Speaker 1: Chaos ensues one of the busiest days of the year.
Speaker 1: But before before, before, before he shows up. We always
Speaker 1: have to play the appropriate piece of audio. We always
Speaker 1: have to.
Speaker 2: Hey, Glenn Davis here in Houston, Texas, A big fan
Speaker 2: of soccer down.
Speaker 1: Here, because it always does. And so here's Glenn.
Speaker 2: John, you know better than the challenge me technologically.
Speaker 1: Right there with you, brother. I think we're in the
Speaker 1: same target demo.
Speaker 2: I figured it out, though it's incredible. I created an
Speaker 2: account and I figured it out.
Speaker 1: So I'm here, okay, So uh and uh he he
Speaker 1: is wearing his Soccer Matter's T shirt.
Speaker 2: He's guessed shameless promotion.
Speaker 1: As it should be, no doubt about it. Uh, good
Speaker 1: to see you, my friend. Congratulations on year dose echis
Speaker 1: when it comes to being the play by play voice
Speaker 1: of the Dynamo first and foremost.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh. It's been a great ride for me
Speaker 2: looking at the game and how it's develop going from
Speaker 2: Robertson Stadium to where it is now. I actually started
Speaker 2: as an analyst. It's also the thirtieth year I've been
Speaker 2: involved with the league since its inception, so obviously it's
Speaker 2: been a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: All right, So let me ask you, do you remember
Speaker 1: day one of season one when you started your activity
Speaker 1: with the Dynamo as the analyst. Do you remember that
Speaker 1: first match day?
Speaker 2: I remember some early ones. I think one of them
Speaker 2: may have been in Colorado. I'm not sure exactly which
Speaker 2: was my very very first game, but I was fortunate
Speaker 2: to do it with a lot of great people. I
Speaker 2: was certainly very green. I was working with Bill Land,
Speaker 2: who had a long career with the San Antonio Spurs
Speaker 2: but also called games in the NASL, and he was
Speaker 2: just a wonderful play by play guy to break in
Speaker 2: with because he really mentored me and worked with me.
Speaker 1: So now we come to two zero two five on
Speaker 1: the calendar. When you look back at last season for
Speaker 1: the Dynamo and we've had the whole seven weeks, I
Speaker 1: guess to ingest the whole thing. What sticks in your
Speaker 1: mind from last season that you got to see that
Speaker 1: you're carrying forward to twenty five.
Speaker 2: Well, the biggest thing from last year, and it's not
Speaker 2: being carried forward in twenty twenty five, was the fact
Speaker 2: that Hector Herrera wasn't as engaged as he was in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. Yes, there were injuries, I personally believe
Speaker 2: he could have got his injuries sorted out earlier right
Speaker 2: after the season. He didn't, But to watch him in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three was to watch something very special. So
Speaker 2: carrying for obviously the basis of the team, the quote
Speaker 2: unquote style of play, or the word now is game
Speaker 2: model remains the same, but I think that's going to
Speaker 2: be altered a little bit. And that's a really possession based,
Speaker 2: narrow team. They keep their team shaped, they're in every game.
Speaker 2: But the big question coming into this season, it was
Speaker 2: much like last year, was at the score goals.
Speaker 1: When you look at the transactions that happened in the offseason,
Speaker 1: Coco Kata Skia gone, and you have a Sebastian Ferrera gone.
Speaker 1: You got a couple of folks in from the Purple team,
Speaker 1: Nicol Ladero in, Michael Halliday inn, Jack McGlenn in. When
Speaker 1: you look at the ins and outs, like when you
Speaker 1: and I were growing up, and we had a thing
Speaker 1: called a newspaper, on the last page of the sports
Speaker 1: section and the really small print, it had the transactions page.
Speaker 1: Yea yeah, And so when you look at the transactions
Speaker 1: page for the Dynamo coming out of twenty four going
Speaker 1: into twenty five with all this activity, you look at
Speaker 1: that transactions page in the small print, what'd you think, Well.
