Episode 136: TED LASSO S03E07 "The Strings That Bind Us"

[00:00:00] . Oh! Hmm? Ah! Oh. Ted! It's going to work. Great! What is? Total football. Okay. And I'll tell you why. Why? The lasso way! You haven't switched tactics in a week. I haven't? No! You've done this over three seasons. I have? Yes.

[00:00:28] I'm totally building a club-wide culture of trust and support through thousands of imperceptible moments, all leading to their inevitable conclusion. Total football! How about that? Yee! It's going to work. Doesn't even matter what number four is. What a fucking dork. Yeah. But he's our dork.

[00:00:52] Welcome to another episode of The Revisited Podcast. I'm Ben. And I'm Kristin. This week we are revisiting Ted Lasso, season three, episode seven, the strings that bind us. I love how you had to like guess for a second, like almost like you lost your train of thought there

[00:01:45] for a minute? For what? For to say what we were covering. Oh, oh, oh. Because I didn't know. I got stuck on revisiting. You know, you don't have to say that. Yes, but I like saying it. Everybody assumes that's what we're doing,

[00:01:59] because that's the name of the podcast. But I like saying it, Ben. Okay. That is fair enough. So, yeah. So before we get started with Ted Lasso, we have a little business to attend to. And that is since we only have five episodes left

[00:02:15] of Ted Lasso to cover after this one, I think it's about time we reveal what our next show is we're going to cover. I think it is time to do this well past time. It's well past time.

[00:02:25] A lot of people already know what it is because we've been hinting at it and teasing about it and such. We've had a number of people say what they want us to do. Once upon a time is one that's been on the list for a while.

[00:02:39] I know you and I eventually want to do the wire. We both, we want to do justified at 1.2, but we're going to keep things lighthearted. We're going to keep with the fun and this one. And I'm excited for this one because this is show.

[00:02:54] Only watched one time through. And it was when the show was airing. I have not rewatched this show at all. So I'm very excited to go back to it. And I'm going to say because this show ended a while back,

[00:03:10] we're going to go back to the format that we did with Lost and that it's going to be a spoiler for podcasts. We're not going to do. It's been it's been over for a bit. Yeah, we're not going to do like we've been doing with

[00:03:22] we're going to do with Ted Lasso where we'll have a spoiler conversation at the end. It's going to be it's going to be just like Lost where we're going to give you the spoiler warning at the beginning. But that being said, the next show we're going to cover.

[00:03:38] It actually worked that time. I'm excited. We're diving into the good place. I this is a show that I watched initially because I have a huge crush on Kristen Bell. And then I just ended up loving all the characters, including Ted Danson and Jason Manzukis.

[00:04:02] There's just so many great characters that are part of the show. And it was a show that ended up having another similar to Ted Lasso just had like a really great message. And I remember ending on a really great note. It had a wonderful finale.

[00:04:20] It had a very good finale, very good finale. Yeah, I really like that show. I really liked it when we watched it. So I'm excited that we're going to dive into it again. I haven't watched it since it aired.

[00:04:34] So there's a lot about this show I do not remember. Oh yeah, a lot, a lot, a lot. So I'm excited. It'll be fun. We'll have a good time. And it's weird how we're doing like each show we've chosen so far is kind of a little different.

[00:04:48] Like Lost as a Show, we watched like five or six times through. Yeah. But still discovered a lot of new things as we were going through it. Ted Lasso was something that we only watched one or two times through but was relatively new enough that it was still

[00:05:00] kind of fresh. And now we're diving into a show that we've only watched one time through and ended a little while ago. So again, it's going to be a little different diving into this one. But I'm excited. One day maybe we'll do the West Wing.

[00:05:15] But that's like a lot of material. That I feel like that needs to be its own thing. Probably if we do West Wing. I still need to finish it. The West Wing is one of my all time favorite shows and the wire.

[00:05:31] Well, I know another show because we made this deal that if I watch the wire, you have to watch Chuck. Oh yeah, I haven't done that. Well, I figured you haven't done that yet because I haven't started the wire yet either. Oh, OK.

[00:05:46] But that was part of the deal is that if I watch the wire, you have to watch Chuck and then eventually we'll cover both. But I just because I loved that's one of my favorite shows is Chuck. So but let's talk about Ted Lasso.

[00:06:01] So before we dive into it, obviously as we kind of hinted at towards the reveal of the Good Place, for those of you that are watching Ted Lasso for the first time, because we know there are a couple of you.

[00:06:13] We're going to refrain from spoilers, but we will do a spoiler section towards the end. Just check the show notes to find out when that is and when you can come out of it for favorite quotes and listen to feedback for this episode.

[00:06:26] Where do you want to start? Because there's there's a lot. There's a lot to break down in this one. A lot of bullet points, but some important stories. So we go. Yeah, we got a lot going on and it everybody,

[00:06:39] everybody is in motion, I would say for this episode. We've got a lot of moving pieces, a lot of moving parts, lots of epiphanies happen in this episode. I think two of the best things to come out of this episode. One is Jamie's leadership emergence and then also

[00:07:02] Trent finds his story. I'll give you there's one more that I think is a big epiphany and a big thing for character development is Nate finds his confidence. Oh, yeah. Okay. Sure. Are we different every different in opinion on that one? You know, I it's a little too.

[00:07:26] It's a little too clean for me. I forgot that Nate's redemption is just like he just wakes up one day and he's different. But yeah, I would go as far to say that as well. And the biggest indicator of that is when he goes

[00:07:44] into the bathroom and we think he's going to spit on his face in the mirror and he doesn't. So we have seen that there is a marked difference, a forward progress in Nate that he can look at himself in the mirror and not hate himself this week.

[00:08:04] And maybe that it. Yeah, I mean, yeah, that is that. Yes, that's good. I mean, there is definitely more to come with Nate as far as you know his backstory. They kind of hint at it in this episode a little bit

[00:08:18] with his father, but there's more of that to come without going too deep into spoilers. But I think like, and we'll dive deeper into it. But yeah, I think Nate finding his confidence should be added to that list for this episode.

[00:08:32] But I love the fact that you put you you described it as Trent finds his story. Yeah, well, he's been there because at the very beginning of the third season of this season, he says there's a story here. He didn't know what it was.

[00:08:47] He just knew that there was a story with this team and he's just there to find it. And the excitement that he exudes when he's like basically expressing to Ted, like this is it. Like this is what it's always been. This is why you're here.

[00:09:04] This is what you've been doing. Like it just makes me love Trent even more. He's so excited and it's the first time that we hear the lasso way. Mm hmm. He says it. He says it very quickly. But he does say that the lasso way is basically

[00:09:24] synonymous with total football. And I love the quote that he uses here. He says by slowly but surely building a clubwide culture of trust and support through thousands of imperceptible moments all leading to their inevitable conclusion. If that isn't the best sound bite for what this

[00:09:43] show is all about, I don't know what is. Yeah. And then him following up with just being like like he's so excited about it. Doesn't even matter what number four is. No, it doesn't because that that's all they need. Like they already know what it is.

[00:10:01] And I love I have that in my quotes, but we could talk about it now because I just love the follow up of Roy being like, what a fucking dork. Yeah. And Ted's like, yeah, but he's our dork, which which just even confirms even more what we were

[00:10:15] saying last episode that Trent is part of that team. He's not he sees himself as kind of a background character who's there covering the story. But but Ted and Beard and Roy see him as more than that. He is part of Richmond. He's a diamond dog.

[00:10:33] Yes, he is a diamond dog. Yeah, I would go so far as to call him a diamond dog. What we've seen him part of the diamond dog discussions now he hasn't shared himself with the rest of the diamond dogs, but he has offered wisdom to the diamond dogs.

[00:10:49] Yeah, I can't remember if he actually shares with the I can't remember either. I don't think he ever does. But he I don't and I don't know if we've ever seen him bark yet either. I'm pretty sure that we do see. No, yeah, because remember they they asked

[00:11:10] him for his opinion in that weird monkey way. Well, they were doing the chimps being left to the slaughter. Right. And Roy's like, uh, beats chest a few times. Well, that wasn't a diamond dog discussion. That was just them in the coaching room. Oh, well.

[00:11:29] But but we do know that there are more diamond dog moments coming and Trent is a part of them. And I can't remember if he ends up barking with the rest of the with the rest of the group. I think he does probably. I think he does.

[00:11:42] We'll see. Trent's transpifany about I mean it really because because the show has struggled to find its footing this season and last year and last week they they they write the ship, right? They put it together and we've got a direction now.

[00:11:58] And it's almost like Trent is telling the audience, we got it. We know what's happening from here on out. Don't worry. Ted Lasso is at the helm. It's going to be fine. Well, because look at them playing that game against Arsenal.

[00:12:12] Like he's in the locker room when he sees Jamie step up and do the leadership thing as you mentioned, and then he sees them go out and he sees them make that beautiful play out on the pitch that scores them one goal.

[00:12:25] They don't win the game, but there's a glimmer of hope now. They got their they they got their mojo back. Yeah. And they know it. Yep. And that's the best part that that might have been a loss, but it's a win. And it's a huge win for Richmond.

[00:12:41] Well, Jamie found his voice as a leader. You know, he was really nervous about it. Like you could tell they were all looking at him when he went to the board and they weren't looking at him and laughing at him, which I think I nerved him

[00:12:55] because he's been kind of a joke for most of this series. And just a flashy player from the outside. From the outside perspective, he's been a flashy player, you know. And Jamie is so much more than that and Ted and Roy are a big testament to that.

[00:13:15] But because of Ted and Roy, Jamie feels confident enough to go up to that whiteboard and start dictating what he's talking about. And it's being received in a positive manner. Like that. Going from where we started with Jamie Tartt and this team to him coming back and the

[00:13:36] and the strife that that created. Plus, he's trying to be then the Zava nonsense. He's trying to be better than Zava all the running. He's all conditioned like he has been ready for this moment and we have watched him take those steps to get ready for

[00:13:54] this moment. And from here on out, we're going to watch Jamie kind of emerge and struggle while emerging as a leader of this team. And I think that's wonderful. Well, and I think one of the other great things about that whole locker room moment too

[00:14:10] that I also have in my notes is the fact that the team has accepted Jamie for who he is. They know he has this leadership role, but they also know that he can be a little bit of a prick. But like now he's become a lovable prick.

[00:14:24] Like even to the point where Jamie, he's ready to say something and Ted asked him like what you got. He's like, well, I don't want to be a prick. And everybody on that team without missing a beat, including Ted, Beard and Roy give Jamie the signal.

