WEBVTT 1 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:15.439 Welcome back to the Dog Track Greyhounds. This is Richmond Til We Die, 2 00:00:15.599 --> 00:00:20.000 an episode by episode conversation about the Apple TV Plus show ted Lasso, where 3 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:23.760 we explore the characters, the relationships to each other, and how they're able 4 00:00:23.800 --> 00:00:27.239 to make us laugh until we can hardly breathe one moment to deal with the 5 00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:31.519 deepest parts of our hearts the next. For this episode, our conversation is 6 00:00:31.559 --> 00:00:36.479 all about season three, episode one, titled Smells Like Mean Spirit. It 7 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:40.159 was written by Leanne Bowen, directed by m J. Delaney, and edited 8 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:51.200 by AJ Cataline. I'm Marissa, and I was born in Kansas City. 9 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:57.560 I'm Christian, and I'm trying to decide what my favorite version of Smells Like 10 00:00:57.799 --> 00:01:03.239 Teen Spirit parody is. Is it the nineteen ninety two weird Al Yankovic version 11 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:11.159 or is it the twenty eleven Mumpets version where they are forcibly shaving Jack Black? 12 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:18.359 Yes? Wow, I really like the cover that happens at the beginning 13 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:22.000 of Marvel's Black Widow. But I don't know who that's by. But that's 14 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:25.680 not a parody version. So I'm gonna go a shaving Jack Black because I'm 15 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:29.280 gonna have to go back and watch that and you stole my intro because I'm 16 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:34.680 Brett and I feel stupid and contagiously excited about our return to form. But 17 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:38.760 first, Christian, what are you wearing? I look super hot today? 18 00:01:38.959 --> 00:01:46.319 Yeah you do. I am wearing the US men's national team centennial jersey here. 19 00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:51.959 This shirt is from two thirteen, the one hundredth year of the US 20 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:56.280 Soccer Federation. I like it because it's very plain. It's meant to look 21 00:01:56.319 --> 00:02:00.040 old. It's nice and white and not garish like many of the US national 22 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:07.519 team kits that Nike releases. Nice thick borders, maybe blue on the sleeves, 23 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:10.639 and this tight V neck and then it has an old school looking crest 24 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:15.960 that US Soccer should have kept, nice thirteen stars and then some stripes. 25 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:23.039 The reason I'm wearing this is because the Conky Calf Nations League just wrapped up. 26 00:02:23.439 --> 00:02:27.039 Yeah, the United States won the Conky Calf Nations League. Yeah, 27 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:32.520 they did, exerting their dominance over both Mexico and Canada. Boy, and 28 00:02:32.759 --> 00:02:38.840 the Mexico semi final was two hours of the most glorious chaotic soccer I've ever 29 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:44.280 seen. I was watching it on Univision, so is the Spanish commentary, 30 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:49.520 which is great, always adds a little extra panash to things. And what 31 00:02:49.639 --> 00:02:54.159 happened was We're getting ready to play this gigantic match and US Soccer uses that 32 00:02:54.280 --> 00:03:00.039 opportunity to announce that they've named a new manager, like as the game is 33 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:02.719 starting, My god, who was it? Well, the funny thing is 34 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:07.080 it was their old manager. And there's just been tons of joba. I'm 35 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:10.080 not gonna go over here, but just google it. There's been blackmail and 36 00:03:10.599 --> 00:03:16.159 espionage and impropriety, and this was probably one of the last people that anybody 37 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:20.759 thought was going to get the job. And then blamo, Greg border Halter 38 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:25.000 gets rehired. And so I knew that this had happened because I watched Twitter, 39 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:29.879 but the commentators don't like watch Twitter always in real time, and so 40 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:36.120 I'm watching it in the univision. Folks are breaking this news to their audience, 41 00:03:36.599 --> 00:03:42.039 just as then Christian Pulisic gets out on a breakaway and then essentially like 42 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:46.879 missus a sitter of a goal. So just imagine the Mexican commentators being excited 43 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:52.479 about breaking the news, the scandalous news that Greg Halter had been rehired, 44 00:03:52.680 --> 00:03:57.800 and then Christian Pulisic missing a sitter and all of the screaming that ensued. 45 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:00.520 It was fun times four yellow cards in this match. Both teams ended with 46 00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:05.120 nine players. One of the four red cards. Oh yeah, sorry for 47 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:08.719 red cards. Which is a lot of red cards. It's a lot of 48 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:14.680 red cards. Weston McKinney had his jersey ripped and his nipple was hanging out. 49 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:18.439 It was the best bro best soccer nipple since Jamie Tart versus Soup back 50 00:04:18.519 --> 00:04:23.360 in ted Lasso Season one. I thought you were gonna say something about Janet 51 00:04:23.439 --> 00:04:27.680 Jackson. No, no, no, little little something for everyone in this 52 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:32.120 match. I like that the crest on your shirt. It looks it reminds 53 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:36.079 me of like vintage era Captain America shield. It's very like, it's very 54 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:39.879 old school. It's fun. I did wear this shirt a couple of days 55 00:04:39.879 --> 00:04:43.959 ago too, because it was I went to see Hamilton for the first time 56 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:49.040 the day that we were playing Canada for the title, and so the other 57 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:53.800 US jerseys I have have white dude's names on the back and that seemed kind 58 00:04:53.839 --> 00:04:56.759 of dumb to wear to Hamilton, and this one has the thirteen star, 59 00:04:56.839 --> 00:04:59.639 so I was like, thirteen colonies. F Yeah, let's go that's it. 60 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:04.959 How is Hamilton? It was fantastic good another Rave review. That little 61 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:10.680 known show still doing well, still against all the odds. I thought about 62 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:14.680 wearing my US Canada split scarf, but decided against it at the last morning. 63 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:16.120 I will say, there are not many other shows that can come to 64 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:19.959 Wichita, Kansas and have a two week residency. So good, good for 65 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:26.560 you Hamilton, good Joblin. Should we remind our listeners what happened in this 66 00:05:26.600 --> 00:05:30.839 episode? It's been a minute We most certainly should. It's been a super 67 00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:35.240 hot minute. Take it away. Christian ted Lasso is returning Henry to his 68 00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:41.319 hometown of Kansas City while staying in London to rescue AFC Richmond from the clutches 69 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:46.000 of relegation. Ted knows that west Ham has assembled a squad even more powerful 70 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:49.079 than his plucky club, which might very well spell certain doom for the small 71 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:55.480 band of Greyhounds struggling to attain freedom in the Premier League. While Ted seems 72 00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:59.360 to be doubting himself at least as much as every pundit and basement blogger doubts 73 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:02.199 Richmond's chances, he still finds a way to make the most of a poope 74 00:06:02.199 --> 00:06:06.600 situation by getting the team off the training pitch for an informative field trip in 75 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:12.319 an effort to flush their bad vibes. Rebecca is less than pleased in what 76 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:15.519 she interprets as a lack of focus and intensity from Ted. Granted, her 77 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:19.519 judgment is severely clouded as she's letting Rupert live rent free in her head, 78 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:25.120 which is not only unhealthy but also super dumb because he could totally afford the 79 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:30.600 rent. Q Nate and well he's on the other side, but is the 80 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:36.800 grass really greener? Rupert seems fun, but he remains to be seen whether 81 00:06:36.839 --> 00:06:42.800 there's more to life than fancy throne rooms and fast cars. Phoebe is back 82 00:06:42.839 --> 00:06:46.920 and in her old age, is spitting deep wisdom. She's so wise like 83 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:50.480 a regular sized Yoda. Roy and Keiley would do well to consult her on 84 00:06:50.519 --> 00:06:55.079 their relationship woes, but something tells us they're going to have to work things 85 