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So we do this show at dinner time or supper time as I always called it growing up We always called the evening meal supper. Did you always call dinner? I called it supper and dinner. My nana said I think my nana said supper a lot Both in midwestern farm country dinner was the noon meal Really lunch was like a snack What would you have for lunch at dinner? You know, maybe you'd have whatever you would normally have just for a very light snack Not even that like if you're lunch lunch was like, uh, some chips or just something light But dinner was like the the noon meal. I think that comes from farm Breakfast was breakfast And then I love breakfast But anyway, we're talking about about restaurants that we've enjoyed through the years and some that we don't frequent as much anymore and the greatness Of these are people who could advertise I suppose Of the cheesecake factory number one. Yep. Number one as everything I used to go to the cheesecake factory all the time. Like when I was in high school all through college 20s like that was the go-to place because you just knew anytime you would go there you're gonna get a good meal And bj's is another one that you discovered when you moved down Moved here. Yeah, and I haven't been there in like six years, but it got me thinking because their menus really yeah There was one where we near where we used to live in carolton We're up a little farther north now, so might have to try to find another one But anyway, our our dinner habits In in this job are kind of weird because we're you know, we're always at work the early evening Um, and i'm bad about bringing stuff from home I've tried to do a little more lately trying to mix in some salads now and then, you know Yeah, you always bring good salads just finished a sandwich. Nothing too exciting. You know ate an apple. Yeah, I hate candy I don't need any other sweets apples or all the all the sweet treat. I need. Yeah, you didn't bring anything You've you haven't been eating at work very much. I think that's a conscious decision on your I did have a little popcorn and I have my okay. So we have Back in the creative services department. They have little candies like miniature ones. So every day I allow myself too many ones because why? Deprive yourself completely It doesn't mean I I don't have days where I don't eat what I want because I I do Like I think two weeks ago I told you I went to whole foods and I got these like donut muffins like mini ones and a pack of nine And I ate them all You clearly don't do that much because the fact is and viewers notice this That you have you have lost weight in the last there was a free-for-all. Um, training camp promo that's running from a couple of years ago And you're like we need to update that And I said no, I like the way it looked two years ago I'm going in the opposite direction as you but you've just you've become very disciplined in your eating and that's and that's a tribute to You for me. Thank you. Mike. Um, it's it's not perfect, you know It's the last sincere thing i'll say in this 30 minutes what works for me What's worked because of our schedule is i'm very big into intermittent fasting. I I it's worked for me I know there's been studies that my whole thing is different things work for different people So if I do intermittent fasting, maybe that doesn't work for you because you know, we're just used to different things When I when i'm hungry i'll eat but that's been my thing and I think it's worked. Um, and I I try to eat whole foods because I think those are filling. Um, I love greek yogurt Like and that has a ton of protein in it So I try to eat things that keep me filled but as you know, I have my days where I break down here I'm like f it i'm gonna go to the the break room and get Treats and everything else and that is my weakness among many is I don't really snack when i'm at home But here it's hard not to just kind of our job, you know, we sit around a lot. There's there's time between shows and stuff What's a guy gonna do go down the hall see what our editor friend yacob has There's always sweets around. I have a terrible sweet tooth, but I need to just stick with engineer tom's popcorn. He is like a real movie theater popcorn type machine Fresh popcorn every day. That's all we need a couple of servings of that good fiber 20 of this h2o Uh popcorn has fiber so it keeps movement, uh in the body if you know what i'm saying and then that's Become kind of a theme of the show as you'll discover in a moment Fiber you think it's important to you now? Wait a couple of years. What am I waiting for? How about that world cup Anyway world cup final is set feel like i'm around my brothers Spain argentina sunday at two on fox france england in the third place game, which again I think is weird My mom texted me. She goes. Why are they playing those two teams? Aren't gonna want to play like mom. It's different. It's Pride of the nation. They're still gonna get out there and will the frontline players play in that landry? Do you know have you paid enough attention in the past? They will okay. Well good for them I mean, it would be hard to play. It would be difficult