[00:14:38] And that's the signal that Roy set up saying like I'll give it's OK to be a prick. When do I know? Well, I'll give you a signal. Everybody everybody knows the signal. So without missing a beat, everybody gives Jamie the signal be a prick.

[00:14:56] Who was the one that who was the one that did it in secret? Was it Trent? No, Ted's the one that gave him the finger and hit it. No, no, in that in the locker room. I don't think anybody did it. Oh, no, Trent

[00:15:10] did. You're right. Somebody did it. Yeah, like that. Trent, I think he still had his hands like on his pen or something and then but he still gave the finger like while he was holding the pen or holding the the notebook. Something somebody did it in secret

[00:15:22] which I thought was great because that's another call back to Ted doing it. Ted doing it in secret. Maybe or maybe Trent was like doing the whole head scratch like with the finger. Oh, that's what it was. It was this. Yeah. Nice job. Yeah. So yeah, Trent

[00:15:36] was the one that did it in secret. But again going back to the point where Trent is giving the signal as well because Trent is a part of Richmond. Like he is part of that team. Oh, 100% 100%. I love Jamie in this episode. I have to say

[00:15:54] I just love him in this episode when he thought that that when that string came off of his penis the fear that they all had in them. Can we talk about that scene for a minute? Let's do it. Yeah. Because my favorite part of that scene other than

[00:16:14] the fact of how ridiculous it was now that whole red string thing from the Japanese is 100% legit. I've known about that for years. The fact that they believe there's an invisible red string tied between fingers. Jamie is like, and why are they tied around our dicks?

[00:16:30] Because I have that quote. Where is it? In Japanese culture they have a myth where they believe that all soul mates are connected by an invisible red string and those strings are attached to each of their little fingers. Hmm. Okay. So why is it tied around our dicks?

[00:16:46] Well, you know, that was Roy's idea. But I'm pretty sure the thought behind it is that it's nearly impossible to not be fully aware of what your team is doing when you all got a rope tied around your ding dong. Am I right

[00:17:00] about that, Roy? Yeah, something like that. My favorite part of this entire scene is Roy snickering. Oh, he's got a plastic tiny grin on his face the whole time. He is a sadist. I'm just telling you right now, he's a sadist. And then the moment

[00:17:22] that started this whole conversation when it gets ripped off of Jamie and everybody's in shock like, is Jamie's dick okay? Roy has this huge smile on his face because there's hope that Jamie lost his dick. And then when Danny says like, it's okay, like his

[00:17:46] dick is okay, Roy frowns because there was nothing that happened to Jamie because Jamie's okay. The best part is that Roy steps it up a notch later because he knows that play through me means that who's going to be that centerpiece it's going to be Jamie

[00:18:04] and there's going to be five strings attached to his dick. Ted, like I think we roasted that chicken Roy is so sad this is some of the best Roy that we have gotten like the entire series because we know that he knows that Jamie's going to be

[00:18:26] that center. That's the best part play through me. Don't don't play to me play through me. Yeah, it's just I mean and when you look at that play too like that makes complete sense like if you want everybody to move around and be a part

[00:18:42] of this someone has to be the center right and Jamie's the one that realizes that and and you know brings it forward and you're right Roy already knew it but he wasn't going to tell Jamie he needed Jamie to realize it on his own.

[00:18:58] Is that about the slip of paper? Well not just that but the fact that like that Jamie was going to be the center. Yeah, okay so I'm glad that you brought this up because I have like I have some notes about when they're like okay we're going

[00:19:14] to switch positions right so Danny and whoever are going to switch and you're going to play forward and you're going to play striker I don't know I'm like Ted Lasso I don't know positions I just know that I like the show. Jamie gets his name

[00:19:30] with coupled with his name and what Ted says to him is like no we just want you to score the goals do your thing be the dick you know and on the surface I think that because there are comments about I've read

[00:19:46] a couple of articles on this right and one of the articles that I read was that Ted and the coaching staff did not learn from the Zava debacle and just put Jamie in Zava's role as just score the goals and be flashy

[00:20:06] when we need you to be flashy and we're not going to learn from this mistake I don't think that that's the case I think that what they did and you can argue this or anybody can argue this but I think that what was happening is that they knew

[00:20:20] that Jamie needed to be the leader of this team and the only way to do that was to take Jamie out of the equation for a minute. Jamie feeling like wait a minute why don't I get teamed up with somebody why don't I

[00:20:34] get to play total football as well well he does he's going to be facilitating total football and instead of Jamie getting that direction and having him be you know it was Zava and then the rest of the team right yeah okay so it's almost like they're saying

[00:20:54] okay we're gonna put Jamie and the rest of the team but really we want it to be the whole team but if we tell Jamie that no it's just gonna be you and the rest of the team after the whole Zava debacle that's Jamie's chance to be like

[00:21:06] no I'm a team player and I'm gonna show you how I'm a team player so they knew what the coaches knew what they were doing in that in that sense to make it Jamie's idea to be the leader of the team if that makes

[00:21:22] well no and I get that and having a horrible time verbalizing this well let me see if maybe I can put it in a little bit of a different way that's kind of easier to understand and I don't mean that is like a mansplaining way at all

[00:21:34] but I didn't take it as that if you look at the design of the place look at what the 4-4-2 initially was that became the 4-5-1 because Zava was one player by himself and it was he was upfront towards the goal by himself

[00:21:48] it was like everybody pushed it to Zava right Jamie realizes as a team leader that doesn't work no he can't be ahead of the team he has to be in the team right which is why he pulls himself from in front and into the center of everything and

[00:22:06] Jamie was like he needed to realize that and I think you're right I think not allowing him or not making him switch with another player was really the best way for Jamie to realize well I can't be somebody who switches with one person I have to be someone

[00:22:24] who could be part of everyone yeah and I love the fact that it's he says don't play to me play through me don't make me Zava make me a part of the team he came back to Richmond because he missed the team

[00:22:38] he missed the coach he missed that community aspect of what they were doing in Richmond he can go be Jamie Tart anywhere let's be honest okay I know that nobody was taking him because he was a dick but how far Jamie has come since then

[00:22:54] I think that Jamie could play anywhere at this point absolutely even look at the play that they pulled off during the Arsenal game when they came back from halftime look at the beautiful back pass that Jamie made and that's my whole point that was the breakthrough that Jamie

[00:23:10] needed to have you are as good as you think that you are if not better but you are only as good as the rest of your team is I mean that is in every facet of your life families are as strong as families want to be right

[00:23:32] teams are as strong as teams want to be workplace people I mean it doesn't matter where you go it doesn't matter who you're with if you are playing as a team if you are concerned about others before you are concerned about yourself

[00:23:46] if you are concerned about the overall outcome and not the individual outcome you are always going to be so much better for it well I mean and look at how that even changes the dynamic of the team we mentioned this a little bit earlier on too in that

[00:24:02] when we have that glimmer of hope for Richmond that even yes they scored that goal every other loss that they have had everybody has been so distraught and so disappointed that they can't win a game and now things have changed

[00:24:16] so much and there is that glimmer of hope that they lose the game but they are not sad anymore like they know they came together as a team that's a win for them they figured it out they know exactly who they are as a team now

[00:24:34] doesn't matter that they've lost it doesn't even matter that they've lost the last 8 or 9 games it doesn't matter they have a plan even if they were to get relegated at the end of the season it doesn't matter they know what they're doing

[00:24:50] and that's all that matters because now they realize oh we are better than we gave ourselves credit for we didn't need Zava we didn't need Zava we don't need a Jamie Tart right well they don't need the old Jamie Tart they don't need a Zava Jamie Tart

[00:25:10] and I know I keep talking about the Lakers but I'm going to continue to talk about the Lakers before you even go into that there is a Lakers connection to this episode oh yeah oh yeah and I'll get to that okay right that's the deep dive I took

[00:25:26] gotcha so the 2009 Lakers 2009-2010 Lakers they won back-to-back championships and it was Kobe Bryant was the was the team leader for you know for lack of a better team at the time during this time but Kobe didn't have

[00:25:52] it was Kobe and then it was a bunch of really good players but not really well known players at the time and I watched a documentary on this time because of course I did and a lot of it comes from a Ted Lasso

[00:26:04] mentality this was first of all this particular Lakers team had about eight different languages that people spoke as their first language the team was truly a world team they were from all different countries they spoke all different languages but the best part is that

[00:26:24] Kobe spoke like four languages so he was being interviewed and he was just saying yeah it's really funny it's like you know the United Nations out on the court most of the time everybody's speaking in a different language everybody's talking to each other but everybody understands each other

[00:26:38] and Phil Jackson as the coach in the background who is a big proponent of the triangle offense and you know he's a big advocate for team over individual players much like Ted Lasso and he also gave all the team team members different books to read throughout the season

[00:27:02] during this documentary when they were following the players around I remember Luke Walton, Bill Walton's son had a book with him and he was just like I haven't started it yet but this is the book that he gave me and they're talking about the books that they've been

[00:27:16] assigned by their coach and they all have a different book just like Ted did with his team last season or the season before season one yeah when Roy Kent got the wrinkle in time so I say all this because there's so many parallels to me

[00:27:34] to this Lakers team and what AFC Richmond is doing Jamie Tartt is Kobe Bryant Kobe Bryant was a very selfish player that got into a lot of trouble with the law and he had to completely re-brand his image he had to start over from nothing

[00:27:52] much like Jamie Tartt did and he had to come back to his team earn his team's trust and build something into a championship worthy team this is all very parallel to what AFC Richmond's story is so maybe that's why I keep going back to the Lakers but

[00:28:10] but I love seeing the fact that this team has finally got it much like when the Lakers finally got it and they just started winning out man they just won all the time you couldn't touch this team because they were so gelled as

[00:28:26] a team they worked so well together that's Richmond they work so well together and Jamie is at the heart of that and never in a million years from season one would you think that Jamie Tartt would be the heart of this team by the end of this series?

