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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Herdo Travis MacCaffrey touchdown.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Again.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
It was, Yeah, a lot of the forty nine ers scoring,
in particular Christian McCaffrey. We had three touchdowns in the
desert against the Cardinals. That is the way we start
off the l Huddle podcast. What's good everybody, bm benitos
and will shove alongside my Maana, my Prima, my primia,
mana m j acasta, what's up?
Speaker 5 (00:56):
And that was an extended there for us, and I
love it.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I was so happy watching that highlight over of Christian McCaffrey,
and I was excited all day. I didn't check my
fantasy teams all day only to find out because I
have him on the team that in the playoffs in
but I have a first round buying the playoffs, so
it didn't even matter.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
He falled out this.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
For the next game, yeah, which which at this point
in time, that game between the forty nine Ers and
the Ravens on Monday night, which happens to be Christmas
Day night. Is that what we call it is a
massive game where you have two number one seeds here at.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Jasey crazy crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
This is the gift that we deserve, the gift gifts
on Giving And I know we're not really used to
having football on Christmas Day. I know traditionally that was
an MBA day that's typically watch at home.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
But my dad's like, let's go lock it in. It's
actually his West Coast team.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
It's probably my influence here as well from having covered
them for so long.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Is the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
He really loves this forty nine So he's excited to
be able to watch that with the family on Monday
night for sure.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah, that's that's a biggie for both of them.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
And we saw the lamar In Magik on display against Jacksonville,
just extending plays.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It looked like he was almost getting sacked.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Then he throws the ball, then he completes it to
Isaiah Lakely. They just seem to be on a different
level right now. And this is where you want to
be in December. You want to be on a roll,
you want to be playing your best football, and that's
what's happening with the forty nine ers. I think the
only concern for them was their tackling and the run defense.
They did miss some guys on the D line, so
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we'll see how healthy they're going to be. That goes
for Eric Armstead and also Javon Hargrave. Neils to say, though,
this is definitely a marquee matchup that I'm looking forward to,
and there's definitely gonna be other marquee matchups that we
will be looking forward to. One in particular that I
know is of great interest to you is the Dolphins
(03:04):
and Cowboys. And it sounds like it's just easy to
get a ticket down there and sell.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I mean, if you're in the resil if you're in
the resale market and you have about ten brand to
playing around for two tickets.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
That's an actual, uh number, an actual amount that people
are reselling tickets. It's Christmas Eve, afternoon game. You go there,
you go home, you have your let, you have your
chip way out party. It's a perfect day if you
can afford it, if you can manage to squeeze yourself
in there. Absolute bananas, I mean, especially coming off of
last you know this, this most recent game that they
(03:40):
played against the just this is just exactly what folks Intouth,
Florida want late December football that already feels like playoff.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Football for sure.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
But that's gonna be an interesting one for sure, because
I definitely thought the Cowboys were going to come up
with a commanding, not a commanding, but a solid victory
over the Bills, and it was the complete office the Bills.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
These Bills dominated.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
I know he's very excited about it.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Very Yeah, that was a dominating performance against Dallas. And listen,
we all were kind of swept up in the hype
of Dak being an MVP candidate and the way that
Mike McCarthy was calling plays and how they played at home,
but how they.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Play on the road.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
They're now three and four and that just now gives
me pause and makes me think, no feeling aos, Like
I just don't have the confidence that they will be
able to get it done when it matters the most.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
In January.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
They are dominant at home seven and zero, but three
and four and the Bills just had their way with
their running game. It just was something where James Cook
could do no wrong, couldn't be stopped, and it just
was disappointing to see the Cowboys lay an egg the
way that they did. And I think a lot of
(05:01):
people are now starting to say, oh, I don't know
if I can trust the cow Boys.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Here we go again.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
A lot of reaction on Twitter and or whatever we're
calling it now, all of our social media of Cowboys
fans just saying like this is why we can't have
nice things.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
This is and it's like, Okay, don't freak out.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
First of all, the Bills are a worthy opponent that
is a very tough team. Perhaps have not played to
the level that we've expected them to play this season,
but that is a hard to go up against.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
I think what.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Really stands out is the lack of explosiveness, especially offensively,
that we've seen from this Cowboys team, certainly over what
the last month. That minimum that's interesting. And then to
have to go up against the Dolphins team that is
an absolute track meet. Tyreek didn't play last week, but
