Show Me Something - WNBA Star Sophie Cunningham & Bravo's West Wilson Top 5 “Show Me Something” Moments of 2025!

Episode Date: January 7, 2026

Ho ho hold up — it’s a Show Me Something Christmas. Our present to you? A highlight reel of the TOP 5 most iconic moments, hot takes, and absolute chaos from this year’s podcast. Sop...hie’s on a heater (until she’s not) as the Fever grind through a Caitlin Clark injury stretch — and she gets real about the highs/lows of being a “next shooter up,” and why the league needs to stop being messy about the new wave of attention. Then the convo swerves into pure internet chaos: the WNBA flying-dildo saga (yes, multiple… yes, neon green… yes, someone actually got arrested), plus Sophie breaking down why it’s funny and dangerous — especially when you’ve already tripped over one at home. From there it’s classic Sophie & West: Summer House cast trip ideas (Ozarks??), Paige being out of the house, tunnel fits and bandanas featuring West’s dad, and a quick flex on West’s Good Morning America moment with Arby’s steak nuggets and the “Hot Girls Eat Arby’s” shirt going viral. They wrap with “Tell Me Something” listener calls — dating advice from Chile to Texas, for the fellas and the ladies, plus a surprisingly wholesome question about what’s actually been filling their cups lately (spoiler: parents, cold beer, and… an elite dessert run). Get an Arby's Double Roast Beef or Double Beef 'n Cheddar in-store or Doordashed today. https://www.arbys.com/All lines provided by ‪Hard Rock Bet#VolumeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:43 That's good. How'd you play? You know, I've actually been kind of on a heater. Turn me up, so? Yeah, turn me up. Last night I was not back down on a cooler. That's fine. Humbling.
Starting point is 00:02:56 That's humbling, you know. Can I, do you think with? See. Caitlin out, have you had to, like, kind of, like, rise up? Yeah, I think everyone has had to. She does have a pretty good injury. Hopefully she's back soon. Are you second a shooter after her, in your opinion?
Starting point is 00:03:10 Like percentage-wise or, like, efficiency? I guess that's the same thing. Yeah, nice. Your coach is like, uh, what? I'm inefficiency and percentage-wise. I leave both of those categories. Yeah, no, that's awesome. That's good.
Starting point is 00:03:26 Same category. Anyway, I don't even know if I lead those. But I, no, I think that's the cool thing about our team is we have a lot of great shooters. Shooters. But I have been shooting the shit out of the ball lately. But we all, you know, the highs and lows of the season. I know. Everyone goes to that.
Starting point is 00:03:41 Do we know when she's coming back? What is it? Growing? Yeah. Her, yeah. It is a groin. But it's such, like, a weird. injury because she doesn't really like she's not in pain all the time yeah you know what I mean
Starting point is 00:03:55 but then like when you do hurt it it's like okay you're out for another so I think they're trying to be like extra cautious so she doesn't kind of have those little setbacks if we're trying to make a play off run I think that's the great thing exactly like if we can continue to win without her like also of course we want her to play though like I want her to play you know what I mean but like if we can be successful without her give her a little bit more break I think that's going to be good and playoffs are win October on September this year yeah October was with Olympic year, but this year. Oh, got you.
Starting point is 00:04:22 Yeah, yeah. Caugh you. Yeah, yeah. She didn't play an All-Star, though. She didn't. She was an All-Star. Of course. Was she, like, on the sideline shit with them?
Starting point is 00:04:29 Yeah, they call their coach. Coach Clark. Oh, yeah. No, only they did. But I think I'm a part of our PA, Players Association. W&BA, yeah, so I think they're going to be sending out those shirts. Good. So it'll be nice.
Starting point is 00:04:41 But. Kelsey Plumwood did Sherb? Why? I don't know, dude. Why? I always feel like she's always being weird. The thing is, she's super nice. and she's really freaking good at basketball.
Starting point is 00:04:51 Uh-huh. It's just like... I just think, and you know way better than me, but like... It just feels like people are jealous of this new little wave of... They are, but I just hate that because, like, this is what we've always wanted as a league. So, like, who cares who gets the credit?
