We're back. We're back. It's your deadcast.

Marshman is out this week. I assume he's drawing up a new design for a penny-farthing bicycle.

So instead, you get the delicious and lovely and bad take-free Tom Lay. Tom, say hi to everybody.

Hello, Drew. I am excited to be here oh do you ever

sound excited Tom are you are you practice did you study the tape are you are you back and ready to

podcast I did I did our first podcast like a month ago and since then I've been in the film room

eating tape critiquing my performance and I'm I'm ready to be much better this time.

Good.

Well, you actually, you come to us at a sad time because just last night, the U.S. men's national team lost to Trinidad and Tobago.

One day, I will be able to say Trinidad all the way through the first time and get it right.

But they lost to Trinidad and coupled with Panama

victory. They are now out of the World Cup

play. Are you in mourning

for our delicious men's national

team? Yeah, man. This is like a pretty

big fucking disaster. I mean, I

didn't watch the game because

I was under the impression that like

we were good to go. We won the game

last week that we really needed to and based on what everyone told me last night was supposed

to be a cakewalk and even if it wasn't, it was unlikely that the other teams that needed to lose

were going to win. And yeah, so I didn't even know what was going on and then I got into Slack like 11 p.m. And it was just, it was a disaster. And I just, I felt, I felt genuinely bad, even though I didn't even watch the game. It was terrible. You should not trust anyone who's like, oh, US soccer hasn't in the back. It's the US, man. We suck. Yeah, well, that's what I was saying last night to people at work that like, I mean, obviously this isn't as bad as, you know, election night, but it was a similar sort of feeling, you know, like going into the game. There's, I think 538 said, you know, oh, U.S. currently sits in an 83% chance to advance. And so I was like, oh, that's fine. That's in the bag. Like, don't need to watch that.

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