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- speaker-0: What's up guys? Welcome to our podcast. speaker-1: She finally realized that it was all mental. speaker-0: For the second time today. Guys one forgot to press the record button. No, I'm kidding. speaker-1: I forgot to press the record button. Some more Yeah, today is Sunday, June 28th, and second time recording this episode. Unfortunately did not press the record button the first time. That's okay. We just wanted to keep talking. speaker-0: Exactly. I mean if Peyton and I could we'd we'd yapped each other all day honestly. All day long. So this is perfect. This is actually just how we just how we dreamt it up. Yeah. speaker-1: It's how I planned it, actually. I did it on purpose. Nah, anyways, so we we wanted to get on here considering the group stage of the World Cup just ended. We're now into the knockouts. We've got Canada versus South Africa today. Huge game. Huge game. I'm I'm ready. I'm ready. Anya's got her gear on. speaker-0: Brasil. I will change I don't have an actual Canada like shirt or anything, but I will change into red for the shirt. That's great for the game. speaker-1: I actually don't know what color they're wearing today. They might be wearing black. I don't know. What has been your favorite kit for Canada? Do you like the white, red, or the black? I have my answer. speaker-0: whatever, I'll be wearing red 'cause speaker-1: And my mind has changed since like the beginning. Yeah, it was kinda cool. However, when they were playing Switzerland, I kept getting like confused. I was like, wait. Wait. Yeah. Because normally they're in like vibrant red. speaker-0: What's the white? I think I also just have like a like a bias against like like white kits in general. I just think they look so like classy and like speaker-1: Yeah, we we've got Wimbledon coming so like we're pretty forced to that right now. I'm so used to them wearing red, so I actually liked how they switched it up with the black. At the beginning with the black, I was kind of like okay, but then like actually like seeing it on the team, I thought it was kind of sick. I actually I actually did like I did like the black. yeah, the detailing's cool. The detailing's cool. It's the most like unique one out of all of them for sure. speaker-0: Yeah, exactly. What's yours? I It's got like good detailing on it, right? Can I say I was watching the Germany Ecuador game. Why was Germany wearing blue? speaker-1: That's what so many people were saying. speaker-0: This is so confuse. speaker-1: Yeah, I think they just have those like third kits that the teams have and sometimes they are just a little bit speaker-0: But like there's not even a hint of blue on the German flag. speaker-1: I couldn't tell you. Couldn't tell you. Yeah, it is kind of weird for like a national team to be doing that. Like you kind of you'll see like different colors for like club teams as their third kit. But as a national team, you feel like, you know, in a World Cup you probably wanna be wearing your country's colors. I don't know. but whatever. Who are we to judge? but we just wanna to kind of get on here and just really just talk about how the group stage went. speaker-0: Yeah, who are we to judge? speaker-1: You know, I think there was a lot of doubts coming into the World Cup with, you know, the extended format with having more teams in it and also Canada, US, Mexico hosting. People were like, it's not gonna work. It's not gonna work. I think it's going great. speaker-0: I think it's going fantabulous. speaker-1: I think it is also going fantavious. speaker-0: Fantastic and fabulous. Okay. speaker-1: Great. Like I I just love seeing on social media all the different countries just enjoying the American culture and all that. You know, we've we've we've personally I love seeing the Scottish fans just absolutely having a blast, especially in Boston. you know, we've we've got the cones on the statues, we've got Opal the Dog. If no one has seen Opal the Dog, she's adorable. She's like this dog in the in in this apartment window that's basically welcoming all of like the Glaswegians into their neighborhood. It was adorable. Boston ran out of beer because you know. Scots know how to party. They know how to party guys. They know how to party. no Scotland no party. So speaker-0: I think the Scots are showing Americans how to have a good time. Like Americans thought they knew how to have a good time. They're like, we are not partying to our max. We're not enjoying life to the max. speaker-1: They're like, wait, we can level up. A hundred percent. Like there was one there was one Scottish guy, I I forget who was like who he was interviewing with, but it was just some