Starting point is 00:05:08 And if you're smart, you're making money off of them. Yeah. Like, you were literally making money from the viewership. And what she made a... The chirp was about how she didn't help plan the fucking... Who cares? Like, who cares? You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:05:19 Like, I mean. Like, I just hate when, like, people do stuff to get, it's like clickbait. Yeah. Like, you know. And there's so much clickbait, especially surrounding Caitlin. And so, like, it's just like, just be nice. Like, why can't people just be nice? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:30 That's what I don't, I don't, coming from the girl who drug someone down. Just be nice. It's not that hard. I agree. Damn it. No, I think that's what the, from what I've seen. Yeah, what is the outside, like, the outside view of the deli. The discourse is, like, why bully the person who is like,
Starting point is 00:05:49 not 100% responsible, but like has a huge role in growing your support. Dude. And it literally like pisses me off and people are like, she's not the face of the league. Who would be? What? Sabrina. No. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:05 No, there's really good, well-known people in our league. I'm not discreding them. Like, we have a lot of badasses in our league. Like, hell yeah, to that. I'm off for that. But when people will try to argue that she's not the face of our league. Yeah. Or if our league would be where we're at without her, you're done.
Starting point is 00:06:19 as shit. Yeah. You're literally dumb as fuck. You guys played at Iowa. Were you there for that game? Yeah. Was that a preseason? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:27 Yeah. We played against Brazil. Oh, we should go to Brazil. Chiefs fucking, Ah. Chiefs play in Brazil, week one against the Chargers, I think.
Starting point is 00:06:37 So, there's that. Clear our schedule. When's their first game? It's probably like the first weekend of September. Wait, when does Summerhouse quit filming? Dude, I fucking won it. Montana State plays Oregon. week one and it's our last weekend of filming so it's like it's the last weekend of August that like
Starting point is 00:06:54 it dips its toes into September for like a day on like Sunday maybe or something wait because that's literally where I was going to go with that is like why doesn't why don't you guys all pick up like the summer house crew go to like a game or like go to that internet talks about that all the time because every other Bravo show does cast trips yeah so they go to like islands and like fucking cool stuff I think because our show is a vacation. Yeah. They like, in theory, were like already on a trip.
Starting point is 00:07:24 On vacation? You know? Yeah. I like jokingly brought up Summer House Ozarks. Dude, it would be so fun. And it like kind of caught a little traction. I saw it on my Twitter feed. Yeah. I saw it.
Starting point is 00:07:36 I interviewed John Hamm about it. I was like, would you watch that show? And he goes, fuck yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do that be amazing. But it would be fun to just go, like, I love that house, you know? Yes, but like, it's okay to go do something different for at least one week.
Starting point is 00:07:47 I think with people that you spend so much time with, a little shakeup is healthy. Yes. And like, yeah. And then it like, it kind of like lights a little. Fire. Like, we're all going to like do this thing. Let's all be nice and have fun. You're just not so much of your team.
Starting point is 00:08:03 But I actually want to handle that real quick. Is it so weird with Paige not being in the house? It sucks because I think our senses of humor were like the same. Yeah. And if I made a joke, I like. Relied on her a little. Yeah. She would laugh first, you know.
Starting point is 00:08:16 Uh-huh. So that part's always tough. Are you still friends? Yeah. Like hang out and stuff? I'm going to send her one of those bandanas too. I got a little group of like... You need to.
Starting point is 00:08:26 You need to. You know. Aw. Mm-hmm. Aw. But it seemed that in a tunnel fit would mean the world to me. Dude, I want to rock it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:34 Yeah, I'm all for that. Yeah. Do you have an outfit idea? If you know, it's my dad on the bandana. What? Bruce? Bruce, dude. I'll show you.
Starting point is 00:08:44 It's like a pastel painting. Wait. On the OG scarf, it was Bruce the whole time. Yeah, look. You're fucking kidding. No, I sent them the picture. So it's like a picture of him. The Roos?
