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When the player runs up and takes a quick after the whistle, it's almost like the situation is controlling them.
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Yeah.
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Versus them controlling the situation.
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When you have a plan, right?
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Separations in the preparation, when you have a place to go to execute, and then you could focus on that execution.
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You know, we always used to stay in Chicago, the process is fearless.
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Welcome to Limitless Minds, the podcast where curiosity meets greatness.
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If you're ready to discover what it takes to be truly limitless and push beyond your own limits, you're in the right place.
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So we're gonna find a way, Travis.
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Find find uh a way.
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I mean, I should yeah, if I were training out in this weather right now, it'd be epic.
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Be epic training videos.
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Just me out there doing push-ups in the grass.
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I'd be able to do like five.
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But uh I can I could just grab your pickleball and run around.
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I could edit, I could edit five into fifty, no problem.
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That's good.
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I like I like that.
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I like that editing five and a fifty.
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I don't know if I've ever told you the thousand push-up story.
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Ever maybe you read it in chapter, it's in chapter like eight.
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Okay, I haven't gotten to eight yet.
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What what's the thousand push-up story?
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I did a thousand push-ups in in less than twenty four hours.
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Oh no, no, I did get that.
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Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Crazy.
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Like it is, and so at what point, because because you're just basically you're you're you're just doing them throughout the day, right?
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Yeah, just drop and do them, just drop and do them, just like every 15 minutes.
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Let me hit 25, 20, you know, whatever.
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Yeah, what was the most you would do at once?
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I started off hot.
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I did 50 for like the first hour.
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I would do 50 every day.
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This is gonna be no problem, right?
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And then after the third 50, I quickly realized that maybe 30 was a better number.
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And then after the two hours, I was like, How can I get through 15 of these things?
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Oh my god.
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Yeah.
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Because at that point, I was like at like 300 or 400, right?
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And I still had like 600 to go.
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But you did it, yeah.
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You did it.
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Yeah.
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My my son, I showed my son a video two years ago of this kid, um, and his goal was just to run 24 miles in 24 hours, and it was to basically do just a mile, I just have to do a mile an hour, right?
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And so, and so I showed my son that up again.
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We were up here in Michigan for the summer.
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He's like, Oh, dad, I totally want to do that.
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He's like, But I don't want to start at midnight.
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Like, maybe what if I start at like five?
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If I start at 5 a.m.
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and I'll run X amount of miles.
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Yeah.
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You know, you know, sometimes like he ran like, you know, sometimes he ran like four miles, five miles, six miles.
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Um, and then sometimes he would just run a mile, and then he knew he had X amount of time to rest until the next one.
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Uh, but he ended up doing it.
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Yeah, he had he had an awesome time doing it.
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That's awesome.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Slow, slow and steady wins the race, Travis.
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Slow and steady, baby.
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Unless your name's Mbappe.
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And that's what we're gonna talk about today.
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Fast and loose.
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Fast and loose.
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Welcome back, everybody, to you guys just uh you know, you're kind of eavesdropping on Travis and I just talking BS right now.
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And we are we are gonna talk a little World Cup today.
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This isn't this gonna be a shorter episode of fire.
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No one else can mess with him because Josh is on fire.
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No one else can mess with him because you know where that started?
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I heard the story.
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Okay, what's the story?
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What do you got?
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Do you know where it started?
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No, Wigan Athletic.
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Wigan, no kidding.
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It started as a video of a Wigan fan, and he was playing that song and singing it just like into his camera, yeah, into his microphone.
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Uh Wigan then picked that up when they won something that year, and they started doing it, and then all of a sudden it went boof.
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Then the stadium started singing it at Wigan, and then it just went viral.
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But ding! See you later.
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Yeah, and that song had come out like five years before and was kind of like uh yeah, yeah.
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It's like a eh, it's just out there song.
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I can attest, right?
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And then now all of a sudden it's it's it's everywhere.
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You it's it's the St.
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Louis University men's soccer team post, it's the locker room post-win song.
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Player of the game gets the gets the uh the nut to put onto the screw.
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That's how that's how we do things, right?
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We add every win, we add a uh a screw to the bolt, right?
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Because by the end of the season, we want to have a bolt that's filled with you know, packed with screws.
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And so the player of the game gets the screw, he screws it on in front of all the guys, and all the guys start doing that.
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So great.
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That's good.
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The listeners have already uh shut off this podcast.
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No, they are pumps.
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They're an inside screw.
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What an inside screw inside screws.
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They got the origin of the fire song, they got they got into the St.
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Louis University locker room.
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That's good.
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Because I know I know if you like St.
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Louis soccer, then you definitely love the World Cup.
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And that that's our topic today.
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We I was I was trying to go there with Mbappe earlier, but we took a different transition, which is fine.
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We like random transitions, and that's kind of where we're at, double T.
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So let me ask you this.
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I'm gonna we're gonna just kind of what I think we'll do is we are already into the second round.
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We are in it just by the time the Germans the Germans are home by the time people are listening to this podcast.
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By the time this pod comes out, uh, it'll be next week already.
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So the USA is playing tonight, yes, thus the red, white, and blue.
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Uh, although it is an Arsenal jersey, it is red, white, and blue.
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I mean, this is a little let me show you.
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I'm a little dark in here, right?
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There's yeah, yeah, that's a USA transnational team.
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There we go.
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There we go.
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Yeah, beautiful.
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Love that.
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And so they're playing tonight.
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I'm excited about that.
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But what have been some things that maybe surprised you so far?
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And and I have obviously a couple too, I'll add in.
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But what for you, Travis?
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What what are some of the things that during this World Cup in the United States, Canada, and Mexico have surprised you so far?
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Yeah, the surprises, the surprises for me, I mean, surprises, not surprises.
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Uh uh, but but I think you have to look at uh the dominant teams, even if you're a dominant country, how difficult it is to win soccer matches, right?
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And what what I love about soccer and the World Cup just brings it out.
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The World Cup just brings it out because in a lot of ways, once you get to the knockout round, it is a single elimination tournament.
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And and Josh, you and I know not much of soccer is is single elimination tournaments, right?
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All your all your pro leagues, right?
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They play their table, even Champions League, until you get to the final, it's usually two legs, right?
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So you might have a bad game, you can you can get them back in the second game, but you know, you get to the knockout round, and obviously there were so many great surprises in the uh in the group play.
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You know, just it's it's been the uh the the story uh you know the the tournament of the obscure goalkeeper, right, that stands on his head and gets a result against you know these massive soccer countries.
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Um, but it but it just to me, you know, I think part of the obvious it's the beautiful game because it's it's the beauty, it's the it's the grace, it's the ticky tiki tikky, like it's such a beautiful, but but part of for me, it's the world's game, and what makes it so beautiful is that is that uh Cape Verde can stand on the same field with the Giants of the world.
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And if you just make it really, really difficult to score, you can hang, right?
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Paraguay, third place finisher, US destroyed them, right?
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Paraguay, they just had to hang in there, hang in there, get the pens, and at that point it's anyone's match.
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And so there's all of the dice there.
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There's no other sport, there's no other sport where there can be such a range in ability and talent from one team to another, and the lower team can prevail in the end.
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And I just think it, I just and it just makes it such a such an amazing, amazing when you go like you had no right, we had we had no right to win the game, or they had no right to win the game.
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But guess what?
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That's why you play the game.
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So it's just it's been awesome.
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What about for what about for you?
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I I just think that the biggest surprise for me has been I think we forget like how beautiful the World Cup is because there's a couple things.
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First of all, the last time, uh as you know, it was in Qatar, but it was also during the winter, yeah.
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So it was a little different, right?
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It was like, huh, was you know, and so and then the one before that the US wasn't in, right?
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So it's it's kind of like this forgotten thing about how beautiful the opportunity for countries and cultures to meet and to connect, and like there's this uh you and I have talked about it before, but this game more than any other game transcends sport universal language, it it transcends sport.
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I was in uh I was in a uh Uber recently.
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My my driver was from Haiti, had an easy conversation.
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Yeah, let's just chat about the world cup, you know.
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And so, you know, he was all excited because they were just there.
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He was he was like, It's incredible.
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We have a country that doesn't even have lights half the time, yet we were made the world cup, you know, and he was just so happy about it.
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And you know, that those connections you saw it with um, you know, the the Scottish and and Boston, that's the obvious one, the Dutch with their orange army now, of course, going home as well, uh, after a uh after a defeat to a very, very, very good Morocco team, by the way.
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That's gonna be an interesting one.
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I'm I'm kind of curious to see where they go.
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Yeah, but also too, like Mexico and and the South Koreans, and then you know, there's just it's been it's just been really wonderful to see this pride of all the countries, including ours, which is you know, pretty divisive right now.
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But it's it's nice to see us all coming together behind a common goal, which is hoping that the US does well and moves forward and yeah, you know, all that good stuff.
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So, yeah, I think that that's been the biggest surprise to me is and it shouldn't have been, but it but and I also think prior to the World Cup, we heard all this negativity.
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The stadiums are gonna be empty, it's too expensive, it's uh gonna be a nightmare getting into the stadiums, and nobody even talks about that stuff anymore, right?
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Yeah, what overwhelmed the negativity, what overwhelmed the negativity was this four-letter word called love.
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I love it, and I love it.
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I think we forget the power of love sometimes, and this this sport can show us that.
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Yeah, you know, Josh, I love that because I saw someone post, they're like the big winner of the World Cup so far has been just been people, humanity.
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Right?
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It's it's exposed, right?
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When you get when you get the politics out of the way, you get you get the you know, you get these governmental leaders out of the way from you know doing theirs doing their stuff.
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And when you get people, people with people, people talking to people, people watching a game, people just coming together in the spirit of community and and and cultures, and and to see how to see how foreigners have embraced America and to see how Americans have braced foreigners in the country, it's just it just reinforces the idea that at the heart of each of us, we're all so very similar.
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And when you remove the politics and you remove the the geopolitical issues, like we're just we're just people.
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Like we wanna, you know, we want to have a healthy life, we want to have access, right?
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We want to have access to clean water, we want to have access to opportunity, we just wanna, you know, and and we we all relate on that level and throw a soccer ball in the middle that we can all rally around um and just and just have fun, right?
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Like just be human and have fun.
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And so um, you know, FIFA is no less corrupt today than they were two weeks ago.
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Yeah, the world, the world is no less um uh scary or you know, there's uh than it was two weeks ago.
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But but man, uh when you when you shine, it's a good example too of what what you magnify grows, right?
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It's energy flows for attention because when we actually put the spotlight on people and humanity, we actually see um that there's a lot of good, and like you said, love there to magnify.
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You know what else it is too?
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It's like, okay, so we're we're creating the recipe, and and the recipe is removing all this negativity, removing all this like BS from politics, removing all these different and then adding in a sprinkle of gratitude.
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And I think that that has been really powerful as well, just the the genuine gratitude that that people have had for our country, um, the things that we take for granted now shining bright, yeah, fuckies, right?
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That's like you okay, oh yeah, that's amazing.
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I was laughing, I went to Costco yesterday, uh, and I was in Costco, and I was just like, I'm imagine being from Europe and rolling into a Costco and just being like, What the heck?
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Or from Cabo Verde, yes, and and going into a Costco or from wherever.
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And it's just it's just like I was just kind of laughing to myself a little bit about it and just enjoying being in there and and and I've always been I've always been one who goes into Costco and was like, Oh my god, it's so overwhelming.
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The lights I get this, but yesterday I was just kind of like really at peace with it, and just I was just I was excited about it.
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Um, just so you know, our producer just put in to the chat that TSA has has confiscated like no all that ranch dressing gallons of ranch dressing, which just goes to tell me TSA loves ranch.
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That's it, man.
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TSA loves ranch, the TSA loves or we need to start a business where we make homemade ranch dressing in France or wherever, yeah.
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Right.
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We'll just add a little, we'll we'll just add a little like a little uh at the end of it.
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So easy to make.
