Chelsea's Preseason Catastrophe, Marseille Transfer Madness, and FBI Involvement with FIFA Exposed!

Join hosts Ryan, Derek, and Luke for a jam-packed Football Yanks episode where preseason insights, controversies, and biting commentary take center stage. Dive into the world of young talent as the trio discusses the pressures on US players and Cavan Sullivan's impact on the MLS. Luke airs his fatigue over Messi's dominating presence in the league, yearning for more diversity in the spotlight.

Anticipate heated debates on Olympic performances, questionable managerial decisions, and the impact of congested schedules on player health. Listen to their insights on the US Soccer Federation's handling of an international spying scandal that shook the Canadian women's soccer team. The guys fearlessly tackle Barcelona's financial fiascos and the evolving landscapes of Chelsea, Tottenham, and Manchester United.

Indulge in light-hearted banter about Luke's quirky podcast persona, the unpredictability of preseason tours, and even an off-topic chat about a memorable Blink 182 concert. Sprinkled with transfer rumors, squad critiques, and a survey on the eternal mimosas versus orange crushes debate, this episode is a rollercoaster of entertaining opinions and revelations.

Don't miss Ryan’s cheeky shout-out at Tottenham, Derek's gratitude to listeners, and the closing call to join Discord's vibrant Football Yanks community. Whether you're here for the laughs or the hard-hitting soccer analysis, this episode has it all!

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Everybody, this is the football Yanks podcast for the week of July 29. We've got Luke in the studio this week. So excited to have him back. We'll. We'll talk through with Luke and Ryan. A little bit more of the fallout from the Copa, and then also the scummiest scumbags in Concad. New at the top. Not what anyone want with Canada. Very good. We'll also get into some of the preseason takes on Chelsea and Tottenham. Now you bring out the sound bite. All the sound bites today. I love it. Just let it rip. Perfect. You made me set this shit up. Ryan on his a game today. We'll also get into Ryan's, Ryan's transfer and rumor updates. Anything else I missed there? Talk a little bit. I'll talk a little bit about the Olympics, which Ryan and Luke clearly and everybody else don't care about. What the fuck is this piece of shit? We're american, but we're talking about soccer here. Hosts Derek Ryan and Luke are all football fanatics tracking our fellow Yanks in the EPL and abroad. Enjoy today's episode. Hey, what's up? Oh, my God. Is that belly? Yeah. The minute we kick off. Did he know we were going live? He doesn't want to be on air or what? He's probably going to be doing that for a while, so I'll just mute myself as y'all intro the show. He doesn't do that when we're watching him. No. Tess is outside doing something, I think. Probably doing some gardening or something, and someone's probably talking to her. He gets all, you know, selfish. Gotcha. Yeah, he sounds, uh. Sounds unhinged right now. How do I update the. I don't even. I don't even care. Uh, so what's up, Luke? How you doing? Oh, I'm fucking great. Just business.

Fuck, you know, played soccer at fucking 10: 2:16

00 this morning. Oh, terrible. Yeah, it's pretty brutal out, right? Well, it was actually okay in the first 30 minutes, but after that, it got. It got pretty nasty. Um, yeah, man, I'm doing good. Just travel a lot, working a lot, and that's about it. Yeah. And Tess and I have been doing some fun things on the side, so we've just been busy, you know? And I hate this podcast, so. Can't even remember what its name is. You can't remember what its name is? No. Whenever I see Derek in public, I immediately have amnesia. I'm like my podcast. Oh, yeah. Who is this guy? Oh, it's some fucker. I host a podcast with. Would you rather be like the football yanks? You haven't heard of our award winning, trophy laden podcast? Not yet. One day. One day. Yeah. So we. I didn't mention this to you, Derek, but Shannon's brother listens to this podcast. I guess we hadn't hung out with our family yet. Okay, so this came after we recorded last week, but he listens to the podcast. He. He referenced several things, several, like, recurring themes on the podcast. He clearly listens to it, like, regularly. And then we went into a sandwich shop, and the. The dude who was, like, working the cash register was like, oh, you have the podcast? That. That thing's sick type thing. So, yeah, I got, like, recognized in public for the first time. But one of Shannon's brothers favorite themes or recurring themes is the dysfunctional guy, Luke, who nobody ever knows where he is or what he's doing. And I was like, dude, it's, you know, that's not a joke. Like, we don't know what. We don't know what's going on with it. It's a common sentiment among other friends in my social circles, in my personal life as well. They're like, oh, yeah. Cause I tell them stories and they're like, oh, yeah. This Luke guy sounds like he's just living his best life. And I'm like, yeah, he is. We're just along for the ride. Yeah. To be honest, I think I shovel a lot of my dysfunctional energy onto this podcast. I'm not quite as dysfunctional in my day to day life. Right. Yeah. I have to. I have to explain that to people. I'm like, it is a. I think the podcast, like, couldn't be the lowest, lower priority. Like, it has to be the absolute lowest prior, because, like, directionally, his life seems to be great. He just does not give a fuck about us, and there's nothing we can do about it. It's like a character I play on this podcast. Yeah, yeah. It really. It's just been Sundays in the past, like two, three months. Like, I don't even make it to my eleven soccer anymore. It's just like, yeah, I'm usually out of town. Yeah, right. It's been a little rough. Right. So do you remember when we were like, hey, what day and time works best for you? And. And you picked a day and time? And I don't think that it has occurred at that time. I had a different job when I said that day. Maybe. I don't think that's true, actually. Yeah. I'm not sure that that's true. Either. We can check the tapes, but. Well, I'm sorry that I ruined both of your lives. That's fine. We've been plugging along, but, you know. He'S got plenty of time to make himself fresh squeezed orange juice in the morning, so, you know, I'm glad he fits us in. Is that what that is? Is it? You made fresh squeezed orange juice. I didn't. It is fresh squeezed orange juice, but I didn't make it. Oh, okay. Yeah, it's not like a tropicana. I can't drink that shit anymore. It's very acidic. Anyway, I. Yeah, orange juice. Orange juice. Will. Will. Absolutely. I'll have acid reflux for the rest of the day. Like, it messes me up. Mimosas are, like, even worse because it's like alcohol and the acidic. Every time I have a mimosa, I start sweating a little bit. It's kind of like meat sweats. It's immediately like, a little bit right here. I'm like, oh, no, what am I doing? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's actually just anxiety. Like, I start thinking about my twenties, like, yeah. Yep. Sounds like we need to find a bar to watch games at with bottomless mimosas. This dude. I don't know, man. Four orange crushes. Like, I would fuck up an orange crush. I love orange crushes. I prefer orange crushes to mimosas, for sure. 100%. We should start a Google survey, see all of our fans, how they feel about that. Because I'm all 100% on the orange crush side. I'm team mimosa. It's a very fuck out of here. It's a strong reaction. You thought that was a strong reaction to me in public? Like unintended. Yeah. Shit. Yeah. Well, that is normal. That's. That's an appropriate response. Reaction. