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Speaker: hello hello hello And welcome to episode 73 of the Cooler Guild. I am Coop Cooper and joined with me as always is my co -host Van Crisp. I'm here. We're recording on Tuesday, August 11th. 20 26 does my audio sound okay yeah you sound fine okay i couldn't tell if it was a lot you sound just as pleasant as always oh wow what a compliment um on today's episode it's not another dub pod but i feel like it was a good result We're going to go over the rain game that they played against Angel City. Uh... Quickly recap. Results from the league. Preview the Reigns next match. use. but Before we get into all that, got some housekeeping.
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Speaker: What you been up to? A lot. I went to the game on Sunday. Spent the weekend in Tacoma. I went to the zoo. ah Defiant? Yeah. Cool. It was hot. they've got a whole like aquarium set up there now oh weird two different aquariums huh in there. That was the last time I was there.
Speaker: Hey, it was elementary school, maybe. Yeah it was pretty neat. Hmm. We saw the tiger. We saw the handicap seal. What is happening at the zoo?
Speaker: We saw this really creepy monkey. uh -huh that was like swinging around and then like swang right in front of the like viewing area and just like stand stood there and stared it was huh honestly very freaky Yeah.
Speaker: Interesting. Yeah, it was a good weekend. It was hot. How hot is it out there? It was like... High 80s. Ugh, gross. I'm... Waiting for... thursday though because the new episodes of married at first sight are dropping oh my god Not this again. She's got me hooked on the show.
Speaker: It's so fascinating. Okay. Anyway, what about you? What are you up to? um um I don't know. i' help the neighbor out with her music video her like band she's like a musician my neighbor And she's putting out a new album with like one of her older bands that she used to play in.
Speaker: um i guess she still plays in them because they're putting a new album anyways we helped record her music video for that if you don't like discussing things skip ahead i don't know a minute or two and then my dog i discovered my dog has like a hole in her I...
Speaker: i I don't know what that means. Is that a breed? No, there's like... So, like, I was petting my dog, and then, like, I felt her chest, and she's, like, kind of licking at her chest, and I was like, what the hell's going on? And, like... her hair's all crusty and i was like what the hell is this and then i was like looking at it to see what happened like maybe she scratched herself and you know it was bleeding or whatever but like there's like a hole in her chest like through the skin. Just like looking into her like the flesh underneath.
Speaker: It was so weird. and like you said your dog has a hole in her yeah i thought you said is a hollander no she has a hole in her oh god i was like what the fuck and like I don't know what it was from, and it doesn't seem like there was a lot of blood. Like, it just seemed like it was fluid?
Speaker: Like it wasn't bleeding. It was very weird. It almost seems like some sort of cyst or something was there and popped. I don't know. It's very creepy. I don't like it. um alice has been cleaning it And that's kind of just what we're just she's got a donut on her trying to burn her from licking it I'll take her to the vet if it doesn't look like it's getting better but... Doesn't seem to be bothering her. it Doesn't look infected or anything. So and she has all of her shots. It's really weird. Anyways, so I've just been like...
Speaker: having my memory haunted by what that thing looks like. Because I make keep making Alex look at it to clean it. I like can't i just like flash the light on it when she's cleaning it, and I just like look away, and it just like makes me queasy. Okay. Uh, anyways, now that that was a really disgusting recap, I should probably put a warning. The rain game, would you, uh, how did you enjoy it?
Speaker: Were you... Satisfied? Do you feel okay? I feel relatively fine about it Yeah I mean, 2 -2 draw against a team where...
Speaker: virtually tied with in the standings yeah Tight on points. At home. Back on the turf. It seemed to be... They should have won the game. Yeah.
Speaker: but I'll take this result. Yeah. It definitely. Kind of. reminded us of some of those defensive issues. Definitely. But the scoring is coming through. and Another two goals this match. Etsy Witch undefeated.
Speaker: And a better second half, so... We can talk about it, but that's kind of how I felt about it. What did you think? I had something to show you real quick about speaking of Etsy witches. Uh... i feel i feel okay about it what i don't what i didn't Obviously, I would have rather had a win, but...
Speaker: You know, like I feel like the Chicago game could easily be a trap game. If this result... Didn't go the way that it did. Not that I don't think they would have handled Chicago, but... Um, Yes. Coop is showing me a... podcast.