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It's in Valley, yeah.
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Just do that, do that.
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Yeah, um, who has been which team players, etc.
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for you have stood out um in in in any way?
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I'm gonna throw that they in any way.
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It could be how they're talented or how they go about their business or whatever.
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What which teams for you, players, etc.
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What stood out for you in terms of that?
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Yeah.
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Well, and and the other thing too, I just love what is it, was it nine of the nine of the ten African nation countries qualify for the knockout round?
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Eight or nine or nine of ten.
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I'm trying to remember the stat.
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Yeah, actually got one kicking off right now, Josh, big one.
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But uh Angleterre.
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Yeah, and so I I think for years, you know, people have been like, like, why, you know, why can't you know any of the African nations make a make a legitimately long run?
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And I think this is the tournament, especially when you expanded the field.
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We talk about access in this world, right?
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Give, right, the African nations were always limited to the number of spots they had available for the World Cup.
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So what do we do?
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We expand the field, you give, you give countries more opportunity, and we see the biggest surprises of this tournament have been what what some of these African nations have been able to do is against some of the European or South American big boys.
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And just to see, we know what it does for those countries, but just to see, this is gonna be a pivotal moment for so many of these countries in a generation, the next generation, um, seeing what's possible at the world stage.
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And I I think you're just gonna see, you know, obviously, like the the success that Morocco has had in the last World Cup and what they're having right now, but I just think you're gonna see uh just an explosion of um from these African countries, uh, just even more so what we've already seen.
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Yeah.
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Expectation, Josh.
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You and I know, right?
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In the mental space, expectation can really, really make it you can can can stunt our performance sometimes when when we we've got so much internal, external expectation we put on ourselves, which can be unnecessary pressure.
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And you look at the stars of the World Cup who came in with tremendous expectation, are delivering, they're showing out, and Bappe, good lord.
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Uh uh Holland gets right, like Holland gets the game winner at the end of the game, and then you've got the guy like it for us Americans, people are like, well, of course Messi's dominating in the MLS because it's the MLS and the MLS isn't any good.
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Well, let's see how he does in a World Cup.
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Oh, right.
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Oh, he's dominating there too at 38 years old.
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Okay.
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Dominating the world.
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Maybe the MLS could get a little bit more love.
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And so I just love to see, I love the stars being the stars.
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And uh, and and then on the for me, on the the opposite end of the spectrum is the opportunities, you know, even though Haiti doesn't get out, Haiti, Haiti finally getting to the big stage.
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Yeah, um, and then you see a Cape Verde, you see a Congo, right?
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You see, you see these countries, it's like, give me the opportunity, let me show you what we can do.
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And the stars, the stars are showing up, and the the the new countries, the younger countries are basically saying, Hey, we deserve it, we deserve a seat at the table too.
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Um and uh when you have Germany and the Netherlands go home on the same day, and again, to put this into perspective for the casual soccer fan, the round of 32, this it didn't exist before.
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Nope.
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So it is now easier to get out of your group, but there is an extra knockout round that you need to play in, which is the round of 32.
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So the fact that Germany and Netherlands lost in the round of 32, it's the equivalent of them not getting out of their group in any previous World Cup.
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Yeah.
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And so it just says so much about uh the parody, uh the parody uh of this tournament and uh just how great it is to see, you know, uh the Davids versus Goliaths.
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And we've already had a couple happen.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Uh for me, the that stuff has been really interesting, just seeing the you know, the the keeper for Paraguay, by the way, I think he's probably like six foot eight.
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The dude is on in his is uh I'm yeah, I don't know where he plays right now, but I'm sure he's gonna be in some big European club very, very soon.
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Yeah, um, that has been awesome, you know, seeing these Giants.
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Although I gotta say the Morocco, the Morocco Dutch Holland game, the Netherlands game, sorry, it felt like Morocco was not an underdog.
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And no, to be fair, they're the seventh ranked country in the world in soccer, and they made the semifinals the last time.
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So they're they're solid, they're really good.
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Uh player and deserve and deserve to win the game.
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Yeah, they didn't.
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It was the opposite, it was a deserved win.
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Yeah, had Netherlands won, you would have looked the score line and said, Well, of course, the Netherlands should have won, but had you watched the game, you would have been like, Oh man, if if I can't believe the Netherlands stole that, yes, yeah, exactly.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And they do see, I'm sad that the Netherlands are going home because best uniforms, yeah.
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Unmo unbelievable.
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I have to get that warm-up top, the orange like hoodie warm-up top, it's spectacular.
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Yeah, um, and then also the you know, the crowd, you know, the the the I was looking forward to them coming back to Houston again.
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Oh my gosh, having this like yeah, crowd, uh, you know, the with the bus and everything.
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But that being said, for me, one of the most impressive teams, and and and I think I I always talk about you know, like I started this and I said love and gratitude, and and I'm just appreciative of when thing when people and countries and and players and coaches, they just do things with class.
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And for me, that was Japan.
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Japan, baby, and so Japan, yeah, you know, their fans cleaning up the stands afterwards, their coach apologizing to every single player, and you could see how much respect the Brazilians had for them.
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And it was really interesting listening to Ancelotti.
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I don't know if you saw it, but Carlo Ancelotti, the manager of Brazil, when uh Gabriel Martinelli, Arsenal great, scored the goal in the in the in in extra in injury time.
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And and I screamed, by the way, Arsenal.
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I didn't scream Brazil, Arsenal, um, when he scored, uh, which is hilarious to me.
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Uh, they're just like my little little my kids, you know, like excited about there.
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He didn't, you know, Ancelotti was cool as a cucumber.
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He didn't cheer, he didn't run up and down the sidelines, he didn't jump into the crowd with his family or anything.
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He just was like shook his head and walked the other way.
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And they asked him about it afterwards, and he said, I have so much respect for Japan.
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They played so hard, they played so well, and to lose that game, I've been on the other side of it, it's heartbreaking, and so I wanted to show them respect.
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Unreal.
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And then you saw Cunha from Brazil consoling the Japanese players, and you talked about it on the last COD podcast about uh of the US players consoling the Iranian players 1-0.
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And I just think that stuff matters so much, and and we talked earlier too about hey, what do I want my kids to see?
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Absolutely, and that's it.
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I want to see that class, that humanity, that connection, that empathy, that love.
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And and you saw it there with with Japan.
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Um, because of how they held themselves, they can walk away, even though they lost with a ton of pride.
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And Brazil has the utmost respect for them.
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And and and you saw the class of Brazilian players as well, too, where they weren't showboating, they weren't, you know, they they just they they were respectful as well.
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And so I I love that.
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I thought that that game, more than any for me, really showed through.
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And and uh, and and it's the stuff that I think that makes the World Cup so so special.
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Yeah, um when you can have that.
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Like you, yeah, it's all the stuff.
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It's I mean, it's obviously on the field, but it it's the stuff surrounding it.
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Uh, like you said, Japan and cleaning the stadiums.
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This is the third straight World Cup where they have gone out in heartbreaking fashion, like brutal, tear your heart out, you know, um, pull the rug out, and yet it doesn't change their class, right?
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They still they still stay behind and clean the stadium, they still leave the locker room immaculately cleaned when they check out, they leave a thank you note in the locker room.
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They weren't the only country, by the way, to leave thank you notes um when they were leaving locker rooms and stadiums.
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Multiple countries did that.
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And, you know, it's like as Americans, I don't think we ever fully, fully grasp really what this means to other countries, right?
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Josh, I mean, I don't know if you've seen reports.
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Uruguay who didn't make it out of the group round, they had a terrible World Cup.
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This is amazing.
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For those of you who haven't heard this, this is for those of you who don't know, right?
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So Uruguay who who, you know, South American superpower.
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Two time, two time World Cup champion, have four stars on their shirt.
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You know what?
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They have four stars in their shirt?
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Four stars for two times.
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They have four stars on their shirt.
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What's what's the other two for?
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They won the two, they won the two world cups, but they also won prior to the World Cup, the Olympics were the World Cup.
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Oh, so they had two Olympics as well prior to 1930.
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Yeah.
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They have two for the Olympics as well.
00:22:17.519 --> 00:22:21.839
Well, Josh, you and I know how are those players getting home to Uruguay after the World Cup.
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Yeah.
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Well, let's see.
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How do most countries travel when they go to a World Cup?
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They travel.
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You are fine first class.
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You're as nice travel because I mean you're the national team.
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Win or lose?
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We're gonna there's our country is gonna take care of you.
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Yeah.
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So no, no.
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I'm not sure who it was, whether it was the prime minister, the president, or or whoever it was, the governing body in Uruguay, basically told the players, you need to get home by yourselves.
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We're not paying for your we're not paying for your trip.
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Find your own way home.
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They did not pay for their return tickets home.
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That's what happens when you lose in Uruguay.
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That's I mean, that's it's interesting too, because Pachatino, our manager for the US, talked about how our culture sometimes rewards losing, which I thought was an amazing take.
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Yeah.
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And he was talking about relegation in Europe and basically every other league in the world.
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Yes.
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The there are there's you know, there's the major leagues and then there's the minor leagues.
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If you're thinking baseball, that's it.
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Tiered, yep, a tiered system.
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So the English Premier League, and below the English Premier League is another league called the championship.
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Below that is league one.
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And if you finish in the bottom three, if you finish in the bottom three of the league, you get punted down to the league below you and you make less money, you play in worse conditions, it's harder in a lot of ways.
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Um, and we don't have that in the United States.
00:23:43.440 --> 00:23:55.519
Well, actually, Josh, Josh, let me ask you if you're if you're a uh a billionaire in the in the United States who owns an NFL franchise and you finish last, what what do you get in the offseason?
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You get the number one draft pick.
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You get the best player ever.
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You don't have to go, you know, what's really interesting is you don't have to play in the USFL the next year.
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You don't you you you actually get rewarded for Birmingham Science if they win the I think it's called the UFL now.
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If they win that, they don't get bumped up into the NFL.
00:24:13.839 --> 00:24:18.160
Yeah, it doesn't sound like it doesn't sound very American or capitalist, doesn't it Josh?
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It kind of sounds like the opposite of capitalism when we reward the bottom, huh?
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Interesting.
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Why would billionaires not want to have relegation, Josh?
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Because it cost them a ton and a ton and a ton of money.
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No risk.
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No risk.
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Yeah, so I don't know.
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We'll see though.
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I'm telling you, it I mean, the good news is the MLS is going to the the world schedule, they're not gonna be on this random schedule where they play uh during the summer anymore.
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They're gonna they're gonna switch it up and they're gonna do what basically the rest of the world does, which is late August through uh late May, early June.
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Um, so they're gonna do that as a as a schedule, which is awesome, matches up.
00:24:57.920 --> 00:24:59.519
I think that'll help us a lot of ways.
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And I'm telling you, sooner there's 30 teams right now in the MLS.
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30.
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Yeah.
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To put that in perspective, in the in the English Premier League, the best league, Harold is the best league in the world, there's 20 teams.
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Yeah.
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So I can see that um potentially changing, and maybe maybe they're trying to get to 40 teams and then they'll have you know MLS one and MLS two or something like that.
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It would be great if they did.
00:25:20.960 --> 00:25:26.880
Well, Josh, hey, in the spirit of Successful Leaves Clues, I know this isn't technically a Success Leaves Clues podcast, but here we are.
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We're getting into the the meat of uh of this tournament so far.
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We've already seen two penalty shootouts, yes, right?
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The day after penalty shootouts, I got I got contacted by a reporter just via text.
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He's like, hey, do you got any data and research for me on um the psychological side of penalty shootouts?
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And I was like, Yeah, I I do.
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Like I've got, you know, not necessarily stats, but I definitely have like when I was with the national team, we brought in kind of what was considered the the expert, the guy over in Europe who he wrote a book.
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Was he from Norway?
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Because I think I may have met him or Finland or something like that.
