Ted Lasso | S3 Ep12 "So Long, Farewell" - RAPID RESPONSE

I'm going to need that today , coach . I'm going to need you to cheer me up a little , and with us is , of course , our boss , emily Chambers .

I feel like writers never really get that right .

We broke every record that we had ever made for ourselves . It was sort of stunning how many people are tuning in And we really appreciate that . We welcome everybody in the spirit with which we started this podcast , which was from a place of just absolute admiration , and we were blown away right out of the gate .

Coach Bishop will tell you that the minute he saw Ted doing the running man for the Wichita State Shockers , he was hooked , absolutely hooked , and that Scott Van Pelt little sort of sort of news piece in the pilot . And how far we've come since then , coach .

Ted Lasso , and then , of course , we have And then there's me .

I think Beard After Hours is an incredible our-ish of TV , and I think the remainder of the show has moments of beautiful joy and also issues that I don't shy away from because I am the anti Ted Lasso in some ways , and that I'm going to look something directly in its face .

One of my favorite sayings from one of my favorite podcasts is put the tiger on the table and yell at it , and that's what I'm going to do . If there's a tiger in the room , it's getting yelled at by me .

That is not today's show . Today we are going to blast through the roughly 30 odd scenes of the one hour and 15 minutes Was it one hour and 16 ? or one hour and 15 ? Anyway , over by about an hour , yeah , hour and a quarter or so of the Ted Lasso finale , which is actually a finale , which is this there's no season for a coach .

this is a tight , three tight , three seasons tight and quotes for boss who I know is going to win , sat me But but yes one could say the same about our blasting through , but for those of you who are new , you can go ahead and sit down .

I can't speak for everyone , but I know for me it's been incredibly rewarding to meet so many wonderful people around the world And in a time that has been , there's been a shroud over the world in many ways , in many places , for many reasons , and this has been uplifting to be part of a community that is so in search of something beautiful .

And it's been an honor to to help walk everyone through this . It's been an honor to work here with Coach and with Boss . This is not the end technically for us , because we are . We are behind on our deep tides And so we have to do a bunch of catching up . But I will say I know coach wants to jump in .

I will say that I'm terrible with endings And this is an ending . This is an ending of the show . This is the final episode And in that way it has really cut me to the quick And I am . You're going to definitely hear my voice waiver today And you're going to hear .

I've asked coach and Boss to please jump in because this , this was a , this was powerful for me And especially when I rewatched it , it hit me so hard the second time . And anyway , i wanted to say thank you because I think it's important , coach .

And .

I've been more like thoughtful and contemplative , and I would make the argument that part of why this isn't the end in addition to the fact that we've got some deep diving to do , some of which I'm really looking forward to is because , just like Richmond and just like Rebecca , and just really like Ted and beer and everybody we see I mean come on , trent Crimson

like waving his blazer , like a helicopter This where I feel changed , like I actually like it's not every day . I feel like I watch something on a television screen and feel like I've been impacted by it , and this time I do so I don't .

I don't know that it'll ever feel fully over to me , because it feels like , oh , there was how I went in the Ted Lasso and how I was seeing even how jokes can be told and why jokes are told .

And then there's sort of coming out of Ted Lasso and feeling like , oh , wow , really just went through a thing , some of which was like reflecting stuff I'd been feeling but hadn't found a way to say yet or articulate yet . So , yeah , i feel like you know that we are . I am forever impacted by this experience And these conversations .

back at Matt Burningham when he's singing at the National And when you have to sob in front of like 2,500 people at the auditorium because everyone is singing Van der Lye , crybaby geeks , it's just a different experience . You save it all up and then you spray it all over strangers .

Gradiaris Firmus , victoria taking small steps towards victory , and this show has done that . It's been a privilege And you know , coach , it's funny thinking about the things in your life that can make you cry just knowing that they exist .

We find out basically in this scene the title come down to the last game of the season and that Rupert Manion has been accused of sexual impropriety by his former assistant shocker .

I didn't understand why this affair was somehow worse than the affairs he had on Rebecca , other than the fact that he just keeps having affairs left and right .

it looks like his karma is coming back to to bite him in the ass , which one of the reasons why people play video games is you can level up , you can predict , you can level up , you can get to a thing . If you do the right thing , the right thing happens and it feels safe and wonderful to have that dynamic .

And in this world where so many terrible , terrible people seem to getting ahead and you go , what It is , it is rewarding to start out with a scene where at least some karma seems to be active . Now we go to Rick is so beautiful , by the way Hannah wanting him just sitting in a kitchen . I'm like God damn , what a , what a stunner . Right , You just go .

Jesus Christ , That's not , that's not allowed , That shouldn't be , shouldn't be fair . So we then walk . we get a shot of somebody walking into the kitchen . Who is that boss ?

no , i just envisioned myself having to show up here this morning and face boss with Ted and Rebecca having become a couple And I really it was like no , no , you make me work too hard .

Then , of course , another person enters and he thinks oh my God , if you're being bamboozled at this point . You think , wait , rebecca , ted and and beard like that . And what is a beard wearing in this boss ?

Nice , i'll need to go back and review , but all good stuff And he's wearing a thong is the other thing t shirt and a thong .

I don't know , the maid walks in the maid . I don't know if that's the . is that a appropriate term is made , a term we use anymore ? I don't know .

I know I've mentioned community a lot , but it was more end of the show Professor Chang than beginning of the show Professor Chang And I'm like these are . One is a character , one is a caricature , which I didn't love .

not the first time he's worn it And not the first time there's been a shout out to women's pro soccer team and much to coaches delight my speaking in the third person . and see , i mean I'm telling you there was a moment where I was out of my seat regarding women's soccer , but we'll get there .

Yes , yes , you knew I would love that , right , you knew I would like freak the fuck out .

to roll . The only thing crazier than how much you give boss is how much she enjoys you give her .

When I was sitting , juliana was was working next to me on her laptop and was kind enough to sit with me while I watched the episode . It dropped at midnight in the east , which I think was a huge . We'll talk about this later But I think it was a critical error on the part of Apple TV plus . I don't know why they did that . I think it's .

I think it's Gallipoli bad Like . I think it's a blunder of seismic proportions , because it meant half the country couldn't stay up to see it , and then today they're going to get spoiled , but before they even get home .

It's like I have no idea what the what the thought process behind it was , but I thought it was a very , very poor choice , and so , anyway , i stayed up to watch it , and but I didn't want to be alone Because and Juliana knew I was going to be destroyed .

So she was lovingly sat on the couch with me , her feet across me , as as she typed on her laptop And I was watching . And right away you get this . Oh my God , this moment where Nate is the assistant . Well , okay , we have a court court scene . We can't get into it too much . It's more of a deep dive thing .

I make noises sometimes when I'm watching , get so into it And I make these very conflicted noises because Juliana says you know you're making these , you sound like you're having a real conflict when you watch this .

And I said yeah , because I'm not watching just by myself , i'm watching with all the people I know are going to react to this and how I'm going to talk about it in the podcast . And you know , i know who's going to hate this . I know who's going to hate this . This harken back to the Isaac Hare cutting scene And I know who didn't like that .

You know it's like this very stage . You know , sort of set PC kind of thing in the writer's room . It sounds amazing And if it works , you love it . And if and if you're the type of person who is looking for like a more authentic , and I knew right out of the gate .

We started with Terry Henry And I was like , even though it's a nice little soccer knot , i was like it's not the , it wasn't . He's not a fantastic actor , so it was a little . I thought it was a little dangerous way to start . But okay , fine , right away , as soon as you get back to Rebecca in her kitchen .