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:59.279 out on their own. And that is all the recap we are going to 86 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:08.000 give you. We're back. Ted's back, the Greyhounds are back. Leading 87 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:12.240 up to this episode, what feelings did the two of you have? If 88 00:07:12.279 --> 00:07:15.759 you will recall there was a long wait between the end of season two and 89 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:20.879 the beginning of season three. Yeah, so long that some on this podcast 90 00:07:20.920 --> 00:07:26.519 said they might not continue to watch the show anymore. I won't name names, 91 00:07:28.920 --> 00:07:33.920 but I think the overwhelming feeling that I had coming into season three was 92 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:39.680 just excitement, like really an anticipation, and not in a negative way, 93 00:07:39.720 --> 00:07:43.759 but really just wanting to see where this journey would take us. I think 94 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:47.560 that they're even after two relatively short seasons, like I mean, they're average 95 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:53.600 seasons for TV now, but having twenty two episodes total, I had great 96 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:58.120 faith in the creative team and the writers and the technical team to really pull 97 00:07:58.120 --> 00:08:01.800 it off and land the plane, kind of knowing that this might be the 98 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:07.439 third and final act of this story, and so I was just excited to 99 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:09.839 kind of see how they would start off. What about you, Marissa, 100 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:13.800 I mean I was looking forward to it, of course. Yeah, it's 101 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:18.800 hard to wait, and it got increasingly more frustrating waiting for it. But 102 00:08:18.199 --> 00:08:20.360 yeah, no, I agree, I had faith in it. But I 103 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:26.279 think I was most looking forward to redemption for certain people in certain characters, 104 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:31.839 and just because not only like the principal characters, but so many of the 105 00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:37.360 supporting characters have like grown in there I feel like their fan base and appreciation 106 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:41.440 throughout the show, so I feel like they had to do a lot of 107 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:48.320 work to tie up so many like storylines and characters and really kind of, 108 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:50.600 I don't know, let us say goodbye to them in like a fun and 109 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:54.000 healthy way. And so that's, you know, as we were going into 110 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:56.879 it, that's kind of what I was hoping would happen. What about you, 111 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:03.080 Christian, I was feeling zen very trust the process. The sad part 112 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:07.919 was that once the season started, and that meant the season was going to 113 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:11.559 end, and then also that meant, you know, our podcast was probably 114 00:09:11.559 --> 00:09:16.120 going to end because this is most likely the third in final season of ted 115 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:18.679 Lasso, and then there's only so much that you can talk about when there's 116 00:09:18.679 --> 00:09:24.720 no new material. So I was a bit conflicted in that the long period 117 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:31.320 of time in between the two seasons did extend the life of the online ted 118 00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:35.799 Lasso community and this thing that we get to do, and all of that 119 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:41.080 has been very fun. So there was some sadness and some sentimentality, but 120 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:46.559 then also the excitement to see what they were going to do with all of 121 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:48.080 this that they had set up, and there was a long time in between, 122 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:54.159 but I always chocked that up to, well, one, the world 123 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:56.559 realizes how cool all the people are that work on the show now, so 124 00:09:56.600 --> 00:09:58.159 they were doing a lot of other jobs and a lot of other projects at 125 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:03.080 the same time, but also that they were taking the time to get the 126 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:07.720 result that they wanted, and so I, just like you, knew that 127 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:11.080 we weren't going to get anything that was rushed, and everything was going to 128 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:13.480 be thought out and executed to the best of their abilities. In my opinion, 129 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:18.159 the intentionality paid off. One of the things that I noticed from the 130 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:24.559 very beginning was we were getting a lot of head fakes in this episode. 131 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:28.720 They're toying with us a bit, trying to psych us out. And then 132 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:33.600 the other thing was there were just a lot of deep cut callbacks, and 133 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:37.720 then we would find later things that they were setting up for later in the 134 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:43.879 season. And so there was some solace in seeing from the beginning, Oh 135 00:10:43.919 --> 00:10:48.519 good, they're being really smart about this. Now I really can't wait to 136 00:10:48.519 --> 00:10:52.000 see what happens. It's interesting to like sort of get so swept up in 137 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:56.120 a show, I mean, the way especially we did by starting this podcast 138 00:10:56.159 --> 00:10:58.639 and being involved, like you said, with sort of all of the ted 139 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:03.960 last, so fandom on the internet. But it's interesting to me, like 140 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:11.159 doing that when you can interact with other fans but also people who create things 141 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:16.600 like that was never a thing that we did watching shows growing up, you 142 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:18.480 know, Like I remember, well there was no Internet. Well yes, 143 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:24.600 exactly, but I remember Brett's too young. But I remember getting like the 144 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:30.159 TV guide in like the aisle of the grocery store because like I wanted to 145 00:11:30.200 --> 00:11:33.399 know what the next like episode of whatever I was watching was going to be 146 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:35.120 about, right, or that I was going to miss it because I had 147 00:11:35.399 --> 00:11:39.360 some rehearsal that night or whatever. But it like the fact that we kind 148 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:46.039 of get these insights to like what we're about to receive from them creatively is 149 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:48.159 I don't know, It seems like you kind of get to peel back like 150 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:52.720 the curtain a little bit and have some sort of idea of like they're doing 151 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:58.639 this not just for the show or for like their own creative purposes, but 152 00:11:58.759 --> 00:12:01.360 because they want to honor the fans too. As much as this episode did 153 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:05.879 overall kind of feel very much like a set up episode, Like there's a 154 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:07.799 lot of table setting. Yeah, and we'll get into that, but it 155 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:11.039 still felt like good to be back with these characters, and it felt like 156 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:15.799 we kind of knew where we were going from the first scene. I feel 157 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:18.799 like at least of course was set. You know, it felt like we 158 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:24.200 had a direction. So I felt good about like, Okay, I feel 159 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:26.120 like we have a thesis statement and we can like expound on it. You 160 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:31.840 know, speaking of table setting, where are you still team captions? When 161 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:37.960 you watch television always being team captions? Led me to notice something, and 162 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:43.360 that is that the credits for tedl Lasso, the opening credits have gotten incredibly 163 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:48.320 long. Yeah, because it shifts the captions. They go to the top 164 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:52.519 and the side, the top and the sides, and sometimes it covers people's 165 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:56.120 heads and whatnot. And what I realized is the credits were so long is 166 00:12:56.159 --> 00:13:01.080 because, very kindly and rightfully, everybody who was with the show essentially from 167 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:05.200 the beginning got promotions. So people who were credited as writers in the first 168 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:11.360 season are now have producer roles in various roles, which means, you know, 169 