Casual FC

Mario: Welcome to our match preview
for our decision day match against

the Chicago fire on Sunday November.

Angela: No,

Mario: Not

Angela: that's a man

Mario: that's the men's, uh,

I'm

Angela: against the San Diego
wave, against the Chicago

fire against Reno 9 1 1.

Mario: Welcome to Casual fc, an Angel
City Match preview and footy therapy pod.

Featuring two podcast
certified footy therapist.

I'm your host, Mario Salazar with
my equally tired 'cause We stayed

up watching the damn World Series

Angela: All

Mario: days all night

Angela: night long.

All night.

All night.

Mario: Angela Morales.

Angela: What's up?

Mario: This is our match
preview for our next match.

It's decision day against the Chicago
Stars fc, which still no red stars.

Ew.

on Sunday, November the second
at SeatGeek Stadium, the match

is going to be at 2:00 PM.

NWSL Plus, the greatest thing that the
NWSL has done in recent years in this

one particular thing has been bringing
back decision day almost in its entirety.

so one match will be played at

Angela: One match to rule them all.

I'm sorry, that was just in my head.

It's not that

Mario: 3, 2, 1

Angela: I.

Mario: o'clock.

12 o'clock.

I'm trying to do East Coast time.

one match will be played
at 12 o'clock on ESPN.

more match will be played
at two o'clock on ESPN.

Everything else at two o'clock
will happen on NWSL Plus.

So pick your favorite
team, watch it from there.

Most likely it's gonna be Angel
City if you're listening to us.

So there you go.

If you don't have NWSL Plus or you
don't have access to a TV when the

game comes on, you can always listen to
Isaac and Tracy on iHeartRadio through

the iHeartRadio app, and it's amazing.

They'll make you feel like
you travel to Chicago and it's

like the best experience ever.

With all that being said,

we have stuff to talk about.

be the beginning portion will be the
potty pod portion of this episode.

'cause are some very
justified, what the fuck,

Angela: And, okay, so

Mario: bull.

So let's just

Angela: yeah,

Mario: no introing it,
let's just get into it.

Angela: I wanna start this out by
reminding everyone that when it comes

to a business, an organization, a
team, a group of people that's run by a

board of directors in any kind of way.

When it comes to them putting out
a statement, it will not have the

teeth and it will not have the
emotion that all of us want it to.

Legally, it cannot.

Mario: it will be the most filtered,
legalized, sterilized version of a, and

Angela: punch to the gut,
which it should be like.

Mario: yes.

Angela: I understand the reason
behind that, because you have

to take out pointed attacks.

You have to take out language that
can be used against you negatively.

There's so many things you
have to watch out for when

you're saying this as a group,

Mario: And also there are, as
all of us have a very strong

reaction to hateful shit like this.

I may take this out, but on the flip
side, when we, when you've heard of like

business owners that maybe have a little
bit of a right wing side to them and then

they made a statement because they're
the sole owner and the sole proprietor,

board, they have no one to check them and

Angela: Yeah.

Mario: their foot so far up their own
asset, it's in their mouth that then

they get canceled and then they get
all this other shit comes to them when

Angela: That's why those
statements are so neutered.

Mario: yeah.

And like the thing

Angela: I

Mario: that like sometime I will say
probably a good portion of that time,

when you have that a hole that makes
the statement at the top, the people

working there, the people just making
a living don't always match that.

And

Angela: Most of the time they don't.

Mario: yeah, exactly.

So

view all of this.

As unfortunate as we might see it, of
not having the bike that we want it to

or the standing on 10 toes kind of thing.

It is a corporate response.

Angela: Yeah, it's exactly what
I expected it to be, frankly.

for those who were thankfully,
luckily, graced without the knowledge

of what occurred, Elizabeth Eddie,
who is somehow still on this team,

regardless of the fact that she hasn't
played in like a season and a half

for a variety of unknown reasons and
known reasons, issued a statement in

the New York Post, which LOL Okay.

Essentially saying that the league not
having a very specific and defined gender

inclusion, which instead becomes a gender
exclusion policy, should be looked at,

and politicians should get involved
and essentially puts out this really

fucking homophobic, transphobic, racist,
uneducated statement because, she's

holy, she's godly, she is of the church.

But let me be very
upfront when I say this.

There is Christianity that follows
the teachings of homey Jesus.

