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I went to watch the team train this morning.
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That is not good.
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I know, yeah.
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That is not good.
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Hey, what's going on, everybody?
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For First We Feast, I'm Sean Evans, and you're watching Hot Ones.
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It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings.
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And today, we deliver you a very special episode of Hot Ones brought to you by Stella Artois,
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the official beer of Hot Ones Summer and we're joined by Stella Global Ambassador David Beckham.
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He's a football legend and cultural icon whose list of bona fides includes six
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Premier League championships, a pair of FA Cups, and the first English player to have won league titles in four countries.
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His contribution to the game doesn't stop there, though, as he's now the president and co -owner of InterMiami, where we are today, in fact.
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David Beckham, welcome to the show.
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Thank you very much.
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Thanks for having me on.
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Slightly nervous, can't lie.
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Before we start, how are you around hot sauce?
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My wife, when I left the house today, she was worried.
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She was worried.
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She was like, any show that has paramedics on set is a problem.
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Okay.
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It's a good start.
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A little kick, a little kick.
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I'm quite hungry as well.
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I haven't had breakfast, so.
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There you go.
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We offer lunch here, you know.
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You're a hot one.
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So you've already made a big splash with your new club, signing Leo Messi to enter Miami less than a year after his World Cup win.
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How would you articulate the power a former player like you
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has in talking to a current star like Messi about such a major career change?
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There's only so far you can go on the business talk and contract talks.
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I think player to player, I think it makes a huge difference.
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And I came at it as a player that had obviously moved from Real Madrid to the LA Galaxy.
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It's a gift in the sense of,
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I want to inspire the next generation of young kids that are playing in this country because at some point,
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the US will win the World Cup, at some point.
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And it needs moments like this where you bring someone of Leo's magnitude.
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He's good on the field, he's good off the field, he's the perfect professional.
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And so if you bring someone like that, then all of these young kids that are watching throughout America going to watch him in their stadiums,
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in their city, get inspired.
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And that's really what we wanted to do.
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Has anyone picked him apart before like this?
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There's something about the mechanics here that is new and novel to me from the side of the table.
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So one of the things that's striking about
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that free kick against Greece is it almost looks like you're celebrating it before the ball hits the back of the net,
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which is something I'll see watching Steph Curry play.
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You know, he'll celebrate a three before it actually goes through the net.
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Is there a way to describe the sensation of knowing a strike is perfect right off the boot?
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Well, you're right in saying what you celebrating before it went in
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because I was and that's one of my favorite things to have watched back
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For the occasion for what it meant for the country the moment.
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I hit the ball I knew it was in and you see me running away, which you've just obviously said about By the way,
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my armpits are slightly sweating already.
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That's right a lot of physiological oddities
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We work our way so so so the moment I hit it and I suppose I always describe it as a golfer
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You know, that moment where you hit that sweet spot.
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During that game, I'd had probably eight different free kicks, and it felt different from the rest.
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I didn't score many goals, so I didn't get that feeling very often.
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But I got the feeling of that I'd never, ever have again, that moment.
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Poetic.
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Yeah.
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And before we dive into the next sauce, should we crack open one of these Stellas?
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I mean, it'd be rude not to.
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All right, here we go.
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Okay.
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I'm trying to perfect this pour as well.
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Well, I heard you're good at the pour.
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Well, I'm not bad.
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There was some chatter about perfect pours.
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Yours is pretty much right.
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Oh.
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Cheers.
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That's a compliment coming from you.
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Cheers, David.
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Cheers.
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Not a moment too soon.
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Yep.
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I needed that.
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I watched Goulden's one the other night.
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Goulden was very, as we all know, Goulden's very animated anyway.
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Absolutely.
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So I knew he'd question, obviously, how cooked the chicken is.
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That is as much anxiety as I've ever had going into a shoot.
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Not thinking about how the interview would go necessarily, just how Gordon might react to the wings.
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Well, good on him.
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What kinds of culture shock did you experience
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when you first entered the MLS back in 2007 when the league was still a work in progress?
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Is it true that you would eat Cheesecake Factory desserts for pre -game meals?
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That's a funny story.
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And that was probably the biggest difference.
