Actually, it's okay to be a little bit more like Ted Lasso. It's okay to be a little bit more like Nate the Great. I can just be who I, who I'm meant to be. It is Parallel Frequencies with Just Blane, Coco and all the Freqs out there. What's up Freqs?

What's up Coco? How are you? I'm all right. I'm surviving. I'm surviving over here.

You look a little frazzled. You all right? No, I look very put together for how frazzled I really feel. My bad, my bad. Yeah, that's why I should say I'm good.

So things have been crazy, huh? Things that we blur the lines of reality and other universes and stuff like that, right? Like that's what we're trying to do. Yeah, yeah. If I can choose a reality to live in, can I choose Ted Lasso and that shows reality?

Because we're talking about honesty. You're fucking right in there. Right, we were talking about honesty and podcasting, but that's what this whole show is. On Tuesday this week, we got Ted Lasso season three. You talk about the most honest person there is, really.

But this is a different season because it's not really loud and chaotic. It's kind of a reflection. And we talked about season one, how kindness really was the through line, but it had to get deeper. Season two got a little deeper. Season three definitely got deeper.

It's like a conversation you're still having in your head days later. It lingers with you. You know, let me do a full recap of season three real quick because we go back to AFC Richmond, underdog still, but now with expectations. Nate Shelley completes his villain arc, fully suited up in ego and insecurity. He leaves Richmond, joins West Ham under Rupert, turns into a guy you barely recognize.

Ted, our guy, still smiling, but you can feel the homesickness creeping in. The panic attacks don't disappear just because you're a positive one. Rebecca, she's still chasing control, still haunted by Rupert, still asking what does winning actually mean? Roy and Keely, it's messy, but like real life messy, not just the TV clean mess. And Jamie Tartt, low key the MVP of the whole season, goes from this ego driven striker to somebody who actually earns respect.

But that's the season kind of boiled down into nutshell, but let's break down some of this stuff. Like what'd you think about Nate and his redemption arc in this? Yeah, oh, I love that. I love, Nate to me is like this pendulum swing that we all go through. I mean, whether it's the way that we interact with money or success or relationships, or, I mean, you can take any aspect of your life.

We all have these pendulum swings that we do where we're going from I'm majorly people pleaser to maybe I'm in my villain era and pissing everybody off. But I feel like this was a perfect example of how Nate's pendulum swing comes back into a more balanced state when he starts to realize like, I don't have to be that guy. I don't have to go back to being insecure and people pleasing and a nobody. And I mean, who he was at the beginning of season one, he's kind of realizing I actually am amazing at what I do. I actually have a reason to have confidence, but I don't have to be an a-hole, right?

Like I can come back to, actually it's okay to be a little bit more like Ted Lasso. It's okay to be a little bit more like Nate the Great. I can just be who I'm meant to be. And I love that journey for him. I love that journey in representation of all of us in our journey.

Yeah, it's a long way from tearing down the belief sign in season two, but it's still echoes. Like that's still a scene that's almost with you through this redemption arc, if you wanna call it that, of how he comes up. It's a quiet apology basically, no big speech. I think we finally just see him, dare I say be humble or show humility, but I think that's what it is, right? Yeah, yeah, kind of comes back into his true self, not run by egos and insecurities, right?

Let me ask you this, let me ask you this. This is for Coco, this is for the Freqs, this is for whoever needs to hear this, but do we forgive people who hurt us if they finally understand what they did and why they did it? One of those people who believes in an open heart, and I believe that an open heart can also exist with boundaries. I kind of feel like Ted's a good example of this. I mean, I don't see him hold a lot of boundaries, but maybe that's because he's just a little bit more open than the average person, but you see, you know, characters start to come into that balance of, I can openly be kind and loving and compassionate.

