Sad Boyz - Europeans Discover America (Again)

Episode Date: June 19, 2026

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Welcome to Sad Boys, a podcast about feelings and other things also. I'm Jarvis. I'm Jordan. I think your laundry machine just wrapped up and it hit. It's one of those like gas little melodies. Yeah. We had to like kind of pop lock and drop it, so to speak. On the towers, it's the swan, the trout.

The trout. You know what my immediate thought was is the big mouth bass that sings on your wall. Yeah. Yeah, we haven't strapped to the. Billy the Bass where he goes, take me to the river. Can you imagine being the first,

like seeing that for the first time and just freaking out? It's like seeing crazy frog when we were like six. When I was a child, it's genuinely horrifying because I don't understand like what is

what sorcery is going into why that's happening. I'm afraid of mine is like maybe a little too into having, if we have a stupid idea going like, okay, no, I'll literally do it. And it's like, yeah, for sure.

And they're like, oh, no, oh my God, he did. At one point in time, he was working on creating a version of Big Mouth Billy Bass, except it was a stuffed rat. That was the plan for whatever reason. But it's Dizzled it. They're like, pick me to the river. I was thinking the same sense. But why is it?

I'm just a taxidermy. That just like stresses me out. It's scary, freaky. Because the idea is that this was a trophy fish that was murdered and hung on the wall. And he's going like, can you? Tim me to the river, please? That's the poor I live. Well, no, actually, he wasn't murdered, actually.

He was caught, and then he learned to breathe. That's right. He learned to be there. And he learned to talk and sing. That should be celebrated. And we think it's a tragic story? It's the story of a belittical. We used to build things.

It's John Locke stepping out of his wheelchair. Don't tell this fish what he can't do. There was an old McDonald's commercial, circa old McDonald. He had a phone. Circa of early 2000s that would come. It was one of those fish that we're singing on the wall. And it's like someone is eating a filet fish. And it then comes to life and it starts like seeing like,

give me back that filet fish. Give me that fish. Oh my God. I was. And it was a hot key for that? I was prepared to say you were making that up. No, no. And it was.

Jacob frame perfect. Carrey. It was the funniest thing ever to us as kids, me and my sisters. We replayed that. Like, we rewound and watched that. commercial, like 50 times because we were just laughing hysterically for no reason. I know people like watching, they aren't necessarily seeing the layout in the same way that we do, but it always cracks me up anytime Jacob has found something.

And from our view, the window is manually moved into frame. It's like, he's like, hey, look at this. Yeah. I got you this. I got you this window. How you doing? I haven't seen you in a long time, I feel. Yeah, why?

Well, because I was, because I had to go. into, I was doing a shoot all week this week. Yeah, sometimes I forget that we do see each other sometimes outside of the show. Well, sometimes we'll see each other a bunch and then other times we do, like, we just get lost in our own little. Yeah, I know, no, no, of course.

I'm playing groups in desert, you're in the champion zone. Yeah, well, so that's the thing. It's like I was, and I can't, or I'm not going to say for who or for what, but it's a big production with some friends of the show. And so it was like three long shoot days Monday through Wednesday and normally we record on Wednesday so today we're recording on Thursday and then this weekend I had a friend going out of town and so I saw them and so basically

just like time got away from me and on top of that I am preparing for I am now in the Pokemon Champion Zone because I am competing in the Wolfie Invitational and I need to learn how to play competitive Pokemon double battles. You're going to wear like a gym leader style costume? So Brian, David Gilbert, friend of the show is also competing and he has a fun idea that he's doing. I don't think I can top it. But I would love to come up with something.

Just dress as like Saske. Yeah. Or something. Just like completely unrelated cosplay. Like a janitor. I'm like the Ayatoli guy. Like this guy's not strong. Yeah.

Yeah. Anatoli. It does seem to... I was making up Ayatollah and... Yeah, I don't believe that's his role. Do you have a jumpsuit? Like a... I do.

Because from you, from your garage sale. I remember that. Yeah. I'm addicted, though. I give me a ladder to grind in a competitive strategic game that's turn-based and similar enough to Magic the Gathering,

and I'm in. And bundles in other games you've played... And bundles in a lifelong fandom of a franchise. They kind of caught you. Yeah. Oh, I've... You're mounted on the walls, sing and take me to the river.

I've watched VGC for years at this point, not knowing what the hell was going on. And I've watched Wolfie's videos because he produces them well and they're like fun hero's journeys to watch. But everything he says makes sense to me. But I also don't. It's like if you ask me again, like, and why did he make that decision? I bet your guess is as good as mine. But I always felt through all of that that it was only a matter of time.

Yes, TikTok. Because I've never done a double. I've never done a double battle. in my life outside of like the campaigns where it was required but but single battles i i did that's what i that's how i got my start in internet content creation because i wrote that guide about evy training back when i was 17 and now you're taking off the weights now i'm taking off the weights so i'm i'm in a position where i know what a lot of the words are and i know what all the Pokemon are oh you've done the homework so it's like it's interesting because i don't

instead it's like the opposite of shapes and sounds where it's like I know all the words and now I'm actually I've been familiar with pawns knights bishops queens kings now never touched them and I'm now finally putting them on a game board and playing chess this is way heavy than I thought oh bishop I'm a fan of your work I'm a fan of your work moving diagonally though I've never done it myself I know the queen and did you teach the queen now you know the queen you kind of you guys are passing each other you guys are pretty close Hey, what's up? I didn't know you were moving along the white school.

That's how it feels. And so it's exciting because Pokemon champions is super fun. And it's super beginner friendly in that one of the scariest things about VGC is how many Pokemon there are, how many items there are, how many combinations of movesets. Also, how difficult it is to acquire some of the Pokemon. If you want to play with a mega eternal flower florette, well, I hope you played through Legend Zia. and I hope you've done 15 rounds of the postgame thing.

I mean, in your case, obviously, this is, the hope is fulfilled, yes. You know what I mean. But if you're not like a freak, like a fucked up kind of like. It's grinding as hell. But I have a question. Yeah. With the, we can't say what it is, but the shoot you're just doing.

Yes. And the world stuff coming up and like these focal points, I kind of feel like there's a, Uncanny Valley where like it's you can with a lot of free time and not a lot going on, you can kind of switch off into a sort of recovery mode. Yeah. And with a lot going on back to back, you're almost building up like a stamina, not just socially but professionally.

Yeah. And then all of that like two things happening this week, but no more than that, that's a bit more like the cool down. isn't long enough? It's, I agree. Where are you at on that? I, I, uh, my last three days have been waking up at 6.30 a.m. Doing Pokemon coaching from 7 a.m. to like 9 a.m. because my coach is in the East Coast. So it was like regular morning time for him. And then going to set from like nine to like eight.

Like a farmer. What's crazy about it is I felt mostly fine the whole time. which is like a reminder in the weird way ADHD works, the weird way my energy works, because I would have thought that I would be completely exhausted. Yes. And I was tired, but I wasn't spent. Does that make sense? I think what sucks is when the lack of rhythm and like a disorganization of that ADHD rhythm

without a focal point makes you. exhausted, but not physically tired. Yeah. And you are like, you're fidgety and like not quite spent, but your mind cannot summon, like, time to go for a walk. Yeah, exactly. Do something. As opposed to like, don't get me wrong.

