Europe in the Mud | The Beautiful Pod

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• 0:05Adam Friedland?

  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 fellows, friends of mine, Erlin Morch, comedian, and Mimir Kristensen, who's a member of parliament, I guess. I didn't know he was a member of parliament until midway through the game. I guess you 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 gonna 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.

• 0:49Adam Friedland?

  I hope we're... No one's gonna thank us. No one's gonna thank us, but anyway, please enjoy the show.

• 0:56Adam Friedland?

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• 2:49Adam Friedland?

  Chris Ryan in Los Angeles, Adam Friedland in New York City, Europe in the mud. How happy are we? 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 remontada 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.

• 3:16Speaker 02

  Happy 250, brother.

• 3:18Adam Friedland?

  Honestly, honestly, on our 250, if General Washington were here to see-

• 3:25Speaker 02

  To see penalties?

• 3:27Adam Friedland?

  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 offsides, like replays, like just to move the guy a little bit.

• 3:43Speaker 02

  Uh huh.

• 3:44Adam Friedland?

  Right, and it would be very easy to have like a little remote control and whatever the stupid new ball is.

• 3:50Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 3:50Adam Friedland?

  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 Arsenal. For one second, I thought about Arsenal the other day, and it made me so mad because Carlo played Martinelli 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 it sucks.

• 4:22Speaker 02

  It's been dazzling.

• 4:23Adam Friedland?

  Let's be honest, the World Cup, like you build it up too much in your mind and then the game sucks.

• 4:28Speaker 02

  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.

• 4:38Adam Friedland?

  Germany has not won a knockout game since Mario Gotze. Do you know that?

• 4:42Speaker 02

  I did.

• 4:42Adam Friedland?

  Since 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. Isn't that shocking?

• 4:54Speaker 02

  They also are not in this World Cup at all.

• 4:57Adam Friedland?

  Well, so it's, so four more years. Okay. Yesterday's biggest winner, let's play the clip.

• 5:04Speaker 03

  Do you want to ban our national flags? But we're gonna wave you goodbye.

• 5:08Adam Friedland?

  Yes.

• 5:09Speaker 03

  And we'll look forward in the future to working with you as sovereign.

• 5:15Adam Friedland?

  Now Chris, you know I'm a fence sitter. If you disobey the rules, you get... Yeah, 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 soccer. How are you feeling about this?

• 5:42Speaker 02

  They both abandoned their principles. They both like...

• 5:45Adam Friedland?

  I agree.

• 5:46Speaker 02

  They both like abandoned their own footballing identities and they got what they deserved.

• 5:51Adam Friedland?

  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.

• 6:08Speaker 02

  Yeah, look what happened to them during penalties. They had Kimmich have to go up to Goretzka to beg him to take pens. Why did you play for pens if nobody wants to hit pens?

• 6:19Adam Friedland?

  Well, let's be honest, they did win that game.

• 6:24Adam Friedland?

  Let's be honest, but fuck off Julian Nagelsmann. 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. But just have some respect. And also, like, I think, I mean, I don't want to body shame, but he's putting on a little weight.

• 6:45Speaker 02

  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 smell.

• 6:54Adam Friedland?

  He's dressed like Russ in 2013. Not even like a new Russ. He's wearing harem pants and shutter shade sunglasses like the Heedles.

• 7:01Speaker 02

  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.

• 7:08Adam Friedland?

  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 gonna fuck with the tactics so much that I'm gonna go hipster 4-4-2." Which is, it was a narcissistic 4-4-2, right? It wasn't a proper 4-4-2. He's like, "I'm gonna start Undav and Kai up front, and guess what? I'm gonna be so modern that I'm gonna be from the olden days, right? And guess what? You fucking lost and you fucking failed. And guess what? Kimmich was, put him in the fucking midfield." Like, genuinely, like, I don't understand. There's a thing that happens in football where, where modern tactical coaches don't understand the difference, and I said, I was saying this to Clav and Elliot in the last episode, between that and tournament football.

• 7:51Adam Friedland?

  And really, in reality, what we see is like, Pep spent 5 billion pounds, walked the league, what, 7 times? 6 times? Just walked the league. And then, what?

• 8:03Speaker 02

  His brain exploded in every Champions League.

• 8:05Adam Friedland?

  Every Champions League final, he would do this thing where he'd go into a lair 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 in this tournament. I want to see any type of modern, a approach punished. I was really hoping that Koeman would do the Neanderthal treble yesterday. And it almost worked. It almost, 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?

• 8:51Adam Friedland?

  I mean, I think.

• 8:52Speaker 02

  Him and Naalsman should have switched shirts.

• 8:55Adam Friedland?

  They should have switched shirts.

• 8:56Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 8:56Adam Friedland?

  I know. I think it's Herrenardt has thrown everything into chaos.

• 8:59Speaker 02

  It's true.

• 9:00Adam Friedland?

  Honestly, just have effortless chill fashion like Pep. Seriously, Pep has ruined it. Everyone was wearing Arsene Wenger three-piece suits and then Pep came in with just a hoodie and everyone was like, wow. He's got like an effortless style, kind of like, like Shia LaBeouf in his vintage t-shirt chopping game.

• 9:16Speaker 02

  That's exactly what people think.

• 9:18Adam Friedland?

  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, 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? Dogshit kit. How bad is that?

• 9:41Speaker 02

  It's terrible. This is.

• 9:42Adam Friedland?

  It's terrible.

• 9:43Speaker 02

  Offensive. Is this real or is this just like a, like a?

• 9:46Adam Friedland?

  This is.

• 9:46Speaker 02

  A drop that somebody did.

• 9:48Adam Friedland?

  It's the, they, they did a collabo with Noel Gallagher to make a, make a special kit for, for City and he, uh. 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 4-4-2. All right?

• 10:04Speaker 02

  Here's another lesson that I wanted to bounce off you.

• 10:07Adam Friedland?

  Go ahead.

• 10:08Speaker 02

  Do you think that Germany's failings have anything to do, as I've seen kicked around online, with the idea that Bayern is no longer building for them? Like that Bayern is no longer developing.

• 10:17Adam Friedland?

  International.

• 10:18Speaker 02

  Their whole.

• 10:19Adam Friedland?

  Diversity.

• 10:19Speaker 02

  Set. No, but Bayern's buying like Kane and they've got like, you know, they're, 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 Bayern pretty much propped that, that whole national side up, right?

• 10:34Adam Friedland?

  That whole league is so annoying to me, right? The fact that like Lewandowski could be at Dortmund and then go to them. It's a mafia kickback scheme.

• 10:45Speaker 02

  I know.

• 10:45Adam Friedland?

  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 applauses and stuff like that? It's one fucking team. Like, literally, like, if, in any other league, if someone goes from, I mean, we know the names of the people that have gone from Real Madrid to Barcelona or vice versa.

• 11:04Speaker 02

  Right, if somebody goes from like the Thunder to the Warriors or something like that, that would be weird.

• 11:08Adam Friedland?

  Granted Dortmund is not anywhere near like the competitive parody of, Dortmund and Bayern are obviously, but it's just everyone is sucking one team's... 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 Wolfsburg going out there to try that year? Because everyone's just gonna kick back their best players to the number of teams? And yes, I do think that like, 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.

• 11:52Adam Friedland?

  There were like, Italian players used to not go abroad, if you remember. Like, it used to be rare for like, you know, Di Canio's like, "I'm gonna bring racism to West Ham."

• 12:00Speaker 02

  Right. Yeah, he brought it. They didn't have to.

• 12:03Adam Friedland?

