Ep. 217 Premium - 'fake' sports [VIDEO]

Ludwig saying Lumiere isn't French is deadass is his dumbest take

IMO if the best from everywhere plays the sport you can call it a world championship. Especially cuz football isn’t a fake sport. That said literally no nuggets gear said world champion on it Noah Lyles was just being annoying, separately of when you’re allowed to call it a world championship

100% more people know of jack black than Shohei

Cricket Conversation: a 6 is the equivalent of a home run, gets you 6 runs (points), and the score is Runs-Outs so 505Runs-7Out, 10 Outs before you swtich.

aiden's Fake Sport argument is just that onion article thats like "local 90 year old woman dies unaware she a piano prodigy"

Pakistan mentioned again

Yeah that’s just not what happened with the Australian break dancing woman, she rigged the selection committee and was just genuinely that bad

Theres no former tennis pros in the top 10 in Pickleball male or female btw

Noah lyles used basketball as the example for the world champions thing being incorrect which is just insanely a horrible take and why he got so much hate for it

It would take 1 generation of caring about soccer for America to be the best at it. Look at women’s soccer. Hearing the people in this podcast talk traditional sports is the worst thing ever

Slime doesn't realize China learned everything from Hollywood and just started making their own movies and the chinese market for hollywood pretty much collapsed

35:00 this is literally the plot of Blue Lock

i said “PTV mentioned” same time as nick LOL

Haven't finished the episode yet, but the example with melee would just be a melee player switching to ultimate and dominating the way tennis players do with pickleball that would make ultimate a fake sport

Slime saying soccer isn't as much of a business shows him his lack of knowledge of how much money is spent in the industry

It’s so clearly economic infrastructure advantage on a level playing field across the world it’d come down to individuality and sport

55:30 Aiden goty moment

could it be that the bald one is actually a little jealous of normal people and their normal lifestyle and that is why he is so mean to the twink? perhaps he knows that he himself could not sustain a real job long term and that is why he feels the need to constantly berate the LS ambassador?

Just wanted to note that Shohei being Japanese and baseball being popular there has 0 influence on the argument being 'america-centric' or not. It's the fact that basically no one outside the US could pull deeper than Babe Ruth, and that not being recognized, I'd imagine

You guys are forgetting about Central America and the hold jack black has from nacho libre. I say this with the authority of being a Latino whose family is from said area.

The foot pedal is so normal for osrs afkers

That sport segment was such a painful watch jesus christ 😂 American arrogance at its finest

i dont know shit about football but damn, these guys dont know shit about football

On the topic of ultra marathon running — adidas just released a doc (Chasing 100) having runners attempt a sub 6-hour 100KM (62 miles) and the person was a guy from South Africa

Team USA famously did not send our best at the world baseball classic lmao the pitching was rough

Ludwig is so incredibly wrong about the Jack Black thing

Its more common for AFL players who aren't even in the AFL and are VFL players to become kickers in the NFL than for Americans to play in the AFL

This afl idea is so stupid because teams literally do pass the ball around to run the clock down when they have a lead. But the ball has to travel 15m give or take like 2m for it to be a mark and long distances give the other team a long time to spoil and potentially turn the ball over.

Raygun actually rigged the way that the Australian representative was chosen for break dancing, her husband was the president of the committee and they purposefully declined any actual talent and just chose her because they’re married

The beginning convo about the urine is true. Urea helps a lot with softening skin. It's mainly for people who have painful calluses that build up on their feet from irregular gait, bad fitting shoes, etc.

Basketball is the most honest sport. The accessibility of it compared to almost every other sport is a pretty big gap. Nearly every town in the US has at least a half court. Any kid can go practice putting shots up and getting rebounds etc by himself. Even you guys go play it. Maybe this is just my own bias

i recently joined my universitys esports society and when we were talking about movies i brought up kung fu panda and none of them had seen it. im only about 2 years older than them too, which is the weird part

they are so confidently wrong about so so much its insanity

Bradman disrespect is insane

Economic barriers to sport are not about equipment, they’re about having the economic freedom to dedicate your time to that sport.

