Ted Lasso | S3 Ep10 Part1 "International Break"

Welcome to our Ted Lasso talk , the Tedcast . Welcome all Greyhound fans , welcome all you sinners from the dog track and all the AFC Richmond fans around the world .

It's the lasso way around these parts with Coach , coach and Boss .

Without further ado , Coach Castleton .

Okay , welcome back everybody . It's so great to have you here Today . We are going through Ted Lasso , season 3 , episode 10 , international Break . Oh my god , episode 10 . That's almost episode 12 . My name is Coach Castleton . I'm your host with me , as always is . We call him Coach Bishop , but I want to stress that he is Orlando fucking Bishop .

What's going on ?

And with us as always . We call her Boss , but she is Emily fucking Chambers .

So you're trying to take over the accounting duties here . We're on episode 10 . We're almost episode 12 .

There's a lot of math there Just run the books .

Why don't you ?

I , um no , I graciously , I graciously bow out of that responsibility Are superior to me in every way where it comes to being a queen in the sheets .

Exactly , that is exactly right . What's the mug you have Freakin' the sheets with an Excel page ? Yes , freaking the sheets , it's so painful .

I hope that's the earn that they bury you in after you .

No , I'm full on taxidermy You're gonna be shot into space . No , no , no , full on . Taxidermy sitting up pointing at somebody .

Just like accusatorily . Oh my God , that's fantastic . Yeah , yeah , who gets you at the end ? Who gets ? You , I don't care Whoever , one of the five maybe .

No , Well , I mean I'm gonna outlive you . Let's get real .

That is true .

Yes , we need to acknowledge that first . What are we talking ?

about . I know all of my plans to have you killed have come to , not at this point .

Yeah , although , um , I do know at least the year of my death already . So as long as you can stay alive until I hit 81 , because that's the day after my 81st birthday I'm going out regardless , I don't care what happens . Bottle of whiskey , bottle of sleeping pills , 12 cheese croissants . I'm calling it a day , that's it .

No , no , there's no , no , no prayer in hell of that happening , but I'm excited about the croissant thing .

I like that . I do I like figuring like I'm really about to die ? Like what am I ?

What's my last meal ? I'll uh a prisoner on death row .

Oh yeah .

Yeah .

Oh , do you have this .

You have this loaded . You have this locked and loaded , both of you .

I could see .

Boston that because she's twisted and has no children .

Oh , I don't have it , I'm just saying I like it , I love this . She has it .

She's a perfluous . Oh yeah , you just like him . You don't have it , coach .

No , no , I don't have that planned out , although my my , my funeral , I have thought about and I wanted to be like a blowout party , like I want people to go absolutely nuts . I want people playing cards , dominoes like maybe a DJ . Yeah , like crazy . Yeah Like people in the street , people jumping all cars and shit , like I don't know Go crazy .

Yeah yeah , that was coach and I had a like a true bonding moment .

Yeah .

When remember Biggie's funeral , the real Biggie Smalls , not the , the celebrity Biggie Smalls . Which , who is the ? Is the current , uh , dog owned by a coach ?

Yeah , yeah . And then it wasn't part of anything , it was like somebody just was like yeah , like this is what we should do .

Yeah , and then it turned into the , the biggest block party you've ever seen . I was like wow that's what his life was . That's what it ended up being . That's how it ended up . And we can talk forever about what it was and what it might have been and we can cry oh God , there's so , so many , so many themes .

What I'm slowly realizing is you and I have been doing deep dive like since we met , like we've now just figured out a way to you know share with others .

Yeah , that's true and we've been trying to catch . We figured out how to weave a web that catches awesome people . Yeah .

And me You're like a liability of the web .

You're like oh man , if you buy the 10 , if you need the 10 style strength , you've got to have some kind of adhesive .

You won't like it .

It's not going to smell good , but it will work . It's the way that it is .

Yes .

And that is the our boss , emily Chamber .

I could join in on the biggie deep dive conversation to make sure we discuss the dance that Julia Styles does at the party in 10 things I hate about you because that is my cultural reference when you say hypnotize , that's where I'm coming at I man , you come in with those white girl , takes that , I just . The white shit .

I'm surfing in on a wave of mayonnaise .

Absolutely fucking wild .

You said Julius , I was like wow , okay , yeah , wow , that's your biggie . You know I could talk about Tupac , but I'm going to put it in the sentence with Casper the friendly ghost . Well , I mean , that's not fair .

Obviously , if you're going to be talking about Tupac , it's going to be more of a . Sarah Jessica Parker , Jennifer Jason Lee I don't know why you need three white girl names for it , but you do , yeah , no , no , I love that .

That makes . That makes Sarah Michelle Gallard probably that that's probably . I don't think she's got three names . Fine , I just want you to give that graduate speech where you like , tap the mic and go . I don't think you can talk about properly . I'm going to go with Casper Tupac Shakur , with the first mentioning Sarah Michelle .

Gallard . Lose the entire audience except for the one , emily Chambers , in there .

that's like wait , you have my attention Continue .

Exactly , that's exactly right .

All right . Well , we're going to go right from this cultural appropriation . Just , you're going to just erase some of the best musicians we ever come out of the black community . Right , we'll roll it right up into a cigar called Ted Lasso and we're going to smoke it for you . Today , nice , we international break .

Hello and welcome to soccer Saturday . I'm Jeff Stilling and here with George Kartrick and Clinton Morrison . Now the hottest team in the country is clearly Richmond on a 10 game winning streak , on the back of some inspired play by Sam Obusania . Jeff , you have to think Sam Obusania will make his Nigerian debut or the world's gone truly mad .

Right , that is Clinton Morrison saying that . And when you say something like that , you know that the natural result of that is one boss , and you're saying that's the world's gone truly mad . Yeah , he's not making a team . Yeah , you set it up because the world has gone truly mad .

Oh yeah , this world and that world . The writers room for this whole . The amount of coke being done in the writers room for this season of America is unbelievable .

Unbelievable . Yeah no , you wouldn't believe it .

You know there were murder hornets in the last few years . Nobody talks about it . You know why ? Because that shit is like 898 on the list of crazy shit that's going on in the last five years . Murder hornets yeah , it's come on , man yeah .

And no , we couldn't even pay attention to that .

I saw . I saw I'm holding my hand up for the camera here that you guys can't see on the audio version . But see how big my palm is . I'm not bragging . Oh , I thought .

But I want to say that we were .

We were in the house the other day and there was a murder . Hornet flew onto the glass window it was as big as my palm and our whole family was there . We just all stared at it , right . And then it just landed right on the sliding glass door and there was a buzzing around for a second .

So can I tell you what the ant reaction to that is ? The giant murder hornet flies up to your house and tries to get in because it's the size of your hand , and you say that didn't happen . And what I would have said was after pointing at it and then turning to the children and that was a baby , just to see how much I could freak him out .

That is just to see . I really love , by the way , that you say ant because I I'm very upper crusty and I say ant because less we , less we conflate the two . One is an insect and one is a is your , is your mom's sister .

And I like to say it , it could be either sibling . It's not that sisters only have sisters .

No , it is .

