The Nateland Podcast - #125 The World Cup

Episode Date: November 23, 2022

This week, the guys are sure to frustrate true soccer fans by discussing the World Cup. Nate, Aaron, Brian, and Dusty delve into famous moments in World Cup history, discuss the most famous soccer players of all time and somehow get sidetracked into debating the relevance of the Tour De France.      Podcast produced by Nate & Laura Bargatze Recording & Editing by Genovations Media https://www.natebargatze.com https://www.allthingscomedy.com https://www.genovationsmedia.com Email - [e-mail]   Athletic Greens - AthleticGreens.com/Nate   Right now, it’s time to reclaim your health and help your immune system with convenient, daily nutrition - especially heading into the flu and cold season!  It is just one scoop in a cup of water every day. That is it! No need for a million different pills and supplements to look out for your health.  To make it easy, Athletic Greens Is going to give you a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase.  All you have to do is visit ATHLETICGREENS.com/NATE. Again, that’s ATHLETICGREENS.com/NATE to take ownership over your health and pick up the ultimate daily nutritional insurance!

hello folks and hey bear welcome to the nateland podcast uh nate bargetzi brian bates aaron weber and dusty slay all right welcome everybody Thanks for coming. I don't know. I'm glad you're here. I was going to show you this one book, Somebody Feed Phil the book. So if you watch any Somebody Feed Phil, the Netflix series, it's out now. Phil Rosenthal uh just a wonderful dude and loves food loves it uh we went to what was the place in uh maize de la vida i don't know how to say the first word m-a-i-z it was awesome so i if you if you watch this season i am on uh the episode when they come to nashville watched this season i am on uh the episode when they come to nashville and we go eat at this place and it was really cool like they have it's a it's a uh in east nashville and they have uh like a taco bar like i mean a taco truck out front and then you just go eat inside it's like

a bar which is i thought was a very smart idea for uh for those two things to combine like to be like all right we just serve drinks here. If you want food, you go out there. And, I mean, the truck was unbelievable. I was watching this show with my wife. I didn't know you were on it. Yeah. And all of a sudden, he's just eating with you.

It's like, my God. It's crazy. Yeah, it was super fun, and they were awesome. And I got no tomatoes and no onions. But it was the best phil's the best uh he does i mean he loves food man it's like the real deal like he's it's crazy like when you i'll i'll text him like if you go somewhere like he'll take he'll i mean he'll just be like where he at on the road and you tell him he's like all right go to this and he knows everywhere and it's uh

it's awesome and i mean this show is obviously a big hit it's a cool show it was exciting he asked me to be on it so uh yeah go check that show out check out his book somebody feed phil the book phil's a good name for a guy that likes to eat right because you're like you fill your belly yeah you know yeah that really worked out yeah yeah phil likes food full would be a better name full yeah you don't hear it full though you don't hear that a lot out here is he my name full i don't know but imagine your kid was named full yeah and they'd be like i bet he is full he's full he could he could not be fat right name is full you have to right really stay in shape you also couldn't be too skinny because you'd be like i'm full and like no you're

not no you're not it'd be a lot i think you're it's gonna be tough for you to not have jokes you would have to be a specimen right i mean like you'd have to be, you know, like a UFC fighter type specimen for people not to make fun of you. I've gotten that a lot. You know, waiting tables, I go, hey, I'm Dusty. I'll be taking care of you. I've had people, like, brush me and be like, no, you're not. I'm like, oh, gosh. And then you laugh because you want the tip.

Right. I haven't heard that before. They do it that quick. That's pretty, I mean mean it's kind of yeah i've had it you got some people that are just like on top of it yeah been waiting for that and they could have caught me on a dandruff day to where i'm like well i don't know is dandruff dust i don't know dust for the hair yeah a bit of a dusting on isn't that all dust is is dead skin? That's what I always heard. Oh, I don't know. But then if you leave a house that hasn't been there for a month,

nobody's been there for a month, you come, it's dusty. Yeah. That's what I've always heard. I think you've been talking about it. That's what I've always heard. Whenever dust comes up. When dust comes up. Yeah.

I've read a thing or two. So we're back. We were here last week. We had a week read a thing or two. So we're back. We were here last week, a week off, which is nice. Thanksgiving this week. It's exciting. What's your plans? You know, Laura knows the plans. I think we're here, though.

I think it's like a lot. It's her family. And so I think, yeah, I think we're kind of here, which is nice. Not working this weekend? I'm going to the – no, I'm not. I'm going to be at the Tennessee Vandy game, which I'm – Oh, you're going to be with me. Yep.

Super excited. Yeah, it's going to be – I'll tell you what. Well, after that South Carolina game – Don't get me going. After that South Carolina game, too, I mean, it looks good for, you know, I mean... Tennessee's still good. We beat Florida. Oh, I did not even see that. Wow, that's awesome. We beat Florida at home, and

they rushed the field very politely. The way they rushed the field was so funny. Well, there's a lot of steps there. They're being so polite about it. We're not, you know, we're not a problem. We're not animals. We're not animals. You don't hear about order you don't hear about vanderbilt being a rowdy place that's not something you hear no it's not i mean look we want to get it rowdier but it's it's uh yeah they went down

the stairs and they ran the field and it was fine they fined them 250 000 which is insane it's crazy it's insane like you want it like it's just infuriating to be like, we're never rushing the field. We do it in, like, almost the way it looks like that's how you have to exit. And then you're going to charge us, like, the same you charge Tennessee or any of these other teams that just, like, just swarm the field. People get in fights, and people might get hurt. Yeah. Was it the same amount? It said $250,000. I don't know if it was the same amount. I getting fights and people might get hurt.

Was it the same amount? It said $250,000. I don't know if it was the same amount. I know we got charged. Yeah. It's hard to even call it rushing the field if it's orderly. And I feel like they just came out. They were like $250,000.

They gave it to us like that. And everybody else, they're like, well, I don't know. Okay, I guess we got to do it. I agree. It didn't even tear the goalposts down. It's just the easiest way to exit the stadium. Pick up trash. Yeah. I mean, it's – oh, it makes me so mad.

It's so insane to be like – you're just charging everybody. What are you paying that to? The NCAA? Is that who? You write a check to the – I think it's SEC. Oh, it's the SEC. Oh, you go here, SEC.

Dear, you write that on the thing. Do you write SEC or do you spell it out? Southeastern. I write SEC. Write SEC. Then they go, thanks for the $250,000. And what do they do with that? They're really struggling.

Yeah. The SEC is. And the memo you put, orderly walked on the field. Yeah. It's been a tough go for the SEC. Where is that money going? Does it go to something? I hope it goes to something that's good.

Just back to SEC. Yeah. Be nice if it went to the janitors that cleaned up the field. They got a nice bonus. I would be on board with that. Yeah. All the money should go to the workers that have to literally work that day. Yeah. They get something. they're rooting for it i don't think there was a lot of work cleaning

up your field afterwards though no but i mean but i mean you got to go through the stands and get all like those people like you just i'm saying like it should go to regular people like it's like i mean these fines are just all it's just like everybody's rich and they're just fining each other. So you're at everybody that's just theirs. Like, well, they learned their lesson. And you're like, no, they just, they're just holding on that money until it goes back to that. It comes back. Like, it's all just, you know, whatever.

It's insane. We won them. The last time we beat Florida at home, 1988. Oh, maybe it wasn't 250. Was it 250? It was $250,000, yeah. Well, I only watched the highlights of the Tennessee-South Carolina game, and my goodness, I don't even think about it.

I've been to some South Carolina games, but I don't even think about that team. And they came out hot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm excited. Look i mean you know we'll see what happens next week uh i think we have everything on our side like it's i it's a successful season in my eyes for vanderbilt we've scored a lot of points we haven't won all the games but we've won we're on a win streak an sec win streak we haven't been on that a long time. I'm loving Parkley. Haven't won an SEC game in years, right, until this year.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, amazing. Well, I'm just saying that's how good it is. That's how good this year is. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, and Tennessee's down.

And I don't know. It's fun. It'll be fun. I mean, you know, it's – I'd be so happy. I mean, two weeks ago, I was like, Tennessee will beat us by 50. And now you're like, I don't know. We score points. Things can happen.

Obviously, Tennessee's great. They are. But quarterback just got hurt, which, you know, that stinks for that guy. Out for the season. I know. That stinks for that guy. Yeah, it's a bummer. It is.

But, yeah, we'll see how it goes. You know, I saw – I was at Penn State and I saw Coach Franklin. Really? Yeah. Went by Penn State, saw their facilities, and got to say hi to him and stuff. And he's very nice. He's like, congrats, man. Does he know you from Vanderbilt days?

Yeah. I did shows for him. My dad did shows. I mean, he is just an extremely charming person. Very personable. Is that like, you get it, like how this dude could walk into your living room and you're like, oh yeah. Like he, the way that all the crew I'm with, you know, like he just, you know, how you

doing? I'm James Frank. He would go up to him and talk to them all. And you know, the fact that he's like, congrats on your career. You know, it's like you could, yeah, there's part of you like, is he, how do you want to be like, hey, I don't know if you remember me or not. He's like, oh, on your career. You know, it's like you could – yeah, there's part of you like, is he – you want to be like, hey, I don't know if you remember me or not. He's like, oh, when your dad did – like, he was just awesome. And I got to see him real fast.

And then they gave us a tour of the facilities, and it was great. That's cool. It was great, yeah. I remember when we were at the Vandy-Tennessee game, when Vandy beat Tennessee, and you went on the field and told Derek Mason you loved him. Yeah, said I love you. Got a little awkward.

Still do love him. Wow. I love them all. Yeah. You know, everybody's good guys. It's like you just meet people, and you're like, yeah, we're all just good guys. I met Wizenhunt.

He's at Penn State. Really? Yeah. And it kind of was like off guard when I met him. I was like, because he coached at Vandy, I think, too. Like years ago maybe I think I said Vandy I was not thinking the Titans head coach yeah because it just I was just kind of like kind of caught off guard yeah I was like oh and then yeah yeah I mean he was cool I just talked to him real fast but uh yeah it was uh yeah it was fun I'd forgotten, and this is back in my heyday.

So I worked this weekend with Marty Simpson, who was the kicker at South Carolina. He was an all-American high school kicker, maybe the number one kicker in the country in high school. He kicked a 61-yard field goal in high school. Wow. And stayed at home, went to South Carolina. And he said his freshman year in college was when they changed the rules where kickers can't kick off tees.

And I forgot that, but they used to have, even on field goals or extra points, they had a little block out there where they would kick off. And then the NCAA said, kickers are getting too good, so let's make them kick off the ground. And he said he was never quite the same. He was very average in college yeah by his his words but i'd forgotten that they used to have a block out there yeah uh that's too bad to change for the kickoff or the field goals too field goals they still have it for obviously

kickoffs but field goals the snapper would put it on a t yeah when was this 1990 i think they changed his freshman year right when he started college that's a tough year to change that yeah but at least everybody would be struggling at the same time yeah

he struggled more than others yeah that's too bad well it's crazy to go I mean he probably would have been in the NFL where did he kick for South Carolina

yeah I mean so he could have probably kicked in the NFL and it's just like tough to switch that's a big switch it is if you go

you know four years is probably enough time to figure it out. Yeah. Well, that is true too, though. Maybe that'll give him enough time. Yeah. He said he hit a trombone player one time. Really?

He hooked it so far left that it nailed a trombone player. He really let it go to his head, I think. Yeah, I think it got to him. Yeah. It's like the yips. Yeah. Like you can get it where you just probably think you're just so used to one thing when you see them hook like that didn't we

uh fordham missed a kick this weekend i think an extra point an extra point and it hooked oh yeah i mean it was i thought someone touched it i know that thing was just like a and i think they said that was the first one he'd missed all year. It was, yeah, the hooks, like some of them,

they just go, I mean, you got to think, I mean, I know it's like a 20 yard kick or 15, whatever it is,

but to hook so that quick just to start and just, I mean, it just was like, whoop, hard left.

We benefited from them. Yeah. Yeah, fun weekend for Vanderbilt, me and Bates, Ryan Malone, my brother Derek. We'll all be at the game Saturday. All right. I'll be pulling for y'all. Thanks, man.

Who's Notre Dame play? Notre Dame's got USC. Oh, yeah. In a huge game. Huge game. With playoff implications for USC'all. Thanks, man. Who's Notre Dame play? Notre Dame's got USC. Oh, yeah. In a huge game. Huge game. With playoff implications for USC. Yeah. I was like, finish that sentence.

For the other team. Yeah. I was waiting. I mean, the way you started, I go. Yeah, we have no chance. Well, you could end possibly that kid's Heisman run. I mean, if the quarterback for USC has a – because I watched that game, USC-UCLA.

It's a great game. And then the USC quarterback has a big game against y'all. Like, I mean, it's down to him and the Ohio State guy because the other two guys are hurt. Can I be honest with you? It's been kind of fun. It's been kind of fun. A three-loss team, we're out of the playoff hunt.

Is this what it feels like being a vanderbilt fan all the time where it's like let's just ruin other people's seasons that's the best we can hope for it's kind of fun uh i don't know if we've ever been a three lost team yeah so i also don't know that vanderbilt's ruining a lot of seasons but i mean that's what you're playing for let's go out there let's let's ruin somebody else's season. That's almost as fun. If Tennessee would have beaten South Carolina this week, and then, I mean, you ruin them hard. Yeah.