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So it is the preseason for many clubs. I don't know if Tottenham could afford a preseason tour. Yeah, I haven't seen any scores posted. What are you guys up to? Have you been following it at all? Yeah, they're in Japan right now. Okay. They did a match against, like, Millwall or like a League one team like that, then against QPR, and then now we were in Japan. How excited was Betancur for the Asia tour? He just must be so confused. He's like, he is not there. Oh, true. He's probably still. He's still recovering. Yeah. That's good, because then you might have to explain the difference between Japan and South Korea to him. And. Yeah, he did not know in those public comments, to be fair to the guy, like, they did do that whole apology thing. So I hope that, you know, whatever worked out, worked out, but certainly not the smartest thing to say. Yeah, he was. He was, I think, gonna come away from that fairly clean. We talked about this last week, like he was going to sort of get away with that. And then Enzo Fernandez and the argentinian team did what they did, and it just sort of, like, drew attention to what Benticher said once again. Well, well, there was a dialogue between Sonny and bent occur kind of in public. Right. Right. When it happened. And that hasn't really happened in the. In the Argentina kind of situations. It's felt like, but I also haven't followed it super closely. What do you mean? Like. Like from Enzo or any of the other players about it? I haven't seen it. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, come out, dude. Like, basically the entire Chelsea team unfollowed Enzo on Instagram and then made statements about how it was, like, unrelenting racism and hatred. Uh, like, Enzo. What has Enzo and the rest of the, whatever other argentinian players in that? What have they said publicly about it? Enzo has made a public apology, and I guess there's been private, uh, handlings within the club. I don't know. So that is one of my. My questions around this is, um. Excuse me. Um, is that Enzo was not the only person singing, like, he streamed it, but, like, he was on camera doing. It, which makes a big difference now. Yeah, he streamed it. He was on camera doing it, but it was the Argentina bus. He just is, like, the face of what occurred, I think. I don't know. Yeah. So there's definitely been a lot of discourse around that, I guess. But there has been a public apology, I believe. I believe so. And the club has made statements about it, and several players on the club have made statements about it. I would like the organizing bodies to ban him, do something. Yeah, do some. Ban him for an amount of games or. Yeah, like international games. I don't know if they could do it in the Premier League, but in some ways that. Well, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know, like where the. What law, like what federation can affect what, you know. Yeah. Like, maybe they can only take him away from international games. He should definitely not play football for a little bit and have to go through some kind of process. I don't really know what that looks like. Even if it's a face, there has to be something. The difference, I think, in the bent occur side and it is this isn't really like a Chelsea Tottenham thing in my mind was there was like, immediately a direct public correspondence between sun, who is the target of the conversation, and Bentiker. So I think that that was. There was a little bit of a different dynamic in that. And it wasn't like a celebratory thing. It was more of a interview gone, really, like, in a bad direction. And not to say those statements were less or more. All these statements are reprehensible, but the open dialogue is the real important thing. See where that goes. But doing that in celebration is pretty raunchy. Really weird all around. A lot of weird energy around the argentinian team right now, too. Yeah, sorry. Yeah, I would say that Enzo is. Has been pretty brain dead in general around this whole thing. Like, one, it's a song that originates from their World cup final against France. They had just won Copa America. They weren't playing France. So, like, why even spin up that song, especially with several french players on the team, your club team. And then he. He went to my. I haven't seen this, so that, like, I've just read about this, so I. But I. I believe it's likely true. But he went to his, his, like, childhood club, I think, river Plate, and he did some kind of. There was some kind of ceremony about him by that club and the fans were singing that song and he, he, like, donned a River plate kit again. And that was after all of the fallout from this. Like, he kept that engagement and did it, which I would just cancel that and put distance between. I don't know what's going on with my camera, put distance between myself and that nonsense for the time being. But, yeah, really, really stupid. We covered that this at length last week. Yeah, go. One thing I'll add to that is just, you know, to Luke's question, really, like, I think. I think you're thinking about this. Argentina views themselves as, like, this marginalized soccer power because they're not european and so they want to beat their chest every time they win something. But I think it comes from the fact that, you know, quite frankly, given the backdrop of not just this, but the racist comments from certain people in Argentina towards the us players and other incidents, it's. It's a nothing burger of a country trying to draw attention to itself and going after France is a good way to do that. And then I just being completely blind to, like, the, the other side of that, which is, to your point, reprehensible comments and perceptions towards the rest of the world. And you know, it's not gonna. Now it's just drawing negative attention to themselves, which makes it all the more stupid. Yeah, I wouldn't. I mean, they're their soccer superpowers, so they're not exactly a nothing burger, which I think makes this more problematic. There's more eyeballs on it. Yeah. Yeah. I think they're. They're probably number one in the FIFA rankings. Well, I meant as a country less so than a soccer federation, but sure. Yeah. Yeah, I think. I don't know. They feel like they're marginalized because they don't have a big name on the world, as big a name on the world stage, and they're. They the best player in the world for so long, and so they. I don't know. Yeah. I think the dynamic with the argentinian team kind of, like, exemplified Copa America. There was a lot of that, like, chest beating, bravado forward, and when that, that kind of thing gets out of control and it's a bunch of dudes fucking, you know, high as fuck on adrenaline. Like, people lose their minds and, like, the guy's 23. Hopefully he can learn from it. Like, I don't really know where to go from there. Like, it's not okay, what he said or like. And having the wherewithal to stream it to. Like, that's a pretty basic thing. These guys get media training. Like, it's not like they're just these kind of. They're not just like idiot footballers. They have lives. They personal people. They get things like media training from their clubs. Like, come on, you. Like, what are we doing here? Well, I do think there's. There's some kind of cultural disconnect in general. That goes for Bentiker and Enzo. There seems to be more acceptance of that sort of language in South America. I'm not trying. I'm trying to not be insensitive in this statement, but I'm just, like, judging