Moving right on .

No , no , that's it . That's all . That's how it works . Boston , read a book . Read a book . Okay , right , right . So the world's gone truly mad . We know out .

No , no , no , no , no definitely fiction .

But I'm saying you're right , yeah , no no one else .

Yeah , it's not like oh , they've both got winning streaks going and when are they going to meet up and blah , blah , blah ? No , he's definitely lost . Now a 10 game winning streak strikes me is pretty impressive . So you could be , you know , seven and three in your last 10 , or whatever , and still be doing fine . But yeah , no , you're definitely right .

Yeah , no , historically you don't get like . Very rarely do you get like a straight run . You know you have Liverpool will lose to Brighton Hove and Albion . You know you like whatever it'll , you'll get that . They played against the Lofa . There you go .

Nice , very nice , that's it .

Ben Jarvis , green , ellis . Yeah , lester City , somebody will come in and and and bite you . That's what you can lose on any on any given matchday . Our top story of the mysterious managerial vacancy at West Ham United . The club has suddenly parted ways with the wonder kid , nathan Shelley . It's a shocker , jeff . Okay , so we open up with this .

Yeah , For sure , You're like wait what . Right .

And let's talk about the lead in , the lead in , for this was what , coach ? What's the last time we , what's the last thing we saw with the wonder kid Nathan Shelley ?

Oh shit , I'm sorry coach , no , no , no you know what I said ?

you know it's so funny . I said I shouldn't throw this to someone with ADHD because how the hell is he going to remember this ? I said we just recorded it the other day so he'll remember that , jade , that he got invited to boss , why don't you tell him ? Just freshen up coach's memory .

That was the girls at the bar , libby and whoever the other one , that it was the opposite , kelsey , libby , whatever , yeah , and he left strengths with Rupert to go to Jade . You had the idea about the orange of her apartment versus the green of the hallway .

They okay , got it . Yep , I'm back .

I just want to point out what an unfair advantage it is that people can remember things Right , coach , that's some bull shit right there .

Right . Sometimes my brain just is like yeah , no we , we , we erase that and I'm like we erased it , like that just fucking happened . What's going on ?

Yes .

Yes .

It's gone , gone Boss , can just , oh , at a moment's notice . Nope , let me quote back what you said about the thing you forgot . Okay , anyway , welcome to neurodivergent city . We're all , we're all friends here . So , yes , our top story is that Nate has left .

The champagne room yeah , but there's sex and this is not this is not a true problem . I'm a feeling there is sex in the champagne room , in this setting , where we shall see . Yeah , all right , yeah .

I tried to when I was watching that I tried to think of we're good boys , we try to be good boys . I don't know if we all will succeed , but we try to be good boys . Coach and I can't speak for boss , don't think she knows what that would be like Nope , like chaotic , neutral or something .

But I mean think of it in the context of like , excuse me , people will say , like I don't trust a man who doesn't drink . What the hell ? What are you talking about ? You know , you like I , yeah sure , great , if you drink , great , and if you don't drink , also great . Well , I , you know what do I give a shit ?

Yeah , I think it's pretty much wrapped up in a form of toxic masculinity that thinks of itself as being more upper class than other versions . Rupert is not going to get into a fist fight . That's not how he does his toxic masculinity . He does this in the version of we . I have earned the right to act in this despicable way .

It's a yes , that's right , you're a hundred percent right . Part of it , I know , is unfettered acquisition of assets , whatever those assets may be . Yep , you know what I mean . So it's like I think part of it is like I can get everything that we talked about this . I can speed when no one else can speed , I can . I can .

Well , I think that there's also an element of it that he believes everybody would act this way if they were able to and if you have the ability to and choose not to . It is because you are stupid , because everybody else will do this if they got the chance . Yes , you just obviously don't understand how the system works , I think was the look that he was .

But I'm with you totally that he has that . I also think , though , that underneath that , in an unspoken way , if you don't do it , you shine a light on my choice to do it .

No , definitely not . I think that it's the same way that when dirty cops take money or steal drugs or do whatever else , they need everybody on the squad to do it in order to make sure nobody can get it . Nobody's going to rat him out .

I mean , listen , listen . I remember I said I grew up with a guy who was a , who was a made guy , like he wasn't made but his family is made , but it was one of the tenets of business for him . He's like you got to get everybody a little dirty , everybody . You make sure you pay everybody . He's like you cannot get greedy .

There was something that people were saying online and the phrase is not coming to me , speaking of memory issues , but it was sort of like damn , it was like value posing , but that's not the phrase , but essentially , if you said you got it , you got it , boss , virtue signaling . There it is .

I had it too , yeah , boss .

So , so virtue signaling like that strikes me as like a version of what you just described , because it was like , let's say , I would say , hey , we should probably , like you know , stop cutting women off when they're talking and sort of listen to the whole sentence . And then it's like oh , this guy virtue signaling .

Well , in fairness , I , you are a fraud , definitely .

Like . I don't like . What are we talking about ?

Yeah , there's come on . And then , second of all , like cutting off women while they speak is one of the great joys of the patriarchy . So why would we ever right , boss , am I right ? So what I'm thinking about ? Oh , be quiet , boss . So thank you .

Nice job you , we did it , folks , we did it , we did it , yes , we did it we did it Right , totally in sync .

Oh my God , that was like a Vulcan mind meld boss , we need one of those alley-oop gifts just to somehow superimpose on the sound . Yeah , yeah , it's terrible , it's terrible .

Well , right and so well , at least all the elements leading up to it , right ? Well , we don't know that , we don't know what happened . All we know is he is no longer there , but they don't say Resignation , they don't say firing , they don't say he got hit by a bus . There's a job over at West Ham . Wait what ?

Yeah , but they parted ways , not how they parted ways and . I think the first time that I watched this I can't remember if I included in the rapid response , but I think that I thought Rupert must have fired him , that there it must have been a series of small things , and Definitely where I went .

Yeah , yeah , that's definitely where .

I think later in this I correct me if I'm wrong . We'll look at , we'll check the show notes . I don't think we'll get there today but I think in a couple episodes we're gonna get to the line where J Nate is lying in bed and Jade says oh are you sad that you quit , or something .

Oh yeah , no , no , no , he does . I'm saying at this moment yes in the show .

Yeah , I didn't think that we do . We don't know . We don't know at this moment . Okay , got it . I ain't too good with words , so I'm glad you clarified that . It's a shocker , jeff . They were having a great season ,

Rupert Manning is the brains behind this operation and in real time . Watching this I was like way to interview for the job like Un-bullied you know who's excellent ?

Jeff Bezos , yeah , but look nature , he isn't the reason . West Hammer in second place . I mean wonder , kid , come on , he was my kit man . For God's sake , I'm gonna .

I'm gonna jump on that too , in that there's a fair amount in this episode and some of it will get to in this and as we go through the rest around who's viewed how based on status . I mean that's throughout the show , but I feel like it is heavily in this episode .

Well , and it's also such a weird thing to say like , are you only supposed to give coaches coaching jobs ? Because at what point do you become ? What is the starting , what's the entry point there ? Maybe , it's not a man , but it has to be like . There needs to be a way of working off .