  He's gonna, "I'm gonna do just the Romans, I'm gonna do the thing that Elon Musk didn't do at the whatever the..." Okay, uh, no, I mean, it's just like, yeah, it was more rare, like Podolski I remember was like one of the only Germans. I guess like, what's his name, was on Chelsea, what's his face, Sam?

• 12:21Speaker 04

  Andreas Schurrle.

• 12:22Adam Friedland?

  Schurrle, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 12:23Speaker 04

  Klinsmann on Spurs.

• 12:24Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, Klinsmann, it was like very rare, I think now German, German players are like, 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, um, no, I think that there is something to that perhaps, yeah, like, a team having... Having chemistry and all playing the same system like does naturally translate over to a national side.

• 12:51Adam Friedland?

  I guess English players used to not go abroad as much too.

• 12:53Speaker 02

  Not as much, but now it's interesting to look at that Bayern team and see Luis Diaz, Harry Kane, Alfonso Davies, like different guys like from different countries playing in that starting 11. And I wonder whether or not there's a trickle down effect.

• 13:07Adam Friedland?

  You're saying like a more pure German.

• 13:10Speaker 02

  That's not what I meant.

• 13:12Adam Friedland?

  Is that what you're saying, Chris? You want it to be like cleansed of, what were you saying? You know who I blame? You know who I blame? Okay? I'm just kidding.

• 13:24Adam Friedland?

  The rabbis. No, I mean, there probably is something to that.

• 13:29Adam Friedland?

  Just to mention, the South African match was like really satisfying to me and I'm like so proud of them as a team. 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.

• 13:52Speaker 02

  Footballing language, yeah.

• 13:53Adam Friedland?

  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 Masia 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.

• 14:17Speaker 02

  All I'm saying is that I think that that German national team relied heavily on Bayern and I don't know if they're doing player development like they used to. And also, a lot of people are like Nagelsmann doesn't look under every rock for good players. Like Nagelsmann basically goes in and watches like Dortmund and Bayern. Now, this is just what D. Haaland said, like I have no idea how Nagelsmann spends his time.

• 14:39Adam Friedland?

  It's a little bit hysterical of a response, like they won that match basically. Also, fuck Klopp. I mean, but like, did you see Jürgen Klopp's?

• 14:47Speaker 02

  He wants that job.

• 14:48Adam Friedland?

  No, he said, no, well, first of all, that'd be, the boys would die for him. I lost my headphone. Yeah. First of all, yeah, Klopp 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?

• 15:06Adam Friedland?

  We're a 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, Ajax in the 70s. Like, we stink. And the world revolves. Okay, anyway, back to cup match. 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, occasion group stage match, probably eked it out 2-1, and they probably shouldn't have started an egotistical, like, put my nuts on the table, kind of like, why am I so gross?

• 15:47Speaker 02

  No, you're right. They shouldn't have gone balls to the wall to start the match.

• 15:51Adam Friedland?

  It was just a narcissistic lineup. Like, bring on Undav like at 60.

• 15:55Speaker 02

  But Klopp got in Nagelsmann's head about Undav. Like, I feel like that that was a little bit, like, too much chatter coming from the backseat.

• 16:02Adam Friedland?

  Look at the outfit. Look at the, look at the stupid lineup. Everyone want to be Pep. But they're not built that way. He's trying to do effortless fashion. He's trying to do ridiculous, like, counterintuitive, I'm gonna surprise them lineups. America beat this team 4-1. America. Okay? Relax. You're Germany. You had the Kaiser. You had Rubel. You had Rubel, the desert fox.

• 16:27Speaker 02

  Do you know who still wears suits to the match? And who knows where to put the guys in order to get results?

• 16:33Adam Friedland?

  Who's that? Who's that?

• 16:34Speaker 02

  The Don.

• 16:35Adam Friedland?

  Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. And you know who starts lineups where Casemiro looks like perhaps one of the worst players I've ever seen for the first half, and then just does the ramantata in the second half all over again. How many times have we watched this? And, I mean, yeah. This is, I've become...

• 16:52Speaker 02

  We're talking Brazil, Japan, obviously.

• 16:54Adam Friedland?

  I want to see the hipsters' 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 like the, like...

• 17:12Adam Friedland?

  Let me rethink it. 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're, like, yeah, they're fashion.

• 17:22Speaker 02

  It's the same thing as Morocco. Morocco is actually like a really, really good World Cup team at this point.

• 17:27Adam Friedland?

  They made the semifinal. Like, right? And people are acting like they discovered Morocco. And it's just my insecurity about being an American that likes football. 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 him do it again. I don't care anymore.

• 17:45Speaker 02

  Do you get a lot of texts from people who aren't watching, like, never watch football? And then all of a sudden you get a text that's like, wow, great cross?

• 17:51Adam Friedland?

  No, I'm having issues with a lot of the people in my life right now.

• 17:59Adam Friedland?

  Listen, Nagelsmann, 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 is their, like, terrifying left winger that you need Kimmich to be starting at right back? Why can't you have one of your best midfielders playing in midfield? It's just, it's like, he thinks he's Pep, right? He thinks he's like when Cancelo was the best player on their team that year. And Cancelo 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."

• 18:38Speaker 02

  You could go through, like, there's, like, Calvin Phil, there's so many guys Pep bought that he was just like, and now you're exiled. After buying for 80 million.

• 18:45Adam Friedland?

  It's just bragging. It's literally just bragging to show how good you are. Pep's like, "I'm gonna win the league with 6 eights playing. I'm not gonna have a striker. Everyone's gonna be a central midfielder and it's gonna be confounding and so frustrating and you're gonna leave..." I'm gonna say after you lose 5-0 that the other team are so good. They're so, so good. They're an amazing team. I'm gonna be so complimentary of your team that just lost 5-0.

• 19:09Speaker 02

  You must play with courage.

• 19:12Adam Friedland?

  It's gonna hurt worse. Let me tell you, Nagelsmann, I want to give you a lesson. Listen, what do I know? But this is, you can't do a hipster 4-4-2. If you are employing a 4-4-2, you have to first of all recognise that you are not him, okay?

• 19:26Speaker 05

  You used to eat worms at training and that's why you've got such a gravelly voice. I mean, can you shed any light on this?

• 19:31Speaker 06

  Well, no, it's a fact. I did. I also, 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 them three combined, often are the things I use to keep this voice sounding how it is.

• 19:51Adam Friedland?

  If you play a 4-4-2, you have to stand for something.

• 19:54Speaker 02

  Yeah. You have to shave your head and have a goatee.

• 19:58Speaker 06

  Short shin pads. I know tackles to be fair. And even a semi-bad tackle in a game now, it's like the world's gonna end. No wearing shin pads. I mean, my phone's not smaller than that. My rule was, wear what you're playing. You have to wear shin pads. But now what they do, so to get around the world, they put a bit of like sponge in their shin, that big, literally that big, going, "Caf, I've 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 shin? And they've got designer ones, you know, like, having specially made with picture of their family on them. I'm surprised you could see them there, that's for sure. Can I see the picture of their family? Oh, you're like, "Oh, look, it's my family." Like, what, you really need to wear shin pads? No, I need to wear white socks. Really? What for? What's the medical reason? Because I go, "I don't know."

• 20:37Speaker 05

  Cut in the holes in the back.

• 20:38Speaker 06

  Oh, goodness me. I can tell all this now, because when you're with a team, you have to go, "Yeah, yeah, I can see why you're wearing that." "Can you just wear some normal socks?" "I'm in Manchester, I have to wear a normal sock." "I can't possibly play today, because I didn't have my holes cut in the back of my socks." I mean, come on. All this is telling sometimes, I'm like, "Just play."

• 20:57Adam Friedland?