based on the body of work and the response to this, where, like, a lot of their, like, leadership and their federation. And I think some of the players have basically said, stop being so sensitive. It's a joke type thing. It's in certain countries. Right. And to your point, it's not like we're generalizing South America. It's certain countries that, frankly, lack the diversity in their teams that other countries do. Because I don't see this shit coming out of Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador. Right. In certain countries that. That. You're right, have this climate where it's acceptable and that needs to change. Yeah. We never even talked about fucking nunes. Like, oh, going into sands, that's kind of like a little bit what I was trying to get at. And like, without going into like, the broad brush of like, describing a culture, I think that tournament and the way that those games were played, there was this, like, unending, like, bravado. I can do anything and nobody fucking, like, questioned me. Like, there was like, always that, like, little undertone. Like, I'm above it. Like, it doesn't matter. Competition is this. Being a human being doesn't really matter when you're trying to win, essentially when you've won. That Darwin Nunes stuff was crazy. And I do feel for his family, like, but a player going in and fighting fans, like, that speaks also to the organization of that tournament. He picked up like a folding chair and chucked it in the crowd. Like, what is, like, that was some serious run artest shit. Yeah. All right, run our test. The dude, watch that, that ESPN documentary about that fight. It's so interesting. Anyway, like, what, what are they doing? That tournament was like the most poorly run tournament I could have imagined. Well, right. And that, that was perpet, that incident where it was perpetuated by Columbia fans supposedly. Right. And then we saw what happened to reinforce that perception in, in the final, which. Yeah, I mean, just people climbing. Absolutely. Fucking bedlam. Yeah, die hard through the vents. Oh my God. Incredible. Yeah, dude, Copa America and ConcacaF tournaments are fucking wild, man. I was trying to find it. I saw this gif, like, I think on Reddit while the two tournaments were going on between Copa America and Euro. And like, for the euros it was like some guys in suits like shaking hands with each other or something. It was a gifden. And then for Copa America it was this, it was like a WWE match. Like somebody was getting hit with a, with a folding chair and like they want to. So that is, they do have a chip on their shoulder where they think, well, they are. Like, they're collectively, they produce some of the best talents in the world, but they are not at the same level. Yeah, yeah. They don't have the leagues. They don't, and they're not viewed, the Copa America is not viewed with the same level of that the euros are. And they're not doing themselves any favors with this. The obvious reffing, corruption, and the insanity happening from the fans as well. I like the frenetic quality of the Copa America. I think it is very entertaining and unique, but you've got to find a way to keep the frenetic play on the field. It can be, you know, bravado driven, all like, like, all about passion, you know, but keep the fans, like, in a safe space, like, make sure stadiums not, you know, talk to the players about jiving up the fans too much. Like they're entertainers. These guys are entertainers. They should know not to get the fucking fans hyped up like that or go to the stands and fight them. It's unfortunate because there's Columbia fans that, that didn't participate and weren't part of the problem. And I, it feel like, I actually feel sorry for them because, you know, the quality of what Columbia put on the field was great throughout the tournament. It was a great final and it was a great showing from them, but it's overshadowed by all of this other bullshit. Yeah. So is it worth talking about preseason still? There's still, yeah, I mean, there's, there's definitely some stuff to cover. I guess we talk about the scummiest, scumbags in, in Concacaf. Who's that? Oh, yeah, I guess Canada. It's hard to, I guess it would be Canada right now. Yeah. It's tough to say. Right? Like, Canada was my first thought. We're Mexico. Yeah. My first thought was Mexico, but then I had to think about what's happened this week. Just, yeah, so they derek, you, I think you, you had had. Did you have some thoughts on this? I guess, like, it seemed like you're, you were like, geared up to talk about this, so I don't want to steal your, your thunder. Yeah. I mean, I guess his background for the listeners that might not be familiar with that, I mean, it broke this week that it came up acutely because the women's Olympic team was caught spying on, I don't know, New Zealand at first, like, Heather was like, Canada spying on New Zealand. I was like, I don't think there's a political issue or war. No. Between Canada and New Zealand. And then I was like, oh, wait, soccer. But this brought to light like a whole broader issue that people have like. Been completely, they were using drones, right? Yeah, they were using people too, but, yeah, acutely in the Olympics, they're using drones to spy on New Zealand, which I thought was aggressive. Aggressive if you're going to bomb New Zealand. But that's how they got caught. And then there's been fallout from that head coach. It was fired, I think yesterday some staffers were file fired. I think more people probably will end up being fired because apparently this is pretty pervasive. It went on with the men's team. It's again, I think it's really shitty from the aspect of like, this isn't good for CONCACAF, it's not good for Canada, which had become a more of a powerhouse team, has been good. Yeah. And in the women, I think the last Olympics. Yeah. So this is their, their defense. They took a six point deduction for the group stages, so they're their, their defense in the Olympics is basically over. Yeah. It would take a lot for them to recover from starting at negative six, but we'll see. And I think probably my bigger problem, I think, yeah, like that, obviously that's my perspective. But the, the, I have a real issue with. Apparently the US soccer federation knew this was happening and part of what they said publicly was like basically brushed it under the rug because we were co bidding on the World cup, which I think is, it's fucked. A, from a competitiveness standpoint to not report it because I think they had a duty to. And b, it's even worse to do it for selfish reasons, like, like not wanting to screw up the World cup bit. And now you see a bubble up in the Olympics, which is maybe one of the worst possible ways for this to kind of rise up. If they had just rooted it out earlier, but they had been sneaking into stadiums and stuff and spying and security had caught them and all this stuff going back years and apparently we were aware of it. Oh well, if you're not cheating, you're not trying. All right, well, we got rides. Just ask Man City and Bill Belichick. Yep, Bill Belichick. Deflate those balls. Coincidentally, one of our friends, our close friends, his two favorite teams, Man City. And the Patriots, saw Tom Ryan last night. Yeah. Oh yeah. How was the show? How Jess like it? Jess didn't make it because she wasn't feeling well, but luckily Heather was able to go and Heather actually likes blink 982 a lot, so it was really good show. Sweet. I'll throw $300 at seeing them every time they tour because I don't know how much longer it's going to happen. But yeah, when I went with Luke, I don't remember