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Speaker 1: things that are trending. These are the trends trend Yeah right,
Speaker 1: p to Jessica Walter Lucille Blue Legend Lucille. I was
Speaker 1: so I didn't know she was eight years old and
Speaker 1: she I also didn't know that she was the voice
Speaker 1: of the mother on the Dinosaurs show that Jim Henson
Speaker 1: Dinosaurs Show. That father obviously uncle and shout out to
Speaker 1: Uncle Andy Man. That's just I loved arrested development. And
Speaker 1: there was something about her mastery of the like just
Speaker 1: shitty wealthy white woman um that I don't know anyone
Speaker 1: will be able to capture in the same Yeah. Her
Speaker 1: performances just still as funny today as it was that.
Speaker 1: I mean, gifts of her winking are still enough for me.
Speaker 1: Don't never do that again. And my favorite line when
Speaker 1: they go to Climpia's She's orders I'll have the icon
Speaker 1: Tina Tuna and says, okay, playter platter. I don't understand
Speaker 1: the question and I won't respond to it. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: didn't realize that was because she said that a couple
Speaker 1: of times. I think, yeah, shout out to a queen.
Speaker 1: NBA trade deadline ship is happening, We're not happening, depending
Speaker 1: on who your team is. So Lakers not so much.
Speaker 1: Did did the Lakers do anything? I mean, it's looks
Speaker 1: like Andre Drummond is the buy out with Andre Drummond
Speaker 1: And then they'll say, is the closest thing that we're
Speaker 1: going to have to action right now? Because did they
Speaker 1: did they buy him out? Did Cleveland buy him out?
Speaker 1: It says right that latest thing was that they are
Speaker 1: working on a buyout. Okay, okay, that could be Kyle
Speaker 1: Larry Uh, Mike Walry uh staying in Toronto. I know
Speaker 1: a lot of people thought he was, you know, somewhere
Speaker 1: bound Miami bound, l a bound. That didn't happen. He
Speaker 1: staying in the heat got a lot better. They got
Speaker 1: Victor Oladipo without giving away you know, with girl or anything.
Speaker 1: Duncan Robinson, Yeah, I think, you know, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: And then en Rondo went from the Hawks to to
Speaker 1: the Clippers. Lou went to the Clippers. Everyone's making Magic
Speaker 1: City jokes already again because they'll be in Atlanta. Uh,
Speaker 1: he went to the lou went from Clippers to Hawks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: to Atlanta, where he famously left the bubble to go
Speaker 1: to to get some wings. I hadn't realized that he's
Speaker 1: one of those dudes who's like super fun to watch,
Speaker 1: but like the stats nerds are like, he's actually like
Speaker 1: not not I think because he's bad on d I
Speaker 1: mean it was like a kind of a smaller dude.
Speaker 1: But I know Rondo. People love him, so yeah, that'll
Speaker 1: be interesting for the Clippers. Might feel a little bit
Speaker 1: like the little brother trying to be like the big
Speaker 1: brother with the Clippers. Lakers, how do you feel about
Speaker 1: them getting Rondo? I don't care. I mean it was
Speaker 1: the same thing I compartmentalized when he came to the
Speaker 1: Lakers after playing for the Celtics, who we absolutely had
Speaker 1: to fucking grudge with. I was just like, whatever, if
Speaker 1: you're here to do a job, by all means, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna buy the jersey, do your gig. You did it,
Speaker 1: Thank you, salute, there's our ring, goodbye. Wow. Yeah. You
Speaker 1: know that's how ship works, you know, in the factory
Speaker 1: like that, when you're just cranking out the titles championship.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the thing was with Kyle Lowry. He almost came,
Speaker 1: but it sounded like they were asking for talent Horton
Speaker 1: Tucker in the trade and that's when they were like nope.
