Hey, L cheaters. Welcome to the always cheating podcast. My name is Josh. I'm here with Brandon. Brandon, how are you? I'm good. I don't know how ominous this episode is going to be, Josh, me, for many reasons. We're late. We're never late. Always Cheating is never late recording.

Always cheating podcast comes out on Monday. There's also this thunderstorm that's rolling through New York City right now and behind me in the window,

I've constantly seen these flashes of lightning.

So maybe that's just strokes of genius that we're about to have over the next hour,

or I don't know, if something bad is really going to befall me during this recording.

So stick around.

Outside of a hurricane, it's like the most rain. I can never remember New York having in a single day. This is wild. Yeah. So, you know, thank you to everyone who reached out. It asked for proof of life. We did mention that we were going to be a little late on last week's pod, but I think we buried it a little far into the pod. and Brendan, you and I went to New Orleans with some of our, some of our friends.

These basically... to be a little late on last week's pod, but I think we buried it a little, a little far into the pod. And Brendan, you and I went to New Orleans with us, some of our, some of our friends. These are basically our little pandemic crew. I know some people made the real little, our pot. Yeah, exactly, our pod buddies. We all, we all went down for a few days and we got back on Monday. and it was just Monday it was it was almost we wanted to record on Monday that was got a little too

it was just too it was it was almost we wanted

to record on Monday that was got a little too it's just too much travel that day and then at that

point you're like well why record on Tuesday when you have the double game weeks on on Wednesday

and Thursday and then because Wednesday it makes sense because at that point you'd have the

band city match and it would sort of wipe out all other conversations and And I think, and so we'll just use that to say, yeah, we're, we'll try to keep this pod short this week. We'll be back on Sunday with a normal pod in just a couple days' time. So this is, it just raises like a two pod week. You can pretend that you're a Patreon supporter for one week. And yeah, if you want to, you know, toss it, toss a shekel in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, Patreon bucket, go ahead and, and do that, Brandon. We won't say now. We won't say no. But I'll use that to, to lead into today's match, which was unusual, extremely unusual.

I don't even, I don't think I've ever seen a match quite like it.

You know, a defensive struggle for 44 minutes.

And then Spurs score two goals, kind of from nothing.

And then PEP makes no changes at halftime.

And you're like, okay, like it's like real galaxy brain PEP here. And then PEP makes no changes at halftime. And you're like, okay, like,

it's like real galaxy brain PEP here. And then they come out and, in destroy Spurs with four

goals in the second half with, with an effectively unchanged team from the first half. It's like,

you don't see tonal shifts that often. Only, only in some of them, maybe the,, maybe the records of the 1960s, you know, the white album.

Are you this all over the place in terms of what you're getting in two hours?

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