Peak Offseason Behavior

No NFL? No problem. This week we go completely off script, diving into Team USA's World Cup crashout, reality TV, Stephen A. Smith's latest comments, and whatever else managed to hijack the sports world. It's an offseason episode full of hot takes, random debates, and the kind of conversations that prove we're not experts—we just have opinions on everything.

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SPEAKER_00 0:00

Episode 29, we're not experts. We're back. Live from the cave. We are live from the cave. We there's not a ton of NFL news to talk about. As you can imagine. We're coming into slow season. Like right before like training camps about to start up in the next couple of weeks. That's when it'll get lit. There'll be a lot of hype.

SPEAKER_01 0:21

It'll be interesting to see how much time James Pierce Jr.

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misses. Zero. Zero days.

SPEAKER_01 0:30

Bro, that's nuts.

SPEAKER_00 0:31

Terry and Arnold's not going to be he's not going to miss many days either, brother. There's three teams interested.

SPEAKER_01 0:37

There's no way.

SPEAKER_00 0:40

That's a real report. From his lawyer.

SPEAKER_01 0:44

He's just talking.

SPEAKER_00 0:45

He's like, there were three teams already interested as soon as he got waived. The teams just didn't want to pay his salary. Bro.

SPEAKER_01 0:55

Unless he beats the case. Yeah, I mean, you're you're wasting it. You're gonna get him for camp. You're just gonna get him until he gets sentenced. He's gonna be like, alright, guys, it was it was good playing with y'all. Unless he's one magical run. He's not beating that case. They have a fucking Snapchat group.

SPEAKER_00 1:12

They said the same thing about OJ. They said OJ wasn't beating the case.

SPEAKER_01 1:18

I don't think we're gonna compare OJ Simpson to what Terry and Arnold did. We're not doing that. One, one, I mean, the technology wasn't there.

SPEAKER_00 1:28

OJ was was way worse.

SPEAKER_01 1:31

He didn't do it, clearly. He didn't do it. Oh shit. I mean, for real though. Like how if he would have done it, they would have convicted him.

SPEAKER_00 1:46

If the glove guilty, you must have quit. Right.

SPEAKER_01 1:50

I didn't do it. My hand could not fit in that glove, therefore I couldn't have worn that glove when I stabbed her.

SPEAKER_00 1:58

Juicy J, you know, and and James Pierce Jr. probably, this is the advice he probably took. He listened to the great philosopher Juicy J. And Terry and Arnold needs to take the same advice. He once had a song called Johnny Cochrane. You should call my lawyer Johnny Cochran. It's a great piece of advice.

SPEAKER_01 2:18

He's a little long in the tooth these days. Wait, he's not even alive, right? No.

SPEAKER_00 2:24

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_01 2:25

Can't call him. I don't think Juicy J could have called to be there.

SPEAKER_00 2:29

Call my lawyer, Johnny Cochran. You just he needs to be up to that standard.

SPEAKER_01 2:33

Man, he needs to call what's her name? Olivia Pope from Scandal.

SPEAKER_00 2:37

Man, that's that is my wife's shit.

SPEAKER_01 2:41

My fiance enjoys that show as well.

SPEAKER_00 2:44

Bruh, if she heard that right now, she'd probably pop in the pod and be like, have you watched Scandal? I have not. I have been watching Love Island, though. Oh. Really trashy reality TV. I don't know if it's something I could get into.

SPEAKER_01 3:01

It's actually kind of funny.

SPEAKER_00 3:03

Funny how. Like funny, could you make fun of people?

SPEAKER_01 3:08

I make fun of people all the time. Every time they go and talk about how they have these feelings for someone and everything, I'm just like, how could I develop feelings for someone that I've just seen like make out hardcore with every other guy or girl in this villa? Like they're out here doing challenges where they have to like tell who you have a crush on and shit like that. And I'm like, bro, what?

SPEAKER_00 3:31

You remember uh you remember the real world? Yeah. Back in the day. Is it like real world? Nah, bro, it's like worse.

SPEAKER_01 3:40

It's yeah, it's it's it's way worse. Yeah, but it's but it's entertaining though. Like I see why, like, especially like women like it, because there's a lot of like drama in it. Like, you just basically see that these basically I wouldn't fall in love with anyone that I met on that TV show.

SPEAKER_00 4:00

How long are they together?

SPEAKER_01 4:02

Well, they're like they're out for like the end like a month or a month and a half or so. There's like 36 episodes. They come on like every other day or every day.

SPEAKER_00 4:11

And that's a and like that's the whole season.

SPEAKER_01 4:13

Yeah. And like episodes come on like six days a week.

SPEAKER_00 4:16

It's like NASCAR. It's like they just never stop.

SPEAKER_01 4:20

They're just here for the summer and then they leave, and then like the next summer somebody else.

SPEAKER_00 4:24

Nah, dude, they think NASCAR races for what, 36 weeks out of the year? That's fucking crazy.

SPEAKER_01 4:30

Well, well, Love Island just for like a month and a half.

SPEAKER_00 4:35

You said there's 36 episodes.

SPEAKER_01 4:36

Yeah, they come out with an episode six days a week, so it's six weeks.

SPEAKER_00 4:40

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 4:42

So they're just like cranking them out.

SPEAKER_00 4:44

How much do you think they get paid? You think are they getting paid?

SPEAKER_01 4:47

Probably not. I mean, I'm sure they're probably paid some kind of I mean, I I mean, I wouldn't certainly wouldn't want to go get on TV and miss a month of work, potentially. Are any of the people like whoever wins at the end gets a hundred thousand.

SPEAKER_00 5:00

No.

SPEAKER_01 5:01

So you're in a fake fall in love with somebody, let's steal the hearts of America, like capture this $100,000, and then we'll break up.

SPEAKER_00 5:08

This is like the new gen Bachelor.

SPEAKER_01 5:11

Yeah, but the Bachelor's still going on. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:14

I don't watch that bullshit. I don't get into any of that.

SPEAKER_01 5:17

I only watch Love Island because my fiance asked me to watch it with her, and like now that I'm a husband in training, I feel like I have I'm now obligated to like watch those kind of shows.

SPEAKER_00 5:27

Yeah. Dude, my wife got me into The Flash. You ever watch The Flash? Oh brother. The first two seasons are elite. It gets a little squirrely.

SPEAKER_01 5:36

It starts falling off after that.

SPEAKER_00 5:38

Yeah, the first two seasons are legit.

SPEAKER_01 5:40

I mean, that's like a lot of TV series, though.

SPEAKER_00 5:43

What the first two seasons?

SPEAKER_01 5:45

Well, yeah, like they start out good and then like, you know, by the time you start getting four, five, six.

SPEAKER_00 5:51

Kinda. I look, I don't I'm not the biggest TV watcher. Me either. I'm just watching TV, yeah. I was about to say, if I'm watching TV, it's normally sports or sports related, any kind of sports TV.

SPEAKER_01 6:06

I've been watching Wimbledon.

SPEAKER_00 6:07

Yeah, I've watched a little bit of Wimbledon.