Starting point is 00:08:57 Yeah. Isn't that cool? Oh, hell yeah, dude. And then that's our Cattlebrand logo. Oh. So it's like cooler than you think it is. Way cooler. I just thought it was like a random silky scarf that you maybe got at Marshalls.
Starting point is 00:09:12 No, no. No, what the fuck? I don't know. No, actually. this company is who did it. They're called pirate. But it's pretty cool. You could have fooled my ass.
Starting point is 00:09:24 Well, that's not the point. Oh. And I also think my dad was like, this is awesome. Duh. You know he fucking ate that shit of a heartbeat. I know. I was like, hey, do you have time to do you like a photo shoot at the farm? And he was like, yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:35 I can tell the cows to fuck off and the pigs can go. The cows were a part of it. I did see that. Dude, I will never forget. Back to our little farm party. real quick. I will never forget when you really did have yours and like your dad was out there and was like showing the like massive bonfire too. That bonfire was so big fire. It was huge. It was huge. We took all the old wood and like pallets and shit. I didn't know all that.
Starting point is 00:10:00 But I remember that was a big ass fire. Yeah. That might have been one of the bigger ones. Yeah. Josh Evans had a couple big ones, but that was a, that was a big big one. I wonder if ever do that again in our lives. I think that we're going to throw it back and we're going to. We like, yeah. Wait, that would be so far. Why are we whispering? Just because I don't want you here to see that. They're not going to be invited. No, you got it don't want inviting.
Starting point is 00:10:23 It's in Missouri, though. If I get lumped in associated with you and then have beef with the front office of the WNBA, that puts me at two leagues that I have, like, outwardly public beef with. Because the NHL hates my guts also, which is an old story. I'm kind of thinking that the W is starting to have some beef with my comments, But I also have to say that more than 95% of the population who watches the VNB agrees with me. Without a doubt, we know what we have to talk about this week. Sweeping interwebs.
Starting point is 00:10:59 W&B dildos. Awesome. Not like just dildos, may I add. Like neon green, probably glow in the dark. Dude, green machine. Green machine. That's honestly electric. Dude, I.
Starting point is 00:11:17 It's funny. Like, don't give me... You read a response. It's hilarious. But then I tweeted... Like, I was, like, loki joking. And I think people... Like, I was, like, joking, but serious.
Starting point is 00:11:27 But, like, more joking than serious. I'll defend you in this instance, like, objectively, that's so dangerous. I've even tripped on a dildo in my own apartment that someone left on the floor. Like, they're not good for ankles. And you, like, we all know. So I agree with you. Or, like, I wasn't even thinking about my ankles. I was thinking about, like, is someone...
Starting point is 00:11:47 through that thing and like first of all the bounce the bounce that that thing had if that smacked someone in the face you know that that's going to be plastered everywhere and if it didn't hit like if it came to like I didn't feel like that dude I'm thinking about like
Starting point is 00:12:02 if it gets like I'm just I just know how things go viral now and I just know if that thing like even came from like the rafters or bounce and just slapped me right in the face I could never I could that would be what I'd be known for for life so I was just trying to protect all of our images. And yeah, break a fucking nose. What the hell? Yeah. Do we know if I should know this,
Starting point is 00:12:23 but did they find the person who threw it or not? So there's actually been three dildos that have been thrown, which is insane, all green. And I was like, I was like, hey, like, this is going to be a thing. Like, we could, well, I saw that they offer, you're not allowed to talk about this. So you can't, you probably can't even respond to what I'm going to say. But they, there were, there were betting lines for the next color dildo thrown on the court at a WNBA game. And people could like bet on the number. Yeah. And it was like sunset rainbow like plus like 50 grade or whatever.
