WBM Podcast aka Witty Banter Media
The Three Best Bros anybody could have (feat. Oski, xFer, & Merc) sit down and go into all sorts of topics while also diverging into wild content. Anime! Pop culture, video games, movies, books, science fiction and actual science. Nothing is safe from the Witty Banter Media treatment. Every episode tends to take an unexpected left turn, so listener discretion advised. However, follow along and you will see they always bring it back full circle. Do not take the WBM Podcast team too seriously because they will never be above a witty joke!
WBM Podcast aka Witty Banter Media
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How do you handle life when a hurricane leaves you powerless? Join the boys as they share each of their unique experiences surviving. Also, you ever wondered which is better, natural talent or hard work? The boys take a look at "BLUE LOCK THE MOVIE -EPISODE NAGI-" and breakdown characters Nagi and Isagi, comparing both of their play styles and motivations. Get ready, this is going to be a great episode! ⚽️ 🏟
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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you so much for tuning in to the WBM podcast. This is one of your hosts. It's your boy, Merc.
Speaker 2Welcome back, everybody, Welcome back. This is your boy X-Fair.
Speaker 3And this is your boy, oscar, in the mix.
Speaker 1In the mix. Tell them, merc Guys do? We have one hell of an episode lined up for you this week. There's a lot of stuff that happened.
Speaker 2Bail came through, beep out. It's a down Copa.
Speaker 1America went down and had crazy results.
Speaker 3And I can't believe we watched Blue Lock episode 90. That's right, guys.
Speaker 1Guys, it's going to be football, panic and pandemonium this episode I hope you guys are ready.
Speaker 3It's soccer in America.
Speaker 1Absolutely you guys it's soccer in america. Absolutely, you guys ready, let's go ready, and we're back, ladies and gents, we're back.
Speaker 3Ladies and gents, we're back for another week.
Speaker 2We got power back.
Speaker 3that's why yeah we took a week off. No, we're taking weeks off anyways. We're releasing every other two weeks.
Speaker 2Shout out to Centerpoint for finally delivering the power.
Speaker 3Centerpointless we don't want to get too political with Centerpointless.
Speaker 2If he gives a shout out, put us next in line in queue for the wiring.
Speaker 1Who determines who goes first? That's what I want to know, bro we're based in Houston.
Speaker 3We're based in Houston, Texas. As you might know, Hurricane came. Are we yeah, hurricane Cat 1 barrel and knocked out the power for everybody for like a week. Yeah, it was rough.
Speaker 1Some people are still struggling with the Without Peril right now.
Speaker 3Yeah, man, At least yeah. One of my coworkers just got power back, like yesterday morning. I was like you've been without power this whole time, son.
Speaker 1Yeah, I hope. By the time, how long were you?
Speaker 2out of power.
Speaker 3I was without power for four days. Peril came through on Monday, I Burrow came through on Monday. I got power back on Thursday evening and it was hot in here. It was hot in the studio.
Speaker 2I feel you. I was suffering too, bro. I was stuck in Las.
Speaker 3Vegas.
Speaker 2Yeah, bro what were you at Vegas?
Speaker 3I was stuck in Vegas, bro. This motherfucker went out of town. He pulled a Ted Cruz.
Speaker 2He wasn't even here when he hit me. I was a great abbot, you know Bro.
Speaker 1When he came back, it was the most annoying shit. He's like hey, bro, can you pick me up something to eat while you're out there?
Speaker 2I don't know how chaotic. I think there's a tree on top of a water burger.
Speaker 3I didn't know it was that bad bro yeah, they had one hour lines of water burger and this guy like pick some up because the reason I was out there, because I was at the copy america games, bro, I went to go yeah, because it was july 4 weekends, a lot of people did go out of town on my boy. He ran, I was, I was one of them, bro.
Speaker 2I found a good deal at the hotel in Vegas. The 4th of July weekend was a good deal. It was like $81 a night. I was like alright, I got the ticket deal for $150 for the flight. I was like, okay, how much is the game? The game being like okay, I get why the lawsuit with Ticketmaster now.
Speaker 3They tax you, bro.
Speaker 2The ticket was $170, which is like understandable. It had a fantastic spot, right bro, and they're paying like $285 something because of the fees, man.
