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"Cry. Because he's taking you to where very few voices can take you. Todd I'll start with you. How was the three minutes that was about an hour and a half ago? It wasn't great. I don't think we needed it. Okay. See, no Connor. It was similar to the moment when we were listening to your sylvain and it's like, oh, these Mick Jagger vocals are going to be you got to listen to these. And then they never came. That was almost the exact same bit just like different words. Yeah, Mick Jagger. We looked it up afterwards at the last verse of the song. Yeah. We didn't know that before. So Marvin being a good op there. You mentioned a song, he accuses it up and gets it ready. That's good. No, I didn't ask him to do it. No, but that's good producing on his part. He didn't know and no one told him that the best part of the song the part you were referring to was in the last third, not the first three minutes. Yeah. So it started bad because it took so long to get there. And then the awkwardness took over and it actually became really great. Because it was so awkward. Correct. All right. That's fun. It's content. Yeah. Yeah. If you're just describing this show, awkward. Accidental awkward. Because this show is about relationships, not sports. Yes, it is. Something like that. And that's what works. Yeah. This is no different than a movie formula. Yeah, somebody tweeted that earlier. They were like, I finally get it. This show. Yes. Yeah, that's right. It's about relationships. It's not really about spam. How about this day in sports history? How about that? Talk about soft day in 1941, the Brooklyn Dodgers announced that their players would begin wearing batting helmets during the 1941 season. Soft. That's why they shipped them out to LA. They're too soft for Brooklyn. I don't know if that's true. Wow. 2002, ESPN aired their first ever ever original motion picture. Anyone want to take a shot at the name and the person? Dale Earnhardt. That was second one, but you're right there. Bob knight. Bob knight is season on the brink. I didn't think it was good. No, no. There it is. Okay. Let me see. Let me save. Is there anything else that needs to be mentioned here? Anything. Oh, 1976. Texas tech rallies in the southwestern conference basketball tournament championship game. And the sports director, sports information director with Texas tech, Ralph Carpenter, is quoted as saying the following. The opera. Ralph. I got it. I think gutsy move. I didn't get it at first either, but now it's hilarious. 'cause you're eating. Of Carpenter. Is quoted as saying. He's rapping. He's not Ralph. God. Can we play bridge over troubled water? The opera ain't over until the fat lady sings. He's the originator? Yes, the earliest recorded usage of the phrase in conjunction with the sporting event. All right, Ralph. How often do you think people went up to Ralph Carpenter and went. Oh, my God. Let's charge it in the weekend with this. Yes, charge. I'd rather listen to me as people say. That's pretty good. Easy. You don't know anything about music. Oh, stay in your lane. Now it's getting personal. Come on. I'm over here teaching you guys during black history month at Marv madness. I gave you a couple of weeks in Marv madness. We could be playing Bon Jovi, wall to wall. Let's go. Billy Joel. Yes, Paul. What gives a sports Emmy now? What a waste of time. Todd, what did you learn today? He and his manager and Brooks because his antics forced him to be on the side of draymond green. See no Connor. Actually had to defend draymond. I know. You said Rolling Stone was trash. Yeah. Yeah, because they didn't have Art Garfunkel in their greatest voices of all time. Pauly, what did you troubled? I will leave that we now have something where a segment has been Garfunkel. That was established today. You just Garfunkel. All right. Uncle it up. Come on. Todd wood and I learned. 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"brendan hunt" Discussed on The Dan Patrick Show
"With Tex win. Happily. Folks might know Phil Jackson, who, of course, his glittering career got really going when he was a coach of Michael Jordan at the bulls and they won the 6 titles. And but his offense was a triangle offense, which was accredited to his assistant coach Tex winter, who literally written the book on the subject decades earlier. And Tex winter was just happily an old man with gray haired and a real nice suit that got nicer every year. Sitting a few seats down from Phil. He had no, you know, Julius Caesar aspirations or Brutus aspirations of taking any other seat. He was perfectly happy to where he was and he knew his place and he'd be there for Phil no matter what. And that's really what beard is. You know, he's the opposite of like, say, you know, Charlie Weiss, who's like, wow, we're really good team. I should probably be ahead. Coach now. Not being Charlie wise, as much as I am about trying to be anyone else. But Tex winter. Yeah, I'll stick with that. Are you in the bracket? Celebrity bracket challenge with us? March Madness. Knowledge, but you know, I've been losing brackets for decades, Dan. I'd happily do it here too. All right, fritzie, did you reach out to Brendan? We did. It sounds like we're going to work that out and he'll be a part of it. Okay. Can you teach timing? Comedic timing? I think you can. But you have to start young and you have to really drill it. I think I learned timing from neglectful parents who didn't necessarily know for sure that I was going to school even as far back as first grade. And so I stayed home and watched every day watch Bugs Bunny and Tom and Jerry and woody woodpecker. And those were violent, you know, that allowed to watch them anymore. But my God, the clinic in timing was invaluable. And so I don't know, I don't know if you can just show up to some random masterclass a video and get it. But Bugs Bunny, I'll set you straight for sure. What was it, the advice Jerry Seinfeld gave us loud and fast on a sitcom? That has been the rule for many, many as it come for the last several years, and that's because it's been the rule. It's kind of been maxed out by essentially the greatest sitcoms of all time. So we very consciously has sort of broken that rule from the beginning. We go a little quieter and a little slower. And we lure them in with our hypnotize them. And no dog dies in season three. I can't speak to that. All right, okay. All right. Does anybody die in season three? Oh, everybody dies. Is this like The Sopranos of soccer, like everybody dies at the end? Yeah, it fades to black in the 89th minute. I like it. I like it. Great to meet you. Congrats on being an overnight success after 49 years, but we look forward to season three that drops as we like to say Wednesday, march 15th. Thank you, Brendan. Thank you, Dan. This is a thrill man. I appreciate it. It's a Brendan hunt. Actor writer producer. All around good guy and coach beard on Ted Lasso. It was a little jarring when they killed the dog in season one or season two episode one. Wait, they do fun things. They do huggable episodes here. Everybody loves everybody there. Then it started to turn a little dark. A Nate, you know? Where are you going? Wait a minute, what's going on here? 8th grade. Coach beard's story arc has been really interesting. He had one of the last episodes of that season two was fantastic, where he just sort of go through his personal life on the show, was always it was kind of hinted at or just little bit, but there's one episode where they just spent diving into coach beard that was really good. Let me take a break. Last call for phone calls, what we learned, what's in store tomorrow, if you're watching on peacock, we will take the food off the triggers there. We're back after this. Every week we talk about panini America, the official trading cards to the Dan Patrick show. 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When I said to Marvin, why didn't tell Marvin, I just said, last night at dinner, I played Simon and Garfunkel, and I said to my wife, just listen to Art Garfunkel sing bridge over troubled waters. Now she had heard that, it's legendary song, but I said, if I went to see him in concert, this would make me
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"brendan hunt" Discussed on The Dan Patrick Show
"In my shoes, it's a benefit. Because it turns out, even though we have some English people on the writing staff, I'm like the soccer guy. And everyone's in a while. It's a dis get turned into like, okay, Brandon, what would happen here? And I tell them about what really happened for a given situation. And then we generally ignore that. But it's good to know what's supposed to happen before we break the rule of what we decide to actually do. Because you're sort of a savant, but I don't know if people realize you're a soccer savant during the show. Is that fair with your character? Yeah, I mean, I think it's kind of at least comparatively compared to most of the rest of America. Because I didn't get into soccer till I was in my mid 20s. And when I had this job in Amsterdam, doing comedy out there, and then I discovered that soccer didn't suck. And I became a sponge and tried to just soak up every bit of history and trivia and factuality that I possibly could. And it hasn't gone away since I've, since I moved to the states, I'm still now full on soccer nut. The reaction in the United States compared to the reaction in England. How big of a discrepancy disparity between the two? When it first started? Well, when I first started, yeah, no one in England knew who we were at all. And we could walk freely among them. And then shooting the second season was COVID, mostly. So we could still kind of walk around. But now, year three, you know, I decided that for your three, I was going to live in Richmond. I could sure I could do so quite anonymously. The UK has been watching this show yet. And I wanted the pub from the show to be my local. Well, by year three, the UK has caught up to Ted Lasso, and I can no longer go to that pump. It's like, if tourists go to Boston and they go to the cheers bar and suddenly cliff is that. So you actually would go to the bar that you go to, a