Speaker: image. for the Cooler Guild that she has come up with. No AI. No AI. And it's incredible. I'm working on them. They'll be out eventually. um But I am working on some stuff for some stickers for people that might be one of them might be related to ah The Etsy witch stuff, so I just wanted to pull it up for van because I hadn't showed her yet Not that one, at least. I should have some of the other ones I was working on. um Anyways, this game... I don't know. I feel like I...
Speaker: What I'm enjoying is that the scoring is continuing. It wasn't a fluke. I was worried that this was just something that we were getting away with for some reason. And... From what I could tell it's not like Angel City is super leaky in their defense.
Speaker: So it's not like, I don't know. It's not like we're putting up a bunch of goals on some really crappy team. But yeah, I don't know. I think it was a good result. I think the team looked really good, especially in the second half, which is something we've struggled with. So it's kind of just we got to piece together all these things, you know.
Speaker: Yeah, I mean, they've scored Motpokos. in the last five matches. It's... it's so and I don't think some people thought that was going to happen, including maybe ourselves, based on what was happening with the team.
Speaker: Yeah. It's been a nice... change. And I also did find out, I mean, they brought up on the broad broadcast, but Angel City is undefeated in...
Speaker: were unbeaten um in the last three road matches that they've played prior to this one. They got a win in San Diego and Chicago, and then they also got a draw it in Kansas City. um and it it looks like they i kind of like looked at all the standings and saw like the recent form of last five games a lot of teams at the top are not doing well recent form angel city does seem to be doing okay so
Speaker: I mean, i think it was a good I think it's a good result against a team that's... performing pretty decent. So coming into the match, another stat from Angel City is they were 0 -5 -0 when coming from behind this season.
Speaker: Okay. Or we were, zero sorry, we are 0 -5 and 0 -1 coming from behind this season. Angel City hasn't lost when scoring first this season. Okay. So we changed that. Okay. I wrote this in my notes and it was confusing. This is my fault. like I screwed myself on this one. I know what's happening. So there, you know, it was.
Speaker: coming from behind we're not good at. No. but made this one work. We're also not good in the second half usually, so... Yeah, I think I think I'm, I'm, I'm i'm happy. I'm satisfied at least. Yeah, I think in the Rovalx article, they said 15 % of our goals. now have come in the second half. Nice.
Speaker: That's not very many, but... you know a lot of them were from the last couple games i mean to be fair we didn't have a lot of goals well there was the two while yeah there was a two this match and then um fish locks okay okay yeah So adding three to that. Oof.
Speaker: ah What worked for you in this game? I thought Claudia Diggie had a good game. What about the first goal? The first goal was a defensive mistake. And the cutback, i you shouldn't get scored on near post, but... that close. That close?
Speaker: And... the player just overtaking Huerta. uh -huh I mean... You let a Thompson lose in the box? What's going to happen? Yeah. It's a good shot. Yeah, it's I don't blame her for that. Okay.
Speaker: And she made a couple saves in the second half. that were really good there was one in the 90 plus four where Centenor? Was it always Centenor? I get her in - I think... it's Yeah.
Speaker: But. That... There was... A shot that came in. and it was just down to her side and she grabbed it and held on to it. on kind of a breakaway that's Can't ask for anything more from that. A lot of goalkeepers would have let that through. So Angel City was missing their two top scorers this week in this game. And Jan's daughter was out in the ankle injury and Neuse was an excused absence. They both have six goals on the season.
Speaker: So that was helpful for us. They had less attacking power. They still managed to get two. And Chalufia, who... came into the match late. With the crazy thing there, I was talking with... Grant about it.
Speaker: is she had played 70 minutes for Zambia. on Wednesday. and Rabat Morocco. Oh my god! She still hits that fucking shot. Yeah. That's wild.
Speaker: Crazy. So what worked that... I think... It was good that we came back. from being down. I thought Dickie had a solid max. There's nothing you can really falter for here. Yeah, you can be nitpicky about the first goal, but... Again.
Speaker: And I think... Uh... you have in here about the connections i want all your face i want you to go over this because but um I mean, I feel like it's been um a few games of us seeing these link -up plays with... variety of players, but for this match, it was... Menteen Fishel.
Speaker: trading off goals and assists. McCammon seems to be building up ah into the attack a lot. And I just feel like we're seeing these, ah you know... one two passes between all these players and finding people like finding their teammates in the right spaces a lot.
