The Penultimate Pod | The Beautiful Pod

Adam and Chris break down the predictable media tension around the England squad before talking about the semifinal matchups. Host: Adam FriedlandCohost: Chris RyanExecutive Producers: Adam Friedland, Marc Fineman, and Mason KleinWriters: Adam Friedland and Sam SerxnerProducers: Sam Serxner, Julia Cassidy, and Chris WholersEditor: Jon RoemerStudio Tech: Adam Tarin--See Adam on tour https://theadamfriedland.show/pages/tour--JOIN THE FRIEDLAND FAMILY FOUNDATION / PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION:https://www.youtube.com/@TheAdamFriedlandShow/join--Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheAdamFriedlandShow--Buy our merch: https://theadamfriedland.show/collections/new--X: https://x.com/adam_talkshowInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/theadamfriedlandshowTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@adamfriedlandshowclipsYouTube: Subscribe to @TheAdamFriedlandShow here:https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAdamFriedlandShowSubscribe to @TAFSClips here: https://www.youtube.com/@tafsclipsThe Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit https://fanduel.com/playwithaplan to learn more about the resources and helplines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 0:04Adam Friedland?

  Welcome to the Beautiful Pod. I'm Adam Friedland. We got CR in LA. I'm at home today. This is perhaps our penultimate episode. Yeah. I'm getting a little emotional, but in the next episode, I will be next to you and I will smell you. I will feel your essence. Guys, real quick, just on a serious note, I wanted to mention, we have a rematch of a longstanding rivalry, which is Argentina, England.

• 0:33Adam Friedland?

  We lost 255 beautiful boys in the Falklands, our southern border. So I just want to recognize, we don't have much time today, but real quick, I want to recognize, Paul, Brian Callis, Nigel, Arthur Rogri, Michael, John Nowak, Chen Chi Shing. I guess he was from Hong Kong, maybe Nigel, Robert Smith, Keith Phillips. I'm going to read all two. I'll keep going. Just.

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• 1:03Adam Friedland?

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• 2:59Adam Friedland?

  The semifinals are heating up. The tabloids are on fire right now in the UK. What are you making of this controversy? This Jude and Tuchel kind of bust up. I think the English team will not survive this. I think they're falling apart.

• 3:18Speaker 01

  After Norway, Tuchel got his post-match interview, and he's a pretty fiery guy. And I also think that sometime he kind of comes off like a little bit like he doesn't quite know the impact of every English word he's saying, although maybe he does. People have been saying he has Jose-esque mind games going on. But he was basically like, we didn't play that well. You know, technically, we were bad. We didn't cycle the ball enough. We made a lot of mistakes. He also was incredibly complimentary about their effort and their mentality. They immediately took those quotes, ran to Jude Bellingham and they were like, yo, what did you think of what Tom said about you guys after this game?

• 3:58Speaker 01

  And Jude kinda took a subliminal at Tuchel's not extraordinary playing career. And he was like, well, it's really hard playing in these conditions. And maybe he would know that if he'd played at this level. Now, he didn't say that, but like, kinda like that. And because we have like this vacuum over the last couple of days, the English media has blown this up into crisis in the locker room, crisis between Tuchel and Bellingham. We've had some previous.

• 4:25Adam Friedland?

  They're calling this, yeah, they're calling this Princess Diana 2, I believe.

• 4:28Speaker 01

  Yes, I believe they are. That's the headline in The Guardian today.

• 4:33Speaker 01

  I think this is much ado about nothing. I think that that was actually like a pretty normal quote. They didn't play that well. It was a weird game. It was 100 degrees or whatever with humidity in Miami against Norway. I don't think it was like watching peak Barcelona. And I think he was probably frustrated with some of the football he saw. And it's not his job to be like, we get a, we get a pass because of the weather. He has to demand more from them, especially if they want to beat Argentina.

• 5:00Adam Friedland?

  Shocking stuff indeed, Chris.

• 5:03Speaker 01

  Shocking. What about you? And did you think this was bullshit? Or did you think it was like, actually spoke to like a schism between the manager and the best player?