local pub. Yeah. Yeah. Richmond's awesome. And the Richmond green, you know, that little that little park basically where the pub is in real life in the show is hypnotically quaint. I would spend weeks at a time there if I possibly could, except now I absolutely can't. The timing with COVID, it felt like we needed feel good. A lot of these shows are, let me pick out the guy that is the least detestable and everybody's detestable, like Succession. You know, you watch and you go, well, you don't like any of them, but you do love the show. It was different with Ted Lasso. But I don't know what role COVID played or the pandemic and we're at home and needing feel good stories played. In the success. Yeah, we're not quite sure either. I mean, and obviously, you know, we sure would have preferred the people who were watching it of their own volition and despite having plenty of options of how they could do their night. Now, here we were with a captive audience and if we're going to have a captive audience at least at least make them feel a little better. But certainly the show was written before COVID and edited during COVID and then it finally came out. Yeah, it had a real COVID high point about 6 months into it, I guess. And whether that was a multiplier or not from then on, the reaction that we were getting from people, even before a lot of people were watching the show was immediately intense and really like elevated kind of connection for a show that had only just come out and it's been pretty breathtaking to be and to be part of. We're talking to Brendan hunt, the actor writer producer, he's coach beard on Ted Lasso, season three, final season, apparently. Apple TV plus that will be Wednesday, march 15th. Final final season? We just don't know for sure right now. You know, again, we've always saw this as like a three sweet movement and here we are. With the conductor, waving that baton with a sense of finality. And we're definitely ending this story. We started out to tell, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's the end end. It does mean we're going to finish this up and we're going to take a little break. Because we're very tired of each other's adorable hairy faces. And after about a year and a half or so we'll come back together and see what's up. Give me the episode where you go, I can't believe we're doing this. I guess season the first episode of season two where we really felt it was important to start things off by killing a dog. Because we had become by then, you know, the feel good show, the shield that flight could hug. I don't know, we're kind of a sitcom, guys. Just a little just to remind everybody what's up here, we're just gonna peel a dog right away. The first rule sitcoms. And everybody can just put this little further away from their television for a little bit. And we'll look at you back. We'll get you back, but whose idea was it to kill the dog? A 100% Jason. Of course there was. Jason was meeting with reading Twitter. He was crying and all the reactions. Like, oh my God, this show means so much to people. We have to kill a dog. I wonder if he had a spin off of one or two of the characters coming to the United States. I mean, there have been some pitches. There are some things on the table. And I'm not at liberty to say, but to your on the right track, Dan. Oh, okay. That is going to happen, but you're on the right track. When's the last time you got mad at Jason? I mean, bless Jason's heart, he's built to suffer a million micro meds. Because he's on his own time, he will answer emails and texts at his own at his own pace. Which is very understandable. The man's got the weight of the world on his shoulders and all that, but Jason, please, I just got to let this guy know if I need three tickets or four. Please, just tell me. Just tell me. So I'd say ten times a day. Really? Final answer? Who do you model your acting career after? Well, I mean, I mean, you know, whenever you're trying to set your life up, you definitely want to try to find that person who no one knew about until they were 48 years old. Tommy Lee Jones was like that though, Brendan. Tommy Lee Jones. We did it. Tommy, Tommy Lee Jones. I could have had a vice president for a roommate. This all would have happened just a little bit faster, but you know, we can help you. Okay, but you're playing a coach. Do you channel any coaches? You know, you're obviously, you grew up in Chicago's here, sports fan, do you kind of say, okay, this is the coach or coaches I'm going to kind of form my personality with. I am a rather poor athlete, Dan. And I just have not had many coaches in my life. I've had a lot of acting teachers, and I've had a lot of cool bosses. And I've watched sports, you know, Phil Jackson or it might be, you know, the football coach, it could be Bill Parcells, Bill Belichick. Mike Ditka. If anything, it's Tex winter. Because it's a guy who is perfectly happy being on the sidelines. And you got to explain text to people who aren't
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"brendan hunt" Discussed on The Dan Patrick Show
"You go. Yeah, Marv. I haven't had three women claim for me in my entire life. I've got three at one time. I think they love the fact that he's gone for 9 weeks. And then he comes back for three. I mean, that to me, you keep a marriage, you know, going for a long time. Yeah, I'm gone for a while, and then I'll be back. Hey, when are you leaving? I'm leaving in a couple of days. Yeah, more. I should have asked him, who do you like the best? Liking somebody is, to me, more important than loving someone. There's people that are in love with one of them that are divorced. My grandfather asked me that when I moved in with my girlfriend, now wife, oh, Marvin, you know, do you like her? I was like, I love her. He's like, I didn't ask you that. I didn't ask you that. You better like there with you every single day. You better like that. I think it's the valid point. But if she was in Playboy, you don't have to like her or love her. That trumps everything. Yes, Tom. She was in Playboy, was this ten years ago, 20 years ago, last Thursday, when was she in Playboy? You don't stay looking like that. It's just the way the world. Have you looked at yourself? I know that. Okay. I wrote my constant reminder with that picture you got back there by the weights of what I used to love. Yeah, this woman is dying. Yeah? Yeah, but is she still like Playboy hot? Wait, she's dying. But he described her. Why does he have to describe her? Whatever her name is as a former Playboy. Obviously that's important to him enough to describe this person as someone that used to be in Playboy as opposed to she's just this nice person that's got a great personality. It's steak break. Ready? Take a break. Yeah. Coach beard will join us on loan from Ted Lasso. What would Ted Lasso do in this situation? What would coach coach beard has some relationship problems in Ted? We sure does, yes, he does. How about we take a break, everybody? Fellow that loves love. Yes, he does. So do I. 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The alarm starts dinging, but they just ignore it. Well, next time, add some of your own dinging. Start going ding, ding, ding, ding, and don't stop. Ding, ding, ding, ding, yup, keep going until they click that seat belt because if saving their life won't make them buckle up, maybe that annoying dinging will. Buckle up Virginia and help save lives on our roads. Learn more at DMV now dot com, a message from Virginia DMV. As sports fans, we know the excitement of each game day. The roar of the crowd, the clutch final play. The ultimate thrill of victory, COVID has changed the way we watch and experience the game. We're still fans though, and there's one thing we can do to protect what we love. Staying up to date in our COVID vaccines. Making sure you stay current, it's like hitting a game winning three pointer at the buzzer. Or booming a field goal and overtime to win the game. 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And you were like 18 and she was 25. It was 19 and she was 34. 30 four. Met her on a boat. It was my parents anniversary of bone chips a day. Holy smokes. Did you dip anything else in the crudite? We went to see a movie called wild orchid, which is like 9 and a half weeks. Yeah. He plays coach beard on Ted Lasso. I don't know if Brendan wants to join us now, but Brendan hunt joining us on the program. Come on in, stay a while. Good to talk to you. How are you? I mean gosh, do I got to start my day with talk of filthy crudite? Yeah. How many days? Well, that's a normal day for you. So take me back to when this all started. Sure. I mean, first of all, Brendan hunt 6 foot, nothing, one 95. Yeah, we did these commercials for NBC sports. Because they got the coverage of the Premier League back in 2013. The offer was to fly me and Jason Sudeikis and Joe Kelly to London for three whole days. And we were like three days in London. That's the job of a lifetime. So we happily took it and now we are three years into a TV show this crazy dumb thing. But when the promos were done, when did the idea of we could make this a show? We did the promos to use in a row because the first one went well enough that that ad company won like whatever kind of awards they win for ads. And after the second one, me and Joe and Jason, that means let Jason particularly was like, hey guys, this thing is fun, right? There's something more to this than some of its parts. Let's figure out something more to do with it. We didn't know if it was a movie or a more commercials or a TV show. When we started thinking about a TV show and thinking about it in the model of the UK office of 6 episode 6 episodes and a special, you know, sort of three chunks. We wrote up a pilot. We put together a structure and then nothing happened for about 5 years. Jason and Joe's careers were going very well. I was rotting on a block. Very much considering a career return to dinner theater. And then at the last minute, a couple of years ago, Jason was like, oh, I haven't launched with Bill Lawrence tomorrow. We'll see what happens. And this happened. Is it a benefit, an advantage to know more soccer or less soccer?