Hannah Waddingham was a standout performance And I'm going to talk about it . On the deep dive war And I'll talk about it , allude to it this time as well . Her reactions . I thought I was just blown away by her , by Nick Muhammad , by Anthony had .

There were certain performances in this , in this episode , where I was like Jesus Christ , like they are keeping me in the emotional center of this .

there's a series of finds that are handed out . Nate , we find out as the assistant kit man . there's an office reference where he corrects assistant to the kit man . We have this , this beat where each Sam reads things , people , people you know Danny and Jan Maas and people are fined .

all the proceeds go to the final party And we have a beautiful moment where the , the Nate character , goes up to Jamie And we have this callback to when he went there and Jamie was a dick in season one and put gum in the box that Nate had made . And this time , instead of gum , what does he add ? coach ?

You just go wait , how and then , and then to see Nate's reaction to that like he's like just sort of blown away And in a parallel where you can't have a better response to the thing . When they mocked Jamie in the total football video and he yelled I was robbed or whatever . Right When he lost Love Island , they say 5,000 pound fine for Nate .

That is a tremendous amount of money and Nate shrugs it off . It was for missing every game , every practice , everything , huge , vast fine , idiot fee for having left the team in the lurch . And he says yep , makes sense , you got it . Like no , no problem . Which means that the party at Olas will then have an open bar and live karaoke .

I was hoping for a glimpse of that because I really wanted to hear Rebecca sing again , but I know , i think they knew we were going to .

But I think Olas because it might be my favorite character on TV in the last 12 years And I just you just don't get a lot of good dads and and Olas was a beautiful , beautiful , just a beautiful character . But yeah , then we move on to Keely coming into the parking lot and AFC Richmond And then what happens in this scene ?

very quickly , boss , it's not a whole lot here .

But but she walks in past him , greets some people and leaves him standing there , which I thought was interesting , visually real , real wide shot , which is similar to Ted in the airport where you get that really sort of sense that he's alone in a thing , but he was not destroyed the way Ted was , but he still was alone And and the shot choice made you made

you feel that Now we cut to Ted in his office and coach . Really quickly blast us through the little beats of this scene , please .

Luckily he has triple citizenship , which I thought was hysterical , including the Vatican , which for an atheist that's got to be a great story .

I just remember it was like very uniform , yeah , anyway , i don't know if that's just Yeah , good call .

He gets offered for a diamond dog's meeting , turns it down pretty flat , and then we have Beard start reading Trent's book and immediately giving a vocal note , including derivative , overly prosaic , i can't imagine . He's out of the first paragraph .

I have taught myself just to not be anywhere nearby when people are reading something I've written , because every exhale , every sniff , anything they shift in the chair . You're looking for any signs of whether it's brilliant or the worst thing ever written . So I thought Trent getting out of there made a lot of sense . That was pretty funny .

He was just like a guy doing the best he can . Instead of once upon a time looking for the negative in everyone , Trent , like everyone else , has gone through a metamorphosis into a better version of himself . We are now cut up to the off . I will say also , it's important that Roy was like no , no , no , no , like fuck the diamond dogs , No .

And Beard has the little thing where he's like oh , so close , We almost felt like we almost had him there . We go up to Rebecca's office with Higgins and Keely . They're asking her about comments about Rupert . And man , we nailed this on one of our deep dives where we said , once she gets past , how can she get past him ?

And we talked about how , if she was able to really choose to not be with him , as opposed to the way it ended , it would empower her and give her more agency . And man , she is so past it , it's crazy . She's just like I don't give a shit . It was amazing , just like we said .

You hear that old trope the opposite of love is not hate , it's indifference . She is just like whatever man And like I got . And we see this later with her when she greets Rupert before the West Ham game . We'll get into that very , very quickly . She asks oh no , no , this is Higgins suggesting .

So anyway , she doesn't give a quote to Keely or Higgins , healy or Kiggins . And so Higgins brings up the doing his job , stunning at a boy , higgie baby . He says Hey , listen , now's the time . Now's the time , sister , you can sell off 49% of the team . You can make a little change . And Rebecca says what to that boss ?

I have a lot of love for the people who really wanted to see Ted and Rebecca together . You beautiful , beautiful , hopeless , romantic , hopeful romantic . I get where you're coming from , because I tend to be the same kind of person . I didn't see it on this series the way you did , but I can at least recognize that you were fucked with . Oh yeah .

I ultimately , I think my gut was a lot closer to where boss is than I had let myself admit And I'll just , without going all the way into , just say I have some of as one friendship in particular , I have a woman I've been friends with literally for 40 years And we could not be any closer other than Daphne and my sister , like nobody in the world , I

think , knows me quite as well , Like she knows every story , every girl I liked when I was 13 . And yeah , I think there's . We've talked a couple of times about not valuing male , female friendship in the shipping process And I thought this was a good place to honor that .

Like I know we fucked up and we killed the most beautiful thing in the world , but here's a bevy of possible choices for you to and when the show finally ends , it minimizes automatically And then it starts counting down to show you , platonic , the new show that they're pumping . And I clicked out of that with such hatred in my heart get the fuck up .

I was like I am not , like I am still in full emotional breakdown And you're going to try to paint me a show . I'm like get that shit . I'm like I want to hear the music till the end . I want this to go black , like my soul right now and feel the loss and absorb the whole thing . I don't want to watch . You sell me something , are you out ?

You're damn right . I'm like what ? That is crazy . But I did say yeah , go ahead . go ahead , boss . Yeah .

I want to let's compartmentalize these a little bit and try not to cross the streams .

Anyway , yeah , it was important And I think ultimately people will look back at the Ted and Rebecca relationship as a really really strikingly beautiful example of a male female relationship that didn't even remotely need any sexuality to it , because it was so pure and honest and kind and giving and loving in every possible way .

And let's not forget , we have friends out there , the world across , and some of our listeners who have written in to tell us on this podcast listen , I'm asexual and I don't view the world in those terms . Yeah , I'm glad that all you monkeys want to jump into bed with each other all the time .

It's not my jam , So you know , i think it might have done a disservice in the long run . But anyway , we see this moment here where Rebecca is possibly Higgins values the team at spit ballon . $2 billion to which Rebecca , we get a little spit up of her tea and and the third , fuck me .

, damn . Okay , love it , jesus , all right , yeah , she's rich , she's rich rich .

I'm going to send it over to coach and coach Tell us Yeah , boss is thanking me and nodding . Yes , it's the right choice , take it away , coach .

So you get that feeling . Then we get whistle , whistle , which you know , great , great to have that curtain call for that element . And as we think we're wrapping things up , actually we've put together a sound of mute . the team has put together a sound of music .

musical number will almost lifts a boombox he's having a little trouble with the weight of the boombox , which made me laugh And we full on sound of music . So long , farewell , alveda Zane . Good night .

And if you would know that this scene would hit me in a particular way , because I've once played Kurt in the sound of music And , it's true , in middle school , i was Kurt Von Trap , i was Fah . Oh nice And so , yes , i was laughing as this came up , like could they figure out one more way to pull me into this show ? Like what the hell ?

But yeah , so they do this great bit . We can describe it in much more detail later .

But we end with , and , as people are saying good night , they walk by the coaches almost each time , or maybe each time somebody touches Ted , which I thought was like a nice touch them not all doing it , but somebody did it And then we end the musical number with essentially the team facing Ted , with the crowd that now we're training .

