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We Admit We Do Not Know Soccer And That Is The Point

Bosco Pearson, Joe Pogue, Shyrod Long, Steve McBride & Christian Upshaw Episode 280

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Soccer has us in a chokehold, and we are not even pretending to be experts. We are honest about what we do not know, we laugh at ourselves, and then we get serious about why the World Cup is so addictive. From offside confusion to celebration discourse, we dig into the vibes, the storylines, and the feeling that something always gets weird when power, money, and global sports politics collide.

We also take a hard left into pop culture, because that is what we do. A horror movie mix-up becomes a run through comedies and streaming, then a shipwreck documentary spirals into the real question: how long would any of us survive in the ocean without a life vest? From there we hit a surprisingly heated topic, why so many blockbuster superheroes and “American” characters are played by UK actors, and what accents, identity, and representation look like when you start paying attention.

Then the episode opens up into bigger sports culture debates: the $10 million now vs $1 million ten years ago question, whether money can buy happiness, and how pay-to-play youth sports shapes who even gets a shot. We talk soccer development in the United States, the participation trophy mindset, the cost of hockey, and why elite talent pipelines reward resources as much as skill. We close with a strong take on age limits in college sports and the blunt reality of getting cut in pro leagues.

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Welcome And Soccer Confessions

SPEAKER_08

Hello.

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We are here for another week. Two weeks in a row.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, shit.

SPEAKER_01

Welcome to the Nobody's Talking podcast. This is your boy Bosco, and I can't wait to talk more about soccer. Yes. I know the NFL is just a couple weeks away, but I love football, but I don't need to talk about it. I like talking about soccer because I don't know what I'm talking about. Football, I kind of know a little bit more. So in soccer, I don't know nothing. So I'm just letting it fly. I'm just off sides. Sucks. But I understand it. I'll tell y'all about that. Okay. Sit to my left. You know who it is. This is your boy Rod. And to my left.

SPEAKER_00

Morning on the rodeo. Rodeo Joe, baby. And to my left.

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The man is in the building.

SPEAKER_00

Let me see what we got as a pull.

SPEAKER_01

Alright, folks.

Horror Movie Mix-Up And Comedy Picks

SPEAKER_01

Now, I will start off by saying I did go see Evil Dead Burn. And for some reason, I'm looking it up real quick. I thought it had something to do with uh Resident Evil. And actually, I got confused real quick because I thought Evil Dead Burn was Resident Evil. I thought it was Resident Evil, Evil Dead Burn. Like a like a spin-off of it? But Resident Evil don't come out until September 18th. So we already told y'all we don't fact chat. So if y'all gonna believe anything we say on this show, shame on you.

SPEAKER_03

Don't you don't look up half the stuff.

SPEAKER_01

Like I'm gonna talk about these offsize rules in soccer. I don't know what I'm talking about. I just like to watch. And this excitement. I think I've got three. I think I'm about to go get another soccer jersey. First of all. I had some already. Yeah. They just weren't teams. They just regular, just like dry fit Nike soccer shirts. First of all. Shout out to Let's go, Spain.

SPEAKER_04

Let's go España.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, Spain gotta win, dog. Come on, Spain. I got another another question real quick. What's that dude making a monkey face? I'm just gonna get it out there. I did people can tell me about the whole celebration. I've seen the old guy, they say it has something to do with, you know, when they celebrate like this. But everybody I've seen, they even do it on a video game. I've not seen one person make a face.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. I mean, it looks like this, but it's crazy because all the stuff that's going on going around about Argentina and you know.

SPEAKER_01

Hey, if they had a few black people, we wouldn't say nothing. Say nothing. But and we're this is not even a salacious podcast. But if you are listening to us in Argentina, please reach out. Nobody's talking podcast. Uh that's our that's yeah, that's our IG. And just let me know if that was a monkey face or not. Oh, I hold on, where's my phone? I'll tell you what your chick said. Hold on. I'm gonna get my phone. Y'all go ahead and talk to each other.

SPEAKER_00

My phone, bro. We don't know shit about soccer.

SPEAKER_01

Fortunately for you, you go to y'all.

SPEAKER_00

I don't know shit about hockey. No, I know I know something about soccer. You know, you might be able to tell me something about hockey. I can tell you something about soccer too. Can't football.

unknown

Right?

SPEAKER_05

Hootball?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I'm calling it soccer.

SPEAKER_05

I still can't call it football. Football. That's what it's called? Yeah, everywhere else except for here. Oh. It's called foot football. Oh, football. Or football. Football.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, okay. Which makes actual sense. Yeah, I think it's right.

SPEAKER_05

It does make sense that it's called football or football because you are cook kicking it with your feet.

SPEAKER_01

So why do they start calling our football football?

SPEAKER_05

It's American football. Because of the the size of the ball. It's a foot.

SPEAKER_01

One foot long. See, no, listen. That's why I was like, I've been playing football my whole life. Or maybe I heard that before and forgot.

SPEAKER_05

I'm gonna fact check. But I have no idea.

SPEAKER_00

We don't fact-check here just in case you wonder. But it sounds good. Yeah, it's good. It sounds good. It sounds feasible. It's like a pound cake is called a pound cake because every ingredient is a pound.

SPEAKER_04

Right. It makes you gain a pound every time you eat a slice. Yeah, hell yeah.

SPEAKER_01

That sounds about right.

SPEAKER_00

Every ingredient is a pound. Okay, oh that popped up.

SPEAKER_01

Pound of butter.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, so it is a pound of sugar, pound of flour. It popped right up. I didn't even have to finish typing it. That's because AI was listening to you. For real. It is called Americ is called football in America because the sport evolved directly from English rugby, which was a variation of football.

SPEAKER_01

So why do you so why is rugby called rugby?

SPEAKER_05

Instead of football.

SPEAKER_01

Instead of football.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. And how no, for real.

SPEAKER_05

Historically in the 19th century, the term football referred generally to any ball game played on foot rather than horseback.

SPEAKER_01

So we had called it basket football. Foot basketball. Basketball. Foot basketball?

SPEAKER_05

That was a movie, right? Basketball. That's hilarious.

SPEAKER_01

Oh yeah, I I don't think. If I saw it, I forgot about it.

SPEAKER_05

Nah, I never seen that. Those dudes are rich as hell. What the basketball people? Yeah, the Parker, the dude that did South Park. There's one too. Oh I don't even know. Yeah, they're rich as hell.

SPEAKER_01

I don't know that.

unknown

I don't know that either.

SPEAKER_01

I told you, I don't even think I've seen the movie. I remember it.

SPEAKER_00

I remember it, but I I don't know if I went all the way through it or not. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

I mean, it's it's you know, it's dumb comedy, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01

I mean, we all I mean we watch.

SPEAKER_04

Hey, comedy is comedy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

We we watch dumb comedies.

SPEAKER_04

A A Ron.

unknown

Hey.

SPEAKER_01

I watched Reno 911. Yeah, that's very dumb comedy.

SPEAKER_04

That shit was hilarious. Yeah. Coming out with another. That was so funny.

SPEAKER_01

They need to come out with a newer.

SPEAKER_00

What you want with that was Reno 911. Another one where they had the same cat or something. Super Trooper 3 is coming out this year.

SPEAKER_05

August 7th. I don't remember. Oh, damn. That's a couple of years.

SPEAKER_04

They all made it together, me, but I just remember it was hilarious.

SPEAKER_05

It's the same cast and everything. Oh, they got the same cast? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, yeah, that's gonna be funny. Yeah, that's gonna be hilarious.

SPEAKER_05

I did just watch another movie. I know Little Brother on Netflix. That was pretty funny. With um John Cena and uh Eric Eric Andrew. Oh, Eric and Andre. Andre, yeah, I ain't gonna. Yeah, that was pretty funny.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I saw the clips. So did Kevin Hart come out yet? No, I don't think that came out until like next year. Later, yeah. Later.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. Like, what's it called? Like 26 or I don't know.

SPEAKER_01

72 hours, 26 hours, something like that. That's what it's called. I did start watching uh once again, I started watching too late though.

Shipwreck Fears And Ocean Survival

SPEAKER_01

Uh Shipwreck. Oh, okay. I'll much rather be on that poop cruise because I am not very Michael Phelps like. So that shipwreck, the poop cruise, you just kind of like okay, you know, it's boo-boo and all that. But the shipwreck, oh my goodness toilets are backed up. Yeah, on the poop cruise. I'd rather that than the shipwreck. No, I'd rather that than a shipwreck. When the damn boat is leaning, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

How far are you from land?

SPEAKER_01

I forget how far they were.

SPEAKER_05

Too far from him. I haven't sorry, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

That's why I said I'm not very saltwater now.

