Frustration with US Mens Soccer

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So when I saw Brett Ehrlich on the guest list, I'm like, is that the dude from the Rotten Tomatoes show thinking that nobody would understand the reference that I was making because it was on Al Gore's network. Look at look at how excited he is right now. He's the director of programming of the Young Turks Network. He's a comedian. He's been doing a lot of funny political comedy for a while. He's the host of Happy Half Hour Wednesdays, 8.30 p.m. Eastern. But what's the matter with you, Brett? You you look like you were raising your hand like a kid in class wanting to talk. Well, I'll you know, when I got the invite, I thought it was an April Fool's joke because this is kind of a dream come true for me . And it wasn't until that moment that everything became real. So I'm happy to be part of it. Thank you for watching the Rotten Tomatoes show. Um I we always joked that we were minor league cable sensations, and apparently that's the truth. Thank you so much for watching in Ought 8. I hate to break it to you, Brett, but this is an elaborate April Fool's joke. You're not on the show. Uh but what's a dream come true? Because uh the reason I wanted to have you on is I heard you I've been fascinated by what's going on with the billionaires in this country. I've been fascinated watching what happened uh to Elon Musk and how his public persona has persona has shifted, and I specifically was very interested in the way you talked about uh political comedy and Jon Stewart going after him, and why it is that you love that as comedy more than any other kind of comedy. So thank you for joining us. But why is this a dream come true for you? I've been listen I used to listen to you on the way to work every day. I uh follow everybody involved in your uh in t I love just this pod of people who are not only covering sports, which is a passion of mine, like my dad played football for UCLA, won the Rose Bowl in 66, my cousins Bill Lee pitched for the Red Sox, huge sports fans all my life, uh in our family, and then uh hearing people still kind of speak their mind and say what they want to say. It's it's it's awesome. It's fantastic. It's a dream come true. There's tons of uh fans of you guys over at TYT. Uh well thank you for joining us. Uh can you explain to the audience here uh what it is that you were saying uh before we get into the damage that Elon Musk is doing, uh specifically what you like about the details of Jon Stewart and Elon Musk going back and forth? Just about the two of them going back and forth. It is the difference between a billionaire and a comedian. Comedian, especially a Nepo baby comedian uh billionaire like Elon Musk. This is someone whose dad could afford a uh emerald mine and bought it with money he got from selling a plane, which is a mad lib of the mad state of affairs of billionaire life. Um, and then so yeah, basically he did that, and everybody said yes to this guy his whole life. And if you're a comedian, you're you basically spend a lot of time in literal underground um subterranean comedy clubs, and people are saying no to you, and it's your job to get it right, to understand something fundamental about the human condition, and then if you do that long enough with enough different subjects, then you get to the level of Jon Stewart, and you are essentially you've been training your whole life for this. And Elon Musk has just been getting weaker and weaker as he's become more successful and more successful surrounded by yes men. Uh Stewart has said that Musk's ex algorithm has greatly acted in the warping of our democracy. And Musk responded by calling Stewart an extremely skilled propagandist disguised as a truth teller. What is the real damage done here? Well I mean the best is like the response from John Stewart who's like, well you're just a really skilled propagandist, implying you're not even masquerading as a truth teller. Basically, in the wake of Joe Biden's Super Bowl tweet getting more um exposure and impressions than Elon Musk's, the reports were that Elon Musk's like pulled together all of his engineering team to say, please make me cooler and more famous. Make it so people, whether they opt in or opt out of my tweets, interact with my tweets or not. Fundamental things about the algorithm they're supposed to signal to the algorithm like whether your ideas are good. He's like, could you please do away with that and make it so that I'm in everybody's inbox? Because I'm rich, which makes me better. And we can just force feed my ideas as we masquerade saying that this is a you know free exchange of ideas, the great marketplace of thought. When really it's he's warping everybody's perception of reality because you know as, soon as you go on twit on um on Twitter or X or whatever he calls it now, you're just surrounded by like the worst ideas you don't particularly like or agree with. And the only people uh who rise to the top of that are people who agree with Elon. Uh you guys have seen that report, right? That eighteen engineers were called in in the middle of the night because Biden had a Super Bowl tweet that had more engagement than Musk's Super Bowl tweet. Uh for people who