• 5:10Adam Friedland?

  I think that the British tabloid press literally killed our princess, the princess of hearts. It's just genuinely speaking, like if you think about the 1970, was it four final? Or when, you know, de Bild sent in, or Bild, whatever the name of the German papers.

• 5:30Speaker 01

  De Bild sounds like a Dutch footballer, but Bild is the newspaper.

• 5:33Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, Stefan de Bild, yeah. And he's like literally decapitated about four people. Yeah, during his short run at Manchester City, before charges were placed for cocaine trafficking. Anyway, okay.

• 5:49Speaker 01

  This is a good screenplay idea. Hold on, keep going.

• 5:52Adam Friedland?

  Oh, well, I have a screenplay idea for you later on. Here's the thing is like, everyone, like I'll contrast it with the way that all the casuals and Yanks. And I don't know, some people like think that it's, it's. Israel or something nowadays Messi is Israel or something. They're all making the Argentina team out into a villain right now. If there's any squad that will not ever be affected by people not liking them is the Argentine national team. I think if there's any team that is vulnerable to media circus, it has troubled England in the past. And the funny thing is in 74, it was the other team sending the sexy girls for the sexy girl pool party

• 6:37Adam Friedland?

  to sabotage them. But England is like their press just does it to their own team. But Chris, I got actually, because I have a couple of contacts in the media. One of my good friends, actually a mentor, Pierre's Morgan. Pierre's Morgan. I have a couple of, I have a couple of covers of some tabloid bombshells that are going to be coming out. And I think we're going to break them here first. But like, yeah, I just saw a couple of these and I just wanted to get your reaction. The sun is dropping this tomorrow. A Beza bed's naughty nanny. Apparently Jude Bellingham has slept with a grandmother. This is the second time, of course, this has happened in the England team. Rooney's fan. First one was Wayne Rooney, of course.

• 7:22Adam Friedland?

  How could we forget? The man was a romantic. But, but that's not all. In the, in the Daily Mail, I think we could expect this. This is a, just an absolute bombshell. Yes, a tiny Tuchel tits and boogle. It should be and boogle, Sam, not in boogle. But apparently Thomas Tuchel has had a wild night out. It seems like there's two factions in the media right now. There's kind of the pro Tuchel side, kind of, I don't know. Maybe the, you know, just more pure kind of.

• 7:58Adam Friedland?

  And then, of course, there is the, you know, the woke side that's taking our captain's side. This is what happens when you let a Jerry command our boys.

• 8:10Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 8:10Adam Friedland?

  Okay. Of course, let's not forget, there's in the US tabloids, this is, this will be dropping tomorrow. World War II, German soldier discovered in Queens, of course. And, you know, ICE gets a bad rap, but they are getting this man out. It wouldn't, Brock wouldn't let me say Nazi. Also, I tried to use more of the, I tried to use claw and they were like, this is, this is actually dishonest. Making fake news, but Brock was a.

• 8:41Speaker 01

  Brock was like more cool than.

• 8:43Adam Friedland?

  Nazi discovered in Queens. There's one, one or two more, actually, I just, these are just real quick, I just wanted to show you.

• 8:53Adam Friedland?

  Okay, and then, of course, this is a, the sun has, I've just read your first book.

• 9:03Adam Friedland?

  And I said, I guess they didn't do it right, but I asked them to have him holding the book upside down. Okay, let's keep going, enough, enough of the jokes. Yeah, I mean, but in reality, I think, yeah, we'll see if it has any effect on the England camp. It doesn't really, it's not real, but like, on the other hand, Argentina being, being painted out to be the villain. If there's any team that doesn't care, it's that team. I don't think that that'll have any effect on them. If anything, it'll make them more pissed off.

• 9:38Speaker 01

  I haven't even seen that much of a narrative yet, building it. I mean, like, the Maradona, the ghosts, the, the, all of that stuff, like, it feels like that, that is almost like fallen by the wayside because of this Tuco Bellingham thing, which I don't think is a real thing. And so, this is actually shaping up pretty well for England, I think. Not only do I think that they probably. Our superior football side right now and if they're if they're healthy enough if like Rice can play, you know, like they they should be in good shape for this.