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"Jose. Does anyone know the heimlich? Is there a doctor in the House? I'm lick it. Oh, it's a German player who preaches been told. May have an American parent. Hold on, Raj. I was part of the interruption. I never the one thing I couldn't have imagined is that we're still being underestimated. At the very least, we shouldn't be underestimated, right? But now we've missed 2018, so we're back to the old days. Yep. Is this going to be Portugal 2002 again? Yep, wait till they hear the Jeff acus is a plane, then they really gonna be F. Oh, this is analyzing. This is a whole new window. And then we play, oh, it ran the team we call this the great Satan. Can I ask you straight up? Doctor hunt, are we going to get to the group? I don't know. I don't know. For all my optimism, I don't know, because the key. The other key to being a fan, I think, and that prevents you from being one of these angry gatekeepers, is expectation management. And so I don't want to assume they will, I'm very appreciative of just getting back to the World Cup. In my heart of hearts, I do think that we are definitely better than whales and Iran. But whales especially have had their day now and again, just as we have and so I think that's really the key game. And if we can get some from England game, great, maybe another one one win. But then I'm also looking to after that. After that, we probably have to play Holland. And that's gonna be a shit show for me emotionally. I don't know if you know this, but I lived in Europe. You were born in the Netherlands. And you invented Evanston, Netherlands. You vented, you don't cheese. I know, it's amazing that you even have any kind of affection for our for our little underdog team United States at all. But I believe we're going to get to because I've watched recently little known television show that preached the one word believe and perhaps the biggest news happened when U.S. Canada and Mexico were awarded the right to host a World Cup in 2026, having I won't be clear, cleaned up completely their bidding process utterly absolutely the world cups coming home. Full circle Brendan, that tournament in 2026 finally belatedly is going to complete the process. I think that we both hoped that the 1994 World Cup would do put the popularity of the game we love soccer over the top in the nation we love. I do believe whatever happens 2026. By then, America's finally going to become a proper and by proper I mean normal footballing nation. It's going to be 94 times a million by which I mean 1994, not just randomly the number 94. Sporting wise and culturally because sporting wise, like, you know, even if the guys don't do that well, this summer, they now have an invaluable piece of experience that they lost in 2018, which is what it's like to go to a World Cup. What a big tournament is like. They haven't been getting it from the Olympics, either. Now we finally qualify for the next Olympics. That's great. Different story. So and these guys will be in their primes. Politically 28. We get to be 27, 26. It's going to be the best team we've ever had. And again, most of them are already playing on the team now. And then culturally, we will finally be a country who at least know what the World Cup is before the World Cup gets here as opposed to finding out in the middle of it. And also, dare I say, Raj, and I think we can get just a touch political here because we've got through 6 episodes or whatever without doing it so far, it's going to be the first major international sporting event that we have hosted in this country since some dark times in our international relationship with the world. And we will welcome them back with open arms. They're going to come here, they're going to have a great time, and then we're going to kick their fucking asses. You know what I'm saying? Christian politic I'll be doing interviews about like, what was it that made you decide to have the Tiger eye leisure of your own, be like, hey, it was this podcast. And that's when I won the Golden Boot. The people would be like, what's a podcast? Never heard of it, but we've been on this journey together. And I want to talk about to close the big themes of this journey. Of dreams of yearning. Of healthier things like self loathing, inferiority and delusion, and I have loved these conversations with you. Brendan hunt because they have been thrilling for me personally to relive some of the most ecstatic moments I've had as a sports fan. But what's the major meta narrative theme? That stands out to you from this conversation this thread that we have pursued together through the enchanted forest. Progress, success, whether they're going to call it, is not linear. The ups and downs will hit no matter what. You know, we keep getting presented with Jordans and Lebrons who are great from jump and then just accrue more accolades and rewards for their greatness. But that's not what our soccer guys are going to be. Our sucker guys are going to be grinders. And they'll be ups and they'll be downs and one day it will all come together or it won't. But let's
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"brendan hunt" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"It's incredible, right? As an American, to hear that. Yeah, 'cause it's not just like, oh, we have a player who's from America. That's fun. This is becoming an actual kinship. You know, this is becoming an affection, you know, like Christian doesn't have that at Chelsea. And he's achieved higher heights. But right away, these guys, yeah, they're making themselves at home. It's pretty awesome. There are so many more the princely wingers, second generation royals, Gio Rainer, the son of OG Captain America, Claudia arena. If he could stay fit, he really could be I mean, it could be the next John O'Brien. Hey, that would be pretty amazing. Quite frankly. I suspect his ceiling might be a little higher. I think John would admit that too. But that's a fine target to shoot for. Timothy Leia, the son of Liberia's president George or sappy, a former blond daughter or winner, George, not Timothy yet. At 22, he plays for Lille has already won four league titles. Magnificently, these boys no one is talking about nepotism when it comes to these jets Anthony Roberts and born in England at Everton by 2008 just the king of magic on and off the fields as you know dest, born in Brendan hunt's native Netherlands. Ajax by 2012 Eunice Musa, what a life he's had grip in Italy at arsenal. By 2012, and it, as I said, it's not been straight line progress for any of these players, have all taken their lumps, but being coached by the best in the world playing for and against the best in the world. This is, this is what we always wanted Brendan. Yeah, and you hope it's just the beginning because as you say, it's not been a straight line for any of these guys and it's not going to be a straight line for American soccer's presence in Europe either. But it's a heck of a foundation, a new foundation from which to build. Greg, he took a few bumps in his early games in charge and then roared. Into the Concacaf Nations League, which we threw ourselves into, as if it wasn't a totally made up tournament that had never been played before. It was not but it was a brazen copy of UEFA's new tournament designed to dress friendlies up as vaguely meaningful. Concatenations league. A tradition unlike any other what a vaunted historic competition wrote hey, went away for came up with the nation's league. I was into it. I think we were all tired of friendlies. All right, fine. Okay, have Holland playing Germany in real games twice. Instead of waiting for maybe coming up together in a draw because they're never going to play against each other and qualifiers. It's kind of lost its luster already, but you know, I think if you're going to come up with a new tournament, it is criminal to then country template trophy that looks like it was found in a garbage can behind the local deja in Denver after the local or state shutter can karate under 11 championships, but I digress, we won it. Yeah, that's exactly what I thought when I saw it. That is. You were just like, yeah. Yeah, they were just like when they went into trophies or us and said, yeah, don't give us the premium trophy. Just give us the cheap one and they get they're like, cool. Here it is. It doubles as a vase. Abandoned thy chisel fair sculptor. We have made our purchase. And this is a vast from one 800 flowers of which we are sprayed some silver paint for the footballers will compete for that and we did. We played dour football we did struggle for long stretches. We did rely on an 89th minute Jordan phot goal to tip us past Honduras in the semifinals. But who cares? 