Vinny Vinny Vinny Vinny Fuck. Damn, where'd you go? Damn, bro. That was that close, bro. I'm telling you, bro. It was fucking that fucking close. All right. I don't care what anybody said. We was right fucking there. Anyway, welcome to Ain't It, buddy. This transfer window edition as we wait for the community shield and the season to fully start so we can fully dive into our, you know, twisted, torture relationship with the game of football. I'm here with Jamel Johnson, Chris Martin. How we doing? How we doing this weekend? I guess let's just kick off right into it because we left the last episode, me going, I don't know if it's going to happen, but I need to believe it. I need to believe we're going to sign Vinny Jr. I was prepared for it to not happen, but it turns out, Vinicius, he re-signed.
with Real Madrid to play for a manager who basically was telling him to shut the fuck up about racist abuse. If you recall from last time, he was like, kind of get on with it, bro. Like, he shouldn't be doing that kind of stuff to provoke the people. I'm like, that's the manager you're about to play for, bro. But that's all good. You did your thing. How are we feeling, though? You know, he's a professional who can play for whoever he... What am I talking about? He's a coward!
You coward. Fucking coward. Didn't want to come to the Premier League where every game is a cup final. Play Spain where you have won two tough games, four. I'll give you Atletico and I'll give you Barcelona. Those are your four tough games. Right, yeah, yeah. Again, I just have to say, Vinny, you're playing for a guy who's blamed you for provoking racists for being black?
Okay. Anyway, I'm not sour about it. I'm just saying, bro, we would have loved to have you. But all good. All good. I'm fine with it, man. Whatever, bro. They threw him the bag. They threw him the bag of all bags. That's what he asked for. That's what he asked for. He got it. It's fine. That's fine. I'm upset with the idea that the Arsenal is supposed to be getting clowned for trying to sign this guy. Right. And it not working. I was like, what the fuck are y'all doing? He was trying to sign the best guy in the world. And guess what? What else are we supposed to do? When we texted WID, he said nothing. He replied.
We reached out. He said, yeah, bro. I mean, honestly. Exactly. The only one I can see me leaving my current person for is y'all. So now. It's like, imagine being at a party and the hottest girl in the party walks in and your friends think you won't talk to her. And then you go up and talk to her. And then she gives you the number, but then it turns out to be a fake number. You offer her loads of money first. Yeah. You go, I'll give you loads of money. Just sleep with me. I'll give you loads. It's a decent proposal. I'll give you loads of money. And then.
She goes, this other guy's going to give me more money. And they're like, all right, well, at least I didn't have to pay for sex tonight. I didn't even know this was prostitution. I had no clue. I didn't know. I didn't mean it like that. No, I mean, it's true. Even if we take out the sex work metaphor, they go, bro, look at this bad. She's like, look at this bad. He just walked in. Bro, you're not going to fucking talk to her. Watch this shit. Oh my God, bro, you got the fucking number? Yeah, yeah. Then her husband shows up and she leaves with him. And they're like, bro, what was that? I'm like, bro, she gave me the number. She just said, what happened?
She was with him. I don't know. I tried it. I didn't know she was married to Brock Lesnar, motherfucker. I just went in it. I just did that. Yeah. But then you're going to meet her and her husband at a really swanky party in Europe later that year. Right. And you're going to try and... I was going to say beat. Beat. That's not the right word. Beat American? You want to try to be like American style? Yeah. I'm trying to think what the next level of the analogy is when you see them again with the other one. You want her to have a really bad time at the next party because at the next party...
You're with someone. You're with another lady. Who's like not as hot, but she's like really entertaining. She doesn't have the same burst. Christina Solis. She doesn't have the same burst, but she's tidy. She's good at putting stuff on a plate. She brings you the food. Did you see his streak? Is this in like 19 straight matches where he's either scored or assisted? Kind of dumb streak he's got going. That's what I'm saying. The other thing that a lot of people are like, oh my God, I can't believe Arsenal got used. They got used.
It's like, well, hold on, bro. Like, well, what are you talking about? This is what happens. If you have value and you know your worth, you look around to see the best deal you can get. So you can ensure that you're getting the bag for yourself. So again, I'm like, I really don't understand any of this. It'd be one thing if like people were prematurely, like Arsenal as a football club was like, they changed their colors to the Brazil national team uniform to get Vinicius to sign. They've changed all of these things. It's like, bro, we're doing business. We said, what's the price? Oh yeah, we can do that. Let us know. And they're like, all right. And we just recycled the...
Intro video for Bruno. Yeah. Menacing. What an announcement video. Also, I got to say this, bro. I fucking John Obi Mikel. This motherfucker, he always loves to shit on Arsenal. It's just so funny. He said this about the Vinny signing. I just have to say this because it's so outrageous. He said, quote, I don't know what the Arsenal fans were expecting. You win the league after 22 years and then you all of a sudden think, that's it? You've arrived? You're one of the big boys again? No, you're not. They've just been humbled because I said it. There's no way Vinicius Jr. is leaving Real Madrid to go to Arsenal. A club that's won one title in 22 years. This guy wins titles. He's won lots. Blah, blah, blah. I'm like, yeah, bro. We are the big boys again. That's right. Because when you have the history of being big.
and you reassert your dominance again, you can say, yes, we are back. Yeah, I have become a big boy. And what place are y'all finishing? Okay. How's Chelsea Football Club doing or whatever Todd Bowley's going to change the name to when it's called? They played a team, hang on, yesterday in a preseason friendly and the name of the team looked like John Travolta trying to pronounce the name. Adel Dazeem. That's all I could see when I kept seeing it. It's the team was called, hang on, what was it called? Chelsea. It's just, hang on, Chelsea preseason. It was like, it's all I could think. Oh yeah, Johor Darul Tazeem.
Literally this. Literally this. Yeah. Is that a character from Dune? Yeah. I was just like, where is that? Sorry, I don't want to be rude about that team. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just, that's all I could think about when I was reading. I was reading the preseason. Right. Where are you getting your warm-up match? I was just like, John Travolta said the name wrong. Yeah. What team was it? Who did they play? They played. I guess. Where are they from? John Travolta. Where is this? John Travolta. He played for Arsenal. They're a Malaysian football team. There we go. Oh, they played in Malaysia. Okay. It was 3-0. 3-0.
For me, the biggest thing about the Vinicius thing was, like, it made me realize how in the gutter my self-esteem is still from having lived through the banter era as, like, an Arsenal supporter. Because it, like, it reminds you, like, when you're shopping for clothes and you're broke. Like, it's like, bro, I'm looking, I don't, I only look at a certain level, bro. Like, there might be other stores, but I'm not even looking there. Because that's just not part of the reality. Like, I'm not even, like, what's the fucking point? Like, it's not gonna work out. I have no business shopping there. I'm over here, okay? I'm doing my thing at Kohl's, okay? Unearthing fucking gems. Like a fucking, like a real recognize. Speaking of, beginning of the banter era, Kohl's was sick.