don't understand, Brett how, is it that this has actu ally had an impact on democracy? How is it that this platform has this power, and how is it that this person knew that this platform would have the power to actually bleep with democracy. Time I got invited to lunch when I was working at Al Gore's Current TV by a guy who wrote it in the New York Times and he was telling me all his secrets. We just kind of had a few beers and he was like, Listen, when I write when not him personally, but when people write articles, there's this phenomenon called one-to-trend . And basically, if you can find two things that say the same thing, that's not an article. But if you get three things that say the same narrative, well then you're good to go. Go ahead and print it. And Twitter is just always the fastest thing at helping you look what's happening now and then see what people are saying about it. And if you are the laziest, least common denominator type of journal ist, well, you can just find those things super fast and throw them up there. And that is the kind of like self-reinforcing dynamic of Twitter that helps not only get people who go to Twitter to see what's trending right now. So something's at the top. That's the narrative as soon as it happens. I don't know anywhere else where that happens because like either you're live, if you're live, you're like looking at Twitter to see and you're broadcasting just stuff on Twitter. It was like the fastest uh place to find out what's happening and and and what people are saying about it. And if you can get in charge of that, you're not only controlling Twitter, but you're controlling all the reporting on the subject that's breaking now. Let alone like the source video from people who are there. Mike Ryan theorized something I had not heard before today. Have we killed April Fool's Day because of the amount of disinformation out there? At this point, people are too careful and you cannot do April Fool's Day correctly anymore yeah I think you can you just have to and I know this is uh harder to do now like know the person personally and you have to like have small little micro interactions where you like totally ruin it for someone. But like on a macro level, the thing I've been saying for years is like we've never had so much access to so much information with so little idea as to what the hell is happening. That's a hell of a sentence on our tombstone. And Brett, it's a coordinated effort, right? I I th like y I you had things like Photoshop and and things in the twenty teens start making their way in there. Dan was constantly fooled by a shark that was swimming in a in a mall or on a street corner. But but once like the blue checks were a free for all and you had no idea if the person w was y I mean Elon, as you mentioned, he tried to tout this as a news source and then he did away with the uh the guardrail that ensured that you knew that it was coming from an authentic source. This all seems by design, so you can't actually hold those who are lying accountable. Yeah, and then add to the sprinkle in that, like him just wanting to be cool. And like that's it. Like he just wants to be cool. So he's he puts all that stuff together and you don't know what's happening, but you know that the people I see like I never inter I used to like Russell Brand. Like he came on the Rotten Tomato Show. He was awesome. I blocked him, muted him so many times, he's still in my Twitter feed, but like, yeah, I it's it's rough, man. It's rough to find out what the heck's happening. Hey Roy buddy. You know that energy shift when the game gets good and everybody all together in unison knows to stand up on their feet. Oh absolutely Mike. Yeah you've been at many big time sporting events. You know that moment quite well. That's what it's like when you take your first sip of Quervo. Oh delicious. It's the signal that says, we're not checking the time anymore, pal. It's when small talk turns into stories. Quervo, man, it's at high five a random stranger effect. That's right. The game is popping. You're hugging people you never met before. 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And so people just rejected it because it didn't feel authentic. It felt like they had an agenda. It's not being funny and it started feeling like I was in a class I didn't take. But if you look at what happened to the talk shows and why their ratings are low, it's got only to do with the fact of what you just said, which is they all became the same show. Yeah. And they all became so about their politics and who's good and who's bad. And it's like, imagine sitting next to someone like that on a fing plane. Oh. Bro, you'd be like, how do I get out of this fing city? Holy cow. You fart your way out of it. There it is. The thing I this is what I don't like about those guys. I mean, I love Vinz Vaughn. He's super funny. I love Theo Vaughn. He is the best at saying ridiculous things well. But like, all this, it's just the criticism so or the hypocrisy is so obvious. Like, so what's your counter-argument from people who say that? It's a lot of people who are like, I'm gonna tell you my political opinions, I just don't like yours because they conflict with mine . And I understand, man. Like