But now. But we have a bowl eligibility to play for. All right. That's a good thing to play for. We're a lot of that. And look, it's nice to beat. Yeah, it is nice to ruin people's dreams. Yeah, because in college when you're watching a team and they lose,

you're like, oh, now we're out of everything. Yeah. You know? Yeah, Tennessee, I feel like that's the thing. I don't know how much they're – because it's like whatever bowl game they're going to get to, it's like who really cares. Right. Once you're like – I think if they weren't know how much they're bringing. Because it's like whatever bowl game they're going to get to, it's like who really cares. Right. They wanted – once you're like – I think if they weren't going to think

they were going to get in the playoff, then they would have been playing for like, yeah, let's get to the top. Because I don't know if anybody expected them – I mean, I think they expected them to be better, but I don't know if they expected them to be where they were at. And so – or they might have. The fans might have. I'm sure. But it's – I think if they would have the fans might have you know or the i'm sure but it's i i think if

they would have won it would have been now that they lost it's like you you know now they're gonna go instead of going to whatever rose bowl i know not rose bowl but like they're going to like whatever the sunday game like i guess you could make it go down more but i feel like even if they lost they would just be like, they're just, everybody's tired. Like it was like too much. And then it was like last week was just like, oh. And then the guy gets hurt.

And you're like, you know. But I'm sure they don't want to lose to Vanderbilt. And their big thing they've been saying all year is they're going to do the checkerboard in a visiting stadium, Vanderbilt Stadium. Like, you know how the fans. Yeah, and they were going to do that. Had you heard that? Yeah. And, I mean, I guess they'll still try, but I think some of the wins out of their sale.

How great would it be, though, to be – because, I mean, I was even saying, like, Tennessee is back. So how great would it be for them to be like, Tennessee's back and then lose to Vanderbilt? Oh. I mean, that would be amazing. That would be amazing. A dream come true. that would be amazing. That would be amazing. A dream come true.

It would be great. It would be great. I'd love it. So, yeah, we had great shows this weekend. It was all fun. Everything was great. Figuring out some new material. Where were you all at?

I was with Leanne Morgan in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Columbia. The night before the game, we were there in Columbia Morgan in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Columbia South. The night before the game, we were there in Columbia and then Chattanooga. Great, great shows. Yeah. I was in Minneapolis. Sold out two shows. Oh, nice.

At St. Paul, actually. Yeah. Laugh Camp Comedy Club. We got a little overzealous, added another show. Did not sell out. How many shows did you do? Three. Yeah.

Three shows total. Oh, that's still good. No, it was awesome. But I wanted to ask you guys, I have a question about airplane etiquette for the three of you guys. I love it. Okay, so I'm flying up there to Minneapolis, and it's me and Joe Kelly who's doing the shows with me. Nobody in the middle seat, southwest, we're flying. And it's the only empty seat on the plane, so I'm thinking, we lucked out. And then last second, this squirrely dude runs onto the plane and sits right between us.

He's twitchy and he's weird, and you're like, whatever, we'll just deal with it. And immediately, dude, I just start to, I mean, horrible smell. So bad that I made an audible noise. I was like, ugh. I couldn't help myself. It was awful. Yeah, enough. Like an enough kind of moment.

But I look down. He's got his shoes off, no socks. And the shoes he's wearing are like First Communion shoes. I don't know a better way to describe it. They're like black, like church kind of shoes with no socks. It has got his feet off and it smells horrible dude the whole side of the plane could smell him i just wonder what y'all think about that if it's i feel like socks socks on is one thing but bare feet smelling horrible he probably just

sprinted to the plane his feet are sweaty oh yeah smelled that the whole flight yeah it's not against it yeah i'm against ever taking off your shoes on a plane. I mean, if they don't smell, great, but I'm still kind of against it. I don't, if you take them off

and your feet are underneath the seat, they don't smell, you know, if you're like, ah, they're not going to smell, like, I can understand that. Like, when people start putting them up in places,

like, you know. Putting them up between the seats in front of you. Yeah, yeah, like, that kind of stuff's weird. It's like, the goal is to try to not be a bother uh i mean i'm against people boarding the plane that late

yeah i know don't give me false hope that i'm about to get an empty seat here it is uh that's a matter of southwest where you pick that seat so sometimes because i I always think the strategy of it is do you want to be more kind of maybe like a round exit rowish or a little bit in front of it if you've got an extra seat? Because a lot of times those people would just immediately go to the back because they just assume I'm late. Yeah. But because it's like you will get people in the back that will pass you, and then they have to find a seat. There's only middle seats left, and usually those people, they're already past you. But then you always leave it open for a last second.

Yeah. Because the last second one comes on, it's like he's just going to. You definitely don't go exit row because those will be the first middle seats taken. I mean, I go exit row. I'm talking about if the goal is to leave the middle seat open, is to have that middle seat open next to you, you can't go exit row. I'm talking about if the goal is to leave the middle seat open, is to have that middle seat open next to you, you can't go exit row because people will sit there.

Sometimes you can't because that's where the flight attendant will stand. If you can finagle that, that's ideal, obviously. It happens a lot. The flight attendant, that's where they have to kind of stand, and sometimes they will stand there. I've seen someone, and they're like, oh, I mean, not always it happens mean not always happen but they're like i will stand in the middle of you two and then they stand in the middle and like no one really knows to go to it and i figure you're sacrificing like all right like if there's gonna be a lot of open middle row seats then maybe not but if you know

there's only gonna be a few it's like well i'd rather just be my odds or at least I'm in an exit row. So I'm at least giving myself that versus hoping for a middle. I think my concern has always been about horizontal room, less so about leg room. I can do fine with regular leg room. Yeah. But I'd like to be able to put that armrest up, nobody there in the middle. Yeah. That's ideal. And when did you board

i bore i'm uh like a i'm early early so i boarded you don't go after the exit row no because i always think somebody's going to get that yeah seat yeah and i've had pretty good success going right behind the exit row yeah kind of towards the back yeah do you try to dress like you don't want people to sit next to you? I don't dress that way, but I behave that way. What if you wore a shirt with a stain on it? That would be, I would think that would be the way to go. Like a homemade V-neck, but you got a little oil stain right on there.

A homemade V-neck? You mean the- That you cut? The collars just drooped. Oh, yeah. Maybe real wore out or cut. You basically look like the guy that sat next to you.

Yeah. Well, this guy was real thin and twitchy and weird. Yeah, it sounds like something was wrong with him. Yeah. But, I mean, do you say something to him

at some point? Put your shoes back on? You were going to have to have... No. A comic could say it. A comic could have that conversation. I'm out of luck.

I didn't mean like that. A comedian could have handled conversation but you're you're out of luck i don't mean like a comedian could handle it i mean i think it's tough but you but i'm not saying you like but i'm i'm saying in general i think the only person that could have that conversation is a comedian a comedian could our job is to talk and like try to deliver some something that's not fortunate, but in a nice way. Well, this is why you've always said comedians should break the news at doctor's offices and stuff, because they could find a way to do it. You could find a way to do this. It wouldn't hurt their feelings that bad. Yeah. You could just be like, what happened? At a certain point, the breaths were tough because of how, I mean, it was a thick, a thick smell coming off his feet.

How long was the flight? Hour and a half. If it were a four-hour flight at a certain point, I would have tapped him. I sometimes carry extra socks. Maybe I would have just been like, hey, why don't you go ahead and throw these on here, bud? You know what I mean? A little sock out of your backpack.

Yeah, go ahead and throw these on. Give us a break here. I flew from Chattanooga to Atlanta and then back on the way back from Atlanta to Chattanooga. 20-minute flight. That's about as short as you get. Why were you flying that? As opposed to driving it? Yeah, it's like a 45-minute drive.

Well, because I was with Leanne, and Atlanta was the connection. Okay. Yeah, it wasn't our destination. Okay. But still, it's amazing that quick of a flight. Like, the plane just doesn't even get up in the air, and it's just immediately. You had no drinks.

No snacks, not even a real bathroom break there. Yeah. By the time you get started on your movie, you got to shut the laptop down. Yeah, you watch movies on a laptop? Yeah, on the plane? Yeah, all the time. No iPad or anything? Oh, no, I don't even have an iPad.

I had some kind of Galaxy Tab A thing, and I hated it. I am not a fan. Why? I don't know. It just felt like, I don't know. I never could get it to work properly. And I don't even own an iPad. I think I'm going to get one.

I'm going to fly with my baby soon. So I'm going to have to get her something. Yeah. To get her a brand new iPad. Or some cocoa melon or something. Well, get me one that she'll be looking at. Yeah. And then next time I'm on the podcast, I'll be like, let me tell you how great the ipad is i got excited i'm sorry i almost fell out of a seat but what you're saying

may be thinking this same flight dude the the flight attendant comes on and goes we've got a mother and her son who's about six or seven and they're really looking to sit together so if anybody could volunteer to move so that these two could sit together, and he kind of looks around, and one guy is just like, I'll do it, man. And he goes, so he moves. And then the flight attendant goes, I just want to say one thing. We all love Southwest here. And, you know, I'm told I'm the face of the company,

but the real face of the company is you, sir. It's customers like you. Everybody give him a round of applause. You're making a bit too much. I mean, this guy was just trying to get the flight taken off. You're heralding him as if he's this hero on the fly. I was in the back stewing next to him. Well, it would be, if you're that guy, you're like, I don't even want to be noticed.

Yeah, he was like, he looked around and he goes, yeah, I don't want to. Yeah, he goes, and that's funny to have to stand up. He's got to go. All right, I got to get back up. And he's like. There's a curtain call. He goes, hey, thank you. He goes, I'll make sure everybody saw it.

Like, that's just powerful stuff right there. I was on a flight with Leanne this weekend. And the woman, a big fan comes up to her. She's so excited to see her before we take off. And she's just going nuts. And then what's the first, besides military, I guess first class, first thing they call. And Leanne, she's in first class.

So she boards. So now the lady stuck with me and she's like, I'm sorry, that was a famous comedian right there that we were talking to and I was like,

yeah, I'm actually a comedian too. She's like, oh, okay, all right. So then they start calling, I don't know what, priority,

whatever. They go through so many, there's like 10 levels, you know, main cabin one and finally, she has to go. Like,

it's just so funny. She's like, yeah, it was nice talking to you. And then I get on the plane, you know, and I see her again. I have to pass her as I head to the back in main group 12 or whatever. Leanne's asleep because she's been on for an hour. Is that Delta?

That's what Delta makes you feel like. You'll have like, your boarding pass will be like, you know, you'll be like group A boarding pass will be like, you know, you'll be like group A and you'll be like, all right, that seems good. But then they go through so many before they get to that, to where you just keep moving down and down and down. I think Key and Peele has a very funny sketch about that. Okay.

He's group one. Okay. And then they just announce everything. Just weird stuff. Yeah. Well, you know know i was at the i was in houston uh at the improv and raymond says hey to you and also wanted me to make uh some jokes about your golf swing but i i didn't even understand golf well enough to get his jokes to be able to come and tell them to you i beat raymond but he was okay but he was very nice and he really took care of me he was really great but. But I was in the Houston airport and I'm

like getting mad about all these trivial things. I mean, I'm in the priority line to get my bags checked in and there's just a long delay. And then I end up doing it myself. And then I have to go, I have clear to where I can get in all fast, but it's not, it's not being fast. And then I have to go through TSA and I go through the thing and they're like, is your belt on? And I'm like, yeah, my belt's always on. They're like, you got to take your belt off. So I'm all mad. I've had to do all these things, all very small things, but they just one right after another. And then as soon as I get through them all mad, this guy goes, Hey, are you dusty sleigh? And I was like, yeah. And I'm very irritated. And then, so I was like, this airport sucks. And this guy goes, yeah, are you Dusty Slay? And I was like, yeah. And I'm very irritated. Yeah.

And then so I was like, this airport sucks. And this guy goes, yeah, it does. He goes, it's the worst airport. And I complained to him about all the things and everything he's like validating. He's like, yeah, man, that's the whole point. Why are we even having to do this? By the time I was done talking to this guy, I was so happy. This guy changed my whole mood.

I wanted to give him a shout out. This guy is, I don't even know if he listens, but this guy is Alex from Salt Lake City. And he really cheered me up in this airport. And I was like, because I thought, oh, this is going to be awkward because this guy is a fan. And now I'm all mad. And he just kept validating. He's like, yeah, this is the worst airport in the country, man. I was like, yeah, it is. And I was like, I had to take off my belt. And he's like, yeah, this is the whole point of TSA PreCheck. And I was like, and I'm in the priority line.

He's like, yeah, why does it take so long? And I was like, who is this guy? And I need him around all the time. Yeah. That's good to know when your fans meet you, they get the brunt of your problem yeah thrown on them the guy known for we're having a good time yeah yeah i just wanted him to know i'm so irritated right now downloaded your whole day on this guy and this guy just yeah man it's crazy but i told

him i said wow you really cheered me up i said i really appreciate it i said we're having a good time now yeah it's funny that you do clear in tsa i mean i'm trying to get through well clear i got kind of talked into one time i was i know but the stuff that you don't want yeah like you the stuff you don't want to have but then they now they have they have everything i know clear clear sketches me out i mean i think you might as well get a microwave now yeah well it's true but i was in san francisco and i felt like i was about to miss my flight the line was so long and the guy came up to me and he goes if you sign up for clear you can skip this whole line and i hated it so much they took my fingerprints my eye and i was

like i don't want to get stuck here i do not want to miss and then i ended up having plenty of time but uh so it was really a waste but now i have it and i just do it you were you're like eve and you took that apple and two you're like you can skip this guy in front of you and you go i'll do whatever it takes yeah i mean i yeah i see why eve ate the apple yeah i mean i know why she ate it i mean she was like you won't the serpent was like you won't die and i was like, you won't die. And I was like, oh, okay. I thought I would die.