• 10:11Adam Friedland?

  I got five seconds of of of the of the man I love.

• 10:16Speaker 01

  Yeah, I know. I mean, this is the thing that's been sort of strange about these semifinals are incredible, but we have a bunch of players who are basically dragging their bodies to the finish line right now, like Lamine and Saka and Dec and all these guys. Uh, what do you think? Because what are you expecting from this match on a football level?

• 10:34Adam Friedland?

  Um, I mean, I think we should just rather we should ask how each team wins. I think that's the easier way of doing it. Um, uh, in general, I think Argentina's looking for Messi too much, right? I think and it's a they're far too predictable if their patterns of play. Just let him find the ball. Okay, just let it happen. It's God. Okay. Um, are they going to play like a a four man midfield? Uh, what are those matchups like Sam put that in the document, we can skip that part. I don't what who cares what we think about DePaul versus McAllister or versus a Anderson or whatever. Just like like all of us, like we're watching the TV, but we're like looking for the little guy, right?

• 11:19Adam Friedland?

  And we just want him to get the ball. Uh, I think the defense is kind of doing that as well, and I think that they have to kind of trust their other weapons. Uh, like, uh, I really think, uh, like Alvarez has looked great, um, in this last game. Uh, England, like on the other hand, didn't look sharp for the entirety of that last match. It was a fucking slugfest. They've now played in, uh, you know, actually, I said this before, but like if they can get through the gauntlet of Mexico, like in Mexico City, then Miami in July and then beating Messi and then beating France or or Spain.

• 11:59Speaker 01

  Spain, then they like you can't.

• 12:01Adam Friedland?

  It is the greatest accomplishment in sports history.

• 12:04Speaker 01

  Anything. I would like to ask, I'd like to know if those guys felt like Miami was harder than Azteca.

• 12:11Adam Friedland?

  I mean, it seemed dog shit. It seemed awful there. I mean, I mean, genuinely, and then you of course have the ghosts of the 255 beautiful boys who perished Erwin John Phillips, Philip Jones, Michael Lancaster Forge, you, of course, you have Adrian John Anzlo, who could, okay, but uh, yeah, but like beyond all of that, like, uh, I, I, it doesn't seem like either of these teams are like, like buzzing, right? Um, so I don't know how to call this. If I had to, had to choose, I'd choose England. Jude is, is doing, he's kind of on the Zizu trajectory that we've been talking

• 12:52Adam Friedland?

  about, uh, throughout the tournament. He, I'm in love with, I'm really in love with him as a player. And beyond that, like him, he is the de facto, he's become the de facto captain of England beyond being the de facto, like, uh, on the, on the pitch, being like the best player, uh, in this tournament for them. Uh, I, I really just, they need, I can't call an Argentina match. Um, like,

• 13:19Speaker 01

  Cause it's like they're playing with like magic beans and fairy dust right now. Like they're, coming back from two goals down with like 15 minutes left, the Cape Verde out match, like the, the, the Swiss match was just like, we, we could talk about the red card. It's kind of like in the past now, but like, I, there is something kind of, there's

• 13:40Adam Friedland?

  Yellow cards for simulation.

• 13:42Speaker 01

  Yeah. I mean, like that's, you just, on one hand, like football is full of injustices on like a daily basis. And if you watch club football, you're just gonna go crazy thinking that everybody is, there's a conspiracy against the team you root for. On the other hand, that was just one of the most insane cards I've ever seen pulled, even if it was a dive, it just wasn't a yellow, I don't think. Um, certainly not in that game state.

• 14:06Adam Friedland?

  I think Harry Kane deserved a yellow, you know, earlier in the tournament. And then Jed Spence, that was a real foul. And I don't understand why they just allowed that penalty. I mean, the man would never go down. But genuinely speaking, if it gets to like a, like a sticky game state, I think Argentina would be perfectly comfortable playing for pens with, with their like.

• 14:31Speaker 01

  With Emmy.

• 14:31Adam Friedland?