It's not something you can do infinitely. But I think that's probably something we both miss about an office. Yeah. It's, this is the period where you're on. And then you're done. The time, the, you actually illustrating that is like the story I told before of where, like, my first semester in college, I took the minimum amount of classes, because I, I was afraid of college and I was afraid I would do it bad.

And then I got like the worst grades I've gotten in college. And then the next semester I took next to the maximum of course work you could possibly take. And I got straight days. I think there is something to like. And then I just didn't have the down there. The downtime didn't exist. It was like you got to keep going. Yeah.

Could it. And also when you, when you're resting. you are resting for the purpose of being ready for the next one. And as opposed to like, I'm waiting for my ability cool downs, but I'm not going to really be spending them right away. And it's that stagnation period that, you know,

if you don't handle it well, it's essentially just like hyper mania and you're actually, you're not, it's unhealthy for whatever other reasons. But like rhythm maybe is a part of it. But I know like, I think you thrive in,

I mean, I can speak to the quiet time. I'm not seeing it. But I think you definitely thrive in little density? I, I thrive in density, but I love to rest.

I know, I feel like one of the funnier things is that Pokemon champions launched on iOS, like yesterday. They got you again. I guess, I guess midday yesterday. So every time we would have downtime on set,

I brought my switch in my backpack just in case we had a ton of downtime on day two. and I brought it out for maybe 30 minutes or something. But then on Wednesday, we had more downtime and it was more socially acceptable for me to be on my phone than to pull out a switch. And that's where I was getting my real gaming hours. Yeah, that feels good as hell. Do you think it's, I think it weirdly is size of screen. I think smaller the screen, the better the assumption into that it's a normal thing you're doing. Yep.

And it's just like we're always on our phone, so no one even thinks about it. these days. Anti-social media. That's basically what I'm calling it. That's what you're calling it. I did, yeah, no, I think there's, I'll tell you what. Oh, yeah, I haven't talked to you about this. I'm well-butrin maxing.

I'm, uh, first time I haven't done any kind of antidepressant or associated. What's, what's that the name for it? Well, Butron. Have I told you about anything that's up with me? Black? It's happening again. Oh, fuck off. I started Well, Boutrin seven days ago.

Oh, God. What? I started Wait, what day? Yeah, maybe, maybe nine days ago. I can look it up. I hate this. There's no more of this.

This is no more of this. This is fucked up. I started it on June 4th. Was that Tuesday? Oh, wait, no. Oh, so I was fucking copying you? No. A week later I started.

I was copying. Well, but that makes sense since he's like a two-year older. True. It does make sense. Unk.

I've got to, I've got, it's like my giving you my hand me down. Exactly. You're the canary. Giving you my old, uh, giving you my old letterman jacket. Did you do Will Butron in the past? I did a couple times, but it wasn't in concert with the stuff that I'm. The cocktail is new. The cocktail.

Exactly. The cocktail is new. And the first time I did it, it was when my like chronic hives started. I knew. Uh, again. And, everybody was like oh well we have to stop this because we don't know if there's like an allergic thing and I'm like I'm pretty sure this is just random chance because it started again and now I've

just been I've been back in hive mode for the past like eight years or something like that and then it's a well butrin really fucked you up yeah yeah there's an eight year reaction yeah um how is it well I don't uh my psych said it takes like a few weeks yeah it's like it's like fast in terms of stuff like that, but it's, that still takes a few weeks. So my understanding is like the lift and it's, there's always a funny conversation because it is like, it's like tarot cards where you're just like, well, they said this. And then you're asked like, well, how come? And they're like, huh? Would you? I don't know. Fucking what? I went to medical school and I know everything.

Yeah. I do think there's like a, the, um, synthesis of it with the cocktail is what like builds but I also know that within like the first week like one to two weeks the I again and I'm accepting placebo because results isn't the only thing I care about but I have been like or placebo is results fuck write that down who are you talking to the audience write that down um okay Allow yourself to enjoy the placebo gazebo. That sounds too. But yeah, it's funny because I don't know. I imagine we kind of took different paths to the same destination because we're not on exactly the same cocktail.

But it's funny that our cocktails. Similar goals, different. Yeah, I think for me it was about softening the curve of my like Vivance crashes. Yes. That is, for me, it's, the reason we've always been semi-evoidant of antidepressants is, A, because I think I've like under-emphasized that in the past. All toxic biases, even doing other medication, you know, and I'm like, yeah, well, this stuff's all real. But work hard, change the game. You know, like, despite being a huge advocate for mental health medication and seeking that,

it's still sometimes I will forget that I need to try new things and explore. Yeah, mental health and dental health. I can just think it, really. Oh, the real ones, no. I don't have the, for some reason, I think I just hit this particular point where I was at a particular level when I was just talking to my psych,

I'm like at the same psych for seven years, can be able to have him seven years? Six seven years? For 67 years? 67 years I had it, which makes it crazy that this has never come up. You know what? Okay, here's the thing.

Six seven's not, we're not going to think about that in like a few, like in a year, time, it'll be like gone. Yeah. But when you turn 67 years old, dude, it's going to come back. It's going to come back in a big way.

Well, you're going to, you're going to hit it. You're going to say no one except for my other senior citizen brethren, remember the few months that we had this. We're going to have such a good time in your 67th birthday. And then mine's going to roll around. Everyone's like, we kind of did that. We kind of did that. And it'll be my 69th.

No. And I was like, hey. We got to the next one, like, well, it's my seat. 68 is that fun it's like Java should send 70 come on 69 jobs kind of that one yeah but the thing about like like figuring out the concert of the meds is we never really explored it because of the the most success I had with a particular medication was for my uh for bipolar too yeah and the lemotrogen god send love it always have it I'm a never leave home without it never leave home without it loaded I open carry um um um um but I don't I don't I

Adding in a third thing, I wasn't accounting for like what the cocktail could do. Me too. I was more like, I was, I was worried about that. And then it's funny because my psych was like, does that bother you to like take a few medications in cocktail? And I was like, does it bother you? And she was like, no, it's really normal. I just, and I was like, oh, okay.

Because I actually thought that one of the medications I've been taking for like the last six, seven, years don't laugh don't encourage him is um he's slap him on the boy and by the way yes 6-7 is dead

yes we're kind of doing that's what she said again it's archaeology we're digging it up we're having our fun with it in a meta in a meta way definitely in the way the Pope is having fun with it

what I thought that the medication that I was taking already was an antidepressant. And I thought that it was mutually exclusive with well, Butrin. And then my psych was like, no, you people take those together and that's a thing. And I was like, that's been a thing this whole time?

I have, do you have this thing with like, I don't do talk therapy right now, but it's also been the other case where I've done that. My psychiatrist kind of just feels like good crossover with that. I feel like that he will snipe so many specifics and spot and remind me of things that like and has such a good archive for that. that sometimes I forget what he can't have known. I like, well, this guy's always pretty much, you know, he catches me. He's kind of like a Nostradamus thing.

He's there and I looked at an old newspaper from my childhood news there in the background with his magic the gathering cards. And I'm like, well, why didn't you time travel to last week when I wasn't feeling so hot? And I realized like, oh, right, yeah, he's not going to suggest adding an additional medication for something that he might speculate is going on, you know? Oh, right, yeah. Also, to the point of like a person who's doing their job well, he's not just trying to put drugs inside of you for money. I think maybe what did it, I was just like very candid.