SPEAKER_01 6:09

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_00 6:10

I've watched a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 6:11

That's kind of surprising, actually.

SPEAKER_00 6:13

I wouldn't do it normally.

SPEAKER_01 6:15

You know, every every time I've been over here and be like, hey, bro, let's turn on whatever major tennis tournament's going on at the time, you're like clowning me for watching it.

SPEAKER_00 6:23

Yeah, like right now we have the World Cup on. I if if you were like, hey, let's cut on Wimbledon, I would tell you to fuck off. Bro, tennis is lit, dog. It's not as dope as the World Cup.

SPEAKER_01 6:38

I would rather watch Yannick Center and Carlos Alcaraz in like a major tennis tournament final than this Columbia-Switzerland game right now.

SPEAKER_00 6:48

That's crazy. That's a hot take. I guess we're known for delivering hot takes. I'll give you another hot take then. Alright. This tournament is the greatest sports tournament on planet Earth.

SPEAKER_01 7:04

I mean, yeah, it's like a worldwide thing.

SPEAKER_00 7:06

I mean, I would well it don't hit harder than it don't hit harder than the Olympics. It hits way harder. No, it doesn't. Oh my god. That's the craziest fucking thing I've ever heard.

SPEAKER_01 7:16

Bro, the summer Olympics hits harder than the World Cup. Are you fucking Are you drunk? No, bro. Like, isn't soccer in the Olympics? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:27

Who cares? Nobody cares. They don't even they don't even bring the stars. Who cares? It's all the they'll bring fucking a bunch of 20-year-olds.

SPEAKER_01 7:34

Yeah, but you got fucking tracking field. I'm cool on it. I'm a pass. Bro, the Olympics hits way harder than way harder than than the World Cup, dog.

SPEAKER_00 7:49

So we just watched you know in my lifetime.

SPEAKER_01 7:56

One of the better soccer matches we've seen.

SPEAKER_00 7:58

Well, yeah, but not even that. Like, this World Cup's been insane, first off. But like the run from the US, obviously, we're American. And nobody here gives a fuck about soccer. Right. And maybe, just maybe, that this World Cup maybe flipped a switch.

SPEAKER_01 8:21

No, it doesn't.

SPEAKER_00 8:22

And soccer propels itself into the fourth most popular sport in America.

SPEAKER_01 8:27

You think it's gonna overtake what? Hockey?

SPEAKER_00 8:30

No, probably not. Probably not hockey.

SPEAKER_01 8:32

What's it gonna overtake?

SPEAKER_00 8:34

Basketball? It's probably not gonna overtake basketball either.

SPEAKER_01 8:36

Well, it's definitely not gonna overtake the NFL. So like you're saying it's gonna overtake baseball? Yeah. No way. I could see that. Nah, bruh. Baseball's still baseball's still it. I see, I like baseball. Like I don't pay baseball. I enjoy watching baseball too, especially in like the postseason.

SPEAKER_00 8:52

Yeah, like October's lit.

SPEAKER_01 8:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:55

Baseball and October's dope.

SPEAKER_01 8:57

But especially the But I think the thing that you're failing to realize when you talk about like, oh, so many people, like earlier we were talking about like the American soccer being like the most watched game, like ever, whatever, like in American foot soccer history or whatever. That's cool and all, but like think about how many people watch the Olympics. Okay, we're thinking about how many millions of people are gonna watch fucking the gymnastics when it comes around. Who the f you think people wake up when the Olympics over and it's like, oh, I wonder if there's a gymnastics match on. Yeah, no, they don't.

SPEAKER_00 9:31

I know they don't because nobody's not gonna be no different. I'm just saying that I think it will be different.

SPEAKER_01 9:37

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_00 9:38

Because soccer is so popular around the world, like it's something you almost want to get into. You almost get FOMO.

SPEAKER_01 9:44

Bro, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 9:46

Like you almost get FOMO from it. You're like, damn, like everyone else enjoys this. Why do we not enjoy this?

SPEAKER_01 9:52

Because we play real football. Hey.

SPEAKER_00 9:59

I heard them say on Busted with the Boys that the reason people are mean right now is because they're missing football.

SPEAKER_01 10:04

That's right.

SPEAKER_00 10:05

Like, so you know, if you come across somebody in life that's being hateful or ugly, they're just missing football.

SPEAKER_01 10:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:13

Like that's all that is.

SPEAKER_01 10:15

Like me. I'm in my seasonal depression right now.

SPEAKER_00 10:18

What are we, like nine weeks away from college football? Something like that?

SPEAKER_01 10:22

Yes, I don't even think it's that many. Maybe eight.

SPEAKER_00 10:25

Yeah, maybe. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:27

Nah, it's gonna be like the end of August.

SPEAKER_00 10:30

That's lit.

SPEAKER_01 10:31

Seven weeks.

SPEAKER_00 10:32

Football's back when college football comes back.

SPEAKER_01 10:34

Man, bro. I'm so excited, dog. I'm so excited for like NFL to roll back around. Like, I have some hope for my team not necessarily to like be good. You had some Monday night football last night.

SPEAKER_00 10:50

Do you?

SPEAKER_01 10:52

First time America lost on Monday night football.

SPEAKER_00 10:55

Man.

SPEAKER_01 10:56

Isn't that crazy? I saw a stat. We're like 732 and zero. Oh, you play but when Americans playing Monday night football?

SPEAKER_00 11:07

Yeah, no, last night. The Belgians prevailed.

SPEAKER_01 11:11

Man, yeah. I'm so glad I didn't put any money on America because I was going to.

SPEAKER_00 11:15

I was going to too. I didn't need to.

SPEAKER_01 11:17

And something was telling me I was just like, I don't know. It just seems a little too fishy that Balogun got cleared. Like he won his appeal, and then the odds got worse for America.

SPEAKER_00 11:30

Right.

SPEAKER_01 11:30

I was like, that's fishy. I was like, well, then why are we throwing a fit about it?

SPEAKER_00 11:35

Like the problem, I don't know. Like, people were acting like Belgium sucks.

SPEAKER_01 11:41

No, they're not. But like we remember like peak Belgium, Belgium.

SPEAKER_00 11:46

Lost to them too.

SPEAKER_01 11:47

Eight to twelve, was it was it like eight, twelve years ago? The golden age of their Yeah, lost to them.

SPEAKER_00 11:52

Around the 16.

SPEAKER_01 11:53

They had that one dude that had that super long hair.

SPEAKER_00 11:56

They uh they were sick. He was sick. Eden Hazard. Remember him? Yeah. Sick as fuck. Prime Romalu Lakaku. Sick sick. Best midfielder in the world with De Bruina. They were sick. They were sick.

SPEAKER_01 12:09

Now those guys are all old.