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:15.200 they got more money and a lot of the great things that come with 170 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:18.399 getting a promotion. But I went back and I timed it when I was 171 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:24.440 rewatching this, and we do not get to a regular caption position until like 172 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:30.200 six minutes into this episode, which is a little bonkers when you consider the 173 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:33.279 first episodes of ted Lasso were only twenty four minutes long, and so it 174 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:39.240 like it doesn't quite feel as long when with these longer episodes. But hey, 175 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:41.120 six minutes. I'm glad everybody's getting their shout outs. I'm glad everybody's 176 00:13:41.159 --> 00:13:48.639 getting their paychecks. It's nice to know that the vibe that we pick up 177 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:52.000 on of these people looking out for each other and loving each other does seem 178 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:56.200 to also play out in real life. Yeah. You know something else that 179 00:13:56.279 --> 00:14:01.279 I noticed, just speaking of esthetics and things like that, is that in 180 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:07.840 this episode there is a lot of iPhone dinging ing ing. Yeah. Yeah, 181 00:14:07.879 --> 00:14:09.879 these people need to get a vibrate setting. Yeah for real, like 182 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:16.639 Apple got to get that money. Girl. It's you know what else happens 183 00:14:16.679 --> 00:14:20.000 in this episode? What's that? And also in this season that I think 184 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:24.519 we should like make sure that we keep track of for the fans. Tell 185 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:31.039 me, Rebecca is seen eating a lot in this season, and I just 186 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:33.840 want to say, go girl, because you know, she's a queen. 187 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:39.600 But like one of the most famous actors in America is like known for eating 188 00:14:39.639 --> 00:14:43.159 movies. You know who that is, Yeah, Brad Pitt. It's like 189 00:14:43.159 --> 00:14:46.399 in his contracts, isn't it. Yeah, Like did you know that when 190 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:50.639 heat is amazing jaw line? Yeah, And I mean like Hannah watting him, 191 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:54.919 Like, let's just say hers is even better. When Brad Pitt eats 192 00:14:56.039 --> 00:15:01.080 two hundred plus calories in a film, the film earns one hundred and forty 193 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:07.360 three plus million. If he eats less than two hundred calories, his movie 194 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:11.159 earns only one hundred and ten million, and if he doesn't eat at all, 195 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:16.240 it's like sixty eight million. So I'm just saying maybe this has to 196 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:20.639 do with like also like the people making the money for season three years effect, 197 00:15:20.720 --> 00:15:24.000 the Brad pit effect is now we need to follow this for Rebecca this 198 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:28.519 season. So I think we should be tracking all the yummy things that she 199 00:15:28.679 --> 00:15:33.919 does. Yeah, because we've seen her like consuming biscuits quite a bit simple 200 00:15:33.960 --> 00:15:39.679 seasons child, but like she starts off like eating a nice like gourmet salad 201 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:41.960 like in this season. So we're gonna We're just gonna put a pin in 202 00:15:43.039 --> 00:15:46.120 that and track it throughout this season because it matters, it does, and 203 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:52.399 we want to recognize and empower that NTV she eats in Kiley's office, and 204 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:58.840 I believe the two of you were very excited by other Keile's office developments that 205 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:03.240 happen this season. Oh my gosh, one of my absolute favorite actresses is 206 00:16:03.320 --> 00:16:11.879 Katie Wicks, and she shows up as Barbara the CFO, which Keily has 207 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:19.200 no idea. Why does she call her the flying object Corporate Flying objects flying 208 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:25.960 abjects? Yes, we love Katie Wicks. There will be a Katie Wicks 209 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:30.279 appreciation moment in every episode that Barbara appears in because she's also in one of 210 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:34.080 our favorite shows where she was in Ghosts, the BBC version, and we 211 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:38.960 love her work and was such a pleasant surprise to see her walk in and 212 00:16:40.360 --> 00:16:42.679 be a little bit disrespectful to keilely. But you know, we'll see where 213 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:52.120 it goes. So season three starts us off with like helping us to remember 214 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:55.480 what it was like to start the whole series. Right, there's a lot 215 00:16:55.519 --> 00:17:00.639 of things that feel like what we felt at the first episode of season one, 216 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:07.039 right, Yes, in the sense that a lot of our friends have 217 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:11.440 regressed to some of their former dysfunctions. So that's neat. Yes, folks, 218 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:18.839 are being unhealthy in old and familiar ways, some of that falling into 219 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:23.559 some of those old patterns and reminding us that growth and progress is not always 220 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:29.799 linear, but there are times of progress and regress, if that's a word 221 00:17:29.839 --> 00:17:34.559 people use. One example is the very first scene where we have Ted with 222 00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:38.240 his son Henry, and kind of how that whole dynamic is playing out with 223 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:44.400 Ted communicating with Henry and with Michelle as Henry's preparing to board this fictional flight 224 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:52.720 from London to Kansas City that does not exist. But let's chat a little 225 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:56.000 bit about like there are other folks I think that fall into this category too, 226 00:17:56.039 --> 00:17:59.759 But what do we think is going on with Ted here in this moment. 227 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:03.160 Not a lot that's good. He doesn't look good, he doesn't feel 228 00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:11.079 particularly all. They're not bubbly and snappy, like yeah, ready for the 229 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:15.160 day. And again we're starting at an airport, right, So like we 230 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:18.960 see Ted and Season one, you know, getting on he's on the plane 231 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:22.720 and he's he's ready, he's energized, he's looking forward to the season, 232 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:26.759 to what's new to this experience. And here we're at an airport and Ted 233 00:18:27.160 --> 00:18:32.599 is not looking forward to what's happening next, like he has this question of 234 00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:36.160 like why is he still here? Like I don't want my son to get 235 00:18:36.200 --> 00:18:38.960 on this plane and like leave me right now. Whereas like the beginning we 236 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:42.039 were he was going to something. Now it feels like, you know, 237 00:18:42.119 --> 00:18:45.599 his son is leaving from somewhere. So, yes, we have those elements 238 00:18:45.599 --> 00:18:49.640 that are kind of that threat is carrying us through. But yeah, Ted 239 00:18:49.720 --> 00:18:53.319 doesn't know why he's still here. And it's a question and a critique that 240 00:18:53.559 --> 00:18:59.079 people who watched the show asked after the first season, who the heck you 241 00:18:59.119 --> 00:19:03.160 know leaves there? Kid? Un of these circumstances, especially for a venture 242 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:11.000 that seems speculative or frivolous or ridiculous, And those are clearly thoughts that Ted 243 00:19:11.160 --> 00:19:17.000 is now having, and it is having a powerful effect on him. We 244 00:19:17.079 --> 00:19:22.079 talked about Phoebe having some wisdom for Uncle Roy, and then we also see 245 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:26.440 in this episode that it's not just reserved for young Phoebe, but Henry also 246 00:19:26.519 --> 00:19:30.319 has some wisdom for his dad, And as I don't know as conflicted as 247 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:36.559 Ted feels, Henry seems to understand why his dad is there, and he's 248 00:19:36.599 --> 00:19:38.480 like, you came here for a reason. You have to try, right 249 00:19:38.599 --> 00:19:44.759 this. He gives them sort of this lego figurine of the Premier League club, 250 00:19:44.839 --> 00:19:48.880 right, but really it's it's supposed to be this like this thing that 251 00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:52.559 we're all wanting to happen for Richmond for the whole series, right, And 252 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:56.960 so here's Henry like giving it to him and saying, yeah, Dad, 253 00:19:56.000 --> 00:19:57.839 I know you love me, I know you want to be with me, 254 00:19:57.960 --> 00:20:00.680 but you came out here for a reason. You don't quit things, and 255 00:20:00.759 --> 00:20:03.680 like, go do it, Go do the dang thing. And I think 256 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:10.079 it's a really important thing for Ted to hear as he's in this headspace as 257 00:20:10.119 --> 00:20:11.880 well as we'll learn in just a few moments when he's talking to doctor Sharon, 258 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:17.440 who yeah, doctor Sharon's back, but like he is clearly struggling with 259 00:20:17.519 --> 00:20:19.200 like I know why I came here, but I don't know why I'm still 260 00:20:19.279 --> 00:20:22.400 here. And this reminder from Henry, I think is really important to him 261 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:26.880 for thinking about like maybe what he needs to do with the time that he 262 00:20:26.920 --> 00:20:30.599 knows he still has a Richmond, whether that's one season or more or whatever. 