Speaker 2: Obviously you're losing two very key pieces in midfield, right,
Speaker 2: so you're replacing them with Jack McGlynn Nicol Ladero. Now
Speaker 2: was a big signing. Yes, I think in my opinion,
Speaker 2: we're gonna see what's gonna happen now because Jack McGlenn
Speaker 2: and Nico Ladero I think are good signings. If and
Speaker 2: this is the big thing, I think those signings will
Speaker 2: become a lot more significant. If pat Onstead, the Dynamo
Speaker 2: general manager, Asher Mendelssohn, Ben Olsen, they can find a
Speaker 2: DP that's up here, then that will then allow them
Speaker 2: to do different things with Jack McGlynn and different things
Speaker 2: with Nico Ledero. Right, So I think that's how those
Speaker 2: two signings become even better.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: The other big piece that's going to be missing is
Speaker 2: likely Mikhayel going to Palmiers. So they taken about eight
Speaker 2: and a half million dollars. It's probably their greatest transfer
Speaker 2: window ever. But the question is can you replace the
Speaker 2: quality of what you lost? And a lot of the
Speaker 2: moves that have been made have been very frugal but
Speaker 2: good economic moves. But the bottom line is these players
Speaker 2: have to deliver. You know, Steve Clark, they had to
Speaker 2: move him on salary too big. Andrew Tarbell becomes a starter.
Speaker 2: Now how does your team change. He's going to be
Speaker 2: hitting more longer balls. He's going to be trying to
Speaker 2: knock balls in behind defenses as opposed to playing out
Speaker 2: of the back. How does that affect your game model?
Speaker 2: Does that make you lose a little bit more control
Speaker 2: of games and get you into games that are more
Speaker 2: fighting and chaotic and second balls. So we'll see. But
Speaker 2: I think on paper that's my opinion. Now on paper
Speaker 2: for the fans, I don't think it's good enough for
Speaker 2: them yet. Although I think the Ladero signing is interesting,
Speaker 2: is exciting. We know how good of a player he is.
Speaker 2: How do you utilize him to get him to make
Speaker 2: some special plays and maybe unlock the posential of your
Speaker 2: Argentine center ford Ezekiel Poultse.
Speaker 1: Does Nikodero then not start every game? Do you pick
Speaker 1: his spot so he can give you the full ninety
Speaker 1: when you can because of schedule, compression and things like that,
Speaker 1: or do you bring him in like Bennie Johnson from
Speaker 1: the El Detroit Pistons, where he's a microwa. When you
Speaker 1: bring him in for the final thirty and have him create,
Speaker 1: what are you envisioning here?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the question. I mean, I think older players
Speaker 2: like that as long as they're accommodating and don't believe
Speaker 2: they're a ninety minute player and are here to be
Speaker 2: a part of it, and I think he is. He's
Speaker 2: obviously bringing depth and great experience. He's one of the
Speaker 2: great playmakers in MLS history. I don't think there's any question.
Speaker 2: When you think Seattle, you definitely think of Nico Ldero.
Speaker 2: But I think there's a lot of ways to utilize them.
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be interesting. You let others
Speaker 2: go in there when the game's intense and beat each
Speaker 2: other up for sixty five seventy minutes. You bring him
Speaker 2: in against fatiguing defenders. He gets an extra half a
Speaker 2: yard of space and he can kill you in and
Speaker 2: still make place right. So I think that's going to
Speaker 2: be interesting. And I do think he's capable of starting games.
Speaker 2: I think he started sixteen in Orlando, So yeah, I think,
Speaker 2: you know, utilizing a player like that with that vast
Speaker 2: experience that playmaking skill which the Dynamo need. They need playmakers.
Speaker 2: You know, they play against a lot of settled defenses
Speaker 2: that are back behind the ball and they have to
Speaker 2: break them down and it's not an easy thing to do,
Speaker 2: and that's because of their style of play. It's been
Speaker 2: very methodical and possession based.