we'll see. They'll probably want to have him as ready
(05:51):
to go as possible against the Cowboys on a Christmas
Eve home game for the Fins.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
So that's that's gonna be a tough one for sure
for them.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Yeah, and then then they're going to have to rely
on Jalen who is a number one wide receiver in
his own right, and exploded against the Jets. The Cowboys
have to figure something out here. I think the O
line once they had injury there. They also just couldn't
(06:22):
generate anything going with Pollard in that running game and
just Dack in ceedee lamb. We're just now on the
same page, and hats off to Boppy's Bills because that
defense is really stifling at the moment, and they would
be the team right now that I would not look
forward to if they made the playoffs, no, considering how
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they play the last two weeks against quality opponents and
the Chiefs and the Cowboys.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Yeah, I mean, they put up the defense here.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Point has always been a tough challenge from the Bills,
but they put up thirty one points as well offensively,
and Josh Allen is still playing top tier level one
quarterback action. It's it's it's incredible to watch. And even
in the games where we know they've taken a loss,
you still have to say, yeah, but Josh Allen balled
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out right, So like that's that's always something that you
have to keep in mind when you're talking about the
Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
And it helps to have a strong running game, which
if my mom understood football.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
She'd say, jawell feed all.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Yeah, that's that's just a phrase in in Nicaraguaica.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
You know, that's like impressive.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
That's something which I don't think means anything to anybody
except in Nicaragua, which, by the way, I think of
my mom, my family, your family are traditions that we
grew up with. Let me ask you this, how many
Nativity sets do you have?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Like how many? I mean, we had probably like a
dozen at least.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
We didn't have that many because we didn't have that many.
We had an apartment in New York.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
But they're like on the windows.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Maybe there was one on the window for sure. There
was death definitely one under the tree, and that was
like the more legit one, right, like it was made
out of wood.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
There was like fake moss.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
You had like the very realistic looking figurines of like
the whole Nativity set.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Night.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Then there was one that was like an ornament that
went on the tree, and I was like, we get it,
we got it, we got it.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
It's not enough. But two there's just it's not enough.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Three was like a very conservative number of Nativity sets
in my household. My parents did give me a uh
an ornament one for my tree, because there were one
we have.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
We have two that the kids made and and one
that my mom gave us, and then there's another one
that we did not put up. But you know, grown
up we had Los reyes margos. That was a big
thing too. You try to really just bring out that
spirit of Christmas, right, that's really really important.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
We tried to blend like our traditions, right, our Dominican
and Latino traditions with like the very American traditions that
they were trying to uphold and learn and integrate into
our our lives. Because in dr like to your mention,
to your point, the big Christmas Day is three Yes, Gunny,
that's my dog. Guys, he's I'm not paying any I
(09:28):
also bought gifts for Gunny. He's no idea about the
gifts that are coming on Christmas Eve as opposed to
the gifts I probably.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Be credded in like two hours.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Well, no, he's not go another difference because I literally
bring him something every other day. It's getting out of control.
He does not need any more toys.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
So you're not spoiling it.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
No, No, not at all.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Very structured, very disciplined, dog.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Where'd you go from there? You know, kids walk in,
dogs walk in?
Speaker 3 (09:53):
That's a.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Can hear his little footsteps?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Uh? But yeah, so we always try to to include
as many traditions, but like keep our keep our Latin
latini that very very present.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
You couldn't hide it even if you wanted to.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
You know, no, no, no, we couldn't.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
So yeah, making the cookies was a big tradition and
obviously decorating with the big lights and everything, like we
literally had like these three huge lights that we hung
from the stairs, these massive things with like chains that
we would have that would that were certainly not safely
(10:30):
secured onto the staircase. No, hell no, definitely wasn't the case.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
But they had like you know, I just remember.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Like the the light bulbs were like you know, bright
yellow and dark green and just things that I don't
even know if they have now. And they also had
this little projector wheel that had four different colors on
it that would just go round and round that would
you know, project onto the to the to atible right
(11:02):
to the to the tree. So uh, definitely, definitely a
lot of great memories growing up of I go experience,
I go.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Pretty hardcore with like the indoor decorations, like the tree
itself is a very big deal, you know, the stockings,
the other you know, other little knickknacks around the house.
