The Adam Friedland Show (Cumtown) - Europe in the Mud | The Beautiful Pod

Episode Date: July 1, 2026

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Welcome to the beautiful pod. It's Adam Friedland. I'm joined by CR. We go through all the games. It's been a crazy world cup. I'm also joined by two Norwegian fellas friends of mine Erlin Morch, a comedian and Mimir Christensen, who's a member of parliament, I guess. I didn't know who's a member of parliament until like midway through the game. I guess you like see the president at the supermarket when you live there and stuff. It's like 12 people and somehow they're amazing at sports. but yeah also Chris and I just are going to break down the games from yesterday I think yesterday was shocking

I think it's been shocking and I think America has given us the best World Cup of all time happy birthday 250 years guys you're welcome I hope we're no one's gonna thank us no one's gonna thank us but anyway please enjoy the show the beautiful pod is brought to you by

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The Axis powers dead. The United States has given the world the best World Cup of all time, and we don't even care about soccer. Once again, our president, Donald Trump has proven him wrong. He's done a remontata. Every time we doubt him, every time we doubt him, he's the Carlo Ancelotti of world leaders. How are you feeling right now? It's so good. Happy 250, brother. Honestly, honestly, on our 200, if General Washington were here to see, to see penalties.

To see us put on the greatest World Cup of all time. And deliberately, honestly, I'm not going to say that I'm not going to buy into it. But like, it would be very easy to manipulate, like, off sides, like replays. just to move the guy a little bit. Uh-huh. Right, and it would be very easy to have like a little remote control and whatever the stupid new ball is. Yeah.

That's like a little bit like, yeah, let's just make it go up a little bit on a header. I'm not going to say that. I don't want anyone to go crazy because I don't believe in conspiracies. But, okay, yesterday was one of the best days of ball in such a long time. I'm so happy. I have a vacation from thinking about Arsul. For one second I thought about Arsul the other day. And it made me so mad because Carlo played.

Martin Elliott at nine and then I was like I hate Arsenal but guess what we have been having quite the summer it's been I think the World Cup sometimes dazzling it sucks it's been dazzling let's be honest the World Cup like you build it up

too much in your mind and then the game sucked yeah and it's also just like I've never I don't have like clear memories of the last time the Cup was here and it's like to be able to watch football from 10 to 10 is nuts Germany has not won a knockout game since Mario Goetza

Do you know that? It's the last time they won. Spain, although this might change soon, has not won a knockout game since they won the World Cup. And Italy has not won a knockout game since they won the World Cup. They also are not in this World Cup at all.

Well, so it's four more years. Okay. Yesterday's biggest winner, let's play the clip. You want to ban our national flags, but we're going to wave you goodbye. Yes. And we'll look forward in the future. to working with you as sovereign.

Now, Chris, you know I'm a fence sitter. If you disobey the rules, you get... Okay, shut up, Europe. Okay, I'm a fence sitter, but I think, thank God our boys, the three lions are not in Europe anymore and subject to this European catastrophe. Thank God, England will be the only team immune

to the Europe aside that we've seen in this tournament so far. Germany are out. The Netherlands are out. Two great powers of society. soccer. How are you feeling about this? They both abandoned their principles. I agree. They both abandoned their own footballing

identities and they got what they deserved. Germany needs to be boring and a machine and we hate them and the bad guys. Italy isn't even in the World Cup. They're supposed to be cheaters and defensive and rude. Anytime they've been trying to make the countries that are supposed to be the bad guys

and boring, modern and interesting, it fails. Yeah, look what happened to them during penalties. you had Kimich have to go up to Guretska to beg him to take pens. Why did you play for pens if nobody wants to hit pens? Well, let's be honest, they did

win that game. Let's be honest. But fuck off Julian Nagel's, but I think what we're seeing is the pep effect right now. We're seeing so many guys, tactical modern coaches that think that they could do it like pep. Look at him. He's wearing fucking fear of God.

He's wearing off white. Just have some respect. Also, like, I think, I mean, I don't want a body shame, but he's putting on a little weight. He has, actually. I don't want to body shame either. I'm not in very good shape, but, like, I find this outfit odd from a man who wants to dress like a runner's felt. Yeah.

He's dressed like Russ in 2013, not even like a new Russ. He's wearing harem pants and shutter shade sunglasses, like the heatles. That's also like a G-shock watch from. When is that from? That's, like, the biggest G-shock watch I've ever seen. Yeah, from middle school. I mean, what does he think? Who does he think he is?

He tried to do the pep thing where he's like, I'm going to fuck with the tactics so much that I'm going to go hipster 4-42, which is, it was a narcissistic 4-42, right? It wasn't a proper 4-4-2. He's like, I'm going to start Undav and Kai up front, and guess what?

I'm going to be so modern that I'm going to be from the olden days, right? And guess what? You fucking lost and you fucking failed. And guess what, Kimmich put him in the fucking midfield. Like, genuinely. Like, I don't understand. There's a thing that happens in football where modern tactical coaches don't understand the difference.

And I was saying this to Clivenelli in the last episode between that and tournament football. And really, in reality, what we see is like PEP spent 5 billion pounds, walk the league, what, seven times, six times, just walk the league. And then what? His brain exploded in every Champions League. Yeah. Every Champions League final, he would do this thing where he'd go into a layer and he'd be at like the map of. Europe and you'd be like this is how we just we make everyone

Germany and like it would fail every single time he'd be in a bunker in Berlin with a gun okay genuinely speaking I it is so sad I've turned into Emperor Palpatine this tournament I want to see any type of modern approach punished I was really hoping that Komen would do

the Neanderthal travel yesterday and it almost worked he almost pulled it off by playing a back five with one of the most talented teams in the tournament who was scoring at will in the in the group stages wearing that shirt what was that shirt how tight was that shirt i mean i think her him and not has been should have switched shirts they should have switched shirts yeah i know i think it's herr vernard has thrown everything into chaos it's honestly just have effortless chill fashion like

pep and seriously pep has ruined it everyone was wearing arson vanger three-piece suits and then pep came in with just a hoodie and everyone's like, wow. He's got like an effortless style, kind of like Shia LeBuffet and his vintage T-shirt chopping game. That's exactly what people think. And you can't do it. You can't do it like the goat, right?

I mean, honestly, the hipsters are in the mud. They're crying into their, look, this is the kit that everyone that was celebrating, yes, they're crying into their Phil Foden ex-Noel Gallagher kits. How atrocious is that dog shit kid? How bad is that?

It's terrible. It's terrible. Offensive. Is this real or is this just like a drop that somebody did? It's the no, they did a collabo with Noel Gallagher to make a, make a special kit for for Sidion. He was on drugs or something when he made it, apparently. That's what Rockers do.

Listen, the lesson here is you can't play a hipster four for two, all right? Here's another lesson that I wanted to bounce off you. Go ahead. Do you think that Germany's failings have anything to do, as I've seen, kicked around online, with the idea that Byron is no longer building for them? Like that Byron is no longer developing. International. Their whole set. No, but Byron's buying like cane and they've got like, you know, they're like buying from all over the world now rather than just making the national team.

