Episode 49 - Rocco and Tony -World Cup Predictions 2026

Rocco and Tony discuss Rocco's 2026 World Cup Predictions Group by Group.   From 36 teams to 48 and no Italy.  Figure that one out!

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:17

Hello, everybody. Welcome to episode number 49 of the Bring Your Guard Down podcast. I'm uh excuse me, Tony Incomparable, and this is Well Karum Pamuro, Funk 49. Number 49. We're in, like you can tell, we're in our spring attire. Yeah, funk 49, yeah. T-shirts. We can see the farmer's tens. I got a farmer tan. You got a farmer tan? Oh yeah. I got it. Yeah. What do you call the 10th? This is a tractor tan. Tractor 10, yeah. That's nice. So how you been over last week? Anything exciting?

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Oh, a lot of different stuff happening and a lot of trouble over there. That's why we get ready for Funk 49 today. You know, today's 49. James Gang.

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That's a group. Remember Funk 49? James Gang. What are the songs that they write?

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Funk Woman, and one song called The Woman. Yeah. I remember that for the return of uh Funk Quarantanova, Funk 49, they do. James Gang Ride Again, that's an album. They do a few albums those days. And you know, one Italian guy, he joined the James Gang after when uh Joe Walsh quit, he take off, eh? Joe Walsh was in that band? He was he started the band, Joe Walsh.

SPEAKER_01 1:23

Oh, I'm thinking of a funk band.

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No, it was a James Gang, a Jimmy gang, yeah. When Joe Walsh leave, uh Toronto guitar player, he joined a James gang named Dominic Traiano.

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He joined Dominic Triano, yeah, yeah. He was a Paisan kind of.

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Yeah, but yeah, actually, yeah. I have some kind of relation with him from family somewhere down the line.

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So we've been uh pre just while we were getting ready for this show, we're talking about sort of the NHL. My prediction was uh completely off. Yeah, hockey night. I said uh Colorado and Tampa in the final. Yeah. Now we've got the two worst teams in the fucking league playing in the final. Disaster. Horrible. So what do you think about you know uh the the the series?

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What's your view on it? Well, I tell you something. Uh, you know, I got a lot of my friend, a lot of my friends live in Montreal. Yeah. So I feel bad Montreal loser. But they can't beat the the those uh uh Carolina, they got a lot of experienza, you know. Uh Bobby Brindamore over there, Frankie Brindemore. Rod the Bod, they call it. What do they call him? Rod the Bod. What's that mean? The body.

SPEAKER_01 2:32

Works out.

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He's training? He's training. Why doesn't he fix his fucking map? La Facha, he needs to train.

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He's got a lot of mileage out. Mileage is a lot of mileage on that face.

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Never mind, but he does a nice job of coaching his team.

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Yeah.

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I mean, much how they're young, right? Tony, correct me. I'm not a speciality on the hockey. Yeah, you're not. Well, yeah, and I clearly not the speciality on the microphone either.

SPEAKER_01 2:56

So that's well, I could see that I could see on the uh on the table there. You see it's overload. Oh, you see, it looks like a Christmas tree. That's true. So when you're like good, see when like you're a little bit back, you don't peek too much. You know about body bell like this. Look, it peaks out and it starts to get distortion. Oh, that's no fucking good. So that'd get that's why I put it there so you kind of get an idea when you're talking. Yeah, you have to control a voce. You know what I mean? That way you can you're a singer, right?

SPEAKER_02 3:28

You have experience, as well. Yeah.

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Well, look, I'm bugs, right? Look, look at that beautiful guitar. Look, huh?

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Beautiful, eh? Oh, that's a nice guitar.

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That's my beautiful, that's my baby. That's gonna one day we're gonna do a little jam. Oh, yeah, we jam him up. Yeah, we jam him up. We're gonna play a little cialatano. Oh, yeah. Questella storia de la via gluk. Gente tranquila che lavorava.

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Aveva le corne che lì spontava, dove c'è la l'erba orach l'erba. John deere, John Deere.

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That's what he's talking about. He's talking about how they paved paradise and put up a parking lot in it. Oh, they kill a paramise and throw them in your parking lot. Yeah, that's what uh La Vieux Gluc is about. Yeah, uh Rocco, Vicella Lerba, where there was once grass, is now tremendous. It's a city.

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Uh, same thing happened to Johnny Mitchell. I remember uh I used to live in a kind of a state of in the state of uh Malibu. Yeah, you lived next door to Jordy Mitchell. Yeah, Johnny, Johnny and Johnny. Yeah. She used to live at Jane Shepherd, too. Jane Shepard. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, she has a bomb coming. You had a German Shepherd once.

SPEAKER_01 4:47

Oh, I had a I had a German Shepherd, yeah, beautiful. Anyway, um Are you one of these guys? I wanted to ask you something. Are you one of these guys that um when you hear people breathing or chewing food, yeah, does it does it bother you? Yeah, oh fuck yeah. I I usually I smash, I kill them. Do you know that there's a it's there's a disorder called misoph misophonia?

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Misophonia, melotonic.

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That's that is a disorder when you you you get angry or upset when you hear people chewing loud or breathing heavy. It's a real brain disorder. Because that's I I can't fucking stand that. I got it. I got it too. I got it.

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We both got it. First of all, if you're eating food, why the fuck uh why you sound like a fucking avaca?

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Yeah.

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What's your fucking problem? When you're drinking soup and you got a slurp, running roll of broad. Can't cut such everything, you know. I tell you, I tony, I think a lot of people, they think they're chivil chivile. They say like civilization. They're not civilized. A lot of uh country, a lot of people, especially a lot of migrants come here, they they they don't even know how to use a fucking spoon and fork and a knife.

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Do you know that? Well, you know, ever been to uh Spadina and how they eat uh it's like they're shoveling it in. Exactly. They shovel everything, a shovel.

