Welcome to the scuffed podcast. I'm Adam Bells in Georgia. With me is Greg Velazquez in Iowa. We talk about

US men's national team, which is obviously not our normal

audience, and I'll tell you why. I spent the weekend with my parents and a couple siblings

and my dad and brother independently both thought the US had

failed to qualify for the next World Cup.

They're not precogs are they? They are not. This is the opposite of that. They

were thinking of Olympic qualifying failure,

which they probably saw a headline about and in their inattention conflated that with

World Cup qualification. These aren't anti soccer guys they both play the sport and enjoy it they just

don't care about the US men's national team enough to know the slightest thing

about it and it struck me right there that a lot of people just are not

paying attention and by golly they should be. I love that you're a bit of a

on a mission here to to just spread the good word.

Yeah, so this is evangelism of the you know lowest order but there's a lot to be excited about and reason for optimism at the Next World Cup, and most people in America don't know that.

So this opening segment is for you to share with somebody you think is even slightly swayable.

If you know anybody like my dad and brother, send them the link to this episode.

I'm hoping we can win over a Baker's dozen or so. I'm just going to amend that slightly and say that you cannot send them the link to this episode. You need to dress yourself up. Go to their door, knock on their door and ask them if they have heard this

This podcast or the news and then explain it to them and play the play this podcast episode to them

Better yet memorize this entire the play this podcast episode to them.

Better yet memorize this entire disjointed monologue

and then recite it at their door.

So here, this is a message geared to the not attentive fan.

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