But the outdoor decor I'm like, I'm not getting up
on a ladder.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
I'm not doing any of that. Where am I plugging?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Where am I plugging this into? Who's gonna climb this?
David's certainly not gonna do it. I bet you if
I asked he would apply, he would oblige. But I
did cheat and I got that that light projector thing.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, that's fine, hard and it's perfect.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Everyone just buy one of these. Save yourself. It's the
life hack of a century. I'm trying to put my
parents on. But they're you know, Christmas purists, so they're
going to do the lights and like the blow up
of Snowman outside, mostly because of my niece now, but
I was like, if y'all don't get this projector and
be done with it in five minutes, that's me.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
I'm gonna look for the hack.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I'm gonna look for the Heck, it's up to us,
the next generation, to not bog ourselves down with all
this stuff.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
I agree pretty much. Man, I agree. Also, Gunny, who's
there with you?
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Yeah, like so.
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Needy today, Hey listen, I need you today, you know,
and our.
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And our guest is going to need you because the
last time we had him on this podcast, I was
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Speaker 4 (12:34):
I'm going to be we're talking to Sorry I meant
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Speaker 2 (12:41):
No, no, no, I was just thinking of what interviewed
the last time.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
But Bears kicker Cairo Santos is also Brasileros, so we're
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is going to be a game in Brazil, what his
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That's our guy, Cairo Santos, who's affairs kicker and joining
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Speaker 3 (14:26):
Caro, Hey, I'm.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
So excited to finally be able to talk to you
and try to fall in Portuguese. Literally, guys, that's the
extent of how much I can speak Portuguese. And I
don't know if I did that well, but we're gonna
try because we're we're look, we're trying to do that.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Cairo, pretty good, right, very good?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
First, she said she could only talk before we got
we went on. She could only say a little bit. Now,
she's like her vocabulo already.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Yeah, how about you, Caro, do you know a little Spanish?
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I feel like I can understand a lot. Is just
like when I I'm asked to speak Spanish, then I
get Portuguese English all and I try to translate everything
and ends up so confusing. But yeah, I took it
all through high school and college, and the similarities between
the two ladies are close enough to kind of understand
(15:22):
what's being said. But the conjugation changes a lot that
very confusing enough to make it difficult.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
No, for sure, because Portuguese is sort of a blend
of Spanish, French a couple of other things as well,
so it is complicated for sure. But I used to
work for Latin Trade magazine. I was a junior advertising associate,
which meant I just did all the work for like
the sales exactly. But we had it in English and
(15:49):
Spanish and in Portuguese, so I had the copy in
front of me for years. So I was able to
learn to read and understand a lot of the Portuguese
while I was at that job. I've lived many lives,
you guys, but that was like a cool way to
me to be tuned in.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yeah, Iiro you know, to have you back on.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
When we last spoke with you, we were talking about
the idea the possibility of an NFL game being played
in Brazil. It finally happened, where Brazil is going to
be hosting an NFL game. Where were you when the
news finally came out?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
So I the day before, which was last Tuesday, there
was a lot of going on on social media that
the news would be announced the following day, on my Wednesday.
So from Tuesday, it was already like it looks like
it's happening. They just need a final confirmation to come
out from the NFL, but it looks like it's going
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to be played in Brazil. But what I thought was
interesting that Monday night that we just played a clip
of that game in Minnesota. John Sutcliffe from the ESPN,
uh New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Our buddy, our buddy.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Yeah, he's amazing. I love him. He's fun to talk to.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Monday night football, and uh so he was we were
talking in during the game and and he mentioned to
me there's a lot of talk going on, and uh so,
then like I already started to get really excited that Okay,
like coming from him, like he might really know what's
going on.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Uh. I got really excited. So I had to kind
of like, Okay, how do I focus the rest of
this game? Knowing that, you know, we're close to being
announcing a game in Brazil. But it wasn't until last
week that I really you know, when the official news
came out that I saw the details that was going
to be playing in St. Paulo, the state where I
was born. I was born in the city called about
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an hour and a half from Some Paulo, and I've
I've been to the soccer games in that soccer arena
that belongs to Cordincias. Uh So it's I've been there.