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I'm trying, I'm trying, I can't remember if he's a Scandinavian country or not, but uh he just spent like the last five years researching every every uh uh European um uh or world cup championship shootout.
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What did he find out, Travis?
00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:16.000
I'm curious about this.
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The science is the science is amazing, and and you know, uh questions such as do you want your shooters to be younger or older?
00:26:24.160 --> 00:26:29.519
Right, and believe it or not, statistically, younger shooters tend to perform better in shootouts.
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And now you and I can talk about why that might be the case, right?
00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:38.960
There's a lot of you know naivety in youth, there's a lot of you know um confidence in youth.
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Why, Josh?
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Why would you be naive and confident when you're young?
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Because you haven't been punched in the face over and over and over again, right?
00:26:46.160 --> 00:27:10.640
Where like, oh, this is just a big game compared to once we're a little bit longer on the tooth, when we're start to look at maybe the the bigger picture, and again, we talk about expectations, some of the other stuff when we're older, some of the uh the ramifications and and what this really means because we've had a career to understand things maybe more fully, yeah, that can actually be a uh a hindrance to you as a penalty shooter.
00:27:10.720 --> 00:27:17.359
So younger, younger shooters tend to um have a higher, higher success rate and penalty shootouts.
00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:27.599
Um, and then things, Josh, such as from the from the mental side of things, um uh and and for the listeners who are watching this, here's something really interesting to pay attention to.
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When the referee blows the whistle for the shooter, the shooter can wait as long as they want before they actually take the kick.
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Interesting.
00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:40.880
They can take they can stand there for five minutes if they want before they strike the ball.
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And the research will show you the longer you wait after the whistle, the higher your success rate.
00:27:47.119 --> 00:27:48.160
That totally makes sense.
00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:48.640
Yeah.
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Because, Josh, as you and I know, because shooters are being trained, right?
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The whistle blows, this is on your time, not their time.
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The goalkeeper is now waiting for you.
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This is on your time.
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The longer you make the goalkeeper wait, now they'll do their jumping around and jumping around everything.
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The longer you make them wait, now they they start to get in their head more.
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And what do you have the ability to do?
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You can take your time, watch the shooters take these enormous deep breaths, right after the whistle.
00:28:16.240 --> 00:28:24.799
You'll see them standing there, you'll just see I was watching it the other day, and it's just a the big deep breath, and you know in blue out red.
00:28:25.039 --> 00:28:28.720
In blue out red almost like in blue, or if not the exact same thing.
00:28:28.880 --> 00:28:32.000
And then they're going through, they're going through their mental routine.
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Yeah.
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And then you see the shooters who you can read, you can read the face, you can read the discomfort.
00:28:39.440 --> 00:28:43.599
You you know, the the players that that maybe rush it after the whistle.
00:28:43.680 --> 00:28:44.319
Why, Josh?
00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:45.440
Because they just want it to be over with.
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They want to be over with, want it to be over with, compared to owning the process, owning the process, sticking with the process, trusting the process.
00:28:55.839 --> 00:29:07.039
And then you start to see from again the mental side of things, shooters who go up and already know where they're going compared to shooters who are going to go up and decide once they get there.
00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:07.519
Yeah.
00:29:07.759 --> 00:29:11.759
And you know, we we we talk about you want to take the thinking out of the equation.
00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:18.559
And so most shooters know if you execute the perfect penalty kick, whether the keeper guess is right or not doesn't matter.
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Yeah.
00:29:20.079 --> 00:29:20.480
Right.
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Compared to, and so if you trust yourself and you trust the process, and I read you know, one of my favorite stories, Josh, was during the 2021 Nations League final uh against Mexico when Christian Pelusic took his his his famous penalty shot upper 90 against Mexico to put us up 3-2.
00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:39.519
The the the play was at V A R.
00:29:39.599 --> 00:29:45.440
So for like five minutes, Christian knows he's getting a PK and he's walking around, he's walking around, he's thinking, Where am I gonna shoot?
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Where should I shoot?
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Where should I shoot?
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Where should I shoot?
00:29:47.359 --> 00:29:51.119
So he walks up to Tyler Adams and says, Tyler, where should I put it?
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And Tyler says, upper 90, upper bins.
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And and Christian was like, sweet, the decision was made for him.
00:29:58.000 --> 00:30:01.759
Yeah, he took took it, take off the thinking instead of thinking, where am I gonna do it?
00:30:01.839 --> 00:30:03.759
Oh, yeah, that's that's where I'm gonna put it now.
00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:06.799
I'm gonna ask the captain, the captain tells me there, good, done.
00:30:06.960 --> 00:30:10.319
Yeah, now I'm focused on execution, nothing else matters.
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There's no thinking involved, just execute.
00:30:13.680 --> 00:30:36.559
That's that I mean, that's such great advice, too, just for just for life, you know, like how often do we overthink the stuff and then it bunches us up and and then we don't move forward, and you know, choose and execute, and then yeah, you know, if the if the keeper's ridiculous and can somehow touch the upper quadrant of the top 90 or the side netting, tip your cap.
00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:38.160
But you know, did I hit it well?
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And then you can look at yourself.
00:30:39.599 --> 00:30:43.599
The other thing that jumped out at me there too is is is the locus of control.
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So when the player runs up and takes a quick after the whistle, it's almost like the situation is controlling them, yeah, versus them controlling the situation.
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And I think when you have a plan, right?
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Separations in the preparation, when you have a plan, when you have a place to go to execute, and then you could focus on that execution.
00:31:04.559 --> 00:31:07.599
You know, we always used to say in Chicago, the process is fearless.
00:31:07.759 --> 00:31:09.200
Yep, the process is fearless.
00:31:09.279 --> 00:31:14.079
So don't we just execute my process, and it doesn't matter that this is PK's.
00:31:14.240 --> 00:31:23.440
And the other thing too is if a if a if uh um the players, if they really step back and they think about the stats, I think the save rate is only like 15 to 20 percent total.
00:31:23.519 --> 00:31:24.079
Yeah, yeah.
00:31:24.240 --> 00:31:27.920
So you have a four out of five chance of being successful.
00:31:28.000 --> 00:31:33.599
And then if you add on this other stuff, now you're you're you're buying more lottery tickets, Travis Thomas.
00:31:33.759 --> 00:31:34.160
Yes, you are.
00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:38.160
Yes, you're buying more lottery tickets, you control what you can control, and then you execute.
00:31:38.319 --> 00:31:40.000
Man, that that's you know, that that's great stuff.
00:31:40.079 --> 00:31:42.799
I hope hopefully our national team's listening to this if we go to PK's.
00:31:43.039 --> 00:31:43.920
I'm sure I'm sure they are.
00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:45.440
I'm sure they're we're in the library right now.
00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:55.920
Actually, the part of the story that Travis didn't tell you with that bullish kick was like right as they were about to run out, Travis grabbed Christian and said, Hey, by the way, here's here's how you make this kick.
00:31:56.319 --> 00:32:02.319
I know I know you don't know how to do this, and I know that you're really bad at it in practice, all right, but don't think negative.
00:32:02.480 --> 00:32:04.000
Stop telling yourself you're awful.
00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:06.319
It was actually just the opposite, it was the opposite, Josh.
00:32:09.359 --> 00:32:13.519
He makes the kick and runs to the corner flag, he's mobbed by his players.
00:32:13.680 --> 00:32:19.920
If you if you see an old guy with gray hair in a red, there I am just jumping out and I wasn't supposed to be there.
00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:23.519
So I got I got my wrist slapped a little bit for that one, but it was it was fully worth it.
00:32:23.920 --> 00:32:24.559
It's totally worth it.
00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:28.640
Yeah, especially because you were telling him where to go and like as a keeper was that was all you.
00:32:31.839 --> 00:32:36.559
Hey, a couple other things to look out for too, Josh, which is which is pretty, which is pretty fun to look out for.
00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:40.079
For four penalty shootouts, which I'm guaranteed we're gonna go to one today, right?
00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:44.880
So when you're in penalty shootouts, I mean, if not today, next couple days, there's gonna be another couple of them.
00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:45.839
So here's here's the rule.
00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:49.200
You know, you'll you'll usually see both teams standing at the half line, right?
00:32:49.359 --> 00:32:51.200
The the shooters are out there, they're standing at the half line.
00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:59.359
Well, you know what the rule is teams have to stay behind the bubble, not the half line, behind the edge of the center of the bubble.
00:32:59.440 --> 00:32:59.599
Yeah.
00:32:59.759 --> 00:33:00.640
So what are you gonna see?
00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:03.119
And I saw it actually in the Netherlands match the other night.
00:33:03.279 --> 00:33:07.680
The um uh uh oh uh Morocco was on the half line.
00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:10.559
The Netherlands was online with the bubble.
00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:14.079
So their goal is get closer to your shooter, right?
00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:21.039
And so you want you want to get you want to get closer to the situation for the shooter as the shooter is walking to the penalty spot.
00:33:21.119 --> 00:33:23.279
That is a long lonely walk, right, Josh?
00:33:23.519 --> 00:33:24.720
Long lonely walk.
00:33:24.880 --> 00:33:31.920
So when they get there, the your your goalkeeper should be meeting you at the penalty spot, holding the ball.
00:33:32.079 --> 00:33:32.400
Yes.
00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:37.519
They meet you there, they hand you the ball, share a little motive, you know, a little encouragement.
00:33:37.599 --> 00:33:41.680
So you've got you've got psychologically, you've got someone there with you, you're not alone.
00:33:41.839 --> 00:33:57.680
And then, right, whether you make it or miss it, especially, well, if you make it, um, to really lean into you know, showing the energy, showing that burst, which is going to give your team a boost and your keeper a boost, and you know, a little bit of a shot to the uh emphasize.
00:33:58.319 --> 00:33:59.759
Emphasize it good, catch them winning.
00:33:59.920 --> 00:34:01.599
And if you miss it, this is super important.
00:34:01.759 --> 00:34:12.880
If you miss it, at least one of your players, if not two of your players from center or from the bubble, to come down, to come down and meet you and grab you and bring you back, yeah.
00:34:13.119 --> 00:34:15.119
So that you're not making that walk alone.
00:34:15.199 --> 00:34:21.280
Yeah, and so these are just some of the different that and that can that came from that that uh that that penalty expert.
00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:25.679
Just some of the different I heard I remember I remember I remember meeting that penalty expert.
00:34:25.760 --> 00:34:30.400
I forget his name, and I think it's like it's like it with a G, uh J O R.
00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:30.960
I don't know.
00:34:31.199 --> 00:34:37.360
Anna, can you get can you get into Google right now, Anna, and give us who is the penalty expert, our producer.
00:34:37.599 --> 00:34:39.679
I believe he's also from Norway as well.
00:34:39.760 --> 00:34:40.239
I'm not sure.
00:34:40.480 --> 00:34:41.519
I'm telling you, because I've met him.
00:34:42.320 --> 00:34:43.760
We're gonna find out where he's from.
00:34:43.920 --> 00:34:48.159
There's so much trivia on the line here, or there's so much trivia, there's so much trivia on the line.
00:34:48.239 --> 00:34:51.119
Yeah, I want to say it's like gear jort or something to that nature.
00:34:51.199 --> 00:34:51.920
I don't I don't know.
00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:55.760
But uh, but one of the other things was physical touch, yes, too.
00:34:55.920 --> 00:34:59.760
Physical touch, like yeah, gear gear jordette.
00:34:59.840 --> 00:35:00.239
That's him.
00:35:00.320 --> 00:35:00.800
That's him.
00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:01.840
Was that your guy?
00:35:02.079 --> 00:35:02.800
I can't remember.
00:35:02.960 --> 00:35:04.480
I can't remember, but it's your guy.
00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:06.159
You you totally you totally nailed it.
00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:06.960
Yeah, yeah.
00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:08.320
I because he's such a nice guy.
00:35:08.400 --> 00:35:09.840
I remember talking to him at multiple times.
00:35:09.920 --> 00:35:11.360
So physical touch, right?