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Uh they shovel cool steak in the steak, right?

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Yeah, and then the other people from uh Bramladesh there they eat with their hands.

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Dirty hands stuff their face with the big thing. That's that's what L Italia Jamichiv. Everything we eat tonight, you have a you know, spoon and a nap of fork, huh?

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Civilization for the nation. It's like incredible, but anyway, there's a disorder if that bothers you out there, you know. I don't know how they they chew with their mouth open or they chew their food and that looks like a fucking molanex, everything in the fucking it looks like a uh like an organ grinder.

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Like a wood fucking chipper.

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That's it, how it is, right? Oh man, I used to work with a guy that who he was an Italian dude.

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Italiano guess of car.

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His name is uh Mario anyway. Mario, yeah, fuck. He used to chew his food and he used to chew it with his he used to eat with his mouth, mouth open and just That's disgusting. And then when he would soup or whatever, drink his coffee, go, what the fuck?

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Are you ever gonna have a girlfriend? Fuck Tony, I want to ask you something. If you talk about uh uh education when the way you eat, you gotta have a manner at the table, right? Yeah. A very famous guy from India, his name was Gandhi. Yeah, he used to say this is very important, listen carefully, this is a philosophy, okay? When you gotta eat, you drink your food and you chew your water. You know what that means? No. When you drink your food, that means you gotta chew your food so much that it's a lack of liquid because digestion starts in the mouth, not in the stomach. And water, a lot of people drink it too fast. He said, chew your water. That means slowly you drink the water, slowly move around your mouth, you chew it, then swallow. Bad for you. What's the theory behind chewing your water? Chewing your water him just means take your time, drink slowly, don't gulp. Right.

SPEAKER_01 8:11

Because we everything we do eat fast. We eat everything. And then they got a stomach trap. We always look at everything's in a hurry. Nobody fucking relax, like you know, have a nice you know, sip of it. Drink your food, chew your water. Gandhi. Remember that. Drink your food, chew your water. That's right. Because otherwise, what happens?

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You get achita, you get the gas, I get the farta like a buzzer, and then you blow up, have your fucking house let you, they're gonna go fly over the shingles.

SPEAKER_01 8:39

So it's June, uh, what's today? June 5th? I think it's four or four. We're like one week today, the World Cup starts. Yeah, the soccer. Soccer. In in Canada and in North America, like it's some games are played in Canada, some games are played in the United States, and some games are played in Mexico. Yeah. So what I wanted to do is uh, you know, because this is gonna be good, you know. Yeah like we're gonna see how clairvoyant you are. Okay, because you're pretty knowledgeable in soccer.

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A lot, a lot of soccer, those soccer players. They take a they do a special video course in rock corump.

SPEAKER_01 9:11

I'm gonna box them for shape. So so I want, I'm gonna go, we're gonna do this, you know, because I think it's a it's adequate. It's and you know, people are gonna be interested in this, and then they can even listen. So there are how many groups? There are how many group?

SPEAKER_02 9:24

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 9:24

Let's figure out the Beatles and the A B C D E F A, B, C, D, E, C. Gram Funk, Jamaican. 12 groups. 12 groups, okay. And in each group, there's four teams. Four teams in each group. Okay, so 12 times four is a 48. 48. Ming, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:40

So we're gonna be how many used to be before? You remember? No, I don't. They changed it. That this year's a 48. Yeah. Four years ago, I was 46 teams. They bump it up, FIFA. They bumped it up. Ah, really? Money.

SPEAKER_01 9:53

Money. Okay. So we're gonna do is gonna go by each group.

SPEAKER_02 9:56

Wait a minute before we start. Yes. You got you didn't answer a question here. Go, go ahead. See, you gotta know the specifics of what we're talking about. All right. This year, it's a 48 teams. Yeah. Four years ago, it was always a 36 teams. Now I ask you something. Letalia, they qualify? No. How the fuck they don't qualify because they lose two fucking games. There's other teams they lost more than two games, they qualified. Letalia's out.

SPEAKER_01 10:24

I know.

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That's a complication, Tony.

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It's something going on.

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It makes sense.

SPEAKER_01 10:29

No sense. But you know, in life, what the fuck makes any sense? Nothing anyway. Nothing, fuck it. So, um, okay, so yeah, this uh what I want to do today. Yeah, I want to uh I'm gonna give you the groups. Oh, we're getting a call. We're getting a call. Take it. I can't take it. Can't take the call. I'm in a podcast. So what?

SPEAKER_02 10:50

Take the call. We talk to them on the air. Fuck it. I do all the time.

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Yeah, okay. Well, anyway, hold on. Let me just get my computer fired out.

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You two pornography, fuck it.

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My own pornography. What the fuck do I need to look at? I don't do the fucking things. That's an unnatural group eight.

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What do I want? Okay, go ahead.

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You know who is in group eight? I'm gonna tell you. Tell me, fuck it. I want you to tell me who's gonna come out of the group and any comments you have about the teams in this group. So this one is Mexico, South Africa, Korean Republic, and Chechia. Okay, who's gonna come out of that group?

SPEAKER_02 11:31

Well, I think of uh myself, I think Mexico's gonna come out of that. In Mexico, they do hard training and the heat. Those players are good, and they they are fiatati. The Mexican player, they they love each other. They they play like a team.

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Right.

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I like that. South Korea always thinks that they they're gonna go in. I don't care if they go in or not, because they did cheat in 2002 in South Korea. Okay, remember they cheat against Litalia quarterfinal?

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Yeah, I do.

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So I'll never forget that referee kid of Kakasaka Bazardo. Yeah, he cheat. That fucking guy made he made a lot of money. So what was that?

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What was the controversy there?