Yeah. Their worst clothes was at their best. But I'm saying now we're just pulling up to the Gucci store with money falling out of our pockets. And I'm even like, is that a, is that us still? Oh yeah. I'm like, yeah, yeah. You got damn right. But he's just speaking of real Madrid better be glad Spain don't got a Pablo Torre running around because they are hiding some money. Yeah. Money on top of money. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's also nice to be in Spain where you can just make up the financial rules. We got everybody up our ass on our books, a bunch of guys in powdered wigs looking at our books every fucking day.
Yeah, Chris, tell them. Sorry, guys. We need Spanish tax laws where players just go, like, here's your tax bill. And they just go, no. Yeah, it's after 9 p.m. I don't have taxes. I'll have a suspended sentence in 10 years or a fine of 5 million. Get the fuck away from me. Also, dude, but Bruno Guimaraes, now signing. We've done it. 75 million pounds.
our midfield, what you can say, whatever you want, I'm not getting Vinny, but our midfield is absolutely diabolical in terms of how deep the benches and the quality and the number of combinations of midfielders we can play. And I felt like last season when we signed Zuby, I was like, okay, this is the fucking midfielder. That's going to fucking open it up. Like he's like, he's going to break up play, just sit in front of the back four. He's good at finding like a good pass. Unfortunately, the pace of the premier league just caught up with him and then he just, his performances fell off a cliff, but he's adjusting. But with Bruno, when you actually, like you think about all those times, I feel like we talked about this all last season when they're like, there was like a hesitance.
to just play a ball, like just in behind, just to fucking see, you know what I mean? Like, can we risk giving up possession? And Bruno is like one of those people, he's like, bro, the only thing he can do is find that pass and play it. And so I think, I cannot wait to see what the offense looks like, like what we look like in attack with Bruno, you know, setting people like Jacarez on a fucking run, Martinelli, whoever, Saka. It just feels like a real, like a real missing piece has finally fallen into place. Did you read the, we asked the one in the Sun four years ago and weirdly, everyone thought Edu just like,
pulled the pin, but it was Mikel. I wasn't sure he was the right fit. Mikel Hader was like, look what, see? He's like, this is still your guy. I'm like, bro, he won us the fucking league, man. Shut the fuck up. Oh, you've got one of those. This guy won't be happy. How many times does he have to win the league for this guy to shut up? Yeah, I mean, like, we won the league. I don't know what to say after this. You know what I mean? Like, he did what he did. But anyway. But Bruno's one of the few men with a full goatee who I now can't hate. I rarely see a full goatee on a guy, and I'm like, that's a cool guy. I'm like, this is a full pin. He looked like a broke wizard. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a magician. He's not had a red card. He hasn't had a red card.
How the fuck? I was just looking, Jamil, you think I'm joking? I looked and I saw a bum-ass tweet that I was like, this is some AI bullshit. And I looked on ESPN, I pulled up his Premier League stats, not a single red car. Jesus Christ, we'll change that real fast. Yeah, yeah. The second they see you even like raise your arms just in a direction, they're like, that was violent play, man. I don't know what the fuck. But yeah, it reminds me of like when the Lakers signed Ron Artest, where I fucking hated playing against Ron Artest. Everyone hates playing, you know what I mean? Like Bruno's one of those guys, everyone fucking, they fucking hate him because he's intense. As he kept saying in his first interview, I'm a warrior, I'm a warrior, which is true. Come out and play.
But when he becomes like your asshole, that's a weird way to say it. But you know what I mean? When he's yours, then it's immediate. I'm like, bro, I think I loved Bruno the whole fucking time. Even when he was fucking elbowing Jorginho in the fucking dome. I think I loved him the whole time, actually. I think I just misunderstood him. The asshole that we need. It seems like, here's my theory. Gabriel Einze, is that how you say his name? I think the imaginary man stands next to Mikel, or it might be Mikel. We still don't know. We haven't got to the bottom of that. He's gone, we need more assholes. So he's gone, Bruno. And then we were linked with Romero. And I was like, this is... Let's do my asshole.
and Romero as a center back bearing they are going it's going to look like was it Lee Boyer and Kieran was it Kieran Dyer and Lee Boyer yeah yeah you had teammates scrapping in the middle of a match on the field with maybe yeah a bit of racism thrown in too you just reminded me of when I I can't remember if I told on this podcast but I lived in Newcastle and I love local taxi man's rumors about football players they always seem to know is there a need And Kieran Dyer hadn't played for like ages. And he went, you know why? He's got AIDS. He just started a rumor that he had AIDS. And I was like, all right, why do you know that? It was funny. I love how that shit is universal though. You know, that's where we got AIDS. Like that's an American thing. You can't go missing for six months without public thing before we start a rumor that you have. How many, how many, how many musicians can you name had AIDS as a rumor? Because like off some shit like that. I don't, I'm thinking two prominent, two prominent people, right? One of them being Kaya, who sang my neck, my back. Yeah.
Because of the song being like, you know, sexy or whatever, sex positive. I remember me like, you know, she got AIDS, right? And I was like, what? That's why she hasn't done anything yet. And you're like, I don't know about that. And then people said Lil Flip had AIDS, I remember. What? I've never heard Lil Flip had AIDS. That was another thing that people were saying in LA at the time. I do miss the time pre, and this is the before time, so to young listeners, but at my school, there was two rumors. One was that Kenan from Kenan and Kel, who obviously was quite successful, he died in a car crash. Get out of here! What? They were saying that shit in the UK? Yeah, because it was about that, you're like...
Probably. There's no way of knowing. Yeah, yeah. Big enough that people are like, I don't care enough to look into it. Him and also Mark Paul Gosler from Saved by the Bar had died. But basically, if you were in a kid's TV show that's popular, there's a chance that there's a rumor to go around British schools that you died in a car crash. Yeah.
Yeah, Jabari, we had AIDS rumors and stomach pumped. Yeah, like Lil' Kim had to get her stomach pumped because she was like, she sucks so many dicks. I remember that was the thing people said. Oh, yeah, I did hear about that. Yeah, I heard that one. Then they said it happened to Britney Spears. It becomes like a smear that people, like, it evolves, right? But the gerbil in the asses will always be Richard Gere. Thank you, Brian. That's a totally phenomenal phenomenon. Yeah, nobody. That took a life of its own. You can't stop it. Yeah, people respected that like it was Genesis in the Bible. Even the pygmies know that. Everybody know that. They're like, no, bro, that's, there is only one celebrity who had gerbils in their ass, and that is Richard Gere, okay? Yeah. I don't even know where the fuck we were going with that.
