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Chapter 1: What is the purpose of the podcast episode?
Generate is supporting my vision to improve the financial literacy of 100,000 Kiwis by sponsoring Keep the Change. Cheers Generate! Head to generatekiwisaver.co.nz forward slash change to find out more. Welcome to another update from the World Cup 2026. And when I left you last time, I was about to go to the England versus Croatia game.
And there were high aspirations for Croatia, but England absolutely addicted them for two. And my word, was that something to go to and be a part of? I think we left... Fort Worth at roughly 9.30 to dodge the traffic and get over to Dallas to the AT&T Arena. I actually believe it's in Arlington. And by the time we got over there at about 10-ish and found what's called Texas Live, we...
were very quickly aware that we were not going to be standing in those lines because the English were going to have more staying power than us and willing to spend the $20 American, which would be about $36, I guess, on the door charge just to get in to go and watch the game from in there rather than actually going to the game.
think a lot of them were going to be pissing up and watching their team their superheroes get the job done from inside there but outside of that there were people already gathering thousands of people ready to go and watch the england game now we had tickets to that which was pretty amazing we were right up the top of the stadium and then fortunately for the second half got a bit closer to the action but
The atmosphere inside of there was fairly crazy. We were actually at the other end of where all the English fans were, so it didn't get right amongst the viral singing and stuff that you may have seen on social media.
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Chapter 2: What were the highlights of the England vs. Croatia game?
But they were really, really getting in behind their team. And I think that stadium, that's where the Dallas Cowboys play. It might hold, actually I think I did take a photo of it so I'll see if I can find it but it might be 70 odd thousand, 72 thousand people and far out. It's really interesting here in America these stadiums are so steep.
And you sort of think, well, are you actually going to be able to see anything given that there's so much to the stadium? But by the time you get in there and get up really high, the views aren't actually as bad as you would think that they may be. So, yeah, I think that probably doesn't stop the people getting along to the football. But I believe that the college stadiums are even bigger.
So, yeah. Yeah, some of those get right up to 110,000 people, someone was telling me the other day. So that is a shitload of people. So full house, 70,389 people in attendance at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington. And it was actually quite a lot of...
Croatian fans so there was a lot of them there and bumping into quite a few English people asking them you know what they're up to it sounds like a lot of them were going well not a lot but well a lot of the people we spoke to were actually just going for the one game so they were flying over from the UK
and then they were heading back after that game, so it may just be the single game that they're getting into.
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Chapter 3: How was the atmosphere at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium?
We decided to get a little bit of merch at the game, and I think it was 130 US for a top, and that's probably over, that's well over 200 bucks New Zealand, is it? But your food prices were basically all the same there as when we went to the LA game, so
you're just getting I wouldn't say reamed but you're up for a very expensive trip but I think for a lot of the people going to these events trip of a lifetime and they're really making the most of it as was I on the Instagram story by the time we got back to Fort Worth and into the stockyards later on that evening as you may have seen on the Instagram story where I was really getting into it but some of the scenes of the singing and stuff at the games is definitely something that
won't leave me for some time and I was actually saying to my fiance earlier on that I think in a couple of months hopefully if England can keep going well yeah keep going deeper into this tournament or no matter how far they get in we'll be watching whatever game they get to going far out we were at their their first game uh where they where they beat up uh Croatia so yeah Harry Kane Barry Kane or Barry go on Barry a proper footballer he is seems to be the darling of the UK or England
and he was getting the job done for his country. So pretty epic and special to be a part of a game like that and just see how much it means to the English people. Bumped into these three lads the next day and I was asking them, you know, did you guys tear into it yesterday? And they were like, yesterday? For the last four days. Oh, we've got to fly home tonight. So it really made the most of it.
And they were just so funny. One of them had allegedly been on the national TV and he thought it was Drill Baby Drill, but he got it wrong and said he loves America. Dig, baby, dig. And they were just taking the mickey out of him. They just remind me, lads, lads, lads in a huddle, loving each other.
It seemed like a little bit of one of those scenes, but they were civil engineers, and they'd had the time of their life. They'd said it was better than marriage, better than having kids, and I think they've been pretty genuine as well.
Now, we had clocked off the old English game, but where we were staying, so we're staying in Fort Worth, and it's got a very rich history, which I've come to learn a little bit more about since staying there. But if you've been there or if you do, make sure that you go to the stockyards. It's, I think, probably what everybody does. Check out Jake's Bar as per someone's recommendation.