Like I'm not religious in the slightest.

I learned religion.

I was grateful to grow up in
a world pre nine 11 when we

still valued things like that.

I had a middle school that
did a whole entire unit.

In our history, social studies, whatever
they called it at the time that some

of us learned and read through the
Torah to understand the philosophy

behind Judaism, I was part of the
group that read through the Quran

and understood the pillars of, Islam.

We had groups that studied Christianity
and Catholicism and Hinduism and Buddhism,

and we did this whole big unit learning
about the pillars of different religion

and faith-based groups around the world.

The second nine 11 hit that was taken
outta the curriculum and were all fucked

for it, and this is the evidence of that.

But in no world that
we live in has religion

never been co-opted.

People take something so beautiful
and so built in community and.

Essentially the three big religions
are some form of Christianity,

Judaism, Islam, biggest communities.

Here's the thing, all of
them stand on the same shit.

You take care of each other.

You look after your community
and you don't be a dick.

That's it.

There's hundreds of stories throughout
every single written religious text

that talk about different ways to
implement that, but it's all the same.

At the end of the day, you
take care of each other.

And what's happened, especially in this
country and now across the world, is that

there's been a separation of religion.

'cause I've done a lot of
research on this because it's

fascinating and it's disgusting.

At the same time, religion
is also co-opted for power.

The crusades, the Spanish inquisition,
the fricking colonization of America,

like it's all religion based, all of it.

but the thing is that it's separated.

You have people, wonderful people, friends
of mine who follow these religious texts

in different varieties and they're like,
yeah, I'm just trying to build community

and make sure like my neighbors have food.

People are losing access
to food in four days.

This comes out Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday, Saturday, Sunday, four days.

Three, three days.

Truly, and honestly, half of
their benefits are probably

gone, if not more than half.

But there are people that still
practice religion in a beautiful way,

in the way that it's intended to take
care of each other because we are

not meant to be solitary creatures.

And then there's these assholes
who worship at the church of white

supremacy, and that's where this comes
from because this is a quest for power.

And I will make sure to say this
multiple times in multiple ways.

But white men ain't shit
when it comes to community.

They don't understand it.

They don't understand that there's a
beautiful thing that happens when all

of us just kick it and hang out and
it's gross that they don't get it.

Because that now becomes the
culture of white people as a whole.

And is that generalizing?

Yeah, but guess what?

I live in a multi-generational household.

You lived in a
multi-generational household.

Our families come from communal groups
and you take that away, you become one of

those people that's I have gay friends.

No you don't.

I have black friends.

No you don't.

people who check the boxes, but not like
that 'cause you don't know them like that.

But to further break this down, the idea
that is now becoming widespread again.

Because this was a thing in the
nineties, early two thousands, this got

a little traction, is genetic testing
to make sure you're a woman enough.

Because here's the fun thing about
that, they don't test you to see if you

have enough testosterone to be a dude.

It's only if you have
too much to be a woman.

So what's that mean?

So first of all, it's super sexist.

That's just number one, super sexist.

Second of all, it's super racist
because depending on where you

are from in the world, you have
a different genetic makeup.

That's why we look different.

That's why our bodies are built different.

Like you look at these like
amazing, Central African runners

that you're like, how do you run?

You have like my thigh is the
same size as your whole body

and you run ultra marathons.

Like it's easy, like it's a 5K.

People are built differently
based on where they are from.

You have people Inuit and like indigenous
folks from Arctic areas, their bodies

pack on more fat because they have to
insulate because they live in the snow.

hello.

So like you end up with people who have
their lives ruined through genetic and

hormone testing that's built in bullshit.

You have people like Kester Simina
from South Africa that we've talked

about on this podcast multiple times
because what has happened to her

throughout her track and field career
makes me wanna light things on fire.

She's essentially.

Been taken out of the sport because
of this, because she has like

this much too much testosterone.

Her body presents a little differently
and she's just I'm a woman.

I'm just different.

Like genetic differences occur.

That's the whole point.

Genetic diversity is the whole reason we
have been able to evolve as a species.

So cool.

so we've got sexism, we've got racism,
we've got lack of education on the topic.

It's like there's so many different
chromosomal differences that people carry.

You don't know unless you're
being genetically tested.

And why should you be gen
genetically tested for no reason.

You can have XX, Y.

Can have x, y you can have
so many different things.

