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No Balls Needed: A World Cup Mansplain

July 15, 2026 • Ashley & Christy • Season 1 • Episode 37

0:00 | 55:31

Are you tired of watching sports and wishing a supreme intellect would descend from the heavens to explain it to your simple, fragile mind? Wish no longer. Today, we are joined by an absolute titan of the game to finally explain the World Cup to us.

We cover the absolute essentials of football, including:

The Rules: Substitutions, age limits, and when we inevitably get hit with a red or yellow card for asking an incredibly dumb question.
The Essentials: What snacks are actually acceptable to eat during a match.
The Drama: All the spicy, hot tea coming out of the World Cup right now.

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SPEAKER_01 0:20

Hey, I'm Ashley. And I'm Christy. And today's episode is going to blow your wig back. We um we wanted our mansplainers to come on, and after many attempts to get our men to do it, we ultimately decided that in order for mansplaining to be done right, we needed to get a woman involved. Um everyone, welcome the one, the only Becky with the good hair. Becky. What up, Becky? Thank you.

SPEAKER_03 0:47

So, like full disclosure. Oops, full disclosure, we are uh we only have two mics and two headsets, so Ashley's just like on the side.

SPEAKER_01 0:56

It's truly Becky with the good hair because they're literally trying to push me out this door right now.

SPEAKER_03 1:01

We're getting close. We are thinking about things. There's a side conversation.

unknown 1:05

Just kidding.

SPEAKER_01 1:07

I'm just here to drink wine.

SPEAKER_03 1:10

But we have questions and we need answers to said questions. Oh, wait.

SPEAKER_00 1:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:16

Yeah. Yeah. Well, let me, I think I need to disclaim uh an apology from disclose. Disclose. An apology from the America Red, White, and what America uh episode. I think I said one of the presidents that passed away on July 4th. I I think I like identified one of them wrong and that it truly doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_01 1:42

It's it's still not the right one.

SPEAKER_03 1:45

Also, true. Anyways, yeah. So but that's that's the only that's the only sad or not sad. That's the only uh correction that I have for my episode. Um but yeah, we'll just get into it.

SPEAKER_01 2:06

Before that, I actually did have a few corrections I needed to make for the well well wellness. There is a lot more that I wanted to get into. I had said in that episode I wanted to talk to you about mouth taping, and I didn't.

SPEAKER_00 2:17

So we're probably gonna do another episode on that because side note, I have thoughts on infrared therapy.

SPEAKER_01 2:23

Oh, infrared therapy. Okay, Becky listened to the podcast. She loves infrared therapy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:28

There's actual science behind it.

SPEAKER_01 2:30

Oh, science. Well, I love mouth tapings. I I really wish you would tape your mouth right now.

SPEAKER_03 2:36

Not gonna happen. So, anyways, just like apologies in advance. It's good, this mic is gonna sound kind of funny because Ashley and I are sharing it. We like Lady in the Tramp style, and it's just gonna sound weird.

SPEAKER_01 2:50

Also, I've already had one whole glass of wine. So people who know me know that that is a bad idea.

SPEAKER_03 2:57

So me and Becky are gonna have a podcast. It's fine. So today we have questions that we need answers to, and we need someone to explain it to us. And I don't know. Becky, can you what are you here for?

SPEAKER_00 3:11

Yeah, so here's the part is I know you guys need help explaining things, so I'm here to help you kind of understand from a male's perspective.

unknown 3:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:18

We're gonna mansplain some of these answers to you guys so you actually get and really understand what we're talking about with the World Cup.

SPEAKER_03 3:24

I like it. Yep. We are here, we're talking about the World Cup because it's happening right now. And we got lots of questions. And I hope Becky has a lot of answers. Okay. So just really quick, it is about a month and a half long. Month, month and a half long, depending on the number of teams that are playing. So currently the men have 48 teams. Next year the women will have 30, what is it? 32? 32, but then they're gonna bump up to 38. No, sorry, 48 um in four years. Because it is a quadrilinian. Definitely didn't practice saying that word.

SPEAKER_01 4:03

Christy had to Google how to say that to do it wrong. Yes. I bet you can't. I bet it's I bet it's not even too.

SPEAKER_03 4:11

Quadrennial. She did it quadrennial times. I did it quadrennial times. Um I also didn't realize it wasn't every year, but I also would have guessed that it wasn't every year because I don't ever remember it happening before this year.

SPEAKER_00 4:27

So I feel like if it was every year, you would feel that energy every year. It's why it's so big.

SPEAKER_03 4:31

It's too much.

SPEAKER_00 4:32

No.

SPEAKER_03 4:32

So it's like, okay. So um again, men have men currently are playing 48 teams to start. Women are 32 next year, but then again, 2031, we will we're gonna bump up the women to 48. So we're gonna go to Brazil, have the whole FIFA women's World Cup next year, it'll be great. And I will be prepared. I need to prepare for the women's next year.

SPEAKER_00 4:53

Yeah, but I really I want to make sure you really understand what the World Cup is, though. Okay. It seems like you know about it, but I really want to make sure you understand. Explain that to me again, Becky. So, do you know what a cup is? So, like our wine glasses in a cup.

SPEAKER_03 5:09

Okay, yes. Let's go.

SPEAKER_00 5:10

It has nothing to do with a cup. The world cup has nothing to do with cup.

SPEAKER_03 5:13

So they're not playing in a cup or playing with cups.

SPEAKER_00 5:15

No, a stadium could be looking like a cup with the seats around it.

unknown 5:19

Do they wear a cup?

SPEAKER_03 5:20

Do they men do wear cups, the women do not? Uh because that would hurt if you get kicked.

SPEAKER_00 5:29

Oh, it would. Just like cleats, so this shouldn't be hurt. It hurt, but anyway, I'm just using.

SPEAKER_03 5:33

Alright. Um okay. First question. Yes. How does the World Cup differ from the Olympics? Because I will be very vulnerable here. I like the World Cup started, and I don't I don't know what I was thinking, but all of a sudden one day I was like, wait a moment. I I thought that we were playing like Real.

SPEAKER_00 5:54

I thought we were doing um what is it?

SPEAKER_03 5:57

Amsterdam.

SPEAKER_00 5:59

England.

SPEAKER_03 6:00

England, yeah, like some of those other like the clubs. Like I thought it was like the club. The club Wrexham. Wrexham, yes. And then all of a sudden I was like, wait a moment, they are playing by country. And then I was like, wait, but they so what is the difference between the World Cup and the Olympics?

SPEAKER_00 6:15

Okay, so pretty much just think about the excitement's a little bit different, and that's the hard part because it is every four years. Yeah, but with the Olympics, it's still countries representing, right? But typically the players are younger, it's not so big shot because the big shots won't don't want to hurt their career, if that makes sense. Well, the big shots don't play in the Olympics for the most part, and then like some of them do. That's octo annually, yeah. So it's typically, and that's the part where it's a little bit more star-studded during the World Cup because that's more in the world of soccer, more of a prestigious award than having a gold medal. Okay. Um I didn't know that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:53

So it's like the rookies play in the Olympics and the veterans play in the World Cup.

SPEAKER_00 6:58

Kind of, unless like right now there's a couple of kids who are turning 19 playing right now in the World Cup. It kind of depends on the the caliber of the player.