00:35:11.440 --> 00:35:12.159
What what are the guys?
00:35:12.239 --> 00:35:19.920
The guys usually have their arms interlocked on their shoulders or in the but also too to the to the to the taker before he goes and when he comes back and the whole thing.
00:35:20.079 --> 00:35:21.760
It's it's just like really, really important.
00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:25.119
It helps him uh move past negativity faster, apparently.
00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:25.920
Yeah, yeah.
00:35:26.239 --> 00:35:26.800
That's pretty cool.
00:35:27.199 --> 00:35:27.679
Yeah, yeah.
00:35:27.760 --> 00:35:36.719
And I and I think there are like, you know, we're just talking about penalty kicks, but talk about team camaraderie and culture and in in the business world.
00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:46.559
You know, this is this is why the World Cup's awesome, because you can extrapolate all these lessons to your own companies and into your own leadership teams and and things of that nature.
00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:59.440
And so I think you know, what we've heard kind of today, successfully exclusive, is yeah, with the PKs, have a process, execute the process, come up with the plan before, let your attitude dictate the situation versus the situation dictating your attitude.
00:35:59.679 --> 00:36:00.079
Number one.
00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:03.519
Number two is you know, do things the right way, right?
00:36:03.679 --> 00:36:15.440
Have that have that culture of class, have that culture of um it's it's more about how you go about the business than then and and if you focus on how the the what's gonna take care of itself.
00:36:15.679 --> 00:36:16.320
Yeah, right.
00:36:16.400 --> 00:36:22.480
Like Japan is a winner, they are, they're winners, and I'm sure their whole country loves that team and has so much respect for it, right?
00:36:22.559 --> 00:36:25.039
Even though they took an L on the scoreboard, you know.
00:36:25.280 --> 00:36:26.400
So those are the big things for me.
00:36:26.480 --> 00:36:28.639
And then number three, love, baby.
00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:36.559
Open your heart up, open your heart up, accept, appreciate, have gratitude, learn, be open-minded, and grow.
00:36:36.719 --> 00:36:42.239
And I think if we take those things out of this World Cup, man, it's it's been a bigger success than than you could ever imagine.
00:36:42.559 --> 00:36:43.760
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
00:36:43.920 --> 00:37:00.559
And and I think, you know, it's one of those things where so many seeds have been planted, um, I think culturally, so many seeds have been planted um, you know, in in cities and different areas, you know, exposure to different cultures, you know, both from people coming to our country and and people in our country.
00:37:00.639 --> 00:37:05.199
And I and I think just the impact of that, you know, just can't be measured in the short term.
00:37:05.360 --> 00:37:11.760
Uh, which is again, like, you know, again, as someone, as someone myself, like I grew up playing soccer, it was it was my favorite sport.
00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:20.719
And, you know, to feel like you grew up playing a sport that no one cared about and no one knew about, and and to now, you know, again, I'm I'm old, but I'm not that old.
00:37:20.880 --> 00:37:32.000
And and to be in a in a country where there is such a not only a soccer literacy, but just an appreciation and a love for a game that's not America's game.
00:37:32.159 --> 00:37:33.519
It's the world's game.
00:37:33.840 --> 00:37:39.360
And uh, and to see, like you talked about, what a what a what a connection point that is, especially with different cultures.
00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:45.519
I I remember Josh and my my wife and I, when we got married, we went to Jamaica for our honeymoon and we were staying at a hotel.
00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:53.360
And I remember like looking out the window, and like in the like employee area of the hotel, there was a small-sided soccer field.
00:37:53.599 --> 00:37:53.920
Absolutely.
00:37:54.079 --> 00:37:55.920
And I was like, I wonder if I can go out there and play.
00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:58.880
So sure enough, I went out there and I was the only guest, right?
00:37:58.960 --> 00:38:06.960
I was the only white person, I was the only guest, and they kind of looked at me like, you're not supposed to be here, but then they're like, You want to play?
00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:08.480
I'm like, Of course I want to play.
00:38:08.639 --> 00:38:19.760
And it was like, you know, I'm out there playing with the staff, and and it's like the it like there is like there is no separation, there's no status when you're on the when you're playing, it's just it's just the game, and uh it really is.
00:38:19.920 --> 00:38:25.519
Yeah, I think I'm gonna add to that story in for two two things because honeymoon.
00:38:25.679 --> 00:38:35.440
On my honeymoon, I went to Brazil with my wife, and we went to this place called Ila Grande, which is an island out off of Rio that has no no roads, yeah, no, no vehicles on it at all.
00:38:35.599 --> 00:38:44.800
But I'll tell you what, they did have guaranteed two bamboo poles and a third bamboo toll pole tied to those two bamboo poles, and it made a and it made a goal on the beach.
00:38:44.880 --> 00:38:46.639
Yeah, and they were out there playing all the time.
00:38:46.800 --> 00:38:58.480
Yeah, and then the second one is a couple years ago I went to Stressa Italy, which is on Lake Majore, um, and there's a hotel there, and in the back of the hotel, there's a very similar thing where there's a little soccer pitch.
00:38:58.559 --> 00:38:58.800
Uh-huh.
00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:14.239
And my son and his buddy, Leo, who plays soccer here in the United States, they would sneak onto it and they would play all these kids from Africa who were, you know, the work, the kids of the workers that were in the hotels, and they were and they would play for two hours on this thing, and they had so much fun.
00:39:14.480 --> 00:39:16.000
And it that's what it's about, man.
00:39:16.079 --> 00:39:17.280
That's that's what this game is about.
00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:18.559
It brings people together.
00:39:18.719 --> 00:39:23.760
It's it's obviously it means a ton to every country person playing it.
00:39:23.920 --> 00:39:28.320
Um, but it also is is this game that brings the world together, and and I love it.
00:39:28.559 --> 00:39:29.119
So great.
00:39:29.199 --> 00:39:31.039
And we've still got about three weeks left, man.
00:39:31.119 --> 00:39:31.840
Two, three weeks.
00:39:32.079 --> 00:39:33.599
Do we is that how much we still got?
00:39:33.760 --> 00:39:34.320
Unbelievable.
00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:35.119
This is so awesome.
00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:36.320
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:39:36.480 --> 00:39:38.000
I know what I'm doing as soon as I get off this.
00:39:38.480 --> 00:39:41.920
I know we gotta wrap this thing up, but we got we got a big day right now.
00:39:42.559 --> 00:39:47.920
Right now, so they're you know, they've already had their water break and they're you know, they're hanging out, they're they're finishing up this the first half.
00:39:48.000 --> 00:39:50.320
So yeah, uh, but awesome, Travis.
00:39:50.400 --> 00:40:02.320
Thanks for coming on and and and and and and and teaching the listeners about how to play take penalties and uh also how to um you know execute in the business world as well.
00:40:02.559 --> 00:40:05.920
Josh, Josh, wait a not way to wait a hit, Dr.
00:40:06.079 --> 00:40:09.840
Gear Jordan on a way to be on it, way to be on it.
00:40:10.079 --> 00:40:13.519
He is, yeah, and I don't I think he's Norwegian, he's he's pretty spectacular, dude.
00:40:13.679 --> 00:40:15.119
Gunners, baby, gunners.
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Go on.
00:40:15.760 --> 00:40:16.800
It's red, white, and blue.
00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:17.599
That's why I'm wearing it.
00:40:17.679 --> 00:40:18.719
Red, white, and blue, baby.
00:40:18.880 --> 00:40:19.199
I love it.
00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:19.679
I love it.
00:40:19.760 --> 00:40:20.159
Here we go.
00:40:20.320 --> 00:40:21.599
USA big one tonight, baby.
00:40:21.679 --> 00:40:22.079
Here we go.
00:40:22.239 --> 00:40:22.559
Here we go.
00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:23.679
Huge, huge.
00:40:23.920 --> 00:40:29.440
Well, hopefully, uh, hopefully they do what the rest of Kaka Cap has done is and uh and and get out of the first round.
00:40:29.920 --> 00:40:30.320
Show out.
00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:30.880
Here we go.
00:40:31.119 --> 00:40:31.599
Show out.
00:40:31.760 --> 00:40:32.559
All right, buddy.
00:40:32.719 --> 00:40:33.599
Great to talk to you.
00:40:33.679 --> 00:40:38.880
Uh we'll be back with more probably next week or the week after about the World Cup.
00:40:39.039 --> 00:40:41.039
Uh, any other any other insights we have?
00:40:41.199 --> 00:40:44.960
Maybe we maybe we'll get former women's national team to win a little bit on this problem.
00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:50.159
Yes, we'll get kind of into that quarterfinal range, we'll get some quarterfinal predictions.
00:40:50.400 --> 00:40:51.280
Yeah, I love that.
00:40:51.440 --> 00:40:51.840
I love that.
00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:55.039
My my prediction right now, by the way, is France.
00:40:55.119 --> 00:40:55.920
They're they're just ridiculous.
00:40:56.159 --> 00:40:56.960
You mean their third team?
00:40:57.119 --> 00:41:00.320
France's third team went in the whole thing because they're that talented.
00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:01.199
Yeah.
00:41:01.599 --> 00:41:02.400
Possibly.
00:41:02.800 --> 00:41:04.800
Oh, hey, Josh, quick, quick stat for you.
00:41:04.880 --> 00:41:06.800
I don't know if I don't know if you've heard this trivia.
00:41:06.960 --> 00:41:11.679
Do you know how many players playing in this year's in this World Cup that were born in France?
00:41:11.920 --> 00:41:12.400
98.
00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:14.480
98, you nailed it.
00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:16.400
Bananas stat right there.
00:41:16.800 --> 00:41:18.400
Bananas stat, 98 players.
00:41:18.639 --> 00:41:19.039
Oh my god.
00:41:19.199 --> 00:41:19.440
Awesome.
00:41:19.599 --> 00:41:21.760
Hey Josh, you don't need to be sick to get better, brother.
00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:23.360
You don't have to be sick to get better.
00:41:24.239 --> 00:41:24.639
Boom.
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Have a great day, everybody.
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When the player runs up and takes a quick after the whistle, it's almost like the situation is controlling them.
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Yeah.
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Versus them controlling the situation.
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When you have a plan, right?
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Separations in the preparation, when you have a place to go to execute, and then you could focus on that execution.
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You know, we always used to stay in Chicago, the process is fearless.
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Welcome to Limitless Minds, the podcast where curiosity meets greatness.
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If you're ready to discover what it takes to be truly limitless and push beyond your own limits, you're in the right place.
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So we're gonna find a way, Travis.
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Find find uh a way.
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I mean, I should yeah, if I were training out in this weather right now, it'd be epic.
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Be epic training videos.
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Just me out there doing push-ups in the grass.
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I'd be able to do like five.
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But uh I can I could just grab your pickleball and run around.
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I could edit, I could edit five into fifty, no problem.
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That's good.
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I like I like that.
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I like that editing five and a fifty.
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I don't know if I've ever told you the thousand push-up story.
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Ever maybe you read it in chapter, it's in chapter like eight.
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Okay, I haven't gotten to eight yet.
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What what's the thousand push-up story?
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I did a thousand push-ups in in less than twenty four hours.
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Oh no, no, I did get that.
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Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Crazy.
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Like it is, and so at what point, because because you're just basically you're you're you're just doing them throughout the day, right?
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Yeah, just drop and do them, just drop and do them, just like every 15 minutes.
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Let me hit 25, 20, you know, whatever.
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Yeah, what was the most you would do at once?
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I started off hot.
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I did 50 for like the first hour.
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I would do 50 every day.
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This is gonna be no problem, right?
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And then after the third 50, I quickly realized that maybe 30 was a better number.
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And then after the two hours, I was like, How can I get through 15 of these things?
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Oh my god.
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Yeah.
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Because at that point, I was like at like 300 or 400, right?
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And I still had like 600 to go.
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But you did it, yeah.
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You did it.
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Yeah.