Like she writes in her statement
that if women who were born with

ovaries should be the only women
allowed in le some bullshit like that.

Like you have to be born with ovaries.

There are women with XX chromosomes
who do not have ovaries or

who have had them removed.

So what does that mean?

So if you're saying, if there's
health issues, if there's cancer,

if there's endometriosis, if there's
adenomyosis, if there's, ovarian cyst

or PCOS or all the other things that
Im impact our reproductive system

in our hormonal system and that's
taken away, you're no longer a woman.

'cause fuck outta here with that.

Like this idea.

And this isn't just directed at
her, it's directed her right now,

but it's directed at the entire
community that's behind this.

This entire idea is disgusting.

Intersex people exist.

People with chromosomal differences exist.

Get the fuck over it.

Because it's also ableist.

it's so fucking disgusting that
people believe this and then they

go through and say, oh, Jesus.

Mario: Nope.

Angela: no, absolutely not.

Because I've read enough of the Bible.

I understand the concept.

I learned, I listened.

I paid attention.

I have critical thinking skills.

I have the ability to analyze things.

I paid a lot for my higher education,
and I'll be damned if I don't use it.

So take an anatomy class,
take a biology class.

Take literally anything that will teach
you more than you know right now if

this is where you stand with things
because you will learn that people,

I'm not gonna angry cry
'cause then I'll get more mad.

People are so much cooler than you think
they are based on the shit you can't see.

Bodies are amazing and
fuck you for thinking.

They're not because they're
different than yours.

Mario: I think all of this stems, and
I think one of the big things that

you mentioned too is just, it's the.

It's a lack of education on things.

It's a lack of open-mindedness and

Angela: It's a whole fuck ton of
an abundance of hate is what it is.

Mario: Yes, very much and rooting
your belief system on what

inherently is hate is a completely
fucked up way to go about life.

and to go about thinking you
are, righteous and that bullshit.

Angela: And frankly it's violent.

Sorry, I'm totally like screaming over
you, but like it's fucking violent.

There are people in the league that
will be even more dramatically impacted

by this than they already have been.

There are people in the league, within
the Angel City community, within sports in

general that have been banned from their
sport because of genetic differences,

because of hormonal differences.

No,

Mario: this,

I'm gonna go back to the basic

Angela: yeah, go for it.

Mario: what, where she goes back
to look, if you're a, a child of

religion, a person who studies the
Bible, then study, learn other things.

There are more things to learn
than just the one way that

you are twisting something.

Angela: Yep.

Mario: of interpreting what
you are reading, which is

completely ignorant and wrong.

there's, since this came out, there's been
a shit ton of interaction stories with

her saying how grossed out and how like.

As soon as people met her, they were
like, all Yeah, that's who you are.

because it was a very kind of
oppressive, throwing out Bible verses

and being like, overly, you need to
correct your ways and follow what I do.

Angela: Yep.

Mario: And,

Angela: Yeah, if you haven.

Mario: and

Angela: I really explored it.

Go on Reddit,

go on the Angel City, Reddit, and go find
that post and be just as mad as I am.

Like,

Mario: the angel city,
Reddit, the NWSL, Reddit in

Angela: oh, yeah.

Everywhere

Mario: everywhere.

But a alongside with all of that, you,

Angela: I,

Mario: if you are not aware of the fucking
dumpster fire that we are living in

right now, and how words have meaning.

And just because you think that what
your position is your position, and

it shouldn't affect anybody else.

It totally affects everybody else.

It affects, as Angela was
saying, it affects the fans.

It affects the people
that support the team.

It affects the people that it you.

it affects the that have nothing
to do with anything soccer related,

but are impacted by these bullshit
words and these bullshit thoughts.

And

it's, I'm trying to use my words
measured in a way that I don't

talk myself into a corner
because I know that

this is not my experience.

am here along with that.

And just because this one specific
thing is not my experience, guess what?

I live in the fucking world and I go
through a bunch of other shit too.

So

Angela: Yep.

Mario: this is not a isolated case.

And your words aren't an isolated
thing of your own isolated opinion.

It's fucking hateful and it will affect
more people than you care to know,

Angela: Yep.

Mario: and it's dumb.

And yes, we are upset with a very
lackluster response from the team

on a tiny little Instagram post
of as one of as someone on our,

discord put that post was a post-it,

Angela: Yeah,

Mario: the nothing comment, but.