I'm like I'm just so, I feel like I'm losing so much of my life to just feeling sad. I don't want to turn 40 and not have tried this and then try it and go like, oh my God, I lost so much time. But now trying it, I think the thing that maybe changed. as I just specifically said like, I've, I'm trying to sleep better. I'm back at the gym and I'm like, but I don't get the brain juice I used to get from the gym. Like something is now different and that's a problem. And I think with that, I think it activated a like, I don't even know what. Again, I have no shame or I should say theoretically, I have no shame about medication, etc.

but sometimes like he mentioned it and I almost felt like I was like I was like scamming a doctor into giving me painkillers. Yeah like you said the thing where I get nervous on airplanes. And then they just like they're asking for my ID and I am an adult and I can drink but I still give it to them kind of like nervously like it's a fake. I still give my ID nervous. I still give my ID to a bouncer and I expect him to say there's no way. He's like, you're not allowed in here. Passing it in motion. You're a loser.

There's no way you're 19 years old. You have a child's mind. I had someone yesterday. I went to a Dodgers game. And they pointed at me while I was in the stands. It's like, get down here right now. Shohei needs you. I was like, what does he need me for?

To pitch. No, okay, sorry. He's gambling. And he needs your advice. advice um i wasn't i don't drink but all my friends were getting beers and we were all ordering together and the guy said can i see your id and we all were like ha ha ha we're so old and we like hand it i didn't i was like i'm just drinking soda so everyone else handed their IDs we're all like around 40 i think three of us are over four

and one person is like 39. And he goes, oh my God, I thought you guys were like 20. And I was like, they're like my daughters. I'm, because also they're all like five, two. And so I tower over them. Oh my God, no offense. Oh, my God. And he goes so seriously, he was like, no, it's you that I thought looked really young.

I was like, calm down, dude. You do have no grades. I have one grade. I do think you look really young, but that's also a weird reaction. It's a weird reaction. I have one gray. It might be your kind of like, do you think it's like your psychological lack of maturity, lack of frontal lobe function?

I actually do think that. You're whipsy? Why is you getting soda? It's like, you know, when someone has childhood trauma and they're just trapped in that age? You have, you, in their, I mean, I know when I died, I'm not trying to pathologize. In their defense, you were wearing a propeller hat,

sipping a capricson, holding a skateboard. A giant lolly. Yes. Oh, a giant lolly. Hot to skateboard with that and a caprice. Yeah. Cool look, though. I guess we'll have to do a weekly well-bootron check.

Yeah. The well-butrin wellness check. Well, okay, hold on. I guess it's not. I'm on the generic. So we don't even have to. I'm on the bupropion or whatever. Boys propion?

The boys propion. Yeah, actually, yeah. No free class. The bro's propane. Hey, question. Real ones? No. I don't think I've gotten a brand medication in years.

That's because of the way American insurance works. Are we still doing that? Can I tell you the bullshit? So, for example, so I was on Vivance for years, right? When Vivance is in the, and I'm going to over oversimplify, but there's like time limits on exclusivity with like name brand drugs. Which one is the name brand for Vivance is the name brand? Vivance is the name brand.

So in a couple years ago, Vivance went generic. The second Vivance went generic, my insurance no longer covered Vivance. Insane. My insurance now covered Liz Dex Amphetamine, which is the drug name of the... And when that switchover happened, it fucked over loads of people. Yeah. Because they hadn't like... The manufacturing of the generic wasn't up to speed with the demand of name brand Vivance.

And a bunch of people's insurance just switched over. And it was backed up and people can get their drugs. There was like a even more so before that it happened over the pandemic. But there was a Adderall shortage, circa late 2019. And there was, I remember you could still get Adderall pretty easily. So it was essentially like a financial cap on who could access their medication. This probably sounds so crazy to a bunch of Europe. Europe, yeah.

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It's the World Cup. Are you? Ola, Olae, Olae, Olae, Olae, O'A. Don't wave. Hey, let me tell you, you and fucking Harry Kane. It's not coming home. I'm just kidding. I don't know anything about the World Cup or soccer.

Who's that? It probably isn't. But he, I think he's a striker for England. Spain's like a little weird? I don't know. Harry Kane? Yeah, he is. He's just, this guy, I'm just uploading info to my brain.

I don't know. I don't know anything. But it's great for a, if you. You were in the UK right now and you needed to carry one Convo. How does he do it at 38? Rinaldo looks washed. Do you see how I can't say that. You've just,

no, no, no, no. It's unfortunately that's the thing. That's what the streets are saying right now because Portugal couldn't beat the Democratic Republic of Congo. It's really fun because they shorten it to DR Congo. So it looks like Dr. Congo and it's like D.K. They couldn't feed. They couldn't beat one guy. Dr. Conger just playing by himself?

It is also funny for like football heads who don't know anything about world geography, who keep going, I can't believe they lost a DR Congo. Like, I don't know if anyone calls it bad. You've had a new one. I'm a huge World Cuphead, have been ever since 2000. Shout out Cuphead. I'm a mug man. Ever since 2002.

I was doing my study abroad in the year. UK. The World Cup was happening in Korea and Japan. And so we would wake up at like 7 a.m. Go to the pub. Watch the matches. So I have also a European connection to the World Cup, which is that when I studied abroad in Spain in 2014, Spain was the defending World Cup champion that year. And so it was a big deal there. And they were out so early. It was a rough, it was a rough year. but there's something different about this World Cup. What? It's in the Americas.

It's in the Americas. That's one. And as a result, Americans are taking more interest in it. That happened in the 80s as well. Yeah. And it's also everywhere, which like,

like the scale of the United States is such that you could like even observing, you're operating in multiple time zones nationally for games, which is like great thing. But it's also the first time of the social media generation

that we're having. a World Cup and we are now seeing the European mind being forced to comprehend America because America is extremely flawed and it's mostly what we talk about on this show. America also contains multitudes and Europeans culturally love to be elitist about the United States of America. Oh yeah. It feels good as fuck. I bet it hits like fucking crap. Yeah.

Because it's like, because it's not even, I get nothing out of it because I'm like, I know. Like, and I'm on your side too. But I don't get this, I don't get the smarmy self-satisfaction. I've burned my-y. As meanwhile, Britain is burning. Yes. I burned my meter on making fun of the US now. So it's like, now if I do it, it's like, well, it feels almost like stolen valid to spend

the majority of my adult life here and then be like, these yanks. Yeah. These yanks, right? I know, and every time you make fun of America, I look at you, you're wearing a 10-gallon cowboy hat. You're getting into your F-F-F-Ford 350. You're going to Costco and loading up on 10 years of toilet paper. No, I believe I'm, if I'm a true American, I'm going to Costco and sting.

I'm saying in the center of the aisle with my cart sideways to block off an element of an essential lane. When you are the world's police force, it's not fun to do. do patriotism because it looks real different that way. But I just need to say this, when I am rooting for America, it's in a woke way, okay? It's an awoke leftist fashion. It's in universe. We're doing it within the, suspension of disbelief. Suspension of disbelief.

Everything from movies and cultural hegemony is true during the game. It's me clapping at Hamilton, not going. Yeah, this is flawed actually. We're lapping for a little while. Allow me to larp. LAP. Land of the free, dude. I'm putting on Elfiz and being like, yeah, I'm actually going to get tomorrow.