And it used to be like Dortmund and Byron pretty much prop that, that whole national side up, right? That whole league is so annoying to me, right? The fact that Levindovsky could be at Dortmund and then go to them, it's a mafia kickback scheme. I know. Like, why would, why does everyone let the best team just take all their players? And why is that okay? Why do they give them like applause and stuff like that?

It's one fucking team. Like, literally, like, if, uh, in any other league, if someone goes from, I mean, we know the names of the people that have gone from Rail Madrid to Barcelona or vice versa. Right. If somebody goes from like the thunder to the warriors or something like that, that would be weird. Granted, Dormand is not

anywhere near like the competitive parody of, Dormant and Byron obviously, but it's just everyone is

sucking one team's, uh, I'm too graphic on this show. Everyone is just gobbling one team's but it's just like what is the point

of the league? Like, why are you like Wolfs were going out there to try that year? Because everyone's just going to kick back their best players

to the number of a team. And yes, I do think that there are, like, probably, that is, like, an answer, that there are probably more international players on. I think there is something to that. But, like, German players go abroad now, too. Yeah. Italian players used to not go abroad, if you remember.

Like, it used to be rare for, like, you know, DeChanio's, like, I'm going to bring racism to West Ham. Right. Yeah, you brought it. They didn't. He's going to, I'm going to do just the Romans. I'm going to do the thing that Elon Musk didn't do. At the whatever the, okay.

No, I mean, it's just like, yeah, it was more rare. Like, Podolsky, I remember, was like one of the only Germans. I guess, like, what's his name? Was on Chelsea. What's the face, Sam? Andrea Sherlock. Scherler. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Cleansman on Spurs. Yeah, Cleansman. It was, like, very rare. I think now German players are like going abroad more often. Yeah, I think the issue, once again, is Europe and the European Union. And thank God. Thank God we got out of that. No, I think that there is something to that perhaps.

Yeah, like a team having chemistry and all playing the same system does naturally translate over to a national side. I guess English players used to not go abroad as much too. Like Michael O. Not as much, but now it's interesting to look at that Byron team and see Luis Diaz, Harry Kane, Alfonso Davies, different guys from different countries playing in that starting 11. And I wonder whether or not there's a trickle-down effect.

you're saying like a more pure German... That's not what I meant. Is that what you're saying, Chris? You want it to be like cleansed of... What were you saying? You know what I blame. You know what I blame. Okay?

I'm just kidding. The rabbis. No, I mean, they're probably in something to that. I... Just to mention the South African match was like really satisfying to me. And I'm like so proud of them as a team. Did my parents come from there and stuff? Because it was like a rebuilt roster.

It was supposed to be like a terrible team, but they all play in the same league together, like the domestic league. I think they only had like five or six players abroad, right? So they did speak the same kind of tactical language. That's how that league plays. And there is something to like that being a thing. Spain has always had that advantage too

because they all came from Spanish academies and they all kind of like, you know, like La Mesao was obviously very dominant. So I think there is something. to be said about that. Yeah, in Belgium, they all went abroad. I mean, that's true. So you're saying that we just, like, basically have to reclaim identities of European.

All I'm saying is that I think that that German national team relied heavily on Byron, and I don't know if they're doing player development like they used to. And also, a lot of people are like, Nagelsman doesn't look under every rock for good players. Like, Noglesman basically goes and watches, like, Dortmund and Byron. Now, this is just what D.E. Haman said. Like, I have no idea how Nogles would spend his time. It's a little bit hysterical of a response. Like, they won that match, basically.

Also, fuck Klopp. I mean, like, did you see Yergen Klopp's... He wants that job? No, he said, no. Well, first of all, that'd be... The boys would die for him. I lost my head from... Yeah.

First of all, yeah, Clop says, if that's a disallowed goal, then Arsenal wouldn't be the English champions. They scored 60% of their goals like that. What does that have to do with Arsenal? We're a lot. loser team. We're losers. We lost 8-2 at Old

Trafford. They're acting like we're freaking like we're like, I don't know, I-Ax in the 70s. Like, we stink. And everything, the world revolves. Okay, anyway, back to cut that. Listen, I, no, I think they lost

because less about like the makeup of like their, I guess their dominant club team, but like, I think it's more so that they probably a KG group stage match probably eked it out to 1 and they probably shouldn't have started an egotistical like put my nuts on the table

kind of like, why am I so gross? No, you're right. They shouldn't have gone to start the match. It was just a narcissistic lineup. Like bring on Undav like at 60. But Klop got a nagelsman's head about Undov. Like I feel like that that was a little bit like too much chatter coming from the back seat.

Look at the outfit. Look at the stupid lineup. everyone want to be pep but they're they're not built that way he's trying to do effortless fashion he's trying to do ridiculous counterintuitive i'm going to surprise them lineups america beat this team

four one america okay relax you're germany you had the Kaiser you know who still you know who still wears the desert fuck do you know who still wears suits to the match and who knows where to put the guys in order to get results

who's that the don't that the don't thank you Thank you very much. Thank you very much. And you know who starts lineups where Casamero looks like perhaps one of the worst players I've ever seen for the first half? And then just does the rem and Tata in the second half all over again. How many times have we watched this? And I mean, yeah, this is, I've become.

We're talking Brazil and Japan, obviously. I want to see the hipster's hearts broken over and over again. I liked Japan. But I was happy that the people that were like, they're a tournament, dark horse. Yeah, they fucking beat Spain in the last. World Cup. You're not like, you're not, you're not, you're not like the, uh, let me run like they. They beat Spain in the last World Cup. It's not that fucking wild of a pick.

We all like them. They're cool. They're Japan. They do, like, yeah, they're, they're fashion. It's the same thing as Morocco. Morocco is actually like a really, really good World Cup team at this point. They made the semi-final. Yeah. Like, right. And people are acting like they discovered Morocco. And it's just my insecurity about being an American that likes footie. But, But I want to see everyone that thinks that they know ball, just destroyed and sad. And I just want to see Messi score as many goals as possible. And I want to just see it. Do you get a lot of text from people who are watching, like, never watch football?

And then all of a sudden you get a text that's like, wow, great cross. No, because I'm having issues with a lot of the people in my life. Listen, Nagelsman, it was a narcissistic lineup. and for some reason he didn't start like he didn't start like like why put him at right back who who is there like terrifying left-winger that you need Kimmage to be starting a right-back why can't you have one of your best midfielers playing in midfield it's just it's it's it's like he thinks he's pep right he thinks he's like when Kinsello was was the best player on on their team that year and And Concello said, I'm the best fullback in the world.

He sold him in January just to say, I'm the best coach of all time. You're nothing. You're in material. There's like, Calvin folks, there's so many guys Pep bought that he was just like, and now you're exiled after buying for $80 million. It's just bragging. It's literally just bragging to show how good you are. Pep's like, I'm going to win the league with six-eight's playing.

I'm not going to have a striker. Everyone's going to be a central midfielder, and it's going to be confounding and so frustrating. And you're going to lead, I'm going to say after you lose. 5-0 that the other team were so good they're so so so good they're an amazing team that I'm gonna be so complimentary of your of your team that just lost you must play with courage it's gonna hurt worse let me tell you Nagelzman I want to give you a lesson listen what do I know but this is what you can't do a hipster 4-4-2 if you are

employing a 4-42 you have to first of all recognize that you are not him okay you used to eat worms at training and that's why you've got such a grantly voice I mean Yeah, yeah. Well, no, it's a fact. I did. I also smoke exhaust pipes, as I've been told in the past, that's what makes my throat like this. I have gravel for breakfast.