Speaker 1: When you look at the McGlenn transaction, specifically, the barn
Speaker 1: door got let open finally in Major League Soccer where
Speaker 1: you could have intra league transactions and you could just
Speaker 1: go ahead and pick folks up if the number to
Speaker 1: the left of the decimal was right. It was something
Speaker 1: that needed to happen a lot sooner. But you bring
Speaker 1: in somebody like Jack McGlenn, What did you think about
Speaker 1: this idea finally coming to the four where you can
Speaker 1: get an evander in if you want, You can get
Speaker 1: a Luco Acosta if you want. In Houston's case, you
Speaker 1: get Jack McGlenn out of Philly. Sits there and thinks
Speaker 1: that they're Scrooge McDuck. I guess all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: with the money bags that they brought in for McGlenn,
Speaker 1: what do you think about this particular rule finally coming
Speaker 1: to the four?
Speaker 2: Love the rule. Love the rule. It's made for some
Speaker 2: really interesting transactions. Of course, Acosta now goes to FC
Speaker 2: Dallas to play under Eric Quill. Oh how quickly a
Speaker 2: Vander ends up in Cincinnati. Now, So I think this
Speaker 2: is great. I think the more mechanisms that can allow
Speaker 2: for roster build the better, and more and more guys
Speaker 2: want to come and play in the United States. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't think there's any question about that. The question
Speaker 2: is is when do you start getting them more in
Speaker 2: their prime? But all these mechanisms are great, and listen,
Speaker 2: being a central defender as a professional player, I really
Speaker 2: love great defending. But I'm sorry, at this point, I
Speaker 2: want to see the artists operate, you know. I want
Speaker 2: to see Lanel Messi in five degrees last night, take
Speaker 2: a ball down off his chest, turn a couple people,
Speaker 2: and finish. I mean, it's absolutely remarkable.
Speaker 1: I think word that popped into my head when you
Speaker 1: were describing it was filthy. But yeah, I mean that
Speaker 1: was filthy.
Speaker 2: Is good. I don't know if I don't know if
Speaker 2: everybody looked at it from this perspective, because it was
Speaker 2: such a magical play, but it was almost as if
Speaker 2: four defenders were in fear of him, and they drop off.
Speaker 2: They don't even attack the ball in the air, and
Speaker 2: they give him enough room, that little window from a
Speaker 2: spatial perspective to take it off his chest. And I mean,
Speaker 2: at that point, you're like, you're done. I've fallen all
Speaker 2: over each other. Incredible though, and I love it because
Speaker 2: everybody was questioning his wotton desire to play in five degrees.
Speaker 2: That's probably the coldest game Messi's ever played it, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would think, but you mentioned two words at
Speaker 1: the beginning of that last sentence, want and desire. Take
Speaker 1: the weather part out of it. Want and desire involving
Speaker 1: Leo Messi or things that he's never been short on
Speaker 1: when it comes to trying to advance.
Speaker 2: People are going to think this guy's not going to
Speaker 2: play just because it's cold. He's a competitor. He's one
Speaker 2: of the most fiery competitive competitors ever. I think that
Speaker 2: Guardiola said he was just in practice when he had
Speaker 2: him at Barcelona. It was just an absolute killer and
Speaker 2: is the most competitive guy. I think, you know, there's
Speaker 2: a way that ran athletes and people. I unfortunately didn't
Speaker 2: get this wonderful thing, but you know, to look like
Speaker 2: you're not trying when you do things is kind of
Speaker 2: a gift, and I think that's kind of what you
Speaker 2: see with him.
Speaker 1: Friend of SDH, Glenn Davis making his pre match Week
Speaker 1: one appearance here on sd H A m and we
Speaker 1: are coming on with you, John. Oh. But look, it's
Speaker 1: fun to see you, brother, because I know that you
Speaker 1: run around at five hundred thousand miles an hour, just
Speaker 1: like the rest of us. And the fact that you
Speaker 1: can hang out with us early in the morning with
Speaker 1: a cup of Joe and you know, I got my
Speaker 1: Mountain dew, You get your cup of Joe, and we're
Speaker 1: ready to rock and roll. Huh oh. Yeah, I'm not
Speaker 1: a copy I've never been a coffee guy, never.
Speaker 2: Had interesting I never was until I went to Greece,
Speaker 2: and I guess I was about twenty two or twenty
Speaker 2: three and I went to Greece. So last Tuesday, yeah,
Speaker 2: not quite. Not quite a lot of tuesdays.
