1 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 1: It's sports. We're doing touch five yard penalty that the 2 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:21,920 Speaker 1: Angels have become the Mariners circles now body checking? Yep, 3 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 1: this is the sports episode. Welcome to it could happen here, 4 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: your favorite sportscast. I'm not the host of this episode, 5 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:34,479 Speaker 1: but I'm talking for some reason. Uh, James and Chris? 6 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 1: Why are we talking about sports? To distract us from 7 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 1: the crumbling of society around us? But more specifically to 8 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:48,239 Speaker 1: talk about how sports I used to launde other reputations 9 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:52,519 Speaker 1: of dictatorial regimes. And I know Chris has got some 10 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 1: interesting stuff on Balsonaro's Brazil and sports. This is this is, 11 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:58,280 Speaker 1: this is the way before that. Sorry, yeah, I should 12 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:00,040 Speaker 1: measure this. This is okay, like this is, this is, 13 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:05,680 Speaker 1: this is, this is some wonderful pet era of vintage crimes. 14 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 1: Oh good stuff. Okay. I love a Brazilian crime, no 15 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: matter what the vintage. So I'm excited to learn about 16 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 1: the how the NFL legitimizes the military police state anyway, 17 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 1: um ye, and it's not even football, is it? So 18 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:26,680 Speaker 1: multiple things they're doing wrong. I want to talk first 19 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:28,960 Speaker 1: about like the original instance of what we're going to 20 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:31,960 Speaker 1: call sports washing, because everyone else calls it sports washing too, 21 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:36,040 Speaker 1: So it's like using these big global mega events to 22 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: laund it the reputation of a pretty questionable regime. So 23 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 1: the o G instance of this is the nineteen thirty 24 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:46,400 Speaker 1: six Olympics which were held in Berlin. You'll probably be 25 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 1: familiar with who was in charge in Berlin. In n 26 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 1: it was the Nazis. That's a spoiler, and the Nazis 27 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 1: were actually given the Olympics. The Olympics were given to 28 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 1: bind by Germany, which was considerably less ship than the Nazis, 29 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 1: but the Nazis took them on and they're really around 30 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 1: with them, and lots of the symbology that we associate 31 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 1: with the Olympics today, that the raising of flags during 32 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:11,359 Speaker 1: the medal ceremony, the playing of national anthems, parade of 33 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 1: flags are the opening ceremony, the torch relay, right, the 34 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: torch relay goes from o g Olympia in Greece to 35 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 1: wherever the Olympics are being held. It's it's this big 36 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 1: ceremonial thing, right that all of these things were created 37 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 1: by its guy called Carl D. M who was a 38 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 1: Nazi to draw stronger links between the Nazi Party and 39 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 1: the ancient Greeks and position the Nazis the inheritors of 40 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: this classical legacy, right, and the civilized people in the 41 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 1: barbaric world, like the Greeks saw themselves. And obviously the Olympics, 42 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 1: if you aren't familiar, draws its legacy from a largely 43 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 1: mythical construct of a games that did actually happen in 44 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:53,240 Speaker 1: ancient Greek Right, So they claimed to be like a 45 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 1: reconstruction of this Greek tradition, except in the Greek truition 46 00:02:57,280 --> 00:02:59,840 Speaker 1: everyone was naked, which I think would make the Olympics 47 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: much more watchable. We could, yeah, it's that is one 48 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 1: of the things. I would watch the male gymnastics way more, 49 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:14,160 Speaker 1: not just naked but oiled. Yeah, honestly, then's men's swimming 50 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 1: would be a lot more interesting. Yes it would. Yep, 51 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 1: naked Olympics we can get behind. But they didn't bring 52 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:23,360 Speaker 1: that back. Nazi didn't bring that back. They didn't have 53 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 1: some naked statues, but they weren't big into nudity. But 54 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,119 Speaker 1: they fused a whole lot of fashy eugenic shit, right. 55 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 1: So the reason that they started having these medal tables 56 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 1: was very much to reinforce their idea of the superiority 57 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: of one race over other races, right, didn't really work 58 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 1: out for them in ninety six because Jesse Owens turned 59 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 1: up and owned them lots of different events and g 60 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: o into being of course of black American sprinter and 61 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 1: long jumper, and it didn't well. The Natics Olympics did 62 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: exist to did help significantly in laundering the Nazi and 63 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 1: they hit away a lot of their bullshit like they 64 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 1: for instance, like all the Nazi Party newspapers like weren't 65 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 1: distributed for the time that foreigners were in the country. Right, 66 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 1: They hit away anti Semitic slogans. They even had a 67 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:16,599 Speaker 1: Jewish woman on the German Olympic team, because there was 68 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 1: lots of sort of faster and and sort of they're 69 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:23,479 Speaker 1: like neo liberal liberal complaining. I guess about like, oh, no, 70 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:25,480 Speaker 1: you're being anti Semitic or you shouldn't. Oh look there's 71 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:27,479 Speaker 1: a Jewish person on your team. It's fine. You guys 72 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 1: are great. You guys aren't anti Semitic at all. It's good. 73 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 1: We're sorted. And the US did nearly boycott the Olympics, 74 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 1: but they decided not to. And that this guy called 75 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 1: every brandage who went on to be a piece of 76 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 1: ship of some right now. So like this Olympics, I 77 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:46,040 Speaker 1: guess set the tone for the use of these massive 78 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 1: events to put on a show to the world and 79 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: bring the world's press and show them what you want 80 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:52,920 Speaker 1: them to see and hide the stuff that you don't 81 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 1: want them to see, which I think is a nice 82 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 1: transition