It's just that he is simultaneously Upholding this hierarchy that he believes in , because coaches are supposed to be coaches , while also denying that Anybody is supposed to start at the bottom of that and I love that you point that out because Specifically in coaching but I think we see it in all sorts of places and people Ruin companies and get hundreds of millions

Oh my god , yes , the coaches who ?

get recycled . It is infuriating and you're like oh my god , he has been mediocre . Three times We've watched him be three times over over 25 years .

He's getting head coaching gigs .

Yes , you know what I'll do . I'll just go hang out down in Alabama with Nick Saban for a year and then that puts the shine right back on me and then I'll be right back in the league fucking up some other team . It's unbelievable .

I love that . Yeah , this is a little bit inside baseball to international viewers , yes , but like no , no , no , no , no , don't be sorry , I'm saying I'm just gonna explain it . Nick Saban is a Multi , very decorated college football coach who I wouldn't cross the street to piss on if he were on fire . Nothing is a bad guy , but he's such a dud .

Alabama . There's not a lot of reasons people would say that like . Yeah , I grew up in a town where you would have a lot of similar reactions From the people around us , or Aurora , oh , okay , so . I'm not really not not trying to dog Alabama , but that is . It's one of the few draws I have to admit . I'm sorry . Alabama , I love you .

Yeah , there there are . Listen up , I've been through Alabama . It's great , the great people , or whatever , but it's like it's not exactly , it's not London . So so , yeah , it's I .

Yeah , yeah , no , it's , it's in there , though you do kind of feel , yeah , no , I get it he just has a way of baking it in .

I think and you know it's , it's , it's nauseating Ruben man is the brains behind the operation . Let's turn attention . Oh , it's funny . No , ruben man is the brains of the whole operation . If you watch this again , watch how Jeff goes . Okay , I was like Jeff , you just rolled over baby .

I noticed . I noticed it . Yeah , he it . When I took from it is . He was like I . I could respond to that , but this is soccer Saturday and we need to go the next segment . I like I don't like . I felt the gears go and he was like , yes , moving on we got to keep moving .

Yeah , I am .

I'm like , what if there's a talk ?

show right . What if there's a talk show where Orlando , coach , orlando's on the left side and Coach and then boss is on the right side . Okay , and Somebody in Hollywood dreams up like this is gonna be the best late-night talk show . It's coach and boss . I get fully fucking eliminated .

Eliminated . I love , even in your fantasy you get jerk thrown over . No , it goes .

Yeah , I know it goes for me and then I will someday look forward to being George Karchik and being like they were my fucking color commentary . Now they're the biggest thing in late-night . Don't fuck yourself . This is my dream , this is , this is our concern , dude .

I mean , I understand where you're coming from with that . I do need to say , though , the ideal Combination is actually going to be Amber Ruffin and John Oliver . They're already late-night pros , and I would watch them do anything for any amount of time , regardless of how good it was , because it would be oh yeah , no , they're amazing .

I agree with you on both fronts . Amber Ruffin , though , has perfected Something that I just like . There's certain kinds of comedy right that , just like that works for me , and there's something about fake Doide innocence , as the person says , the most outrageous shit you've ever heard .

We don't want to throw , we want to throw as much love as we can at Seth Meyers . But wasn't there a segment called like jokes Seth ?

jokes yes , yes , can't tell with Amber . Ruffin and Jenny .

Hey , yeah , yes , yes , thank you , boss . I love your encyclopedic knowledge of late-night sketch comedy . It is fantastic .

Still don't know my best friend's birthday with that I remember there's so much wrong with you .

You texted this to us the other day . Curiosity do you guys know your best friend's birthday and we're like , yes , duh and their kids , and you're like this couldn't have gone better for me .

Thank you , yeah , no , yeah , I was . I was texting with a friend of mine and she and I got into this hilarious discussion and I think I'd mentioned on the podcast before , but there was a woman .

I can't remember if it was a .

Twitter thread or if it was a stand-up or something . But she was saying that she knows two guys who also know each other , like they are friends and she is also friends with each of them . And the three of them went out to lunch when she was in town or whatever , to catch up . And she says to the one friend so how was the wedding planning going ?

You told me .

What is happening ?

But , we also . Yeah , I don't know , you did say this and I told you . This is very common . Yes very calm . So , like Orlando and Daphne , you'll be doing something . Orlando gets like oh , he had to get rushed to the hospital for his pancreas right . Daphne tells Juliana hey , just a heads up . Oh sorry I haven't called you , it's been real busy .

I'm like what yeah ?

why would we talk about that ? We were talking about fantasy football . That's stupid .

Yeah , no , I just that's stupid , I don't know . I think that I the reason I texted you guys is that I actually needed a group of men who were friends Like , not just couple friends . So I feel like that's also such a gender thing . But the woman will take over , be like , oh , this is when their birthday is .

Really .

Yes , I Want to point out . I Want coach to say I was offended .

Because , I was like is he gonna let this go by ?

No , we're side-stepping . Coach , coach , why don't you say can you read what your text ?

I'm pulling it up right now . So , boss , do you have that ?

in front of you . Can you read what the actual question was ? And then coach , I want you to read your response . Yes , for our listeners , and I thank you To all our friends , all our friends in Romania , all of our friends in Ethiopia .

We have friends all over the world . We're not doing a deep dive of our text threads .

So that's fascinating I just want everyone to hear what my life is Awfair so I said apologies for the random text , but I got stoned to celebrate the possibility of Mitch McConnell's demise . Yeah , that is what I did . It looks like he had some sort of seizure or stroke and I'm sorry .

To which I responded November 13th Jamal . December 9th , Demani . June 25th asshole and who's first ? Day was what's wrong with that ?

Who's birthdays , june 25th .

Here's . Here's the thing about that . I am a lot of things , but like I feel like the asshole on this podcast is boss .

Absolutely .

But yeah , no , that was , that was how and it took me a second . I must be getting old . I'm like , oh yeah , jamal , oh you bet , okay , yeah . And then asshole oh , he's got the same birthday as me .

That really happened anyway amazing .

Ruben men is the brains behind soul operation . Jeff says okay and also in the okay is I hope your job interview goes well . I would love to get you off this show , right . Right , let's turn our attention to the international break . National squad announcements are trickling in which players will get the honor of representing their country .

It was like Formality of it , or what do you mean ?

Does it seem Ted last week you like , just on first blush , you're fine with it , right Like that's .

It struck me as like he's doing a thing . I don't think . He generally says you know , we have , you know , eight victorious outcomes this season , but I took it .

I guess , like he's , like I don't care about you know , I don't care about wins , I just care about making these boys the best they can be , and so I'm like okay . So that was . Is that the is ? Have you now gotten onto the ? We should be winning train ? Is that what actually has beard successfully , you know ? Smack some sense into you .

Well , it number one . I think it might be indicating that they have won so many times that he needs to switch up how we saying it , so he doesn't want to come out every time I say Congrats on another win . The other thing about your . Does he actually not care about wins and losses ? I don't really care that much about award shows .