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Controversy they one guy take down Toti down in the in the Korea the the area over there. They took Toti down, and the fucking referee instead of give the Korean guy a red card, he gave the red card to Toti and threw him out. What? Oh yeah, because he for diving or something like some shit like that. He fucking cheat. And that was what year? 2012. That's a 2002. 2002? Fuck. That's already. I don't forget. Minfutu Nukatsu. Holy shit. I gotta memory like a elephant.

SPEAKER_01 12:38

Wasn't that uh a couple of years later? Was the headbutt?

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The headbutt was 2006. Zidane and Materazzi.

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Right, okay.

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Group B. Canada. Yeah, I didn't tell you who else is gonna come out of that group. Oh, yeah, okay. Who else is there? Mexico's gonna come out of that group, yeah. And and uh you gotta watch over that's very tricky. South Africa, forget about it. It's gonna be a toss-up between Korea and the Czechia. I think the Czechia, those guys are good athletes, and they're a little bit crazy too. They might come out. I think Czechia is gonna go.

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So Rocco's prediction group A, Mexico Czechia. Okay. So if you want to go to uh betting site, bet whatever you don't give a fuck if you bet, but all right. The next group Canada, Bosnia, and Herzegovina, Qatar, and Switzerland.

SPEAKER_02 13:22

Switzerland is gonna go. For sure they're gonna come out. I think they're gonna go. And I think you gotta watch those guys, uh, those guitarra, those guys they're a lot of Muslim countries, a little bit crazy. And Bosnia, they have a nice couple of nice players. I think uh Switzerland uh and Bosnia is gonna come out there. Everybody thinks Canada is gonna come out. Yeah, it's gonna come out Lukats. They're even gonna win a fucking game.

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No, they're gonna be in Saka. They played three games in the first round. Yeah, yeah. Our prediction, 0 and 3. That's it. No wins, three losses. No. Okay, so group B, Rocco predicts Switzerland and Bosnia and Herzegovina. All right. Group C. We have Brazil, Morocco, Haiti. What the fuck's Haiti gonna do? And Scotland.

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I like that.

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That's a that's a toss-up, I think.

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No, it's enough toss-up who cats. Brazil, Morocco, they put it right there. Go ahead. Okay, Brazil and Morocco. Yeah, Scotland, they got a nice feeling. I like them. Then drink and then they cheer and they fight sometimes. I like that. Yeah. But they're not gonna go anywhere. And Haiti, they hate fucking travel. They hate it.

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They hate fucking plague. They hate everything. That's why they hate it. Group D. So, group C, Brazil and Morocco. That's kind of a no-brainer. Okay, group D. We have USA, Paraguay, Australia, and Turkey.

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Well, I gotta take a Paraguay number one. Oh, they're gonna come in number two. They're gonna come out. Paraguay is gonna go. Wow. Because of Vince Montella, a great soccer player from L Italia, he's the coach of Turkey, Turquy. I fucking say Turquino. Turquino. I gotta say Paraguay and Turkey. Because of Australia, they're gonna jump back like a kangaroo back to Australia.

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Yeah, where they fucking belong.

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Yeah.

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Anyway, uh any what and tell me which are there any Italian coaches coaching in these teams?

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Paraguay? Yes, Tolia. That's uh that's uh Vince Montella. Montella, right? He he he coached Turkey, Vince Montella. Okay, okay, Brazil, yeah, coaching by Angelotti. He used to play for Milan. He's the coach, yeah.

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Okay, good. So the group D, your prediction Turkey and uh Paraguay. Okay, group E. This one's uh again Germany, Kurakau, culted the the Ivory Coast, and Ecuador.

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I got you gotta take right away. Uh German La Germania, you gotta go. They're gonna go in, and uh and I gotta take uh Ivory Coast because those guys are Africa, Africa, those guys, yeah, they do hot training.

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So anybody's any special players in that group for?

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We gotta watch out for everybody over there. Germany has a lot of good players, midfield the talk, defends. Uh I think defends a little bit weak in Germany. Yeah, but it doesn't matter. Doesn't matter because Ivory Coast, they they play nice soccer. I like them. I like them.

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All right. So your prediction for group E. Germany and Ivory Coaster. Yeah, Ivory Coast. Colt d'Ivoire. Okay. Beautiful. Group F. Yeah, I don't know. It seems like each group has a really good team, and the rest are not too good. Okay, we have Netherlands, Japan, Sweden, and Tunisia. You gotta watch Japan, they're very tough, eh?

SPEAKER_02 16:19

Tough, yeah. They're training good. I think Netherlands, if they're not lazy, they're gonna come out. They're pretty lazy. And Tunisia, there are a lot of Muslim players over there. They're very they're a lot of good players over there.

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Yeah.

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I think it's a good I that's a very difficult one. Sweden, I don't think they're gonna do nukatsu. No, eh? I think the Netherlands is gonna go through with uh with Tunisia.

SPEAKER_01 16:42

Okay, so we have group uh group F, Netherlands, Japan. No, oh you said Netherlands? I I I take Tunisia as a dark horse. Netherlands and Tunisia. Yeah. Okay, so now we're gonna go to group H or the other the other side. Group G. Yeah, group G, yeah. Okay. Group G, we have Belgium, yeah, Egypt, Iran.

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So is Iran playing? Yeah, they play a couple of guys and then I'll come out. I I heard that Iran is gonna play, yeah. They are gonna play. Forget about them, they're gone.

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They're gone.

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New Zealand, get out.

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Okay, so that's that's Egypt and Belgium. Uh, they're gonna go. Who?

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Belgium and Egypt. Any good players in Belgium? Oh, Belgium have a lot of beautiful players, yeah. Nice. Even Egypt, they're gonna they work hard, those guys, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:26

I mean, I I don't even heard of these fucking. How do you have anyway? So we have group H: Spain, Cabo Verde, Saudi Arabia, and you are gay. You gotta take a Spain or Uruguay, whether I have it. How the fuck did Italy Italy's not in, but Cabo Verde is it? How the fuck does that happen?