'cause in that final, we were playing Mexico again, U.S. soccer. Put out a brief ahead of the game making it clear that Greg was he was only going to wear British khaki Travis Scott Jordan 6s. We all cared. We went behind in the second minute and nippo shot nearly decapitating poor Zach Stefan. Eventually went off injured. In the second half, Mexico led as late as the 81st minute was tied two two at full time, both our goals from corners and then in extra time, one of the greatest moments in. I mean, I can safely say this. One of the grease moves ever in Concacaf Nations League history. And truth that's been wonderful and a bit sad, the more you think about it, Christian Pulisic, fired home the winning penalty in minute 114 stripped off his shirt, held a silencing finger up to his lips. And my God, I've got to tell you, it felt bending, it felt this was a prince who was promised moment. I watched this game in a hotel room in London, having packed my bags to leave London finally after shooting season one to lasso, it was literally my last morning in London, a night when I should have gone to bed. You said I'm never coming back, but I'm gonna stay up all night, never gonna come back to London. But they're playing Mexico Brendan. Yes, it's inconvenient for your flight time and everything else in your life. But let's just see what happens. Maybe we'll season two. I mean, it was season two. And cranked up the old little VPN, sorry Interpol, and I regret nothing. Shout out to Ethan horvath. I mean, coming in. Coming in as a sub mid game and then with a huge penalty save also, I think this was the beginning of another tradition. I think it was this game was being in the tradition in the Mexico USA football rivalry. I mean, I know we have dosa sero. And but now we have whose turn is it to try to strangle liston mckenney? I think that was the first go here. We had a couple other guys getting in that line. You always loved it. He almost seems to be smiles as it goes down, which is, which is probably a conversation for another podcast. All three of our goals were set pieces. Yeah, we were talking about playing possession football. We're on the quiet agricultural team. But again, it didn't matter because on SportsCenter, it played like an enormous moment, as did. The United States winning the goal cup. That very summer. I mean, Concacaf, can we do if you're listening Concacaf, you calendars farcical? Why just have one mediocre tournament when you can have two within 8 weeks and the goal cup really the sun belt conference equivalent of football, one played by the bigger teams using B team second strings because they're all knackered from the previous tournament and I'm not sure what it proves that our second string can be other second things, but who bloody cares, because again, in the final, we faced Mexico and if you got this far in this podcast, you know, you're shouting at the podcast radio, you're shouting there are dread rival. And again, we beat them with our junior varsity roster two, total B team. And again, the football was not great. We went 5 out of our 6 games in this tournament by one they'll score line, including the final, but who cares? It was a 178 minute miles Robinson header and the comedy of the thing was yet again to those who know nothing about football, which is really a nation of local TV sportscasters. This meaningless truth felt like the United States had just won the World Cup. So one more time, killing the constant is out of bounds about to keep it, it goes to the right models, Robinson gets through the traffic, gets enough
Men In Blazers
"brendan hunt" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"In the background, still with me, the western McKinney to my Tyler Adams, the Jesus Ferreira to my Jordan P fock. It's coach beard from Apple TV's Ted Lasso. It's mister Brendan hunt. It's coming home Brendan. Oh, that's what I hear, Raj, that's what I hear. Thank you for having me yet to gain. We have made it. We have journeyed in our U.S. soccer version of a Delorean to relive every Bruce arena kiss moment pass, but we are now in the present almost and I do what I say. It has been a joy to romp through recent history. I hope on this show is that this podcast is enabled listeners who never live the games past to feel in a way that they have now and those who did and have hearing from thousands of you relive the profound memories that you've made along the way and we are in the 2018 cycle Brendan last episode. I've got a note talking about our failure in the last show. I found it both traumatic to relive those memories with you, but also incredibly healing. Yeah, I'm not there yet. The traumatic part sure, but in a way, I guess, I guess it won't really feel healed until the first whistle. Of the first match. You know, actually seeing them out there will make it will make it right. And it will be all downhills. I just digest there's a footballing outage out of darkness camouflage. And after failing to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, U.S. Ben soccer was as low as I've ever seen it qualifying for the men's World Cup it felt like our birthright and we'd soiled ourselves in front of the whole nation and yes, Italy and your home nation Netherlands Brendan were amongst the powers who also didn't qualify. But there is something unique about the United States right, our failure. It hurts us more. Italy is always going to be a football mad nation, whether they're in it or not. But somehow follow with squandered our future. That's the thing that other countries don't have to deal with. We're not just trying to win the fucking thing. We're trying to win an audience of people who care whether or not we win the fucking thing. And the incremental momentum is just so very, very important. And so yeah, besides the not qualifying and the sporting bummer, the cultural bummer redoubled it, I daresay. Oh, I'm using fancy words today. Oh, gosh, redoubled daresay. I'm catching up with you. Brendan's on the bears. It should be said. And I think it's very calculated. I've just unscientifically given off one podcast. It's in a completely different level. You are in. You're in the you're in Peter drury, ether. When you're on the beers. Oh, it was a weird and settling year that felt like the team really felt unmoored and rooted. Mostly because, well, they didn't have a proper manager. Bruce arena slink off lips pursed, humiliated, or many of the legendary players never kicked a ball again for the United States. Clint Dempsey, Tim Howard, both amongst those done. Brutal. When the U.S. failed to qualify U.S. soccer appointed, well, they were like, he's on the payroll. Let's take an assistant under Bruce. Why the heck not? Dave Sarah can. And I'd only view even remember him. And did Sarah was a sweet sweet man. He always, he always reminded me of Burt Fisher, the kindly Barbara from Rushmore, Seymour cassel, a nice good man, but I'd say there are 330 million people in America, he props would not crack the 100 million of jets you should be managing our national team. Oh, I don't know. I mean, he was always around, you know? I feel like he was always on the bench or sort of in the background of various goal celebrations. And then finally made him coach and he's like, oh, that's that guy's name. Oh, okay. Cool. I mean, he's at least met the players. He might as well be coach. Are you talking about always around that that is, if that was in Latin, that could be the motto for the U.S. soccer team. Semper file or whatever it is for the simpler proximal. By the way, when you're talking about it, he wasn't bad. You too much see more cassell that you're talking about the surrogate, because 12 months for U.S. soccer, they kept telling us a real hire was coming he was meant to do one game. He ended up doing 12 games over a year. The program was in limbo, stasis, aimless, and then 14
Men In Blazers
"brendan hunt" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"We were into the knockout round and we face Belgium, a battle between the Statue of Liberty and the mannequin piss. It was like the whole of America was with us in a way, Brenda, we never had this before. It was like the United States in this moment was hyped as one. And this is one of the things you don't get a sense of when you're there, though. I was out there just trying to be in the World Cup and half supporting Holland as well. Did I mention I've lived in Holland, by the way? It's such a valuable thing to spend some time abroad. We'll talk about it. We'll talk about another time. I can't believe I remember. So it's like, yeah, I was hoping the country was involved in it, but as opposed to previous years, I didn't have a sense of it, so give it to me. Tell me all about it. High culture low culture, president Obama moved a cabinet meeting so we could watch this game. And then probably even more importantly, waffle House tweeted, we don't believe in Belgium waffles and somewhere in the middle of that 14 million Americans stopped working, costing the U.S. economy 600 million and it was amazing because Belgium were a superpower. They had a golden generation, Kevin De Bruyne at Eden Hazard, Vincent company, all in their prime. And I've got to say, watching the game, they open up a can of warpath on us. I think they have 34 shots propelled towards the U.S. goal. But what we had Brendan, we had Timothy Howard, and that man, he had the game of his life. He just kept going and going and going. And he was keeping us in it. You didn't quite have a sense in the stadium of the statistical dominance of Belgium. Because it felt like we were holding our own with them because it was no nil. And because Timmy Ho was out there, it's looking Belgian shots away. Like King Kong with messerschmitts. I mean, were they message Schmidt and King Kong? Or they just buy planes. It was Tim the Messerschmitt. No, no, no, no, no. No, no. He's the incomparable, powerful one. But it was tense and it was so, so incredibly tense in the entire build up. As it was so incredibly tense, the whole game was going on. No. I know for America, if you're still listening to this at this point, you must be into football, but it was nil nil at the end of the 90 minutes. Tim Howard, swatting aside the sopwith camels, set a World Cup record 15 saves. He was a marvel comic hero trapped in a goalkeeper's body. Superhuman block shots of his hands. His feet is knees, his heart, the U.S. were pummeled. They really were, but in football, there's always a fighter's chance and our fighter, the fighter we chose, choose your fighter America, was named Chris one de lossky. Probably the most Californian that ever Californian. And in the last seconds, as a substitute a sweet and lovely human being, but the ball bounce out to him. Just the goalkeeper to beat.