SPEAKER_05

He's too far from all of us. You a good swimmer? Uh not really. You're a good swimmer?

SPEAKER_04

I know. When you know how.

SPEAKER_01

Man, Joe, you are so matter-of-fact, boy. Our bones are too dense.

SPEAKER_04

You got you have to relax. You have to be able to relax or float.

SPEAKER_01

Nigga, as soon as you go two feet, you're gonna be tired as hell swimming in that water. It's salt water.

SPEAKER_04

So you saying you can just turn over in your back and float?

SPEAKER_00

Just float.

SPEAKER_04

Just float.

SPEAKER_00

Just float. You gotta relax.

SPEAKER_04

You gotta relax. Well, if sharks come over from our body.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, we need to see this. Sharks don't come over from the floor. You do all the commotion. So now you'll hell. Man, no. I'd rather run try to run 800 meters in. Wait, no. You can run two laps in four minutes, I think. Because the pros do it in a minute, something. I'd rather try to run 800 meters in three minutes and 30 seconds than try to float with some damn salt water.

SPEAKER_05

Three minutes, 30 seconds?

SPEAKER_01

800 meters? Dude, the profession, professionals. Oh, you can do it, not professionals do it in a minute.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, I know. Not 800.

SPEAKER_01

No, no. 800.

SPEAKER_04

The 800.

SPEAKER_01

No, the 800, the 800, they do it in just under two minutes. So that's why I was like, I think I can run two laps in like three minutes, three minutes and 30 seconds, I think.

SPEAKER_05

Okay. I can't. I know I can't. We barely made it around that. I'm gonna turn a second.

SPEAKER_03

I'm getting realistic.

SPEAKER_01

I'm thinking about it. He said he's gonna tread the water.

SPEAKER_04

I'm just gonna be like that. Nah, a dog.

SPEAKER_05

A dog. Oh, dog paddle. Right. I mean, how long realistic you realistically do you think you can last in the ocean?

SPEAKER_00

Five minutes. Oh, I'm not gonna get in the ocean. See, but it's not hypothetical. Yeah. Okay, yeah. I I wouldn't die now.

SPEAKER_04

I've been out there in some rough waters. I'll probably be about five minutes. I panicked. Yeah. Started coming back to shore because I was like, this is too far. This too far out. This is too far out. I'm looking up and them waves just kept coming at me every time I come up for a breath.

unknown

Man.

SPEAKER_00

But I mean, you're talking about like calm waters, rough waters. Yeah, these rough parts.

SPEAKER_05

You out okay. Because it's usually rough closer the closer you get to the beach, right? Because of the waves crashing in. But like when you out out in the ocean, it's more calm. Is it more calm? I don't know. I don't know, man. I ain't never been out this way.

SPEAKER_00

It depends on like conditions. What part of the sea or ocean you're in, I guess. And the storms.

SPEAKER_05

Let me take that back because I've been in a cruise ship and I've seen some water.

SPEAKER_00

Let me put it if that motherfucker, if you can feel it, yeah.

SPEAKER_04

There's some big ass waves. If you can feel a cruise ship, there's some big ass waves. So, yes, five minutes, motherfucker. Because you're gonna be looking and them waves gonna be coming. Them two feet, I mean them waves like tall.

SPEAKER_00

They're big, so they'll just swallow you up. You just just go like that. But it ain't like no little wave. These big waves coming. You can't see over anybody. As long as they don't like, you know.

SPEAKER_04

Hey, if you got a life vest on, you okay because you would just float with the wave. If you ain't got no life vest on, that water just gonna be washing right over you. Gone. Yeah, you gone. Yeah, I know. I know I'm gone.

SPEAKER_01

Hey, I know that shitwreck, boy. And it's funny because they weren't they weren't that far though. From that's how I think something happened. Because they weren't that far from shore or wherever, but yeah. This is a documentary, I'm gonna say. Yeah, it's a documentary. It's too far for me. I'm gonna I'm gonna watch it. Save everybody? Oh no, I don't know. I don't want to, I don't want to mess it up for everybody. But remember, I said I fell asleep. I fell asleep, so but I'm a I start watching, I think I start watching that thing like 10 15. I was like, what am I doing? Crazy. You just looking to go to bed. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I think I fell as I fell asleep. I know I was at 1025.

SPEAKER_01

Let me go ahead and turn it on something to watch. So I go to sleep. I sitting there, like, man, that's happening to you all the time. Dreaming. You know why I turned it on.

SPEAKER_05

Man, if I turn on the movie after 9 o'clock, I know I'm about about halfway. I'm gonna finish it.

SPEAKER_01

If I just sit in the couch, I just gotta start watching movies like first thing in the morning. Yeah. I'm okay at the movies sometimes.

SPEAKER_00

I can't do that though. I never make it work. At night. And if I watch the first thing in the morning, yeah. I was like, it'd be time. Damn, I got five more minutes. I gotta get out in five minutes, look up.

SPEAKER_05

It'd be fucking have to be on your day off.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, Saturday morning, Sunday morning. Yeah. Like you said, a holiday. You know, that is. Uh I did, I'm gonna tell y'all about one of my Google searches.

FIFA Suspicion And Messi Talk

SPEAKER_01

I Googled. Was the FIFA? I don't even know what FIFA stands for. FIFA Football International Football Association. FIFA stands for crooked. Federal. It stands for crooked ass commissioner. And I Googled if the commissioner was from Argentina.

unknown

See?

SPEAKER_01

They said he's uh Swiss Italian or something. He lives in Switzerland. Yeah. That means he's neutral. Supposed to be. He's crooked.

SPEAKER_05

Supposed to be.

SPEAKER_01

I don't know if that if that was AI when Argentina won a couple games ago, and he was sitting up there cheering. Like Roger Goodell can't sit up there and cheer for Joe Montana.

SPEAKER_00

Nah, you didn't inshine.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, exactly. That's what you do. You cheer on the inside. I'm sure he was a kid and he has his favorite team. Argentina might be his favorite team. Well, he he didn't even play for Argentina, did he? But see, I'm assuming Argentina must they must be like the Yankees or the Cowboys. They like they moved a meter.

SPEAKER_05

See, here's the thing is they just won four years ago. Yeah. They just want Messi in. Yeah, they just want Messi in the last one. Now they're talking about Messi's the greatest athlete of the world.

SPEAKER_01

I was gonna get around to that. Hey, now let me tell you this. Girl, please.

SPEAKER_04

Must have been a girl that said that.

SPEAKER_01

No, I'm just saying, just talking about it.

SPEAKER_05

Just talking heads right now, talking about Messi is the greatest athlete of all time.

SPEAKER_01

Absolutely not. He ain't a better athlete than uh Caitlin Jenner.

unknown

Nah.

SPEAKER_01

Exactly. He did 10 events. Ten events. Now that's an athlete. Who?

SPEAKER_00

Caitlin.

SPEAKER_01

Bruce Jenner. Ten events.

SPEAKER_00

Jansen did too.

SPEAKER_01

Well, so basically I'm saying they're not better athletes than the Catholic.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, the Catholices are great athletes.

SPEAKER_01

Oh shit. That's a Hundo? Let me hold something.

unknown

Yeah, that's a Hundo right there.

SPEAKER_00

How much you want?

SPEAKER_01

That's a Hundo?

SPEAKER_05

Dell nigga. Hey, you're here flashing money for the podcast. Okay, come on. Give me one worked up. I'm still worked up about the soccer stuff.

SPEAKER_00

You aren't working on it.

SPEAKER_01

I'm gonna talk and sound crazy.

SPEAKER_00

Shit, we talking about movies, why don't we talk about them motherfuckers?

SPEAKER_01

Well, yeah, we go, yeah, we're going back to movies, but.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, but I'm just saying, like, I don't know how

Why Superheroes Are Played By Brits

SPEAKER_00

y'all feel. I just don't feel right, knowing all my superheroes ain't none of them from America. Hurts my feelings.

SPEAKER_05

All your superheroes are none of them from America?

SPEAKER_00

Man, I except for Aaron, man. Captain America? Okay, maybe two. Incredible Hawk. Incredible hawk is a man. They just killed Spider-Man.

SPEAKER_05

Spider-Man. Yeah, where's Spider-Man from?

SPEAKER_00

From New York. New York.

SPEAKER_05

Where's he from?

SPEAKER_00

The actors, man. Actors. They can't find all England like.

SPEAKER_01

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_00

Fuck no, he's from England somewhere. Fucking, they can't find that one goddamn American.

SPEAKER_05

Chadwick Boseman was?