random Scottish fan. And he was like, Yeah, I went to the airport and then I said, What am I doing? Just turned right back around. speaker-0: But I mean as he should, fair enough. He's like, why am I leaving? Like genuinely why would I do this? speaker-1: What am I doing? What am I doing? It's so good. And then there's like there's like American women like falling in love with Scottish men. I mean, there's gonna be some marriages coming out of this World Cup. Truly. Truly, there's gonna be some marriages. speaker-0: Courthouses better be ready. Get those get those licenses out. The marriage licenses. speaker-1: The green cards are coming. They're coming. There's gonna be like so many applications for green cards in the next flavor. speaker-0: what? speaker-1: no, like Scotland truly left their mark in such a good way. And if people don't know, the whole cone thing on the statue, like that has been going on since like the eighties. and I think it first started with the Duke of Wellington statue at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow. And it's just like their thing. Like it's just like tradition. I think it really shows like their humor. I mean it speaker-0: So they just go around and put cones on statues. speaker-1: Yeah. It's like their mark. It's like they're it's like their signal. We were that literally this land. We were here. Literally. I d yeah, I just love that Americans are actually getting to experience Glaswegians firsthand because I've experienced it living here for almost three years. And it's like I've come to realize that as a population, like generally, they are quite literally the funniest people I've ever met in my life. Like Yeah. speaker-0: Here. speaker-1: Just so witty. They have the best slang. I mean, obviously the accent's great. I just speaker-0: It just makes it that much funnier. Yeah. speaker-1: funnier like it's so much funnier automatically. I can't keep up. Like I I genuinely I I try to like keep up with the wittiness. I can't do it. Like I just it's it's not there. It they came out of the womb funny. Like they literally speaker-0: It's like a prerequisite. It's in the DNA. speaker-1: It's nuts. It's genuinely nuts. So I love that like people are actually getting to see that now. speaker-0: Unfortunately, yeah. my gosh, twins. Unfortunately, Scotland did not make it out of the out of the group stages, which is a bummer. But either way, I think they should be so proud of of how they performed this time around. Like again, they had such great support from their fans. They got new fans in the Americans and other other even other like nationalities visiting here. I think just had a blast with the Scottish people. so shout out to them. They did great. It's just been so fun seeing like Again, all the fans enjoying US, Mexico, Canada. Like there were Japanese fans that were obsessing over Texas barbecue. There were South Korean fans like partying, like at Mexican parties, like taking tequila shots and being like, whoa, what's going on? Like it's just been so fun. Swedish fans at rodeos in Dallas. That was speaker-1: It's a funny one. This guy's like this Swedish guy's like literally just in a cowboy hat. He's like, I had to come. Like I had to experience this. I haven't even been to a rodeo. Truly It's great. Like they're actually speaker-0: No, me neither. speaker-1: fully embracing it. Fully embracing it. I also saw there was like Norwegian fans at the Mets game and someone hit a home run and they were just doing like a conga line. Like it wasn't it wasn't even their like rowing thing. Yeah. It was just a conga line. speaker-0: And they also probably had like no clue what was going on. But they were just like the vibes are great. speaker-1: The commentators were like, they have no clue what's happening, but they're having the best time of their lives. Like truly the best time of their lives. speaker-0: There's there's a guy on Twitter, a German fan, who's like actually going nuts over like Atlanta specifically and America. Like like he went to like Waffle House and he thought it was like the best thing ever, which is like Waffle House is great for certain situations. Right. Right. Yeah. speaker-1: Right, right. Like you have to be you gotta be drunk or like after a concert at three AM at speaker-0: It's like the only thing in the middle of nowhere. Right. speaker-1: I think we went there one time as a team when we literally couldn't find food. Yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. It's definitely it's like it's it's definitely on the lower tier of our, you know, food choices in America, but people are loving it. So I'm I'm loving it. I'm loving it. speaker-0: and I feel like in addition to the fans just like