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That's what I'm trying to tell it, Tony. What the fuck is bad is Greek, Greece?

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How come Greece is this shit?

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Because the Greek, they're going to the get a hamburger french fries over there.

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Yeah, they get a Slovakia. All right. Group H, that's a no-brainer. Spain and Uruguay. Yeah, Uruguay and they're going to Spain now. Not Saudi Arabia. What is Cabo Verde anyway?

SPEAKER_02 18:05

Uh, Cabo Verde is a small little country in Africa, someplace.

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All right. Group I, which I think is uh favorite to win, is France, the whole tournament.

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France and Norway over there gonna go. So we have France, Senegal, Iraq, and Norway. Norway and France. And Norway they got that uh striker. What's the name? Harlan here. Yeah, from uh Man City. Yeah, he killed the Italian team. Yeah, he does a lot of damage when we have to play playoff.

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Does he play Man City? Harlan, yeah, he played Manchester City. Yeah, so France. Francia, they go always a bit good. They have a lot of good players, eh? Yeah, they got a lot of good players, yeah. Mbappe, umbap, Mbappe, yeah. Who else do they got? Mbapepu. Yeah, Mbappe. Mbappepu they got group I. France, Senegal, Iraq, Norway, so France and Norway. Rocco predicts France and Norway. Okay, now we have Jay.

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Okay, Jay.

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We have Argentina, yeah, Algeria, Austria, and Jordan.

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Let me tell you something. Right here, Argentina, they're gonna go right away. Is Messi playing? Messi is gonna play, yeah. He's not gonna play a full game, but you're gonna throw him in 25-30 minutes. Oh, yeah? He's still gonna do damage. He's still gonna do damage? Because he's the champion, best in history. He's still fantastic, he's intelligence.

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Even better than uh uh who uh who's the other Argentinian. Oh, Maradona. Maradona, yeah.

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Well, no, Maradona, he was great too.

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Between Messi and Maradona, if you had in their prime, who would you pick?

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No, in their prime, I know uh yeah, I there's a for different reason, you gotta remember at that time, yeah, Maradona was a leader. Yeah, he gave the country a feeling. Okay? Yeah. So uh Messi he's a great player, best I have seen. But uh Maradona gave the team and the country a big feeling to beat anybody. Right. He was great and he had courage. He was a socialista, too, you know. Everybody for one uh all for one, one for all. That's Maradona. That's why they love a Monopoly, right? He you go to Napoli now.

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I was gonna say this Napoli, he's like a like is he's like Maradona's everywhere on those streets and posters and still still today and Burilla. Yeah, he's tough.

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And you're gonna take Austria.

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Oh yeah, forget Algeria and Georgia. Forget, forget it. No chance.

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Algiers, they're gonna be maybe tough, but I don't think so. They're not gonna do nothing.

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All right. So now this is another one I can't figure out, okay? Group H. Portugal Congo Dur. Yeah, that's Uzbekistan shit team. Uzbekistan is a coach by uh uh Italian. Uh this they were awful.

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Didn't they just put it on? Yeah, they lost it to friendly, to nothing. They lost okay. But they're in Edmonton, it was minus 50 fucking degrees. Yeah, and Canada. I mean, how do you how bad is that too? Instead of a fuck over there. Okay, let's not draw this. Colombia. Well, we gotta talk about people Colombia and Portugal. That's it. Congo's used to Katsu used backistan. You know, what's he gonna do? And the Vado is a coach, he's not a player.

SPEAKER_01 21:10

How the fuck did Congo get in and not Italy?

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I know, Tony, you're right. That's how the fuck did that happen?

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The fuck about I don't even care to watch this shit, to be honest with you.

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I don't have a sucker, I gotta watch everything.

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My snack, you know. Okay, the final group, L. What is it? Like England, Croatia, Ghana, and Panama.

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Okay. Who are you gonna take here? You gotta take England.

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Yeah, England.

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They're trying so hard to win another cup. They still won in 1969. How many did they have? One. One. How many does Italy have?

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Four. So go fuck yourself.

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And we went to the final twice, we lost to Brazil. Once a penalty shot, and once in 1960, could have been six. Could have been six, yeah. Stars. Okay, England, Croatia, Ghana, Panama. Uh take England to Croatia. Panama doesn't have a chance at Ghana. Croatia's tough. But they're very tough again. Tough moderate English. They're angry, angry, angry country.

SPEAKER_01 22:07

Very angry.

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They're angry, but that's a lot of killing. They got a lot of issues over there. Used to be a big country at one time. Now they split them up. Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Katsala. Lots of shit. Fuck Moslav, Christian, they kill each other. Fuck. Unitaby. Get organized. Make a fucking barbecue and break up your problems.

SPEAKER_01 22:26

So my so we got through all the groups. Okay. And Rocco's predictions are on record. So then we're going to we're going to see as we go through it. We're going to see, you know, what the uh results are. Now, but the real big question is the final four.

SPEAKER_02 22:40

Ah, the final four.

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Okay. What is your prediction on the final four? Well, I can't tell you what the final four is.

SPEAKER_02 22:45

Yeah, you can. What are your years? But they might not meet. I don't know who's going to meet the who will win. You can't just say four things.

SPEAKER_01 22:50

Who do you think is going to win the tournament then?

SPEAKER_02 22:53

Who's going to win the whole tournament? Yes. Who's going to be the World Cup champion? I heard, well, this is what I heard. Yeah. I heard that Spain is going to win. Who did you hear from? All the people, the bookie, the people that gamble. I don't gamble, Rats. I don't give a fuck about that shit. They say Spain isn't going to win. Then all those people they love the Frenchie. They think, oh yeah, France, France, France. What do you mean France? It looks more like Nigeria, the French team fuck. Well, most of the teams look like fucking Nigeria. I don't want French France to win, okay? Because we give it to them in 2006, and when we fix our soccer up a little bit the next five, ten years, we're going to give it back to them.