[00:28:46] I said it because before we started recording we were going through podcastica had their whole character tournament which is entirely flawed by the way I agree sorry to everybody who disagrees with that and we're not just saying that because there are no Ted Lasso characters left

[00:29:02] there were some ways that tournament was run that it should have been done better as in like not using AI to choose the pairings but anyway hey stop it but you know as we mentioned too there was a pairing

[00:29:16] of two characters in which Jamie was one of them and I said how difficult why it was difficult for me to make that pairing because Jamie was arguably was is arguably one of the characters on that series that has the biggest arc

[00:29:30] of any other character on that show Jamie Tartt season one no longer exists well I know he was wearing his icon hat I was just gonna say that he was wearing his icon hat and I like the reminder that Jamie is still Jamie we've just

[00:29:46] accepted him for the Jamie that he is yes that was exactly the example I was going to use was the fact that he still wears the icon hat stupid icon hat man I I'm not gonna lie I want one oh

[00:30:00] if I ever see you in that hat and a fanny pack I will punch you swear in the face I will never wear the fanny pack Oh I do I wear fanny packs but I have kids yeah I will never wear the fanny pack

[00:30:12] you know while we're talking about like Jamie and the team and that whole element of everything I like some of these other techniques and tactics that Ted was taking you talked about the character switching I I love that Danny and Isaac not only changed their player position

[00:30:32] but their voices as well and when Ted's like no no you don't have to do the voices they're like aww oh well you can do the voices if you want but however my favorite switch of all of them beard and will well that was everybody's favorite switch

[00:30:50] Will committed to that switch sitting in his chair reading a book and beard will get the fuck out of my chair he's like yep sorry but when he does oh god I don't remember exactly what the line is but he's like let's go baby yeah I don't know

[00:31:14] it's like party time baby let's go like he does something like that yeah yeah but the beard made of tape like god he committed to that so hard it was awesome and I love the fact that beard was also fumbling the water bottles like Will

[00:31:36] was it this game that they did I think it was it's one of my favorite little shots of the whole series is when they're working so well as a team in the locker room with the water bottle oh man that right there I love little idiosyncrasies like that

[00:31:54] within an episode that tell you everything you need to know without saying a word so much so that as Will's about to leave the room the sixth bottle out of that six pack is just kind of leaning slightly out and one of the players as he's walking by

[00:32:10] just gently taps it to straighten it it's a beautifully done shot because it's all in one shot I love to know how many tries that took yeah those continuous shots like that when they're done well are great I agree and it says so much without

[00:32:28] having to say anything this cast and I think it's this episode really that really makes me start to ache that the show is about to end because I feel like we've got the best version of the team that we've been waiting for for three seasons

[00:32:46] and knowing that we only have four or five more episodes left is just heartbreaking because these characters just get under your skin to a point that there is a point that you feel they're real people I'm starting even though it's a rewatch it's our second time through this

[00:33:04] and we can very easily go back and just restart it I'm starting to you're right I'm at that point I'm starting to feel the same kind of sadness slowly sink in the first time I watched this through knowing that this show is about to end

[00:33:22] I'm starting to feel that again well you know there's very few shows that when they end I want it to continue going this is a show that I feel stopped way too soon way too soon I understand why they stopped I understand that

[00:33:40] this is the story that they wanted to tell I get it but I just wanted more of these characters it's how I felt with Big Bang Theory even with 12 seasons of Big Bang Theory when it ended I was like I need like five more seasons

[00:33:54] I don't understand why we're stopping this show is amazing I do agree with you to a point but I've come to the point now where I see a lot of people commenting on Ted Lasso posts and everything enough of this just give us another season

[00:34:08] first off one not happening so just get it out of your head and accept it but two I'm kind of like I've gotten to the point now I was initially like you where I was like I want so much more like why did this show end

[00:34:20] when it did but now because of seeing the growth of these characters and accepting the growth of all these characters and accepting how the show ends I'm kind of like you know what I don't want you to touch this it's perfect no I mean I

[00:34:36] okay yes I get what you're saying I do I promise I do I just want more and we'll talk about that at the last episode I have very specific reasons in very specific ways that I want more so we don't want to say too much to

[00:34:50] make spoilers for the finale either but this is the first episode where I really do start to feel like it's ending because Sunflowers is like to me it's a writing of the ship I feel that the first half of season three falters a lot Sunflowers we we get

[00:35:10] what we get that magic back and then this episode the strings that bind us we get why we love this show so much well I want to go back to that too because you brought that poet up earlier

[00:35:22] and I meant to say something then and then we kind of continued on but you said like how the first half of this season feels like a sinking ship and then you know by Sunflowers it kind of the ship starts to write itself and now by this episode

[00:35:36] the ship is back on course and I get how a lot of people felt that way about season three but the more we're rewatching season three and we're kind of diving back into it I feel like that was completely intentional I don't think it was

[00:35:52] like the writing of the show in the first half of the season was poor I don't think that at all I mean there are people that were saying when this show when this season three first aired like oh this show was taking a turn

[00:36:06] it's not nearly as good as it was no the show is always as good as it's always been if not better then it's better because they're making us as an audience feel the same strife that this team is feeling right now 100% yeah 100% but it doesn't

[00:36:26] take away from the fact that it was frustrating oh I agree with that you know what I mean? like it's frustrating to watch I also think and I know that not everybody agrees with me on this but I don't care I also think that the Keely

[00:36:40] story is just mismanaged I agree with that as well it's just completely mismanaged it's not organic it's not anything that I feel adds or takes away to the show it's kind of like we don't know what to do with Keely for season three

[00:36:56] so let's give her a girlfriend and see what happens with that well I mean since we're on that note unless you have anything else to talk about when it comes to like Ted and Jamie and the rest of the team

[00:37:08] I'm sure I do but you know we can always come back to it true you want to talk about Jamie I'll talk about Jamie for weeks on end with no like I love Jamie Tart speaking of to he is doing cons now Phil Dunster is doing cons

[00:37:22] in fact he is in Raleigh um because I actually have it on my calendar he is doing a show in Raleigh July 26 27th and 28th oh no I'm sorry he canceled that show great he is though still on the schedule for another show in Richmond Virginia in December

[00:37:48] hmm so maybe we might have to make a trip to go meet Phil Dunster yeah okay I will let you know the dates and I have ins on this show because I know two of the people that work for the show

[00:38:02] that are in upper management for the show so we might have an in to kind of go and meet Phil I love it but that would be gotta be so amazing um but yeah let's kind of dive into the whole as I call the Jack just sucks storyline

[00:38:20] we did it we did it because we are at that point yes there is we've talked about the toxicity of Beard and Jane but that's a very surface toxicity this is a under the skin you don't realize how toxic relationship keely doesn't really realize

[00:38:44] how toxic this relationship is as she's being warned about it yes um Barbara very straight forward Rebecca more coily warning her about it she is giving keely examples from her own relationship with Rupert right and keely's not realizing well look how that relationship turned out um and the

[00:39:14] fact that like so first off from the start from the get go signing you go girl in a first edition copy of sense and sensibility even before keely even mentioned it that she defaced a piece like a piece like that it's like well

[00:39:32] even before keely even mentioned it I was like what are you doing yeah yeah like why would you do that you just completely ruin the value of that book it's not nothing but a surface gift at that point it proves who jack is yeah it proves

[00:39:50] who jack is at jack's heart so a fun little tidbit about that have you I don't know if you did any background on this um Jane Austen Jane Austen signature is almost impossible to find out and it wasn't until after Jane Austen died that people knew that she

[00:40:14] wrote sense and sensibility it was originally penned by a lady nobody knew that it was Jane Austen because it was it wasn't okay for uh women authors to write or something like that and the only like a piece of her signature just her first name was on

[00:40:38] a scrap of paper that was found somewhere and that went auctioned off for like $12,000 with just her first name on it so chances are that signature is already fake which speaks again to jack's uh character yeah she got a forgery then she wanted to pass it off

[00:41:02] as real plus she added sharpie marker to it it's just to me it shows how plastic and manipulative she is well not only that so I want to I want to look at it from a different perspective just for a second too

[00:41:20] and say that maybe jack didn't know that that autographed was a forgery somebody made her believe this is a signed first edition of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen without jack doing the research into that which means not only is she plastic

[00:41:36] in the sense that you said she's also very gullible well also there is a theory out there that the only reason why jack um funded keely's pr firm is because of the variety piece that was done on her was it variety magazine

[00:41:54] yeah I think it was variety variety piece that was done on her the variety or vanity fair was one of the two vanity fair I think is what it was and jack saw the article fell in love with her or it became infatuated with her

[00:42:06] and decided that the way she was going to quote-unquote get her was to fund her pr firm and like so her pr firm was from the very get go the original love bombing okay if that makes sense no it does make sense and I can absolutely 100%

[00:42:24] see that um I think one of the other continuing on with everything you know we see the other moments we see with jack and keely we see her fill her office with the flowers which is the always over the top like cliche love bomb that anybody has

[00:42:42] daisies were dead wilting yeah like on the verge of dying um but the other one is and this is the one that actually I think kind of bothered me the most when you kind of think about it um and really shows you the toxicity of this

[00:42:56] relationship is the fact that jack picked up the check from when keely and rebecca were having dinner that was um borderline psychotic it was borderline psychotic because one it's again showing the plastic nature of of jack um and kind of seeing keely as a trophy

[00:43:16] um but also the fact that we never saw keely tell jack that she was going to dinner with rebecca I'm sure she probably told like hey I'm having dinner with rebecca but the fact that jack knew where they were having dinner and picked up the check meant that

[00:43:36] she was following keely well she also makes the comment that she's get away with murder rich yeah so I mean if you're get away with murder rich you are I know all information at all times rich as well she's having keely followed yeah which is really

[00:43:54] really gross and I love that rebecca knows takes advantage knows what to do she's like and you know what you need a bottle champagne as well that's my favorite part too is when like she's like we'll take two bottles of this you know what take one for yourself

[00:44:10] and then she does the mimicking of the love bomb because she knows she sees what this relationship is and she's going to let keely have her fun but rebecca also knows that this is not a forever relationship it's probably going to end badly and um

[00:44:30] rebecca's just going to have her enjoy the pieces that she can enjoy because rebecca probably didn't feel comfortable enjoying this part of the love bombing right and rebecca knows okay you know what fine you want to love bomb I can love bomb

[00:44:44] three bottles of the most expensive champagne I can find and let's go from there well not only that but I think this speaks volumes about rebecca too in the change that we've seen from her in the fact that like this is actually I think in my opinion

[00:45:00] a piece of true mentoring towards keely like she's finally back on that track because you're right she's allowing keely to enjoy this thing but having lived through this herself she probably also realizes or realizes that at this point keely needs she can't tell keely

[00:45:18] this is toxic because that's just going to make it worse it's actually also make rebecca an enemy keely it's like telling a teenager you can't do something and then they want to do it more because of that keely rebecca knows that keely needs to realize how

[00:45:34] bad this is on her own but she's also kind of keeping tabs like she knows keely needs to learn this on her own and she'll be there for her when she learns it but she's not going to let keely get too far to the point where it's

