Speaker 1: I've been watching for two hours. You gotta score a goal.
Speaker 1: It's one more thing.
Speaker 2: I'm strong andy, one more thing.
Speaker 1: Oddly enough, I didn't feel that way. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess i'd learned enough about soccer.
Speaker 1: I got caught up in World Cup fever something like that.
Speaker 1: After a lifetime of mocking soccer and people who watch it,
Speaker 1: I got into the World Cup this year and like
Speaker 1: I was, I wasn't sitting there watching it, but I
Speaker 1: had it on in the background the entire time the
Speaker 1: World Cup final and thought it was very exciting. I
Speaker 1: thought the fact that it was zero zero going into
Speaker 1: extra time was exciting. I wasn't thinking it was dull.
Speaker 2: It's funny how we've crossed paths, or you know, taken
Speaker 2: the opposite sides on this because I've watched soccer for
Speaker 2: years and years and years, and World Cup finals make
Speaker 2: me insane because they're so conservative. I find them boring.
Speaker 2: It's like watching you know, basketball in the four cores
Speaker 2: what do they call it the four corners era? Or
Speaker 2: they would just you know, get the ball and play
Speaker 2: keep away to run out the clock. And that's why
Speaker 2: they instituted the shot clock. And stuff like that. But
Speaker 2: you know, obviously the world that disagrees with me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't need to get into the hex's and
Speaker 1: o's of soccer. I suppose either like it or you don't.
Speaker 1: But the World Cup Final in the United States was
Speaker 1: a really, really big deal. And when they were talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, a billion people around the world watching, I
Speaker 1: think that's actually true, as opposed to when they say
Speaker 1: that for the Super Bowl. I've always wondered, is anybody
Speaker 1: anywhere else in the world give a crap about this?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: How many places in the world. I was thinking about
Speaker 1: this we're about to hear from to Tom Cruise. After
Speaker 1: I heard Tom Cruise talk about a billion people around
Speaker 1: the world, I thought, yeah, I mean, practically every high
Speaker 1: school in the world probably has a soccer team. How
Speaker 1: many high schools are there any high schools in Spain
Speaker 1: where anybody plays our version of football with pads and
Speaker 1: helmets and kick the oblong balls up? Is there one
Speaker 1: in the but there's not? How about there's not one
Speaker 1: high school football team? Is there one in Europe? I
Speaker 1: don't even know how.
Speaker 2: There are, but they are very very few, and they're
Speaker 2: a novelty. It's generally an American expat organizes it and
Speaker 2: the kids like playing and it gets written up in
Speaker 2: the New York Times as Scandinavians playing American football. It's
Speaker 2: a novelty.
Speaker 1: Basketball's definitely grown as a sport, which can be proven
Speaker 1: by the fact that we lost the gold medal a
Speaker 1: bunch of times in a row in the Olympics. So
Speaker 1: basketball is caught around the world, but soccer's everywhere for
Speaker 1: whatever reason. And it was in the United States yesterday
Speaker 1: and they made it. They it was like the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl and the way they the way they handled it
Speaker 1: on the television. I always feel guilty playing part of
Speaker 1: a national anthem, like I've done something sacrilegious. But let's
Speaker 1: hear a little of Jennifer Hudson singing the national anthem yesterday.
Speaker 1: See what supply.
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 1: I heard the reviews of her version of the national anthem.
Speaker 1: She's no lubin Studdard. Who is who beat her? I
Speaker 1: think on American Idol.
Speaker 2: That year fifty years ago and nobody's ever heard it
Speaker 2: goes on for a minute in fifty six seconds.
Speaker 1: It's very good, though she did the two minute version. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: for some reason, why was I doing this?
Speaker 2: The other day.
Speaker 1: I have no idea why. Uh, I think I played
Speaker 1: it for one of my kids. The Whitney Houston national anthem,
Speaker 1: after the first national anthem, after nine to eleven. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, that was something else.
Speaker 2: Jenniferson is an amazing vocalist. She is just you know,
Speaker 2: some people's sinuses and throats are shaped in such a
Speaker 2: way that it makes a pleasing noise when they sing.
Speaker 2: The rest of us not so much. But what are
Speaker 2: you gonna do?
Speaker 1: Here's a little Tom Cruise, who did the voice over
Speaker 1: for the pregame.
Speaker 4: More then thirty days ago, forty eight nations began a journey.
Speaker 4: They crossed oceans, they crossed borders, they crossed cultures.
Speaker 1: And together they showed.
Speaker 5: Us why this game belongs to the world.