Speaker 3Was that $100 in fees, bro? It got me dude. It's crazy. Everybody kept talking about it, but you know I saved it, I saved.
Speaker 2So it's something, it's a lifetime event. You know, technically I gotta, I gotta fly to South America to go watch a Brazil versus Uruguay that's the game you want to go watch Brazil versus Uruguay which is two, two of the big ones in the Copa America.
Speaker 3Copa America is the tournament for Comebol, which is the South American Federation of Soccer but of course they invite the CONCACAF, the North American nations, to join the tournament. And this time they set it up in the States because you know, the World Cup is coming to the States, so it's supposed to be a preview for the World Cup.
Speaker 1It's going to be wild bro.
Speaker 2They get a preview Of what is football Of what is football?
Speaker 3What are real football?
Speaker 2fans.
Speaker 3Not soccer, just football. We're talking about football. Hooligans South, we're talking about football hooligans, south American, south American.
Speaker 1They went out there, bro, wow you got Division I hooligans, division I hooligans.
Speaker 2Yeah, man and the.
Speaker 3Euro Cup was happening at the same time and you know watching the Euro Cup like watching like the greats at play.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3Watching Copa America as two drunks at a bar fighting.
Speaker 2It's a boxing fight, bro. Yeah, and that's how it is. That's how like those usually go about. Like the Euro Cup was also a fantastic lineup. We might see Ronaldo's I think it was probably Ronaldo's last.
Speaker 3I think it was Ronaldo's last cut. That's it Like at the highest level I think he's going to make it the next three years.
Speaker 2Me a Ronaldo Division I hater was so sad because, like all the memories, because of how great he really was, so good, like they were comparing him to Messi.
Speaker 3He cried in that last game. Oh yeah, bro, which one? You know which one's the.
Speaker 2GOAT Rodolillo, Eh chuparão.
Speaker 3Eh, chuparão Rodolillo talked shit about Brazil before the.
Speaker 2Understandably so, because even though I was watching them play, watching them warm up was a different world. It was way more fun. Like you see Joga Bonito in the warm up, like like hey, tip out, you know, which is great. But then, when it comes to the play, you're playing European style like where's? The Joga Bonito and maybe that's what he meant. I get the criticism, but to me I was still excited to be there. I was trying to be cool.
Speaker 3Did you have fun at the actual game with?
Speaker 2the Brazilians. I had a lot of fun at the game, bro Did you find the love of your life bro, and I lost it bro. Oh, you finally lost it, man. Hey, young Korean girl from San Francisco who took that last minute flight, and a dude like just like me too, I miss you. I took the picture for you, remember you remember I lost you in the crowd, Tim.
Speaker 3This is Tim. He had the one-piece hat. This is Tim.
Speaker 2Yes that's me Remember.
Speaker 1He still remembers you.
Speaker 3Yeah man, this motherfucker wears it everywhere. It's like a blankie.
Speaker 2And then he was loving it because it was just like, hey, me too I'm from San Francisco, me to fly. I bought my jazoo bros just now, but she was smart about like, but she had to go to san francisco. I had to fly to texas, but there was a so she returned it afterwards, right but I lost in the crowd. Bro, wherever she's at, I miss you, oh man that sounds like a 12 episode anime, right there, it was like a korean drama, bro, you know I would watch that drama yeah, I would watch him guy from local town takes random trip to vegas yeah, we meet together, we, we meet together, we take pictures.
Speaker 2We both love Mr Barcelona, we love Bob Messi, our hearts start flying like the anime, hearts above you guys.
Speaker 3At halftime they have this whole conversation. Stay with me. Sorry, I was laughing During the halftime they have this whole conversation about this is never going to work.
Speaker 1He leaves right.
Speaker 2Midgame mad, mid game mad. And then he finds him before the end of the game, bro an extra inning.
Speaker 1I'm willing to take the chance and then right before we kiss, in order for him to find her he has to like run across the field, absolutely like, literally, get like tackled, and then, when they're there, I'm doing for you, I'm doing for you, and then like we like it, we kiss, and then here go.
Speaker 2And then you hear crowd goes crazy and he's like, and then one you hear a guy say, hey, man, let them go. And it's my bad, my bad, my bad.
Speaker 1It fit, it fit. It's from Martino.
Speaker 3I'll take the picture for them. You know, for the leader I see, but I don't this is just.