Starting point is 00:12:54 Yeah. And I guess green is just like the go to now. Dude, the the funny thing is is like my parents and my sister, they literally text me after or before every single game like saying good luck. Like did a day, you know. And my mom. I'll send it I'll send it so everyone can see this But my mom she goes
Starting point is 00:13:16 Instead of like my good luck text She goes Watch out for flying dildos tonight And then The other one said Did you really just post the dildo tweet It got some legs And she goes
Starting point is 00:13:27 It's funny a lot of others think so too Did you see the dildo hit the court? I was like I never thought that I'd be talking about this With Mama P I'm with my sweet mom Did you see the response to your tweet That like like
Starting point is 00:13:40 Ratiode you No So you said stop throwing dildos on the court We could get hurt And someone said Well stop playing basketball On the dildo range Which
Starting point is 00:13:54 That's kind of funny And he said And this stuff That is funny Damn That's crazy But like But the guy who actually did throw it
Starting point is 00:14:04 He did get arrested And I think he's banned for a year A year He's throwing doing big hard well medium hard objects. I want to know how they're getting these in.
Starting point is 00:14:20 That's our talks in the locker room. It's not in their purses. Okay, so as someone who snuck booze into multiple professional sporting events Dude, booze is different than this big green build. But my, I was going to say you put
Starting point is 00:14:36 anything in between your legs where it's hot and like there's weird shapes. It doesn't It's rubber. It's not going to scan them the like metal detector thing. So if you put it in your pants like it's free game. I don't even know how they can
Starting point is 00:14:52 keep stopping it unless they put out like a like a bounty for like anyone seen with a dodo in a WNBA arena. Who just knew that like that would just draw so much attention? I feel like they knew. Yeah. Yep.
Starting point is 00:15:08 It's green. Like they knew exactly what. I want it to I want before we move on as a society and I don't want anyone hurt but like if it if someone threw it and it landed on the suction part like and just
Starting point is 00:15:23 like on the floor could you imagine or the backboard like Tim out everyone's trying to like make sure like the W is like not a joke and it's taken seriously and then that happens
Starting point is 00:15:37 I'm like how are we ever going to get taken seriously if we have freaking but in a way I have had like crazy streakers and people doing weird stuff. This is like part of the course. Honestly, I'd much other a dildo than a streaker. Yeah. And it's like kind of, it's cute.
Starting point is 00:15:56 Again, as long as everyone's safe, you know, I want everyone to be safe. Um, okay. You know, you and I haven't talked about actually. And like met in the middle. Just like weird. And like the first episode, we were like introing so much stuff that we didn't get to like just talk about like what happened during the week, you know? I feel like the more we go like we travel this path. We'll just talk about like weird stuff.
Starting point is 00:16:22 And other big news. Project B. Do you want to spill the freaking beans? So it's a league. So the W season goes from May to October for people who don't know. And this league will go in our off season. So like there's other things like unriended. Um, a U in Nashville, uh, then people can go overseas too, but this is a whole new one.
Starting point is 00:16:47 And this one offers a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, lots of money. And that's why people are like moving towards this. And this is also different than unrivaled. Completely different. So how many like floating leagues are there? Three. I would say that like a lot of the American players are, are doing are, I would say the majority is two.
Starting point is 00:17:10 Okay. Yeah. Okay. But I think there's going to be a lot of people switching over. That's cool. So like here's my thing. So all these leagues are great. But at the end of the day, like if you don't have the W, you don't have the platform.
Starting point is 00:17:21 So you don't have the eyes. You don't have the recognition. That's right, Caitlin Clark. Yeah. You have the W. Yeah. I try to get her to like play in this one. She's like, no.
Starting point is 00:17:32 I saw Kelsey Mitchell's playing. Yeah, which I'm super excited about. Yeah. Super excited to play with Kels. Or I don't know if I'll play with her, but we'll be in the same league. But so you go to like seven different markets around the world. You're only there for a certain amount of time and then you have the rest of time off. So I could like stay in that market and travel for free pretty much.
Starting point is 00:17:50 Do you know the markets? I do, but I don't know the exact city. So I know there's like two in Asia, two in Europe, I think two in the North and South America's and one elsewhere. Dude, that fucking rocks. I'm excited because I actually miss kind of traveling the world. I was in France for seven months. I went to Australia at the like the beginning of my career. It loved it.