I also don't have to let you run me over, right? Like I don't have to let you use and abuse me, right? A lot of people get that confused. I know in like the work that I do with people, they'll be like, I don't understand, aren't I supposed to love unconditionally? Doesn't that mean that I give everybody as many chances as they absolutely need to have to run right over me, bulldoze right over me?

And yeah, no, that isn't what it means. You can openly love and you can openly have compassion, but you don't have to also exceed boundaries that you're willing to give, right? Yeah. Is it one of those kinds of things, how people say kindness is weakness and that kind of thing? Is that what people are talking about right there?

Is that what they think? Yeah, I think people confuse it for, I'm gonna let you run and ruin my life. I think that there's a big difference between kindness and I don't know, becoming a doormat, I guess, is what. I'm like, I can be kind to everybody and I also don't have to take on all their stuff. I don't have to let them make me feel bad.

I don't have to bend myself into a pretzel to make someone else happy. That's not my job, right? It's not my job to dishonor myself just to honor someone else. I think that's where people get confused with that. There is such a thing as boundaries and absolutely you should hold boundaries for yourself because self-love is part of that unconditional love.

Yeah, and we see Ted go through more therapy. Continues his therapy, good for him. Yeah, but yeah, absolutely. But we had that scene where he finally breaks down, not cracking jokes, not deflecting, just sitting in it. And it hits different, you know, because it's once again, how many people do we know that are the strong one but never get to fall apart?

Ted's been, had to be that pillar. He's had to be the strong one and hold it all together, but he finally gets to, you know, break down. And you see him kind of get to let go and Rebecca is doing her own letting go of Rupert. So there's all these, I love how these TV shows have the themes all through them, if you really look close. And this is one that's threaded, very, very highly threaded.

But what did you think about that stuff there? Well, the word that comes to mind when you're saying that, as I look at each and every character, we started with Nate, but then you could really look at it in everybody's plays. Remember in season one, we talked about how everybody exemplifies an archetype. They're all pretty separately representing something of the ego or the ego parts. And it's just, it's like very obvious and kind of surface level, although it does get deep.

But as the seasons go, everybody kind of melds. It is like, yeah, you have these individuals, but they aren't extreme anymore. They're kind of coming into, the word that came to mind was homeostasis. It's almost like, okay, now we're coming into our balance states where I'm not an extreme state of, in Rebecca's case, jealousy and envy and revenge. And she's like, actually, maybe my worth and what I continue to do is gonna be based on me and not because of Rupert.

It's just gonna be me deciding what I want and what matters to me and make life worth living in that state. I mean, you see Keely come to a place where she needs to find some kind of self-worth without a relationship. Like, who is she without Jamie, without Roy, and then in this season without Jack? How is she going to navigate, what about just me? When I'm just me, can I step into the person that I wanna be?

And yeah, you see it with Roy. And my favorite of the season, my favorite one is the arc where we see how Jamie Tartt comes to it. I was my favorite, favorite thing to see because you saw him in season one and I'll just say it, that is the most unlikable type of person that I can think of is like, I'm the best, cocky as all get out. Just, yeah, I mean, come across guys like that in my past, I'd just be like, yeah, no, nice to meet you, but I'm no thank you. I'd rather not spend any time with a person like that.

But then he comes into this humility and this just becoming more of a natural, I do it for me kind of guy and I love that. I love seeing the relationship between him and Roy develop as they've been like enemies and frenemies and now just friends, I love all of that. That was my favorite part. Training together early mornings, brutal honesty, zero ego, like who the hell are these guys? Really, that's what it was, it was one of those.

But you get to see Jamie rebuild himself brick by brick. Yeah. And I love that and that was probably, once again, probably my favorite part of the season, Jamie. Yeah. One of my favorite moments with him was when he was talking to Coach Beard.