Speaker 1: Ago, John, right there with you, brother. Twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: season for Houston, you were the five seed, fifteen ten
Speaker 1: and nine fifty four points. One of the things that
Speaker 1: we talk about when you come on specifically is the
Speaker 1: fan support, the fan base, and you were mentioning the
Speaker 1: transactions and winning the press conference coming into twenty five
Speaker 1: and the vibe and everything. What is the vibe coming
Speaker 1: into twenty five for the fans there in Houston, because
Speaker 1: here in Atlanta the excitement's off the chart. It's going
Speaker 1: to be seventy thousand of your best friends on Saturday.
Speaker 1: What is the current state of the vibe with the
Speaker 1: fan base?
Speaker 2: Now, yeah, you got Biggie Almoron coming back and meet
Speaker 2: front office changes. I mean it's remarkable. I mean, if
Speaker 2: that's not a statement in Atlanta about hey, we want
Speaker 2: to win the MLS Cup, I don't know what is.
Speaker 2: I think you can look at every team in the
Speaker 2: league and you can say, and I'm not talking about
Speaker 2: players and the competitive staff, but I'm talking about the
Speaker 2: overall organization. Are they overly commercial or are they a
Speaker 2: club that really wants to be both commercial and win
Speaker 2: an MLS Cup? And I don't think there's any question
Speaker 2: Atlanta gets put into that category. And then you know,
Speaker 2: you got your great player coming back after a great
Speaker 2: stint in the Premier League with Newcastle. But I think
Speaker 2: there's a lot of excitement going in right now. The
Speaker 2: relevancy still is not where it should be in Houston.
Speaker 2: I don't mean this to bag on people, but I've
Speaker 2: been here since nineteen eighty four. It should be bigger
Speaker 2: the Dynamo. But they're off too. They really have opportunity
Speaker 2: here with FC Dallas to start, and then you've got
Speaker 2: Messi coming in. Hopefully the weather's going to be okay
Speaker 2: on the weekend, but you know, there's no mainstream coverage.
Speaker 2: You know, there's an amazing storyline about a local youth
Speaker 2: player who went on to play an MLS who's coming
Speaker 2: in in his debut as the head coach of FC Dallas,
Speaker 2: Eric Quill. Now some might say, oh, but that has
Speaker 2: nothing to do with the Dynamo. No, but it has
Speaker 2: something to do with our Houston soccer community, and we
Speaker 2: produce players, coaches, administrators that go throughout America to contribute
Speaker 2: that in very, very big ways. And the Eric Quill
Speaker 2: story is a great storyline. You're not going to see
Speaker 2: it in the Houston Chronicle. You're not going to see
Speaker 2: it in mainstream and in fact, you're looking at the
Speaker 2: only guy who probably even talks about it, right, Because
Speaker 2: I love the Houston soccer community and have seen what
Speaker 2: amazing things happen with people achieving from out of there,
Speaker 2: But it's still a challenge. I think they'll get off
Speaker 2: to a nice start here. I mean, you've got a
Speaker 2: lot of opportunity. You're going to get a lot of
Speaker 2: unique viewers in for the game against Inenter Miami right
Speaker 2: that maybe don't normally attend a Dynamo game. It's an
Speaker 2: opportunity for you to win them over. You're going to
Speaker 2: play an exhibition against El Salvador. Okay, we got tons
Speaker 2: of Salvadorians. If you want them coming to your games,
Speaker 2: you have to play that friendly against El Salvador to
Speaker 2: win it, Okay, to win it and put your best
Speaker 2: team out there. You've got to make a decision there
Speaker 2: that we want to put our best eleven out to
Speaker 2: win this friendly game in order to try and boost
Speaker 2: attendance and relevancy. Then you've got great leagues cut with Tigris,
Speaker 2: Lazetlan and Pachuca, especially Tigris as Honestly, this is Tigris
Speaker 2: country here in Houston and Rayatos. Because Monterey, Mexico is
Speaker 2: close to the border, people drive over the border to
Speaker 2: go to games. Can you get those people? I always
Speaker 2: hear people, Oh no, you can never get this generation
Speaker 2: of Mexican I cried bs on that, because if you're
Speaker 2: not trying and your stadium's not full, you're doing something wrong.