  Thank you. This is what it takes to start a 4-4-2 line. You have to be a guy that like, literally has a player like a Ben Me style player, give someone a career-ending, like, multiple fracture, like, compound fracture with a bone sticking out of your leg and say like, "I think he was going for the ball."

• 21:17Speaker 02

  And he wasn't wearing big enough shin pads, yeah.

• 21:19Adam Friedland?

  And he has to be like, "I didn't see it. I'm gonna have to watch you replay."

• 21:21Speaker 02

  If Sean Dyche, if we replace Lawless with Sean Dyche... Would you just DVR every Fox studio show and watch it for the rest of your life?

• 21:31Adam Friedland?

  It would be insane.

• 21:32Speaker 02

  If it was Zlatan, Thierry and Sean Dyche.

• 21:35Adam Friedland?

  But literally, what we're ignoring is that Zlatan is just as insane.

• 21:41Speaker 02

  I know.

• 21:41Adam Friedland?

  That's how, Lyles 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 Steven Seagal 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.

• 21:58Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 21:59Adam Friedland?

  You have to literally, you have to, you have to, you have to wear the poppy 12 months a year and talk about the, 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.

• 22:12Speaker 02

  World War I, you want to do this now?

• 22:13Adam Friedland?

  No, okay. You have to be in a minimum of six relegation battles in the Midlands.

• 22:20Adam Friedland?

  You have to be, wait, you have to be in like a, a bottom three side, fired from that bottom three side, immediately picked up by another bottom three, three side.

• 22:29Speaker 02

  You have to manage Wolves and, and Southampton in the same year.

• 22:35Adam Friedland?

  And Burnley.

• 22:35Speaker 02

  And Burnley, yeah.

• 22:36Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 22:37Speaker 02

  But you'd never leave your house. Like, you're always in like the, somewhere in the middle of the country, traveling to those, yeah.

• 22:43Adam Friedland?

  You have to replace Nuno Espirito Santo as a, as a manager. Yeah. You have to, yeah, you have to be sacked so many times. Just sacked, right? Like, you have to like, uh, you have to, you have to hit this penalty. Play, play, you have to be able to hit this.

• 23:05Adam Friedland?

  You have to stand for something Nagelsmann. It's not FIFA, okay? It's not FIFA. You have to eat, like, uh, for breakfast, eat a, eat a curry for breakfast and minimum 4 non.

• 23:20Adam Friedland?

  You have to claim that something you said on Talksport you didn't realize was, had a history behind it and was hurtful to a group of people.

• 23:27Speaker 02

  Yeah, you didn't realize it was being broadcast.

• 23:29Adam Friedland?

  This has to be your bird.

• 23:31Speaker 02

  Is that actually Dyche's old lady or is this just like amalgamation?

• 23:35Adam Friedland?

  No, that's, I think that's Dwight York's lady.

• 23:38Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 23:39Adam Friedland?

  Who's apparently quite the, around Manchester, the ladies man. Okay, you have to go on this vacation, okay? This is the vacation you have to go on. You have to go on thomascook.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, Tumi, they used to sponsor Spurs, amazing. Okay. 10 minute walk to the beach, okay? 294 pound total. Total, okay? To Greece, okay? Including meals and flight. What meals are they giving you on this vacation? What are you eating?

• 24:22Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 24:24Speaker 02

  They hand you an octopus when you get off the plane and they're like, this is it. This is three squares.

• 24:29Adam Friedland?

  They have a water park, there is not a single Greek person there. And a lazy river, it's just filled with piss. Just filled with piss.

• 24:39Speaker 02

  So your larger point is that if Nagelsmann wanted to play 4-4-2, he needed to have gone through this initiation process. He needed a hazing.

• 24:47Adam Friedland?

  100,000%.

• 24:49Speaker 02

  He needed to go to Sean Dyche U.

• 24:52Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, you have to have violent criminals on your team. 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.

• 25:05Speaker 02

  Adam, I gotta tell you, man, a reality TV show where continental managers go to Sean Dyche finishing camp, where they show up wearing uniglo and they leave wearing like, just Sergio Tacchini tracksuits?

• 25:18Adam Friedland?

  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 Carlo's Kyros. Okay, it's pathetic. They lost to a team that lost to America 4-1. They should be ashamed of themselves. They actually did win that game and it is they they Freddie fuck off forever Nagelsmann fuck off and Freddie fuck off. Enjoy traveling back to your country which isn't isn't 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Okay.

• 25:52Speaker 02

  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.

• 26:07Adam Friedland?

  I love that. They used to say that about Luis Diaz about how he played on a dust pitch.

• 26:12Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 26:13Adam Friedland?

  I love that. He came from dust. He's like Adam. He came from the he's he's like the he's like Ganja. He came from the earth. 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 that 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.

• 26:52Speaker 02

  It was goaded and also just the fact that all he does is put guys in the right position. It's this it is his it is his brilliance is he's like Jude plays here. Martinelli plays here. Pirlo plays there. Like that's what he does.

• 27:07Adam Friedland?

  It's the aura. I mean, yeah, he did it like he moved Kaká. I mean, Martinelli playing nine reminded me of how much I fucking hate Arsenal. I hate Arsenal.

• 27:19Speaker 02

  The best part about the Martinelli goal was the dudes around him. Being like that's going in like Rand like 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.

• 27:32Adam Friedland?

  He had 15 and 5 at 19 years old.

• 27:35Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 27:36Adam Friedland?

  Let's just play my favorite Martinelli clip.

• 27:50Adam Friedland?

  Okay, listen, I'm so happy for Gabbi. He's been a loyal player. I've watched him for the last five years. The debate was Saka or Gabbi. Now Saka is dead. Can we stop playing him? The whole world's watching. They're gonna think he's bad. No, he's being so selfless for England. It's like breaking my heart.

• 28:09Speaker 02

  It's also like he's up against your boy for the right way spot. So it's like, Nonya is pushing him.

• 28:14Adam Friedland?

  Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter.

• 28:16Speaker 02

  This was one of the coolest things in the Brazil game was, earlier in the match, Cunha had kind of done like settle 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.

• 28:37Speaker 02

  That's a plant, man. That's not real.

• 28:40Adam Friedland?

  It's like when Trump won, that one lady.

• 28:47Adam Friedland?

  Oh my god, Sepuku. No, poor guy. The Japanese will be back. They're incredible team. They play like beautiful ball. They were better in that game. Once again, we learned our lesson. Never count out Carlo. Genuinely speaking, Gabbi Martinelli in that goal, he genuinely took his moment brilliantly. I love him as a player. And also, both of our Gabbi's, we had a Gabbi assistant, a Gabbi. That was a beautiful cross.

• 29:18Speaker 02

  There's gotta be like a hard cap on how many times you can talk about Arsenal in one podcast episode.

• 29:22Adam Friedland?

  Okay, cut all the Arsenal.

• 29:24Speaker 02

  Then this episode is like two minutes long.

• 29:29Adam Friedland?

  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. Ronald Koeman, I think out of all of the Neanderthals, the dumbest one.

• 29:43Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 29:44Adam Friedland?

  Isn't it weird they used to have a village idiot? They're like, this is our idiot.

• 29:51Adam Friedland?

  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, uh, of Hipsterden. See, this is a clear distinction we have to draw. Koeman, Koeman did it, it was the product of an imbecile, right? Like, and once again, like you were saying before, uh, the teams need to reclaim their identities. They have to be doing Cruyff turns, they can't be a back five Netherlands, I'm sorry.

• 30:17Speaker 02

  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, a chance here." Is that when they lose, the fucking national teams detonate. Like, they don't, they're like, "Ugh, we left it all on the field, that was really heartfelt." 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."

• 30:52Adam Friedland?