Speaker 2: We came, alright, it's a soccer tournament, take it easy.
Speaker 1: The game on planes probably flew first class. It's not
Speaker 1: like they were in boats, rowing or something. Anyway, This
Speaker 1: is the.
Speaker 2: Part of the strings to many strings.
Speaker 1: This is the part I wanted to hear from Tom Cruise.
Speaker 4: But these stories, now, these stories belonged to each and.
Speaker 1: Every one of us, do they to every nation, to.
Speaker 4: Every player, to every supporter, to every volunteer.
Speaker 2: What does that even mean to every dream carried on
Speaker 2: the pitch?
Speaker 5: So as we gather for one final chapter, let us
Speaker 5: celebrate a tournament that brought the world together, celebrate each other.
Speaker 2: This football.
Speaker 1: So I thought this this greatness. Stop dyeing your hair.
Speaker 1: I thought that was interesting him calling it football because
Speaker 1: the most popular sport, the most popular TV show, the
Speaker 1: most popular really anything in the United States is football.
Speaker 1: But we don't mean that sport, so calling it calling
Speaker 1: something else football seems pretty crazy.
Speaker 2: I wish we had that chunk of Nate Bargatzi's great
Speaker 2: bit right ready to go, and we will play a
Speaker 2: game called football. This game will be played with the
Speaker 2: feet a little bit.
Speaker 1: There's a little kicking. How much is it worth? Sometimes three?
Speaker 1: Sometimes one? Uh, but I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: If we're gonna we probably ought to What aughta happens?
Speaker 1: We got to rename our sport because calling it football
Speaker 1: is kind of dumb since it's almost entirely, especially now,
Speaker 1: a passing game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there is a.
Speaker 1: Sport called football, it's most popular sport on the planet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but do we want to call it? Everybody else
Speaker 2: calls it American? Football. But we know that because we're here.
Speaker 2: So yeah, what do we call?
Speaker 1: Actually, how about you change the name of your sport?
Speaker 1: Or will bomb you back to the stone?
Speaker 2: Oh, for God's sake, that is, I do not appear.
Speaker 2: I disassociate myself.
Speaker 6: Tariff anybody who calls it football my god until the
Speaker 6: courts overturned it. Yeah, soccer is a per perfectly good name.
Speaker 6: Passing running black ethon, where did soccer come from? Did
Speaker 6: we make up the term soccer because they all call
Speaker 6: it football?
Speaker 2: I don't know. So that's a good question. I mean,
Speaker 2: the Brits invented soccer and they called it football, right. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Oh that is some seriously bad thumb. I'll get you
Speaker 2: an answer, okay.
Speaker 1: Uh so, uh give me this ABC report on the
Speaker 1: halftime from Sophie Flay.
Speaker 3: Many online criticized to the game as boring, and some
Speaker 3: reviews that the halftime show weren't much kinder. The show
Speaker 3: star studded with Madonna, Shakira, Chris Martin, and even the Muppets.
Speaker 2: Performing all right, young man, let's go.
Speaker 1: It's a big shot.
Speaker 3: Jason Sedaikas appeared in character as Ted Lasso, introducing Justin Bieber.
Speaker 3: Some calling the mix of performances and appearances bizarre and disjointed.
Speaker 1: First of all, it's the worst kind of journalism that
Speaker 1: exists on earth. We've been complaining about a long time,
Speaker 1: grabbing a couple of social media posts and building a
Speaker 1: story around it. Some people said this, but.
Speaker 2: You should have our freedom of speech taken away.
Speaker 1: Congratulations to the World Cup Final. You have risen to
Speaker 1: the level of the Super Bowl where everybody complains about
Speaker 1: your halftime show. That's a sign of success. It would
Speaker 1: seem right, since that's what we do in America with
Speaker 1: our version of football. Every single year, no matter what
Speaker 1: you put out, everybody complains about it.
Speaker 2: You know, my question would be, can we all take
Speaker 2: a step back and think about this? Number One, nobody's
Speaker 2: ever happy with it, So number one, why do you
Speaker 2: act surprise that you're not happy with it? Number two?
Speaker 2: What are we doing here? What is this exercise? I've again,
Speaker 2: I've called for this for ages a marching band, or
Speaker 2: a boxing match, or a hockey game or something just anything.
Speaker 1: But pop stars at the moment. Who wants the feats
Speaker 1: of strength? Well, this is not a pop star of
Speaker 1: the moment. This is a pop star of the moments.
