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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Every once in a while, we have to bring out the big dog.
Yeah.
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Hour number two of the program begins with Danny Unleashed. He's here in studio, Danny Clinkscale, Curtis Seabolt, Kyle Collier, producing this thing. I am your fill-in host, Jack Johnson. Danny, how are we doing this afternoon? We're doing fine.
Always glad to be here in sponsorship with Easton Roofing, all the fine work that they do. So always ready to roll and always enjoy a little... More relaxed time with Jack Johnson.
Yes, always. How much have you been keeping up with the World Cup? And I know we're all watching the United States, but soccer's on everywhere right now. Soccer's in Kansas City. If you haven't been seeing those videos from Power and Light downtown leading up to that match at Arrowhead, just go look on any sort of platform right now. It's quite ridiculous.
So how much have you been keeping up with it? Well, I watch every game.
Every one. I obviously haven't watched all of every game. The ones that are available to you. I usually, well, they're all available, but I usually get up every day and peel through as many games as I can. Working out, I usually try to pick out maybe one game that seems like more significant than the other. If you don't go in chronological order, the scores will be there.
I might watch one of them at night. So I'm usually like sort of a half a day behind, but I try to watch them all. I've enjoyed the action tremendously. The top stars have been in great form. I love it. I can't get enough. And, well, you can get all you want. I was going to actually do the march yesterday, the Orange March, but I couldn't do the march in the day. That was conflicted.
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Chapter 2: What insights does Danny Clinkscale share about the World Cup?
So I think it's exciting. I think the whole thing is tremendously exciting. I think Kansas City and the United States and North America has turned out well. I think that we have I still would complain about the fact that you shouldn't gouge people who really love a sport to the extent that they have with the ticket prices.
But you can't argue with supply and demand because there's not an empty seat to be seen. The places are packed. And it also looks like. It's not just a corporate type of thing, which you see like at the Super Bowl. It looks like these are real people who have made great sacrifices to not only travel and spend a lot of money, but buy the tickets and merchandise and the like.
So I think it's been fantastic. I've been immersed in it.
So you didn't have the United States as one of your teams that could win the whole thing? No, not even close. I was going to say, what's their ceiling then? How far can they really make it?
I still think that winning a game in the knockout round is still an accomplishment, but I think that as far as the expectations have been raised now for most people, I think that they still will go out in the round of 16, but... I think the way the draw has fallen out, the possibility is better now that they could perhaps reach the quarterfinals, and that would be an astounding accomplishment.
I mean, at any one time during the last cycle, they've probably been anywhere from the 15th to the 20th ranked team in the world, so that would lend itself to around the last 16. They probably played better than that in the last couple of friendlies and in the first two games that they played, or at least the first game and a half.
And then, like I said, the game was more of a training exercise yesterday. And they get a pretty good draw. Bosnia is the 60th ranked team in the world. I think they're probably better and more dangerous than that. But, for instance, they don't have a single player who plays in the Premier League, for instance. And they have a couple of guys who play in the championship.
Most of the guys play in the Bundesliga. But they're tough in their veteran team, and they've been around a lot. So, I mean, they're not going to be an easy out. I don't think that's, from this point forward, I don't think that exists for the United States. But I think it's created a lot of excitement, and that's great. It's better than the alternative.
Are we going to get Portugal, Argentina in the round of eight? I know a big one tomorrow with Portugal and Colombia to see who wins that group, but...
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Chapter 3: What are the chances of the Netherlands winning the World Cup according to Danny?
Our senior World Cup expert, Thunderdome.
Are both Austria and Australia on to the next round? They only have three points. I thought somebody losing was bad. Australia is, but Austria is not. I was reading a story in the Wall Street Journal about the fact that... Yeah, so it's still... It's not completely a dead rubber game right now.
I mean, there was a game back in the day that many people suspect the two sides got together and said, let's just have a draw because it was good for both teams. In this case... Austria losing, they could be out. So it's not the same kind of scenario.
That's what I thought. Thank you. In fact, the article I was talking about was in the Wall Street Journal. They mentioned that specifically. It was in 1982. Yeah, it was the disgrace of... or Jabal or something along that line.
It was a city where the game was jagan, where the game was played, because the headline caught some people's eyes, and they thought, because it said, could we be heading toward the disgrace of Kansas City? And a lot of KC fans saw that post, didn't read the story, and thought, what are you talking about? We're so territorial here. It was actually specifically referencing this upcoming match.