if we've covered this on the podcast, but it got me in a lot of trouble. I think I made us cover it last, last year. Yeah, Shannon. Shannon wanted to go. She asked me months ahead of time. I was like, mistake. Yeah. I was like, I don't want to see the corpse of blink 182. And then the day before, Luke invited me and I had nothing going on and I was like, yeah, let's do it. Was called an asshole. Because I was, I guess I think objectively I was an asshole in that scenario. Uh, you were like, um, it was. It was in the moment, though. You're a momentary. Didn't Luke get in trouble for the same thing? Because you two jackasses basically unintentionally colluded in this stupidity. Yeah. The way I recall it, Luke, you can correct the record. Uh, but I will. I would. I went to the show and I. I said, man, I got in a lot of trouble for this. And Luke's. Or it was before the show. It was the day of or something. I was like, I'm getting a lot of heat over this. And you were like, me too. And I was like, well, do you want to just bring Tessa? And you were like, no. I was like, that'll get both of us out of trouble. And you were like, I'm married. I don't have to care about the amount of trouble I'm getting in. Or something like that. The latter does say, sound like something I would say. Luke's got those mimosa sweats now. Just orange juice today. But I think that it was more of a scheduling thing that I just dropped something else to go to blink 182. Oh, okay. Tezza does not give a flying fuck about blink 182. Gotcha. Yeah. Shannon really either. But it was a fun show. Shannon wanted to see the opener, I forget her name. Turnstile. She was more turnstile. Was for sure more fun to watch than blink 182. Yeah. Anyway, where were we going? We were talking about Canada. So six point deduction. Nobody cares about Canada. I didn't know that about the bid. That's interesting because the US has stuck their nose into, for good reason, into like FIFA. They were instrumental in like Sepp bladders downfall and that sort of crime ring that was being managed in with FIFA that, that got taken down by the United States, the FBI, I think, which is weird because they're a domestic organization. But, but they're, they're the committed. They were working within the US, so they had jurisdiction. Oh, yeah. Okay. That, that, that makes sense with that fat dude. Whatever his name was. The fat dude. He had curly hair. It's like Chuck Glasser or something like that. Oh, like the director of the C. FBI or something? No, no, he was the, he was the director of the. Of the US Federation. I'm gonna find his name on everybody. Um, anyway, so, yeah, they usually. The US is above board on stuff like that. That is pretty self serving and uncharacteristic, which makes it worse. Like if, like, I guess if. If we had a history of. Of, like, ignoring stuff like that, yeah. Then. Then for whatever reason, I'd be like, oh, whatever. To a degree. More of a degree than, like, the fact that we sort of stick our nose into everything, but in this case, where it served us, we. We turned a blind eye to it, so that's troubling. But Blazer, Chuck Blazer. That's like, a porn name. He was. He was part of that said crime ring and then became FBI informant. Okay. All right. Another good ESPN. 50 for 50. Oh, yeah. I'll have to watch that. I've not seen that. Fantastic. Yeah. So, I don't know. Is there more to cover there, Derek? No, I think I read that Jesse Marsh is. Has somehow come out clean. Like, I thought I read something about. How predates him, I think. Well, he just got there, so he kind of has probably plausible deniability. I don't know, though. Jesse Marsh could be someone to cheat like that. Like, I wouldn't put it past him. He has a crazy look in his eyes sometimes, that guy. Yeah. He also needs to, because he's a terrible coach, so anything he could do. I don't think he's terrible. He's a terrible coach. Leads will never be the same again. After. After. Well, I think that's as much Marco Bielsa's fault as Jesse Marsh's. Yeah, fair enough. He did well at Salzburg with Red Bull. Salzburg. Yeah, he did some okay things. He's definitely better coach than Greg Berhalter. Dude, we're getting. There's, like, a small influx of new members of the. Of the discord. Now that I fixed the discord link. People are actually not linking or. No, I had. Okay. But there wasn't limiting me. I. On the. On the. Gotcha. On the podcast, I was gonna say I invited some people, but. Yeah, yeah, the podcast link in the. Like, in the show description, it was somebody my brother pointed out to me that it. It was dead. And I guess discord, if. Unless you specify otherwise, there's, like, a 30 day phase out on a discord link. So I had to set up a permanent link anyway, so, yeah, shout out to. There's a guy, 442 joined, and then another dude just joined, but, yeah, I don't know. More activity on the discord is good, Luke. Maybe we'll say something there one day. I've said one thing already. Oh, you did? I said, I'm here. There was a reason I pulled up discord, though. I don't remember. I'm trying to look through the channels. But yeah. Luke, have you caught any? I'm obviously not watching a lot of the preseason, but I did regrettably watch the Celtic Chelsea match yesterday. We could talk about Tottenham's preseason, but I want to hear what you think about that. That was kind of a weird, weird game. Like. No. Yeah. Did you watch it? I watched some of it and then I watched the highlights. I've watched about 30 minutes of it and then I just watched the highlights to cover the rest. Really poor defending throughout. That was the, it was unstructured team. So we set up with an extremely high line looking like ange ball out there, which is terrifying because. Yeah, I mean, I mean, that got found out pretty quick in the PL and Tottenham cratered and so I don't love the look there and then there. We just seem to. I mean, a lot of this is, I mean, it's not even rust. It's going to be like teething with this brand new system and brand new coach and there's not been much time at all with these players and many of the, the most important pieces of the squad are still gone and the rumor is they're not even going to join up. Like, there's no Palmer, there's no Gallagher, there's no Ku Korea. Who is the most seasoned of our, I guess, backs left back, right back. Who at inverting into the middle? No, it. Inverting into the middle. That is a new, that's a new role for James. And James looked, he looked good in that role in the first match against. Who was it? I already forgot. It was. Oh, Wrexham. He looked decent against Wrexham in the first half. He looked exposed. Him and Lavia looked exposed in this one. Don't you feel like that's a gross misuse of, like, his talent and effectivity? Yes. My hope is that they will invert the left side more than the right. Yeah, I, my hope is that they're using the preseason to expose James to those ideas. James and Gusto to those ideas. So that if they need to make tactical tweaks, that's an option. But then I'm really hoping we're inverting the left once we're, once we have the full squad, but we'll see. So. Yeah, but, yes, I agree. I agree that it is a misuse of both of their. If you're inverting the right, like Gusto looks even worse than James, Gusto look terrible in both ways. Good gusto. I would have bigger. Reese. James has the technical ability to do it. The question is if you can make the half turn, they can. If they can make half turn then they can do it. I don't guess Gusto is so young. It might not be in his pocket yet. Yeah. James played DM for Wigan the whole season, I think. I don't. I don't think he played right back at