to talking about Brazil. Yeah, so we'll sort of 83 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 1: about that factive. Their sports has a second sort of 84 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:08,479 Speaker 1: incredibly important internal political effect, which is that when when 85 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 1: when you have a sports thing that's large enough, like 86 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:14,479 Speaker 1: when you have you know, like we have a World Cup, 87 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 1: you have the Olympics show up, you have even to 88 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:20,159 Speaker 1: sometime the Super Bowl, Like you what what it basically 89 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 1: creates is this like like it basically creates a temporary 90 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:28,279 Speaker 1: sort of state of state of exception where just like 91 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:32,280 Speaker 1: the sort of sort of normal functional society stops right 92 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 1: and you know, this can go. This can go in 93 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 1: a number of different ways. Like and anyone who ever 94 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 1: lived in Philadelphia, like okay, there there there's a version 95 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,160 Speaker 1: of this in Philly where like after after the Eagles win, 96 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 1: like for like fifteen hours, there are no laws like 97 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 1: when they just killed like thirty people. Yeah, well hundred 98 00:05:53,040 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: ye was a yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, you got ahead 99 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 1: at the sports for killing tons of people. I think 100 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: that's likely to blame where the cops if we're having sports. 101 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 1: But I mean, but that, but this, this is the 102 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,039 Speaker 1: thing about sports, right, is that in order to sort 103 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 1: of like do security blah blah blah blah blo exceter etcetera, 104 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:18,800 Speaker 1: in order to make sure the game's work, you can 105 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:22,920 Speaker 1: do fucking anything. Yes, right, justifies nasty s. Yeah, And 106 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: you know what, one of one of the things, one 107 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 1: of the sort of like examples that I wanted to 108 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 1: talk about about this happening is one that is really 109 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:32,040 Speaker 1: not talked about that much, which is the two fourteen 110 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 1: World Cup in Brazil, which wound up i think, actually 111 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 1: having a pretty big impact on the way Brazilian politics 112 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:44,799 Speaker 1: went and also just destroying the lives of unfathomable numbers 113 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:51,480 Speaker 1: of people. So okay, so this whole thing, like I've 114 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 1: been in since it's happening to fourteen, It's been in 115 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:56,800 Speaker 1: the works since like Lula was in office in like 116 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 1: the late twenty like late late two thousand's right, Um, 117 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:02,360 Speaker 1: this is this is like this is like one of 118 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:04,279 Speaker 1: this is like one of the workers parties like big 119 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 1: things is that they're they're they're they're gonna have this 120 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 1: World Cup. Um, they've taken a ship ton of corporate 121 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 1: money to do it. They've taken you know, they've they've 122 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 1: they've spent they spent enormous about a political capital making 123 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 1: sure this is gonna happen, and the consequences of it 124 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 1: are just like astronomic. Something like two fifty thousand people 125 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 1: like lost their homes in order to like make way 126 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 1: for like the fucking stadiums and the fields and like 127 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: all of the sort of like bullshit around like all 128 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: the sort of security, theater stuff, all of like just 129 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 1: like debated. Yeah, and this is something that happens with Olympics, 130 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 1: is to more famously, but like whenever you have a 131 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 1: sports event like this, there's just this giant cleansing that 132 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 1: happens of like anyone who's like onto the street, who's homeless, right, 133 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 1: anyone who's just sort of like doesn't look right, particularly 134 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 1: anyone who's black just sort of like suddenly is like 135 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 1: disappeared by the police from this area. Um. But this, 136 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 1: this this particular one in in in Brazil was interesting 137 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 1: because this is happening to just in fourteen, so and 138 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 1: she dozen thirteen, there were like enormous protests in Brazil 139 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:12,480 Speaker 1: and actually there there's been another like set of soccer 140 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 1: events there in just thirteen then like something like eight 141 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 1: hundred thousand people were in the streets across Brazil like 142 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 1: protesting it. But yeah, there there were these like there's 143 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 1: enormous street movements. Is like like six percent of the 144 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 1: entire Brazilian population was in the streets. Um they were 145 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 1: like basically started as sort of like antiosterity protests because 146 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:33,199 Speaker 1: cities were sort of like we're increasing the price of 147 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:38,079 Speaker 1: like farris for stuff, and it gets it gets the 148 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 1: protest get kind of weird very quickly because on the 149 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 1: one hand, so like you have the Workers Party in power, right, 150 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 1: and like the Workers Party has been sort of sliding 151 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:47,920 Speaker 1: right by this point, but you have a sort of 152 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 1: like you have like a really bilitant left that's in 153 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:51,599 Speaker 1: the street. You have a bunch of anarchist, you have 154 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:53,959 Speaker 1: a bunch of autonomist or sort of like doing stuff. 