That was another thing. So then three combined, often are the things I used to keep this voice sounding how it is. If you play a 4-4-2, you have to stand for something. Yeah. You have to shave your head and have a goatee. The short chin pants have no tackles to be fair. And even a semi-bud tackle in a game,

Now, it's like the world's gonna end. They're wearing these shimp pads. I mean, my phone's not smaller. My rule was, wear what you play, you have to wear shin pads. But now what they do, so to get around the rule, they put a bit of, like, sponge in their shit in that big, literally, that thing.

I can go, I got my shin pads on. I'm like, you want to prove a point that much, right? That you're gonna put a bit of sponge in your shoe. And they've got designer ones, you know? Like, I've especially made with picture their family. I'm not, I'm not as far. Can I see the picture of their family? Oh, you know, oh, look, it's my family.

Like, what, you really need to him in the shin pads? I need to wear what it's socks, really? What's the medical reason? Because I got, I don't know. Cutting the holes in the back. Oh, goodness me, John. I can tell all this now, because when you're with a team,

yeah, yeah, I can see why you're going to. Can you just wear some normal socks? I can't possibly play today because I didn't have my holes cut in the back of my socks. I mean, come on. Honestly, Johnny sometimes. I like, just play. Thank you.

This is what it takes to start a 4-4-2 lot. You have to be a guy that, like, literally has a player like a like a Ben Me style player give someone a career ending like multiple fracture like compound fracture with the bone is sticking out of your leg and saying like I think he was going for the ball and he wasn't wearing big enough shin pads yeah and he has to be like I didn't see it I'm gonna have to watch if Sean Deich if we replace lawless with Sean Deish would you just DVR every Fox studio show and watch it for the rest

of your life it would be inside if it was Latan Tieri and Sean Dice But literally what we're ignoring is that Zlatan is just as insane. I know. Lallis is so abject that we're missing the fact that Zlatan is just literally just out of his mind insane. He thinks that he's like Stephen Seagall or something. Like, you have, okay, if you play 4-4-2, you can never learn how to pronounce a single foreign player's name on your roster. You have to literally, you have to, you have to wear the poppy 12 months a year and talk. about the boys that died in World War I in the trench. How terrible of a war was that? It was just

awful. They were just sitting there. You want to do this now? No, okay. You have to be in a minimum of six relegation battles in the Midlands. You have to be, wait, you have to be in like a bottom three side, fired from that bottom three side immediately picked up by another bomb three side. You have to manage wolves and Southampton in the same year. and Burnley. And Burnley, yeah. Yeah, yeah. But you never leave your house.

Like, you're always in, like, somewhere in the middle of the country, traveling to those, yeah. You have to replace Nuno Espirito Santo as a manager. Yeah. You have to be sacked so many times. Just sacked, right? Like, you have to, like, you have to hit this penalty. Play it.

You have to be able to. I just from a chill and twist the line. Kissed on to myself. Hold on a lot. You drive me crazy, surely. You have to stand for something, Nagelsman. It's not FIFA, okay? It's not FIFA.

You have to eat for breakfast, eat a curry for breakfast and minimum for none. You have to claim that something you said on TalkSport, you didn't realize had a history behind it and was hurtful to a group of people. Yeah, you didn't realize it was being broadcast. This has to be your birds. Is that actually Daisha's old lady,

or is this just like an amalgamation? No, I think that's, Dwight York, Dwight York's lady. Okay. Who's apparently quite around Manchester, the ladiesman. Okay, you have to go on this vacation. Okay, this is the vacation you have to go on. You have to go on Thomas Cook.com and order this vacation package.

Look at how insane it. I don't understand how they could, what food are they serving them? Can you put it on screen? This blows my mind. Okay, to me. They used to sponsor Spurs. I'm made. Okay.

10 minute walks in the beach. Okay, 2994 pound total, total, okay, to Greece, okay? Including meals and flight. What meals are they giving you on this vacation? What are you eating? Yeah. They hand you an octopus when you get off the plane and they're like, this is it. This is three squares.

They have a water park. There is not a single Greek person there. And a lazy river is just filled with people. piss just filled with So your larger point is that if Noglesman wanted to play 4-4-2, he needed to have gone through this initiation process.

He needed a hazing. A hundred thousand percent. He needed to go to Sean Dice U. Yeah, you have to have violent criminals on your teeth. You have to have like just like just with the spikes two-footed, like there has to be a bone

coming out of like another player's leg and you have to claim that he was going for the ball. Adam, I got to tell you. you man, a reality TV show where Continental managers go to Sean Deich finishing camp where they show up wearing Uniglo and they leave wearing like

just Sergio Tuccini track suits. They would never be able to find a single person to be in it because the game's gone. The game's gone. It's just him and Carlo left. That's it. And Carlos Kiroz. Okay. It's pathetic. They lost to a team

that lost to America for one. They should be ashamed of themselves. They actually did win that game, and it is, they, Freddy, fuck off forever. Nagel's been fuck off, and Freddie, fuck off,

enjoy traveling back to your country, which isn't, is in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Okay. Paraguay's a gaffer, though, he's got bars. Did you see, like, he was just, like,

we come from the red dirt. What's that? Yeah, he was like, we played on the red dirt. They play in, like, Tony Academies. Like, he was really, he made it about something.

I love that. They used to say that about Louis Diaz about how he played it on a dust pitch. Yeah. I love that. He came from dust. He's like Adam. He came from the...

He's like the... He's like Ganja. He came from Dyer. Okay, wait. All right. Let's get to Brazil, Japan. Again, I'm rooting against teams I want to have win, right?

I like Japan better. But I want people, like, to learn that tournament football is a brutality. especially in the knockouts. And no one is better suited for it than Don Carlo, who literally looks like he didn't give a team talk. He literally looks like he does.

He looks like he doesn't react to a single goal. You cannot react to a goal if you want to go 4-4-2. You cannot celebrate a goal at all. It's goaded. And also just the fact that all he does is put guys in the right position. It is his brilliance is he's like, Jude plays here. Martinelli plays here.

Pierlo plays there. Like, that's what he does. It's the aura. I mean, yeah, he did it. Like, he moved caca. I mean, Martinelli playing nine reminded me of how much I fucking hate Arsenal. I hate Arsenal. The best part about the Martinelli goal was the dudes around him being like, that's going in.

Like, Rand was just like, as soon as he passed to Bruno, he was like, it's in. He was, like, turned his back on it, like, Steph. He had 15 and 5. 19 years old. Yeah. Let's just play my favorite Marninelli clip. Gabriel Martinelli

Raghzad in the story Gabriel. Oh, Matinelli. Okay, listen, I'm so happy for Gabby. He's been a loyal play. I've watched him for the last five years.