263 00:20:32.759 --> 00:20:36.599 This is TBD at this point, but I think it's a good reminder 264 00:20:36.599 --> 00:20:38.119 for him to be like, yeah, you don't just come out like there's 265 00:20:38.119 --> 00:20:41.680 still a job to do, there's still very real people that he cares about 266 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:47.559 in his life and on this club that you know, depending on what decision 267 00:20:47.599 --> 00:20:49.720 he ends up making, like he wants to leave this place better than he 268 00:20:49.799 --> 00:20:56.799 found it. So to Ted's credit, he is not allowing all of those 269 00:20:56.799 --> 00:21:00.240 feelings and all that's going on inside of him. He's not like dampening that 270 00:21:00.319 --> 00:21:07.680 by allowing himself to get drug into other people's nonsense. Right, Rebecca is 271 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:12.839 back to a really unhealthy place in terms of the status that she gives Rupert 272 00:21:14.079 --> 00:21:18.759 in her life and the focus that she has on him. And then she 273 00:21:18.799 --> 00:21:22.440 doesn't even she's blind to the focus that she is putting on him, and 274 00:21:22.799 --> 00:21:30.839 she does try to drag Ted into kind of this proxy war against Rupert, 275 00:21:30.920 --> 00:21:34.200 and Ted's like not having anything to do with that. So he's not trying 276 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:38.720 to drown out his feelings by getting in someone else's drama. He can see 277 00:21:38.759 --> 00:21:42.400 pretty clearly that that's nothing he wants to have anything to do with. Well. 278 00:21:42.440 --> 00:21:47.039 And yes, and even though we see these characters sort of existing in 279 00:21:47.079 --> 00:21:52.240 these unhealthy familiar areas, we do see growth because we see Ted not just 280 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:56.079 staying in this place where he's unhappy or he's conflicted about something and then just 281 00:21:56.240 --> 00:22:00.759 acting like everything is okay. The first thing he does see him do is 282 00:22:00.839 --> 00:22:06.000 talk to doctor Sharon about it, and so we see him sort of like 283 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:11.559 taking those steps to deal with these questions rather than just sort of clossing over 284 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:15.240 it or hiding it or just shoving it down and trying to be the happy, 285 00:22:15.279 --> 00:22:18.400 positive energy in the room all the time. And we see that when 286 00:22:18.400 --> 00:22:23.880 he enters the room and they make the joke about like no witty repperte or 287 00:22:23.880 --> 00:22:29.279 what do they say, no funny illiteration like rhyming reading or something like that. 288 00:22:29.440 --> 00:22:36.839 Yes, it sets up an odd juxtaposition in this season because we came 289 00:22:36.920 --> 00:22:42.559 to fall in love with a version of Ted Lasso that was not a healthy 290 00:22:42.640 --> 00:22:48.680 version of Ted Lasso, And so then how do we as an audience, 291 00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:53.000 like, what do we feel about a healthy her version of Ted? And 292 00:22:53.079 --> 00:22:59.759 maybe that's not exactly what we're experiencing now, but a lot of those things 293 00:22:59.799 --> 00:23:02.599 that we did fall in love with, those have been shipped away because those 294 00:23:02.599 --> 00:23:06.759 were unhealthy. Coping them mechanism, right, and so now, what's what's 295 00:23:06.759 --> 00:23:10.480 our relationship with this guy? Which I just think is an interesting way to 296 00:23:10.480 --> 00:23:15.519 set up this season because just in real life, how many times are there 297 00:23:15.519 --> 00:23:18.440 where you get to know someone and there are parts of their personality that you 298 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:23.480 actually do enjoy, But then as you get to know them on a deeper 299 00:23:23.559 --> 00:23:26.079 level, a more intimate level, you start to realize, like, oh, 300 00:23:26.119 --> 00:23:29.440 some of the things I love about this person are also some of the 301 00:23:29.519 --> 00:23:33.920 things that you know this is the result of a wound, of a hurt, 302 00:23:33.519 --> 00:23:37.319 of something that is causing them pain or to go to unhealthy places. 303 00:23:37.359 --> 00:23:41.519 It's not always all bad, but there are there are times where you can 304 00:23:41.640 --> 00:23:44.000 you can hold those two things in your mind and be like, I love 305 00:23:44.039 --> 00:23:47.279 this person because they act this way or they're this type of person, but 306 00:23:47.480 --> 00:23:51.799 I also know that's a result of trauma or you know, negative behavior, 307 00:23:51.920 --> 00:23:53.960 or you know negative learned behaviors, I guess I should say. And so 308 00:23:55.039 --> 00:24:00.319 that's I just applaud the show for bringing that to us as viewers, sort 309 00:24:00.359 --> 00:24:04.039 of asking us to reconcile with that, like, oh, the things that 310 00:24:04.079 --> 00:24:07.000 were so charming about this man, some of them were a little bit troubling, 311 00:24:07.119 --> 00:24:11.240 and it's good to see him. Like we said before, it's good 312 00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:14.000 to see him doing the work, and I think it sets up a really 313 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:18.079 fun journey for season three. Someone we don't see doing any work or has 314 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:25.960 not changed it at all since season two is Nate. We see him starting 315 00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:29.720 his day at West Ham Right, it's a little bit like when we see 316 00:24:29.759 --> 00:24:37.599 Ted coming into Richmond. But anytime someone tries to shut O, anytime someone 317 00:24:37.680 --> 00:24:41.720 tries to talk to Nate, it's like there's either no response or quick and 318 00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:48.240 like the down doesn't talk to them, or he's rude, and the first 319 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:52.720 thing he does is open his beautiful Apple computer and check on what people are 320 00:24:52.759 --> 00:24:55.759 saying about him online, which is, of course, as we all know, 321 00:24:56.279 --> 00:24:59.519 really healthy. And it's you're right, Like there are so many of 322 00:24:59.559 --> 00:25:03.519 these like negative parallels because in the first season of episode one, Ted's kili 323 00:25:03.519 --> 00:25:06.839 as sad about Twitter and he's like, oh, I don't really do Twitter, 324 00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:10.079 you know. And then there's also the way they each single out of 325 00:25:10.079 --> 00:25:12.720 player, Like when Ted first singles out Sam, that might be an episode 326 00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:15.160 two, but that's the be a Goldfish quote that we all love, but 327 00:25:15.279 --> 00:25:18.599 we see the first time we see Nate single out of player, he sends 328 00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:25.240 them to the dumb dumb line. So and then the whole the whole parallelism 329 00:25:25.240 --> 00:25:29.039 with the press conferences too, is just really brilliant, like that they handle 330 00:25:29.079 --> 00:25:33.119 those things and totally opposite ways, and yet there's a really interesting similarity, 331 00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:40.720 which is that Nate experiences a form of an anxiety attack that's not dissimilar from 332 00:25:40.759 --> 00:25:44.799 what Ted does and his very first press conference. We obviously see that manifest 333 00:25:44.839 --> 00:25:48.200 in bigger, more significant ways later, but I thought that was really interesting 334 00:25:48.200 --> 00:25:52.160 that they chose to write it that way. Yeah, and we also learned 335 00:25:52.160 --> 00:25:57.359 too, as Nate is texting with his mom at the end of the episode. 336 00:25:57.880 --> 00:26:02.000 Well, I guess we'd all learn, but we just get a reminder 337 00:26:02.559 --> 00:26:10.880 that Nate's relationship with his dad sits very close to the source of his insecurities, 338 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:14.920 and so he can try to cover him up with whatever he wants, 339 00:26:15.240 --> 00:26:21.640 but even just that text really pierces him, even if for a second. 