SPEAKER_01 23:36

Are we going to be around to watch them play again?

SPEAKER_02 23:37

I'm not going to die until I win a fucking other World Cup. Don't worry. I'm with you.

SPEAKER_01 23:42

We make a party. We make a party. We're going to be at the old folks' home at Friendly Acres there. Kipling acre, yeah. 91 years old. Whatever. 91 fucking years old. With the Spiducci. With the Spiducci there waiting for uh waiting for Italy to win another world fucking. Well, I'll tell you who I think is going to win. So the the bookies and the experts predict Spain.

SPEAKER_02 24:04

Yeah. But Rocco predicts. I think this year, with Angelotti over there, coach in Brazil, I think this year Brazil is going to go there. That's I agree. That's my pick. I think, and plus, I don't think Argentina's finished yet. Because of the new guys I seen them who come up from Argentina, they fantastic it. Holy shit. So then can Brazil and Argentina meet in the final? I don't know. That's what I'm saying. We don't know what's going on who goes in, who goes out. We don't know yet. Because well, how do the groups work? Well, whoever goes the the first round Rob in the first round.

SPEAKER_01 24:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:39

Then it's uh whoever lose out after that.

SPEAKER_01 24:42

Yeah, but like for example, how do they match up? I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 24:46

So you're saying Brazil and Argentina could meet before that's what I'm saying. Somewhere they can meet, but depends who plays what. Depends if they finish second or first, and then what what group plays against what group? You see what I mean? Right.

SPEAKER_01 25:00

I don't know yet the tournament has to start. Right.

SPEAKER_02 25:02

So you don't really my feeling who I like. Yeah. I like Brazil because I like Angelotti.

SPEAKER_01 25:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 25:08

I like uh uh Argentina because uh, you know, a lot of Argentina players. Taglia Fico, oh, he's Italian, a lot of Italian guys are in Argentina, anyway. Uh anyway, yeah, plus there's other uh Italian coaches over there. Like I told you, Vincent Montella, he coached Turkey, Turkey, Turkey, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_01 25:28

So the teams like uh in the like with the biggest countries in the world, with the most people, India, China, how come Pakistan? How come they don't have teams?

SPEAKER_02 25:36

They kinda they stink, they don't fucking play, they fucking stink.

SPEAKER_01 25:39

They don't have teams.

SPEAKER_02 25:40

Why is that? Well, because they play cricket. Oh, they're not big soccer guys? What the fuck are they gonna do? They they they don't do nothing, they just fucking uh do those fucking movies they hide behind the fucking training. Bollywood movies. Bollywood, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:54

I saw a video today of a train in Bangladesh. What happened? People were all on top hanging out. Oh, yeah. Like, what the fuck? Nobody paid the ticket. That's four world, third world country.

SPEAKER_02 26:03

Oh, they're third world, fucking their fourth fucking world.

SPEAKER_01 26:06

I saw an interesting um oh anyway, so yeah, we digress, but the uh so that's that's our wrap-up, okay? So who are you calling for the Stanley Cup? We go back because we start with the Stanley Cup.

SPEAKER_02 26:18

Is it gonna be not right now?

SPEAKER_01 26:19

Last two teams.

SPEAKER_02 26:21

No, no chance, no chance for Carolina, no fucking chance.

SPEAKER_01 26:24

You're predicting Vegas, Vegas had no chance. If they lose tonight, it's over. And then we've done our World Cup recap. And so when does it end the World Cup?

SPEAKER_02 26:32

The World Cup is gonna let's say start to June the 11th. Yeah, and then I think it finished July 19th. So then in July So five fucking weeks, Tony.

SPEAKER_01 26:40

Yeah, I get it. So we're gonna do uh we're gonna do some we're gonna do a recap. We're gonna summarize your I'm gonna summarize your uh I'm gonna do a transcript of your prediction. And then we're gonna see how good you are.

SPEAKER_02 26:51

Oh fuck it. I don't get nothing if I'm right. I don't get I don't bet. Well, you maybe you should. No, I don't think it might have first of all to me soccer. I only want the these days, I think a little bit uh stuff has changed before.

SPEAKER_01 27:06

Do you know like before all these betting sites and stuff, right? It used to be something called ProLine. I remember ProLine. It used to be just you could bet on certain shit. 15, 15 years ago, I remember. So there's the guy that used to run this hotline, phone line, and you would pay like a dollar fifty for a call. Yeah, and you'd call him, and you would he would give you the what his predictions were. Like it's okay, Toronto, Montreal tonight. Okay, so-and-so's hurt, blah, blah, blah. I'm gonna give you to Toronto. So they pay this guy to fucking, you know, and then you would go to play pro line. Oh, I don't remember pro now. They got every TV show, every sports cast, every TV show C, T SN sports show. They have these guys predicting the outcome sponsored by bet this or bet that, you know. This is the fucking problem.

SPEAKER_02 27:58

Now, when the betting is illegal like that, everybody's involved. Yeah, now you can affect the player, you can affect the team, you can fix things. I thought about this the other day. You you go to betting, right? Yeah, you go to betting site, right? How about I tell you, Tony, uh, I'm gonna take ask my cousin. I'm a boxer, right? The rock coronbamuro. I'm gonna lose a fight, but I'm gonna bet uh I'm gonna bet uh the other fighter to fucking to lose. Can you imagine? I throw the fight, and then my cousin put the bet for me, we split the money. But that happens, no?

SPEAKER_01 28:34

Happen all the time. Yeah, man. There's a move, a show called Snatch or something. Yeah, I heard about that. Yeah. About the boxer who was supposed to throw a fight and he decides not to go and he kills the guy.