Oh, yeah, the rumors, the rumors, the rumors. Kieran Dyer, Kieran Dyer, what that back line looks like. That is the new ecosystem we live in, which is just gossip now is about football players that may or may not sign or join. So there is a window in the know people that we all follow to start a rumor. Right. You see like, oh, someone, is that person signed in my club? They're like, actually, Vinicius Jr. has not gone to Arsenal.
He's got too many gerbils up his bum in Madrid. They've got the gerbils for the bum bun. Yeah, yeah. But the one thing I will say that like with Bruno now, like with Bruno, Rice and Odegaard, we are basically have the top three midfielders in most performance like statistic categories like in the Premier League. So it's looking good. It's looking good on paper. The Arsenal midfield does look very, it does look very tight. We should be kind of looking at who's like crushing the transfer window in general. It's like Arsenal are kind of a bit slow. Their midfield does look stacked. Liverpool is struggling. They can't get anyone.
They seem to want to get Barcola, but the deal is just not happening. 145 million pounds for Bradley Barcola. Jeffrey got it? I mean, yeah, they're going to need that deal pretty fucking soon. He comes in as a minority stakeholder and they deliver Bradley Barcola in a box that's way too big for him. He actually dies during transport in the box. Oh my God, you didn't cut out air holes? Fuck. Here he is. Oh shit, close it, close it, close it. We got the wrong box, folks. We'll be right back. We'll be right back.
That should stink, man. God damn. Yeah, I mean, to that, there's also these, the reports are that Jeff Bezos is going to be buying a state, a minority stake in Liverpool with that guy Severin, who is one of the characters from the social network who helped Mark Zuckerberg start Facebook. It's a pretty, it's like a 30% stake, isn't it? It's something, even though they're going to be minority owners, a lot of people have speculated that like, if you are going to sell 10%, you can just argue that you're just trying to sort of broaden what the ownership group looks like. And people are like, when you go to 30%, it looks like maybe FSG.
that's the current owner of Fenway Sports Group, they are going to do like a phased sell-off to maybe eventually this could be Bezos' and LeBron's team. Who knows? Who fucking knows? It's 30%, but it's only 20% on Prime Day. I'm so fucking stupid. I know I like this. No, this is a good, this is good, mate. This is our late, this is our shiny full version of the show where we just make Amazon jokes. It's funny, on the Liverpool subreddit, they go, well, that's our right wing sorted.
okay it doesn't feel very true to Liverpool though that the working class you know like club that it is they'll be owned by I mean they're already owned by FSG I guess which is more like a private equity you know what I mean like they're not like a guy you know like obviously John Henry is the face of it but like to have like they're fully now like in you know like we have the Cronkies it's like who's your fucking oligarch that is you know is dabbling in sports ownership and are they good at winning is the real question and Bezos yeah I mean let's see it does seem like they need it's weird I mean they spent so much money last year though and then they just didn't behind the right players. They seem to be doing the same thing again this year. They don't have any sense of it. It's very strange. Liverpool fans get in touch. How are you feeling? I know, we've got to ask Michael O'Brien how he's feeling. He texted me a lot of stressed texts last week about him in the preseason. My other homie Dylan, who's a Liverpool fan, he's stressed the fuck out. Like, he thinks it's a disaster right now because he's like, we're so short in the back, middle. There's so many glaring holes and weaknesses and things to iterate on and it just feels like nothing is working out. And then, you were saying like, Iroh is like famous for his like...
death match training sessions. No days off, mate. No days off. The comment he made after they, I think they lost to Leeds in a friendly, they were up 2-0 and then lost. Like they shipped two goals and they're like, oh, all right, well, there goes that lead. This is what he said after. He said, quote, I think we played really good in the first half, especially the first 30 minutes, but right now, probably we don't have much more in terms of the level required to play like this. Then they were much better in the second half. In the same way we were better in the first half, they were much better in the second half and they deserved to turn the game around. I think they were in different levels, but mostly they were in a good place. I think the ones that it was their first game or even ones that it was their second game, they had energy. The problem is right now, probably they don't have the energy for 90 minutes and they start to get tired. It will take them time
we need more training with them. And I'm like, bro, if you are, if you're not happy to hit, are you? Yeah. And if you are used to like training a certain way, you're probably being like, Oh, uh, what, what, what's the manager saying? We got more training to do. There will be no fucking days off.
You will, you will. They're like, have you heard of summer Fridays? And he's like, no, every day. No, no, no, no, no. I don't even know what Fridays are. Every day's work day. That's all I know. I just call it today work day. You mean fifth Monday? Yeah. Every day is Monday. Seven Mondays, seven Mondays a week. Are you talking about Monday five or Monday six? Friday. Okay. We call that Monday five. Okay. And yes, we do have training Monday five and Monday seven.
See, wrong team, wrong strategy. Chelsea should be having no days off. They're the ones with 40 guys on the fucking payroll. Yeah, for real. Did you see that somebody posted a picture that they could post like three different racialized starting 11s? Oh, shit. Here's a black starting 11. Here's an all-white starting 11. And here's like a kind of light-skinned and Latino. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So stupid. But yeah, they got, I mean, diversity. And they got Madrid back. Speaking of diversity. The whitest guy in their team. He's bad, baby. How much are they going to sell him to someone for, do we think? Who maybe they can buy someone else for for a lot of money in a deal that's completely above board.
Oh, God. I mean, he needs at least a half season worth of highlights. He just has no highlight tape at all. I feel so bad for the guy. Although he signed a seven-year deal with them. I always feel kind of sorry for this. This guy's going to be amazing.
Yeah, and then they fucking tether themselves to a sinking ship like that who hasn't, like, they're like, I'm sorry, bro, you're going down with us. Yeah, man. You signed the deal with the double. You signed the fucking Def Jam South. You signed the TVT Records, bro. You signed the, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What did you think it was? Aw. They had a run. They had a run. Go to Turkey. He'll be in Turkey soon with the rest of the guys. Yeah, he will. All right, let's take a break. We'll come back and we'll be talking about other people that went to Turkey. After this.
And we're back. Have you seen Alexis McAllister since he came back? He came back to training. They were just posting videos of him coming back to training today. Let me see. It's scarring up, but you know what? I think he's going to be all right. He's going to be all right.
