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🗓️ 26 April 2016
⏱️ 59 minutes
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This week, we jump across the pond to the UK, to take inside look at an up and coming soccer player, whose past of drug gang revenge violence, and general stupidity would come back to haunt him, while he attempted to live his dream on the field. Break out your soccer jersey, pour a cup of tea, and get ready for some good, old fashioned British street crime with Gavin Grant!!Check us out, every Tuesday. We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!
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0:06.0 | Hello and welcome back to Crime and Sports. Yay! Thank you so much for joining us as always. I'm James Petrogallo here with my co-host. |
0:35.0 | Jimuisman! We are so excited to be with you. You couldn't be happier to be here. Some really exciting stuff this week. First of all, I would like to thank everybody for listening. We had a good week. Everybody was a lot of listeners this week. A lot of UK listeners this week. |
0:51.0 | We had a lot of Irish Ireland, we had a lot of big time. We are going to do a soccer player, UK Soccer player. Gavin Grant is a really interesting story. A lot of fun. For you, American football fans that are waiting for Ryan Leef, don't worry. We have a special bonus draft day episode this week coming out on Thursday. |
1:14.0 | We are going to be Ryan Leef. We have two episodes this week. One UK football and one American football. There will be a lot of fun. Both no doubt shitheads. |
1:24.0 | Oh, they are both shitheads. Big time idiots. Completely different types of idiots. First of all, please also rate review on iTunes. That is super important. Thank you guys for doing that. Please take 30 seconds and do it. It helps us out tremendously. |
1:39.0 | Let's enjoy the show. Give us a little love there. That said, it is time. Let's get into the idiot of the week. |
1:48.0 | Our idiot of the week is Gavin Grant. He is from London, England. He is born in Brent, England. He is a very British sounding town. It is Gavin Ronaldo Grant from Brent. |
2:02.0 | He was born on the 27th of March. We will say 27 March for our UK football out there in 1984. 5-11, little black dude. Little black English guy. That is the thing guys. This is funny to us. This story is really, really about the kind of thing we would say is the ghetto. |
2:24.0 | We are there, the projects, our bad areas. It is about London's projects and ghetto type of things. They are street crime trade. This is awesome because from America, first of all, we apologize for fucking up. We are going to mess up soccer. |
2:40.0 | We are going to mess up your crime too. We are going to mess up a lot of shit. |
2:44.0 | Picture a lot of your culture. Picture a lot of pick pockets in their favela. This is a favela story. This is a favela type of a sealant pocket watch. That is what we picture. |
2:56.0 | We don't pick it as gangster. We are Americans. We get street crime. That is our thing. We are a top notch street crime. That is we have given that to the world. We invented organized street crime. We understand that. |
3:11.0 | We did not invent it. We damn sure perfected it. We did. The weird thing is two. Another thing these guys are all black. |
3:19.0 | From Americans. That is so weird because the first black British person we ever saw was Lennox Lewis. We were just like, what the fuck hell is going on here? Am I? Did I have a stroke? |
3:30.0 | Why is that black man talking with all of our voice? That is how ignorant we are. Obviously there are more cultures there. There are black. There are white cultures there. We are just completed. |
3:42.0 | Disney is huge here. A huge influence in children's lives. A lot of their accents are British. A lot of English accent gets into our Disney movies. There are no black guys. We apologize that we realize that there are black people in every culture. |
4:01.0 | We have very limited amount. It does not get over here. It is all crooked tooth white people. I really like the in betweeners. Thank you for that guy. I love that show. |
4:14.0 | There are a lot of other stuff TV shows. I like space. I like a lot of senior royal family. I like people. Let's get into this guy. Let's see here. He basically grows up in an area called Stonebridge. This is like the Marcy Projects. It is in Brent Northwest London. |
4:41.0 | Stonebridge started out as housing for industrial workers. There is an ice cream factory right by there. The walls ice cream factory used to be there. All the industrial workers work there. This is kind of like Cleveland or Detroit. |
4:59.0 | There are lots of union workers. People are there for the factory work. The factory is closed and leave. What happens to the people left behind? |
5:09.0 | The industry moved out. The area became super dangerous. I don't know if it was shot up through the roof. Pickpockets were everywhere. Pickpockets became a migrant area. The Detroit or New York parts of Brooklyn places like that were a lot of foreigners came. They were getting the cheap and affordable housing. |
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