We have , you know , our own crowd And they say they sing the last piece of good night And we have a beat . Both are obviously very much moved . Beard , i believe , wipes a tear And Ted says thank you , fellas , that was perfect . At which point they make the post by by by celebration look like a funeral .

They go absolutely berserk , everyone , the crowd going , and once Trent Creme waved his had his blazer off and was waving it over his head like a helicopter , pd Pablo style . I applauded , i did in my house , i put my hands together and was like I am so here for this .

Yes , so yeah , i really , i really leaned all the way into that , listen there's precedent for this .

Boss is giving me stink eye right now , but they do , boss , in places where people find happiness , find happiness and joy and community There are .

You tell me one instance outside of a church or a theater , where a group of people sporadically get together to do this because we tried it as a society for a little bit And those were called flash mobs And they suck . Other than the very first one that God damn it , dj , whose name I'm forgetting about right now . Praise you .

I got to celebrate you , baby .

I just want to say I want to say I was , i was playing for , for playing soccer with a team from the United States at a , at a , the closing ceremonies of the Gothia Cup in Sweden , and there were 30,000 people there , teams , players , coaches in the stands , and they played Whitney Houston , greatest love of all and everybody spontaneously held hands from all ,

the , all the teams , all the players , everybody grabbed

it . I was in , i was in there , and we all sang along . I'm just telling you , i've seen it , so it's , it's , is it ? it did it . The key element , though , is did it capture what you were hoping it would capture , and I think the answer is not in this case .

This is not a case of me being unaware of what they have to offer . It is me disliking it .

What we'll do is get back to the team freaking out , which I loved when Ted said thank you , fellas , that was perfect . When he said perfect , that's as good as you . You know they've been practicing . You know everybody's been in on it . You know that they've been like , when the music started up , beards , like what the fuck is going on , what is you know ?

like we just want this practice to be whatever it is , and , and and you know that'll be it , and this is a this was a fitting gesture . The team clearly thought what does the situation need ? And what it needs is a musical number , because Ted and Beard are both huge fans of musicals , unlike some of the key members of this podcast .

And then now , okay , i feel I haven't . I haven't heard this yet , but I feel like I will eventually hear Keely got short shrift in this episode . I , i haven't heard that yet , i haven't seen it yet , but I feel like there may be an element in the future where it'll say like we didn't get enough Keely , didn't get enough resolution with Keely .

I know people are already complaining about Keely's relationship status , but we'll get to that really quickly . I will say that what people may have missed was in the production meeting and in the planning of this episode . They said we are going to feature Keely in the beginning of a , the I think the longest tracking shot that they've done on this show .

It was two minutes and 20 seconds long , and if it blink and you miss it because you may have just been like recovering from the singing and not recognizing , they didn't cut . There's no edit . There is Keely walking down hiding to Trenton Nate presence for coaches . This is all rolling . One shot a study cam following her going off of .

You know she does the thing everybody decent . A complete throwback to her very first entry . I mean that is that is powerful stuff . But but instead of just being like the person who makes waxing appointments for Jamie , she is now being like okay , boys , here's what you have to do . She's like she's in charge , She's a boss And that is a .

That is a powerful reminder how far she's come . We have Jamie do like a little axe body spray thing . She goes out the back door . He comes , he pivots out the front door , catches her . She's going out the the exit doors there , talks about Brazil Nike wants to pay him to go to Brazil and he held out to have his publicist with him .

And she first jokes and says no and then says yes . Meanwhile , while this is happening , we're behind them framing Roy Kent walking towards them .

Keely leaves , jamie leaves , we stay on Roy , then we follow Roy And when you watch this shot again , if you didn't notice that you're going to be impressed , you'll be like God damn , that is no joke to pull off that type of filmmaking . Roy walks in , offers to have a beer with Jamie , who's like well , i thought I couldn't have beer .

No , no , you're with me . It's an exclusion . It makes it up as it goes along And cool , sweet , to which Nate rolls up and says well , you guys are friends now . And yeah , jamie says , yeah , we're , we're friends . And then that is two . From the third . I attracted two minutes and 20 seconds And I did the math , folks , to get me to do math .

It's a big deal .

We talked about it . Heading into this , we knew this was going to be the case and tell us about Rebecca and Deborah .

He's just moving back to America , which I thought was funny , because I don't know near that farm might as well . I'm sure that these two will be in each other's lives for a while , but it does feel like a death when he is moving that far away .

There's also a follow-up with Tish where Rebecca says she's so fraught and is praying upon people for their money And Deborah says she said that you would say that , and this is something we're going to need to deep dive a lot , because everything that Tish said to Rebecca comes true , which means number one .

I stand by my point that I don't understand why we're following a team of footballers when there is a literal , actual psychic in town . Why isn't the show about her ? How are we not getting more information on Tish ? Why is she not in this episode ? It's fine , we can figure that out .

And the scene ends with Paul Bas and Jeremy paying the bill and having a little talk about how Rebecca is like the mom they never had , which is a lot of things to pack into one goodbye scene , yeah no , it was The thing we said .

this . I was just talking to my kids the other day . I'm doing a ton of renovation . If you go on my Twitter thing you can see I'm posting some of the stuff I'm doing . I'm trying to get my house ready for my daughter's graduation and I can't afford to pay people , so I have to do it all myself .

Luckily , i have the know how to do it , but I'm trying to train my kids to do it with me And they're just like they can't , they can't And I'm like God . I wonder if it is true that each generation just gets softer and softer , and maybe that's the way what they're alluding to here with Deborah and May . I don't know , but I was like , yeah , i remember .

Yeah , whatever , we can talk about how you could have one income and raising a family of six on one income back in the day , but anyway , boss , what are we going to say ?

I played on Like this weird habit of generations to be like we're so much tougher than the generation that we are raising and responsible for their level of toughness . We are going to brag about our own toughness while also guaranteeing that our children have it easier than we do , but we're somehow still tough . Every generation does it . It's bullshit .

Every fucking time It like different things change . Nothing is objectively easier or harder , it's just the shit you deal with .

So , instead of me saying to my kids , like , what the fuck guys Like , like , can you get to work , like , i'm like , ok , i'm trying to be curious about it , i'm trying to say like , and then they're curious back . So I was telling them a story one time and I said you know , i was a little kid , it was about your age .

We're going to the thing and we had to swerve around something on the road And of course , you know , all four of us are crammed into the right side of the backseat . And because the swerve , and my kids like wait , what about your car seats ? I'm like no , we didn't know car seats , you just had a big bench seat .

Whatever you take a turn , everybody would just they're like , what ? Like ? so it's crazy . But they're also not being judgmental , because I'm not trying to make them feel lesser than and then you know , concurrently they're , they're more curious than they are judgmental about it . But anyway , now we get , we cut to one moment .

I really think it's important , this beautiful scene with Paul Baz and Jeremy paying the bill for Rebecca . I thought it was very powerful , a very , very powerful statement and beautiful And , i think , influence something that happens later in the show .

Like oh , yeah , yeah , yeah . And for those three who to choose to say no , no , no , we are going to pay the , the lunch tab for a literal billionaire to express our gratitude .

Yeah , that I'll touch where I want to go at the deep dive , but I think gratitude is a way to show love And I think that that was the height of their showing gratitude , gratitude .

I would say again , one of my many , many , many sort of bull Durham moments . In bull Durham , this crash and nuke , who are both after the Susan Surrounded character played by any Savoy , and that's always interesting to have characters . If you love all three characters , a love triangle is interesting If if you love all three characters , which we do anyway .