  Dude, we said it before the tournament, we all knew it. When Weghorst came on though, I'm like, "This is going to be a moron like Treble." "I think we're gonna just sweep yesterday." I was like, I, I was like, "They're about to do it again because they have that psychopath." That like, six foot, what is he, 6'6" or something?

• 31:10Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 31:11Adam Friedland?

  He's a, he's a psycho, and the way he looks is insane. You can see his skull. You know when you see a person and you're like, "That's a..." You know what his skull looks like? Weghorst is one of those kind of guys. The, the, when he put Koopminers 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, Westham, uh, uh, Somerville. Cresencio Somerville ran literally 120 minutes and was just like, uh, sprint.

• 31:49Speaker 02

  Cody Yakpo tried, like, to everything he could, he scored coming off the back of personal tragedy. It was like, they, they, they had a-

• 31:56Adam Friedland?

  It's so sad.

• 31:57Speaker 02

  It was like, they were so set up for like, a storybook win there, and he just, he just really screwed them up. Koeman's really screwed them up.

• 32:05Adam Friedland?

  He stinks. The Mexican fans were booing the Netherlands because they lost to them in the round of 16, like, what, 12 years ago?

• 32:13Speaker 02

  No, that was recently, wasn't it?

• 32:14Adam Friedland?

  12 years ago.

• 32:14Speaker 02

  Oh, 12, it was 14?

• 32:16Adam Friedland?

  What the hell, like, just relax, guys. Like, please. Can El Tree, to make the second round of the knockouts, please? Can El Tree just, like, just, come on?

• 32:30Speaker 02

  You're gonna, by the time this episode goes up, they are gonna be strolling.

• 32:34Adam Friedland?

  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.

• 32:51Speaker 06

  The Korean media is really confused about the fact that they are in a war.

• 32:58Adam Friedland?

  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...

• 33:08Adam Friedland?

  Because you know they blur out that.

• 33:10Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 33:11Adam Friedland?

  And I finished.

• 33:11Speaker 02

  What about the airport? What about the airport?

• 33:14Adam Friedland?

  And I did finish.

• 33:20Adam Friedland?

  All right. Listen, it's a little bit carried away. This man, they're blurring out his face like he's like an Ice Age or something. Like, people know what he looks like. I just think, like, yeah. I mean, it's a national tragedy for these people. People are acting just like a little, yeah, look at this.

• 33:48Adam Friedland?

  It sounds terrifying.

• 33:50Speaker 02

  That's a long flight to get off of and have that be what's greeting you. Can you imagine if you got off an international flight? I can't imagine flying back to Philadelphia and feeling like this.

• 33:57Adam Friedland?

  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, okay, anyway. Sam wanted us to mention, our boy John Joe Shelby is coming back, third division UAE. Third division UAE?

• 34:14Speaker 02

  I was pretty into this story, but I have no idea what it has to do with the World Cup.

• 34:18Adam Friedland?

  I have no idea why, I said cut this four times and kept putting back in. Okay, there was a Croatian, 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.

• 34:35Adam Friedland?

  All right, we can hear it, though.

• 37:02Speaker 06

  مشجع روسية مؤازرة لمنتخب الروسي.

• 37:24Adam Friedland?

  على مزيد من الأهمية، لن نتحدث عن إيران. هذا الأسبوع، وجدت أنني كنت أشاهد الملعب الأكثي الذي رأيته في حياتي بأكمله. وكان ذلك أستراليا ضد Algeria. بالطبع، كان ذلك الملعب الذي قرر الفرصة الأخيرة للخليطين الثالثين. خلال هذا التمرين، لقد تحدثنا عن إيران، ولكن خلال هذا التمرين، أعتقد أن شيء قد أصبح واضح، ودعونا نسمع من تيريمي.

• 37:53Speaker 06

  لكننا نضحك خارج Football، لأن هذا هو التفاصيل المهمة في Football. كما تعلم، العودة هي شيء مهم. والتفصيل الصغير يؤثر على Football.

• 38:09Speaker 06

  لدينا نضج، لدينا قوة في غرفة التدريب، كما قلت. ننتظري، ودعونا نرى ما سيحدث غداً للفوز.

• 38:20Speaker 06

  لا يوجد شيء حول الفوز. لأننا فعلنا أفضل ما لدينا خلال 90 دقيقة. مع هذه الحالة التي كانت لدينا منذ البداية حتى الآن. نحن نهين أنفسنا. وإذا حدث شيء ما، فهذه مسؤوليةيتي لأنني أفقد الحدث. وإذا فزنا الفوز، نعم، شكراً على الله. كما ترون، نحن نلعب بشكل جيد، أعتقد، خلال 90 دقيقة.

• 38:49Adam Friedland?

  أعتقد أن فريق إيران كان obviously showed a lot of class. كان这是一个非常困难的情况，他们走进了 وكانوا يدخلون إلى تمرين كانوا يلعبون في بلد كانوا في الحرب معه. وأعتقد أنهم عرضوا قوة وبراعة مذهلة في الفعل. كانوا يفعلون ذلك للفئات في المنزل لكونوا يملكون نضج. كما تعلم، كان هناك

• 39:11Adam Friedland?

  Endless bombing, the peace 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 offside, and also on the pitch, it was declared offside, so it wouldn't have been clear and obvious error, even if, you know, like, that was, that's not the right argument to make. I think what's more apparent is that Infantino kind of, like, you know, bent the knee to all of the demands of the Trump administration, and to the extent that he went into the Iranian

• 39:56Adam Friedland?

  locker room and apologized to players.

• 39:58Speaker 02

  Well, I would just say this is the black eye 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 that 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 10:00 PM back to Mexico, they are very thankful for the

• 40:40Speaker 02

  Mexican fans, but like, these guys had no shot, and the fact that they got as far as they did was amazing.

• 40:46Adam Friedland?

  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're seeing guys that were like, they were like, just clearly on Molly, just like trying to find their friend who, like, got spooked during a, 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, what the fuck?

• 41:27Speaker 02

  Be like, what are you doing? Yeah, I thought we agreed, 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-

• 41:35Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 41:35Speaker 02

  They were like this, but like, yeah.

• 41:37Adam Friedland?

  Whether or not there's the actual collusion or not, 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 making 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, who's it, Mahrez? Mahrez scored like, scored an extra time for two minutes. Those players, who have had such a shit experience,

• 42:18Adam Friedland?

  like, attending this World Cup, had like, hope, and thought that their nation had hope, and that was, whether, 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.

• 42:37Speaker 02

  This is something FIFA had done away with. There's, I mean, I don't know whether it gives you, gives people any comfort to know that it, it's not particularly corrupt, it's just typically corrupt. You know, it's like, this is kind of been something that's-

• 42:49Adam Friedland?

  It's been corrupt the entire time.

• 42:50Speaker 02

  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 Spain, ironically enough, Austria and West Germany were playing, and 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 gonna 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, they 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-

• 43:37Speaker 02

  Germany scores early and then the two sides basically like have a Sunday kickabout for 80 minutes.

• 43:43Adam Friedland?

  They play catch basically with their feet.

• 43:45Speaker 02

  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 had to basically change the rules. I think until now, when they've introduced this third place qualifier thing where now it's, there's, it's all back into, into this jackpot.

• 44:06Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. The point is, is that they wanted more games and they wanted to make more money. Right? And that's what we're seeing like the, the stated purpose of FIFA is to, for football development around the world. But like what this, what this organization really is, is, hey, we're going to get the best guys, right? At, 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, how much is it going to cost? You know, to get the best guys and it's free. Basically it is, basically they are, it's such a good fucking racket, you know?

• 44:45Adam Friedland?