Angela: it's a nothing burger, but
remember that's gone through probably

six different levels of crisis pr,
crisis marketing, legal crisis, legal,

like all the different checkpoints
to make sure it's safe to put out.

Take it with a grain of salt.

Take any statement like that from
any company, ever, literally with a

grain of salt because you're, it's
not gonna be what you want it to be.

Mario: as a completely.

Angela: What

Mario: let's flip the emotions for a quick
second, but analogous to this situation

of being part of a corporate culture,

Angela: I,

Mario: I was part of a company that will
not be named at the moment, that had a

little snafu with coupon codes and they
got slammed, like we called it Penny Gate

because basically a bunch of merch got
sold for a penny and it was all legal.

It was a legal, thing that they put out

Angela: yep.

Mario: It just got leaked.

guess how, and I worked in the, Digital
marketing department, which meant that I

would, I worked on all the social media
assets, not the social media manager,

but I was the person building the stuff.

as along with the emails and the
website stuff, guess how long it

took us to respond to say, Hey,
oops, we're stopping that right now.

That wasn't supposed to be a thing.

Took a day and a half.

how many, how many items of
clothing got sold for a penny?

Because they sat on their
ass for a day and a half.

Angela: Yep.

Mario: Like

Angela: It's one thing if you
don't see it, you don't catch it.

It's another to know, not take the coupon
coat out and then sit on it for a minute.

Mario: knew about this thing at I think
it was like five in the morning, LA time.

we

Angela: Oh no.

Mario: They did stop the code,
they didn't stop it till three

or four o'clock in the afternoon.

Like

Angela: Oh my God, that's so much time.

Mario: they had to wait on some
yeah, when you get to that point,

corporate language, it's stupid.

It's stupid slow, but it is what it is.

a lot of people have been
saying, you know what,

you make your voices heard the way
you can make your voices heard.

Angela: Yeah.

Mario: This was also to say a
very chicken shit thing to do.

When there are, when she knows
there's no more home games,

Angela: Yep.

Mario: she knows that she has
no career left with Angel City.

'cause there has been absolutely
no talk on renewing her contract.

And why would they?

She's paid, she's played 87
minutes total in three years.

Angela: Yeah.

Mario: and

you can clearly see this as.

Doing the innocent white woman
like, fired because of my views, not

Angela: Yep.

And as somebody, I'm, I
mentioned this in the Discord,

not this past calendar year, like
from here to last time this year.

But the two years before that,
I essentially had a different

version of this as my coworker.

And if you were privy to any of
those conversations, like Mario

was, like, Eva obviously was.

some of the folks in 2 27 were,

it nearly took me out
because of the onslaught

of thinly veiled everything, racism,
homophobia, transphobia, sexism, ableism,

diet, culture, anti literally anybody's
sentiment coming from somebody who's

also a minority, which blows my mind.

the company I work for knew, and it
was an incredibly difficult situation

because they saw me just disintegrate.

I went from working five days a week.

Every day, no big deal.

Very little callouts to a lot more
callouts and a lot more migraines, and

a lot more health issues to working four
days a week to being in extensive therapy.

And I've been in therapy
on and off since I was 18.

I flipped across the fucking freeway, duh.

my brain's rattled.

But this was honestly the hardest two
years of my life because I was stuck.

I was desperate to get outta
there without a good exit plan.

In an economy that's slowly breaking
down, so jobs are, listed, they're posted.

Are they hiring?

Who knows?

Mario: Or they're also hiring
like master degree, and 12

years experience for like entry

Angela: For 26, like $26 a month.

like you're making $7.

Mario: Yeah.

Angela: so I'm stuck.

I can't get out Every day
is mental warfare for me.

so honestly,

good riddance.

I genuinely hope no one on that team
dealt with what I dealt with or anything

close to it because it was disgusting.

It was awful.

I'm just now getting to the point
where I like laugh with people at work.

I have become friends with people outside
of work because they were the ones who saw

and understood what the correlation was of
what was happening and looked out for me.

I'm just now getting my health
back in check, so if anybody has

anything to say about this, I
don't, I frankly don't fucking care.

I've seen it firsthand what this
type of quote unquote, religion,

'cause that's not what it is.

it's a power struggle.

It's a last ditch effort of control in a
world that you do not understand because

you actively aren't a part of it, but
damn, you're missing out on some good

shit because you are so hateful and,

yeah.