SPEAKER_01

This may be our last show. We're about to get killed. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_00

Chadwick Bozeman was American. Don't bring that up, bro. You know, you know the circumstances of that. Yeah, but he was American. You know the circumstances of that. No, don't bring that up. Okay. Just say, like, okay, how you gonna get a motherfucker from UK to play a nigga from Compton? Because the motherfuckers act better than us, that's why.

SPEAKER_06

Nigga, all you can do is get a nigga from Compton.

SPEAKER_03

Half the time you don't even because he's a nigga gonna get somebody from Compton. Because a nigga from Compton.

SPEAKER_00

It's from Compton. That's why you don't get a nigga from Dom. To fucking play motherfucking and uh He did. What's the motherfucking paper? Snowfall, yeah. It could have Snoop Dogg and somebody played. Snowball Snowfall? Hey. That's a damn shame. Ice Cube is one of the only black uh American actors we have.

SPEAKER_05

Uh ain't really doing that no more.

SPEAKER_00

He's 75 years old.

SPEAKER_05

How about Common?

unknown

Oh, nigga, please.

SPEAKER_00

You don't like Common? Ain't been in the movie where he didn't get his ass whooped.

SPEAKER_05

He's just not showing you watch Silo.

SPEAKER_00

Nigga got his ass whooped in every movie in here. I mean, conventionally. Here we go. Oh shit.

SPEAKER_01

Right on time. Joe's phone call.

SPEAKER_00

Who you with? Man. Look, man, I'm gonna have to call you back. Yeah, I'm all right. I'm gonna call you back.

SPEAKER_01

Hey. Well, I tell you what, thank goodness we ain't on ESPN.

SPEAKER_05

This segment was a good one.

SPEAKER_00

I'm trying to motherfucking listen. Listen, I was trying to mute the motherfucker. Wrong side.

SPEAKER_01

It's supposed to be on that side, ain't it?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

You gotta get your settings right.

SPEAKER_01

Hey, Joe look like that cat on the ward.

SPEAKER_03

Remember the black doll? What was the segment called?

SPEAKER_00

Demetrius called it.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, like something something like Uncle Joe.

SPEAKER_00

Now the motherfucker cut off then now. That'll do it. You might miss something important.

SPEAKER_04

They ain't got shit important. It's on the mic, so it's gonna go on the mic.

SPEAKER_00

It's cut off, man.

SPEAKER_01

Oh hell, let's see. Okay, man.

SPEAKER_00

Shut the fuck off. Come with it.

SPEAKER_05

Joe covered one of those old folks that came out. Well, anyway, getting back to the show. Hey, I thought I turned it off.

SPEAKER_00

I'm just saying, like, yeah, I think they can at least find some American actors. I mean, we just ain't got no American actors no more, man. Like, we just don't. They want to be superheroes. They come over here taking our jobs. They be because they sound better than we do. They're the motherfuckers that need to be deporting right there. Fuck it. They're gonna deport a motherfucker washing dish. Deporting a motherfucker play Spider-Man. So we get somebody in there got them fucking Spider-Man shit.

SPEAKER_03

You don't like Idris Elba?

SPEAKER_01

That's a national treasure. I like Idris Elba. Although I did not know. Don't even get me started. He was on the wire.

SPEAKER_00

Don't get me started on the side. I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But no, he was. He started talking. Yeah. And he was on uh and I was like, I was sitting up here thinking like he was an American gangster. Like, why in the hell is he?

SPEAKER_01

I'm like, why this nigga talking? Why don't you talk normal, nigga? He's just elbowed. And then this before I found out, he was from the UK. Yeah. I said, oh, that's that, that's that dude from the wire. Huh? I'm gonna look it up.

SPEAKER_05

Famous black actors from the UK.

SPEAKER_01

Hey, I'm gonna tell you what.

SPEAKER_00

All of them. Denzel. Fucking one of them, except for Denzel. He might be fucking faking it too.

SPEAKER_01

Hey, Denzel from the UK, you ain't know that, did you?

SPEAKER_00

God. He figured University of Kentucky.

SPEAKER_01

He from uh He from uh Barcelona, Florida. A.k.a Orlando. By way of Nebraska. What did it say?

SPEAKER_05

Alright, so you got Idris Elder. Daniel Kalu Kaluya.

SPEAKER_01

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Kalouya.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

John Boy, yeah, you got it. Jumbo, who John Bo the Daniel?

SPEAKER_01

Oh yeah, the black dude.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Even in the space, nigga, we ain't got no spot. That's all I'm saying. We just vent the deck. What the fuck?

SPEAKER_01

I'ma get back to soccer.

SPEAKER_00

What the fuck does um Afro-Americans done in this world for us to not have a place in nothing? All they want us to do is fucking pick fruit and shit, cotton, and all that shit. They're glad for you to do that. Oh go hell, y'all doing a really good job. Soon as we do anything, I don't give a fuck what it is. Politics, uh motherfucking acting.

SPEAKER_01

Hey, we got Forrest Whitaker. All that's I love Forrest Whitaker.

SPEAKER_00

Damns and Idris.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, that's the snowfall, dude.

SPEAKER_00

Fuck that nigga.

SPEAKER_01

What they do to you, Joe?

SPEAKER_00

I'm just saying. Damn, I didn't know he was.

SPEAKER_05

Are you fucking serious, bro? Nicholas Pinock? I didn't know he was from the British.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, damn, is he? Yeah. Now, the only reason sparkled is because I saw the nigga with the green eyes, and then he's gonna be the next fucking Green Lantern. And I'm like, Wait, which one? The one from the Ridge movie. Oh, the Ridge, yeah. Rebel Ridge? Rebel Ridge, yeah. Light skinned. Well, he ain't from here. No. Where is he from? I think he's from here.

SPEAKER_05

This this one got me messed up right now. Well, he's the Green Lantern, I think he's gonna be. I did not know Delroy Lindo was from the UK.

SPEAKER_04

Is he?

SPEAKER_05

This is 14.

SPEAKER_01

Dog, no, that that's not real.

SPEAKER_00

That's well, you can see you can kind of like hear it in his voice a little bit. No, I can't. Now that I think about it, yes. You can hear it in his voice a little bit. I might give him a nice because he's gonna be a good one. Well, yeah, he was born in London. He was born in London.

SPEAKER_05

I'm about to get Idris Elba a pack in Jamaica.

SPEAKER_01

Come on now. Idris is the home.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, that's Aaron Pierre, that's his name. Aaron Pierre. Who is Aaron Pierre? He's uh uh He's from the UK Yeah, he's the dude that was the Rebel Ridge.

SPEAKER_01

Hey, I you know what? Okay, I got something for y'all. No, he's from he's from Canada.

SPEAKER_00

Same shit.

SPEAKER_01

He's from Canada?

SPEAKER_00

Foreigner.

SPEAKER_01

Hey Joe about to get his.

SPEAKER_00

People from New York.

SPEAKER_01

Hey y'all, we gonna Joe two weeks off. Because he is definitely getting us canceled.

SPEAKER_00

I'm sitting there side of the green, I'm sorry, this nigga in the Green Lantern uniform. Like, you gotta be fucking kidding me.

SPEAKER_05

Okay. You know Lenny James was British? Who was Lenny James? He was in The Walking Dead, he's been in Oh, I never watched it.

SPEAKER_06

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00

And sitting there had the nerve to eat McDonald's hamburgers.

SPEAKER_01

Hey, I gotta I gotta send I gotta send the thing out. Huh? Hey, this dude is out of control. Did you drink today, Joe?

SPEAKER_00

No, I'm fucking sober. That's probably what the problem is. Shit. I'm out of water. It's really upsetting me.

SPEAKER_01

Hey, I got something, y'all. Y'all wanna talk about something upsetting?

Attraction Double Standards And World Cup Stakes

SPEAKER_01

Okay. No, this is coming from a dark-skinned person perspective.

SPEAKER_00

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

Now, let me have the floor. I consider myself a slightly attractive young man. Right, or middle-aged man. You can stop right now. I'm about average, right? Stop.

SPEAKER_00

Stop right now.

SPEAKER_01

Wait, no, no, no. Let me go. Let me go. Tell me. You go again with that bullshit. No, no, no, listen.

SPEAKER_00

No, because you're bullshitting right now.

SPEAKER_01

No, listen. Listen to what I'm about to say, and then we're gonna let you talk.

SPEAKER_00

That'll be some shit I probably say.

SPEAKER_01

No, listen.

SPEAKER_00

But not you.

SPEAKER_01

Listen. Hey, Sherad. Okay. Now I'm looking at Steve.

SPEAKER_00

You ain't been average since you were three, nigga.