Speaker 2I can't remember. I love how the Brazilians they just be so chill about it because they're like Uruguay's will have such a beautiful song Uruguay regresemos, campeon mundial. And it's cool seeing these people don't know each other. It's like 100 dudes, 80 dudes singing in circle. They just know they're Uruguayan, they just know they know the song.
Speaker 3That's cool, man, that's cool to see that I mean the fan bases for national teams. That Latin American Hispanic teams is big fan base. Yeah man, they go hard.
Speaker 2Yeah, and in Europe, like you see, like the English like to have a song like just sing, like melodies throughout the entire game, like their favorite player, oh Saka, like they'll do, like you know, beautiful melodies like the English. Yeah, that's cool man, and then the Mexicans will go. Eh, no, I mean.
Speaker 1And then it's goofy.
Speaker 3Yeah, mexicans throw in some songs too, some traditional Mexican songs.
Speaker 2That's true. They throw in Cielito Lindo. That's what I was going to mention.
Speaker 3I always thought it was weird that they threw in the Cielito Lindo. But it's like as a consolation to your team, like don't cry yeah, that's what the song's about don't cry. I'm sorry that one too, yeah, pretty much yeah don't cry, it's gonna be okay yeah, it's like shit this shit tucking in a beautiful song?
Speaker 2yeah, but only if the team earned it, like you saw the team like really go at it yeah oh, they earned that song. They earned that song, yeah, yeah, yeah, it doesn't come out Like whenever they lost against Holland like the guy dove on purpose and like they saw how hard Mexico tried against Holland and they got. That melody sang to them.
Speaker 3But then then there's the crazy fan bases like freaking Colombia.
Speaker 1Right, oh, shout out, you've been on social media.
Speaker 3You saw Miami at the how Rock Stadium. You saw how the Colombians like rushed the gates.
Speaker 2What happened, bro, they?
Speaker 3just rushed the gates, they just rushed the stadium. Security of the stadium was like fuck it, I'm not gonna get paid enough people like climbed through the what do you call it?
Speaker 2the vents man.
Speaker 3I saw that POV when they were climbing through the vents and I was wondering what was on the other side of that vent. What do you call it? The vents man? I saw that BOB. I saw the BOB when they were climbing through a vent and I was wondering what was on the other side of that vent Dude. At some point they were like okay, there's nowhere else to go and they can't. I bet there's a guy stuck there right now. There's a whole line.
Speaker 2I was like locker room, that would be awesome right in the celebration and it's from the korean girl.
Speaker 1Like bringing it back I love it again, that's part of the anime, bro, let it be part of it.
Speaker 2Yeah, man like it was crazy, but like that stadium was just not built for like, first of all, I never even heard of miami gardens, like maybe is that what the dolphins play, I don't know, that's where not the dolphins like, like the fury games like this. That's where the second division plays. Oh, but the car? Is that what the Dolphins play? I don't know, not the Dolphins, the Fury Games.
Speaker 3That's where the second division plays.
Speaker 1But the.
Speaker 3Carrick Stadium is a big stadium, but it's not where the Dolphins play.
Speaker 2Oh, but at least go to that one bro.
Speaker 3But I mean that one is meant to handle big crowds. But I don't think they expected the final to be that big. And the thing is, a lot of people are saying Comic Bowl's cheaped out.
Speaker 2Yeah, they did, because it's a corrupt organization, just like FIFA, just like any other organization. I'll just take it back. Nah, actually, keep it. I'll take it back. If you sponsor me Comic Bowl, hey, I'll go back and edit it. Well, I'm not.
Speaker 3Comic Bowl, bro, we're in the States. We're all about conker calf.
Speaker 1Fuck you, fuck you come on, boy, I love it, I love it double down keep that going.
Speaker 3Anyway, we love you. Uh, we're really excited for the gold cup.
Speaker 1Yeah but uh, so you had a great time at the game. Man man overall right.
Speaker 2Yeah, man, Like you know, the one of the best things is like seeing abilities that I know, like Nagi, and then could never do yeah. Highest level bro. Oh, who knows, maybe Cause like the anime, like in Europe, the Euro cup, there was a 16 year playing for the national team.