Starting point is 00:18:07 You just get cultured. It's fun. And I've missed it. But I also don't want to play you around. Like my body can't handle it. I have other things I want to do that I'm interested in. And so this just gives me the like the perfect opportunity to go play, get cultured, like, see the world, but also like be able to come home and still experience like what I want to experience.
Starting point is 00:18:24 So you think it's a tasteful amount of basketball that like wouldn't burn you out. But it's offering you multiple things outside of like just playing basketball. Yeah. So and they have like the bet they're going to have the best PTs. They're just super organized. Do you know where like who's? backing it who's like well i know i don't know if i'm allowed to say but i'll just say like four huge tech companies that are like well known and they have a shit ton of money so a lot of people think this
Starting point is 00:18:45 is like saudi money and it's not at all has not uh live live for whatever no no no no no i'm excited and i think the people that are running it are just good good people um i think it's good experience did they did they recruit you or did you reach out to them no they recruited me and i i i not even going to lie actually like kind of turned it down twice okay because i was like i don't like i don't want to play overseas. I don't, whatever. And then, like, the more details I got and, like, the more I really thought about, I'm like, dude, what a great time to, like, expand my brand globally. I get to play year-round, which will help me stay in shape. That will help me. Because I'm about to hit, like, I'm hitting my prime. So prime in the WMBA is, like, anywhere from 28 to 34.
Starting point is 00:19:27 You better fucking ball out then. Yeah, but I'm a late bloomer, too. So I'm like, I'll probably be, you know, the 50-year-old still playing. Yeah, yeah. Like in the church league? stepbacks and shit. Talking shit to little kids. Yeah. I did have my uncle one time. I played in his church league and he was like, there's this guy.
Starting point is 00:19:43 He played D2 basketball. And he fucks us up. And he could just get mid-range floaters all day and no one could stop him. You know what it's hilarious. And when I was, you weren't there, you're at BravoCon, but I was up in New York
Starting point is 00:19:55 and we all went to dinner after the Sun Cruiser event. And there was a couple of guys there and they play in like the New York like City League or something. It's like CYBA, but like for older. people.
Starting point is 00:20:06 Is it, if it's not Volo Sports? What, what, it's like, it was like three letters. Do you kind of know what I'm talking about? Oh, well, it's not, is it, it's not, it's not Volo. Like it's, but were they like all good? Um, they were all like. Do you think it's the same level as my kickball league or better or worse? I, I think it might be a little better.
Starting point is 00:20:26 Yeah, okay. So it's probably not Volo. It's probably something that I don't know of. Okay. Well, they, they all are like finance people. Okay. And they all take their basketball. so serious.
Starting point is 00:20:36 Like getting... Angle. Angle braces. Oh, yeah. And like, like, making sure that they're fit for their game. Wiping their,
Starting point is 00:20:43 wiping their shoes off every defensive possession. Literally. And I was like, I would love to see that. Yeah, so it'll be really cool. It's going to be fun. Are you excited?
Starting point is 00:20:51 I am, actually. No. Do you think you'll fly commercial and would they charter? No, everything's first class. Everything's chartered. Everything's like, we're going to be at the nicest hotels,
Starting point is 00:21:02 nicest. Anything you can think of that is great overseas. that's where we're going to be. That's awesome. Yeah. But I do think it's cool because, like, say we play in Italy, you play for two weeks and then I could stay there and explore for two weeks. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:15 Like literally damn near for free. And get some recipes for next Christmas. Callback. I think it'll be fun. And I did read. Yeah. They're giving equity to everyone. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:29 Which is sick. Yeah. I think, like, the first kind of, like, wave of people who are willing to go for it. because this is new. So it's risky, but high risk, high reward. That, yeah, they're giving equity. And so I'm like, I'm all for that. Like, it's especially with like the money that is involved in,
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Starting point is 00:27:16 Oh, Coast. Okay, we talked about this last episode. We missed each other in New York because your cute ass did Good Morning America. Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, co clap, clap, woo. Yeah. All right, let's talk about it, news anchor. I should have like some anchorman TikToks or something.