SPEAKER_01

Uh, let me see. Okay, now here we go. I see them talking. I like Drew Bellingham. If the women don't know, it's the boy that they going. Now they're going so crazy over Drew Bellingham, they going crazy for his brother now, too. Just because they found out he got a younger brother.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

One is like, I think he's a 23-year-old.

unknown

Right.

SPEAKER_01

I used to be built like that when I was 23. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, he's a professional soccer player. Drew Bellingham for England. Plays for England. Right? Now, I've heard newscasters, all these women, everybody talking about all how good he looks and everything, right? Now, I'm just gonna tell, say this real quick to the black ladies. Y'all better not say one goddamn thing to me if I talk about 10 bitches that's light skinned.

SPEAKER_05

Hell no.

SPEAKER_01

And I'm being I'm being for real.

SPEAKER_05

Because he's light.

SPEAKER_01

Because he's light. Yeah, yeah. Every single person that didn't say it look good in this uh this World Cup has been light skinned. Yeah, because they talk about the goalie. Oh, from um the African dude. Yeah, yeah. The goalie. Yeah, yeah. Light skinned. African. I mean, I say they can't be light-skinned. Light skinned dude.

SPEAKER_00

I got a Haitian friend that motherfucking high yellow.

SPEAKER_01

No, but this is my point though. But as soon as we talk about, oh, Halle Berry, ooh, Lisa Ray, Jay Lo. Oh, you niggas just like light-skinned. Well, apparently, y'all like light-skinned men. Listen. All I'm saying is, when we start talking about these light-skinned women, don't say, I'm not gonna say nothing about Viola Davis no more. I'm just gonna talk about Paula Patton. Listen. As a member of the dark-skinned delegation, he's definitely in the member of the dark-skinned delegation. Where's the brown paper bag?

SPEAKER_03

Wait, oh, the brown paper bag.

SPEAKER_05

I'm a bona fide member of the dark-skinned delegation.

SPEAKER_00

I wouldn't say bona fide coalition, man. I just say member.

SPEAKER_01

Hey, many of Joe, me and Joe Bona fied. Me, we we definitely bona five member.

SPEAKER_00

You ain't bona fide yet. That's some shit you gotta you got some initiations to go through. It's very bona. His membership is a little bit higher than ours. Yeah, you got some shit to go through first to be bona fide. And we all done went through it already. Right? Oh man. Step into the water, dog. It's fine.

SPEAKER_01

But but he I mean he continues. All jokes aside, he is a handsome young fellow, though.

SPEAKER_05

Bellinger? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Yeah. Very good soccer player. He deserves kudos, everything he's getting. But I just wanted to say that because everybody's going crazy. I'm getting all this stuff on the uh internet and all that.

SPEAKER_05

And I'm like, okay. To stay on subject, though, you know how they play the third place game, which that's the championship game to me tomorrow. Them diggers ain't gonna play, though. Oh, they said they're not playing? I don't think none of the starters are gonna play. Because like the English Premier League and stuff start up in a month. Oh, so why are they gonna risk? So it's gonna be all backups in there. Even though you got Bappe that get the golden beat. Well, I don't know for sure, but it's speculation that the starters won't be playing. So you got Mbappe, who's up for the golden boot. Yeah. You got Bellingham who's up for the golden boot.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, damn, that's right.

SPEAKER_05

So I want to see one of them dudes get the golden boot. Yeah, right, right, right. Messi. Yeah. You know what I mean? The golden boot is for most scores, most points scored. Messi is messy up my life.

SPEAKER_00

Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

SPEAKER_05

I'm trying to explain.

SPEAKER_00

But you were just about to say you want to find Negro, and then you went to hockey. Nah, we were talking about it. Yeah. But but you was gonna say something else. Is that what you were leading to though? I was just leading for that.

SPEAKER_05

I'm a member of the dark-skinned delegation. And you were talking about soccer. Okay. Because that's the topic of the day.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01

Hey, wait, we're gonna talk about soccer till.

SPEAKER_05

Listen, soccer is a worldwide sport. Go to Africa, see what they say.

SPEAKER_01

I might start watching, I'm gonna watch the Premier League. Oh, yeah, I'm gonna watch the Premier League League.

SPEAKER_00

What do you mean? Go to Africa and see what they play. What do you think they play?

SPEAKER_01

I heard they got another little tournament coming up, too. Once you get the little strategy and all that, I'm like, they don't score that much, but I was like, huh, I kind of get it. It clearly.

SPEAKER_05

It was kind of exciting, other than Argentina won. But it was exciting at the end. Like, I I really like I watched the first half, but I don't really pay attention. It's not to the second half till I started watching.

SPEAKER_04

I don't really pay attention.

SPEAKER_01

I paid attention and I was like Oh my god.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Joe, you need to watch, man. Nah, I'm good. Oh, expensive.

SPEAKER_01

You don't want to give it a shot? You ain't you ain't trying. You ain't coming to the uh you ain't gonna come to the World Cup uh championship extravaganza on Sunday. What time is that? 12 noon.

SPEAKER_05

Oh hell no. Is it 12? It's 12 noon. Okay.

SPEAKER_01

Two o'clock is tomorrow. Oh, that's right. Two o'clock is Saturday. 12 noon is Sunday. Damn, I'm gonna miss it. Uh I'ma be there with my soccer jersey on.

SPEAKER_05

Be there or be square.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, I'll wear my soccer jersey on.

SPEAKER_01

Hey, I'm gonna, I told y'all shit. I'm gonna start. I'm gonna give me one. I'm gonna wear it something. Only reason I ain't wearing it this Sunday, because I don't want it to be sweaty.

SPEAKER_05

Soon as I get skinny, give me one.

SPEAKER_01

Next, I'll wear it Sunday. Next Sunday. Yeah, oh next. Oh, you know what? I just thought about that. I could wear the other one to hoop in. Yeah. I told you I'm locked in, Joe.

SPEAKER_05

As soon as I get skinny.

SPEAKER_01

Just go and buy it, man.

SPEAKER_05

Because the soccer jerseys fit like they're foreign-fitted. Yeah, man. Just go and buy it.

SPEAKER_00

Don't worry about it. Hey, just go and let your let your belly age. Yeah, you'll you'll be fine. Man, put this shit down.

SPEAKER_04

Shit. Okay. Only person gonna body shame you is this dude. Remember when he called me fat? Yeah, he did call me fat.

SPEAKER_01

Listen. Hey, Steve ain't look back since. He didn't even call him fat. All he said was, hell man, you starting to catch up to me.

unknown

Hey.

SPEAKER_01

Steve heard that. And this dude ain't stopped exercising, and that was like a year and a half, two years ago. Hey, you know, that actually was longer than that.

SPEAKER_05

It was like two years, it was like three years ago.

SPEAKER_04

Damn, it's been that long. It's been a minute. That shit's still in my head.

SPEAKER_05

Steve became a vegetarian and everything. He was eating nothing but space. Hey, listen. The parasites in them damn lettuce. I'm about to go start eating some. I know, right? Clean my system out. Yeah. Parasiting what? You didn't hear about that? So there's supposedly some parasites like I guess it started up as a rumor, like Taco Bell lettuce or whatever, but yeah, there's supposedly like a bad batch of lettuce out there. Yeah, they have some with pre-made salad and all that shit. So it's a parasite making, you know, messing people's stomach up. Oh, you just take it. Give them an explosive diarrhea.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, but just take that in the room with it, and then you can lose some weight. Exactly. That's what he was saying. Yeah, I'm about to go eat some. Get you one of them salads.

SPEAKER_05

That's what I'm about to do. I'm going to salad and go right after I leave here. It ain't gonna be at Salad and Go. You just go to Walmart get that.

SPEAKER_00

Well, we may not be on next week.

SPEAKER_01

He is calling out all the heavy hitters that can shut us down. Sam Walton about to get us.

SPEAKER_05

All them Waltons. There we just they can't disprove it though. They can't disprove it.

SPEAKER_00

They don't know where that shit is coming from. Actually, they don't know where none of that shit is just gonna blame on the Africans anyway. Hey, they they they brought that shit over here.

SPEAKER_04

Shut the fuck up. Saying they brought it over with the FIFA. The FIFA cup. The FIFA cup. Yeah, they brought their own food and contaminated the American population.

SPEAKER_00

Wait till they them motherfuckers start getting sick from all that ranchress they're eating over there. Oh yeah, they shipping it over. They're shipping it home. All that fucking chemicals in the U.S. got in their shit. The motherfucking body gonna go in the shop and eat that shit. They're not allowed to have chemicals and shit. All these preservatives and shit.

SPEAKER_05

They make everything fresh over there.

SPEAKER_00

They're not supposed to have all the preservatives and shit in their shit.

SPEAKER_05

That's where I need to go.

SPEAKER_04

Go over there and get me.