Speaker 2: And again, you're playing Tigris in a real competition. You
Speaker 2: knock them off. You've got bragging rights in Houston, but
Speaker 2: they are the number one supported team here you aren't.
Speaker 2: So these are games you got to win, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: and you got to play well.
Speaker 1: When you look at Houston's place in the West, what
Speaker 1: are you looking at out of the blocks with everybody
Speaker 1: else in the Western Conference? In Houston's place in it?
Speaker 1: Is it still that chasing after that that home that
Speaker 1: home playoff game at the four? Where do you what
Speaker 1: do you see?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think so, I think Look, you know you can.
Speaker 2: It's funny. Major League soccer is an amazing thing, right
Speaker 2: you can. You can cherry pick any kind of information
Speaker 2: you want to describe your season. You could say, wow,
Speaker 2: this is the most points we have gotten in quite
Speaker 2: some time. What a season. Yeah, but you got knocked
Speaker 2: out of the playoffs in the first round. Or you
Speaker 2: can say we didn't get as many points, but we
Speaker 2: got to the Western Conference final, right, So what's most important?
Speaker 2: And It's always kind of the conundrum. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you see it, but it's the conundrum of the
Speaker 2: overall body of work over the course of thirty four
Speaker 2: games end, or is it you know, is your season
Speaker 2: good just based on the playoffs? So you can have
Speaker 2: an average regular season, but if you do well in
Speaker 2: the playoffs, is that a great season? So it is
Speaker 2: a playoff league, and I think you can position that
Speaker 2: any way you like. I mean, I'm obviously someone I
Speaker 2: give a lot of credit to the overall bodies of work,
Speaker 2: but that's generally secondary to what you do in the
Speaker 2: playoffs in MLS.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean here in Atlanta, it was trying
Speaker 1: to fight for decision day. The math goes your way,
Speaker 1: you get the wins you need, and as we see
Speaker 1: in other playoffs structures and other leagues, look just get
Speaker 1: into the dance because you never know what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: And last last year in Atlanta, you beat Montreal in
Speaker 1: the playing game in the eight nine and then you
Speaker 1: get Messi and Friends. You take Messi and Friends to
Speaker 1: Game three down there at the Erector Set in Fort Lauderdale.
Speaker 1: You knock off the big dog on the block and
Speaker 1: then then you lose eventually to Orlando and the one
Speaker 1: and done's and so that's the momentum that you had
Speaker 1: with the roster that you had. Then Garth Logerway and
Speaker 1: Chris Henderson, they get to bring in latte Lot for Middlesbrough,
Speaker 1: they bring in Meggie and they bring in Mattea's click
Speaker 1: from DC and you add that to those pieces that
Speaker 1: you brought in getting that first full season of training camp,
Speaker 1: get your ask at the seven weeks and so, yeah,
Speaker 1: everybody's pretty jacked up about what's going on, but it's
Speaker 1: become an off of that playoff run that you had
Speaker 1: late twenty four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and what's interesting is you know you got teams
Speaker 2: at MLS that will go after the best of MLS
Speaker 2: when it comes to the standpoint of the front office, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, when you're going for Garth Lauberway and you're
Speaker 2: going for Chris Anderson, you're going with guys that have tremendous,
Speaker 2: tremendous experience connection have done it within the league. You're
Speaker 2: not pulling somebody from another league or another area to
Speaker 2: make crucial decisions. So as much as we talk about
Speaker 2: roster bills and the type of players that are being
Speaker 2: brought in. It's equally interesting to watch the people that
Speaker 2: are hired for roles of real, real, real responsibility for Houston.
Speaker 1: I know we talked about the the A listers, the
Speaker 1: shiny objects walking in the door here in twenty five.
Speaker 1: Give me someone on the second level. Give give me
Speaker 1: the grinder. Give me somebody that's not going to be
Speaker 1: in your TV open in the Glen Davis spot shadow,
Speaker 1: the player to watch, you know, lower third comes in
Speaker 1: with the tombstone and you have the stats and everything.