SPEAKER_03 7:06

Okay, Becky, now I need you to explain me the red cards and the yellow cards, and I am not talking yellow card the band. I love yellow card. Okay, so and and if you're watching us on YouTube, I gave Becky a yellow card and a red card. She is welcome to use these cards as she sees fit, or I don't know, maybe we'll use them as a card.

SPEAKER_00 7:29

I think if the questions are ridiculous, it's a red card. Red card. Yeah. If they're decent, but you probably should know this information, it should be a yellow card.

SPEAKER_03 7:38

Okay. We're gonna get a lot of yellow cards because who knows? Okay, so explain those. What is the difference between the two?

SPEAKER_00 7:45

In real life, this is the color red. This color is yellow. They belong in the rainbow. They're colors. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 7:56

Red is the more aggressive card, yellow or red is just uh an aggressive color, and yellow is like a lighter, like that's the perfect way to think about it.

SPEAKER_00 8:05

Because the yellow card in real world, okay, it's kind of a warning in a sense. Yeah. So the example is let's say you're playing your Xbox and mom says, Hey, you need to get off your Xbox, and you don't do it. The first time when she says, Hey, you need to get off your Xbox, that's a yellow card.

SPEAKER_03 8:19

She's gonna come by and look at you and like give you the give you the mom get glare. Give you like a like a mm?

SPEAKER_00 8:24

Like, I'm not kidding.

SPEAKER_03 8:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:26

And then you don't do it, or you make some smart ass comment and whatnot, and then mom gets pissed off and she pulls the core plu the power plug off the Xbox.

SPEAKER_03 8:36

That is a red card. That's a red card. Okay, so when mom pulls the plug, more egregious. We done, like you done, we're done. Sit down.

SPEAKER_00 8:43

Yeah. Okay. Okay. So, in context of the World Cup, this is as if you're pissing me off because we're going off the ball and I elbow chuck you to get you off of me. Because really, you're supposed to be able to battle right next to each other. We're supposed to be using our feet. Because in soccer, you use your feet in American soccer.

SPEAKER_03 8:57

Can I trip somebody?

SPEAKER_00 9:00

No. Okay. You cannot trip.

SPEAKER_03 9:01

What do you mean I'm using my feet? I'm just I'm just trying to get the ball. I'm not trying to trip my friend.

SPEAKER_00 9:06

If you go towards the ball, you if you actively see a play on the ball, then that's more of a red a yellow card. Okay. But if you have the ball and you are trying to go score, and I'm pissed off, and I'm just trying to stop you from making that score, and I go for the ball, but really I go for your feet and make you trip, that's a red card, you're out.

SPEAKER_03 9:27

Okay. And they legit get pulled with a red card.

SPEAKER_00 9:31

Yeah. The ref pulls it out and goes up in your face like this. It's not like the NFL where they throw it and then you have to figure out where it landed. Because you're like, I thought he pulled something out of his little fanny pack here. They always say that they're always like, we think they threw a flag. Yeah, it goes up and then no one can find it. They're trying to look on the ground to see where they where it landed to know what color it was. So here's a thought. It's very light. So it's in your face, like you know, you just got a card.

SPEAKER_03 9:55

So here's a thought. NFL could adopt this, right? Oh, absolutely. It's like wave it on a flag. They don't even have to wave it.

SPEAKER_00 10:02

Oh my gosh, they could do it right in their flag like, hmm. Like that NBA player, what's her name with the fingers? Oh, what is her name?

unknown 10:11

With the fingers?

SPEAKER_00 10:12

Have you guys seen that where um this other girl fouled fouled her? And so instead of her like getting an altercation with her, all she did was like just stop and pointed. Oh, yeah. And did circles and pointing to her and pointing, and the other girl like went nuts. Her other team was getting pissed off. They're ready to fight, and she just sat there and pointed and walked around. And she didn't get fouled for it or anything from what I under from what I understand, she didn't get fouled or anything because it wasn't violent, it wasn't confrontational, but she totally invoked emotion on the other team. It was really cool, maybe.

SPEAKER_03 10:39

Why women's sports are better? We're smart about being petty. Okay, so red, you're out, and you're just out for the rest of the game. So if I'm one minute into the game and I get a red card, I'm just done. You gone. You gone, girl? Okay.

SPEAKER_00 10:53

Yep. So and you miss the next game.

SPEAKER_03 10:56

Oh, and the next game. Rude. Okay. So you gotta be careful.

SPEAKER_00 10:59

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 11:00

So how many is there a number of yellow cards that equals a red card?

SPEAKER_00 11:05

Yeah. So the yellow card, if you get two in the series, I guess the World Cup tournament, then you get taken out for a game.

SPEAKER_03 11:15

Just one. Just the next one, okay?

SPEAKER_00 11:16

Yep. That's like kind of like your penalty. Because you can get one in one match, and then let's say you play another match, and then you get another yellow card, you're done, and you have to miss the next game.

SPEAKER_03 11:25

Oh, so they kind of carry on.

SPEAKER_00 11:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:27

Okay. Carry over, I guess. What about red cards?

SPEAKER_00 11:30

So red cards, you're one, you get pulled from the game, and you miss the next.

SPEAKER_01 11:34

But then if you get another one, are you like done done?

SPEAKER_03 11:37

Well, so then so you miss the next game, and then the next game you play, if you get another red card, you're just done the next game, too.

SPEAKER_00 11:43

Unless President Trump gets involved, but yeah. Oh.

unknown 11:47

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 11:48

Well, it's all rigged anyways. Is there an orange card? Is there an orange baby card?

SPEAKER_00 11:55

There's not an orange baby card. There's not a green card. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 11:58

So just red and yellow. Okay, got it. Becky with the good hair. Why are there limited substitutions? So in like the is it called the Premier League? Is that like normal soccer? Normal yearly soccer? Is that called Premier League?

SPEAKER_00 12:13

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:14

It's only three substitutions per 90 minutes of play. Yes. But in the World Cup we get five. So why is it limited? Is it just they want you tired?

SPEAKER_00 12:25

Well, in a theory, if I from my understanding the backstory with the number of substitutions you're allowed to have, is because once you substitute, that player can't come back. So once you substitute, the player's done. Um and so that's okay.

SPEAKER_03 12:39

I didn't know that I didn't know.

SPEAKER_00 12:40

In the World Cup, right? Or are we talking about in the Premier League?

SPEAKER_03 12:43

I literally don't care.

SPEAKER_00 12:45

Okay. We're talking about the per the World Cup. That's the one I like to watch.

SPEAKER_03 12:49

I think you are right that if you get pulled out in the World Cup, you can't. Like you can't go back in. That's wild.

SPEAKER_00 12:55

And so that's the part where um if you think about it, you're supposed to have the best of the best players play. The best conditioned, the plus mental stamina.

SPEAKER_03 13:04

They're ready for 90 minutes of destruction.

SPEAKER_00 13:06

Oh, absolutely. And actually, I think a lot of times when they train, they train for double games.

SPEAKER_03 13:10

Like oh, because you can go, you can extend. Um, okay, this is a silly question. So you feel free to give me a yellow card on this one, but is there like periods to the game? Or it's just straight 90. You can throw it. We can we can do a yellow. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 13:25

I'll give you a yellow. Okay. So it's 90 minutes and there's halves.