Speaker 3Nah, he was a Barcelona starter. Yeah, bro, he was already playing for Barcelona. He's already, he's already in the big league, bro he was physically baptized by Messi, like it was his UNICEF.
Speaker 2What UNICEF is to sponsor Barcelona? So this picture is like when these soccer players Will like Sp, like sponsored these people coming through like you know UNICEF, you know UNICEF is the one like. So Messi was bathing this actual kid who plays. Get the fuck out of here, bro. Swear, swear.
Speaker 2I didn't know that story yeah, that really happened, yeah, yeah. So he's literally been baptized by Messi. So they're like, oh, it's just one French defense, he's all, he's 16. He don't know better. Once I pressure him, bro, he dunked, he scored on his face. This really happened, yeah. So then when I see stuff like this, it's like, okay, maybe Nagi and then Isagi is not crazy Cause they're teenagers, right?
Speaker 3But it's just from this low level. We're talking about blue lock.
Talent and Hard Work Evolution
Speaker 2Yeah, this is going to switch. This is going to be a beautiful Tokyo Drift. It's possible to see people at that young age like Nagi Isaki. I'm going to focus on Nagi, because that's what the Air Force is about to have that high-level capability, specifically somebody who never picked up the sport right.
Speaker 3It's God-given. Yeah, because that's the story. I mean sometimes there are some people out there that do really get that talent. Yeah, yeah, I mean sometimes there's some people out there that do really get that talent, yeah, and all of a sudden, they touch the soccer ball and they're at it. The football, you know. Yeah, it's a gift to them. They got the joke.
Speaker 2I'm sure it was like that, bro you know, yeah, and you know, seeing the movie and, of course, hard work.
Speaker 3Hard work makes it better, oh man, you know. They're like and the talents and hard work the diamonds, good morning, my diamonds in the rough, my diamonds in the rough.
Speaker 2You know what the movie? This is a great movie. I think it's a great movie episode because I went from hating it to enjoying it all the way, because it was exactly about that Nagi's God-given talents were like. At the movie present, it's like, hey, it's a trick. The movie presents itself as like there's no collateral, there's nothing, what do you call it? There's no conflict for Nagi. That's not what I thought it was presenting. So until you get to the, you get like my diamonds. Everybody's there.
Speaker 3You see his side, you basically see his side of the story, because in the anime, in the series run, you see Nagi as this like talented dude that's got no problems with the ball. But in the movie you see his side of the story and I guess he didn't really struggle, but there were things that he was dealing with. Yeah, he really wanted to quit the whole time.
Speaker 2And then, when the struggling came, I started loving him even more.
Speaker 1I loved when he got the fire lit up in him, bro, and he's like why did I do that?
Speaker 3Yes, because we see his awakening in the game versus izagi. Yeah, you almost see izagi's team as the bad guys against him, yes, uh, but then he awakens and he does badass moves. There's one where he bounces it off the back of his uh, back, oh yeah, yeah he's like I can't believe that even works.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's crazy and that's true, that stuff like that really does happen. It's like you have an idea, like what your touch is, but and you get an idea of, of positioning, like where, the, where there's a gap. As long as you know those two together, you can start freestyling accordingly. But again, like, like, like you just mentioned earlier, ronaldo well, he has such a master of the ball is, like they said, the ball love ronaldo, so that's why I always follow them. Like he will kick it anywhere he wanted. And like it landed where he was somehow going. So that pass with the back, like it made sense. Like his like, oh man, it's hard to explain that even the body's like it worked. Like I'm a genius, it's hard to explain because it happens, it happens well.
Speaker 1I also like the different perspective that it painted for the two between izaki and and nagi, because izaki was all hard work, bro. He was struggling, he's I'm sorry. Izaki was uh, he's a key. He's a key was uh. Sorry. No, you're good. Um, thank you for the correction he was very adamant about his hard work for all your trolls online.
Speaker 1He was a really adamant about his work ethic and and trying to learn from everybody else to get better, trying to study everybody else's work habits. Where nagi just went in bro and like, just did work, did what he was told, yeah, never had to do any part of it, and that's when they even mentioned it. Six months in bro, this is where he was at and these people have been training for years to get to this level, so it was really cool. And then how about whenever he broke off from rail and he went to go, uh, join up with izaki, and he was like that was his, that was his decision the whole time. It was never something like a spur of the moment, a split decision.