embracing the cultures of Mexico, US, Canada, we've also seen teams making their home bases in some of these cities and those cities embracing the culture of those teams, right? So, like for example, Algeria, their home base was in Lawrence, Kansas. Yeah, of all places. Yep. I've been to Lawrence, Kansas twice. speaker-1: Now this was so sweet. speaker-0: Okay, twice. Great spot, great place, but it's just like it's not like the biggest city, right? It's not not very urban and things like that. And it's just so sweet to see the the people from Lawrence embracing Algeria as like their own team, like the marching band there. It's where University of Kansas is. Marching band there, learned the Algerian national anthem. Everyone there had like scarves and like Algerian jerseys and I think they just became like Algerian fans and Like it's so cute. Embrace them. It was so cute. Like it's such a great welcome. Like, I don't know. The World Cup is just bringing people together, bringing cultures together, and it's just been actually so freaking fun to watch. Yeah, I know. I've watched almost every single game. Like speaker-1: No, yeah, that's the thing. Like, people have watched so much soccer. Like. It is it it's truly incredible. And also, I I feel like when you see all of these cultures kind of coming together and everything, it's it's like people always say, it's just a sport. Like, why are you guys getting so like fed up about it? Why do you put so much importance into it? And it's like, Actually, like see what it does. Like it just brings people together and whether they're even rooting for the same team or not. Everyone's just having a great time. And I feel like it's just kind of mended the relationships with, you know, different cultures and things like that. And and especially with I'll get into it later, but especially with how, you know, America's kind of been in the past few years. I feel like this has kind of given people a better idea of how we actually are, not how were portrayed in media, news and things like that. sure. But yeah, and then especially with, you know, the new format, having more teams in the World Cup, it's been fun. Like this is the most soccer I've ever watched and enjoyed. speaker-0: yeah. Yeah. I I'm gonna be honest, I wasn't sure how I felt about the new format before the World Cup started. But this new format delivered. Like it delivered so good. The results are so all over the place, but so fun. Like you got like Spain and Cape Verde tying and then Uruguay and Saudi Arabia tying, Ecuador beating Germany to secure their knockout stage spot. Like yeah. It's just been So great watching all these storylines, these smaller countries getting a chance to at least play in the World Cup, try to get into the knockout stages. Cape Verde made it to the knockout stages. Like what a great story. I think there was it there or Curaçao's. I think it was Cape Verde's goalkeeper. Yep. That went from 50,000 Instagram followers to like over 10 million just from his performance with with Spain. Like that's huge. That is life-changing. That is life-changing. speaker-1: Genuinely for some. Like he'll like he'll get like sponsorship deals, social media deals. Yeah. I mean, and just like the following in general for that country has just been astronomical. yeah, I mean, I obviously there's gonna be like soccer purists who are like, this is stupid still. Like, why do we have so many teams here? But then you look at it and it's like these small countries, I mean, this is like the biggest thing ever for them. Like Curacao, like scoring. I mean, their coach was like in tears. So like you can see how much it means to these countries. And so I think that is just such an amazing part about it. And let's be real, like there were so many ties, there were barely any blowouts. yeah. Genuinely. I mean, i it was pretty competitive all throughout the group stage. but yeah, I know I think I think Kate Verde getting out was just like the great speaker-0: The best story. The best like story so fun. So yeah, like like going back to the purest comment, I I know a lot of people will be like, well, you know, the traditional football or sorry, soccer, football, whatever. Soccer powerhouses, like this is like stupid, like we just want to watch them. It it whatever dilutes the quality of play. But it's obviously proven otherwise, right? Like again, you have so many like Uruguay didn't make it to the knockouts. Yeah. You can only play who's put in front of you. Complain about it or not. If you're the best, you're gonna make it to the knockouts, right? You're gonna beat the people that you're playing. Like I'm sorry. Like speaker-1: Did you see I don't know if this was true or not, but I