SPEAKER_03 13:29

Oh, that's right. Okay, I did know that. But I didn't know there was halves.

SPEAKER_00 13:32

To your credit, though, is there are hydration breaks in air conditioned stadiums. Um and also the grass get hydration breaks, too. So that's kind of like the quarter to hydrate.

SPEAKER_03 13:44

What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_00 13:45

If you watch grass?

SPEAKER_01 13:47

Yes, if you watch. I have questions. So many questions. Is this just to sell more things? Okay.

SPEAKER_03 13:54

Ashley just got her red card. She's out for the next podcast. Becky, I need you to come back. You'll get closer to the door over there, friend.

unknown 14:02

Just kidding.

SPEAKER_00 14:03

No, like that's the part where when you see the players go off the field for their hydration breaks, you'll see the sprinklers turn on and start watering the field. So we're like, is this hydration breaks for the humans or is this hydration breaks for the grass?

SPEAKER_03 14:15

Well, it probably just gets so hot that like they do have to cool it off. Because I that's yeah. Because I was, hey, fun fact, I know very limited about uh what is it called? Turf. Yeah. Like the fake grass. The fake grass. You still, even if you get turf, you still have to get sprinklers for it to like not only wash it, but just like keep up. To cool it down. Yeah. So they're just cooling it.

SPEAKER_00 14:39

Yeah, but they also play on real grass. And that's also the controversy with the NFL right now. It's the World Cup plays on real grass, but the NFL says no. That they still play on turf. Hey Becky. Sorry.

SPEAKER_01 14:50

Hey Becky, I think.

SPEAKER_02 14:50

We're gonna yellow card you.

SPEAKER_03 14:52

Oh my god.

unknown 14:53

Damn it.

SPEAKER_03 14:53

Uh Becky, we're yellow carding you because we were talking about soccer right now. Oh, sorry. I thought we were talking about football. We're talking about uh international football, not American football. Thank you. So keep that, keep that in your little pocket. Could man explain to us later.

SPEAKER_01 15:07

Wait, isn't it dangerous though? Like, wouldn't that be dangerous for the players coming back to be like slipping and sliding around? It's just it's just a light water. Are we gonna get it?

SPEAKER_00 15:15

Yeah, it's just like a dusting, and that's why you have cleats on the bottom of your shoe. So you can grip a little bit better. I have a question. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 15:24

You know how when children play soccer before each round, they make them line up and like show their shin guards.

SPEAKER_00 15:31

Tap your shin guards, show your cleats, make sure you don't cut the tooth on the front. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 15:35

Do they do that in Premiere or World Cup? Probably.

SPEAKER_00 15:40

I have never seen them line up. If they do, it's probably on the side or behind the stadium. Like I've never seen them line up with the rep along the middle.

SPEAKER_02 15:48

Wouldn't that be funny?

SPEAKER_00 15:50

Yeah, but look like hitting their shin guards.

SPEAKER_03 15:52

Everybody tap your shins, show me your the tip of your cleats. And then they're like, We don't got baseball cleats on, right? You got the tooth on the front. We gotta cut it off. Because when I was when I was growing up, if you showed up at soccer with the the front tooth as you called it, I've cleat and so on. I don't know what I would I don't know what I would call it. It's a baseball cleat, right? Yeah. They would literally cut it off like with a pocket knife.

SPEAKER_01 16:16

This was back in the 1800s. She also grew up in the country where everybody had pocket knives strapped on them.

SPEAKER_00 16:22

Oh yeah. I see like this day and age of people being like, don't touch my shoes, that's my money. And then the ref just says, You gotta go fix this. Just like if they're wearing jewelry. Like you gotta go take it off or tape it up.

SPEAKER_03 16:31

Oh yeah. Okay, so that okay, that explains limited substitutions. We just want the best of the best in these 90 minutes with our hydration hydration breaks, which I agree with that we should have some hydration breaks because we're just babies.

SPEAKER_00 16:48

And please note, this is my opinion on things.

SPEAKER_03 16:50

Oh, okay. Yeah, well, I mean, this is an opinion podcast.

SPEAKER_00 16:54

I love it.

SPEAKER_03 16:55

If you're getting your information from us, you need to check in with yourself. You need to check in with Taylor Swift. Are married. Our Taylor Kelsey.

unknown 17:04

I know.

SPEAKER_03 17:05

Were you invited?

SPEAKER_01 17:06

Yeah. I can't talk about it. Okay, I signed an NDA.

SPEAKER_03 17:09

Okay, sorry. That will have to come later when Ashley is out of her NDA. Okay. So next next cue, next hot cue for Becky with the with the good hair. Yeah. Rumor has it if a player needs medical to come and check on them, they have to leave the game, correct?

SPEAKER_00 17:28

For like 90% of the time, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:30

So like if someone gets hurt and I'm using my bunny or fingers, gets hurt, if medical has to come out to the field, they have to go out of the game.

SPEAKER_00 17:42

If it so basically the rule of thumb is if it stops the game, then yes.

SPEAKER_03 17:47

Stops the clock?

SPEAKER_00 17:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 17:49

Um so let me give some context. So let's say I get hurt and I'm rolling on the field, but yet Ashley and you are battling now, and one of you happened to knock it out of bounds, then I get medical attention, then it won't necessarily stop the game.

SPEAKER_03 18:05

Because we knocked it out.

SPEAKER_00 18:06

Because you knocked it out and they're coming in when the game is already stopped. But if I get hurt and you guys are battling now, but the ball is still inbound and the ref calls the game to come and check on me, then that's when you gotta get kicked out. You gotta get kicked out of that just take it off that minute.

SPEAKER_03 18:20

Okay, so can I come back in?

SPEAKER_00 18:23

Yes, you can. As long as you go out to play, you can't come back in.

SPEAKER_03 18:26

Does that count as a substitution?

SPEAKER_00 18:29

That's a good question. I don't know. Okay. Probably.

SPEAKER_03 18:32

Just politely tell us.

SPEAKER_00 18:33

Because you're pulling another. Yeah, you're pulling out another player for you to go back in.

SPEAKER_03 18:37

Maybe you're out. I don't know. Nobody knows. It's in is there an average age of the players?

SPEAKER_00 18:48

An average age.

SPEAKER_03 18:49

Which I I should say, yes. Do I need to say so like um from the two and a half minutes of research I did about soccer that I cared to do? It sounds like the Olympics, they limit the age, because you said those are all little babies that are playing in the Olympics, and then it's like everybody can play in the FIFA. Um, do we call it the FIFA? The FIFA. The FIFA. Or is that a yellow? Do I get a yellow card for that?

SPEAKER_00 19:14

I think the FIFA's great. Okay, so I'm gonna go with the FIFA.

SPEAKER_03 19:17

So there's an age, there's an age restriction in red for that attitude. Okay, so Ashley's now out for the next two pods. Gosh, okay. So I am interviewing for co-hosts. Um no, so the Olympics we can have, we're only having little babies. We're yes, 23 and under.

SPEAKER_00 19:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:38

But then FIFA, it's all uh everybody. It's a it's an all-age game.

SPEAKER_00 19:42

Yep. By all age, like the average is anywhere from like 28, 29-ish age. So that's but then we got people who are like in their 40s still playing. Like Ronaldo and Messi.