it's super cringe when you're watching like a late night TV show and someone like you just turned it on to find out like who's the star in the latest movie, and you get some kind of like polit ical message that isn't well crafted. Like if that happens, that's bad. But if the joke is good and the criticism is undeniable, then you're just complaining because you don't like the truth He's saying this on Theo Vaughn's podcast about you know talk shows becoming an echo chamber and and propaganda machines. Theo Vaughn's like we had Yeah, and exactly it well, he's just like a patsy, right? Like it's funny, like right before uh Charlie Kirk was killed, like we had him on the show, on our show on TYT a bunch. Like, just to find out, like, what are your were what are your thoughts? How do they overlap if like a gener ally like people first movement? Like, what do you agree with that we say? Um and like yeah, I I don't know, man. Like all of those I I I made a video afterwards, or like right before he was killed, where I was just showing all the manosphere appearances with all these right wing people who were trying to, you know, obviously being like, my skill is I don't sound like a politician. I'm still full of crap when I talk. I just am full of crap differently. I'm I'm JD Vance, I wrote a movie. I'm a chill guy, right? Even though he's a robot, I saw him in a Walgreens at the at the RNC and he instead of walking like this, he walks with his hands forward like this, like a robot. He's not a person. He's just good, he's better at masquerading as one than everybody else. And I said uh in in this video, it's funny because Joe Rogan just said this out loud on his show. Like, I want those guys to keep talking to it because when they're not there doing snow jobs on Theo Vaughn's show, they go back to their like turning point USA conferences and their arguments are so dorky . Like it's Ben Shapiro going like oh look at this cover of this album with Taylor Swift. What's she doing? Her butt's out it's like, yeah, so you're telling Theo Vaughn like you don't like girl butts? What happens when they re recognize that, right? And all their arguments are like, listen, like they're odd oddly obsessed with and they're wrong about sports stuff. Like their main argument is like Travis Kelsey. That's the most offensive part. It's true. They're like, oh my god, Travis Kelsey can now afford a ring. Yeah. Because he's with Taylor Swift. It's like his podcast is worth a hundred million dollars. You guys just don't know that stuff. They're so dorky, and then everybody's gonna catch on. And that's what's happening now. Happy half hour with Brett Ehrlich is where it is that you find him. I mean the one thing that's happening right now is like the Christy Gnome situation with her husband. Um basically she's cheating on him with Cory Lewandowski according to all the um reporting, and now it's come out someone has leaked it, not Chris Siddome, that he likes to dress up with like boobies and you know, interact with adult stars online or whatever. Which I'm fine with. I just think it's I I don't know why they're breaking up. They both like to play dress up in front of people . That's weird. Uh I was trying to read into what you were saying 'cause my first thought was who benefits from this? Chrissy Noam actually. I there they're gonna be a a huge there's a huge portion of people that won't feel any empathy towards her at all, right? But this does kind of help rationalize the affair that became so public during the congressional hearing. This is kinda like making her a sympathetic figure for the eventual book tour. I think to a degree. So it wouldn't surprise me if she were behind this this orchestrated league. Oh a hundred percent. And also the the s the quotes are from her like, I am devastated to learn this. Well you're not even doing that narrative right. If you're learning this now, why did you sleep with Cory Lewandowski? If you l if you knew it before it could motivate that, but it seems like you're just post hoc justifying your dalliance. Uh Brett, thank you for your maiden uh voyage on the show. It was good talking to you. We appreciate your time. So you don't follow any of us on social media by the way. Yeah, you don't follow me on Instagram or Twitter. He follows me. Listen, I don't what? I don't like painstakingly check to see who's following me on Instagram, but you guys do, and so that takes you down a notch for me. Look, you embarrassed me in front of Brett. He's the director of programming of the Young Turks Network. Uh thank you, Brett. I appreciate it. You're pathetic, all of you. Looking and whether he's following you or not. I'm disgusted by all of you right now. Thank you, Brett. That's not surprising. K-pop Demon Hunters, Haja Boys Breakfast Meal and Huntrick's Meal have just dropped at McDonald's. They're calling this a battle for the fans. What do you say to that, Rumi? It's not a battle. So glad the Saja boys could take breakfast and give our meal the rest of the day. It is an honor to share. No, it's our honor. It is our larger honor. No, really. Stop . You can really feel the respect in this battle. Pick a meal to pick a side. Ba-da-ba-ba-ba. Participating McDonald's while supplies last. The