Starting point is 00:27:35 I just wasn't thinking because it was so early. Dude, isn't that the worst when, like, you're in these environments where, like, you could just crush a, like, TikTok bit and you fully forget? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. But whatever. Problems. Yeah. So I was in Florida because I was looking for a house, probably not going to do that for a while.
Starting point is 00:27:56 Yeah, we'll talk after why. But so then I flew up to New York and it was so fun and walked around the city for like three hours, got some dumplings, went to bed at like 7 p.m. woke up at like 4 a.m. because of just, I don't know why. And then we went straight to Good Morning America. And it was amazing. The people there are absolutely so, so nice. Um, the hair and makeup were, we're great. Um, I met Robin. I met Ginger. Like, everyone that I met was just Robin was posting you up in the, in the green room. Dude, she was, she was so cool. Like, she was so cool. I was like, oh my gosh, this is awesome. But I was there with Arby's. And it was amazing. I was eating like steak bites at like seven, eight a.m. It was nice. There's no wrong. There's no wrong time to have a steak bite. Let's get that. Let's cover that right away. It was good too. So on Good Morning America.
Starting point is 00:28:48 It was a very kind of like quick snippet. But we were talking about how hot girls eat Arby shirt went absolutely viral and has been like completely sold out really since I've worn it, which has been kind of cool. That's dope. Arby's most popular item has become the steak nuggets, dude. How kind of cool is that? Has it? Yes. Well, we should shout out the guy who went viral for eating fucking 40 of them by himself and in Arby's. Dude, can we get that guy as our first guest?
Starting point is 00:29:18 on the pod. Stig Nugget guy. So good. He probably sold out half of that whatever, wherever that Arby's was. Oh, I know. Probably said out the whole thing. But I will say, too,
Starting point is 00:29:31 they were talking to me in the Teskitchen down in Georgia. They want me to come test out some of like the new stuff that they're doing. How awesome would that be? Dude, you get to wear like a hairnet and like an apron and just go try shit? Yep. How sick. Yeah. Yeah, dude, that is too good.
Starting point is 00:29:51 The reason I found out that there was only one Arby's in New York, though, is because I was getting my hair done and my makeup done. And they all were asking about the steak nuggets. And they're like, we can't find an Arby's in New York. And I was like, well, missing out. Hey, I will say those people, like, obviously I don't like, I'm not watching Good Morning America every day. But everyone on that show, I feel like they've been doing it for a thousand years and bringing the
Starting point is 00:30:16 best vibes every single day of their whole lives. Yeah. Like they seem so genuine and sweet and positive and like, just sweet little angels that wake up at 4.30 a.m. every day. They truly are. And just like the producers, the people who, the directors, the people who let us in like from security all the way to like the people that we know,
Starting point is 00:30:35 everyone is so friendly. Like it was amazing. Yeah. I was so shocked. Did you get to like, I mean, like, if anyone watched, we could all tell it was like, an RBs related the situation.
Starting point is 00:30:49 Did they, did you get time to like, did they ask you anything like that wasn't prompted? Or was it pretty like getting it out? So I think that I don't know. Well, I do know that like Disney kind of told our good friends at Arby's
Starting point is 00:31:05 that like the segment would be a lot longer, like a lot longer. And then something happened. And then so it was already cut to like, let's say 15, minutes all the way down to like three. And then the show was running behind. And so then it turned out.
Starting point is 00:31:19 It probably was a time thing. Yes. And then it turned out being only like a minute 25. But it was good. It was in and out. I got a lot of positive feedback and responses on socials. And so many people are trying to stay fights now. So that's exciting.
Starting point is 00:31:33 Shout out Arby's. You looked great, by the way. Thank you. I don't know how many times I'll comment on your appearance on this podcast because I've known you since you were a child and we work together. You looked so hot, Sophie. Thanks, Wes. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:31:50 I love a little affirmation from you. That'll be fun. Speaking of phone interviews, should we get into our tell me something? So down. The first one is a comment, not a voicemail. A Matthias Osorno. Mateus, I hope I'm doing you justice. Really like your show.