SPEAKER_03 19:55

As one in this room that is approaching the 40s.

SPEAKER_00 20:01

So you're 29, right?

unknown 20:03

Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:04

Sure.

SPEAKER_03 20:05

Um ish. I feel like I'm in my prime. I feel like I've never been better.

SPEAKER_00 20:11

Like better. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 20:13

Just with like different squeaks.

SPEAKER_00 20:15

Like, like just every now and then you feel when the storm comes in. Yeah, certain parts of your joints ache.

SPEAKER_03 20:20

Different, I have to, I have to oil like my knees now. I have to oil my shins.

SPEAKER_00 20:25

Definitely not talking from experience.

SPEAKER_01 20:29

Listen, as the youth in the room, I don't know what you guys are talking about.

SPEAKER_00 20:34

Well, it's coming for you, babe. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 20:36

Okay, so you're saying the average age is what did you say?

SPEAKER_00 20:39

Like 20, like 28-ish.

SPEAKER_03 20:41

Okay, so that's for the Premier League.

SPEAKER_00 20:43

For FIFA, yeah. World Cup.

SPEAKER_03 20:45

No. Oh, yes, yes, sorry. Yes, it's a FIFA.

unknown 20:48

The FIFA.

SPEAKER_03 20:49

Which is what we're talking about today. Okay, I love that. Are there any height or weight requirements for soccer?

SPEAKER_00 20:57

No, and that's one of the things that's really nice. There are advantages to height, yes. So if you look at our goalies, our goalies are tend to be higher or taller.

SPEAKER_03 21:05

Because they have a longer wingspan.

SPEAKER_00 21:08

Longer wingspan, they stand taller so they can reach the top a lot easier. Because if you think about it, shorty's gotta really jump. They better have some good springs on them and a good reflex where your body just naturally, if you're that tall, you're taking up that space anyway.

SPEAKER_03 21:20

So our goalies are bigger, but our our players are maybe smaller.

SPEAKER_00 21:24

Yeah. Like it's fun, it's fun to watch. Sometimes you'll watch where especially different countries where the average heights in other countries are taller and shorter, they'll still go and battle it out. So you'll say like these tiny, like oh yes, men battle out towards like tall giants. But really, um, it's one thing that I do love about it because as a short person is you can still play and you still can compete, but as long as you're going after the ball.

SPEAKER_03 21:47

Okay. Yeah, because it kind of feels like shorter, faster people are better for soccer than than my Wallau, but yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:57

You gotta have some balance a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 21:59

I I am Wallau incarnate. And I am also uh no Walla is Wallau green or is he purple?

SPEAKER_01 22:05

Yeah, it's Luigi.

SPEAKER_03 22:06

He's purple. I'm Luigi today in my my green track pants. There you go. Which I wore my You're just fitting in your sports attire for I wore my Sporty Spice outfit today.

SPEAKER_00 22:17

I wore my game day shirt. Okay. And you wore jeans.

SPEAKER_03 22:23

Great. Go local sports team.

SPEAKER_02 22:26

I'm here for the snacks.

SPEAKER_03 22:29

Okay, so look at us on YouTube to see what we're wearing. Okay. Next cue is the ability to have a tie score just there to make more money.

SPEAKER_00 22:42

I will say the World Cup is a very emotionally charged game. So it depends on the team. So if you're Argentina and you have a tie, Argentina's their reigning champions. And so it's an insult to them if they tie because they should win. However, if you're Cape Verde, that's a whole other story. Because Cape Verde has been those underdogs that have made it to the World Cup and completely stole everyone. That goalie is insane. If you watched him um stop some goals, and he's 40. He's so he's in yeah, it's insane. And anyway, so it kind of just depends on the perspective of the teams playing at the time.

SPEAKER_03 23:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 23:23

It just But I side note love it in the knockout round because then you have overage time.

SPEAKER_03 23:29

What was that?

SPEAKER_00 23:30

I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 23:31

Oh, it was our sign. Our sign just fell off the wall. That was a little extreme.

SPEAKER_00 23:35

Oh, you're a 3D printed one!

SPEAKER_01 23:38

Just keep it.

SPEAKER_00 23:42

Oh, we're making all kinds of noise.

SPEAKER_03 23:43

Okay, we had to we had to put the sign down because it fell off the wall. Turns out the painter's tape does not hold 3D printed. Wait, yeah. Which I want to point out this cute sign. So my my teenager made it with his cool 3D printer, and it's super cute. It's super thin. Like he 3D printed a picture. And I never thought of that.

SPEAKER_00 24:07

It is just like your logo. I absolutely love it. I know you can't see it from the camera, but there's depth and everything between all the colors. It's awesome.

SPEAKER_03 24:14

It's very cute. He did it for Mother's Day, and he also printed 3D printed a bunch of album covers for his bedroom. It's very cute. Because he's cool. He's cool like that. He is too cool for me. Okay. Um is Ted Lasso based on a true story?

SPEAKER_00 24:35

No.

SPEAKER_03 24:35

Okay, is Ted Lasso the best series?

SPEAKER_00 24:37

Um 100% yes. And then that's the favorite part though with Ted Lasso is you know there's always been some kind of coach in your life. Um, sports or not, mentors that always seem to be able to get you to realize what the real importance of a team sport is. And that's why I think that's why it makes Ted Lasso so realistic and so wholesome, but funny is because no matter your team dynamic, whether it's in sports or business, it's like that.

SPEAKER_03 25:03

You'll have the hot shots, you have the he inspires tears and laughter all at the same time.

SPEAKER_00 25:10

Yes, and oh, um, Rojas. Did you see he started for El Paso? Danny Rojas. Danny Rojas, football's life. He made his first premiere, I think, this weekend in El Paso, Texas.

SPEAKER_03 25:23

Doing what again?

SPEAKER_00 25:24

Playing soccer. Because it was always his dream before he became an actor to be a professional soccer player. And because of that show, he got more a little bit well now, like known. However, he had to try out dreams.

SPEAKER_03 25:35

Anyway, dreams are made.

SPEAKER_00 25:37

So, in a sense, Ted Lasso is real, it's coming real.

SPEAKER_03 25:40

Yes, and I love it. It's so good. It's one, it's I feel like it was one of the first of its kind. Like in my mind, like breaking bad was one of the first of its kind. Ted Lasso, one of the first of its kind.

SPEAKER_00 25:55

Yeah, and I love Ted Lasso. I don't have any other examples. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:58

Simpsons. Shut up about the Simpsons. Don't so funny. I was talking about the Simpsons today with my husband.

SPEAKER_00 26:13

And actually, even with Ted Lasso, the like how they put the believe, well, the believe sign up there. Uh-huh. Um, that's kind of been the United States motto is believe. Because we've always been the underdogs in men's soccer, at least, because we're not as good as the women's soccer.

SPEAKER_03 26:25

And they out now, right?

SPEAKER_00 26:26

They out.

SPEAKER_03 26:27

They gone.

SPEAKER_00 26:28

Belgium knew their task and they're out.

SPEAKER_03 26:30

See you later. Okay. This is a personal question. Okay. So you can give us a card if you don't want to answer.

SPEAKER_00 26:36

Alright, I gotta get ready just in case.