Oh , no , no , no , you look fine , but usually , like you usually start out , you know , like a corpse from a movie and then , as you get more and more tired , you get that beat red hue and I always get the like lingering sense that , like it's barely contained rage directed at me , sure , and so the redder you get , the more .

I think you're mistaking my Irish for rage , which is easily to understand because they are often the same things . That's not far apart at all .

But I don't get the no . I appreciate that I don't get the same cues from from coach , because he has he has black skin . Well , you know what I mean ? It's just , it just doesn't show that real . You know , I look at it , I can't tell anything .

It's like Usually , yeah , if I'm mad I'll start a right or some shit , you know right , yeah , I like that .

No , there's no knowing it's going to come . It's just pure calm , serenity , exactly .

And then I'm just spikily throwing a garbage can .

I've actually been in those rooms with your coach .

Yeah , okay , okay .

So Victoria's outcome . That's right . Oh , hey , quick reminder because they're breaking our schedule to international play . There's no game next week , all right , hey , look , kind of hurts my feelings . Y'all don't want to spend next weekend with me , if I'm being honest . But I am strong , silent type , so I'm going to like , going to let you know .

I think that's far more than a throwaway . I mean , it's a very Ted kind of like I'm just going now right , like I was just like where's the next vine for me to grab as I go through this .

I think that's great , coach , and maybe that ants in your pants sort of take on the non-platoing nature of continuing relationships is what ended up pissing me off with some of the late season storylines , where , because you're saying like , hey , listen , somebody needs it right now . Okay , now they're fine .

The sign off or the movie , because it was both .

Both what , what ? Yeah , say it up boss .

So the sign off . God . Why am I blanking out his name now ? I'm supposed to be the encyclopedic memory one , but the news anchor from the fifties . And then George Clooney did the movie starring David . What the hell is that guy's last name ? Is anybody Googling any of these things for me at the moment ?

Yeah yeah , david Stratham there we go .

Shit , I love him actually I can't believe I forgot his last name . Yeah , good night , good luck . The sign off that during the McCarthy trials Edward Armour , there we go , edward Armour

Oh my God , yeah , oh , it's amazing , it's here . It's fascinating to see when people had principles yeah Mild , yeah Crazy . So good luck to the fellows on our squad that have been chosen to represent their home country next week . Coach , who are we talking about ? And boss , what does Beard say ?

Just up the way at Wembley making his debut for England . Jamie Tartt Taking the plane to Toronto to play goal for Canada . Van Damme .

Yeah , he's got a plane ticket , here we go .

Who will be going up against Mexico and Danny Rojas ?

Yeah , so Canada is playing Mexico in the Conca Calf Final , in the Conca Calf Call of Fire , and so that will come into play Canada versus Mexico . Woo .

Okay , keep going . Bumpercatch , holding it down for Switzerland .

Yes , my guy , Wait , hold on , Bumpercatch . You're Swiss and Bumpercatch says what ? Coach ?

Sorry , I was checking something . Just throw it to me again . Sorry , I was overheating the doc . It just when you guys are like ah , ah , ah .

That's shit . I wish Luke just leave it in , because it was so great , his facial expression was so great , and sometimes I don't want to throw it to Coach because I'm like I don't think he's with us , I don't think he's here , I think they're gone .

I was searching the doc right then , but no , I'm here , let's do it .

Ted says wait , hold on Bumpercatch , you're Swiss .

Yeah , look at me .

And then Ted does I really do love this about Ted . I really like when and I think he's done this with Bumpercatch before this is like a very Bumpercatch , sort of Bumpercatch related response by Ted , because this also is like yeah , I chew my cereals or whatever . What does that eat my cereal without chewing ? In case there's a race war or whatever ?

class war .

I'm hanging around with Coach too , but goddamn race war on the horizon , class war .

Class war . He needs to save his energy .

Yeah Right , save his energy . And Ted says , oh yeah , you know , yeah , I get that . And so he says when you look at me , he's like , oh no , you know you're right . And there's also another one earlier . And what is it ? Does anyone remember ? God , this is like season one-ish , when somebody says something to Ted .

Just shouting at us right now .

They're rolladex at the scale .

But there's a moment where someone says something to Ted like hey , it's not quite the unpacking , it's not quite that early , but there's this , was it ?

the Akufo when he doesn't shake his hand , because he starts to tell Sam oh , he has a shake hands and then he does a whole , he gives Sam dat and then you see him kind of go like , all right , that's fair .

Wait , you see Sam do it or Ted do it .

Sam and Edwin dap each other up . So Ted has been told he does a shake hands and so he's kind of like all right , that's fair , I get it . You guys have a special thing going on here . You could just see him kind of decide to let it ride .

What was on Key and Peel ? Wasn't there that moment where Obama greets all ?

his donors .

And he goes through the line and it's like right Coach Walk is so fucking good .

Because he shakes hands . He's like hey Lou , how are you doing ? And he gets so black , he's like my man , and then he's going to get his hands on it . And then he goes there's like some black woman , and he's like come here , come on come on man . It's so good and so funny and it's obviously his comedy , so they blow it out . But it is kind of true .

It's funny because I never liked Dion Sanders , Never liked him . Prime , when he was fully on , the best cornerback shut down corn in the NFL . For those people outside the country who don't know the national football league , I just don't like a real show Bodie kind of guy .

I was going to say he is the prototype of what you don't like .

Yeah , no , I just plain don't like . I appreciate his skill . He is a . He was a God on the field . You could not beat him , you could not throw at him . He would punish you every single time . It was amazing .

Look how great .

I am now , but I remember once upon a time hearing he used to have this series of camps football camps , these clinics and he would make them I think they were even free or something Like you would just go and like little boys all over the whatever was like in the Atlanta area to start , and then it was whatever .

Like oh , that sucks Like that . And then I thought wait a second .

That's probably the only place in their lives at that time that anybody made them in the front row Prioritized yeah , right here , yes . And I was like , oh , my God , oh , and so for me . I'm like now I look back , I'm like , oh , good job , dion Center and now retro .

Hell yes . Hell yes , so what was ?

happening was she was getting jeered . The teacher says they were jeering her because she's picking all these kids that never get picked . She goes bam , I'll take the kid that . This kid's clearly on the spectrum and he's always picked last where she's like that's my number one draft pick . And the kids mock , jeering Like oh my god , are you crazy ?

You should be . That's why you should be . That's awesome yeah .

Isn't that cool . Nine years old .

That's great Hell yes .

Also , why the hell are schools still letting kids ?

pick out kids like that . Yeah , I mean it feels like , yeah , it's just Split them up , just split them up .

That's definitely the right way to do it . Yeah , no question . So yeah , bombercatcher , you're Swiss . Yeah , look at me . No , no , no , you're right . Yeah , all right , that's how we got into this . Was trying to figure out how Ted .

Is it the leftover rice you got to warm up ? And Danny says something about how he got diarrhea from it or something for a season , oh , I think Sam says he was throwing up , he was sick from both ends .

whatever he said and then Danny says the body really is a miracle .

Yeah , and Ted's like all right , all right , yeah , no , that is true .