SPEAKER_00 12:11

Old as fuck. Don't worry, Romalu Lakaku still found a way to score. You could here you know the craziest thing. Here's some crazy. Like I don't I don't know how closely you looked at like player props or anything, like goal scored or first goal scored or anything like that, or goal score anytime. Yeah. He was the highest odds that he didn't start. Ramu Lukaku. He didn't even come on. What he came on like the 70th or 80th day. That's nuts. It's first off, it's crazy that Vegas had the wherewithal to be like, look, we're gonna throw him on here. If they're gonna score a goal, it's obviously gonna be him.

unknown 12:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:54

That's crazy. But he's not even gonna start.

SPEAKER_01 12:56

It just goes to show that like for as good as like, you know, American soccer is, and I and you know, you you're more into soccer than I am. So like in your eyes, like you're like, oh man, this is soccer in America is like the best that it's ever been. It's only gonna get better. Like, like we were having that conversation. Like, it still goes to show like how far away we still are from like the actual like top teams in the world.

SPEAKER_00 13:21

Yeah, the gap is so large.

SPEAKER_01 13:24

Yeah, so it's like, yes, we may be better, we may be better than we've ever been, but like how far away does does that mean that we have been to everybody else? You I'll tell you that gap did not close at all when it came time. This is this.

SPEAKER_00 13:40

This is what I was gonna get to. It's like this is like what like the most disappointing part is. Is like you you sit over here and you're like, man, like Christian Polisic, he's sick, right? Like he plays in top league in Europe. You say he's sick.

SPEAKER_01 13:55

You told me he was the GOAT of American soccer.

SPEAKER_00 13:58

He probably is the greatest American soccer player of all time. You told me he was taking this play.

SPEAKER_01 14:03

Did he shoot the bed last night? Absolutely. Last night or the entire tournament?

SPEAKER_00 14:07

Yeah. I mean, he got hurt when he played. He got hurt. He looked good when he played against Turkey. He looked good when the 30 or 45 minutes, I mean, that he played against Paraguay. He looked great. I, you know, it's tough. I hate it that he sucked like that. Because that fing hurt. Yeah. You know why it hurt though? Because it's not just him. Like it's like you got Weston McKinney fucking Mr. Do It All for Juventus. Like, literally, Mr. Do-It-All, whatever they need. They're like, they'll put Weston McKinney there and he goes and does it. Cardo Pepe's one of the top scores in the Dutch league. You got Flo Balligan, one of the top scores in the French league. Like, it's not just one person. You got Malik Tillman, he's sick. He had this coming out party. He might be the best player.

SPEAKER_01 14:54

And then you got an MLS goaltender.

SPEAKER_00 14:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:57

And that's where your problem was.

SPEAKER_00 14:59

He's cooked.

SPEAKER_01 15:00

That's where your problem was.

SPEAKER_00 15:01

Matt Freeze is cooked. That's one of the biggest blunders I've ever witnessed in my life. Because at that moment in time it was 2-1. We were in the game, front foot. But my point being is like it does feel like we've never been closer.

SPEAKER_01 15:16

But yeah, we were still so far away. I think I think part of it is like we if you look at it, like the road to get here, though, like I mean you you can you can almost chalk it up to the fact that it it wasn't how good America was. It was just more so, I feel like, the road that it took to get here. Like we played nobody.

SPEAKER_00 15:35

I mean, Paraguay beat Germany.

SPEAKER_01 15:38

Okay, that's that's fine. But I mean we're talking about in the greatest scheme. Right, but I'm but I'm saying it's you know, you in the grand scheme of things, you're not looking at Paraguay as like one of the top 30 teams in the world.

SPEAKER_00 15:54

Yeah, but maybe it should be an argument for it. I mean, in qualifying, they didn't.

SPEAKER_01 16:01

You're calling them the 30th best team in the world, and because America beat them, like we can put that on their resume of like that's a good way.

SPEAKER_00 16:08

But they they didn't beat anybody good. They beat Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay on the on the America hasn't beaten anybody good.

SPEAKER_01 16:16

No, that's seemingly ever.

SPEAKER_00 16:18

No, we beat Spain before. We beat Germany before in a friendly. I said seemingly ever.

SPEAKER_01 16:25

I wasn't being literal. But it's not you get in these targets, you're not wrong. When you beat the teams that you're supposed to beat, that's what caused like America to just have this belief.

SPEAKER_00 16:36

It's like couple that with the fact that it's a home world cup, too. It also like the belief started happening partly because like they weren't just people like Zlatan are sitting over here, like, yes, this team can win.

SPEAKER_01 16:47

And people are like, oh my god. I don't even know who this guy is, but he said we can win. They were beating the fuck out of people, though. Truly. They were beating the fuck out of bad teams. Australia, are they good?

SPEAKER_00 16:58

They're not great. Okay. They're not good.

SPEAKER_01 17:00

You think Paraguay's good? They lost to Turkey. Yeah, I know they had their backups. Turkey's good. Turkey's a good soccer team.

SPEAKER_00 17:06

Who do they play in the we lost to them, though.

SPEAKER_01 17:09

So yeah, that's why I said we lost. We also we also played our bench. Yeah, right. Who do they play in the fucking the first round?

SPEAKER_00 17:18

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_01 17:18

Why am I having a brain fart? Bosnia, yeah. Come on now.

SPEAKER_00 17:23

Yeah, I mean, it's not a great scene.

SPEAKER_01 17:25

When you're beating the fuck out of teams that like literally, what would Spain have done to any of those teams? Or what would France have done to those? What would Argentina have done with them?

SPEAKER_00 17:38

Uh yeah. No, I mean it's a fair point. I and you're you're not wrong. Like, there obviously is still a gap. A large gap.

SPEAKER_01 17:47

But it just I don't know if you're gonna gap closing.

SPEAKER_00 17:50

That's what hurts the most is like you like even if you do lose that game, you hope that your your boys go out there and go hard. You know what I mean? Like did you watch the England-Mexico game?

SPEAKER_01 18:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:03

Mexico went out like some gangsters.

SPEAKER_01 18:05

Right, yeah. No, I mean they played, but like going into that game.

SPEAKER_00 18:09

Like Mexico wasn't favored, but you know, the English media was freaking out about the altitude and shit. Soft, whatever. Jew Bellingham, sick as fuck.

SPEAKER_01 18:21

I just don't think yeah, right. But I mean we don't have one of those. We wouldn't have or Harry Kane.

SPEAKER_00 18:27

Yeah, we definitely don't have one of those. We certainly don't have an Mbappe. But you know, but to your like to your point though, like that's what we were hoping Balligan was gonna be.

SPEAKER_01 18:37

Was a type of and then everything looks good when you're playing like lower competition, and then you come back and you play somebody that's it just like on par. Like, I just feel like when we look back and we look at like in tournament tournament aspects, fuck friendlies. I mean, I know those are games, but like I'm games that count for something. You don't historically see them beating teams that they're not supposed to beat.

SPEAKER_00 19:05

Right. Well, and you know, being in CONCACAF, like you're playing against the Hades and Kirasels and the Yeah, I mean two good teams and you even have piss poor performances in those sometimes. Yeah, and you which I mean look, like you're going to some of those countries, they're playing on some bullshit. So a little bit of it's a little bit of it might be excusable, but you know, you get to play two good teams as it for the most part, especially when you're playing in like the Gold Cup. Like you there's you know, like you know who the semifinal and final matchups are probably gonna be.