SPEAKER_03 26:39

If you were a soccer ball, would you be the OG black and white or the color ones? Like, OG black and white.

SPEAKER_00 26:45

Yeah. Hardcore black and white. It is simple, it is classic, it is timeless.

SPEAKER_03 26:51

All the time though?

SPEAKER_00 26:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 26:52

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 26:53

Yeah, it's timeless.

SPEAKER_03 26:54

Ashley went out.

SPEAKER_00 26:55

Hence why most of my outfit is you are not just in this, not right now, but most of my outfits are like black, gray, neutrals.

SPEAKER_03 27:05

You know, as you're elder, yeah, I feel like I went through a phase of like I was like, I'm only wearing black ever. Like and now I'm just about the color in my Luigi pants. Okay, Ashley, what about you? Are you a black and white classic soccer ball or are you gonna do multicolor? Is it cake? Sure. Okay, the color. It's you know, so if it's not cake, is it multicolor? Okay.

SPEAKER_01 27:36

I'm not on the tablecloth. Uh tablecloth.

SPEAKER_03 27:40

I do I do like the recognizable black and white, so I probably would choose the black and white myself.

SPEAKER_00 27:45

Yeah. I mean don't don't get me wrong, like some of them, some of the ball designs are freaking awesome looking. Yeah. And so like my kids, we got my husband bought this pack of like two soccer balls.

SPEAKER_02 27:57

How many?

SPEAKER_00 27:58

Two. And they're about like this big, so you can hold one in each hand. Okay, you know, just a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 28:03

They're gigantic! They're gigantic.

SPEAKER_03 28:06

Boy or girl inches.

SPEAKER_02 28:08

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:09

Oh, that's a good point. Okay. So I would say that in reality, my son would say they're gigantic, but in girl reality, they're just small balls. Okay. Okay. But anyway, like one of them is Argentina color, so it's white and baby blue, and the other one is like that rainbow FIFA cup.

SPEAKER_03 28:25

So I feel like right now, white and baby blue or blue and stripes is a very like popular fashion trend. Yeah. I actually have a shirt. I should have worn it in this.

SPEAKER_00 28:37

I think it's because they're deep down supporting Messi with Argentina. So like with this World Cup, like with the drama, is a lot of people were root in just to see the ultimate playoff between Ronaldo and Messi to see if they could make it all the way to the finals, and like the 40-year-old men would battle for who's the ultimate.

SPEAKER_03 28:51

Oh, are they 40?

SPEAKER_00 28:52

Yeah. So Ronaldo when they lost. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:57

So they're thriving. They're actually.

SPEAKER_00 28:59

They're living their prime. They're on their peak. They're their prime. But that's the part where it's like when Ronaldo got eliminated, he just broke down to tears because it was his last one. And that's how you go out, and you didn't even make it to the final four.

unknown 29:12

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 29:13

Oopsie poopsie.

SPEAKER_03 29:17

Okay. Becky.

SPEAKER_00 29:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:20

Why did America do what is a what America does and name soccer, name it soccer instead of sticking with is it foosball?

SPEAKER_00 29:30

Foosball. Football. Football. Football is life. So if I understand correctly, is it was also known as like association football.

SPEAKER_03 29:39

And so they to not confuse with our American Association football.

SPEAKER_00 29:44

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:45

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 29:45

Yeah, no, that's our National Association. Anyway. Um so America does what America does, does our own thing, and so they kept calling it a sock for association. Short.

SPEAKER_03 29:57

Rebrand.

SPEAKER_00 29:57

A sock.

SPEAKER_03 29:58

Rebrand and pretend like it's ours.

SPEAKER_00 29:59

Yes. And then just put an R at the end. So it's a soccer. And then just went to soccer.

SPEAKER_03 30:06

Yeah, because it just really doesn't make sense.

SPEAKER_00 30:08

It really, out of all the things, it does not make any sense. Just like with footballs based off of what rugby, but yet football, we don't do anything with our feet.

SPEAKER_03 30:18

We'll have to look at that later on. We'll bring you back on to describe football. And I will be the one to zone out on that because I don't care about football.

SPEAKER_00 30:28

We should do this for every sport.

SPEAKER_01 30:29

Oh my god, they're fantasy football.

SPEAKER_03 30:31

They can they can be in our league.

SPEAKER_00 30:32

Okay, listen, listen.

SPEAKER_03 30:34

Should we audition to let somebody be in our fantasy football league? Because we probably have room.

SPEAKER_00 30:38

Hold on, I know the best audition. Then I'm in on this one. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 30:41

You should be in our fantasy football league. You want to know why? Go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 30:44

This last 4th of July. Just every American tradition, you start the morning off with a parade, right?

SPEAKER_01 30:51

So I started off with a beer, but okay.

SPEAKER_00 30:54

Murder. So I was at this parade, okay, and I was watching my nephew because it's one of his last times that he's gonna be in the parade because he's a senior and he's graduating, and so and he's in the band. So I'm sitting there just watching him. Yeah, oh, he plays the drums. I am so proud of that kid. So cute. Anyway, so um there's this float that comes by, and I'm trying to fit me and my family are trying to figure out what in the hell is the purpose of this float that comes by because it's a truck pulling a trailer. And this one guy sitting on a chair in the middle of it, and he's like slouched, like um, and anyway, then I start reading the signs on there, and someone wrote on a big poster board saying, I suck at fantasy football. And it just says, Don't choose me to pick players, and it was just all like dissing him. And then it dawned on me because he's soaked. That's why he's sitting there. He's soaked. All his buddies are running along the side of the parade route with water balloons and squirt guns, and they're giving them to the kids, like, throw it at him, throw it at him. The whole parade route. The whole crowd is encouraged to just sit there and soak this kid by throwing water balloons at him. Oh my god, it's like modern day stoning, legitimately. And I was like, it's a genius. Like, even all the adults around us were laughing. They're like, this is so much better than eating endless pancakes for 24 hours.

SPEAKER_03 32:08

Hot dogs until you eat how many hot dogs? I don't even know. 72.

SPEAKER_00 32:12

But that's part, you also got community shame out of it. And I was like, this is amazing.

SPEAKER_03 32:17

Because some parades you actually have to like pay to be in it. Yeah. This fantasy Oh, this fantasy.

SPEAKER_01 32:25

We have to do this. You have to join our other league. Not even our work one anymore. You have to be on you and feel free to invite me.

SPEAKER_00 32:34

I think you gotta join the guys and gals.

SPEAKER_03 32:36

Is so sorry, this is a side tangent because we are talking about soccer, foosball, or whatever we call it. Um, does your league have a uh like what is the loose?

SPEAKER_00 32:48

A commissioner? Oh, sorry. So that's Ashley.

SPEAKER_03 32:50

No, there's no commissioner.

SPEAKER_01 32:52

Oh, I'm the commissioner. You are now?

SPEAKER_03 32:54

Oh, yes. Well, I know you took over. I know you like you like mansplained fantasy football to the team, but I didn't know you took over as commissioner. Oh no, I I am the commissioner. Okay, I respect that. Anyway. No, but do you have a penalty for being the lowest?

SPEAKER_00 33:07

It depends on the league.

SPEAKER_03 33:09

What we do now.