That is true . The body really is a miracle . Oh , fucking Danny , so beautiful . Yes , that's exactly right . Yes , boss , thank you , great save . That is what I'm talking about . These little beats where Ted just goes OK , yeah , I'm like that is a good . Default response is to just go along with it Because you're not hurting anybody .

And what's interesting , too , is I've been back to watching these Stoke videos and all of a sudden that's coming up all the time . But one thing that they talk about you don't have to have an opinion on everything .

I'm certain I wish we had our Queen of the Buttercups here , jenna , who could tell us far better than I could with her 12 advanced degrees . Jenna , by the way , is down under , I think , right now .

Thought that that was it , Although God Whatever .

Listen , I'm gaming tonight , so I'm going to hear him fucking . Yeah , I'll talk , I'll report back . I'm sorry that I'm not up on this , but again , how could we be ? I can tell you how to tie your laces when you play soccer . I cannot tell you a lot about incels and modern takes on Dorita . So , yes , I don't know . Is it an OK answer ?

Wrapping Whales Colin Hughes , and then the locker room gassing everybody off . Let's go Boyle . And then nothing from Beards . Ted says . Is that it Beards says ? And that's it , which is the obvious . World gone mad because Sam's name was not called .

Yeah . Yeah , that's crazy . Sam's having the he's playing out of his head . Ok , all right . Well , let's go ahead and wish our friends safe travels in Godspeed or whatever narcotic your deity chooses to self-medicate with . I like that , Joe . You like that for Godspeed .

I like it . I did , I know , I knew , I heard it and I was like I'm going to be on an island , but I've got to be true to who I am . That one kind of made me chuckle .

Rest of y'all . See you on Monday . And now . This is just a stunningly beautiful moment If you go back and watch how Jamie treated Sam . Deriding him , mocking him absolutely is terrible . And he goes up says , oh 24 . Coach , walk us through this .

Oh 24 . They fucked you , man , I'm sorry . And Sam responds it's OK . Hey , congrats to you , though . And then Jamie's response is listen , you're good . Yeah , and he really wants to know if he's good . When he asked him that , I got the sense .

Yeah , I felt like it was similar to season one , when Keely goes to Rebecca's office and Rebecca doesn't know about newbacks yet and when Keely is leaving , she says you've got this , like you've got this , and if you don't , you can call me , but you've got this . So I think it was checking in and saying like are you good ?

Yeah , I love the element of it where it's not checking a box . We keep saying , oh , checking on you . We're using the term check a lot , but it's not like , ah crap , I want to celebrate , but this guy over here got screwed , so I have to go do this .

Oh , not at all .

It's not that at all . It is genuine .

This is all he has told us . So , yes , he has told us . Yeah , we know this , yeah .

He was destroyed by this information . And after Jamie leaves , we get a very rare view like a little shot of Sam going . Oh man , like just deflated and I don't say deflated , like really deflated is not the right word the look is what ? How would you describe it , boss ? What does that look ?

Pained , I think would be the best word for it that he really is upset about it that he would turn away before he would let anybody else see , because he doesn't want to ruin anybody else's mood . I think is actually the biggest reason why he wouldn't say anything .

But yeah , pain Awesome . I was going to say gut punch . So yeah , I think pain is a nail bit .

Hey yo , congrats , bro . Now we go over to to Van Damme and Danny , and Danny turns around . Listen , all you have to do . I'm not gonna go into a deep dive on this . I because I did it on the on the rapid reaction . But he is now team Mexico . He has Mexico . He has stopped At this moment , at the point of this announcement , he has .

Yeah , chapeau .

Mm-hmm , yeah , the El Chapo youth league for kids . Like whatever he learned on the mean streets of wherever the hell Danny's from . Do we ever find out where he's from , I believe ?

Guadalajara .

Yeah , it's up in the in the Christmas episode . There you go and your favorite speech from Higgins oh . Yes , yeah , thanks for bringing that up , coach . I appreciate that . So yes , I'm the mean , mean streets of Guadalajara , where he learned its killer be killed in El Chapos youth soccer league .

Number two it peaked with the movie urban myths , like there was the Whatever horror story movie that was . That came out after stream and I know what you did last summer and I still know what you did last summer , which I have to mention . When the Commercial for that came out I was sitting with I think I mentioned before my buddy Tim .

Last I still know what you did last summer before .

Yeah , it's fucking ridiculous and also a terrible movie . Just so bad .

These things would travel around just like word of mouth . It was fascinating what , what you would hear and whatever , and you'd get information this way . And then there was the onset , the age of information , and I remember I got I think it was in the Early 2000 , I'm gonna say 2006 , 2007 .

Yeah , we should , yeah , we should try dutch food , but in a way that was , it felt like an extension of that . It certainly was like a level of like rage that we hadn't seen , but it seemed very . It did actually seem sort of sweet in an odd way that he was like we should try the food from this place . This is where we are .

So I guess my , my thing is like , without being a boss pointed out in the rapid reaction , this is ranny dohas , which is pain , painful , um , but , but I really like . I was like , oh , christopher nandes , he's so great , he has , he has crafted with the writing staff , he has brought this performance to life of a guy who is . I mean , we were so enamored .

Just he gets to be this crate , totally opposite of what he normally is so this is what I was referencing earlier when I was saying very soon we're gonna get to really experience that we all contain multitudes , and I did think that this was teeing that up . That was sort of like be on the lookout , some things may happen here , um , so yeah , anyway .

I think there's also . I found it even funnier that van dam being canadian was what was being played up here , because God bless them . Yeah , I've only known a few canadians in in my life and it is very rare that the stereotypes hold up . Um , did I mention when I was in minnesota and my uh debit card was declined specifically in minneapolis ?

It was like , no , we're not gonna give you your money .

And the woman at the register goes and just makes that very small noise at me , a tiny little beep , and sort of gestures At the register , and I said , oh , is there , is there a problem ? And she goes and again makes a noise that I don't understand and gestures at it and I was like , is there a problem with the transaction ?

Other means of remunerating me , like I there .

It gets to a point where it's no longer polite . If I don't understand what you're trying to convey , I need you to say words , to tell me about what's going on in this situation . But she didn't want to be rude and say your card was declined , so she just Right right politely gestured at it and I was like , okay , well , I can't live here funny .

Yeah , that's a bit much , but that's a good great .

We were watching the women's world cup the other day and I love , uh , bev priestman , the coach of team canada . Um , and and uh , my son was like how are you not rooting for Nigeria ? Like you're a huge fan of the super falcons ? I'm like I am , I'm absolutely rooting for that . I love them , I want Nigeria to thrive and they got a huge , huge victory .

They are the best people . Yes , yes , yes , yes , yes , yes .

I've said this before . Yeah , you've done not on here , but you and I have discussed this the greatest people , I mean , oh my god , the best people in the whole world , and then , uh , samoans are number two and and then the canadiens number three . So you will never find me ever rooting against any of us , for in rugby , in fencing , nothing .

I had . I had there were several things , it's definitely . I felt like my sort of like Basic understanding of the game definitely had been impacted , like we've talked enough about it and the watch , you know .

That made me so fucking happy when he told me that .