SPEAKER_02 19:41

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 19:41

Like it's always Panama versus Mexico and US versus Canada, or vice versa. Like you know, like you know.

SPEAKER_01 19:49

And really what it boils down to is you come into this and you expect it every year to just be Mexico and USA.

SPEAKER_00 19:56

Right. Yeah, 100%. I mean, that's what they hope for every year, or when it happens every two years.

SPEAKER_01 20:02

Well, I mean, well, I mean, like, that's the expectation almost going into it, unless they're like on the same side of it. Like if they're on the opposite sides where they can meet in the final, you're like, all right, here's USA and Mexico.

SPEAKER_00 20:14

I uh it hurt though, brother. Brother, that one hurt.

SPEAKER_01 20:19

It didn't hurt me.

SPEAKER_00 20:20

That one hurt my soul.

SPEAKER_01 20:21

I was it it didn't hurt me. I kind of expected it.

SPEAKER_00 20:24

I didn't. I went in, bro. I went in.

SPEAKER_01 20:26

I was like, You thought we had a chance to win it all?

SPEAKER_00 20:29

I didn't think we had a chance to win it all.

SPEAKER_01 20:31

You felt like you had a chance. I felt like if we could beat Belgium. You felt like you had hope. Like it was gonna be a team of destiny. Like if we would have came out and beat Belgium 4-1, you would have been like, bro.

SPEAKER_00 20:42

I would have been like, shit.

SPEAKER_01 20:43

We got a chance to win it all.

SPEAKER_00 20:45

Like, we see how good we lose. I'd have been like, Spain better watch out, boy. Cause we coming. Pause. Pause. That's what I would have said though, for sure. I would have been juiced up, Sunday.

SPEAKER_01 20:59

Exactly. So it's like, I think part of it. It's very disappointing for people that are just like got like got so like high on the expectations so fast because of how good we looked in this point, to where now everybody's just like, you know, like you said, like if we would have looked, if it would have been a competitive match, so we lost like 3-2 in extra time or some shit like that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:23

Nobody would even be there.

SPEAKER_01 21:26

It's almost like, oh no, we suck again. You know, from the water boy.

SPEAKER_00 21:32

Man. And bro, that Matt Freeze go was just hideous. He young hokooed us.

SPEAKER_01 21:39

Young ho cooed.

SPEAKER_00 21:41

He he kicked the ground in the biggest moment of his life.

SPEAKER_01 21:46

Hey man, imagine how bad he feels.

SPEAKER_00 21:49

I can't imagine how bad he feels. There's a good chance maybe not over. But like there's a good chance his his US Soccer career is a rap. Should be. Like it there's a good chance it's over. I mean, what I mean, unless we develop somebody better. We have a couple guys. Where were they? They're young. Not ready. Not ready. One of them's on the team. Chris Brady was on the team.

SPEAKER_01 22:17

We'll see. We'll see next. We'll see in four World Cup in four years from now when the World Cup comes back around. Dude, that's the thing. That's another thing that's right.

SPEAKER_00 22:28

That's another thing that hurts too, right? Because it's every four years. You're like, damn, I can we gotta live with this for four years.

SPEAKER_01 22:35

Yeah. Bro, I knew you wouldn't know. I mean, it's kind of hard to say live with this. It's like, cause I mean, in the grand scheme of things, you know. You don't give a fuck. No, I mean, I mean, I would have liked to have seen them, but it's just like, you know, like realistically, who's like, oh, I mean, we're realistically, this is like the game going into this tournament, like when you when you saw how things were gonna fall into place, or even like how things were like grouped together and whatnot, you say, okay, this is gonna be a team that they might have to play at this particular stage. I mean, it's kind of hard to be disappointed when this has pretty much been your ceiling, like the entirety of your soccer career.

SPEAKER_00 23:13

That's what's disappointing. Is this was supposed to be the team that got over the round of 16 hump.

SPEAKER_01 23:19

You're supposed to just win one more game. And then they get sent home and it's and it's not just so if they would have got 4-1 next week instead of tonight, yesterday.

SPEAKER_00 23:29

I get what you're saying. I get what you're saying. And it's not like the most American way to look at it either. But that's what's so different about soccer.

SPEAKER_01 23:37

But if this would be if this was fucking basketball, I'd probably cry.

SPEAKER_00 23:42

Yeah, it'll never happen.

SPEAKER_01 23:44

But it's soccer, right? Right, but in soccer, like, you know.

SPEAKER_00 23:47

It'll never happen in basketball. But you know, like, bruh, if LeBron James had played soccer from a child's age, we would be the sickest. If if Tyree Kill.

SPEAKER_01 24:00

I don't know. LeBron might not play for America. He get he get put out, he'd get put out on one of their runs, he'd be like, alright, I'm switching.

SPEAKER_00 24:08

If Tyreek Hill, if Tyree Hill was, you know, grew up playing soccer, we wouldn't be we'd be sick. We'd be sick as fuck. That's the hope. That's really the hope. But the hope is is that you start getting kids that are gonna be elite athletes. Like uh Freeman. His dad played for the Packers. Yeah. Damn, why can't I think of his fucking name? R regardless. Like, these are the type of kids that you want. You know, like his dad was a super athlete back in the day. Yeah. Like, he should have and probably had all the tools to go and play football, yeah. American football. Chose soccer.

SPEAKER_01 24:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:51

That's what you hope this World Cup did. Like you hope this World Cup changed some kids' minds where he's like, you know what, maybe I'll give soccer a chance. Yeah. And he plays it and then he loves it, and then turns out he's sick as fuck. Yeah. I mean, you know, hopefully one of fourteen of Tyreek's Hill's kids.

SPEAKER_01 25:14

I mean, surely the guy, what of him's gotta be a good athlete, right? You gotta one of 14 changes.

SPEAKER_00 25:19

Anthony Brown, I mean, Antonio Brown, you know, he's got a bunch of kids too. Maybe one of those just shows up. Yeah, those are both elite athletes. Right. I think we both agree on that.

SPEAKER_01 25:30

Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_00 25:31

Like, you know, hopefully one of their seven kids or whatever decides to play soccer.

SPEAKER_01 25:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:38

I mean, yeah, we'll we'll see.

SPEAKER_01 25:41

Every kid, every kid, this is the cool thing about I think the thing that will help it is the fact that historically every one of these like athletes' kids, like that, oh, I'm gonna be a basketball player because my dad played basketball, typically suck. Outside of like Steph and Clay. I mean, whose son's been like better than dad was?

SPEAKER_00 26:00

Like, you know who would probably be sick at soccer if they would have brought Bronny James. Bronny James, brother. He's strong as fuck. Man, strong. He'd have been nice. Yeah, you could have put him up top. He's fast.

SPEAKER_01 26:10

And guess what? And guess what? He wouldn't be tiny. 6'2 on the soccer field. He's a big boy. He's a lot more impactful than being 6'2 on a basketball court.