Brutal to start this episode after opening up Runescape 3 Leagues and then opening up a second window to AFK on Old School Runescape before hitting play. Still not in footpad territory though!

love the australian + indian frustration in the comments lmao just coming to add my two cents that even as a woman yard listener i have never been more annoyed than when they talk about cricket. pls pls pls usamericans watch one game and understand why things are popular outside the us challenge for football and cricket

How did lud get the Australian break dancer situation so wrong but be so confident

pulisic hasn't been chelsea's finest since 2020 and hasn't been on the club since 2023😭

the sports segment is worse then the light argument

Ludwig, badlands is a gay club in Northern California. That’s what you’re thinking of. hope this helps

i hate it when they talk about sports so much dude there's just no ball knowledge in sight

The cool thing in team sports, especially one like soccer, the best athletes don’t really win you games! Tactics and mentality play a huge part, certainly in a World Cup/international scenario too. Why the hell have the golden generations of England not won shit

Kike Hernandez is Puertorican people would riot if he was in the US team

fascinating listen as a non american as they tip toe around the concept of america being bad at a sport as some form of "we don't care so we aren't good at it". i cant really imagine being so subconciously patriotic that i genuinely believe my country has the potential to be the best at everything.

never checked patreon comments, but I couldn't resist the bait bug, but I just wanted to say that the Shohei being more famous than Jack Black take has gotta be one of the worst if not the worst take he's ever had

501-7 in Cricket? Aiden, those are the wickets, not the other teams score, Aiden nooo

Hey guys. Just wanted to explain the RuneScape bit as someone with 10k hours on my account. What they are doing is training thieving which consists of clicking on an NPC to pickpocket them, and when I say click, I mean probably hundreds of thousands of times. This will fuck your wrist up pretty easily. Anyways, glad the game brought you guys a bit of joy to banter about. If you want even more, you should look up the guy who was trying to go for rank 1 smithing level, shit himself for it, and only got rank 2. Bummer.

I don't think the current marathon world record holder would be able break any race walking records.

Watching aiden and slime battle it out on reddit in tiny comment sections for 25 readers at a time really pleases me

At this point I kinda blame zipper, he could have easily googled kíke Hernandez and saw he’s from Puerto Rico and ended that whole conversation

I’m actually fucking appalled at ludwig saying the us sent their best to the baseball world classic. Merrill Kelly started the game for the us and he didn’t play in the mlb until he was 30 and has never been an all-star or won any accolades.

slimes right, shadow20z has a way harder job than aiden

When slime said my MR is the risk I lost it. Other than that this is just the misinformation/horrible takes episode. (I’m on Aiden’s side with most of it though)

In high school, i played water polo and swim. The number of people who told me/ my teammates that our sports weren't "real sports" was crazy.

As a soccer player and coach this was the most unbearable thing I’ve ever watched from the only pod I watch

Cricket is much more advanced compared to baseball. I believe a cricketer can learn baseball faster than the other way around. Also as an Indian I can confirm we really dont give a fuck about baseball.

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PIERCE THE VEIL MENTIONED!!

OLYMPIC SOCCER DOESNT MATTER A SINGLE FUCK: The men's tournament is primarily for players aged 23 and under, with a limit of three players older than that on each team's roster.

a lot of the comments are saying the ifs and buts, they literally don't know that why Football or soccer in the US tanks is because of racism LMAO

It’s crazy that Aiden is saying it’d take a decade of the US caring about soccer for them to catch up, when the US men’s team made top 16 in 2022 and the women’s team are 4x champions

As a RuneScape player I literally bought a foot pedal yesterday, is a good play to grind out more boring skills

Aiden’s just wrong, The US made the top 16 in the World Cup with arguably not even being a top 4 sport here. We would absolutely dominate if it was our number 1

Im indian and lived there for the first 18 years of my life there’s definitely a fuck load more people that know about jack black than shohei it wouldn’t even be close.

Jack Black played in multiple blockbusters and is in Tenacious D. Movies and music watched all over the world. Shohei Ohtani plays Baseball. No one cares about baseball.

I love slime calling the IOC (intl. Olympic committee) the ICC (intl. criminal court) lol

Chinese Jack Black Kung Fu Panda was a formative experience for all young Chinese children fym

sean strickland would say some racist shit lol

Nick punishing the campfire pit as hard as pssoible today

Luds football take (soccer) is terrribleeee

Slime cannot go in on Lacy as hard as he does and then pussyfoot and defend piratesoftware who was a demonstrable idiot and Lacy just used to be fat bffr 🤦‍♂️

"I don't think they hit it like Barry." Yeah Lud, because they aren't on insane amounts of juice like he was. Lmao.

nah piratesoftware in the moment was a chud and that wasn’t phenomenal but the way that he talked to people afterwards was super cringe and gross, what he showed was a complete unwillingness to take a single shred of accountability. it’s not deeper than that and a lot of people are freaks about it but he is definitely a loser