SPEAKER_00

You go to certain parts of Europe. You can't even buy a mountain dew over that motherfucker.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, you can get a mountain dew.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, yeah, that's right. You get a phantom. Everything's like Lemon Lion Phantom.

SPEAKER_00

American Mountain Dew is banned all over the world except for this motherfucker.

SPEAKER_04

Damn. I'm gonna fact check that.

SPEAKER_00

Hold on. Go ahead, fact check that.

SPEAKER_04

Hey man, you can just get you a poppy. Fact check it. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_00

I mean, half the shit I say is fucked up, but some of it's true.

SPEAKER_01

Hey, well, I got something to say, y'all. Because I'm still tripping, finding out Darry Lindle is from London. That's crazy, ain't it? But they say scientifically speaking, almost every living human is roughly a 50th cousin. Or even closer. Now, this is fact-checked. So y'all can google. Cousin? I don't know how to count that far, but the 50th cousin. So if you have sex with a woman, that means you having sex with your cousin.

SPEAKER_00

Shit, I'm from Alabama.

SPEAKER_03

Oh my god. What exactly are you talking about?

SPEAKER_00

My mama's side or daddy's side.

SPEAKER_01

What are you talking about? And that was brought to you by AI Overview slash the Google.

SPEAKER_05

Alabama.

SPEAKER_00

Oh yeah, no. Hey man, I'm just saying, like, I just I I was thinking about that movie thing, and I was like, man, you got all these motherfuckers from in the UK. And it was like pretty fucked up. You know? Yeah. I mean, it's I mean. It's kind of remind me of uh you remember uh that movie uh Robert Townsend did?

SPEAKER_05

Which one?

SPEAKER_00

One of his first movies where he went in interview and they wanted him to pay a black guy from the Oh Hollywood Shuffle. What be happening? He's talking about you ain't black enough. What motherfucker said, hey, what's happening, man? He goes, You ain't black enough. And then he's about 200. What it be like. He said, they killed it, my brother. Oh, yeah. Oh dying now. He's my only brother. He said, That's it. That's what we're looking for.

SPEAKER_05

But no, I see what you're saying though, Joey. Because that that is a trip sometimes when you be like you said, Delroy Linda. No, dude. No clue. Yeah. But he's been here for a long time. So that's what I said.

SPEAKER_01

Or or or maybe maybe I knew at the very beginning and just forgot.

SPEAKER_00

The females are in the same boat, though. Like, yeah, because you can't really tell where the fuck they from. Like, unless they got a little bit of Neanderthal in them or something, but you can't. You know. They literally have to, you know, because they're coming, they start just speaking America like an American weapon and shit. You can't tell at all. But the guys have like features and shit.

SPEAKER_05

Not all of them. Not all of them you can tell. Like, like I said, I wouldn't have had no clue.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, you see that motherfucker, you know that somebody's from England. Walking down the street.

SPEAKER_02

For real?

SPEAKER_01

Man, Joe is superhuman, man.

SPEAKER_00

I know I said I can't.

SPEAKER_01

So you can tell Idris Elba's from England?

SPEAKER_00

I ain't gonna lie, I really didn't encounter any black people from England. Because I ain't gonna travel. I did meet a lot of white ones. And they had like, you know, these features that you can almost tell. Oh, yeah, the white people you can tell. Yeah. Yeah. Because see, I know I was at I was at uh uh Sajia Sand one time, right?

SPEAKER_01

Y'all know we listened to another country.

SPEAKER_00

And uh I was at Sajia Sand one time. Don't get crazy. And this chick was in there and she was from England, right? She was black as a motherfucker. And she was hot. I'm like, holy shit. They got hot bitches in England. Shit, I had a fucking chub talking to that bitch.

SPEAKER_01

Oh my goodness. This dude. No, but I'm just saying though.

SPEAKER_00

With the accent yourself. I'm like, holy crap.

SPEAKER_01

And they say they're they're addicted, or you know, they love our accent. Well, because we have an accent to them.

SPEAKER_00

Well, we yeah, but our are you from America? Top of the point. American accent, like, I guess it's different from whatever region we in, like, you know. Cheerio. Okay, that's enough.

SPEAKER_06

I say Cherio.

SPEAKER_05

I learned something like watching because one thing about watching the World Cup is you you kind of learn about other countries, right? So like Great Britain encompasses both uh more countries than so England is a part of Great Britain, right? So I didn't really I didn't know that. Did you know that? Hell no. Wait, repeat it. England, so Great Britain encompasses a bunch of countries. Right. So England is a part of Great Britain. So I used to think they were two separate countries.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, so you know, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I don't know much, but I didn't know that part.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. I thought Great Britain was Great Britain and England was over.

SPEAKER_00

I know it was a long time before I knew what bugger meant, though.

SPEAKER_04

Hey. Well it was bugger meant.

SPEAKER_00

They be on TV, they be cursing the ass off, and we just think it's funny. And they're and but and to them, they're really cursing. Like when they call you a nasty little bugger. Nasty little bugger.

SPEAKER_04

Oh like saying a fucker.

SPEAKER_00

Oh no. Like I ain't a one asshole. I ain't a pauper.

SPEAKER_05

A bugger? We steal a lot of stuff from Britain. We do. We steal from like a lot of shows and stuff. Like the office was originated over there. It was stolen. What about Finefield?

SPEAKER_01

What about friends? I don't know about France. Where was France stolen from? Probably probably Britain. Hell no, a living single nigga. Oh yeah. Exactly. Yeah, you're right. Give us our shit back. Made all that damn money.

SPEAKER_00

You keep this shit up, you ain't gonna never get bona fine. I'm trying to give you some knowledge. Knowledge, smart brother. Give me some knowledge, smart brother. Jack smart brother.

SPEAKER_01

That's smart brother number one. And let's Steve

Work Burnout And The Money Question

SPEAKER_01

have the floor. You you got any complaints?

SPEAKER_04

Any complaints? I ain't had time to complain about shit. I work too much. Okay, there's the complaint right there. Well, I gotta work too goddamn much in this economy, man. Fuck. That's my complaint. I need to hit the lotto so I can quit immediately. Selling feet picks.

SPEAKER_00

Tell me I want my doge money, man. Give me my doge money.

SPEAKER_05

Man, I had some doge. That shit. I still I'm gonna do that. It's plumbing. It's still falling. It's still falling.

SPEAKER_04

That was for suckers.

SPEAKER_01

Can we get a doge? A PPP? They still giving out PPP loans? Nah, they taking people to jail though. Hey. What was the one? I heard something. Uh what did they put? What was the post?

SPEAKER_04

Like if you could be oh, if you can have one million dollars, you can have if you can be 10 years younger and have one million dollars, or the age you are now and have ten million dollars, which would you like? Which would you choose? That was the question.

SPEAKER_00

Will you be able to take your what you know now? You have 10 million. You can go 10 years younger and have one million dollars. Well, you know what you know now, though. That's what I'm saying. Like, bro, I don't know. If you send me back why you why you try to move the goalposts?

SPEAKER_04

No, I'm just saying, if you send me 10 years back. Now I can understand.

SPEAKER_00

That's the question. If you send me 10 years back my same mentality that I have, I'm just gonna blow that million like a motherfucker. That's all I'm saying. Okay.

SPEAKER_04

The question was.

SPEAKER_00

I just started 10 years old.

SPEAKER_04

If you can be 10 years younger and be and have 1 million dollars or be given $10 million now right now, which would you prefer?

SPEAKER_00

10 years. Yeah, I wouldn't make I'd rather have 10 million now because 10 years ago, that's when my shit starts falling apart. You have to go back a little further than that. For me, you have to go back a little further than that. That's a good thing. I'm gonna go 10 years back.

SPEAKER_04

If I go 10 years back, I'll be 45. So I'll take that 10 mil and oh yeah. No, no, you don't do one mil. You get one mil. Yeah, I take that one mil and invested at 40.

SPEAKER_00

But see, the thing is, you're not taking the knowledge back. That's what I was asking you.

SPEAKER_04

You don't know that.

SPEAKER_00

You don't know.

SPEAKER_01

Listen. You don't know, Joe. Only question is take 10 million now or go back 10 years and you get 1 million. We're taking do I know what I know now, though. That would do that. That's an unknown.

SPEAKER_05

It's just the unknown. No, I would say no, you're not getting the knowledge that you have. Okay, then you're gonna be 45.

SPEAKER_00

So you're taking 10 million right now? I'm not going back 10 years with a million dollars. I'd blow that shit in a minute.

SPEAKER_04

I wouldn't. No, I wouldn't. I'll go, I'll go back.