340 00:26:22.119 --> 00:26:30.079 Yep, and probably the most disheartening for me situation of unhealth is this thing 341 00:26:30.079 --> 00:26:33.799 that we've got going on with Roy and Keeley. I kind of thought we 342 00:26:33.920 --> 00:26:37.519 had moved on and things were getting better at the end of season two. 343 00:26:37.359 --> 00:26:41.319 Clearly that is not the case. They are still on very rocky shores and 344 00:26:41.400 --> 00:26:45.400 trying to figure out what their relationship is. And by the end of this 345 00:26:45.480 --> 00:26:52.039 episode, they have decided to finalize their breakup, and the last thing they 346 00:26:52.039 --> 00:26:55.279 have to do is of course tell Phoebe, who is the arbiter of their 347 00:26:55.359 --> 00:26:59.960 relationship and the you know, this constant between both of them because she looks 348 00:27:00.039 --> 00:27:03.039 up to Keeley and Roy in different ways so much so that's a very cute 349 00:27:03.119 --> 00:27:07.720 but also sad scene that was really well written, I thought, and I 350 00:27:07.759 --> 00:27:11.039 agree with you be a little bit. I think they're both being a little 351 00:27:11.079 --> 00:27:17.000 bit stupid, But we'll see what happens. I do appreciate that it seems 352 00:27:17.039 --> 00:27:21.079 like it's coming from a place of wanting to honor each other's journey and kind 353 00:27:21.119 --> 00:27:26.200 of grow continue to grow in health. But I don't know, Man's it 354 00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:30.160 feels really continuous. Yeah, I don't know. It's hard to be figuring 355 00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:33.000 stuff out alone. So we'll see. We'll see how it works out. 356 00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:41.839 You know what else feels strange, but somehow right is that Jamie tart is 357 00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:49.920 like the most focused and like has just this positive outlook and like, I 358 00:27:49.960 --> 00:27:55.160 don't know, just like a leadership about him in the locker room for people 359 00:27:55.200 --> 00:27:57.640 and he's just like, everyone, get your lives together. We're gonna do 360 00:27:57.680 --> 00:28:02.720 this. Like where did full philosopher Jamie come from? Because I don't know. 361 00:28:02.920 --> 00:28:06.839 I'd read his book, The Philosopher King is what he is, and 362 00:28:06.960 --> 00:28:11.559 I love him. The transformation that Jamie Tart has undergone already in this show 363 00:28:11.759 --> 00:28:18.000 is fascinating and incredible, and even in even in the context of this one 364 00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:22.519 episode, we go from him sort of having his very almost sort of faux 365 00:28:22.599 --> 00:28:27.200 arrogant quoe where he says like, you know, if we're together, we're 366 00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:30.039 not going to get relegated because together we got me, you know, and 367 00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:33.960 it's like, oh, there's there's classic Jamie, like he's still in there 368 00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:38.240 there way. But then by the end of the episode, once we've gone 369 00:28:38.279 --> 00:28:41.480 down into the sewer and come back, you know, Jamie is the first 370 00:28:41.559 --> 00:28:45.960 as the team starts to devolve into this like, okayn't believe what they said 371 00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:48.240 about us. I can't believe this, you know, everyone's talking about us. 372 00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:52.000 He's like it's just boope, you know, and Ted and Beard are 373 00:28:52.039 --> 00:28:55.720 kind of like, okay, j yeah, I got it. He's he's 374 00:28:55.759 --> 00:29:00.279 taking on a little bit more of a leadership role in understanding like as he's 375 00:29:00.319 --> 00:29:04.000 being one of eleven, like how he continued to how he can continue to 376 00:29:04.079 --> 00:29:07.720 be a leader on a team while also being a member of that team. 377 00:29:07.759 --> 00:29:11.480 And that's It's a development that I am very excited to talk about as it 378 00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:21.119 happens this season. I appreciate that they did not make Jamie less stylish, 379 00:29:21.200 --> 00:29:25.319 as they gave him more depth. In fact, I thought that his hair 380 00:29:25.359 --> 00:29:30.440 looked a little extra frosted this season, and some of those visual cues that 381 00:29:32.279 --> 00:29:36.400 just remind you who Jamie has been in the past. It almost seemed like 382 00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:41.160 they cranked the dial up on him just a little bit to put some distance 383 00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:48.039 between his look and his substance. Yes, I mean Phil downstairs just brilliant, 384 00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:51.720 like for real, he could do so many things, and we get 385 00:29:51.759 --> 00:29:56.920 to see that entire range this season, and I'm thrilled. I completely agree 386 00:29:56.319 --> 00:30:03.079 Jamie style game continue the barking tenues to raise in this season. But one 387 00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:06.680 area where we've maybe taken a step back, or at least a sidestep in 388 00:30:06.799 --> 00:30:08.880 style is the style of soccer that Richmond are going to play this season, 389 00:30:10.400 --> 00:30:14.599 which is the old four four two, And man, does this season really 390 00:30:14.680 --> 00:30:19.200 like take us to soccer one on one school and it's glorious. This is 391 00:30:19.200 --> 00:30:26.519 a show that people who have not watched soccer could still enjoy and appreciate. 392 00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:33.000 And since this show's debut, there have been a lot of people who have 393 00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:37.319 learned things about the game come to appreciate the game. We've seen folks especially 394 00:30:37.480 --> 00:30:44.519 enjoy starting to follow Wrexham because their story has been told in a documentary narrative 395 00:30:44.519 --> 00:30:49.200 style that is compelling and I think speaks to people both in tone and in 396 00:30:49.279 --> 00:30:56.279 substance who enjoy ted Lasso And this year it really it's always been a show 397 00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:02.319 with soccer at its core. This year then it really does get pushed even 398 00:31:02.359 --> 00:31:07.599 more to the forefront and there is a lot of teaching of the history and 399 00:31:07.640 --> 00:31:14.400 the philosophy of the game that we get to I personally enjoyed, and we 400 00:31:14.480 --> 00:31:19.960 also get a lot of flexing as they visit a number of their favorite football 401 00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:26.720 stadia throughout Europe, not just England. And you can really tell, even 402 00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:30.400 more so than the first two seasons, that this is a show that was 403 00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:34.559 created by people who love the sport, even just looking at this one episode 404 00:31:34.599 --> 00:31:40.160 where they take the time to do those little explanatory commas or just kind of 405 00:31:40.160 --> 00:31:44.640 write in bits about the game that we'll speak to those folks who like, 406 00:31:44.640 --> 00:31:48.480 like you said, you can enjoy the show knowing zero about soccer. But 407 00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:51.799 I think for those of us who do follow the game and have followed the 408 00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:56.000 game for you know, decades or more, that it feels very it feels 409 00:31:56.079 --> 00:31:59.599 very much like talking to your friends about soccer, you know. It feels 410 00:31:59.640 --> 00:32:01.559 like it feels like you could just be like shooting the breeze about this, 411 00:32:01.640 --> 00:32:05.839 and it's it's a very natural conversation. And I love that they use it 412 00:32:05.880 --> 00:32:09.000 as a device too to kind of show some of Ted's growth in the knowledge 413 00:32:09.039 --> 00:32:14.039 he's a head coach of the sport, so he should absolutely no things. 414 00:32:14.319 --> 00:32:19.480 It's still unacceptable. How little he knows, it's still unacceptable. But I 415 00:32:19.559 --> 00:32:22.359 love that, you know, he very you know, he mentions the four 416 00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:25.519 four two and how he knows what that means is for defenders four midfield two 417 00:32:25.519 --> 00:32:30.000 forwards. And there's also the moment where in his press conference later in the 418 00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:31.240 episode, he says, well, we got thirty eight chances to prove them 419 00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:36.039 wrong. Whereas in the first episode of season one someone asked him how many 420 00:32:36.079 --> 00:32:37.000 games in a season and he's like, I don't know off the top of 421 00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:40.920 my head, you know. So there's little moments sprinkled throughout where Ted is 422 00:32:42.200 --> 00:32:46.119 showing off his very basic, admittedly but still knowledge about the game, and 423 00:32:46.400 --> 00:32:50.359 the way they use that as a plot device to also just sort of speak 424 00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:53.759 to those folks who really do love soccer and love this show is really fun. 425 00:32:54.119 --> 00:32:59.039 If you follow the cast and crew on social media, you would see 426 00:32:59.039 --> 00:33:02.440 their love for the soccer as season three was in production, and maybe one 427 00:33:02.440 --> 00:33:06.000 of the reasons that season three took a little longer to get to us was 428 00:33:06.039 --> 00:33:10.599 because they attended so many soccer matches. Did they even work well, not 429 00:33:10.759 --> 00:33:15.440 on Saturday afternoons at two po best for sure, And I mean I was 430 00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:20.400 happy for him. You know, if you can waltz into stadiums and have 431 00:33:20.440 --> 00:33:24.000 people welcome you and get access to meet players and managers, you should absolutely 432 00:33:24.039 --> 00:33:28.960 strike while the iron is hot. And it was fun from a distance to 433 00:33:29.119 --> 00:33:34.720 watch them having fun in places that before they'd probably just enjoyed on TV and 434 00:33:34.759 --> 00:33:40.680 whatnot. Yeah, So, as we've already mentioned, the title of this 435 00:33:40.720 --> 00:33:47.039 episode is clearly a nod to the Nirvana grunge classic Smells Like Teen Spirit. 436 00:33:47.599 --> 00:33:51.799 We've got that in some other songs, but Christian, I think maybe you 437 00:33:51.839 --> 00:33:54.160 had a little something you wanted to say about Smells Like Teen Spirit. Even 438 00:33:54.160 --> 00:33:58.519 though it's not actually played in this episode. Yeah, we don't get to 439 00:33:58.599 --> 00:34:04.200 hear it, but coming through the lyrics, I did find these four lines 440 00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:07.799 that stood out to me. I'm worst at what I do best, and 441 00:34:07.839 --> 00:34:12.039 for this gift, I feel blessed. Our little group has always been and 442 00:34:12.199 --> 00:34:15.840 always will until the end. There's not a lot in Smells Like Teen Spirit 443 00:34:16.159 --> 00:34:21.199 that has a nice dead lasso vibe to it, but that part of that 444 00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:28.559 verse most certainly that and I think one of the like the best and maybe 445 00:34:28.599 --> 00:34:31.800 a little bit unexpected song placements for me in this episode was when we Here 446 00:34:31.800 --> 00:34:36.400 Follow the Leader by Eric b and Rock Him, which is from the eighty 447 00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:39.320 seven album of the same name, and this of course plays as we are 448 00:34:39.360 --> 00:34:45.400 reintroduced to Nate now as the head coach of west Ham United, and it's 449 00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:49.800 supposed to kind of set the table. You know, he's the top dog 450 00:34:49.840 --> 00:34:53.639 now, Yeah, right, It was surprising. I rewatch. It made 451 00:34:54.079 --> 00:34:59.920 more sense to me when we see Nate for the first time. I was 452 00:35:00.119 --> 00:35:05.159 tam at the end of season two, we get that Run the Jewels track 453 00:35:05.519 --> 00:35:10.920 Yankee and the Brave, and the beat to this particular song sounds a lot 454 00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:15.440 like the beat too or Run the Jewels song. So for Nate to be 455 00:35:15.639 --> 00:35:20.239 back, for us to be reintroduced to him, for him to be out 456 00:35:20.239 --> 00:35:23.920 London Stadium again with the team, it felt like there was some connective tissue. 