Yeah. Yeah, I'll give it a try. They're going to round you. I think in the circle of off the gridness, I mean, you're going to, I don't know if you'd get in the meeting now. I feel like it's the first thing they're going to say. You sold out. They're going to say who has clear or pre-check.

And I'll be like, oh, me? Yeah. They're going to be like, beat it. Scab. You're one of them. You're one of them. You're the informant. Pre-check doesn't seem so sketchy, but clear for sure does.

They do an FBI background check. Well, I'm clean. I'm not doing this. It's not about being clean. It's the idea that they got your info. Yeah, but I don't want to take my laptop out of the bag every time. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

As you take your... You're like, I'm not going to take the laptop. And so you have your piece of tape over the thing. As they have all your information on the camera. Well, don't be watching me at all times. Yeah. They scan your eyes and know who you are. Yeah, well, they probably scanned all our eyes because of our phones anyway.

I mean, I don't buy into that, that because this is done, we might as well just give it all up. But I don't know. We give some of it up. I fly so much that I'm like, when I go to an airport and it's really busy and I can just zoom past everyone, I'm like, this is amazing. everyone i'm like this is amazing i was in tsa pre-check line of the day and a guy comes through we're standing the guy comes through just has a badge of some sort and just kind of shows it to the t and i mean they immediately like oh yeah come on through and i'm thinking this guy must be somebody very important and then i get up there to where the where you put your luggage in and they're patting him down and he goes through and it beeps and they're like come back through we

got to do it again so it's very strange like they act like he ran the airport and then i end up passing him because they're doing multiple pattings just worked at like the burger king there or something yeah that's right yeah yeah all right let's start you guys comments uh nick s this year i'm celebrating turkey day by having by giving thanks for Nate Land. My work often involves difficult conversations and heavy situations, but you four get me laughing every single week, and it truly lightens the load. When your life gets heavy, what lightens the load? I'm guessing you don't start telling yourself jokes or –

Oh, he's asking. Yeah. Oh, man. He was asking us a question. Yeah. I was sort of reading it like an ad. When your life gets heavy, what lightens the load? Better help.

I'm guessing you don't start telling yourself jokes or deciding your routine in the mirror. Like, what do we do? What do we do if your life gets heavy? Well, my daughter always helps bring things back to reality. Yeah. Yeah. Does that. That's a good one. I like to take my shoes off, go walk around in the grass.

You know? Do a little grounding. Yeah, do a little grounding. Touch on the trees. Reconnect with the earth. Yeah. What about on a plane? Do you take a perimeter check?

I like to find a fan and complain to them as much as I can about my life, about being in pre-check and clear and the priority line, and help them sympathize with me. You do something? I never get sad. Yeah, I could see that. I don't feel like you ever need to feel like you got a light in your load. Like you just...

And I didn't mean it as it sounded, but as I was saying it, I was like, this is going to be kind of a double joke. But I did not mean it. But it works on two worlds. Aaron, when your life gets heavy. Problems weighing you down, Aaron.

He does seem like the most grounded person. Aaron always seems like it's all going fine. I feel like he can fly off the handle a little bit. Oh, I can, for sure. Yeah. Enough. Enough. But he just seems like the most grounded person.

That's very nice of you to say, Dustin. Yeah. I think he's extreme. Yeah. I do think you're very aware, which I'm a big on awareness, super aware. Thanks, man. But then you got to have someone with you that's aware because they're aware that you might, you're ready to go. I mean, you're going to be like any little hiccup.

You're going to be like, I'm about to get after this. Imagine you're going to get, how do you think you're like, you get super famous. Everybody knows you when you walk around everywhere you go. You think you have to rail it back in? Or you go just, you think the enough can still happen? Oh, it can still happen for sure. I think people want it. It'll be there.

They will want it. It's like if you run into, not that this is like me at all, but I was just thinking if I run into, if I see Larry David in the wild, I want to see him. In the wild.

I want to see him being Larry David in the wild. I want to see him snapping at somebody, calling somebody out for something. That's what I would want to see. For me, I do, like if it's out on the road, you know, not to get, but it's a constant reminder that it's not about you. It's not about me. It's not about, you know, don't put yourself first.

That's a big one that I've worked on. And then, but like, just to take your brain take your brain, I'll try to watch a movie. I watch either scary movies or something that's kind of a thrill or something that can keep my attention. So it's like I'm kind of invested and I try to find. That's why I watch a lot of those movies that people are like, dumb or whatever. But I want it to be kind of like brain escapist.

Yeah. Yeah. And I just want to something, you know, you kind of come for you like, all right, I'll watch this. And, you know, that's what I think that's what I do. But yeah, your family. Also, when you see them, that helps. Andrew Khan.

I'm pretty new to this podcast and I am in grad school. I'm always looking for things that don't stretch my brain too much because I'm pretty new to this podcast and I am in grad school. I'm always looking for things that don't stretch my brain too much because I'm overwhelmed with new knowledge. All right. This week, Nate said deers four or five times as the plural of deer. I love this podcast and it's the highlight of my week. Keep it up. There's a bunch of deers over there.

You don't say deers? It's deer. There's a lot of deer over there? It's like fish. Oh. Yeah. Oh. So there's a bunch of deers over there you don't say deers it's deer there's a lot of deer over there it's like fish oh yeah oh so there's one free deer this weekend but loaves and fishes sometimes if it's a lot of deer it feels like you want to throw an ass on there just to emphasize that yeah i mean yeah there's multiple but there was multiple multiple deer yeah what if you yeah if you just want to go you but you should have been there like i think if i i like if you're like there's a lot of deers over there and someone's like you don't say yes i go have you ever seen this yeah you don't know how many you don't know the amount of deers i was talking about yeah it's enough that we needed

deers yeah uh jeremiah reed hearing nate dusty and broham repeatedly say mischievous incorrectly gives me flashbacks to my childhood the word is pronounced mischievous mischievous mischievous oh it's not mischievous i have no mischievous mischievous mischievous we'll see what google says mischievous mischievous yeah oh well that feels weird i spent many years correcting others about it and don't usually do it anymore but that was about seven mischievous too many mischievous that's the southern way of saying it yeah we like to add a syllable in words sometimes oh mischievous misievous. You can't say it slow. You got to say it fast. Mischievous.

Mischievous. Cell Party. Dusty should make them all watch Idiocracy. It's a shame that reference just went on by without hearing all Dusty's thoughts on the movie. Everyone watch and report back. I agree. I mean, the first time I saw that movie, I didn't really get it. But as the years go by, the world is more like that movie all the time.

Oh, yeah? Yeah. I've never seen it. What is it about? Can you give a 10-second summary? Well, yeah. I mean, Luke Wilson is a pretty average guy, and he gets frozen. And that's time.

And he gets frozen and goes way forward in time. And then when he becomes unfrozen, the world has gotten so dumb that he's now the smartest man in the world. Okay. That's a fun premise. And he has very basic knowledge, but everybody is just marveled by his knowledge. It's so great. All right. We'll check it out.

I guess it's streaming everywhere. It's a pretty filthy movie, but it is. No, thank you. Tony Richardson, baking soda was the only honest one at the table when he said he'd be jealous if a co-worker

won the lottery it's human nature to be envious invus if someone falls into money they didn't earn Nate would have

a harder time than any of you if Butterbean suddenly had more money than him thank you Tony I disagree with that though I do disagree with that i get what

he's saying but it's it's i wouldn't i've never i've i've had i've had a lot of friends go make more money than me like when you're first starting out and you're like out there busting around and then you got your peers are with you then they are making money and they're doing i'm in a i'm in a career that is just basically you're watching people win the lottery every day so you're like we're doing the same amount of work and then this person jumps and that's i mean that that's and they literally go to make millions of dollars like you so you're here and then they win the lottery and then in two months they're here, and then they win the lottery, and then in two months, they're here. And so I'm watching that a lot. I would not be – I'm happy with what I'm doing.

So I think I can do – this is the only thing I would say about that. I'm not worried about what other people would make because I think I can go get – I've always just like, I'll go get my own – I'll figure my own thing out. So I don't think I can go get, I've always just like, I'll go get my own, I'll figure my own thing out. So I'll like, I don't, it's, I don't, I don't think I would be. Well, I think that is the nice thing about what we do, right? You're almost kind of in charge of what you can make. You know, if you sell the tickets, you can make more money. And so you're kind of in charge in a way, but it's like, if you're working a regular job and then a coworker that maybe you don't like very much suddenly wins the lottery it's like oh that could really eat you up yeah yeah i can understand that that's what i always

liked about comedy is like there's no cap like that's what's kind of that's the uh i think and if you do anything that's uh like not a normal kind of thing it's like i like the idea that you're like you're in a world that's like, yeah, there is no, I mean, you know, maybe Seinfeld has a billion dollars.

Like, it's like, there's no cap to it. Like you're, it's not a zero sum game. Yeah. And that's what makes it. And that's what I,

that's what's fun about it. Cause it can also, you can also make zero dollars. And so it's like, it's just a complete, like, all right, I got it.

I have to work so this is a zero sum game it could be oh it could be what do you mean well you just said you could make zero dollars it could be zero but this all being said i think if brian did win the lottery and had a bunch more money than you all of a sudden he would not handle it with a lot of grace no i would not i admit that yeah i mean i'll i don't know what that means but that would be great i mean i would love it honestly i would love it i would i would i would tell you what i think i would help you i would tell you like dude you should be just doing this now like don't go you know it's like if you win the lottery i'm not gonna listen to you i'm a billionaire yeah but i'm in with a big

fur coat on yeah yeah Who's breakfast now? Full head of hair. Yeah. You walk into Union Planners with a top hat on. And a monocle. Yeah. I don't know if that's a bank anymore. I don't think so.

It was back in our day. It was back in the day. So, yeah, Tony, I think I'd be all right. It is true, though. We are in a business where people win the lottery. I mean, not, yes, not a billion dollars, but it's, you see people win. Well, yeah, they win the lottery on, you see it with like even followers on the internet too. It's like, you know, someone will be opening for me. And then the next, like I had a guy working with me this weekend, Ralph Barbosa, very funny out of Texas. And he, you know, he was featuring for me and he has like 60,000 more followers than me on Instagram.

He just blew up all of a sudden. And I'm like, this is, I mean, this is great because he's very funny and I like him, but it's like, yeah, he won the lottery in a sense. Yeah. But he didn't just buy a ticket. He wrote good jokes. Right. yeah but he didn't just buy a ticket he wrote good jokes right you know i want to just say so everybody knows this is not fiji water because my wife is cheap and so this is just one bottle we've had and she just keeps refilling it and makes me think it's fiji water it's tap water

can you tell the difference i i i don't know but i I don't think I thought about it, so she's kind of right in that sense. But if she won a billion dollars, she would do this. And this is the life I would live, is just constantly being like, well, what ketchup is that? It says Heinz on it. You know, it's like, well, it's Sam's Club. She's got McDonald's packages, just squeezing them in there. That's the real Alabama.

I love it. Can't take it out of it. Yeah, I love it. Dan Ludwig. I take my class. I feel like I know that. Was there a Ludwig coached at Vandy? Oh, really?

A Ludwig. I think something like that. I take my classwig coached at Vandy? Oh, really? A Ludwig. I think something like that. I take my class out to the football field, give the students some tools, and then ask them to estimate the number of blades of grass on the field. If they do a good job, their answers should be between 200 million and 500 million. The next day, we calculate the odds of winning the Powerball off a single ticket. It's about 1 in 300 million so when we go back out to the field and acknowledge go back to the field and acknowledge that having

any sort of confidence in winning the powerball would be similar experience to thinking you could choose the winning blade of grass out of the entire field that does put it in a good a good perspective i think it could be like he needs to pick a blade of grass though so you'd be like you go back out and be like if he could somehow be like all right i've maybe he i don't know how but like actually pick a blade of grass which i know seems crazy your initials on it you gotta you'd have to have some way to know exactly where to go get coordinates pick coordinates yeah do the coordinates on it and go i have one set of coordinates if you can if any of you can get it within this square of where this coordinate is you know and then someone's like this one he goes and he goes and

buys love is like i'll buy everybody powerball tickets i mean you know i think it'd be a fun And then someone's like, this one, he goes, God. And he goes and buys. And Love is like, I'll buy everybody Powerball tickets. I mean, you know. I think he'd be a fun teacher because he's like, you do a good job. Your answer is between $200 million and $500 million. Somebody says, how much? $200 million. Next guy, $500 million.

Both good answers. Yeah, that's solid answers. That's a big range of acceptable answers. Both good answers. Yeah, that's a solid answer. That's a big range of acceptable answers. And also, future people that take his class now are just like, he's like, go figure this out. He goes, I listened to it on the podcast.

Just say, say 350 million. Yeah, you'll be right there. And he's going to be like, nailed it. He'll go, I eyeballed it. I eyeballed it. Yeah. I wish I would have taken his class. it yeah uh i do i wish i would take in his class uh william galeno galenao galeno galiano galiano william galiano you guys talking about how to go about after winning the lotto reminded me of about a recent news story about a chinese lotto winner that kept his 30 million

jackpots secret from his family because he didn't want them to become lazy. He accepted the money in a costume. Oh, wow. Not any costume. I don't know what that is a costume of, but he committed to it, man. You know, that seems admirable that he's like, I don't want my family to become lazy, but it's also like, seems selfish. He didn't want to share the money?