I mean, I forgot about when Mo Salah did. He did his way sneakier. Mo Salah did it, yeah. Yeah, like, we didn't catch him healing in the same way. Like, when Gabriel came back, like, that shit scabbed up and he was like, look, bro, it's just going to look like ass for, like, the first fucking couple months and then... I feel like Wayne Rooney was the first professional player to get a hair transplant that then doesn't seem to work, but you just realize you should have waited a little bit longer for that technology. Because he did LeBron, yeah, yeah, yeah. He just, he went for it when the front started fading, when he really also, he didn't realize he was going to have to tackle back, too. Could do the whole thing. Yeah. It's like a football team. You can't just, you can't be good in the front. You've got to be good at the back. You've got to be good at the middle. Every player,
Total hair. You can't be a halo and just have an attack in defense and no midfield. Exactly. Because that's what Rooney was... Rooney was just looking at all attack before. But McAllister, like, yeah, it's... He's going to have a... Yeah, he should be able to wear something over the top of that. He can handle it, they said. That's the main thing. But you know if you're the other player, the other player's going to say something to him. Oh, sure. You have to. I wonder if they... Did Landon Donovan, like... Did he, like, open the gate? Like, was his so bad that now nobody's can be as bad as his and everybody's going to get... Like, is he officially the bar, like, the lowest?
His looks not good. It almost feels like he was trying to be like, I didn't like the way my hairline before I started balding looked. I want to bring it lower. There's something just about the proportions of his face that's different. I'm like, hold on, bro.
You had kind of a bigger forehead. But now I think you've changed your face. It still looked like a toupee. It looked like he stapled a toupee on there. Yeah, no, it's not good. It felt like it was also a branded thing because he kept trying to be like, this is my journey. You know what I mean? So he did it for a deal, which is not good, bro. Don't trade hair plugs in for promo. No, and also, can these guys just not afford it? He must have money, right? He looked like he went to work right after he got that. He definitely doesn't have enough money to take the proper time off and let it heal.
Remember when he was like, I think it was in the middle of the transplant. He like rocked a hat once. He had the wild hair coming out the side. Everyone was like, what the fuck is going on with it? That was the funny one where he had the like half of it there, half of the middle. Yeah, it looked like he was growing like Hayes, like an Orthodox Jewish person, like off the temples. And people were like, well, why is that shit all long right there? But the back looks like it's tapered. Look at that. That's crazy. So yeah, there's that. That's the state of hair blokes. But elsewhere with Liverpool.
Mo Salah signed the deal to Trabzonspor. He is going to be earning a base annual salary of 8.5 million pounds alongside a guaranteed 7 million euro annual signing bonus netting him 17 million euros per season. 34 million net over two years. As Drake said, it's gross what I net. That's pretty good. 34 fucking million pounds. I was reading an article about it, about how usually it's like the big three Istanbul teams, Galatasaray, Fenerbahce, and Besiktas, are like the only ones people will listen to offers for. And Travzon Spore is like, they said it's similar to Liverpool and that it's outside of the major city, which is Istanbul, but has fucking diehard fans. The fan culture is way more intense with Travzon Spore. And I don't know if you saw that unveiling. Yeah, that video was crazy. Like fucking.
it was like it was twice sold out like it was truly like they were getting as many bodies into that arena possible and everyone had at least seven flares on them because it was blinding the amount of fucking flares they do not to stereotype but the Turkish fans do love a flare it feels like you have to have a flare to get into the stadium it's the opposite of other stadiums like well we give you a flare mate come on otherwise they pat you down to see if you have a flare yeah yeah yeah I thought that was an erection but luckily it's just a flare yeah there would be something wrong if it was on that side of your hip but hey come on in come on in But yeah, I didn't realize like in Turkey, like the way it's paid, everyone's paid net. Like the club covers the tax liabilities, which is good. Like for me, I remember being really financially ignorant. One of the first jobs I had, and they're like, how much you need to be paid? And I just said the number, like that was net what I needed.
And they're like, oh yeah, we can do that. And I was like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no. Sorry. Sorry. I meant like net. Like I need, I need to take home that much. This is my first time negotiating for a job. What did they say when you tried to try to walk it back? They were like, what the, they were just confused. Cause like, who the fuck says that in a thing? But luckily I was clearly like the best candidate and they gave, they were like, they're like, fuck. All right. Yeah. Here, uh, here it is. It wasn't that far off, but I just was like completely, I didn't, I didn't know what I was doing. So I was just like, the job was cold stone creamery. Yeah. I was like, yeah, bro, if I'm bringing back like four grand a month.
48 grand a year? Yeah, we could do that. We could do that. They're like, 48,000 a year? They're like, yeah. And I was like, oh no, man, I'm sorry. I meant like 70. That's what it turns out it was. But yeah, the other thing that was crazy is like, this is like an interesting thing. This is from the Guardian article about his signing. It said, the commercial return was immediate. Within 24 hours of Sala landing, Travzon Sports sold more than 17,000 season tickets, generating 11 million pounds. Another club representative confirmed that the total projected revenue from tickets, sponsorships, and merchandise during the Sala era is expected to reach...
22 million pounds. In effect, self-funding the transfer. There we go. That's fucking awesome. That's smart. I like that. Self-funding. I like that logic there. It's like, come on. There's a real book. What if that had gone wrong, though? They're like, it's injury. No one turns up to the umbrella. Right, right. Two years ago. Man, I wish I had gotten that Trabs on Sport jersey. I've been eyeing one from the Nicola Pepe era. Oh, shit, yeah. Yeah, Trabs on Sport. You should have got one.
It was on a classic football shirt for like a year and a half. It's a good niche football shirt, isn't it? It's like the maroon. It looks a bit like a Motherwell shirt, I think, kind of maroon and blue. Yeah, it's that villa kind of look, but I can't wear villa shit anymore. I'm in too deep. Well, you can't. Yeah, you are in too deep, bro. Don't do. Do you think he's going to do well two years? Or is he going to do what Ozil did and just become an absolute beefcake in the gym and take a lot of selfies? Eating crazy grilled meat. The protein level's out there. Because Ozil looked like a little beanpole. He looked like the kind of guy who was like, look at you, man. What are you going to do? What are you going to do, man?
And then he's like, I'll show you what I'll fucking do. It's where like him and Fernando Torres just got huge in their post-playing careers. I was probably getting trash talks playing Fortnite with some kids. He's like, all right, I'm going to get big enough to beat you teenagers up. Get the shit out of your dad, you and your grandfather all in front of you. You ready for this shit? I don't know. I think, I feel like Solid still has, you know, the ability. Obviously, when he's like 34, right? Isn't he 34? He's 34. He's 33, 34, definitely. I thought he was 34 four years ago. Anyway. I think he'll be fine. I don't know. I mean, like, it just feels like truly his most competitive years are behind him.