Speaker: That's something... That's something we didn't see for a very long time. It seemed like the chemistry was not there. And the fact that they're able to... not just get one goal with these connections they're able to get multiple goals with these connections it's not fluky goals it's not just penalties it's it's actual chemistry and i was It was sorely missing. for so long.
Speaker: Yeah, they asked about that in the press conference with Sally Medina, the official. And they said. that the chemistry in the front line is growing and it has been every game since the break. It's fun. So this is a great time for the for a team to be informed. Yeah. I don't think this game really showed that we were in form as a whole. But offensively, I think it worked. No, I mean, you could see that they were still like...
Speaker: Passes were getting interrupted. It wasn't perfect, but... Even when it's not perfect, they're still able to find their teammates. And that to me is just... hard work that they've put in. and dedication to each other. of making sure that they have like a unit together because i don't know sometimes you see teams and it's just like one person running everything up themselves and that is not what i'm seeing on the field i'm seeing like a collective uh
Speaker: like mindset of like we're gonna find a way together and Do you think that's also because we don't have one standout player? probably ah but although me official i have to give her credit she's been doing better she needs to keep doing this but yeah i think i think that's probably it which i'm fine with i like this Yeah. It's a kind of a coping mechanism for not having a star. school yeah like Yeah. I think that's great though. I think that's what.
Speaker: this team is built to do uh would i still like someone who's uh an elite player on their own yeah absolutely But they're making it work. And I don't know. It's fun. It's fun to see them working for each other.
Speaker: Yeah and it's fun for people watching the games. Yeah. That was, uh... There was some times a few few months ago where, uh... I had a lot of concerns. about people going to attend these games. Yeah.
Speaker: They seem to have dug themselves out of that. So just keep it going, please. yeah i'm at Momentum, sustain ah sustain it. ah Yeah. and they have a chance to do it again on friday i think They're... It seems to be energy in the stadium. and official and... Menti talked about it in the presser because it was both their first time scoring. Okay. in in lumen Okay.
Speaker: So they said they enjoyed it. and The fans were great. We just need to get more people to the games. Yeah, I wish this next game wasn't on a Friday evening. It's always trickier. Mm hmm. But it sure is. And it was tricky for this match too, because the Sounders had played earlier in the day. And the Mariners were playing. And the Mariners were playing. Were they though?
Speaker: i Didn't look at the score they haven't been lay home There were a lot of people leaving the leaving the Mariners game and I'm like, can you not just go across the street? Super Sports Sunday. I don't get it. I don't know either, but alas.
Speaker: Get your friends out there. yeah ah It was a tie, so there's obviously things that did not work. I would say there's a lot of stuff that was frustrating. ah Top of mind what's, you know, kind of...
Speaker: What didn't work for you? There's one thing I noticed a lot in the first half and somewhat of the second half. Angel City had a really high press. And the rain... We're not set up to have a high player stationed up.
Speaker: Two. really give them that length. There was a point in the first half where Angel City had... ah had a corner kick. And every single Angel City field player was in or around the box.
Speaker: And I'm... saying to myself and the people around me i'm like why don't we have somebody high yeah It's just them and the goalkeeper and you're in your own half. Yeah. And what happened? the ball popped out and there was nobody there. Yeah.
Speaker: They did try to kind of do something like that later. ah In the second half, there is a moment where ah Mercado was trying to feed Dahlin up the field, and they did have, you know, the advantage they could have been taking, but Mercado... did not play the right ball for that. And that happened a lot. Yeah. We talked about long balls, so... So... being so effortless in the last match.
Speaker: And in this game, it was like, oh. Oh, just balls to nowhere. You know, sometimes it's those days. sometimes in And the turf is back, so I'm sure that was a factor.
Speaker: It just would have made sense for the team to have a a high target And you saw that work in the second half when Mercado. Players were coming out. Mercado switched up and got into the nine.
Speaker: And Dickie was able to play the ball. Because... Dickie can play the ball long and accurately. Yeah. And she was able to get the Baltimore Cotto several times. And I just don't understand. When. why you don't make that adjustment i mean obviously it didn't go all to hell. And they lost the game. Yeah. so take take what I say with a grain of salt here because I'm not a coach, but... It just seemed like it would have made sense. Yeah. And then when you have a player like Chalufia do that.
Speaker: Makes you say, why can't we have that, you know? I mean, we've been scoring goals like crazy, so like... At what point are we getting too greedy? Yeah. As fans at least. I don't know. It'll be too greedy when we win. The championship. Right, right. and st I think um in... uh Gotham has.