Men In Blazers
"brendan hunt" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"Here for the USA? Can they do it here? Cross and dead seas to 9 again and Donovan is gone. Can you believe this? Go go. USA. Certainly through. It's incredible. You could not write a script like this. Welcome back to go go USA. The show that revels in every beat of history, the United States has in the men's World Cup, in which we will relive these moments with you ecstatic and traumatic. I mean, this is Ken burns level crap with scotch. I'm not here alone, but with a Dempsey to my Donovan, the Brecht to my Shay. Also, the host of Apple sports podcast upcoming World Cup Series after the whistle with an up and coming talent named Rebecca Lou. Oh, it's great to welcome back. Mister Brendan hunt. As ever, a pleasure to be here, and I will be the brick to your Shea. Any time. Let's dive in because we are stepping into a footballing Delorean and going Back to the Future to the year 2014 AD Brendan. This is a good one. The big one, it's a big one. It was a step forward and yet felt anti climactic. And we also didn't know how good we had it. Let's see, when I was reliving this, just preparing to talk to you. The memories are so intense for me for you for the entire nation. I remember 2014, Brendan, like it was barely a decade ago. Gangnam style had reached 2 billion views. Kim and Kanye got married, and we all believed in the forever this of true love, Russia, annex Crimea from Ukraine, and thankfully that was the end of that and everyone lived half full the effort after, right? Brendan, all of these memories. They still feel so fresh. I went to Brazil for this World Cup. We are about to discuss. And it was a long time ago. It was a year into my relationship with the woman who is now the mother of my child. And it still feels like it just happened. It feels like we just got off the plane coming back. Oh, let's go back to the beginning with a jump cut to find out how our boys even got there. Because woof, we lost a friend at the very beginning of this journey. Coach bob Bradley, a great American who got us through two touching the idea of American glory, possibly maybe reaching out to the idea of American glory in South Africa 2010. He was ultimately kneecapped by U.S. soccer as our head coach July 2011. He'd lost the goal Cup final 14 to dread rival Mexico. And I honestly, knowing bob, I don't think he's ever forgiven U.S. soccer for his firing, but U.S. soccer then president sunil galati a deeply controversial figure made like a mountie and finally got his man Jurgen Klinsmann jerker. Oh, Brendan, this ultimate beach blond Southern California with a teutonic accent, a man who signed on to lead us after becoming a German hero World Cup 2006 with his innovative leadership techniques, slightly tarnished, it might be said, after a brief terrible stint Bayern Munich and he was given the mandate of a full system refresh God bless Jurgen. He was a madman. It felt like the right thing, even though bob had not necessarily done anything to deserve being fired. And it certainly felt like, you know, if not campaigning outwardly for the job, there was something unsavory and back door that felt like it was taking place. But for me personally, if you'll recall our 1994 episode people, literally the first time I ever turned on a TV to watch a soccer game, I was looking at a blond German and being told his name was Jurgen Klinsmann. And so he is like the origin story of me being a soccer fan and now here he is come to coach our team and as you say, give a top down assessment of the entire pyramid, which seemed like it was going to be in his Wheelhouse. It was a very exciting hire, notwithstanding everything that went into it. And he was such an elite footballer who would become as a manager, kind of like a scope. He's like a German Richard Simmons in many ways. Like yourself. Numbers. Why isn't he? Squeeze your buns. You all look amazing. Just that's crazy and jazz. You try to fuse statistics with football in a very Proto way. We'd really try to find competitive edges from the great leaders of sports specialization. He did have great ideas. I will say that. Not the best execution. And I spent a lot of time with him in this cycle, and whenever I hung out with him, he had this incredible trait he drained, double expressos, like. Oh, really? If it listens, if you've seen the movie Scarface, it was a bit like how Al Pacino in those late scenes chase the floor of the snake. I mean, he was just necking them down and it was just a lot of mania and a lot of manic crap and you know, I'll just say for the soccer bubble perspective. From the very beginning, you know, the American soccer bubble was a bit of donor organ to host body rejection Brenda. I don't know if you remember that. Let's just say Bruce arena did not ride his personal helicopter to work. Bob Bradley did not have Bob Marley's three little birds as his ringtone. Clinton's Porsche SUV license plates were, I think it was sly hell Y. Which made it clear that the Porsche was just a way to get to a helicopter.