The debate was Saka or Gabby. Now Saka is dead. Can we stop playing him? I just, the whole world's watching. They're going to think he's bad no he's like he's being so selfless for England it's like breaking my heart it's also like he's up against your boy for the right wing spot so it's like noone is pushing it doesn't matter doesn't matter this was one of the coolest

things in the Brazil game was earlier in the match cunia had kind of done like settled down too small to one of the Japanese players and done five championships to him but then after the match he did this that's sportsmanship dog I think it's the second time the last game yesterday That's a plant, man. That's not real. It's like when Trump won, that one lady. Oh my God, it's Sepaku.

No, poor guy. The Japanese will be back. They're incredible team. Like, they play, like, beautiful ball. They were better in that game. Once again, we learned our lesson. Never count out Carlo. Genuinely speaking, like,

Gabby Martinelli, in that goal. Like, he, he genuinely, like, took his moment brilliantly. I love him as a player. And also, both of our Gabby's, we had a Gabby assistant at a Gabby.

That was a beautiful cross. There's got to be, like, a hard cap on how many times you can talk about Arsenal in one podcast episode. Okay, cut all the Arsenal. Then this episode is like two minutes long. No, genuinely actually cut the arsenal.

I mean it. No, that was too many. It was a good note. Guys, let's go to Morocco, Netherlands. I was, Ronald Kuman, I think out of all of the Neanderthals, the dumbest one. Yes.

Isn't it weird, they used to have a village idiot? They were like, this is our idiot. Does that mean, like, the whole community was like, yeah, that's our boy, the fucking idiot, dude. Yeah, that's Steve, the idiot. He's the, I mean, literally, this was not a back five of hipsterdom. See, this is a clear distinction we have to draw.

Cooman did it. It was the product of an imbecile, right? And once again, like you were saying before, the teams need to reclaim their identities. They have to be doing Croifters. They can't be a back five Netherlands. I'm sorry. This is my favorite thing about the cup,

especially when you get to the knockouts and the teams are like, we actually are like, we maybe have a little bit of a chance here, is that when they lose, the fucking national teams detonate. Like, they don't, they're not like, oh, we left it all in the field.

That was really hard. They're like, fuck my coach, fuck these fans, fuck my teammates. Like, they all go nuts. And Kimmich was just basically like, I play with a bunch of betas. And then for the Netherlands, it was like, De Jong and everybody after the game

was like, our coach sucked. That was a bad idea. Dude, we said it before the tournament. We all knew it. When Veg Horse came on, though, I'm like, this is going to be a moron, like, treble. I think we're going to just sweep yesterday.

I was like, I was like, They're about to do it again because they have that psychopath. Like six foot, what is he? Six, six, six or something? Yeah. He's a, he's a psycho. And the way he looks is insane. You can see his skull.

You know what you see a person? You're like, that's a, you know what his skull looks like? Vegors is one of those kind of guys. When he put Kukminers in and subbed him in at left, center back, and he's a 10, I'm pretty sure he didn't know the positions that the players played. I'm pretty sure that he literally forgot. Like mid-tournament. It's, it's, uh, listen.

Frankie's amazing. Dude, fucking, what's his name? West Ham? Umberville. Cresencio, Somerville ran literally 120 minutes and was just like, uh, Cody Sprint. Yakpo tried like to everything he could. He scored, coming off the back of personal tragedy.

It was like they, they had to, it was like, they were so set up for like a storybook win there and he just, he just really screwed them up. Comen's really screwed. screwed him up. He stinks. The Mexican fans were booing the Netherlands because they lost to them in the round of 16, like what, 12 years ago? No, that was recently. 12 years ago. Oh, 12, 14. What the hell? Like, just relax, guys. Like, please. Can Eltree to make the second round of the knockouts, please? Can El Tree just like, just come on. You're going to, by the time this episode goes up, they are going to be strolling.

Okay, yeah, they will Okay, speaking of Meltdowns, national team meltdowns, the response of South Korean news, Korean news to their team's response was in insanity. Yes, they...

Those are like... Just like, literally, first of all, I thought it was a different kind of East Asian cinema at first. And I was, because you know they blur out that. Yeah.

And I finished. What about the airport? And I did finish. All right. Listen, it's a little bit carried away. This man, they're blurring out of his face like he's like an ice agent or something.

Like, people know what he looks like. Yeah. I just think, like, yeah. I mean, it's a national tragedy for these people. People are acting just like a, little bit yeah look at this you just to go it sounds terrible that's a long flight to get off of and have that be what's

greeting you can't imagine if you got off an international flight I can't imagine fly back to Philadelphia and feeling like this 19 hours and then you return and you're like drowsy you're coming off and then literally just like they're ready to just fucking kill you they're ready to okay anyway Sam wanted us to mention our boy John Joe Shelby he's coming back third division you a third division you a third division UAE. I was pretty into this story,

but I have no idea what it has to do with the World Cup. I have no idea why I said cut this four times and kept putting it back in. Okay, there was a little bit more for the news roundup. Croatian man who went to the club.

This is another great American culture immersion clip that I enjoyed. That's also great. I don't know. The coolest thing that I saw There's a clip of Maradona in 2018 when he talked about the US, the North American countries winning the bid and he predicted basically that this fourth quarter like format would like be a thing. There was another news very

very important, the World of Canada, States, and Mexico. He's wearing two watches? I don't like. Absolutely. It's very great. That's not from last night. The United

are good skis, skis skis, all what they want. The Americans wanted to do, you remember,

four two relax. Four, four time of 25 for the publicity, you know, that we talked.

The goat. The absolute goat. Christ, finally, Chris, I guess we'll do the section

that wanted to do you wanted to do the sexy ladies of the World Cup section I guess so so you were just for the sake of journalism yeah thanks for me you were sending me these things yeah yeah so I had Sam find sexy ladies of the World Cup all right you want to keep this moment come on come on we're gonna get in trouble for this no no no no no no you got to play the clip at the end because that's the right now I'm seeing a woman with Yeah, yeah, that's another lady. Oh, Chris, why do you want this on the show?

Chris, why do you want this on the show? Oh, it's Africa, man. Okay, you go. Whoever's directing these love to, like, you know, cut away to a sexy lady during the broadcast, which to me is, like, a little bit like, I'm trying to watch the game. I can't be getting horny while the game's on.

Like, just like, let me focus on the game. But, like, of course, it pales and comparison. The same guy, I think, B-in sports, that did the Martinelli thing, the horny brought, the same guy that does the Virgil Van Maguire, Upa Maguire, that guy, in the last World Cup, I believe, in Qatar, the best cutaway, this is the goat cutaway to sexy lady cutaway. Mushedia, mouazir to the menachab of the Russian. On a

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serious No, let's get To It's Iran This weekend I found myself watching

The most Dog Shit Match I've ever watched My entire Life Which was

Which was Austria versus Algeria. Of course, that was the match that determined the final slot in the third place of the third place finishers. Throughout this tournament,

like, I mean, we talked about Iran, but throughout this tournament, I think one thing that has become apparent. And let's actually hear from Teremi. But we complain about outside the football, because which is the details important in the football. As you know, recovery is important things. And a small detail,

affect the football. And we just, we have hope, we have good energy in the dressing room, as I said. And we're looking forward and let's see what will happen tomorrow for the games. And there isn't, sorry, there is no word to about the games. Because we did our best during 90 minutes by this situation we had since the beginning till now. We are proud of ourselves. And if anything happened, it's by my responsibility because I lose the penalty. And if we pass the group stage, yeah, thank God.