  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 it 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 like they know what, 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 I don't like, not to get into it, but like.

• 45:19Speaker 02

  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 television 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 Messi, Mbappe, Haaland, 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, they really, they've really fumbled it in this way.

• 45:54Adam Friedland?

  Well, just, or like what the corruption we used to see, I mean, when it comes to the, the tournament as a television project, that, or 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 gonna kill them. I mean, literally, like, in 78, there was a military junta the year before in Argentina. And Videla, what he did was like, him and Kissinger basically made a, match fixed a game. A lot of this wasn't on television. A lot of it was about like, state, like, propaganda.

• 46:35Adam Friedland?

  But him and Kissinger like, entered the Peruvian locker room and gave a speech about the topic of Latin American Brotherhood. But 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 read it and said, I'm gonna believe it's true, that Generalissimo Videla watched the final with Mr. Josef Mengele, who, I don't know who he is, but I'm gonna, I'm gonna have to look into that. The angel, he was no angel, can we be honest? And also, you know that Cruyff, Cruyff didn't go because his family was being threatened.

• 47:16Speaker 02

  The Cruyff story is, is one of the all-time greatest, like, legends of football.

• 47:22Adam Friedland?

  The, 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, that they're getting for it. And they're not thinking about like, the meaning of this to, 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, I'm like, think about the amount of money that Pep has had to spend to build a really good team, right? Right? The, the reason they're doing this, like, they're not getting paid, I, how much, Sam, can you actually look up how much players are getting paid for playing in the World Cup?

• 47:57Speaker 04

  It's about 75,000 pounds a match.

• 47:59Adam Friedland?

  Maybe look it up, I wanna see if you're right.

• 48:03Adam Friedland?

  Well, wait. That was amazing. Give it up for the boy. I mean, like,

• 48:09Adam Friedland?

  like, uh, the amount that clubs have to spend on recruiting talent, they can do this because it means something to them to like, score for their country, to play for their country.

• 48:20Speaker 04

  Yeah, so it's about 75,000 pounds, all included, per match for everybody.

• 48:26Adam Friedland?

  For the entire team?

• 48:26Speaker 04

  That FIFA pays the national teams.

• 48:29Adam Friedland?

  Wait, so that, what's the?

• 48:30Speaker 04

  It's about 2,500 a player. And if you're.

• 48:35Adam Friedland?

  Gabrielle Martinelli got paid 2,500 pounds.

• 48:39Adam Friedland?

  2,500?

• 48:44Adam Friedland?

  I mean, seriously, like, it's, it's, the reason they're doing this, because like, they, I mean, these guys are on like, uh, like, 500,000 a week. How much is Holland on?

• 48:54Speaker 04

  I mean, it's reported at 500K, but.

• 48:56Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, but 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, and, uh, what we saw was a country that, like, uh, you know, they, I mean, they did double the, they did dou-, I mean, Trump just, Obama got one, gave 150, and Trump did 300? What a loser. I'm, that, cut that. He's a friend of the show. Uh, no, I mean, like, seriously, they're giving it to a country where, like, uh, they're, they, they fucking dashed the hopes of a country where their players were bravely going to,

• 49:34Adam Friedland?

  uh, another place that had bombed a school of girls and killed them. Like, uh, it's, the US and USSR, like, uh, didn't attend one another's Olympics during a cold war. Like, Maggie Thatcher was considering during the Falklands not going to the 82. Yeah. You know, which was like, obviously, you know, it's, that's probably, that was, that was a big deal also. I mean, that's just for the, for these Argentines to, to think that they could invade our, our beautiful rock. I love how you're referring to it as our. We're doing it for King and Country, Queen and Country. But guess what? I literally found myself watching the most dogshit match of all time.

• 50:19Adam Friedland?

  Because it had implications. I switched to Messi when they subbed him on.

• 50:25Speaker 02

  It just got so weird there at the end for Algeria, Austria.

• 50:28Adam Friedland?

  I was refreshing Fod Mob to see when Messi came on. And then he gave us a goal. And now that's the only thing that's making me feel love.

• 50:37Speaker 02

  Is Messi.

• 50:37Adam Friedland?

  Peace. It is Messi. And it's just like, I want to see every single.

• 50:43Speaker 02

  Give me the five reasons you're still hyped. Give me, because you got Messi.

• 50:47Adam Friedland?

  Messi, Messi, Messi, Messi, Messi.

• 50:49Speaker 02

  You got Giancarlo.

• 50:51Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, Carlo, I, yeah, I want to see Carlo win football. I want to see Messi, I just want to see, I want to see this continue. I don't want to lose it. Honestly, Ronaldo, I want them to win and I want to continue to see him.

• 51:06Adam Friedland?

  I got some great Ronaldo stats if you want to read them. If I could read them to you right now. I know we're doing like, okay. He's the first footballer in World Cup history to go seven matches without a successful dribble. Without a successful dribble.

• 51:22Adam Friedland?

  He has, he's played the most minutes for any outfield player.

• 51:28Adam Friedland?

  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 Messi Ronaldo quarterfinal because they finished second.

• 51:45Speaker 02

  That's right.

• 51:46Adam Friedland?

  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 can 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 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 Champions League final? Like I can't.

• 52:23Speaker 02

  I mean, we were talking about this the other day, Barca and Manchester United.

• 52:26Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, well, that was just because I'm miss, miss, miss, miss. Yeah, I mean, like genuinely, like, uh, this is not expected. Like, seeing an insane Paraguay, like, penalty shootout where everyone was missing. Where they like, it was like, uh, match point, uh, like, uh, 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 Nagelsmann, like, be, uh, go home sad, and seeing Freddie, uh, sent to, uh, CIA black site in, uh, in Syria. Uh, you know, that, that's, I mean, it's just, it's been a lot of fun.

• 53:01Speaker 02

  Let me ask you something, though.

• 53:02Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 53:03Speaker 02

  So, you're just talking about how we don't get Ronaldo Messi in the, what, I think we have quarters?

• 53:08Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 53:10Speaker 02

  And Netherlands out, Germany out, we get robbed of Germany, France. So this is getting a little like of one of those tournament, NCAA tournaments where like George Mason's in the final four, and...

• 53:21Adam Friedland?

  There's a potential that right now, we're really excited about, like, things being fucked with, and then France just walks it.

• 53:28Speaker 02

  Yes. That's, either France walks it, or we have just like a goofballs, like, final eight or final four. And I'm, 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-Ronaldo one more time.

• 53:44Adam Friedland?

  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 US national team. I mean, I am seeing enthusiasm for ball. Maybe I live in Brooklyn. I don't know.

• 53:59Speaker 02

  I think it's around, it's, it's, it's all over.

• 54:01Adam Friedland?

  I live in a liberal bubble, okay? Maybe I'm at the, I'm at the Park Slope co-op, food co-op, and everyone is talking about, uh, the Congo statue guy being deported. Uh, but, uh, no, but seriously, like, it, there's still a lot there. There's, I, there, I, we're gonna probably get Mexico, England at the Azteca, the ghosts of the hand of God.

• 54:27Speaker 02

  And we could still get Brazil, Argentina.

• 54:30Adam Friedland?

  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.

• 54:40Speaker 02

  Bossing. He's just bossing.

• 54:41Adam Friedland?

  And it's so beautiful to see because we didn't expect it. It was like, it was like, hello, old friend. I thought you played the MLS. How are you this, how are you doing this right now? It's, I mean, it is, it's special. And like, beyond that, it's, 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 dogfight, or like, just a slugfest, which is like, two, two teams are like punching each other in the face, and then like, one player just has a dazzling moment. And, and that's-

• 55:16Speaker 02

  Well, it doesn't even have to be that dazzling. It could be like what Haaland did, where he basically just 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.