This is an example of these guys working out their problems , at least initially , through through talking , and I was like really sort of charmed by Jamie saying no to Roy . There's like if it's not official , then no , and I was like laughing . I'm like , oh , this is such a .

This is growth for both , for both of Roy was addressing it And I don't want to see you get hurt . I really do believe he means that on some level , but also trying to protect his , his sort of stake is claimed to Keely But Jamie is felt empowered to be like no , it's not official .

Oh boy , the police on it from home . It was like it was . You know what it felt like . It felt like the moment in season one where Roy and Jamie have already been going at it on the field And we go into the locker room he says call me old one more time .

Like it had that level of because I've been there and it's not the best of manhood , frankly , but where it's like , this really actually is not a thing to fight over , but I can't be the one to back down to . Either you're going to back down or there's going to be a fight here . And it really doesn't matter .

Once you reach to , like what I saw there was , once you reach that point , it doesn't matter whether you're arguing over a penny or a billion dollars or who gets to be with Keely , like , if you don't back down , there's going to be a fight . I'm there now And I watched two .

You know , fundamentally alpha dogs decide that this was that moment , and I just kept praying . Yes , one of them would Ted Lasso out , but Well , listen , coach .

The insults that they default to when it starts to get hot are verbatim insults from season one , where he calls them a child and then it's called some Harry . He says you're a fucking child . Like you can't , you're not destined to be a keely , you're a fucking child . Right .

You're in real trouble , roy Kent , and we see him flexing his hand as we cut away like making a fist And I was like , oh God , these Dummy as far as we've come , But I think that's real , though right , Like I mean , I'm not .

We have had , we have shared something , even though it's an all this . No , I don't like you . I don't want you anywhere near me . I don't want you stink on me . Anyway , that's probably not a good thing either . So we move . We move over to Ted

and Rebecca . Very important scene in the blue stadium seats . Boss , can you walk us through this this quickly ?

You could bring Henry here . He could go to the best schools . Michelle could come here and teach and leave . As a department head , i can sell half of the team and give you an insanely high salary , which you still will have deserved more . She really trying anything she can to get him to stay because of how important she thinks that he is to the team .

He still says no . He still says he has to go back to Kansas .

And I cannot wait on the deep dive to talk about the choice of Ted's sort of reserve in this episode and how he is not Flandersie at all And even when he says Flandersie stuff , because he is completely full of pathos and full of resolve , based on what he knows the decision has to be about his son but who is going to be left behind as a result of that

decision and how that's going to affect him . He's mindful of all this And I think he really carries it well . His physicality really speaks to that . But he doesn't say like no , no , no or anything , nothing like that . He just .

The only time he says anything is when she realized you know she's like , yeah , it sounds like you're already made up your mind And she says maybe I'll travel , i should go abroad , and he says sort of like an Eat , pray , love kind of thing Like , but he's not Flandersie , he'd be like there's none of that , it's just a thing that he throws out .

And what does she say in response to that ? boss ?

It's part of what I loved so much about the first season was that it's not supposed to be a me show , and I still was drawn in . But , as it moved more into what it became . what it became was not for me , and that's fine . There's still so much for me to enjoy about it , but at this point I was like my friend who we're separating at this point .

bless you and good luck .

But , yes , no , i think that you're not wrong , that that is partially the lasso way .

And Daphne for those of you who haven't been with us is my wife And Daphne , immediately as they started talking , went this is disqualifying , this is disqualifying . She just kept saying this is disqualifying And I was like , oh god , no , no , no , no , no , no .

Daphne gets Keeley in a way that I don't , and certainly you two idiots don't , and please stop saying words . But yeah , they didn't And they got put out .

It almost felt like to me And I have what I thought was a pretty powerful moment and an apology where Nate starts to say Ted , you know , and Ted says I know , and Nate says let me say it , and I think they're all always growing . That's one of the things I did like about the show . I felt that they were always growing and Ted needed Ted .

You can accept an actual apology . You don't have to short circuit it . You don't have to talk about how much . You don't have to have it . You don't talk about like let the guy away . Another way to say I love you or to display love is to genuinely apologize And I would say also to genuinely forgive .

We've been through a lot . And as they look up there , ted says that he still sees it up there And I guess that was one way of talking about what I meant about the show for me is that I think , once you have this kind of a profound experience , i think we can .

Oh , i saw it up there , you know , even as a viewer , and I thought that was really cool . Like that locker room just will never be the same . That's it .

Like whoever you know , whatever comes next , whatever This was a moment between all of them the believe sign , the hanging it crooked , the slapping it at you know halftime , all of that And that sign will always be there on some level .

We didn't see Ted telling Rebecca he was retrying like I'm going home or whatever . That was a choice to do it off scene . We didn't see Ted telling the team he was leaving . We didn't say Ted telling Beard he was leaving .

We didn't see the moment where we heard about where the team Will must have told the team about Nate and the team decided to talk about it and vote on it , and we didn't see that .

I'm sure there's other ones I'm forgetting , but not having those moments and in choosing to , let's say , feature things like Jack or KJPR elements or things that I think ended up having less weight , that part was disappointing , and so I was happy to see that we at least got this beat where we saw the moment between Ted and Nate And Nick Muhammad .

Again , let's not conflate him with the performance like the Nate character and Nick Muhammad's performance , which was again . Some people can cry and make it look believable . I'm like he is really crying . What is he ? He is just destroyed .

And another thing for people that know , who have been listening , who have been following this podcast you know that I've been very critical of the whole Nate arc But there's moments where , again , i would say it just ended up being the moments were in the wrong place . I really needed them a little bit earlier .

There were some beautiful moments And keep in mind the I'm sorry I'm so sorry is what ended up being distilled from a 60 page document that Nate had written out . So , anyway , we'll get into that in the deep dive . Coach , what are you going to say ?

I really actually ultimately liked what they did And I thought that I got my very real apology . I felt like a lot of things So we'll get back to it . But I mean even coming back . He was the gaffer over at West Ham And he has come back as opposed to before . You guys ever want to be the boss .

He comes back over here as Will's assistant , like Will now tells him hey , nate , i want lavender on the towels , and he's like yes , sir , and he is fine with coming back . Like who he needs to be to be able to do that is not the Nate .

I thought , you know , i mean , even if we do go to the Judeo Christian route , i mean Jesus never met me But theoretically he died from my sense . I mean , you know , centuries before I committed him , he was like God damn , don't go to our house , shit , that's it . It's in the Bible .

Because I don't want to do that . I'm not interested in that . So I know that this is a me thing , but I cannot have somebody show me something and me have any reaction to outside of like a beautiful painting or something . If they're like here's a scene of Ted and Nate hugging , i'd be like great . How did that happen ? What are the steps ?

How was I taken from one point to the other in order to get here ? And it wasn't effective for me . I'm not saying it shouldn't be . I'm not saying other people are wrong . I'm saying it didn't do it . Yeah .

I was laughing , i was like that's about as hardcore of just money Like oh yeah , that makes sense . OK , nate comes in to give a wish of people good luck and then gets caught up being old school Nate . No need for it to become a cautionary tale . I'm not trying to cast a spell .

We get a beat where Trent is about to excuse himself when he sees like oh , this is the old team together . Ted , in a rare lasso-ism , calls him Trent House Magazine .

I'm sure in the deep dive she will talk about the choice to be nice over stakes or things like that , but this is how they chose to wrap it up is give us these beats of really high energy niceness . Whether you believe it or not . It's a whole different conversation .