457 00:35:24.159 --> 00:35:29.719 And it also reminded me that in season one we got some biz marquis 458 00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:32.960 and whereas a lot of the hip hop and hip hop references in the show 459 00:35:34.119 --> 00:35:37.800 tend to be more nineties, because I would have been of Jason Sidekis like 460 00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:43.559 prime hip hop era, this is before that. But if you're gonna pick 461 00:35:43.639 --> 00:35:47.719 someone to shout out and represent rock, him is the person to do it. 462 00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:52.360 When people talk about the greatest lyricists of all time, he often comes 463 00:35:52.440 --> 00:35:59.559 up in conversation, and he's a person that stylistically and philosophically informed so much 464 00:35:59.599 --> 00:36:02.559 of what in hip hop in general, but then kind of that golden age 465 00:36:02.559 --> 00:36:06.280 of East Coast hip hop. He's a big influence on Nas, jay Z, 466 00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:10.599 Biggie Wu Tang. Without him, I don't know that we get all 467 00:36:10.639 --> 00:36:16.119 of that richness. And so it was just as a matter of the historical 468 00:36:16.199 --> 00:36:21.440 record. I was glad to get some Eric b and Rick him in this 469 00:36:21.480 --> 00:36:23.719 episode. And it's still a bomb. Yeah, oh yeah, it still 470 00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:27.679 goes. Yes, you will make you want to run through a wall. 471 00:36:27.880 --> 00:36:34.760 Yes, and I do appreciate Yeah, yeah, you know, um Nate, 472 00:36:35.199 --> 00:36:37.840 maybe he listens to Eric B and Rick him, I don't know, 473 00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:43.280 but he certainly has not adopted their swire. Brett, how did you feel 474 00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:45.400 when you got to hear some Beyonce in this episode? I was so excited 475 00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:50.920 that we got in this episode they have, Brett. I have been waiting 476 00:36:51.039 --> 00:36:53.599 and finally it's here. And I think the song Laid shows it's such an 477 00:36:53.599 --> 00:36:58.960 interesting choice. It plays at the credits. It's like right after we go 478 00:36:59.039 --> 00:37:00.760 to you know, cut to black, or maybe right before that. As 479 00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:06.559 Ted is on the phone with finds out who Henry Jake, who tells him 480 00:37:06.559 --> 00:37:15.360 about Mommy's friend Jake Arma. Unfortunately he is not and so you know, 481 00:37:15.559 --> 00:37:22.119 Ted has this very this look of consternation. I'll call it and and constipation. 482 00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:27.199 And that Beyonce rings the alarm and which is from two thousand and six 483 00:37:27.360 --> 00:37:34.400 is b Day. This is an interesting choice only because the controversy surrounding the 484 00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:38.000 release of this song as a single was that she had recorded it to sort 485 00:37:38.000 --> 00:37:42.760 of be about jay Z's relationship with Rihanna at the time, and there was 486 00:37:42.800 --> 00:37:45.559 this purported love triangle between the three of them, and so I do think 487 00:37:45.559 --> 00:37:49.840 that in the context of this show, I wouldn't call what's happening with Jake, 488 00:37:49.920 --> 00:37:52.320 Michelle and Ted a love triangle, but there is. It's a dramama. 489 00:37:52.440 --> 00:37:54.960 There is a drama lama and maybe this sense of Ted of like, 490 00:37:55.679 --> 00:38:00.079 hmm, you know, like ring that a lot of ring ringing ling ling, 491 00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:05.119 So but it's it's a banger, and I'm excited that it was in 492 00:38:05.199 --> 00:38:08.760 there, So I think would say it just like that too, ring ling, 493 00:38:08.840 --> 00:38:16.920 a ling, ring ling, ling ling, And it was a great 494 00:38:16.960 --> 00:38:21.760 callback to I can't remember which episode off the top of my head, but 495 00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:24.559 when someone approaches Ted and it's like something bad has happening and he's like, 496 00:38:24.559 --> 00:38:28.760 oh, what did jay Z and Beyonce break up or something? No, 497 00:38:28.840 --> 00:38:32.039 it was specifically did Beyonce break up with jay Z or something? Which I 498 00:38:32.159 --> 00:38:37.760 know because I love to gift that whenever I can't. It would have made 499 00:38:37.800 --> 00:38:40.320 me. I got immediately sad just thinking about it, I think, he 500 00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:45.599 says, so, so i' stretging up some feelings for Ted. And in 501 00:38:45.639 --> 00:38:51.559 addition to the wonderful music placements, we have some other musical references in this 502 00:38:51.760 --> 00:38:58.719 episode to this whole season is just chock full of Broadway y'all way to find 503 00:38:58.760 --> 00:39:05.119 them all. Musical theater is abundant here, And we get one from Nate 504 00:39:05.199 --> 00:39:07.639 when he starts to like get all awkward and doesn't know what to say and 505 00:39:07.719 --> 00:39:12.079 he starts going into lyrics from The King and I yeah, yes. And 506 00:39:12.119 --> 00:39:15.559 there's another one too, yeah, yeah, So the one you're mentioning is 507 00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:19.880 when Nate says getting to know you, getting to know them, getting to 508 00:39:19.920 --> 00:39:22.519 know all about them, which is a very well known song from The King, 509 00:39:22.559 --> 00:39:25.280 and I like, I don't know how he thought he was going to 510 00:39:25.360 --> 00:39:30.679 get away with that. But the other one comes early on in the episode 511 00:39:30.719 --> 00:39:32.880 when Ted is talking to Rebecca or Higgins, I think, and he says, 512 00:39:32.920 --> 00:39:37.159 what's the buzz? Tell me what's happening, which is the title of 513 00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:43.199 a song from Jesus Christ Superstar by Andrew Lloyd Webber. And so already we 514 00:39:43.280 --> 00:39:46.719 see Ted kind of branching out in his references because up until now it has 515 00:39:46.719 --> 00:39:52.199 been almost exclusively what would be considered Golden Era, Golden Age musicals. So 516 00:39:52.480 --> 00:39:55.719 moving forward a little bit to Jesus Christ a little bit, and yes, 517 00:39:55.840 --> 00:40:00.119 in that timeline we've you know, that's certainly a more It was a more 518 00:40:00.159 --> 00:40:04.840 controversial show in its time than say, King and I Are Oklahoma, which 519 00:40:04.880 --> 00:40:08.440 now may be considered more controversial shows than Jesus Christ Superstar, but that's for 520 00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:14.320 a different podcast. Another thing that was slightly controversial in this episode was Paddington 521 00:40:14.400 --> 00:40:21.159 Bear heyo giving AFC Richmonds zero out of five marmalade sandwiches. What's up with 522 00:40:21.239 --> 00:40:23.800 that? What is up with that? Like, come on, Paddington, 523 00:40:23.920 --> 00:40:28.559 why would you do them dirty like that? Like not even just like a 524 00:40:28.760 --> 00:40:35.760 sloppy like one marmalade sandwich. We get some crossing of the streams this season 525 00:40:36.119 --> 00:40:40.519 where the writers demonstrate that perhaps they do pay attention to the online discourse, 526 00:40:40.639 --> 00:40:46.400 and there's a lot of comparison between Paddington Bear and ted Lasso on the Twitter, 527 00:40:46.480 --> 00:40:50.719 and there have been a couple of times where the official ted Lasso Twitter 528 00:40:50.760 --> 00:40:55.159 account and the FC Richmond Twitter account have replied to or interacted with the Paddington 529 00:40:55.199 --> 00:41:05.039 Bear Twitter accounts, So those online world flirtations between fictitious characters does now spill 530 00:41:05.159 --> 00:41:07.880 into the television. I'm not sure where we're at here, but we're somewhere. 