So it's like more like, we'll see how much of that like Jordan mental illness he has in him where he's like, bro, I'm not about to get fucked around. I don't give a fuck what league I'm in. I'm going to fucking bust my ass. Or if he's like, yeah, bro, thanks for the check. I'll score like a loose free kick here and there and I'll be on my way after two years. I don't know. Him and Leo, mate. Him and Leo carving it up in Turkey. I know. If he was signed for Besiktas, I would have been like, that's a team to watch with Leo and Mo Salifs in that front three. But he'll be at Trav's on Spor. So good luck to you. Good luck, mate. Good luck. The new retirement league in Turkey. Every couple of years, the retirement league does change. It was China.
MLS, Saudi. Now it feels like Turkey having that moment for the series. Yeah, they are going for it, at least. Yeah. It's a beautiful place. You know, because most people are like, bro, this place is fucking beautiful, actually. Yeah. And the way the contracts are, they pay tax. It seems like one of those weird, like, things like, come to Turkey. We pay the tax. And people are like, shit, okay. Yeah, we pay the tax. And you got some falafel and some hummus and some mint tea. It's a good time. International Florida. Yeah, bro, you're right there at the crossroads of Eurasia, basically. Nice. Did you see the little anecdote? Like, did you watch Bruno Guimaraes' first interview that he did for Arsenal? I don't know if you watched that clip. I watched it a little bit.
Did you know like why his number is 39? Yes. From when he was a kid, right? What was it? Yeah. It's because his dad was a taxi driver and he's like, he's like everything my entire life was provided by this taxi. My father drove our home, our food, my boots, my ability to get to. Yeah. And he's like my grandfather, my father drove taxi number 39. Um, so when I was trying to pick out a number, he's like, my dad said it should be 39 because we owe everything to this taxi in this family. Like we owe everything that I even have a taxi to drive to give people like the taxi was alive. Yeah. I was driving Christine around.
Exactly. And he was saying that Bruno said the first time. So when he got signed to his first contract and it was time to go talk about like his kit number, he was still like, you know, like a younger person in the squad. He like, he opened up his kit and they had just, just by chance that his squad number was 39. And the kit man was like, Hey man, do you need to change your number? And Bruno was like, he said, he was like, he was like, no. Like the fact that it even started crying on the spot. He's like, dad, you don't even, you don't even believe it. They gave me 39. Like, see, I told you, son, this means good things are going to happen. Good things are going to happen. The car started honking and crying too. Screaming water fluid. Yeah. Yeah. Just jetting out the front. Yeah.
That was a nice anecdote to see that he's a human being. What number would you guys be? Apart from 69, obviously, that's the one we'd all be. 75 is an important number. I wore that in American football. Why 75? His dad drives number 75 for his whole life. We all have the same story. My dad really liked catch-up. Yeah, my dad really liked Hearns. 57 was taken. Yeah, so it was reverse. He's dyslexic and he liked catch-up.
He's got a tear in his eye. He's like, my own son wearing number 57. You know what? He saw me banging the bottom of that bottle the whole time. I just showed him. If you just keep trying, eventually you'll get a little bit of sauce out of that bottle. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And right now, he's getting a little bit of sauce out of that shirt as he gets to the face. He's so tortured. What number would you have, Chris? I mean, my lucky number is 14 for obvious reasons. I lost my virginity on 14. No, I definitely did. That's a joke. It's criteria for he's 14. Although...
What would it be, though, if it was not going to be? I actually chose, I haven't picked it up. I played a pickup game. I haven't played for a year because someone just got too angry and it really annoyed me. But I played twice and I was like, you've got to buy kits. And I just bought it. I got 77 on the back because it adds up to 14. And I was like, I think no one else is going to have 77. Early Bukayo. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's also my favorite sexual position, 77 as well. That's when both people are on their phones? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Both people are like slap machines. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Both people are spooning, but they're on their phones. That's a classic 77. Classic 77. What would yours be? I wish I had a number that I could be like, and that number.
It was magical for my family. It's hard to follow the Bruno story with... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jamel probably is in the first position. The fact that he was even able to come up with that catch-up backstory. I will actually say on 14, this is how much I love the number 14. I've used it in roulette and it's done well. And then my wife went into labor early on the 13th of a specific month. And then I was like, how long is this going to be? I was like, can you just hold on until the 14th? Anyway, my son was born on the 14th. Well, it was like, she actually... It basically became apparent it was going to take a long time because the water broke before the other stuff.
And they kind of had to induce her. And I was like, is this going to come? I thought it happened like an hour. And the nurse was like, it's going to take a while. And I was like, look at the clock. You're like, hold on. Just get to the four. Anyway, so he was born on the 14th. So it's the magic number. 14th, 14th, TH14, Thierry Henry. Oh, yes. Your child will do a sit-down interview with Mayor Zoran Kwame Mamdani. Yes. Exactly. Exactly. That interview that Zoran put in, he's straight up just talking to Thierry Henry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Being like, he's like, I don't know if you saw the whole interview, but he starts off being like, you said.
New York City is like one of the best cities, right? It's like how this whole thing starts. He lets Henri kind of get like his love of like the melting pot that is New York City come out. Reminds him of his, how he grew up, how the world looks, how the world should be. And then like, then Zoran just goes, so man, like, you know, you're memorable to a lot of people for many different moments. And you know, Henri's like, clearly he's like heard this fucking 700,000 times. People saying she like this. And he goes, oh, no, no, you're fine. He's like, he's like, but he's like, can I share a memory with you? And then he went for real. Yeah, he's like, is it true that the love you take is equal to the love you make? No, he then goes, okay, so 2012.
the comeback. And Thierry, he does go, oh, look, goosebumps. I've got goosebumps. It's the first time I played as a fan. He just breaks down the whole story. And the way Zoran's looking at him, he's like, he's so dreamy. And I'm like, that is exactly how every, I think, Arsenal fan would just be sat across from Thierry. But I love that he's used the power of the mayor's office to make this all happen. It's his version of like Trump playing golf all the time. Before he was the mayor, he went on Football Weekly on the Guardian one, which is, if you don't listen to it, is a great football podcast. And they were like, yeah, we've had a mayoral candidate.
for the New York Mare's race, he's just requested to be on. And he's just like, he's basically gone, I'm just going to flex this as much as I can and just fanboy it into stuff. And now he's, he's playing a blinder. He knows his shit. So like, there's no, you cannot accuse him of being any kind of bandwagon fan because his knowledge is acceptable. If I'm mayor of Los Angeles, I get Bellerin or like, I feel like we could get Bellerin now on the podcast. Bro, I'm digging up Kobe's grave.