155 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:55,960 Speaker 1: But then also right wingers start showing up because it's 156 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 1: a protest against the governments and the government's like nominally 157 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 1: a left government. And yeah, this leads to just a 158 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 1: really confusing stative affairs. But but you know the next year, 159 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 1: this like and the protest like keep going for like 160 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,199 Speaker 1: a long time, and there's still like even after like 161 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 1: the largest ones are kind of pee doing out, there's 162 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 1: still purchas happening. But when the World Cup hits, like 163 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:24,120 Speaker 1: the World Cup is that like is one of this 164 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 1: sort of like like the arth, like the law suddenly 165 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:28,959 Speaker 1: doesn't work anymore. Like in orders to do this, you 166 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 1: have to sign, like there's something called the General Law 167 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,319 Speaker 1: of the World Cup, which is like a bunch of 168 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:37,319 Speaker 1: like laws that you have to sign that like physically 169 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:41,679 Speaker 1: change what your laws are like in order to have 170 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:45,840 Speaker 1: this event magnificent. I mean that's actually that's actually great. 171 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: You should do more of that. The great thing about 172 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 1: FIFA is that they've sharing a commitment to human rights, 173 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:54,839 Speaker 1: to quality and democracy, and so I'm sure there's rules 174 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 1: are good rules, and you know, so so there are 175 00:09:57,920 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 1: fun things like like it literally like parts of the 176 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 1: zillion Constitution are suspended. What parts like well, so physically 177 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:06,160 Speaker 1: a bunch stuff about the right to strike, Like there's 178 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:08,319 Speaker 1: a special court that's set up that like it like 179 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:12,200 Speaker 1: that within forty eight hours like like decide on whether 180 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:13,680 Speaker 1: a strike is legal or not and what the thing 181 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:16,560 Speaker 1: is going to be like, So that's not very good. 182 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 1: It's really they're all not real very bad. Like like 183 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 1: there's there's the Brazilian government spans like seventy million dollars 184 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:27,079 Speaker 1: buying basically police equipment and like from the U S, 185 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:30,880 Speaker 1: from Germany and from Israel, which is like the holy 186 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:34,440 Speaker 1: trinity of good normal countries where if you're buying shipped 187 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 1: from them, you're doing a good thing. See, I thought 188 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:40,839 Speaker 1: we were going to talk about how you know, there's 189 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:44,080 Speaker 1: moments in our society where the regular rules of engagement 190 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 1: are suspended, and in such we can use this moment 191 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 1: of extra opportunity to find new ways of liberatory of 192 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 1: experiencing liberatory freedom. People tried that, and and and and 193 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 1: instead a bunch of literally like they were driving tanks 194 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:01,880 Speaker 1: through the street like into like like blockading off like 195 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:05,079 Speaker 1: roads leading out of the favelos with tanks like it was. 196 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 1: It was nuts, like some incredible videos at this time. Yeah, 197 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:14,960 Speaker 1: there were like laws in Brazil about child labor, right, um, 198 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:17,720 Speaker 1: guess what doesn't apply to fifas you can so they 199 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:23,240 Speaker 1: can have fucking ball boys. They basic child labor. They 200 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 1: also have they have these There are twenty thousand people 201 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:27,840 Speaker 1: who are working for this event who are who are 202 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 1: classified as volunteers. You can just use them as basically 203 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 1: they started doing slave labor. Yeah, what's the what's the shocking? Yeah, 204 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:41,320 Speaker 1: I know, are they forced into this or do they 205 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:47,839 Speaker 1: actually volunteer? Kind of Okay, so sometimes the actual you 206 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 1: know what actual slavery because it's it's not actual, Okay, 207 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:55,599 Speaker 1: the Brazilian government will do actual slavery, but like this 208 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:58,679 Speaker 1: is yeah, this is not quite that, but it's a 209 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 1: bunch of people who are kind of yeah but yeah, 210 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 1: who have who have no labor rights, like, and the 211 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:09,840 Speaker 1: everything happens is there's there are there are enormous crackdowns, 212 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 1: like they just start they start doing the thing that 213 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 1: like the US does it too, but I think I 214 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:18,959 Speaker 1: think like Canada's is more than the U s where 215 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 1: it's like when when when they know a protest is 216 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 1: about to happen, they like go find the like six 217 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 1: people who they think are protest leaders just arrest them beforehand. 218 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:28,960 Speaker 1: They started doing that. They there's a bunch of people 219 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:32,320 Speaker 1: who get tortured. There's a bunch of like the police 220 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 1: are basically just going ape shit. They like, yeah, they 221 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:39,959 Speaker 1: there are some like that. There's a point in this 222 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 1: where like the garbage workers go on strike and they 223 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 1: actually win because it turns out that if if in 224 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 1: the middle of the World Cup there's fucking garbage piling 225 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:51,480 Speaker 1: up on the street, like it's really bad. But like yeah, 226 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 1: like this has like this has a just like absolutely 227 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:03,920 Speaker 1: disastrous effects on like just just sort of what's like 228 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,560 Speaker 1: everything is going on president in politics like um, one 229 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 1: of the things that Lula does. I'm gonna talk about 230 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:10,360 Speaker 1: this more and in another Brazil episode, but Lula like 231 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: sent a bunch of Brazilian troops to invade haiti Um, 232 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:17,959 Speaker 1: which fucking sucks. And then those troops came home and 233 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:21,439 Speaker 1: they were used to occupy the favelas in real while 234 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:25,599 Speaker 1: this was going on, and this kind of crushed like 235 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:28,200 Speaker 1: what was left of the sort of left that had 236 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 1: been in the streets. Like they just got like they 237 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 1: just got they just got stomped because the Brazilian police 238 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 1: are on terrifying and like literally they're deploying colonial troops 239 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 1: like in the streets and and yeah, and so so 240 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:47,079 Speaker 1: this this is the sort of second kind of thing 241 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:49,319 Speaker 1: that you can get with sports, which is