531 00:41:07.920 --> 00:41:14.840 We're somewhere and the multivers and if you don't already follow the Paddington Bear 532 00:41:14.920 --> 00:41:17.880 Twitter account, if you're still on Twitter, it's it's uplifting, it is, 533 00:41:19.000 --> 00:41:22.639 it's it's good Twitter. Yes, we see something similar when Ted is 534 00:41:23.159 --> 00:41:28.320 roasting himself when he says, I look like Ned Flanders is doing cosplay as 535 00:41:28.360 --> 00:41:35.159 Ned Flanders, which is probably somebody something that somebody said as a put down 536 00:41:35.280 --> 00:41:37.400 to Ted Lasso and Reddit at some point in time or whatever, and so 537 00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:40.400 it's nice that he wears that and owns it. Yes, I feel like 538 00:41:40.440 --> 00:41:44.360 that one has been named and I've maybe even seen it. But the other 539 00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:46.519 put the other roast he does to himself that I thought was hilarious, is 540 00:41:46.639 --> 00:41:51.079 I sound like doctor Phil hadn't gone through puberty yet? And I was like, 541 00:41:51.119 --> 00:41:52.599 if someone if that was a put down from someone, I want to 542 00:41:52.599 --> 00:41:59.039 see it because that was funny. He also talks about Carmen San Diego, 543 00:41:59.159 --> 00:42:04.000 which was like my favorite shows as a kid with do it Rockafella roll, 544 00:42:04.239 --> 00:42:07.920 Yes, So I was wondering if like Henry even knows about who Parma san 545 00:42:07.960 --> 00:42:13.840 Diegoes. However, like Netflix does have that new show, so maybe maybe 546 00:42:13.880 --> 00:42:16.519 Henry's like up into that. But as far as that, I was like, 547 00:42:16.559 --> 00:42:22.840 I don't know if Henry caught that. That seems something that is distinctly 548 00:42:23.159 --> 00:42:30.559 American to a person of ted Lasso's age. And there are a couple of 549 00:42:30.599 --> 00:42:35.840 times in this episode, especially where it just struck me man, I bet 550 00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:42.840 it was really fun to work in the writer's room and for like the the 551 00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:47.119 British people to explain things to the Americans and the Americans to explain things about 552 00:42:47.119 --> 00:42:53.639 why things were funny. This happened when they mentioned um crying during John Lewis 553 00:42:53.719 --> 00:42:57.679 Christmas commercials, Yes, and I was like, oh my gosh, one 554 00:42:57.719 --> 00:43:02.960 of the greatest civil rights leaders of all times does Christmas commercials and I've never 555 00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:07.280 seen them. I just I felt like a failure and that there was something 556 00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:10.039 that I've been missing here. And so I go on the internet and find 557 00:43:10.079 --> 00:43:14.519 out, oh, no, it's like a department store in England. Yes, 558 00:43:14.519 --> 00:43:20.079 and does these really sentimental, creative, quite awesome Christmas commercial they're good. 559 00:43:20.159 --> 00:43:22.599 Yeah, they're super good. I got stuck down a rabbit hole watching 560 00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:28.079 a decade worth of them. But yeah, not John Lewis, the civil 561 00:43:28.159 --> 00:43:31.400 rights leader. I had the same journey, Christian. I'm so glad that 562 00:43:31.400 --> 00:43:36.119 we share this because I was like, I, how have I never seen 563 00:43:36.159 --> 00:43:38.079 this? Like, if there's anything that Twitter should have shown me, it's 564 00:43:38.239 --> 00:43:42.880 John Lewis Christmas commercial. Two of your favorite things. Yeah, there were. 565 00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:47.199 In addition to these wonderful pop culture moments moments that we've mentioned already, 566 00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:51.840 in this episode, there were a couple of good I shouldn't say, very 567 00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:57.599 subtle but very quick casey sports references, one of them being more explicit that 568 00:43:57.719 --> 00:44:02.960 being amos Otis comes in and says something about he does one of his little 569 00:44:04.039 --> 00:44:07.960 rhyming tedisms, and he mentions amos Otis, who is considered one of the 570 00:44:07.239 --> 00:44:15.360 you know, great Kansas City Royals players. George, there's another level below 571 00:44:15.360 --> 00:44:20.920 George Brett names this is definitely in that correct next level of very revered Kansas 572 00:44:20.920 --> 00:44:23.599 City Royals players. So that was like a fun like semi deep cut for 573 00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:29.000 folks who are really into Royals baseball YEP. And then the other one was 574 00:44:29.079 --> 00:44:37.000 when Keeley and Rebecca are talking about Lisa Left Eye Lopez boyfriend's mission. Yeah, 575 00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:43.960 and there was another little English English quirkiness there when it happens fast, 576 00:44:44.079 --> 00:44:50.360 but Rebecca talks about left Eye throwing her boyfriend's trainers into the bathtub, not 577 00:44:50.519 --> 00:44:53.800 people, but shoes because they called sneakers trainers over there. And this is 578 00:44:53.880 --> 00:45:00.800 something that happened in Atlanta when former Kansas City Chiefs player Andre Riisen was dating 579 00:45:01.039 --> 00:45:07.039 Lisa left I Lopez and domestic dispute and she did end up like essentially burning 580 00:45:07.039 --> 00:45:10.199 their house down whoops, because she threw his sneakers in the bathtub and set 581 00:45:10.199 --> 00:45:16.159 them aflame. It happens, sometimes happen, burn it all down. Rounding 582 00:45:16.159 --> 00:45:21.440 out our pop culture. The show went top rope a couple of times on 583 00:45:21.480 --> 00:45:25.239 specific people, and I think that we should have a new segment to our 584 00:45:25.280 --> 00:45:32.079 show, Ted Lasso's hit List, because there are sometimes where the writers just 585 00:45:32.079 --> 00:45:36.559 decide to take shots at people, and I generally agree with the shots that 586 00:45:37.039 --> 00:45:42.000 they take. One of them. We get Keiley with the concise into the 587 00:45:42.039 --> 00:45:46.800 point you Joe Rogan, which was a great call back to the like fuck 588 00:45:46.840 --> 00:45:52.639 you Pierce Morgan from the season two yes, and you know, amazingly, 589 00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:57.840 it's a sentiment that has aged like fine wine. As in the news very 590 00:45:57.880 --> 00:46:01.280 recently, just this week as we're recording, as Joe Rogan has been continuing 591 00:46:01.320 --> 00:46:07.400 to go all anti vacts on people and getting actual legitimate scientists harassed at their 592 00:46:07.440 --> 00:46:13.639 homes like he is literally the worst yikes, yeah, and gets the most 593 00:46:13.679 --> 00:46:16.280 money. So that's how things go. Yeah, and that's that's how you 594 00:46:16.320 --> 00:46:21.400 get That's how you get ted takedowns. Yep ye, speaking of people who 595 00:46:21.400 --> 00:46:25.960 are the worst and get the most money. Rupert's dinner fellows his old friends, 596 00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:30.000 the Sacklers, Yes, that he rides on there. He takes a 597 00:46:30.119 --> 00:46:34.119 ride on their yachts and sambart, but they're not allowed to come within like 598 00:46:34.239 --> 00:46:37.239 fifty miles off the shore or something like that, because they're the Sacklers, 599 00:46:37.280 --> 00:46:40.719 Like they shouldn't be within fifty miles of anywhere. Yeah. So they were 600 00:46:40.800 --> 00:46:47.639 key in perdue pharma and the rise of oxy and now it's become a total 601 00:46:49.280 --> 00:46:54.239 addiction epidemic, especially in the United States. And so they are of Juda's 602 00:46:54.360 --> 00:47:00.840 persona on Grana in these parts, but certainly the ilk that Rupert would hang 603 00:47:00.880 --> 00:47:04.239 out, Yeah, it's a yes. So one of the things that we 604 00:47:04.360 --> 00:47:08.079 get from Sharon that helps to kind of, I don't know, set ted 605 00:47:08.239 --> 00:47:13.639 on this more positive outlook on his journey is a quote that he says he 606 00:47:13.719 --> 00:47:20.039 really likes from Gruta and its doubt can only be removed by action, which 607 00:47:20.039 --> 00:47:22.880 they don't directly attribute it to him. Right, the man, Yeah, 608 00:47:22.920 --> 00:47:28.679 the man he I mean he is one of the man's well he is. 609 00:47:29.519 --> 00:47:35.079 For instance, Ralph Waldo Emerson essentially named him one of the men. He 610 00:47:35.159 --> 00:47:40.039 called Gruta one of six representative men in his work by the same name. 611 00:47:40.119 --> 00:47:46.440 He included him with Plato, Swannenburg, Napoleon, Shakespeare, and mom Tang. 612 00:47:46.920 --> 00:47:51.840 This is a guy who he was just he was a genius, right, 613 00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:54.679 he was a genius level. He was a scientist, He was a 614 00:47:54.719 --> 00:47:59.840 philosopher, He was an artist, poet, playwright, did all the things. 615 00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:05.920 Yeah, he wrote a Faustian play which really dovetails with the themes of 616 00:48:05.920 --> 00:48:12.800 ted Lasso. But I found some really interesting quotes about his religious philosophy that 617 00:48:12.960 --> 00:48:16.159 I felt like set the table for a lot of what we get to see 618 00:48:16.159 --> 00:48:22.119 an experience in this season. I found this quote from him, he said, 619 00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:24.840 I have from childhood, the singular habit of always learning by heart the 620 00:48:24.840 --> 00:48:29.519 beginnings of books and the divisions of a work, first of the five Books 621 00:48:29.519 --> 00:48:34.599 of Moses, and then of Ovid's metamorphosis. If an ever busy imagination of 622 00:48:34.639 --> 00:48:39.679 which the tale may bear witness led me hither and thither, if the metally 623 00:48:39.800 --> 00:48:44.559 of fable and history, mythology, and religion threatened to bewilder me, I 624 00:48:44.639 --> 00:48:49.400 readily fled to those Oriental regions, plunged into the first books of Moses, 625 00:48:49.519 --> 00:48:53.320 and there, amid the scattered shepherd tribes, found myself at once in the 626 00:48:53.360 --> 00:49:01.039 great solitude of the greatest society. But he's a person who who describes his 627 00:49:01.599 --> 00:49:09.079 relationship with the Christian faith as enthusiastic, and he shows enthusiasm for like Jesus 628 00:49:09.079 --> 00:49:14.280 and Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation. At one point in time he calls 629 00:49:14.360 --> 00:49:20.559 Christianity the ultimate religion. But then he described himself as not anti Christian, 630 00:49:20.960 --> 00:49:25.679 not Unchristian, but most decidedly non Christian, and at one point in time 631 00:49:25.840 --> 00:49:31.639 listed the symbol of the cross among four things that he most disliked. And 632 00:49:32.400 --> 00:49:38.519 his philosophy was so interesting that it got a breakdown. Not a takedown, 633 00:49:38.559 --> 00:49:44.880 but a breakdown from Nietzsche, who said that Gota had a kind of almost 634 00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:51.960 joyous and trusting fatalism that has faith that only in the totality everything or deems 635 00:49:51.960 --> 00:49:57.559 itself and appears good and justified. And so he was just an interesting dude 636 00:49:57.679 --> 00:50:02.800 that was kind of up with like the violence of the Christian Church and the 637 00:50:02.840 --> 00:50:09.920 corruption of the Christian Church and had almost this like post religious existence during a 638 00:50:10.079 --> 00:50:15.880 very religious time that I think is probably similar to what Diana Butler bast talked 639 00:50:15.920 --> 00:50:22.639 about when we had a conversation with her about belief between these two seasons. 