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My my son, I showed my son a video two years ago of this kid, um, and his goal was just to run 24 miles in 24 hours, and it was to basically do just a mile, I just have to do a mile an hour, right?
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And so, and so I showed my son that up again.
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We were up here in Michigan for the summer.
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He's like, Oh, dad, I totally want to do that.
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He's like, But I don't want to start at midnight.
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Like, maybe what if I start at like five?
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If I start at 5 a.m.
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and I'll run X amount of miles.
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Yeah.
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You know, you know, sometimes like he ran like, you know, sometimes he ran like four miles, five miles, six miles.
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Um, and then sometimes he would just run a mile, and then he knew he had X amount of time to rest until the next one.
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Uh, but he ended up doing it.
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Yeah, he had he had an awesome time doing it.
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That's awesome.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Slow, slow and steady wins the race, Travis.
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Slow and steady, baby.
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Unless your name's Mbappe.
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And that's what we're gonna talk about today.
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Fast and loose.
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Fast and loose.
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Welcome back, everybody, to you guys just uh you know, you're kind of eavesdropping on Travis and I just talking BS right now.
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And we are we are gonna talk a little World Cup today.
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This isn't this gonna be a shorter episode of fire.
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No one else can mess with him because Josh is on fire.
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No one else can mess with him because you know where that started?
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I heard the story.
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Okay, what's the story?
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What do you got?
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Do you know where it started?
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No, Wigan Athletic.
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Wigan, no kidding.
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It started as a video of a Wigan fan, and he was playing that song and singing it just like into his camera, yeah, into his microphone.
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Uh Wigan then picked that up when they won something that year, and they started doing it, and then all of a sudden it went boof.
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Then the stadium started singing it at Wigan, and then it just went viral.
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But ding! See you later.
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Yeah, and that song had come out like five years before and was kind of like uh yeah, yeah.
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It's like a eh, it's just out there song.
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I can attest, right?
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And then now all of a sudden it's it's it's everywhere.
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You it's it's the St.
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Louis University men's soccer team post, it's the locker room post-win song.
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Player of the game gets the gets the uh the nut to put onto the screw.
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That's how that's how we do things, right?
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We add every win, we add a uh a screw to the bolt, right?
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Because by the end of the season, we want to have a bolt that's filled with you know, packed with screws.
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And so the player of the game gets the screw, he screws it on in front of all the guys, and all the guys start doing that.
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So great.
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That's good.
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The listeners have already uh shut off this podcast.
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No, they are pumps.
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They're an inside screw.
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What an inside screw inside screws.
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They got the origin of the fire song, they got they got into the St.
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Louis University locker room.
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That's good.
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Because I know I know if you like St.
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Louis soccer, then you definitely love the World Cup.
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And that that's our topic today.
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We I was I was trying to go there with Mbappe earlier, but we took a different transition, which is fine.
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We like random transitions, and that's kind of where we're at, double T.
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So let me ask you this.
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I'm gonna we're gonna just kind of what I think we'll do is we are already into the second round.
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We are in it just by the time the Germans the Germans are home by the time people are listening to this podcast.
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By the time this pod comes out, uh, it'll be next week already.
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So the USA is playing tonight, yes, thus the red, white, and blue.
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Uh, although it is an Arsenal jersey, it is red, white, and blue.
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I mean, this is a little let me show you.
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I'm a little dark in here, right?
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There's yeah, yeah, that's a USA transnational team.
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There we go.
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There we go.
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Yeah, beautiful.
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Love that.
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And so they're playing tonight.
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I'm excited about that.
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But what have been some things that maybe surprised you so far?
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And and I have obviously a couple too, I'll add in.
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But what for you, Travis?
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What what are some of the things that during this World Cup in the United States, Canada, and Mexico have surprised you so far?
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Yeah, the surprises, the surprises for me, I mean, surprises, not surprises.
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Uh uh, but but I think you have to look at uh the dominant teams, even if you're a dominant country, how difficult it is to win soccer matches, right?
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And what what I love about soccer and the World Cup just brings it out.
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The World Cup just brings it out because in a lot of ways, once you get to the knockout round, it is a single elimination tournament.
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And and Josh, you and I know not much of soccer is is single elimination tournaments, right?
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All your all your pro leagues, right?
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They play their table, even Champions League, until you get to the final, it's usually two legs, right?
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So you might have a bad game, you can you can get them back in the second game, but you know, you get to the knockout round, and obviously there were so many great surprises in the uh in the group play.
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You know, just it's it's been the uh the the story uh you know the the tournament of the obscure goalkeeper, right, that stands on his head and gets a result against you know these massive soccer countries.
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Um, but it but it just to me, you know, I think part of the obvious it's the beautiful game because it's it's the beauty, it's the it's the grace, it's the ticky tiki tikky, like it's such a beautiful, but but part of for me, it's the world's game, and what makes it so beautiful is that is that uh Cape Verde can stand on the same field with the Giants of the world.
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And if you just make it really, really difficult to score, you can hang, right?
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Paraguay, third place finisher, US destroyed them, right?
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Paraguay, they just had to hang in there, hang in there, get the pens, and at that point it's anyone's match.
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And so there's all of the dice there.
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There's no other sport, there's no other sport where there can be such a range in ability and talent from one team to another, and the lower team can prevail in the end.
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And I just think it, I just and it just makes it such a such an amazing, amazing when you go like you had no right, we had we had no right to win the game, or they had no right to win the game.
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But guess what?
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That's why you play the game.
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So it's just it's been awesome.
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What about for what about for you?
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I I just think that the biggest surprise for me has been I think we forget like how beautiful the World Cup is because there's a couple things.
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First of all, the last time, uh as you know, it was in Qatar, but it was also during the winter, yeah.
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So it was a little different, right?
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It was like, huh, was you know, and so and then the one before that the US wasn't in, right?
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So it's it's kind of like this forgotten thing about how beautiful the opportunity for countries and cultures to meet and to connect, and like there's this uh you and I have talked about it before, but this game more than any other game transcends sport universal language, it it transcends sport.
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I was in uh I was in a uh Uber recently.
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My my driver was from Haiti, had an easy conversation.
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Yeah, let's just chat about the world cup, you know.
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And so, you know, he was all excited because they were just there.
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He was he was like, It's incredible.
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We have a country that doesn't even have lights half the time, yet we were made the world cup, you know, and he was just so happy about it.
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And you know, that those connections you saw it with um, you know, the the Scottish and and Boston, that's the obvious one, the Dutch with their orange army now, of course, going home as well, uh, after a uh after a defeat to a very, very, very good Morocco team, by the way.
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That's gonna be an interesting one.
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I'm I'm kind of curious to see where they go.
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Yeah, but also too, like Mexico and and the South Koreans, and then you know, there's just it's been it's just been really wonderful to see this pride of all the countries, including ours, which is you know, pretty divisive right now.
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But it's it's nice to see us all coming together behind a common goal, which is hoping that the US does well and moves forward and yeah, you know, all that good stuff.
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So, yeah, I think that that's been the biggest surprise to me is and it shouldn't have been, but it but and I also think prior to the World Cup, we heard all this negativity.
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The stadiums are gonna be empty, it's too expensive, it's uh gonna be a nightmare getting into the stadiums, and nobody even talks about that stuff anymore, right?
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Yeah, what overwhelmed the negativity, what overwhelmed the negativity was this four-letter word called love.
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I love it, and I love it.
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I think we forget the power of love sometimes, and this this sport can show us that.
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Yeah, you know, Josh, I love that because I saw someone post, they're like the big winner of the World Cup so far has been just been people, humanity.
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Right?
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It's it's exposed, right?
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When you get when you get the politics out of the way, you get you get the you know, you get these governmental leaders out of the way from you know doing theirs doing their stuff.
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And when you get people, people with people, people talking to people, people watching a game, people just coming together in the spirit of community and and and cultures, and and to see how to see how foreigners have embraced America and to see how Americans have braced foreigners in the country, it's just it just reinforces the idea that at the heart of each of us, we're all so very similar.
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And when you remove the politics and you remove the the geopolitical issues, like we're just we're just people.
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Like we wanna, you know, we want to have a healthy life, we want to have access, right?
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We want to have access to clean water, we want to have access to opportunity, we just wanna, you know, and and we we all relate on that level and throw a soccer ball in the middle that we can all rally around um and just and just have fun, right?
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Like just be human and have fun.
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And so um, you know, FIFA is no less corrupt today than they were two weeks ago.
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Yeah, the world, the world is no less um uh scary or you know, there's uh than it was two weeks ago.
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But but man, uh when you when you shine, it's a good example too of what what you magnify grows, right?
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It's energy flows for attention because when we actually put the spotlight on people and humanity, we actually see um that there's a lot of good, and like you said, love there to magnify.
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You know what else it is too?
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It's like, okay, so we're we're creating the recipe, and and the recipe is removing all this negativity, removing all this like BS from politics, removing all these different and then adding in a sprinkle of gratitude.
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And I think that that has been really powerful as well, just the the genuine gratitude that that people have had for our country, um, the things that we take for granted now shining bright, yeah, fuckies, right?
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That's like you okay, oh yeah, that's amazing.
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I was laughing, I went to Costco yesterday, uh, and I was in Costco, and I was just like, I'm imagine being from Europe and rolling into a Costco and just being like, What the heck?
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Or from Cabo Verde, yes, and and going into a Costco or from wherever.
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And it's just it's just like I was just kind of laughing to myself a little bit about it and just enjoying being in there and and and I've always been I've always been one who goes into Costco and was like, Oh my god, it's so overwhelming.
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The lights I get this, but yesterday I was just kind of like really at peace with it, and just I was just I was excited about it.
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Um, just so you know, our producer just put in to the chat that TSA has has confiscated like no all that ranch dressing gallons of ranch dressing, which just goes to tell me TSA loves ranch.
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That's it, man.
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TSA loves ranch, the TSA loves or we need to start a business where we make homemade ranch dressing in France or wherever, yeah.
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Right.
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We'll just add a little, we'll we'll just add a little like a little uh at the end of it.
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So easy to make.
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It's in Valley, yeah.
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Just do that, do that.
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Yeah, um, who has been which team players, etc.
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for you have stood out um in in in any way?
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I'm gonna throw that they in any way.
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It could be how they're talented or how they go about their business or whatever.
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What which teams for you, players, etc.
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What stood out for you in terms of that?
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Yeah.
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Well, and and the other thing too, I just love what is it, was it nine of the nine of the ten African nation countries qualify for the knockout round?
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Eight or nine or nine of ten.
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I'm trying to remember the stat.
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Yeah, actually got one kicking off right now, Josh, big one.
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But uh Angleterre.
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Yeah, and so I I think for years, you know, people have been like, like, why, you know, why can't you know any of the African nations make a make a legitimately long run?
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And I think this is the tournament, especially when you expanded the field.
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We talk about access in this world, right?
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Give, right, the African nations were always limited to the number of spots they had available for the World Cup.
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So what do we do?
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We expand the field, you give, you give countries more opportunity, and we see the biggest surprises of this tournament have been what what some of these African nations have been able to do is against some of the European or South American big boys.
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And just to see, we know what it does for those countries, but just to see, this is gonna be a pivotal moment for so many of these countries in a generation, the next generation, um, seeing what's possible at the world stage.
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And I I think you're just gonna see, you know, obviously, like the the success that Morocco has had in the last World Cup and what they're having right now, but I just think you're gonna see uh just an explosion of um from these African countries, uh, just even more so what we've already seen.
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Yeah.
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Expectation, Josh.
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You and I know, right?
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In the mental space, expectation can really, really make it you can can can stunt our performance sometimes when when we we've got so much internal, external expectation we put on ourselves, which can be unnecessary pressure.
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And you look at the stars of the World Cup who came in with tremendous expectation, are delivering, they're showing out, and Bappe, good lord.
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Uh uh Holland gets right, like Holland gets the game winner at the end of the game, and then you've got the guy like it for us Americans, people are like, well, of course Messi's dominating in the MLS because it's the MLS and the MLS isn't any good.
