I have to ask first of all, are we calling it soccer or football?

We say football.

Uh, you generally are just using your feet in in this sport.

But then American Football H, you’re not really using your feet that much.

It’s an Underdog Story made for TV, literally Reom Afc, the Beloved and historic Uk soccer team, now on a spectacular rise, unbelievable from Braxon, after a longtime losing streak, the club scooped up by celebrity backers, Ryan Reynolds and Rob Meleny.

In 2021, if I were going to go bankrupt with anybody on planet Earth, it would be Rob Mhen.

So that’s what we’re doing, and we are well on our way.

Yeah, the duo ownership, a reversal of Fortunes for the team, both on and off the field, and all documented in the critically acclaimed TV show Welcome to rexam, back for its third season on Fx and streaming on Hulu, I’ll wake up on.

First thing, I think, is we’ve really been taken over by two Hollywood Superstars.

I love building things, and you know growing things and telling stories, but nothing.

It, uh, occupies the space in my mind, heart and soul that more than recks him.

Actor Ryan Reynolds has been telling stories for over 30 years, from starring in The Proposal.

Oh my God, what is that?

It’s the morning to portraying the sarcastic Superhero Deadpool.

Did I leave the stove on and, as a businessman for Adventures like Mintmobile Reynolds, joining forces with fellow funny guy, writer and actor, Rob Meleny of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia?

Everybody are you ready?

Bam, I reached out to Rob.

I think I dm’d him.

I don’t know.

Was it a year later or less than a year later, I got a call from Rob saying: uh, how would you like to partner up in this extremely outside the box, risky, financially stupid, but emotionally, uh, immersive, uh- project?

I had this idea for the football team.

I thought: wow, there’s very few people that I know who are as entrepreneurial as Ryan who I believe I could get along with.

And yet we each brought something different to the table, slid into the Dms, taking your shot.

It’s like a modern day love story.

It really is, from inbox to Goaly Box, the idea taking them to a small town in Wales.

Why rexam?

But how did you find them?

And what Drew?

You to Rex.

We wanted to find a town that we that we could identify with.

For me, uh, the community I grew up in in Philadelphia, and for Ryan, he grew up with a in a very blue collar workingclass, family and and background, and we knew we wanted to find people that um, that who we knew, or at least we felt we knew It- sort of checked every box, checking every box, but first they say they had to earn the town’s trust.

It’s just a footballing town.

It’s hard to describe if you’re not from here.

I guess they welcomed us with a healthy sense of skepticism, which we expected, but not cynicism, which we, um really respected.

That’s the way we’ve always approached Reom, which is: let’s go in and listen before we talk.

Let’s try to understand what the community wants, what the club wants, and let’s give them the resources in the exposure to to get that.

Rexam Afc has been around for over 150 years, the third oldest soccer team on Earth.

How my family watched rexim and my family before that have watched rexim, and that’s how it’s always been.

So, yeah, but in recent decades, the men’s team losing their way to their lowest ever, ranking in the the 2019- 2020 season.

In late 2020, Reynolds and M Henny’s purchase of the club bringing in some much needed cash, and Hollywood Flash the Emmy winning.

Welcome to Reom now documenting the dreams and dramas of this working class City’s team, our star player wound up in the emergency room.

Was it difficult to let these cameras in to let them see kind of the not only the highs but the lows as well?

I struggled with it a little bit.

Yeah, um, at the beginning, when we sat down to look at documentary footage, there’s been so many times where I see myself

And I’m humiliated by the way I acted in a particular moment

And I realized that has to go in because it happened.

It’s real life, Reom now winning more than they have in two decades.

It’s easy to just focus on the wins in life, but you know it’s really important to make sure that kids also see that you lose.

You know, Dad lost.

Today I extended that feeling of authenticity.

The show and its Soccer Stars, captivating audiences around the world, drawing parallels to the hit scripted show Ted Lasso.

Now I know at least one thing about football: even earning the town a visit from King Charles and Queen Camila.

If this club does well, the town will do well.

The two are inextricably linked.

What does this community mean to you after three years, and how have they embraced you?

I’ve had to start changing, um, my sheets, my bed sheets, more often.

Almost cut this out because I sweat at night.

Okay, Okay, I’m having a physiological reaction to this, wanting so badly to deliver what we’ve promised this town.

What they’ve done for us is welcome us into their Community.

I hope that we’ve delivered on each one of our our promises, and with each time we do that, we we get a little bit more welcome into the community, and then I sweat a little bit less.

The one of the kindest things I think anybody’s ever said was that that we were honorary Welshman.

Wales has really captured a huge piece of my heart.

Um, to be considered part of that group and that community on some level, any level, means more to me than anything, anything on Earth.