SPEAKER_00 26:19

I promise you. I promise you. If he would have just chosen soccer at a young age.

SPEAKER_01 26:23

Man.

SPEAKER_00 26:24

Or football. Yeah, yeah, for real. Or football. But he didn't. He's in the own. He's nothing like Bronny.

SPEAKER_01 26:36

Whatever team, whatever team that trades for LeBron's gonna open or get pick signs, LeBron is going to trade a second round pick for Bronny.

SPEAKER_00 26:45

Hell yeah, I'd take that deal in a heartbeat.

SPEAKER_01 26:48

500k in draft cash considerations for Bronny.

SPEAKER_00 26:52

If you're telling me if I'm if I'm JJ Reddick, I'm like, yeah, or trade me another white guy.

SPEAKER_01 26:58

Giannis gonna demand a trade when his brothers don't end up in Miami with him.

SPEAKER_00 27:02

The uh the Lakers are the whitest basketball team I've ever seen.

SPEAKER_01 27:08

Man.

SPEAKER_00 27:15

And why does Colin Sexton go to every team that LeBron leaves?

SPEAKER_01 27:24

He's supposed to be the leader of the promised land.

SPEAKER_00 27:29

He's like, I'm gonna revive this team. I it's so funny. Did you see what Stephen A said about LA? Oh, yes, bro.

SPEAKER_01 27:41

Yes. Is that not crazy? And I wish I would have been able to talk about this like when it was fresh, because bro, that shit pissed me off for real. Keep in mind, I'm black, I get what he's saying. I'm just going to, you know what he said, right? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:57

So you can't win a game with all these white people.

SPEAKER_01 28:00

I want you to, I want you to tell me how how this sounds, okay? I mean, you know. I mean, you look back, you got a couple of them, you know, you got Doug Williams, you got, you got your, you know, your callin' kappa nicks that take you to the Super Bowl every now and then. But if you look at it historically, when have you seen an NFL team consistently be led to winning by a black quarterback?

SPEAKER_00 28:31

Man.

SPEAKER_01 28:32

If fucking Nick Wright went on TV and said that shit, or Skip Baylors went on TV and said that shit, he'd be fired the next day. I uh that's racist.

SPEAKER_00 28:43

I uh have you seen have you seen like some reactions to it at all?

SPEAKER_01 28:48

No, no, because I feel like that should be the only reaction. If a if he's if a white person said that about a black quarterback in the NFL, it'd be racist.

SPEAKER_00 28:58

You uh you need to go watch. Do you ever watch like Jeff T S pod?

SPEAKER_01 29:02

No, but I will say this too. He's right. He's right. It was fucked up, but Stephen A. Smith's right. I mean, you know, even the Celtics, when they were doing all those winning with all those whites, they still had one that was great.

SPEAKER_00 29:18

First off, I will say he is a hundred percent correct.

SPEAKER_02 29:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:23

You're not winning shit with your three best players being white. It's still racist. I especially with your third best player being Walker Kessler.

unknown 29:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:35

Like now, if we're talking about the three whites and it's Luka Doncic, Cooper Flag, and Jokic, all right. Right.

SPEAKER_00 29:42

Yeah, now you have an argument. But the the real issue here is is yeah, like what is Walker Kessler?

SPEAKER_01 29:50

He's a good defender. He's a good defender. Like he's might get you 11 points a game. You know, he's gonna be a better defender than he's gonna be a better DeAndre Aiden.

SPEAKER_00 30:00

He's never been a 2010 guy. Not once. He's I mean, he's had some moments. Yeah, he's had some moments. I uh, you know, I it's an accurate tape. Yeah. The problem is it's racist.

SPEAKER_01 30:15

Wait, wait, no, because some people think that you can only be racist if you're white. So if somebody of another race says that it's not racist, it's just prejudice.

SPEAKER_00 30:26

You know what the real problem with it is, is that I've like I so when the Walker Kessler thing happened, I sent a meme to our group chat. Yeah, I I know you saw it. So like I thought this was funny from the jump. Like, you know, like it's the they don't have they're not top five in talent anymore, they're top five in credit score.

SPEAKER_01 30:44

Like it's just you know hopefully every NFL NBA player has good credit when you're making that kind of money.

SPEAKER_00 30:52

But they have especially good credit.

SPEAKER_01 30:54

They were born with it.

SPEAKER_00 30:57

It's I just like if I said it, it would be funny with Stephen A saying it. He was also more serious about it. Yeah, like he was being serious.

SPEAKER_01 31:08

Because it's a seriously true statement, okay? I wouldn't think here's my thing. Fuck winning a championship, I'm looking at this team and say, damn, I don't think this is a playoff team with all these exciting whites running around in Los Angeles now. This is the team of the exciting lights.

SPEAKER_00 31:27

They're now the Iowa Iowa Hawkeyes of the NBA. If they could somehow manage to get like Duncan Robinson on the team.

SPEAKER_01 31:36

Oh I mean, it'd be it'd probably be pretty easily attainable. Okay, I don't think I don't think there's gonna be a premium. They can get all these fairly cheap. Yeah, right. Trade Brawny for them.

SPEAKER_00 31:54

Trade Brawny for them. I uh I think it's funny though. And you know the crazy thing is I actually really like JJ Reddick as a coach. So he wanted it. You know, he might be cooking. They might be fun. Fundamentals are gonna be off the charts. Fundamentals are gonna be off the charts.

SPEAKER_01 32:16

We're gonna look back and we're gonna be like, you know what? You know one thing I feel about this LA team, you know, they may not win at all, but they're gonna play the game right.

SPEAKER_00 32:23

Yeah, they're gonna, I mean, their free throw percentage has to be top five, or it's not right. I mean, white. I want to see no, there better be no arrests, no tickets. Here's you know here's another problem, too, is it's like Luca and Austin Reeves play no defense. Yeah. Luca could play defense, he doesn't, and Austin Reeves can't play defense. Yeah. Like he's like he's a great offensive player. Luca can't play defense either. He could play defense.

SPEAKER_01 32:58

Fucking 6'7, he can he can be. He's slow as fucking molasses.

SPEAKER_00 33:02

He is slow as fuck.

SPEAKER_01 33:03

He can't jump, he can't move laterally quick. Like Luca's so slow. I question how he's so good offensively when I watch him play. He'll hit that step back, Tracy.

SPEAKER_00 33:14

Yeah, jaw.

SPEAKER_01 33:15

But it's just like, how can you not guard that? Like, it's not moving quick.

SPEAKER_00 33:20

You know what he's gonna do, and he does it anyway.

SPEAKER_01 33:22

You can't stop. And it ain't like he's just like, oh, he's just too strong, too fast, too quick. Like he's not too anything other than fat. No, man, he's back. I mean, yeah, he'll be back for a month and a half, and he's like, he goes to where's he he goes back to Slovenia and he gets right, and then American food.

SPEAKER_00 33:43

Yeah, man.