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When you're on the road, you know, as a team, you normally land on the Friday afternoon, you eat together on the Friday night,
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Saturday, you have breakfast, lunch, and then you play the game.
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But when I first came here, we'd travel we'd go out and you know we'd get per diem
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so yeah literally as we're getting off the bus you get handed an envelope
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and I'm like what's this and I'd open it
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and I was like cash it was like great
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and then the day of the game I thought surely there's gonna be like a pre -match meal
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and there wasn't so we were in I can't remember where we were
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but we were in the middle of nowhere and and the only thing that was there was the Cheesecake Factory.
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So I literally went out the hotel, all the young kids had gone to McDonald's or whatever, and they'd saved their per diem.
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Whereas I kind of walked out and saw a Cheesecake Factory, and that was my pre -match meal,
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which, yeah, Sir Alex Ferguson would have quaked in his boots at that, yeah.
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Nice.
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Kind of a smokiness to this one.
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I'm not a big barbecue sauce fan, but this is nice.
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I'm sure there are aches and pains that all come from a cumulative effect of this 20 -year -long career,
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but I am curious, is there a pain that when you feel it tweak, takes you back to a very specific game or specific moment?
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I broke bones, broke my ribs and my hand and my foot and my toes,
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but I never really had a serious injury other than rupturing my Achilles.
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but I suppose the worst pain that I feel every single day is my back
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and I know why because I think
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if you watch the way I kick the ball I go at a certain angle
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and I did that for 20 years 22 years
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so you know I read Andre Agassi's book a few years back
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and I remember him saying you know I knew you know it was time to finish
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because I used to roll out of bed you know
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because I was in so much pain and I could I could relate to that
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so yeah I suppose my lower left side of my back
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you know that's down to kicking the ball the way
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I kicked it for 22 years the consequences of bending it like Beckham apparently
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so I knew you'd get that one in
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and how do you select each person is it just a wish list
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we're always pitching you know we're always chasing an opportunity
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but now it is nice because some of the requests are incoming now
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which is a nice that's a good problem that's a good problem that's a good problem that's exactly right
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that didn't that wasn't really
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that hot this one enjoy these moments i know i know i knew i should never have said
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that don't fight against your wins here in this game all
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right all right do you have a most cherished memory playing alongside
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or against zidane who you've described as one of your football heroes
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i was lucky to have those years with him
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and there's a couple of moments actually more than a couple of moments
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that i cherish i played him a ball in one game it was about a 60 yard ball
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and i was able to just put it in front of him
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and he came around
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and he scored this beautiful goal with his left foot
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you know one of my best assists in my career
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there's another moment playing in his last game you know his last ever game for real madrid
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that was special because his emotional side really come out and
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that was that was special um but i think the ultimate moment with me
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and Zizou has to be the last training session before his last game.
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I'm sat in the changing room and he walks in
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and I'm sat there I'm getting changed
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and he all of a sudden I see him out the corner of my eye getting up
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and he's walking towards me
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and I'm like I start sweating like I am now a little bit
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and Zizou doesn't say much you know he's a man of you know few words.
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He sits down
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and he said David I just want to say
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it's been a pleasure playing with you for the last few years and I was like,
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I literally, he then went in to get treatment and I jumped up, I ran outside, I took my phone and I was like,
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a couple of my mates, I said you're never gonna guess what's just happened.
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I called my dad, I was like dad, Zizou just said this to me.
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So that has to be, that has to be the moment.
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This next one, Oni Ma, actually from Spain.
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Spanish Spanish I was just about to say the Spanish do things really well
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that is a bit of a step up yeah yeah has that
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Deep, pepper, immediate.
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I love Spain, though.
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You know, you don't have to wait for it.
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I love Spain.
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Loving it a little less right now, but...
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I'm curious, when you were watching the Beckham documentary, were there moments in your life
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that were far different from your recollection of them once you saw the surrounding footage and interviews with other people involved?
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You know, for instance, in the 98
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World Cup, I hadn't seen a lot of the footage.
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I hadn't seen, you know, the manager at the time come out and say what he said.
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It's the first time I'd seen it.
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I'd never said it.
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Saw one of our England fans stood outside the pub saying, yeah, we hung that noose up there and we took the dummy down.