Speaker 3This was his own determination of like I need to get better and I can't do it with this guy yeah, I do it like that because in the series you're gonna see him like pick izuki and you're like, oh, he just wants you know, he wants to see what it's like playing with him. But in the movie you're like I want to take play with that guy because I want to get better. Cece, from that angle is like I'm not going to get left behind, I'm going to get better.
Speaker 1Rao's hurt was 10 times worse now this time around in the movie, when you see the whole background, the whole story.
Speaker 2I felt so bad for him dog and not only that in the series I felt bad for Nagi, because Nagi thought that he was going to be like I'm proud of you, I'm going to meet you, yes, even mad, and Nagi didn't express it, but he was so disappointed I was like damn, I can't believe you.
Speaker 3I'm sad that you're mad. Rayo says it. Rayo says it from his perspective is like I should have just told him I'll catch up to you. Why didn't I tell him I'll just catch up? To you yeah but instead he got mad about it, yeah, and he's serious, you don't see that.
Speaker 1And he's like reo's just a little bitch but in the movie you were like they were the last two to go to the gate, though remember no, but that's the thing.
Speaker 2It's like. Each character shows you like like isa, like, for example, isagi. It shows you, for example, isagi. It shows you that, hey, at the very beginning of season one he was crying because he lost that game. If you would have won, he'd be like I don't need that blue light shit you know.
Speaker 3Yeah, that's right, it's what gave him that motivation.
Speaker 2And then Rayo, he's always got everything he wanted. It shows you he's a rich kid. He even convinced the kid that doesn't want to play soccer play soccer. He gets what he wanted. So the first thing he did get what he want. It was a position, the growth and like and that's, and it showed and he didn't realize he grew until he realized. But he was like I should have said that it was his fight. It may seem subtle, but that was his egoista moment per se.
Speaker 3It was, it was, and I think that even gives him more motivation.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3Because, man, he was going to break after he got defeated in the other game against him.
Speaker 2Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3But, then, somehow he made it through. He made it through to the next election. Yeah, for me.
Speaker 1I thought it was really cool man, because even Ego, he puts up his glasses. He's just like you guys are gonna cut it out in here and he's just like. He's like you're not gonna make it. He's like fine, if I can't make it, he'll make it. I'll make sure he's the best. At the beginning, we never saw that. I like that. I like that in the very beginning and they were the last ones to run through because, uh, nagi was, I'm out of here. Yeah, my phone.
Speaker 3If I don't make it, he's gonna make it I was like that's when I was like, and it's cool to see that perspective of Nagy because he remembers he's like. He's like he's that guy that ran for the gate first. No hesitation first, that's what I said, yeah because he doesn't even know who that fucking guy is. But he's like, he's the one that fucking no hesitation, he would have taken the shot.
Speaker 2Yeah, like the balls there that he just needs that one foot, yeah, so that's what he said he did in that scene.
Speaker 3Whenever he explains blue lock, he's the first one to run through that gate and he's like you remember. So that is that guy that was the first one to run through it's kind of cool to see that perspective it was. It was really really cool. He's my rival, yeah, but again the opposites.
Speaker 1The first one to win in, the last one to go out. All hard work, no fucking work. Like just the two opposite sides of the coins and how they ended up just becoming dope ass teammates in the end.
Speaker 1So I think it's sick yeah even that very end, bro, the, the last like, remember in the anime, whenever it's like three seconds left and not, and now he's like, bro, there's still time we can make it, and rail's like, and all of us are kind of like bro, he's kind of wild. But in that moment in the movie now you understood, because he was on fire his whole narration.
Speaker 3He's like I can't let him, I'm not going to let him win. Yes, and again. There was a really cool scene that I really like in the series. Whenever the teammates their background characters from Maggie and Rayo's team, they're like all right, we just have to kind of hold the ball and we'll hold this tie and we advance anyways, Right, yeah, Well, all we got to do is not let him win and the big three of the team they're like man fuck that.
Speaker 3A tie is a loss yeah, but from their perspective it was like that much more badass because, uh, are they working? Yeah, they have beaten every team up to that point and they're gonna lose the lowest level team.