As soon as the World Cup is over, we're back to the dark times. Okay. Hats off. There's like on social media, there's two fun things happening. One avenue is America as theme park. Like, I saw this on TV and now I'm experiencing it in real life. And it's ridiculous. And then the other avenue is.

America is a hellscape and I'm, I cannot believe this is real. And those are the polls at which America truly does oscillate. Yeah, both are true. Yeah. Both are true experiences. And it does domestically. Like, that is the experience, even if you just are moving city or state or something. Like, it's such a variable nation with such a variable populace that you go somewhere and go like,

wow, it sucks here in Arizona in ways that it. It does not even an hour north. The funny reason that there's like so much oscillating is because they're all over the place. This is like doing this all over Europe, right? Doing European World Cup. Yeah. Like every corner has such a different culture. And so England was in the English national team was in Texas ahead of their like doing training and stuff.

They were at the training facility. There was a shooting outside the training facility. And then their truck with all of their equipment got stolen, all their cleats and stuff. And then the star of the English team, Harry Kane, got food poisoning. Like all of this. Too many spices in the food. Too much flavor, unfortunately. Honestly, he was probably eating Mexican food and was like, I can't handle it.

Not ready. He needs a salted potato. But so it was like, you know, there's a lot of hard stuff happening. But there's also a lot of fun stuff happening. And I think people are getting really excited about it. There's this guy named Freddie. He's from Germany. And his whole Twitter account has been people following along on his road trip that he's going on.

And he had like. he has become famous, essentially. World's most excitable German. He has started receiving, his first few posts were really sweet. It was like, I went to Waffle House. It was amazing. Everyone was so nice, blah, blah, blah. The drinks are huge.

He went to puppies. But now, like, the Houston Astros gave him a bunch of free stuff, put a bunch of free stuff in his hotel room. They were, like, giving him free hotels and stuff. And he's like, I'm just, A man. He was invited to NASA to talk to the ISS. That's so cool.

To just check in. Yeah. You guys watch football? It was like, wait, he went to go and talk to the only people that can't watch the World Cup. This is, I mean, it's very similar to the time I was on Japanese TV. Hmm? I don't know if we, I think we have discussed that. Yeah.

Yeah, where it was like, it was on a, like, Rediscovered Japan was the show. and it was about, it was for people in Japan to see foreigners appreciating the things that Japan has to offer. Right. And like that is like, it's like can be very valuable because you become so kind of jaded in your normal, in your normal like kind of, you take everything for granted. I think, well, we were talking about this for whatever reason, just like the other day, just socially so and so. But like, I do think there is a like understandable kind of like black pill position on essentially everything that can happen in the US because justifiably it's a very frustrating country. It's the world dominating world police hegemony that is more than willing to blow up the entire world out of spite and is, uh, doesn't care about its own populace. And so it's a this is all justifiable hate towards those in power in the institutions.

Now, there is a large portion of the country that contributed to those people being in power and being in that position. Sure. But I am personally of the opinion that by default, people do care about one another. Yeah. And ultimately, given the choice, given the two buttons, most people would choose universe where everybody feels fulfilled versus universe where only I feel fulfilled and other people feel bad. Right. A lot of people are falsely under the opinion that for them to feel good, other people do have to feel bad omelous stuff. It's not real.

That's the trick, greatest trick, devil ever played, whatever. Yeah. And I think it, even in my brain, even saying this out loud, it is really hard to hold in concert the two ideas of like, well, I'm enjoying this country and I like my friends here. And I'm liking all this stuff. But to divorce that from. It's a little bit like how like white wedding dresses have weird cultural connotations about like virginity and ownership and acquisition of women. But you can wear one just have fun. Well, it's because the history of the world is very dark.

Yes. And there's a lot of killing. There's a lot of bloodshed. There's a lot of evil. And America is very contemporary. It's like the contemporary one. Contemporary. Yeah.

But we don't have to acknowledge the horrors of. the past every single time we enjoy something or feel a happy feeling. Yes. And so, like, that's... It's actually the only ammunition we could potentially have against that, like, permanently being the case. To be honest, it, like, it gives a feeling of, like, hope about humanity as a whole, which I think is a net positive.

I think what the U.S. Even though it's like, I'm like, I don't care about the Houston Police Department and I have all these thoughts about police. I think I'd rather not go there personally. I'm like, this is closer to propaganda than anything else. And that's, like, their incentive. That's very smart. Like, they, I see this strategy here.

And it also kind of feels like, I don't know, if this was, I don't know, the, if this was happening, like, in Japan, seems like, no matter how viral a particular Twitter account is going, I think it would seem weird for them to invite into, like, the Tokyo Police Department. Yeah. Like, that's strange. Or to the space expedition department. Right, right. Go to the football bits, I would think. I think it. There probably is something appealing for a German man to go to a Texas police department because it feels so like...

From movies. Yeah, from... Or TV shows. Jordan experience that, like, yellow school buses. I really genuinely didn't think they were really. Like, I thought that was a cartoon thing or outdoor. I think this is... I assume they have them in Florida as well because I know it's like a climate related thing, but outdoor lockers, I know is a big thing in California.

Like at schools... My high school had outdoor. Lockers. Oh, at a high school. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's another like my brain. Indoor school is only on TV to me. Oh, yeah. Because it's the other way around for me. Yeah. When I think of lockers, I only think of them in, because that's one of those things which like, don't worry, I at no point intend to go to an American high school. So it's one of those things that will always live as media to me. And when I think, of a locker in America, I never think of it from first person I'm opening it. Yeah. I think of it from like, hey, pip squeak guy pushing.

Exactly. Exactly. I just like can't imagine it. But I think like some part of what Freddie's doing is like this America is this like thing I've seen on TV and like I'm like I want to go to the police station because wow. American police are like this very specific thing. There's so many TV shows. But it's at the same time, it's like,

but there's nuance here and he doesn't understand that nuance. And he's only getting like one side of it. But whatever. Sorry, can we drift up a tiny bit? But yeah, it's like that AC tweet is really funny. Well, so this stadium that Germany was in. Everybody was talking about, even on the broadcast. I think it's in Houston.

They, everyone was essentially dying in the line to get into the stadium because it was so hot and humid. They were actually having a heat wave. It was over 100 degrees. It was like extremely humid. They were dying. And then they get inside of a football arena that has a roof and air conditioning. And everyone was like, oh, my God, now I'm freezing.

Yeah. Because I'm prepared for this awful heat we're in. And now I go inside a. Air-conditioned football stadium? That's crazy. And everyone was talking about it. It is really interesting because it casts doubt on that thing where, like, you'd see a headline about heat in, like, Europe, the UK somewhere. And it would be like the equivalent of like 82 degrees Fahrenheit here.

And then people would be like, wow, these people wouldn't survive in America. and then the Europeans would be like, no, it's like the heat's different here. Yeah, it's fucking weird. But it is also, it does also get hot here in a way that is meaningful. And now they're experiencing that. Well, and because they're, like we said, it's happening all over. So it's also in Guadalajara and Mexico City. And I think Vancouver and Toronto are the two Canadian ones.

They snuck in the same. San Francisco, Seattle. So that's the other funny thing is they had to cover all the logos on all. of the stadium. FIFA famously corrupt organization. Their contracts are extremely, they're extremely demanding on, on the countries. And it's like no free, no free advertising. Every branded SoFi Stadium, that has to be Los Angeles Stadium. And there has to be signs for Los Angeles Stadium. And these are things that are signed into contract that are demanded by FIFA. This particular World Cup, I think a lot of the agreements for it happened like 10 years ago.