  Having the best, like, having the best kind of penalty keeper kind of we've seen in recent history of the tournament.

• 14:39Adam Friedland?

  You know.

• 14:39Speaker 01

  I think, I think England wins in regular time.

• 14:42Adam Friedland?

  Yes, and I think it's, it's moments, guys, it's Jude, and it's Jude. I mean, Jude has his moment.

• 14:51Adam Friedland?

  I kind of think, I kind of like sketched out an idea of how Argentina can win, though. And I just want to like, just real quick, I know we don't have a lot of time, I just want to read it to you. Interior, Tel Aviv, Israel Mossad HQ. The head of the Mossad sits at his desk, the phone rings. Mossad chief, hello, Prime Minister, our man has touched down in Dallas. We hear it, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's voice muffled, he's furious, screaming. Sir, Project Freddy from Germany was run by amateurs. We've got our best man on this. Exterior, vacant parking lot, garage, Dallas. Tuesday morning, oh, 600 hours. Mossad special agent Mark Gaye, he stands alone. He appears impatient. A shadowy figure emerges, hands him a briefcase. Package secured. A car arrives. He gets in, he's whisked away.

• 15:35Adam Friedland?

  Cut to interior, the manhole, downtown Dallas. Leather daddies caress each other's bodies. Bottomless moses, bottomless paupers. A Tom of Finland illustration come to life. Gaye is mesmerized by their bodies, house music pulsates. In Gaza, they throw them off the roof. A gorgeous, oil down muscle man approaches. He's glistening. Mossad asset, shalom penis. The password, Gaye, penis shalom. The Mossad asset hands Gaye a dossier. Gaye scans the room. In a world of betas and softies, it feels good to be in a place where men can be men. Mossad asset, let's not have a repeat of Benghazi this time.

• 16:18Adam Friedland?

  You're a loose cannon, but you're the best man we've got. Stay for one drink? Gaye, listen, you piece of shit. As much as I'd like to stay and play grab ass, I have to go. Messi needs me. Israel needs me. I've got a World Cup to lose.

• 16:34Adam Friedland?

  And do you think the, just one note, just one note, the game's in Atlanta. Fuck. So all of that stuff.

• 16:44Adam Friedland?

  I thought it was gonna be like an Oswald thing. That's why I was. Okay, listen, I thought it was Dallas. Listen, to me, as a coastal elite, that's the same place. Yeah. All right. Yeah. Um, let's go France, Spain. Do you, or is there anything else you want to say? No, let's do, let's do France, Spain. I just, I think, I, I don't want, I don't want to like say this too many times. I just, I do think, I do think England will beat Argentina. Yeah. In, in any other time. Do you think it's coming, where's it coming? I think it's, it's going back to the winner of this next match. But after the end, you think it's, it's coming? After it goes to France or Spain, will it come home? I don't, I don't think so, no. Yeah. I think they keep it. You don't think that? I can't, I, I cannot find daylight in this next match.

• 17:29Adam Friedland?

  I, I think that Queen Elizabeth was a loser. Okay. And we got a new man in charge and his name's Charles. And guess what? We can expect every World Cup from here on out until the, the Meghan Markle takes over as the next, uh, queen of, okay, anyway. The beautiful pod is brought to you by FanDuel. On the biggest stage in the world, FanDuel is changing the game because sometimes your player gets subbed off and your bet goes with them. Not anymore. With FanDuel's SuperSub, if your player is subbed out, your bet stays in. That's right. If your player leaves the match, your bet continues on with the substitute.

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• 20:05Adam Friedland?

  France, Spain. A replay of the semis from the last Euros. What a match that was. Kind of the arrival of Yamal. If I had to, I kept saying Witness, Witness. Just a kid from Akron. Yamal was phenomenal in that game. He is, he's kind of like, he's not fully fit. He's kind of coming off of injury. But we did see Nico Williams at the end of the last match, and once Marino and Williams came on, I feel like they looked completely different class than the team we've seen thus far. My man, Arsenal's own, enterprise rent-a-car associate looking ass, Mikel Marino, cannot stop scoring.