kept seeing on social media that Uruguay was supposed to have the chartered flight and then they were like, nah, you're not getting a chartered flight. speaker-0: They're flying commercial home. I did see that. Yeah, I don't know if it's true or not, but speaker-1: Not sure. I'm not sure. But that's tough. Yeah. On the other hand, with with the smaller countries, like the farther you go, the more money you are making for that program. Right. So like this is just building these countries up even more and their development. And and I think that's a whole nother side to it that people kind of need to think about. Like if if you wanna be competitive on such a big stage, like these these countries do need funding towards it, right? Yep. speaker-0: And I was gonna say, even just the attention, like the media attention on them is generating so much interest in like the younger population too. The kids are gonna wanna start playing soccer a lot more. I mean, even like for the US, like US, Mexico, Canada getting out of their group. Mm-hmm. The US, like especially those first two games, was like playing really well. And like everyone was tuning in. Everyone was watching. speaker-1: for sure. They were playing unbelievable actually. Yeah. Like totally like steamrolling at some point. speaker-0: So like I think this is gonna inspire like more and more kids to play soccer in the US and then obviously more more funding goes towards like the programs. Obviously it needs to be done in a in a good way, right? The proper way. But yeah, you never know, fifteen, twenty years from now, like maybe US is a consistent soccer powerhouse in the world. speaker-1: World. Right. No, I think that's kind of the goal. And yeah, there's just so much inspiration behind all this and and bringing it to your country, like just being able to, you know, see these professional players and all the the young players are like, I can do that. Like that's that's what I'm striving towards. Cause a lot of the time it's been like the women's teams that have been the most inspirational, right? Which is fantastic and that's what you want. but I think now we're getting a little bit closer towards or they're inching towards being just as inspirational as as the women's teams, which is great. but yeah, all of the all of the host countries getting out's awesome. I think that's truly what you want to see because I think like you've said before, a lot of the time people are like, well they didn't actually qualify. Like they are just hosting so they automatically get in. It's like, well they made it out of the group stage. So y'all can just shut up. exactly speaker-0: And again, like you can complain about certain groups being easier than others. Like you can't really control that. At the end of the day, you just have to deal with the cards that you're dealt. And they dealt with the cards. Wait. They hold up. You have to deal with the cards that you're dealt. And they dealt with the cards that they were dealt. What I'm trying to say What I'm trying to say is they got a a group put in front of them and they won. Or they made it out of a group stage. You know? You can't choose the path that you're gonna take. It just gets put in front of you and you have to play who you have to play. Like. You know? They made it out, your guy didn't. Sorry. Like speaker-1: Yeah. it it is funny because you know, haters are gonna hate at anything that they can hate. and I think the media still is shows so much negativity towards certain things. Like when Canada lost to Switzerland, it was like, well, you guys, if you would have won, you could have stayed in Vancouver. That's a bummer, such a downer. And it's like Why are we focusing so much on that when we have s a much, much more positive storyline here, right? Like speaker-0: This is the first time making it to the knockout stages. First time getting a point. Sorry. speaker-1: Yeah. They made it no, no, you're good. Like they made it out of their group. That's massive. Not many teams can say that they have done that in the World Cup. I mean, they had this is this is the third time they've been in the World Cup, guys. The third time they like ever. And so before this, they had zero points in any World Cup. Zero. And so getting that first point against Bosnia, like yeah, you would have liked to have won it, sure, but still first point, huge. Historic. And then they go out and destroy Qatar. 