Yeah. He's like, he goes to the gas station and drinks a Coke and doesn't take it to his family because he doesn't want them to get diabetes. You know what I mean? Yeah, I wonder if they do anything. Yeah, he probably went and got himself a couple of nice things. Maybe he bought some nice things, but then...

He had to buy that costume. Yeah. I read the article. It seemed like it was very admirable. He wants his kids to grow up. Is he going to give it to him eventually? Like in his will or in a trust or something? No, he's keeping it.

No. I don't know, but... I mean, it seemed like it was... He had good intentions for sure. Well, secret's out now, huh? Yeah. Well, we still don't know what he looks like. Well, you don't know what he looks like, so...

You don't have to publicly disclose your name in China. It's like an... And it's actually another lottery for the kids because you're like, so someone's dad won. So everybody's looking at their dad like if they're acting any different. Hopefully that costume's not in the garage somewhere. Yeah. The odds of picking a dad in China,

you'd be a better chance with the football field to get the right guy. Why is that? Because there's a lot of people. Oh. Kevin Robleski. Robleski. That's a fun name. Yeah.

Did he write him for? Maybe. Hey, Bear, the college scandal that was happening for years and a couple of folks got pinned for it is exactly what happened to the astros cheating in baseball has happened forever and still is it sounds like an astros yeah i disagree we were all doing it we were all begging trash we were all wearing devices under our uniform that tipped us off to the pitches yeah yeah i could see yeah i think a better analogy is the the sticky substances that the pictures everybody is using that not everyone was using cameras to well you know and it costs money to go to college so if you're just

paying extra i mean you know it's not i mean i guess it's cheating but it's not exactly the same i guess the logic i could see is if you get caught then you deserve what happens like i could understand that logic. You're like, well, they're all cheating. You're the one that got caught. So then you didn't do a good enough job. But then it's like a game. But then you're accepting cheating.

So then you've got to just be like, all right, everybody's cheating. Don't get caught. So you hope they don't cheat. But it's probably all. I don't think. I mean, I'm sure there's some degree of you know somebody that maybe puts in a good word and so you know but i don't know that everyone's doing what those people did and that that was pretty severe stuff they were doing right those guys are going to extreme lengths yeah yeah for sure but that's

like where's the world cup is happening right yeah and we were talking about uh like fifa and how it's like corrupt and like people getting these things you know it's like yeah it's the World Cup that's happening, right? Yeah. And we were talking about, like, FIFA and how it's, like, corrupt and, like, people getting these things. You know, it's like, yeah, it's like everything you watch is just, because there's so much money involved. Yeah. Everything's rigged. Everything's rigged. Yeah.

100%. Just give up. Give up. There's no hope. There's no hope. Just be nice. That's all hope. There's no hope. Just be nice. That's all you can do. I know.

I love how we just got through saying, just go out and find your own way, and we'll make it zero-sum game. It's all rigged. We're hopeless. You find out your way. Being nice is the ultimate thing. Just be nice.

That's free, and it's nice. I agree with that. FP Thrasher. There's nearly 200 comments under this YouTube video right now. There's no way they actually read all of these before picking which ones to address in the next episode. They're either just picking the comments with the most interactions or arbitrarily selecting comments.

Well, FP, you would be wrong because I read every comment and go through and select them out. Now, you did a good job of tricking me into getting your comment read, but I wanted to make the point that no, I read them all. Make the point

and keeps everybody on their toes a little bit. Brian reads every comment and is taking a tremendous toll on his mental health, as I think you can tell. So if you don't believe he reads all these, just look at them. He sees it all.

Well, the funny thing is most people know now that I read the emails because we've read that, said that more than once. But some people still don't know. So they're like, Nate, you're my favorite comedian. I saw you, blah, blah, blah, blah. I just think, you know, and I'll just reply, thank you very much. And then they'll reply back, oh, my God, I can't believe you replied to me. I got to say, though, you're a little hard on bread basket.

I just say, lighten up on him, whatever. But now I don't want them to know, so I'm like, well, you don't know how he is. He's pretty difficult. So I have to, like, blast myself just to keep this facade going. I also love that they're like, you're hard on him, but still giving you a nickname. I know. They always do that. They always still take a shot at me.

They're like, yeah, we're all doing it, but be easier about it. You're kinder to Bozo. Jake Bennett, I'm halfway through book seven of Harry Potter. Up until this point, I have avoided all spoilers. That, I've avoided all spoilers, spoilers. That is until Aaron had absolutely no regard, for those who might be a bit behind, on one of the most famous book series of all time

and basically blew the whole thing. Maybe next time just say, spoiler alert, so I can close my ears. That's so funny. If I did truly spoil the book for him, I do feel bad because that was a big thing that I spoiled. Yeah, but if you didn't... That book came out 2007. Yeah, these little children are grown men now. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And so they wouldn't have been able to read it. Do you think this is a child? I don't know. I'm saying the kids that were in the movies are now like grown people. It could have been an adult trying to have some escapism from his life. Right. I get that. Well, I do feel bad if I did that.

But there's other stuff that I didn't spoil that will still surprise you at the end. I think he said his wife turned him on to the books. He's recently married. His wife was into him, and she turned him on to them. You should put those books away anyway. Yeah. Not read that stuff. Don't bring that in.

Those are the best books. Don't bring that into your life. It's the best book series ever. Give the government a map of your eyes, but don't read Harry Potter. Well, don't bring the witchcraft in. You know what I mean? No. It's about good and evil, dude.

I don't know. Dude talks to snakes. The only thing I would say, if we were talking about Harry Potter before you, how quick did you give away something? I think pretty quickly, if I remember correctly. So he didn't have a shot. No, he didn't even have a shot to pause it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You guys don't have clear? Yeah, I do. Oh, okay. I don't. I would never sell my soul like that to the government. But I also have six microwaves. Oh, yeah. Well, I got a couple.

I don't use them, but I have them. It's a bookshelf. They came with a house. Yeah. Yeah, my wife will sneak stuff in there once in a while. Oh, yeah. You leave them. I was going to say, are they unplugged?

Yeah, converted them to a safe. Yeah. Yeah. Just use it for the clock. Witchy Trista. Not all witches are bad, and not all magic is dark. A weird transition. In fact, I've never done dark magic.

She spelled it with the M-A-G-I-C-K. Yeah, she... It was a longer post, but she explained the difference. Like, your dad does magic with a C. Oh. Yeah. Okay. I like to say that magic is just like prayer with props.

It's basically asking the universe for an outcome and using tools to direct the flow of energy. Being a witch just means I find God in nature instead of in a church. I believe in spreading love and healing. All right. Sounds good. I think you just need a better name than magic. Witch.

Oh. She's saying being a witch just means I find God in nature instead of in a church. So she's saying being a witchy. But I mean. Yeah, you don't have to find god in a church no no and you don't have to be a witch to find god and it's just i'm just saying off the top it's like which is just not a uh glinda was a good witch all right that's true i've read so much harry potter that the witch does not have a negative connotation to me at all oh there are plenty

of noble witches and wizards in harry potter so there you go so that's what made anything to me that's what the amazing book series has done though it's warped your point of view on witches yeah uh i don't know if it warped it it did make me uh appreciate you know the battle of good and evil and things like that but i'm saying though now you're friendship and love and stuff like that but now you're like witches are good i'm, some can be good, some can be bad, just like everybody. Like a Wizard of Oz. See, I don't know if you've seen the Wicked, the Broadway play. But I mean, they really kind of break that down in a way that Glinda doesn't seem so good.

I haven't seen it. I guess they make the bad witch look good. Well, don't spoil the play. You might have somebody just about to watch it. I've never seen it. Oh, it's really great. I mean, I actually, I only seen one broadway play in new york city and that was it and it was amazing you went to one about witches yeah this was years ago i was like i was still drinking back then my my whole mind was cloudy yeah i was but you still like it i was lost it

was it was really great yeah Yeah. Leon Wisewood. While you guys were reading comments on the latest podcast, I heard Baby Teeth say one of the comments was from an Aussie. Then Nate saying what sounds like, oh, maybe I'll see him. I did a U-turn and rewound it about five times to see if I was hearing correctly. Was I hearing correctly? Is Nate touring down under? I don't know. Nothing's announced yet, but it's not announced yet.

Now that you turned to rewind. Well, he's joking, I think, from last week. I did say that. You know what's funny is I caught myself wrong. I noticed I said it, and then I was like, oh, yeah. It's not announced yet, but Australia's stuff could be coming. Could be. Should be. It could be coming. Could be. Should be.

It will be coming. I don't know if I can, I don't know. We haven't announced yet, but so that nothing's on sale. I don't remember exactly where I'm going, but I will be over there, but it's,

and I forget even when it is. I will be over there, but it's up in the air whether I'll be doing comedy. No, no, I'll be doing, I'm going to do comedy. Yeah.

It's, I'll be over there. I, no. I'm going to do comedy. I'll be over there. I think it's towards the end of – I want to say it's right close to when Harper goes back to school, when kids go back to school, like August, like whatever, whenever they start school. And then so I want to say it's the end of July, August, I think is about. Hopefully, I think we'll be announcing it soon. But yeah, you know here now.

Nice, man. That's exciting. I will be down there. Is it your first international stuff? Besides, I've done Dublin, which I'm going back to. So I'm doing Europe. And I'll be in Europe in March. London, like making a big run of that. Super excited about that.

I've done Dublin before and then, you know, besides the USO stuff, our troop stuff. But then, yeah, I'll be in Australia. I've never been to Australia and I've always wanted to go. That's awesome. I'm excited. All right. This week.

Sounds good. Talking about the This week. Feels good. Talking about the World Cup. Oh, I didn't realize we were talking about that. You didn't? No. I brought up the World Cup. I didn't realize it was a topic. The topic.

I was about to say, why don't you just wait to get into it when we talked about it? Because I didn't realize the topic was World Cup. I didn't know. I mean, I don't always know. I don't know what these are. It's never too late to change topics. You know what I mean? We can pivot. Really an episode about it. Because I didn't realize the topic was World Cup. I didn't know. I mean, I don't always know. I don't know what these are. It's never too late to change topics. You know what I mean? We can pivot.

Really an episode about spoilers. We're spoiling, you know, just a lot of spoilers going on. Well, I just didn't know what the topic was. But when we were downstairs watching the World Cup. Well, I just said, let's go mention it up there just to have conversation. Okay. But I didn't know, you know. Yeah.

Well, we're talking about the World Cup today. I mean, if the topic was that and everybody knew it, y'all should have said. Well, I kept saying, let's talk about it. I thought I said that. Let's talk about it upstairs. Well, the topic's the World Cup. Spoiler alert. A lot of people today, because I don't know that much about soccer.

So the people who are really into it are going to get really frustrated with me. Well, my brother. Your brother's really into it. Is anyone else at this table? I went to a Nashville game. It was awesome. I'm starting to get into it. I think it's like I don't understand all the leagues.

I don't. But I do enjoy watching it. You can talk about winding down or finding something to watch. Soccer is pretty pleasant to watch because it's just not. On TV, you mean? Yeah, on TV or at the game. It's just – it's kind of – it's not slow-paced. It can feel like that because your score is not going to be crazy.

But when it's a shot to the goal, it's super – to the goal, it's the goal. It's super exciting. But it's just like kind of like – you're like, man, this is just pleasant to watch. I'd imagine people, like I could see tennis. You know, you're just kind of like, you just enjoy it. It doesn't need to be so like just everything's fast and, you know, it's just kind of like, oh, yeah, it's a, you know, you just kind of they're waiting until they get their shots in.

It's a guy kicking a ball around a field. Yeah, it's very pleasant. Just passing it a lot. Very pleasant. And then the most exciting thing ever when they, I mean, someone gets a goal and stuff. I've come around to it, and I've really enjoyed watching some of the games. And the World Cup's going on right now with America playing.

Usually the announcers have like a British accent. It's very soothing. Oh, I paused it. Oh, I paused it. Oh, I'm sorry. Spoiled it again. Golly. I mean, you can't even stop yourself. What was that video game you spoiled?

The Western thing? Red Dead Redemption? Yeah, spoiled that. I spoil stuff that's been out for a while. That game is on right now. I understand that. And I paused it. So I was like, oh, yeah, you know what?

I'll check it out. That's so funny, dude. You can't even help yourself. I understand that. And I paused it. So I was like, oh yeah, you know what, I'll check it out. That's so funny, dude. You can't even help yourself. I didn't know, I'm sorry. Did you guys play soccer growing up? I played soccer as a kid.

I thought I was very good. My dad told me I wasn't and to stop playing it. I didn't even look at you when I asked. I just, I mean, these guys.

Well, I played. I played several years and I really liked it. What positions did you play? I don't know. I like to slide tackle. I really like that. I like to take the ball from people by tripping them up.

I got a lot of yellow cards. I really enjoyed it. And did he make you not play? Well, he didn't make me not play, but he didn't encourage it. Yeah. I'd say in Alabama back then, especially, he probably wasn't a hot sport. Yeah, I mean, I don't know.