SPEAKER_00 33:10

Well, I know we do it now. Ours I was gonna say, I don't think ours is, I don't think we our penalty in our league is that I guess it applies to everyone. If you're the winner, then no matter where we're at, if your cup is empty or you want to drink, it's the rest of the league's team to make sure that you got a beer in your hand at all times.

SPEAKER_03 33:26

Who's the who was the winner this year? Like, is it us you don't have to tell me a name. Is it either?

SPEAKER_00 33:31

Is it I think it was between you and I. Because I think that's what blew our league's mind. It was like, it's me and you. So I think you won. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 33:39

Is this the first time you two have been in the same room together because you're competitors for the the league championship?

SPEAKER_00 33:44

Yes, and that's the reason why she's over there and you're sitting in between us, is so that way it doesn't get intense.

SPEAKER_03 33:50

Give me one of them cards. So I I don't think I won fantasy this year, did I? Okay, I can't remember. I was there for the points.

SPEAKER_01 34:01

Remember when you thought you were you didn't even make it to the playoffs. I thought I did.

SPEAKER_03 34:09

I was so excited. I put it on my resume and then I had to.

SPEAKER_01 34:11

Look at us Americans going back to our National Football League when we released the soccer.

SPEAKER_03 34:18

I'll shake that. I put that I went to the championship on my resume and then I had to wide it out.

SPEAKER_01 34:24

Yeah, our boss is pretty disappointed.

SPEAKER_03 34:28

Okay, let's get this back on to Fuzval. Um Okay. Did three countries getting to host this year because the US is pretty much a dumpster fire ran by a psychotic dementia patient?

SPEAKER_00 34:44

Even though we've gone through a lot of diapers with him, I thought the same thing. But here's the thing the real reason why. Okay is because this is the biggest amount or the highest number amount of teams that have made it into the World Cup. They extended the total number of teams that could participate.

SPEAKER_03 34:59

To 48, yeah. Yeah, it's 48. Was it previously what 32?

SPEAKER_00 35:05

I can't remember exactly what it was.

SPEAKER_03 35:07

The women's next year is gonna be 32, but then they're gonna up it to 48.

SPEAKER_00 35:11

Yeah. Um and so realistically, they've had this plan years ago because it takes multiple years.

SPEAKER_03 35:17

It is a thing. It's like to qualify the Olympics, you know, you know, 20 years in advance where the next Olympics are gonna be.

SPEAKER_00 35:24

But the hard part is um it's not just the players and the coaches that travel where the they're playing. So they need to find venues that can hold all the fans, they need venues that can hold all of the medical team, the trainers, the coaches. So it's all they needed to find as many big stadiums as well as infrastructure around those locations that could host. So that's why it kind of became a multicultural country.

SPEAKER_03 35:49

So I actually can contribute to this conversation for Christy for the first time of this entire You've been doing awful this whole time. Um so I heard that they had asked Denver to host, be one of the host cities for the World Cup, and they said no, because if you commit to being a host city, you have to incur all of those costs of like I don't know, like soda pop, hot dogs, security, all these things, beer, beer, and all these things. And Denver said, nah, we could. Now we can one of the biggest cities they were no that that's what I heard. Yeah, but they've they've kind of had a precedence of like, no, we're we're not taking on the cost of having all this, even maybe it's good for our quote-unquote like publicity, yeah. But like they just said, no, that's okay.

SPEAKER_00 36:45

Yeah, I believe that. So I believe it. Because that was the one thing that um because did you guys hear about the beer running out? That's why I make that comment.

SPEAKER_03 36:53

Yes, in Boston, yeah, in Boston.

SPEAKER_00 36:56

Yep, they had they ran who was it that won't be. Scotland, yeah, Scotland won. And so the Scotland fans were into all the pubs and drank them dry, except for, and I don't know if this is true, but I heard except for Bud Light. They don't like Bud Light beer. They like, no, that's okay. We ain't drinking drinking that trash.

unknown 37:13

Oh man.

SPEAKER_03 37:14

Oh man, that's good. I like it. Anyway, okay.

SPEAKER_00 37:17

So that's why that's why it's uh multiple countries that got kind of got involved with it, which was actually kind of nice. It's been fun, it sucks the the team though, because they have to travel a ton.

SPEAKER_03 37:26

But yes, and I've also heard that like was it I won't say, but one of the teams they felt like they got discriminated against because they had to travel like pretty far to get to their next match, and they felt like they were getting discriminated against just because of world events.

SPEAKER_00 37:43

Yeah, yeah, it's true. I like the lighter version of uh the Mexico fans taunting whoever they're playing against and like going out inside the hotel to lighting off fireworks and stuff like that. Outside the hotel of like England when they were playing in England, and it got to the point where they booked like 12 or 15 other hotels as kind of like decoys, and they still figured out where they were staying, it's still lighting off fireworks and speaking.

SPEAKER_03 38:06

Hey, listen, brilliant. Okay, listen. In this day and age of Taylor Swift's internet, there's no secrets. There is not. Okay. Next cue. And if you don't know this one, it's okay. Because this is this is quite there's a lot I don't know. There's quite like this is just off the charts. Um, top-rated snacks served at every soccer game. Do you know?

SPEAKER_00 38:27

Beer.

SPEAKER_03 38:28

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_00 38:29

Easy drink, like I said to drink. It could be food. But like snacks. Like, but snacks. It would just be like chips and beer. That's it.

SPEAKER_03 38:37

I don't think there's an actual official, but chips with that, that cheese that we all pretend not to like. But when when given the opportunity to have that melty cheese, we're all like, mmm, pour it straight into my mouth.

SPEAKER_01 38:48

Like chips like fries chips or chips like chips chips? Oh, good point.

SPEAKER_03 38:54

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 38:54

Yep. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 38:55

Yellow card.

SPEAKER_01 38:57

Can you tell whose questions these were? Minor about the snacks.

SPEAKER_03 39:01

So my questions are on the first half, and now she's are the second half. Okay, here's the last cue. Who is the player that makes the most money and why isn't it Roy Kent? He's here.

unknown 39:15

He's there.

SPEAKER_01 39:15

He's there everywhere. Roll Kent.

SPEAKER_00 39:19

Oh my gosh, I keep making that noise. I don't know who's the most play paid player. I bet it's I'd have to be Ronaldo or Messi, I feel like.

SPEAKER_03 39:28

He's probably the prettiest one.

SPEAKER_00 39:30

Yeah. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_03 39:31

David Beckham still makes money from soccer. Yeah. Yeah. He should.

SPEAKER_00 39:35

He still does. Have you seen all the commercials he's been into? He's getting so much. He's got that model contract.

SPEAKER_03 39:40

Was he in one recently, and it could be him or it could be someone else, and they were in like a Home Depot commercial. And I was like, that man has literally never been to Home Depot nor performed those acts.

SPEAKER_00 39:51

Wait, was it was it Beckham or was it Messi? Because there was one where it's like they hand something over to him and suddenly like the background changes to a stadium, like a soccer stadium.

unknown 40:01

Um I'm gonna look it up right now.

SPEAKER_00 40:03

Shit, I'm trying to. No, it's a legit one and it makes me laugh because I think the same thing too.

SPEAKER_03 40:08

It was David Beckham partnered with the Home Depot in case of their FIFA World Cup 2026. And I was like, hey man, you've literally never touched a power tool. Speaking of Beckham. Because you have your own power tool.