Well, he was talking to all the coaches, but he was talking about Zaba and Zaba's supposed to be this new diva soccer player that joins them this season, helps him get to the top, but then abandons them as he retires mid-season. Jamie's really annoyed at this guy and his ego is out of control. And he comes in to talk to the coaches, he's like, we don't need this guy. And he was like really good and everything, but don't you think it's a bit much? And he kind of goes off and Coach Beard is like, it's a little ironic coming from you, don't you think, Jamie?

And my favorite part is when he goes, oh, I was being hypocritical, not ironic. And that just highlighted for me his growth because he comes to show up that not only is he fully aware that he is being hypocritical when he says this about Zaba, but he also is totally correcting the intellectual character, Coach Beard, on it's not irony, it's hypocrite. And he's like, Ted's like, is he right? Coach is like, yeah. Yeah, totally.

He got schooled. That's part of one of the themes, I think too, of this show. And one of the biggest themes was the be curious, not judgmental, but it's not just a quote, it's a survival tool is what we see here in season three. And look, growth, it doesn't actually look heroic and like they make it look on some of the TV shows, it's actually awkward and slow and sometimes embarrassing. And hard.

Yeah, we see that with most of the characters in this season. And forgiveness isn't about the other person, it's about freeing yourself. We see that in most of the character series. A lot of this, letting go. Yeah, and you see that with Colin.

Colin gets a moment with Trent Crimm, who's not the independent anymore, he's doing his own novel this season, so he's following the team. And you see that coming out of the closet moment, he's like, listen, I know why you haven't come out of the closet yet, but you really should. I mean, could you imagine what it would be like if your two lives got to be one life and that moment that they have together is really special too? Yeah, yeah. And you gotta look at this too, because it's a sports show.

But is this really a sports show? No, because they're chasing trophies, but success is not always trophies. It's the people you help along the way. And I say that, I've done this, I've been in entertainment for 20 plus years. I have yet to win an award, an actual official award, but I sure to hell hope that I've helped somebody out there along the way do what they wanted to do.

That's my trophies. I wish I had, if I did, if I have helped you in your watching, if I've helped you, I wish I had a little section of voodoo dolls. Maybe that could be my trophies. I could have a little version of everybody that I've helped. That's too creepy.

Oh no, I know the real history about voodoo dolls, so that's not creepy at all. That's not creepy. Voodoo doll was too strong. Maybe action figure. I'd like to have an action figure.

My little trope of helpers. We just wanna know that we've impacted at least one life and that this has been meaningful for you. I think that this show, Ted Lasso, if any, I mean, and there are a lot of great shows out there. There's a lot that would do this, but it is my favorite show. And I think for that reason, I think that people watching it, going through a hard time, going through some of the sticky healing work that's going on here, it reflects back to you really well as very realistic, very, I know what that feels like, that feeling of like, even when Sam is kind of getting political in his tweets or his whatever it was at the time, I don't even know, but social media posts, talking about immigrants and kind of flagging the British government and saying, hey, I don't agree with you on this.

And they're like, stick with football. And they end up trashing his restaurant. I mean, those sticky, awful feels so heavy in your body. Am I doing the right thing? Should I just shut up?

Or you see Sam really lose it for the first time ever in this season and it's so real. It's so relatable. You're like, I don't know where I meant to speak up. I don't know where I meant to, where the line is. Am I advocating for myself or am I overstepping?

Am I, not just in Sam's case, but in so many other places where, Keely's navigating those things as a new boss and her PR firm. Everybody's just trying to figure out what is the right thing to do? What is the next step? And healing and being self-aware can be met with more lightheartedness, more humor. So I love that this show represents that.

I think it really does help people's lives. They watch it and they go, okay, the darkest times, they might not be actually that dark. And they might, there's light ahead, right? I can't wait for season four because this is the end right here. This is it.

This is all we know of Ted Lasso right now. Yeah. The way that, you know, season three, we've got what? 12 episodes or something in season three? Is that what it was?

11 or 12, somewhere in there. But that was, that's it. You know, there's nothing else now. We thought that was the end. We thought this is where it ended.