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Well, let's see how he does in a World Cup.
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Oh, right.
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Oh, he's dominating there too at 38 years old.
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Okay.
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Dominating the world.
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Maybe the MLS could get a little bit more love.
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And so I just love to see, I love the stars being the stars.
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And uh, and and then on the for me, on the the opposite end of the spectrum is the opportunities, you know, even though Haiti doesn't get out, Haiti, Haiti finally getting to the big stage.
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Yeah, um, and then you see a Cape Verde, you see a Congo, right?
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You see, you see these countries, it's like, give me the opportunity, let me show you what we can do.
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And the stars, the stars are showing up, and the the the new countries, the younger countries are basically saying, Hey, we deserve it, we deserve a seat at the table too.
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Um and uh when you have Germany and the Netherlands go home on the same day, and again, to put this into perspective for the casual soccer fan, the round of 32, this it didn't exist before.
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Nope.
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So it is now easier to get out of your group, but there is an extra knockout round that you need to play in, which is the round of 32.
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So the fact that Germany and Netherlands lost in the round of 32, it's the equivalent of them not getting out of their group in any previous World Cup.
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Yeah.
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And so it just says so much about uh the parody, uh the parody uh of this tournament and uh just how great it is to see, you know, uh the Davids versus Goliaths.
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And we've already had a couple happen.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Uh for me, the that stuff has been really interesting, just seeing the you know, the the keeper for Paraguay, by the way, I think he's probably like six foot eight.
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The dude is on in his is uh I'm yeah, I don't know where he plays right now, but I'm sure he's gonna be in some big European club very, very soon.
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Yeah, um, that has been awesome, you know, seeing these Giants.
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Although I gotta say the Morocco, the Morocco Dutch Holland game, the Netherlands game, sorry, it felt like Morocco was not an underdog.
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And no, to be fair, they're the seventh ranked country in the world in soccer, and they made the semifinals the last time.
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So they're they're solid, they're really good.
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Uh player and deserve and deserve to win the game.
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Yeah, they didn't.
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It was the opposite, it was a deserved win.
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Yeah, had Netherlands won, you would have looked the score line and said, Well, of course, the Netherlands should have won, but had you watched the game, you would have been like, Oh man, if if I can't believe the Netherlands stole that, yes, yeah, exactly.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And they do see, I'm sad that the Netherlands are going home because best uniforms, yeah.
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Unmo unbelievable.
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I have to get that warm-up top, the orange like hoodie warm-up top, it's spectacular.
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Yeah, um, and then also the you know, the crowd, you know, the the the I was looking forward to them coming back to Houston again.
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Oh my gosh, having this like yeah, crowd, uh, you know, the with the bus and everything.
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But that being said, for me, one of the most impressive teams, and and and I think I I always talk about you know, like I started this and I said love and gratitude, and and I'm just appreciative of when thing when people and countries and and players and coaches, they just do things with class.
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And for me, that was Japan.
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Japan, baby, and so Japan, yeah, you know, their fans cleaning up the stands afterwards, their coach apologizing to every single player, and you could see how much respect the Brazilians had for them.
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And it was really interesting listening to Ancelotti.
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I don't know if you saw it, but Carlo Ancelotti, the manager of Brazil, when uh Gabriel Martinelli, Arsenal great, scored the goal in the in the in in extra in injury time.
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And and I screamed, by the way, Arsenal.
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I didn't scream Brazil, Arsenal, um, when he scored, uh, which is hilarious to me.
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Uh, they're just like my little little my kids, you know, like excited about there.
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He didn't, you know, Ancelotti was cool as a cucumber.
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He didn't cheer, he didn't run up and down the sidelines, he didn't jump into the crowd with his family or anything.
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He just was like shook his head and walked the other way.
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And they asked him about it afterwards, and he said, I have so much respect for Japan.
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They played so hard, they played so well, and to lose that game, I've been on the other side of it, it's heartbreaking, and so I wanted to show them respect.
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Unreal.
00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:11.759
And then you saw Cunha from Brazil consoling the Japanese players, and you talked about it on the last COD podcast about uh of the US players consoling the Iranian players 1-0.
00:20:12.240 --> 00:20:19.359
And I just think that stuff matters so much, and and we talked earlier too about hey, what do I want my kids to see?
00:20:19.599 --> 00:20:20.960
Absolutely, and that's it.
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I want to see that class, that humanity, that connection, that empathy, that love.
00:20:27.519 --> 00:20:30.160
And and you saw it there with with Japan.
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Um, because of how they held themselves, they can walk away, even though they lost with a ton of pride.
00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:39.599
And Brazil has the utmost respect for them.
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And and and you saw the class of Brazilian players as well, too, where they weren't showboating, they weren't, you know, they they just they they were respectful as well.
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And so I I love that.
00:20:50.079 --> 00:20:53.759
I thought that that game, more than any for me, really showed through.
00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:59.359
And and uh, and and it's the stuff that I think that makes the World Cup so so special.
00:20:59.519 --> 00:21:01.599
Yeah, um when you can have that.
00:21:01.839 --> 00:21:03.200
Like you, yeah, it's all the stuff.
00:21:03.279 --> 00:21:07.200
It's I mean, it's obviously on the field, but it it's the stuff surrounding it.
00:21:07.359 --> 00:21:09.599
Uh, like you said, Japan and cleaning the stadiums.
00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:20.960
This is the third straight World Cup where they have gone out in heartbreaking fashion, like brutal, tear your heart out, you know, um, pull the rug out, and yet it doesn't change their class, right?
00:21:21.119 --> 00:21:28.960
They still they still stay behind and clean the stadium, they still leave the locker room immaculately cleaned when they check out, they leave a thank you note in the locker room.
00:21:29.039 --> 00:21:34.160
They weren't the only country, by the way, to leave thank you notes um when they were leaving locker rooms and stadiums.
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Multiple countries did that.
00:21:35.680 --> 00:21:43.359
And, you know, it's like as Americans, I don't think we ever fully, fully grasp really what this means to other countries, right?
00:21:43.519 --> 00:21:45.359
Josh, I mean, I don't know if you've seen reports.
00:21:45.759 --> 00:21:49.920
Uruguay who didn't make it out of the group round, they had a terrible World Cup.
00:21:50.160 --> 00:21:50.880
This is amazing.
00:21:51.039 --> 00:21:53.279
For those of you who haven't heard this, this is for those of you who don't know, right?
00:21:53.359 --> 00:21:56.160
So Uruguay who who, you know, South American superpower.
00:21:56.480 --> 00:21:59.440
Two time, two time World Cup champion, have four stars on their shirt.
00:21:59.519 --> 00:21:59.759
You know what?
00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:01.119
They have four stars in their shirt?
00:22:01.359 --> 00:22:02.720
Four stars for two times.
00:22:03.119 --> 00:22:04.319
They have four stars on their shirt.
00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:05.680
What's what's the other two for?
00:22:05.839 --> 00:22:12.000
They won the two, they won the two world cups, but they also won prior to the World Cup, the Olympics were the World Cup.
00:22:12.079 --> 00:22:15.359
Oh, so they had two Olympics as well prior to 1930.
00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:15.599
Yeah.
00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:17.279
They have two for the Olympics as well.
00:22:17.519 --> 00:22:21.839
Well, Josh, you and I know how are those players getting home to Uruguay after the World Cup.
00:22:22.079 --> 00:22:22.240
Yeah.
00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:23.440
Well, let's see.
00:22:23.519 --> 00:22:27.920
How do most countries travel when they go to a World Cup?
00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:28.480
They travel.
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You are fine first class.
00:22:32.400 --> 00:22:35.839
You're as nice travel because I mean you're the national team.
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Win or lose?
00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:39.279
We're gonna there's our country is gonna take care of you.
00:22:39.440 --> 00:22:39.759
Yeah.
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So no, no.
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I'm not sure who it was, whether it was the prime minister, the president, or or whoever it was, the governing body in Uruguay, basically told the players, you need to get home by yourselves.
00:22:50.240 --> 00:22:52.240
We're not paying for your we're not paying for your trip.
00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:53.599
Find your own way home.
00:22:53.920 --> 00:22:56.720
They did not pay for their return tickets home.
00:22:56.960 --> 00:22:59.200
That's what happens when you lose in Uruguay.
00:22:59.279 --> 00:23:09.200
That's I mean, that's it's interesting too, because Pachatino, our manager for the US, talked about how our culture sometimes rewards losing, which I thought was an amazing take.
00:23:09.359 --> 00:23:09.519
Yeah.
00:23:09.920 --> 00:23:14.720
And he was talking about relegation in Europe and basically every other league in the world.
00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:15.359
Yes.
00:23:15.599 --> 00:23:19.680
The there are there's you know, there's the major leagues and then there's the minor leagues.
00:23:19.759 --> 00:23:20.799
If you're thinking baseball, that's it.
00:23:20.960 --> 00:23:22.160
Tiered, yep, a tiered system.
00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:26.880
So the English Premier League, and below the English Premier League is another league called the championship.
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Below that is league one.
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And if you finish in the bottom three, if you finish in the bottom three of the league, you get punted down to the league below you and you make less money, you play in worse conditions, it's harder in a lot of ways.
00:23:40.960 --> 00:23:43.200
Um, and we don't have that in the United States.
00:23:43.440 --> 00:23:55.519
Well, actually, Josh, Josh, let me ask you if you're if you're a uh a billionaire in the in the United States who owns an NFL franchise and you finish last, what what do you get in the offseason?
00:23:55.759 --> 00:23:58.000
You get the number one draft pick.
00:23:58.160 --> 00:23:59.599
You get the best player ever.
00:23:59.839 --> 00:24:04.079
You don't have to go, you know, what's really interesting is you don't have to play in the USFL the next year.
00:24:04.240 --> 00:24:10.640
You don't you you you actually get rewarded for Birmingham Science if they win the I think it's called the UFL now.
00:24:10.799 --> 00:24:13.680
If they win that, they don't get bumped up into the NFL.
00:24:13.839 --> 00:24:18.160
Yeah, it doesn't sound like it doesn't sound very American or capitalist, doesn't it Josh?
00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:23.200
It kind of sounds like the opposite of capitalism when we reward the bottom, huh?
00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:24.000
Interesting.
00:24:24.160 --> 00:24:27.359
Why would billionaires not want to have relegation, Josh?
00:24:27.599 --> 00:24:30.480
Because it cost them a ton and a ton and a ton of money.
00:24:30.880 --> 00:24:31.599
No risk.
00:24:31.920 --> 00:24:32.720
No risk.
00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:34.160
Yeah, so I don't know.
00:24:34.240 --> 00:24:34.880
We'll see though.
00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:44.799
I'm telling you, it I mean, the good news is the MLS is going to the the world schedule, they're not gonna be on this random schedule where they play uh during the summer anymore.
00:24:44.880 --> 00:24:54.319
They're gonna they're gonna switch it up and they're gonna do what basically the rest of the world does, which is late August through uh late May, early June.
00:24:54.400 --> 00:24:57.759
Um, so they're gonna do that as a as a schedule, which is awesome, matches up.
00:24:57.920 --> 00:24:59.519
I think that'll help us a lot of ways.
00:24:59.599 --> 00:25:03.039
And I'm telling you, sooner there's 30 teams right now in the MLS.
00:25:03.279 --> 00:25:03.680
30.
00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:04.079
Yeah.
00:25:04.319 --> 00:25:10.160
To put that in perspective, in the in the English Premier League, the best league, Harold is the best league in the world, there's 20 teams.
00:25:10.240 --> 00:25:10.559
Yeah.
00:25:10.799 --> 00:25:19.680
So I can see that um potentially changing, and maybe maybe they're trying to get to 40 teams and then they'll have you know MLS one and MLS two or something like that.
00:25:19.920 --> 00:25:20.799
It would be great if they did.