Libertard ! He called me on my own podcast. He called me full of shit claiming that I'm faking interest in the solar eclipse. But you do do this. You love to just get excited about everything. Okay, Junior. Stugats. I had to school you and explain to you. He was gonna take you to Augusta. I mean when I was 17 years old, Alan Cherry and I used to haunt the Bueller Planetarium. This is the Don Levatar Show with the Stu Gats I want to get to something here because our looks like tournament is about to uh conclude and it has been resuscitated. The listeners by writing funny. It's the hard uh it's the hardest kind of writing that anyone does. By writing funny, the listeners resuscitated the looks like competition this year. It was a great tournament. And so what I have done to celebrate the listeners doing that is I have gathered all of our previous champions together in a room for a big uh I I want to have some pageantry around where it is that we're headed right now. So we've invited all our luminaries in the history of the looks like contest. These are the greatest uh champions in the history of look like the goats. The goats all-time goat of our tournament? Yes, that's's what uh what's been invited into the room to present our uh champions. And before I get to that, let's do a goat conversation, shall we? Let's do a goat conversation, and it is presented by Frank's Red Hot. Make every dish You guys are not going to remember uh the first champion in the history of the looks like tournament, and he is no longer with us, but it was Lou Holtz, and it was represented by Lou Holtz. Looks like a train conductor. Another game to play here is who voiced that? That one's pretty clear, but there'll be a few tricky ones. Bob Lee, the goat? That was Bob Lee. Is that the goat discussion we're having? Bob Lee also he would be a GOAT voiceover guy. Lou Holtz looks like a train conductor. I don't know how we got him to say yes to that. Dude, yeah, I I worked it for months. I'm very proud of that. Uh Villanova, who was the voice and the champion on Villanova? Jay Cutler looks like the guy trying to break into a house on an alarm company commercial. That was 2016 champion right there. The voice? Play it again, play it again. Jay Cutler looks like the guy trying to break into a house on an alarm company commercial. Is that Kevin Winter? I don't believe that's a Kevin Winter. That is a broadcast voice at ESPN that we were using, but I don't know. Was that uh Dan Dan uh the Bongino, yes, the Duke Davis ? I'll text Billy. I don't remember that voice. Roy's got no Roy's got no nominee here. No, it was definitely uh Radio Sports Center anchor. I think uh that's ringing a bell. And the Duke Davis. Sure. That yeah, sure. Sounds right. Yeah, that's it. I think I have his last name wrong though. I think he might have been Dan the Duke someone else. Dock it. Double D. The 2018 champion was Villanova. That means this was the champ. Jackie McMullen looks like your mom's friend Carol . Ha ha ha The two thousand and nineteen champion was Virginia. Virginia was represented by Tony Saraguso looks like the guy about to take a bite of a hot dog , only to have it stolen by Spider-Man swinging overhead. This one's Daniel Baldwin Daniel Baldwin. Daniel Baldwin. I thought that was actually Saragusa voicing his own. Tony Sarag uso looks like the guy about to take a bite of a hot dog, only to have it stolen by Spider Man swinging overhead. Champion was the following. Andy Reed looks like the small town sheriff that falls asleep while watching the prisoners, wakes up briefly to yell out, who's there to no one in particular, and immediately falls back asleep while the prisoners continue to carefully reach for the jail cell keys dangling from his belt. Unreal. Amazing. Now that was fan voted because in twenty twenty there was no March Madness tournament, so that was voted by fans. Thank God, FSC would have won it. I mean not thank God for COVID. Let me take that one back. Stop down, re-rack, play on for me. Wipeswipe cube. Carl Ravich was the voice on that one. That one was decided It's a play on for me. Fine bucket. Play on? How the hell is it a play on the tomorrow? If it were Ravi, I would have been wigging out That's a bold faced lie . Did somebody say lie? I was trying to do I was trying to do fibula and I did it poorly. No, we know, we know. Uh 2021 2021 champion Baylor was represented by Doug Peterson. Looks like he specifically asked for full custody of the basement air hockey table in his divorce. Honestly, we should bring Go Piss Mike back. I honestly tried. I forgot all about that guy. That was great voice. One more time, one more time. Doug Peterson looks like he specifically asked for full custody of the basement air That was an inspired choice. I worked on that one for months. Put it on the poll. Do you remember Goat Piss Mike? It's a tough get for you. Goat Piss. Yeah. Tougher than Bob Lee. We're not talking enough about Dan Hurley. Dan Hurley won the looks like tournament in 2023 with his Yukon team . Everyone just calls D . That's a great one. I forgot that champion. Paul George looked like your brother's friend, Devin, who everyone just calls D. That's a good group of champions. Is it done? I never wanted to end. That