Starting point is 00:32:07 Congrats from Chile. Wow, shout out Chile. I don't know how many. Sometimes that's going to happen in the history of this pod. But a shout-in from Chile is fantastic. We shouldn't celebrate it while we have it. Let's do a live show in Chile. Okay, by the way, what advice can you give me to deal with an issue of not finding a partner in all of my 29 years despite having a nice job, not getting in trouble and working on my shape?
Starting point is 00:32:31 Mateus, you're looking at one, brother. It's don't feel bad. Here's what's crazy to me. People are always like, I'm single. I'm the single one. Brother, you just told me you got a great job. You got money to go travel. You're working on your shape, which means you got a bang and bod.
Starting point is 00:32:52 Hit the streets. Argentina's close to you. Brazil's close to you. God, see, you just go downhill so fast, West. You're just so good. What do you mean, hit the streets? I don't mean, like, being, like, a horn dog. I mean, go live your life and then it's going to come to you, you know?
Starting point is 00:33:08 Like, I think people who are like, who need, who feel like they need to be dating someone, you're going to, you're going to settle, Mattias. Yeah. And I don't want that for you. I want you to live your best life, which already sounds like you've got the ingredients, you know? Someone's going to come when you're not looking, Mattias.
Starting point is 00:33:29 Okay, I agree with all that. And another thing is I think it's so important to date yourself and like not be, like, keep, keep filling your cup up because you have the rest of your life to be worried about someone else. Like, this is your only time to like do what you want and only be worried about you. Like, guys, think about that. Do you ever think about that that like you have the next like 16 years to be worrying about husband, wife, or kids or all of that? We're like, this is a time where you should be filling up your own cup. Yeah, I will say Mattias also, I think like, at least for me, my parents aged,
Starting point is 00:34:06 they, like, they were, like, at least in like the 80s, 90s, yeah, it was pretty typical, right? Like, school, education, marriage, job, kids. Like, there's a, there was a clear pattern. I don't think it's as strict as it used to be. I got a lot of single friends, Mattias, and I'm 30. Just one fresh year ahead of you. The clock's not over.
Starting point is 00:34:32 You're a very young cat. keep, keep rocking it. Did you? I wonder, what is the culture in Chile? Is it kind of like? Great question, Soph. Kev, can we get you for that one? Let's ask what is dating culture or what are dating traditions in Chile?
Starting point is 00:34:48 Yeah, dating traditions. Chat, tell me about... Is it more traditional in Chile? Let's see. Ooh, okay. They blend Latin American romance, Catholic, cultural values and a growing modern, globalized dating culture. Modernized.
Starting point is 00:35:09 You have to. Yeah, Mattes, you're good. 29 is, 29 is, is child's play. Give yourself a little time. And you're going to crush. And your 30s are your best years. So like, fine. I've heard that a bunch too.
Starting point is 00:35:22 You're fine. I like that. I keep working on that bang and bod you got. And keep making money. Here's another one here. Little dating advice. Oh, God. My favorite.
Starting point is 00:35:33 that. There you go. Hi. My name is Sky, and I live in Texas. I was just asking for advice, because I go to college, and there's this guy who I like on the football team, but he's pretty popular, and we were at a party one time, and he came and he sat with me, and he talked to me, and this week we went and got, like, we actually got six of a leg, but we got lunch, and he's just been acting with a total vibe, but I kind of feel like he has a lot of other girls, and he has a lot of other girl he's talking to, but I don't know how to approach that situation. How do I, like... He doesn't.
Starting point is 00:36:09 How do I approach that? He loves you. Shut up. I'm taking this one. He's laughing, Sky, because he knows exactly what type of guy that is. See, it was probably him. Sky, this is coming from girl to girl. We have all been with the football player who has a good vibe and takes us somewhere and we think that it's so cute and fun.
Starting point is 00:36:28 Don't do it. Don't do it. Make him chase you. plenty of other fish in the sea. You do not need to be competing with other little ugly fishes. Sky, I will say, I do agree with Sophie.