But Roy talks about how he busted his ass trying to change , but he's still me wanted to be someone better . Now we get a question and this is all for deep dive stuff . Can people change ? I don't think we change per se as much as we learn to expect , except who we have always been . I'm very sorry , in the show dock I used the wrong , except God .

I was really flying through this . I'm not prone to mistakes like that . I'm not to get 50 lashes after the show . But change isn't about trying to be perfect . We get from beard . Perfection is boring . They do a litany of things that are perfect , which I agree with most of them .

Human beings are never going to be perfect , roy , it's the best we can do is keep asking for help . So asking for help was a key element in improving , which I thought was interesting , and accepting it .

When you can get it , when you can , and if you can keep doing it , that you'll always be moving toward better , which is , we can spend a whole episode just deep diving that one moment .

But regardless , i did not hold Higgins' apology and redemption to the same standard as I was holding for Nate .

And especially as men , we have to do a better job of looking at that privilege and that false equation where we say , oh well , we can make excuses for it , but it's like that's bullshit And he should be held accountable And I'm glad you brought it up .

There's obviously no connection between these two guys . Rupert's just like beat them .

And I thought they did a great job of making sure , like we were reminded , that Kartrick wears these unfortunately short shorts . So , just as a technical thing , i thought that was cool .

Never leave a joke on the table . We see now Rupert is , walks into the room , is being his charming self . We know there's allegations Arlo's talking over top . We know there's allegations of he might lose the team But if he can pull out a win he might hold on longer .

So there's this whole thing where there are some stakes built into that And he walks in like he did for the auction , where this is , where all the beautiful like he's still charming , he's still lovely And holy shit . In comes Rebecca , who is completely Coach . What are you going to say ?

And I thought that was a great way to underscore the power shift .

One team you're going to love is going to win , And she means it And she's kind And she has no other reason to be . There's no venom in her Boss .

I think there was a little bit of I love the out of context .

I think that this was a little bit kidding on the square , i think , as Al Franken used to talk about it , where there is a little bit of Deborah on her shoulder saying , if you don't let him bother you , he doesn't have any power , and her also having Ted on the other shoulder saying like no , this actually is a good thing for him , just like he's going

through a hard time . Let him have this . So I think it's somewhere in the middle .

He says move on , move on . He's just enjoying the whole destruction of Rupert . They ask Barbara who is there ? if it's Mrs Higgins , i believe , and again , i've only seen it twice . But she says , oh , do you like football ? She's not , i prefer rugby . It has blood , which is nice , has men throwing other men around And low-key Babs has just stolen the show .

I don't know how . Katie Nicks , man , i cannot wait to see what she's in next , because she killed it on this show . It is just , she is incredibly talented , my God , and they helped her with fantastic writing and just those little glimpses into her personal life where she likes the blood is the chef's kiss . In the locker room the guys are prepping .

They get a care package from Zava . They get shirts that say Danny's like he won't , let him hurt me again , don't open it . And right away , it's shirts . I'd like to , whatever , right away . Then we get . We see that it is , by the way , the biggest Zavocado . He's going to be very successful , but that is amazing . That is amazing . Then we get .

Let's see Danny and Zorro or Van Damme . At this point Danny approaches Van Damme , van Damme shy as a way What is I am ? I wrote I am here . What is that ? You guys know ? Did I forget that ?

I did not .

The Coach Beard movie sort of gets everybody emotional and it's just again another nostalgia play for the audience . We cut to the game , we see West Ham lined up and we dolly shot across the faces of our beautiful players and they're all crying .

When I was 21 and 22 were not the things of the things of lore , and that is a thing that you develop . So like that he misses again

. I thought was funny , but I thought it showed a lot about what we've learned over the course of this . Because they're crying and it may be that other people are laughing and thinking , but I wasn't laughing at them Like , not like that . It wasn't like , oh , they're men crying .

It was like , oh , in that situation , isn't that funny that the world would be like what the hell is going on ? But I was with them and understood exactly why they were crying And if I had been in that locker room I'd be dehydrated before the game .

It's a very American position , very , very , very common . You wonder why soccer hasn't taken off in the United States is because of that exact mentality , and those of us who love the beautiful game would love to catapult people like Dr Jacob into the ocean . We're not allowed to legally .

Technically , we also get to see Dr Sharon and she is very curiously trying to figure this out . Look to me like she had a cowboys jersey on And I was like , oh , there's a star in the right color . And I was like , oh , how , that's one of the most toxic cultures in any sport .

the tiki taka is the is the Spanish type of play where it's past , past , past , past past . It's all ball control offense .

And what they'll do is they'll bring the ball all the way up and down the field and then they'll be like eight yards from the goal , the offensive goal , and they'll just turn around and kick it all the way back to their goal And you're like but not in one kick . It'll be a tiki , tiki , six kicks . And you're like why didn't you just ?

you're right there , like it makes people crazy . So anyway , they end up getting a . It's a zero , zero game in the beginning . They end up getting a . Danny Rojas bicycle misses the net . Dr Jacobs says well , something happened .

You're gonna sit , you're really gonna sit there for 90 minutes of soccer or football and and and just do this the whole time .

I understand that the unethical portion of it is that therapists do have more power in the relationship , but I hate that it's set up that Michelle is somehow under his spell or some shit , like she's a grown woman who made a decision that we might not like And he fucked up majorly by dating a patient .

But why is it that he now needs to be some ass hat that we want gone Like ? where is the lasso method for having people that we don't necessarily like but don't need to hate ?

And then it's the other way around , but the same premise which is like , oh , poor little girl , she couldn't have , you know , taken agency on her own , she just got . And it's the same , it comes from the same monster . But what so ? well said , interesting .

And I like how , how you're highlighting all the things you dislike , because it lets me make funny more in the long term , yeah that's fair . And have an episode about things . boss , You know , we'll find out how you feel about ice cream , dessert , things like that .

No , there's not so much to talk about . We don't want another future . Bosses , yeah , peace of mind , knowing we did our best . I have so much to talk about about that .

We had people who Ted had impacted doing the thing And in a way , as much as we would want Ted to stay and they want Ted to stay , it kind of kept feeling like I think my man's work is done here , like he ripped up that sign and their reaction was okay , he has a point , let's each take a piece of it . Like that very easily could have been .

The point is , throw that in the garbage , let's move on . But it meant so much to them . I mean , colin has it by his shin guard , like he doesn't go on the field without it . Anyway , i thought it really showed like they got

it , ted .

We get there's no place like home And he says there ain't a lot , of , whole , whole lot of places like AFC Richmond . neither I would argue . there's no place in television history quite like AFC Richmond . Isaac simplifies Richmond on three , which is amazing . I took it , took three , three .

well , no , not really because he wasn't the captain , but a couple of years anyway for Isaac to get to right . right , yes , boss .

I love the show , because I don't know if anyone's noticed that this is a pretty good show . Yeah , So we're at the second half now We get listen . You know I'm a stickler for certain things about the game of soccer , game of football itself .

They end up hitting three posts and Jamie finishes with a beautiful strike at the 51st minute And I'm like that's 51st minute is great . That's six minutes into the second half . That is , that's right . And coach and I would talk ad nauseam about how our half time speech would have been like just get one back , That's all it went .

Two to one is a completely different game than two to zero . So then Jamie flops a little bit and I was like laughing about the commentary of how the fans like you , brilliant , You like . I'm like oh , yeah , yeah . Jamie , clear sticks out his tongue was being like kind of old Jamie as much as being new Jamie .