[00:45:50] point of no return right she's not going to let it get to the point where it was with her and rupert but she needs to let off a little bit of slack to for keely to realize this on her own and for keely to feel

[00:46:02] that she can come to rebecca when it blows up in her face because if you and i've learned this one the hard way if you go too hard on not being supportive of your friends relationships they will drop you mm-hmm and they will no longer come

[00:46:24] to you for anything i learned that one the hard way i was too judgmental with a friend and it took us a very long time to get back to the friendship that we once had and i can probably say we have never regained it because she went

[00:46:42] to the friends that supported her during that relationship mm-hmm and i am always somebody that says you know the truth you know a bad truth is better than a good lie but you got to be able to wrap it in something nice yeah i 100

[00:47:00] percent agree with that and i think i've been through that too i can't think of any examples off the top of my head but i've either been through it myself or been close to people who have so i've seen it i've seen it firsthand and again rebecca like

[00:47:14] i feel like this is rebecca back on track to becoming a proper mentor yeah keely i would agree with that one absolutely and it's nice to see rebecca and keely back together yeah oh 100 the whole conversation with the two of them where like rebecca is telling her

[00:47:34] about you know mystery man from from new amsterdam and then she says that she wishes that she saw his penis she's like okay so you never got his name and you never told him yours yeah see that part's not weird to me

[00:47:50] if you really didn't have sex with the guy now that is fucking bonkers look what we shared it's just it transcended sex it was magic gazelle she and she uses that that word again she understands what it means yeah and she's like but yeah

[00:48:08] i would have liked to have seen his penis and that is something you only say to your best friend yeah yeah exactly but it also confirms what we said last week is the fact that they didn't have sex they shared something deeper which is great

[00:48:26] it totally turned around rebecca mm-hmm and we're seeing that more again and like again more of a mentorship role then more of a mentorship role than she has taken with keely since keely left since keely left richmond yeah not having keely at the club

[00:48:46] is really rough i don't like it um i really i i mean everything about keely's story in season three she's so separate from the rest of the story and i hate it because i think that she is a part of this richmond fabric so much

[00:49:02] it's like it's like in season two when roi was off being a talking head he was separate and it just didn't fit until he came on to coach once he came on to coach i i i felt better yeah and i just feel like we need to get

[00:49:20] keely back and it's just driving me nuts you know one of the one of the other elements of this whole part with keely and jack that we haven't talked about that i think kind of deserves a little bit of a spotlight is barbara because barbara

[00:49:34] as we mentioned there's two different kind of ways that this is revealed in that barbara is very straightforward like first off when she walks into the office and says uh miss jones we have a problem oh wait no no we don't that's just force

[00:49:46] of habit um i love barbara it's she is very blunt about her thoughts about this like oh what a nice gift from your boss like she's very open about like her thoughts about this and the fact that keely is defending everything way too hard yeah which that right

[00:50:12] there shows i think keely knows deep down this isn't this is bad keely didn't know how to tell them that she was in a relationship with jack and if you are not comfortable telling people that you are in a relationship that's not the relationship with you

[00:50:28] call in situation removed yes um yeah call in situation is different i just wanted to make sure that that that people know that i believe that those things are separate from each other but for keely to not be because in season one she's very open

[00:50:52] about the fact that she's bisexual she's very open about the fact that she's been in a relationship with a woman that doesn't bother her what bothers keely in this moment is that she's in a relationship with her boss well and i think i think the key difference

[00:51:08] between keely and jack and callin and his partner is the fact that when it comes to callin so callin is hiding who he is because he like he's not ashamed per se like he's more worried about what his teammates will think of him

[00:51:26] because this is something they don't know about him keely doesn't know how to blend his two lives like he said last week he's living two separate lives and how to marry them together that's a difficult bridge to create that is yeah keely is

[00:51:48] she's awkward in how to react in everything that she's going through and kind of ashamed to admit it i think is because it's not because she's afraid of what people might think that she's in a same sex relationship yeah i don't that has nothing to do with it

[00:52:10] i think she doesn't want to admit it or put it out there because i think keely knows it's wrong no this is a bad relationship this is the quintessential rebound relationship yeah she's having right now like everything that she has done and maybe that's the point of keely

[00:52:28] and i'm thinking about this right now this season keely is doing everything that you do after a bad breakup she's making terrible decisions she's you know in a relationship that is doomed to fail from the very beginning she's had a complete change to her life new company

[00:52:50] new workers new everything and it all stems from this vanity fair article it's interesting that's a new thought so i'm going to have to marinate on that a little bit but she is that's what it is we've all been through bad breakups

[00:53:12] you know what i think that's what it is we've all been through bad breakups and we cringe at the thought of what she's doing and how much in keely do this for half a season has been torture it is hard to watch it is very difficult to watch

[00:53:28] and you're right it does kind of take you out of the keely of the season it doesn't feels like she doesn't fit in a proper place no she doesn't that's totally true in this season thankfully by the finale that will change slightly but yeah this isn't over

[00:53:46] oh well you know i'll save that for spoilers i'd like to are you done with keely the only other thing i want to say too is rebecca has one of my favorite lines in this and it's very quick but it's another one of those great mentoring lines

[00:54:12] great piece of life advice that anybody should take she says sometimes shiny things can tarnish i think it's such a great line i agree so true it gives you pause if you understand what she's saying there definitely gives you pause i mean some people

[00:54:30] their whole life has been shiny and they don't understand and that's just that's just life man but those of us who understand that you know pretty things come in fragile packages you know we understand it's kind of like the whole the grass is always

[00:54:46] greener on the other side like yes it looks great on the other side of the fence but it's not always as great as it seems once you cross right 100% so yeah but so the whole thing sometimes you know shiny things can tarnish man it's such a great takeaway

[00:55:02] and it's such a great line um i think that's kind of all i have when it comes to rebecca and keely and barbara i'm going to include barbara in that i love barbara i do i love barbara she's becoming so much more more of a

[00:55:18] i love the fact that she's like i uh i rode the tube in my pajamas i changed when i got here that brings her so that makes her so much more of a grounded character yeah because i think we've all maybe not all of us

[00:55:34] have done that but we've all been to that point where like we've done something because we've just been in a mad rush or you know it makes her a commoner it makes her yeah it makes her one of us for sure yes um

[00:55:50] some but i read an article this morning when i was um writing my notes out that they said it would be it would have been really fun to see like a little montage of barbara getting ready for work in the morning of her like getting her coffee

[00:56:04] and riding the tube in her pajamas and changing her clothes and opening up the office to the tune of dolly partons nine to five that would work yeah oh okay so i'm so glad you said that and this is going to

[00:56:18] make sense when i when i tell you this um before we jump into the next thing and everything we've talked so much about how well music works and is integrated with this show let me tell you as far as soundtracks go this episode one of my favorite episodes

[00:56:38] there is so much great music yeah in this episode from the cranberries to the monkeys to john fogarty and super like there is so much great music in this episode i have a full track listing of everything that is in this episode the i'm glad that you brought

[00:56:56] that up because the opening with the cranberries was a nod to a different show you've got mail the cranberries with all of the marketplaces opening is a nod to you've got mail yes thank you but i mean you've got so just just to go through you've got

[00:57:18] dreams by the cranberries sometime in the morning by the monkeys which made me smile because i love the monkeys i really do and that's a deep cut sometime in the morning is a deep cut from the monkeys you've got rocks by primal scream

[00:57:32] what would i do without you by ray charles cool cat by conti conti shoegaze by alabama shakes which is another great song i love the alabama shakes anybody who has never heard the alabama shakes i'm so sorry please listen to the alabama shakes

[00:57:50] they are perfect sunny day music they are perfect rainy day music it's perfect cooking music cleaning music hanging around the house i love the alabama shakes i love the alabama shakes i love the alabama shakes i've been diving back into some music i haven't heard in a while

[00:58:08] by bands i don't think it is enough exposure as they should and i'm totally going to go down alabama shakes like rabbit hole once we're done with this because of watching these episodes but i just spun on my turntable i just broke out an arctic monkeys vinyl

[00:58:24] the other day which i love arctic monkeys too that's another band people should i do too one of my students is like you know who the arctic monkeys are i go yeah man they've been around for a little while and they're like

[00:58:36] wait a minute do we have the same taste in music i'm like a doubtful it's doubtful but to continue on real quick you've got center field by john fogarty which is great you've really gotta hold on me by the miracles which is a great song

[00:58:52] doomed by moses some knee all right all right by supergrass find someone like you which is uh no alegerda which is i think um i think that's the song that happens at olas at the end and enjoy by techno so there's just there's so much great music

[00:59:14] in this episode that i just so much great music in this show oh period but this episode is such a deep deep concentration yeah of of everything um so yeah i just wanted to really bring up the music element of this episode i and i totally agree

[00:59:36] i i love the music of this show but definitely and you know it's all all of that music is really happy inducing like yeah uplifting and i think that that's a really nice backdrop to kind of foreshadowing what we're headed into it's hopeful music

[00:59:58] it's what we love about dead last oh yeah it's hopeful music in an episode where their team finds hope again yes and it fits it just fits so good um just really quick because i you know what i think i'll save it okay i think i'll save it

[01:00:22] okay i just love i i love this i love their practice so much and all the running was just the best part because jaymie is ahead of them the whole time well look at how the episode starts too with jaymie towing roi on a bike

[01:00:40] that is wonderful and roi's like i don't have to pedal this time all you need when i all you is roi to be like mush like that would have been great like a snow dog when um when i was looking for

[01:00:54] a gift to send you yesterday when we were texting i was just trying to find let's go find a windmill and i sent you for grandad but one of the one of the choices in the drop down for the gifts was just roi on a bike

[01:01:08] and it just slowly i would have laughed my ass off if you sent me that gift too i almost said it to you just so i knew that i had it you know we uh yeah that was funny because after last

[01:01:20] week's episode and how much we love all the stuff with roi and jaymie for grandad became a theme in our text for a couple days you and i love for grandad it's so damn good that's so damn can i go into the title of the episode

[01:01:38] leading into sam well so do so we saw of nate to talk about we have sam to talk about so do we want to get nate out of the way yeah because it's nothing it's it's not a lot um so let's let's do that first and then

[01:01:52] yeah we'll talk about the what we'll go into that with the title and everything um because i do think there is dual meaning obviously strings that bind us could very clearly mean the red strings but you're right there's there's definitely more to that and i'll

[01:02:04] leave that to you but i want to just spend a couple minutes on nate in this episode because as i mentioned at the top like i feel like this is just a great moment for nate because he does he finds his confidence finally