SPEAKER_02 28:45

Everybody threw, you know, it's about me, Tony. Yeah. They get once did they get involved. I remember the old days. If you bet, you go to jail. No, nobody goes to jail because the government they're making all kind of money. That's why I hated the fucking government.

SPEAKER_01 28:57

Yeah, well, I think um I think people are waking up. I think they really are. They're waking up to this. You know, because they're realizing how fucking absurd the control and what they're doing to people. They're focusing.

SPEAKER_02 29:10

C9, C22, all the bills they pass. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_01 29:14

It's gonna backfire on them, you know what I mean? Because people, you know, are gonna wake up and you know, you can't you can't, you know, when when the masses start to understand, and that's what I'm optimistic about. At least that people are waking up and they're understanding.

SPEAKER_02 29:29

Well, look at those fucking two chitruls. Between a Trudeau and this fucking guy, Chile con carne, yeah, make a fucking mess. Now you have people dropping out to the liberal liberal party because you lie, you cheat, and you steal. Fuck you can't do everybody get cut. Globalist, I don't give a fuck who you are. Yeah, once the people say no, we're not doing fuck out. What are you gonna do? Go to your bunker? Do you know a hundred years ago?

SPEAKER_01 29:50

Uh I was listening to somebody's uh some somebody was saying to me that a hundred years ago, in for example, in England, yeah, the the only interaction people had with their government was when they went to the post office. That's it. That was that was there was no passport, there was no income tax, there was nothing. So in a hundred years, we went from kind of like this real true freedom to the uh globalist has tried to control and lying to everybody. Fuck them, and now it's they're putting people in jail just because of their opinions, and and now people are going, what the fuck? How's that you know what are we doing here, right? We can't, you know. So it's an awakening happening. Yeah. I think it's it's what they're doing is actually uh is actually backfiring on them. Oh, yeah. I think what do you think?

SPEAKER_02 30:44

I agree with you 100%. They kill everything. Look at look at in Canada. One time everybody looked kind of beautiful here. I remember a lot of people come here, nice place, 60s, 70s, uh yeah, parts of the 80s. Now the business has taken off everybody leaving it, but I know a lot of people they move already.

SPEAKER_01 31:02

Well, you know, they were also that same guy was saying in England, for example, uh at the end of the World War II, yeah, uh, 99% of the of the population were born like born white, right? Yeah. In 2026, uh 52% are born non-white. So it's it's successfully transitioned the population from white to non-white. Oh yeah. So that's what's happening, and uh and it's you know, it's by design, it's not by accident, you know. Apparently there was something that's going around that there was a guy walking home from a bar, and uh these this because it's illegal for a knife to go to for for white people or to carry knives or guns, right? But it's not for Sikhs, it's part of their religion. You can carry a knife or fuck up, too. Right? And so apparently this guy, I don't know, they had got to an altercation, he was stabbed five times, then he called the police and saying this guy was racist. So they handcuffed the white guy while he had been stabbed five times, and the the cops took the story without doing it, you know, of the uh the two is uh uh Indian guys, Sikhs or whatever the fuck they call them. Uh Palestanians. And they uh and they this guy bled out and died in handcuffs. Oh yeah. Meanwhile, the uh other guys claimed, you know, that the guy called them ra racial slurs. I can call you whoever the fuck I want, they don't kill a person.

SPEAKER_02 32:30

Fuck more.

SPEAKER_01 32:36

It's it's worse in England, for example, to be a racist or to be threatened racism than it is to kill somebody. Yeah, of course. So anyway, they killed this poor guy, and the cops handcuffed the fucking guy that got stabbed five times once through the heart. I'm unarmed, and you know what, no matter what the guy said to you or fucking knocked your turbine.

SPEAKER_02 32:59

We're gonna we can get armed too, you know, and that's what that's what they want covered.

SPEAKER_01 33:02

But that it's just it's it's so ridiculous that there's rules and you know that apply to certain people and not other people, and I think it's it's like they're murderers, those fucking people that's all they do. You gotta wake up.

SPEAKER_02 33:18

Those people all left to their fucking country because it was a mess, and they come here, they make a mess over here anyway.

SPEAKER_01 33:24

So uh I just I just you know, and so you know, it's I think we're finally people are you know, we're tolerant, you know. We're you know, we this, you know, we're uh people that are accepting intolerance. Now we've been taken advantage of. So now we're making up. Of course. Hopefully it's not too late. But I don't think so. I think it's finally a situation where it's all good. So anyway, we kind of you know navigate in and out of certain things and issues, but you know, at the end of the day, we love sport. That's it. Yeah, boxing, hockey, soccer, and it's gonna be an exciting time, even though I don't know. How good I don't know. I went drove by the stadium in Toronto. That they put up those rafters like shit. It's like they're at a 90-degree angle. I mean, who the uh who the I don't know who would be I I I think it's danger. Those have you seen them?

SPEAKER_02 34:21

Have you seen oh please? You could you could go play that uh remember the stadium on lands down down there? Yeah, yeah. It was better.

SPEAKER_01 34:28

Yeah, anyway.

SPEAKER_02 34:29

Yeah, anyway.

SPEAKER_01 34:30

Hey Mike, what's going on?

SPEAKER_02 34:33

You alright? Yeah, what do you do? Yeah, fixing the field. He does construction. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, oh yeah, he's fantastic. Come parabents. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, great job. What does he do? Fix the grass? No, he helped over there, fix everything, organize the stadium. He's fantastic, you know.

SPEAKER_01 34:50

Yeah, they apparently were the FIFA band. Uh, you can't bring your own water bottles because it's gonna be 30 degrees plus, it's it's oh, they changed their mind.