He knows like he's so leveled and shaded now It's like amazing He hands about Danny , who we know can take amazing healthy kicks and killed dogs by accident . Football is life . Football is death , but mostly football is football . I'm also . Football is life . God , I'm going to miss that . So he gives it to who coach ? this is so fucking great .

It's everything like everybody on this team has dreamt of for at least a decade . And he's like yeah , you take it , It'll be fun . It's the second half of them were only down the goal , Like I was like , oh my God , they're living a totally different way now .

This is a guy who said you know , his team got relegated and his grandmother left them a box of her shit , or whatever .

At which point our official whose name isn't coming to me right now , but he's the famous official who assured Ted that he , he , had a who . Ted assured . We know he has a penis earlier . And he comes over and looks into the net and there's a hole in the back of the net .

Isaac has kicked it so hard that it went through the net up into the crowd Goal . The entire place just completely loses it . The ball hits wings night right in the nose , which delights his ring . A ding , ding , yes , yes , significant other which there's a hat for every head . Right , she loves it .

And then also , babs has finally gotten what she came for , which was a laugh out loud moment for me . So I just thoroughly . This whole sequence was just delight . That was the word Daphne is . Several times when we were watching like , oh , this is delightful , oh , wow , that's delight . And I thought this is delightful , yeah , i can't wait to deep dive .

Isn't that what that means ?

I love Wings Knight being the ultimate fan of Richmond because we know he's roots for city or are united whoever's winning at the time , and he's all draped out in Richmond colors . He's the ultimate . Oh God , god . I love John Winsnight . What a character . Now we go to on the field . they replace the net .

We get Rupert , who you know , at the announcement of the goal . he's left the area . Rebecca gives him a weird look . He walks past Richmond . I can't wait to deep dive this because I have thoughts about him walking through their area And what would happen like if that was a coach Bishops area .

I was in Army , ROTC , and you can't walk through people's ranks Like there was a thing I'll talk about how , yeah , after people outside the country , I come from a military family And so I grew up with a sort of military tradition And and for a while I was headed in that direction , Before my artist side took over .

But yes , I just remember that was a big no , no , like don't walk through our ranks . You know it's the Tarelloans putting the ball on the Dallas Cowboys star . I'm at Smith's exception to . There's all these moments where it's like this is the brand , this is the logo , this is the , this is our area And you don't , you do not cross that .

But anyway , we'll talk about that . In deep dive , Rupert goes and tells George Cartrick to do what boss take out Jamie .

Cartrick was like whoa , whoa , whoa , like I'm all for the patriarchy and I will look at a woman's bosom like anyone else , but you're not going to destroy the beautiful game on my watch . Like I thought . Like he is horrible as he is as a character .

I thought he had a , he had he is about something and that just that is not how he was going to coach the game . That's how I took , that's how it landed on me . I was shaking his head .

That's not what I saw here , what I , what I loved the choice , loved it , god , i loved it so much because I'm like , hey , this is what he , this is where his line is . You can see people's lines . Cartridge Cartrick is a disaster of a human being . He is so nauseating as a man . He is a , he's grown .

But he does care about one thing , apparently , and he tells Rupert to fuck off . It wasn't like he's like , he's like stunned by that , like you know , that would be . It's so funny . That's where his boundary is And well , i can't wait to deep dive that . But I was like I loved the choice and loved the moment .

It was so good that he got shoved and was on the ground And there was a beautiful moment after Rupert walks off and everybody calls him wanker , and there was this thing between Ted and Cartrick where they nodded at each other and I was like God , i cannot wait to deep dive this , like I cannot wait to do this .

We got the jokes about the you know three balls and tuck yourself back in from the , from the ref or whatever , put yourself away or whatever it is .

And I was like you know , i remember when I first met disco and we all first met disco , but I remember saying on this podcast , like I kind of like you know my name's disco , but I'm not here to party or whatever . You said right , and I thought , oh , maybe he's going to be a fun character .

And then he was so gross in the meeting with Nate , and then he stood there while Rupert shoved his boss and I was like you're going to do anything ? I'm like I'm like you , suck disco . Like you , just flat out suck like nothing . He didn't stand in there to protect the . You know what I mean , like any one of us would have done .

But Rupert , shoving Cartrick , his balls are out , everyone can see just exactly who Rupert is . I just thought like it is destroyed , fellas , like you have , you know , really wrecked . I mean , obviously we know patriarchy still exists at the end of the last so , but I just thought it was a great way to visually say we're not doing things that way anymore .

And I was like there's this line where he'd say , you know , he says , oh , my ears , Yeah , I guess like no , no , you keep your ears and I'll tell you why , So that every shrieker , every child that's seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish . Every babe that weeps at your approach , everyone who cries out dear God , what is that thing ?

Well , that's going to your perfect ears . And I was like that is the moment that we didn't get to see that with Humperdinck , but we saw . That is the moment , was crystallized in that moment , where it was everybody , everybody . Let him know exactly where he stood .

So there's a big part about even when Rupert is powerful , he's not powerful enough to withstand other people's opinions of him

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And then there's the thing on SNL where it's like white male rage is the like , it's all white male rage . That's it Like white male right , like what's behind every single thing . This is the physical embodiment of this . Guy shoves down and he doesn't get his way . He's going to be a baby , he's going to be physically violent , he's going to break the rules .

Yeah , whatever it takes . And we've had millennia of this and enough is enough . And I'm glad the show took a position on it . Now we get that nod to George Kartrick . That I mean it's not as the anything's . George Kartrick is at least one beat of decency . And then West Ham scores and Ted laughs . And why does he laugh , coach ?

But like he also designed the quintessential football program and he knows what offside it just in time to to leave and and and not be part of the game anymore , which is a so , so bittersweet . Now we get to stoppage time . They cut a net down . There were injuries .

There would have been like eight or 10 minutes of stoppage time , but in TV land we get one minute left . The bonehead play you'll ever see somebody grabs . I think it was Richard , or was it . There was a call in somebody grab , yeah , and it makes this some kind of penalty . And Richmond gets a indirect kick and Ted is freaking out .

He says talk to me , geese , which is top gun reference . You guys get that , which is funny because instead of just goose , It's both .

No , this won't work , this won't work . Roy and Beard are there . No one's got an idea . And Ted says , okay , actually we're going to go with Nate's old place . So he uses him as a standard just to explain what the play is to to to Jamie and Sam and telegraph it .

And there's this beautiful moment where they at least is Oscar Espy , we get all the pantomime , they realize it . And Sam Obisanya , he says that , takes that deep breath like holy , fuck , like , and we say coach , there are guys , men and women all over the world . It's not just guys .

I'm saying guys because it's this team which is all men , but men and women and people the world across who , when the game is on the line , when the moment in their life is on the line , they want to have the ball , they want to have control , they want to make the one , the decision , or be there in a key moment , to be a key player .

And Sam Obisanya is going to be that . Jamie does the . Oh my God . I went back and I watched the scene where he was so insulted to be a decoy He was . Is this a joke ? Yeah , i could not believe it . He was so insulted that they would use him like that And in this scene , me , me , me , i want the ball . Pass me the ball , please .

He does it , the exact thing that Ted said , which is preposterous .

It was a great choice to end on the fact that it was Nate's original concept but now Ted is employing it , the fact that everybody knew what to do , the fact that Bumbercatch knew what to do , the fact that Dixon who we've never seen before or whatever I don't know what Dixon is was in on the play to pass the mow All this stuff worked perfectly .