SPEAKER_01 33:44

He sees that he gets back and he goes to Taco Bell.

SPEAKER_00 33:46

He sees that Whopper BK commercial Jesus Christ. He goes a whopper? He goes and gets a whopper with cheese. Yeah. That sounds awful. I'm a fan of BK. I'm not gonna get the bigger thing.

SPEAKER_02 33:59

Columbia's going home.

SPEAKER_00 34:01

I'm not gonna disparage him. You like Burger King? Yeah, I like Burger King. I like one thing on the menu from Burger King. What? The Bacon King. That's dirty. It's fucked.

SPEAKER_01 34:12

Whoppers are gross. So when I fucked with when I fucked with with Burger King back in the day, I had that Tender crisp chicken sandwich. I've never been a like a fast food burger guy, though, honestly.

SPEAKER_00 34:26

This is a true statement. You're not a fast food burger guy. Even from your favorite spot, which has some of the better fast food burgers.

SPEAKER_01 34:34

Right. I'm a I'm big chicken, bro. You are big chicken. Big chicken. It's just for me, bro. Fast food. Like I grew up eating those good old, you know, greasy one fresh off the skillet.

SPEAKER_00 34:50

Yeah, no, I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_01 34:51

And then you just can't beat a burger that's not like cooked like that.

SPEAKER_00 34:55

Yeah. Like you'll fuck with a ferrell's burger.

SPEAKER_01 34:58

Yeah. Facts. I mean, any, any, I'll go to like a burger joint. I'm just not getting a fast food burger, bro. Right. Like they're all terrible. Now the chicken sandwiches, on the other hand, that should be fi.

SPEAKER_00 35:11

Yeah, I like the chicken sandwiches too. I'm big bag. Big bag, brother.

SPEAKER_01 35:17

The chicken sandwich is going to overtake the burger. If it already hasn't.

SPEAKER_00 35:21

I will, yeah, probably so. Probably so.

SPEAKER_01 35:26

It makes you feel like it's healthier. It's not.

SPEAKER_00 35:30

It's not.

SPEAKER_01 35:30

But it makes you feel that way.

SPEAKER_00 35:33

Yeah, no. It's all in the marketing. It is a hundred.

SPEAKER_01 35:38

All white beaten chicken.

SPEAKER_00 35:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:41

Oh. This gotta be fresh. How's this prepared? Deep fried it.

SPEAKER_00 35:47

Like imagine being like Popeye's is so much better for you. Or like Chick-fil-A. People love Chick-fil-A. I love Chick-fil-A.

SPEAKER_01 35:56

I love Chick-fil-A. Look, you could almost think Chick-fil-A feels wrong that it's not good for you because like they're literally like praying over your food and telling you it's their pleasure to serve you and you know. Which I know is not they're closed on Sunday.

SPEAKER_00 36:10

Man, I know it's not their pleasure.

SPEAKER_01 36:13

You know they hate that shit.

SPEAKER_00 36:14

I know. I know, dude.

SPEAKER_01 36:15

Hey, bro, you ever been to like inside Chick-fil-A like during lunchtime? Absolutely. Bruce, you see that, bro. The motherfuckers be back here like 20 deep cranking cranking meals out.

SPEAKER_00 36:26

Yeah, it well, it just really makes me wonder what goes on behind the scenes.

SPEAKER_01 36:31

That it takes 20 people to prepare like meals for meals?

SPEAKER_00 36:34

No, no, no, no. Like, how are we getting all these people to say my pleasure? Because if I work that they're importing them, bro.

SPEAKER_01 36:40

I like I don't see any of the people that work for Chick-fil-A out and about in Hopkinsville.

SPEAKER_00 36:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:45

Well, probably because they spend their free time door knocking.

SPEAKER_00 36:57

They're Jehovah's Witnesses. That's crazy. That's crazy. The Chick-fil-A workers are Jehovah's Witnesses.

SPEAKER_01 37:08

That's why they're closed on Sunday. Gotta go to church. No, what's crazy, bro?

SPEAKER_00 37:14

They're a good Christian organization. That's why they're closed on Sundays, brother.

SPEAKER_01 37:17

Yeah, that's why they don't put that damn flag up in June. Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_00 37:24

I didn't say anything wrong in James. You didn't know. I didn't even, I don't even know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_01 37:29

I mean, if anybody's offensive, it's Chick-fil-A for not doing it. Man, shout out Chick-fil-A. And the people for the Dodgers. They put that verse on their hat.

SPEAKER_00 37:40

They did that in San Francisco too.

SPEAKER_01 37:43

Yeah, bro.

SPEAKER_00 37:44

Hey, did you see a bunch of things?

SPEAKER_01 37:45

No, in the Dodgers, it was the dude, like everybody else came out with their little flag hats on, and his was just the white stitching, and then the other people were writing verses on for the Dodge.

SPEAKER_00 38:00

The soccer team in the Bundesliga. And they brought him a pride jersey to sign. He looks at him and he says, I'm not signing that shit. I don't I feel it. Shit was so funny.

SPEAKER_01 38:13

I don't like the fact that we sit over here and talk about equality and they're putting people on a pedestal. We're all the same.

SPEAKER_00 38:19

We're all the same.

SPEAKER_01 38:20

We shouldn't celebrate shit other than who the fuck's winning this football, this college football game or whatever. Soccer.

SPEAKER_00 38:27

I agree, brother.

SPEAKER_01 38:29

Yeah, we're not here for social reasons. I mean, I'm here for the fucking sports.

SPEAKER_00 38:36

We'll end it on this. You you know, Cam Ward's had a couple rough weeks.

SPEAKER_01 38:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:42

Don't put any stock in it. He okay. Don't put any stock in it. I'm also not putting any stock in it. Well, it's so I just think it's funny how the media runs with stories like this. I hate, but I mean you gotta have something to talk about, right? Yeah, that's the problem. That's really the problem, is they can't get on here and talk about Love Island.

SPEAKER_01 39:05

Well, yeah, and well, and part of the problem Yeah, they they need to get lose a little structure. Or be more like us. Right. But I think the thing, I think the thing that sucks is like with Cam Ward like in the Titans, like you're almost in like a lose-lose situation, right? Like if they if he doesn't come out and he's like a 4,000-yard quarterback and the Titans make the playoffs, like you you're you're already disappointed. Like the leash that you get in the NFL is like non-existent. So like last year it's like, okay, he was a rookie, he sucked. Most rookies do suck. Let's see what he does in year two. And you look at it on paper and you're like, oh man, well, they had a good draft. They signed all these people in free agency, they brought in a new head coach, and in like the grand scheme of things of it, it's almost like Cam Ward's having like a second rookie season. And and I'll say this too. It it hurts. I I think it think it like it's it hurts Cam. And I think he's gonna do good this year, but like historically speaking, you're setting your quarterback up for failure. Yeah. Because you you come in, you bring him in this, you you already start bringing in the new regime last year. It's not always true, though. You come in, you get this coach and staff, you have a bad rookie year, everybody gets fired. Year two comes in, new coaching staff. You're like now, you're in year two, had a bad rookie year, have to turn around, learn a brand new scheme, brand new offense, brand new system, brand new regime. Like everything is totally different from what you learned year one. Let's say they're bad this year. Year three is gonna be almost like a make it or break it year for Cam.

