Dave Damashek

And the American ticketing industry, they couldn't be more over the moon to have one another.

And what is the face, then?

Way too expensive.

Yeah, $800.

Yeah, so like FIFA, which is a curious decision for a not-for-profit organization, has decided that they are more than fine having a half-full stadium than a full stadium, provided that they don't betray their price point.

They don't care about the concessions or fulfilling any of the promises that they made to host cities.

And the number one promise that they made to host cities lumped into this big promise that it was going to be like 10 Super Bowls.

was that your hotel and tourism industry will boom.

Economic boom.

And then Forbes came out this week with a study.

They have described the World Cup, the hotel industry has described the World Cup as a, quote, non-event.

That's insane.

I'm surprised legitimately and not to be, you know, get up on Mount Pius about it or anything.

But I asked Pablo Torre that and I said, you know, he's a I don't know if you heard of him.

He's a Pulitzer Prize winner.

He I asked.

So he's smart.

Why are we not hearing at least threats from some of these nations that they that they were going to boycott?

You heard a little of that maybe three, four months ago.

And Pablo said, nah, they would just, FIFA would just immediately replace them and all the other participating countries would just move on very quickly.