all for them and he was as a loanee, he ended the season as his captain and as their captain and mvp. So he has the skills. But I do like where is he more valuable? I think probably bombing up the right wing, but then you have to factor in he gets injured a lot and that is more demanding to be bombing up and down the wing all game versus inverting into the middle. Especially if you have possession of the ball for a lot of the match. Well, he'll still be able to make similar runs in spaces but it's really going to be about him coming inside and making the run inside instead of the making the run outside. So he'll still get forward. It'll be interesting. And the Wrexham result was two two, right? Yes, but class to Brendan Rogers. Celtic. Sure. And Celtic. It is worth mentioning that. That I think that was their final preseason match and they like, the scottish league season starts next week. So they're like fully baked, if that makes sense. Chelsea are. This is their second preseason match and they. The first match. So they, they. I think they beat Wrexham in the first half where they had their like their starters on the second half I think is where they let the two goals. And I could, could be wrong about maybe it was one one both halves. But this. The more concerning thing for me is they have, in terms of their defense in possession they have all of their pieces there and I think this was pretty close to what they would like to be their. Their standard backline. So in possession with James inverting they will go to a three at the back. And those three in this match were Badia Shiel Coltwill and Wesley Fafana. I guess Tosin might. Might be like interchangeable there. I'm not sure who the best three will be in, but anyway these are all great players. Maybe Baddie a shield isn't at the level of regard as the other two. And they were just exposed. They didn't know they were too far. Apartheid. They like in a three at the back system, I think you need to stay more narrow and force the ball out wide. And they were trying to cover the wide areas and they were just getting ripped apart up the middle. They were. They were just getting played through and that is concerning. Like all of that is like that. That just looks so bad. Chelsea got exposed repeatedly in that game. It's not like there weren't starter quality players across the pitch in the other positions either. So, yeah, I mean, it's not a good look, granted there's a bunch of people coming back, but it's not like we started with our RC team out there or a bunch of scores. I mean, in Kung Ku's in that lineup, you know. Yeah, I can't remember. He did started. Madrid started. Right. Those are guys that started a lot of Premier League games last season. Mad Wyck looks confused. Well, the position, stupid form, I think. What, winger playing like wingback? Yeah, he wasn't playing wing, wing back. You thought we were in a 3421 with him. Well, I don't know where he was playing now. He is definitely very far forward and attacking. I think that Chelsea had a really good preseason last year where everybody seemed to kind of be, and they had a really bad start to the season. So truthfully, these, these preseason games are often not translatory to like the, the season. Yeah, so that's true. But I, there, I'm concerned because they, the team, it doesn't look like they're so a lot of what, why you see that is because teams don't go 100%. They're trying to get reps in without, without risking injuries, that sort of thing. And I guess later in the preseason you might send it a little more. So that's what you're seeing from Celtic. But. So that's where I have concerns. But I agree generally with that. The point I was going to make on the lineup, and this is something we'll have to deal with as we analyze Chelsea over the coming season, is the like, Mareska system is very fungible. Fungible. So like you kind of have to look at where the player's average position was and not the lineup that the media sets. True. So. But yeah, they're definitely playing. They were playing Noni pretty far forward and I don't, there were moments where I'd like to see him take a shot and it seemed like he's been instructed to look for, I mean, this, we were warned by Lester fans that this would be Maresca values possession over all and it is not the most fun style of soccer to watch. And I think that's a lot of like they're trying to walk it into the net and so Noni, where he. Might have control over the game, it's really about control. It's not about goals. Yep. And so Noni like these positions he works himself in where he might have had to go last season with more freedom afforded to him by Pochettino. He seems to just get kind of stuck in the box and he doesn't understand where he should be putting the ball next. We'll see. He's also linked with Newcastle. Apparently he's agreed terms with Newcastle and he could be shipped off. So we'll see what happens with Noni. I don't know who, what option we have after that because they've said that they want Palmer in centrally, but they also appear to be playing in Cuckoo and Chuquamenka in the, I guess, Mazala role, like attacking midfield type role that. That they were putting. They were. They were earmarking for Palmer. So maybe the plan is to have Palmer out on the right again. I don't know. Yeah. Then you've got no doubt. What do you do with. What do you do with Gallagher? I think there's some athletic Madrid talk there. Yeah, there's definitely needs to be, like, some trimming to that squad and then, like, maybe one really important acquisition. Yes. The numbers are still high, right? Yes. Gallagher needs to be shipped out. How is Sterling still here? Money? No. Yeah. Nobody's gonna buy him. Nobody's gonna pay his. We got Lukaku off the books, did we not? He has agreed terms, but I think. I don't think he's out yet. I think that Napoli tabled an offer of like 25 million and we want 35 million. So those negotiations are ongoing. We didn't accept that, but. Okay. Yeah, we should have. But he. He has agreed terms with Napoli. I think that'll get done. He did not go on tour with the team, obviously. Notably, Trevo Chalaba was left. Yeah, I see that. Which is an absolute shame. Like, it's just fucked up, in my opinion. And he's not injured either. No. He said you can find a club. Yeah, they. But he has said his camp, like, they said they signed him to a huge, like an eight year deal, I think, about a year ago. And he's basically said, I'm not in a rush to get out of here. Like, I'm gonna be selective about the club that I go to and you can't force me out. And, you know, good for him. So is he on one of those long low wage, high benefit or high incentivized? I think that, like, all of them are on that now, except for, I think Sterling and Lukaku are uniquely high paid and maybe chill. Well, and Reese James. Reese James is on high wages. Reese James. Yeah, but Fauna and Kungu. Wow. But there's a big drop. So you're right. It's really Lukaku, Sterling and James. And so that's why, like, you think Sterling's got to be the next one to go. But to your point, we gotta find somewhere. Yeah, we signed him to a pretty long deal. He still thinks he can make it back into the England squad. He's out of his mind that he thinks that, but she believes. No, Raheem. Sorry, Sterling. Yeah, he thinks he can make his way back into the England squad and he, he. So he's not like the only option really, for him with his wages is Saudi. He likes living in London. He wants to get back into the England squad or attempt to do that. And I don't. Yeah, I don't know. I. I don't think he's going. I think he's going to play out his contract with us. We