Speaker 1: Blinka said nope to that. So there was they were close,
Speaker 1: but they asked for thht and wasn't. That's gotta be
Speaker 1: a real weird feeling because Kyle Lowry was has been
Speaker 1: answering questions about like what it feels like too for
Speaker 1: your time in Toronto to be coming to an end,
Speaker 1: and then they just like couldn't get it done. It's
Speaker 1: not that they were like, no, we love Kyle, We're
Speaker 1: committed to him long term. They were like, ah, fuck
Speaker 1: we uh we just didn't. The emails kinda missed each
Speaker 1: other back and forth, so, uh, you're you're here for
Speaker 1: another year. We read that wrong, Kyle. We read that
Speaker 1: a little bit wrong there that we're getting shrewder and
Speaker 1: uh KCP and town Horn talk about um U s
Speaker 1: m n T is trending, US Mute Ninjas show total power.
Speaker 1: They the US men's national team, the soccer team is
Speaker 1: trending because you know, look, there was a fucking wacky
Speaker 1: road to not being in the last World Cup um
Speaker 1: and now the opening up against Jamaica. We have. The
Speaker 1: thing is that the reason why it's trending is that
Speaker 1: the US is now really diversifying in terms of the
Speaker 1: keep the talent we're going after because there's new eligibility
Speaker 1: rules that's basically saying like if you were born here,
Speaker 1: you lived here as a kid, lived here for more
Speaker 1: than five years, If you're an adult your parent or
Speaker 1: grandparent is from here, you can play for any country.
Speaker 1: And like based on those new sort of guys, were
Speaker 1: those all like either or or? Was that? And it
Speaker 1: used to be if you um had a parent or
Speaker 1: grandparent UM who was of a certain nationality that made
Speaker 1: you eligible, or you had lived there for a certain
Speaker 1: amount of time like as an adult, But then they
Speaker 1: expanded it fucking to all kinds of like hey man,
Speaker 1: do you live in the US for a little bit?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, come come play for us because
Speaker 1: it's gonna be too hard to play for England. That's
Speaker 1: kind of like what's happening is because there's so much
Speaker 1: talent in other countries that it's a allowing for a
Speaker 1: lot of people who have you know, uh, Like, for example,
Speaker 1: Surgino dest he's a Dutch player, but his father is
Speaker 1: an American. His mother's Dutch. He plays for fucking Barcelona. Okay,
Speaker 1: he plays with Lionel Messi. This this young man now
Speaker 1: plays for the United States men's next. So we're starting
Speaker 1: to really get some like we'll take ballers, you know.
Speaker 1: So it's so in the US one for one, um,
Speaker 1: and Surginio dest had an incredible goal from outside the
Speaker 1: box or maybe slightly inside the box a little far
Speaker 1: poster is um? Is that a thing that you can
Speaker 1: pay for? Is that against the rules to like to
Speaker 1: bring him in? Like? How how does that work? Like
Speaker 1: from a national team perspective, how do you recruit? Oh,
Speaker 1: so you'll have camps, Like you'll have a camp right
Speaker 1: and saying you're invited to be in the US men's
Speaker 1: national team camp because of your eligibility, and then when
Speaker 1: you go there, it's like a full court press to
Speaker 1: be like they check out these other players like this,
Speaker 1: How this is how your life could be? Man like?
Speaker 1: So the thing that happened was Jonathan Gonzalez was a
Speaker 1: California born Mexican kid, but he was playing for the
Speaker 1: U S and he switched to Mexico like a few
Speaker 1: years ago, and it was devastating for US Soccer because
Speaker 1: they're like, fuck, like, don't have that many good players? Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: But now that things are changing, we're just courting so
Speaker 1: many more players. And yeah, I think it's it's looking
Speaker 1: there's even a player for Arsenal Fuller and Baligoon who
Speaker 1: who's eligible to play for the US too. So um.
Speaker 1: But in terms of like they recruit you based on
Speaker 1: like how good the team is going to be, they don't.
Speaker 1: It's not like they're paying money, right, I mean, there's
Speaker 1: a stipend to play for the country, because really, if
Speaker 1: you're a professional player, you're you're you're paying your bills
Speaker 1: by playing for a club in Europe or wherever in
Speaker 1: the u s MLS, Legua MX or whatever. But yeah,
Speaker 1: for this, it's purely like, hey, you're gonna have a
Speaker 1: shot here. We're gonna will build a team like you
Speaker 1: factor into the plans. It's harder if you're a you know,
Speaker 1: you have English eligibility and they've never called you up
Speaker 1: you were seventeen. That says you're not on the radar.
