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7-20: We're Going To Have To Steal The World Cup And Host It Every Time! · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: I'm as surprised as anybody. I didn't think we were
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to look at the World Cup in the US.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody ever thought it would be done right. President Trump
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  Speaker 1: even said that guy couldn't believe what they brought it
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  Speaker 1: to me. We're gonna have to steal it. And and
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  Speaker 1: I say that as a as a non soccer guy,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna call it football. I will not
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  Speaker 1: do that. No, No, our football is football. But this
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  Speaker 1: thing was such an incredible success. And I mean we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about things that happened on the field nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with that. The economic impact what it meant, and
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  Speaker 1: I did shows on this before you heard me of
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  Speaker 1: looking at our own country through the European's eyes and
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  Speaker 1: then realizing how awesome we are and us realizing how
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  Speaker 1: awesome we are throughout this whole thing, and how we
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  Speaker 1: were able to pull this whole thing off. Trump suggested it,
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  Speaker 1: and I think we may have to do it. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to steal this thing. We're gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: host it every single time they have it, what every
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  Speaker 1: four years? And the economic impact, let's not ignore this too,
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  Speaker 1: because some of the numbers are coming in now. This
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  Speaker 1: thing was huge, and I'm not talking about what happened
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  Speaker 1: on the field. I don't think we're ever fully gonna
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  Speaker 1: become a soccer or a footy country. It's just the
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  Speaker 1: game doesn't really it doesn't really fit the American mindset,
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  Speaker 1: does it. There too much flopping, there's not enough scoring,
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  Speaker 1: and I get that, but we need to host this
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  Speaker 1: event because first of all, we did it better than
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  Speaker 1: anybody else in my opinion, and it brought in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money and a lot of bed. If it
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  Speaker 1: will get to it anyway, we'll wrap that thing up.
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  Speaker 1: What was that like a six week journey into the country,
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  Speaker 1: but it was actually kind of amazing. You know, all
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  Speaker 1: the side stories on it excep fun of me with
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  Speaker 1: Wicked Radio on the live stream and the replay on
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  Speaker 1: x YouTube and Facebook and the audio podcast wherever we
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  Speaker 1: like to get those coming here live from beautiful New Hampshire, Live,
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  Speaker 1: free or die. So hopefully the connection's okay and we'll
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  Speaker 1: get to it all right, let's wrap this up. Let's
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  Speaker 1: start with who won Spain. I kind of wanted to
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  Speaker 1: see Messi win this thing, but again I didn't watch
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  Speaker 1: this thing for the game. I really didn't, so that
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  Speaker 1: but this is the trophy presentation. This is how it
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  Speaker 1: all went on. That was loud. Sorry about that. But
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  Speaker 1: then you saw President Trump with the Spanish players and
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  Speaker 1: then he gave the medals to them, and then the
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  Speaker 1: Argentinian players and stuff. Do you remember when this first happens.
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  Speaker 1: I do, because I remember writing it down, and I
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  Speaker 1: think we were even talking about it on radio days.
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  Speaker 1: The world said this would be a disaster because Trump apparently,
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  Speaker 1: and we're gonna hear here in a second, it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: even his idea. The FIFA presented it to him. The
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  Speaker 1: World Soccer Organization brought it to the United States, and
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  Speaker 1: even Trump said, I love it's gonna work. I love
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. Do you remember what they said, what
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  Speaker 1: would happen? Do you remember it? They said it would
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  Speaker 1: be a disaster the United States. They don't have the mind,
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  Speaker 1: they don't understand the beautiful game. It'll never work, it'll
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  Speaker 1: be a failure. People won't show up, people won't travel
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  Speaker 1: to America because we've told them through our media sources
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  Speaker 1: for years that they're gonna get killed. Remember all that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that turned out to be a bunch of crap. It
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  Speaker 1: was amazing. Trump talked a little bit. I think this, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this was a Fox interview talking about the tournament itself,
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  Speaker 1: because they were carrying the thing in the US, and
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  Speaker 1: he talked about the origins of this thing and how
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  Speaker 1: it all went down. It was actually pretty amazing to
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  Speaker 1: hear so much for your time. Thank you. Hard to
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  Speaker 1: believe that the FIFA World Cup is coming to an end.