like on 242 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:51,040 Speaker 1: the one hand they're used to start of whitewash regimes 243 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 1: and on the other hand they're used as as as 244 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 1: basically a way to like do fascism inside of a 245 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 1: state where you can you know, like you could you 246 00:13:58,040 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 1: could do a state of exception, right like the law 247 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:02,839 Speaker 1: seas to a this uh, the state becomes like this 248 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:05,199 Speaker 1: entity that can just sort of like do whatever it 249 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:07,400 Speaker 1: wants to order to preserve itself. And it's a way 250 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:09,000 Speaker 1: that you can just you know, you can socially cleanse 251 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 1: to ut people, in which something that would be like 252 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 1: you know, would genuinely be pretty difficult if you try 253 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 1: to do this in any other circumstance. But you know, 254 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 1: it's it's sports, so you can just basically do ethnic 255 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:27,960 Speaker 1: cleansings and yeah, it sucks as sometimes you can do 256 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 1: it with the support of the other So like the 257 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 1: World Cup, it's going to your Qatar, right and and 258 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:37,960 Speaker 1: they one of the things is happening gives its quote 259 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: unquote security consultant from the participating nations are coming. So 260 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 1: you have this like incredible situation where like a the 261 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 1: Qatari and like police chief I believe has been like, hey, 262 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 1: for your own safety, fans, if you do happen to 263 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:59,360 Speaker 1: be gay and it's illegal to be gay right in Qatar. 264 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 1: Like just guys, just don't hold hands with your partner 265 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 1: because it's not us who's going to come and beat 266 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 1: you up. It's it's the regular qataris right like you, 267 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 1: you won't be safe and we can't protect you from 268 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:14,080 Speaker 1: their violent homophobia. And then we've got like Britain's sending 269 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 1: soldiers to be like, yeah, let us help you with 270 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: your security consultations. Guys, we need to keep this country safe. 271 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:21,760 Speaker 1: Oh god, okay, so did you do you know what 272 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 1: else does violent security consultations? Is it Britain? Yes? Yeah, 273 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:30,080 Speaker 1: we were now sponsored by the Nation of Britain. Is 274 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 1: better help, better help online counseling. If you don't sign 275 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 1: up for therapy, a military a military team will break 276 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 1: through your windows and force you to go to therapy 277 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:43,200 Speaker 1: with a car. That's that is that is the better 278 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:57,080 Speaker 1: health guarantee. And we're back and I am not thinking 279 00:15:57,160 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 1: about people who I know who we're physically dragged by 280 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:03,760 Speaker 1: cops in the therapy. It's great, it's a great never happened, 281 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 1: never happened. No one's ever been forced to go to 282 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 1: therapy non consensually. It doesn't have Yeah, so yeah. Other 283 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:19,240 Speaker 1: things that don't happen include include sports. Yeah, sports aren't 284 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:23,200 Speaker 1: real their fingent of our imagination if we simply the 285 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 1: ontology of sports is fatally flawed. One might say that's 286 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:31,000 Speaker 1: sports are a way of teaching people to be complying 287 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:34,240 Speaker 1: with rules and to be administrators in the colonial empire. 288 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 1: Or people can argue that sports offer a gamified version 289 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 1: of the world that allow you to recognize problem solving 290 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:46,280 Speaker 1: in fun and creative ways and encourage team building. So 291 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 1: I don't actually like sports very much. And the other hand, 292 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 1: do quite like sports, but I'm aware of the role 293 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:58,000 Speaker 1: they play. Okay, so this is like a big thing 294 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 1: that the Gulf States do you um is particularly do 295 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 1: this sports bullshit? And Carter, I think, usually is smarter 296 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:10,200 Speaker 1: about it than like Carter just has better pr People 297 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:13,359 Speaker 1: in the saudiast do, and I mean they're they're slightly 298 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:15,720 Speaker 1: helped by the fact that they are marginally less bad 299 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:20,720 Speaker 1: than Saudi Arabia, like marginal, like this is a this 300 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:22,840 Speaker 1: is a this is a this is a fucking a 301 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,040 Speaker 1: bar that is so low you can trip over it, 302 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:29,640 Speaker 1: like I think we can just say both bad. Yeah, 303 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:33,480 Speaker 1: So should we talk about the Catholic system a little bit. Okay, 304 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 1: So the Gulf States have this thing called the catholicis 305 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:39,440 Speaker 1: now and there have been some alterations to it and 306 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:41,520 Speaker 1: something that made it less bad in the last few years. 307 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:46,920 Speaker 1: But basically this is a system that lets Okay, so 308 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:49,480 Speaker 1: there's a bud there's a lot of mirket workers, particularly 309 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 1: from Southeast Asia that like take jobs in the Gulf 310 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:57,440 Speaker 1: because they pay they have The Gulf States have a 311 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:04,800 Speaker 1: like a obscene, fanatical, like world rending amount of oil money, um. 312 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 1: And so people you know, come seeking these jobs because 313 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:09,080 Speaker 1: they need to feed their families, and you know, there's 314 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:10,920 Speaker 1: a huge amount of oil money here, like they have 315 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:16,480 Speaker 1: just every petro dollar um. But the way this labor 316 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:19,639 Speaker 1: system basically works is that like, in order to like 317 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:23,880 Speaker 1: be in the country, you have to have a job, 318 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 1: right you like, you like very specifically have to have 319 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:28,440 Speaker 1: a job, and your employer has to be there. And 320 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:31,600 Speaker 1: so very very bad things start to happen when you 321 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:33,240 