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You know, that was quite shocking for me.
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And there was so much media hoopla that it only gets touched on briefly.
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You know, the live studio audience interview that you and Victoria did with Ali G.
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Yeah.
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Do you remember how you were prepped for that?
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um well I remember being sat backstage in the green room with my wife
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and my wife you know I wasn't used to doing these kind of things
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so I was she crushed it she crushed it even better than you actually saw
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because they cut a lot of her stuff out just to make yeah just to make
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you know him look good and he looked great I remember just going in
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and saying to Victoria I'm gonna let you talk i'm just gonna sit there
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and just take it what's the origin story of the be honest meme
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because i understand
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that fisher stevens tried everything in his power to keep
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you guys separate well he was angry during the he was angry with me
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you know fisher i love fisher he apparently wanted me out the house
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and this that particular day was victoria's first day of filming
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when she was sat there the door was closed
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and then i was about to leave for the office
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but had made a coffee and then i saw a spare set of headphones so i put the headphones on
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and i heard fisher talking about you know the whole um you know our parents
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and our upbringing
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and then all of a sudden i heard her say you know we're just we're working class
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and that moment i was like okay i headed to the door i opened the door
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and i saw fisher's face and he was not happy
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And I was like, so that's really, I was like, be honest.
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The camera guys were so amazing because they literally panned over to me at the door.
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And that was really a moment that, yeah, kind of went viral, but Fisher was not happy.
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Fisher was really not happy.
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Black -eyed Susan.
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And where's this one from?
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It has kind of some late life.
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This one's from Maryland.
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So this is like a slow burner.
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Mm -hmm.
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Literally.
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Yeah, and that's what you're probably going through now.
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Yeah.
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As you fight through it.
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Yeah.
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Me the same way.
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That's not good.
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Did you have a favorite chant to hear from fans?
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You know, when Harry Kane was on the show, he said that he's one of our own chant,
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that he would hear from Spurs fans was very important to him.
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The fans sing a lot about, you know, older players and players from the past, but I never seem to hear it as much.
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Maybe because I don't go to many games, but even on the telly,
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I hear songs about Eric Cantona and Bryan Robson and Roy Keane from Manchester United fans, but I very rarely hear there's only one David Beckham.
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That was really the only chant that I ever wanted to hear, and I'd like to hear it again.
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If any United fans are watching, please, just from time to time, I'm still a United fan.
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Um, so, yeah, just every now and again, just, you know, there's only one David Beckham.
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Please.
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I'm not excited about this one.
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Yeah, that's not good.
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And really does not taste good, either.
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You know, I had a conversation with my mum last night, and I said, I'm going on this TV show tomorrow oh
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so i'm going on this tv show tomorrow
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i said gordon's been on it i said have a look online see what you think
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so she called me this morning on the way
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so i went to watch the the team train this morning
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that is that is not good i know yeah that is not good um
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Um, are these hotter?
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The experience that you're going through right now is a singular experience.
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This is an extremely hot sauce, concentrated, and pure.
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She said, um, please don't swear.
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She said, I saw Gordon.
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I've held strong.
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She said, please don't swear.
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Swear?
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Is it true that you once took down 32 escargot while dining at Chez La Mille Louis in Paris?
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That's my record.
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Lamy -Louis is one of my favourite restaurants in the world.
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It's like 100 years old.
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So when I was playing for PSG, I found this place.
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And I used to go in there on my own.
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It used to open at 7 .30.
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I used to go in there at 7.
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They used to let me sit in the corner.
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I'd feast and then I'd leave.
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Because I couldn't really be seen eating the amount that I was eating at the time while still playing.
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So I sat there with my wife one night, romantic meal we ordered an amazing bottle of wine
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and i'm sat there and i'm eating and eating
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and she's just sat there like she normally does when i feast
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and she's like you need to stop you're gonna burst
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so i remember getting the the best escargot
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but you know i've been i've been so lucky
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because i i grew up in the east end of london that's still burning
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that one yeah i know uh i grew up in the East End of London,
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Jelly Deals is it's a cut up eel and it comes with gelatine.
