 Can I make 40 here? So if you're English and you have a strong sense of English identity, how do you celebrate that? It's not easy. So since Labor came in under Tony Blair in the 1990s, Wales and Scotland got considerable autonomy. So if you want to celebrate your English identity, how do you do that? How do you celebrate English nationalism? It basically comes down to two major choices for the regular bloke. One choice is the Church of England and the other choice is the English soccer team, the National English Soccer Team. So England, you know, grinds to a halt when there's a match like today's against France in the quarterfinals. So the United States has a pretty decent national soccer team, but America certainly doesn't grind to a halt when the American team goes through to the knockout round. Like even against, whoa, that's pretty good, right? You almost got it. Try again, right? Try again. Oh, good idea. So, you know, America can play some arch-enemy in the knockout round and still, you know, like I ran and it's still not going to capture the national consciousness because there's just a sense that the game is not very American. The notion of American exceptionalism is not just in our politics and in our nationalism and in our ethos, it's also in our sport, right? Eric Hobsbaw and the Marxist historian said that the 20th century was the American century and everything but sport because when they played the Super Bowl, you know, probably a maximum of maybe five million people outside of America are watching at live. Now, as opposed to the World Cup, where you'll have over three billion people watching at live. I mean, you have over a hundred million people watching your English Premier League soccer live. 20 times as many people as who watch the Super Bowl live outside of America, talking outside of England. So American exceptionalism also dominates sport, right? We develop our own form of football. We develop baseball, basketball. And America, you know, wants to go its own way, sees itself as a distinction. Every nation sees itself as quite distinct, but they're separate from the world and that we don't take soccer and cricket seriously. Anyway, if you want to take English national identity seriously, like, what's the vessel for that? How do you express that sense of community? One way is you can do it through the Church of England and the other way you can do it through the English national soccer team or you can do it through the English cricket team. And England experiences it more through its national soccer team than through its cricket team because modern life is becoming increasingly lonely. More and more people are living alone. More and more people have no good friends. More and more people don't have family. More and more people are not married and have children. More and more people eat alone. More and more people are bowling alone. So the easiest way to connect by getting to a sports bar like I did this morning at 6am and watching England versus France, right? And just immediately felt a strong sense of connection to 100 other people cheering on England in the bar. So you see the rise of the St. George's flag representing England, like English national identity, becoming increasingly important to the English rather than just British identity, which also includes Ireland, New Wales and Scotland. And the primary vessel for feeling and expressing and gathering with people and connecting with people over this form of identity is through supporting the national English soccer team. And one thing that people rarely do alone is go to a sporting event, right? Only about 10% of people that go to an English Premier League match go alone. It's overwhelming and something to do with other people and you can be relatively anti-social. You can have poor social skills. You can be a depressed learner. You can be socially awkward. And you'll still be able to find connection by being a supporter of your national soccer team or your soccer club or just being a sports fan. And it saves thousands of lives. Thousands of people don't commit suicide because that's such a connection they get over sports. And so even if your team loses like England lost a heartbreak at 2-1 to France today, but you still get bonded in your heartbreak. Just to allow the topic to discuss, you have shared intense emotions, right? You have something to become nostalgic about. You have shared memories, shared emotional experiences with your fellow members of your nation. Like good solid bonds to feel connected to people around you. And with the decline of organized religion, the decline of public life, the decline of men's clubs, the ever expansion of civil rights legislation making it more difficult to have freedom of association. And one of the last things that you can bond over is the national soccer team.