Speaker 1: have a group of people who you can just like 322 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 1: instantly destroy the life of and so these will happen 323 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:41,199 Speaker 1: where for example, like so you okay, so you show up, 324 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 1: you show up to Carter right, and your boss will 325 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 1: just take your fucking passport and it's just gone, right, 326 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 1: And you know, it's like, okay, if if you don't 327 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,359 Speaker 1: do literally everything they tell you, like you, you're not 328 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 1: gonna get you hastrot back. You're just fucked. And this 329 00:18:55,560 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 1: creates a like a genuinely like very close to slavery 330 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:05,639 Speaker 1: has a lot of the fucking horrors. Like you, there 331 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:07,560 Speaker 1: have been a bunch of stories people like fucking jumping 332 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:09,880 Speaker 1: out of buildings trying to escape and then like being 333 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 1: dragged back Like it's fucking horrifying labor conditions. Um, and 334 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:23,360 Speaker 1: it's not not indentured servitude. Yeah, absolutely is. It's yeah, 335 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:26,560 Speaker 1: it is. It is one of the worst. It's it's 336 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:28,520 Speaker 1: one of the worst labor regimes on earth that is 337 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 1: not literally slavery. It is. It is. It is in 338 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 1: the category of technically not slavery, but like very horrific close. 339 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:39,840 Speaker 1: Yeah it is. It is. It is one of the 340 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 1: worst things that exists. A serious and genuine solution to 341 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:46,359 Speaker 1: if you want to solve like a bunch of the 342 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:48,440 Speaker 1: problems of all of the bullshit that's happening in the 343 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:50,159 Speaker 1: Gulf region. If you gave every single one of these 344 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,879 Speaker 1: migrant workers like several artillery batteries and a bunch of 345 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:58,160 Speaker 1: assault rifles like instantly, like so many of the problems 346 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 1: of this region would be solved. Yeah. So I was 347 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:05,479 Speaker 1: just looking up statistics. Six thousand, five hundred of these 348 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:07,920 Speaker 1: workers have died in cutters since it was awarded the 349 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:13,520 Speaker 1: World Cup. Like that's that's uh, that's that's a pretty 350 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:18,200 Speaker 1: alarming um number of Like so it's from India, Bangladesh, 351 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:21,680 Speaker 1: no pause forri Lanka prices like that, right, I think, Yeah, 352 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:24,520 Speaker 1: these people have absolutely no rights and they have incredibly 353 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:28,120 Speaker 1: dangerous working conditions. And also we got about like people 354 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:33,120 Speaker 1: are super fucking racist, Like yes, like that it's it's 355 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:35,800 Speaker 1: it's the kind of racism that you get when you 356 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:40,440 Speaker 1: have literally like basically pure absolute power over someone. It 357 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 1: is a it is a fucking trip. Yeah. People will 358 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 1: literally have to pay off the debts that they include, 359 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:50,120 Speaker 1: like you pay a recruitment trophee or a travel fee 360 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:52,240 Speaker 1: to get these jobs. Like we're not messing around when 361 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:55,600 Speaker 1: we say it's an indentured certitude. Yeah, and it's very 362 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:57,879 Speaker 1: hard to do that. Your your your employees can just 363 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:00,200 Speaker 1: you know, like they can just withhold your pay eight 364 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:05,639 Speaker 1: for whatever the fun reason, because yeah, because it's absolute power. 365 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:08,320 Speaker 1: There's like a few should I read. There's one that's 366 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:09,960 Speaker 1: an example of one of these deaths that I could 367 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,840 Speaker 1: read if we want so. This guy, um Madhubal Apoly 368 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:16,520 Speaker 1: I think his name. He's from India. He was forty three. 369 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:19,119 Speaker 1: He left his wife and his thirteen year old son, 370 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:22,200 Speaker 1: Rejesh in India to take a job in catering, and 371 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:25,680 Speaker 1: they never saw him again. One late night, when his 372 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 1: roommate returned to his dorm, he found Bullapai's body on 373 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 1: the floor. Like thousands of other sudden and unexplained death, 374 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:34,719 Speaker 1: it's passing was recorded his heart failure due to natural causes. 375 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:37,920 Speaker 1: Despite working for his employer for six years, his wife 376 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,960 Speaker 1: and son received a hundred and fourteen thousand rupees it's 377 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:43,439 Speaker 1: about a thousand pounds about a thousand dollars now, as 378 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:47,359 Speaker 1: well in compensation and unpaid salary. Jess had no idea 379 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 1: why his father died. He had no health problems, he said, 380 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:54,600 Speaker 1: there was nothing wrong with him. Yeah, pretty, there's I'll 381 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:57,040 Speaker 1: will link the Guardian story. But there are dozens of 382 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:00,400 Speaker 1: these stories of people who die working in extra heat 383 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 1: for long hours and no breaks and terrible conditions. It's 384 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:07,240 Speaker 1: pretty terrible shit. Yeah, and a lot of these And also, 385 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:08,640 Speaker 1: and this is the only thing we should point out, 386 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:12,400 Speaker 1: is a lot a lot of people have died directly building, yes, 387 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:19,080 Speaker 1: the stadium stadium, Yeah, which is like just like the 388 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:22,200 Speaker 1: absolute human horror of why on why are we using 389 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,760 Speaker 1: Like why are we building a giant fucking soccer stadium 390 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:28,520 Speaker 1: in the middle of like in the fucking desert, Like, yeah, 391 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:32,560 Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, in a place with no endemic soccer culture. 