World Cup’s Final Pod | The Beautiful Pod
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Welcome to the beautiful pod, Chris, in studio. Excited for you to be here. Welcome to Los Angeles. Thank you. It's been great being here. I'm already being fake as AF. We're talking finals. We're going to briefly mention the semifinals, what we learned. Britannia in the mud once again. The Falklands, our southern border, is gone. Maggie Thatcher's corpse turns. How do you say it? Maggie Thatcher. Turning in her grave. Maggie Thatcher is breakdancing in her grave.
Folks, we're also going to do a couple awards.
What are Adam and Chris's first reactions to the England vs Argentina semifinal fallout?
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We're here in person.
We're here in person. Los Angeles, California.
You say it's the final episode, but do you think we'll go into a 365-day-a-year podcast about the transfer market? I think we are changing our lives.
I think everything is different now. I'm here in Los Angeles. I had an activated smoothie from Erewhon today. I'm ready to talk about ball. Guys, I don't know why I sound like Oprah, but folks, we're nearing the end. We have to return to our lives. Yeah, but changed. Yeah, changed. Was this, first off, was this thus far the best World Cup we've ever seen?
I think it was for us and for me because it was here and because I got to see every game in the sort of prime conditions. Yeah. So to have football be a 13-hour-a-day going concern was the best feeling I've ever had.
Every day was Sunday. Yeah. Yeah. Every day was NFL Sunday. We didn't get Carrie, what's her name, doing the Sunday night song for us. Oh, Carrie Underwood. Yeah, yeah. She could still do it for the final. We got to get one for the final. Gianni Infantino, I know that you've been listening to every episode I have been receiving. The signs. Your DMs. Everywhere, the DMs. Please answer. Please answer. Why do the good guys always get left on read? I don't know why you're talking about that. Just because you're a good guy, I'm not going to respond. It's been great. We had two scintillating semifinals.
I haven't really heard you sound off about these yet.
Yeah, okay. Let's go with the first one. Let's go Spain. It was a slog, kind of like what we expected until you realized that it was the serpent kind of coiling around the French, I don't know, mouse thing.
Like the fat French toad?
Yeah, it was Ratatouille. It was the Ratatouille character just getting absolutely asphyxiated. This is kind of what I had been predicting every match about the French national team until it finally happened. And the reason was because the level of the opponent was good enough to... Yeah. To do that against a possession based team. It wasn't even like a three man midfielder versus a two man midfield. There were five on threes. There were overloads everywhere. I think that what we saw was pretty much like the DNA from their youth academy system. They all know how to play the same game. And like, yeah. What did you make of it?
uh i thought that i'd picked spain to win the tournament bracketology wise i didn't think they would be playing france in the semi so this was a little bit of a surprise to see france get just worked because if there's one team that broadcasts how they're gonna play to everybody it's spain like you know what's gonna happen and watching france just chase them around chase the ball around everywhere i was just like is this
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:05–0:42
2
What are Adam and Chris's first reactions to the England vs Argentina semifinal fallout?
0:42–10:45
3
How do they evaluate Spain’s tactical performance against France in the semifinal?
10:45–25:22
4
Why do Adam and Chris think Argentina’s run (and Messi) has been extraordinary this tournament?
25:22–33:33
5
What tactical mistakes cost England in the semifinal versus Argentina?
33:33–1:04:43