[01:02:18] um and it's such a natural confidence that i feel like he's always had but he just didn't realize it at this point and i love the fact that they toy with the relationship with him in jade in you know like it's become routine

[01:02:36] where he walks past and he waves and she waves back and the one morning that it doesn't happen she's confused by it even so much a custom to it even so much so that the one morning it doesn't happen she walks outside to look

[01:02:52] around to see like oh is he coming until finally when he does walk in and he's exuding this confidence that you know he doesn't know what it is yet at this point he sees her he says you know there's something i've been wanting to ask you

[01:03:10] but i need to do something first and then he rushes past her and he goes into the bathroom and we like we're immediately i think taken back at that point because like oh no like not this again because of how bad that was and how bad that looks

[01:03:26] but when he see when we see him just kind of swallow glancing himself and walk out we're like yes like okay good like this is good this is what we want and then he's like there's something i need to do first and he leaves

[01:03:40] wait a minute like what is going on like what are you doing and you know continuing on with that theme i love the fact that he took the lesson his mother gave him with the map that his father drew which is very awesome by the way

[01:03:58] and he makes it his own like these boxes has been something that he's always been comfortable with and he's done and that's his kind of his creative outlet and he makes it his own and he makes a box to like ask jade out on a date

[01:04:14] and at one point you're like oh this is very sweet but this is also very middle school it's also he's trying to do he's it's something that he has struggled with since the very beginning of the series he's trying to do things that have worked for

[01:04:30] other people yes and while he did it in his own way him tripping and that box getting flattened was probably the best thing that could have happened to him 100% and he just like it's like it all became really simple for him at that point like

[01:04:50] he just walked across the street and he looked at jade and he's like you want to go to dinner i love the fact that he didn't even there was not a worry in the world that that box got crushed like you're right it was

[01:05:04] like it was in that it was a moment of clarity for Nate in which he already had one knowing that he didn't have to spit on himself like he didn't have to degrade himself to find the confidence but it's another

[01:05:16] moment of clarity that clicks with him he's like you know what i don't need it and just gets up and walks right over and asks her out and without hesitation she says yes oh like like what have you been what took me so long yeah exactly

[01:05:30] exactly it what like i don't even think that the whole sentence was out and she was saying yes no he says the whole thing she no no no but what i'm saying oh yeah she had already like do you want to go out to dinner

[01:05:42] with me yes like it there was absolutely no pause there was no hesitation and then i love it that he's like all right if you box away and i'm like nobody wants to make like actual plans here no okay cool yeah because she well

[01:05:56] she turns around because she's like there wasn't anything living in that box was there and it's like oh no no it's fine but you know what i mean it's it's it's also something that ted has been saying for a while um and yeah and i forget if um

[01:06:12] nate was in the room when he said it like if he was still with richmond by this time but ted says man keep it simple stupid right kiss he says yes and i think in that moment nate realizes he's always just been doing

[01:06:26] too much he's looking at himself online too much he's wanting that reporter love too much he wants to date the supermodel that's too much he wants the big fancy club that's too much he made the big fancy box it gets flattened oh yeah

[01:06:42] oh yeah nate's doing too much right he makes that epiphany right there in the middle of the intersection and i think nate starts to simplify his life after this well i and i'll say this without revealing too much spoilery because i honestly don't remember the details of it

[01:07:00] but i know this has huge implications for nate nate realizing that he like you said he's trying too hard and this realization doesn't just affect jade this is a huge moment coming for nate in which there's a huge change coming for nate and it's

[01:07:22] wonderful and i love it and it's great what's coming but um yeah the crushing of that box i think is nate's nate's epiphany moment it's like jamie coming up to the whiteboard you know we've got a lot of that happening right now and last week we had rebecca

[01:07:46] meeting the mysterious dutch man that this is her epiphany um last week was ted's epiphany with total football we have these huge moments happening for these characters but they're happening in such a wonderfully organic way that it doesn't seem forced and it's very very much left

[01:08:06] unsaid it's something that we have to infer something that we have to interpret as viewers and it's nice because that's how we relate to these characters as we see parts of ourselves in them and the way that they kind of work through their own

[01:08:22] arcs and i think that's why this show works so well yeah and i will say too and this will kind of be my final note on everything with nate and jade because like i said this there wasn't a lot to this

[01:08:32] i just wanted to discuss it a little bit because it is a big moment for nate um i i also love the fact that nate learned a very valuable lesson uh that most guys don't learn until it's too late

[01:08:46] and that is the fact of how do you tell if a girl likes you or she's just being nice and the answer is you can't like it's as simple as that and his sister gives him the best piece of advice which is something like i said

[01:09:00] most guys learn too late and that is the only way to find out is to ask that's it don't assume i have been in that position where i've thought a girl liked me and she didn't pick up on it yeah and it's i've been in both

[01:09:16] we all have i still remember to this day there was a girl my freshman year of college that i spent a lot of time with like so much so that like she took me home to meet her parents like had dinner with her family and everything

[01:09:32] and it never blossomed past friendship and a couple years later after that friendship had already ended because we had gone in different directions and you know school and everything had gone in different directions hanging out with some really good friends reminiscing

[01:09:48] about stories of doing that and just all of a sudden coming to the epiphany of being like holy shit she liked me and my friends looking me and being like you didn't know i'm like no i never realized that you're like you're an idiot

[01:10:04] like you could have been in an amazing relationship but you never picked up on it well you know sometimes girls need to ask as well this is also true and hindsight is 20-20 yeah i will lead leave Nate and Jade with this

[01:10:24] with this nice little quote from this article i keep going back to because it's hilarious and it was i am on board with the Nate redemption tour now good for him i hope he and jade have a dozen little awkward slash mean children but split evenly

[01:10:38] like how kermit and miss piggies kids are all either frogs or pigs and never horrifying hybrids i'm sorry that just needed to be said that needed to be said for multiple reasons because one that's true like about like being on back on board for the Nate redemption

[01:10:58] arc and two that is i'm so glad there are no pig frog mutations in the world of muppets right because that would be scary the a christmas carol perfectly handles that yeah because you're absolutely right like like tiny tim and a christmas carol has the

[01:11:16] personality of kermit because he's a frog yeah but the daughters have the personality of piggy because they're pigs yeah oh my god that's so brilliant i love that anyways i think that that's a good good way to leave that yeah okay so let's go into this title

[01:11:32] okay the strings that bind us obviously we're talking about penis strings on the surface right yes that we have a literal and figurative meaning for the strings that bind us which as an aside um paul grabbing red string and wanting to tie penises

[01:11:50] together in an act of solidarity really shows the dedication of these three fans it was so great seeing paul bas and jeremy again well and i love the fact that we have open practices yes open practices have started this is where everything gets real good and

[01:12:08] it's not just there are three dufuses in there no there there's more and more every practice right it has spiraled right so we start getting that the strings that bind us this a fc richmond team binds this community together and ted is now executing his dream

[01:12:28] right he's got the whole community invested in this team and he says it perfectly it's their team we're just borrowing it for a bit right and that's the mentality every coach should have but i digress um what happens to sam in this episode is another

[01:12:48] is really the main catalyst i think for the title of this episode now up until a couple days before this episode air this episode had a different title do you know what it was um no i can't even guess either boxes oh that makes sense because when

[01:13:10] i look at yeah because when i look at the transcript for season three episode seven it says boxes transcript yeah so a couple of days before this episode air they changed it to the string that strings that bind us and i think

[01:13:24] that this is such a much better title i mean obviously peanut strings are hilarious but we have the strings of the community right coming together for um for the team we have total football which is going to be a you know total uh tying

[01:13:44] together of the team so to speak but we have what that really means for this team and it's wrapped up in what sam is experiencing so sam does what he shouldn't do and he goes on twitter and he starts a twitter feud with a political figure

[01:14:00] okay this is not the right move and granted sam does it in a very sam way at the very beginning he's very kind he's very professional but he states his views about his country right okay what happens the political figure shut up and dribble right that is a

[01:14:22] direct line from what somebody i forget who laura ingram laura ingram that's who it is from fox news from fox news said directly to lebron james yep i hate lebron james that was the tie in that i mentioned earlier so it's really hard for me

[01:14:38] to like say this because i hate lebron james but that was an incredibly racist thing to say it was um not only racist but it was just ignorant you know it was oh you play sports you couldn't possibly have an opinion on something as

[01:14:56] high brow as politics well screw you everybody has everybody has a brain inside of them so you can just f off um anyways anyways so what happens sam so sam's restaurant gets trashed right shut up and dribbles on there everything's been broken all the furniture has been demolished

[01:15:20] everything like everything paint on the walls yeah everything he's worked so hard for has seemingly been demolished in one one act right who comes in at exactly the right moment for sam his father his father oh man and isn't he everything that we needed

[01:15:40] him to be he is everything that we wanted him to be in more and I love the fact one of my favorite elements of this entire episode is the fact because I don't think we realize it until the the moment that it's kind of revealed is that

[01:15:56] we realize that the restaurant is named after his father we and we don't know what olas meant until yeah he said no no no please call me ola and then ola lights up and you're like oh my gosh that's amazing in that moment he became everybody's dad

[01:16:12] right yeah he became my dad well and I and I love so the actor that plays him uh non-so an ozzy is he's also currently in sweet tooth on netflix at the moment he was in game of thrones too

[01:16:28] he oh god he's done he's done a ton of stuff yeah um he's such a great actor and he's just like he's a very large actor which if you've seen the episode obviously you know this but he's like a teddy bear but he's a very large like

[01:16:42] you just want him to hug you he's sam obisanya's father like he's everything that you need this man to be that you've built him up to be he does not disappoint well because we've only seen we've only gotten sam's father through text at this moment until this point

[01:16:58] and like you have an and they've had a phone conversation yes but we've never physically seen his father so you kind of get this picture in your head of what his father

[01:17:08] And it totally goes against everything I had imagined his father being, but in the best way and Not saying what I imagined was anything negative like I imagined his father being more like along the lines of what Nate's father is

[01:17:21] You know someone of the same stature never thought that at all really he was everything I wanted him to be well But I'm saying too like in one episode of what we see from Ola and meeting Ola in this episode

[01:17:34] We almost within a minute like it's such a short period of time. We know Purely from meeting this character in such a short period of time Why Sam is the way he is? mm-hmm because He is his father's son well and

[01:17:53] Sam we know how comfortable Sam is around his father and around his teammates because he Folds right into his father Folds right into his father when his father arrives. Yeah, he didn't care who was watching him

