Part Two: The Worst Team Owner in FIFA History: Uday Hussein
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Welcome back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast where the president has just found out about that Republican member of Congress or the member of his administration, not Congress, who's been talking about teleporting places. What's that guy's name? I spaced on him. I just read Trump's reaction where he was like, I don't know what he's talking about. Teleporting? What? I got to get to the bottom of that. I haven't heard it. I haven't heard about that. That's what's kind of crazy.
Yeah.
It was a very, like, normal, it was one of those, every now and then you get those moments where Trump has the same reaction to something as, like, a normal person, and it's just, like, unaccountably funny. Because he's clearly just hearing about it, and he's like, he's saying what?
Teleporting? That guy's job, he works at, like, DHS now or something? Yeah, something important. It's some kind of important job, but he can teleport to a Waffle House if he needs to.
It's really funny, just seeing him react to it, it's just clearly like, he's, who, what?
Does he know what teleporting even is? No. Especially because that news was from like a month ago.
I feel like I would know if one of my subordinates was claiming to have teleported to a Waffle House.
You don't know what I get up to in my spare time?
I don't, I don't. But I do know what things you claim to do. I at least pay that much attention. That's a big thing to miss. But hey, he's got a lot of work to do with the whole reflecting pond and the war and such. You know, Molly, are you ready to talk about Uday Hussain some more? Molly Conger, host of Weird Little Guys.
Weird Little Guys, Weird Little Guys, Weird Little Guys. I'm excited.
Excellent. All right. Let me drink more of my horrible health drink.
Yeah, drinking strange colored beverage.
Robert's drinking pond water. Yeah, it's from the reflecting pool. Orange.
Wait, your drink is also funny colored, Polly. No, this is plain water in my favorite cup, which is a blue jar.
Oh, that is weird. That's upsetting. I don't believe jars should be blue.
It's beautiful. I don't like that.
Yeah. If God wanted jars to be blue, that color would occur in nature.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–16:11
2
Who is Uday Hussein and how did he become the ‘football czar’ of Iraq?
16:11–20:49
3
What were the first reports that Uday tortured national team players after World Cup failures?
20:49–22:33
4
How did Uday’s ‘red rooms’ and punishments (electric cables, sewage pits, dogs) work?
22:33–37:43
5
Why did Iraqi players refuse penalty kicks and what happened to Abbas Rahim Zaire?
37:43–53:33
6
Who was Ammo Baba and how did he resist Uday’s public humiliations?
53:33–1:13:45