SPEAKER_05

I go back. I I think 10 years ago I was smart enough to know what to do with that. Yeah. Hell yeah, I was.

SPEAKER_00

If you're smart enough to know with it 10 years ago, you wouldn't have probably a million right now. Who says I don't got a million right now? You fucking with us. Well, I ain't got a million.

SPEAKER_06

Two missions.

SPEAKER_04

Don't let nobody know I got meals.

SPEAKER_00

You can talk about my first meals.

SPEAKER_01

You can't let nobody know you have anything.

SPEAKER_00

That nigga wouldn't be fucking with us. You just got a little nice and we would though. Yeah, we will. I know you wouldn't fuck with us. What? You would not fuck with us. See, I know you wouldn't. That's how I know you ain't blackity black like you. Hey. I'm black as they come, nigga. I don't, I don't, hey. Nigga, I don't need no money. Listen, I keep my circle small. I don't need no goddamn money. True that? I'm gonna tell you like it is. I survived. I've been a survivor. I remember being outside in the woods at 10 years old with around a campfire. Scared to go home, get ass whooping.

SPEAKER_04

With a can of pinto beans.

SPEAKER_00

Hope she forgot about it after the week. Your home covers come off of you. Waiting, you waiting on your o'clock in the morning. What?

unknown

Whap whah wah whap.

SPEAKER_00

Whoop your woman. We ought to been down there. Oh, hell yeah.

SPEAKER_04

You jump up, running around the room.

SPEAKER_00

Too late, man, nigga. That motherfucker strike you one time, you break down. What? Just gotta take it, baby. Take it, take that, take that.

SPEAKER_04

No clothes, you ain't no running.

unknown

Man.

SPEAKER_04

Gotcha.

SPEAKER_00

Shit. Gotcha. Been a survivor, goddamn it. Hell yeah. All been telling you my first fucking first paycheck, man. My first when I first left my mama out, my first fucking like ten paychecks, I didn't even cash the motherfuckers. Why? I ain't need no money. Shit.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, because you was the military, right? Yeah, I ain't need no money. You know what that means? True that? He ain't no real nigga then. Because guess what I did with my first paycheck? First off, I cashed it at the supermarket.

SPEAKER_03

I went and bought some drawers.

SPEAKER_00

Man, let me tell you something. I had shit. I had a listen, I had about fucking old lion that my head ain't blue. That nigga had Nike Pampers on him. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Hey y'all, we hope y'all enjoy this time.

SPEAKER_00

I can't I can't boo boo in this.

SPEAKER_01

Y'all be nice to me.

SPEAKER_00

My birthday in January. Shit.

SPEAKER_01

Man, y'all crazy. Oh nigga. I'm weak, dog. Hey. Y'all funny as hell.

SPEAKER_00

See.

unknown

No, man.

SPEAKER_00

I don't get it, baby. If you did add a million, you would fuck with it. I would fuck with y'all, man. I'm telling you. I'm going.

SPEAKER_01

Take me back 10 years and give me the million.

SPEAKER_00

I'll take it. Lift it. I'm just saying, I it wouldn't make no sense for me because I started breaking down 10 years ago. But maybe that million might, you know.

SPEAKER_05

But see, the but then right now the 10 million is intriguing, though. No, no, it is. Because hopefully, and I mean there's no promises, you know, you live for another 10 years.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, no, I'm gonna you give me 10 million now, I'll make it.

SPEAKER_05

I don't know about you, Joe. I'll make it Joe gonna be. Wait, you said how many more years? So let's say you live for another 10 years, right?

SPEAKER_01

Oh, I'm definitely gonna live. I mean, I mean, nothing I'm gonna catastrophic. Yeah, you know, you mess around, go and I fall in a pool or something.

SPEAKER_00

I had designed the pins on, nigga. Yeah, I bet this fucking nigga had had the pen the pins with the horseshoe on that motherfucker. Say true religion on the bitch. True religion depends, nigga.

SPEAKER_05

Oh damn the pins.

SPEAKER_00

And a horseshoe on the back and the side. Who you with?

SPEAKER_02

True religion, boy. Yeah. Money, I mean money.

SPEAKER_01

It ain't gonna help you.

SPEAKER_00

Uh it wouldn't be feasible.

SPEAKER_01

It ain't gonna have you buy uh by happiness. Nope.

SPEAKER_00

No, shit.

SPEAKER_01

Ten million will though.

SPEAKER_00

Shit. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01

There's a lot of happiness money can buy you, though. Shit.

SPEAKER_00

Ten million dollars, see how much happiness.

SPEAKER_01

I mean, I'm already happy, so I know how to be happy. I'm happy and broke.

SPEAKER_00

I can buy more happy. 10 million dollars? Shit. Watch how much happy I buy. Every Friday. Her nickname happy. Buy her every show at the podcast. Come on in, happy new fellas. Hey.

Worldwide Listener Shoutouts And US Soccer

SPEAKER_01

Wait, real quick, let's do a little shout out. Okay, sir. We got a couple listeners in Iraq.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, damn. Uh oh.

SPEAKER_01

Japan. Hey, the UK, and there you go. We just got what take y'all actors back. Hey, listen, motherfuckers. I said it. Israel. See, they must know we're talking about the World Cup.

SPEAKER_00

Man. I don't think I guess the World Cup.

SPEAKER_01

Indonesia, Georgia.

SPEAKER_04

Get the fuck out of here, niggas.

SPEAKER_01

Brazil. Russian Federation. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Hey, send us in vodka. Finland. Cambodia. Send us in vodka. Worldwide. Hey, man, well, hold on. What's up? Germany? Where are Germany? Where are German people at? Are they using nice to listen? Yeah. I ain't, yeah. Send us a case of Lord. They must have moved. We like Germany. Because they don't listen to us no more. Come on, Germany. We need you back.

SPEAKER_05

You got us canceled in Germany.

SPEAKER_01

But you know what's so funny? They might have moved. They could have moved. Maybe they were military or something and went somewhere else. Because some of these other places that popped up.

SPEAKER_04

They moved to Texas.

SPEAKER_01

Anyway. Jumping ditches. We appreciate all y'all. The United States.

SPEAKER_04

Thank you, all the listeners.

SPEAKER_01

And y'all suck ass goalie. Styles with needles. I could have got there and played goalie. The same, we're gonna have the same results.

SPEAKER_00

Gee, you might have stopped one or two.

SPEAKER_01

Maybe. Oh no, he kicked that too hard. I ain't trying to catch that. Yeah, no, that is. That that's funny, though.

SPEAKER_00

You gotta catch it to deflect it.

SPEAKER_01

He said that. I know them gloves. I'm gonna go try on some of them, the goalie gloves. I know they night, they nice and padded. Yeah. Shit, nigga. Hey, I'm gonna check that motherfucker that that finger. Hey, I'm gonna tell you how locked in I am. Y'all wanna hear something funny? I thought about joining a little recreation league. I'm not I'm not playing, I'm not playing with no young people though. Because I saw one that got like an advanced league. No. Recreation. And then I won't be like them people with y'all softball leagues either, playing down. I'm like, man, you got you got Pele out here. If we listen, if we get beat five to zero, I'm like, dude, y'all in the wrong league. Y'all should be in a this is just for recreation people.

SPEAKER_00

Y'all some point team be cheating.

SPEAKER_01

No, no, I'm saying you know how some you know how some teams play down. That's what I'm saying. In softball league.

SPEAKER_04

Dude, you know, you get the teams with the Dominicans and stuff. Dominicans, yeah. They be out there talking status, man. Them motherfuckers get the ball.

SPEAKER_01

Remember the one team that was playing down, we beat them.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

That was like our rivals. So then they got mad at us and kicked us out the league.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

So guess what? I guarantee the FIFA president must have been the president of our softball league. Yeah. I'm sticking, hey. I'm sticking to the ball.

SPEAKER_00

I like that league too, man. You can go buy beer and drink in the dugout.

SPEAKER_01

I'm sitting up here like I must have played.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, that was in. What was that at? Desert West.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, Desert West.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_01

You know you can do it at Victory. Well, Victory Lane. You just can't drink. Well, you can't drink in the dugout. You gotta be on the outside.

SPEAKER_05

I know I live in the game. It's funny I live. You can't drink during the game.

SPEAKER_01

Dude, I played at Victory Lane. And uh as soon. See, we moved up here in 2009. I have not played at Victory Lane. Dude, it's right here.

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How crazy?

SPEAKER_00

How crazy is that? When we play with White Tony, what that was Victory Lane?

SPEAKER_01

No, we played at Desert West and then we played at Victory Lane.

SPEAKER_00

No, you remember when we played with White Tony and they went up there and played them old people. No, that was at Victory Lane. They beat the shit.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, that was on Monday. Yeah, they beat us like 16 to 0.