still have Arisa Balaga on the books. He's waiting to see if. Real trimming here and there. Yeah. Yeah. So it's been a weirdly inactive offseason. I think the euros really have held. Euros and concoct happening at the same time. Really. Topa things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So. So, yeah, there's a lot of work to be done still. I'll tell you who the one positive of the two preseason matches that I've seen for Chelsea is. Mark Gui. I think it's how you say his name or you. I've heard it pronounced both ways. 5 million from Barcelona. That dude looks the business. He's a little smaller, right? Shorter. He's like six one. Is he that tall, really? I think so. I thought he was like a short. Little dude, but yeah, I don't think he's. He's not a small guy. Yeah, not. And he's built for that position, I think. Oh, he's six too. Yeah. Yeah, he's pretty tall. All right. Well, on the spurs side, yeah, nothing crazy, just pretty standard. Like preseason games won both of them against. Not great competition, actually. The japanese team was pretty good and they're mid season form. Berg Vol looks good. Bergvaal is going to be a baller. Lucas Berg volatile dude has sweaty and Archie Gray looks good. Yeah, there's like, we haven't really done too much. I feel like we're more on the side of like, let's just see what happens. Which is kind of the Tottenham way, but hopefully we make a couple more signings. I'm not. We just signed like a young japanese player too. South Korea. Is he south korean or japanese? South Korean. He'll come back. Yeah, yeah. Let's talk about Chieza, which would be cool. We have the money to sell. Yeah, he's for sale. Rid of fucking Emerson Royale. Fuck that player. Like I ask when that's gonna happen. I don't fucking question his, his commitment, but he is just not good enough. Yeah, I crazy. You guys, you guys have to have a lot of work left to do, right? Like you, you have a lot of like probably two. Two big signings. I would think RGB was a big signing for. For a club like Tottenham. Yes. Yeah, I agree with that. But don't you have a lot to move on still? I haven't seen a lot of outgoings. Hoiberg left, right. Hoiberg is gone. He's going to Marseille with a obligation to buy. Okay. So yeah, there's been some of that we've released like Ryan Sesign. Young Jed Spence is looking really good actually. But if he's not in plans he'll get sold this summer. So there'll be, there'll be some movement. I just think that outgoings are going to take a while. It seems like it's early in the cycle for Tottenham and Chelsea compared to some other teams that I don't know. Well, the Archer Gray signing is big but Tottenham is worse only at one other thing than buying players. They're only worse at selling players. That's the only thing they're worse at buying. So we'll see how it goes. I'm pretty confident. Pretty bad at winning. Yeah, that's true. Individuals. Yeah. Trope. We did just win the. What was it? The World Japan cup. Oh, did you had a concoct one to win? Exactly. They had them come up with some marketing plan. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Great. Put the. Add that to the cabinet. What do you think of the euro final? We didn't get your thoughts on that, Luke. Super boring. And exactly how you thought that game would come play out. Like I think Spain better team. I think that England hung in there but that game plan is just not really great. I. Yeah, just boring. It was very. You, you knew what was gonna happen from the first minute. You know what think about a goal might happen, a reaction will happen and then the better team will win. Being a Harry Kane apologist, what do you think about him sticking with Harry Kane and Foden and some of the useless players in this tournament so. Well, I think this is true for both Phil Foden and Harry Kane, they weren't playing in the right positions. The team wasn't playing around with their ability. Does here Kane normally play striker? He always comes deep. You watch Byron, he plays like that every fucking game. Well, he had the. He was three goals, so he was like, second. Like, he plays like that every game. Why are you so surprised? I saw him playing defense a lot. He did play a lot of. Like three or four times. I was like, who is that coming. Coming out of the. Coming back? You're coming out of the England box with the. With the ball. Oh, that's. That's Harry Kane. I would describe that as more of a coaching strategy than a playing style. But he always comes deep. The team what the team wasn't built for, what he could play, how he could play. Yeah, it's like Phil Foden is the same way. Like, Phil Foden really shouldn't have that much freedom. Like, stick him in. And Sokka, I thought, was one, at one level, one of the better players, actually, because he was consistent, but he never made runs in behind ever, or made a pass in behind the lines. Like, Cole Palmer should have played more, for sure. And I think that you could have played two up front and Bellingham next to Bryce. It was just like, the coaching was bad. It was so conservative. It was just really, really conservative. And I understand why Gary Southgate did that. Maybe because he doesn't have any better ideas, but the final was just boring. Like, it was. It was just set up to be a boring fucking game. Yeah, I think that. And I'm not trying to, like, have a go at Derek. I thought. I think it was Derek who said this, that, like, you've. There's this idea that you've got to get your best players on the pitch. But I don't. I think that England disproved that. Like, I. I think that that's true. They didn't select players who would be like. They didn't select the players to build the team around. It was just like, put them all out there, see what they do. Right. Yeah, but you got to make them. Play wherever they want. Yeah. Like, honestly, in my. I actually thought Bellingham was terrible in that tournament. He was like, why did Bellingham continue to start. Overhead kick in the. Absolutely right. He was in the wrong position the whole time. And then. And then you can say the same thing about Harry Kane. He scores the winning goal in that game. Right. Yeah. But the team was not built around any of them. It was just all of them. They're like, rumors that Kane was injured the whole time. I would believe that he did not look good. He looked really like, he looked like he wasn't fit. Yeah. And yeah, Bellingham, I mean that was a big season for Jude. He played a lot of games. He was the most important player on the biggest team in the world and went all the way to the CL final and won it. He's very young and yeah, he, he did not look good. There's a lot of, I guess that's a big story this week is I think that I'm gonna get this wrong, but I read about how the FA is joining the players or something like that in their lawsuit against CONCACAF and FIFA or something like there are actions being taken around the schedule, how packed the schedule is. Yeah, it's totally fucked up. Yeah. And I mean this is the season of the Club World cup which is this weird expanded summer tournament that will, what did I read that Chelsea are building a squad with the assumption that they will be playing 85 to 90 matches this season? That's because they'll be in the Club World cup. You might not even know what that is. So if you win the Champions League, Luke, then you're entered. I was wondering how long Luke would let you go with that. Chelsea are getting into that. They're the. So they've expanded the format. They are having it every four years and so the four previous winners of the Champions League are entered into the Club World cup and Chelsea just sneak