But the very large Mexican population and the Mexican team were playing later on. And in Fort Worth, they would have had, I think it's called Sundance Square. And I reckon they would have had 3,000 or 4,000 people there to watch this Mexican game. People were taking their kids there.
to this watch party there was no way they could even see the screen but I think just to sort of be a part of it and to support their their team and they just they're so prideful like all of these countries that you bump into just bumped into some Egyptian fans down the street and they were playing up for the it looked like an Al Jazeera camera maybe but singing and dancing in the street did see one Kiwi guy he was going to get into the middle of it Taz was sort of saying I wasn't really allowed to she said I was probably going to get beaten up but I reckon I could have taken a couple of them but there was about 200 so it probably wasn't going to be smart
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Chapter 4: What challenges did fans face at the game?
So they might not necessarily be going to the games, but they're definitely supporting their teams. Now, just before hitting record, I think Germany has just gotten over the top of a team. They were losing 1-0 and 1-2-1 defensively.
But sort of everywhere you go, oh sorry I should mention we're in Vancouver now, I've just arrived today, I'm standing in the middle of a hotel where people go into their ballrooms and there's a bar behind me.
It might be a little bit echoey and that'll be because I'm standing in the middle of a very big concourse area ripping out a pod because you've got to get it done when you've got to get it done. What was I saying? Yeah, we've taken a quick walk around the streets here and the same sort of thing.
So in the host cities, it seems like there's a lot of effort gone into making sure that people are really getting in behind the football and doing a good job as a host city. So everywhere we've been, people have been really friendly. All the bars have got it on. They've got specific, what's the word, like branding for it or... Yeah, marketing, saying that they're going to have the games on.
I've got the sponsors of the World Cup, the different beers and things like that. So there's a lot of effort gone into it. And being the geek that I am, I ended up having a little bit of a read up on just some of the economic activity. It was quite funny. There was a bar going back to the English game. I think it's called the Londoner. You might be able to Google it if you really are interested.
But they had to close the bar because the English were just in there in numbers. And all of these bars, I notice when you go into them, they have like a maximum number of people that are allowed. And that's probably the same buildings in New Zealand. You can quite often see them on the plaques.
I remember in LA, there's like a plaque saying 134 in this bar that we were in, which was really an arcade that served beers. And it was like a sub-bar of the actual bar. What's that one? They're called 33 Taps or something. Anyway, I believe they've exceeded the capacity in this pub called The Londoner. And the English are just in there singing, drinking the beers, getting stuck into it.
And they're like, no, people are sneaking in.
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Chapter 5: How did the local economy benefit from the World Cup events?
You need to leave. So they started turning the TVs off, hoping that they'd leave. This was during the English game. And the English, of course, just turned the TVs back on. And I think they sing a song like, please don't send me home. I want to stay here. I want to drink all your beer. Something like that. So probably just ripping into that.
And Google that song if you need a bit of a laugh as well. And basically they had to get the, I think the fire service maybe to come in and shut this bar down. But what I noticed on the news the next day when they were talking about it, the way I feel like we would talk about that in our news and our media was like,
is oh that's disgusting and how could they do that and i even checked back in um on a stuff website a couple of days later it's like one of the first articles was like pensioner upset that he couldn't see the seats from his seats at the new stadium because of the flamethrower or something and paid good money for them i was thinking oh my god you know so i quickly got out of that but these people um
the news anchors and just people in general, even that they interviewed, they all kind of thought it was funny. They're like, holy shit, these British are just here in our country, in numbers. They're having so much fun. They love it. And one person said, look, they're really good tippers. And another one said, I think they're literally going to drink all our beer. They're going to drink us dry.
And they said they're just so passionate and they're so excited to be here. And I think the Americans are just excited that people are coming here and embracing their country,
and the world cup but i think it's probably given a lot of americans like exposure to to different types of culture and people and they just really it's the best way i guess to explain would be they just embrace it and it's like festival like people are just they're just really brought into the culture of the world cup and i think the deeper that this thing goes on you know it's just going to be more and more of that so people are really intrigued you know where you're from and
and how you've got here and how you're finding it and if people are being nice to you but back to the economic activity piece the next person interviewed was the like literally the manager from this pub that had to shut it down he was explaining why it had to be shut down he was like yeah they were sneaking in and we you know we were trying to um turn the tvs off so hopefully they would leave but they would just turn them back they would turn them back right back on man
And so he's just cracking up about it, being like, we're going to have to find a way in case they come back here and drink again because they're going to drink us dry and they might just keep sneaking in. We can't let that happen. But I thought it was hilarious. And then the interview, like the sushi person downstairs or something, and that person's explaining how they did.