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  Speaker 1: You played such a role in bringing it here. What
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  Speaker 1: about the highlights for you?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think my first meeting with Johnny, Johnny's fantastic,
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  Speaker 2: the job he's done. And he had this idea and
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  Speaker 2: I said, that's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: You tell he likes the guy, Johnny.
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  Speaker 2: And it turns out we are a psychochatry. We're a
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  Speaker 2: football country.
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  Speaker 1: But KooKoo Johnny.
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  Speaker 2: Don't want to get it confused, but I don't think
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  Speaker 2: there's ever been anything like what's happened with the whole
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  Speaker 2: World Cup. It's been beautiful. It's a beautiful thing to watch.
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  Speaker 2: And I really give Johnny the credit.
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  Speaker 1: Johnny. He likes the Johnny guy. He likes him a lot, now,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And he made an important point there that
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  Speaker 1: I forgot about. Actually, you know, Trump, of course will
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  Speaker 1: always go out of the way to see it. I
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  Speaker 1: did this. It was incredible that I did it for
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  Speaker 1: him to say, you know him, you know from you
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  Speaker 1: know being businessman Trump, being builder, Trump TV personality Trump
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  Speaker 1: and upper he did a Trump twice when he gives
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  Speaker 1: credit to somebody else like that, like this Johnny character
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  Speaker 1: in charge of charge of FIFA. You can tell he
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  Speaker 1: was impressed by the guy. But he also said something
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  Speaker 1: really important right here about the entire thing. How the
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  Speaker 1: world saw us through this. Don't discount how important this
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  Speaker 1: is for foreign businesses coming to the US, travel come
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  Speaker 1: to the US, all of it that made a massive impact.
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  Speaker 1: Then we'll get to the money in a little bit soul.
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  Speaker 1: To see fans from around the world fall in love
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  Speaker 1: with our country, with America. How proud does that make you?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 2: I watch you started with Scotland and all of a
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  Speaker 2: sudden they're doing things that nobody's ever seen with the bagpipes,
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  Speaker 2: and it was beautiful, and they just went to every
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  Speaker 2: country and they're realizing what a great country this is.
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  Speaker 2: We're the hottest country in the world right now.
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  Speaker 1: And of course when we went to the we're hot.
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  Speaker 1: We're hot. You got a hot president, you got hot,
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  Speaker 1: You got hot economy. Oh the business is won. Now
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  Speaker 1: that's Trump hyperbole, of course, you know that. And now
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden the whole world wants to come here.
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  Speaker 1: But don't discount what he's saying. It's important there. It matters.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, the thing he talked about about all
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  Speaker 1: the foreign traveling all we heard it. You guys were
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  Speaker 1: laughing at me, saying, you're making too in the comment section,
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  Speaker 1: I saw it. You make it too big of a
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  Speaker 1: deal about the Scottish people in New England and in Boston,
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  Speaker 1: and the and the and the Dutch players and the
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  Speaker 1: you know, the people from Norway, not the not the players.
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  Speaker 1: Pay attention to what all of these foreign fans were
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  Speaker 1: saying about the US and what they said. It was important.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about it at the time. It's even more
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  Speaker 1: important now. They weren't told about how great we are.
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  Speaker 1: They have a completely think about how many people were
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  Speaker 1: in this country for this tournament. Forget about the game
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  Speaker 1: for a second. They have a completely different view of
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  Speaker 1: the United States right now, the world does because their
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  Speaker 1: media was lying about him. Here are some of the
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  Speaker 1: English fans as they were traveling throughout the northeast and
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  Speaker 1: then the South for this thing. How much vacation. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how they're able to get so much vacation time,
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  Speaker 1: but they do well. They said. Our media told us
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  Speaker 1: that we're probably gonna get robbed. The Americans are nasty
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  Speaker 1: and you'll get overpriced and overcharged. No, it wasn't anything
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  Speaker 1: like that. He didn't hear any negative stories from the
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  Speaker 1: actual people once they actually saw it. That's how it
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  Speaker 1: brought the world together, which was pretty impressive. Whether or
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  Speaker 1: not you're into soccer, and I'm still not believe it
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  Speaker 1: or not, this was an amazing thing for how the
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  Speaker 1: world sees the US. And then as far as investment goes,
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  Speaker 1: it does matter. President Trumps did say something the other
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  Speaker 1: day though, that was fascinating to me, and this is
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  Speaker 1: right along the lines of we're gonna have to steal
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  Speaker 1: this thing from the rest of the world. He actually
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  Speaker 1: suggested it.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: We said the other day in a press conference as
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  Speaker 1: to getting ready for that final game, which was in
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  Speaker 1: MetLife Stadium in the Meadowlands in the New York, New
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  Speaker 1: Jersey market, We're gonna have to have it again, but
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  Speaker 1: this time we're gonna cut out Canada and Mexico. As
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  Speaker 1: only as only Trump could say.