Speaker 1: Forty years ago. Let's hear a little of Madonna.
Speaker 2: There's not a one percent chance she is singing that.
Speaker 1: And she's dressed like a whore. She look at the
Speaker 1: elderly lips sinking horror. Kids, Why is that elderly horror's
Speaker 1: lips not matching up at the mid worry about it, son,
Speaker 1: just In John, she was dressed like a whror. Madonna
Speaker 1: is not a horror in case that matters to anyone.
Speaker 2: She's a brilliant business woman, she is.
Speaker 1: But when you're getting free medical care from the government
Speaker 1: because you qualify it by age, you should no longer
Speaker 1: wear thigh highs in public. In the bedroom with your husband, fine,
Speaker 1: but in public trying to be sexy. You have been
Speaker 1: eclipsed by people a long time ago. It's just it's
Speaker 1: just weird. It's weird. Yes, give up the sex symbol thing.
Speaker 1: You can still go out and sing and everything, but
Speaker 1: don't don't. Don't be a sex symbol.
Speaker 2: It's weird.
Speaker 1: I didn't actually see the ted Lasso thing with Justin Bieber.
Speaker 1: Will will give you a little of that.
Speaker 5: Wait, coach, I gotta say the first half a halftime
Speaker 5: knocked my darn socks off.
Speaker 1: Spectacular bit ofhead.
Speaker 2: I mean, how the heck is anyone gonna be a
Speaker 2: fall that gonna be tough? Yeah? Yeah, you know what
Speaker 2: I think we need. We need some heart, you know,
Speaker 2: someone that has some soul, someone who can bring the love.
Speaker 3: Woo.
Speaker 2: You think of what I'm thinking.
Speaker 1: One step ahead of your coach.
Speaker 2: You always are. All right, young man, let's go.
Speaker 1: It's your big shot.
Speaker 2: Okay, I listen to me. Go out there.
Speaker 1: Don't be nervous.
Speaker 2: Nope, he's watching, all right, make us proud.
Speaker 1: And then he starts singing. So that's justin Bieber. I
Speaker 1: didn't realize that was justin Bieber. I caught part of that,
Speaker 1: and I was just saying to my son, because he
Speaker 1: plays guitar in front of crowds and stuff like that
Speaker 1: he has and I said, man, that'd be something standing
Speaker 1: in the middle, because did.
Speaker 2: You see any of it.
Speaker 1: It's a Bieber and an acoustic guitar period in the
Speaker 1: middle of the field, surrounded just by himself. And that's
Speaker 1: a heck of a thing because that place was one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty thousand people. Are hover many people in
Speaker 1: there in the middle of the field by yourself with
Speaker 1: acoustic guitar. I would not be able to get my
Speaker 1: hands to work. You know, I'm sure I shouldn't get
Speaker 1: my fingers to function.
Speaker 2: I'm finding myself wondering would I be more nervous. That's
Speaker 2: the interesting thing I said to my kids about are
Speaker 2: less than if I'm in in a little place and
Speaker 2: there are four people staring at me.
Speaker 1: That I told my kids that are very same thing
Speaker 1: I said. You know, my experience though, actually is playing
Speaker 1: music or speaking. The giant crowds are way easier because
Speaker 1: you can't focus on the individual bored or angry person.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: But I've played like in bars where there's twenty people
Speaker 1: and you can like hear their individual song. Yeah. Famously,
Speaker 1: when a band I was in Gladys this would have been.
Speaker 2: Nineteen eighty eight anyway, heavy rock band. We played a
Speaker 2: bunch of covers and a few originals, and we played
Speaker 2: our first tune at this bar. It was like early
Speaker 2: early in the evening, first set, play our first tune
Speaker 2: and hear this gal's voice rang out. Well, they got nerve.
Speaker 6: Anyway, I'll never forget that chick and her tone of voice.
Speaker 6: Oh boy, But the great Joni Mitchell once said, these
Speaker 6: are easiest relationship in the world is ten thousand people.
Speaker 2: One is the hardest.
Speaker 1: And if you ever done in public speaking, it's it's similar.
Speaker 1: You're staying up in front of a seven thousand people
Speaker 1: or whatever is way easier than like a dozen people.
Speaker 1: Worst at playing music was I think it was an
Speaker 1: open n night Mike Open. No, it was not open Mike.
Speaker 2: He really left a lasting impression on you. It was
Speaker 2: brief and torrid.