00:25:20.960 --> 00:25:26.880
Well, Josh, hey, in the spirit of Successful Leaves Clues, I know this isn't technically a Success Leaves Clues podcast, but here we are.
00:25:27.039 --> 00:25:30.880
We're getting into the the meat of uh of this tournament so far.
00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:33.519
We've already seen two penalty shootouts, yes, right?
00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:37.440
The day after penalty shootouts, I got I got contacted by a reporter just via text.
00:25:37.519 --> 00:25:45.519
He's like, hey, do you got any data and research for me on um the psychological side of penalty shootouts?
00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:47.359
And I was like, Yeah, I I do.
00:25:47.519 --> 00:25:58.240
Like I've got, you know, not necessarily stats, but I definitely have like when I was with the national team, we brought in kind of what was considered the the expert, the guy over in Europe who he wrote a book.
00:25:58.480 --> 00:25:59.359
Was he from Norway?
00:25:59.519 --> 00:26:01.759
Because I think I may have met him or Finland or something like that.
00:26:01.920 --> 00:26:13.759
I'm trying, I'm trying, I can't remember if he's a Scandinavian country or not, but uh he just spent like the last five years researching every every uh uh European um uh or world cup championship shootout.
00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:15.039
What did he find out, Travis?
00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:16.000
I'm curious about this.
00:26:16.240 --> 00:26:23.920
The science is the science is amazing, and and you know, uh questions such as do you want your shooters to be younger or older?
00:26:24.160 --> 00:26:29.519
Right, and believe it or not, statistically, younger shooters tend to perform better in shootouts.
00:26:29.599 --> 00:26:32.880
And now you and I can talk about why that might be the case, right?
00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:38.960
There's a lot of you know naivety in youth, there's a lot of you know um confidence in youth.
00:26:39.119 --> 00:26:39.759
Why, Josh?
00:26:39.839 --> 00:26:41.920
Why would you be naive and confident when you're young?
00:26:42.319 --> 00:26:46.000
Because you haven't been punched in the face over and over and over again, right?
00:26:46.160 --> 00:27:10.640
Where like, oh, this is just a big game compared to once we're a little bit longer on the tooth, when we're start to look at maybe the the bigger picture, and again, we talk about expectations, some of the other stuff when we're older, some of the uh the ramifications and and what this really means because we've had a career to understand things maybe more fully, yeah, that can actually be a uh a hindrance to you as a penalty shooter.
00:27:10.720 --> 00:27:17.359
So younger, younger shooters tend to um have a higher, higher success rate and penalty shootouts.
00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:27.599
Um, and then things, Josh, such as from the from the mental side of things, um uh and and for the listeners who are watching this, here's something really interesting to pay attention to.
00:27:27.839 --> 00:27:36.160
When the referee blows the whistle for the shooter, the shooter can wait as long as they want before they actually take the kick.
00:27:36.400 --> 00:27:37.200
Interesting.
00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:40.880
They can take they can stand there for five minutes if they want before they strike the ball.
00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:46.880
And the research will show you the longer you wait after the whistle, the higher your success rate.
00:27:47.119 --> 00:27:48.160
That totally makes sense.
00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:48.640
Yeah.
00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:52.880
Because, Josh, as you and I know, because shooters are being trained, right?
00:27:52.960 --> 00:27:55.920
The whistle blows, this is on your time, not their time.
00:27:56.079 --> 00:27:58.400
The goalkeeper is now waiting for you.
00:27:58.559 --> 00:27:59.519
This is on your time.
00:27:59.680 --> 00:28:04.640
The longer you make the goalkeeper wait, now they'll do their jumping around and jumping around everything.
00:28:04.720 --> 00:28:08.000
The longer you make them wait, now they they start to get in their head more.
00:28:08.240 --> 00:28:10.079
And what do you have the ability to do?
00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:16.079
You can take your time, watch the shooters take these enormous deep breaths, right after the whistle.
00:28:16.240 --> 00:28:24.799
You'll see them standing there, you'll just see I was watching it the other day, and it's just a the big deep breath, and you know in blue out red.
00:28:25.039 --> 00:28:28.720
In blue out red almost like in blue, or if not the exact same thing.
00:28:28.880 --> 00:28:32.000
And then they're going through, they're going through their mental routine.
00:28:32.079 --> 00:28:32.400
Yeah.
00:28:32.559 --> 00:28:39.119
And then you see the shooters who you can read, you can read the face, you can read the discomfort.
00:28:39.440 --> 00:28:43.599
You you know, the the players that that maybe rush it after the whistle.
00:28:43.680 --> 00:28:44.319
Why, Josh?
00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:45.440
Because they just want it to be over with.
00:28:45.599 --> 00:28:55.440
They want to be over with, want it to be over with, compared to owning the process, owning the process, sticking with the process, trusting the process.
00:28:55.839 --> 00:29:07.039
And then you start to see from again the mental side of things, shooters who go up and already know where they're going compared to shooters who are going to go up and decide once they get there.
00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:07.519
Yeah.
00:29:07.759 --> 00:29:11.759
And you know, we we we talk about you want to take the thinking out of the equation.
00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:18.559
And so most shooters know if you execute the perfect penalty kick, whether the keeper guess is right or not doesn't matter.
00:29:19.519 --> 00:29:19.839
Yeah.
00:29:20.079 --> 00:29:20.480
Right.
00:29:20.720 --> 00:29:36.720
Compared to, and so if you trust yourself and you trust the process, and I read you know, one of my favorite stories, Josh, was during the 2021 Nations League final uh against Mexico when Christian Pelusic took his his his famous penalty shot upper 90 against Mexico to put us up 3-2.
00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:39.519
The the the play was at V A R.
00:29:39.599 --> 00:29:45.440
So for like five minutes, Christian knows he's getting a PK and he's walking around, he's walking around, he's thinking, Where am I gonna shoot?
00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:46.079
Where should I shoot?
00:29:46.160 --> 00:29:46.640
Where should I shoot?
00:29:46.720 --> 00:29:47.279
Where should I shoot?
00:29:47.359 --> 00:29:51.119
So he walks up to Tyler Adams and says, Tyler, where should I put it?
00:29:51.200 --> 00:29:53.920
And Tyler says, upper 90, upper bins.
00:29:54.000 --> 00:29:57.759
And and Christian was like, sweet, the decision was made for him.
00:29:58.000 --> 00:30:01.759
Yeah, he took took it, take off the thinking instead of thinking, where am I gonna do it?
00:30:01.839 --> 00:30:03.759
Oh, yeah, that's that's where I'm gonna put it now.
00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:06.799
I'm gonna ask the captain, the captain tells me there, good, done.
00:30:06.960 --> 00:30:10.319
Yeah, now I'm focused on execution, nothing else matters.
00:30:10.400 --> 00:30:13.440
There's no thinking involved, just execute.
00:30:13.680 --> 00:30:36.559
That's that I mean, that's such great advice, too, just for just for life, you know, like how often do we overthink the stuff and then it bunches us up and and then we don't move forward, and you know, choose and execute, and then yeah, you know, if the if the keeper's ridiculous and can somehow touch the upper quadrant of the top 90 or the side netting, tip your cap.
00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:38.160
But you know, did I hit it well?
00:30:38.240 --> 00:30:39.039
And then you can look at yourself.
00:30:39.599 --> 00:30:43.599
The other thing that jumped out at me there too is is is the locus of control.
00:30:44.319 --> 00:30:52.799
So when the player runs up and takes a quick after the whistle, it's almost like the situation is controlling them, yeah, versus them controlling the situation.
00:30:52.880 --> 00:30:55.680
And I think when you have a plan, right?
00:30:55.920 --> 00:31:04.480
Separations in the preparation, when you have a plan, when you have a place to go to execute, and then you could focus on that execution.
00:31:04.559 --> 00:31:07.599
You know, we always used to say in Chicago, the process is fearless.
00:31:07.759 --> 00:31:09.200
Yep, the process is fearless.
00:31:09.279 --> 00:31:14.079
So don't we just execute my process, and it doesn't matter that this is PK's.
00:31:14.240 --> 00:31:23.440
And the other thing too is if a if a if uh um the players, if they really step back and they think about the stats, I think the save rate is only like 15 to 20 percent total.
00:31:23.519 --> 00:31:24.079
Yeah, yeah.
00:31:24.240 --> 00:31:27.920
So you have a four out of five chance of being successful.
00:31:28.000 --> 00:31:33.599
And then if you add on this other stuff, now you're you're you're buying more lottery tickets, Travis Thomas.
00:31:33.759 --> 00:31:34.160
Yes, you are.
00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:38.160
Yes, you're buying more lottery tickets, you control what you can control, and then you execute.
00:31:38.319 --> 00:31:40.000
Man, that that's you know, that that's great stuff.
00:31:40.079 --> 00:31:42.799
I hope hopefully our national team's listening to this if we go to PK's.
00:31:43.039 --> 00:31:43.920
I'm sure I'm sure they are.
00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:45.440
I'm sure they're we're in the library right now.
00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:55.920
Actually, the part of the story that Travis didn't tell you with that bullish kick was like right as they were about to run out, Travis grabbed Christian and said, Hey, by the way, here's here's how you make this kick.
00:31:56.319 --> 00:32:02.319
I know I know you don't know how to do this, and I know that you're really bad at it in practice, all right, but don't think negative.
00:32:02.480 --> 00:32:04.000
Stop telling yourself you're awful.
00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:06.319
It was actually just the opposite, it was the opposite, Josh.
00:32:09.359 --> 00:32:13.519
He makes the kick and runs to the corner flag, he's mobbed by his players.
00:32:13.680 --> 00:32:19.920
If you if you see an old guy with gray hair in a red, there I am just jumping out and I wasn't supposed to be there.
00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:23.519
So I got I got my wrist slapped a little bit for that one, but it was it was fully worth it.
00:32:23.920 --> 00:32:24.559
It's totally worth it.
00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:28.640
Yeah, especially because you were telling him where to go and like as a keeper was that was all you.
00:32:31.839 --> 00:32:36.559
Hey, a couple other things to look out for too, Josh, which is which is pretty, which is pretty fun to look out for.
00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:40.079
For four penalty shootouts, which I'm guaranteed we're gonna go to one today, right?
00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:44.880
So when you're in penalty shootouts, I mean, if not today, next couple days, there's gonna be another couple of them.
00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:45.839
So here's here's the rule.
00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:49.200
You know, you'll you'll usually see both teams standing at the half line, right?
00:32:49.359 --> 00:32:51.200
The the shooters are out there, they're standing at the half line.
00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:59.359
Well, you know what the rule is teams have to stay behind the bubble, not the half line, behind the edge of the center of the bubble.
00:32:59.440 --> 00:32:59.599
Yeah.
00:32:59.759 --> 00:33:00.640
So what are you gonna see?
00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:03.119
And I saw it actually in the Netherlands match the other night.
00:33:03.279 --> 00:33:07.680
The um uh uh oh uh Morocco was on the half line.
00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:10.559
The Netherlands was online with the bubble.
00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:14.079
So their goal is get closer to your shooter, right?
00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:21.039
And so you want you want to get you want to get closer to the situation for the shooter as the shooter is walking to the penalty spot.
00:33:21.119 --> 00:33:23.279
That is a long lonely walk, right, Josh?
00:33:23.519 --> 00:33:24.720
Long lonely walk.
00:33:24.880 --> 00:33:31.920
So when they get there, the your your goalkeeper should be meeting you at the penalty spot, holding the ball.
00:33:32.079 --> 00:33:32.400
Yes.
00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:37.519
They meet you there, they hand you the ball, share a little motive, you know, a little encouragement.
00:33:37.599 --> 00:33:41.680
So you've got you've got psychologically, you've got someone there with you, you're not alone.
00:33:41.839 --> 00:33:57.680
And then, right, whether you make it or miss it, especially, well, if you make it, um, to really lean into you know, showing the energy, showing that burst, which is going to give your team a boost and your keeper a boost, and you know, a little bit of a shot to the uh emphasize.
