Hey, L-Chaters. Welcome to the always cheating podcast. My name is Josh. I'm here with Brandon. Brandon. How are you? Well, I've got some bad news for you, Josh. There were no referee or var conspiracies this weekend.

So you and I are just left to talk about our game week scores and the football that happened.

How do you feel about that? Yeah. Yeah. How do I feel about that? I thought you were coming in pretty hot on the VAR front, but a lot of other pods did like full 50 minute pods and then additional pods later on in the week in VR. So our little five-minute segment, I think in the end, was pretty mild. This is the thing about going on on Sunday is we don't really, we can't, I think for mostly for the better, but we can't really take the temperature of everything when we go out there. So, uh, we set the table, Josh. Oh, that's true. We set the, that's true. We set the table. That's right. So, uh, game week eight has concluded, we have another international break beginning. And, um, yeah, you know, that's another.

I always feel like the second one in particular, you're like, really?

Like, we just, another one.

But at least we have, there's, there's are some actual stakes now.

We've got the euros coming next summer.

And so I think our, some of these matches are presumably European qualifiers and we now know

about the 2030 World Cup it's going to be held in I think it's 47 different countries so that's

all around the world a literal World Cup world yeah a literal World Cup yeah no yeah just remember that

great Euros brand and it was held like 30 places and had no vibe because it was spread across yeah so but anyway 2030 is is is is the uh i mean i'm glad they finally figured it out and honestly selfishly it's at least it's a time and it's in a time zone that we can wrap our heads around it kind of watch matches right? Qatar was about as far east as you can go and still be able to watch matches at a

reasonable hour.

The Women's World Cup might as well have not happened from my perspective because it was

in Australia.

Even though we have a lot of Australian people that we interact with, it's just a tough time,

right?

I mean, matches are basically all in at 3 o'clock in the morning so um i'll take some europe uh i guess now we have what

these kickoff matches why am i talking about the world cup i don't know game week eight has

game week eight has come and has come and gone got an international break um it's a good time to take

stock that's we're now i don't, I guess we're about 20% of

the way through the season. And we're doing what is a, well, I think, is it one of our most

popular themes or do I just like it personally? I think you like it. People like it,

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