It's it's I'm hoping that the NFL would either send
the Bears or.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I was gonna say that week and right one of
the two, like help us out here, because you can't
miss that game.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
You can't miss that.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
I can't know. I think it would add so much
to how special, you know, just having the first game
in Brazil. Uh and and me being the only representative
amongst the players at the moment is just and the
following that we've had in the last ten years. Uh.
(18:37):
Since I entered the league, I think helped grow that
that market. You know, the fans became so passionate for
the sport, the brand of the NFL, and you know,
I really give all credit to them, all the people
that are obsessed with the sport that's not even part
of their culture. Like they learned to fall in love
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with American football from so far away and been so
hungry for this experience that I would being on for
me to be close to them, to help it, make it,
make it special.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
How long you get to go back to Brazil, because
you meant that that's not a short flight.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
The proximity is not closed.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
It's not so I e before COVID and around COVID,
I started having kids as well. So we haven't gone
back since twenty nineteen. But before that I went twice
a year. I rank camps the last the first five
or six years that I was in the NFL, like
every every summer go down there and put together a
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camp for kids, just for free and just like just
to help grow the brand. And the amount of sign
ups that we had just blew our minds, just like,
how is this sport of that popular? People flying in
from all over the country. To go to San Paulo
and be a part of those camps, it was special.
And so this regardless if if we're going to have
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this game or not this year a big making plans
to go back and kind of continue with with what
I've been doing there and that it's so special to me.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Well, Kyro, you know that there is NFL Brazil, right
and according to NFL Brazil, they have the top five
most popular NFL teams that are being followed. Let's see
if you can guess what they are. Okay, let's start
with number five. There's five teams. Like, take a wild
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guess as to who you think the top five teams are.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
I would say Patriots are one of them.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Okay, that's good. Now, why why would you say the.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Patriots because the goat Tom Brady.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
I think we're gonna say, Giselle the connecting thread here.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Among the female probably so probably the Patriots.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Okay, Patriots's correct.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
That should definitely helped She definitely helped Tom. And then
the Patriots. I would say the Packers.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yes, the Packers is number one.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Okay, why I guess right away?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
We were kind of shocked until we realized why and
I feel.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Like you mean, I suspect and I hope this story
is that it's because they're red. Oh they're sorry, they're
green and yellow, which is color.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Yes, exactly, that exactly, and not because it makes so
much sense.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Yeah, not because they're a good football team.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Now there it is.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Yeah, and the Bears player, no less, that's kind kill.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah, I know we can see why.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
We can understand.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
You got you got, you got two, so you got yeah,
so now you got three more?
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Yes, how did you know that?
Speaker 3 (21:52):
So? I think Brazilians like to dive really deep when
they fall in love with something. So they probably went
into the culture and the Joe Montana history, and that
would be my guess to why that franchise they're so
popular there.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
I love that. Okay, who else? We got two more?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
So those are the I would say, the three easy ones.
My I would maybe go with the Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Shockingly not yeah, probably somewhere in the top ten if
I had to.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Guess, Yeah, I mean, we gotta go. Maybe a Florida team,
the Dolphins.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
No, I thought that too.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yes, I thought that there's so many Brazilians in Miami.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Good, guess it's at Florida and there's a lot of Brazilians.
I saw a huge growth in the fan base of
the Chiefs when I was a part of it, So
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
You are in there, They're in there.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Yeah. And then obviously, I mean probably Pat Mahomes was
the guy that really made that fan base explode. Now
for obvious reasons, but I did see the Chiefs grow
a lot. So, okay, we got four yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
More, this is a West Coast team that's in the NFC.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
West Coast Yeah, which is not the forty nine ers. Yeah,
I'm in between the Seahawks or I don't think it's okay.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yeah, I was way more.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I was gonna say the Rams, but I was way
more confident on the Seahawks.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Yeah. Do you think the Seahawks?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Yeah, I don't know. They have a really cool logo,
cool colors. I think similar. Yeah, yeah, I would. I
think I would go with that if I was a
Brazilian fan. And uh, okay, I think the last couple
of years, I think they've been an exciting team to follow.