SPEAKER_00 40:39

Right.

SPEAKER_01 40:40

Because if not, because if not, you're looking at it, okay, we've done invested in this quarterback. Let's just say we're bad this year and next year. Sil is probably gonna end up getting fired. Right. GM's gonna end up getting fired. It's almost like he never be like, oh, we need a quarterback.

SPEAKER_00 40:55

And then he's gonna go to San Francisco.

SPEAKER_01 40:58

And then he's gonna revive his career.

SPEAKER_00 41:00

And Mac Jones is gonna be, you know, playing for the Vikings.

SPEAKER_01 41:06

Lighten it up.

SPEAKER_00 41:07

He's gonna be sick.

SPEAKER_01 41:09

But but like, seriously though, like, that's kind of where, like, and in reality of it, we should be looking at the Titans are like a six-win football team, and Cam Ward just like, even if he just slightly improves versus last year, we should still look at this season as as if it's a win. I agree.

SPEAKER_00 41:24

Like, especially like if you I just want to see growth. You you I mean, you say that, but it's like, you know, Caleb, Caleb Williams got Ben Johnson, and it was an immediate improvement.

SPEAKER_01 41:36

Well, they were yeah, right.

SPEAKER_00 41:38

But And he's a good coach, but like you just hope that that's what happened. Kinda, but like you know, he went and made his own he went and made his changes. I mean, he drafted the biggest.

SPEAKER_01 41:48

But they also went a different direction than what the Titans just did. And the thing that the thing that helps that makes me feel good about the Titans is at least like he brought in an offensive coordinator in Dayball who like a good mind. At least on paper, like everybody says it, but I mean we just saw him as a head coach and he wasn't very successful. He had Daniel Jones. That offense certainly wasn't humming. One year, he had one good year, Daniel Jones.

SPEAKER_00 42:11

Daniel Jones, hey, to you that would be impressive. Because you don't like Daniel Jones.

SPEAKER_01 42:18

I mean, Daniel Jones had another good year last year and then he tore his Achilles.

SPEAKER_00 42:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 42:23

We'll see, we'll see what he's looking like in week one when he's back. Hey, you you laugh, but if Daniel Jones have you seen the videos? If Daniel Jones takes a snap under center week one starting the game, I will give you $100.

SPEAKER_00 42:40

I don't have to give you anything? No. Hell yeah. This is a risk-free hundred dollars for you. Hell yeah. I'll definitely take that. Come on, Danny Dimes. Come on, Danny Dimes.

SPEAKER_01 42:53

There's just no way that he comes back, what, what, eight months after an Achilles? Hey man.

SPEAKER_00 43:00

Medicine's crazy. Okay. Medicine's crazy. He hit up all the best. He has the money to get whatever he.

SPEAKER_01 43:09

I think every quarterback in the NFL has had the money. Except Jacoby Brissett.

SPEAKER_00 43:16

And now he's holding out to get it. Well, no, he's back. He's he's he's back. His agent told him. He said, oh wait.

SPEAKER_01 43:26

Carson Beck's looking alright. But like, look, brother, let's just play Carson. You come out here and ball out. Yeah, like, I mean, we don't think either of y'all are changing the trajectory of this team's season, so we'll just play Carson now.

SPEAKER_00 43:39

Like, we don't care.

SPEAKER_01 43:40

If we go from being a three win team to a two win team, so be it.

SPEAKER_00 43:44

Right. Like we we don't give a shit. We're not dying on the hill of Jacoby Brissett. He just drafted a running back fifth overall, and we're terrible. Do you think we care? We we've already been scouting twenty twenty seven. We gotta Our linebacker out here telling the Rams that they need to be worried about us. That's crazy. Oh my god, bro. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 44:14

That's that's like the quote of the offseason so far for me.

SPEAKER_00 44:18

Yeah, well, hey, look, if you're not gonna believe in yourself, who is? Okay, that's the you know, you gotta be delusional sometimes.

SPEAKER_01 44:26

Yeah, but I mean I don't know, bro. I'd have to keep it real. I could respect that if it was coming from Buda Baker, but I certainly like I'm certainly not putting any stock with fucking Mac Wilson saying that shit.

SPEAKER_00 44:43

Hey man, I'm just saying, you gotta be delusional sometimes.

SPEAKER_01 44:46

Yeah, delusional comes from people that are should be good, like are I expect to be great players still. You know, Trey McBride said that. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 44:58

He actually said the opposite.

SPEAKER_01 45:00

See? Whose opinion are we listening to?

SPEAKER_00 45:03

He he I I shouldn't say that. He didn't like he wasn't like saying that they were gonna be terrible. He was just like, it could be tough. It's gonna be tough. I mean, fuck. We know that. He's like, we got a tough division. I was like, that's an understatement. Like that might be an understatement.

SPEAKER_01 45:23

What if what if the Cardinals are back, man? They're not. What if we what if Jeremiah Love and Carson Beck and or Jacoby Bissett come out here and they're like Zack and or Zach, Zeke and Dak and Dallas, they're rookie year.

SPEAKER_00 45:39

What if what if Marv's good? I'll be happy. Yeah, that's really what they need.

SPEAKER_01 45:44

Yeah, I mean, who yeah, who gives a fuck about the team success? Can Marv show me he's a 1,300 yard receiver?

SPEAKER_00 45:51

Like, if Marv's good, their offense should be alright.

SPEAKER_01 45:54

I mean, if Marv's good, you at least feel good about the future. Like, we get a quarterback with Marv and O line's probably trash.

SPEAKER_00 46:00

Did you know the Titans O-line was rated the worst O-line in the NFL? I can believe it. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 46:06

It doesn't seem like it was as bad as Oakland's. Yeah. Right. Oakland. Las Vegas. I uh man, shout out to Oakland. Man. Shout out to the Oakland Raiders.

SPEAKER_00 46:18

Yeah, I thought that was crazy. I uh I guess the Raiders did make some major improvements.

SPEAKER_01 46:24

Oh, they're talking about rent going into this year.

SPEAKER_00 46:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 46:28

Yeah, I don't know. Which I mean, we do have a little bit of a hole at like center and right guard now. Yeah. For sure. Definitely got worse, and it wasn't like the O line was like great to begin with. So still got fucking Dan Moore out there at left tackle, $82 million paperweight. Got a big bag. An unethical bag. An unethical bag. He got paid for being bad. Like, you know, usually you enter the BCA because you done something, you popped up and did something.

SPEAKER_00 47:02

He joined it.

SPEAKER_01 47:03

He joined it by being literally one of the worst tackles in football.

SPEAKER_00 47:09

That's what helps. It helps when you know people.

SPEAKER_01 47:11

And they chalked it up to well, Russell Wilson held on to the ball too long. And Justin Fields held on to the ball too long. That's where most of his sacks came from.