So like, for example, Chicago historic Soldier Field, Rahm Emanuel was the mayor of Chicago when they were doing the negotiations for this. And FIFA not only, like Soldier Field is one of the few American stadiums that doesn't have a sponsor. Like that's just the name of the thing. But in the contract had all of these stipulations

and we're going to make them have a cover for Soldier Stadium to build a covering, some way of covering. it. And then like they basically are like that is not that we can't put that in there like no, we never exercise this, but it just has to be in the contract. It's like, well, then let's take it out of the contract. And they're like, no, it has to be in the contract. Well, put it there. I mean, who cares? And so then that, then Rob Emanuel was like, I don't want to run the risk of putting this, who has his own problems politically, but like, I don't want to run the risk of kicking this

cost to the taxpayers because one crazy thing about America is most of these stadiums get made because people who want to make the stadium, the billionaires and trillionaires now with Elon, negotiate really hard with cities when they're moving teams and they say, hey, I'm going to bring all this business, you should actually pay for the stadium. And that almost never is a good investment, but they look for the city that's going to do it. And then that's, and so it's the Amazon warehouse strategy. You just be like, who wants it? Yeah. You have to pay. Sorry. And so one of the interesting, so that, so as a result, Chicago is not, despite being a historic American city, is not hosting any of the World Cup games, but why they did host the exhibition match that I

happened to be next to playing Pokemon Go that happened between the U.S. and Germany right before, I wonder if Freddie was there. Mercedes-Bensteads. in Atlanta has a big Mercedes Ben's logo that opens up mechanically at the top so they were able to get an exception so they're the only people that didn't have to do that that is but they still covered they they covered with like a like a sheet basically it's such a weird like FIFA yeah again like notoriously difficult to work within any setting to the point where they uh I once he fumbled the bag but they essentially just like cut off their relationship with EA which is that those games are no longer FIFA games they are like independent Yeah. It's like soccer league. I'm John Oliver has been doing episodes about FIFA corruption for like 12 years at this point. Like, because I feel like the first one I watched was literally like in his first season of his show. And I think he's maybe done three.

And that's mostly where my info about this comes from. The Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, which is now being called the San Francisco Stadium. They covered up the little Levi's logo, but it looks like a little underwear. And so people were calling it, you know, various names that meant underwear stadium. That's funny. And then Levi's changed their social media logo to be the little underwear. Very clever. So smart.

Makes me want to buy pants. I will say, I think this is even smarter than your average thing because the world scale of the World Cup is so kind of unfathomable if you're only an America brain. sports head because for example there was just a match between it was between Spain and not Curacao Cabo Verge Cabo Verde Cape Verde and and the 40-year-old goalkeeper saved a ton of goals it ended up being a tie it was like an insane defense here insane defense went from 50,000 subscribers to more than Jalen Brunson has post-winning the NBA championship. You know, Bozina is his name. Football internationally is probably like the best, actually, probably the best example of how

American cultural insular stuff is actually holding us back from a lot of cultural conversations. Like, it's a kind of reminds me of when people like, who the hell is bad bunny? Yeah. And you're like, oh, well, you're just, you are the sheltered one. And I feel like a. similar sentiment is held about soccer, as we as we call it. Do you know why it's called soccer?

It's Britain. It's a association. Association football. So, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, social. And then we, and actually, iconic British move, do the thing, it's completely our fault. Blame someone else and be like, what were you thinking? Invade a place and then be like, why did you let us do that? I did hear someone playfully call

they were like this is football and it's soccer and that America football is hand egg it is hand egg. There is that big bit where they do kick it and that is a lot of crazy. That's one of the biggest kick parts in football but then the rest of the time it's a lot of handoffrey. Can I share something else fun with you guys? Please.

So this is from a Japanese fella who's in America for the World Cup and he says USA, a Mexican restaurant we had not yet ordered anything and the food was already arriving chips, salsa unrequested free

I stopped the waiter we have not earned these these just come with the table man they come with the table in my land hospitality is a debt every gift creates an obligation weighed carefully

returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner. Participation trophies here in America. Everybody wins something. This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration.

We trust you. Eat. I ate with the gravity the moment dessert. And then I must report this calmly. The basket emptied and a new one appeared. Did we refill? The waiter said. It's bottomless.

bottomless. They have wells of salsa. This reads like a set of hikus. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined. My friend warned me, do not fill up on chips, dude. Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished. An unfinished gift is an insult. But at the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man. I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by courtesy. Yeah, we, we've polite this mugged, unfortunately. Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived. I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket, one basket, two at the most. Who am I deceiving? There is no number of baskets I could refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa and I intend to honor all of it.

This account is awesome. They have like a bunch of these. Yeah. Which is, I recommend. Yeah, it is poetry. Do you feel like Florida, I mean, I'm not accounting for every cuisine, I guess, but like Florida meal culture is different than California meal culture. Well, California meal culture, I feel, is probably different than L.A. meal culture. You know what I mean? So, like, where I was, it was, like, very hard to find, like, authentic food from certain cultures,

but there would be, like, fusion. There's some parts of America that remind me of Japan. where, like, I went to a German restaurant once in Japan, and it, like, just felt like an artist's reimagining of what a German was. Oh, yeah. It's a hard rock cafe kind of thing. Yeah, like, it's just, like, it's nowhere close to, like, what German food is. But then there are places in America where this isn't close to what Asian food is.

This isn't close to what. Like, like, yeah, I had sushi in Gainesville, but you could order the Tim Tebow roll. No, right. You know what I mean? I mean, it's, I feel like we didn't. grow up in like traditional house environment so I guess we can't speak to like the suburban experience or whatever but I always think of like and it's just my internalized like othering for sure yeah you know in Japan they have a very um procedural relationship with their food

and they have a very a methodology to the way you eat and the way you present the way you do whatever but trying to think of it in reverse because we're as idiosyncratic we're as weird it's just trying to wrap my brain around it in reverse where I'm like, I guess if I, if I, I've internalized like, you put your fork and knife on the plate when you're done, it's like very rude. And like, you fork on the left, knife on the right. And I don't know if this is universal at all. Is that like a thing? Yeah. I mean, it's, there's probably, it's probably very old fashioned at the point. Yeah, there's like old fashioned rules, but I don't know anyone who like knows them. I guess it stuck around Britishly. Like that was like, my mom didn't get shit. There was

a Monique's charm school. I don't know if you guys remember that show. What the hell is that? It was, uh, it was like, what if we got some ghetto people and took them to, uh, we're a British person can tell them how to be proper. They did that one episode of Blackware where they sent Nick to like diction school or whatever. Yeah, I mean, I think they call him the end word. I think it was that. Yeah, it was. Monique's charm school Who's British? No,

he's British, a random token actor They got to be a British guy, I think. Oh, is that Sharon Osborne? Yeah, maybe she did a different season. Yeah, maybe she took it over. That makes so much sense.

Oh, that's the Rock of Love. There's probably contestants from Rock of Love Chalm School. Oh, wow, that was a weird time in VH1, I guess. Rock of Love Charms School. This is Simpsons Meet Family Guide. Yeah, it's a little bit, yeah, because Rock of Love was just a dating show.