Yeah.

Let's talk about the Chicago Stars guys.

Also, I mentioned it before we
really started recording, but I'm

wearing my, like Megan Rapinoe Sue
Bird 2020 shirt from Breaking Tea.

Felt appropriate today.

Mario: I was trying to think of some
way to incorporate the Austin three 16.

You just got your ass kicked type
thing, but I couldn't figure it out.

Angela: she's been signing autographs

Mario: Yeah,

Angela: with John three 16.

So like stone cold your
way outta that one girl.

Mario: all right,

Angela: Anyway, decision day guys.

It's coming.

Ah,

Mario: Okay.

So

take a deep breath.

Everyone listening, just,

yeah.

Angela: yeah.

Mario: Okay.

Decision day.

This is where like on the
timestamp, it's gonna be like we

talk about, what the fuck's going

Angela: Angela yells,
and then this is day.

Mario: So decision day.

I went through a whole bunch of what
could happen in the last episode.

not gonna run through
it, all the way through.

I'll give you the highlights, but if
you do want to go through with a couple

of like how things can flippy flop, go
back to last episode and take a listen.

Angela: I got my swim trunks, mf.

I'm so sorry.

I said that out loud and I
thought that was just in my head.

Mario: All right.

Angela: I'm on a boat.

You can leave that in.

I don't care.

Mario: Oh yeah.

You know what?

We need to find our happy
place wherever we can.

'cause fuck it.

If you can find it somewhere
else outside, it's all crazy.

All right, so know spot number one,
first place and second place are the

only ones that have been secured.

Everything from there on down is
willy-nilly in the wind right now.

Three through seven can flip
you flop all the way around

like seven could, not seven.

I think six can jump all the way to third.

Basically like it's,

Angela: that's a lot.

Mario: is crazy.

the table is amazingly freakishly
tight at the moment where there is,

yes, everybody can play leapfrog.

Multiple times during

Angela: Yeah.

Mario: of all the games
happening on decision day.

so there's that, spot number eight,
the eighth place last position in

the playoffs is also still undecided.

that is going to be between
the courage and racing.

And

Angela: dun.

Mario: it also will come
down to the decision day.

results on who's going to
leapfrog over each other.

They're basically just one in one.

it's either gonna be one or the
other in that eighth place spot,

and then everybody else above them
gets to have more fun with Leapfrog.

so it's gonna be wild and it's gonna be
what we want outta decision day, right?

Angela: Yeah.

Mario: there's a little bit
of, it gets boring if the Lee

was decided two weeks ago.

Angela: Yeah.

Mario: But then it also didn't
matter in the past years because

they did the last day, the last
matches over the entire weekend.

you don't have the drama
of what's going to happen.

we definitely talked about trying to
do some type of watch along thing for

decision day, knowing that Angel City
was going to be in a way, but fuck, it's

Angela: Life.

Yo, it's hard.

Mario: We can barely figure out how
to keep up with our Blue Sky account.

Like I don't,

Angela: Yeah.

We have big dreams and
big hopes for next season.

trying to start working on them now.

Mario: because we know we need to.

Angela: Yes, absolutely.

Mario: all right, this episode's
gonna be fairly short and sweet

Shena episode, beyond the heavy
shit that we had to talk about.

But talk about the Chicago Stars

Angela: All right, so this is a
big time, last match of the season

for all the emotional reasons.

We're both out of the playoffs.

We're both like, there's no, I
could give you a rundown of the

players, but nobody's gonna you're,
oh, we're just not in the playoffs.

okay.

The season ends for the stars for us.

Cool.

But the cool thing, I first wanna start
off by saying that Ella Mazer deserves

a head coaching position in the league.

She's done amazing things in
Chicago as interim before.

they bring in a man.

So whether or not she wanted the
head coaching spot in Chicago or not,

because Chicago deserves better, both
for the WNBA and the NWSL front office.

Please make some off season moves.

Please get it together to
allow these teams to succeed

because they're wonderful.

Like honestly, get it together.

that essentially was like my big point
for Chicago is that they deserve better.

You can't bring in somebody like Lauren
who coaches the Jamaican national team

and then has created amazing, amazing
national team stars both in Jamaica,

in the US when they were in college.

so many different players
have learned under him.