Starting point is 00:36:42 I think it's fish real quick. Distant, like is the plural version of fish, fish? Cat, yeah, I must, but keep going.
Starting point is 00:36:50 Now this is you, I agree with Sophie. I say kind of like, not saying distance yourself, but like make him work for a little bit, the less attention you give him, he's going to, he's going to come back.
Starting point is 00:37:01 don't, don't like wait on him. Do we want him to come back? See, I'm like, actually the mom. If that makes him a commit guy. I am kind of like the mom in this podcast, which is like super surprising because West will give you like the guy advice.
Starting point is 00:37:18 I'm telling you the girl advice where like, if you're just trying to have fun and not be committed, but like you don't need to be doing that, you know? All I'm saying is I think he'll show true colors if you don't give him attention. True, true, true.
Starting point is 00:37:31 Whether he comes, back or like then you're like oh he didn't care. Now I will say good question. It is a good question. I will say though like there are some really, really good football guys and some of them were my friends. Still are my friends. But you'll know the difference between a good genuine guy and like a football player
Starting point is 00:37:49 who's being a ho. Right, Wes? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I co-sign. That was such a good. good question because it was just like perfect.
Starting point is 00:38:04 I was just perfect. I was perfect. Love you, Sky. Good luck. All right, guys. Last one for you here. Hey, y'all. It's Brian. I was wondering, what is the one thing in
Starting point is 00:38:18 your life that brings you happiness? I'd like to hear what y'all had to say about that. Nice wholesome question to end our Friday. That's lovely. You know what it's been for me recently? making my parents happy and getting to do cool things with my mom and dad. Wait, that's so nice.
Starting point is 00:38:40 Yeah, I stayed like, you'll never be able to repay your mom and dad for like what they've given you. And I feel like I've been presented a handful of opportunities over the last year or two. And they're always going to be the first people that I want to like share the stuff with. because I don't know how else to, you know, try to thank them for everything. And so that's kind of been filling my cup, Brian. Oh, how wholesome. Yeah, that and a cold beer. Yeah, I was safe.
Starting point is 00:39:12 But your parents like cold beers too, so great. You're doing both. I think what I would say lately, I normally would say, like, getting to the pool and being outside, getting a nice tan, but here in Indy, There's not really sudden to do that for some reason. I love a good Marg normally. But since I've been hurt, what's actually been filling my cup, and normally I'm not like this, is I probably eat three desserts a day. And I fucking have loved it.
Starting point is 00:39:46 That's pretty much it. Like the other day, I had a cinnamon-rolled donut. I had cookies and cream milkshake from... Fuck. I had a cookies and cream milkshake. I'm not going to say from where. Sounds good. And then I had three cookies all before 2 p.m.
Starting point is 00:40:04 And that's all you needed for the day. Yeah. To be emotionally, like, to be positive, to fill up your job, to be happy. And the next day, I had to do an in-body, which tells you your body fat percentage and stuff. Are you going up? Yeah. I've lost almost six pounds of muscle since my injury, and I've gained 1.4.4. percent body fat.
Starting point is 00:40:32 Okay. Just to call back the episode after you got hurt, I said I got fat as fuck when I broke my leg. Like, you just have to be careful because there's so many things that you can't do that make you happy. So then you replace them with what you eat because you can't move. And it's so hard. It is.
Starting point is 00:40:49 And like, I just, once I get on like, I love sweets. Like I have a sweet tooth. But I really try to stay away from it. And I don't crave it. But once I start, oh, I fucking start. So I gave myself. a month. So like, what day is it? Is it the 19th? So two days ago was the injury anniversary. So I was going to give myself a month of doing whatever I wanted. And now I'm back on it. Fair.
Starting point is 00:41:13 But that's bring, that brought me a lot of happiness. I was eating like shit. And it's awesome. Brian, thank you for the wholesome question. That was really nice. Thanks. Let's, let's end this with Go fever. Get it done. Clean sweep fever. B the Aces. Let's do a baby. Bye. American soccer is exploding. The knockout rounds are here. The U.S. won their group, and now every match is winner go home.
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