SPEAKER_00 35:00

Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_01 35:00

They're gonna how many they're gonna get everybody to charge $11 for a bottle of water. You can bring your own water. Yeah, so you gotta buy water from them. Yeah, 11 water tap bottle in a bottle for eleven dollars. Oh yeah. Fuck me. Look out. Now they change their ruling on the water bottle on the waters bottles, you know. So I'm curious, what what is you know, what is the average what do you think the average hotel room average hotel room? Yeah, hold on, let me let me see. Hotel room rental during the World Cup in Toronto. Oh, and they're gonna talk about Toronto, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:37

So what is what do you think they're let's see, what is it? A five hundred and fifty dollar night. Let's see what they're saying. $1,000 night. Holy shit, how much is it?

SPEAKER_01 35:49

Oh, they don't even say they don't even fucking give you the price. Let's see here. You better check it out. See, they don't want to tell you because they don't want to scare the shit out of you. Oh, it's gonna be a lot, so I know. The average old duck room they've got there, you go hi, rah. I agree. No, why the fuck did it go to this place? Duck AI. What the fuck is duck AI? The fuck is this? Okay, no, I want to Google. Google, yeah. Google. Okay, let's see. Room night nightly room rate during the World Cup. In Tampa Fest, don't it? In terms of electronics. Let's see. All right, so I six hundred Canadian dollars a night. No, well, here it is. If you want to stay at the Ritz for the World Cup, it's gonna be fourteen hundred thirteen hundred and twenty-five Canadian. A night. A night. Okay, that is Royal York, it's gonna be six hundred and sixteen. The Hotel X between six hundred and one thousand. Okay, where's what's another city that the the the World Cup's held in?

SPEAKER_02 36:57

They're gonna go Boston, they're gonna play over there. Boston? Yeah, Boston. I think they're playing Dallas, too.

SPEAKER_01 37:02

Dallas is in Boston. New Jersey, they're gonna play over there. Okay, how come okay, they're talking between 800 and 1,200 a night U.S. in Boston.

SPEAKER_02 37:12

I buy a fucking tent.

SPEAKER_01 37:14

Okay, what else? New York? Yeah, New York. Are they playing in New York? Yeah, I think in New York, New Jersey, playing New York. Okay, let's see. They're gonna smash all these four to six thousand dollars a night.

SPEAKER_02 37:27

Good. Enjoy yourself.

SPEAKER_01 37:29

Holy shit.

SPEAKER_02 37:30

For four to six thousand dollars a night on match days. On match days, Tony, you four dollars. You can buy a fucking camper. You buy a camper, you drive it, you still. Uh Los Angeles, yeah, they're gonna play over there. You gonna play there? Oh, they're gonna be a thousand dollars a night for sure.

SPEAKER_01 37:57

Seven up to ten thousand dollars a night in in during match days.

SPEAKER_02 38:01

Los Angeles.

SPEAKER_01 38:02

In Los Angeles.

SPEAKER_02 38:03

You could buy a fucking mansion and Malibu, stay there in one month.

SPEAKER_01 38:07

What the fuck? Are you kidding? Hold on, hold on a sec. I maybe read the Toronto wrong. Yeah, and because I it says on match days. So let's see, Toronto on match days. Uh oh. How much? Uh on match days. But Ritz Carlton says $600. On match days. Let's see. On match days. Yeah, $1,500 a night. Okay, how about Mexico City? How about Mexico City?

SPEAKER_02 38:40

Mexico City, Aztecas Day, Matt's gonna be a very expensive over there. Yeah, let's see. What do you think? Oh, I think it's gonna be $1,200.

SPEAKER_01 38:47

Oh, yeah. Okay, let's see here. Uh yeah, $2,500 to the $3,800 USD near the stadium per night on match days.

SPEAKER_02 38:56

Oh, yeah, you're you're you give me a bit of me.

SPEAKER_01 38:59

So there, that's like major uh like major gouging, eh?

SPEAKER_02 39:05

Hold up. And then you now you want you now you know why. They have a 48 fucking team this year, not 36. So to play way more matches, right? Play more matches, make more money, more people are gonna come, more fucked up. Wow, that's how camper. I know that's it. How about camper, Winnebago? I go there.

SPEAKER_01 39:22

It says World Cup hotel rates surge in the U.S. Oh, the rates surge now.

SPEAKER_02 39:27

The ticket Sergio, I know Sergio. Sergio, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:31

Yeah, yeah. So let's see. Like Bemo Field, Toronto, 2026 tickets. Oh, it's a topic. These guys are Canada versus, let's see. How much? Let's see. What are your prediction? How much for a ticket? Yeah. What do you think it's going for? Canada versus Bosnia. Who the fuck wants to pay to see that show? I don't pay fuck off.

SPEAKER_02 39:52

If you give me a ticket for free, I still won't.

SPEAKER_01 39:54

I wouldn't even go to.

SPEAKER_02 39:55

No.

SPEAKER_01 39:56

No chats.

SPEAKER_02 39:57

I go Chinese food with my family.

SPEAKER_01 39:58

That's right. I would stay in in uh the West End. That's it. I want two tickets. Okay. Yeah, sure. Okay. If you want to sit over here, $7,400 a ticket if you want to see it close to the Really? Oh, go ahead. Where the fuck are you? A day before this game, group B, match three, just go online the day before Friday, June 12th, which is a week tomorrow. A week tomorrow, yeah. You're gonna buy for $75. Because there's nobody's gonna be fuckers buying it. Nobody's gonna go. Who's gonna pay $75 looks? $7,500. If you want to sit $37, $3,200 if you want to sit on the next level. If you want to sit in the nosebleeds, like where it's day where you don't nine hundred and twenty dollars a ticket if you want to sit in the in the danger zone, no insurance.