but You got to just put it out of your mind Spain argentina, we know that you pick spain before the tournament started. So obviously you're going to pick them in the final I'm going to pick argentina not just to be contrary But I I think hard to bet against them story will continue to be written of messi and I could see it happening and Peter whelpton our world cup analyst breaks it down here in a moment and he sees a game unfolding that could be really tight close to the vest not many shots throughout Both teams can kind of operate in that way for different reasons to hear peter say it I could see it coming down to a messy goal in In stop in stoppage time that would be just like argentina to decide it because it's happened In the last four knockout stage matches, um, they've done that they haven't led through 90 minutes of play so I like how peter described argentina as being chaotic because that to me is the polar opposite of the spain team. That's just kind of Calm cool collected and steady and they play a true team game earlier this afternoon there was a little short piece on messi and I didn't realize this but there was a time where spain was gunning for him to be on their national team And then because argentina really didn't know about him. He was playing for barcelona and he was kind of unknown In his home nation of argentina, which is so hard to believe but it never quite happened But just to think that that was actually a possibility and of course He's so well versed with a bunch of guys from spain eight of the players on spain play for barcelona. So yeah All right, the peter whelpton serious soccer stuff's coming up in a moment But we had some fun with peter before We kind of knew that we were rolling here and recording and landry was recording it and it's just it's a behind the scenes Look, i'm gonna pull back the curtain as to some of the fun We have with our guests from time to time, especially a guy like the great peter whelpton. Here we go Hey, hey, hey Hey guys. Yeah. Oh, there we go. Hey peter I was singing and everything you missed it. Oh, well There'll be another time. Would you sing some more please peter? Can you hear me? This needs to be its own show Mike just likes to hear himself in the microphone because he likes the way the sound he's like in his ear These mics are fantastic These are like the mics those whatever those re 20s or whatever they use it at the ticket, you know That really make everything sound really good. Like bob stern is is an alto in real life is his voice. No, i'm just kidding We kid i'm doing one to three tomorrow with mino peter it should be quite a Couple of hours from the card show and alan at the marionette there So looking forward to that tell the story when uh, messy checked you out on the sidelines. That's a great story Given the fact that it wasn't me and you know, damn well, it wasn't me it was sam and and david centenri a news reporter So yeah, i'm really i'm gonna tell the story now and with this bitter tone of voice I have right now Mino you want to you want to know a story indicative of our coverage at fox for it? funny story 32 years at the station one time on the sideline. Isn't that funny? That's good Peter's like get me out I can do this every day. All right, here we go. Oh Ready Are you ready? My mood swings even frighten me sometimes peter they really do is it warm in here or is it just menopause is hard Yeah Because for the first time in five weeks peter, uh, our our normal off days are happening We have our normal off days tomorrow and saturday Me landry and mike all have the same days off. Mm-hmm. That's good good times So we're all going to six flags tomorrow, it's gonna be fun are you gonna ride the ride Oh heck no, I wouldn't I I have no interest in going on any of those roller coasters Mike are you gonna ride the tormenta? I can't handle that stuff anymore. You still love them. Do you like it? Peter? The last time you rode a really scary ride Uh, that isn't a euphemism, I mean literally Uh, my wife and I went to disneyland a couple summers ago and I rode the the incredibles one Which was pretty intense actually I was pretty you know I used to hate roller coasters and then I got older and I said eff it what I gotta lose and I started riding the roller coasters and I think that tormenta one might actually, um, you know That looks ridiculous in person when my girls were literally a bridge to go to disney world And I did I like the rock and roller coaster. That was it wasn't really herky-jerky, but that tower of terror that thing With this great drop that too. That was I went on one I've only been on one roller coaster. It was years ago When my mom's dad my grandpa took us all to six flags all my cousins I went on one roller coaster and never again never doing tea cups It wasn't no it was it was like a medium-sized one, but it was I did not like it I freaked out some of these you've got to You just I mean not to get graphic, but you just have to make sure the depends are are securely fast I'd rather go can really be difficult the people behind you could be in for some nasty things I'd rather go cage diving with great whites. Oh, is that right? Yeah. Well, you're a water creature of