6-0. Huge. First first World Cup win ever. obviously historic again. And then you make it to the knockout stage. But God forbid, they lost to Switzerland. That's the only thing that we're gonna focus on. I'm like speaker-0: Historic. speaker-1: Can we not like can we just can we just be positive just just for once? And the same thing happened with the US with Turkey. They were like, well, you lost you lost to Turkey. It's like they rotated the US rotated like nine players. Guys, let's let's take a step back and I think some people need a reality check, honestly. Like speaker-0: Yep. Yep. And like France and Norway was the same thing. Like Norway rotated a bunch of their players too and people were like, my god, France blew out Norway and whatever. People were complaining about the players being rotated out too. But I think that's like a different conversation. I mean. speaker-1: Like I I understand maybe for like viewing and and things like that, like fans might not be happy, they're not getting to see the full team and it's I understand it, but at the same time, they're doing it for a reason. They're not just doing it willy-nilly, just throwing random players out on the field, right? There's always a strategy behind it. Sometimes you wanna be able to rest your starters and be ready, even more rested for the next game. Or for example, you know, some teams, some players might have yellow cards. And so how it works in the World Cup is it's two yellow cards and you're suspended. So like for example, if like so like my husband was on a yellow card. Unfortunately Fortunate Fortunately, he was on a yellow card within the first five minutes of the first game of the group stage. Stressful, but we made it through it. I was like, I was like, God, can we not? Like, can we just not? speaker-0: Five minutes into the first game. Listen, it happens. Like it happens. speaker-1: Okay. But for example, in that last group stage game of Canada and Switzerland, he was on a yellow card from that first game. If he would have gotten another yellow card in the Canada Switzerland game, he would have been suspended in the next knockout round. Not what you want. Very much not what you want. So that's why some teams might be taking out some players, right? speaker-0: To not risk having their starters suspended in the first game of the knockouts. But it resets in the knockouts, right? speaker-1: Resets and the knockouts. So we're good. Resets and we're good. We're good. Yeah, that was that was very stressful. didn't love that. But yeah. speaker-0: But I wanted to ask you, Peyton, like obviously you went to the group stage matches. What was it like following the team? speaker-1: It's funny. People probably think it's different than what it actually is. I think I've seen my husband a total of maybe forty five minutes this entire summer. 'cause they're so they're so like locked down. Like you they really they don't have really much time to be honest. They're either training, doing recovery, doing some sort of media or interviews. you know, they'll have team meetings that are super, super important. You really don't see them. You really don't. which totally understand. Like it's like you want them absolutely focused on the game in hand, right? so it's a lot more of like you're seeing family, like my family was there, my husband's family was there. And you're also seeing the families of other team members that you don't really ever see. Like last time I saw most of these people was four years ago in Qatar. So it is so it is nice to kind of rekindle and and see them, but And they'll have like family events, which is nice. And but it's hectic. Like there's a lot going on. You're traveling. We did Toronto, Vancouver, Vancouver. Now they're in LA. So a lot of people have done all of those games. And so it's pretty constant. I think from my perspective, I didn't say this earlier, but it is weird. Like not rooting for your country. Like rooting for a different country. Like it it's just kind of like a mind. Like I'm just like, wait, I learned the anthem, we're good. until it went to French. speaker-0: French is the for the next World Cup. We'll figure it out by then. speaker-1: Yeah, I'll I'll learn French by then. Yeah, for sure. Completely fluent. but yeah, no. So it it is funny and it's different for every person. And I think also it's just nice seeing all the families, but also like the wives and girlfriends are doing so much during this guy. Like especially for the ones that have children. And I'm just gonna speaking of like haters earlier. speaker-0: Right. Mm-hmm. speaker-1: I'm just gonna just a little chat about Mr. Roy Keane because there's a video that came out of him basically just like hating on the wives and girlfriends of players. And basically what he said was, It's ridiculous that wives and girlfriends of footballers are like wearing their last names on the back of their shirts or jerseys or whatever. And I'm just like speaker-0: Dude, be so for real right now. speaker-1: Real. Like why? What