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Won the Super Bowl. It seems like a long time ago,
but it was in this or of football.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Yes, it does feel like a million years.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Yeah, but yeah, so I think I.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Did well, absolutely yourself on the back. Sure.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
So do you know that number six Steelers, number seven,
the Eagles, number eight, the Cowboys, number nine, the Giants
and number ten Broncos.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Are you surprised by any of those?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
I am. I'm surprised. I forgot about some of those,
like Steelers, Eagles, Giants, those would have been good guesses
as well. Yeah, surprised at the Broncos. Maybe it was
a Peyton Manny influence again, people that that joined they
wanted to really follow the great. Uh so maybe the
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Broncos is a surprising one like that.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
You did really well.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Yeah, no, you did really well.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
It's like you were just expecting to talk about it
and now we had you, We had you on the
hot Sea.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
But you did really well.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Sorry for the trivia.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
So how do you think the Brazilian NFL fan base
compares to the fan bases in London and in Germany.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
I think I actually see similarities, like at least from
us when I was with the Chiefs, we played in
London one year and what everyone said to me lending
up to that that what was really cool and different
from what you get from an NFL experience in the
States is that the stadium is filled with all the jerseys.
It's like a rainbow of all the jerseys. Just they're
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just pure football fans, NFL fans that are there for
the game, not as much as I'm saying the States
where the cheering for one team or the other, just
having that close contact with NFL football at the in
their country that that's really where the party is at
in those types of environments and games, and Germany seems
(26:04):
very simil to London, and so I think that in
general already kind of knew of that aspect of Brazilian
fans that like, you know, they get together the group
that I know in Brazil, it's like Sundays, let's go
out to a restaurant or a bar, and it's just
like people with all the jerseys watching whatever the game
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is on. It's not necessarily team A or B who
were playing on that Monday night or Sunday night. It's
all the jerseys go to the bars to watch NFL
football and talk and learn together. So that's really cool
about it that it's just like it's like an enjoyment
of the game in the league itself versus just a
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specific for one team, so they can bring any team
to Brazil, Mexico, London, Germany. It's going to be a
hit because of the NFL product.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
I think here's what I've learned.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I've been very lucky to cover the international games over
the last of years, and I think initially that's what
it is. And the lead up to the game is
like that where people are just like, there's an NFL
game here in our house. We're not watching it, you know,
at a random hour, sometimes two in the morning for
a primetime game, depending on what times on you're in.
But what I've noticed over the last couple of years
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is that the fans, the international fans, will take a
rooting interest in one of the two teams, and it's
usually the home squad, right whether they inherently have teams
fans there already, the ones that are sort of up
in the middle will be like, okay, cool, if they're
the home team, then that's who I'm rooting for. I
saw it in Mexico with forty nine ers pretty much
for an against anybody, but forty nine ers over there
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were heavy.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
The Chiefs in Germany like I'm I.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Went over there, as it does a Dolphins Girl in
a different capacity, overwhelmingly Chiefs Kingdom. For that first game
in Frankfurt, it was nuts, it was crazy. So I
am anticipating that in Brazil they are going to pick
pick one. So I'm super excited to see who the
two teams are going and then which way the fan
brace in South.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Yeah, that's a great point, very interesting too, because those
the London, Germany and Brazil. I'd say soccer is like
the main culture. So it's just like if England, Germany
or Brazil's national team would be playing at home, they're
going to support the home team. So it's like, that's
so cool to hear that because it's like the whole
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country embracing that.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Now, we got to figure out how to make the
Bears the home team in this.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Yes, that would be ideal. We need to make that happen.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Let's start. Yeah, let's start a movement for you. Yeah,
I would appreciate that so much.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Yeah, Kira, before we let you go, if you are
an NFL team that is going to be playing in Brazil,
how do you think they should prepare for the trip,
the logistics and being in Brazil.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Yeah, so the climate in some Paolo, I think is
going to be awesome around that time because it's opposite
it of of the North Hemisphere. So while here's gonna
be well, it depends depending on when the game is,
but assuming it could be earlier, remember yeah, yeah, so
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as this gets colder here, that's just like you know,
starting the spring, So at night it should be a
lovely seventies, probably low eighties. It's a good expect you know,
just don't don't eat a lot of meat leading up
to that week. Wait, you get to Brazil, so you
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can eat all the shoe hosco because that's the best
meat in the world right there. So I would expect
to eat eat very well, and that people are gonna
are gonna as you leave the airports, I think as
you enter the hotels, people just just like they do
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with national soccer teams, people are going to be outside waiting,
uh to screamy And then it's such a cool It's
going to feel like a super Bowl, you know for
players that have been I really feel like it's going
to be like a super Bowl week where you know,
it's such a it's going to elevate the intensity and
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how special that game will be, even if it's a
regular season game. It's gonna feel definitely different than a
regular season game.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
Do you samba?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
And how soon should we start the samba lessons before we.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Go to I don't know if you guys saw the
clip on me dancing after the Minnesota game. I was
trying to do the greedy no. I got made fun
of because my rhythm was off.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
But that's very different from SAA.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
It is and I cannot samba. I can score the goals.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
We got you.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
You do the goals, will take care of the the job.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
I'm a two step kind of.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
This is where you live, where you live.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Hey, Cairo, thank you so much again for the time
for being on with us, for meeting MJ. I'm glad
that we all are together in this and we are
so excited, so happy for you, and I hope your
dream comes true where you get a chance to kick
there in front of your hometown, in front of the
fans of Brazil who know you and love you and
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admire you for what you've done in your NFL career.
