We're back. We're back. It's a distraction. I'm Drew. That's Rod. Are you doing Roth? I'm good, man. How are you? I mean, well, actually, let me, let me take that again. Oh, I'm, I'm, I'm all right. I don't want to, I don't want to overstate anything. You want to set a reasonable baseline. Wait, wait. So you wanted to do a retake just no, not really, not really. Just so you could add like 0.5% more enthusiasm.

I want to do amend.

I want to do a retake just so you could... Not really. Not really. Just so you could add like 0.5% more enthusiasm?

I want to do amend.

I want to amend my answer.

Listen, the resting response since what, 2020 has basically been, all things considered I'm all right.

That's like stock. You know,

that's my little prefatory qualifiers before I answer really basic questions. That's just,

and people love hearing them. The parentheses gestures towards everything meme has, you know,

it's spiraled far out of our control. So we have to figure out a way to correct this.

And to help our guest this week is Tides of History co-host

and world's strongest historian, Patrick Wyman,

who joins us while wearing the Pat McAfee signature black tank top.

Are you doing, Patrick?

I'm doing fantastic. You know, just given some of the subject matter that we're planning on covering today, I had to literally flex on them. And so, yeah, it just, it felt like, you know, there are times to deviate from the brand and there are times not to. This felt like a time not to deviate. Yeah, you don't need to be wearing a turtleneck for this one. I want, I want you doing box jumps and, like, weird rope-related exercises while we're recording. I was going to say, you should be broadcasting from a squat rack, and you should have, like, Jalen Hertz amount of weight across your shoulders, and then you would really be in care. You'd really be ready to step up to the lazy Nazi scum currently running over this. I mean, look, I would be lying if I said I hadn't recently bought a punching bag. First of all, because I got to sharpen up. I'm rusty as hell and I'm old, number one. I had an incident with some Magadads at my kid's soccer game. Oh, shit. Yeah. Like, the vibes are not good right now. Wait, wait. Can you tell us about this incident? Yeah. So there were two dads with their obnoxious, like 12 or 13 year old sons. Their two sons were like throwing a football back and forth over the goal as the game was going while my buddy's son was in there. It was his first time. This is a 9 to 10 year old soccer game. The kid's dad,

who's my friend, asked these two kids to politely stop throwing the football over the field

while the game was going on. They started talking immense amounts of full grown man shit.

Like the 12 year olds did?

Yes, the 12 year olds did, which their dad's thought was hilarious. At one point, they said, and I quote, you look like the kind of guy who jerks off to anime porn. The kids said this? The kids said this to the grown man. Kids are into anime, though, and they do jerk off. So I don't see it being that yeah maybe they were trying to

build a bridge yeah like we're gooners too yeah so like i understand what you're mad about

what part of the country are we talking about here this is the arizona suburbs oh yeah so all of this

tracks like none of this is surprising to be clear but yeah so i so my buddy was getting into it with the two kids' dads, and I walked over and I stepped in between. And these guys were just fucking ready to go, screaming about how I'm not the guy, you don't want this. I'm like, no, you're right. I don't. It's a nine to 10 year old soccer game. I'm going to fight you at a nine to 10 year old old soccer game. Were there any officials at this game? Were there any? Yes, they wanted nothing to do with it. Yeah, I'm assuming the officials were like 15 years old. They were, yes. Yeah. And even though I know in Arizona, soccer officials are allowed to carry a sidearm. I still feel like it's not. It's mandatory. Yeah, you're actually required. Well, so this was the part that really messed me up because, like, we managed to avoid any sort of violence breaking out at the game. But as I got in the car afterwards, I was like, oh, yeah, one of those two guys was definitely strapped. Like, there's absolutely zero chance that two mega guys in Arizona, like one of them was not at least concealed carrying. And if they didn't... Why would they step to you if they weren't armed?

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