And I will say that we notice , when people actually are athletes , the form of Sam's kick . Like you know , i've taught kids how to kick before and boy , that was beautiful , kept his head down , followed through with beautiful points . I mean , like the whole thing is that's how you keep it low .

That's why one of the big problems with teaching kids to kick once you get some power , you sky it over . You kick field goals all the time because you just want to blow the top off it , like how it does . And Sam kept it low . A little ground ball with eyes , or they call it a worm burner And bam , sam scores , place goes absolutely berserk .

And Mike Reed , mike Reedy , what was the ?

I only half bought it because in those moments you tend to celebrate with your team . First I was like , okay , that's sweet , they had to work this in . But like I'm like there's just this , you know what happens , coach , you go crazy .

It's not graceful at all because they can't , they're losing their minds , their body just wants to vault .

So we have this beautiful moment and this moment of redemption and acceptance from with Colin and he makes this beautiful choice and it's fantastic and shouldn't even be , shouldn't even be something we noticed in this world in 2023 , shouldn't even be a fucking conversation . But God damn it , there we are Just just living in the dark ages in this world .

I swear to God . Keely says to Rebecca look what you did . Rebecca crying in this scene , i can't tell you . Hannah awading him is so amazing . If you look at her face , i'm blown away , blown away by emotions . Oh my God , how , how is she this ? good , it is stunning .

And then coach what happens here on the field with the team .

And so I just I savored it , and the team goes nuts , as you might , as you would expect , And I just thought that was , yeah , i very much appreciated that being there . That is Ted's full on expression of joy and love , and there it all was .

Isaac is featured on a football magazine , pep has a clothing line , bex gets a book deal , shandy launches the dating app , star fucker , what else ? I tried to jot them down as quickly as I saw them . Rebecca chose to sell the shares to Richmond season to Richmond residents of Richmond .

You know , like a public offering of the 49% , something that says Jack Danvers is no longer daddy's little girl . I don't know , maybe she's out , i don't know . Interesting Miss Cakes is going to be contested on Les Conkers Hall . Iax . The Dutch team they played wins the LVZ , wins their division in the Netherlands wins their league .

There's a article called the quiet genius of Leslie Higgins . Zorro , i guess , now is going to star in the Jean-Claude Van Damme remake of Escape to Victory Just so funny , and in a headline that mirrors the Zatane thing that I talked about when the player that Zava is based on went to the LA Galaxy . Zava returns to football , joining Los Angeles FC .

So , yeah , rupert's out . That's a key thing . 49% . Ted is walking And we get the Aussie guy from season one Yeah , are you , ted Lasso ? I'm one of them . And he says unlucky at the end , which is another callback with the New York Jets reference . He says wicked . Ted says kinky boots , which is a right musical reference . I'm sure boss loved that one .

And so I thought , oh cool , like they found a way as they've done with a lot of things they found a way to kind of give me the thing I wanted , right , and I think that's been one of the things I have enjoyed about the storytelling is like they do get relegated And you know Ted does go . You know what I mean .

Like there are things that I'm like no , no , no , it has to be this way . And they're like what if it isn't quite that way ? And I'm like , damn it , you're right , that works . And that that was my feeling about finding her there , or , you know , seeing her there and the scene that followed .

We get a joke about club matriarch as opposed to soccer mom , and then there's a gorgeous moment . I cannot wait to deep dive . I'm not going to make it .

I'm not going to make it through this , through this rapid response , because that thank you won't click it , boss smiling , i know , i know , boss , we just , i mean , wait no not for you boss , i know you're not built for this . You're not built for this .

I'm just looking at her face , or expressions , her emotion , and listen , that's not to malign Sudakis at all , because that choice I told you about to hold it all inside , and the resolve of its decision , and how he's not Ted Lasso , which is equally impressive . I kept thinking God , how much he loves his son to give up this family that he's built .

We get onto the plane We get . Is this nuts again ? Which is how we started ? Oh God , that's powerful . And I think about how far we've come as with the show , and how beautiful it is and all the memories we have . You know , listen , all people are different people . Don't fight back , fight forward . Don't flip out till you find out .

I've learned to love my dad for who he is and forgive him for who he isn't . These are just thinking of all the things . Listen to me , don't you dare settle for fine , if you're with the right person Be a goldfish . Right , be a goldfish . Right , be curious , not judgmental . Onward forward , the truth will set you free , but first it'll piss you off .

It's the hope that kills you . We could go on and on and on These moments we didn't have . The first time Ted Lasso said to Coach Beard , is this nuts ? And I felt profoundly it's just moving , this is very moving .

And they trickly cut it with air conditioning as a privilege , not a right , and Beard takes off his glasses and we find out he can't do this And blast us through the rest of this as fast as you can please , boss .

We'll follow up on that . but I don't know about that one . And then he splashes water on his face and fakes appendicitis in order to get off the plane . We'll talk about that . I feel like there's a lot going on there .

This is , unfortunately for me , one of those points where they went for the funny big scene instead of doing something reasonable , which is , number one , get off the plane . or , number two , just fucking take the flight and then fly back , go home and clean some shit up and then come back Like it didn't work for me .

And then she walks away and says what a fucking asshole . And you're like oh yeah , of course that's the one that the National Enquirer is going to find , that one person and that's how he will be painted in the media Or online or God knows wherever the hell people get their hot takes about , which celebrities are dicks . And Ted .

In a moment that rocked me and my core , ted takes off .

They of course bring in Father and Son by Cat Stevens , which , if it's going to murder me the way it did at the end of Guardians of the Galaxy 2 , with the Yondu storyline , which is another Father Son plotline , i think something about man . There's just as many of a certain age here with these . Father Son storylines are just , it's just putty .

Go ahead , coach .

says you know we're , you know we're all getting to be around 50 years old And it's a time in your life where you see both ends of your life with increasing clarity And I thought you know , probably watch that , i don't know , two or three years ago , you know I'm 48 , 47 , and I thought , oh yeah , that's exactly right .

Like I feel like I have a really specific take on my life as a boy . I have a very specific take of my life , on my life now as a man , having been a husband and a father and having gone out into the world and tried things and failed at things and whatever . And I think I also have an appreciation for the you know the guy I'm going to become .

Like I spent time , spent time with my father-in-law , just like generally , but like we fixed the patio door together and we would ever And I just get a kick out of just talking to him about shit . And he told me some shit that really you know , like when my kids were two or three and he gave me .

He didn't give a ton of advice on father , he just you know , we just talked But the one thing he said was make sure you enjoy them . He said it goes by quick . He said make and maybe , if he doesn't tell me that , maybe I don't jump into the coaching as soon . I don't know , whatever . But anyway , i thought that was what I felt through .

This whole scene was like I get it , i get all of it . I get why he went home . If he hadn't gone home , i'd get why he didn't go home . I just thought like he did , he did for him the rightest thing , but I felt like I got it And I think that's what got me is like there was no easy . There was no easy answer .

And when he came down he just he just heard me crying And he was like what's going on ? I was like listen . He watched his head last , so he listened to the podcast . He's such a good egg , love that boy . And I was like you know , you're in a hurry . He's in a real hurry to speed up his life , for time to speed up .

He really wants to get his life cooking and I'm in a hurry to slow life down , slow time down and really breathe it in , because you blink and it's gone And , yes , it's powerful . When this music started playing , we see the moment with Rebecca the tish pay off . The little girl runs or she falls , which happens with kids all the time . It's so funny .

It was like somebody who has kids knows . Yeah , go ahead , coach .