the water Did uh deon's uh commercials sell you on depends? Oh They were a part of my life long before that peter, all right, here we go. We're about ready to go That is called a behind the scenes look if you have ever seen one hashtag edgy hashtag Unscripted right there. This is kind of the fun. We have with the tickets peter welton. He's our world cup Analyst and we'll get down to the nuts and bolts of that spain argentina final coming up next Back with us from the ticket and the kick around is our world cup analyst peter welton He's been with us throughout the tournament just a few more days to go now peter as this thing Comes to a dramatic close All i'm hearing is about how england blew that lead. It wasn't so much anything argentina did it was just england went into a shell And it's all the manager's fault and that's why they lost that semi-final set us straight on that. What happened? Well, it's a little all those things can be true at the same time, but I I think there's a reason why thomas tuchel is getting a lot of blame today is because the reason why england hired thomas tuchel was to Prevent that exact situation because england had found themselves in The same scenario so many times in tournament games over the last multiple decades where they take a lead And then ultimately concede it and the last previous manager southgate caught all kinds of hell in the last world cup in 2018 When they took a lead against croatia and he started going super defensive And changed his players in ways that everybody disagreed with and so when they hired tuchel they were like, oh this guy He's got it screwed together. He knows exactly what to do in these situations And yesterday he just simply did the opposite of what everybody thought he would do And began to cede a lot of space to argentina who thrive on chaos and really know how to manipulate Manipulate and maximize those opportunities And of course messy, you know The crazy part about the second goal Is that nico o'reilly and I think jed spence actually do a pretty good job of blocking off his left foot and forcing him To the right and then what does he do? He puts in the inch perfect cross off of his weaker foot And game over Yeah, it was it was musty tv the other day all of us watching that one Peter span spain dominating france the other day at the big stadium in arlington Which is now being brought back to its old self. Uh, the grass is coming off as we speak Just your final thoughts on what you saw Uh from that match Well now he had to make me sad. They're taking the grass Sorry, why did you go and do that? That's a bummer man Uh, I I I think that game was equally interesting but for a very different reason just simply because I think a lot of us had Uh started to count spain out myself included simply because their tournament has been driven by being so good defensively and um And so france being such an uh attacking firepower the entire tournament I just don't think any of us were really prepared for how that game was going to go on But i'm just telling you in the same way we uh rave about argentina taking advantage of england's submission yesterday Spain put on one of the finest individual team performances i've ever seen in a world cup game their defensive uh combinations and collective work and effort to try to keep france at bay just was a sight to behold I know it may not have made for a crazy interesting game for a lot of people but Um, I found it fascinating and I really don't have any idea how this final is going to go because you've got one team in Spain that is that kind of masters control and wants to own the ball Versus another team that this tournament has been really thriving off Chaos and digging and grinding out wins and I I have honestly no real clear idea who's going to win this With that said let's look at the final Uh, it's it's dangerous to ask the question in the way i'm about to ask it because argentina has made a living pulling games out late But is there anything early in the match peter that we should look for that might give us some clue as to how this thing Might be trending or unfolding Yeah, you know I think it's interesting to go back and look at argentina and what they did in the first half against england Which was essentially just kill the game by repeatedly fouling England and testing the referee to see how far they he would let them go uh in that role and what happened was is that we ended up with the We ended up the first half of that game with 19 fouls and no shots on goal In the first half of that game and to put that into perspective There were 23 fouls in the entirety of the spain france game So argentina went into that with a very clear mindset of we're just going to gum this thing up for as long as we want to And that's probably what we're going to end up seeing I think in the game against spain is they're going to try to figure out How they can compress this game and down into a single half And they'll do that by just trying to break up Break up play and keep spain Who by the way is just going to try to hold the ball themselves Anyway, there's a chance the first half of this game is a total snoozer Unless something really interesting happens like spain