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Chapter 1: What does Texas Tech think about integrity?
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I think we've all been, I wouldn't say overwhelmed, but pleasantly surprised by the excitement and the buzz around the team and in the stadiums. Pulling up here with 5,500 fans ready to watch a training session is incredible. It's been a long two weeks, a hard two weeks, but guys are in a great position mentally, physically, emotionally, and ready to get going.
And now, ready to kick some Paraguayan butt, Soren Petro. Right you are, Kay. Right you are. Petro on the program on Sports Radio 810 WHB. I hope you're fired up. The U.S. taking the pitch tonight at 8 o'clock. Are you fired up, Curtis? Do you feel the fever? I do. Yeah? I do. You sure? I'm starting to. Okay. I mean, how could you not? It's here. Yeah?
We keep thinking, oh, man, this thing's creeping up. Well, now it's here. Let's go. I'm decked out in all my American paraphernalia. Can you identify my items? Did I wear this hat yesterday? I can't remember if I wore it yesterday or not.
Chapter 2: How does excitement around Team USA reflect on the upcoming match?
I don't think so. I don't think I had it yesterday. I can't remember what I wore. I had a different hat. Maybe I didn't have a hat yesterday. I don't know. I don't know what that one is. The hat is. I mean, it says USA. If anyone's watching, it's USA. Well, I know. I'm digging deeper than that. There's a logo on the back, but I haven't seen it.
I'm assuming that the logo on the back would give it away. It would.
Chapter 3: What are the mental and physical states of the Team USA players?
Okay, so I won't look. The one on the T-shirt kind of gives it away. Gives it away when it says USA Table Tennis? That's fantastic. It doesn't get better than that. You want to know why I have a USA Table Tennis shirt? Because you're a big fan of Forrest Gump. Well, I just, you know, this might take us to... And his Flexo light ping pong paddle. A little. No.
So like every time the Olympics come around, I'm like, oh, I want to support the effort. Like I've actually given money to the U.S. Olympic, you know, I don't know what is it, committee or whatever it is.
Chapter 4: How does the fan turnout impact Team USA's morale?
Not a lot. Trust me. But just enough that they keep mailing me crap, you know. And I'm always like the Olympics. They don't consider you a benefactor, you're saying? No, but what usually happens is the Winter Olympics come around, and I'm like, I want a USA hockey jersey. And they're all gone. Like, I don't understand. You have something that's popular. Like, what do you make, 20 of these? Right.
You stupid asses. And so then I'm like, oh, okay, well, I'll get this. I'll get a T-shirt or whatever. And then I'm like, you know, it irritated me. I'm like, I can't. And they're not cheap. To get a USA hockey jersey. And so I'm like, well, you know what? If you're not going to let me buy the $200, $300 one, you know, then I'm going to get the cheapest one. So you know what was on special?
USA table tennis. And you've seen the other one. You might not remember it off the top of your head. The other one I got, I think they were $5 or $10. The other one I got, USA surfing. I have seen that, yes. But table tennis is fantastic just because... It's called table tennis, not ping pong. No, it's table tennis. Table tennis. That's fantastic. Surfing sounds like it might be a ha-ha. Right.
Table tennis, we know there's an Olympic event there, and so you know that's a legitimate shirt. At the risk of taking my hat off with hat hair, like fresh out of the shower and then throwing a hat on, hat hair. I'd love to have hat hair. See it from afar. The logo on the back gives you what the hat is.
i don't have my glasses on so i'm not seeing the details see if the kid can figure out don't don't get right up and oh no you there is it doesn't say it on there so yeah okay what does it say talking to the microphone turn the kids mic on you're talking about the 2025 usa yeah it says 2025 usa and then there's a trophy there's a trophy above it and that's i have no idea what that is but
It's 2025. What'd the kid say?
Hang on.
I got to put my... What Thunderdome say? Ryder Cup. You nailed it. The kid, you're fired. Holy cow. Yeah. And you want to know why I have a USA Ryder Cup hat? Take a swing. That was my intense passion for golf. The fact that I never missed traveling to the Ryder Cup. Those are buzzers on the first two. Yeah, I don't know. Somebody went and brought it back for you. There's a theme. Hmm.
There's a theme. By the way, if you wanted to buy the Royal Spring Training hat, which, by the way, I don't know why you would this year, but it was like $60. I'm like, you can rot in hell before I will pay $60. Particularly one where you have... I don't know what you did. The spring training hats this year for baseball were god-awful. I wouldn't take $60 to wear that.
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Chapter 5: What insights does Matt Besler provide about the World Cup?
So I am double logoed. Yeah. But I am headed to a watch party. Yeah. You've got to be going to a game or a watch party. I mean, I know I'm stopping at work.
Well, I hope Sit Down is listening.
Chapter 6: How does the U.S. soccer team prepare for their first match?
Yeah, I understand. I am not violating the rules. Sit Down, one of our former interns, he is chief on chief on chief with his chief underoos. He will often be triple logoed. Oh, yeah. And I'm like, are you going to the game? Just going to the store on a Wednesday. Are you going to coach the squad this afternoon? Andy Reid doesn't have as many Chiefs logos on on the sideline as you've got.
X-Factor's like, dude, freeze up on that. Yeah, yeah. Slow your roll, kid. What is happening here? I was thinking about this as this event begins, starts to begin, and really picks up steam with the U.S. playing tonight. I flashback to last April when you and I traveled to North Carolina to attend the Beeman Cooper wedding. Yes. And I get to the point in my life where I don't move around as well.
I get knees hurt. No. Really, knees hurt. No. Not about you. Would have been great if John Candy said that in stripes. He goes, I don't know if you noticed, but I got a bit of a weight problem. When Bill Murray goes, no, no.