Literally, the two teams just kicked the ball around for 90 minutes, and it was a nil-nil draw.
And people spent money to go and watch that. Maybe $10 back then. We joked about if it was that type of a match. They're just going to keep on goaling until... Four corners. 31-30 here. Every time the ball is kicked back to the goalie, he just turns and fires it into the net.
Like I said, the... Thankfully, one of the teams has incentive to win. And a nation like Australia, they're a sports-loving nation, and they haven't had great accomplishment in soccer. They've got maybe the best nickname in the tournament, the Socceroos. So I think they'll be fired up to win. I mean, look at Turkey yesterday. They had nothing to play for. They played their asses off.
And beat the United States.
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Chapter 4: What are Danny's thoughts on the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes' injury?
Yeah. involved, be it Germany or Italy or whatever.
Say Mexico.
But even the other starters, the German ones and everyone, like all the guttural sounds. Stop showing off. He does that for everything. Don't do the old glottal stop. Right. But I think Ian Dark is fabulous. Oh, yeah. Even though Landon Donovan sounds like he just... Had a couple of hits on the bong before he starts the game. He's real mellow. I think he's great. I think his analysis is fabulous.
So I enjoy him very much.
While we're on just that topic, what do you think of the host, the studio crew? Zlatan doesn't seem to add a lot. I like Ari.
I think he's funny. I mean, it's an acquired taste. I think Alexi Lalas has driven people crazy. There's all kinds of articles from the soccer media critic side that just want him out. Do they just not like him or not like what he offers? I saw one article.
He's always been very smug and he tries to do things I think that are self-promotional and are not just based on analysis but are based on being provocative or whatever. I think the show is the best when the Americans are playing because then he's not on the set. He goes to the game itself.
I saw one column that you would have thought that Alexi Lawless like beat this guy up in high school every day and took his lunch money. It was I've never heard of.
Well, he has political views that are not popular with some and are very popular with others.
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Chapter 5: How does Danny view the performance of the United States soccer team?
yell and sing the whole game. I mean, it's just not a culture thing to bang drums or do, you know, and this, you know, the soccer is a sport where there's very few goals scored. You know, I mean, two to one is a pretty high scoring game. Three to two is like crazy. And goals are super important. They are celebrated like nothing else. I mean, you just have to see the things in the stands.
I mean, they do make a touchdown celebration for the Chiefs look somewhat, you know, just that's fantastic. These fans are happy. They're great. These fans are delirious. I mean, this is like the greatest day of their life. And I'm sure they would say it, you know. In the United States, what do we see when a golfer or any person, no matter what they'll say, so what's your reaction here?
And it's just the natural thing to say is, this is the greatest day of my, well, except for the birth of my children or my wedding day. No way that if you go up to somebody from Curacao after they scored a goal, they're saying, this is the greatest moment of my life, bar none. Sorry, honey.
And the other difference in the downtown thing is that it was expressed by someone in Sam McDowell's column today. Every column he writes is very good. The man said, I wasn't going to miss this for the world. And he says, I was at the Chiefs parade. I was at the Royals parade. He says, but I can be in this one.
I mean, you can't be in the parade, the Chiefs parade, but you can just be in this one. You can run along with the bus, and you can run down Grand Avenue. So I think it is different, but it's just culturally different. I think Chiefs fans want to say that they think it's been louder there. That's fine. The decibel record is garbage anyway, so who cares?
Yeah. It's also a difference in, it's one thing to have rooted for the team in your hometown, but when it's your country, and it is your country's sport, there really isn't any comparison to an Argentinian
watching, rooting for Argentina in the World Cup because the only sports that are that big in this country are football and, to a lesser degree, baseball, but they don't have a national team that's been playing at the highest level where you can have that kind of rooting interest for decades. It's impossible to replicate that in this country.
The United States also, sir, sure, football is king, but... it's not even close to as popular in the United States as soccer is in almost every one of these countries. There are some exceptions. Australia would be one. New Zealand would be one. Those are rugby nations more. India would be one. That's a cricket nation.
But for the most part, this is the biggest sport far and away in these countries. A couple of them, winter sports would be a bigger deal. But Nothing like for most countries. It's religion. It is truly religion.
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