I mean, but, yeah, my dad wasn't into it. He would come to the games, but I don't think he was into it. Yeah. Yeah, I don't – I think I tried out in high school, and I didn't make the team. We had a really good high school soccer team I got cut everywhere in high school But it was

We had a really good high school soccer team But I don't remember if I I think I played I guess when I was little I did like rec league That's what we called it We didn't even have it in Lebanon Really? You didn't have soccer leagues? Nope, there wasn't soccer leagues It wasn't in our high school? You didn't have soccer leagues? Nope. There wasn't soccer leagues.

It wasn't in our high school. It was just baseball and football? Pretty much. Basketball. Basketball and some other stuff, but not soccer. That's so funny. I think not too long after I graduated, it became, and now it's huge, but. Soccer wasn't even invented though at the time.

Did you know about it? Yeah, we knew about it And I asked my buddy recently Who's so into soccer And still plays in a men's league I was like What'd you do when we were growing up? He said I'd go to Nashville

And play in Hermitage Yeah In leagues there But we didn't Brian's like You could leave Lebanon? Yeah I didn't think

They have They fly over to Hermitage? I went to Hickory Hall Mall Once a year at Christmas. Yeah. I was getting out of Lebanon. I was going to town. I wouldn't even go downtown.

No. No. Yeah. But it is the most popular sport in the world. Like by far, right? Probably. 250 million people play it. My wife's Canadian, and when she was growing up, her dad loved soccer, right?

So she tried out for a team. She was pretty good, but she tried out for soccer and I guess didn't make the team. And her dad got so mad that he formed a different team in that city with all the people that didn't make the team. Oh, wow. And was like this really hard coach. It's a movie. And was like forcing them to, he was forcing my wife to be very aggressive. And I mean, and she is like, I don't even want to be out here. And now all the other teams hate her because she's pushing girls down and elbowing them.

Were they good? Were they good? I think they were pretty good. But I mean, but she was like, yeah, he formed the team with the people that didn't make the cut. So we were pretty good. But you know, everybody. It's like a plot to a movie. Yeah.

It is. Yeah. And then they go win. Yeah. I mean, if they would have won, yeah, that would have been a really. Yeah. But I think that, yeah, I mean, it just caused a riff in kind of the local, because there was always just one team that went out for that city.

And now there's two. Kind of the bad boys of soccer or bad girls of soccer. Yeah. You guys watch Ted Lasso? We've talked about that. I've seen the first season. I watched the first season. I actually did not watch the second season.

I didn't see the second season either. I was trying to think of my favorite soccer movie. Not as many as other sports. Bennett Like Beckham. Did you ever see that? No. That's a good movie. Why are you laughingham. Did you ever see that? No. That's a good movie. Why are you laughing?

Because it's a girl's? No, not because it's a girl's. I just haven't seen it. I've heard the name. You know? Oh, Ladybugs with Rodney Dangerfield. That was a fun one. I think there was one

where Will Ferrell was a coach. Oh, yeah. Kicking and screaming. Yeah. Yeah, that was a good one. His coffee scene in there was a lot of fun. Yeah.

Yeah. Here's a fun quote from pope john paul ii oh he says of all of course they call it football of all the unimportant things football is the most important oh god spoken like a european all the most important things he's basically saying look i know it's not important but of all the unimportant things it's the most important yeah that's good yeah that's a fun quote. Yeah. Yeah, it's a...

It could be applied to something else. I would say that about football or something. Here? Yeah. But you're just saying... He's talking about soccer? Yeah. We both would say football.

That's true. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it originated from a Chinese sport called Kuju, C-U-J-U. Similar, kicking a ball. It had to go through a net, but there was no goalkeeper. You just had to get it through the hole in the net.

And it kind of – I mean, that was around 2nd, 3rd century B.C. So even during Jesus' time, there was some soccer going on. Looks a little bit like basketball, the way the net is there. Yeah. It's like you got to kick it, yeah, to square. Yeah. And you got to just kick the ball through the square. You got to kick it pretty high, too.

Yeah. So you have to get through the top thing? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Through that hole right up there. I wonder what the ball was like. That'd be pretty fun to watch. Like, I mean, you would see some, you have to be really good.

Yeah, you got to be able to kick it high. Got to do a lot of bicycle kicks. Yeah. Head butts even. Yeah. I don't know if you could hit it with your head back then. That ball party is so heavy. Yeah.

It's the rock. Yeah. Modern soccer came about in 1863. That's when the Football Association was formed in Europe. came about in 1863. That's when the Football Association was formed in Europe. The reason it's called soccer and not football,

everybody thinks that's an American word. It was actually, it's not. It was a British word. It was invented by Oxford students. They called soccer Associated Football. It's still called Associated Football. But then there was rugby football.

So people were getting confused which football they're talking about. So they shortened rugby to rugger, and they shorted association to a soccer. Okay. Which I know is a little bit of a stretch. And then they shortened it to just soccer. Interesting. But it never even took off there because it became so popular that if you called it football, everybody knew you were just talking about what you were

talking about. It never really competed enough with rugby to. To stick, but somehow it stuck here. And it really makes more sense than what we call football since we barely touch it with our feet. Yeah. Yeah. That's a pretty big part of the game, I'd say.

I mean, they do do it a lot, but I mean, it's like. Is it? You know, you kick off and then you kick field goals. You're also running around a bunch. That's your feet. Yeah. All right. But you're running.

Yeah. You're really running all the sports. Yeah. That's true. Why did we call it football, football? And that. I don't know. I looked that up. Maybe it came.

That's a good question. Yeah, I mean, I would think that it stemmed from a rugby type thing. Yeah, I could see that. Yeah. Like, they called it rugby football, right? Yeah. So it probably stemmed from that here. So that's where the soccer came from?

But then, why do we call it soccer then? Somehow it's stuck here, but not in it. And we're not the only country that calls it soccer. I thought we were the only country. I think Australia calls it soccer. I think there's two or three other English-speaking countries that call it soccer. Yeah. Soccer is a good name.

Yeah. Yeah. It's a fun word. Yeah. Yeah. You sock it. Soccer. Soccer, like you're hitting a lady yeah that is you know soccer i don't like you yeah yeah that's how you describe the word okay yeah some guys not getting it yeah you know you hit women all the time

what do you do or he goes a soccer and he goes soccer all right uh it's so it's such a popular sport worldwide um a war broke out because of a soccer match 100 year 100 hour war um are the football wars it's called between between El Salvador and Honduras. And there were some questionable calls in this World Cup qualifying match that people got so upset that they started rioting and fighting. And then international relations between these two countries just got so out of hand that a war broke out. And after a little bit over three days, they worked out a peace agreement and got things straightened out.

But people died from it. That's crazy. I like that. I mean, it's like stop making bad calls. You know what I mean? I mean, I wish that would happen a little more these days. We get a lot of bad calls out here, and then we just sweep it under the rug. But it's – I mean, how do you ever even get a ref?

Like it's – how could you ever possibly get – are they called umpire in soccer? I don't even know. But how could you ever get get a ref? How could you ever possibly get an umpire in soccer? I don't even know. But how could you ever get someone to do that ever again? Did they kill someone and all that stuff? Oh, yeah. There was one riot. There's been a few where people have died. The worst, 300 fans died, 500 injured peru and argentina crazy when i was a kid we had encyclopedias

and then like because we bought this set like every year we would get like a yearbook so it'd be like everything that kind of like big events that went on in the year you know there's no internet so you would get these updated things i remember looking through one year and it was like it showed a picture and it was talking about a soccer game where it got so many people showed up to this game that the seats got really crowded and people got smushed up against the fence and it had a picture and people died they suffocated and you the picture was people smushed up against and it haunted me for years yeah yeah that's terrible yeah that would do that i mean that's i mean it's just right there in the yearbook yeah where did that game take place i don't remember

okay i just remember your book was this you know it's like you get like the the set of encyclopedias and then each year you would get a new so it was probably in the 90s sometime, early 90s. Man. I mean, the picture was just right there. People trying to climb over the fence. That's us every year on Black Friday. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's next week's episode.

People getting trampled. Yeah, that just happened in South Korea a few weeks ago. There was some type of big festival. Oh, yeah, I heard about that. People got out of hand and people die. You'll few weeks ago, there was some type of big festival and people got out of hand and people die. You'll like this one, Dusty. So this, a soccer match in Congo

between these two teams and a thunderbolt struck the field, killed all 11 players on one team. Other team, nobody got hurt. And the rumor is

a voodoo doctor did some black magic on the visiting team. Wow. With a K? I don't know. This is just, no, this is magic, like magic magic. So it's not with a K.

And did a voodoo curse on the other team. Wow. This sounds like a government hit, and they're covering it up. But how do they? But I mean, it's lightning striking a thing. I was going to say, that's more your angle. Yeah, yeah. What'd you say?

Were they filming? When was this? This was 1998. 98? Yeah. So do they have footage of this? It's in the Congo. I bet they don't.

I don't think this was like a big. Aaron said it sounds like a government hit. Well, this is one government, you know, one they killed an entire team. Like, oh, it was a big bolt of lightning. And everyone goes, okay, I guess there's no video evidence. I mean, I guess if it struck. 30 other people got burned.

If it struck the other, just like one side of the field. Wow. That's crazy. Golly. That's how many games are happening, though, of soccer, is that you'd probably hear about this stuff more, or crazy stuff like this happening in football or something like that, but you're not playing the amount of games.

These guys, it's all over the world, and there's just 250 million people playing it. I mean, that is how many people? There's 8 billion people. I mean, it's got to be the most. We just hit 8 billion, right? Yeah. In 98, it's voodoo. Now it's climate change, right?

It would be like, people would be like, the weather's out of control. Jesse's like, nah, it's just some old voodoo. Because this has been happening for years. Ain't nothing but some voodoo. So now the World Cup started. It's in Qatar this year. Qatar.

Qatar. Oh, I thought it was Qatar. I don't know. I just said what he said. I thought Qatar, and then everybody started calling it Qatar, and then I'm like, I thought it was Qatar. I don't know. I just said what he said. I thought Qatar, and then everybody started calling it Cutter, and then I'm like, I'm not really sure. On the news, they were calling it Qatar. Okay.

But, you know, that's the media. Which news are we talking about? Yeah, exactly. Is it Lebanon news? They're down there in Qatar this weekend. We're all, I don't know if you guys have been watching that soccer match over in Quator but

we don't like any word with a Q that doesn't have a U next to it they said it is unsettling it's hot there

from what I hear it's the weather report and no women that's all the guy knows who won the match he goes I don't know

I know it's hot and no women way tar well it is so hot there that's the first world cup held in the winter time because it's so hot in the summer you couldn't do it yeah it's so it's still so hot there even now that all the stadiums have air conditioning piped in to cool the field and the and the fans it's the equivalent to 45 000 air conditioners going how oh it's 73 degrees right now but it's lovely yeah but during the day it's probably yeah it's nighttime there i think yeah even during the day it's getting pretty warm they said the winter's the most humid time of year there. Oh, so dry. It's a wet heat.

Yeah, so it'll be 82, 83. It'll be 80s, yeah. But in the summertime, it's like 120. Yeah. World Cup's the most viewed sporting event in the world. Although I kept – it's amazing how you Google something. You get so many different answers. It seemed like that would be pretty cut and dry.

More things I read said the World Cup, but some things said the Olympics. A few things said Tour de France. Who's watching Tour de France? Three and a half billion people according to this article. I just refuse to believe that. I don't know if I believe that. I think you're flipping by and you look at it for a minute. Yeah, I believe that. I think you're flipping by and you look at it for a minute. Yeah. Yeah, I watched it.

Yeah, do you watch the World Cup or do you watch the Tour de Lebanon, the one that's got named after one place? Like no one's, you know what I mean? Like the one's like the World Cup. The Olympics are like, it's not about, you know, and they're like, no, a lot of people are watching the Tour de France. Well, it is like the World Cup of cycling, but it's like who cares i mean it's yeah i understand that but still it's like it's just done in one place the world cup moves around like there's there's way more things

to be intriguing and more want to watch more because tour de france is just it's in france i'd imagine by the way is it in france Tour of France yeah okay I was like in my head I'm like unless they're I'm just gonna get there but he doesn't know that France means bicycle pedal

yeah I'm like I didn't know that you know Tour de Bicycle Pedal it doesn't dip into Spain or anything at one point well I don't know that

but I might it's just around France I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you guys I'm just telling you there's articles out there that say it's the most viewed. It doesn't seem fun to watch, I will say that.

Tour de France? Yeah, watching people ride bikes. I mean, maybe the last little bit. I think if you knew what was happening, like anything, it would be pretty – I guess so. I mean, I know it's tough to ride a bike. I mean, I biked for a couple of years. I mean, it's tough to do.

Yeah. You were like that bicyclist? Well, not like that. I mean, I sold my car for two years and rode a bike everywhere. Yeah. Did you ever wear the suit? No, I did wear the helmet, but never had a body for the suit. How long does the Tour de France go?

Too long. Oh, yeah. Look at how long it is. Because maybe if it's like really lengthy, that's how they add up so many people. Oh yeah, like the Olympics. To a degree, or the World Cup to a degree. Consists of 21 stages over the

course of 23 days. Wow. That's not even as long as the World Cup. So each day is like a race. No, I mean it's gigantic. I mean look, it's the only bike event we know so i understand that but it just i yeah i can't imagine it's bigger than the world cup i mean that's so it goes all around france probably pretty fun to do probably not i mean when i

biked it's like that's what i found amazing about biking it's like you roll through a city on a bike and you really see things that you don't normally see well that's me with a bird scooter yeah that's me i get the walking yeah you really see when you walk i get the speed of a bike and the immersion of walking walking it's slow you don't get to see as much not when i'm on a bird scooter uh tour de france i always thought it's funny uh i tried to joke on this joke on this once, but it's like the only sport where it's like, it would be like you're watching the Super Bowl, and they just let a Honda Accord drive around the field.