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Doesn't sound great but as an East End boy it's what I grew up on
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and one of my favorite meals in Manchester was chips peas and gravy so just French fries mushy peas and gravy.
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When I moved to Madrid I all of a sudden discovered you know the Spanish food
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and that I absolutely loved so the jamon and the the angulas and the garlic, you know, living in Spain,
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spending time and playing in Milan, living and playing in Paris, living in America, traveling to Asia a lot, spending a lot of time in China,
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Japan, all of these places, and I'm...
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I eat anything.
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I really do.
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Case in point, you know, and in those travels, coming on to talk shows where you expose yourself to the wonderful world of hot sauce.
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I'm not sure this is as good as an experience as Lamy -Louis, but, you know, it's an experience.
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But you know what, a great memory.
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A great memory.
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It's a great memory.
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Actually, it is a good experience.
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I like it.
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I like challenging myself.
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I must have touched the bottom of my nose.
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Little hot spot on the face.
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I've been there before.
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Just be careful around the eyes, though.
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That would be the worst place.
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Worst place?
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Second worst place.
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What would you say is the most impressive thing you've ever built with Legos?
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Your proudest moment as a Lego master.
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My nose is on fire.
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My sinuses are great, though.
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Yeah, right?
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It's a little give and a little take here.
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I don't know what my favorite
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Lego is, actually.
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I've done so many over the years.
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I had the Manchester United, I had Old Trafford, did the Old Trafford Stadium, but I love Lego.
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I don't care.
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I love Lego.
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I just, you know, I love it.
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What makes Say You'll Be There your favorite
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Spice Girls song?
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I remember being sat in a hotel with Gary Neville, who was my teammate for Manchester United, and my best man at my wedding,
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and we had a game the next day, and we were in the hotel, and we sat there watching the telly
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and all of a sudden the Spice Girls came on with their new their new video
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and it came on I think it was on top of the pops
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and it will say you'll be there I turn around to Gary
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and I was like see the one in the black dress see actually
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it wasn't a black dress see the one in the black cat suit I'm gonna marry
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that one and as you can imagine we were laughing and joking.
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I was like, no, I'm going to marry that one.
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And I did.
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So, yeah, imagine that.
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But we're playing against Chelsea and we're in the changing room getting ready for the game.
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And one of the players came in and he said, there's two Spice Girls here.
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And I was like, what ones?
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And he was like, sporty and posh.
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And I was like, oh my God, this is it
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so i played the game i scored a goal a great goal actually i scored a great goal
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so i went up and i introduced myself
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because the manager was a manchester united fan
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and i introduced myself to victoria and and then said hello
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and i was there for 30 seconds because i was quite embarrassed
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and then i left got on the bus
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and i was like i've missed my opportunity um
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and then literally the week after a player comes in he says they're back same
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Spice Girls are here again
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um and then that's really when I saw my opportunity because I walked into the players lounge
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and Victoria was there and she'd had a couple of glasses of wine and I was like okay
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okay here's my opportunity to give me a number or get her number so um yeah
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She gave me her number on a plane ticket, and I still have the plane ticket, believe it or not.
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So, yeah, that's how it all started.
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It's enough to bring a tear to my eye, and it's not even the wings, David.
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Okay, let me do that.
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There you go.
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That's the smart way to do it.
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Okay.
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A little bit of sweetness, and it grows, but the good news is,
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David Beckham, the wings of death, they're behind us.
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You've conquered the gauntlet, and to close things out, you know, your hairstyles, they've inspired trends, they've inspired lore, and they've even sparked some controversies.
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So to close things out, what we're going to do is pull up some of our favorite iconic David Beckham hairstyles
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and you just give us the first couple of things that come to mind when you think about what inspired these eras.
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And we'll start with the Mohawk.
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Impulsive or something that was kind of in the works for a while?