As you see, we play so good, I think, 90 minutes we fight. I think that the Iranian team obviously showed a lot of class. It was a very difficult situation they were walking into, which was they were walking into a tournament where they were playing in a country that they were at war with. and I think it showed incredible bravery in class they were doing it for like the folks back home and have some hope you know

like there's been there was relentless bombing the piece was negotiated I guess with Trump where he but in the tournament it seems to me people have taken issue

with the offside and the VAR decision and I don't think that that is the right point at the end of the Iran game of course he was off sides and also on the pitch it was declared offside so it wouldn't have been clear and obvious error even if you know like it that was that's not the right argument to make um i think what what's more apparent is that um infantino kind of uh like uh you know bent the need to all of the demands

of the trump administration and uh to the extent that he went into the iranian locker room and apologized the players well i would just say this is a black guy on the tournament on the tournament Like in the, for as much as it's been like a blast to watch this, like the treatment of the Iranian team has been like deplorable. The fact that Trump up until right before the start of the tournament was like threatening to remove them and replace them with Italy like by fiat, I guess. And I'm sure Infantino would have gone along with it, to be completely honest. And you look at like, for instance, Algeria and the way that they were welcomed into like Lawrence, Kansas. and it became like this huge community, like this community in Kansas embracing this team.

Iran never had that chance. They never got that opportunity. They were getting flown out at 10 p.m. back to Mexico. They are very thankful for the Mexican fans, but like these guys had no shot. And the fact that they got as far as they did was amazing. Yeah, they had every disadvantage thrown their way. Like their support staff were not allowed entry into the country.

They had to be evacuated to TJ basically after. Can you imagine how much more you'd hate America like staying in Tijuana just like seeing like you see guys that were like they were like just clearly on Molly just like trying to find their friend

who like got spooked during like a donkey show or something can you imagine like how it is the worst example of American behavior like guys named like Tyler and Kai and yeah just like the thing is this the failure was a failure in the format

there are clips of Austria after the third Algerian goal like going like what are you doing? Yeah I thought we were Yeah, but although there's no translation as to what they were saying to each other, so I don't like, we can't really be

Yeah, they were like this. Whatever that meant, yeah. Whether or not that there's the actual collusion or not, it was it was the most bizarre, unwatchable match I've seen ever probably. It was like 60 minutes of literally walking and

then someone would get annoyed by it and then score and then the other team would go like balls to the wall try to equalize. It was just in terms of an entertainment product it was like an insult to the fans but beyond that like the thing that's really heartbreaking at the end of the day is that after uh who's it marres marres uh scored like scored an extra time for two minutes those players who have had such a shit experience like attending

this world cup had like hope and uh thought that their nation had hope and that was It doesn't matter if it's a collusion. The thought of them and their hopes being crushed or dashed like that is really sad. This is something FIFA had done away with. I mean, I don't know whether it gives people any comfort to know that it's not particularly corrupt. It's just typically corrupt. You know, it's like this is kind of been something that's been corrupt the entire time. Echoes across the World Cup history and it's kind of the fabric of the tournament.

It's what makes it such an maybe an interesting sporting. event to study historically is to look at stuff like this but like in 82 in this in Spain um ironically enough austria and west germany were playing in algeria going into the austria west germany match because usually all these final matches of the group should start at the same time so that there is no chance of people being like oh it's like this so we're going to do that but algeria was in second place going into the last match between they had completed their final group stage match they were in second place but they only had a zero goal difference. West Germany had a plus two.

And West Germany and Austria play what is now known as the disgrace of Gijon where Germany scores early and then the two sides basically like have a Sunday kickabout for 80 minutes. They play catch basically with their feet. And it's, you can still see footage of it on YouTube. It is grotesque.

It is like 80, 82 year old plumbers would play more vertical football than these guys. And then, you know, like they have, to basically change the rules. I think until now, when they've introduced this third place qualifier thing, where now it's all back into this jackpot.

Yeah, the point is that they wanted more games and they wanted to make more money, right? And that's what we're seeing. The stated purpose of FIFA is for football development around the world. But like what this organization really is, is

hey, we're going to get the best guys at sports and we're going to make a tournament and the whole world is going to watch it we're going to get insane ratings and oh how much is it going to cost to get the best guys and it's free basically it is

basically they are it's such a good fucking racket you know basically what they're doing is they're making the most popular thing and they're doing it basically at the just like it's

it's brilliant in fact if you think of in those terms. There was no attention paid to whether or not this was actually going to work. And no one asked the question of like, oh, are the games going to suck if they know how many goals they need to qualify for third

or how many goals like both teams need to get through the knockout stages? I think there are other games in this tournament where people equally said that there was some funkiness. But not to get into it. No, but your point is really well taken because you could make the argument.

I bet you could look at this tournament as the ultra-televen. product. They're doing these hydration breaks that they're slamming in commercials for, and the third place safety net that they established is probably there so that they can get as many messy Mbapé, Holland, like global superstar matches. They didn't want these big stars to fall out after the groups. But they didn't actually need that. What they've created is like, what is the best thing about tournament sports, which is Cinderella stories. And they kind of, they really, they've really fumbled it in this way. Well, just,

Or like what the corruption we used to see, I mean, when it comes to the tournament as a television project, our product, with the way that things are distributed these days, it wasn't like always that. It was usually like the host nation's dictator would be like tell the other team we're going to kill them. I mean, literally like in 78, there was a military hunt of the year before in Argentina. And Vidala, what he did was like him and Kissinger basically made a. a match-fixed a game. A lot of this wasn't on television. A lot of it was about like state

propaganda. But him and Kissinger like entered the Peruvian locker room and gave a speech about the topic of Latin American Brotherhood. Basically they needed to win by four goals. Peru lost 6-0. Argentina made the final.

And there's an understanding. I don't think it's true, but there was like maybe someone has read it and said, I'm going to believe it's true that Generalissimo Vidala watched the final with Mr. Joseph Mengala who I don't know who he is

but I'm going to have to look into that. He was no angel. Can we be honest? And also, you know that Kroif didn't go because his family was being threatened. The Krois story is one of the all-time greatest, like,

legends of football. The truth of this. I mean, like, it's always been, like, dirty, but like now that it's an entertainment product, and now that the global audience is like billions, right? They're maximizing the amount of money that they're getting for it, and they're not thinking about, like, the meaning of this to the people involved. I mean, and the meaning of this to the supporters, like, it means the reason people are doing this for,

like, think of that the amount of money that PEP has had to spend to build a really good team, right? Right? The reason they're doing this, like, they're not getting paid. How much, Sam, can you actually look? up how much players are getting paid for playing in the World Cup? It's about 75,000 pounds a match. Maybe look it up, I want to see if you're right. Well, wait. That was amazing.

Give it up for the boy. I mean, like the amount that clubs have to spend on recruiting talent, they can do this because it means something to them to score for their country, to play for their country. Yeah, so it's about 75,000 pounds, all included, per match for everybody.