Speaker 1: I was so drunk. It was not it was with
Speaker 1: a now I'm picturing it. But anyway, we're playing a
Speaker 1: set and like three or four songs in and I
Speaker 1: had written all these songs, So it particularly made me
Speaker 1: angry that somebody said, is every song you do in
Speaker 1: g and I thought and and I just thought it
Speaker 1: was hard to ignore because like, what kind of a
Speaker 1: criticism is that.
Speaker 2: It's a key I'm comfortable singing it or it.
Speaker 1: Just happened right now we've done four in a row
Speaker 1: that they aren't all and what why does it matter?
Speaker 2: What are you some sort of key of d flat activists.
Speaker 2: That's funny.
Speaker 1: I could hardly concentrate to do the next time because
Speaker 1: it's like what if it had been I hate your songs.
Speaker 1: It's think, well, some love them, some ahead of them. Okay,
Speaker 1: but that that's a wait, wait a minute, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: The hell do you care? Exactly? Made me want to
Speaker 1: stop the song and move the cable up a fret.
Speaker 2: There you happy? Uh, that's such a funny criticism, I know.
Speaker 2: So look that I see the next clip in the line.
Speaker 1: I was actually going to skip that, you want.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, it's Shakira performing. You could play
Speaker 2: Shakira or half a dozen other rhythmic pop princesses through
Speaker 2: the years, and I would never have any idea, and
Speaker 2: I would have no opinion having played it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna skip that. I think we've probably
Speaker 1: had done enough for the halftime show, and let's just
Speaker 1: get to the how the whole thing ended. After one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five minutes, it's a long time no
Speaker 1: scoring for most of that oax it in Williams that
Speaker 1: way to Spain their second World Cup title.
Speaker 5: Spain, for the second time in their history, have won
Speaker 5: the World Cup.
Speaker 1: It was zero zero, but that was not an indication
Speaker 1: of how the game was going. There were sixteen shots
Speaker 1: on goal by Spain and that number was Let me
Speaker 1: look at this zero by Argentina zero. They didn't get
Speaker 1: one kick at the goalie and all that time amazing.
Speaker 2: It was ridiculous. I was so discouraged. I was rooting
Speaker 2: for Argentina too, and I was just so just discouraged
Speaker 2: watching it. Oh, for God's sake, would you guys do something.
Speaker 1: I almost bought an Argentina jersey to wear around for
Speaker 1: a couple of days before this match. That would have
Speaker 1: been my dumbest jump on a bandwagon's sports purchase of
Speaker 1: all time. And I've made some dumb ones.
Speaker 2: Well, if you did bust it out of the closet,
Speaker 2: people would speak Spanish to you because they could only
Speaker 2: assume that you're in Argentine. Why else would you be
Speaker 2: wearing it.
Speaker 1: I saw lots of people over the weekend in Jerseys,
Speaker 1: lots of people in either in various jerseys. I saw
Speaker 1: a couple yesterday coming out of the target. They were
Speaker 1: holding NaNs. I assume boyfriend and girlfriend. The dude was
Speaker 1: in a Spain jersey and she was in an Argentina jersey.
Speaker 2: I thought that was cool. Wow, And do you think
Speaker 2: they are Americans?
Speaker 1: Oh, they're absolutely Americans.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, People just going to the sports bars and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, wearing jerseys like you do when you got
Speaker 1: to watch it a big sporting event with a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of people.
Speaker 2: They'd adopted a team. But see that's not cool anymore
Speaker 2: because our team did pretty well.
Speaker 1: I've seen lots of people wearing a variety of I
Speaker 1: don't know if they'd like developed teams that they liked
Speaker 1: over the years of their life or just as Urnmotever,
Speaker 1: I've seen lots of different jerseys from people in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, fair enough. I just think you ought to
Speaker 2: be jailed for it. I mean, free spe each and everything,
Speaker 2: but you can speak in jail. So you've gone against
Speaker 2: your country. You'd be traded. You are a foreign agent,
Speaker 2: an unregistered foreign agent.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it. I've learned enough about Talker that I enjoyed.
Speaker 1: But I got no comebacks for anybody who says I'm
Speaker 1: supposed to watch for an hour and a half and
Speaker 1: nobody scored a goal.
Speaker 2: It's hard to argument one team is utterly dominant and
Speaker 2: the scoes zero zero. This game is broken. You need
Speaker 2: to fix the rules. You know. I actually missed the goal.
Speaker 7: I had been watching the whole game, got up to
Speaker 7: got some out of the fridge, come back and it
Speaker 7: says one zero, and everybody's jump on up and down,
Speaker 7: wah wah. Well, I guess that's it.