Speaker: decided that there's nothing like being too greedy. Yeah, I was gonna say, I don't think... We're not stacked up like that. So. I wish we had greed In our front office. Yeah. The turf was also back. Yeah. It is the old turf.
Speaker: Football lines are still there? And... Weren't they supposed to replace it? I don't know. I'm pretty sure they were and they didn't. But there were several times in the match where... I noticed mostly with Phoebe.
Speaker: She was just tripping on herself. And with the long balls and everything, I'm wondering what effect that had, the turf had. Yeah. With some of those balls that just went straight out. Granted a lot of them were. misplaced but But that was a bit concerning. Did you see what happened at the end of the game? The fight. yeah i mean i didn't see all of it uh i saw parts of it i kind of saw a lot of people In the... reddit being like
Speaker: My money's on Harvey. So what happened was... Angel City's coach. Leaf gutter smrood. Spread. I don't know how to say his last name. went Into the Handshake with Laura Harvey. and grabbed her hand aggressively and did not release it when she was walking past.
Speaker: And she turned around and said something to him or just like raised her hands. And then Scott Parkinson just like runs in and gets in the coach's face. Yeah. Laura was asked about it in the... press conference and I saw people being like, oh, I can't wait for the presser. And like pretty much she was in there just not to get fined. But ah she said, you know, it's not fun when somebody goes to shake your hand. and It hurts. God.
Speaker: That's, so that's... Ugh. Don't you love? Men. No. uh anyway i'm glad you put this down because that's something else i noticed i feel like where You put down where to getting fleece on the first goal. I feel like she didn't have a good game in general. No, she didn't.
Speaker: Yeah. And it was a notable difference when Curry came in. or yeah Yeah, when Curry came in. Granted, she came in for Brown. Yeah. but I just feel like... It might be time to...
Speaker: Give. Curry. a little bit more time. I think they just need to rotate those like that. You know, see they've got like a... Decent amount of players right there that they can keep rotating. So just rotate them. Yeah.
Speaker: The other issue was... Defending in transition. was really sketchy. There were times when it looked like they didn't know who to mark. You saw it on the second goal for Angel City. We had two players, but Huerta was out of position. Bug had to slide over. I mean. All in all, Luffy's goal was incredible. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker: that kind of finish you just can't replicate but There were plenty of times where the ball got turned over and... you look and it's like everybody's like mad dashing to try and figure out where they're going Yeah.
Speaker: Fixable. Fixable, yeah. So... It's not like we were outplayed. in a way that Worries me. Correct. so Uh, what'd you get out of the pressers?
Speaker: They were good. It's the first time I've been an oppressor with the official. Oh, okay. And Sally Minty. But they... Mia Fishel talked about her... kind of increase in production.
Speaker: and attributed that to doing more film. Interesting. Apparently she likes watching film. Great. ah and And that there hasn't been a lot of change in the lineup, so it's helped her find her flow. Got it. Okay.
Speaker: Which is funny because in... Laura's. Later, presser. She talked about how they're going to have to start rotations. because there's so many games in a short amount of time there's a lot of games this month so We'll see how that... effects.
Speaker: what happens with Fischl and her production stats. But they also talked about Lou. Okay. and how important she's become. to the team just because she's so fresh out of the league.
Speaker: and is also knowledgeable about the game. and it's been a seamless transition for the players and She apparently gave a speech at halftime. and told them and told them they had more to give and hyped them up.
Speaker: Interesting. So. See what... what's gonna happen with that and how you know if her interim title gets Deleted. Yeah. yeah But yeah, it was it was good. Laura talked about... They wanted to change the tempo in the second half.
Speaker: which is always what we've She's been saying for the last... A couple of weeks, but it actually worked. Yeah, it did. And. She was confused about the last play of the match. which we haven't mentioned.
Speaker: And I, too. Was a bit confused on why the foul was called on Mercado. Because Sam's got takes her out. but You see that call being made a lot in the Premier League. in other leagues.
Speaker: when the ball is coming and one player challenges in the air and the other holds their ground I think if Mercado goes up for it. She's not going to get called for a foul. But the fact that she just stayed feet planted. and Sam scammed over the top at her, that's going to be called a foul. Yeah.
Speaker: But the ref blew his whistle, so... yeah They couldn't review it, which was... ah Bad luck for the ref. Well, he also missed a blatant foul. Yeah, on the end line. Curry just got swiped. Yeah.