• 20:50Adam Friedland?

  What a player. Arsenal's best striker, sorry about, I'm talking about Arsenal. I think Marino and Williams can be game changers for them, and I don't think that the gulf of talent between France and Spain is as big as if, assuming that they're playing a big part of the semifinal, I think that this could be way more evenly matched than we think it will be, but. Because I said that that means 6-0 France. Uh, what, how are you feeling about this match?

• 21:23Speaker 01

  Uh, I think these are the two best teams in the tournament, probably the two best teams in the world in, in international football. And I, I can talk myself into either side, like getting the advantage here. We are also now at the culmination of probably the two dominant, I mean, Spain obviously had to rebuild after their like, the tic-tac-a like dynasty that they had and that incredible run of the Iniesta, Xavi, Busquets, Fabregas, whole thing, but I feel like they're, they're rounding back into like top form. And France has been on this, this kind of incredible run since 18.

• 22:02Speaker 01

  I think that France will win, but there is, there is definitely a, a scenario in which like Spain beats them 1-0, you know? Or Spain beats the Pens.

• 22:13Adam Friedland?

  Uh, I think I keep talking about it and being wrong, but I think this will be the one match. Where if De Champs goes with the two man midfield, Spain as a possession based team can overwhelm them in the midfield. And I, but counterpoint, the drinks breaks makes that much harder. I think Spain is a team that wants to strangle you for 45 minutes and pass you into oblivion. Have you chasing after the ball, expending more energy than them. Uh, it's harder to do when you have to survive just 20 minutes. It's, it's been cool actually seeing the four quarter system kind of evolve. But like in the, like for instance, in the Mexico match, uh, like England needed to survive the first quarter.

• 22:55Adam Friedland?

  Um, it, what, and conversely in the Norway match, uh, Norway kind of gave them the ball. And then second quarter came out firing, right? Which I think is the way more mature, smarter, like, uh, coaching plan, actually, which was in a hundred thousand degrees. Let the other team.

• 23:13Speaker 01

  Run around in circles.

• 23:15Adam Friedland?

  Run around and then just go help, help, uh, help for broke against them. Uh, strength of schedule, we saw Spain has beaten, uh, Portugal and Belgium. France really has beaten nobody, to be fair. Uh, the end, you know, like, uh, the, against, if you want to say Morocco was a real team, the only guy that could score wasn't playing. Right? So, uh, You know, I genuinely speaking like, uh, it'll be really interesting to see if, uh, Deschamps keeps going with just a, like a two man, like double pivot behind basically, uh, like four insane attackers.

• 23:56Adam Friedland?

  And if he does that, I wonder what that looks like against Spain. Um, and I also wonder how much

• 24:02Speaker 01

  is rumored to be coming back for this, right? Chiu Mani is, I think Chiu Mani is supposed to be healthy for this game. So I don't know if that means Kone drops or what.

• 24:11Adam Friedland?

  It is, his fist, his fist is, has recovered.

• 24:15Speaker 01

  Yes. Is their, their depth is just, it's just too overwhelming. I mean, like, I, I, I think that there's like a 3-1 France win and there's a 1-0 or pen Spain win. That's, that's kind of how I'm feeling. It's either not that close and France is easily the best team in the world and, and what are we even talking about? Or like you're saying, Spain keeps the ball, doesn't let France have any incredible counters and just, and just bleeds them out.

• 24:45Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. In the last round, like, uh, Spain conceded for the first time in this tournament, but Unai Simon looked dog shit. For some reason they keep like demanding to start their third best keeper. I don't understand why they're doing that, but, um, in a penalty shootout, I'm taking Magic Mike. You know, if they're, if they're using Simone, it's two different types of depth, right? You have depth across, across the front line of France. And then you have depth across the midfield with Spain. And Spain's got the deepest, most absurd midfield in the World Cup. They do have sort of a mid-defense.

• 25:20Speaker 01

  They just can't get into a shootout with France either. Like they don't have the goals to get into a, into a, a 3-2, you know, like they, I, I don't think they have that, that, that, that goal scorer on the side that all these other teams in the, in the semis do.

