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- Hi, I'm Brendan Hunt from Ted Lasso,

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and I'm talking with Deadspin.

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Soccer fandom, particularly
in this country,

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is chock full of gatekeepers,

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and there are still gatekeepers

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who are watching the show
just for like soccer errors,

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and like, we're gonna
have soccer errors, guys.

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It's not a documentary.

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And no one would have any more right

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to recognize our soccer errors than

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the actual players and coaches,

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and, you know, executives
of the biggest teams

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and programs in the world.

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And they still like the show.

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You know, they can see that
we're doing something else.

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They could have been gate keeping

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but they're not.

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They see that is just
something that's going on.

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Alex Morgan did an event
with some of our cast once

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and like she, I think, said something

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along the lines of like, "Oh
my God, the show is great.

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I mean, all the soccer is
totally wrong, but it's so good."

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(laughing) Like, thank you.

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The soccer community seems
to feel like they connect

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to the human stories more,

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and they like to see the human stories

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of their world put out there.

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Writers are fairly often
too, like "The show is

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about soccer to the
degree that The Office is

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about a paper company.

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You know, that soccer's a backdrop.

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It's a very fun backdrop.

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And having sports as your backdrop

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allows you to connect to some,

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like in-built stakes and
drama every now and again

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when you need to.

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If we were just doing soccer

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we would tell people to go watch soccer.

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Because real soccer will be better

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than our fake soccer any day of the week."

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- [Roy] Great Job!

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- Oh!

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Roy Kent just said, "Great job."

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- Oh.