Yeah.

1435
01:36:10,000 --> 01:36:18,400
And then so you got you got the three points. I got two points. Our our colleague in San

1436
01:36:18,400 --> 01:36:25,520
Diego got two points. But yeah, so I think what I'll probably do is I got to I got to

1437
01:36:25,520 --> 01:36:32,560
sort this out and make sure that I'm not sure why I the sorting got all funky. But you have

1438
01:36:32,560 --> 01:36:36,160
who who's number one on the season so far? Well, that's what I was just about to get

1439
01:36:36,160 --> 01:36:41,280
to is I got to double check that stuff. So I think I think we'll probably maybe we'll

1440
01:36:41,280 --> 01:36:47,280
release that in in in the near future once I get that sorted out, make sure we're all

1441
01:36:47,280 --> 01:36:50,960
good there. So if you're not on our discord, join our discord because that's where you

1442
01:36:50,960 --> 01:36:56,560
get a chance to put in these picks so that you can be a part of the contest. And also

1443
01:36:57,680 --> 01:37:04,000
that's where you can see the results. Yeah. So some good times. They if you are not on

1444
01:37:04,000 --> 01:37:08,320
there, the discord, of course, will be a link will be available in the show description.

1445
01:37:09,280 --> 01:37:15,680
That's probably a good idea. We should do that. All right. Well, Cameron, do you got anything

1446
01:37:15,680 --> 01:37:30,080
else to add? No, I think that's good. I think that I'm looking forward to this weekend and

1447
01:37:30,080 --> 01:37:34,320
seeing what the Sounders can do in a difficult location. How about you?

1448
01:37:36,480 --> 01:37:43,520
You mean like the back of a Volkswagen? Yeah. Yes. Yes, Shannon.

1449
01:37:43,520 --> 01:37:55,440
There we go. I am. They can find me at Instagram at Cascades to see Twitter at Nikita Banana.

1450
01:37:56,400 --> 01:38:01,440
And then I don't know. I'm blue sky. I'll probably have to just think you don't have one yet.

1451
01:38:02,240 --> 01:38:08,640
I do. I just don't know what it is. I barely touch base on it. Yeah, I'm legal minded punk

1452
01:38:08,640 --> 01:38:16,560
on everything. Go Sounders and I don't know, give any last wise words before James takes it away.

1453
01:38:19,120 --> 01:38:26,640
No, no wise words at all. Just keep up the fun. Let's get some points. Points are good. Points

1454
01:38:26,640 --> 01:38:33,120
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1455
01:38:33,120 --> 01:38:39,680
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1456
01:38:39,680 --> 01:38:44,720
keep doing this. I agree. We love you all and we'll see you next time.

1457
01:38:47,120 --> 01:38:53,360
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1458
01:38:53,920 --> 01:38:59,360
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1459
01:38:59,360 --> 01:39:06,640
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1460
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1461
01:39:12,800 --> 01:39:20,080
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1462
01:39:20,640 --> 01:39:23,120
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1463
01:39:23,120 --> 01:39:26,240
Alexa, who's the best MLS team of all time?

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Alexa, who's the best MLS team of all time?