Speaker: Insane call. No call. Yeah no call. ah Laura did mention that there's probably going to be a new lineup. in the next three games just because there's four games in a 13 -day stretch Well, the good news is she loves rotation.
Speaker: Yeah. ah But... on talking about how they have 11 goals in the last five matches who said but belief and willingness to play behind an opponent is What? helped them and she said well they didn't do that well tonight But she also mentioned we don't score crappy goals. Mm hmm.
Speaker: Which is true. We would score more goals if we scored crappy goals, though. I'll take i take any goal. Yeah. What are your overall thoughts? UGH! I like how the team's playing. I like where things seem to be trending.
Speaker: Hey. I think I have some belief in the team for the first time in a while. Uh... Mostly because I know what their schedule coming up is. I think if I saw who we were playing at the time, some of the top like three or four teams, I might be a little bit more worried because there's definitely still some...
Speaker: Kinks to work out. But... i'm enjoying this team and i wasn't sure that i was going to a couple months ago um so i have no complaints i'm just writing in this and i'm i'm enjoying it and i think that this was a i think this was still a good game Would have been sweet to get a win, but then... too many people would have noticed us and I don't want that yet.
Speaker: Yeah. Let's... It's been really fun to watch, finally. Finally. And... I think that there's some adjustments to be made. But... with the upcoming matches. So next three games, we've got Chicago at home.
Speaker: Louisville away and then Casey away. Yeah. So three teams that are struggling. Yeah. Temperatures might be a little tricky in that too, so... ah That's something to kind of... maybe monitor leading up to it.
Speaker: for some of them because Midwest. Not a cool place in the summer. yeah i think i'm excited but i also want to see them marry both this offensive production with the defense that we know we have yeah totally I think if they can get those two things working.
Speaker: Side by side. Then we're going to have a team that... can win a playoff match do you think we Because we... We always harp on this, but... Say we get the signing we want and dream of, a 10, a true 10. Do you think that...
Speaker: would allow those things to happen. Yes. So... a lot of the defensive kind of the start of the defensive mistakes happen. with the attacking players. and Because there's no true 10.
Speaker: you're having to have A false nine. situation With Menti. And that draws. defensively, right, leaves a gap in the midfield.
Speaker: Because Minty and Fischl are not defensive players. Official has a great work rate. and can be a good defending attacker. But Sally Metty does not.
Speaker: Her defense is her Achilles heel. End. her being out of position a lot on defense. and making others Compensate. for her lack of ability in that sense.
Speaker: Makes. losing the ball in those positions. Aha. more likely. And so I think having a 10 in there. that is there and we can have a higher player up.
Speaker: and have better distribution to those three front players. Would solve a lot of issues okay Yeah. Ugh. Maybe. Maybe someday. I have heard no rumbling, so... Nope.
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Speaker: You want to do this one? sure uh we had a discussion van had a couple names down and then i threw a hat in for ah Maddie Mercado. I...
Speaker: Want to give her a cool pretty match this week. I think she worked her butt off. She was going. all out until the very end. i don't understand her work rate's insane it really is When you brought her up. in this discussion I thought, you know what? That's really the essence of this.
Speaker: quote unquote award. Yeah. Just a player that went all out. like it's truly until the very end it was remarkable to watch her and she's been s scoring goals so it's not like i'm just trying to you know give her her flowers for this game she's been incredible uh and i'm So glad. She's...
Speaker: getting these starts and getting to play these games all the way to the end because She is hungry for goals. really is yeah and she really i don't know she gets in behind it's just like pretty pretty uh Pretty dangerous.
Speaker: She's fast and she's strong. Yeah. And... It really... to see her be put in the nine after all of that and then making these like kind of trying to break away runs yeah In like 90 plus two, I'm like, what? How do you have any gas?
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Speaker: Caught in these matches. But what happened in the NWSL over the weekend? Yeah, I was occupied, so I did not. end up watching any of these, except for ours. I caught some of it, but Recaps are good to know where people are... kind of landing with the results. Yep. Denver lost to North Carolina. Two to zero.
Speaker: Goals from Jackson on a penalty and Schlegel on the 81st. That was the Wednesday midweek game. And Orlando lost to Louisville 3 -1. Cheers. Louisville got goals from McKean and Emma Sears, two goals.
Speaker: That's really bad, Orlando. They're not good right now. Emma Sears. Yep, Orlando got a late goal from a Carribello. Gotham beat San Diego 1 -0 on a Shaw goal in the 44th minute.