[01:18:06] He didn't care what he looked like his dad was there when he needed him and that is all he cared about in the world at that moment, but Going away from Ola just for a moment The strings that that bind us this is

[01:18:24] So true and this really comes up as why I think the title was changed is that Sam goes with his father to show him the restaurant and his whole team is there and they're trying to surprise him by fixing his restaurant for him and

[01:18:45] What really touched me was that Jamie was also there This was a full team Effort effort. Yeah, everybody was doing something different everybody was working and It was a minute and It was exactly who I forget who said it and forgive me I

[01:19:08] Am going to sneeze at some point during this That's why I keep pausing because I think it's coming But I don't know who it was it said it but they said oh man you're here we you ruin the Danny

[01:19:24] Yeah, he was like right next to Jamie, so I couldn't remember if it was Jamie or not, but um But they said we thought in this situation What would Sam do and Sam would support us? So of course we're gonna support you. Well, no

[01:19:38] He says we thought in this situation what does Sam need and Sam needs the team Yeah, and Sam did need the team he got his dad he got the team It's such a testament to you get whatever you put out

[01:19:52] And I love the fact too that like every teammate you're right if it's a full team effort Everybody is there everybody is contributing their own part of it But everybody is also can their part of it is also one of their strengths

[01:20:06] Like Mac adieu used his connections to get the door to get the door window. He goes he goes But he's an asshole, so I didn't get I didn't get a discount

[01:20:15] I love the fact that bumper catch is a very clearly very smart because he's fixing neon gas signs And and he says it in a way that he's like this is easy because just a da-da-da in the tubes just this this and this

[01:20:28] Yeah, and he like flips a wrench and we're just like McClure however you pronounce his name outlaw or whatever He brings the wine because that's what he like that's what he not the best stuff, but it's still very good It's still French

[01:20:49] He says something like it's still really good because it's French or something like that But just seeing everybody play such a part of it like it's such a heartbreaking thing In this episode to see Sam more distraught than he's ever been like he is so

[01:21:06] Down in the fact that like you know in what he's saying and that the public is turning on him All they want him to do is dribble

[01:21:15] Which if he doesn't do that, you know, which is the one thing they love him for but if he doesn't do that right then They'll hate him again like he's very Visibly distraught in everything that's happening

[01:21:27] He also hasn't dealt with the fact that him and Rebecca are over I Don't really know if that plays into this. I think it all plays in I think everything plays into everything At this moment for Sam nothing is going right

[01:21:42] I don't I don't know because I think simi is a big part of that. I think there's a See me. I think there's a definite. There's an absolute connection between the two of them

[01:21:53] Yeah, but I don't think that you can make a connection with anybody until you have settled your demons Yeah, I guess so I Don't know. I just I think you know going back to my point about like how sorry No, just like how heartbreaking this is

[01:22:10] Until his father comes in and I love the fact it's a total callback that when you know Sam and Ola are talking about like the restaurant repairing it and not move and not oh What is the line? Oh?

[01:22:24] Not repairing the mirrors. No, no, that's not until the weather back at the restaurant I'm talking about when they're in the locker room I'm not oh, it's about not going backward but going forward What the hell the transcript I know and I know and I'm like

[01:22:43] Like be like empty glass or like been to be empty empty glass I was reading something as I said that Leave me alone Uh Let's see. Okay. Well while you're finding it

[01:23:01] Please go I have I'm just I have about the title Sam's restaurant serves as our reminder of the bond This team has with each other. They're shared history their support of one another their shared trust and

[01:23:14] Then I have something for spoilers in the next sentence that I'm really glad that I didn't say Okay Here it is don't fight back fight forward. Yes, so good. Yeah, that's that's the line But going back to what I was saying too about the callback

[01:23:34] There is a callback in this scene too where when Sam lays his head on Ola shoulders Ola show shoulders He rubbed Sam's ear Yep, he pulls on his ears. He ptugs on his ears

[01:23:50] This is a callback to back the season one when Sam said my dad always used to pinch my ears for good luck. Yep and That's exactly what he's like we see him do that to Sam and it's just it just

[01:24:02] Reestablishes or reaffirms that connection between these two characters And I love the fact that when Ted comes in, you know Ted doing the typical coach thing saying like hey You know we're about to practice

[01:24:13] But it's okay if you if you're not here why we completely understand and Sam's like, okay Thank you and his dad's like no You're you're going to practice go to practice. Yeah, this is your job screw you go

[01:24:25] Yeah, well not just you know, this is your job. Well, yeah, but I mean it is though. This is it is Yeah, this is like you don't just because your feelings are hurt doesn't mean that you stop being who you are

[01:24:38] But this is also the don't let it affect you right, right? Yeah, don't let it don't let it stop You from being who you are fight forward don't let these people Effect don't show that as a public figure because as a public figure

[01:24:54] It could be oh Sam didn't show up for practice today after you know this Twitter feud or whatever and you know I mean that could be a potential story if a reporter were to get a hold of that

[01:25:05] Well, not only that but if somebody who was one of the vandals of Ola sees that Sam didn't show up They're immediate thought is oh we got to him right exactly. Yeah. Yeah 100% 100% Yeah, so that would you know I like I

[01:25:23] Love the element of meeting Ola. I love the fact that I love the interaction with Ola and Rebecca meeting Hilarious and then Sam's like did you make it weird he goes of course? I made it

[01:25:36] Which I love because that means there have been conversations between Sam and his father that we haven't seen But Sam very clearly tells his father everything Everything because he he knows he knows about him and Rebecca. It's like oh you're Rebecca. Hmm cool

[01:25:56] Yeah, I just I love it But I mean it was heartbreaking seeing Ola's affected because of retaliation against Sam But it was so heartwarming in such a great way that Ted Lasso turns those moments around

[01:26:08] In as you mentioned seeing the entire team come together this unified team that we saw on the pitch Now carrying over into their everyday lives and we've seen that we saw that with the Christmas episode

[01:26:23] We've seen that with the Amsterdam episode. I mean we've seen that with the with The curse breaking episode Richmond till we die we're rich until we die right? I mean but so it shouldn't have come as a surprise for us that they were fixing Sam's restaurant

[01:26:41] But it still was a pleasant surprise that this team has not changed who they are in three seasons. They haven't yeah Which is wonderful and like I said my final note on the whole Sam thing

[01:26:52] And then I'll leave it to you to what anything else you have left on the on the matter We kind of talked about it. We kind of mentioned it already But after bumper catch fixes the sign and Ola's lights up again

[01:27:04] Just seeing the look on Sam's father's face that the restaurant was named after him Because as we said Sam tells his father everything But he didn't tell him that it was a surprise that was a surprise

[01:27:19] Probably why he was crushed so much that the restaurant was demolished the day that his father arrived Well, also played a lot that probably played a lot into his Reaction well probably also the reason why he didn't initially want his father to see the restaurant

[01:27:36] Because he he's going to see that the restaurant is named after him, but he's gonna see it in this horrible state I Full on cried at the end So choked up when that line when that sign lit up seeing the father

[01:27:49] Seeing the look on his father say and then not only that but seeing that the episode closes with the two of them in the kitchen Dancing cooking and dancing Well, and I love it that okay I'm gonna make everybody dinner and nobody nobody says wait wait wait

[01:28:07] This is see me's kitchen or this is you know because it's Ola's place I don't know if you see the name up there, but it's Ola's place So guess what all it's gonna go go cook you dinner. Well, I mean what happens immediately

[01:28:18] Rebecca arrives and the whole team is there. That's not there. Oh No, no, no, you're right. You're right. You're right. It's it is just a team. I'm sorry I put two scenes together. Yeah. Yeah

[01:28:30] But but just the fact that like Sam and see me are just like yes chef like okay We're going with this. Yeah, and then it was just such a beautiful ending and

[01:28:41] Ted Ted lasso finished this episode with what they do best and that is just giving us hope within tragedy Yeah Yeah, and being able to turn those moments around for something really really special. Mm-hmm, and that's what we got

[01:29:00] Before we go into spoilers, I just have a couple little things. I don't know You know what what you have left I have one thing that says nowhere near enough Higgins this week

[01:29:13] No, but I love one of the moments that we get from him and I'm gonna save it only moment It's boy. No, we see him twice. Oh, I just talked about when he spills tea all over. Oh my god. Yeah, just a bit outside I Love that

[01:29:32] The only couple little things I have left before we go into spoilers is I have I'm with Sam and I totally get it by the end, you know when he says like things don't always have to match

[01:29:47] Me knowing my OCD the silverware not matching would have also bothered me In a rest when he like when he says the spoons don't match the forks in the beginning of the episode

[01:29:57] When he holds them up, and he's like they don't match. Yeah, that would have bothered me too Unless you were going for an eclectic vibe Well because the you know

[01:30:08] When he says at the end we don't need to fix the mirrors because not everything needs to be perfect Yeah, and then see me mentions the spoons. I think that it's perfect. I Love the broken mirrors I just think that it's amazing. I There's a lot of

[01:30:29] Nuance to why that's amazing, but I also just think it looks cool. Yeah Oh, I do too as long as like there's no loose pieces of glass Well, no, they're gonna have to put in some sort of an epoxy over. Oh, yeah

[01:30:43] Yeah, but they but they kind of look cool And then the only other thing I have to is very quick But when beard is giving the whole total football speech in the beginning and he mispronounces that player's name and

[01:30:58] Jan corrects him and he's like I'm I stand corrected We know that beard knows how to properly pronounce that name because we learned in the last episode He speaks fluent Dutch. Yeah, but he probably Maybe didn't know

[01:31:15] See I took it as like this is beard just pretending again that he doesn't know how to do it fucking with yawn because he says don't tell yawn Oh, yeah

[01:31:24] Yeah, I think he's just playing. I think he's still just playing into that ruse. I really love beard. It made me chuckle I love your so last thing then on my end is What is beard reading? I

[01:31:37] Missed it. I didn't get the glance at it beard is reading a novel this time It is a piece of fiction and his piece of fiction is called it's James Kirkland as the author and the book is called friend of the devil and it is

[01:31:54] Is James Kirkland has created a Character in Bill Walton legendary basketball player Bill Walton, it's called the bill Walton mysteries. So Basically it is a book hang on I got it. I What's beard reading? I've got the article up Okay, so it's hilarious

[01:32:21] Okay, James Kirkland's friend of the devil is the first in his planned bill Walton mysteries trilogy fire on the mountain was released in 2020 with the third volume to come So I don't know if it's come out yet or not, but