392 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:34,439 Speaker 1: It's not like the stadium is like, you know, going 393 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,119 Speaker 1: to be packed week in and week out with the 394 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 1: Qatari Altra is doing teapots and ship like it just 395 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:43,879 Speaker 1: exists for people to come once to watch this spectacle 396 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:46,239 Speaker 1: and then leave again. I mean, it's the same thing 397 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:50,000 Speaker 1: with all the Olympics stuff, right, Like they like tank 398 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:55,600 Speaker 1: a city's economy to build a whole like basically miniatured 399 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 1: like village in town that then becomes useless after like 400 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:02,440 Speaker 1: a yeah, some of them will just get turned into 401 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,879 Speaker 1: like I don't know, that's what the Olympics are for. 402 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 1: The Olympics are like a gathering place for a transnational 403 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:11,280 Speaker 1: bourgeoilie and they have always been there right like they 404 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:13,719 Speaker 1: when they started. For a very long time, the Olympics 405 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,639 Speaker 1: had an amateurism clause which meant that like quote unquote, 406 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:20,119 Speaker 1: professional athletes couldn't take part, which was designed such that 407 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:23,480 Speaker 1: like Bosua, people who had enough leisure time to train 408 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 1: could compete, but working class people who needed to take 409 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,879 Speaker 1: time off to train couldn't be compensated for that time off, right, 410 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 1: they couldn't even be compensated for their time off taken 411 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:36,840 Speaker 1: to travel and compete at the Games. So like, the 412 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 1: Olympics are doing what they're supposed to do, which is 413 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:43,040 Speaker 1: is bringing these elite people together, but a Coca Cola 414 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 1: benefits more from every Olympics in the city that hosts it. Yeah, yeah, 415 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,879 Speaker 1: I mean, and obviously that's the Olympics are heavily tied 416 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:53,800 Speaker 1: to nationalism. UM that has a whole bunch of you know, 417 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 1: not great a munch of the national symbology comes from 418 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:02,440 Speaker 1: the Nazis direct like that, yeah exactly. But also on 419 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,199 Speaker 1: the flip side of that, there's other stuff like UM 420 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:09,000 Speaker 1: have like Taiwan having to compete compete as Chinese Taipei 421 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 1: and not use their actual flag, which is other like, yes, 422 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,720 Speaker 1: the alternative would be more, you know, embracing the country 423 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 1: as like as a nationalist thing, like as it's as 424 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:23,640 Speaker 1: its own nation. But still it's it is, it's still 425 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:26,719 Speaker 1: not great that they can't they can't compete under their 426 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:30,680 Speaker 1: actual you know, it's like a name and yeah, and 427 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:32,440 Speaker 1: and and and you know and like and then this 428 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:36,400 Speaker 1: is like Carter's kind of Weirdly, this is slightly backfire 429 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 1: on Carter a little bit because, like Carter, Carter works 430 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:44,000 Speaker 1: the best as a sort of diplomatic power when nobody 431 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 1: pays attention to it. And then the like absolute fucking 432 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:51,119 Speaker 1: brain geniuses at the Guitari Roule elite were like, what 433 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 1: if we fucking drew attention to ourselves? And that everyone 434 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:56,680 Speaker 1: was like, wait, hold on, this place is fucked, but 435 00:24:56,840 --> 00:25:00,920 Speaker 1: this has not stopped it. FIFA is like maybe the 436 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:04,360 Speaker 1: only ruling sports body more corrupt in the Olympic Committee. 437 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:08,639 Speaker 1: Like it is is incredibly staggering, like a group of 438 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 1: people who have figured out a way to just like 439 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:14,119 Speaker 1: help a city ethnically cleanse a bunch of its population 440 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:16,200 Speaker 1: and then extract enormous amount of wealth and then look 441 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:19,399 Speaker 1: good while doing it. Yeah, it is. It's it's an 442 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:22,399 Speaker 1: exercise and like pointing, pointing over there while you steal 443 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:34,680 Speaker 1: someone's wallet, you know. Yeah, So I think that the 444 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:36,240 Speaker 1: last thing thing we want to talk about was talking 445 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:39,120 Speaker 1: about what the specialities have been doing this two. Because yes, 446 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 1: one of the sport so I'm most familiar with obviously 447 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:44,600 Speaker 1: is like cycling. It's the sport I competed in and 448 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:49,359 Speaker 1: it's recently seen this influx of money from petrochemical states. Right, 449 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:52,159 Speaker 1: so we have like you a E teen, we had 450 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:55,240 Speaker 1: a Dubai team for a while. Um we there is 451 00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:57,600 Speaker 1: like a tour of Cutter and the Tour of Dubai. 452 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:00,639 Speaker 1: Now that like, these are not places wants to go 453 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,240 Speaker 1: ride about it, right, they're hot, they're flat, they're terrible. 454 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:05,840 Speaker 1: But like bike races have always served as a way 455 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,439 Speaker 1: to consolidate nations, right, That's why the Tour of France exists. 456 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:11,879 Speaker 1: It's like it's literally a loop and being like, hey, 457 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:14,960 Speaker 1: you're included in this, and like in in Europe, they're 458 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 1: often used to consolidate nations that exist outside of states, right, 459 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:22,400 Speaker 1: like Flanders, Catalonia, the Basque country, Wallonia. All of these 460 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,960 Speaker 1: places have bike races that delineate who belongs in and 461 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:30,320 Speaker 1: who belongs out. Slightly different in these petrochemical economies because 462 00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 1: more delineates a look at us. We're a great country 463 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:35,240 Speaker 1: and totally normal, and you can come here and do 464 00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:37,840 Speaker 1: sports and and please don't look at the way that 465 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 1: we treat our workers from Southeast Asia, like um, it's 466 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:46,080 Speaker 1: it's please ignore our seventeen wars, like all the school 467 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:48,880 Speaker 1: bus full of children we've blown up. Do not look 468 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:52,520 Speaker 1: at Yemens like yeah, which also, by the way, I 469 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:53,800 Speaker 1: do want, I do want to just put this room. 470 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:57,280 Speaker 1: And Carter also fucking involved in Yemen. Same with the UAE. 471 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,639 Speaker 1: They nobody ever talks about it. They also fucking doing this. 472 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:02,879 Speaker 1: Do not left him off the book for this bullshit. 