Men In Blazers
"brendan hunt" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"Because I like soccer. This is an agent. This had to have been an agent. He was. Right? Yes. Oh, lots of chilies. You are so drunk. They're back ham. As you out, that's it. Amazing. Oh my God. I'd probably took a Proto selfie on a very poor pixelated cell phone to send to David Beckham's representation in the hope that we can work together in harmony in the week of this great English victory, but oh my God. It didn't start well. I've got to be honest inside four minutes, the U.S. defense caught the part by a meal heskey. Yes, I said that. He set up captain Gerard to roll home and it felt like hello darkness, my old friend. And I was following your tweets because tweets were now invented and freely flowing. I was already acknowledging the Brendan hunt tweets were like, it felt like a Kindred spirit for me with my, I don't like to boast, but I think I had 17 followers around this World Cup. I think you tweeted something along the lines of can't watch anymore, just so nervous at this moment. It felt it felt like game over. Yeah, four minutes in and one of the best players in the world is already had the run of you, not great, not great at all. But still, that's why they play the games, Raj. That's why they play the games. It's true. You know why they play the games? 5 minutes before half time. Dempsey. And rough grades that it is. It's a and the USA a level. One of the softest
Men In Blazers
"brendan hunt" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"The heading save rebound. Stars. John O'Brien and the score for the United States. Johnny O for playa del Rey, California. I feared Portugal. I did not expect a result against Portugal and for us to fucking dominate them. I mean, John O'Brien scores in the fourth minute. Your friend, opening with the tap in, you knew John O'Brien, just a very cerebral footballer, a very mercurial footballer. I mean, a distinctively maverick human being, but when that gentleman who you know, the German who slapped down quarters on the pool table, late at Tom Cruise character in Top Gun in any bar seated, so we next guys, you knew that human being, what did that feel like? It brought home the entirety of the grandeur and scope and history of football on a personal level. the idea that this guy is a real person, which means that they're all real people, especially the people who are from where I'm from, ever since that first game I watched in 1994 where I didn't understand why people were cheering because the Colombian guy scored that goal for us. There's no honor in that. Why are we celebrating all those guys, we're just real people. And I had known no soccer players as a kid. Now, a bridge had been crossed, the whole thing landed on me, and I just saw a world of potential, I saw a world of accomplishment yet unaccomplished. It landed in a very, very personal way. And that's the part that I kind of feel bad about and telling these stories because I know that's the one part where you can't just be like, and then I listen to this podcast and I took their advice, and I befriended a national team player. Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't bother them. That is the profound the tea of football that it makes you feel just a depth of transcendent emotion that is it's obviously ineffable. You made it articulate and at the same time it's just celebrated by hiking up his khakis. The new rule was coming. This is just the beginning for arena's team. London had a chassis going. Third goal, Brian McBride. Ya big target man who barely scratched 6 foot but seemed to be like 8, 9 four. I mean, he was just enormous in our imagination. Brendan hunt, how soiled were your pants in that moment? Well, luckily Raj. It was only 1130 in the morning. So I was able to keep it together. But emotionally, I changed my emotional pants three times in that 45 minutes. That was a mess. You have everybody listening as football fans were all wearing emotional pants. Brian McBride, man, so brave. Dude would stick his head into any dangerous situation to win his header. He'd broken both cheekbones, I believe by this point he once broke his nose, came back on, scored the winner, much like Batman is not comfortable if he's not wearing the mask. Brian McBride is not himself if he's not wearing a curtain of blood. His own Jersey. His nickname was muck head and maquette put a srini up after just over half an hour. This is against again, the Portugal golden generation. Yes, they came back, a dreadlock mastery on they tried to tackle figo, who lifted the ball over him, kept going restaurant. He later said, man, I haven't seen this in MLS, which I just love as a quote. It got the movie. A Jeff a goose trademark own goal made it three two with 9 minutes left to play. Exquisite. Bruce arena must have had turtle head, but he didn't show it. That must have been the most nightmare inducing kind of turtle head. What feelings did you experience in this moment though? A legit undeniable, major major U.S. victory they came through. They came through in this unbelievable, dominant way. And showed that no matter what degree of underdogs we are, we can do it. We can do it any time. It doesn't mean we always will. But we can. And I had seen U.S. soccer through that prism ever since. Bruce arena, I'm not a smart enough soccer person to know what his tactical acumen was, but he very famously, going into that game, and I assume before most games said, we want to have the first tackle. We want to have the first shot. We want to have the first card. When I have the first everything. And then suddenly we're one nothing up on Portugal in the fourth minute. There's something very American about that being your main coaching principle. Bruce was not only the right coach for that moment, but he was also a font of hope and belief in a very American way that I will always treasure. Footnote, I once stood next to him at a blackjack table after a friendly in Germany in the build of 2002. We lost 42 against Germany. That's a whole thing. But I was not good at blackjack, and I was very nervous, standing next to Bruce arena. I was to his right. And I hit, and I had a 7. He had like a four showing and Bruce arena. Yes, he's a bit he's a Long Island, you know, possibly monster and or Jim teacher, but he's also a little bit snagglepuss because he literally went, or Eva, he took my 7. Blackjack, you don't take Karina
Men In Blazers
"brendan hunt" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"Into our nation's rich soccer history on the men's side ahead of the shiz men's World Cup, and if you're new, welcome friendo, we've been expecting you and we're so bloody glad to have you on this journey along with us, but we might want to suggest you start with episode one in which we covered the inception of football in the United States through the stonewash denim tinge delirium of 1994 and on to the cataclysmic disaster that was 1998. Today, we forge ahead into fresh waters 2002. And two 1006. That's right. The M and M's show was topping the charts, MySpace was hot in the streets, and none other than Bruce arena was at the helm, and joining me to break all this down is my partner. Oh, in this series True Detective style, the Bruce arena to my bob Bradley, the Jay burr to the Greg. You know him as coach beer and Ted Lasso. I know him as a gent who's instantly call of American football and Cole heroes and referees who've wronged this. Well, paralleled. It's the one. Only. Mister Brendan, hunt. It's an honor. It's also a burden, but I'll carry it gracefully if I possibly can. It's a joy to be back, especially after an episode, one might just have solved the U.S. Jersey design problem forever when he declared, let's just get John cougar mellencamp to design them all. I'm telling you, guys, John Cooper Mellon camp, and just to really cook the rivalry. We'll have Canada's be designed by Brian Adams. Nickelback erasure and I will not stand for it. That cuts like a knife as a nickelback. But listening to a lot of melancholy less podcasted. I'm wondering now you've got me wondering Brendan hunt. When mellencamp wrote in Jack and Diane, Jack, he's gonna be a football star. Did he mean soccer right? Who would have thought so? Back at the time. Certainly, John cougar could not have had the bravery at the time to come out as it were as a soccer fan. So he would have had to be subtler about it, you know? That's amazing. I do love the fact that like maybe please God, our children's children will hear that song will love it as much as I do, but we'll just assume that Jack was just like playing defensive midfield, shielding that back forth from all that was coming and just leading America to World Cup glory. To 2002, the first World Cup Brendan hunt really, truly. I believe watch him start to finish. Take us back to where you were then a 29 year old Brendan hunt describe your big picture viewing experience. I've been in Amsterdam for two and a half years. And this is the first World Cup I've had build up toward. I haven't just opened the paper the day of the opening ceremony and found out that the World Cup is starting. I had been tracking qualifying, which I didn't know that you had to qualify for World Cup. And this is not, of course, something that happens just by dint of becoming a soccer fan, but by the unique circumstances of living in Amsterdam, I had a friend who was on the national team, an American named John O'Brien, was playing for ix, met him at the one bar in town that would show NFL games, met him through Jason Sudeikis, actually, 'cause Jason knew that the IX player was here and John was playing pool. His buddies, so Jason comes up to me, which is my ear. I just put a quarter down in the pool table, get ready. We're going to play with the ix guy. And now, to this day, John and O'Brien and I are friends. Holland, who I was devoted to as much or more because that actually gone to their games at that point, did not even qualify due to the hubris of Louisville, don't get me started. Yeah, it's a redundant sentence. It's just due to Louis van gaal. Who was just implicit at the theater work, boom Chicago. Everyone had become a bit of a soccer fan. We were all going to watch the USA's first game against the mighty Portugal. The team that had eliminated the hubristic Louis Vuitton again, redundant. And I get to the bar that day and it's like 11 a.m. on a Thursday and none of my Friends are there. Except my friend Doug and his dog, Doug's not in boom Chicago. Where is Jordan Peele? Where is my now teles partner Joe Kelly? Where is Josh Myers? And I text them. They've decided on that day to go to an amusement park. And what they miss is the single greatest possible launch into truly loving my national team that I could have ever devised, written, imagined, or experience. When not only do we defeat the number 14 in the world, a seeming World Cup favorite Portugal, by a decisive three to two, but also our buddy, the guy who lives a ten minute walk from us. Scores the first goal in the fourth minute. I made the right choice that day, and they all chose poorly. I like to think that somewhere in the United States, Jordan Peele is keeping the podcast roller coaster enthusiast today. He's just as passionate about amusement parks as you become about football, but it was an incredible campaign.