SPEAKER_00 47:21

Maybe both things could be true. Maybe he's bad and they held on to the ball too long.

SPEAKER_01 47:26

Maybe he held on to the ball too long because they had to keep moving around in the pocket to get rid of the ball.

SPEAKER_00 47:32

I swear. You got anything else?

SPEAKER_01 47:35

I don't, man.

SPEAKER_00 47:36

You have a good 4th of July, bro? Yeah, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We were gonna shoot fireworks off, but then it was started raining and shit. Man.

SPEAKER_01 47:45

I wouldn't watch it across the street from the fair.

SPEAKER_00 47:47

We uh we're gonna read it. We're gonna do it on a weekend or so. In a weekend or two, though. I I mean me and E have been going out to a buddy's house for I don't know, last like three years or so. On 4th of July, it's pretty lit. Shooting fireworks off is dope. I just hope it don't end up like Jay Jason Pierre Paul.

SPEAKER_01 48:03

Blowing your finger wrong. Don't be an idiot with it.

SPEAKER_00 48:06

It it always worries me, but man, it's the fucking the adrenaline of it's dope.

SPEAKER_01 48:10

I like shooting fireworks too. They just got too expensive for my blood these days.

SPEAKER_00 48:15

Yeah, bro. They spend a check on fireworks. I'm not gonna say how much, but they spend a check. Like, I mean, we're talking thousands. Yeah. Oh, yeah, bro.

SPEAKER_01 48:25

I went I went up to Michigan once, and the people that I was up there with, dog, I watched them load up a truck bed full of shit. I watched them spend probably eight to ten grand on fireworks? Yes, bro. And I mean like they had a truck full of like the artillery shells, like and at this time, you know, those weren't like as common as they are now on the Fourth Front. Like back then you had a bunch of them, you was the man on Fourth of July. Now you're just somebody else in the driveway shooting fireworks.

SPEAKER_02 48:57

Right.

SPEAKER_01 48:58

And like they probably had like 300 of them.

SPEAKER_00 49:04

That is that is a lot.

SPEAKER_01 49:06

Yeah, bro. Like they were they were lighting shit up for hours.

SPEAKER_00 49:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 49:10

Multiple nights.

SPEAKER_00 49:11

There was only gonna be four of us, and there was so much shit that we were just like, yo, this is gonna take forever.

SPEAKER_01 49:16

Right, it would have been a great 4th of July.

SPEAKER_00 49:19

I uh yeah, but did what'd you do? Fourth of July?

SPEAKER_01 49:22

Uh I actually watched the fireworks at the fair.

SPEAKER_00 49:25

Oh, you did?

SPEAKER_01 49:26

Yeah. Well, I I went over to my brother's house. You know, he lived right across the street from the fair. And we got hungry. And they had delayed it, so I was like, oh, it's still raining and shit. So I was like, I haven't eaten anything. We're gonna go get fair food. And like while we were getting food at the fair, they started shooting them off.

SPEAKER_00 49:41

Okay. Yeah, dope. America. Yeah. Done getting any more money.

SPEAKER_01 49:45

We went swimming during the day with my with my brother's wife's family.

SPEAKER_00 49:48

You know, did you did you hear this? Do you know how much they spent on the fireworks in Nashville?

SPEAKER_01 49:53

There's no telling.

SPEAKER_00 49:56

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 49:56

I'm gonna say at least two mil.

SPEAKER_00 50:01

22 million dollars.

SPEAKER_01 50:04

22 million dollars on fireworks. How much they fucking spend in Washington?

SPEAKER_00 50:10

Yo. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 50:12

Me and Eve were talking about think about what they could have done with what the taxpayers paid $22 million for fireworks that people probably had to go pay to like go to an event to watch.

SPEAKER_00 50:23

Me and Eve were talking about opening up our own fireworks stand.

SPEAKER_01 50:27

Yeah, it'd be you'd be it'd be like uh my boy with the mattress store.

SPEAKER_00 50:31

Yeah, March.

SPEAKER_01 50:33

He like converts it into a fireworks stand.

SPEAKER_00 50:36

I get it.

SPEAKER_01 50:37

He runs up a check. Yeah, one of my homies runs a fireworks tent.

SPEAKER_00 50:41

Yeah, hey, they seem to be profitable.

SPEAKER_01 50:43

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 50:44

You get people coming in here spending thousands of dollars.

SPEAKER_01 50:47

We just gotta make sure you, it's just a big upfront investment. Yeah, right. Last thing you want is to not sell out. Yeah, spend about 15k. Shh, that ain't enough.

SPEAKER_00 50:57

That's just a small tent.

SPEAKER_01 51:00

You're gonna be sold out in a couple days, buddy.

SPEAKER_00 51:02

That's hey, that's what we're looking for. That's what we're looking for.

SPEAKER_01 51:06

I mean, shit, you getting them probably, let's just say you getting a box maybe for a hundred dollars, probably selling that bitch for three, four hundred.

SPEAKER_00 51:13

Yeah, probably some of them big ones. I don't I don't know. I like look, I've never even been into it.

SPEAKER_01 51:17

We can look at we can look into investing into it next year. You know, I I love like a little get rich quick scheme. So that's why I don't know how rich we'd get, but rich enough. Rich enough to do it again the next year.

SPEAKER_00 51:30

Like we're gonna be the most ethical fireworks salesman. Yeah, we're gonna collect ethical bags.

SPEAKER_01 51:37

That's right. We're just gonna scam people out of a tent, sell them all the duds. They go shoot them off. We wake up on the 5th of July to just a bunch of negative Facebook reviews. Buying our fireworks.

SPEAKER_00 51:51

Buy all of our fireworks from TJ Maxx.

SPEAKER_01 51:55

No, we just buy like the expired ones off. So I'm sure there's a dark web for it. Yeah, for sure. Expired fireworks. Absolutely. Sell them at retail. Some of these might work. Put a little third, like raise the prices 30% and then put a 30% off sticker.

SPEAKER_00 52:13

Put a little sticker on the box saying that this isn't guaranteed.

SPEAKER_01 52:17

We do not guarantee the quality of this product. May have been ordered from Timu.

SPEAKER_00 52:22

That would be an unethical bag. I mean, if fucking Dan Moore can do it, why can't we? We want to be better than Dan Moore. We want to be better than the 30s.

SPEAKER_01 52:33

Look, I'll take 82 mil in four years.

SPEAKER_00 52:37

Me too. Like, I don't care how good I am for that bag. Me too. Me too. That's it. That's all I got.

SPEAKER_01 52:43

That's all I got too, my man.

SPEAKER_00 52:45

Man, that's episode 29.

SPEAKER_01 52:47

As always, like, share, tell a friend. Man. We appreciate you tuning in with us. Yeah, definitely share. Tell a friend to tell a friend. Yeah, I swear. Holler at your boys, talk to us. Man, I swear.

SPEAKER_00 53:01

We'll holler at you.

SPEAKER_01 53:03

I'll see y'all on the next one.