This is The Guardian.

Thanks for coming, everybody.

It's a football weekly life.

It's a real honour to be asked to headline South by Southwest to close it.

We didn't, we thought it was weird.

They did it at 1130 on a Monday morning, but this is where the close of South by Southwest is.

So thanks for coming to that. My name is Max Rushton. I'm the host of this. We are the longest running football podcast in the world.

We are, we think the biggest football podcast in the US, but we haven't checked for a few years. We're not going to do that.

Can I just ask, does anybody regularly listen or has ever listened? It's an audio format,

so no hands up just to kind of, like some sort of, emit some sort of noise if you listen to Football Weekly.

Okay. And now for the same question, emit some sort of noise if you've watched Ted Lassau.

I see how to skew this show. Okay. What I'm going to do is I'm going to read an intro because we're going to put this podcast out on Friday. And I see two people have left already. This is a blow. but that's okay. Thanks so much for coming. You thought it was an AI show, didn't you? I know. We're the only one not doing AI. Thank you for coming. We're not talking about innovation. We don't know what that is. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to read an intro. We'll have the music to make you feel like it's the pod, and at the end of it when I say, all that plus your questions, and this is the Guardian Football Weekly, if you could then cheer wildly as if there are 20,000 people in this room, as if it is the greatest single moment of your life. If it is the greatest single moment of your life, you have my sympathies. I'm sorry for what you've been through. But I'll read that intro. It will sort of tell you what's going to come up on the show anyway. And then you all, you're an intelligent crowd. I don't need to talk you through this again. But I'll do the intro. I'll say all that plus your questions. and that this is not the bit, this is just explaining it to you. This is the Guardian Football Weekly.

And when I do that, I'll do the intro, I'll say all that plus your questions, and this is not the bit, this

is just explaining it to you, this is the Guardian Football Weekly.

And when I do that, I'll probably make some big gesture, go while, like standing ovation

is fine, you should see people on the Dublin show, right?

They're wasted, I doubt most of you are, but channel that if you can, okay?

Is everybody understand that, does that make sense?

Yeah, okay, good, Okay, thanks. Okay. Okay, I just get ready. Do you mind if I can stand for the intro or I'll sit down for the end? I've just got to do my, yeah. Password on this. Upholster 7, exclamation. It gets into my bank as well. That's great. Okay, producer Joel. Producer Joel's here, by the way. If you're a fan of the pod, that's nice. Yeah.

Play the music, Joel.

Hello and welcome to the Guardian Football Weekly Live from South by Southwest in Austin, Texas.

Today we'll talk about the successive Ted Lassau, not in small part to this podcast, unwavering support for the show since it began.

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