I think the best way to describe Aiden’s “fake” sport is the nascar at the Le Mans race. (I recommend googling it it’s awesome) Never has it been done and in the very first attempt the team placed 39th out of 62 not great yes but given that they beat 23 other cars/ teams that do that sport regularly is astonishing and giving the team 4 years (Le Mans happens once a year) they could easily crack top 10 imo

ludwig’s take on soccer is the most head ass stupid American thing I’ve ever heard I hate that argument so much

As opposed to cheating on your girlfriend, a very real professional sport

As an avid soccer fan their whole pooled knowledge is literally almost 0

I thought it said the baldwater ultramarathon

Yeah pretty sure that pirates hated because of his whole destroying games initiative and just overall lieing

Like comb

The way ludwig butchered Pulisic name and got his team wrong was rough

pierce the veil mentioned

Ludwig's olympic / worldcup take is a hard wrong

Movies are just way more universally consumed compared to Baseball. When I lived in Indonesia, people definitely watched movies with Jack Black (in English) and knew who he was. I hadn't heard of Shohei until Ludwig started talking about him

Aiden is so wrong about soccer. Case and point US women’s soccer dominates

It's so damn funny to say playing ranked is harder than your job, truly the most unemployed take I've ever heard

Bro is wearing Wi Spa merch lol

Don't speak on Don Bradman

Can't believe I fully agree with Ludwigs take. If America needed to win the world cup by 2034 for whatever hypothetical reason you want to make up, we absolutely could. Soccer is atleast 5th on the totem pole behind basketball baseball football and hockey and we still have quite a few players who play in the top leagues in Europe. Out of the other 4 sports we dominate at, the only one that other countries have been able to compete with is basketball.

With this logic I reckon if New Zealand rugby players tried to play nfl they would dominate

"She Xinping?!" got my goat

So funny me and my buddy at work were talking about ultra Marathons

being an Australian who supports the GWS Giants in the AFL and watches every Chelsea game this episode is an insane venn diagram of interests. also Pulisic hasnt played for us for years lmao

Shohei Ohtani versus Jack Black is insane. I don't even know who Shohei Ohtani is and I've heard Ludwig talk about him maybe a hundred times. I would not recognise him if he sat across from me at a table. I have never seen his face. If I mentioned his name to anyone I know in real life, none of them would have any inkling of who he is or what he does. Even if I asked them to name baseball players and they miraculously knew any, he would never come up. Everyone knows who Jack Black is. They've all seen his face. I didn't know he was in Kung Fu Panda because I never watched it in English, but he's in so many movies. My parents know who that is. This feels like asking if people would know who Zohran Mamdani is more than Donald Trump. Just no.

Another day, another Yard Premium ep passively hurting Cincinnati sports fans completely unprompted.

"We can all agree that Americans are the most athletic people on Earth" is a wild beginning to a discussion by otherwise mostly reasonable people. Although I find your perspectives as people from the e-sports corner, which, respectfully, a lot of people would call fake sports, pretty interesting. I also want the "Speed walkers try running"-Youtube video now. Those sport switch videos were elite.

lost in translation's my favorite movie

This whole episode is surely just rage bait for Australians. Saying AFL is a fake sport, constantly saying Americans mog in all sports, and finally to top it all off sledging Australian hero and cricket GOAT Sir Donald Bradman. I so deeply want to defend Australia against the heinous allegations made by the yard boys, but I know ultimately that will make me the roaring lion and them the monkey resting his head on his hand with a slight smile. So instead I'm gonna go touch grass, enjoy the Hawthorn vs Geelong game tonight and cry that my team is losing it's skipper and will never play a final again.

i think declan is just bad at explaining AFL because i've truly got no idea what GAs you're talking about. also the reason america dominates in sports is because you have a huge, diverse population with a lot of money to invest into sport, not because people just spawn different on american soil. australia also has WAY more exports into american sports than vice versa, partially bc there's more money to be made in the US, but also because we also sink a shitton of money into sports in schools. there are certain sports where a generally high level of athleticism will take you decently far, including AFL, NFL, basketball, etc. it's doesn't make american sports more "real". american imperalist mindset detected, kys <3

The AFL point by Aiden was so bad lol. The crossover between NFL and AFL is quite high, you "just" generally need to be quite built, have elite hand-eye coordination and have elite fitness. Yes, you can be scouted for AFL as a college football player in the US, but you couldn't just take any college athlete from the US and they're AFL ready. The point is even more absurd when there's only **one** American AFL player right now, but ~6 or so Australian NFL players lmfao