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It actually wasn't impulsive
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because I'd just done a photo shoot where I shaved part of my hair off myself
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and then I went into I went into I had a game at Wembley shortly after and and
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as I'm walking into the changing room I take my cap off
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and and the boss is sat opposite me and he was like go
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and shave it off he literally got a pair of clippers for me
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and I had to go and shave
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that off in the in the in the toilet um oh my god short -lived short -lived up next one
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that I'm partial to the shaved head
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which you actually called your favorite it's it was it's my favorite
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because of the ease of a that's the lifestyle
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that I'm accustomed to I can never go back but
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but the shocking the shocking oh you could go back
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you could go back no I can't yeah
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you can the shocking part about this was obviously
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I went from having this long you know you know these these curtains
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that i had uh to to that overnight and uh yeah
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that was the shocking part of this
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but he's one of my best haircuts favorite
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and one more for you the ponytail oh yeah a ponytail well
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i'm surprised you you've not got the double ponytail up there the samurai look um it was just long
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and that was the only way of keeping it out my eyes for the game practical
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because you know when you talk about the curtains you know
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or like the bangs it's practical actually to pull everything back it's practical
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when you're in a game of vision it's practical yeah
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and look at you david beckham taking on the wings of death living to tell the tale
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i am quite proud of myself nothing left to do
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but celebrate with a stellar toast cheers cheers oh my god this camera this camera this camera or this camera let
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Let the people know what you have going on in your life.
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Well, this afternoon, there's not much going to be going on.
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But I want to thank you, Sean, because I was nervous about this when I arrived, and I think I did okay.
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You did amazing.
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My nose is on fire, my mouth's on fire.
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My nose, I don't know how my nose is on fire.
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Yeah, thank you so much for having me on.
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You know, Stella Artois have some amazing events coming up
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and dinner's coming up and I'm really excited about those
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but obviously there's also one in New York that I'm really excited about so cheers to that.
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Oh my god my nose is on fire.
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Thanks for letting me do it.
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Honestly, my kids were like, Dad, I can't believe you're doing it.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “David Beckham Embraces the Moment While Eating Spicy Wings”. This video has 381 sentences and 4076 words to shadow. The speech runs for 24:06. The speaker talks at a natural 169 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| shock noun | /ʃɔk/ | A sudden, heavy impact. |
| cheers | /t͡ʃɪəz/ | A common toast used when drinking in company. |
| fisher noun | /ˈfɪʃɚ/ | A person who catches fish, especially for a living or for sport; a person engaging in the pastime of fishing. |
| meal noun | /ˈmiːl/ | Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity. |
| inspire verb | /ɪnˈspaɪə(ɹ)/ | To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by… |
| practical adjective | /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/ | Relating to, or based on, practice or action rather than theory or hypothesis. |
| sudden adjective | /ˈsʌd.ən/ | Occurring quickly with little or no warning or expectation; instantly. |
| shave verb | /ˈʃeɪ̯v/ | To make (the head, skin etc.) bald or (the hair) shorter by using a tool such as a razor or electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin. |
| pour verb | /poɹ/ | To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it. |
| feast noun | /ˈfiːst/ | A holiday, festival, especially a religious one |
| chant verb | /t͡ʃænt/ | To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music. |
| curious adjective | /ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs/ | Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying. |
| marry verb | /ˈmæɹi/ | To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. |
| footage noun | /ˈfʊtɪd͡ʒ/ | An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something, or the content of the recording. |
| boot noun | /but/ | A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. | |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. | |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| come up verb | To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly. | |
| go out verb | To leave, especially a building. | |
| come around verb | /kʌ.məˈɹaʊnd/ | To change one's mind, especially to begin to agree or appreciate what one was reluctant to accept at first. |
| come on to verb | To start to. | |
| cut up verb | To cut upward. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Hey, what's going on, everybody?
- Before we start, how are you around hot sauce?
- I'm quite hungry as well.
- I haven't had breakfast, so.
- Do you remember how you were prepped for that?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| “Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true | used to roll · used to go · used to open |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | haven't had · you've already made · I've ever had |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | were prepped · being sat · was sat |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 124 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, I'd. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shock /ʃɔk/, fisher /ˈfɪʃɚ/, shave /ˈʃeɪ̯v/, crush /kɹʌʃ/, cherish /ˈt͡ʃɛɹɪʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, contribution /ˌkɑntɹɪˈbjuʃən/, documentary /ˌdɒk.jʊˈmɛn.tɹi/, controversy /kənˈtɹɒv.ə.si/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like shock, cheers, fisher.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.