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
"brendan hunt" Discussed on Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
"Is very talented actor and writer who received four emmy nominations this year for his work on the hit series ted lasso including best supporting actor in a comedy series new episodes of ted lasso are released fridays on apple. Tv plus please welcome back to. The show are very good friend. Brendan hunt how you brando. I'm good how are you. I'm a little annoyed because i was. I was willing to fly to new york right on a plane. I was told you were having people in the studio and then old yellow dress comes out. And i'm gonna ask my house and it gets worse because our next guest is also in studio now jimmy fair. I took it upon myself to not ask that of you because you are a new dad. Congratulations brennan there's a little guy right away. You're force-feeding arsenal into his bloodstream. How is he. How is he taking to to walk during football matches with you on the enough. He really seems to like it..
That's What She Said with Sarah Spain
"brendan hunt" Discussed on That's What She Said with Sarah Spain
"And mature and emotionally intelligent than i'm buying what it selling every twice on sunday and i'm guessing that my guest this week agrees. Brendan hunt to place coach. Beard on ted. Lasso is a co creator writer and actor on the show. He's also known for being in. We're the millers horrible bosses two also. Tv like he and peel community parks and rec. How much mother. He's an alum famed. Second city and boom chicago improv. Comedy groups chicago native and he is a delight. I had such a great time talking to him. And i know you're gonna love listening. That's what she said. I don't know that i've had more. Jealousy surrounding me pronouncing a guest would be forthcoming on this podcast than perhaps brendan hunt aka coach beard because the ted lasso insanity is real. And we're going to get to all the ted lasse. Oh goodness but i wanna go way back to you growing up in the chicago area Going to school downstate in the prairie land parts of illinois. That i've had people in california asked me how far away chicago is from illinois so i guess that tells you. The people aren't really Very well versed in the other parts of the state. Let's start with where you grew up. And what kind of kid were you Yes i sort of grew up all over the more side Near my parents divorced. When i was like to know my mom tried to take care of me. Misses by herself Would you know. I hear that other other psalms about home single mom is hard But this was before even though songs didn't have the cash That it enjoys today though. Yeah kind of all of the north side and So i was a kind of a hyperactive kid. If not clinically. At least you know spiritually In kind already. Angry young age. Like i remember. I remember a a report card from either first or third grade. The reason why. I don't know it's a school that. I know that i went to two times always gets. There was a member of postcard report card that said thirty seven and a half absences in like a quarter or semester. Like it was something insane i was. My mom didn't know she was going to work. And i was willfully at the age of like eight or nine. Willfully staying home and watching tom. Jerry brady bunch and greenacres all day. Wow okay so..
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"brendan hunt" Discussed on Lights Camera Barstool
"Bars loves three. Seventy eight jeff conjectural. Wallin's talk in snake is also got an interview with brendan hunt who you will recognize as assistant coach coach beard from ted lasso. Which i've i. We got sent screeners for ted lasso. We got the whole season. What you guys got whatever. It's not finished once you get to episode five and six..
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"brendan hunt" Discussed on The Lowe Post
"I don't know if you were involved at all of the editing of that scene in the setting of that scene. But it's just i've always fastened by these artistic decisions like it would be easy to just fill jason and rupert. The accurate plays rupert and nothing. I'm there's some generic crowd reaction but filming her as a major part of the scene. Was it just it. Rounds it out perfectly. I don't know if you have any insight into that. But i just thought hannah wittingham was also nominated for an emmy like everybody. I might get nominated for an emmy. F this podcast. I thought that was an absolute. Like i don't know i've never seen her before that. That scene alone would have made me a huge fan of hers. Hannah's amazing And yet i mean that's just that's it's good directing and good editing because you know you're shooting her coverage anyway And just leave you to leave a camera. Honored to see if the editor will be able to use it and turns out that she's amazing edge even just silently watching and yet you pepper that into a what he's doing and it it it it it is. I'm glad you call it out because one of the sort of less mentioned elements of of the recipe that scene that That make it. Sing is jason's who is ted lasso. Saying oh so. Rupert has a very cocky moment where he says. Oh we're gonna play the darts for this massive winter. Oh i forgot. I have my personal dark collection on the jason lasso says oh well i forgot i'm left handed is that is that an intentional homage to the princess bride or just it just happened by accident on. Oh that's intentional To princess bride and demanded patinkin Fellow kenwood academy graduate Along with chaka khan And nausea mohammed. Well oh okay. How are you feeling about the chicago. Bulls by way. I know he'd be be because you've been overseas. Been hard for you to follow the team. We were dealing on twitter the day of the trade and and in obviously. They didn't make the plans. Ac levin had to be out for health and safety protocols i don't know i i know you're a big big fan. But how are you feeling about say the team cautiously optimistic. You know with the with the regime of stairs really and you know when they got really of like we. We were able to get billy donovan okay. Okay that's uncharacteristic of us So i'm i'm yeah i'm i'm i don't wanna spoil it i will say i was watching that That draft lottery with with with a lot of hope in my heart But too bad. So was that a. I mean actual best talk. Do you think that ends up being a good trade. Losing losing a high pick for. I was i on the day of the trade. I remember saying. I like this less for the bulls and more for the magic than consensus seems to be like. I think it'll be fine. He's a really good player. He pairs well with the in. But i thought orlando did amazing to get that much for a thirty one year old center. Who's a defensive liability. And i didn't really. I didn't really love it for the bulls and was worried that they were going to trap themselves into just being an okay team for a while. I think there's some hope within the bulls that some free agent somewhere. We'll look at those two guys and say that those those guys be fun to play with. They'd be draw for another really good player. We'll see. I do like pat williams. So i think i don't know if you've got to watch him at all the unconditional but i think he's going to be really good. Yeah okay Myself know who came up with the idea of ted lasso making cookies every day for the team owners. I cannot remember It might have been joe kelley The effort mentioned joe kelley. Who is the writer of that. Second episode Yeah that's that's my guess would be joe kelley but it's certainly. It's been a fun. Fun runners was. It was a fun thing to like. you know. Find the right moment in the season to make that reveal which i think came out pretty well to it. Did i suspected that it was him that making them but it was good to have. My suspicions confirmed so. I told you i was gonna ask you this before what's What's the scene whether you're in it or not. That's maybe not one of the iconic scenes and under the radar see. Maybe there's a great joke in it anywhere but that for some reason is near and dear to your heart as one of the creators of this thing there in episode four which is the the gala episode rupert's appearance. And all that. There's a bunch of great stuff but one sort of table. Setting scene is literally edit table which is the moment. When roy jamie realized they'd been sat at the same table And then ted's enrich go way sit down a parent trap y'all That's just a great little scene of bouncing around you know juno ablaze. Kelly and fill downstream tart and bread. Plays roy and nicholas nate. And today. 'cause they're all they all have moments in that scene. That really really fun. The first time seeing those five characters together it kind of sets the tone for for some relationship stuff you know in the love triangle and it has one of my absolute favorite jokes of the whole series. Which is When when kelly compliments nate on his suit and he says thank you. It's the first suit. I've ever owned a second set of our own. The first one was a naked baby. Rewatch that scene today and nobody laughs and to me the funniest part of it is when lasso says yeah the the term birthday super really helped you there keys. Everytime jimmy hart shirtless during that scene for some for some reason that scene also as a very good joke related to the parent trapping which is that ted lasso says i just i just said buyer the writing of jokes. Because i can't do it and i just i'm fascinated by the process so the joke is says i like my because there's locker room dispute between between Roy and jamie old veteran and the young hockey hotshot. Who's a jerk and selfish at that point in this in this series not making the extra pass which is his mba expression that gets into the show and ten lasso. Says i like my locker rooms like my mom's swimsuit in one piece. How many versions of that joke are there. Are there other. Like i like my locker rooms like and then there's like seven other punch lines. You chose this one over. No i think in that case that was that was the clear clear one because you know one piece bathing suit is is is a phrase that exists so i think he's let us let us right there. It is one of two jobs. We have during the course of the season that are about a mother or mother-in-law's mazing bathing suit. Though which is something we need to. We need to explore more or less. I'm not sure but it's weird that we do at twice. You have this brand of joke. That is almost thirty. Rock ish and jason today consists of course on thirty rock as as liz lemon's love interest. It's a joke that is like like a normal conversation is happening. And then a joke sort of organically emerges and takes takes over the conversation to the one that i was watching today. I just happened to see it was. I don't remember even the context. But ted lasso says he's asked for some advice or something and he says i have to. I have two lessons in life. The first is.