473 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 1: H Yeah, Yeah, it's interesting to see it, Like it's 474 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:12,600 Speaker 1: interesting to see some fan groups organizing like against this ship, right, 475 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,200 Speaker 1: And chiefly I think it's gonna it's about stuff that 476 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 1: you're about to talk about, I think, which is the 477 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:20,359 Speaker 1: purchasing of clubs by these these very wealthy interests. I 478 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,720 Speaker 1: find it fascinating to see that there has always been 479 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 1: an anti fascist element in football actus right, There have 480 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 1: always been clubs that have been anti fascists. Those clubs 481 00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:32,639 Speaker 1: have always tended to oppose like ownership of the clubs 482 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:35,960 Speaker 1: that they are fans of by finance capital. But it's 483 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:40,360 Speaker 1: interesting to see that now articulated against these petrochemical regimes 484 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,720 Speaker 1: in the Middle East, right Like its Keith from fucking 485 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,400 Speaker 1: Bolton and his mates who go to the football match 486 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:49,359 Speaker 1: every Saturday now and I'm fucking past because I allow 487 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:53,480 Speaker 1: an lgbt Q rights in Qatar. But yeah, it's it's 488 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:56,119 Speaker 1: very funny to see. And also it's nice to see, right, Like, 489 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:59,200 Speaker 1: it's good see people sharing solidarity. Like you can't display 490 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:03,640 Speaker 1: in theory, can't display pride flags in stadium or anywhere 491 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,440 Speaker 1: else in Qatar right now. No people were talking about 492 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,240 Speaker 1: taking them anyway. So maybe someone will do an epic 493 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:13,280 Speaker 1: like Pride flag or TFO at the Olympics, which would 494 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,960 Speaker 1: be uh, I don't know, I've never seen the World Cup. 495 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,240 Speaker 1: Then they might all get disappeared, but yeah, then the 496 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:23,920 Speaker 1: entire with caution. Yeah, then then the stadium collapses and 497 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,880 Speaker 1: there we go. Okay. So the other thing that's sort 498 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:28,840 Speaker 1: of been happening is that Staidly has been buying up 499 00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:32,080 Speaker 1: a bunch of clubs, but they brought Britain's Premier League 500 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,320 Speaker 1: Newcastle United team. There's like bought it. They have they 501 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 1: they staides have this this thing called the Public Investment Fund, 502 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,680 Speaker 1: which is like it's kind of like a sovereign wealth 503 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:44,560 Speaker 1: fund kind of. They just use it to like it 504 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 1: buy ship and they've they've been doing a bunch of 505 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,240 Speaker 1: sports stuff. They've also been pushing into the sports, which 506 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,160 Speaker 1: is interesting the disasters. Yeah, so they bought the e 507 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:57,280 Speaker 1: s L, which is the does it still stand for 508 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,880 Speaker 1: Electronic Sports League especially? I think it still does, So 509 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:08,560 Speaker 1: there doesn't Okay, you're about to be a biggest and 510 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:14,440 Speaker 1: say sports on sports. No, they're video games. It's better 511 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:20,840 Speaker 1: than actually better than regular sports. They're different chess. The 512 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 1: same ship is happening here. So the e s L 513 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,200 Speaker 1: is like one of the it's it's it basically ate 514 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:28,840 Speaker 1: a bunch of the other. So they used to be 515 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:30,240 Speaker 1: a bunch of sort of circuits for a bunch of 516 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:32,800 Speaker 1: different like E sports games, right, things like kind of 517 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:35,920 Speaker 1: strikes seems like StarCraft, Um, those are those sort of 518 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:38,320 Speaker 1: I think there's another what's the other big one that 519 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:43,560 Speaker 1: s L does. Um seems to be most counts. Yeah, 520 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,880 Speaker 1: it's it's mostly kind of striking. They basically consumed all 521 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,240 Speaker 1: of the like StarCraft, so they used to be I 522 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,760 Speaker 1: M and dream Hack that dude stuff, and they've eaten 523 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,440 Speaker 1: them all. And the e s L just got like 524 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:58,560 Speaker 1: bought out by like like the saudiastucking investment company, by 525 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:02,200 Speaker 1: and by by by a new sort of like media 526 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,360 Speaker 1: group thing at the Saudiast Forum that's headed by fucking 527 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:10,640 Speaker 1: former Activision CEO Brian Ward. Actually unbelievable. Yeah, who who's 528 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 1: the guy who engineered the fucking Activision Blizzard merger and 529 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 1: is now going on to do this bullshit a savvy 530 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:22,840 Speaker 1: games group. Yeah, I mean, like like like et sports 531 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,600 Speaker 1: as always, there's funds always sucked, Like a bunch of 532 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,880 Speaker 1: the stuff is funded by like fucking cryptocurrency. Right now, 533 00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:32,640 Speaker 1: I think the sports I just know, you can't take 534 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:35,400 Speaker 1: it seriously. It's the best. But yeah, they the Saudis 535 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,040 Speaker 1: have taken by beloved StarCraft League. I will be waging 536 00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:41,560 Speaker 1: an unending holy war against them until they fucking ceased 537 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 1: to exist. And yeah, yeah you become a stock Craft too. Again. 538 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:50,280 Speaker 1: It sucks. All I know about East Sports is Sonic 539 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:54,240 Speaker 1: Fox and Smash Brothers. That's all I know, because everything 540 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 1: else just seems like people who are having a fun 541 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:01,160 Speaker 1: time playing video games. That's great. It was so my 542 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:03,760 Speaker 1: my post dog was funded by the IOC, and like 543 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,000 Speaker 1: at the time I was there, there was this massive 544 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:07,520 Speaker 1: like first of all, there was like a lot of 545 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,280 Speaker 1: boom iss discussing a v sports for sports and then 546 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,520 Speaker 1: whether they should be incorporated in the Olympics, And it 547 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:16,560 Speaker 1: was extremely funny to watch, like these people completely failed 548 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:20,480 Speaker 1: to understand the fundamental like you know, sports of physical 549 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:22,520 Speaker 1: contest with the metal element, right, doesn't matter if you're 550 