You can't bring him in and expect
him to work magic when you don't

Mario: give them anything,

Angela: give him anything.

and that's not to say that the players
they've had aren't spectacular, but

they didn't try to build a team.

They said, we've got Mal, then Mal got
pregnant, or MAL was injured, mal came

back, mal got pregnant after the Olympics.

And You didn't do anything to help
out the rest of the people who've

been busting their ass every day?

Mario: the adage of, life gives
you lemons, make lemonade.

He didn't even have fucking lemons.

Angela: No,

Mario: like they

Angela: he just had a whole bunch
of people looking around dude,

we're trying, we're busting our ass.

And we don't have, they
move stadiums this season.

there's been so much.

If you want to know all of
the things about Chicago Stars

soccer, go follow Gal Pal Sports.

They are Chicago based.

We've had, Leslie on, they are amazing
at their coverage for Chicago, both on

the soccer aspect, the league aspect
of it all, the accessibility of it all

because Leslie is a disabled writer.

So she's coming at it like, is
the state of me even accessible?

Can I get to the press box?

Can I get where I need to go?

so you learn a lot through.

The gal pal Escapades Plus, they're
both really funny and like they

deserve a lot, but this is a big
emotional deal 'cause it's like

the end to end for CP and for Ka.

Is it?

What?

I don't know who will get minutes.

I hope Kristen does because

in the before days, like back
in the early days of the NWSL,

she played in Chicago from 2014.

She came in Midseason after her season
in Sweden, I think it was ended.

She came in, played, scored a gazillion
goals, played 2015, scored a gazillion

goals, was named Captain in 2016.

So she's playing with Sarah Gorden at
this point they're making like $8,000.

'cause Sarah Gorden was just on BFFR.

yeah, my first, my rookie
season made eight grand.

For an entire season of soccer where
you're putting your body on the line, you

have to train like a professional athlete.

You have no facility.

She said their film room was
in a basement that flooded.

there's so much wrong with it, but
like they've been in the trenches and

early, like Magic Jack and WSL and
there's, there was a lot of trenches

to be in, in women's sports for a
hot minute and Kristen unfortunately

was like in a lot of them, national
team NWSL, she's seen some things.

but this is her like last, it's
very fitting to me that she's ending

officially her career in Chicago.

Mario: Yeah, she had her last game at

Angela: Yeah.

Mario: So we got the send off, we got the
retirement ceremony for both cap, and, cp.

But there's a decision day and a away day,
and then this will be the official last.

Angela: yeah.

Mario: and yeah, I do hope they play.

I do hope they get minutes.

I do.

Angela: I hope Kristen is allowed to
say goodbye to the fans of Chicago

because she played there for so long.

Four seasons, or three and a half
seasons is a long time to be on a team.

And she did really cool shit.

they did a compilation on the NWSL,
Instagram of all of the goal of

the week, player of the week that
she's had throughout her career.

And there are so many of
them when she's in Chicago.

Little baby Kristen.

it's so cute.

It, but yeah, I am just
emotional because now I'm mad.

It's like the come down of being angry.

I've been mad about this
since yesterday, frankly.

but I really hope, I hope we win.

We're pretty well matched with Chicago.

Three wins, two draws, two losses
over the last four seasons.

Let's make it four wins
just for the fun of it.

come on guys, let's have a grand old time.

Mario: Look, we couldn't get, we couldn't
get the win at home and send them out

in style with, in, with the home crowd.

Angela: Let's make it a home game.

Mario: let's make it a home game.

let's make it that, we
get the three points.

granted, whatever happens, we at least
finished higher than we did last year,

Angela: Oh God.

But it's interesting that I'm
gonna say this by Angel City.

Based on the full ass angry rant
that I started this episode with.

Give me a second.

I gotta get it together.

Mario: Save it for.

We've got another episode to do.

Save it for that one.

Angela: no.

It's important to say it now
because of what's happened

in one of her last
pre-game Captain speeches,

damnit,

Allie Riley has rubbed off
on me too much when it comes

to crying and I'm sick of it.

So she says in the pre-game huddle that
it means something to wear that crest.

Not every team.

And I say team because it's the players.

I don't care about the front office.

Like 90% of the time I really
don't like, they're just the

people who sign the paychecks or
the league signs the paychecks.

So they're just the, they run the
things, they make sure there's money.