So thank you so much for taking the time again.
The first time we've had a guest on twice on
this podcast. We got to make it three times as
we get rolling with this, So thank you again so
much Kiro for the time.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Anytime, guys, a pleasure to talk to you guys. Thank
you for helping us grow Brazil and in the NFL
and making this all happening.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Absolutely absolutely a companion Jack sie It.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
They both said, oh vact time. That pretty much sums
up how that game went well.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
They they knocked off, uh, not just the Chargers but
also their head coach, Brenon Staley got fired the following
day because of that, and it seemed like the Chargers
were not playing with any juice whatsoe where for. It
looked like the Chargers aim you know not. They just
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didn't have it where they wanted to be there. The
tackling was poor, and the Raiders just had their way.
So the Charger is going to be charting a new
course now with a new head coach and with a
new general manager. So they're playing out the string. One
of the teams in their division that is not going
to be playing out the string the Broncos. They're going
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to be hosting the Patriots Sunday night on Christmas Eve,
which can be seen on NFL Plus and on NFL
Network and for the Patriots at this point in time,
there's a lot of speculation.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Over Bill Belichick's.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Future, right, and they play the Chiefs extremely tough in Foxborough,
and you could tell threw off the Chiefs right. They
were definitely fighting. And again that's what we were saying
about just with the Chargers. And then there's the Broncos
who are still fighting for their playoff lives, so to speak,
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something that we did not expect a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
So what do you make of this game?
Speaker 1 (34:05):
I think it could be one of those oh gotcha games,
But I think it's it's two teams that absolutely want
to want to prove that they've got more fight in
them this late in the season, and certain the Broncos
who began to right the ship, if you will, for
whatever it's worth at this point in the year and
started playing much better football than what we saw at
(34:28):
the beginning of the year. So whenever you have that
those kind of chips on their shoulders, it usually turns
out to be not only chip b but some good
football as well, which is all that we could ask for.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
And yeah, well, you know, just the AFC South alone
is so interesting because you have the Jaguars the Texans
and also the Colts who are fighting for playoff positions,
and so I.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Think the AFC is going to be wild, I think.
And then you have the the.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Bengals that one with Jake Rounding against the Vikings in
the game that was also on NFL Network, and so
they're still you know, in this thing. The Steelers are
trying to figure things out. There's some games this coming
weekend that really have the playoff implications that the Rams
seven and seven, everybody, this is going to be a
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rebuild for them. They're facing the Saints or seven and seven.