Speaker 1: Give me somebody on the second level of that roster
Speaker 1: that wouldn't be in a player to watch segment that
Speaker 1: is going to be key for Houston here in twenty five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's an easy one. Eric Siachenko is a center
Speaker 2: back that's got tremendous experience. I think we have to
Speaker 2: watch that now because he's going to lose, likely to
Speaker 2: Palmiers Mikhayel, who kind of is the athletic sort of
Speaker 2: you know, ying to his yang right, he's very intelligent defender.
Speaker 2: I think the other one you go right to is
Speaker 2: our tour as the holding midfielder, phenomenal season last year.
Speaker 2: I mean, these two guys are the glue of the team,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, phenomenal, phenomenal experienced players. I think those two.
Speaker 2: You know, remember it's a team that's leading goals at
Speaker 2: six right. If you're into the well we do it
Speaker 2: by committee. I have always been from the opinion that
Speaker 2: you do need a primary goal scorer. They had a
Speaker 2: number of guys who had six, five and four. They
Speaker 2: get into the final third very well, the Dynamo. The
Speaker 2: problem is, I don't think our expectations are fair on
Speaker 2: guys like I mean, Bossi, Sebastian caval cech Aliu Ibrahim.
Speaker 2: They don't necessarily have a history of scoring a lot
Speaker 2: of goals. And I would throw Coco Karski into that.
Speaker 2: And sometimes the answer to goal scoring is simply having
Speaker 2: players that are goal scorers, right. I think sometimes our
Speaker 2: expectations are too high. Those guys are all at one
Speaker 2: soccer players, but they're not goal scorers, so can they
Speaker 2: figure that out? And then of course they're center forward
Speaker 2: layere In Ezekiel Ponce from Argentina. They paid six million
Speaker 2: for very good player, smart uses his body well, but
Speaker 2: the guy never gets to face goal and get chances.
Speaker 2: He plays a lot of the game with his back
Speaker 2: to goal, and I think that's another one of the
Speaker 2: pieces of the dynamo and then that can unleash the attack.
Speaker 2: Of course, we talked about McGlenn and Ladero as passers,
Speaker 2: but I don't know. I don't know if they add
Speaker 2: a little more transition up tempo to their game, if
Speaker 2: they add a little bit more width to it, or
Speaker 2: these the things tactically and nuanced. I mean, that's up
Speaker 2: to the head coach Ben Olson. I'm not questioning anybody,
Speaker 2: but that's how I see it as an analyst from
Speaker 2: the outside.
Speaker 1: Copa Tejas to start things off Round one, eight thirty
Speaker 1: Eastern Kicks Saturday Night Dynamo and FCD, go ahead and
Speaker 1: a little bit, give me the promo, go ahead and
Speaker 1: hit me well, John.
Speaker 2: Cope, Tajas is not the first thing that comes to
Speaker 2: mind with you for that game, but it is a
Speaker 2: Texas Derby, and it is a rivalry game and there
Speaker 2: is history to it. There really is. I think there's
Speaker 2: gonna be a lot of unknown I think there's gonna
Speaker 2: be a lot of mistakes which will make the game
Speaker 2: very interesting, just like a lot of other games in MLS.
Speaker 2: The beauty, I guess for coaches and MLS is you
Speaker 2: have a lot of time to get things sorted out,
Speaker 2: and as you said, make the playoffs. I mean, let's
Speaker 2: face it, eighteen teams make the playoffs. If you don't
Speaker 2: make the playoffs, your season was garbage. I'm sorry, it's
Speaker 2: just it's just it's a little too friendly for me,
Speaker 2: you know. And I think it allows for there to
Speaker 2: be a fallback position. Nonetheless, that is the way the
Speaker 2: league runs, and I think there'll be a lot of intensity.
Speaker 2: I think they're going to be guys flying all over
Speaker 2: the place. Having gone through long preseasons myself and then
Speaker 2: getting into the first game, it's like it's like the
Speaker 2: curtain raiser. You're almost over a drenalized to want to play.