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:24,880 Speaker 1: moving a thumbs or your whole buddy. But it was 551 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:28,160 Speaker 1: very funny towards these people. I want to say this 552 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:30,960 Speaker 1: because this is okay, So it's just really funny. But 553 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,800 Speaker 1: also people get like really seriously injured doing the sports ship, 554 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:36,560 Speaker 1: like particularly Starker. There's a lot of Starker players who 555 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:39,320 Speaker 1: like sucking paralyzed, who have like like serious year damage 556 00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,400 Speaker 1: of their spines. Yeah, because they have like StarCraft players, 557 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:45,000 Speaker 1: like especially older days, you know, people like practicing sixteen 558 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,400 Speaker 1: hours a day, right, and they're sitting in a chair 559 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:49,800 Speaker 1: and they're they're fucking but you know they have like 560 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,680 Speaker 1: four PM, right, so you're doing like like six hundred 561 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:57,600 Speaker 1: actions in a minute, and people's people's risks just explode, 562 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,600 Speaker 1: like people get fucking like damage their spines like a 563 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:05,160 Speaker 1: nerve damage. Like it sucks. Um. I have a friend 564 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,680 Speaker 1: who's a human physiologist who used to work for the 565 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,960 Speaker 1: Department of Defense here and said, diego helping like you know, 566 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 1: like high speed m B people be better at killing people, uh, 567 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:16,720 Speaker 1: Navy people, I guess in San Diego, and then left 568 00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,720 Speaker 1: to work for Red Bull in their sports to oh yeah, yeah, yeah, 569 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:23,080 Speaker 1: to be the human physiologist who like, yeah, optimizes people 570 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,560 Speaker 1: set up so that they're listed a angle and like guests, 571 00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:28,600 Speaker 1: I'm actually training, And I guess we won't be happy 572 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:36,200 Speaker 1: until Taiwan is playing Fortnite in a democratized, decentralized East 573 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:40,080 Speaker 1: Sports league that has union workers. And I guess that's 574 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:43,240 Speaker 1: what we're advocating for now. Yeah, that's the one goal 575 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:46,480 Speaker 1: of this podcast. There is a there's a MYANMA National 576 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:50,080 Speaker 1: Unity Government e sports team, so actually that there was 577 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,280 Speaker 1: actually a whole thing in competitive StarCraft where someone someone 578 00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:54,000 Speaker 1: held up someone held up a Hong Kong flag and 579 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:58,480 Speaker 1: they fucking like they cut the stream and fired this 580 00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:02,000 Speaker 1: actually fired the two like like They not only fired 581 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:03,800 Speaker 1: the guy who held the thing up, they fired the 582 00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:07,960 Speaker 1: two fucking casters who like who were just there. Well 583 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:12,360 Speaker 1: it happens. Yeah, so critical respect that person is. See 584 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:15,680 Speaker 1: the John Carlos, that's the raised fist moment of the sports. 585 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:20,680 Speaker 1: Yeah so yeah, fuck sports do bad things. Make them 586 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:24,720 Speaker 1: do good things overthrowing local governments. Yeah, I mean the 587 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:27,440 Speaker 1: the revolutionary I mean this is this has been written 588 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:29,360 Speaker 1: about by like actual academics, but the revolutionary but the 589 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:33,360 Speaker 1: revolutionary potential of like soccer hooligans and football hooligans are 590 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,000 Speaker 1: like it's massive, Like one on one thing, We'll do 591 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:40,239 Speaker 1: an episode about the fucking the Turkish soccer ultras who 592 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,840 Speaker 1: fucking stole a back hoe and we're driving it around Turkey. 593 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:46,360 Speaker 1: Doesn't thirty destroying fucking police barricades with it, sick of 594 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:50,480 Speaker 1: ship every lots of like into Rear Square. Their Egyptian 595 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:54,080 Speaker 1: ultras were leading in the Maidan. It was Ukrainian nottras. 596 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:57,680 Speaker 1: And there's a really good book called twelve which people 597 00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:00,400 Speaker 1: should read if they're interested in the polite to cool 598 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:04,360 Speaker 1: uh potential of football ultras. We should we should do 599 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,880 Speaker 1: something about like hooligans in general. But yes, this was 600 00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:10,920 Speaker 1: supposed to kind of be about the various ways that 601 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:14,799 Speaker 1: there's sports things that are kind of messed up. Yeah, 602 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:20,040 Speaker 1: maybe just regular one more thing, you can stop these 603 00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:23,359 Speaker 1: fucking giant mega events from happening in your city, like people, 604 00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,160 Speaker 1: people successfully do this. They've done this with the Olympics, 605 00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:27,799 Speaker 1: have done this sub lesser sound the World Cup. But yeah, 606 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,320 Speaker 1: and if you can do that, like please do like 607 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:34,560 Speaker 1: don't you don't have to let these fucking sports company 608 00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:38,319 Speaker 1: bullshit like exact ethnically cleanse your city. You just don't. 609 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,480 Speaker 1: You can stop No Olympics l A is something that 610 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,680 Speaker 1: people in the U should look at. Yeah, that is 611 00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:47,160 Speaker 1: That is your action item for today is look up. 612 00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:51,480 Speaker 1: I think we've talked about an Olympics before, but then 613 00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:55,160 Speaker 1: to Olympics on the park and the last thing I 614 00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:57,440 Speaker 1: will I will give an Easter egg. There's there's one 615 00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:02,200 Speaker 1: sport I actually like on ironically you enjoy curling. No not, 616 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:17,879 Speaker 1: fuck you you racists. That's the episode. It could happen 617 00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:20,239 Speaker 1: here as a production of cool Zone Media. Well more 618 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:23,040 Speaker 1: podcasts from cool Zone Media, visit our website cool zone 619 00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:24,920 Speaker 1: media dot com, or check us out on the I 620 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:28,279 Speaker 1: Heart radio app, Apple Podcasts or Wherever you listen to podcasts, 621 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:31,000 Speaker 1: you can find sources for it could happen here. Updated 622 00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:34,520 Speaker 1: monthly at cool Zone Media dot com slash sources. Thanks 623 00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:35,080 Speaker 1: for listening.