Speaker 2They're gonna tie to that team and like you know what's great about the blue lock? Because then at least, like turns out, the big heads don't really believe in this project. So like we're going to compete against the underscore 20. Under 20 is you're pretty much professionals playing Like they pick them out, like they're playing at the highest level in soccer, the U-20 teams, I mean they go to World Cups and stuff.
Speaker 3They go to World Cups yeah.
Speaker 2They train with the best point, and here's what gets to me, it's like I like the reality because, like I want to see what, like characters like Nagi Isagi, all of them play Play against ballers whose bread's on the table, like they come from these countries where, like if I don't advance, they end up going down in the class, which means less money and there's a whole thing, yeah, there's a whole thing to it.
Speaker 3He bears my country, but yeah, in japan.
Speaker 2I mean, if you don't make the u20, then yeah, that's what I say, because eventually, like, uh, I'm sure, because, like you see, you see, like the Among Us people, they get like I think they're going to get hired by professional clubs, like they each go through their own, like their own route in life, like, but, you know, stay within Blue Lock. So I also want to see, like, more characters and how, like, how real these characters get when they play like.
Speaker 2Like U-20 is going to be insane. I look forward to that move when it comes out.
Speaker 3And and I know I believe I haven't read ahead, but I believe there's going to be an arc to pick the last, like I don't know 25 to go up against the U-20. And then it's going to go up to the U-20 match. I'm not sure I haven't read ahead.
Speaker 2Oh, maybe it's like the lineup start, Like who's going to start and who's substitute no-transcript.
Speaker 3Isaki's got that jersey on. Rin, of course Chigiri and then some of the other unknown characters we don't know. But Ryo is in his sub attire. Oh, his like second backup. Yeah, I think he's going to be in the bench, but Ryo's there. Ryo's there at the stadium, and he has a quick moment with Nagi and they kind of I don't remember exactly what- they say but it's like.
Speaker 3And then he stands there and then another character comes up to Ryo and is like we can't stop Ryo, we'll catch up. And Ryo smiles. It was a good scene You've got to review If you still haven't watched the blue laggy naggy movies. Save for the after credits, there's two after credits scenes one where they're walking into the stadium and then another one specifically about Ray was staying behind in the tunnel.
Speaker 2Oh, really, I just I do look forward to like how the animators will work on the U20. I hope it's, like you know, kind of like the first few episodes of the first season, remember, like all the way up to when Izaki took his shot that day in the first dub. Oh, yes, yes, yes. And then the animation changed.
Speaker 3I hope they upped the game yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Blue Lock Soccer Anime Discussion
Speaker 3Because I mean now they see that it's really popular, so hopefully it gets a bigger budget. Absolutely yeah, because I mean, they throw a lot of the art from the manga and the artists that draw the animation for the for the anime, I mean some of the panels are like really good looking, yeah, it translates phenomenally, but it's really hard to like. I don't know, do characters running in? The soccer field. Yeah, I mean I hope I hope the budget for the second season is bigger but I think it should.
Speaker 1Man, like I said, the graphics.
Speaker 2What demon slayer is doing with the budgets, bro, come on yeah, man, yeah, yeah, for the boys just like top, top tier, start hoping like they, like the studio that's working on blue lock, um, also take their time and give them like that, that swift quality, because blue lock deserves it. Like I don't know, you guys like the soccer thing it's cool real life, but you know, I hope they they can translate that appropriately.
Speaker 3Anime, because it's also fun watching anime I mean, it's fun watching anime and then, you know, adding the flair of the um. Every, every uh player has their own ego, of their own color, which stands for something it's real, it's dope, it's every every color, you know, stands for a different emotion or a different background motivation uh, but I'm also excited to see where rails and nagi's storyline goes, because I mean by that tease at the end you know that rail is going to get his redemption arc.
Speaker 1Dang. Eventually he's going to come back somehow. Bro, that's going to be sick and he doesn't get eliminated.
Speaker 3I mean he's still in blue lock by the U-20. Yeah, I'm excited to see when the series goes man, it's going to be peak.
Speaker 2I wonder, like how far they'll make it all the way to the Japan I want to fill in all the way up to Japan actually competing in the World Cup. And that's a bit strategic how they've been releasing it, because it came out during the World Cup Season 1.
Speaker 1They did do that really well.
Speaker 2Isagi came out at the beginning of the Euros and the beginning of the Euros and the beginning of the Copa Americas.