• 25:35Adam Friedland?

  I'm saying Mikel Marino, 89, a brave 1-0. He does it again. He really is ama- how does he do it? If you look at his per 90 stats-

• 25:45Speaker 01

  If Mikel Marino like wins the World Cup for Spain, I'm gonna freak out.

• 25:48Adam Friedland?

  He literally looks like he's like, I'm here, like, here are Mikel Marino's per 90 stats amongst midfielders. Shot attempts, 94th percentile. Goals, 100th percentile. Defensive contributions, 65th. Aerial duels, 1, 97th percentile. Chances created, 77. He's a juggernaut on paper.

• 26:13Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 26:14Adam Friedland?

  I think it probably is effective maybe by usage rates that like benefit your per 90 stats. But in general, like, I'm really, I'm saying France probably, but like, I don't know how to call the other match. In general, like, how do we feel about, like, you know, we had this conversation earlier, like, where you want, you know, there's a natural kind of, you know, romance about Minot or, you know, a kind of Cinderella story. But like, in reality, I wanted these four teams to be in the quarterfinals.

• 26:54Adam Friedland?

  And I wanted to see these guys cook. And I don't know, like, how are you feeling about this?

• 27:00Speaker 01

  Yeah, I want to be more democratic about it and say it would have been cool if Norway, even with my England fandom aside, like, if Norway had gotten to the semis or if Morocco had gotten to the semis again. And the truth is, is that I want to watch Messi versus Mbappe. And I really hate that it had to happen the way it did with Switzerland. It was like, that could have been a really awesome World Cup match that kind of got real weird after the sending off. I don't, I think the round of 16 is where the Cinderellas can check out, you know, and the quarters. I don't really want to get into, you know, having Porto in the Champions League final.

• 27:41Speaker 01

  Like, you know, if I'm being honest, like, I think, I think the way that the tournament is set up, it's so long, it's so grueling. It demands so much endurance out of these countries that I kind of want to see the best of the best at the end.

• 27:54Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, the only example I can think of in like international football is Greece 0-2.

• 27:59Speaker 01

  Yep.

• 28:00Adam Friedland?

  Is that right?

• 28:01Speaker 01

  For the Euros?

• 28:03Adam Friedland?

  For like any, agrees 0-4. I mean, I'm trying to think of like any like Euros, Copa Americas.

• 28:08Speaker 01

  Yeah, I mean, I honestly, at this point, like over the last, whatever, eight years, I would, I would honestly consider Croatia to be one of a, a, a great European side. This Modric team is, is like, they've,

• 28:19Adam Friedland?

  Did they win?

• 28:19Speaker 01

  They've obviously petered out.

• 28:20Adam Friedland?

  Did they win?

• 28:21Speaker 01

  No, they just got to some.

• 28:22Adam Friedland?

  Final.

• 28:23Speaker 01

  Forgot to the final, but they've been in and around like semis and finals for the Euros and, and.

• 28:28Adam Friedland?

  Sam, what, what's the last example of, of like a, a team that's not like a top, whatever, whatever the equivalent is of top six in, in international football?

• 28:37Speaker 05

  I would say probably Chile, winning back to back Copa Americas in 15 and 16 was the closest to like a dark horse winner. But Chris has shouted about Croatia is right for Europe. Two straight semifinals at World Cups for a country that's small is incredibly impressive.

• 28:51Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. Well, I mean, you didn't compliment England about that either.

• 28:56Speaker 05

  I think England are gonna win the World Cup. I think they're gonna beat Argentina. I think Spain are gonna beat France, and I think England are gonna beat Spain.

• 29:03Adam Friedland?

  Did you hear that, Chris? He's sucking up to you.

• 29:08Adam Friedland?

  Are you gonna cry if they win?

• 29:10Speaker 01

  Me?

• 29:11Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 29:12Speaker 01

  Uh, I don't think so, but like, let's see how good the Wonderwall is afterwards.

• 29:17Adam Friedland?

  I'm kinda sick of Wonderwall. I'm kinda sick of it.

• 29:20Speaker 01

  Do you want them to switch it up at the very end?