For the entire team? That FIFA pays the national teams. Wait, so they, what's, what's, it's about 2,500 a player. And if you see that. Gabriel Martinelling, I paid 2,500 pounds. 2,500. I mean, seriously, like, it's, it's, the reason they're doing this, because, like, they, I mean, these guys are on, like, like, 500,000 a week.

How much is Holland on? I mean, it's reported at 500K, but. Yeah. we know how that works. Yeah, yeah. So he's on a million pounds a week. Like, you know, he's doing this because it's meaningful to people

and it's meaningful to countries. And what we saw was a country that, like, you know, I mean, they did double the... They did double... I mean, Trump just... Obama got one... gave $150 and Trump did $300. What a loser.

Cut that. He's a friend of the show. No, I mean, like, seriously, they're giving it to a country where, like, they're they fucking dashed the hopes of a country where their players

were bravely going to another place that had bombed a school of girls and killed them like it's the US and USSR didn't attend one another's Olympics during a cold war like that Maggie Thatcher was considering during the

Falklands not going to the 82 you know which was like obviously you know that's probably That was a big deal also. I mean, that's just for these Argentines to

think that they could invade our beautiful rock. I love that you're referring to this hour. We're doing it for king and country. Queen and country. But guess what? I literally found myself watching the most dog shit match of all time because they meant it had like implications.

I switched to Messi when they said to Mon. It just got so weird there at the end. for Algeria. I was refreshing Fobb to see when Messey came on and then he gave us a goal. Okay.

And now that's the only thing that's making me feel love is messy. And it's just like I want to see every single I want to see everyone hurt. Give me the five reasons you're still hype.

Give me, because you got messy. Messy, Messy, Metsy, Matsy, you got John Carlo. Yeah, Carlo. Yeah, I want to see Carlo win football. I want to see Messey.

I just want to see Messey. I just want to see. I want to see this continue. I don't want to lose it. Honestly, Rinaldo, I want them to win and I want to continue to see him humanly. I got some great Rinaldo stats

if you want to read them or if I can read them to you right now. I know we're doing like it. Okay. He's the first football in World Cup history to go seven matches without a successful dribble. That a successful dribble.

He is, he's played the most minutes for any outfield player. he has less touches than the opposition goalkeeper through 10 straight matches. He's never scored in the World Cup knockouts. You know, I don't know. Listen, I don't even feel that way. I kind of want him out because he ruined having a messy Ronaldo quarterfinal because they finished second.

I think what I really want to see is like I really want to see yesterday just was insane. Right? Like the World Cup can be really, you could have huge expectations and it could be a real letdown. Like last final was the best final ever because it was the only one where it was like a bunch of goals, right? Usually it's Mario Goats in an extra time. Usually it's like watching paint dry. And like I want to, like it was wild. Like can you think of, speaking of tournament football, can you think of the last good championship final?

Like I can't. I mean, we were talking about this the other day. bars a manchester united yeah well that was just because i'm missed man's man's man yeah i mean like genuinely like uh this is not expected like seeing an insane paraguai like a penalty shootout where everyone was missing where they like it was like a match point like uh basically it was like tennis they had two match points in a row they fucked it and then somehow they still lost they still won and then seeing nagelsman like go home sad and seeing freddie sent to uh ciaa black in uh in in Syria uh you know that that's I mean it's just it's been a lot of fun let me ask you

so you're just talking about how we don't get Rinaldo messy in the what I think we quarters yeah and that Netherlands out Germany out we get robbed of Germany France so this is getting a little like a one of those tournament NCAA tournaments were like George Mason's in the final four and there's a potential that right now we're really about like things being fucked with and then France just walks it. Yes, that's either France walks it or we have just like a goofballs

like final eight or final four. And I'm here for it. I want to see the chaos. But sometimes you do just want to see Germany play France or you do just want to see Messi Renaud one more time. I am still in, first of all like I'm not, I'll say it, people really

are fucking with the World Cup right now in America and it's not the U.S. national team. I mean, I am seeing enthusiasm for ball. Maybe I live in Brooklyn. I don't know. I think it's all over. I live in a liberal bubble, okay? Maybe I'm at the park slope co-op, food co-op.

And everyone is talking about the Congo statue guy being deported. But no, but seriously, like, there's still a lot there. We're going to probably get Mexico. England at the Azteca the ghosts of the hand of God. And we could still get Brazil, Argentina. I mean, there's so much ahead. And then we are also seeing the greatest player

of all time, like at 39 years old cooking. He's just bossing. And it's so beautiful to see because we didn't expect it. It was like a hello old friend. I thought you played the MLS. How are you this? How are you doing this

right now? I mean, it's, it is a, it's special. And like, Beyond that, it is like, tournament football is about moments and players and stars. It's not about tactics. It's about someone just busting out of like a fucking dog fight or like a just a slug fest, which is like two teams are like punching each other in the face. And then like one player just has a dazzling moment. And that doesn't even have to be that dazzling.

It could be like what Holland did where he basically like shanks it into the back of the net and it doesn't even believe that it's there. but that's he was just like the man in the right place at the right time but also on neanderthal watch i wanted them to be rewarded for starting sore swer lath a right wing i wanted just how more it is just how the hell who came up they literally have oscar mob and they literally scored uh i mean they they look so much better after i do sometimes want to just see a dumb things being rewarded the chaos of it how unfair it is sometimes like that is like what's special about the World Cup and guess what America is it's the best one we're the best

country we did the best World Cup we have the best we have the best best team best set best sandwiches by far do you want to do happy trails you want to wrap it up there let's do happy trails all right I'm gonna I'm gonna throw the teams that we have just waived goodbye to as we exit the groups and into the knockouts and you just tell me how you're feeling happy trail South Africa listen we're so proud of you guys like that you guys are late was such a young team. They, honestly,

like I... Right, saving for your biography, man, Coyote. What do you mean my biography? It's not Arsenal.

That's a fucking guy... The Coena, that guy, what's his name? If I mispronounce, I cut it. Please, please, please, please, please, please, please.

If I nailed it, Chris? No. Mobocazi. Mobocazi. Mobocazi. Fuck. Fuck.

Mobokazi, the Chicago fire guy, he's going to get a fucking move. He's a brick shithouse. He kicked the ball so hard against Chequia, and I'm going to give you one word answers to the rest of the teams, but it's my heart. He kicked the ball so hard

that he busted the ball open against Chequia. That's Randy Johnson. Okay, continue. Japan. You got Carlo, fuck off. Guitar. Greedy.

Shouldn't have. And Japan, also, we haven't forgotten who side you were. Okay. Qatar, they shouldn't have two teams. It's bullshit, okay? What, they have PSG and then they have some bad team? Like, but you don't get two.

Enjoy PSG. Haiti. Haiti? Thank God they're going back to France. I mean, though, geez. Turkey. Turkey on. Do you want to say anything?

About Turkey? Yeah, I think you should. They got Matt. Because of my boys. They got three on Matt Turner. Let's watch. Right there. Right there.

You know, three on. American legendary goalkeeper Matt Turner. Unreal. Thanks for coming, Turkey. The Great Wall of Denver. What was it? New Jersey. New Jersey.