Yeah. I mean, it's that important of a thing, and then there's just cars. Just active streets. Active streets. And I know the cars are like doing something, but I mean, they're just in the thick of it. And then the fans, because they walk into it. I mean, there's no boundaries and they just can.

And you're like, this is the biggest thing of my life. And then you just, you know. Just civilians. Yeah. Right on the side of the road. Yeah. And then some of them, that one, I mean, there was a video of one walked out and just got drilled.

And you, like, injure the person, the guy's bike breaks, he's done. It's like dominoes once it starts because then they just all fall over. Bike wipeouts are crazy. Well, you asked once on this podcast, I think, because we were looking at the most viewed, because it was like 3.5 billion people that watched the last World Cup. And you said, is that one event? Is that over all those weeks?

And I don't think we ever got the answer. That's over like three weeks. Is anybody glued to their TV watching 23 days of the Tour de France? No, there has to be. Well, a few, but yeah. I mean, I know some people are. There probably has to be. I mean, yeah, it can't be. I would be shocked for it to be. Well, a few, but yeah. I mean, I know some people are, but I... There probably has to be a bit. I mean, yeah, it can't be...

I would be shocked for it to be that much. But it's... Again, if you understand it, I think it's probably very great. You're probably right. But you got to... You're probably right. But I don't think most people know it's... What's it look like to watch it, though?

What's the visual? Like, what kind of thing do you get? I mean, because look at the mountains in the background of this picture. I mean... Yeah, it looks nice. Yeah. Well, you get, mean because look at the mountains in the background of this picture i mean yeah yeah well you get you know lance armstrong like he had uh one time he cut across a path and it was kind of crazy like he something happened he got ran off the road and i mean those are bikes that can't go like off they're not all like they're made like yeah it's and so he just rides through like the grass

and then has to jump and like go over this because he got at the winter it was like two curves and he got pushed into so instead of like stop he was like i'm gonna just go and the the idea that his bike didn't break is crazy and then he jumped up grabbed it set it back on his bike and then caught back up and you know so you're seeing i think some stuff like that yeah it's like oh wow like it's you know it's a free-for-all yeah well i mean yeah i'll give it a shot and these guys are like i think the athleticism that they have to just it's just how in shape they are how in shape how close they are to each other and you know it's like you look at like nascar like it's just how in shape they are, how in shape, how close they are to each other. And, you know, it's like, look,

you look at like NASCAR, like it's just been asking you on 200 miles an hour and you're touching them. You're that close, but you're in a car at least. And these guys are, I don't know how fast they go. I mean, almost 200 miles an hour. Yeah, almost 200, but they go very fast and they are just next. I mean, there, you see them go through stuff and there's there's just no room you could feel claustrophobic i mean hearing you describe it is actually made it more interesting as we're talking about i can't believe who's watching this and then you

go through and it's like oh it is seems pretty fun too yeah i think so i think so but it's yeah how's it not the most viewed? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've turned. Yeah. It's just they do it every year, right? And then – I think so. So it's – yeah, I don't know.

But I would think the World Cup. Well, I would say out of five articles, three said the World Cup, one said Olympics, one said – How many said MASH finale? I would say Olympics are going down. Yeah. Because it's like they're having like all these other sports and you're just kind of like, you know, I think you get Olympics, you get swimming's great.

And then America just takes the best people from every other country and then we just dominate everything. Yeah. I mean, I think swimming is like probably the track and field, and swimming are just kind of the only ones that you're – basketball, I don't know how much we care anymore. When you're watching it. I just watched the 30-30 on the Redeem team.

I just watched that too. Yeah, that was really cool. Yeah, when was that? 2008. Yeah, because they lost. They lost in 2004 yeah in 2004 it was lebron and carmelo anthony and when they were all young guys duane wade yeah and duane way when they were young yeah new players 2008 they were all veterans and they brought kobe

brought in kobe it's really cool it's pretty cool when they brought in kobe yeah it so they lost in 2004 yeah to who was it argentina or spain um spain was it spain okay i think so basketball is a chance to maybe get pretty interesting because there's so many of these players from other countries that basketball in the olympics actually probably could start getting back to like i mean it might be might be now or close. Cause it's like, I think there's a lot of teams that are a lot better, but where you're going to be like, Oh, if, if, if the other countries start like really compete, you know, before it was like fun, you go blow them out, whatever. And then, yeah.

I mean, that's what I assumed. I had no idea. I just assumed we dominated basketball every time. That's because we did for so long. Yeah. And then this happened. I don't think it was Spain that lost it. But anyway. Yeah, then we picked it back up.

I think it was Greece or somebody. 2008 just dominated. And have we lost? We haven't lost since then? No. We won in 2012, 2016. But that championship game wasn't a – I mean, Spain was tough. But there's one story about Kobe that I love.

They said that they went out partying one night, and everybody had a great time, so much fun. They came in like it was 4 or 5 in the morning. They were in Vegas training. Yeah, Vegas training. They go out and party, have a wonderful time. Dwayne Wade, I think, is telling this story. And then they come back into their hotel like 4 or 5 in the morning. Kobe's in the

lobby lacing up his sneakers. He's got it on weighted vests. Weightlifting gloves. Yeah, weightlifting gloves. They're like, what are you doing? He's leaving to go work out. He was the only one that didn't go out and party with them. They said that kind of changed their mindset because he

was taking it so serious. Then pretty soon, they all started getting up and working out. And by the end of the week or something, they were all doing it. Yeah. They got on the elevator. They were like, was he serious? Yeah. Was he going to work out right now?

I love that. Yeah. Carmelo said, I never got up that early, but I did start getting up. Yeah. But anyway, the World Cup, the last World Cup in 2018, three and a half billion people watched it. The final match between France and Croatia, 1.12 billion people watched that match. Wow. That's like Taylor Swift numbers.

Damn. Only eight countries have won the World Cup. That was kind of surprising to me. Only two continents. That's crazy. How many World Cups have been played? Started in 1930, so it hadn't been around forever. But however, every four years since 1930.

So it's what, Europe and South America? Yeah. Interesting. I mean, I would have guessed those two if you said there's only two, but it's amazing. Like Asia, nobody in Asia has won a World Cup. Only eight countries. Brazil's won five times.

Germany and Italy have won four. Argentina, Uruguay, and France twice. And Spain and England once. In the United States this year. Yep. Yep. So this year, the format, there's 32 teams. Oh, that's it? That's a rallying cry cry for yeah you have to qualify oh yeah so there's 32 teams and they're i barely understand this but there's four teams in eight different groups and the two

top teams from each one of those advance to the 16 and then once you get to 16, it's single elimination. Oh. So you're in your – so it's like the AFC South. Yeah, kind of like that. And so how many games do you play? You play each team once, I believe, and you get three points for a win, two for a tie, and one for a loss. And then the two top teams with the most points advance. Yeah.

And if there's a tie, they have to play again or something. Why not do two points for a win, one point for a tie, and zero points for a loss? Yeah. I don't know. And I may be wrong. I'm making all this stuff up. But I think that's what I read.

Could you look that up to see? But I don't know if there's two teams that have the same amount of points. I don't know what they do. Well, I'm sure maybe it doesn't work out like that. But, yeah. Yeah, maybe it – I don't know. Yeah, for every win, a team earns three points and a tie earns one point. Teams do not get a point for a loss.

Okay. All right, so it was kind of – we were both right. Yeah, I would rather do the group stage. Yep. Yep. So, teams are tied after three matches. Tiebreakers are determined by a goal difference, then goals scored, and finally the head-to-head matchup.

Okay. So there's a whole system in place. So this year is by far the costliest World Cup in history. $220 billion. They built seven new stadium Cup in history. $220 billion. They built seven new stadiums in Qatar. Seven brand new stadiums

for this event. Well, it seems like everything's going great. World's got no problems. We're just getting it done out here. Yeah. So the big... So there's no alcohol We're just getting it done out here. So there's no alcohol in Qatar, and they made a deal with FIFA that you couldn't sell it.

Well, maybe you could sell it in the stadium. I was here. There were certain stations, I guess, set up that you could still buy beer. Budweiser is the sponsor, and then last minute, I guess King or whatever it is of Qatar said, no alcohol, period. Oh, wow. This was just a day or two ago they made this surprise announcement. So now Budweiser has like 20 million cases of beer,

and they said they're going to donate it to the winning team. Oh, really? It's like sitting there in a warehouse. I love the King there. I don't know what he does, but that move seems fun. It's like a bold move there at the end being like, nah, I know you want to do it, but I'm not going to let you. I don't know anything about the king there, but I like that move.

He said he watched the podcast and you talked about how much it's changed your life. And he's like, nah. Well, didn't there was something like with a cruise ship or something? So the England, I think that's what you're about to talk about england's uh wags wives and girlfriends are on a billion dollar cruise ship called the party palace and because it's in international waters qatar can't do anything about it so they're just living it up on this ship the whole time they're there and they can do whatever they want because women can't sunbathe in Qatar.

And there's a lot you can't do. But as long as they're on this ship, they can do whatever they want. So when they go to the game, they got to... Go to the game, they got to straighten up. But once they get on the ship, things get crazy. Imagine you go plan this trip. You're going to drink the whole time.

And that's what you do. You drink and watch soccer. And you love soccer. But then you're in Qatar watching this sober. and you realize you don't really like soccer. Yeah. You're like, I love it when I'm drinking, but you're like there sober going, what do I like about this? Yeah. I'd imagine there's going to be some people have some real conversations with themselves to be like, you know, is it really about the hang yeah well i mean i would i mean you would think people wouldn't go to it i mean

there's gonna be enough people that are gonna want to go to it but like the especially that live there they didn't make this announcement till people already got there yeah a lot of people arrived and they found out when they got there like oh boy i wonder if you could yeah and it's like you can't get your you got to just be willing to, I guess, go like, look, we don't, they're their own thing. That's what's crazy is that, like, it's funny to think about, like, in America and you want to go, yeah, this is welcome to the world. Like, where they're just, the guy's like, no, done.

It's crazy. Did they sell beer at Vanderbilt games?ilt games no yeah we had a king and he said no do they at notre dame no because it's on campus i think if it's off campus ours is on campus okay yeah i didn't think you could drink at college games at all for a long time we would have to sneak stuff in when we wanted to do. We would do that too. I think you can now. Okay. I think at University of Tennessee you can, Kitch. Yeah, I think they passed it where you could. I mean, they should.

I remember being at a game. It's always crazy how some of them hold on to some of this stuff, but then they all – which I understand, maybe a tradition or something you don't want, but then they start making the money from it. Are they stopping this money source of just being like well you could i had a pair of binoculars that were fake oh yeah fill up with liquor bring that into the game and there were spotters that their whole job was just to catch kids doing exactly that oh they would just sit there in the crowd and look and

then they'd rat on you and so and you so you'd be right down front with your beer goggle binoculars? Yeah, which is so funny. Who brings actual binoculars to a college football game? I don't think anybody does. I think we would do that. Would they work? Because you'd be in the upper deck. No, it's just plastic.

Oh. It was funny. You go through it, and it's like, you just see like the side of a cruise ship window. You just see like a little. And a uh cruise ship window you just see like a little and he's like that's crazy he goes oh the stuff inside that makes it zoom might have broken some yeah it's a liquid zoom it's liquid zoom just kind of probably smashed i saw a gamecocks game one time i got we snuck in some mini bottles and me and a buddy of mine we shared a big we had a one big cup we bought one big cup and shared a bourbon and Coke.

That was, we didn't even want to spend money on Cokes. Just in there, two dudes, one cup, you know, just drinking it up. Two dudes, one cup, yeah. It was great. We had a great time. We had a very fun time. I think yesterday's opening match was Mexico or someone. They started chanting from the stands, we want beer, in Spanish,

however that translates. Oh, yeah. It's a big deal over there. Are they in jail now? I don't know. Lightning struck it. Yeah. Lightning struck specifically one seat.

Surprisingly, that guy was starting a... He just dunked beer in. Man, that's crazy. What are the odds of that? They have a lightning... They just have a thing that shoots lightning out. Voodoo. Yeah.

Cuervos Cerveza. Cuervos Cerveza. We want beer. I mean, I wonder. There has to be a way. The chants and the songs, that is one part I really like about soccer culture. Yeah. Singing a song in a crowd.

I love that. There needs to be more of that in a football game. You know, a lot going on, so you have time to gather everybody together to start singing. You go, why are y'all singing? You're like, I mean, they're just – no one's shot a goal in 45 minutes. Let's get some songs going. I just went around and I taught everybody the lyrics.

Taught everybody the lyrics. We all started doing it, and here we are. The home country automatically gets to go, and they start the opening match. I think I heard Qatar was the first home country to ever lose in the opening match. Oh really? Who they play.

They played Ecuador. That's the game right there. Okay. Oh, and everybody probably loved that. Probably. It is crazy. You're like,

why would they go do it? I mean, you know, good for them to do it like that, but it's like, it is, it is insane that you're like, I imagine alcohol sales are your most gigantic thing,

and you just go to a place that says no. But they're like, like in Qatar, though, they're like all so rich anyway. Right? It's like, they don't need the money. Yeah, I mean, like $220 billion. It's unreal, dude. That's so much. I mean, it's.