It's a weird YouTube video from Mayor Miles Gray. Hey, he's knee deep. He's knee deep in the graveyard. Hey, here's the thing. I'm learning, Kobe. You got to have that Mamba mentality, right? Like, if you want something, you got to go after it. Am I right? Oh, shit. No, I don't. I'm sorry. I was like, what's the most out-of-pocket shit I could say? It's that. If it was an Arsenal player, I would give, I got to give love to Dennis Bergkamp, but that motherfucker don't fly. So I have to go to him. Patrick Vieira, I would love to talk to Patrick Vieira.
Honestly, I would talk to anybody who's ever played. Fuck, I'll talk to Denilson. I'm like, bro, Denilson, what was it like, man? That was some shitty times, bro, but you was there. And I remember you had that one long-range effort, and you did this one celebration where you were moving your head like this. And I remember it was the most confounding celebration I'd ever seen. Have you seen? Do you remember this, Chris? No, I want to say that. It's like an exorcism type? It's just weird. He looks like a fucking puppet whose head just starts malfunctioning. Yeah. It was a rip. Oh, yeah, I remember this goal. I remember that goal. And then watch this one.
What the fuck is that? What the fuck is that? I remember that. I remember that goal really clearly. I remember too because he wasn't really scoring a lot of goals and he just had that rip and I'm like, God damn. And I think it's probably because he even short circuited. He was like, what the fuck did I do? I'm tweaking. Bro, I'm tweaking. I'm just fucking out of my body. Yeah, a player that isn't used to scoring, celebrating is always great because they're just like, I'm not choreographed at all. I don't know what I'm doing. There was this kid like in, I remember grade school, he'd always play football like during recess or whatever. And there's this one kid, Brandon, who was not athletic at all. He was kind of like one of these last to get picked kids.
And there was one game we all remember because he had a pick six that like, that like reversed the game and like won it for the team he was on. And when he caught it, he couldn't even believe he intercepted it. He caught it and he went, interception! And everyone was like, run, motherfucker, go! And he like just barely got his ass into like what we were calling the end zone at the time. And it was one of those moments where I'm like, bro, this guy, this motherfucker short-circuited from catching the ball mid-game. It do be hard to believe. I've definitely had my radio moment. I had like a, I got a fumble recovery and a big rivalry and I'm just like, yeah!
Oh, shit. So anyway, I picked a Nielsen. Also, my number would be 22 because that was the number I played the most with. There we go. Just answer that question for a full circle moment. 22 twos for you motherfuckers. And you were the 22nd child your mother gave birth to and you owe everything to her. Exactly. 22 cabs later. Yeah, here I am. 22 Cabernet Sauvignons later. 22 cabs later. I'm here, baby. And I'm fucked up. Okay, there were Kane rumors. Harry Kane.
that he was going to, there were people talking about that maybe he'd go back to Tottenham or whatever, but it turns out that he is set to sign that deal, which was such a weird moment too. I was like, I got to say, Tottenham's been signing, they're building something for sure. Does it work right away? I don't know, but like they have solid players. Like as much as I want to shit on this rebuild, I really can't. I'm just curious. And I think Mickey Vandeven just also re-signed. So they're maintaining most of the group. And I don't know, there's a, for the signing video that they showed, they showed Deserby come in to kind of like congratulate him. Like, all right, the way Deserby moves, he's like, there's something about him, bro. I don't trust.
I don't know if it's in a funny way or a bad way, but there's just something when I look at him, I'm like, what's going on with you, bro? What's going on with you? In what way? He seems like he moves like one of the guys. He's kind of got like that, like one of the periphery of the Soprano crime family kind of characters. He's not a maid guy yet, but it's clear that he wants to be a maid. He looks like he's willing to do fucking anything. That's what I mean. I'm like, there's something wily about you that I don't know if I like. It makes me nervous. He wouldn't let him walk your other half home, that kind of thing. I would let him walk me home. Right.
He's sticking to anybody, yeah. Yeah, I'm like, why are you trying to walk me home? Oh, because I'm just making sure you're safe, guy. Come on. I'm like, what the fuck, bro? Whoa. Why are you touching me like that, bro? You're so tense, man. You're so tense. You might have a knife in one of your 27 zip pockets on your jeans, and I'm worried. Yeah, exactly. I couldn't even guess. I tie myself out trying to guess. Look at the way he just comes in right here, bro. He looks like a porn director. I mean, this is already. He looks like a peak bang bus Miami porn director. The way he comes in with his spiky hair and his shorts. Whoa. He's still got the...
He has a short length. It's a bit longer than you'd expect on a coach as well. He's kind of got the... Watch out for Bobby D, bro. I'm going to keep my eye on top of him. I don't like how he's moving, bro. I feel like Rico in Belly. When he sees him come to town, he's eating a banana by the payphone. I don't like this shit.
It is questionable for sure. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see. There's also rumors that they're trying to sign Baligan too, but I don't know. Did we talk about Romero? Oh, we did talk about Romero. A little bit. We touched on it, but we can't. I mean, that's not happening. It's not happening, but that would have been a funny one because the Tottenham fans, I think Tottenham fans don't like it. I think Tottenham fans want him to go, so it would have been a weird one if he'd gone to Arsenal. It's kind of like points scored, but I feel like they were too happy about him wanting to go to Arsenal. Who was happy about him going to Arsenal? I think Tottenham fans, once a lot of them put away the ego, they're like, the guy is just a walking red card. He's a liability, yeah, for sure. Yeah, it's like...
Yeah. I think that's also, I mean, he was also like one of the few people that was scoring consistently for them last season. So I don't know how much you want to be like, yeah, bro, get rid of him. Like, I don't know, man. This shit would look a lot different without his goals. So I don't know if you want to say, and I'm sure you could argue the other way with his fucking stupid decisions. Like what would the table look like? I do. I feel like as an Arsenal fan, I've had enough just stupid players like in the last few years. I'm just like, can't have another guy. Just that guy. Like every time this guy, he just, he's the mate, he's the friend of yours, you know, at the party. He's just like, why have you done that fight? Oh shit, he's drinking. He's drinking again. Oh, Romero's drinking again, guys. I'm getting out, bro. Chris is drinking, bro. Yeah, Chris
No, his girlfriend's not here to stop him, bro. We're getting the fuck out of here. No, I don't even be here. He's going to say something racist again. He already did, bro. He's taking a little charcoal briquettes at the cookout. He's using it to fucking black up with it. What the fuck is this? It's all primitive. God damn. Get him out of here. Get him out of here. Oh, shit. All right, let's take a break. We'll come back and we'll wrap up with a lawsuit and someone who went into the Great Beyond at a Brazilian professional match after this. Oh, yeah.