So now they're saying, you trailer park trash. Because that's the, oh, you Brett Michaels fans, you're from, you're from the south and you're a certain archetype of person who has no manners. So now let Sharon Osborne teach you Britishly how to be proper. Come to this show where we will teach you to speak in a way that will make you be made fun of at home. Oh my God. I was like, I was joking in my language. but this is literally what it says. Ever wonder what became of the girls

that were so nasty, vicious, and rough around the edges that even flavor, Brett Michaels didn't want them? That's an insane. What are those girls going to do? Where are those girls going to go? Home?

Luckily for them, VH1 had just a place to send them. Send them. Yeah. A little place called J. Charms school. Chalm school. In relation to what Jordan has said many times, I sent,

Jacob, I just texted you something that was related to the yellow school bus. Oh. Mm-hmm. I saw one. He was an Italian guy getting free refills

and losing his mind. Oh my God. I haven't seen that. That's cute. It's got to be a, because I also associate like Italian eating culture as that, you know,

ritualistic as well. Yeah. But like American Italian eating culture. Like you finished it. And they just, puss, and he was like, Mama me. She's like, I'm going to have another one. And they're like, stop, you don't need that much.

World Cup without shelling out of fortune? Well, maybe you take a school bus. That's where the Providence Tartan Army comes in. We were very disappointing in Boston. They robbed his blind. Instead of paying $0.80 for a commute to and from Foxborough, these Scotland fans chartered a few of more than 20 yellow school buses. Can I just say how interesting it is for me?

Just because of the history of the United States, so many place names are European and then have been like kind of, you know, over time. But I just like looking at those places as places in America, right? Yeah, don't make no damn sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, even Foxborough where Gillette Stadium is, which is now called Boston Stadium, is not in Boston.

It's in Foxborough. And that sounds Scottish, like Buddha. Foxborough. I mean, that's the whole thing with stadiums and tax codes and things. I think where the Chiefs play is like slightly outside of the state is outside it. They're playing, they play in the other Kansas City.

Yeah, San Francisco Stadium is actually in Santa Clara. Sadly, Chicago Bears are going to be playing in Indiana. Yeah, in Indiana. I just heard that. Crazy. They got lost or something. Well, the border of

Indiana is right next to Chicago. That's like a suburb. I guess. Yeah, I'm not allowing that. Sorry. We spoke to a few bus companies and the prices were incredible. So we then had a little bit of a joke. Let's get some school buses.

Is the guy on the shirt, my only guess is he's the manager, the Scottish national team? That's my guess as well. I don't know. Or it's principal from the school. Very principal coded. This helps clear up something for me too because so many of these games are so far away in the US. I was like, are these people rich or how are they getting around? Like, long road trips make sense, school bus makes sense.

But I get, and you also just can't go to every game that your country is going to, right? There's another. Well, yeah, because like that movie is a crazy base. Because you have to be jumping between like Vancouver and, I guess the group stage keeps you in a. The group stage, they have scheduled it. You know, normally if it's in a smaller, more condensed place, it would be a faster turnaround. but right now teams have

like a week between games. But I just mean the fans like it's a big ask for it is a huge ass. Another just like huge culture shock after moving here is like you know you know the United States is big. You know it's a bunch of states

but it's so big. It is so inconceivably large to the extent where it's like there are states or cities or districts that people here will refer to as smaller. It'll be like, uh, it's San Francisco, seven by seven, you know, it's like it couldn't be smaller. Yeah. The amount of time required for me to public transit anywhere, not directly in walking range in the city, rivaled any amount of time I'd spend in England my entire life.

When the EU is slightly bigger, I think there was like a, um, like some sort of British aisle that was I'm sure for ripped unceremoniously from the European Union. They think they asked us to leave and we were like, will graciously do that? Oh, sure, sure. It felt like traveling between states. Yeah. Like when I was in Spain, for example, traveling across countries because of the proximity, yeah, just felt like you were going from one state. The freedom of movement thing is I literally just didn't even.

I think I ironically, that became a very large part of my life, but I used to think of like, these are processes is pretty much something exclusively for citizenship and permanent immigration someone. But it is actually, I mean, we get like visa waivers a lot of the time for certain countries and things like that. Like even if if I go to Canada, I'm still allowed to do that. But now, oh my God, I can only imagine how frustrating it is to do any. Like the hopping on a Ryan F like for eight pounds and like having your kind of celebratory schools over. boys trip to Greece or something is now presumably requires like paperwork and a completely different yeah but that's the thing about living in the US is like thanks Nigel thanks a lot mate yeah

that's uh maybe before we hit play uh I had one other thing that I probably won't have a good time to mention the broadcasters being in a lot of American football stadiums is really funny just because uh I know how Americans feel about certain figures owners. Like, for example, our friend Michaela is a Cowboys fan. A lot of Cowboys fans hate Jerry Jones. And I was watching a game where the broadcasters were like, we're here with the amazing Dallas Stadium.

Jerry Jones has done a wonderful job. And it's just funny because, like, everyone hate, like, no one likes Jerry Jones. But then to the commentator, it's just like, well, thanks for, look at all the work you put it. Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's like, wow, and it works. And I mean, yeah, you got that much. After this, I have, after we finish watching this, I have another video of a guy marveling at that situation. Oh, really? That's funny.

Yeah. And all of a sudden, we rented almost every school bus in Rhode Island. We've also got about $16,000 of beer. And then we've got the biggest backlock party in the tailgate you've ever seen. We need to get the alcohol off the truck and onto the buses before we get on. I got to ride with the Tardin Army for game one against Haiti. And it's a lot more comfortable than I was. expecting and it's super fun out here school buses and well back home are traditional larger buses

the yellow bus idea is more than we watch it on the simpsons really the ride was only about 45 minutes long and the beer was flowing throughout it is funny to take a 45 minute drive and be like well i'll need my beer we're gonna party bro there is every bus is a party bus yeah Providence this week for the World Cup, but not all of them will be watching at the stadium. It suddenly grew arms and legs, it became a monster and we estimate now there's maybe 12,000 spots in Providence. They're hoping to park. Oh my God, that's so funny. It's like I just had a moment unfortunately of reality when I think about how the Trump administration has spoken about immigrants and stuff and people traveling to the country and how different it is if 12,000 people are from

a brown country well it's immigrants and there's experts and visitors like they're playing like Haiti and then like I think about how people

were asking 12,000 Haitians that would be an uprising there kind of was a situation in New York when Brazil was about to play they hadn't played yet

and all the Brazilian fans were in New York going wild at the same time that the Knicks had just won the of finals. And so it was like Brazilians everywhere mixed with like crazy Knicks fans.

I saw some people who were like confused like Europeans confused about the NBA finals. Yeah. Like why New York was so crazy at that point in time. They're like, wow, there's a lot of New York fans of the World Cup, I guess. Lerner. We're wearing other jerseys. I saw like reply, reply, evil reply bots that are trying to sew like Discord talking about like, like Zoron and the

governor of New York were at the game that was hosted in New York and they're like, why aren't you supporting the U.S.? That's awesome. I'm like, that is A plus bait. Oh my God, did you see

I Show Speed? Yes. Oh yeah. Sitting next to Mom Donnie and didn't know. He's like, where's the mayor? Why is everyone saying mayor? Russell was like, oh shit. Dapped up the mayor the same way you would

like a really good pilot. Russell, he was now governed by in Mamdanaistan by Zoran. The Sultan. He said, he pointed out that Zoran wasn't even going to speak to him and mention that he listens to his World Cup song until he approached him. I was like, that is very polite. Like he didn't even bother him or anything.