I know. The same for most of these college campuses, right? They all have the money. But the Titans are fighting to get a $2 billion stadium, and that's $220 billion for the World Cup. And they're probably going to sell alcohol at the new Titans stadium, if I had to guess. I hope not.

Who's paying for it, taxes? Titans stadium? Yeah. I mean, some, the Titans said they'll chip in some. I hope not. Who's paying for it? Taxes? Titan Stadium? Yeah. I mean, some. The Titans said they'll chip in some. The state of Tennessee said they'll put in $500 million if it's a dome stadium. Yeah, I like being a dome. It is funny, though, that it's like – and I'm thrilled that they're doing the stadium.

But it is funny that they're like – Titans are like, I mean, we're chipping some. You're like, who's it for? Right, right. But I guess they look at it as like, well, you're going to do concerts and stuff there. But you want to be like, yeah, who, but who? Yeah, we'll chip in. Yeah. There's going to be like-

I like the term chip in. We're going to be a major part of it. I'm going to build a new house and then go, you'll pay for it? I'm not chipping. Yeah, yeah. Who's going to live in it? I will live in it. And you will not be allowed in it.

There's like a 1% hotel motel tax that the hotels have to pay, but they're like, the argument is, well, so many people are going to be coming in for events that you should pay more. Does that make sense? Mm-hmm. So that's how they're selling it. But I mean, so do we pay the taxes?

I think some of it's still us. Yeah. The hotel motel tax is- And then we've got to buy a ticket. If we pay taxes, we should get free tickets. It's a 1% Yeah. The hotel motel tax is- And then we got to buy a ticket. If we pay taxes, we should get free tickets. It's a 1% increase on the hotel motel tax. One free ticket a year. One free ticket a year.

That's nice. Yeah. Right in front of Brian's season tickets. Yeah. One row ahead of him. Where I don't take binoculars, I take a telescope. Yeah. He has to call down and go, what's the score?

Yeah. Can't see the jumbo. So the favorite this year to win is Brazil. And then followed by Argentina and France. Who is Messi, believe? He's Italy, right? No. If you're a soccer fan, that's probably the same thing. What makes Brazil so good?

Sport does LeBron play? Well, the reason I can't keep up is because they're from a country, and then they play for another country. Yeah, that's the hard part with soccer. My brother listened to this, and he's going to be like, are you kidding me? I know. I asked Derek a lot of stuff, because Derek knows everything about it.

He's the captain of Argentina. Yeah. And then, all right, I don't need to arch. But, yeah, I get very confused on the leagues. That's, you know, it's like there's like the Premier League. And Derek has told me this, but I just always kind of, you know, it's like, forget it. Well, yeah, they play over.

It seems like a lot. They play over in Europe, but then there's guys from South America that play over there. So it's, yeah, it gets confusing. It seems like a lot for us is what it, you know, but, but we know every football player,

where they went to college, where they're playing pro and where they played in high school. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's just here, but I do get, you know,

like I always like, cause I asked Derek about that, like messy, like messy is like, they consider him like the best ever. Like the way he got, I think they signed him on a, do you have the thing where they say, we talked about that? We've talked about it.

Signed him on a napkin or something? On a napkin. And like, so it's when he was like 14. So I looked up greatest soccer player of all time. Again, there's some different answers, but the majority of, like Paul Zasal said, Pele is the greatest soccer player of all time. He was the most famous person in the world

in the 60s. More than the Beatles, dude, you think? Well, that's a group. More than Paul McCartney, dude? I don't know. I just read. I bet he could be. I mean, soccer, dude. Those guys, the Beatles watched him.

Maybe this is before the Beatles blew up. I just said there was a period of time in the 60s. No, I believe it, but I'm saying that I cannot tell you what Pele looks like now. But I know what the Beatles look like. Well, he's still around. What do you think makes Brazil, like they've won the most, right? That's what you said. And then they're favored to win again.

What makes them the best why are they so good it's just their culture i mean i think they just on tvs but uh but i mean some of these other places their culture would have to be around soccer too right well there are they don't win every year but somebody's always going to have won the most it's not like they've just dominated but they have won the most is It's not like they've just dominated, but they have one the most. And they've produced the best soccer players, I guess.

Like, you know, football, you can have a lot of players come out of Florida or, you know, big men come out of Iowa. I did a point of you.

There you go. I thought you were going to say, where are you from? Yeah. But it's like Iowa is like Nebraska. Nebraska is like, that's the offensive line

that come out of there. They always say corn fed, but I'm like, we're all eating corn out here. But I would say Alabama is so dominant in football because in Alabama, there ain't a lot else going on. So they care so much about it that they will always find a way to

take it really, really serious. You see, there's more of a cultural appetite for it than people are going to be more willing to sink resources into it. And people are going to... It's so important to them. It are going to be more willing to sink resources into it. And people are going to... It's so important to them. It's going to be ingrained in people young. Also, the argument always is, and you can, I'm sure people disagree with this, but people always say, I always heard this growing up, that America's best athletes don't play soccer. They play other sports.

Giannis has a joke about that. Yeah. What is it? Giannis Pons. He talked about like, you better not be... Yeah, LeBron. Yeah. LeBron was a goalie or something

He's like everyone makes fun of us But just You're lucky that We don't have our best guys go Like LeBron We dominate that too Which I don't know if that's true But the USA

You would think We're never close to the best in soccer It's because we don't care as much Right But I bet we start I bet it could start going that way And you're going to see a shift With just the fact of football.

Like people don't – they don't want the kids playing football to get hurt and all this. And how crazy it is that you could see with soccer that you're like, all right, this sport is – you know, football is so fast. So it's great, but it's – people are like – you know, people get really hurt. It's like scary injuries and all this kind of stuff. And soccer, like it's not – these guys play, and they're not usually injured.

I don't think crazy. And they're the most famous people on the planet. You don't hear a lot of concussions with soccer, I imagine. Yeah, if you ask – You hear some, though. But not like the NFL. They're hitting a ball against their head. Yeah.

Yeah. It's a header. You get kicked to the head sometimes or headbutted each other. But I'm just saying like in comparison yes probably not not nearly as many yeah

so the top player FIFA awards that like the MVP it's called the I can't say this Ballon d'Or winner Messi is one of the most

Balloon I think it's Balloon d'Or okay wait what is it maybe I know it Balloon d'Or let me look at it Balloon d'Or Okay. Wait, what is it? Maybe I know it. Balloon Dior? Let me look at it.

Balloon Dior. Ballon. Is that right? Ballon Dior. Ballon Dior? Ballon. Oh, that's way off. Jimmy Ballon.

Ballon. Okay. Well, the top, the guy who's won the most, Messi. He's won seven. Wow. Cristiano Ronaldo's won five. What's this award? It's the best player. Okay. In fact, the MVP. Messi's won seven wow we're not cristiano ronaldo's what's this award it's the best player like the mvp messy's won seven he's won the most ronaldo's won five but they the award was only given to european football players up until 1995 so pele never had a chance to win it

they went back and looked and said if he were in the running, he would have won seven also. So, yeah, that's the conversation, those three guys. Well, Messi's just going to be – Messi's playing now. I mean, like Pele, most people are not going to remember. I mean, he's from the 60s. So, I don't know who Pele – like, I mean, I know who Pele is because he's Pele, but that's what's crazy. Everybody probably knows who Pele is just because of the name Pele. In Brazil,

they said they're so famous they just go by one name. Yeah, okay. Makes sense. There was a Ronaldo before this Ronaldo. So is there lots of teams in Brazil

and then they all come together to play in the World Cup? Yeah. Okay. I don't really know how big Brazil is. It's pretty big.

Yeah, it's pretty big. It's a concept. Yeah. So like in big. I don't have a real concept. Yeah. So like in the US, we have- Is it like Rhode Island? It's massive. Oh, okay. The most famous American player?

Do you guys know? Mia Hamm. David Beckham. I would say Mia Hamm. David Beckham's not American. Well- No, I have no idea. That's the only soccer player I know.

I could see Mia Hamm, but you're talking about men. I'm shocked to find out he's not American. I've been believing that this whole time. He played in America towards the end of his career. Okay. He got brought over and played in the MLF. There's that redhead, dude. So to answer your question, David Beckham.

Probably not him. David Beckham is by far, they said, the most famous major league soccer player we ever had because like you said he came over at the end of his career

and played for LA Galaxy so a trick question Landon Donovan oh yeah there you go Landon Donovan is the most accomplished major league soccer player

of all time the MVP award is called the Landon Donovan MVP award for the major league for major league soccer now there's a guy maybe here you're talking about The MVP award is called the Landon Donovan MVP award. For the Major League Soccer. For Major League Soccer.

Now, there's a guy, maybe you're talking about Christian Pulisic? No, no, no. The redhead guy. Who's now a commentator? Yeah, yeah. That guy was. But no, Christian Pulisic, yes, that's who I've heard about. He's the most famous now.

And he'll be the best ever, right? It's been a real geography lesson. But he'll be the best ever, right? Now we're just going to look at you. It's been a real geography lesson. But he's 24 years old. It's almost like when Tiger was 24, you know, Jack Nicklaus was probably still considered the greatest golfer, but Tiger was so dominant. They're like, well, this guy's crazy. Yeah.

Yeah. Kristen's probably going to, Pulisic's going to do that. But he's still not even, but he's still not even the best player in the world, though. Like, not even close. Like, that's what's crazy. He's in the conversation of best in the world? Oh, we got a good little guy. Yeah.

So he's playing for the U.S. World Cup team. There's two guys from Nashville SC on the World Cup team. That's cool. There you go. I love that we're doing – I love that we're discussing soccer and there's people like off camera that know more about what we're talking about. Well, that's true every week.

It must be. No, that's true. This has been infuriating for him. Yeah. You're hearing, what team does Messi play for? He woke up just like, no. I think he's American. David Beckham's American.

I'm just learning Brazil is a big country. There's a lot I don't know. I know. All right. So greatest moments in soccer history. Two I found were in the same game, four minutes apart. So Diego Maradona of Argentina. It's called the Hand of God.

In the 86 World Cup, he knocked the ball into the goal using a little bit of his hand. And the referees didn't see it. And it counted. And later on when they asked him about it, I guess that's it right there. Brian's trying to drag this out because there's about 50 seconds of context for this clip. Yeah, so that was the play right there. They asked him about it later, and he's like, well, there's a little bit of my head and a little bit of the hand of God.

Oh, that's funny. So it was famous because it shouldn't have counted, and they went on to win Is this the one that England won? What'd you say? This the one that England won? This is the one that Argentina No no no no

Argentina won this game against England Partially because of that And It's called the hand of God Maybe the most famous moment in soccer history. The jersey worn by him in that game sold for $9.3 million at auction earlier this year. The comments of this video are very funny.

Maradona's the only sportsman who dominated in two sports, football and volleyball. The ball from that goal, the ref somehow kept it, even though he's the one that messed it up. He sold it at auction for $2.4 million. He said he'd hoped that the buyer will put it on public display. So he didn't put it on public display. He sold it for $2 million, and then he hopes whoever bought it will do that.

He had to get his life back after making that call. It looks like he put his hand above his head, and then he just kind bought it will do that. He had to get his life back after making that call. It looks like he put his hand above his head and then he just kind of pops it through. He barely touches it, but it was enough to... To me, that's pretty clear. His hand touched it, right? Yeah. Yeah, but it was God, huh?

Now, four minutes later, in the same match, the same guy had the goal of the century. The same guy? Same guy, four minutes later, and he marches the ball of the century. The same guy. Same guy, four minutes later. And he marches the ball all the way down and just runs through everybody and then kicks it, scores, goes nuts. He's like, yeah, I can do it without my hands too, guys.

Yeah. We don't have video of that. Wow. So Forbes did their highest paid athletes. You know, I remember the one I remember is the guy that headbutted the guy. Zidane? In the chest?

Zidane, yeah. Yep. I remember watching that. And that was – I watched that whole thing. It gets super exciting, dude. Like when you – watching the World Cup is super fun. I mean, it's – and especially when it gets like down to the final teams and it's just such a big thing that you're like, yeah, I'll watch it.

And that dude headbutted that guy. I remember watching this live. Was this a consequential game? Yeah. It might have been in the – Wow. Yeah, it might have been the – I want to say it was almost the world – the final game.

Yeah. I want to say it was the championship game. final game yeah i want to say it was the championship game i don't think it was the championship this guy get kicked out of the game yeah look and see what game was uh red card apparently the guy says something about his sister okay it's it was uh yeah it's like you want to go like after this happens someone does that then it's like then they do a story like well apparently he said somebody says you're like who knows any like you gotta hold it together yeah yeah uh but it was yeah see if it was at the last game it was italy and france cup final 2006 yeah i was watching it yeah well i wouldn't have been watching like the third they tied three limbs

it didn't tie uh italy won five three on penalties so france he was on he was on france it was awesome and i remember watching it live and uh and i remember like when he did that and they because they had it on tv and you're like can you and you don't know and you're like can you do that are you allowed to just do that like hit them them like that? And you're like, you just know something's wrong. And then it was like, yeah. Yeah, it was. I remember that crazy. So Forbes does their highest paid athletes, you know, every year for 2022.

Three of the top five are soccer players. Wow. Messi's number one. He's worth $130 million. So this is net worth? Or what they get paid this year? Probably annual earnings. Annual earnings.