Speaker 1I didn't even think about that.
Speaker 2So what's the next major tournament in the World Cup? Two more years, two more years?
Speaker 3No, yeah, what's the next Six?
Speaker 1right.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Is the season two already officially coming out on October right?
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 1October? Yeah, so I mean, where are we getting season two Champions?
Speaker 3League. Champions League is a about that. In October, everybody watches the Champions.
Speaker 2League. Yeah for sure. So I imagine Isagi goes up to the World Cup, plays for Japan. He plays against the best in the world.
Speaker 1He's got to play everybody. Even then, the grand tour, the world tour of that, is going to be a sick-ass World life.
Speaker 2But I think in the manga I'm pretty sure it'll end with Isagi lifting the World Cup.
Speaker 1That'll be epic.
Speaker 3That'll be one hell of an ending, yeah, bluelock is real.
Speaker 1Hajime Inuipo. Right, that's what makes me think of that, Like that level and that tier of storytelling.
Speaker 3Oh, but that one's still going, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1That's why I want Blue Lock to be bro.
Speaker 2I want it to be like that yeah, to be long, extensive.
Speaker 1Extensive, with amazing stories, great character development.
Speaker 3I want guys that it would be cool, yeah, if he goes pro, but then he gets a taste of real defeat against European players.
Speaker 2Like yeah, he did. Did they play against like-.
Speaker 1I guess the Wall of Five.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, rocky III, absolutely Going back to basics, playing in the streets.
Speaker 1You know what I'm saying In the dirt roads, yes, bro, look it's.
Speaker 2Japan and Canada. Remember we saw in the World Cup they defeated Germany and Spain.
Speaker 3The blue look is real. The blue look is real. The blue look is real.
Speaker 2Remember the ball did not go entirely over the line, like one-eighth section of the ball was still over the line enough where it was reasonable for him to curve the ball and score on Spain.
Speaker 3Remember that, remember that, look that up.
Speaker 1Look that up.
Speaker 2Blue lock is real.
Speaker 3Blue lock is real. The manga is still going, so I know for a fact. The manga is still going, so the story is not over, it ain't over yet, baby.
Speaker 1And guess what? Soccer is still going to keep growing and as the fan base keeps getting bigger, it's only going to get better In 50 years.
Speaker 2I think in 50 years it will be the biggest sport in the US In 50 years In 100 years they're trying to make it bigger and bigger.
Speaker 3They're trying to make it bigger and bigger.
Speaker 2I don't know if it's ever going toboys. What's in the Cowboys?
Speaker 1Oh, no idea, but I know who you're talking about the owner of the Cowboys, homeboy Cuban.
Speaker 2No, the Dallas Cowboys. No, no, no Something.
Speaker 1West. You're thinking of the Dallas Mavericks, but he's talking about the.
Speaker 2Homeboy, you know the largest stadium in.
Speaker 3Dallas.
Speaker 2Football season Dallas Cowboys, but when the offseason he should have a soccer team.
Speaker 3Oh that would be sick.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3Well, Dallas does have a soccer team, so maybe he could buy that.
Speaker 2No, no, no, the same division, the Dallas Cowboys, but now it's football instead of football during the offseason. Because, yeah, I know what you're talking about and Texas can do the same thing Texans during football season, and then the Texans we had two. You can have two in the same city, so there's no worries.
Speaker 3Dallas has their own team too. I forgot what they're called nobody relevant.
Speaker 1How about exactly?
Speaker 3I don't know what's the MLN FC, dallas FC.
Speaker 1Dallas.
Speaker 2I saw it you googled that.
Speaker 1Don't lie to me, bro.
Speaker 3Suki could get in the notes you know it's funny, because that was really oh, we only tried to.
Speaker 2I don't know what Dynamo is because of the explosive NASA.
Speaker 3It came from another city. I have no idea what Dynamo is. But I know the name came from another city. Well, another thing I wanted to mention is that take explosion. Sorry, I thought Karasuma. Next week, guys, we'll do a Karasuba on that.
Speaker 1Next week, guys, we'll do a Karasuba review.
Speaker 3We had a lot of fun, but also one of our hottest takes is that a sports enemy, blue Lock is the best sports enemy. Please be wrong in the comments. Which one's your take?
Speaker 2Like ever Chill.