into that. So it'll be a World cup sized. I guess that'll be like South America's time to try to up their profile on the world stage is the clubs that get entered into that. But yeah, it's too much. It's too many. Too many matches. Never watch any of that. Then watch a high quality like normal season. Yeah, I agree, but yeah, these players, there's obviously an upper limit to the amount you can put your body through and with the injuries we've seen and players that aren't injured just looking gassed like, like Jude. And in that tournament it, something's got to give. Yeah. And I think that that was true of that whole England team. They always look tired. Yeah. And that so going to, going back to Jude. Right. I don't think Jude should have been the player to come out necessarily, but the fact was that that coach did not make any brave substitutions or changes to the team the entire tournament. It was like a team without bravery, which is kind of a, kind of a bummer. Yeah. The Champions League expands this season too yeah. Because they're adding what, three or four teams. I don't know. I don't know how many teams it is. So they. I mean there's the two from Europe at a minimum that get added. Right. The coefficient. I think Italy and Germany. Germany got the, got the additional births and it's going to be this. This crazy. Like I think they're randomly assigning like a number of fixtures and you get points and. And then the top half of the entered teams enter the bracket and then there's a playoff for the last few positions. So the CL. The number of fixtures being played in the CL this coming season is expanding. Last season was already ridiculous in the number of fixtures. I think I read they're making some tweaks to the Carabao cup and the FA cup to reduce the number of matches that are being played. Like. And the amount of time in a match. Like I think that there's. There's going to be no extra time or going to a reverse fixture in the Carabao cup this season. So like in the early ties if. If you drew with a team away then you would like do a replay at home for the Carabao Cup. I think. I think they're doing away with that and they're just gonna go to like penalties. I don't know. So there, there are some like minor steps being made to reduce the number of fixtures, but it's. It's not enough. They're just, they're expanding a lot faster than. Yeah, I don't know. And I want to see the best players play. I don't want teams to have to have this. This like b team. It's entertainment, man. Like there's no point in doing if you're just gonna give off like the second rate stuff. Yeah. Second rate product. Yeah. Put out some of those Americans. Get those Americans in those. Chelsea picked up some American. I don't even know who the dude is. There's. They just signed some guy from the MLS. American player I know nothing about. I won't even pretend to know any. That 15 year old got signed by man city. Right. For when he was 18 or 16. Or I was gonna say made his debut. Right. Got any stats? But he's been playing some minutes. I think Philadelphia is a terrible club and his brother's still better at this point. But it's. Got. Any reactions to that? I almost forgot to bring that up. But I think from my perspective it is. It's good for the US game that were. That we recognize talent that early and we're able to elevate them and get them set up for success in Europe where they probably need to be going. And I think it's good for the us player pool in general. Right. Like anytime we're getting that, that level of talent, I know he's still eligible to play somewhere else. Right. But I haven't seen anything to suggest that he switch. Yeah, I think feels like a really early point in someone's career to put all that on still. Like, you know the horror of Freddy Ado. Right. Like, like we don't want that to happen to any more kids, you know. But I think it's also is exciting that players are getting acknowledged in the us development system early on. I just wish it wasn't such a big like media thing. Thing. I wish it was a little bit more into the COVID Like, let's keep it simple. Like, don't put that much pressure on these kids. Yeah. Kavan Sullivan. His name. Yeah, I couldn't come up with his name. Couple weeks. Apparently he's made comments about like being excited to play for Team USA already and stuff. Now that I'm looking. Oh yeah. Sweet. I hope he stays with the us program. So I think that all bodes well in. I don't know, I mean, I guess on the other hand, it's also good for the MLS to kind of have some excitement around somebody other than Messi in the league too. Yeah. Yeah, I've been, I've been kind of like. Honestly, like, I think the best thing to come out of Messi being MLS is the production value, entertainment value of the game has increased. But I am like super over messing, messy mania for some reason. Like, I. He hasn't played that much. Derek's been over it for a decade. Like, I'm just like, no, like. But coming to MLS, like make it more about what's going on with other teams. Like the only notifications you get are about Miami. Yeah. You know? Yeah. I don't think, I don't think the MLS minds they. I mean, that's just gonna continue until he retires cuz he, I mean he's as. When does he retire, I wonder? I think he signed a three season deal. Okay. So he'll have two more this one. And I mean, he got fucked up in that Copa final. Did you see his ankle? Yeah. Yeah. I bet he's really happy that he wasn't on that team bus. No, he was at the hospital. Yeah. He's probably so stoked that he jacked his ankle up and was nowhere near that shit. Yeah. Anyway, you want to. All right, so we'll transition. I don't know. Is, were there any other topics? I have a couple, like, kind of funny transfer things that we could talk about. So the only other thing I'll say, I mean, for those interested, I mean, I've been trying. I've been doing a bad job of watching the Olympics in general, but the women looked good. And I think from an overarching theme there, I think they've taken well to Emma Hayes's tactics. She seems to have better cemented, like, what she wants to do there. And frankly, it's the most exciting soccer I've seen them playing in a long time. And so while I've talked about how good we. How good the attackers are on that team now, I think she's had a hand in continuing to propel that. So they play at three against Germany. That might be a potential statement game for them. So I'm excited to watch that. And the men got stomped out by France, apparently after playing them close, rebounded against New Zealand. And I forget who they're playing next, but they have, they're in pretty good shape to advance at the quarterfinals, so decent showing from them. Odd selections there, but I chalk that up more to having a completely incompetent us soccer federation and subpar coaches guinea on Tuesday. Yeah. Yeah, I don't watch the. Do you watch the Olympics, Luke? I do not. Not as much as I did when I was a kid, but I'll tune in. The Olympics are just one of those things that have. Have never made sense to me in my entire life. Like, the fervor around it. It's like a bunch of, like, d list sports. Well, I like. Yeah, I only let. I like the Summer Olympics more, actually, because there's more team sports between when the US is playing soccer and basketball. Yeah. And we have great Olympians in swimming in their own right, but, yeah, you're right. Like, outside of the team games, like. It'S tough for me to get excited by Athlon. I do skis with a gun. That's kind of what I kind of. Listen, Norway and Sweden have to have something. Okay. Yeah. I do appreciate that because it brings, you know, there's