I was dying , I was like shut up .

He's like no , no , it was just like Ted . You know the delayed response , but I was ahead of it , not behind . And and the coach also said he's like . Up until that moment I'm not sure I could have told you what offside was , but right there I was like no , that is a hundred percent , trust me .

I'm telling you , it was light , ted , like I feel like I've always been like , and then in that moment I was like , yep , there it is got it . So anyway , there you go . I'm , as a side note , I am enjoying the shit out of the women's world cup , by the way , like I'm watching recorded games , I'm like I am really enjoying this . Um .

I want you to keep an eye on . I love that and keep an eye on I . I could tell you who's gonna win Uh , because I can predict the future .

Yeah , yeah . So Nigeria beat Australia big . You know , it was clearly the way it was presented was a big upset . I don't know the world that well , but I got .

And I'm such a cheeseball it makes me so happy . I love I love that team so much . The super a shawal of the captain . She's pulled off her shirt when it was done . She's so jacked , she's so exciting to watch . She plays in the premier league . She's like a legend and and that is a that's a thing that will inspire every little Nigerian girl .

and like I remember on my notice , voice sounded like if he was standing behind me and said something . I'd be like Hola , like so clear Is that you ? Are you there ?

Uh , so , yeah , it's so powerful Samuel , don't fight back , fight forward .

I've thought about that in my own life , by the way , like I actually had . That's a line that I've kind of held on to , but , at any rate . So the theme music ends .

I'm thinking against . We're gonna wrap this up real quick this is one of those hour ones , mm-hmm .

Mm-hmm . Uh , boss , can you take it away here I can .

But that tone should tell you that this was not one of my favorite jokes .

Um so , after the you may infer from my hesitancy .

So Ted is in Rebecca's office and he says she . He says , uh , so you're telling me it only shows up once a month and she nods eating her biscuits , and it never skips a month and she says only if you're pregnant . And he says , hmm , well , look , shoot , I got to check out this wine delivery service . Sounds like a real corker .

Yes , he added a yes , so so All right . So there's a joke and a joke before . That joke was like wow , but I I don't know that I've seen this done exactly this way before because the the game of when you're writing a joke .

Coach , I have never heard that before and you have not mentioned it before , but I love that analogy of oh really of joke , joke crafting , that is . That is I'm gonna really I think about a deep dive . I'm gonna go to bed tonight thinking about wow , that is perfect .

I bet I can find an interview . If I find it , I'll send it to you . But yeah , it's pretty cool .

That's great , um so , uh , okay . So now we said boss , keep going . Did you hear about Nathan ?

Uh , did you hear about Nathan so that I did all right , he I sorry . She says , uh , did you hear about Nathan ? And he says I did . And she said what do you think happened there ? And he said well , boss , I'm like an incomplete list of meddling cons best films I ain't got no clue , which , on the back of the wine joke , feels Like a little too close .

I'm not sure that you agrees with you is what I'm gathering by his head cock to the side , like , uh , like a oh , no , no , no , I no , no , no , no , no , no no you were in . I okay , I couldn't tell .

Oh yeah no , no , no , it's not . It's not my , it's , it's a , it's a thinker . I ain't got no clue like it's it's like , okay , like whoo , but clue is so good and such a great movie and holds up so well and to the point where , uh , last time I was in LA I mentioned to one of our friends , our , our friend , pete coach .

Yeah , as long as I'm doing like history of comedy , I want to say will rodges by maybe messing that up . But anyway , one of the like the you know from way back , people said that porch is too big for that house . Yeah , yeah .

I .

Like I'm like that's exactly right . Like there's too many words , you gotta tighten that up . Like it seems silly . It seems like , but that's the joke . It's like but If you don't cut three syllables , that joke is going to bomb . I promise you isn't that crazy , it's nuts .

And then you and you go shut up , right shut . You don't know what you're talking about . The joke is perfect . Then you go up on stage and then you bomb and then you go home . It coached with like record all his sessions on stage . He's like it can't be true , it can't be , and then cut the three fucking syllables .

And they and they and you crushed the room and you're like that is impossible , that is not possible , but it's yeah , it's crazy .

It reminds me of , like I remember when it was once upon a time anything phil Collins made became a hit and certain comedians are like that's like , they just know the cadence . They know Jerry Seinfeldt for a long time , like could do no wrong , it just just a master , master of joke crafting .

Yeah , I mean this is the show for that joke . If anybody's gonna like that joke , it's gonna be this one .

Oh no , no question , absolutely right . This is , this is , this is the places to tee that up . Keep going , boss , please .

So he follows up and it ain't really none of my business anyhow . And she says , ted , look , I mean this in the nicest possible way , but you suck at girl talk . She says I , I know , I just don't like gossip . She says it's not gossip , ted , it's speculation . I've actually heard rumblings of an inappropriate workplace behavior over it . What , oh sorry ?

I think , I think coach has to do this line .

Yeah , yeah , so sorry , let me actually have been hearing rumblings of inappropriate Over at West Ham .

See excellent girl talk .

Okay . Sorry talk about the distinction between now go ahead , coach , you jump in , but I let's talk about the distinction between I Also do not like gossip , so I get I really get that , because it always feels like a finger pointy and kind of like shot . And Friday II I know boss is not with me on this because no , fucking no , she'll cut , cut a fool .

But fucking love gossip . Well , and I think also that there are very different ways of what we qualify as gossip and what is it . And I read something one time that , basically , once human stopped being hunter-gatherers and started being , it started farming .

like there can be ways where it's very destructive and mean .

But there can also be ways where it's just like what's going on with everybody ? If I ask after my friend's family , I don't think anybody's gonna be asking if that's gossipy . But if it turns out that her brother is getting divorced , that might be gossipy information , but I'm asking how she's doing . So I Think it could be taken a few ways .

I hear you on that

I love it . I love it .

So I get it , I get it .

Yeah , because I mentioned that it was gendered . I feel like a lot of women are able to have conversations about the stuff . Catch up , how is everybody doing ? What is going on ? Love of up . The biggest gossip queens I've known in my life have all been met Every single one of them .

That's great . I love well here . Here's in this exchange . I Think it's interesting that he talks about it as quote gossip , because it's both like it's it's gossip in that they know Nate and they know Rupert and they are personally connected to it , but also it's like another level of gossip , that's like why ESPN can survive .

I've heard . I've heard a categorize as soap operas from it .

Yes , yes , it's absolutely sports is just melodrama that appeals to every week and it's this one's revenge game and this one blah , blah , blah , and this it's .

Yeah , and also . But it's different to set up a narrative like the revenge game and stuff . It's like I mean like okay , yes , yes , but like I think we're just naturally sort of we will gravitate to Excellent storytelling as part of it , like , oh , these two teams are gonna play it .

I hear you . I , by contrast , had a and I'm just gonna go ahead and break a bunch of rules but I had a blog called the musings of a new millennium . Nigga , right around the turning of the millennium . I thought I just had so much fun with this goddamn . And the majority of the pieces started with first of all , fuck , fill in the blank .