Speaker 1: So if the US is like, hey, we like, you
Speaker 1: come on over. And Jamaica has been doing the same
Speaker 1: thing too, because there's a lot of players of Jamaican
Speaker 1: descent in the UK that they're like, y'all, I know
Speaker 1: it's tough trying to get on the three lines. Try
Speaker 1: and come over here for the Jamaicans and we'll do it.
Speaker 1: Huh interesting. Yeah, I'm just like so tainted by n
Speaker 1: C Double A basketball where it's just like the way
Speaker 1: they deal with recruiting amateur athletes is you know, paying
Speaker 1: them under the table. But yeah, I mean, look, they'll
Speaker 1: they'll do deal sweeteners. It's just harder for national teams.
Speaker 1: Like with Messi and Barcelona. They they clocked him at
Speaker 1: like ten years old in Argentina and they're like, you're
Speaker 1: coming here and what oh you're broke, Okay, your parents
Speaker 1: now have jobs in the home, so what else can
Speaker 1: we do to get this over? And the national team
Speaker 1: is a little bit different because I don't think they
Speaker 1: don't have the same sort of revenues to throw around
Speaker 1: to debate people in Yeah, aside from playing time, that's
Speaker 1: really all it is. Like, that's really how we have
Speaker 1: an advantage, Like it's a we have a good infrastructure
Speaker 1: and when you get playing time, do people like to
Speaker 1: will a player stock shoot up if they play really
Speaker 1: good in like the World Cups? Oh? Absolutely, that's a
Speaker 1: shop window too, then you know signed huge, Like at
Speaker 1: the at the end of every World Cup, there's always
Speaker 1: like a player who ends up making a huge move
Speaker 1: in Europe somewhere because based on their performance, like how
Speaker 1: how good is the quality of soccer during World Cup
Speaker 1: versus like the Premier League, And it's like, I mean,
Speaker 1: it is like March madness because there's an element of
Speaker 1: like you're going out of body and you're tying that
Speaker 1: to like your own sense of patriotism, nationalism, whatever, and yeah,
Speaker 1: you'll you'll see some wild games. Um, but we also
Speaker 1: see you in the club. See it's you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's hard to say because everybody's pretty turned on, but
Speaker 1: I think the energy is always different when it's an
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Speaker 1: I guess just kind of there's like some pretty significant
Speaker 1: damage in Birmingham. Yeah, just that seems to be another
Speaker 1: you know, Earth just doing its thing. Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's pretty like there are some some of
Speaker 1: the pictures are just look like they're just trees, wrecking ship,
Speaker 1: flattened houses, and it's yeah, very scary. So please stay
Speaker 1: safe if you're in the area. Tornadoes are a very
Speaker 1: unique type of like terror, Like wait when, because it
Speaker 1: really is just like the finger of God just being
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Speaker 1: and and your neighbors won't be Like I just remember
Speaker 1: reading a book called Night of the Twisters when I
Speaker 1: was in like an elementary school and being like so
Speaker 1: fascinated and like terrified of of tornadoes because you know,
Speaker 1: living in Ohio and those types of I mean, I
Speaker 1: mentioned the first time I heard one of those sirens,
Speaker 1: I was fucked up. The only thing I had about
Speaker 1: sucking tornadoes twister, So that will show you how healthy
Speaker 1: my relationship with my perception of a tornado. Um. But
Speaker 1: it's like kind of like earthquakes to like we don't
Speaker 1: know when they're coming, right. I think there's something wilder
Speaker 1: though about knowingim, like like like oh fuck. And it's
Speaker 1: so dramatic looking too. It's like it doesn't look like
Speaker 1: it should exist outside of like a sci fi movie
Speaker 1: that there's just like this funnel that's drinking up trees
Speaker 1: and ship and it's like damn. Anyways, Yeah, please stay
Speaker 1: safe out there. We are back tomorrow with the whole
Speaker 1: last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to
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Speaker 1: and don't do nothing about white supremacy. We'll talk to
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