SPEAKER_05

I played a few times.

SPEAKER_00

You can come in, you move over there, he's going right there.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Oh yeah, about that.

SPEAKER_05

They hit it right to the spot. Listen. Victory lanes, yeah. So that's where the professionals go play. Sitting up the illegal bats. All the illegal bats. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I picked up this one dude's bat. I said, hey, can I swing with it? He was a part of Team De Marini. Oh, yeah. He's like, oh yeah. His bat was shaved. And that motherfucker, I've never hit a ball so damn far in my life. I was like, what the hell is in this? That bitch probably still up in the air right now. That shit was gone. I was like, as soon as I hit it, I knew. I was like, yeah, this bad is good. It was gone, huh? Yeah. I hear. And he hit a ball. It didn't go no further than six feet off the ground and stuck in the fence. Stuck in the fence. Yeah, I remember that game.

SPEAKER_04

I was there. And I was like, I had my hand up like this and I was running for it. That motherfucker said, Hey.

SPEAKER_01

You know, them cats be playing with them crazy bats, boy. You're like, hell no. Like my teeth. You know, forget that.

SPEAKER_04

And I was like, yeah, I'm in the wrong. I mean, I need I need a shave bat. I need one of them illegal bats. Let me hit one out.

SPEAKER_05

Speaking of soccer, say you had to

Rec Leagues, Softball Wars, And Illegal Bats

SPEAKER_05

do it all over again. You know what you do now. What you play soccer. Playing soccer.

SPEAKER_01

I play baseball.

SPEAKER_05

That's what you say. I'm bowling. I would play baseball.

SPEAKER_01

But you you can't play what you already see. It's easy for me to say football, but I play football, so that's why I didn't want to say football.

SPEAKER_05

Nah, I would play I definitely would play baseball.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, probably baseball. Maybe golf. But I will tell you this.

SPEAKER_00

I guess I would have to go with baseball.

SPEAKER_01

I would uh Yeah. But no, I think I wouldn't have a big thing.

SPEAKER_04

Nah, I'm scared of the ball. I do, I'm still scared of the ball, so I ain't gonna want to.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, see, that's the thing. So yeah, so yeah.

SPEAKER_04

That ball coming at me at 90 in my ball, I'll be like, man, that was too close, man. You playing, man. We play.

SPEAKER_01

And they throw the ball, they throw the ball at you. Right. I be feeling crazy when they be pitching. Come on, you crowd on the plate. Oh, back up.

SPEAKER_04

So I played ball enough.

SPEAKER_05

See, I played baseball all the way up until high school. Oh, yeah. I wish I would have kept playing, though.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. See, nah. Yeah, I would have gone a whole nother sh direction.

SPEAKER_01

Because I told you I fuck baseball. Sitting there in uh the little baton cage. Yeah. You know, it's coming like 50, 60 miles an hour. Even that seemed fast. Hell yeah, that seemed fast as hell. Like, nah, I'm cool. I got in the cage a couple years ago and it's 50-60. I said, man, I'm sure eventually you'll catch up to it. I was like, nah.

SPEAKER_05

You figure they see thousands of pitches. Thousands of pitches.

SPEAKER_04

So those guys just see it off his hands when it's coming off. And he comes right here. They look it and they see it. So they know what kind of pitch is coming.

SPEAKER_01

Ken Griffey Jr. said it's like hitting an aspirin, dog. That's crazy as hell. Well, he said some of the pitchers. Yeah. Like, you know, they pitch so good, it's like trying to hit an aspirin.

SPEAKER_02

Damn, man.

SPEAKER_01

That's crazy as hell.

SPEAKER_05

You listen to Dan Patrick the other day. He was talking about these pitchers, like after the All-Star game, you know, they're pitching 100, 101, 102. And they were saying like the physics.

SPEAKER_01

Physics.

SPEAKER_05

About what they gonna think they will. What could get, and they said potentially up to 104. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

No, I heard I thought somebody said like 110. Yeah, like one. Because they do, but it you get your little Tommy John surgery.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, so now it benefits them.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_01

Some people, they they kids, they electing for their kids 14, 15 to get Tommy John surgery right now.

SPEAKER_00

Because it benefits them. Kind of like the Heinz Ward thing.

SPEAKER_01

So now Yeah, that's wild. I think, just like um, because I think remember when dude, what was dude's name? No, the soccer dude. That was on Dan Patrick. Eric, Eric, um Linda?

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, Eric.

SPEAKER_01

Y'all know uh America is a participation trophy.

Baseball Reality Check And Youth Sports Costs

SPEAKER_01

Like sport. Like some of y'all, uh, yeah, we're uh participation type country because you be like, oh, that's okay, we'll get them next time. Then he strikes out again. Oh, that's okay, we'll get him next time. Then for the season, he then went three for like 70. So at what point do you just tell him, like, oh no, you suck and just go play something else? Eric Rinaldo. And remember, he he said up there, they said that. Like over there in them countries at a certain age. I mean, if you're a little kid or whatever, but once I think they said like 15, 16, when you you you can kind of tell, they're like, nah, but see.

SPEAKER_04

You ain't got it. That's exact exactly what they do.

SPEAKER_01

But we'll keep letting people play because it's because of the money.

SPEAKER_05

Because the money. And I seen it firsthand in hockey. All the way to 26. I seen it firsthand in hockey. Because even just watching hockey, like you could tell the kids that are good, that were elite. Like, you can tell which ones are elite. But then, you know, it's expensive to play. Yeah. So I'm actually glad my son stopped playing because he knew he wasn't gonna make it. Like, go like NHL and all that. Yeah, you're still so funny stories, right? You know, on Instagram, I see all the you know, the kids my my my son played with, they're getting signed by all these junior juniors teams, right? Uh-huh. So hockey, they got different levels. So you got the club levels, then you got the juniors levels. Yep. So, but then I found out that you still gotta pay for those juniors levels. So you might go play for a team in Buffalo, but they gotta pay. You gotta, and it's like anywhere from $12,000 to $15,000 a year. Oh wow.

SPEAKER_01

That that's the thing. Like, Argentina is gonna probably always be okay. Because I guarantee Messi and some of them other people, they they're kind of footing the bill. Because I guess like Messi doesn't come for money. Uh us, it's it is was one of those sports to where, like, our kids, okay, we'll be able to afford for them to be able to play. But then at some point, I think I'm I'm pretty sure, because I know how my pop was too. I I sit up there and I tell my kid, like, this ain't it.

SPEAKER_05

Well, and that's the thing.

SPEAKER_01

And you ain't telling them like they're gonna be unsuccessful in life, but I'm like, dude, what we wasting our money out here.

SPEAKER_00

You know, but the but parents are hard to deal with. No, it is when you when you fucking around with the kids, man. No, that's true. If you if their kids good, then they're gonna want you to cobble on it, they're gonna want you to give them the perks and shit. Oh, you need to bring them home. You want him to practice, or you need to pick him up, you want him to come play on your team.

SPEAKER_05

But here's the thing is weeding out these kids that are good, like Eric Winalder said you got at some point when it comes to these sports like soccer at 1617, you know who's the elite players.

SPEAKER_00

Y'all listen, you know. Let's be real. The the the the real the real reason why majority of American kids play sports to stay out of trouble.

SPEAKER_05

Well, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I mean, but we but we gone, we going like once you kind of get to like that. Once you 15 to it, 15, 16, 17. And you want as a little kid, okay, go out there and have a lot of people.

SPEAKER_00

Even at 15, 16, 17, you still let them play.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

You know what I mean? Yeah, because you need some dead bodies.

SPEAKER_05

But you want some, yeah, you and you want your kids to do something athletic and play, right? But it's the thing is when we're talking about, we're talking about soccer now.

Why The US Falls Behind In Soccer

SPEAKER_05

So why can't America compete in soccer? It's because we don't have the right kids in the system.

SPEAKER_01

It's disheartening for me to watch when I'm watching.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, just I don't care if I've been watching it for nine weeks. I am an ex-athlete. We do it in football. In basketball. We do it in basketball. Nigga, we we we so you don't tell me elite in basketball.

SPEAKER_01

Joe, right? I guarantee you can turn the game on and you can tell, like. I mean, these guys, they're like the best of the best. But I'm saying you can go watch like some uh like dude, I'm gonna go to these little local high school games and watch soccer now. I I don't even care. Don't do it. We do it in basketball. Don't do it. And I'll yeah, we go watch basketball and football, kids. So you can go. So I do I might as well watch soccer.

SPEAKER_05

That's my new sport. These kids in basketball are great. I'm just gonna sit up there.