And then the Browns continue to win with Joe Flacco,
which we didn't bring up that loss, uh for still the.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Fact that we're talking about Joe Flacco as a starting
quarterback in the year twenty twenty.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
Three and a half.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Yeah, it's just a reminder that things are wild right
now in the league.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Wow. But especially that in that AFC.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
I'm telling you that is going to be fascinating to
see how it all plays out. Really, just by that,
speaking of wild, Yes, that Hall, that hail Mary.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Which is Piro, that's I'm sure for that.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Yeah, Darnell Mooney just hating kicking himself.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
I did not want to bring that up to Cairo
because we're talking aboutouts for next year.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
That was rough. That was a rough loss.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Tight game, Yeah, yeah, no, it was. It was a
tight game.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
And and you know the Browns defense is a good one,
and you know they have Joe Flacco throwing the ball
a lot, which comes with some risk.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
He threw a bunch of picks.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
But either way, I mean, they they are are in
it at this point in time, and just like we
are in the throws right now of Christmas shopping still
and and literally like every day I am just hearing.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
That beep beep outside the door.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
I know there's packages coming our way, and we just
have a bunch of packages trying to figure out who
they're going to go to and and well we're going
to deliver them and how we're going to deliver them. Uh,
there's there's still like packages that were still waiting on
and the kids obviously excited about about Christmas.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
I saw a TikTok this morning of a USPS worker
who said, Hey, can you guys do us a favor
and tell your kids who Santa Claus really is? A
white guy in a sleigh please, it's US, it's UPS,
it's DHL, it's FedEx, it's Amazon retired.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
Stop buying stuff.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
They are working.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
Just typically shout out.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
To every single person who works in the delivery service
like this is they are doing the lord's work. Okay,
because there's way that I could get any of the
shop done. First of all, I shipped everything immediately to
the respective houses. I'm not wrapping it. If Amazon has
a gift wrapped option, I'm clicking it. How much is
it three ninety nine? Take my money?
Speaker 4 (37:54):
Yeah, even if it comes in like that that generic
silvery pouch or bag.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
It's a pouch.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
It's a pouch.
Speaker 5 (38:03):
It's not it looks beautiful something.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Yes, I have been to multiple homes where it's like
all the Amazon pouches.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
I was like, I'm not mad at you. Okay, there's
no judgment. Who has time?
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Is it easier?
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Of course it does, And easier for them because if
I'm sending it to my sister in law or to
my sisters, they don't have to wear like, well, now
I have to hide this, it's already wrapped.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
And the and the name tag crisis that we had yesterday,
the name tag crisis averted, you know, because we were
looking for because I have the scissors and you have
the wrapping paper and the bows.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
And then you.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
And then well, well, we were just like looking all
over and then we started looking the bags that at
already the gifts in them, and they were like just
digging our hands in there, and it's like, gosh, is
it in there somewhere? So I don't know where it is.
It's probably in a gift. So we have to get
name tags.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
So my husband is very mad at me because I
ordered a very cool thing for myself and I showed
it to him. He's like, why didn't you tell me
I would have bought this for you for Christmas.
Speaker 5 (39:03):
I still have no idea what this.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
One let's gift he has for you.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
I know I'm notorious for this if I see some. Okay, also,
I'll tell you what it was. It was a really
cool redesigned refurbage like vintage dolphins sweater that I saw
that I saw on an episode of Hard Knocks that
he and I were watching together. I spotted the lady
wearing it in the stands. It was in front of
Rahemoster's wife, who's an angel. I immediately googled it the
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dazzled vintage Dolphin's sweatshirt pops up found it. Because they're vintage,
they only have like a couple of each thing, so
I had to move quickly, you see. So I'm ordering
as we're watching Hard Knocks. David was none the wiser
that I was doing this and told so it arrived
and he was like, this is beautiful, Like this is
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so cool, but why didn't you tell me? I'm so
tired of being overly independent when I have a whole husband.
Speaker 5 (39:55):
I needed that. I need to calm down.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
Well, but but for me too, like I feel like
I didn't give I didn't give the missus enough, and
so I feel like I have to get one more
thing because I like that so well, because he gets
so wrapped up. It's like the kids and what they want,
and we just don't think of ourselves as much. And then,
you know, so I feel like I got to do
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one more stop, one more.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Place to go, and then I'm going to feel like, Okay.
Speaker 5 (40:23):
Anything sparkley, anything sparks.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
Yeah, so anything that barks, uh, well, that's not too much.
Speaker 5 (40:33):
I cross the line.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
I will say this though, and tell me if this
is if it's like this in your house. David only
has to worry about whatever he's getting me because I'm
taking care of everybody else, of his sister.