640 00:50:22.239 --> 00:50:27.920 Yeah, being so influential in European arts, you know, during the Romantic 641 00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:36.320 period, he would have encountered and influenced so many other artists, musicians, 642 00:50:37.239 --> 00:50:40.800 you know, poets, deep thinkers, philosophy and so you're he was, 643 00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:47.079 you know, really influential at a time that like esthetics and thinking about what's 644 00:50:47.119 --> 00:50:51.840 beautiful and makes the world better was so important. And so yeah, you 645 00:50:51.880 --> 00:50:54.239 see from this quote here, you know, it's it's a simple quote, 646 00:50:54.559 --> 00:50:59.800 doubt can only be removed by action. That he was calling people to action 647 00:51:00.079 --> 00:51:04.440 to make the world more beautiful, more lovely, and yes, as someone 648 00:51:04.480 --> 00:51:10.760 who teaches music and private voice lessons, it's hard to teach a day without 649 00:51:10.880 --> 00:51:16.039 teaching a German leader. That's not the text has not come from Gruta. 650 00:51:16.320 --> 00:51:22.239 Yeah, so many of them. He wrote some bangers he did. Also, 651 00:51:22.440 --> 00:51:24.480 there was a point in time at which he had the largest private collection 652 00:51:24.639 --> 00:51:30.320 of minerals in all of Europe. He had collected over seventeen thousand, eight 653 00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:34.159 hundred rock samples. Who has time to do that and be a brilliant writer 654 00:51:34.199 --> 00:51:37.880 and reader at the same time. Maybe that's his like hobby, Like you 655 00:51:37.960 --> 00:51:40.400 have barbecue, right, Like that was his thing, and he has the 656 00:51:40.519 --> 00:51:46.519 equally admirable hobby of high level geology. Yes, and speaking of barbecue, 657 00:51:46.559 --> 00:51:50.360 we don't. We don't really have any barbecue right now to speak of. 658 00:51:50.840 --> 00:51:58.719 But we do have some soccer, yes we do. We mentioned London Stadium. 659 00:51:59.239 --> 00:52:04.079 That is an actual stadium that west Ham actually plays in in real life, 660 00:52:04.199 --> 00:52:07.920 and it has a bit of a fraud history. It was built for 661 00:52:08.280 --> 00:52:14.119 the Olympics in London and then there was some back and forth as to which 662 00:52:14.320 --> 00:52:17.360 club was actually going to get to play there, and it turned out that 663 00:52:17.440 --> 00:52:23.000 it did end up being west Ham. And you know, they've kind of 664 00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:27.760 adapted it, but it is a little bit of a funky stadium when you 665 00:52:28.280 --> 00:52:31.559 look at it on TV because it wasn't actually built for football. It was 666 00:52:31.599 --> 00:52:37.239 built to run track meets and whatnot. And we should shout out all of 667 00:52:37.280 --> 00:52:45.800 the different people that contribute to this season looking absolutely like Box Office when it 668 00:52:45.800 --> 00:52:52.000 comes to the soccer scenes, because they did go and shoot a decent amount 669 00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:57.199 of footage at all of these stadiums that they visit this season. But then 670 00:52:57.199 --> 00:53:01.480 at the same time you have people like Paul Cripps design sets for the show. 671 00:53:01.840 --> 00:53:07.960 He would have done like Rupert's office and some of those more interior shots, 672 00:53:07.039 --> 00:53:12.320 and then when we see crowd shots, there would have been some people 673 00:53:12.320 --> 00:53:15.760 in the crowd, but then the CGI folks would come along and do some 674 00:53:15.840 --> 00:53:20.559 three D renderings and add people in and so, which they've done a really 675 00:53:20.639 --> 00:53:23.760 nice job putting that all together, Yes, and they continue to during this 676 00:53:23.800 --> 00:53:27.000 season, so we get to see a lot of soccer. We get to 677 00:53:27.000 --> 00:53:30.000 see iconic stadiums, and they took field trips to those places, but there 678 00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:37.360 were also people doing things off camera to make it all fit together and work 679 00:53:37.440 --> 00:53:43.760 and just look, oh, justus Christian I appreciate you illuminating us to all 680 00:53:43.800 --> 00:53:46.239 the work that's done to make these stadiums and these locations come to life. 681 00:53:46.280 --> 00:53:52.679 I appreciate our friend Jan Moss sharing some really statistically relevant information about clubs that 682 00:53:52.760 --> 00:53:58.760 get promoted into the Premier League getting us demoted usually immediately within one or two 683 00:53:58.760 --> 00:54:02.119 seasons, about it happens quite often. He is absolutely right, it's the 684 00:54:02.119 --> 00:54:06.840 best in Norwich communities. So I think that's a realistic bit. But was 685 00:54:06.880 --> 00:54:10.760 there anything that you noticed that you thought that doesn't pass that doesn't pass the 686 00:54:10.800 --> 00:54:15.920 test? Yeah? They keep showing the west Ham players training in London Stadium. 687 00:54:16.159 --> 00:54:21.559 They don't train there, There is no dump dumbline in their home pitch. 688 00:54:21.679 --> 00:54:27.960 They instead they train at a much smaller facility called Rush Green. So 689 00:54:28.039 --> 00:54:31.039 if you're going looking for a training session, don't go to London Stadium because 690 00:54:31.039 --> 00:54:35.079 you won't get in. But then also because the players won't be there practicing. 691 00:54:35.239 --> 00:54:38.000 An interesting choice because they make a big deal about showing us that Richmond 692 00:54:38.199 --> 00:54:42.119 practice at a different place than they play. Yeah. Yeah, but I 693 00:54:42.159 --> 00:54:44.480 guess if you're going to get on that location, you got to showcase it 694 00:54:44.519 --> 00:54:49.119 as much as you can. So do what you could do man. All 695 00:54:49.199 --> 00:54:52.679 right, y'all, it is it is that time of the show to share 696 00:54:52.679 --> 00:54:55.239 our favorite quotes from this episode, so we're gonna start with you, Christian. 697 00:54:55.360 --> 00:55:00.960 Would you like to share your favorite quote? This episode and in fact, 698 00:55:00.039 --> 00:55:07.840 this season is a treasure trove of scatological humor. Yes, My favorite 699 00:55:07.840 --> 00:55:12.840 one from this episode was I didn't mean to come in here and tinkle on 700 00:55:12.880 --> 00:55:20.679 your toenails, which is what Ted says to Rebecca and Higgins Win. It's 701 00:55:20.800 --> 00:55:22.719 he comes in all bummed and they're trying to talk to him, and he 702 00:55:22.800 --> 00:55:29.119 tries to change the subject. It's initially an unassuming statement, but my is 703 00:55:29.159 --> 00:55:31.320 the image ever vivid when you stop and think about it for a second. 704 00:55:32.559 --> 00:55:36.119 I tried to look that one up and see if that was a common turn 705 00:55:36.159 --> 00:55:40.800 of phrase, and I think it is not, which, thank the Lord, 706 00:55:40.840 --> 00:55:45.440 because that's like so disgusting and I already hate feet, so like the 707 00:55:45.559 --> 00:55:49.960 thought is like so like cringe worthy to me. I hate feet, and 708 00:55:50.000 --> 00:55:55.840 I hate feet that are getting fat on. Okay, well then I'm good 709 00:55:55.880 --> 00:56:00.760 because that was My Other favorite one was the cool where Ted is trying to 710 00:56:00.840 --> 00:56:07.159 make fun of himself in front of the press, and one of the things 711 00:56:07.199 --> 00:56:10.000 he says why he's so stupid. The first time I heard y'all talk about 712 00:56:10.119 --> 00:56:15.920 Yorkshire pudding, I thought it was a fancy word for dog poop, which 713 00:56:15.960 --> 00:56:21.239 is a hilarious quote. Yes, also because I want a Yorkie really badly. 714 00:56:21.280 --> 00:56:24.159 Yeah you do. I don't, Bret, Bret, do you want 715 00:56:24.159 --> 00:56:28.679 to give us a quote? I do want to give you a quote, 716 00:56:28.719 --> 00:56:32.320 but not a Yorkie. Not a Yorkie. Sorry. Like y'all said so 717 00:56:32.360 --> 00:56:39.719 many great choices, I'm gonna go with my boy Higgins when he sees Rebecca 718 00:56:39.960 --> 00:56:45.320 after she's talked to and consoled Keiley, and he says, why are you 719 00:56:45.440 --> 00:56:52.480 dressed like an oomlout because he sees the two black marks on Rebecca's you know, 720 00:56:52.880 --> 00:56:58.239 cream colored or pale yellow dress, whatever color it is or And I 721 00:56:58.360 --> 00:57:00.440 just love that they feel so calm to end their viewershow that they can make 722 00:57:00.480 --> 00:57:05.239 a joke about an umlaut and then it's going to land so good. Would 723 00:57:05.239 --> 00:57:15.760 have been proud. Okay, that's our show. If you'd like to dive 724 00:57:15.800 --> 00:57:20.360 even deeper into the themes of this episode, you can find more Ted Lasso 725 00:57:20.480 --> 00:57:22.840 content in our show notes. You'll find the links to our extensive notes in 726 00:57:22.880 --> 00:57:28.679 the episode description. You can also keep the conversation going on Twitter and Instagram. 727 00:57:28.719 --> 00:57:31.800 Our handle on both is at ted Lasso pod. It's a great way 728 00:57:31.800 --> 00:57:35.639 for us to connect with each other and for y'all to share your insights on 729 00:57:35.679 --> 00:57:38.119 the show. This episode of Richmond Till We Die is brought to you by 730 00:57:38.199 --> 00:57:44.000 Gin and Kerostene Productions. It was produced by Me, Marissa, Me Christian 731 00:57:44.280 --> 00:57:47.440 and Me Brett. If you enjoyed this conversation, please take a moment to 732 00:57:47.480 --> 00:57:52.199 subscribe to Richmond Till We Die on whatever app you're using to listen to this 733 00:57:52.239 --> 00:57:54.679 episode. If you have access to an Apple device, we'd love it if 734 00:57:54.719 --> 00:57:59.320 you'd head over to the Apple Podcasts app and give us a quick five star 735 00:57:59.400 --> 00:58:04.679 review. It'll help more people find and hear the show. I'm Brett signing 736 00:58:04.679 --> 00:58:09.480 off for Marissa and Christian. Thanks for listening. Until next time. Cheers 737 00:58:09.559 --> 00:58:22.599 y'all. It makes me think, you know how people talk about like butts 738 00:58:22.719 --> 00:58:30.679 being like hams. Yeah, every time someone talks about West Ham, I 739 00:58:30.760 --> 00:58:35.639 just think of like the left side of someone's