• 55:27Adam Friedland?

  But also, on Neanderthal watch, I wanted them to be rewarded for starting Sorloth on 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, I mean, they, they looked so much better after. I do sometimes want to just see 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, 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-

• 56:01Speaker 02

  Best sandwiches.

• 56:02Adam Friedland?

  Best team, best sandwiches by far.

• 56:05Speaker 02

  Do you want to do Happy Trails, or do you want to wrap it up there?

• 56:09Adam Friedland?

  Let's do Happy Trails.

• 56:10Speaker 02

  All right. I'm gonna, I'm gonna throw the teams that we have just waved goodbye to as we exit the groups and into the knockouts, and you just tell me how you're feeling. Happy Trails, South Africa?

• 56:19Adam Friedland?

  Listen, we're so proud of you guys. Like, you guys are, it was such a young team. They, I honestly, like-

• 56:25Speaker 02

  Save it for your biography, man, come on.

• 56:27Adam Friedland?

  What do you mean, my biography? It's not Arsenal.

• 56:30Speaker 02

  Japan.

• 56:31Adam Friedland?

  That fucking guy, the Mokoeana, that guy, what's his name? If I mispronounce that, I cut it. Please, please, please, please, please.

• 56:38Adam Friedland?

  If I nailed it, Chris?

• 56:40Speaker 02

  No. Mobokazi.

• 56:42Adam Friedland?

  Mobokazi.

• 56:46Adam Friedland?

  Fuck. Mobokazi, the Chicago Fire guy, he's gonna get a fucking move. He's a brick shithouse. He kicked the ball so hard against Czechia, and I'm gonna give you one-word answers to the rest of the teams, but this is my heart.

• 56:59Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 57:00Adam Friedland?

  He kicked the ball so hard that he busted the ball open against Czechia. That's Randy Johnson. Okay, continue.

• 57:06Speaker 02

  Japan.

• 57:07Adam Friedland?

  You got Carlo, fuck off.

• 57:09Speaker 02

  Qatar.

• 57:10Adam Friedland?

  Greedy, shouldn't have, and Japan also, we haven't forgotten who's side you were, okay. Uh, 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.

• 57:26Speaker 02

  Haiti.

• 57:26Adam Friedland?

  Haiti, thank god they're going back to France, I mean, though, geez.

• 57:30Speaker 02

  Turkey, Turquia.

• 57:32Adam Friedland?

  You wanna say anything?

• 57:34Speaker 02

  About Turkey?

• 57:35Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, I think you should. They got Matt.

• 57:37Speaker 02

  Cause my voice.

• 57:38Adam Friedland?

  They got three on Matt Turner, let's, let's watch.

• 57:44Adam Friedland?

  They got three on American legendary goalkeeper Matt Turner.

• 57:54Adam Friedland?

  Unreal.

• 57:56Speaker 02

  Uh, next we're coming Turkey.

• 57:58Adam Friedland?

  Of, the Great Wall of Denver, what it, what was it, the, the, the?

• 58:02Speaker 02

  New Jersey.

• 58:03Adam Friedland?

  New Jersey.

• 58:04Speaker 02

  Saudi, Czechia, Panama, New Zealand, and Jordan.

• 58:08Adam Friedland?

  Do them one at a time.

• 58:09Speaker 02

  Saudi.

• 58:10Adam Friedland?

  Don't care.

• 58:12Speaker 02

  Czechia.

• 58:13Adam Friedland?

  Don't care.

• 58:14Speaker 02

  Panama.

• 58:15Adam Friedland?

  Could not care less.

• 58:17Speaker 02

  New Zealand.

• 58:18Adam Friedland?

  Don't care, absolutely don't care.

• 58:20Speaker 02

  Jordan.

• 58:20Adam Friedland?

  Were they nice, they have a GD nice index? Gross, gross domestic niceness, grow up.

• 58:28Speaker 02

  Uh, and Jordan's last.

• 58:29Adam Friedland?

  23, don't care.

• 58:30Speaker 02

  Okay, uh, Uzbekistan.

• 58:33Adam Friedland?

  Borat, uh...

• 58:36Adam Friedland?

  Who else we got?

• 58:37Speaker 02

  Iraq.

• 58:39Adam Friedland?

  So funny, I keep saying Borat, just to say Borat, it's not the right.

• 58:45Adam Friedland?

  By the way, one of the guys that, speaking of the, I don't want to do Ronaldo propaganda, literally one of the guys was a plumber that he scored those two goals.

• 58:55Speaker 02

  It's true.

• 58:55Adam Friedland?

  Literally a plumber, okay. Iraq?

• 58:59Speaker 02

  Yeah, Iraq.

• 59:00Adam Friedland?

  Sorry, sorry about all that, but fuck off. I mean, that was, that was, we fucked up that one.

• 59:06Speaker 02

  Curacao.

• 59:08Adam Friedland?

  Curacao, what the fu- I don't even know what the fuck Curacao is.

• 59:11Speaker 02

  Scotland.

• 59:12Adam Friedland?

  We will be seeing you for three more games at World Cup 2066 Israel. I can't wait to see you again.

• 59:20Speaker 02

  You think that's how long it's gonna take?

• 59:22Adam Friedland?

  It's gonna be another 40 years, another 40 years and we'll, we'll get him for another three games. Steve Clark, uh, I'm sorry, I'm, I'm gonna miss you. And then finally, one last team, Chris.

• 59:35Speaker 02

  Tunisia.

• 59:36Adam Friedland?

  Okay, big news, we've been following the Herb Renard story since his, since his inception is the hottest story of the World Cup.

• 59:42Speaker 02

  We've been chronicling this.

• 59:44Adam Friedland?

  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, and it's six months of stability without pressure or criticism to implement his project. Basically, he's-

• 1:00:02Speaker 02

  We actually inserted this last one into your Spotify contract where you, we, we give you no pressure, no criticism. It's time to implement your, your program.

• 1:00:11Adam Friedland?

  I am fucking schwitzing right now in this room. Okay, um, Herb Renard 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."

• 1:00:26Speaker 02

  Uh, last team, uh, Uruguay.

• 1:00:30Adam Friedland?

  I'll let you take this away, Bielsa-

• 1:00:32Speaker 02

  Because you're sweating too much. Bielsa just lost his mind. And this was-

• 1:00:35Adam Friedland?

  Yes.

• 1:00:36Speaker 02

  Basically in 2024 Suarez, Luis Suarez said this was gonna happen. He was like, Marcelo Bielsa, he 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 they're shit, that they abandoned him, that they're cowards, and they played like it.

• 1:00:55Adam Friedland?

  He told Valverde, "He's a coward."

• 1:00:56Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:00:57Adam Friedland?

  Who the hell, he's like the fucking old man that sits on a Yeti cooler.

• 1:01:00Speaker 02

  His keeper asked to come out of a World Cup match at halftime. That's how much they hate him.

• 1:01:06Adam Friedland?

  They're like, literally, like, they, they need to, they need to, like, uh, they can't, they can't just keep bringing this guy back to be, to be mean to people at different teams. Like, uh, just, it would be funny if he pulled the, the, what do you call it, move? What's it got, damn United?

• 1:01:24Speaker 02

  Brian Clough.

• 1:01:26Adam Friedland?

  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 Luis Suarez since the year 1990, which is a meaningless, meaningless stat that you put on here.

• 1:01:43Speaker 02

  Yeah, it's good, though. I like it.

• 1:01:46Speaker 04

  You talking to me?

• 1:01:47Adam Friedland?

  You wanna see how wet I am?