Online it turns into outrage blindness , like , just like , okay , yeah , you have to be outraged about everything , yeah sometimes I read these posts and I'm like this is Give me a fucking break . That's not something to be outraged .

See excellent girl talk .

Right , hmm . So chaps , what do we think Nathan capable of being involved in something like that ?

nah , I like that . I feel like it harkens back to Higgins taken off for the red light district . Yes , with you know . Absolutely , that's great and I and you know like also , you know your people . Like a friend of mine said , like you ever hear I stole $20 , you know that's a lie .

So I I mean , he was like real incel douchey .

I get , I get what you're saying .

I go , I'm not saying like I see him that way . I mean , listen , it's a credit to the show . That again , we've already talked about this that Baked into the DNA of each character is a sense about what they would and what you wear their boundaries are right . And so even the characters in the show go yeah , he wouldn't do that .

Didn't get that . Like I got that he was making a Joke and I thought it was good to see like Rebecca has just grown so accustomed to the Ted lasso isms that she kind of like Just sort of flicks on the side she's making her way through a conversation . But I was like what ? Like it's got a lot that .

Big . No , no , let's talk about the DNA of joke crafting specifically with compound words . So this is what . What is the thing ? Oh , I thought you didn't like horse radish .

No , it's just horses and radishes , yeah .

I didn't love that . Same thing . It's they take a word . This is like when they're pressed for time . I don't mind those scuttle , but oh , that's got the word . But it , my butt , don't like to scuttle . Hey , there's a joke and you go wait . It's like whoa , just cuz you , just cuz you broke up the compound word Godspeed .

Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway ? It's like yeah , no , words are weird sometimes .

Yeah right , it is there that kawanky dinky kind of thing . You go , okay , but it's not , it's not . Do you believe in ghost Ted ? No , it's not that I will toss in , and that's the highest form of the art as far as that . That thing , yeah it has , like that , three meanings . It's razor focused or laser focused and you go oh my god , that's the .

a tangent to that is for me , is when people create acronyms for things so like the one that always makes me laugh is like basic instructions before leaving earth , right , oh no , how ?

Oh man , I gotta tell you you and I are from so far apart on this spectrum that it took me a good couple seconds to be like what is ? It's not NASA . What is so , when you're going to the moon , what do you need to ? Oh , oh , the Bible . Oh , I got it , that one , that kind of leave .

Yeah , yeah , yeah , my youth included a lot of Bible . Yeah , I find that a little shocking .

Yeah , you might be shocked at how little minded I think I know that I told you about my sister the big letter T . She has continued this tradition because her daughter I was walking around the neighborhood where my mom lives visiting grandma and I think she was four , maybe five , at the time . And the church bells start going off .

Wow , that's , that's .

No , that's a . David Hawking was a very impressive little boy , or whatever like .

Right right right , right right right so out of touch with . You know what I mean but whose church is exciting .

Mm-hmm , who's ?

church . Yeah , that's great .

Yeah , go on , leslie . All right , boss , take it away Edwin a kufo is back in town .

Apparently he's sniffing around about trying to create a super league of some sort .

And there's lots of reaction Mm-hmm , mm-hmm . We feel , we feel that and uh , yeah , I thought I , yeah , this was , yeah , this . There's a joke coming up that I'm kind of I'm cringing because I get tired of having to defend everything . But here we go .

Where did you hear this ? Well , rebecca , I am director of football operations and a bunch of us DFOs have a little jazz band we called the director of the bebop operations .

Hmm , there it is . I believed it , though I kind of worked because they would be those guys , that is what they would call themselves .

That is correct .

Yes , yeah , definitely , but it was , it was rough that you .

I'm not . I'm not saying that they should be Like executed for picking that name , but they should definitely . Yeah , they should be . You know when you like you what like you drown someone till right to the point where they when they expire . When they come up with that you go hold on a sec . Somebody . Can somebody start a bath ? That's funny .

It was yeah , yeah .

I love a pun and that . That was a lot , that was a lot and I love a pun , but Any reaction to the fact that we are two episodes , three , you know if we're in the middle of this one , but like two episodes remaining in the broadly publicized end of Ted Lasso and we're reintroducing Edwin a kufo , I didn't .

But I think throughout the season we've kind of had this Tension not like a tension between us about a tension between the choices where I think you have experienced it acutely , aware of the impending end , like , as you're experiencing the story that we're running , like I'm gonna run on a runway or whatever it is , and I think I'm I .

So , yeah , it didn't bother me , but given You're saying I was along for the ride you mentioned . Oh , this is like the end of a musical , where everyone gets to say one thing as they go out the door . You mentioned that yeah , I thought , that rapid response like it's this . It's like everyone take a bow .

That's . It felt that way to me . I felt like we found ways to get characters back in and we'll see some more of that as we're going on and people who had less impact than Edwin , a kufo as well , but I , yeah , I thought it had that Feeling to me of characters being , you know , given a an opportunity to take their bow .

Yes , I saw it . I thought oh my God , here's the thing . Edwin Kufo is great , I think of the three of us I was raving about his physical comedy . Sam Richardson , who plays Edwin Kufo , is , I mean , phenomenally broad . His range is astounding . I mean he can kind of do anything . That's the guy from Veep .

Yeah , Veep , man . What are we talking about ? How ?

is that the guy ? How is that ?

the same guy , yeah , yes . And then he's in those like oh my God , the mystery , whatever , Siri , oh after party . Yeah , after party I'm like oh , my like , wow , wow , he's brilliant , he's legit .

He's fucking legit , and so when he does , when he did like the out , you know out the door to punish Sam shitting on everything . And coach says this whole season's about shit . But I was impressed . But I was like , oh my thing , a super league of some sort .

Oh , yeah , yeah .

It would be cool to have a photo's leaked , kind of thing . Somebody says Brendan Hunt maybe says you know , when I was living in Amsterdam there was this guy's , la Tanne . I'd love to make it like a Zava character that you know what I mean . Somebody else says I used to work with the craziest bitch in the world and she had like crazy bitch energy .

It felt very much like an episode of TV when we had 22 episodes , seasons , like if this were a throwaway on scrubs it just so happens that Colin Farrell . they just posted some pictures of him at the actor strike showing up looking as Colin Farrell does . Incredibly good . Thank you for that , Colin , I really appreciate it .

Yeah , and this became from what we hear through the Great Vine .

Yeah , it's still number two .

Yeah , I saw that Are you there right now looking Coach , yeah , so this is a money wagon for them . They're not going to go and say , hey , you got to , what the fuck is this with these runtimes ? And he's like I don't know . He's like I may never get this again , so I'm going to just ride this fucking money train .

I also . Sometimes , when people do push boundaries , let's say as stars , I often , at the very least , try to remember that for every the famous one about what color M&Ms can be in that whole thing . There's part of me that gets that . Oh so when I was a fucking extra and somebody threw half a turkey sandwich at my head and that was my lunch .

Jesus .

Christ , you know what I mean . Like they're like , yeah . So they're like , yeah , now I've got the fucking . Like the rabbits got the gun . Like I think that's the feeling I get from some of these stars . And like the shit they demand is like , yeah , fuck you . Like this was torturous getting here . And yeah , now I want all orange M&Ms . That's it .