I think, a week's turnover in two days and explain how it's been great for economic activity. And then I watched an interview with some of the Dallas and Fort Worth business owners as well, because obviously the states are so big here that they have their own news channels for the specific state.
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Chapter 6: What cultural experiences did the host encounter in Fort Worth?
And they're just talking about the expectation versus the reality of the economic impact. and how it's just brought so much money into, you know, their local economies and their local stores. And I think it was interviewing the Walmart, you know, manager or something. And even the Walmart was explaining people coming in, buying all sorts of shit.
And we've just whipped into the local FIFA store set up here in Vancouver. And you can tell like a lot of the merch is just gone. So yeah, I don't know. People probably just, I mean, we're probably, I think we're stuck so much in a cost of living type mindset in New Zealand and cost of living crisis and all this sort of stuff. But yeah, yeah, these people are transacting.
And hey, maybe some of them are blowing their life savings and stuff from different countries. I don't know. Not for me to speak on their behalf, but I'll tell you what, there is plenty of transacting going on, no matter what the costs are. And we've walked into the local Adidas store here just before in Vancouver.
And, you know, it's got the different sporting brands like Adidas, Puma, Nike, etc. They've all got their teams that they make shirts for. So they've got that playing kit in there. And, you know, a lot of it's like gone.
or that they this one before had the game on so people were in there watching the game whilst they're shopping so yeah it's it's obviously driving a lot of economic activity um for you know these different cities and states and so in return you know i think a lot of people are getting the businesses are getting in behind it wanting to to get their clip of it.
So yeah, fascinating to be a part of and to see. I think that England game will be something that in future years I'll look back and go, shit, you know, I was at that game. That's pretty bloody incredible. But yeah, really impressive to see how well it's all been pulled off here and how well the games have been supported and how many people are actually going along to them. So
Tomorrow we go to New Zealand versus Egypt and hopefully the Kiwis put up a better performance than the Chiefs. Shout out to the Chiefs. Gee whiz, poor bastards. I feel sorry for them. Woke up to see that score and was like, fuck.
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Chapter 7: How are American fans reacting to the World Cup?
Shout out Ruben Love, Geordie B, but bloody hell, you know, just go easy at halftime, fellas.
far out they're just absolutely annihilated at the poor old chiefs but they'll bounce back hell of a team to keep making the final but not to be their day so yeah i'm sure there'll be some very happy hurricanes fans in new zealand at the moment anyway we are off to watch egypt versus new zealand and that won't be an easy opponent for new zealand none of their games will be to be fair but
If they can play like they did in that first game, then I think there'll be some high expectations, but it'll be the Kiwis' turn, the fans, to get in behind their team again tomorrow and really tear into it and make the most of it, because there'll be a lot of hope riding on game two, that if they can get a good result there, that it'll come down to that third game as to can they make it out of the group, which will be pretty bloody historic for the country, but
Speaking of, our friends across the ditch at Australia got beat up by USA. That means USA will go through to the next stage. And you can just tell that soccer is growing here. They still call it sucker, a lot of them. And a lot of the... Americans that are in the bars and stuff are watching it, getting in behind it because it's their team.
And when that national anthem plays, the hats come off, the sunglasses go down, and they have the hand across the heart. Very patriotic people, and they want to see their country win. But I think they can see, shit, we're actually... We're doing a bit better at the sport than we have previously, and the sport definitely seems to be growing in the country.
So probably part of why FIFA may have wanted to have it here. I don't know, that's me just guessing or speculating, but also why the country will want it here too as the game continues to grow. Anyway, that's probably about all I should leave you with. That has been nearly 15 minutes.
In true Luke style, on the plane flying to Vancouver, I finished off watching the Shane Warne documentary, which American Airlines are streaming, which seems random, of all things, for them to have on there. But of course he passed away after they filmed that documentary. But it is a hell of a doco if you write into your players that have achieved a lot and are pretty unique in their character.
and how they do things. So I finished off watching that and have rested and recuperated for a couple of big days there in Fort Worth and ready to go again in Canada. So here for seven days. I'll try and get a wrap up done for you after the game tomorrow. But trying to get this one out nice and early before that game. Get it on, get it on in your bloody, it'll be Monday, won't it?
In your offices, in your houses, go to the pub, do something. Say that Luke said to go, take some annual leave, I don't know. Just get in and embrace it because it is pretty bloody special and there'll be plenty of Kiwi people over here screaming the team home as well. So go the All Whites and I'll tune in with you all soon.
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Chapter 8: What future games are the host looking forward to?
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