• 1:01:49Speaker 02

  We gotta get you out of here. We gotta dry you off.

• 1:01:51Adam Friedland?

  Forlon, oh my god, look at Forlon. Alright, 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, 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.

• 1:02:22Speaker 02

  Bye, Freddie.

• 1:02:23Adam Friedland?

  Happy birthday, America. 250 years of just great, great stuff, great decisions, great, you have anything to say about the birth of America? These things keep falling out of my, guys, I'm all out of sorts.

• 1:02:35Speaker 02

  We're good.

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• 1:04:25Adam Friedland?

  Welcome, we have two guests on the show. Two Vikings that I went to the Senegal-Norway match. Two good pals. You guys want to introduce yourselves?

• 1:04:37Speaker 06

  Yes, we are, 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.

• 1:04:54Adam Friedland?

  And your name, and your name is?

• 1:04:56Speaker 06

  My name is, I forgot that part, yeah. My name is Erlend Morge. It doesn't make sense in English, so I might as well not say it.

• 1:05:04Adam Friedland?

  Erlend's kind of the Nathan Fielder of Norway, would that be fair to say?

• 1:05:09Speaker 06

  That's 100% accurate, yes.

• 1:05:11Adam Friedland?

  So you torture Armenians in Norway?

• 1:05:14Speaker 06

  Yeah, well.

• 1:05:15Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, okay. And councillor, sir, your honour, would you like to introduce yourself? Yeah, I'm, my name is Mira Kristensen. I make a World Cup podcast.

• 1:05:25Speaker 03

  I guess with Erlend, but usually I'm a member of parliament in Norway for the left wing party.

• 1:05:30Speaker 06

  Yeah. My name, by the way, my name means foreigner, so.

• 1:05:35Adam Friedland?

  Oh, okay.

• 1:05:36Speaker 03

  Dark foreigner.

• 1:05:37Speaker 06

  Dark foreigner.

• 1:05:38Adam Friedland?

  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?

• 1:05:47Speaker 06

  I was pleasantly surprised. I expected it to be a bad experience, but I'm okay with it.

• 1:05:56Speaker 03

  My opinion on Dr. Pepper is that when I'm hungover, I always have this extreme need to drink Dr. Pepper.

• 1:06:04Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 1:06:04Speaker 03

  But after the first sip, I understand why I don't enjoy it when I'm not hungover.

• 1:06:10Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:06:10Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 1:06:11Speaker 06

  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.

• 1:06:19Adam Friedland?

  Yesterday, we went to New York, New Jersey Stadium, which I regret to inform you has a corporate sponsor, that Gianni Infantino, which I don't know if you guys know this, 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 into Giants Stadium, as it used to be called. Immediately, you guys, I tried to make you break the rules and cut the line, if you recall.

• 1:07:02Speaker 03

  Yeah, and I was, especially me, but also Anna was very concerned about you breaking the rules because in Norway, these are the type of things people can remember for years.

• 1:07:12Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:07:12Speaker 03

  I saw this one politician at a game once, 15 years ago, and he broke the.

• 1:07:18Speaker 06

  Yeah, it's the kind of thing people will say behind your back that they saw this guy. He actually, he's a guy that cuts in line.

• 1:07:25Adam Friedland?

  Well, there were a lot of words you guys were saying during the match, which I didn't think were, I'm not, 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 compromat. In the event of you ever trying to destroy me. No, you guys both had press passes and there was a huge queue before the Norwegian Fan Fest. And I was like, guys, like, you can cut the line. And you were like, oh, no, this is, this is not a social welfare of us. What, let's get into the match. I, I was in the fan section.

• 1:07:59Speaker 06

  Adam, how, how did you fight? Because you were with us in the Norwegian pre-party with all the fans. And you did, you did at times look kind of a fish out of water, or you, how did you experience it? Did you like it?

• 1:08:14Adam Friedland?

  It was, it was very blonde. Yeah, yeah, very, you, you boys are big. You got some big boys over there.

• 1:08:23Speaker 06

  Yeah, it's, I think it's the tallest population.

• 1:08:27Speaker 03

  Next to the Netherlands.

• 1:08:28Speaker 06

  Next to the Netherlands, yeah.

• 1:08:30Adam Friedland?

  Oh, okay, congratulations.

• 1:08:32Speaker 03

  Difficult question for Norwegian journalists to ask to foreign people. What do you think about Norwegian girls?

• 1:08:38Adam Friedland?

  Uh, I, I thought, I thought, I was, I was focused on, on the, the guys, pretty much.

• 1:08:47Adam Friedland?

  What was the, what's the song, the goal song that you guys were playing? I, I fucking loved it.

• 1:08:52Speaker 06

  Vi er bønnar ifra nord, tavel imot oss.

• 1:08:56Adam Friedland?

  It's like punk?

• 1:08:57Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:08:57Speaker 03

  Yeah, it means where the farmer's from the north, but bønnar is more like a hillbilly, it means hillbilly, where the hillbilly is from the north.

• 1:09:06Adam Friedland?

  Who, who, who does that song? That's like, you're...

• 1:09:10Speaker 06

  So there's a Norwegian band called Dum Dum Boys, but they have made, they call themselves Racer for the World Cup songs.

• 1:09:17Adam Friedland?

  The Dum Dum Boys?

• 1:09:18Speaker 06

  Dum Dum Boys. And so this is proud Norwegian music heritage, and that exact song is...

• 1:09:23Speaker 03

  I think it's also connected to the Danish people calling the Norwegian national team Mount Monkeys.

• 1:09:31Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:09:32Speaker 03

  Which is a derogative term, obviously, fjellapene. And then you have this response where the...

• 1:09:38Speaker 06

  Yeah. Yeah. Farmers of the North. It's a good song.

• 1:09:41Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, you got, so it's a good diss track. They insulted you and you're like, yes, that's right. We are disgusting.

• 1:09:47Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:09:47Adam Friedland?

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

• 1:10:32Adam Friedland?

  Second goal. Let's run again. The second goal, uh, the feed from Martin Odegaard, uh, the captain of Arsenal. Um, like, how many people are there in Norway? Are, there's like 45 people, like you, the president gave you these, you, these tickets? Was that, is that how we got in?

• 1:10:50Speaker 06

  No, uh... No, we're both members of the royal family.

• 1:10:55Adam Friedland?

  Oh, you are? Wait, there was, there was a scandal recently.

• 1:10:59Speaker 06

  The only family in Norway, actually.

• 1:11:01Adam Friedland?

  There was a, recently a scandal, from what I understand, with the, no, no.

• 1:11:04Speaker 06

  In the royal family, yeah, there have been several scandals, but, uh, Norway, number one, uh, country in the Epstein files. Okay, so we are, we are extremely present in the Epstein files, which is now our, our claim to fame. It's, it's kind of nice for us to, to tell the world a, a different story. Instead of only being the Epstein files, we are also Vikings who...

• 1:11:27Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:11:27Speaker 06

  We went to... We go abroad and raid people. We're right for that, but yeah. We're also raiders, okay?

• 1:11:34Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:11:35Speaker 06

  We, we, we were not only bad at farts, also grownups.

• 1:11:38Adam Friedland?

  Do you think, 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?

• 1:11:44Speaker 06

  Oh, we have decided to lean into it. We, we love it. Yeah, we love it. Yeah, but there, there has been a debate. Eight in Norway, but uh. I've I've been a big part of the debate, I would say. Yeah, yeah. Uh, because some left wing academics in Norway would think that it's a right wing kind of thing to love Viking aesthetics, runes, all that stuff.

• 1:12:04Adam Friedland?

  What's your take?

• 1:12:06Speaker 06

  My take is that you can't leave the Vikings to the Nazis. You have to reclaim the Viking heritage.

