Episode #69 World Cup half time show 2026
episodePreviously titled “Episode #69 World Cup 2026” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 17, 2026
Radio Check - Life In The Concert Touring Industry
46 min
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6 chapters
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What did Matt and Chris talk about at the start of the episode?
This is the Radio Check Podcast, life in the concert drawing industry.
Brother Chris, how are you man?
I'm good, Matt. It's good, you know. Not really touring this year. Got some nice time off doing little projects here and there. You know, it's been uh It's been nice.
Well, I bet, yeah. I I mean it's um I'm happy for you. And being your younger brother and seeing my older brother work as hard and as long as you have to be able to sit back and have some time off and Kind of take your foot off the gas pedal a little bit, makes me feel good, just from at least from a health perspective. But uh
good.
Are
you you are are
you
watching the Tour de France?
I am. I am. So yes. It it it's um with Tade Pagacha in in the mix, if anybody follows cycling. sometimes is as remarkable as as he is, it kind of makes watching these races a little boring. Because he just destroys everybody. So
there's no competition whatsoever.
And not even close. So, I mean, even like, you know, I know people are gonna cringe or yell or whatever, but even you know, being a past Lance Armstrong fan. Even when he raced and as dominant as he was, he wasn't as dominant as Tade is now.
At least
he had competition and it made things exciting. D Tade just goes in there and just destroys everybody. So
For me,
I'm I'm I'm watching for stage wins. I'm I'm rooting for, you know, sprint finishes and stuff like that.
Do you do you notice that the name Lance Armstrong doesn't even come up anymore? It was I yeah. They don't even mention his name. It's crazy.
They don't. But the crazy thing is, is that I guess it's part of the NBC network, but Peacock carries the the Tour de France coverage. And right after every stage they have um uh what's it called? There's a show right after the move. The move. The m and and it's Lance Armstrong. So they've given him a platform. And so he's definitely a voice.
But
not not to lament on the topic very long, but the truth of the matter is is that so the record stands officially at at five Tour de France wins.
Yeah.
Well, we all know Lance had more than that. He had seven, yeah, yeah. But they were
the he was stripped though. He was stripped. He was
stripped but but the truth is that but the thing he was stripped but uh it you know let's let's just be fair. Everybody was doping, everybody acknowledges, so it was a level playing field. He was just a jerk about it and he got thrown under the bus and he got stripped and he got caught and all that stuff. So not to get into the politics of it, but deep down inside Taddy b Tadi's gonna have five, which he'll match the record. But you know he's gonna want se he's you know he's gonna want eight.
Yeah, yeah. So
there's absolutely zero question. So I think that that's what we're gonna see out of Tade over the next handful of years. So
Okay.
How did the conversation shift to the Tour de France and its relevance?
But uh anyway.
Now now that we've thoroughly bored ninety nine percent of our listening audience.
Yes, you know, all five of our listeners have now just checked out completely. So But um hey y so for our listeners, I mean, listen, I I I it's just me and Chris today, so there's no guest, but in the past couple of episodes over the course of the year, and I think this kind of started back with that Ozzy tribute last year with the Black Sabbath show and you know, and I pinged Chris to say, Hey man, do you know anybody that was on that show? And let's get some people together and talk about it 'cause it was an iconic you know, concert televised all over the world. Um, but you know, Chris, you did something this past week was which was listen, nowhere near as iconic, but I still feel Excuse it, excuse my French here, but pretty fucking huge is that you actually were part of the halftime show at the World Cup final.
And listen, I l I'll say my piece on this and move on. You know, what little I did in rock and roll and what little I did from the standpoint of like music videos or like live touring and then you're with an artist and then we get some some level of involvement with either MTV or creating a video, we know it's a completely different world. You know, putting a show together for a live audience and for their pleasures and if it's televised, fine.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What did Matt and Chris talk about at the start of the episode?
0:16–3:05
2
How did the conversation shift to the Tour de France and its relevance?
3:05–13:23
3
Why was the World Cup halftime show considered controversial?
13:23–19:25
4
What were the biggest logistical challenges of staging the halftime show?
19:25–30:12
5
How did the lineup of artists (Coldplay, BTS, Madonna, etc.) come together?
30:12–45:28
6
What technical innovations (audio, video, spider cams) were used for the show?
45:28–46:25