Defending the shohei othani jack black topic is a double down being america centric. There are more continents and most probably know jack black instead of a baseball player… who in europe or africa would watch baseball… -1 aiden 😂

Xi jinping is hilarious, Aiden slapped with that one

on the topic of ultra marathons i just want to recommend Magnus Midtbø's youtube video where he attempts the Norseman. Technically its not an ultra marathon but its a brutal triathlon. regardless its a really good video and i highly recommend watching it if youre interested. the video is titled "I tried the HARDEST Race on the planet (insane challenge)"

43:04 Pulisic is not on Chelsea anymore, he's with AC Milan since 2023

35:08 Aiden is 100% right.

I have never agreed with an adien take more than this episode, and I think everyone else knows squat about sports :(

Ludwig saying “Chelsea’s finest Christian Pulisic” makes the soccer fan in me so unreasonably mad lol. To explain: he left Chelsea in 2023 and now plays for AC Milan

Slime and Trixie Mattel do the same swedish accent impression lmao

Mothers from Brazil have to push a whole soccer ball together with the baby (and a bike so they can do wheelies), ain't no way Americans are winning.

Its so funny to hear how crazy it sounds to the yard boys for people to use a peddle for runescape cause its a super common thing for runescape players

You guys gotta stop talking about baseball, worlds had almost 7 mil viewers, Game 6 had almost 16 mil. Please stop.

I was also taught that peeing on athlete's foot was supposed to help! I'm the same age as Slime and grew up in CO so idk if that means anything lol but this is the first time I found out it's bs

something about this episode genuinely banged cus it ended and I thought we were only 20 minutes in

Shit I’m feeling like an urban myth

505-7 is the score for one team. The second number is out of 10. If they reach 10, then the other team gets a go at the bat

Chinese sub vs dub

‘We don’t care about it’ = we don’t have the infrastructure big dawg

Yea I’m 40 seconds in to the soccer segment and damn Lud you make it hard to root for the devils advocate 🤣🤣🤣

Yall are right, urea is a common ingredient in skincare products

God as an Australian that cricket discussion was hard to listen to

Somehow Ludwig doesn't know that the only people who even know who shohei ohtani is are japan, dodgers fans, and diehard baseball fans. Baseball is only popular in america and japan. Meanwhile Nintendo directs had Jack Black in them twice now. None of them had Shohei. Baseball is barely more popular globally than rugby lmao

‘She’ Jinping is a top 5 Aidan joke of all time

Happy 420th post! 🎉

Ludwig says some of the dumbest shit ever dude 😭

But US women’s soccer is goated. So it’s just the men that’s the issue

What does 4 years and a movie mean? Slime says it at the end

Was not expecting to hear distance running come up in the Premo but here we are. And I have some actual knowledge to drop. So as far as the Ultra Marathon scene not getting as much attention and seeming more "Mickey Mouse" than other events, like the Marathon, that comes down to a cost benefit for a specific athlete. Professional runners gravitate towards the Mile-Marathon because the training for these events is relatively similar (all of these require a very strong aerobic base, some require slightly more anaerobic power, but mostly aerobic fitness) and the events themselves are relatively plentiful and don't have super long recovery cycles. And crucially, Ultra Marathons are notoriously difficult to televise and have almost no money in the scene to support a rubust pro circuit. So if you were a professional, running an Ultra means you would be forgoing doing other events in the lead up to your event, doing your event, and then needing a very long recovery period just to get a scrap of what you could make for being able to do 2-3 major marathons a year plus having a few indoor and outdoor track and field and shorter road races to do that would all pay way more. Source: I've ran 7 marathons myself, know some ultra runners and pro distance runners.

The existence of the USWNT and their year after year high level competitiveness seems to prove the point that if men’s soccer were backed in the US, they would also be an international force.

No one in Europe knows who shohei othani is unless they're insanely into baseball (most of us don't care about that sport) but everyone here has seen jack black movies and knows his name

I just think of Letterkenny every time they say, "To be fair."

I get what Aiden is saying as a former collegiate distance runner who now does marathons and ultras. Ultras are fun and difficult, but if you drop *insert any sub-2:10 marathoner here* into them they instantly become the best in the world.

As usual, our king Aiden continues taking W’s in this episode.

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As someone named Aaron - the beginning of this made me nervous