SPEAKER_02 40:47

Hey Tony, you want to know something? If you go to Earl's Court Park, you can watch the Tims play for free over the sit on the bench over there, and you could go Tremati buy a massive zandwich.

SPEAKER_01 40:57

Go up to the Sea Tower, you pay $45 for the ticket. You go on the outdoor deck and you can watch the jump. No, you can watch from the fucking outdoor. Go up there then. Yeah, you go up there, you watch, you can watch the lunch. What do you call those things?

SPEAKER_02 41:09

So it's in the hoy? The binoculars. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How do you say that in Italian? Binocular. Binoculars. Binocolo, yeah. Binocular.

SPEAKER_01 41:16

Anyway, so uh interesting paper of fuck. So um our next uh show is number 50.

SPEAKER_02 41:23

Number chinguante, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:24

Number chinguante. We're gonna do the cooking show. Cooking show, yeah. Okay, yeah. You're gonna do Rocco's recipes. Yeah, I'm gonna do a cut. So we're gonna have a we're gonna do it in a kitchen, live. Uh I'm just giving you guys a heads up. Our next show will be, we're gonna cook it up. We're gonna start this a small mechanic.

SPEAKER_02 41:39

Yeah, whatever. We're gonna do it. Surprise, yeah, some place.

SPEAKER_01 41:42

And then if it works out, and you know, we're gonna maybe do once uh once a month or whatever, we'll do like uh we'll teach people how to cook. I don't know how to cook really shit, but I want to learn.

SPEAKER_02 41:51

I cook nice, yeah. You cook nice. Oh, I like to cook, yeah. I love it. Well, what's your like your favorite? My favorite, uh to make dish. I like to make a I make a nice sugar. Yeah, and uh, you know, I like making a pasta forno, I like it, and I make uh you know eggplant parmigiana. That's my favorite. I'm I make that one. Yeah, we're gonna have to go do we're gonna do that one day. Oh, we could do that if it yeah, I want to. Can we make suko, do parmigiana, too that day?

SPEAKER_01 42:18

Yeah, yeah, that's when I do it. The the key is uh how like the key is how thin you cut the parm. You gotta cut the eggplant. And how do you prep the eggplant? That's important, right? Of course. You dry it out, yeah. You cut a little bit to maybe you're gonna show me, right?

SPEAKER_02 42:35

I show you. You put salt on it, you gotta draw the water out to the eggplant, the salt, and dry them up. Yeah, you know, you gotta fry them up with the egg.

SPEAKER_01 42:43

Yeah, yeah. You want to see something cool? Yeah, go ahead. I don't know if this is gonna work, but what's happening? Uh let's see. I'm gonna see if we can uh I got I'm I'm gonna I've I'm glad I've got my little reference thing. Somehow I gotta figure out how to put it in there. What is it? So when we're gonna show when we're talking about something people can see, right? Look, we have live, right? Live now. Let's see. Who's live? That's us. That's us. But uh it's cool. I don't know uh if we're uh because there's a delay sometime. I don't know what the fuck it is. You know, it's a beautiful day out. Nobody's sitting on their computer at seven o'clock on a Thursday night. You know, so we we record it live, but people can watch it after two. So anyway, um, yeah, so it's pretty interesting. Um let's see here. Any chat sign in. No, I don't sign in. Okay, it's interesting to see. So, anyway, um, so that's it. So we uh short and sweet today, only 49 minutes or whatever it is. 48 minutes.

SPEAKER_02 43:43

Everybody watch it. Tonight's hockey. Yeah, I gotta get all the time.

SPEAKER_01 43:46

Plus uh the tennis are going on, uh, yeah, right.

SPEAKER_02 43:49

Italians are platinums, the tourists.

SPEAKER_01 43:51

What happened to uh your buddy there, sing sinner? Oh, yeah, don't he got slapped out, right?

SPEAKER_02 43:56

No, he didn't get slapped out. He got the you first of all, that's uh we got uh he's a champion number one in the world. I don't know if you know it.

SPEAKER_01 44:03

Yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_02 44:06

So a lot of things went wrong over there. Yeah, but those are people they run the the uh rolling garrisons, yeah. Those French people they're very crooked over there, but still Italian went to the semifinal. I'm gonna go in one, we're gonna go to the final. Yeah, that's all. Yeah, if it's not him, the other guys are coming up now.

SPEAKER_01 44:24

Okay, well, anyway, so thanks for stopping in, guys, in episode 49. It was an interesting talk. We want to focus more on uh the World Cup and our predictions. It starts next week. Pretty pumped out about it. Uh Mikey! Uh I got I don't know where he went. The producer, uh, I guess he uh went for a walk. Busy guy. You know, we gotta we gotta bring him in because somebody's gotta do the controls to uh to shut things down, you know.

SPEAKER_02 44:49

Uh you can you can go turn him off over there. I'll say goodbye. You say goodbye first, then I'll say goodbye.

SPEAKER_01 44:55

All right, so thanks for stopping in. If you like, subscribe, tell your friends, whatever. You know, we're gonna keep going. I think uh we're in the new part of the studio, so we're most close up. We're gonna try to. I got a guy lined up that's coming. He's a travel and tourism guy. Oh, yeah. I ran in ran into him at a cafe today. He says, Oh, you you guys should come on your show. I said, Okay, bring him up, we're gonna bring him over. So, anyway, Rock will finish up. Uh, thanks for the bring your guard down podcast, Tony Incomparable. And Rock was gonna wrap up so I can go to the controls. And like, we're not high tech over here, we're low tech. Oh, take care of it.

SPEAKER_02 45:29

I'm gonna say goodbye now on behalf of Tony myself. Don't forget to rock or um pamuro. I love you and nobody else. We love you and nobody else. And when you watch those sports activities, watch what you bet, ever there, and make sure you have a lot of snack. Okay? Znack, gelato, quiero gozar. Okay, we see you next time.