And we're back. Should we talk about that Kurichiba player? JC. Oh, yeah. That video. Who jumped. That video, man. Yo, the worst place for a big-ass pit, obviously. First off. I'm pretty sure. Was that match played at their home ground? And the goal was disallowed. So my man is at his own home field.
and jump straight okay so i'm i know i'm acting like this is a video everyone's seen so there's a video from the brazilian league this guy scores a goal and he jumps over the ad boards like to celebrate to go because like you know some some stadiums are like kind of more olympic track stadiums so there's like a huge chasm between like the goal line and where the stands begin so you can kind of you see an italian like stadiums a lot huge space to kind of run around it but the thing is there's like a dugout where like the like players or whatever people come out of so when he hops the fucking ad board he doesn't realize that there's nowhere to land except for him into this like chasm where the stairwell goes down um another one the holdings man i'm just thinking the holdings dude The Hoarding. It's like a horror film. He's also doing the... He's just pregnant. He does the baby celebration straight into a pit, which is not particularly... It's kind of funny. And then the girl's disallowed. Everything about it is perfect. The girl's disallowed. I had to start... There was that one angle you sent, I think, Chris. Did you send it first? Yeah, I did. The one angle is just so good. He just disappears. It's like perfect angle. Then I saw a couple other ones where he clearly landed on one of the steps. He didn't just go like... It's not like one of those videos you see from New York City where people just go into the fucking cellar door.
He landed on his step and you could tell he didn't just fucking go into like the void. Yeah, he hopped up pretty quick. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You do see him come out. Although that could be one of those things where you fuck yourself up, but you can't, like the adrenaline won't allow you to be like, ah, no, I'll fuck myself up. And he's like, no, I'm good, I'm good, I'm good. Hey, I'm gonna go though. I'm gonna get in my car right now and I'm gonna leave right away. No one talked to me. And my leg always does look like this. It is possible. That happened to a guy at Summer League on the Wizards. The dude who was guarding Darren Peterson. Darren Peterson like did a crossover on this guy and he like, he almost fell, but he didn't, right? And the crowd went like, ooh, ah, and then he finished the game.
And then a week later, he, they reported that he tore his ACL. So he like played like 40 minutes in Vegas with a torn ACL. Cause this happened like kind of early in the game. I feel like getting, getting a silly injury like that as a professional, it must be the worst. I feel like it took him a while to post it. Like, I think he got the surgery pretty soon after, but he was like, dude, I need like, I need to talk to a therapist before I let anybody know that I tore my knee up. Oh my God. Oh, now I got to see this shit. I'm just sorry. I know this is not a basketball podcast. Oh, is it that? Oh, yep. Yep.
That was just a real nice, just stopped on a dime and left him behind. No, it was a good move and he saw it go, man. And then I was shocked that he kept playing. Honestly, sign him to another job. If you did your ACL like that and you kept fucking playing, that is absolutely bonkers. In a preseason game. But wait, how old is Jameer Watkins? He's a little older. What is he, like 25? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not like 25, I think. Or 24. Damn. You just never know. You never know, folks. I mean, the hoardings have taken a lot of good men this summer. They continue to hoard. They are.
But I know he'll be all right, even though his arm... Yeah, that's the one thing he did in the World Cup. And then Alonso was like, we need this guy. Look at that guy. Who's that guy that shattered his wrist? That's the example we need. Who's that guy that Dan Byrne absolutely deceived into thinking that he was also 6'7"? What division is that team in, the Brazilian League team? I need a Brazilian League team.
I think Corey Chiba's in the premiere. Would that be funny if I started doing that type of bit? I've been seeing girls and stuff be like, hey, it's week three of me picking my Premier League team. I know we talked about it before, but what if I was like, hey, it's week five of me picking my Brazilian second division team? No, the one that's dope. There is one. Ah, fuck. I remember. I think it's... I want to say...
there is like one, uh, team like in Brazil that they have like the hardest drum line, like I've ever seen. And I'm like, that's the thing that the Brazilian gives you, bro, because they have, they're so rhythmic. And just like the energy of those matches is truly like what you'd want to be. Like, it's like, bro, everyone is jumping up and down the entire 90 minutes, like singing together. And I'm like, it's, and they're not, they're not fucking around. Courtiva a 10th in the league, just to give you some idea. They're in the, uh, they're in some form of European, not Europe. They'll be in some, they've got a little, what does that mean? Brazilian Europe.
No, they're in Brazilian Europe. They can't get into the Copa Libertadores, but they can get into the Copa Sudamericana. Now, don't get mad at me if I end up front-running. I might go with Palmeiras, honestly. Listen to you say all that. I was like, I'm fucking with Palmeiras or something. Wow. Well, look, Brazilians, I gang, let us know. Because there's so much interesting texture behind all the clubs, too. Because I'm like, oh, really? They're like, so you are pro-slavery? You're like, oh, fuck, no. Yeah, that's a good... If Palmeiras has some strikes on their record, please let me know. They'll be like, this club was started by revolutionary, you know, Capoeira practitioners that then transitioned to football. And you're like, oh, shit. Yeah, look at him. Tell me more. And then finally, before we head out, gotta check in with Evangelos Marinakis, the gangster. I'm a gangster.
the owner of Nottingham Forest, uh, who does have some, there were some interesting allegations about his behavior in Europe and on the continent and Greece, et cetera, but not now, not now, absolutely not. Um, but I mean, I think last summer that transfer saga with Morgan Gibbs, white basically like, yeah, he's going to Tottenham. And then, then there's like, no, he's not. And now here's a video from Morgan Gibbs, white telling you how happy he is with Marinakis right behind him, cracking his knuckles. It's very cool. A very normal thing to see. Um, that was just like, that was like one of the big talking points, like in all of the transfer sagas last summer. And then early in the like end of August last year, when, uh, forest blade palace,
the Palace fans unveiled a banner that referenced the gangster aura. And Jamal, have you seen it? Yeah, I'm looking at it right now. I need to put this on a t-shirt really fast. Oh, that is a dope. That's an amazing t-shirt. Even if it's just without the graph, like without the text. Can you imagine holding a beer, wearing that t-shirt? Just the amount of effort that went into making that. That's a real art project. I love the Palace. Good people. It feels like it'll be hard. It feels like it'll be hard. Yeah, Tommy, go in there. Tommy, can you think of a more likable footballer? I don't think so. He's so likable. It feels like, not that I know,
I'm a legal expert. I feel like it'd be quite hard for him to win that because they've written he's not involved in blackmail, match-fixing, drug trafficking, or corruption. And literally, they've written the opposite of what he's saying. And it's parody, right? It's a parody. It's Morgan Gibbs White standing there and it's Maranakis with a gun to his head. And the speech bubble out of Morgan Gibbs White is Mr. Maranakis is not involved in blackmail, match-fixing, drug trafficking, or corruption. It's like, yeah. So Maranakis is doing it because he is? Like, what's happening?