Speaker 3Like ever, I think. So that's my hot take. I think Blue Lock is a better sports enemy.
Speaker 1I think so that's my hot take. I think blue look is a better sports center, and tell me why I think it does. I want an argument as to why it's better.
Speaker 2It reminds me of those Okay.
Speaker 3So you think Hatchimals no, ippo gets the best sports center no.
Speaker 2You're just like every soccer player. I love it.
Speaker 3Because, like soccer players is like, yeah, ronaldo's great, but the 16 year old you know, like everything that ronaldo accomplished is like you forgot about it, but it happens. I mean, I think the best uh soccer player in the world is uh, I'm not ready to give that hot take. Who is it? Who is it man right now, period, he says ever. Who's the best soccer player ever drop it in the comments. Ladies and gentlemen, a hot tank. Who is it Right now?
Speaker 1Ever. Who's the best soccer player ever? Drop it in the comments. Tell us on next week's episode, who would you give it to?
Speaker 2Ronaldinho.
Speaker 3Eh cheap out Ronaldo. Eh cheap out From the late 90s and early aughts.
Speaker 2The guy that had the weird haircut and the gap I know him out From the late 90s and early aughts.
Speaker 3Oh man, the guy that had the weird haircut on the gap you know Ronaldo, right, I know him bro. Why did?
Speaker 1he have that haircut man I cannot remember. He looked cool on it too, bro. He said it made him look aerodynamic.
Speaker 2bro, it was intimidating actually, for some reason.
Speaker 1What the fuck.
Speaker 2Yeah, it was intimidating. I I don't know how it was intimidating, but it was intimidating.
Speaker 3He was a great I mean. I mean we're not going to talk about the girls like Pele Maradona? Maradona, oh you know what Mexico's El Matador number 15, luis Hernandez Bro I follow his TikTok.
Speaker 2He's hilarious. He wears a wig just to like he doesn't get in the short now. I love that guy.
Speaker 3Yes, that was my favorite player growing up. That's why, no matter what team I joined, 15 was on my back. Because I joined the American football team in in in high school. My number was 15 too for Nori.
Speaker 2No, no, I love him, I love that guy.
Speaker 3I mean in American football is like the numbers are based on positions.
Speaker 2I think it's fair enough.
Speaker 1But in soccer too, like the numbers are based on position, like number 10 is the forward.
Speaker 3Yeah, you're 11, 9 yeah, but I was 15, even though I'm a defensive back uh, or defense.
Speaker 2Uh, I was number 15 always. Yeah, man the matador, he's a cool guy. I mean I love that he had the long hair in the 90s with the cool shirt with the Aztec map.
Speaker 3I still got that one. I got that shirt in kid size.
Speaker 2Man, that was the greatest. That's the greatest jersey ever man to me in Mexico.
Speaker 3That jersey with the Aztec calendar, that's still the greatest jersey, sick 1998. World.
Speaker 2Cup yeah man In France, in France, that's pretty cool man.
Speaker 3Honestly, chicharito was one of the greats bro. He could have done so much more. He's still a gamer now on TikTok.
Speaker 2He's 360. No scope you baby 360, no scope.
Speaker 3He doesn't have time to train.
Speaker 2He's over.
Speaker 3He went the T-Pain route, making more money on Twitch.
Speaker 2He's not wrong, though, bro, he's T.
Speaker 1Why would I train like an animal when I can just stream bro, Be the animal you know.
Speaker 2Ah, cheap out, ow, Cheap out ew.
Speaker 1Play that and get just paid 50 grand. Yeah, Blue Look.
Speaker 3Blue. Look my pick for best sports enemy. Fight me. What's your pick? What's your pick man? I'm going to put you on the limelight, on the spot.
Speaker 2I'm going to let it develop. I and, if anything, the manga. I'm going to probably read the manga.
Speaker 3The manga is really good, man. I read up to like I read all of season one in the manga and it's good. Not only that in the manga, it's not luck off, it's fuck off. Can't wait to read some more about it, which the director doesn't know, but I'll keep that to myself. Oh, yeah, that was a funny interaction.
Speaker 1Dun dun dun All right boys, you guys ready to call on this one? Yeah, lock off. The blue lock is real. The blue lock is real. What did?
Speaker 2you think about how did the hurricane event went for you, Sugi?
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