The time has come to get ready for the 2022 World Cup.

And what better way to prepare than by revisiting the World Cup's most amazing goals.

I'm Brian Phillips. I'm making a podcast about the history of the men's World Cup.

Told through the stories of 22 iconic goals.

The show's called 22 Goals. It's out now on the Ringer Podcast Network.

And we're having so much fun.

David!

Yes.

I was in Austin last week. Austin, Texas.

Do you want to hear first about the barbecue I ate or the old vanity fairs I bought at half price books?

Let's start with the barbecue.

Dude, I ate so much barbecue that I had to stop eating barbecue.

This is a sign of old age. What's the diagnosis here?

I'd like to think not. I'd like to think it's a sign of too much barbecue.

If I had told you, if I had told you with 100% certainty that the barbecue, the asperer,

was going to take place the way that it has.

That there would be good to great barbecue restaurants in every major city, usually multiples of them.

Wouldn't it have still been shocking that there was so much room for barbecue to grow in hill country?

In Central Texas? It's crazy that every time you go, there's three new places to try out.

And new sides on the barbecue menu?

Oh, oh, wait. Now this, I want to hear about.

This is actually a symptom of what you're talking about.

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