00:33:58.319 --> 00:33:59.759
Emphasize it good, catch them winning.
00:33:59.920 --> 00:34:01.599
And if you miss it, this is super important.
00:34:01.759 --> 00:34:12.880
If you miss it, at least one of your players, if not two of your players from center or from the bubble, to come down, to come down and meet you and grab you and bring you back, yeah.
00:34:13.119 --> 00:34:15.119
So that you're not making that walk alone.
00:34:15.199 --> 00:34:21.280
Yeah, and so these are just some of the different that and that can that came from that that uh that that penalty expert.
00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:25.679
Just some of the different I heard I remember I remember I remember meeting that penalty expert.
00:34:25.760 --> 00:34:30.400
I forget his name, and I think it's like it's like it with a G, uh J O R.
00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:30.960
I don't know.
00:34:31.199 --> 00:34:37.360
Anna, can you get can you get into Google right now, Anna, and give us who is the penalty expert, our producer.
00:34:37.599 --> 00:34:39.679
I believe he's also from Norway as well.
00:34:39.760 --> 00:34:40.239
I'm not sure.
00:34:40.480 --> 00:34:41.519
I'm telling you, because I've met him.
00:34:42.320 --> 00:34:43.760
We're gonna find out where he's from.
00:34:43.920 --> 00:34:48.159
There's so much trivia on the line here, or there's so much trivia, there's so much trivia on the line.
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Yeah, I want to say it's like gear jort or something to that nature.
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I don't I don't know.
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But uh, but one of the other things was physical touch, yes, too.
00:34:55.920 --> 00:34:59.760
Physical touch, like yeah, gear gear jordette.
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That's him.
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That's him.
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Was that your guy?
00:35:02.079 --> 00:35:02.800
I can't remember.
00:35:02.960 --> 00:35:04.480
I can't remember, but it's your guy.
00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:06.159
You you totally you totally nailed it.
00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:06.960
Yeah, yeah.
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I because he's such a nice guy.
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I remember talking to him at multiple times.
00:35:09.920 --> 00:35:11.360
So physical touch, right?
00:35:11.440 --> 00:35:12.159
What what are the guys?
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The guys usually have their arms interlocked on their shoulders or in the but also too to the to the to the taker before he goes and when he comes back and the whole thing.
00:35:20.079 --> 00:35:21.760
It's it's just like really, really important.
00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:25.119
It helps him uh move past negativity faster, apparently.
00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:25.920
Yeah, yeah.
00:35:26.239 --> 00:35:26.800
That's pretty cool.
00:35:27.199 --> 00:35:27.679
Yeah, yeah.
00:35:27.760 --> 00:35:36.719
And I and I think there are like, you know, we're just talking about penalty kicks, but talk about team camaraderie and culture and in in the business world.
00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:46.559
You know, this is this is why the World Cup's awesome, because you can extrapolate all these lessons to your own companies and into your own leadership teams and and things of that nature.
00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:59.440
And so I think you know, what we've heard kind of today, successfully exclusive, is yeah, with the PKs, have a process, execute the process, come up with the plan before, let your attitude dictate the situation versus the situation dictating your attitude.
00:35:59.679 --> 00:36:00.079
Number one.
00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:03.519
Number two is you know, do things the right way, right?
00:36:03.679 --> 00:36:15.440
Have that have that culture of class, have that culture of um it's it's more about how you go about the business than then and and if you focus on how the the what's gonna take care of itself.
00:36:15.679 --> 00:36:16.320
Yeah, right.
00:36:16.400 --> 00:36:22.480
Like Japan is a winner, they are, they're winners, and I'm sure their whole country loves that team and has so much respect for it, right?
00:36:22.559 --> 00:36:25.039
Even though they took an L on the scoreboard, you know.
00:36:25.280 --> 00:36:26.400
So those are the big things for me.
00:36:26.480 --> 00:36:28.639
And then number three, love, baby.
00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:36.559
Open your heart up, open your heart up, accept, appreciate, have gratitude, learn, be open-minded, and grow.
00:36:36.719 --> 00:36:42.239
And I think if we take those things out of this World Cup, man, it's it's been a bigger success than than you could ever imagine.
00:36:42.559 --> 00:36:43.760
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
00:36:43.920 --> 00:37:00.559
And and I think, you know, it's one of those things where so many seeds have been planted, um, I think culturally, so many seeds have been planted um, you know, in in cities and different areas, you know, exposure to different cultures, you know, both from people coming to our country and and people in our country.
00:37:00.639 --> 00:37:05.199
And I and I think just the impact of that, you know, just can't be measured in the short term.
00:37:05.360 --> 00:37:11.760
Uh, which is again, like, you know, again, as someone, as someone myself, like I grew up playing soccer, it was it was my favorite sport.
00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:20.719
And, you know, to feel like you grew up playing a sport that no one cared about and no one knew about, and and to now, you know, again, I'm I'm old, but I'm not that old.
00:37:20.880 --> 00:37:32.000
And and to be in a in a country where there is such a not only a soccer literacy, but just an appreciation and a love for a game that's not America's game.
00:37:32.159 --> 00:37:33.519
It's the world's game.
00:37:33.840 --> 00:37:39.360
And uh, and to see, like you talked about, what a what a what a connection point that is, especially with different cultures.
00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:45.519
I I remember Josh and my my wife and I, when we got married, we went to Jamaica for our honeymoon and we were staying at a hotel.
00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:53.360
And I remember like looking out the window, and like in the like employee area of the hotel, there was a small-sided soccer field.
00:37:53.599 --> 00:37:53.920
Absolutely.
00:37:54.079 --> 00:37:55.920
And I was like, I wonder if I can go out there and play.
00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:58.880
So sure enough, I went out there and I was the only guest, right?
00:37:58.960 --> 00:38:06.960
I was the only white person, I was the only guest, and they kind of looked at me like, you're not supposed to be here, but then they're like, You want to play?
00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:08.480
I'm like, Of course I want to play.
00:38:08.639 --> 00:38:19.760
And it was like, you know, I'm out there playing with the staff, and and it's like the it like there is like there is no separation, there's no status when you're on the when you're playing, it's just it's just the game, and uh it really is.
00:38:19.920 --> 00:38:25.519
Yeah, I think I'm gonna add to that story in for two two things because honeymoon.
00:38:25.679 --> 00:38:35.440
On my honeymoon, I went to Brazil with my wife, and we went to this place called Ila Grande, which is an island out off of Rio that has no no roads, yeah, no, no vehicles on it at all.
00:38:35.599 --> 00:38:44.800
But I'll tell you what, they did have guaranteed two bamboo poles and a third bamboo toll pole tied to those two bamboo poles, and it made a and it made a goal on the beach.
00:38:44.880 --> 00:38:46.639
Yeah, and they were out there playing all the time.
00:38:46.800 --> 00:38:58.480
Yeah, and then the second one is a couple years ago I went to Stressa Italy, which is on Lake Majore, um, and there's a hotel there, and in the back of the hotel, there's a very similar thing where there's a little soccer pitch.
00:38:58.559 --> 00:38:58.800
Uh-huh.
00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:14.239
And my son and his buddy, Leo, who plays soccer here in the United States, they would sneak onto it and they would play all these kids from Africa who were, you know, the work, the kids of the workers that were in the hotels, and they were and they would play for two hours on this thing, and they had so much fun.
00:39:14.480 --> 00:39:16.000
And it that's what it's about, man.
00:39:16.079 --> 00:39:17.280
That's that's what this game is about.
00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:18.559
It brings people together.
00:39:18.719 --> 00:39:23.760
It's it's obviously it means a ton to every country person playing it.
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Um, but it also is is this game that brings the world together, and and I love it.
00:39:28.559 --> 00:39:29.119
So great.
00:39:29.199 --> 00:39:31.039
And we've still got about three weeks left, man.
00:39:31.119 --> 00:39:31.840
Two, three weeks.
00:39:32.079 --> 00:39:33.599
Do we is that how much we still got?
00:39:33.760 --> 00:39:34.320
Unbelievable.
00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:35.119
This is so awesome.
00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:36.320
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:39:36.480 --> 00:39:38.000
I know what I'm doing as soon as I get off this.
00:39:38.480 --> 00:39:41.920
I know we gotta wrap this thing up, but we got we got a big day right now.
00:39:42.559 --> 00:39:47.920
Right now, so they're you know, they've already had their water break and they're you know, they're hanging out, they're they're finishing up this the first half.
00:39:48.000 --> 00:39:50.320
So yeah, uh, but awesome, Travis.
00:39:50.400 --> 00:40:02.320
Thanks for coming on and and and and and and and teaching the listeners about how to play take penalties and uh also how to um you know execute in the business world as well.
00:40:02.559 --> 00:40:05.920
Josh, Josh, wait a not way to wait a hit, Dr.
00:40:06.079 --> 00:40:09.840
Gear Jordan on a way to be on it, way to be on it.
00:40:10.079 --> 00:40:13.519
He is, yeah, and I don't I think he's Norwegian, he's he's pretty spectacular, dude.
00:40:13.679 --> 00:40:15.119
Gunners, baby, gunners.
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Go on.
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It's red, white, and blue.
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That's why I'm wearing it.
00:40:17.679 --> 00:40:18.719
Red, white, and blue, baby.
00:40:18.880 --> 00:40:19.199
I love it.
00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:19.679
I love it.
00:40:19.760 --> 00:40:20.159
Here we go.
00:40:20.320 --> 00:40:21.599
USA big one tonight, baby.
00:40:21.679 --> 00:40:22.079
Here we go.
00:40:22.239 --> 00:40:22.559
Here we go.
00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:23.679
Huge, huge.
00:40:23.920 --> 00:40:29.440
Well, hopefully, uh, hopefully they do what the rest of Kaka Cap has done is and uh and and get out of the first round.
00:40:29.920 --> 00:40:30.320
Show out.
00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:30.880
Here we go.
00:40:31.119 --> 00:40:31.599
Show out.
00:40:31.760 --> 00:40:32.559
All right, buddy.
00:40:32.719 --> 00:40:33.599
Great to talk to you.
00:40:33.679 --> 00:40:38.880
Uh we'll be back with more probably next week or the week after about the World Cup.
00:40:39.039 --> 00:40:41.039
Uh, any other any other insights we have?
00:40:41.199 --> 00:40:44.960
Maybe we maybe we'll get former women's national team to win a little bit on this problem.
00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:50.159
Yes, we'll get kind of into that quarterfinal range, we'll get some quarterfinal predictions.
00:40:50.400 --> 00:40:51.280
Yeah, I love that.
00:40:51.440 --> 00:40:51.840
I love that.
00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:55.039
My my prediction right now, by the way, is France.
00:40:55.119 --> 00:40:55.920
They're they're just ridiculous.
00:40:56.159 --> 00:40:56.960
You mean their third team?
00:40:57.119 --> 00:41:00.320
France's third team went in the whole thing because they're that talented.
00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:01.199
Yeah.
00:41:01.599 --> 00:41:02.400
Possibly.
00:41:02.800 --> 00:41:04.800
Oh, hey, Josh, quick, quick stat for you.
00:41:04.880 --> 00:41:06.800
I don't know if I don't know if you've heard this trivia.
00:41:06.960 --> 00:41:11.679
Do you know how many players playing in this year's in this World Cup that were born in France?
00:41:11.920 --> 00:41:12.400
98.
00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:14.480
98, you nailed it.
00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:16.400
Bananas stat right there.
00:41:16.800 --> 00:41:18.400
Bananas stat, 98 players.
00:41:18.639 --> 00:41:19.039
Oh my god.
00:41:19.199 --> 00:41:19.440
Awesome.
00:41:19.599 --> 00:41:21.760
Hey Josh, you don't need to be sick to get better, brother.
00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:23.360
You don't have to be sick to get better.
00:41:24.239 --> 00:41:24.639
Boom.
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Have a great day, everybody.