That's it for me.

but you don't get teams very
often that are so interwoven

with the city they play in.

You don't have players
like, I love this city.

I'm so glad I came to this city, or, I'm
so happy to be home to play in my city.

We are spoiled in Los Angeles.

You've got the Allie Riley's, the
Kristen Presses, the Lily Nabet, the

Alyssa Thompson, the Gisele Thompson.

You have Freddy Freeman.

You have Tyler Glas now, You
have, I don't know if there's

anybody on the Lakers right next.

I haven't been paying attention.

You've had multiple Sparks players
over the years, players from the Kings.

there's so many players that go
around the world to play their sport,

but the second they're back in this
city, it means something different.

And that's why I'm so fucking mad about
the statement that Elizabeth, that

he put out because she's from here.

And again, it shows the diversity
and the different types of

people that inhabit the city.

Good, bad, otherwise, but like

I love this city

and I'm glad you guys do too.

So go Angel City forever.

Even when I'm mad at you.

That's all I have to say about this.

I hope we win on Sunday,
and if we don't, who cares?

This is like the healthiest
I've ever been about my team

not being in a good position.

I'm just like, whatever.

But yeah.

Mario: I said, if we don't,
finished better than we did

last year, so call that a win.

With that, thank you for listening.

This was, if you're gonna watch the game.

So it's gonna be on Sunday,
November 2nd against the Chicago

Stars, not the Fire the Stars, at

Angela: not San Diego.

Not no.

Mario: Not the Ford F1 fifties.

No, the Chicago Stars fc,
2:00 PM SeatGeek Stadium.

It'll be streaming at the same
time as every other match on NWSL.

Plus, listen to Isaac and Tracy on
iHeartRadio if you can't watch it

or sync it up and listen to them
while you're watching the broadcast.

It's a fun thing to do also.

it's decision day.

Have fun.

And if you like what you hear,

if anything,

this episode is who we are.

Angela: Yep.

Mario: Like

Angela: Between this episode and the
Immigrant City episode, if you don't

like it, you don't have to listen.

Mario: and the, post.

Palisades Eaton fire episode.

This is who we are.

Angela: Yep.

Mario: no, we will, we
will put 10 toes down.

This

Angela: Yep.

Mario: we are here to talk fun about
the game that we love watching, that

we love getting heartbroken about that.

We love being excited about Our

Angela: I don't love being
heartbroken, but I get it.

Mario: but it's the sport.

Angela: It's, it is what it is.

Yeah.

Mario: the thing that the team that gives
you heartburn, but also gives you the most

amazing moments that you can think of.

Angela: Yeah.

Mario: We are here to talk about
them, but we also live in the world

and there's other shit that happened.

Yes, we can try to be rosy
sunglasses just be like, do.

This is all we do, but no.

not the fucking reality we all

Angela: we're not close enough to
be billionaires to do that, frankly.

Mario: and nobody's sponsoring this

Angela: Yeah.

Mario: about shit.

So eh,

Angela: be mad,

Mario: But if you do a lot, if
you do wanna sponsor the pod,

then you know, go ahead, reach

Angela: let us know.

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Angela: Yeah,

Mario: of their career with the NWSL.

and let's make it a good one.

So with that, thanks for being with us and

Angela: thanks for
hanging out this season.

Mario: We'll see you a little bit,
throughout the off season and, yeah,

Angela: Get ready for
retirement episodes, guys.

They're coming end of season stuff.

Playoffs.

They're coming,

Mario: Yep.

Angela: Mario's wife's birthday's
next week so we gotta take a week off

'cause she deserves to be celebrated.

Mario: yeah.

It's another reason why
we couldn't do the Whip

Angela: Exactly.

Mario: was mainly because it
was her birthday weekend and I'm

Angela: Yeah,

Mario: do that.

Angela: you can't do that.

No.

That's like, the funny thing is this is
a random, like super little random bit.

I, my birthday's at the beginning of May.

M.A.

is at the end.

His wife's birthday is at
the beginning of November.

Eva's is at the end of November.

So it feels very kismet that we're homies.

But thanks for hanging
out with us, everybody.

we'll see you on the internet.

Love you.

Bye.

Mario: Bye.

welcome to our preview of the decision
day match against the San Diego.

Uh, San Diego again.

Angela: I've never heard
you do that before.

Mario: Uh uh All right,

Angela: Oh, that was beautiful.