wha why do you have to hate on that? Like what is wrong with that? Please tell me. speaker-0: It's wrong that they're supporting their boyfriends and husbands. speaker-1: Apparently. Apparently. speaker-0: Like do you what what are they supposed to do? Just like not like let's well he said can't let's say Canada. Let's just not wear any red, not wear any Canadian symbols, not wear any names. Let's just let's just dress in a Brazil jersey to the game. Is that what he wants? Like speaker-1: He was like, yeah, he was like, it's fine if the children wear it, but you know, the the wives and girlfriends, they'll break up in a year from now. I'm like, what a cynical way to look at life. Like what is cynical? Yeah. Literally who hurt you. I just Exactly. I I just found that really frustrating because I see firsthand what the wives and girlfriends do for their partners, as again, especially the ones that have children. Like they are basically speaker-0: Projecting it on other people. speaker-1: single parents during these months of the World Cup. Yeah, because the husbands or the boyfriends or whatever, they go to training camp and they go straight into the World Cup. And at that point, you know, they obviously don't want any distractions or anything. So like the wives and girlfriends are taking care of the children, making sure they have all the travel stuff figured out, making sure that they get the kids ready for the games. And it's like they're doing so much. So speaker-0: Full time caretakers. Yep. Entertaining the families. speaker-1: Exactly. They're doing so much so that their partner who's playing does not have to stress and does is not distracted by anything. Like that's such a huge, huge part that I don't think people give enough credit towards wags, right? Like they just see them as like, they're wearing their, you know, little outfit. And it's like, no, no, like we're just trying to support the person that we love. Like that's what is wrong with that? Like speaker-0: We're trying to show that we're proud of that person. I should take this off. Yeah. Honestly, Peyton. God, I can't believe you ignore that. Like you're so annoyed. What is wrong with you? Yeah. But they're just trying to show that they're proud of their boyfriend, husband, especially the wives. Like, a lot of the time that's they're also their last name now, too. Like what? Am I not allowed to wear my own last name? Peyton, why do you have Johnston on the back of your jersey? I know, but like you're a Johnston now, you know? Right, right. speaker-1: Interesting. Yeah. To be I haven't but Right. Yeah. A hundred percent. Like my thing is, can we just can we just let the wags live, guys? Can we just let live? I mean, we've seen in the past how like damaging and just straight up mean media can be towards wags. Like, I mean, look at like Victoria Beckham and what she went through. I mean, it was it was nuts. And it is nuts. speaker-0: Scrutiny is actually insane over like anything. speaker-1: You can't do anything right. You can't do anything right. Like and in my experience, obviously I'm I'm quite close to this. Every single WAG that I have met is kind, caring, absolutely beautiful, smart, works, or is a stay at home mom that takes care of their children all day. Like which is a full time job as well. Thank you very much. why the hate, guys? Truly why the hate. I don't get it. speaker-0: Which is a full time job. speaker-1: and I hate when they use like wag as like a derogatory. They say it in like a sarcastic Yeah like, wag I'm like, you know what? Yeah, I am a wag. speaker-0: Proud. speaker-1: I just don't get it, man. I don't get it. But speaker-0: Some people just like I I don't understand like why we have to have such strong opinions on things like this. Like let let people live. Like they're happy, they're enjoying their life, they're still doing a lot. Right. Don't even my tangential rant. speaker-1: Okay. Great word. speaker-0: Thanks. there is a Belgian player. I'm probably gonna butcher his name, but Jeremy Doku, who missed a World Cup game for the birth of his child. Okay. That was his and his wife's priority. They had decided before this even happened that if she goes into labor, he is going to be there. Right. Okay. Good for him. He's got his priorities straight. There was this reporter or someone from Piron, Francis Piron, who is a woman. A woman, by the way. speaker-1: Yeah, here Women. speaker-0: That said that was like criticizing his decision to do that and basically said, like, I can't believe like he would push aside his childhood dream of playing in the World Cup to go attend the birth of his child, which is a disgusting moment. where the dad is completely useless, all you're doing