Saudi, Chechia, Panama, New Zealand, and Jordan. Do them one at a time. Saudi. Don't care. Chechia. Don't care. Panama. Could not care less.

New Zealand. Don't care. Absolutely don't care. Jordan. Were they nice? They have a GD. Nice index? Gross domestic niceness. Grow up.

And Jordan's last. 23. Don't care. Okay. Uzbekistan. Borat. Who else we got? Iraq. So funny.

I keep saying, just to say Borat, it's not the right. Yo, by the way, one of the guys that, speaking of the, I don't want to do Rinaldo propaganda. Literally one of the guys was a plumber

that he scored those two goals. It's true. Literally a plumber. Okay. Iraq. Yeah, Iraq. Sorry, sorry about all that, but fuck off. I mean, that was, that was, that was, we fucked up that one.

Curacao. Curacao, what the, I don't even know what the fuck Curacao is. Scotland. We will be seeing you for three more games at World Cup 266 Israel. I can't wait to see you again. You think that's how long it's going to take?

It's going to be another 40 years. 40 years and we'll get him for another three games. Steve Clark, I'm sorry. I'm going to miss you. And then finally, one last team, Chris. Tunisia. Okay, big news. We've been following the Herr-Vernard story since its inception is the hottest story of the World Cup.

We've been chronicling this. There is a potential that he will stay, but he has a list of demands, okay? They are a higher salary for him and his coaching staff, reasonable. Full control over the national team for six months. Yeah, six months of stability without pressure or criticism to implement his project. Basically, he's... We actually inserted this last one into your Spotify contract where we give you no pressure, no criticism. It's time to implement your program.

I am fucking schvitzing right now in this room. Okay. Herbrenard has said since Tunisia, I will stay. I will stay, but you have to, for six months, let me do whatever I want to this team. Last team, Uruguay. I'll let you take this away. Because you're sweating too much. Bielsa just lost his mind.

And this was basically in 2024, Suarez, Louis Svarez said this was going to happen. He was like, Marcelo Bielza Nezis never says good morning to anyone. And they should have taken that as a sign. He was like the best paid coach in the region. He comes in. He basically tells all the guys their shit that they abandoned him, that they're cowards. And they play like it. He's old Verde.

He's a coward. Yeah. Who the hell? He's like a fucking old man that sits on a Yeti cooler. His keeper asked to come out of a World Cup match at halftime. That's how much they hate him. They're like literally like they need to, they need to like, they can't, they can't just keep bringing this guy back to be to be mean to people at different teams. Like, just, it would be funny if he pulled the, what do you call it,

what's the goddamn United? Brian Clough. Yeah. It would be funny if he pulled the Clough move where he was out of subs and then he subs a guy. I'd rather have no one replace you. Guys, they haven't won a World Cup game without Louis Suarez since the year 1990, which is a meaningless, meaningless stat that you put on here.

Yeah. It's good, though. I like it. It's turning to me? You want to see how wet I am? we got to get you out of here we gotta drive you off. Oh my god, look at four long.

All right, that's the episode, guys. I hope you enjoyed it. The World Cup's fucking great. Chris, I'll see you next Tuesday. We will be back on Thursday or Friday. Have a great 4th of July. America is going to win the World Cup. Guys, this is what an honor and a privilege.

Soccer has landed in the United States and we will be, I think we might win like three or four of these in a row. Guys, enjoy your time. Bye, Freddy. Happy birthday, America. 250 years of just great great stuff, great decisions. You have anything to say

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Two good pals. You guys want to introduce yourselves? Yes, I work in the Norwegian BBC, I would say, NRK. I do podcasts and I am, as you said, I am a Viking. And I have never felt like a Viking before. And it's a good, I'm starting to like it. And your name is. My name is, I forgot that part, yeah, my name is Erland March.

It doesn't make sense in English, so I might as well not say. Erlund is kind of the Nathan Fielder of Norway. Would that be fair to say? That's 100% accurate, yes. So you torture Armenians in Norway. Yeah, well. Yeah, yeah, okay. And, and counselor, sir, your honor, would you like to introduce yourself?

Yeah, I'm, my name is Miro Christensen. I make a World Cup podcast with Earth. Erland, but usually I'm a member of Parliament in Norway for the left wing party. Yeah. My name, by the way, my name means foreigner. Oh, okay. Dark foreigner. Dark foreigner.

I see you're enjoying a Diet Dr. Pepper as well. Do you want to give us a review of one of the finest drinks here in America? I was pleasantly surprised. I expected it to be a bad experience, but I'm okay with it. My opinion on Dr. Pepper is that when I'm hung over, I always have this extreme need to drink Dr. Pepper. Okay. But after the first sip, I understand why I don't enjoy it when I'm not hungover. Yeah.

Okay. Also, we've been following this podcast for the World Cup. I was very happy to see that you also make a World Cup podcast. So we are also kind of colleagues, Adam. Yesterday, we went to New York, New Jersey Stadium, which I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, regret to inform you has a corporate sponsor that Gianni Infantino, which I don't know if you guys know this is is, the English translation is Johnny Baby. Did you know that? Yeah. He's removed all the corporate sponsorships because he is, of course, also a member of the Norwegian Socialist Party. Let's just go do a

scene report. Let's do a report. We started off. We drove in to Giant Stadium, as it used to be immediately you guys I tried to make you break the rules and cut the line if you recall yeah and I was especially me but also I was very concerned about you breaking the rules because in Norway these are the type of things people can remember for years yeah I saw this one politician at a game once 15 years ago and he broke the rules yeah it's the kind of thing people will say behind your back that they saw this guy He's a guy that cuts in line. Well, there were a lot of words you guys were saying during the match,

which I didn't think were... I wouldn't even repeat them, but they were quite rude. Anyway, yeah, I did take a picture of you, and I have it as Compromot in the event of you ever tried to destroy me. No, you guys both had press passes, and there was a huge cue before the Norwegian fan fest, and I was like, guys, like, you can cut the line,

and you were like, oh, no, this is not a social... welfare of us. Let's get into the match. I was in the fan section. How did you fight? Because you were with us in the Norwegian pre-party with all the fans. You did at times look kind of fish out of water.

How did you experience it? Did you like it? It's very blonde. Yeah. Yeah. Very, you boys are big. You got some big. boys over there. Yeah, I think it's the tallest population next to the Netherlands, yeah. Oh, okay. Congratulations.

A difficult question for Norwegian journalists to ask to foreign people, what do you think about Norwegian girls? I thought I thought I was focused on the guys pretty much. What was the song, the goal song that you guys were playing? I fucking loved it.

It's like punk. Yeah. It means where the farmers from the north, but it's more like a hillbilly, it means hillbilly where the hillbill is from the north. Who does that song? That's like your... So there's a Norwegian band called Dumb Dumb Boys, but they have made it, they call themselves a racer for the World Cup songs. The Dumb Boys?

The Dumb Boys. So this is proud Norwegian music. heritage and that exact song is. I think it's also connected to the Danish people calling the Norwegian national team Mount Monkeys. Which is a derogative term,

obviously, Fjell Lappena. And then you have this response where the farmers of the north. It's a good song. You got, so it's a disc track. They insulted you and you're like, yes, that's right, we are disgusting. Yeah. Okay, cool.