Speaker 5 (40:43):
His brother in law. He said, he doesn't have to
buy anything. So I'm like, no, that's why there's more
I don't sorry about.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
Yes, yes, but there's more pressure on on the guys
where you have to do something, and they'll say the
same thing as like I had to take care of
the kids. It's like, come on, I've done everything. I've
I gotten care of everything, take care of the dogs.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
So although, well we ever get to a point where
we're like, as grown adults, we don't need to be
buying Christmas gifts for each other.
Speaker 5 (41:10):
I had this conversation earlier.
Speaker 4 (41:12):
No, you guys know, you're like, that's not a thing. Yeah,
I don't think that's the thing at all. Come well,
you said there, that still has to be exchange of
goods and services.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
We do have an afternoon of great volunteer work this weekend,
so I have to shout out to the streets and
the Joy Tailor Foundation. We went out there, went to
skid Row and helped serve four hundred and fifty unhoused
members of our community over the weekend, and like that,
that to me that I rather allocate, Yeah, allocate our
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time too. So they put together a tremendous afternoon. They
do this regularly. We were the ones who just showed
up one weekend, right, Like they are out there in
the community week after week. So maybe guys, if you
guys don't know what to do, maybe set that up
for your family. Even if you are getting gifts, like,
it's good to pass it on and pay it forward
a little bit too.
Speaker 5 (42:04):
That's I got off my high hearts.
Speaker 4 (42:06):
Yeah, wow, you know my is is I'm not you
pretty much mind for everybody.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
I want to be you, but I don't know if
I can measure up, you know.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
That's uh, that's amazing, honestly, And that's how cool this
season's all about.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
Right.
Speaker 4 (42:25):
It sounds cheesy or corny to say that, but that's
really what it should be about, because it's just a
giving of yourself, even if it is giving to somebody,
giving something to somebody just to see the smiles on
their faces, no question, that's that's what it's all about.
So yeah, MYNTO is just that I'm not you, and
I wish I was.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
No, No, it's not about me. These these organizations are
the ones who put all of this together. I just
helped out for a couple of hours, so all the
props to that. But I am excited to get a
little bit of family time in between football and into
in between work.
Speaker 5 (42:57):
And then that's it. We turned the page to twenty
twenty four.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
Well, yup, yup, I know.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
I know, wild We've got what a week and a
half left of the year if that, yeah, weeks, so.
Speaker 4 (43:09):
You can get used to writing checks that, say, twenty
twenty four and at twenty twenty.
Speaker 5 (43:13):
Three, Well, who's writing checks? Are you writing physical checks occasionally?
Speaker 2 (43:18):
But not like if it's for school stuff?
Speaker 4 (43:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (43:22):
Fair and everything is everything example, pay Mozelle.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
That kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (43:27):
But but I know what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
Yeah, some people still like the good old fashioned checks.
Speaker 1 (43:32):
But when I do my notes, like my football notes,
I still write the date.
Speaker 5 (43:35):
On top for me like that. Yeah, yeah, we're old
school like.
Speaker 4 (43:41):
That, will yes we are, Okay that then I'm gonna
take back my.
Speaker 2 (43:45):
Booth that we are closer than what I read.
Speaker 5 (43:49):
Before. That binds us and separates us for sure. Awesome.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
I'm excited to see what the what the not only
what Christmas brings, but what the New Year brings.
Speaker 5 (43:59):
It happens fast.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
The days are long, but the season is short, as
our amazing NFL media family member Puma Nelson says all
the time shot out to Puma, all right, well, we'll
do this again next week and I'll let you know
what David got me.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, but are you gonna be like
I knew it? I knew it. I knew it.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
I will be honest with you honestly, and nobody's gonna
believe me. But if he gets me nothing at all,
I'm also fine. But it's also our ac prep.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
That's not true. Stop stop with this, Stop with this.
I'm okay.
Speaker 4 (44:33):
I don't get anything that we needn't need anything. We
will investigate that in the next episode podcast, because you
can't just spring that on me at the end of
this thing.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
No way, I need to go I need to go it.
Yeah that's right. This has been to podcast.
Speaker 4 (44:52):
Hopefully we will be back together again because there's some.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
Things that need to be said.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
And that's what.
Speaker 4 (45:00):
You know for Alista, the the whole thing, right, Enjoy
the time, everybody with your families a familia, enjoy yourselves,
have a lot of good food, watch a lot of football.
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