Welcome to the scuff podcast where we talk about U.S. soccer.

Hey everybody, Vince here with me, just the two of us.

Monday review.

Let's go.

That's right, brother.

It has the, go ahead.

Well, I was going to say it has the feeling.

It has the feeling a little bit right now of everything coming together.

Everything is coming together, man.

You know, Thanksgiving, holiday gives you a little bit of time to be

reflective mm-hmm think about what you're thankful for you know let me just go ahead and get this

out the way yeah please I'm thankful for for L loco you know I have retired the I had retired

the nickname because you know it didn't feel

good coming off the hand to be quite honest with your bells it felt racist you know you know what

i'm saying like that's like that's not me you know what i'm saying i'm i am appropriating

uh latin culture you you know it's like i'm basically i'm i was wading into something i don't

know what i'm doing yeah fair enough I don't know what I'm doing.

Yeah, fair enough.

I don't know what I'm doing. And that's where a lot of people get in trouble. You know, when you wait into something where you don't got the full context, it's like, okay. Because if somebody were to come at me, like, hey, Vince, you're being, whatever, ableist, you know, in anything. racist against Argentina is you know, you know,

as a,

as a, Um, you know, in anything, racist against Argentinians. You know, you know. Yeah. As an, as an American who doesn't understand soccer, you can see how these types things can blow up. So I was like, you know what? Let me retire it. But if I, because it was derogatory. But if I'm saying it to prop them up, like, you know, this is the mad genius.

Right.

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