I think what works so well for Zoran's vibe is that he seems to always have a counter in the pocket. Yeah. It's like, that's incredible. It's like when someone like, my friend Dan, we lived together for two years. through college before I found out that he's like a concert level guitar player. I thought he like He like strummed and played and then he was like I've been doing a big getting a little bit of extra cash by Just playing with like some people at the school

I'm playing what and they just went like well I got his acoustic guitar and just finger style like boom do do do Yeah, and like what the fuck you held on to this that's so much cooler The end of that I show speed clip is him sitting back in his seat later he was sitting in Zoran seat which is very funny but him sitting back in his seat and saying W mayor So awesome W mayor Thanks for doing you know

The city Do you think That's not that You built this He built the city Dude on rock and roll So after Scotland played

They won 1-0 to Haiti Poor Haiti And they were celebrating In Boston and they found The Cops life That's awesome Explorers

Did he hit there? Yes. That's crazy. I thought, I was like, he's got a sound over the video. That's awesome. How did his kilt not slide up? Notice how the whimsy of the Scots make them go down that slides so slowly.

I want to enjoy it. Yeah. Is it evil that makes you go down fast? Of course. Yes, and inverted. This is like the final test in last crusade in Indiana Jones

where it's like you have to choose the cup and if you are humble and moral you don't turn to dust it's the it's Nimbus or Kinto Un

which that's the name of the cloud in Japan right Only those who are pure pure of heart yeah Scottish guy writing it playing the bag fight that's a great image so sick

so this is kind of relating to what you're saying about like when we see someone we don't like on the feed watching the US games here is wild because sport ultimately is a form of escapism. So in the bars, they're like, USA, USA, until they see a Trump official. And then they're like, boo, boo.

Then it goes back to the game. And they're like, USA, USA. Then it goes back to the Trump official. And they're like, dang it. For a second there, I forgot about the fascism. I mean, yeah. It ruins the suspension. And that's okay.

I think actually that's ideal. Yeah. Because it is just like a sports team at that point. That's like the last time I felt relatively patriotic was during the Olympics when it was like Stefan LeBron and KD. And I was like, hell yeah, brothers. But in the way that's fun. They kept showing Marco Rubio at one of the games. I saw that.

And I just was like, oh, stop showing him. Cutting to a turd. And he's sitting next to the evil FIFA president. Of course he is. He's cutting to the access. In your egghead. Like you guys had mentioned, like, of course, many of the. visitors from primarily white countries are having an amazing time in the U.S.

But there has been plenty of like there was a Somali referee that was denied entry to the country. There was an Iraqi football star who was detained for a better part of it, the better part of a day. Why am I being surprised? I don't realize it's still hitting me as a surprise. I just remember, I just remember something extremely recent that can give you the taste of the FIFA president. he said that for the under 18 FIFA World Cup, he wants to get a match between Israel and Palestine. Not knowing that like a thousand Palestinian footballers

were killed in strikes from Israel. I guess if you are just kind of elegantly evil, yeah, I guess why wouldn't you just think that? Why wouldn't you just, well, I'm already the villain. I'll just be insane. Yeah, of course. And then the Iranian team is not allowed to. stay in the US.

Yeah. They have games here, but they have to go back to Mexico between their games. I heard about that. That sucks. That's been like a logistical nightmare for them because they're not getting enough sleep. Yeah. Oh, my Lord. Yeah.

It's such an odd. That's the, again, that's the problem, right? It's like these two things do exist in perfect sync. And we, I think there's, um, again, scale of the country is a big part of it. But like, in the UK, even that like video we just watched, not that the, top slide, that's perfect and perfectly virtuous. The previous one who he's talking about, like, watching games in America is like this.

And I'm like, I don't know where you are right now. It's not like that everywhere. There's quite a few places, maybe not a lot of cheers for Marco Rubio, because who gives a shit. But like, a lot of people will performatively wot and holler when they just show a member of the Trump administration.

Well, that's the, yeah, there are parts of America where they're probably not booing. It's the same rules as another team. They boo when the team they don't look at. Cynically, I kind of think that the places where they would woo, there's enough turnover in the Trump administration. It's hard for them to keep track of who is an official. They have to check like a chart. Oh, no.

No, no, no, no, no. I think for the most part, like maybe this is me just generalizing, but I feel like for the most part. General Ising? You feel service. Football fans in America are immigrants. They're not necessarily, you know, the wealthiest people. And I, it's interesting because the USA team, this thing keeps happening that is driving me crazy where people are like, I want to point out that. this Japanese goalie is was born in New Jersey and it's like why do you want to point that out he grew up in Japan his mom's Japanese yes his dad is black but who gives a shit why are you pointing this out and then they'll say the same thing about American players with like kind of African last names or like flow balligan is uh he simply was his parents are from Nigeria. His parents were in the

US while his mom was very pregnant, as the story goes, they wouldn't let her board the plane because she was too pregnant to go to the UK where he grew up. So he ended up being born in Brooklyn. And as a result, has American citizenship, though he is a British national and that's like where he grew up and where he trained and where he plays. But he had the opportunity and due to his youth, due to the pecking order, what have you, We're all happy to have him. He is eligible to compete for the American national team.

And he's one of the best young strikers. This is all, by the way, I've been, when I'm not playing Pokemon, I've been, like, downloading. Consuming. I've been consuming info about all this. We put a USBC in the back of your neck. I'm hearing that he's, like, one of the best young strikers in Europe, period. But England has such a, like, established team that he couldn't play for them, right? Well, yeah, or he would be a bench player.

I think he could have played. But because he plays for like Arsenal. Like he's a Premier League, like, level player. But, but he's like, I'm going to have a starring role on the U.S. squad. And in the first game, he scored two goals. And he was the first player from the U.S. to score two goals in a World Cup match since 1930. I would have done it sooner. But I just think it's 24.

There's a lot of people in the U.S. being very weird about citizenship and ancestral identity and what the fuck is right citizenship what the hell is this mythical the right way if it's not being born here and be doing a job that exclusively requires you to be a citizen there is no right ways so get over it just enjoy the beautiful game isn't there the funny thing uh yeah there's like john mccane was born he was born on like a military base like out of the country and it's like technically because it was a military base he's like an American citizen but like you could just as easily be like well he wasn't born on our home so also I think

wasn't gives other vibes sorry the Mormon presidential candidate who had his car or his dog on his roof his roof of his car oh uh umpul no no no are you thinking of Mitt Romney oh that's right he grew up in Mexico yeah that's why it's so worldly and Let's watch this really cute interview. My name is... Okay. Yeah, my name is Hirochika Nakakiki. Oh, wow.

It's live? Okay. It's live? Yes, it's live. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How excited are you? Yeah. You are so excited, right?

Japan, right? Excuse me. Okay. I cannot speak English, but... Okay. But I'm excited! I love it! I'm sorry.

I'm two mics. Let's go! Japan! Japan, baby! Look, I just lit. I'm not to meet you. Japan is lit. That's so awesome.

