Paul Ansorge
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5 Aug
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On our show, we talked at length about
the insane levels of human rights abuses that went into the constructions of stadiums for the Qatar World Cup and all these kinds of things.
The 2018 World Cup in Russia was like, you know, they had already invaded a part of Ukraine then.
I mean, it wasn't what it has since become, but they were already annexing bits of neighboring countries.
And the same energy should be
given to a world cup in this USA.
Like I'm not saying by the way, like, oh, the perfect utopia of Barack Obama's United States or anything like that.
You know what I mean?
But I just mean, I just mean that there are levels to these things and, and the denial of entry to a referee, like these things and fans and support staff and all of this kind of stuff, like that's so intense.
And then you have FIFA turning themselves into like an aggressively disgusting organization, which in almost Greek tragedy levels, their hubris has been...
like punished by the guards essentially and kind of what's happened since and Infantino is obviously not long for the job now because he flew too close to the money son like a kind of Icarus but with the C being a cent sign and the S being a dollar sign at the end and but I decided that like they can't take the World Cup they can't take the World Cup off us
They can't, this is, it's, this thing is ours.
This thing has always been ours.
This is like, for me, this is the best sporting event that exists.
It is, you know, you see, even under these circumstances, the coming together of cultures and the, in the, the kind of the, the height of the celebratory nature of it, the kind of moments of transcendence, like the Cabo Verde equalizer and extra time.
And, you know, these kinds of things that are just so, so,
Beyond, beyond, beyond something that like, I don't know, I'm biased, but other sports can try, but no sport has the World Cup.
The Olympics is great, but the Olympics is diluted.
The World Cup is like incredibly concentrated and focused.
No, I mean, essentially, I imagine this is not what's going to happen, because when Seb Blatter lost his job after, like,
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