a little cheesy, but it brings it back to that idea. Like, it's really about loving the game. It's not about being a full time famous athlete, you know? Yeah. You'll break through into pop culture, but really, most of those people, they are just the best at a weird thing that they do. Yeah. And they're there to prove it. Like. Like, swimming, like, in a pool? Like, yes, that is a fan. It's an incredible athletic feat. But, like, Ryan went into visceral detail about how he feels about people that run for fun last week, so we probably don't need to rehash that. I did. I did listen to a little bit of that, and then I called Shannon immediately after and said, congratulations. Yeah, I'm so happy for you. Yeah, she seems stoked about it, which is good. Last year was brutal, so this year definitely, definitely better. And she. We just never. I'm looking forward to going out and visiting her family and not starting off by feeling like shit. Like, I think it's just today that I'm starting to feel normal again from that trip because, like, we fly out there, I'm up. Like, we're there for two days before she kicks off her race, and then I'm up for, like, 36 straight hours crewing for her. She's up and running. Then we're fucking maniacs. For a couple days, we're just zombies while trying to hang out with her family. And then, like, as soon as we start to adjust, we're back on a plane across the country, like. Yeah. And anyways, well, Ryan's making this all by himself. It is pretty badass that Shane had finished. Sure it is. Yeah, yeah. All of that also affects her. Like, she. She. You know, I would say she's up for. Yeah, she's up for 36 straight hours. She had heat stroke this year. Like, they. We were having to cover up the fact that she was probably gonna pass out when she was at the age. She's fine. Just, like, pushing her down. Yeah, yeah. Don't pay attention to the fact that she's just fucking shaking for no reason. Like she does all the time. Yeah, it's. It's just the dumbest thing. I don't want to get on this again, but I can't believe how stupid people are. I was telling my friend about this, and he was like, you need to just write a blog about your observation of these, like, as an independent observer. Yeah. Just. Just, like, what the fuck is it? It replaces religion for. For the people who do this. Like, they just have this, like. Like, we don't exist on the same plane of existence anymore. Like, they're in another universe where what they're doing is what truly living is. Somebody say the same about Luke, right? Yeah. Luke is in a different reality from. The rest of us, for sure. All right, so Barcelona, the sad story that is Barcelona they apparently approached Leipzig to make an offer for Danny almo, which Leipzig said was a surreal offer, where they. Barcelona proposed a $40 million fixed fee to be paid in four years from 2025 with 20 million invariable bonuses and that sort of thing. And that doesn't relate to league or Champions League titles won or anything like that. But Leipzig would receive$0, this transfer window, like, so, like, totally deferred payment until next year. Just like, why the hell would they do that? And then they have, like, the rumor is that they've told Nico Williams that they intend to come forward with an offer for him. They. They are just getting their house in order and they've asked him to not accept offers from any other club. And, yeah, so they're trying to work that out, but this is a club that doesn't have two fucking pennies to pinch together right now. It is. It is crazy. Yeah. I don't know what they're doing. Like, it's like, it's like, just like, hold on for a couple years. Like, use your academy. Like, invest in that, create some players, sell some players. They just keep going after these, like, big names. Like, you don't have money for that shit. You're just digging your own grave. Yeah, well, I mean, for Barcelona, a $40 million fee and Nico Williams release is a 60. I think his wages are gonna be very high. But that. Those are pretty small fees for that club. So they are like the money to do it, but, yeah, they have no money. Right? Yeah, so. So, yeah, yeah. It's all just baffling to me from a financial management standpoint, but, yeah. And how many bankruptcies have you been through personally or cause for company or just help. Help clean up professionally for you to be like this. I haven't seen this before. I wasn't. I wasn't. I wasn't at this. This company's gone through at least one bankruptcy. But that wasn't the one that you're at now. Yeah, yeah. Oh, I didn't. Yeah, they should I tip off? I won't tip off to anyone that, yeah, it has to do with environmental cleanup. But anyways, I'm really rich. Yeah, yeah, I think that's all I got. I mean, they've obviously been tons of transfer. Chelsea picked up a goalie. I think they saw what Robert Sanchez did in that game and they were like, let's. Let's fast chat, track this. So they picked up, like, via reals keeper Jorgensen. He's like a swedish born Dane who, I don't know, they paid 20 million for him. There's rumors that Petrovic will be moved on, but. Yeah, I don't know. United picked up a new center back, immediately got hurt in preseason. Oh, dude. Yes, I saw that. Lenny Yoro. Oh, my God. Yeah, so that's a funny. That's funny for, like. So I had to apologize last week. You missed that, Luke. But I said so. Lenny Yoro was. Was notably a big target for Real Madrid, but they were not gonna. The. They didn't want to pay anywhere near what United like. I guess their valuation, based on the risk with a very young player was closer to 20 million. And United came in and paid like 46 for him. And then he joined them for preseason and immediately went down with what looks like a very bad injury. He had to be consoled by the other players. On the pitch, he was in tears. Uh, it looks really bad. And ten hag said after the match that it does not look good. Uh, couldn't happen to a better club. I feel for euro, but in the same way that, like, I don't care what happens to Tottenham players, I also don't care, like, you made your choice. So you kind of know what you're getting yourself into. Yeah. Like, the. The cosmic horror, Cthulhu, whatever that is happening to Man United. If you choose to go there, then, yeah, I mean, fuck around and find out, I guess. I don't know. They moved Greenwood on. He went to some french team. Did that actually close. Was it Marseille? I think it closed. Dude, Marseille are buying anything that isn't bolted down. Isn't that where. Yeah, Marseille. Isn't that where. Raina. What a scumbag club. All right, I think that's where Raina's linked. You're gonna have to like that scumbag. I'm not gonna. I'm not for. Yeah, I'm not gonna watch that shit if Greenwood's there. I don't understand how Greenwood's not playing in a fourth world country like Spain. Again, but whatever, he'd fit right in in saudi. Yeah, he's. He's linked to Marseille, it looks like. Wait, how do they have this money? Did they get bought out by someone? Yeah. What'd you say? He's already there. Raina, apparently. Sorry about Greenwood. Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm talking about Raina. It looks like Raina is heavily linked with Marseille. All right. Yeah. All right, guys, that's probably a pod. What are we at? Yeah, this is a good one. Pretty, pretty concise for us. So, anyway, not a lot to cover it's. A preseason. I don't know when the league starts up. It's early August, mid August, somewhere in there. So we're looking forward to that. But in the meantime, please leave a review, rate this podcast like, and subscribe. 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