Yeah, I mean, I don't know how... They did put the knot in red, though. Look, you see what they did? They're emphasizing. They can just be like, yeah, knot is my favorite color. Nottingham Forest, guys. Ooh, it is N.O.T. What do you want us to do? I don't know. The British... People don't strike me as litigious as they are in the U.S. They're not, but you can get arrested for more... The laws of the U.K. are much more like... They've been doing a lot of clamping down on people just protesting any sort of...
And what's the other one? I think when the, uh, the King got, um, Oh, someone had like a sign that said like, fuck the king. And then they got thrown in the back of a wagon for that. It was just like, all right. So yeah. So we want about America, but you can call political leaders here. A-holes and get away. Look, colonial nations unite together. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cause it just feels like, I don't know if like in the U S right, you would do that just to be like, all right, bro, look how much you want, man. Like, what are we doing this for? Like, I don't want to spend all this time in court, even though we know we'd win, but I know you're going to just try and bleed us out and just draw this out in court. So we just end up paying more and more and more money for legal fees. What the fuck do you want in a settlement? Just get the fuck off me. Feels like the kind of thing.
Like in the US, that's how like a lawsuit would work. There's no point in filing this. It's like, yeah, I'm filing it to put pressure on you to settle with me. How did he get his money? How did he get his money? That is legal. That's not blackmail. It's shipping, shipping. Shipping? This motherfucker did this season two in a wire.
Oh my gosh. He's at the point, man. He's just a shipping magnate. He's the son of a magnate. He's like a Nepo magnate. Okay. The worst. Magnate. Only ever really used in these contexts. Yeah. No one ever said, that guy's a magnate. Look at that magnate. God damn. It's a shipping magnate. I think it's the only time I've used magnate is shipping magnate. Shipping magnate. He's a shipping magnate. He's at the party. Have you met my friend? He's a comedy magnate. What do you mean? What is he? He's a stand-up comedian.
some neck beard with a podcast about, like, reviewing stand-up shows. They even put titties on the drawing. That's a really good, this is a really good cartoon, man. That's why, again, and everyone knows the most gangster shit you can do is sue somebody over hurt feelings. You know, like Drake did. That's true. If he got an idea from Drake, that's hilarious. Yeah, what's also crazy, too, is the palace was already, like, they got charged by the F.A. with misconduct over the banner because they're like, bro, you gotta get your people under control. And then in February, the F.A. fined palace 50,000 pounds over it. And the ruling noted,
The fact that Crystal Palace had a policy to prevent banners being smuggled into the stadium demonstrates that it was aware of the risk. Okay. Anyway, the plot. How do you smuggle that big a banner? Do you know what I mean? You have a really big, massive poster tube over your shoulder. What's in there? Just a gentleman. I don't know. Why is it 40 feet long? That's my walking cane. That's my walking cane. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm trying to think of how well Marie Kondo style you'd fold it. It's going to be in a bag. Do you have a group of Sikh supporters to pull up in their turbans and then be like, nah, bro, this is... Piece it together? Mine's just kind of bigger, bro. I kind of run the temples. That's where my shit is. It's 40 of us on our hands and knees and it's going through our jeans and we say we're a human centipede.
So you're saying down one person's hand leg, then up to the next person, just go like this? Yeah, yeah. And then we better crawl in. Can you imagine going through the turnstiles, one person fucks up? Like a hundred people take it. A hundred people take a patch each, and then you quickly, you get it ready, and you pregame it. Sew it together. It looks like it might be in panels, like long panels. But, I mean, it looks pretty seamless. I have no idea of TIFO technology. Are these shits like Velcro?
Is it like command strips? I mean, a couple of times I've been at like a match at the Emirates where they've had it like suddenly just some mother, like a nylon sheet is coming down and you're like, send it down. Send it down, baby. Yeah. But hey, good luck to you. Good luck, man. Hope you get your money. Yeah, yeah, sure. We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. Apologies to Mr. Marinakis. You are not to those things. And I know you are not a listener of this podcast. But for the people that are, Chris, Jamel, anything to plug? Where are you going to be? I'm going to be in Seattle on the 20th and 21st of August. But just generally, we do need to say.
like, subscribe on the feed because we're no longer on the iHeart. We're transitioning off. We're transitioning. But yeah, we're going to be awesome. We're transitioning. So come with us, you know. Yeah. Tell us, tell us your thoughts on anything. Tell me you love me. Just say anything. People love me sending nice messages, guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, shout out to everybody that's listening. And once the season starts, motherfuckers, tell everybody, okay? And we're going to be trying to do some, we'll be doing some new things too because we're going to be tinkering around. I feel like, like some live match watch along so we could do a live stream. Yeah, can you guys, y'all are the ones with kids, man.
I could watch a football. I could be at a, I'll live stream at 4 a.m. I don't give a fuck. Yeah, I'll just have to put a Spider-Man mask on my kid so nobody sees his face and then I just let him run around. That's true. Spider-Man, uh, and that's Chris's kid, uh, Loki, you know what I mean? Oh, yeah. But he's black. That's not even a full mask. Hey, uh, August 20th, I'm in D.C. as well. If you are in Washington, D.C., please come. Also, everybody who, uh, bought tickets to the, uh, Big Slim's Taste Test food tour, uh, that event got canceled as well, so please come to, I'm, I'm honoring all Big Slim's.
Taste test food tour tickets at the Jamel Johnson show at PubKey August 20th. I love that. What happened to Big Slim's taste test? He just didn't sell enough tickets, dude. I just saw him post it. This guy, Big Slim, from back home, he does like food reviews and he's like, hey, what's up? What's going on? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Here's what's going on. Oh, come on, man. That sounds fun. Yeah, he got like a band and he was like, he was trying to get it popping. He got like a party bus and I guess he didn't sell enough tickets. And I hit him up. I was like, dude, come to my shit. Yeah, yeah. Come on in and put it, Big Slim. Yeah. We'll do a taste test.
Let's see what this podcast is hitting on. You know, they was talking about football. There wasn't no NFL. And it was some sexual innuendo. That's it. Yo, I don't know. Jamel said something about a cop, bro. He thought it was sexy. Uh-uh. I'm off that. All right. Well, find us at Ain't It Footy Pod on Instagram. Make sure you subscribe. Tell your friends. Tell your loved ones. We'll see you next week. Bye. Bye.