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Lucky Sway parks his spaceship out front and cruises around to the backyard for a pre-quarantine conversation about matters of the heart, L.A. car, and sub-cultures. Sway was also responsible for some of the earliest banner art ever flown in the North End and continues to set the bar for ways to express ourselves on fabric with paint. The understated, low-riding, legend. Thank you for listening.

You read the shirt. Now you're here. Tune in and find out why Master P owes Slim a G.

One half of the gulliest soccer pod in the world @soccercooligans joins us in the backyard to talk MLS podcasts, Arsenal and his goals for his hometown of Newark, NJ. Shoutout to the @soccercooligans for being OGs in this pod lane and paving the way for pods like ours and make sure to catch the guys on Fubo TV.

The Parade stops by Expo Park. Alicia Rodriguez of SB Nation's "Angels of Parade" drops by the backyard to drop some knowledge on early days of LAFC and her new role as SB Nation's all-California soccer correspondent. For fans like us who have been reading Alicia for years, it's a trip to get her spitting facts and feelings on the pod.

Our story begins in an Aztec sweat lodge in the very heart of Mexico. Listen along to an FCFC guided tour of LAFC's first Concacaf Champions League Away Day in the cities of Leon and Guanajuato. Slim did not travel with the team.

With stories that span from the Notre Dame swim team to helping buy the Vancouver Grizzlies, our fearless leader Tom Penn graces us in the backyard. Clase Azul is served.

Fresh off the Independent Supporters Council (ISC) Conference in Baltimore, the FCFC boys host an entire cast of the 3252 leaders in one of our largest podcasts yet. The backyard is graced by Jimmy (BA/ 3252 Pres.), Cassie (BA), Sergio (Expos), Scott(Expos), Rafa (Luckys), Francisco (LAO)as they help define what the ISC does for LAFC and growing the beautiful game stateside.

On our One Year Anniversary, we talk about the apocalypse. The boys are joined by former guest Peo(Pierce Maher)as we discuss the LAFC universe and some of the darker days at the start of 2020. The second segment is dedicated to the legacy of Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna. For those who have been with us, who have listened to us, who have caught up with us at a tailgate, Thank You. Never for...

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For the first episode of Season 2, Casey Sosa [Account Executive, Corporate Partnerships] and Vinny Villareal [Manager, Inside Sales] drop by the backyard. These two represent two of the very first on the truly legendary sales team at LAFC. Casey + Vinny take us through early days of the club and the journey of selling the dream of football in Los Angeles.

Ring in the New Year by helping us nurse the first-ever FCFC BBQ hangover. This was recorded with pod alum about 8 hours into a night of drinking and Korean BBQ. There is a lot of swearing and a lot of love. Everyone's dickhead is turned up to new 2020 heights. FCFC Season 3, comin at you quick.

Ryan joins the boys again in the backyard and so does the biggest Dweez, TJD. It's time to reflect on 2019, a year in which FCFC was born. Someone also gets ethered. If you listen to every episode or even a single instant. Thank you!

Live from LAFC HQ: The Korea Collection // SHOTGUN POD “This is a huge win for everyone.” The guys shotgun at the launch of the first Korean-language apparel collection in MLS history, designed by Hokeun Choi (@fenomeno09). Your roaming host, Dweez finds some loved ones of the pod including: Sujin, Creepz, PeoPod, Ben Chi + MO & Jimmy to get their thoughts on what the collection means to TSG and L...

On the heels of his MLS Executive of the Year win, we have Larry Freedman — EVP and CBO of LAFC — drop by the backyard. Larry walks us through a tortured past (and eventual triumph) as a Chicago sports fan and the LAFC origin story that sparks so much of what the club is today. Larry Legend, in every sense of the word.

The mother we all wish we had and the FCFC connoisseur we're all so grateful to have, Thelma Orosco, visits the backyard to turn the tables on the guys and put the hosts in the hot seat. Baked goods are exchanged, a duel over a bygone captain occurs, and the three knuckleheads get a chance to learn something from this incredible woman.

For the ink and story and animation aficionados out there, Josh and Dweez welcome Benny Blanco blood-fam to the backyard to talk subjects so vast, obscure and scholarly that Slim would probably knock himself out with a Henny bottle if he didn't have to call in from his cruise ship. Come get lost in waters of the foreign, the film and the faith with us.

For the real heads and those with Los Angeles sympathies elsewhere...a stroke of fate from the football gods. Coincidentally recorded 5 years to the day since the founding of the club, special guests Tue Nguyen, Thai Nguyen — two of the architects of LAFC's crest — and Rich Orosco stop by the backyard in Expo Park. The occasion: to talk an origin story unlike any you've ever heard it before — from...

Among the North End's tallest and loudest — Pierce Maher is an Irishman's Irishman and a youth football coach. We got him and his Tipperary-raised father to sit in the back yard and talk football, Roy Keane, player development, and more, despite car alarms and their efforts to derail our lives.

Join us as TVP visit the backyard this week! We take a look at how LAFC is providing a voice for women in supporter culture.

The voice of LAFC joins us in the backyard.

You live for crosspods. We live for what you live for. We recorded a crosspod with some of the zanniest characters ever to slip through the gate and enter the ether that is the backyard. The lot of us try new things. The None of Our Business Podcast boys — NOOB — seem to be naturally better than us at this and most other things. We try to learn from them & you can too!

No one in the backyard but Dweez, Slim and Josh this episode. It's a sober, tea-heavy, getting caught in our feelings pod. If you need recos on Nigerian pop, sad boi R&B or your favorite AYCE BBQ spot in K-Town, listen up. This one's for you.

We welcome LAFC club photographer @imadshoots to the backyard to talk Turkish football, travel, what makes a good photo & favorite images of the Black & Gold universe thus far. A treat for your ears about the feast your eyes continue to devour.

This week we step out of the backyard and onto the pitch for The Battle at The Banc. Live from center pitch, we got to watch both USC and UCLA's womens NCAA teams beat up on visitors from Florida as well as gage everyone from LAFC midfielder Mark-Anthony Kaye to USC Women's coach Kedane McAlpine to LAFC Rich to Amy from Center Mid Chicks hype for growing the women's game in Los Angeles. Call it an...

From being involved in the 3252, to traveling for multiple Women's World Cups, and advocating for NWSL in LA -- Mark and Lindsay Rojas stop by the backyard to tell their story and hope for the future.