It was so exciting to find out what would be a new season. Yeah, if it did end there, I don't know if people would have been completely happy or not. I mean, we won't tell us so forever, for sure. But at some point it does have to end. Would that have been the spot?

Or let's, can we keep this thing going? I think I saw where they're bringing in maybe a women's football club now for season four. I don't know what I've read, but yeah. A lot of theories out there probably. Yeah.

We could guess what we think maybe is coming, but they teased it a little bit season three. Like, have you ever thought about women's soccer? I mean, you look at just American soccer teams and the wild success of the women's team versus the men's team. There's a discrepancy there for sure, especially because they don't get paid as much and there's not as much money for the women's team. And they are championships of five more options.

So let's give some, yeah, let's give some attention to the women's team. And like I always say, I don't watch Ted Lasso for the sports. The sports part is probably the least important part. I love the team atmosphere and I love the rooting for Richmond. And I get all involved in that.

I just, I even like watching football or in America we call soccer. I love watching it. I just don't, you know, just not a sporty person, not my thing. But I love the dynamic of everything going on behind the scenes and the people working together and the relationships that they make and then what they show in this show. It would be like my ideal working environment, anywhere, anytime.

I would do anything to work with a team like that. The cool thing about it is if they do bring in the women's club is we'll get a whole lot, maybe more new characters who will be the female counterparts to the male that we've already seen in the locker room, which would be great. It'd be great to have another perspective, I think. And I think that'll give us some more balance, but it has been male heavy. For the sports side.

So I think it's gonna bring in all types of characters. That's my biggest prediction. Yeah, the only question I have, the only question I have about that is if they do a women's team, how are they gonna train when they can't tie their dicks together? Yeah, yeah. All right, exactly.

Oh my gosh. That was probably one of my favorite funny parts is Roy just being like, I don't have a plan here. I just wanted to see this done. Yeah, yeah. He was just laughing the whole time.

That was fun. I can't wait to go. They're saying August is when season four's dropping, August 2026, so we're gonna have to go through a whole hot summer, and then we'll get to August-ish and still be hot as hell, but Ted Lasso's gonna hit at the end of summer, and we'll be happy again, I guess. Sad till then, or we can binge. We can keep binging Ted Lasso.

And I will. No problem. Anything else you got to say about Ted Lasso season three before we wrap this thing up? I guess I'll just point out one of my other favorite things about this season is the psychic that Rebecca goes to, and her discovery, she's a skeptic. She's like, this isn't real.

I don't believe in any of this, but then things little by little start to be a little woo-woo. You guys know I love the woo-woo. I love the like, let's just suspend belief for a minute and just think maybe, potentially, possibly there's something to this. And I love that it kind of put her on this other journey where I think that kind of let her let Rupert be in the back seat and be like, that doesn't matter as much anymore, because I now have this new focus, or this new life purpose I'm trying to figure out. And at first, it's kind of, well, it's a familiar story for me because I'm infertile.

I went through infertility journey, someone telling me I would be a mother, but in a different way than I maybe expected, kind of like a psychic telling me that. So I knew something, my journey to motherhood might look different than what I think it will. And Rebecca went through that whole journey where she's like, motherhood? I never even considered that. Well, let's look into it.

Wait, I'm being told now that I'm not gonna be able to be a mother that way from the doctor, right? And then for her to find out that maybe there are other opportunities out there for her that's just putting destiny in her path. And I loved that whole journey for her. So I wanted to say that before we wrap up. I think that's a lot of Ted Lasso is it has literal personal effects on people out there.

It touched you personally, I love that. It touches other people in other ways personally. And there's a lot of that inside of this show. This show's gotta keep going. Season four, five, six, seven, we'll keep on rocking with Ted Lasso.

We want the Freqs out there to keep rocking with us. Parallel Frequencies right here. I'm just playing, that's Coco over there. We'll see you on the other side. See ya.