[01:32:38] Put out by Meat House publishers in 2019 front of the devil Imagines the champion Portland trailblazer turned inimitable basketball sportscaster and notorious deadhead Anybody that knows bill Walton knows that he's a huge deadhead Um as an amateur detective in this installment Walton along with his fellow commentator Dave Pash

[01:33:02] The wall the Watson to bill Walton's homes homes is searching for the kidnapped daughter of a former teammate All the while calling games for a Pac-12 tournament each night Kirkland credits Walton's good-hearted nature as the catalyst for the story

[01:33:20] Walton seems like the kind of guy who if a friend came to him in need He would do anything to help Kirkland has told interviewers So I just took that to the most extreme and fictional place possible of him fighting crime

[01:33:33] It's a wacky premise to be sure but it's quirkiness. It is also its genius per the Amazon reviews This plot brilliantly taps into the buddy comedy formula that undergirds Ted and Beards relationship and the books on-screen

[01:33:50] Appearance at this juncture of the series reminds viewers of the larger creative team and their entrenched histories behind the Ted Lasso franchise as it turns out meet house publishing is spearheaded by the often silent partner behind the lasso phenomenon

[01:34:04] comedy writer Joe Kelly an alum of the writing staff of Saturday Night Live Kelly is most known for how I met your mother and Detroiters so

[01:34:13] The story so the web of connections across the Ted Lasso creative team comes in a clear focus through the lens of this novel The story was conceived for example over beers between Kirkland and Kelly as they discussed other writing projects

[01:34:27] Kirkland wrote the novel but Kelly edited and published it and the book frequently invokes Detroit and by extension Detroiters as well Most notably through the rental blah blah blah blah blah blah Okay Hang on here we go

[01:34:41] Significantly today's Sudeikis played a Chrysler executive for Detroiters and Sam Richardson Co-creator and lead of the show is featured in Ted Lasso as Ghanian billionaire Edwin Afuko So there's that connection there anyways Hang on and I think it's a key. It's a koofoo not a fuko a Koofoo

[01:35:07] You said a fukou. Oh, sorry. It's a koofoo So it's fitting to the spirit of the show that it includes Easter eggs such as Kirkland's novel Especially in an episode entitled the strings that bind us as Sudeikis expressed in a today show interview

[01:35:21] So much of the story is rooted in people that we've had as mentors or coaches directors partners So leadership was a big part of the ethos of the show so I just love the fact that this

[01:35:32] Novel that he's reading this crazy novel that I all of a sudden have to read Is rooted behind the author of the of the book with the producer of the show and the sports

[01:35:49] Analogy that is going on and the good-natured analogy of Ted lasso like it's it all is like It's just a book that Beards reading honestly, but it Just like lost it has meaning because everything has meaning. It's it's it's the first time

[01:36:05] We're seeing beard read something probably just for enjoyment Rather than it's not a nonfiction book. It's a fictionalized it's a fictionalized book based on a Person a real person Bill Walton. Oh I'm not saying it's not weird Bill Walton detective

[01:36:27] That also commentates the Pac-12 hey, hey look if they can give us Abraham Lincoln vampire hunter Yeah, and Sense and sense well no sense and sensibility right in prejudice. Well pride and prejudice is also fiction

[01:36:43] Also fictional characters Abraham Lincoln vampire hunter Abraham Lincoln's the only real character. Oh, okay It was only a character that was real. Yeah. Yeah Which by the way if you've never read Abraham Lincoln vampire hunter It's fucking amazing. Okay. I'm not gonna lie. It's amazing Um

[01:37:04] The movies shite, but the book is fantastic I Think that's everything I have without going in the spoilers. Oh, I have nothing else. I've exhausted it all So then in that case We're gonna dive in the spoiler. So if you want to avoid it

[01:37:20] We probably won't be in it very long, but just check the show notes to To find out when we come back I Have two things okay? I'm Diving first into the the really only real Higgins scene that we get in this episode

[01:37:39] We see Higgins spill tea all over himself because of a shot from Isaac We are getting a good glimpse into the true power Isaac McAdoo has behind his foot And we are going to see that full fledged in the finale

[01:37:56] I forgot that it was Isaac that did that because he kicks the ball Yeah, it hits the douche it hits oh god now I can't remember his name, but yeah The guy that Rebecca last week or the song last week. Yeah, um or two episodes ago. Yeah. Yeah

[01:38:15] douchey date guy. Yeah, but we's like He flat out kicks the ball through the net Like to the play to the net doesn't even move like it just goes flat out through the net

[01:38:29] So I love that we've gotten a little bit of a glimpse of Isaac's power. Yes But the other one I wanted to make mention of and then I'll turn over to you for anything spoilers is we've gotten it a number of times there's a number of

[01:38:44] Assumptions and even Trent saying it doesn't even matter what number four is We got a lot of mentions in number four Number four stays a mystery Until the finale because number four isn't really known and I think that that is a that is a tactic by well

[01:39:03] Number four isn't known But we've always known what it is right, but I think Ted Did that to keep his team together to keep them thinking about what that elusive fourth element could be about total football and We find out in the finale

[01:39:23] After the team breaks out their pieces of the belief sign again, and they put it back together The first words Ted says is there it is Number four. Yeah, and it was believe. Yeah, I'm getting you up. Just think I know I know I know I can't wait

[01:39:41] But that's that's all I have I love that we got glimpses We got mentions of the elusive number four in which we're gonna find out by the series finale what it is Sorry about all the paper No, it's fine so

[01:39:57] The only thing that I have is is when it goes back to the title the strings that bind us and I was talking about their shared history The team shared history their support of one another their shared trust

[01:40:06] Which proves and the sentence that I didn't say was is that it proves ironic in the next? I think in the next episode when Colin and Isaac have to come to terms with the fact that Isaac's best friend Colin has been keeping something very very and two episodes

[01:40:24] Two episodes. Okay. Yeah has been keeping something very very important from Isaac and and you know, we learn You know Isaac is so mad for so long and we learned that it's not because Colin is gay. It's because

[01:40:41] Colin didn't trust his friendship with Isaac. Yeah, and I didn't trust him enough to tell him and we are going through this whole show with this team that

[01:40:53] Seemingly Isaac is under the impression that this team trusts each other with every last nook and cranny of who they are and Isaac's best friend on this team that is so close and so bonded and so tied together by their penises that

[01:41:12] Of course it would upset Isaac. It's just so funny to hear it said that way I know what it's hilarious, but it's so it's it I Totally get why Isaac was mad totally get it and I totally get why Colin

[01:41:26] Feels so terrible for his best friend being so mad because they're both under the impression that each other is Is Thinking something completely different than what they are thinking. It's you know, like it happens to everybody we all have miscommunications and and

[01:41:44] Missed moments of opportunity with each other but so to see that play out the way that it does is very relatable I Again, that's two episodes away And I but I love that episode for a number of reasons because one that whole dynamic with Colin and MacCadoo

[01:42:02] Is fantastic but seeing MacCadoo how he unleashes that frustration What in what he's learned about Colin because he doesn't take it out on Colin? No, he takes it out He takes it out on a fan right well, which is something he shouldn't have done

[01:42:19] Anyway, oh the fair well with because of what the fan says he absolutely deserves it But I love that there's a moment in that episode to where During the press conference at the end of that game. It's not Ted that does the press conference. It's Roy

[01:42:35] Yeah, it is and he does a good job and Roy shares a story of his own personal experience of being in somebody else's shoes in the same scenario and how he handled it and How it relates to MacCadoo that it's so great Well MacCadoo is Roy

[01:42:57] Yeah, that's why I'm at that's where we made Roy made it plain and simple MacCadoo is Roy Kent We forget that Because there's so much going on and they are their own characters and they are different evolved versions of each other But they're the same freaking character. Yeah

[01:43:19] Yeah, well again, that's one of the reasons why Roy made in captain right is because he saw himself and Isaac He broke the TV Roy like thank them like Roy congratulated him for it

[01:43:33] Seriously, I swear to God Paul bringing out Paul bringing out the red string and try and and then when his friend said no Trying to get other people Just it's so innocent and wholesome And just wrong Jeremy Baz and Paul are so

[01:43:59] Such great characters. Oh my gosh, we didn't even talk about the fact that how calm they were watching the game Well because they were trying to swap With no, I think it's because they have the whole story

[01:44:12] Fans get so mad because they don't know what their favorite team is doing. Oh, that's right But they've seen it. They know yeah, no, this is a new approach. They are training for it They're practicing and and and they're telling me we just got a little

[01:44:27] You just gotta believe me in the process and I gotta tell you like More fans should watch more practices if that's what you get because they have complete trust in Ted for the first time in

[01:44:41] Three seasons they have complete trust that Ted is going to do this yep Um Any other spoiler stuff for you know, okay, so then we're gonna welcome everybody back as we Spoilers for half the time. I know But we but you know

[01:45:00] Staying on that note that we kind of wrapped up spoilers with with Jeremy Baz and Paul like going into some of our favorite quotes You mentioned one of them earlier where he's just like just a bit outside Outside

[01:45:14] Which I think is I think is yet another major league reference a major league reference. Yeah, yeah just a bit outside Just dropping tea all over him and I just I burned for him Well, I mean like who would expect the ball to hit up there that high

[01:45:38] And it it cracked the window Kind of going in order a little bit Beard given the whole football Total football speech and he talked and he gets to the what is it not Manchester? Oh, yeah, Manchester United. That's where George Amy's from

[01:45:59] We think where he briefly coached a very young talent a very talented young player Until that beautiful dumb dumb quit to go do a reality show. Yeah But like and what's wonderful is that as he's roasting everybody they're taking it and agreeing with him

[01:46:14] Well, even Jamie's like I was robbed like he's agreeing with it too. Like he's playing into it He knows this is the person that he was. Oh, yeah What about you what's one of your quotes from the I've said a lot of them so far um

[01:46:34] You know one of my favorite ones is just the is Trent Krim talking about You know by slowly but surely building a club-wide culture of trust and support through thousands of Imperceptible moments all leading to their inevitable conclusion like thank you Trent

[01:46:50] That is what Ted Lasso is about. Thank you Trent I just love the fact too that you said it too like I My favorite part of that whole line isn't the line itself

[01:46:59] It's just the excitement that Trent has because as you said Trent found the story. He found the story Yeah, he found what story like cuz he's oh he said it in the past like

[01:47:10] He doesn't he took a risk doing this. This is something completely new and now he it paid off Yeah, he found what he was looking for yep Right after continuing kind of like in order like right after the total for false speech when they tell the team

