The time has come to get ready for the 2022 World Cup and what better way to prepare than by revisiting the World Cup's most amazing goals.

I'm Brian Phillips, I'm making a podcast about the history of the men's World Cup, told through the stories of 22 iconic goals.

The show's called 22 Goals, it's out now on the Rinner Podcast Network and we're having so much fun.

Hello and welcome to another season of the answer. Today we have Kyle Mann, friend of the show, Loki, instigator. Y'all might not know it.

I can see him in front of me, he is just wearing what looks like the comfyest hoodie of all time and soft friendly eyes and this nice beard and like you guys all hear his voice.

InfoSys on soft, very soft, friendly, you know, the beard is.

You're eating all your favorite basketball videos and I'm sure he seems like the nicest guy in the world but you don't want to test it.

We're just jumping right into this, right? So we're just. No one has like stepped to me today.

I mean, should we say upfront? I mean, I don't want to like jump into this as if there's no precedent for why, you know, right or no reason because we.

We're going to talk about like aggression today, right? So like so right away. I think that I should say this about, you know,

I mean, I met for the first time in LA. It's been like a month ago now, right? Yeah, exactly a month. So we meet and we're talking and one of the conversation things that I told over dinner was people I think generally.

And this is people that are meeting me in my 30s are kind of like, Kyle's really mellow. Like that's generally what I get from there. Like even keel dude, you know, just laid back whatever I'm wearing a drug rug for God's sakes, right?

So is that what I call that was a, you know, some people call them drug rugs, Baja's joking name. Anyway, so yeah, I was telling you guys stories about, you know, we're talking about playing basketball because that's still a big part of my life always has been never really stopped.

Like I still, you know, I'm always playing. I love to play love it. Love it. Love it. Love it. But to think about me that people never expect is that I am an aggressive person on the court. Very aggressive.

I have, I've had times in my life where I have been very confrontational. I like to win. If I feel like people are screwing up, I might, you know, say something.

I like to pick people to battle with like to, to like say I'm going to set out to like compete with you.

But the first thing that I told them was a story about somebody saying that I was some guy like switched on to me, like basically implying like, oh, you're older, I'm going to take a break.

This dude who was like a younger guy and I took that really personally and just went after him. He called me Poppy and I got really mad. He said what's up Poppy.

He said what's up Poppy and I was like, I'm about to bury this motherfucker and I went wild. So anyway, that's why we have you wanted it. I'm not a great player, but I'm an okay player. But do you want me to launch into the Russian Mike story?

Yeah, we'll say that for a little bit later. Right now, I just, you know, I think this, this, you set it up great because we're going to be talking about Dremont Green today.

I don't think that there's anybody at the ringer who's better suited to get into the psyche of one Dremont Green and the general sort of the relationship between sports, the NBA, and aggression, and physicality.

And when that, when that line is overstepped, then, then you, and this is, this is an interesting, this has been an interesting story for it's been developing for the last week or so.

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