SPEAKER_00

Don't do it, because I've been to a football game with you. Don't do it. Man, listen. I beg you not to do it, bro. I'm not gonna talk about nobody's kid. Oh shit.

SPEAKER_06

Don't do it, man.

SPEAKER_03

We have witnessed that. I'm telling y'all. We have witnessed that, yes.

SPEAKER_00

I did it, you did it to me. You still be friends. Nigga did it to me. Yeah, I should tell on you shit. Don't go mute the motherfucker. I don't care. That nigga said, Damn, as a parent. That's what he said. They just exactly say it. As a parent, how do you feel seeing your kid run? Knowing they gonna never leave it. And I'm a little high too, like, too. I'm telling you, like, this motherfucker. You had to think about it for a second. No, I had to think about it. I was high. I was a little drunk, man. I was looking cussing out. I was a little drunk.

SPEAKER_01

Hey, Joe, my family dog.

SPEAKER_00

If you can't talk to family dog, listen, this is what I want to do right here.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. I am offering my services to help the USA get better in soccer. Now, all I can donate is probably 500 bucks. And that's every four years. I'm going to donate 500 every four years, right? And I'm just going to go watch some of these kids play.

SPEAKER_05

Who's that thing I said?

SPEAKER_01

And then I'm just going to tap them on the shoulder.

SPEAKER_05

It's like you out.

SPEAKER_01

You out. You can't play.

SPEAKER_00

You can buy about 100 towels. What was that thing I said?

SPEAKER_01

I said $500. Hey, Joe. It was billions. If that $500 every four. Okay, listen.

SPEAKER_04

If I hand you this towel, you out. The terrible towel. The terrible towel. No! Not my son.

SPEAKER_05

Here, kid, go clean up.

SPEAKER_00

Man, take my take my shit out.

SPEAKER_05

Hey, Bill Bird said it right, though, right? He said. Lucky black kids haven't discovered soccer yet. Man, that shit happy. Remember the one I sent you? Oh no. Oh, that was good.

SPEAKER_01

He said.

SPEAKER_03

When black people discover soccer? We dominating it. I'm telling you, I'm telling you.

SPEAKER_01

With American blacks.

SPEAKER_03

Fucking over.

SPEAKER_01

All we need is some kids that's good enough. Just like hockey. Kevin Frazier said.

SPEAKER_00

Man, black folks invented hockey.

SPEAKER_01

We need some kids. You got, I'm telling you. No matter where you go, you're gonna have something. You're gonna have a couple suburban kids. If we're gonna do something like that, you'll you'll find like we need to do rugby. Ain't Cooper Flag. Yeah. Cooper Flag from He's like suburban kid or something, probably. Suburban kid, yeah. So, I mean you you gonna get to him. But for the most part, your best athletes are in the inner city. You know why? Because we hungry. We sitting up here leaving, uh we sitting up here leaving um I did my kids at the youth sports and then eating pork and bean and wieners. I know.

SPEAKER_05

I take I take macaroni and cheese.

SPEAKER_01

I did my and I ain't talking about this all together. I'm talking about no, that's deal. I know. I did my kids at the service.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, yeah, because I was around.

SPEAKER_00

He's well off. And look, who would have thunk it? Like the two-parent household would have fucked the dude. Hey, isn't that funny? That's what messed it up.

SPEAKER_01

And just like uh, just like uh Steven Jackson said, I'm telling you, man, we're starting to have too many mixed babies. Uh hey, if y'all think I'm bullshitting, go listen to what Steven Jackson said. Because remember, I used to always be like, hey, the dark-skinned people are disappearing in the NBA. I guarantee you. You mean disappointing?

SPEAKER_00

They gone.

SPEAKER_01

We still gotta go. We got Anthony Edwards.

SPEAKER_05

The number one pick was DeBonser, right? He's really he was a DeBonser. He's all dark. Where is he from?

SPEAKER_00

Really?

SPEAKER_02

He's all dark.

SPEAKER_00

He ain't from Utah. He's one of us. He ain't from Utah. He's blackly black. You just can't claim a money.

SPEAKER_01

Hey, this AA, this AAU. This AAU said like LeBron James, uh Alan Iverson.

SPEAKER_00

Like, I like okay, just an example. Like you can, I'll give you this. I'm gonna give you an opportunity to AJ the Boston. Where is he from? Is he from Utah? Where's he gonna fucking live? Anyhow. Boston. He from Boston?

SPEAKER_05

I ain't never heard that last name before. Oh yeah, he's from Boston.

SPEAKER_00

Now how he ended up in Utah?

SPEAKER_05

BYU because they gave him the most money. That's why.

SPEAKER_01

No, no, because when he was playing high school, yeah, somebody said he played high school in Utah. He went in Boston. That's why I thought he was from Utah. When somebody said that.

SPEAKER_05

So he went to high school in Massachusetts. Oh, did he? Okay. So no, he went, okay. He went to my bad. I'm sorry. He did go to three high schools. Oh, he started off in Massachusetts. So he's 25 years. He went to California and then he did end up in Utah. You're right.

SPEAKER_01

So he went to all them academies, pretty much.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so he can play till he's 25.

SPEAKER_04

Then got drafted. Oh shit. Freshman year.

SPEAKER_00

It was just like uh Damon, like not Damon, but Stodomine when he was the sun. They were talking about how he was killing motherfucking high school. This nigga 21.

SPEAKER_03

He looked like 21 too. No saying, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

He said, man, this this guy is cold. Just in high school. This nigga was 21 years old.

SPEAKER_05

Amari Stodeman?

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

He's supposed to be killing everybody, huh? Hell back three years.

SPEAKER_00

That nigga started at school, there were seven colors in the cramp box.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, dog. Man, we are out of control. Hey, man.

SPEAKER_00

The music to God on. I'm just saying. Okay, well, we I guess we could, you know, I'm fucking with hot mic this thing. Fuck it. Hey, you got go ahead, get it off your chest, Joe.

Age Limits, Pink Slips, And Closing

SPEAKER_00

No, but I don't think a motherfucker should be playing college football, uh college, any college sport when you're 25 years from the city.

SPEAKER_01

No, no, 24 is the cap.

SPEAKER_00

They should cut that shit out of the city. 24.

SPEAKER_01

I agree. I agree. If you enter college and you're a freshman at 24, you got one year to play. You got one year to play. True that. That's that's really. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00

And you sitting, you sitting on the bench bouncing your goddamn baby and shit. Shit, fuck that.

SPEAKER_01

You damn near a grandparent at that age nowadays. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00

Take your ass home.

SPEAKER_01

You got two grandbabies and you 25. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00

You got your chance. And another thing is, is, it's, it's, you know, like, you get, you know, you got all these athletes come out of college every year, every year. Women and men. Nigga, that gotta be an age on these motherfuckers, man. They got you can't play until you goddamn 55 and shit. And how you gotta make room for the young people.

SPEAKER_01

Dude, uh, it's you know what? We just we just gonna talk about that.

SPEAKER_00

I'm just saying, though, like, man, I'm just saying. Football the same way. Them motherfuckers 40 or something years old know damn well he can't run around that field no more. I can only imagine the pain that motherfucker be in in football. Trying to go out there as soon as you hit one time, you ain't gonna tell when that motherfucker ain't getting no injections in every joint he got.

SPEAKER_01

Every game. There might be a soft little sideline here. I'm gonna be like, coach, I think I need to be in concussion protocol. You ain't even hit your head. Still.

SPEAKER_00

It's crazy though. Like, I mean, and then they got you know, they'll go like like say they'll draft the motherfucker and then cut them. That makes no fucking sense.

SPEAKER_01

Oh yeah, in the WNBA. It's like an NFL the same. Oh, yeah, no, that is true.

SPEAKER_05

On so many spots.

SPEAKER_01

Hey, that's what we need to start doing in Usport. So they get used to it. Give them the pink slip early. I'm telling you, man, we can need to get rid of this. Um, you know what? I'm about to go find a local soccer game right here.

SPEAKER_00

You're gonna traumatize the hell out of them kids. Hey, you're taking out taking out pink slips of everybody. Yeah, you get a pink slip. That might be the owner. You definitely look at Jerry Jones. Jerry Jones, the owner of the cowboys, and then you're gonna get somebody who makes it and say, A to that motherfucker who gave me my pink slip at eight. Fuck you. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_05

That's gonna drive.

SPEAKER_01

I made you better. I turned you, I turned you into Steve Jobs. Yeah, I wasn't gonna be nothing. Fuck you. I know I'm still washing dishes at the local waffle house. Just let me do me. Yeah. Okay, y'all. I think we're done. Yeah, we're done.

SPEAKER_00

Peach slip at eight. Holler.