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"brendan hunt" Discussed on The Lowe Post
"The nba season is over. And i will start this by saying about eight months ago. Couple friends of mine neighbors said you. Gotta you gotta sit down and do ted lasso. You have to do it. You're not gonna regret it. And i said that's the that's the one where they did. Those commercials on nbc. Like ten years ago they made a whole show out of that. They suggest trust us and do it and most decisions on making life are bad in general. That's the best decision. I made the entire year. Ted lasso is a national treasure returns for season two on apple tv today by the time This goes up and joining me on the low post podcast. Co-creator co stars the mysterious. Enigmatic coach beard brendan hunt. It is an honor. How are you doing. What an intro zach. Oh my god. Yes i mean i feel like every episode is probably a special episode but already call you on a net but then you going. Oh you're sweet a good on. Its frantic right now very busy. I'm very happy to be here. I've been reading you for years. So the pleasures is mine. Sir twenty emmy nominee. The whole casca nominated basically including you. You're an emmy nominee among among many other things twenty. Nominations which is like i thought. Only game of thrones kind of shows where there's a cast of nine thousand people and they get every special effects nomination. I thought only those kind of shows that get so many nominations a peabody award which is like what up the people who won the pulitzer prize. That's insane and just the success of this show is unbelievable. It's completely well deserved you. Guys have created something very very special. So i will start by asking you this. It's known as the sweet show the peabody awards said it was the antidote to toxic masculinity which. I guess we're going to be ended up to something. The virus would be the first thing to be the antidote to and toxic. You'll be up there. How did you manage though as a writer to make a show that sweet without being saccharine like what. What are the steps. You took to make sure we hit that sweet spot no pun intended. Where yet sweet and positive and happy. But it's not sugary. It's not a romantic comedy. It's not gonna make people roll their eyes over the steps to get there. We save a lot. That's kind of kind of secret weapon because most shows that have been described by people as being this kind of you know positive thing you know high heaven Or something like those are very very you know conservative. Sorta shows i guess you know and they and they wanna be super family friendly in not piss off any sponsors We want to sound like the world. Sounds we wanna talk. Oh people actually talk And and i think that is some of those two things together to things that don't often go together In and maybe that's what is helping people sort of find the whole thing. You know helpful. A realistic at it appears to use the language of the real world. Then it's easier to believe that even the show with ridiculous premises this is is taking place in the world. You live in brett goldstein. Who plays roy kent The jaded veteran soccer player is instead. I had never seen him before. I want to know about how you found him and all that but he is instantly like top five. All time. f-bomb droppers. He has he'll he'll ride that f- like like i was watching springsteen's today he is an unbelievable dropper of the f-bomb and i don't even have a question did you did you realize that is he is. He is like what he has a chance to be. What clay davis was for. He has a chance to be for the f bomb. While there's there's no higher compliment than to be the clay davis of another word. Yeah i mean that character is is based loosely on On roy keane and roy keane was very who played for those who would know he. He played for manchester united on their their best teams and he played for the republic of ireland and he was famously. Very combustible and very Foul mouth he quit Ireland right before world cup because he hated the manager. And the if i had this right the The quote attributed to him was Shove it up. Your bollocks which doesn't sound that dirty us but apparently pretty dirty over there as also not physically possible. I don't know how you should shove. Things up your testicles. Any who every every we have is an attempt to honor the The beautiful source material that is original arcay breath fantastic bread also limited also emmy nominated. yep yep But yeah he he makes He makes a tiny tiny melody. How how so so. Correct me. If i'm wrong but i know this is not wrong. But the show is shot in london or in the uk. And i believe you guys fought you and jason akers whose name. We probably should have said by. Now he is. Ted last fought hard for that and i actually think viewer. It makes a difference just the scenes of him walking from his apartment on the streets of. I think it's supposed to be notting hill right like that. It just lends authenticity to it but by follow up question would be. did it. help you find local english both extras and co-stars. And how did you like some of these people. I have never seen before. How did you find them was just an audition process. They came in with lots of other people. Yeah basically everyone auditioned and none of us had worked with these people before The exception being the bill lawrence are showrunner. Had worked with bread. Something a few years ago but Juneau is the only person along anthony head who got offers that everyone else. Yeah just just auditioned and And they just take out a ton ton of good actors over Over there and they can all do anything you know like they this these scripts on our show. There's a lot of push pull between you know quote unquote heavy moments. Send and comedy moments and we like to relate to turn on a dime and and is ben no problem for any of these people And they're all good hang to. Which is the oldest part of why we have such a good time on this thing. Everyone's everyone's pretty damn cool. No turkey says. Jason says if you haven't watched season one of ted lasso and you care about not knowing plot developments. I mean it's a comedy but there are plot. Developments stopped listening. Now that your spoiler. I don't know the timetable. How you shot season one. But was there a plotline or a character development that like midway through changed and by the end. You're like wow. I didn't know that we would end up here but we ended up here and it really worked not while we were shooting it but while we were well we were writing it. There was a there was a big change You know me. And jason and joe kelley. The original creators of the show long long ago had written an outline for a season. And we didn't want it to be a typical Sports movie are where you these plucking underdogs win the title at the end. That's just not. That's too realistic even for for this show But also it would be kind of like wonderfully soccer of it. If it's the battle for relegation which is which is something that That people don't really know here but we'd introduce them to it. We'd set it up and we shall mistakes and for you know years were like. Oh yeah okay and we set up ellegation probation then at the end the happy ending..
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'Rent' Live Will Go On — With Taped Segments — After Star's Broken Foot
"A visit to the hospital confirms that Brendan hunt are Roger house broken his foot, not a leg. Just a foot. The shows still went on though, not quite as it had been billed here to talk more about it. As NPR's Glen Weldon. Hey there blend. So as we said, this is supposed to be live this accident happens. So what exactly went to air last night? Most of what we saw just about. Everything was prerecorded. It was the dress rehearsal from the previous night the very last part of the show. The big finale was live. punt that poor kid with his foot propped up on a table at center stage. They also brought back the original off Broadway cast to sing seasons of love. And that was live as well. Why didn't they have understudies helped me understand? How this works is exactly what