Bonus Episode: Breaking down that episode of The Office in which soccer is played w/ Brooks Peck and Felipe Cardenas
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4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In a podcast episode that is roughly twice the length of the actual TV episode, Brooks Peck and Felipe Cardenas join the show to discuss their recent article for The Athletic, The forgotten ‘The Office’ soccer scene with Idris Elba: A tactical analysis Does Charles actually like soccer? Why did they play on a parking lot? Why did Jim duck but, more importantly, why did Charles fire a rocket at his face? Plus, does being IN Germany during the World Cup mean you went FOR the World Cup, why isn't soccer more often on American sitcoms, and much much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome everyone to a very special episode of The Total Soccer Show. |
| 0:24.3 | My name is Taylor Rockwell, and today we're going to spend between 10 and 100 minutes discussing the episode of the office in which soccer is played. |
| 0:32.3 | To do that, I'm joined by the brilliant thinkers who put the time and effort into dissecting that episode for an actual |
| 0:38.2 | article that was actually published up first, making his return appearance not to talk about |
| 0:43.8 | South American football is Felipe Cardenas. Felipe, thank you very much for being here. |
| 0:48.3 | And always happy to be here, Taylor, always happy, even if we're not talking about, you know, |
| 0:52.6 | tactics and random 20-year-olds that are coming out of South America and joining MLS clubs. So happy to talk about something different today. Yeah, I don't really know how I can just throw you a bunch of curveballs that you'll somehow be able to answer, but we'll still take us off on massive tangents into like Ecuador and Venezuelan football. Yeah, I mean, I'm prepared for your curveballs. |
| 1:11.1 | Don't worry. |
| 1:13.4 | There's a few in there. |
| 1:16.5 | Also with us is Mr. Brooks Peck. |
| 1:18.0 | Brooks, thank you very much for being here. |
| 1:20.9 | Is this, this isn't your first appearance on The Total Soccer Show, is it? |
| 1:26.6 | No, I was actually on when Ryan hijacked the show and made a dirty tackle reunion while you were off on baby duty. |
| 1:28.9 | That's right. |
| 1:31.0 | How was that? |
| 1:32.1 | Was it nice to be back on the mic? |
| 1:33.6 | Oh, it was so much fun. |
| 1:34.6 | Yeah, it was awesome. |
| 1:35.5 | It got us talking about, you know, big plans again. |
| 1:39.5 | So we'll see where those lead to. |
| 1:41.3 | All right. |
| 1:41.6 | Well, where we are right now in terms of our big plans is discussing the article that you all wrote. |
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