• 1:12:12Adam Friedland?

  We have to reclaim it, yeah.

• 1:12:14Speaker 06

  Yeah, and and the Viking heritage is our real history. It's not something we construct. It is a part of, yeah, real Norwegian history. So we have to, yeah, take it back. And also, I'm named after a Norse god, so I have to, I have to have that opinion.

• 1:12:30Adam Friedland?

  Um, yeah, I I guess like, what did you make of the match? What's it like? It's been how many years? Twenty four years? Since uh you guys were in the world, twenty eight years.

• 1:12:40Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:12:40Adam Friedland?

  Uh, I mean, is it scenes? Like, do you do you guys like, when the, when, when the anthem played? Did you guys feel an emotion there? Like, uh?

• 1:12:51Speaker 06

  Yes, definitely. And definitely before the Iraq game, which, so that was the first game in twenty eight years. I have never seen Norway in any tournament uh at all, not the Euros and not the World Cup. You haven't been to the Euros either in, since two thousand. So the World Cup for me has always been something where I I have to pick another nation to root for. So it's been Spain or England or whatever. Uh, so it's it's kind of strange to have my own country presence, but it feels, uh, it feels right when the team is this good, so. And Norwegian people have a different sort of emotional spectrum than Senegalese people. So when we're very moved, we stand completely still and say nothing to each other. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:13:36Speaker 06

  Yeah, that's very moving for us. That's our drum. That's our drum. It's just uh staring into the distance.

• 1:13:43Adam Friedland?

  Uh, there, it's a country of eight million people, is that correct?

• 1:13:47Speaker 06

  Five.

• 1:13:47Adam Friedland?

  Five million. And so what percentage do you think of of the entire nation was, is in the space right now?

• 1:13:54Speaker 06

  I think we tried to crunch the numbers and we ended. It up at about one percent, but Mimi here, he's actually dual citizen, so he's ha- he's also Icelandic. So I think in Iceland had ten percent of their population present in the twenty sixteen Euros, or?

• 1:14:11Adam Friedland?

  That's right, thirty thousand people.

• 1:14:13Speaker 06

  Thirty, and that's, that's thirty thousand people is ten percent of the, there's. So we don't, we, we, we don't, that's not like, that's not the fact we brag about because we don't want the Icelandic people to.

• 1:14:26Adam Friedland?

  To start writing.

• 1:14:27Speaker 06

  To start writing. Yeah.

• 1:14:28Adam Friedland?

  What, what do you guys, what's it like having the best striker in the world, who of course is, was born in England and you guys settler colonial him in, to Norway, right? What's it, yeah, I mean, but, I feel like in a country so small, like you, you have a cousin that's friends with Holland or something, like.

• 1:14:50Speaker 06

  Yeah, it's, of course, statistically incredible, but to me, it's kind of two sided because on the one, I guess, it's, it's amazing to have the best striker in the world, but I'm, just personally, I'm wired in a way that I just keep thinking about the fact that this will never happen again, so it's, I also, I'm sad and emotionally, uh, yeah, I'm also disappointed by the fact that this will not last forever.

• 1:15:17Adam Friedland?

  It's very zen, but yeah, it's very, uh, yeah, the zen of Norwegian soccer support. Why do I talk? Can you cut me saying that, please? Jesus Christ, the zen, what, I don't even know what zen is. Erlend, you made a, a series about Holland, an animated series.

• 1:15:34Speaker 06

  Yeah, we made an animated series, uh, which I guess could be resemble South Park or something, and Holland plays this. You know the giant from Game of Thrones?

• 1:15:46Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:15:47Speaker 06

  It's called like, he's a huge bodyguard, but he doesn't talk, he only makes noises like an animal.

• 1:15:53Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah. Holder.

• 1:15:54Speaker 06

  Holder, yeah, like holder, uh, so I wanna find out during this World Cup if he has seen the show.

• 1:16:01Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, do you think he would take issue with your portrayal of him?

• 1:16:06Speaker 06

  No, I think he would like it.

• 1:16:07Adam Friedland?

  As a giant lumbering fool?

• 1:16:09Speaker 06

  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 likeable and fun guy. I think he would actually find it to be pretty funny.

• 1:16:29Speaker 03

  And we were both, yesterday, very noticed that Holland was smiling during the national anthem. Before the kickoff, he was already happy before 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 gonna win and then they're gonna win the World Cup.

• 1:16:48Adam Friedland?

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

• 1:17:03Speaker 06

  Yeah, that's what I mean. So 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.

• 1:17:18Adam Friedland?

  Boys, I genuinely so appreciated the invitation yesterday. Going to the World Cup match, it was phenomenal. I mean, yeah, the flags, like, the anthems, I don't know why, but they do touch me. And when you see a guy cry, Dick Avicat, you know, the coach of Curacao, who's from Holland, he cries every single match, like, 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 that you're good people, folks.

• 1:18:01Speaker 06

  Okay, that's good to hear.

• 1:18:02Adam Friedland?

  How drunk did you get after the match?

• 1:18:05Speaker 06

  I would say somewhat, it wasn't that bad.

• 1:18:10Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 1:18:10Speaker 06

  Okay, okay. Different levels of drunk after the game, yeah.

• 1:18:14Speaker 03

  But you were.

• 1:18:15Speaker 06

  Because he had your backpack, so.

• 1:18:16Speaker 03

  Yeah, you were concerned before the game for rooting for the Vikings against a black nation from Africa.

• 1:18:24Adam Friedland?

  I would say just Africa, yeah, I would. I'm being in a place with all blonde people rooting, you know, with a cross on the crest.

• 1:18:35Speaker 06

  Yeah, but did you like it? Did you like it?

• 1:18:38Speaker 03

  The winning one.

• 1:18:41Adam Friedland?

  It was, you know, and then Holland is the guy that scores.

• 1:18:46Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:18:48Adam Friedland?

  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 good, I'm cool with you guys, we'll say that.

• 1:19:01Speaker 06

  Yeah, okay.

• 1:19:01Adam Friedland?

  You guys are good people.

• 1:19:02Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:19:02Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:19:02Speaker 06

  Thank you.

• 1:19:03Adam Friedland?

  Cut the Holocaust stuff, please. No, uh, no, it was.

• 1:19:07Speaker 03

  The Holland cost.

• 1:19:08Adam Friedland?

  The Holland cost, keep it then. That, I mean, you're in the government?

• 1:19:14Speaker 03

  Only in the parliament, so I'm, it's difficult.

• 1:19:17Adam Friedland?

  Only the parliament, it's awesome. You said the Holland cost? Wow, can I vote for you?

• 1:19:22Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, please.

• 1:19:23Adam Friedland?

  You're awesome, dude. Boys, it was so fun. We're gonna do your podcast after, after this one. Uh, I really appreciate it.

• 1:19:31Speaker 06

  And then we will talk about who is, who is right-coded and who is more left-coded of Holland and Mbappe. That's the subject for our podcast.

• 1:19:39Adam Friedland?

  Mbappe is fascistic, I think, yeah. And I think that Holland is, uh, I think him saying, well, fuck it, we're gonna lose to, to France is probably, like, you know, he's.

• 1:19:52Speaker 06

  He's tall and blonde, but he's also. Yeah, he's chill, so.

• 1:19:55Adam Friedland?

  I don't think he knows who the president is, probably.

• 1:19:58Speaker 06

  No.

• 1:20:00Adam Friedland?

  I don't think he does. All right, thanks, boys.

• 1:20:03Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 1:20:03Adam Friedland?

  You guys are the best. Skoll.

• 1:20:05Speaker 06

  Thank you, Skoll.

• 1:20:06Adam Friedland?

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