gets a very early pk Like they begin to get against france or some other really weird incident like somebody gets a red card and thrown out early So that is probably how I think it'll play out uh, at least initially peter, of course the big headline too that everyone's been talking about you've seen that iconic photo would be Messi versus laminia mall 19 years ago. They were in a charity Calendar event that photo was taken and now they'll be facing each other for the first time ever on the pitch I mean, this is why sports are sports, right? I mean, I mean just the storylines. Could you ever have imagined that something like this would even happen? no, it's funny that that photo's actually been floating around for quite some time and and Uh, we've all marveled at it like everybody else, but now here is the exact moment it comes to life I I haven't finished my generative ai version of this between you and doocy, but i'll i'll get there I just haven't figured out who's bathing Um Anyway, uh, yeah, it's a it is a crazy reality that they both were at the same kind of at the club at the same time and or the area at the same time and Messi ends up taking that photo and it was all very very random There's a really interesting interview out Uh, if you want to find it with the photographer that set that whole thing up And what a small world a small world for that to uh to find ourselves now in this place on sunday Are you gonna predict a winner on on your radio show saturday? Have you decided which team that will be sure we will we we've been doing predictions the entire time most of mine stink. Um, Uh, I I like I said a minute ago. I i've been thinking about this all day I don't know I can think of scenario where spain just suffocates argentina so much and argentina's so tired because they've been expending themselves in ways You know, there's a whole weird side story about how spain has gotten to this final playing a system that allows them to be very efficient in the amount of energy they expend and They've literally played every game of the world cup with the exception of one in either an indoor stadium or a temperature friendly stadium And so they haven't had to really expose themselves to the heat and humidity So now they're going to new york and new jersey where it's going to be a summer day And I can't figure out if that benefits them or if they're not Acclimatized to the heat yet if that's going to be a negative against them so that's a weird little intangible that uh, we may see how it plays out, but Listen to the radio show on the pregame show on sunday I'll probably have my prediction decided by then at least I hope I do. I thought the atmosphere in inside Dallas stadium which r.i.p to that back to jerry world. I thought the atmosphere inside the stadium for those matches was incredible Just what are your your final takeaways from from what it was like to be inside there for the world cup it was everything I had hoped it would be and more and really the thing that I I I truly believe the big takeaway out of this is just how successful we were as a host For the world cup again. I know i've prattled on about this with you guys and with lauren in the morning show You know, we as a soccer community as a sports Community should be really proud of the fact that dallas fort worth has been part of 15 world cup games Over the course of two world cups and that puts us at the top of the echelon of cities across the globe that have gotten to do that and so The way that you know Really some of my favorite things that are going to come out of this are all the social media videos of people Who came to texas came to north texas ate our food hung out at the hotels? Walked around and we're like wow, this place is amazing. People are so nice and the food is so good and they had a blast and so I That to me really is the big Win in many ways out of how this whole thing went down for us and i'm i'm really proud of it And i'm proud of you guys, too. We're proud of you. We thank you so much We're hoping still to talk to you one more time after the final though That's how we got to close things out. It's only right Just one more time and then i'll go back into my coffin and you won't see me again You do the kick around, uh, will you do one saturday as well or Pre-game, we're doing our full two. We're doing our full two-hour show saturday We're doing a two-hour pre-game sunday at noon to two We'll come back immediately after the game is over for an hour And uh a breaking news. We just decided today. We will do a wrap-up kick around Monday night with lars before he gets out of play and goes back to uh, Europe and so yeah, and then we'll probably take a little bit of time off because we're sweeping We'll hope to get you in here sunday night at 10 to wrap it up as well. Peter whelpton Yeah, thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you Bye guys We'll be on a little late on our tv show instead of 10 30 is probably closer to 11 tonight a little more world cup talk Star schedules out we'll get into that a little bit wings game postponed. Yeah weird. Well, yeah, very weird thing Get into that absolutely but uh much more tonight probably 11-ish. We'll see you then