Welcome into episode 793 of After the Whistle.

800 episodes coming up soon.

You know what else is coming up though?

What's that?

I bet you don't even know this and I'm not even trying to be a dick when I say that.

A World Cup.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Will you watch the World Cup? yes i will um you know listen i'm not gonna there there's some there's some countries that i will not watch um and i'm gonna

tell you right now like my my family my family, my father and my brother,

my older brother, my brother is a diehard soccer fan. So he's, he spends his Saturdays sitting

on the couch and, and watching all the European soccer. He knows every single player, he knows every single league.

He knows it all.

So at this time of year, okay, for him, it is, it is the greatest thing ever.

And I wouldn't say I'm a soccer fan.

I don't think I've ever really watched a full game unless I was either with him or my brother told me this is the game

to watch. So that it's spread out between Canada, US, and Mexico. Okay. It lasts 39 days and it

starts June 11th. So, okay, basically today.

Okay. So can, are the Netherlands in Kansas City? I don't know if you can, if you can, I don't know, I'm not, I don't want to have, I don't want to go that deep into the conversation. Okay. So let's not just like, are you asking you if you're going to watch the World Cup. Yeah. I'm not asking about the fucking Netherlands.

I will say this though the last time the uh world cup was in the united states was 1994 and i was a soccer player then i mean i was playing

goalie in high school uh i was a soccer goalie uh for a few. And, um, you know, I, is that,

is that because you were like six foot four and just in a, yeah, I was like gangly six,

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