was it. That's those are all our champions gathered here today in order to welcome in the final four. You can also on Greg Cody's podcast, the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody, he's gonna perk up here because there's a recent uh Mount Greg Four or what's it called? The Mount Greg Four bracket challenge show. Greg Four or Great Four. Greg Four. One word, Capital F. And we're down to the final four, which is um hoops against um Nobody knows nobody knows what this is. You can feel free to explain to anybody what it is. Do you know what it is? You have to seem excited about it. Greg, look, it can't be this, okay, Greg. It can't be I'm only sitting here so that you promote my podcast and then we promote your podcast and you don't know anything about your podcast. You're flipping through papers and you're like I think it's uh You wanna know I mean you can't it can't be I need you to promote my podcast and then it's that kind of indifference when I go you wanna know the final in Nets versus hoops or pools versus sixty-fours? Give us the winners in all four. Like give us the winners. Why have you checked out on the show? What happened? Are you tired after two days? You faded out? You haven't been listening for the last 20 minutes. No, I have. Well, what happened? What I went to you sit around here waiting for me to give you the opportunity to promote your podcast. It's the moment that you're waiting for. Right. I asked you about the Mount Greg for and you just ruffle through some papers and you're like, what is this you're asking me about? Is it because you're tired at the end of two days? Full of energy. Are you bored by your own podcast? What is it? No, I'm I'm not. Um you can vote on these final four in the two semifinals. It's hairnets versus whoop. There it is. So the winner of Nets was hairnets. Because remember there were five, then and Nets moved on. The winner of Hoops was Whoop. There it is, which I always mistook on the water asking . There it is. And the other two finalists. In sixty-four versus pools, we have Nintendo sixty four versus unfortunately swimming pools. Swimming pools what? Yeah. I didn't know it the shower. Second place was uh a pool of blood. Which I campaigned for. Don't go showering. But the el the election voted in swimming pools. What is the pools category ? Well, swimming pools won. Yeah, so I can't. Office pools. I can clean this up. The category was in general pools and he had top five pools which were uh There we go. It's getting it's getting late on it on a back to back. Pooling resources. Pooling resources. That was one option. Um number two was another Greg Cody three and out. Yeah. Pool of blood. It was a small pool of blood, though. Right. It was like a trickling down of blood. Yes, it was. Which I would have voted for. When Ehrlich was on, um I had to really refrain from doing a Joe Biden impression when Biden came up. Craig, let me get you back in your comfort zone. Go ahead. All right. Usually you can count on talking about you being the comfort zone, but we can't count on that today. Uhhuh. I I don't know if you watched the soccer yesterday. It was the the the final round of World Cup qualifying. Yeah. Uh a lot of newsworthy stuff there. And the US, who doesn't have to go through this qualification process as a host, uh played Portugal and once again embarrassed itself. Yeah. And look, it wasn't but a few months ago in the fall of twenty twenty five where you kinda had reason for hope, they had this five match stretch where they beat Japan, they drew against Ecuador, they beat Australia. They beat Paraguay, they beat Uruguay, and you had faith that okay, maybe Pochettino's approach of not playing the SARS and getting depth, maybe that's working. Yeah. And now the last few months of play from this team, as we're just two and a half months away from the World Cup, is listless. Right. This this is pissing me off so much because we were looking forward to this World Cup for so long. We thought this generation of players would give the United States a true chance to go deep in a tournament that they were hosting, and they look jaded by the overall experience. Like, what is wrong with this generation of players? They don't have an identity, they don't have a mentality, they don't seem happy to be there, they don't seem to want to be there. Yeah, and and arguably their best player player Pelusic hasn't scored a goal since December of twenty five. He's playing like shit. He's playing like shit. And and I can't recall the last time they beat a team from Europe. I think they've lost six, seven games in a row against European clubs, which you sorta have to beat. And now all of a sudden, to your point, you wonder if they're gonna get out of the group stage. Uh they could they could be a colossal fizzle in the World cup they're hosting. You're right. And and they're favored to get out of the group stage, right? Because it's an easy group. It's an easy group, but they got major problems here. From team selection to inspiration to creativity. The'yre playing the wrong guys. They should probably be doing a back three. They're not going through the right guy in attacking. Look, I I don't want to sound like a broken record here, but the