Speaker: I keep eking out those wins. big Big result here for North Carolina. of Washington Spirit lost to North Carolina 3 -4. 4 -3. Dang. Yeah. And they had the midweek game too. mm -hmm ah Yeah, North Carolina did. EJ scored another two goals.
Speaker: she's unstoppable yeah she's on fire She's on fire. Houston tied Kansas City 1 -1. Call from Rader for Houston in the 81st on a penalty and Dubinia in the 44th minute for Kansas City.
Speaker: Denver beat Utah. another surprising result yeah Denver's two goals came from Ryan and Sonis in 90 plus four, so a game winner there. utah school came from tita malazzo in the 89th minute oh fuck i just saw this news Oh you didn't know this? No, I haven't - I haven't been home. so Portland beat Boston three to four. Four to three. I can't. I write these out.
Speaker: Bye, home team. Portland won 4 -3. Um... Portland could not score in the second half. And they let, uh... They almost had to come back, Boston. Yeah, Boston almost had to come back. I did see that. But Mulchi was ruled out for this match.
Speaker: And it was announced today that she tore her ACL. Was it in training then? Yeah. holy moly was it in portland i assume or was it in boston i don't know where did they play and So that's a huge loss for Portland. It's a huge loss for, her yeah. And a huge loss for the U .S. Women's National Team. She hasn't been doing that. good for them But yeah. I can have sentiment for it.
Speaker: because Honestly, I will say this. as somebody who had an ACL tear in the last five years. I do not wish. that's on anyone. And as much as I talk shit about Olivia Moultrie. this really sucks and i feel bad for her and i hope her recovery goes well yeah i mean I don't know that she's been as good as she is. with Portland for the national team, but...
Speaker: She would have gone to the World Cup. Yeah, she's a rising player. She could possibly still go to the World Cup. Maybe. She's young, so maybe that'll help her. but like That experience there is so valuable. Mm hmm. Yeah, that's... Damn.
Speaker: That's wild and so awful. So we'll see what her recovery looks like. But yeah, it just totally sucks. The game was in Boston, so I don't know yeah where. She tore it, but... I know. There's been some criticism about Where the thorns train.
Speaker: on their regular day Do they have their training facility up yet? I don't know that it's fully open yet. maybe I'm a liar I don't know Anyway, to round out the weekend, Chicago, Tide Bay, 0 -0. Chicago win. Chicago win.
Speaker: I mean, at this point, I'm not getting scored on, so Chicago win. ah All right, well, speaking of Chicago, the Reigns' next match is against Chicago. ah It's going to be Friday, August 14th, 7 p .m. It's going to be at Lumen Field, also in NWSL+.
Speaker: What do you want to see in this game? Please don't get scored on. It's Boston. You mean Chicago? Or sorry, Chicago. I'm just talking about Boston. I know. Oh, my God. Speaking of the. ah Wrong names for things.
Speaker: Oh my God. um you know talking about the announcers and then it'd be so um I was listening. i was listening to the friday night amazon prime game as i was driving to tacoma and Mike Watts. No, no. Here we go. he was He was talking about... Sorry, this is a side note, but he was talking about.
Speaker: How... him and whoever was with him were talking about how some coaches just like don't know what they're doing and they've been around enough to know that they don't know really what they're doing and then he said well you know some announcers don't even know what they're doing you know One of them's in this booth right now. Hey, I'm Mike. but ah See, he knows.
Speaker: He says a joke. There's always a little truth in a joke, though. There's always a lot of truth in a joke. God, this fucking man. Yeah, not great. Not great. ah Anyway, so we're playing Chicago. not Yeah, replace Chicago and...
Speaker: So bad. they voice So bad. They've only scored nine goals. They've conceded 33. Yeah. So bad. Oh my god!
Speaker: We cannot lose this. Susie did point out. today that according to Flopbob Six of Chicago's nine goals this season have come from set pieces. Ugh.
Speaker: So the team better be working on set piece defending. I mean, sure, but... They have one goal in five matches, so if the rain can... do what they've been doing in terms of s scoring goals. Don't get scored on, though. If they've only given him nine goals, I need to see a shutout.
Speaker: Yeah. i feel like this is a match where we can have really high expectations and if they if they don't meet them What the fuck? Yeah, I'm gonna fully be upset. Um. Chicago is not good. They're... They're bad.