They get more in endorsements than they even do in salary. He's number one. And Ronaldo's number two, $150 million. Ronaldo is like a freak. I mean, it looks like if you designed a man. I mean, he's like a freak. I mean, it looks like if you designed a man. I mean, he's like a doll. I mean, it's absolutely insane, dude. He has like 500 million Instagram followers.

It's nuts. It's truly like he looks like a doll. He looks like if you, he is Ken. He's better than Ken. Actually. Ken is. Ken wasn't the best athlete ever.

Yeah. Ken's body was not as good as Renaud. I mean, Ken would be. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's absolutely insane how like,

and I think he's, I don't know any much about him it seems i've watched a couple things on him and he seems like a great guy uh give and that's based on if you do you know that or if he's a good dude but like i think he does a lot of stuff with kids like he's had a lot of plastic surgery oh he's had a lot of plastic surgery oh well ken's 100 plastic yeah well i don't know that But he still looks So that helps But he keeps

The most amazing shape Of you know It's always fun It's all fake He's only like 5'8 You're like is he? He has legs He got other people's legs

Those are ab implants He puts He put children's legs on him You're like On his own body You're like he's a real bad guy You go You got a neck.

But I've seen videos of him with kids, and he'll run back to them and stuff. And you got to know the impact he's having on that kid, because there's no one more famous. But it's crazy to be that famous. Like, Messi, he's probably more famous than Messi. It's close, right? You don't think so? I don't know.

But I mean, because you've got to count everybody in soccer that knows Messi knows him. Now you've got to talk about the outside of soccer. I don't think people really know who Messi is. But Chris Renato has been on commercials, and you just hear his name. Did you switch seats with him? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Could you sit here and dust it over there? Yeah, I'll run a camera i don't uh yeah i mean i don't know either of these names so if you're looking at someone who doesn't know anything about soccer but i mean that to me i've never heard either of these names honestly maybe i've heard messy but yeah uh maybe you've heard the word messy. Yeah. People say that about me a lot. Yeah. Messy sleigh. What's the rest of the list?

I think LeBron was number two. Ronaldo was three. Neymar was fourth. I just want to see some comparison, like how much money they're making as opposed to athletes I know. LeBron obviously is way up there. Well, Neymar we didn't even mention, but he makes $95 million a year. Who's another athlete that I would know that's close? There's a lot of basketball players. Roger Federer, tennis player, was up there.

Giannis was up there. Just for some comparison, so we just said that Ronaldo has 500 million followers on Instagram. LeBron has 137 million. Wow. Instagram is the only thing that matters. Well, that's a big deal, though. I mean, yeah.

I know it is. 470 million more? Yeah. 370. Yeah. Yeah. All right, guys. Yeah.

Yeah. All right, guys. So there's a documentary, and I think it may be a 30-30, called The Two Escobars. And it's about Colombia and how Pablo Escobar was bringing fear on the country and everyone was scared to death of him. But then on the Colombia national team, there was Andreas Escobar, and he was bringing hope and joy and, and they were getting excited and some national pride.

And then in the 1994 world cup, he accidentally knocked the ball into his deflected into his own goal and they lost the match. And then two weeks later, when he came home to Columbia, some drug cartel people shot him in his car. Oh my God. And they said goal every time they fired a shot.

Wow. So. The goalie? No, he wasn't the goalie. I checked out the whole time you read all that. I was not even. See,

I thought you'd be into it. Cause you like pop. I was into it. I was, it was, I was thinking of something else and I, my brain was gone. So this guy's last name is Escobar.

Yeah. He was on the Columbia soccer team. You're making so many people re-listen to this. It's so funny. Like everybody's just – they're like, yeah, dude, we did all not hear that. He accidentally deflected the ball into his own goal. It caused him to lose. Two weeks later, when he's back home in Columbia, he gets murdered.

Yeah. Yeah. I didn't know that. I mean, not that I heard. I knew it the whole time. I knew it the whole time. I said it very early.

I go, did someone get killed? I guess not quite as bad as two countries going to war over a soccer game. Like, more people were killed,

but that's obviously intense. Did they do a 30 for 30 about that? About that war? Yeah. I don't know. There's a couple of famous fog matches. There was one where the goalie stood in the goal for 15 minutes

after the game had been canceled because it was so foggy. He didn't know. Wow. Finally, a police officer came 15 minutes later up to him and said why are you still here like the games and then he said he went in the locker room and everyone had already showered and they started laughing like where you been dude he's like i didn't know it's so foggy yeah they're gonna see you they made sure to get a picture of him before they told him that's so snopes Snopes looked into it. That's not the actual guy.

No. But they said it really did happen. It really did happen. That's just not the actual photo. And then there was another one many years later. This was after World War II when they were back to doing friendly matches. It was Russia and England. It was 50,000 people in the stands, and it got so foggy that Russia started sending extra players out on the field,

and nobody could tell because it was so foggy. Oh, that's awesome. I think both teams maybe, they said, did it. It's classic Russia. There's some video of it. I think I maybe sent you. Is friendly. Like it doesn't count.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just an exhibition, I guess. Which one was that? Maybe I didn't sit too. I thought I sent you a video of the fog match or whatever. I don't have that one.

Okay, not bad. All good. So the 2026 World Cup is in North America. And it's going to be in the US, Mexico, and Canada.

Oh. Where in the US? I think there's a few locations. I think Atlanta is hosting it Oh Nashville bid on it Yeah

And Didn't make the final cut Yeah But I think the closest place to here is Atlanta Don't they send Sometimes celebrities from those cities To go pitch

Their country I like what you're thinking Yeah yeah I'm saying Okay yeah So are you going to ask Nate To make a pitch for Nashville? Well, 2026 is out, but maybe a future.

2030? You know, if they come back that quick, I mean, we're in trouble. If you pitch well enough. It's already a bad start to this pitch. Yeah. But I'm saying, let's say you were sent to represent Nashville. Well, I think when we go to. All of us.

Yeah. We should all go. in Nashville. I think when we go to... All of us. Yeah. We should all go. When we go, I think by the time,

by the time 2026 comes around, it's going to look like we should have it in Nashville. Yeah. And that's what I would pitch it on this, is you cannot pick us right now, and then in 2026,

it's going to look like you should have. Yeah. And by 20, and if you don't do this then, you do 2030. We'll turn you down by that point. 2030, I don't know. Yeah. Yeah 2030 we'll turn you down by 2030 i don't know yeah it might have our own world yeah we're out yeah we are the world cup yeah and we need you so we can either yeah you can either help help us get to the level that

we know we can get to or you can don't let us figure it out on our own or we will compete with you. I'm Nate Bargetti. And this is a warning. My World Cup. Yeah. This has been a warning. Michael Scott. Michael Scott.

What is it he says? You have 24 hours. And you have 20. Yeah. Or something like that. She's like, what does that mean? He's like,

I don't know. They always say that. We were burned quite hard to the ground. Give us the World Cup in 2030 or you will be embarrassed. You have 24 hours. Nashville, a place you can drink. Yeah.

Have you seen Broadway? Give us the World Cup. We won it on an off year. You've been warned. 24 hours. I'll give you 40 hours to respond. Yeah, until sundown. Yeah, until sundown.

I need an answer now or we're going to move on and we're going to get the Tour de France. I'm going to go to the Tour de France and go, hi, a neighbor I got to see.

Y'all running this bike race in France. No one cares. Come do it in America, Nashville. You can either be with us or you can compete with us. You have 24 hours. And I'll go to every big sporting event. Just keep threatening them. You just keep threatening every one of them.

You know, I don't know what other, yeah You know, I don't know what other – yeah. Yeah, I don't know what other sports are. But pickleball. Pickleball championship. I'm Nate Bergen. Bring it here or die. Yeah. We like pickleball, kind of.

But I feel like we're going to love it. So either be here now and grow it with us yep or be our competition well there's 24 hours this will be a big day tomorrow a lot of phone calls i'm making everybody crack your knuckles we're gonna be some responding to some emails i was gonna say the 20 one, they're expanding to 48 teams. So in the host country, they, you know, get stuff, do it, but there's three host countries. So I guess Mexico, US and Canada, if your dad,

your father-in-law still wants to coach. Yeah. They'll have a team in there. Oh yeah. I'm sure he does. Yeah. Get the girls back together. Yeah.

Get the girls back together. I'm sure we've infuriated A lot of soccer fans today What did we get anything wrong Like how much stuff Did we get He goes I'm out

Where do I start Yeah It's gonna be another Two hours correcting All the stuff we just did Yeah Alright But we're having fun

We're learning I feel like I learned a lot I knew nothing about soccer Yeah And I learned a lot I learned about Brazil And I learned about The Tour de France And I learned a lot. I knew nothing about soccer. And I learned a lot. I learned about Brazil, and I learned about the Tour de France. I learned a lot.

Did we get anything right? Okay. All right. We'll figure it out. Honestly, I want to watch soccer a little bit now. I never do. And I'll phase out of it quick. Yeah, I do.

But I want to watch it a little bit. Did you say you don't? Yeah, I don't care. Okay. I think I enjoy it. I need to wrap my head around the schedule and stuff more and my brother my brother will text me stuff i started following some of it because derrick was so into it that i was like all right let me try to get into it and

i like started following like some alerts on some guys and like messy and like you know it's like all right either these guys are wrapping their careers up maybe i do want to i do want to see them play and that kind of thing i think i do it like that it was like that with hockey at the beginning was like i remember you know being like all right i watched gretzky's last game because it was like i should be watching this you know i just don't think you or anybody has the bandwidth to follow multiple sports as closely as you would like college football like can you really bring professional soccer into your life and i'll have to follow that now it's like a whole different like it's

all yeah it's a whole different thing to keep up with it's uh yeah i get the nashville soccer alerts on my phone i get i mean it's i don't keep up with anything like i did like there's i mean it's you're uh you gotta it's funny. You've probably noticed this with sports. Since you've had a kid, it's changed. This is the first year since the Titans have been here. I don't have season tickets. Yeah. And I feel like you before would be like, why are we not watching the game?

You would tell me this. And I was like, I don't, like, cause you just lose interest. You were mean to me. I have interest. The interest is the same. It's just that you just gotta, you know. It's not that you're interested. You're not interested, but you're like, I'm not gonna.

Your priorities change. If I miss, you know, I try to watch all the games. If I miss a game, I'm not mad. If they lose, I'm not. You know, I'm like, golly, man. You're like frustrated like that, but you're just busy. It is hard with a baby too.

Yesterday I was watching some NFL Red Zone, which I know people were shocked that I watched. And my daughter brought me a book to read her. And I can't be like, get out of here. You know what I mean? I got to read the book. What was the book? Harry Potter?

No, no, no. Those will never come in. But I don't know. I don't remember the book, but I got to, you know, I got to read this to you. Did you read it fast like the Red Zone guy? Yeah. I mean, I zoomed through it. Is it Goodnight Moon?

No, I don't think so. We don't speak to the moon. Play a little game of fetch. Yeah. Yeah. Goodbye, Moon. I said goodbye to it a long time ago. All right.

All right. Is that it? That's it. All right. I think we covered soccer. World Cup. Check it out on. No right. All right. Is that it? That's it. All right. I think we covered soccer. World Cup. Check it out on, no, I'm not promoting. Yeah.

Well, everybody, here's on, you know, times of the, whatever times. Tune in. Yeah. To Cater. Qatar. Cater. Or in Lebanon, Quatter. All right.

We love you Oh you wanna Are y'all going Can we plug some jokes Yeah I'm home this week I'm going to the Vanderbilt Tennessee game

Vanderbilt Tennessee game We'll be there Come say hi January 6th Gonna be in Washington D.C. Me and Dusty Gonna finish the job We're gonna finish

While we started No Count me out I just want that To be on record. I will not be there. No, January 6th, I'm going to be in Atlanta. ASW Whiskey Exchange.

One night there. Come. Tickets on my website. Come see me. Say hello. Awesome. This weekend, Cap City Comedy Club in Austin, Texas. I'm doing the cabaret room there.

Come and check it out. Then I got a bunch of shows coming up. Wichita, Indianapolis, Huntsville, Birmingham. And that's the end of the year. San Diego, too. So come see them. I got nothing this weekend. But December 13th, I got a show at Zany's.

And then all my dates for the rest of the year on my website, DustySlide.com. Check it out. It's going to be great. Yeah. All right. My stuff's all out. It's going to be great. Yeah. All right. My stuff's all out. I'll show you.

Keep an eye out. And yeah, being Huntsville next week at an arena, like a hockey arena. That's cool. I think it's- The Bron Bron Center? Yeah. Laura went to watch a lot of concerts there and stuff. I just read that the new Indiana Jones movie that comes out next summer is going to be

based on him to some degree. Oh, really? Nate? No, Ron Braun. I feel like they would have called me. Tennessee Jones? I believe he was a German scientist, rocket scientist that came to the US. Ron Braun?

Dusty knows some stuff that I don't know what I'm going to get into. But anyway. Hi. If you don't do any I ain't going to get into. But anyway. Hi. If you don't do any of the Jones about me, Nate Bargetz, you can either be with me or against me. You have 24 hours. Yeah.

All right. We love you. Bye. Bye. Nate Land is produced by Nate Landeland productions and by me nate bargetzi and my wife lara on the all things comedy network recording and editing for the show is done by genovations media thanks for tuning in be sure to catch us next week on the nateland podcast