So we'll talk about what actually happens , but I that was my initial thought was like , is she sort of like having another moment with little Rebecca ?

But Daphne was totally like I don't care , that's who she needs to be with , i'm happy , i don't care , and I was like really a lucky chance because she went to the airport and she left at exactly that second . A girl trips in front of her and it's gazellings What , what , what .

He's like you're kidding me , you're the owner of AFC Richmond . I just didn't buy the like . I have providence , i get it and there's a bunch of stuff I'll get into . And you know why did Rebecca go on YouTube and find Ted Lasso ? I get that , some of that sum of this story .

But that was a lot . That was a lot for me to accept at that moment .

I would like to point out that , because he is presumably a pilot based on his uniform , he's literally a flying Dutchman , and I don't know if you guys care about that , but I , as a pun lover , did enjoy that Whoa . Now .

I didn't love the name . change the Richard Way . I think it is the Lasso Way .

But the Richmond Way for me was like no incorrect .

Is that what that was , the tape over the boobs ?

Again , we're flying through this everybody I know that but we got some , some things to cover and this is a rapid response and we're already over two hours . Nate is with his family . Tastes of Athens . Looks like he's getting along well with everybody . We did see Derek in the background , which I was happy doing , doing his same thing .

God knows what , what laws he's fracturing in the back there , nate's at the head of the table .

It's so much fun . I've never seen anyone come out of Africa for the World Cup and it's so much fun to watch them . And yeah , that was no amount of money to keep Sam Obisanya off the Nigerian team . So fuck you , edwin Akufo . He couldn't . He still right , he didn't have that much pull to keep Sam's raw talent off . You know that's life goal .

That happened there . I am definitely going to zip past the next beat , which is Jamie bonding with James Sr . That's going to be a road too far for some people , but I can't wait to talk about it . We have a cookout where Roy , jamie and Kele are all at the same cookout .

It's funny to see the little , these little , what it looks like in a European cookout , because here in America like we just have vast stretches of backyard As far as I can see , i'm like everyone's jammed in . It might be healthier to have , like you know , the shared space there . We , we get shares of the team for PB&J with all three names on it .

I thought it was nice . They don't get their own , they share a share of Richmond . It's their team . We're just borrowing it for a while . Beautiful , beautiful thing . May gets her own . Looks like a stack that May has . May straightens a picture of Geronimo . One of them , baz or Jeremy , goes to touch her share and she swats his hand away .

But she is adjusting the shot . There's a picture of Geronimo , the legendary Native American chieftain , or say Chum , on the wall of the bar And that is a callback to the final shot of Cheers where Sam Malone adjusted that . And the reason they did that , i think , is because Sam Malone is played by the remarkable Ted Danson .

Norm on the show is played by George Wendt , who is Jason Sudeikis's uncle of Chicago , chicago fame .

The person that he's signing for is Shannon , the girl that Ted used to play with .

So I can't wait to talk about this on the deep dive , because I have a daughter just graduated from high school , is going to go into this field And we got some interesting news about that And I'm just so , so fired up for this journey . Then we got Dr Sharon back , with Roy and an army man . She is the head of emotional health and well-being at Richmond .

She's back home . We have Nate painting . They're wrapping a lot of things up here . I have trouble keeping up with all the stuff that's cooking . I was wildly happy to see Dr Sharon back . Despite my many complaints about what a pain in the neck she can be without the waves and the door closing . I was so happy to see her .

Her heart's always been in the right place . We saw what she did with working with Ted And it's exciting to think of what she might be able to do with Roy . We see Nate painting And then , next scene , we see them hanging the belief sign back up , painted with gold paint , the Kintsugi method , appropriately again .

Oh my god , when we deep dive this , i can't even . I'm going to be a puddle . Now we get the beard wedding , which , ok , there's no way in hell . Ted is missing the wedding . So there's this . You know , whatever We can talk about it , we can talk about whatever . I just don't ever imagine Ted would miss the beard .

I thought this was Ted dreaming on the plane And there's like this shot of the light . It was clear . It was also clearly . The CG was terrible in the background . I thought it was intentional to make it feel dreamlike . But anyway , we'll talk about all this . Beard is wearing the pants that he was gifted a beard after hours .

And the couple from beard after hours was there . Do you see that boss ?

As he was dreaming this , he is reading Michael Pollan's How to Change Your Mind , the book about psychedelics , which , oh yeah , it's a whole new chapter . We cut to Ted and the car coming home . Henry is waiting in the window . There's a free library out in front of the Lasso House , of course , of course there is Probably got the best books in it .

I would think once upon a time . I'm guessing this is Ted's family home and that he probably looked at his neighbors and curated the books inside , hoping that each one would find their right book . Knowing Ted , we pan up to the sky and finally , katsuyvins . The song ends and I'm able to breathe again .

And then we cut to the very final moment . We write Henry's game . Henry gets past , misses a shot . Ted calls him over , tells him to be what ? coach ?

I remember being at your house and your father in law was like we were helping him walk and come up onto that uneven ground And as he stepped up and he did it , i went there , you go , and you just started laughing . You're like you can't even help it , can you ? Yeah , always coaching . I was like I guess I did just coach your father in law .

So yeah , something I got to look more into that . I just saw it anecdotally . But we end on that And with that the epic saga of Ted Lasso comes to an end .

I very much believe that the team was in great hands with Rory Beard and Nate .

We there's a tremendous amount of love in our community And we thank everyone for listening , for joining us . For Boss and Coach and I , We have more deep dives that will keep coming And we but in general you know , this has been something And we can't wait to really get into the nitty gritty of everything . We're going to continue this .

To those people who are asking are we going to finish the episodes ? We never finished with season two ? Yes , we are . That's on the docket . We will be here . We will be . We really want to have closure , We want to have completion on this unbelievable show And so , yeah , we will be back . So stay tuned and please stay with us .

If some people listen , I know that some people are going to check out and they're going to say , all right , the show's done , I don't really want to hear any more podcasts . I know that's how I feel with certain things . And for those people who have joined us , thank you .

I want to say thank you on behalf of myself and Coach and Boss , because it's been wonderful having you take this ride with us , take this journey with us . In so many ways .

This show was all about the journey and not the destination , and to have met people from all over the world who have joined this community , It's really built something special for us , And I want to say thank you .

It feels much more to me like the moment at the end of our Sound of Music , shout out with everybody in on the final notes and cheering , and I'm actually looking forward to that piece .

We've had a great conversation , but now I feel like the definition of we is expanding And that's part of what I'm enjoying and I'm hoping continues and actually grows Is , yeah , like , share those pieces with us . You know QoB , called Bex , is going to take West Ham And I was like , really , could it be so ? And that's exactly you know .

So I just I'm looking forward to that piece too . Talking to you has been great more so , boss , let's be honest But , but no , but I'm really looking forward to the , to the exchange and the interchange , and to those of you who've been sort of saying yeah , go , you know , go and come back with this orange and green .

I'm working , i'm working , and there's some other stuff along those lines that I'm working on too , but this has just been amazing , amazing , yes .

The podcast is done with the rapid responses to Teflasso , but we're going to continue with the last episode . We're done , and then we have a few really , really fun things planned And we hope that everybody will join us in this community . It is , it has been so much fun and we are thrilled , thrilled , thrilled to to have you join us . It's , it's .

I'm smiling right now because we have had so much fun with people from all over the world and there's so much fun And there's so far for us to go together . We can't wait for you to take that journey with us . Coach , if people want to find you , where do they find ?