SPEAKER_01 40:19

Speaking of Beckham, did you get to meet him as Sporty Spice?

SPEAKER_03 40:25

In my previous life when I was Sporty Spice, I did get to meet him. Thank you. Oh my gosh. Which which Spice Girl was Victoria Beckham? Posh. Oh posh. Okay. I should know that. I love I loved Spice World.

SPEAKER_01 40:39

Can you can you tell me?

SPEAKER_03 40:41

How do you not know this? Okay, I'm red flagged, so there's no podcast next week because Ashley's out the next two and I'm out the next one.

SPEAKER_01 40:49

Becky just took over the podcast on her birthday.

SPEAKER_03 40:52

Becky, welcome to Brain Two Brains No Podcast. That was a pro that was a predatory takeover.

unknown 40:58

Yeah. Wow.

SPEAKER_03 41:00

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 41:01

Red card all the way.

SPEAKER_03 41:02

You man splained us out of our own podcast.

SPEAKER_00 41:05

Hey, you know what? I'm glad I'm here to make sure you guys understand, you know, really what's going on.

SPEAKER_03 41:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:11

Because I know things can be difficult for you to understand sometimes.

SPEAKER_03 41:15

Yeah. Out in the real world, it's it's hard times for pimps right now. Arguably. Arguably the hardest time it's ever been for a pimp. Oh my gosh. Becky. Yeah. This has been such a good pod.

SPEAKER_00 41:27

It has been so fun joining you, and I actually get to talk to you guys instead of listening to you guys as I'm yelling in the car trying to talk to you.

SPEAKER_03 41:33

Yes. You can talk to me anytime. You talk to Ashley all the time, but you can talk to me anytime.

SPEAKER_01 41:38

It's like my two brain cells are finally meeting.

SPEAKER_03 41:42

It is all coming together. It is a beautiful picture. So for our final segment, Becky, is there any dramatic with the World Cup this year that you want to just air your grievances about? Give us the tea, girls. Give us all the tea.

SPEAKER_00 42:01

Okay. So one of my favorite ones where I'm like, this is insane. When we talk about the emotionally chargedness and investment into the World Cup and how much pride it brings, Uruguay, they had a private charter jet taking them around to all the different stadiums. As soon as they lost that private jet and they had a fly home commercial. Their own country.

SPEAKER_03 42:25

Cut that off and sent them all. Their home country commercial. They were like, hey, if there is a spirit airline near you, we need you to get on a spirit.

SPEAKER_01 42:34

The last one. The last spirit airlines is your.

SPEAKER_00 42:38

I was like, you've got to be kidding me. Because then in reverse, like there's Cape Verde where they even after they made it past the group round, they came home as royalty. And like it just blows my mind to the opposite of what happens.

SPEAKER_03 42:50

Hey, any chance you can catch an Uber home? An Uber XL?

SPEAKER_01 42:54

Air? Do they have Uber Air?

SPEAKER_03 42:56

Uber Air. Well, they should be able to drive home.

SPEAKER_01 42:59

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 43:00

Yeah. But and then.

SPEAKER_01 43:02

Can you man explain geometry to me?

SPEAKER_03 43:04

Okay. Geometry or geography?

SPEAKER_01 43:06

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 43:12

It's alright. We're we're human, we're staying curious, and we're not letting chat GPT get us.

unknown 43:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:19

Don't get us.

SPEAKER_03 43:20

No. Okay, um, okay. And then let's talk about what do you know about the Uno reverse card of the US?

SPEAKER_00 43:28

Okay. So literally, have you seen those mooms, the meme, the memes where they hold up the reverse card in like the ref's face? Or you have like the player and then Trump pulls out this reverse card, right? Uno reverse card. So we got the United States got a red card. And it's a big deal, because remember how we talked about earlier.

SPEAKER_03 43:44

You're gonna be out the next you're out the rest of the game plus the next.

SPEAKER_00 43:47

Yes, right. So um basically they didn't scrub because Trump's like, hey, homies, can you really investigate this type deal? And so he ends up the they ended up reversing the red card. They didn't take the infraction off from the player, but um basically what was saying is that if it happens again in any calendar year, so 12 months, if he gets another red card, then that's where he's gonna miss a game plus on top of whatever he's already accrued. So whether it's red, yellow cards, what other penalties he's accrued. So he still has to pay the hit for it, but that was like a big drama deal because he was supposed to miss the next player. Every other team, the rules would apply where you would miss the next game.

SPEAKER_03 44:31

So I heard that. So I I remember this, and I remember hearing that the next game where that player got to re-enter where they shouldn't have been able to re-enter. I heard, tell me if this is true. I heard that if the US won it was fine, but if the US lost that it was rigged.

SPEAKER_00 44:48

Of course, Trump would set that up. Okay. So it was always one of those things. Right, they lost. Absolutely. However, okay, I guess. But you know, you know, Belgium knew their assignment. The whole world knew their assignment, and just that one act alone gave them so much fire to where they couldn't keep up. And untruthfully, watching them play, they weren't the best team anyway, but they knew the assignment.

SPEAKER_03 45:08

Do you think that player now is like blacklisted?

SPEAKER_00 45:13

So here's the hard part when it this is where my heart feels for the guy. Because when it first happened. No, when it first happened, he didn't agree that it should have been a red card. However, he knew that younger players were watching and people future players of the league and want to keep that inspiration going. And so he wouldn't really talk out loud, like wouldn't out, like lash out about it. And so he was just like, I want, I know sometimes things aren't fair. I want to set a set of tone of professionalism and everything. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 45:39

He's like, I'll take it.

SPEAKER_00 45:40

Very, very freaking graceful. And then all of this happens, and it was like all of that just gets tarnished. And it wasn't even the players' fault at all.

SPEAKER_01 45:47

Wait a minute. You're telling me that Trump ruined something in this In this economy? What? Red, white, and white?

SPEAKER_02 45:59

Red, white, and whole.

SPEAKER_00 46:01

But that's like the hard part is my head. Like, that's the hard part though, because the World Cup, like, that's one of those things that's so inspiring. And I don't know if you guys have seen it too, where it's like, if it wasn't for our leaders, you the general world would get along. And then we would love each other and understand and respect each other's cultures. Like a lot of time it's the government, our leaders that are fighting back and forth, right? And so men.

SPEAKER_03 46:26

Yeah, I have heard that. It's like, hey, look, it turns out we all just really like each other when we have these terrible people telling us not to like each other, but we actually all really like each other.

SPEAKER_00 46:36

We really do. And then so that was the part where it's like it's a big just ended up becoming a big political thing. Anyway.

SPEAKER_03 46:41

Okay, sorry. I just thought of one other very interesting um thing about the World Cup, which is, you know, it is a what is it called? Like a a robot? It's a robot. Um what is it called? What is it called when it's like a parallel? A spreadsheet of teams. A bracket, thank you. A bracket.

SPEAKER_01 47:03

I know how to sport.

SPEAKER_03 47:05

Okay, so it is a bracket. I'm not ESPN friends. Um so we know when all the games will be. We just don't know which teams are gonna be there. And so all these people come from all across the world and they come to the United States, they come to Canada, they come to Mexico to see their to see their teams, and they're buying tickets to who knows where because it's just a matter of being there. Literally don't know where they're gonna be in two weeks. They don't know if they're going home, they don't know if they're still gonna be here. I think that's really passionate.