• 29:22Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, I wanted them to switch it up into, yeah, Sex Pistols. I am an anarcaista.

• 29:31Speaker 01

  Do you want to do any happy trails for teams that lost over the weekend before we get out of here?

• 29:35Adam Friedland?

  Uh, Norway, Holland, I like you now as a guy. As a guy, I like you. You've convinced me this summer. I like you as a guy.

• 29:43Speaker 01

  What do you think about Holland as a player in a World Cup, uh, quarterfinal, getting yanked?

• 29:50Adam Friedland?

  I don't know. I, I think about Holland playing for a team that their ownership is actively funding a genocide right now in Darfur. I think about that. You know, I think about Pep having the, Pep, Pep leaving honorably. No. Uh, I thought that Holland, yeah, why'd they pull him?

• 30:10Speaker 01

  Uh, I think he's tired.

• 30:12Adam Friedland?

  You know, the, the truth is, Chris, uh, the exuberance that we're displaying in this episode is because it was a shit quarters.

• 30:20Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 30:21Adam Friedland?

  It was an amazing 16s, an amazing 32s. The group stage was amazing. I think it was a shit quarters.

• 30:27Speaker 01

  It's too hot. It's getting too hot here. It's too hot. It's too hot on the east coast. It's gonna be hot in Texas. I guess it's good that I presumably Arlington and Atlanta both have some air conditioning, so it won't be sweltering.

• 30:38Adam Friedland?

  It's not that. It's us dealing with the reality that we're not. It's going away. We're not gonna be able to watch ball. Right? I just started John Adams HBO. I'm doing John Adams HBO right now, because I need something after this.

• 30:54Speaker 01

  I'm doing Andoni Iriola's first press conference over and over again. And then we have a Jose Mourinho three-part documentary on Netflix.

• 31:01Adam Friedland?

  How was it? Was it a good presser?

• 31:03Speaker 01

  Yeah, it was cool.

• 31:04Adam Friedland?

  He was just like. Set pieces. Yeah. We're going to be, we're going to be Liverpool. We're gonna bring it back. It's going to be Twist and Shout. It's going to be The Beatles. It's going to be, what did he say? He said that you're gonna lose 10 in a row practicing a psychopathic kickoff routine. And then you're gonna be yourselves again.

• 31:30Adam Friedland?

  He's a great, great hire. I love that hire for Liverpool.

• 31:35Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, I don't know. I'm just sad that we're not gonna be, I'm gonna miss, I already missed the World Cup. I was depressed last week. The one day, we didn't, the first day, we didn't have a game since the tournament started. There was that one day, I think it was Wednesday. We didn't have a game and I was like, I'm gonna kill myself.

• 31:50Speaker 01

  That was tough.

• 31:52Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 31:52Speaker 01

  I, I am going to really, really miss it. I'm really gonna miss the, I was in Philly over the weekend and like, there were four or five bars in this neighborhood that I was in that were all spilling out like hundreds of people out under the street, watching, watching England Norway. And I was like, this is, this is crazy. This doesn't have, like, this barely happens for the Philadelphia Eagles.

• 32:16Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. Really? More than the Eagles?

• 32:19Speaker 01

  I think it's just the, it's the summer. I think it's the summer, people are day drinking. It's nice out and everybody has like gotten into this and started to like, right at the moment where I think it's reached its peak, it's going away, which is always the way with the World Cup.

• 32:33Adam Friedland?

  It's just hard right now because it's, we're gonna, we're losing ball and Lindsey Graham hurt, you know?

• 32:43Adam Friedland?

  I was, we were texting about it. You said he was your favorite one.

• 32:47Speaker 01

  He's my favorite senator ever.

• 32:48Adam Friedland?

  You know what my first thought was when I heard he died?

• 32:52Adam Friedland?

  Is that Senate lost, lost a big talent?

• 32:56Adam Friedland?

  Listen, I didn't think he was a good guy, but listen, he was a razzle dazzle. He was razzle dazzle.

• 33:03Adam Friedland?