Coach , can you we've mentioned on the show before , but for anyone who might be joining us for the first time , or can you mention what you're talking about , the rider that accompanies Rock Vans Historically I think it was at Van Halen .

It was one of those Rock . It was at Van Halen . But yeah , bon Jovi , yeah , they famously had a thing about I think it was orange M&Ms , but at any rate you could only have a certain color , or there was a color you had to eliminate . It was pretty insane .

No , you had to take out a certain color .

Oh right , Because that would be even more no brown .

M&Ms or whatever . It was no yellow M&Ms . Whatever it was , it was and what was the reason behind it ? Was it because they didn't need yellow M&Ms , or what was the actual reason ?

I don't remember . Did we talk about this ?

on the show . Oh no , no , no , no , because it was an indicator to them whether the fucking people were taking them seriously or not , they'd go there and look at the M&Ms and go , oh no , whether they had their thing or not , you did tell me this .

You did tell me this . That's right .

So when we allude to that , that's absolutely right . When you look at the historic negotiations , I remember the cast of Friends banding together and being like we want a million bucks an episode and that was like I'm fucking hurt , like a million each . Yeah , are you fucking crazy Like . You know what I mean and they got it .

They did get it .

Can't do the show without it , and so , yes , in this case , very , very rare for people to have this kind of power , and so they exercise it , and then we can analyze whether or not it was actually the execution of it was successful .

Oh really , I was sure that that was going to be a source of anger . It was a shrug for me .

But yeah , no , I didn't mind it . I was like , OK , yeah , I was . Yeah , ok , justice League . And he says , god dang it , yeah , I am . Super League is one of the world's biggest and wealthiest . Ok , so now it's just straight exposition and you just go . Ah , god damn , they used to once upon a time , ted Lasso , there was possible again , again .

No , I don't think that you are . I actually rewatched the pilot . Oh , oh oh . Just the other night I rewatched part of the pilot In order to confirm Coach Bishop was right about Ted sitting down and there being a shot from behind . It's a little off , soldier , but yes .

Yeah , did you see that , Coach , like the shot of Ted blacking from behind ? You actually were right about that . You were . It wasn't the same center shot , it was off the side , but he definitely was black , like he was not lit in the back . Well , all right .

There you go . But so I did watch a second of that in order to pull those pictures , and I feel like not only was all of this handled a little more elegantly in a lot of ways , but Ted himself was less jokey at the time .

Yeah , and there's an inherent challenge to pulling off a one hour drama . You know , like we were on a little hiatus and I was stuck .

Chicago Home . Oh , jesus Christ , yes , not even I will do that .

Oh God no , and you're the least favorite daughter of Chicago , correct ? So , yes , I would think that might be in your wheelhouse , but not even that . But the real one that they're hitting , the one like the can't miss was Blue Bloods . Ever see Blue Bloods ?

Castle .

Tom .

Selleck Castle , you cannot . So every Saturday morning when I go over to the boyfriend's house and hang out for the weekend , he is usually on his computer doing something . He plays on a computer .

Oh my God , yeah , it is . Donnie Walberg is a key component . There is a I don't know the actor and I'm fairly maligning him , but there's a grandpa character like the old , old , whatever guy , the Tom Selleck's dad who just choose scenery and spits out nonsense .

I'm so far left .

I'm falling off this side of the world , compared to whatever the fuck this is . And anyway , you're watching this and I go oh , ok , so this is comforting , this is I see what . For me it felt like kiddie roller coaster rides at a amusement park . Before you could ride the big roller coasters , you could get on the little roller coaster and it was predictable .

That's a good point . I just want to toss in quickly the triple Lindy is not a real thing . For those of you who are like the what , that is a back to school reference . Rodney Dagerfield's dive in back to school , a movie I used to love .

Or I guess I still love it .

I just haven't watched it in I'm sure , 25 years . But yeah , the triple Lindy . For those of you who are like the what oh , of course I appreciate you clarifying that , Coach .

That's awesome , Rodney Dagerfield . By the way , talk about a joke . You want to talk joke construction .

Oh yeah , no .

Holy shit , joke , joke , joke , holy shit . Like , like , like a god like a god , If there's a comedy heaven he's just sitting with his feet in the pool , going like no this is how you do it . I don't get no respect . Seriously , I don't get respect , just a tremendous , tremendous machine of joke .

There's a clip online of him just killing on Johnny Carson . Like he's on the couch , they're theoretically having a conversation but you just know , like Johnny's just like I'm going to toss you this and then you're going to just go , I'm going to touch you that and he is crushing . Like even Johnny is like kind of out of breath laughing .

Or had a million jokes .

Yeah .

If you ever find that , please share it . I can watch him all day and like some of it's off color now it's a little bit , you know , some of it doesn't hold up , but still , from just a structural perspective he had , he had talk about joke construction where you have to go off there , hit the cliff man .

Super League is when the world's biggest and wealthiest teams decide to compete against each other . So not only would David never face Goliath , but the Davids would cease to exist altogether .

Right yeah , which sucks balls , and anybody that wants to do it should be shot into the ocean by like a giant . Barnum and Bailey cannon . It's just shitty , it's all yeah .

It's everything that we're about to hear , which is it's everything that , rupert would you know what I mean Like . It's like hey , we're the haves , even amongst the haves , we're the really really haves . So why don't we that's like god guys , like , is it never enough ? Is it truly like ? Is it actually never enough ?

I forget . One of you guys , I think , quoted it to me , or maybe I don't know . I thought we referenced if you watched the Animal Kingdom and one gorilla hoarded all the bananas and then every other gorilla was starving you would say like there's something seriously fucking wrong . But with humans do it . You put them on the cover of Forbes .

of the scene here . Sure , wow , you know , I wouldn't be surprised if Rupert was involved in this . Rebecca says , and as she is saying that to her cell phone buzzes , she goes ah , speak of the devil . And then actually turns her phone around and it does say the devil , which is great .

I like that . I believe that , by the way .

And she said it was Rupert and Ted goes . Oh sorry , ok , I thought it was the actual devil . For a second , ok , yeah .

I like it . That reminds me of like the . That was reminiscent of like oh , if we meet in our dreams , you know , let's put me . I actually actually prefer this Ted Lasso , that actually might think it was the actual .

For me . For me it , yes , and it reminded me of I talked to the owner of the sun , you talk to God , like . For me , I thought it was that kind of like , oh , absolutely . Yeah .

Yeah , yeah , for sure , that was like the book Actually this is . This episode is so chock full of references we talked about this in the Robert response it is so so many bookends like they're closing so many knots it is just tying up the loose threads . So you just go , man . But yes , that that is a one for one pairing with you .

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I was like where is he going with this ?

That's probably . It is me in the salt mines , literally pickaxe hammering in the salt mines and then with fucking daiquiris like sitting on lawn chairs , just making fun .

Everybody knows the salt mines are how you make a podcast . Obviously that makes a lot of sense , Jesus Christ .

That's great . While we're on the topic , I did have a couple yellow M&Ms , so good , good , good . Pay attention next time .

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