Speaker 2: So we'll see people that are overly, overly jacked up
Speaker 2: for the opener. There'll be mistakes, there'll be things of interest,
Speaker 2: there'll be people that might blossom in the opening game
Speaker 2: you didn't expect to. You're you're unveiling the curtain with
Speaker 2: new players. So I think there's a lot of excitement
Speaker 2: for everybody, including commentators like you and me, no doubt
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 1: And please, if you would, sir, promote the activity that
Speaker 1: is on the T shirt as you as you prepare
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's radio show every every usually every Tuesday and Wednesday,
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Speaker 2: bring people on from Europe. You know, I try to
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Speaker 2: you have a lot of Dynamo coverage this week we
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Speaker 2: the legendary I'm a lust player Top twenty five all time.
Speaker 2: He'll be on. I've got Eric Quill talking about his debut.
Speaker 2: FC Dallas will bring him on tonight. So that's it,
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Speaker 2: You know, I go to life. Listen. You cannot wear
Speaker 2: a cardboard weight T shirt in Houston, Texas, absolutely die.
Speaker 2: I have a drawer full of shirts that I never
Speaker 2: wear because they're just heavy, ugly cotton. These are really light,
Speaker 2: and you know, you try not to wear. The few
Speaker 2: clothes you can wear here, the better in Texas. Although
Speaker 2: right now we're freezing our tails off. It's twenty one
Speaker 2: degrees hmm.
Speaker 1: Right there with you, my friend, what cup of coffee
Speaker 1: are you on? I forgot to ask.
Speaker 2: This is black, just a good cup of black coffee. Wow.
Speaker 2: I do with the low acidic, you know, because we
Speaker 2: don't want to turn the stomach up and down.
Speaker 1: No doubt about it. It's great to see my friend.
Speaker 1: Do not be a stranger. That link that I sent you. Yes,
Speaker 1: that is universal to this studio space. So if you
Speaker 1: ever get a hanker in while you're having that cup
Speaker 1: of coffee on like a Friday and your board when
Speaker 1: it's a free for all, you can charge in anytime
Speaker 1: you want, give me five minutes, me your rant, tell
Speaker 1: me how your coffee is, and get out the door.
Speaker 1: I think we're turning Friday into any time.
Speaker 2: John, I got to reciprocate. We've got to bring you on.
Speaker 2: You got to come on Soccer Matters here real soon.
Speaker 2: We'll set that up. And you know, you do a
Speaker 2: great job with the podcast. I think there's a lot
Speaker 2: of great podcasters out there that we do need to
Speaker 2: give a lot of credit for bringing attention to the game.
Speaker 2: And I know ninety nine percent of them love what
Speaker 2: they're doing, just like you and me. So a big
Speaker 2: shout out to all those podcasters because they've become an
Speaker 2: important element. You know, my radio show just gets flipped
Speaker 2: into a podcast on Spotify, Google and Apple probably like yours,
Speaker 2: and it goes live and then it's a podcast. So yeah,
Speaker 2: great job. It's it is fun and there's no doubt
Speaker 2: you can tell the guys that really have passion and
Speaker 2: knowledge for the game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great to be with Jason Longshore. One of
Speaker 1: my dearest.
Speaker 2: Friends, Nice said, hello, he's a good man.
Speaker 1: We'll do and just be safe, enjoy your black coffee,
Speaker 1: stay warm, and have a great call this weekend. We'll
Speaker 1: catch up soon.
Speaker 2: John, Thank you very much, and best of luck to
Speaker 2: all those great Atlanta United fans. One of the highlights
Speaker 2: of my TV career was doing a national broadcast in
Speaker 2: there and just taking in that whole atmosphere for Atlanta
Speaker 2: United a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: Fantastic stuff. We'll see you soon, my friend.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 1: All right, there goes Glenn Davis. It's great to see
Speaker 1: Glenn because he's a dude. He's a class a dude.
Speaker 1: And when he comes in and he comes in and
Speaker 1: hangs out with us, uh, it's a great education on
Speaker 1: a bunch of different fronts.