Wait, so let's get to the It was 3-2. I admittedly left. I had to catch a train back to New York City right before the second Senegal goal. For me personally, I'm bringing in a little bit of club bias here. Holland is objectively, he's the best box presence like a striker I've ever seen. He's comprehensive, but to me it's annoying that we have to play. I'm an Marcel supporter playing the same league as him. But the volley, the second goal, I remember just, it was so good. Was the volley the first goal or the second goal, Sam? Second goal.

Let's run again. The feed from Martin Odegaard, the captain of Arsenal. Like, how many people are there in Norway? There's like 45 people. Like, you, the president gave you these tickets. Was that how we got in? No, we're both members of the royal family. Oh, you are?

There was a scandal recently. The only family in Norway, actually. There was recently a scandal, from what I understand it. In the royal family, yeah, there have been several scandals. But Norway, number one country in the Epstein files. Really? So we are extremely present in the Epstein files, which is our claim to face. It's kind of nice for us to tell the world a different story.

Instead of only being the Epstein Files, we are also Vikings who went to. We're probably raped people. We also rapists, okay? Yeah. We're not doing this. What your friend said to me, do you think the whole Viking aesthetic is corny, or do you think it's like a cool thing? No, we have decided to lean into it.

You're leading in. Yeah, we love it. Yeah, but there has been a debate in Norway, but... I've been a big part of the debate, I would say. Yeah, yeah, it's great. Because some left-wing academics in Norway would think that it's a right-wing kind of thing to love Viking aesthetics, rooms, all that stuff. What's your take? My take is that you can't leave the Vikings to the Nazis.

You have to reclaim the Viking heritage. We have to reclaim it, yeah. Yeah, and the Viking heritage is on. our real history, it's not something we construct, it is a part of real Norwegian history. So we have to, yeah, take it back. And also, I'm named after a Norse god, so I have to have that opinion. Yeah, I guess, like, what did you make of the match? So what's it like?

It's been how many years, 24 years since you guys were in the world? 28 years. Yeah. I mean, is it scenes? Like, do you guys, like, when the, when the, when the, them played. Did you guys feel an emotion there? Yes, definitely. And definitely before the Iraq game, so that was the first game in 28 years. I have never seen Norway in any tournament

at all, not the Euros and not the World Cup. You haven't been to the Euros either since 2000. So the World Cup for me has always been something where I have to pick another nation to root for. So it's been Spain or England or whatever. So it's kind of strange to have my own country presence, but it feels right when the team is this good. And Norwegian people have a different sort of emotional spectrum than Senegalese people, so when we're very moved, we stand completely still and pay nothing to each other.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's very moving for us. That's our drum. That's our drum. It's just staring into the distance. It's a country of 8 million people, is that correct? Five. Five million.

And so what percentage do you think of the entire nation is in the space right now? I think we tried to crunch the numbers and we ended up at about 1%. But Mimir here, he's actually a dual citizen. So he's also Icelandic. So I think in Iceland had 10% of their population present in the 2016 euros. That's right. And that's 30,000 people is 10% of the, there's 300 plus people. So we don't, we don't, that's not like, that's not the fact we brag about because we don't want the Icelandic people to start writing.

What are you guys, what's it like having the best striker in the world who of course was born in England and you guys settled or colonialed him into Norway? Right? What's it? Yeah, I mean, I feel like in a country so small, like you have a cousin that's friends with Holland

or something. Yeah, it's, of course, statistically incredible, but to me, it's kind of two-sided because on the one, I guess it's amazing to have the best track

in the world, but I'm just personally, I'm wired in the way that I just keep thinking about the fact that this will never happen again. So it's, I all,

I'm sad and emotionally, yeah, I'm also disappointed by the fact that this will not last forever. It's very Zen, yeah, the Zen of Norwegian soccer support. Why do I talk? Can you cut me saying that, please? Jesus Christ, the Zen. I don't even know what Zen is. Erland, you made a series about Holland, an animated series. Yeah, we made an animated series, which I guess could be. resemble South Park or something and Holland plays this

you know the giants from Game of Thrones Yeah yeah He's a huge bodyguard But he doesn't talk, he only makes noises Like an animal Yeah yeah Hoder, yeah like Hoder So I want to find out during this World Cup

If he has seen the show Yeah Do you think he would Take issue with your portrayal of him No I think you'd like it only made A giant lumbering fool No, when we made it, I was kind of like, okay, maybe he will be offended if he sees it. But later, I've seen his videos in Manchester City and in interviews.

He seems like just a really likable and fun guy. I think he would actually find it to be pretty funny. And we were both yesterday very noticed that Holland was smiling during the national anthem. Before the kickoff, he was already happy before a play. playing the game. And there was also a press interview after the game where he was asked, what do you think about meeting France? And he said, I don't know, they're probably going to win and then they're going to win the

World Cup. Yeah. I was about to bring that out. Yeah, it's awesome to hear a guy like the best striker in the world not be like it's going to be a tough fixture. Just do some media trained answer. He's like, fuck, we have to play France. Yeah.

So he's what I mean. So he's now he's authentic and real and fun. in interviews and so we have the best striker in the world but he also turns out to be kind of a figure you want to watch videos of also off the pitch which is great boys I genuinely

so appreciated the invitation yesterday going to the World Cup match it was phenomenal I mean yeah the flags that like the anthems I don't know why but they do touch me and when you see a guy crying I don't

Dick Avakot, the coach of Curacao, who's from Holland, he cries every single match at the anthem too. And it's just like seeing how much it means to people. I really relate to you having something nice and then expecting it to go away. I think it means you're good people, folks. Okay, that's good. How drunk did you get after the match?

I would say somewhat. It wasn't that bad. Okay. Okay, okay. Different levels of drug after the game, yeah. Because he had your backpack, so. You were concerned before the game for rooting for the Vikings against a black nation from Africa? I would say just Africa.

Yeah, I would be in a place with all blonde people rooting, you know, with a cross on the crest. Yeah, but did you like it? Do you like it? The winning team. It was, you know, and then Holland is the guy that scores. Yeah. You know, you guys were good. You guys, the king, you guys said F you to old.

Okay, we don't have to bring up the Holocaust. But you guys are, I'm cool with you guys. Well, we'll say that. You guys are good people. Yeah. Thank you. Cut the Holocaust stuff, please. No, no, it was

The Holland cost. Keep it then. That, I mean, you're in the government? Only in the parliament, so it's difficult to reach. Only the parliament, it's awesome. You said the Holland cost? Wow, can I vote for you? Yeah, yeah, please. You're awesome, boys, boys, it was so fun.

We're going to do your podcast after this one. I really appreciate it. And then we'll talk about who is right, Coden, and who, and who, who is more left-coded of Holland and Embappe. That's the subject for our podcast. Mbapé is fascistic, I think, yeah. And I think that Holland is, I think him saying, well, fuck it, we're going to lose to France is probably, like, you know, he's...

He's like... He's chill. Yeah, he's chill. I don't think he knows who the president is, probably. No. I don't think he does. All right, thanks, boys. You guys are the best.

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