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Like Rick said, Ray usually goes over like a big conglomeration,

like some kind of a merged company, something really the MTA, Apple,

like a really big corporation.

That's his way. It won't be mine today. RJ, you ready to go right off the bat? Oh, sure. Because usually I don't turn it to you right away, but I see the lines are all lit up. So you may have a moment. Are you ready? I am. So World Cup final on Sunday, a team that is not there that could have been there. That would be England. England, yeah. So, you don't have to be a soccer expert to realize by now. Football's coming home. It's not coming home. I guess the third place trophy could. Probably not, though. Mbap is playing for the high mark of goals in this tournament, which I think will mean a lot to him, so I think he'll be highly motivated to score. The Golden Boot? Yep. So. What's the other thing? Golden Ball and the Ballandor. Ballandor. That's worldwide. That's player of the year. Yeah, that's non-world cup. That's basically the highest personal award you can win.

So it's like the Heisman.

Sure.

So with England, you don't have to be an expert by now to realize that they changed their

formation, went very defensive, went into a shell, with a manager who's accomplished

quite a bit outside of England,

and they thought this was Thomas Tucho was going to be the one to put them over the top.

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