  Anyway, uh, guys, we'll be back Friday. We are having in person. We're having a finale. Chris and I are wearing suits. We're gonna have celebrity guests. Charlie XCX, The Weeknd, uh, who else?

• 33:20Speaker 01

  Karen Bass.

• 33:21Adam Friedland?

  It's LA. Yeah, Karen Bass. We're gonna get, who else? Uh, Cassie Vanderpump Rules. Uh, who else?

• 33:29Speaker 01

  Uh, Shohei Ohtani. Yeah, Van.

• 33:33Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, uh, Harvey, Harvey, uh, Harvey from TMZ.

• 33:37Speaker 01

  Maybe Bill will come by. Who knows?

• 33:40Adam Friedland?

  I thought he's Mahalo's style right now.

• 33:42Speaker 01

  I, I mean, he's, he's a mysterious dude. You never know where he's gonna pop up.

• 33:45Adam Friedland?

  You think he's a, Bill comes back from vacation, like, you know, when someone goes to Jamaica and they have like a shell or they have like cornrows? You think like, there's gonna be like a Hawaii style thing? He's gonna be like a behe? What, or like?

• 33:59Adam Friedland?

  I don't know if that's a real word in Hawaii, but it's like a boo hoo, a, it's like a poco behe. Yeah, I was on vacation with my, my friends and we kept making up fake Hawaii words. It's probably offensive.

• 34:09Speaker 01

  Were you in Hawaii when you were doing it or were you in like?

• 34:12Adam Friedland?

  No, no, no, we're in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Yeah. A boo hoo, a behe, a poco behe. Yeah, dude, whatever. I, you cut that, I'm sure that'll get Chris in a lot of trouble because it was his idea to say that Hawaii's Hawaii, Hawaii stuff. So, um, it's been a great World Cup and Chris and I are doing a daily transfer, daily, four hours every morning.

• 34:35Speaker 01

  Yeah, Twitch stream.

• 34:36Adam Friedland?

  Twitch stream, us, Fabrizio, uh, David Ornstein.

• 34:41Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 34:42Adam Friedland?

  And, uh, Jimmy Seville. All right.

• 34:47Adam Friedland?

  Why, why? I just, I'm tired, guys. Sports is going away.

• 34:54Speaker 01

  It's back in like three weeks.

• 34:57Adam Friedland?

  For what?

• 34:57Speaker 01

  The prem.

• 35:00Adam Friedland?

  They're gonna die. We're gonna have eight players injured. That's how I knew England were gonna win. I was like, Saka and Rice aren't injured enough. Literally. What's wrong with Rice? What does he have? Back. Oh, no. Uh, uh, uh, nerves. It's his, uh, no, he's not nervous. He would never be. Uh, it's, uh, what's it called? Uh? Does he have explosive diurea? Why was he, what, he was being isolated though? No, that's Gary Lineker and Paul Pierce.

• 35:29Adam Friedland?

  Do you think Paul Pierce and Gary Lineker ever like squatted up and they were like,

• 35:34Adam Friedland?

  that would be great if you got the two of them together, like a 30 for 30, like short. Yeah. Like, kind of like when like Kobe and Shaq had that first, like, like that special. We had Lineker, Paul Pierce. The diaper boy, the diaper boys.

• 35:53Adam Friedland?

  Great pod. Wallace is a podcast with him. Should I ask him if he's ever linked up with Lineker?

• 35:59Adam Friedland?

  You should ask him if he knows who Lineker is. I would like to know. I mean, I'm sure they're on like the, the listserv. They're on the WhatsApp. The WhatsApp. I mean, I put my pants on an episode of Comes Out. That's how I know. Yeah, you're on that WhatsApp. All right, brother. All right, partner. I'll, I'll see you Friday. Guys will be back Friday. Pre-see the finals. We're gonna do an award show. It's gonna be an award show, uh, uh, for, we're gonna have most of the players that, uh, are out in the World Cup. Live and present, I'm gonna give an award to Brielle and Molo for biggest, biggest, uh, you know, betrayal of his nation with on a yellow, taking him to dive. You know who never did? Jake LaMotta. Okay, bye, guys.

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