Speaker: But we have seen the rain in the past struggle against bad teams. almost playing to their tempo and to their Terribleness. And i want the i what I want to see is is the rain come out.
Speaker: and really just dominate and show that they are the better team. Yeah there's no excuse to not do that. None. Zero. None. And I understand that Harvey might want to switch up the lineup for this match.
Speaker: But maybe... Do that at halftime or early in the second half. make those changes. They need to come out. and dominate in the first half of this match. Put him in bed. Put him to bed.
Speaker: and set the tone. Yeah. Great. um I think that's... that's a pretty simple Thing we want to see. ah So if you're not busy Friday. Go buy tickets. Is this the is this the Pride match? Yeah. Is this the one where they're all so if you buy a ticket you get one free for your friend?
Speaker: Probably. That seems pretty gay. Let me double check because I want to make sure people do this or at least know about it if it is happening. I did buy the pride t -shirt. Which one? Gay for the rain. i'm gay for the rain uh there's some really good merch yeah so friday you can
Speaker: There's gonna be... Drag performances again. those were super fun last year uh yeah the the buy one get one extra is still live but not for long.
Speaker: So... if you haven't bought your ticket yet. You can get Bring a Friend for free. How fun. And then there's also... that's a different game oh wait there's a package deal where you can get a captain's armband that's Got to... pride flag on it as well.
Speaker: in case you need more stuff in your house. I don't personally, but ah should be fun. Hopefully these promos keep. helping people go to games. And hopefully a big crowd turns out for Friday. to go watch Lorraine win.
Speaker: And if they don't win, I swear to God. I swear to God. Any shout outs for the week? Shout out Liz. For your emails? Ugh. Great email.
Speaker: She sent us another one yesterday. Er. day before. But... Uh, yeah. Iconic email. iconic email. It made me so happy. Incredible.
Speaker: I know that I'm right, thank you Do you have any shout outs? Shout out to Van when she replies to that email. What's your what's your neighbor's music? I won't disclose her. I mean, I guess you could figure it out from this, but, um... Her band that she's releasing a new album with is Helen.
Speaker: Great name. Yeah, um... Yeah. And then she's going on tour with... her other stuff. But, yeah, she's a... We got to like hear their new song that they put out it was really it was really a goofy music video but um Were you in it? Yeah. sick they didn't need some extras so like she like sent out a little chat to some of our neighbors and friends in town and we went to a friend's house who filmed it there.
Speaker: and then my buddy was filming it who does like video stuff and then they like pretend to play instruments and then they like switched instruments even though they didn't know how to play the other instruments and pretended to play those instruments and then they like put the children in like to play the instruments like i was were going through the song over and over again uh yeah i don't know when it's coming out Colin will get on it at some point. but yeah i live in a town with a lot of a lot there's a lot of musicians here that are like successful musicians it's it's very weird because they're just like my neighbors
Speaker: And friends. That's what happens you in a small town, I guess. Yeah. uh yeah uh do you have any other do you have any actual shout outs Um... I don't think so I should... Coop's looking around like there's something in her house she wants to shout out.
Speaker: The ghosts. We were talking about doing a seance in my the neighborhood. So shout out to ah whatever we're gonna have to find somebody who does seances in town I'm sure there is someone. Yeah, but there's there's been rumblings about the ghosts on our block, so... um I'll keep people updated on that since we're so into witches these days. Perfect. ah Yeah, shout out. if oh You know what? I don't have a shout out, but if anyone has any sticker printing.
Speaker: things they want to send me that I could do from that they use that's not the bad ones let me know Okay. be cool to go through a local person or something but you can follow us on blue sky and instagram at cooler guild pod You can send us an email. We really love emails at thecoolerguild at gmail .com. You can visit the main page, soundheartheart .com forward slash thecoolerguild. YouTube, youtube .com forward slash at thecoolerguild. Wherever you're listening, please go rate five stars.
Speaker: Hopefully, yeah, hopefully a dub pod next week. If not, we're coring storming the Capitol. Quitting and storming the Capitol. The Capitol being...
Speaker: The front office. Yeah. I'm going to send the the the witches. to the front office soon uh till next time i guess right yeah so next sense If there is a next time, I'm Coop. I'm Fan. Stay cool, y 'all. Stay cool.
Speaker: yeah It just maximizes, ah, what is happening? and It just maximizes it. Now your face is huge. I'm trying to stop it. ah This is not.