That's it because he had to prepare for that. His two lines are, my name is, and then also let's go. He had excuse me. Yeah. It's funny. It is funny, I know I'm sure, translation-wise, that is, oh, pardon me, but in America, it's like, yo, pause. Excuse me. Yeah, no, it's because of the tone that he said it in.

Excuse you. It's so funny. Excuse me Going to Japan and learning Hey Yeah it's like Yeah Soon I'm saying you

I also Just want to shout out The Japanese kit Because it's really pretty But also I love Kurosau's jerseys And Cape Verdi's jerseys

Just like Also shout out Kubo From the Japan team Oh Japanese messy So There have been so many Cool upsets

And one was Netherlands Japan they tied um and spain uh was denied by capo verge and um dear dr congo dr congo versus portugal he prescribed them a loss there were so many good memes about like when you realize your goat is washed oh my god the um yeah the rinaldo memes are so funny because it's like the haters were saying that rinaldo is washed and their haters were right they got this one I want to thank all my haters because yeah, I like them.

But anyways, I'm having fun watching the World Cup. It's going to go on for a long time. It's going to go on for a long time. For more years. I mean, it kind of is like a month or more of World Cup. I think it's always a month. Yeah, it's always this long. It's a long summer of football.

And I love it. I'm having a good time. And it's funny because I forget that. that I, like, because I've been watching the World Cups, I think I skipped the, the Qatar one, Qatar one. Oh my God. I have a whole thing about ex-in-ims.

Hank Green made a video, a toponym's, ex-nims, the terms that, you know, like a Nippon versus Japan. That's an ex-exonym. X-in-M is Japan. And like, like, when the Japanese man there says Japan, he's using the ex-in-em.

for his home country. If a German guy says Germany, not Deutschland. Exactly. It was funny during the Japan-Netherlands game, my friend was like, where's Holland? And I said, well, Holland's in, it's Netherlands. And she was like, oh, what do, like, because we were talking about the different ways

that different languages say Netherlands. In French, it's Pei-e-Bah. It literally is the low land. Yeah. Oh, roasted. Oh, damn. It's pretty high up. And so she was, like, confused about, like, why, you know, why we call it.

And I guess I've learned since that Holland is actually a region of Netherlands or something. Is it a Great Britain versus England thing? I guess so. Yeah, so the Netherlands is the country. And then Holland refers to specifically two of the provinces within the Netherlands. So it's like British, British Isles, Great Britain. England, the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland. Ireland, Northern Ireland.

Oh my God. Yeah, Ireland is Ireland and Northern Ireland. But if you're talking about the geographical entity, but then the United Kingdom includes, is Great Britain plus Northern Ireland. And Ireland is Europe, but Northern Ireland is excluded from Europe in a trade sense now. It's so cool that we live in a society.

And then complaining about the rest of Europe, like, it's so confusing and fussy. We have nine names, six flags. It is interesting to see what the commentators of the World Cup choose to say. Like, Cape Verdi or Cape Verde. Like, that's not how they say it. They say Cabo Verge. It's Portuguese.

Yeah. But we're using kind of a Spanish accent. Yeah. Or I remember Ivory Coast or like Codrevoir. Codivore. Yeah. Like, I learned it as that. And then I later learned that was ivory coast.

Yeah, we should just call it Cote d'Ivoire. It's not that hard to say, right? But the fun one is Turkey A because Turkey in 2022 basically asked that to be their name so that it didn't share a name with the food slash bird. That's a good call. I do think there's something very like a lot of the time, it shares a flavor when people are like, it's actually Qatar. It does. Well, yeah, Qatar versus Qatar is like a, I think, I could be wrong. I think that's an idonym versus an exonym.

Indonym, I think, is the reverse. Oh, I see. Because sometimes it is a, and there's absolutely valid and go with whatever you prefer, I am a little tired of it being the same white people that told me I have to say latinx. It smells the same a lot of the time of just like, well, actually, let me connect. You can't say that word that way. And then you talk to anyone from the culture or with a relationship, we don't fucking care. Why would we care about that?

It's actually fun the way you say. And you can't say Latinx in Spanish. You would say like Latina. Latins. Latiche. And it was nice of us to do that for Spanish speakers. To be like, by the way, you know you guys are doing a bedroom. Just heads up.

Jordan has a special segment. But before he gets to that, just want to say, after the show, we'll be over on Sad Boys. Patreon, patreon.com slash Sad Boys, where we'll be doing Sad Boys nights, our second podcast. We just do it again. Hundreds of episodes of the show that are kind of like nasty. If you feel like you ran out of episodes to listen to, no, you did. I have good or bad news. I have good or bad news.

Maybe you were trying to finish the show. About 170 more to work through. 170 more. I lied when I said hundreds, plural, but dozens. I mean, it is more than a hundred. Tens of dozens. It's, it is hundreds to me. Over on nights, I'm going to tell Jarvis what a Jarvis bro is.

Anyway, Jordan, what's your segment? Breaking news. Someone broke into my car. Yesterday morning, someone, the people are saying that Jordan's Keir was broken into by an nefarious villain. And we're not speaking about our prime minister. Panning shot off a school, you know. So yeah, this did happen.

Somebody, the nefarious hamburger striped shirt, domino mask type, I assume. The whimsy is helping me deal with it. I used one of those sneaky methods that does not damage the car, thankfully, trying to be thankful for something like that. Now, I want to make an appeal to them specifically. You think they're watching? I guarantee it. Okay. Because how else would they know to tactfully steal the following items?

One, the only reason I immediately realized that something had happened in my car was because they had left my roll of dog poop bags sticking out ever so slightly from the center compartment. I know where everything is in my car at all times, including the fact that when opening the glove compartment, when opening the glove compartment, I noticed that the pair of socks I keep spares did not roll out the way it normally does. You keep a pair of spear socks in your car? Two. There are two pairs.

Two pairs of underwear and a different jacket and a try my best sweater. I can't get mad at that. Thank you, first of all, for taking my $8 pair of sunglasses from the Galleria with a broken lens. Notice that they were gone because you left one of the lenses. I didn't need it. I mean, they might not have needed it. What the hell? And, well, I suppose I'll try and be nice about this.

I'll speak directly to you. Maybe it benefited you. Don't look at me. Don't mind me. Maybe it benefited you to take the small bag of toiletries that I had in my center console, which included a roll-on set of old spice deodorant and moisturizer. And again, I've decided that it's okay and that I forgive you. And I can only pray that the aquafore that you also took from the center compartment helps you.

While you burn in hell! While you burn in hell forever! I hope your skin is flammable. I hope Hades pulls your eyes out. I hope the $300 you stole from my center compartment can be used for the river sticks. You fucker! I'm going to find you.

I'm going to find you. And there's no aquifer in the world that can help you. I will throttle you with my spare socks. The first opportunity I get, I will stuff my spare water bottles. Travel size would be boom habit. It's like an Uber.

Down your throat until you explode open like the parting seas. I'm actually fine with that, I'm laughing. I recently came. into some aquifer and I was thinking about getting a tattoo. Did you want to say find $300 that was intended for a tattoo? We end every episode of Saddlewis for the particular friend. I'm going to find you.

We love you. And we're sorry. I'm going to get you. Gucci girl. How you doing? How you moving girl? How's you delicate that future girl? Future girl.

Yeah, we're on now. Take my money. Go away. You want it. Go too rich for me.