Heyle cheaters. Welcome to the always cheating podcast. It's good to be back. My name is Josh. I'm here with Brandon. Brandon, how are you? Josh, I'm good. I told you as I was bringing out some of my podcasting equipment for this episode. There were literal cobwebs on it. I think since the end of the last season, it's the longest stretch we've gone without potting. Now I look at my wife and she's

like, it's just been a few weeks, right? But it does, it does feel like an age. We've grown so

much. I feel so old. You and I, you and I don't typically like to take, I, I'd say about three

weeks is about as long as I think we've ever taken off. And next week is the 400th episode of this podcast. You know, we're talking about this right before we started. And that doesn't even count Patreon pod. So it's probably like we're getting very close to something like 700 episodes of this pod over the years. But, you know, I think that it's, we typically, you know, get two, three weeks in

summer and we're like, ah, euros are here. Let's do Euro content. World Cup. Women's World Cup. Whatever it is. During the World Cup this year, you and I did daily podcasts. And so it's, you know, it was, it felt good to take an extra, I think it was five weeks from, I think it was Memorial Weekend here in America

through to the fourth.

So bookended. extra, I think it was five weeks off from, I think it was Memorial Weekend here in America

through to the fourth. So bookended by two American holidays. And now we're back on the European

calendar. Feels going to be back. The game is launched. Launched on Wednesday. Once again,

I am Josh Landon. I'm in Brooklyn right now. You are Brandon Kelly, and you are in, what is it, Morningside Heights? What is your name? Yeah, I'm east. What is your actual neighborhood? Oh, I'm in Harlem proper. Central Harlem on 119th Street. If you're up here, get at me. But yeah, we're a little east of Morningside Heights. And, yeah, New York City.

We are the English Premier League podcast based in New York.

And we love it because if you're not here on the East Coast, everybody has a reason to come

through New York.

And we've met so many podcast listeners because of it.

Why would we live anywhere else josh also the

advantage of us being americans is we get access to every premier league match on tv not even

not even folks who live in uh who live in jolly old london town could say that yeah that's true

that's true i think that's really basically i think everyone but it's kind of like watching NFL. I think it's easier to watch NFL everywhere, but in the U.S. because of the, the rights restrictions. But I was in Mexico this spring, and I was able to watch all the games there, too. So it's really North Americans, Brandon, we're doing, we're doing great, we're watching matches. is we do have to get up at 7.30 and 10 a.m. and even earlier.

Right. North Americans, Brandon, we're doing, we're doing great. We're watching matches. We do have to get up at 7.30 and 10 a.m. And even earlier, right? Because the fantasy deadline, if there's, yeah, exactly, if there's no Friday game, then I'm getting up for the fantasy deadline, which is like 6 a.m. on Saturday morning. So I'm typically, it's kind of embarrassing. like I don't actually, I don't think I've even told my wife because I try to set the alarm on silent.

You know, as I just put it next to my pillow. So at $5.50 or so, I will just very quickly get, shoot up, right? Go right to Twitter. Never getting up that quickly ever, even like if you've got an important meeting right at the crack of dawn.

You're like, I could be five minutes late. But when your fantasy team is on the line,

you ever do this? Like, I definitely do this on Saturday morning. So as you said, you have 7.30 kickoff if you're getting up to sit your team earlier. Fair enough. 729 right before that alarm goes off.

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