[01:47:27] This is what we're gonna do and Roy's like oh you turn those frowns upside down cuz we're gonna fucking do this We're gonna drill it. We're gonna train it and then in a couple of months. We're taking total football to the fucking pitch

[01:47:39] Ted's like no actually we're gonna do it this Saturday against Arsenal and Roy that's fucking mental Cuz it was yeah cuz it is but just seeing him turn on a dime being like yeah, that's stupid Yeah, everything that Roy Kent did in this episode was brilliant

[01:47:58] Yeah, and I don't care that he was a little cartoony this This episode because he was perfect. Yeah I love that after Ted asks, you know Jeremy Baz and Paul to come to practice Roy season

[01:48:12] He's like the fuck are they doing here and Ted's like, I don't know ask beard. He's the one who invited them Totally flips the script But you know what it's perfect. It's perfect. It's so community building and I love it so much

[01:48:32] Jeremy Baz and Paul this is some of the best puking I've ever seen and Paul like yeah me too and we spend most of our lives at the pub Puking was so close

[01:48:47] Nate sister asking him what's the worst that could happen when he says no to ask me you're out Well that she laughs in my face and says no and that I have to scurry away humiliated never to be allowed in my favorite restaurant ever again

[01:48:59] So that next time we have some kind of family celebration I'll just have to you know sit on the pavement outside eating takeaway vision chips watching you through the window like some to Kenzie and street urgent And it's just just like oh my god

[01:49:15] And it's so funny because people with anxiety like they're like yeah that tracks but people that don't have anxiety They're like that is dramatic. Yeah, this like no that yeah that tracks Now in total football you got to constantly be asking yourself

[01:49:36] What does the situation need right now? You know do I need to drop back and replace yon mas on defense or You know should I attack like Jamie or you know do I lend Roy here a piece of gum because his breath smells like dookie

[01:49:48] Completely hypothetical don't worry. You're fine. You're fine and then The rest of the time like he's really bugged by it. Yeah, like he sniffing his own breath like breathing into his head and sniffing his own breath Let's see what else do I have

[01:50:08] Another Trent Krim line he says Ted I just want to make sure I have this right you're gonna change techniques at this stage in the season and replace it with a

[01:50:16] Totally new method that the boys are clearly struggling to understand and you think this is a good idea Well Trent the way I see it. It's kind of like taking a hike with Robert Frost

[01:50:25] It could go either way. Yeah, and to anybody who doesn't know the meaning behind that or that line Robert Frost is the one that led the that wrote the poem the road not taken So that's I teach that poem

[01:50:40] Well Robert Frost is just someone that you teach in poetry Um, you said the trip the other Trent Krim line What else do I have I think I have like oh Keely and Rebecca when they're in the at Arsenal well

[01:50:59] I'm taking Jack out tonight and Rebecca hmm and if she tries to pay then I'll then I'll give her You'll give her what Keely just the tip? It's such a crude line, but I love it

[01:51:14] Yeah, I think that's pretty much it because I the only other line I have to is Jamie questioning why is it tied around their dicks which we That was Roy's idea

[01:51:35] But I'm pretty sure the vote behind it was that it's nearly impossible to not be fully aware of what your teammates doing When you all got rope tied around your ding dong. Yep. Am I right about that Roy? Yeah, something like that And again just the snickering

[01:51:51] From Roy that entire and the smile on his face when it gets pulled off of Jamie is just yeah It's so childish, but I love it. Yeah me too Anything else for quotes nope all right then that takes us into feedback

[01:52:08] In which we have two voicemails nothing from our friend Alex this week But he said he's gonna make it up to us next week by sending feedback for both But on that note of feedback for both our friend Jason sent us feedback for both Sunflowers and strings

[01:52:24] Which is this episode so let's play that now. Hi Ben and Kristen This is Jason and San Jose providing feedback for both Sunflowers and the strings that bind us I missed the deadline last week for my favorite episode of season 3

[01:52:38] And I loved every storyline for Sunflowers and it's such an impossibility to do such a quick summary In fact during this short hiatus of this podcast I found a podcast that did a four part series on this one episode each part being about two to three hours long

[01:52:58] Damn. Anyway, the Rebecca and mysterious stranger storyline was just Resolute I loved his display of non-toxic masculinity Colin and Trent opening up about being gay just touched my heart I've talked on this podcast about me being a sex addict in recovery

[01:53:17] And I really connected with hearing Colin talk about the double life and just wanting to be free to live Peacefully as one. I hear that over and over in my meetings In fact the episode of my podcast that I just finished editing

[01:53:31] Was with a friend of mine who finally revealed to both himself and our group that he was gay And no longer wanted to live in secret On a similar theme I was kind of bummed that Jamie's sexual abuse as a child

[01:53:45] Being taken to become a man in the red light district Which was indeed a funny punchline But it wasn't dealt with as seriously as I was hoping it would be so many people who were Sexualized at an early age end up with problems like sex or other addictions

[01:54:01] That being said, I absolutely loved the bonding relationship with Jamie and Roy So too many to sum up for me But I loved how every character in this episode really came through with the change they needed And Sunflowers is definitely my feel-good go-to episode On to episode seven

[01:54:27] I loved how this one was really about community Seeing all the local shops set up and open for business throughout the episode was just awesome And having the fans being part of the practices was fun too Roy's dick joke was just hysterical with the strings

[01:54:43] Hence the title, the strings that bind us. I loved his snickering as well But it was not only fun just to see the team members changing roles but the fans as well and definitely will as coach Beard priceless

[01:55:01] It was such a crushing moment for Sam as he was trying to do the right thing Only to be bullied by bigots again I love the team coming together to help the community by fixing up the restaurant

[01:55:13] Which was revealed to be osas and Sam's dad and his advice were positively fantastic During this rewatch. I've recognized him as being big man from the Netflix show sweet tooth Which if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend well

[01:55:31] I'm really looking forward to the next episode until then this has been Jason in San Jose namaste, baby Quick correction. It's Jason not a big deal, but olas not osas was the name of the restaurant, but a Podcast doing eight hours on amps on sunflowers

[01:55:55] That's awful. That's crazy That's like I mean I get it oh bored Listening or talking about it. Yes There I mean there's a lot that happens in that episode but not I don't fill in eight hours feels like a stretch, right?

[01:56:14] Yeah, that feels like a way way big stretch But thank you for that feedback of course for both episodes Which leads us to our final piece of feedback and that comes from our friend Steve

[01:56:29] Hello, Ben and Kristen. This is Steve and this is for Ted Lasso season three episode seven the ties that bind us right And Jamie's Dragon Roy on the the bicycle this time on training. That's great. I love this song dreams How is we're gonna sing it though?

[01:56:46] Jack D faced a first edition Jane Austen Okay, this is wow Onion that is beard his mother proudly displaying her vibrator on the bedside table. That's total football You gotta hush them butts. Hey the relationship between Keely and Barbara is

[01:57:06] Complicated, but that was a great conversation about she drives She rides the tube in her pajamas eating yogurt Now Ted is inviting these guys to watch the training tomorrow, right? And he's calling it training not practice

[01:57:21] Okay, so there are certain parts of Nate that are endearing like this infatuation crush on Jade that he's doesn't know what to do with Derek don't don't say hello. Say hello. No, she asked me why would she ask what you I don't know

[01:57:35] I'm torn out this whole Jack and Keely thing right now because I don't remember I mean I remember ends badly, but I don't remember why Love bombing now love blinding where red flags are interpreted as just go for it flags

[01:57:47] Okay, Keely hey and Sam is gonna send out a political tweet. Okay, right And Nate's going for he's gonna ask Jade out maybe okay I guess he's not gonna listen and spin at the mirror of this time and go big

[01:57:58] Oh coach fear just flipped that water bottle back and Trent caught it and even the fans are switching places Nice homage to major league just a bit outside Okay, this whole string tighter than their dicks thing doesn't seem like possible. Oh, yeah problematic for sure and injuries

[01:58:16] Yeah, oh Nate's gift for Jade just got run over by a car. Oh, I forgot about this Sam's restaurant was vandalized because of his His tweeting all and the chef all okay, so what is number four?

[01:58:33] Oh and Sam is upset all Sam's father is great. Don't fight them forgive them Okay time for inspiring speech by Ted. They're down three nil Roy god, I hate what you've done to me. Oh, but he's a hard work

[01:58:49] Total football didn't work the last no way I moved and the team gets together to connect the restaurant Oh, I don't know it's for chatting. We just realized this is like the second episode or two three episodes

[01:58:59] We've seen the team doing something together without the coaches. I don't know on the next week we completely forgot to mention those quotes The whole blue collar thing I I didn't write it because I have those clips in the soundboard

[01:59:18] So since I didn't have them in my list of quotes, I completely forgot to mention them Yeah, like it's been fun I added those quotes to the soundboard when we first upon first viewing because I love them so much and we've played

[01:59:34] All came from the same episode I know so so we're just gonna play them now because we can't not mention them too They're two of our favorite quotes two of our favorite Roy quotes Ever but there's There's this one here and obviously I couldn't grow a beard

[01:59:52] Otherwise coach and I here would look like a zz top cover man would have been called sharp dressed men God, I hate what you fucking done to me And then this one remember you said your go team makes it look like you ate out bigfoot's butthole

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[02:00:32] Last but not least feedback for this week. You got anything you mean recommendations recommendations. Sorry, you're right Nope um, you know what just because we mentioned Him and we've mentioned in a number of times to

[02:00:50] Check out sweet tooth on netflix. It's actually a very heartwarming well written show Uh and season three just dropped on netflix and it is the final season So I haven't started season three yet, but i'm going to relatively soon The first two seasons are great. So i'm really

[02:01:09] um anticipating What season three is gonna break? so and I want to also say This see I've talked about this show a number of times already But this season of doctor who has been fucking incredible. Oh, that's great

[02:01:24] It's some of the best who there's ever been and shuddy gotwa is amazing He brings so much personality to this character. Awesome. It's so great um Any final notes before we we wrap things up? No

[02:01:41] Next episode of the podcast we are going to be talking about season three episode eight. We'll never have paris Which is a rough episode I have lots of feelings. So you're gonna hear them all Good

[02:01:55] Good good good. Yeah, we're gonna see a paris trip and ted get to spend a little more time with henry Which is yep, that's always good. Yeah, that's awesome um But uh as always, thank you everybody for listening uh for subscribing for telling people about the podcast

[02:02:12] All that you guys do as always, but until next time. We'll see you guys back out on the pitch Take care. Namaste