is cutting the umbilical cord off, like you have no purpose in being there, childbirth is disgusting. speaker-1: Honestly, I I actually don't have words for that statement. speaker-0: I was bamboozled when I saw that. I was like I when you told me, because like I couldn't really tell from the name, because we were we were texting about this, and you said it that it's a woman that said this. Right? Yeah, I think she has two kids. She has two kids. Okay. Even if your childbirth went extremely smoothly, like childbirth can be extremely traumatic. Yeah. And the d the father is not completely useless there. They're providing support, just like the wags provide support. speaker-1: Yeah. speaker-0: During the World Cup, like it can be very, very hard to go through childbirth alone. Again, I don't speak from experience, but I can imagine, you know? Like and the fact that like okay. Let's let's ignore the fact that you even had this thought in your head. Right. The fact that you chose to speak it out loud on like a live broadcast is actually insane to me. speaker-1: It was it was just so unprofessional and just nasty. Like the vulgarity of her words, it was just a bit like, that's that's really not great. And again, it it's their choice. People have different priorities. Like if you think it is best for your partner to be at the birth, great. If you want them to play the World Cup, great. Like speaker-0: Like long as that decision is made together and you guys are on the same page, that's totally fine. No one has any right to comment on a decision that is so personal, first of all. Like that is their personal family life. And to comment in such a vulgar way about it, like she eventually apologized. But like at that point, I don't even know how you come back from that. Like that was so bizarre. Like so bizarre. speaker-1: great apology either. So Yeah, no, it was it was really not good. But I mean, even like his team was supporting him on his decision. Like they were talking about it. I'm like, what gives you the right to even say that? I don't I just I don't know. I don't know. speaker-0: That is that is that is insane. Like I don't understand why so many people are haters and feel comfortable. speaker-1: Yeah. yeah, but hey, they they're through the knockouts and he's playing in the knockouts, so maybe she'll have something to say about that. and like he's got a newborn, he's he's got the a World Cup knockout stage now. Like they he's got a lot going on. I I don't think he's putting a lot of effort into these comments that were made. speaker-0: haters like that. No. I'm sure he's like a literally like irrelevant. Like I don't care what you say. It's like, okay, sure, I'm living the be my best life. I don't know what you're doing. speaker-1: Didn't even see it. Didn't even see it. But yeah, no, I think everyone's kind of been living their best lives at the World Cup, which has been really great to see, even if they're even if the media is being a little bit negative towards certain things. I I think as Americans we kind of understand that. speaker-0: We've definitely suffered a bad rap over the past few years. Yeah. speaker-1: Yeah, a hundred percent. and I feel like a lot of it is the media. This World Cup has healed a lot of people, like Americans themselves, but also the fact that you know, sometimes America. Exactly, like how we're portrayed. Like I think people can see that it is a very welcoming place and everyone's having and everyone's having a fantastic time and like all the countries that are hosting have been amazing. speaker-0: Imaging. Very nice. Yeah. Infrastructure like speaker-1: Like it's working. Yeah. It's working. There was so much like, well, you the transportation, well, th this isn't gonna work. It's like, no, no, it's actually working. and I think at the end of the day, more countries need to have sleepovers. speaker-0: I completely agree with that. I think sleepovers are fantastic. And in fact, it's work. I'm going to have a sleepover with you in Scotland. I'll find over tomorrow. speaker-1: Perfect. See you soon. Yeah. speaker-0: We can invite all of our new Scottish friends from Boston. speaker-1: All the Bostonians getting on one plane, getting over to Glasgow. speaker-0: But anyways, yeah, go Canada later today. We will be obviously tuning in, supporting heavily the maple syrup country of the world. speaker-1: Yeah. speaker-0: I don't know how to segue from that, but Anyways, I hope everyone's enjoying the World Cup. We certainly are. yeah. speaker-1: Definitely we'll definitely have an episode once it's all over. this was kind of just our little one just to kind of break it up for our next season. But thanks for tuning in, guys. Yeah. See ya. Bye.