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  Speaker 2: What we should do is you should choose the United
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  Speaker 2: States of America again. This time we'll leave Mexico and
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  Speaker 2: Canada out. But then what you do is you which
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  Speaker 2: I was very nice to get them in. But what
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  Speaker 2: we do is you leave, you choose us, but you
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  Speaker 2: pick somebody else but the next one, and that will
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  Speaker 2: take some of the anger, hatreds, and steam out of everyone.
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  Speaker 2: But Johnny also had another idea. He said, we could
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  Speaker 2: do it China and the United States for next time
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  Speaker 2: we do him China United says, so you have a
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  Speaker 2: nice short flight in between games.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's buddy with this Johnny guy. I yes, sure,
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  Speaker 1: I don't see China happening. I don't see Trump letting
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  Speaker 1: China after what we know about the election information. We
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  Speaker 1: see them getting the World Cup anytime soon. So it matters.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's I you know, it's funny to listen to
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  Speaker 1: Trump and it's a funny joke to say, and to
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  Speaker 1: listen to the press conference says, but I think we
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  Speaker 1: should cut Mexico and Canada out of this thing. On
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  Speaker 1: that I don't think he's really kidding. And why this
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  Speaker 1: is where we get to the money aspect of this thing. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so let's ask. Let's just take a general. You can
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  Speaker 1: go to chat GPT, you could go to Grock, he
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  Speaker 1: could go to anything you wanted to, and just ask
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  Speaker 1: how about the economic impact? Then we know about the games,
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  Speaker 1: we know about the television ratings, we know about the
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  Speaker 1: foreign fans looking at the we know about the camaraderie
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  Speaker 1: it you know, gave us for the summer and a
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  Speaker 1: nice thing while we're celebrating America's two hundred fiftieth birthday.
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  Speaker 1: That was all great. Let's talk dollars and cents. So
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  Speaker 1: this this is a quick little look at it. The
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  Speaker 1: Bank of America estimate. I don't know why that popped up. First.
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  Speaker 1: They can't even figure out my bank account, but apparently
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  Speaker 1: they were able to count how much money came into
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  Speaker 1: the US for the World Cup. This is what they said.
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  Speaker 1: This is what they're estimating so far before all the
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  Speaker 1: money's actually counted. About twenty billion dollars in economic activity
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  Speaker 1: in the US so far. And this is probably before
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  Speaker 1: the final game even happened. In New York, New Jersey
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  Speaker 1: market based on observed spending surges and host cities. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what's that mean bars, restaurants, hotels. This aligns with year
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  Speaker 1: over year spending increases of around six point three percent
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  Speaker 1: in relevant sectors. Okay, the broader North America market, but
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  Speaker 1: forty point nine billion. That's the Canada and Mexico part
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  Speaker 1: that Trump was talking about. There also everything else that's
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  Speaker 1: happening here in total revenue from broadcasting, sponsorship. If you
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  Speaker 1: and you couldn't really avoided I get it, if you
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  Speaker 1: saw any of these games on any TVs in a
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  Speaker 1: bar and a restaurant and anything. This FIFA organization, this
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  Speaker 1: World Cup organization, pretty damn good about their advertising, and
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  Speaker 1: it was everywhere, and you couldn't avoid it. How much
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  Speaker 1: did they make? Why is this such a money maker?
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  Speaker 1: Why is it such a big deal? Projected to be
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  Speaker 1: nine to thirteen billion dollars in total revenue from broadcasting
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  Speaker 1: and sponsorship ad rights, that's massive. That is why I say,
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  Speaker 1: nobody did it better. Trump's right about that. This was
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  Speaker 1: even according to FIFA, this was the best World Cup
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  Speaker 1: they've ever had, most profitable World Cup they've ever had.