U.S. mentality was always that of an organized backline and a counter-attacking team to make use of our athletes. And this whole approach where we're gonna try to play with Germany, the way that Germany plays, you get played right off the pitch, and you're not even that when you're going up against the likes of Panama. Right? Panama drags you into the mud and you don't have answers to it because you're you're too busy trying to play Jogo Benito. This is stupid. This is stupid. Now the only hope, because I don't have hope for this manager. I I was trying to couch my initial opinions on it, but he's a career Pochettino's a career loser. No, I was high on the aspiration that they went out and got a name and I was hopeful that it would work, but I followed soccer for se seververalal decades at this point. Pochettino's a loser. Well wait, did something this recent loss is the one that broke you? No. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity. There were generations that came and went that didn't have the opportunity. It still is. They're in an easy group. Yeah, yeah. It still is. And the only hope that I have is that there are adults in the room that realize that they have an easy path and the knockout round. And then when it's a knockout round, it's a whole new ballgame. And that the the hopes of a nation actually connect with them because this generation of players has been so difficult for any manager to connect Accountability. They they what has this team ever accomplished? You know, I miss going into games against Belgium and games against Portugal thinking I had a chance. I'm tuning in to see how bad it's going to be. Greg, I have zero hope in these matches. Greg, I hate, okay, always as analysis . I hate. I don't think those people care or want to be there. How can he make that accusation before we have we're less than a hundred days from the World Cup? How how can he credibly make the accusation as someone who cares about that sport, and it's not about our players are bad. We've been mad at American men's soccer for the almost the entire time we've had America's men's soccer, except for one Landon Donovan goal that represents the excitement about United States soccer. How can he make that accusation and you don't flinch on our players don't want to be there? I don't feel as vehemently as Mike does, but their recent results beg that opinion. And at a time when you're looking for a tailwind, you're looking for some momentum to take into June, they've done the opposite. They they've slumped the the they've been a very We're not we're not gonna do this with World Cup soccer where we psychoanalyze and say this guy's wrong for saying they they don't care enough. That is recognized as analysis the world over for legit health class. But how can that be? But Dan Dan I think Landon Donovan has said this before. Like the the it's it's people . This isn't Mike being a guy on his couch with a beard these guys don't care as he eats Cheetos out of his belly button. This is like something that's being said by people who have played for the US men's national team, who are now analysts. They they it's something that's being talked about very openly in the soccer world. The way they play the game is such an insult to anybody that has invested anything in this program hoping for this World Cup. I was looking forward to this World Cup the second that it was whispered as a possibility. Maybe. Maybe. In 2002, we went to the quarters. But my right? In 2002 in Korea, we went to the quarters. And we were supposed to be building on that. The generation missed a World Cup, and finally, we don't even have to go through the qualification process, thank God, because we're hosting. And this is just insulting. To not think you have a chance. They missed that. Maybe they needed to go through a qualification . You know, they they got a free ticket into the World Cup, and I don't think that's helped their preparation in the least. I I desperately want someone in that room to show me they care. I want to see a sense of urgency. I want to see a sense of acknowledgement of the history and how hard it's been for this program to get to the point that where it where it is right now. It's it's sucky right now. I don't have faith in the manager, I don't have faith in the players. I don't even like them. There it is. I don't like them. As his terms can be, it's sucky and he doesn't like them, and it's about to get worse. You know what the rarest of things is? Mike has been very careful about where it is that he places his expectations because to get excited about things is to get disappointed about them more profoundly. This feels like a giant customer betrayal that you can't count on your team, even around the patriotism, to act like it's caring when you've been caring about the sport for twenty years, trying to build it up to this in this country to get to these games. Dan and Greg, they could have these results and have in previous ramps up to the World Cup, and I would still hold out hope and belief that the American underdog spirit when it comes to international soccer would prevail. This team has to show us that they are capable of doing that. So far, the signs are not there. You're out already. I'm not I look