Chapter 7: What strategies should the U.S. employ against Paraguay?
But anyway, so by the time we got to the reception, I thought, yeah, I'd announce the wedding party. You had a role. Splendidly. From the wedding. I was told, stay out of the way. Splendidly. Look out, they're taking pictures. Get out of the way. I'm going back to our table, and as I'm going back there, everyone's, the band is rocking, and everyone's heading out to the dance floor.
And I sit down in a chair. I'm like, yeah, you guys have fun with that. I'm kind of tired, sore. I'm just going to sit here for a little bit. And my chair was facing away from the dance floor, and I turned my chair around, and I realized... that everyone was on the dance floor except for three people. A couple in their 70s who were at the next table and me.
Which, by the way, the miracle in that is that there weren't five. My wife and I were on the dance floor. It was a miracle because my wife, only because we were far, far out of state, did she agree to go on the dance floor. Because if it's an in-town wedding, no shot. Ain't getting out there with Tubby and watching him make a fool. She is not going to let it be seen.
She's not going to be seen on a dance floor with me if she thinks she might ever see anyone in that room again. And I will say that when I sat down, you two were still at the table and then you guys got up and left. And I went, yeah, that's fun. I was like, it's just me and, you know, Hume Cronin and Jessica Tandy at the next table. And I thought, you know what? I'm not doing this.
How did we get on this subject? I'm going to get there. I'm here. I'm at a party. I didn't come out here to watch the party. I'm going to be in the party. I don't want to sit there and watch it. I want to be in it. I know I'm going to be sore tomorrow, but I'm going to be in the party. And I went out there and I was in the party. You were in the party. And that's what this event is, I think.
The party's here. Be in the party. Years from now, when someone asks you... You're hobbled and not feeling good. You've been on your feet all day. Even if it's going to just a pub somewhere and watching with some people, be in the party because this isn't going to be here maybe ever again and maybe not for a long time.
When you tell the story of the 2026 World Cup coming to Kansas City down the year, how old you are 20, 30, 40 years later, I want to say, yeah, it was cool. I watched it on TV. Yeah. No, it was cool. I went to a watch party. I went to the P&L. I went to the Fan Fest. I did it. The party is here. Be in the party. Yeah. I think that's great advice.
I think also, Kyle, I thought we booked Nate and the Long Stories for the 5 o'clock hour. I didn't know we were leading with that. Well, as is usually the case with Nate's Long Stories, it wouldn't have been as long if you hadn't been popping in every eight words. That was always the case with Nate. You could have run this marathon quicker if I wasn't tripping you every tenth of a mile.
Hey, what are you doing? What are you running for? Here, stop. Hang on. Hang on. I'm going to ask you a question. Yeah. Good times. We can laugh about it now.
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Chapter 8: What are the predictions for the U.S. team's performance in the World Cup?
We can. Nate will be with us in the 5 o'clock hour. Our soccer insider, man of many jobs. Senior soccer insider. I said, how do you want me to bill you? And it took half my notebook to write down. It did. Nate is one of the play-by-play voice-slash-faces of Apple TV on MLS. Correspondent for CBS Sports. SiriusXM. Author of The Perfect Pitch.
By the way, Nate will be doing a book signing from 11 to 3 at Maiden KC on the Plaza tomorrow. And every time I look on social media, Nate is trumpeting the fact that he sold out all his books again. You know, so if you want to be party to selling out Nate's books, get to Maiden KC. Be in the party. Yeah. But we'll talk World Cup soccer with Nate in the 5 o'clock hour.
Of course, you also know Nate, longtime co-host with Stephen St. John of what is now referred to as New Day with SSJ. And the person that I know in this business that's been a soccer proponent for the longest. Okay. I mean, when he first started really getting into the soccer, there weren't a lot of people...
next to him and he knew what he wanted to do and he knew what he had to do to be where he is today and twenty plus years ago he said this is where i'm going and look where he is i think i mean i What Nate was able to do and how he was able to create his career as one of the preeminent voices of soccer in this country is so impressive to me. And as a longtime friend, I'm proud of him. Yeah.
Yeah, I agree. Just wanted to put that out there. Nate will be with us in the 5 o'clock hour. I'll ask two questions. It'll take most of the hour. Yeah. That's my prediction. Yeah. Hey, Nate, soccer. Go. You know, the beautiful game was invented. I think my Nate impression is spot on, by the way. That is brutal. Goal! You know, I think I nailed it, didn't I? Right on par, man.
You know who I'm working on? That is actually perfect pitch. The name of Nate's book. I see what you did there. You know what I was working on as I was walking today and listening to Sterling? The Sterling Sports Center. I'm working on an impression of that. In the game today. You got to draw everything out. Every sentence ends with a long ending. Have you noticed that? Yeah.
He just talks like that in general. I know. He has a pattern. Yeah. Are you going to the party? To the party. Are you going to the party? Are you going to the party? There's a pattern. Yeah. That's his thing. Yeah. I was picking up, and I'm like, I'm going to try this impression thing. I would be the guy.
There's a Jason Benetti little video that went viral of him in the booth doing, I think he was, where is he? He's not with the White Sox anymore, is he? Detroit. Detroit. He's with the Tigers. So he's in the Tigers booth. And does the NBC games on Sunday night. Yeah, and he does the Sunday night baseball. SU in the house, Q's guy. Yeah.
And he does, he's talking with, and I can't, I recognized him when they're, whoever's on their broadcast, a couple of former players. And they were talking about that he is the master of impressions that nobody knows what they are. Like his impressions are spot on. I think I've seen a clip of that. Yeah, his impressions are spot on. But like the one he did was he does the guy on SportsCenter.
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