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  Speaker 1: There's another reason there, and just the coordination between these
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  Speaker 1: foreign fans traveling to the US. Airlines loved it. Two
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  Speaker 1: hotels loved it too, restaurants all of these cities. This
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  Speaker 1: thing was a win from the word go, and it
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  Speaker 1: was massively, massively successful. Huge. Trump finally wrapped this whole
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  Speaker 1: thing up, and he was wheels down in DC after,
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  Speaker 1: you know, presenting the cup to the winning team and
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  Speaker 1: then talking to Messi again, who apparently likes him as well.
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  Speaker 1: And this is his final wrap up as he was
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  Speaker 1: on the tarmac back home in DC talking about the
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  Speaker 1: entire thing. Tell me he's wrong.
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  Speaker 3: It's incredible. There has never been anything like it, probably
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  Speaker 3: in terms of an event, let alone soccer or football,
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  Speaker 3: whatever you want to call it. But I thought it
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  Speaker 3: was incredible. It was four times greater than any fief
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  Speaker 3: for ever. Hell, and it's probably about five times actually,
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  Speaker 3: they're telling me today. So we're very proud of our country.
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  Speaker 3: We're very proud of the job that was done by everybody.
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  Speaker 3: We congratulate Johnny and Fantino and all of his staff
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  Speaker 3: and the incredible job they did. But this was one
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  Speaker 3: of the greatest events of any kind ever. Hell, So
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  Speaker 3: we're really happy that it did so well.
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  Speaker 1: And there he is talking about Johnny again. He loves
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  Speaker 1: this Johnny guy, for fe Jenny, Betty, Jenny, it's Geohnny.
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  Speaker 1: But of course Trump's gonna call him Johnny. But tell
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  Speaker 1: me he's wrong. It's undeniable this point. And again I
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  Speaker 1: bring you this as a non soccer fan. I just
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  Speaker 1: I can't get into it. I just can't. I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was less flopping this time. But that thing, that
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  Speaker 1: final score yesterday where it was your hours on end
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  Speaker 1: and still nobody scored, and then it went into the
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  Speaker 1: first half of extra time. In the extra half, We're
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  Speaker 1: not going to change that game because they invented this thing. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's on the field, it's not our game. But as
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  Speaker 1: far as marketing and an event and bringing it here
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  Speaker 1: and hosting an event with our stadiums, and now we're
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  Speaker 1: able to do it, Tell me Trump is wrong about that.
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  Speaker 1: We should be hosting this thing every single year and
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  Speaker 1: the world will protest against that and all this other crap.
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  Speaker 1: Brought in a lot of money, brought in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of camaraderie. It changed, and it helped our standing as
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  Speaker 1: far as how we're seen by people throughout the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the world, our pr our goodwill, and that was
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  Speaker 1: a total success and we pulled it off. So I
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  Speaker 1: think Americas should be proud for doing this thing. It's
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  Speaker 1: something we've never had here before to this level. Went
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  Speaker 1: off without a hitch. It was massively successful. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: That's the bottom line. We're gonna have to steal this thing,
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  Speaker 1: and that's such an American thing to say. In the
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  Speaker 1: world is horrified when we say that, but we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to do it. So whatever, And if you hate soccer,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to see it anymore for another four
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  Speaker 1: years anyway. All right, I'm out of here. I have
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  Speaker 1: to go climb a mountain today apparently in beautiful Livery
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  Speaker 1: or die New Hampshire. So more from this very room,
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  Speaker 1: I hope tomorrow, and on the audio podcast if you're
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  Speaker 1: an audio listener still posted shortly after the livestream, appreciate
• 12:30
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  Speaker 1: for hanging out with me. Make it a great, great
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  Speaker 1: day wherever you are. Again. This is another thing. I'll
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  Speaker 1: just throw this in here as a finale. This is
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  Speaker 1: another thing to be proud about for America's two fifty
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  Speaker 1: in your country in general, because now the entire world
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  Speaker 1: sees how awesome we are because they were told something else.
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  Speaker 1: They get a wick it awesome Monday. I'll talk to
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  Speaker 1: him row