SPEAKER_00 47:40

It's I was like, it's passionate moment in history.

SPEAKER_03 47:43

And that to me is very beautiful.

SPEAKER_00 47:45

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 47:45

Of just being like, hey, I'm gonna take my five weeks of vacation because I live somewhere great, and I'm gonna go to actually get time off, especially during the summertime. In the summer, I'm gonna have my vacation. I'm gonna come to the World Cup.

SPEAKER_00 47:59

Exactly. And even even here in America, if I had some friends where like they're and their husbands are just like, fuck it, we're going. Yeah. And then they'll go and splurge like two grand, or it'd be more like four grand because it's a ticket per person, and then just to go there to be part of his.

SPEAKER_03 48:14

Alright, because it is a once in a lifetime uh one might call it a quadrennial experience.

SPEAKER_00 48:21

Oh you gotta practice that. What's the what's the fifth version? Because quad four. Quin? Quintrillion? Quintennial. Yeah, quintennial.

SPEAKER_01 48:30

Excuse me, Ashley. Is the juice worth the squeeze?

SPEAKER_03 48:33

The juice, it depends if you're if your team is one, then the juice will be worth the squeeze.

SPEAKER_00 48:38

And I do think that you, if you are doing this as far as your buying tickets in the future, I think you have to have love for the game and the crowd, because that's the part where a lot of times they just go for the excitement and the energy of being in that and just rooting for a good game, a good team to win.

SPEAKER_03 48:53

Okay. Sorry, I I I have another observation, which is I did not watch hardly any of these games. My husband was super into it, my youngest was super into it, my middles were like okay into it. But the penalty kick situation, oh my god. That is high stress. And it is just a matter of I mean, I think you're oh, I think you're I can't remember what the percentage. We looked up what the percentage is of the penalty kicks that actually go in. I it's like I think I want to say it's high 70s of getting it in because you are defending this massive goal as this. And you have to stay on the line.

SPEAKER_00 49:32

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 49:32

Yeah, and like you're just guessing, but I loved all that. So my husband very much knew to like call me to the TV when there was a PK situation.

SPEAKER_00 49:42

Oh my gosh. I love it. And it's so intense, and like I don't know if you have you when in your younger years, I know we've made it very clear that in the 1800s.

SPEAKER_03 49:51

Yeah, go ahead. Um go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 49:53

Have you watched? Did you ever watch soccer when you were younger? Like in the World Cup when you were younger? Not a single time.

unknown 49:58

Okay. I played.

SPEAKER_03 49:59

So that's another thing too that's changed. AYSO, we had to get our our toe tooth cut off of our cleats. With a bucket knife in the give the local boy scouts. Yes. Hey, show me them cleats. Oh, we gotta cut off your toe tooth. That happens so often. Do we do we need to talk about it, Christy? Is it I mean no?

SPEAKER_01 50:21

Here's the thing. So Becky bullied me into doing soccer once.

SPEAKER_00 50:25

I did. She played rec ball with me, and I was like, I need a friend. It was us two, and then my um auntie grandma. Um it's it's a long story. But anyway, so she played with us. Um anyway, I just don't know if she wants us to say her name on the club. Yeah, so yeah, Ashley's mother-in-law, so Robin, um, who's also my husband's aunt. Yes. Um, she loves soccer too. And so I Robin was hardcore, but she's like, Yeah, I'll play with you. And then Ash is like, go sports. It's a change.

SPEAKER_01 51:03

I need a peanut butter and jelly sandwich first, though. She's awesome. You what? I got a peanut butter and jelly, uncrestable, frozen.

SPEAKER_03 51:09

You can actually just buy those anytime you want. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 51:11

I know that now.

SPEAKER_03 51:13

I will say, you know what? If I if I had to be called up to any type of sporting event, I think I could play a coat softball pretty good.

SPEAKER_00 51:22

You know what? That's the one that I I joined my company's softball team because we play on Tuesdays, well, when the season's going. That's the one that I think I love playing as an adult, just because if you played any kind of sports as a way to still play sports, but still be my body's like falling apart. Yeah, I have to be in shape to play this.

SPEAKER_01 51:41

One ibuprofen later.

SPEAKER_03 51:43

Yep. Oh, only one. Two. No, I I think I could play. I think I could play a I could play uh co ed softball, and it would be very fun for me. So if anybody wants me to play, just let me know.

SPEAKER_00 51:55

Or kickball.

SPEAKER_03 51:56

Luigi will run those bases.

SPEAKER_00 51:59

Would you be down for kickball?

SPEAKER_03 52:00

I would be down for kickball. I don't know the rules of kickball, but I it is literally softball, but you just kick it. Okay. I have that's it. That's like I got long levers. I got long levers. So I probably would be really good at it.

SPEAKER_00 52:14

Yeah. Anyway, so that's some drama.

SPEAKER_03 52:17

Yes, sorry. But back to the PK though. It's so stressful, and I feel so bad for anybody that's like number four or five of the lineup for that. Yes. Because it's so much stress, and it's literally just a look at the draw. But I will say I did like the strategy of the players that like kind of um they set off like they were gonna go fast and then they went very slow. So they approach.

SPEAKER_00 52:42

That reminds me, that's why I brought the point of if you watch like the World Cup when you were younger, because they would just go and kick. And so you just go no, like they would just back up, kind of look, and then they just know to go get the momentum, and like they would determine like if they're going the top corner, bottom corner, left, right, whatnot, you know. But now, because there's so much like statistics around it, they have to change it up. So when they go to do it, and like goalies will study players like shooting targets and percentages and like right side, left side, bottom side, and all that, so they can prepare just for these situations, and so you'll see them go and they'll stop and like stutter, stutter, stutter, and then go, and just to try to like throw off the goalie because a lot of times by then the goalies already made a decision, and yeah, they're the ones that are still in power. So it's kind of funny because I've seen some memes where it's like a mom was in the kitchen and she's like doing like her own, you know, cake, and so she goes and kicks it back in like the 90s, and then she starts doing like ballerina twirls and like little like side shuffles before she actually kicks the ball to make fun of like how it's progressed, and then she like kicks it behind her other leg, like yeah, like whoop.

SPEAKER_03 53:47

It's good. I don't know, it's fun. Yeah, it all right. I think I've been to a soccer game once in real life, and I thought that was fun, but I still like hockey. So yeah, I'll say I like snacks. Ashley's still there for the snacks, which are at everything. So, anyways, okay, well, thank you, Becky with the good hair, for uh joining us today. You've been of course, I'm the all night you were so good. Thank you for mansplaining all of this to us because I had I had a lot of questions. The minute that I I don't this is so stupid. Like, you know those stupid realizations where you're like, oh, it's not based on premier team, it's based on country. And then I was like, wait, wait a moment. Why is we have the Olympics for this? What are we what are we?

SPEAKER_00 54:36

Like what is especially since every four years. Same cadence, same country versus country.

SPEAKER_03 54:40

Yes. So, anyways, this was a really good, like, and I remember I talked to Ashley and she was like, Hey, I know somebody that knows about soccer. So, anyways, Becky, will you come back? Will you come back on sometime?