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Offsides, Overtime, and the World Cup · I Hate Talking

• 0:29
  I Hate Talking: Welcome to episode 117 of I Hate Talking.
• 0:33
  I Hate Talking: Hi everyone.
• 0:33
  I Hate Talking: So we have not watched Toy Story 4 yet, nor Toy Story 5.
• 0:38
  I Hate Talking: So we have been watching a lot of TV, but it has not been anything Disney or Toy Story related.
• 0:47
  I Hate Talking: We have been watching the World Cup.
• 0:49
  I Hate Talking: That's true, and as of this week, it is now concluded with Spain taking the final game to its conclusion in the positive, and they have won World Cup 2026.
• 1:03
  I Hate Talking: Spoiler.
• 1:04
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 1:05
  I Hate Talking: It's, it's been 5 days or so.
• 1:07
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I think it's pretty much out there that even as of the time of this recording, that it's pretty well known.
• 1:14
  I Hate Talking: So, but yes, the game is probably not really worth watching the recap.
• 1:21
  I Hate Talking: I mean, in the recap, yes, but like the full game.
• 1:23
  I Hate Talking: Probably not.
• 1:25
  I Hate Talking: -- And -- it was a long game too, cause they went into overtime, however you say it.
• 1:30
  I Hate Talking: Extra time, time.
• 1:31
  I Hate Talking: There you go.
• 1:32
  I Hate Talking: Well, no, extra time, extra minutes.
• 1:36
  I Hate Talking: I don't know.
• 1:37
  I Hate Talking: -- I don't -- know, I'll have to check.
• 1:38
  I Hate Talking: I don't know what that exactly is called.
• 1:40
  I Hate Talking: Extra time is the time added to the standard time for the hydration break and different stoppages.
• 1:48
  I Hate Talking: So is this the word of the day?
• 1:50
  I Hate Talking: I guess it could be the original word of the day was gonna be offsides because I think more people understand that nowadays that soccer has become a little bit more ingrained in American culture and sort of people do follow the World Cup in general.
• 2:05
  I Hate Talking: So I think offsides maybe is a bit more well understood these days, I suppose we could do.
• 2:12
  I Hate Talking: A doubleheader.
• 2:13
  I Hate Talking: Is it called a knockout match?
• 2:16
  I Hate Talking: Well, if there's a golden goal, yes, then that would be.
• 2:19
  I Hate Talking: Like a knockout time.
• 2:22
  I Hate Talking: I think it just apparently it's called extra time.
• 2:26
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, it says extra time.
• 2:29
  I Hate Talking: is also referred to as overtime.
• 2:33
  I Hate Talking: In the World Cup soccer rules, it's 30 minutes, which are composed of 2 15 minute halves, and there is no golden goal.
• 2:41
  I Hate Talking: Which is the golden goal essentially being the first team to score wins.
• 2:46
  I Hate Talking: So that does not happen.
• 2:47
  I Hate Talking: They have all 30 minutes to play out the entire time, and then if it's tied again at the end of that extra time, then it goes to a penalty shootout.
• 2:59
  I Hate Talking: Right.
• 3:01
  I Hate Talking: And even then it's not the first to make a goal, right?
• 3:04
  I Hate Talking: You get like 5 chances.
• 3:06
  I Hate Talking: Correct, yes, and then if it's a tie after that, you go do it again.
• 3:09
  I Hate Talking: We got to see one of those, got to go to Vegas recently and we just so happened to be on a date in a casino.
• 3:18
  I Hate Talking: We had just finished our like drinks and all that and we were about to hit the casino floor.
• 3:25
  I Hate Talking: When we heard all this ruckus and we're all like, hey, what's that?
• 3:28
  I Hate Talking: And so we went over there.
• 3:30
  I Hate Talking: And we saw really entertaining penalty kicks.
• 3:34
  I Hate Talking: I think that was the first time I've ever actually seen it, the game.
• 3:38
  I Hate Talking: It's somewhat rare because you have to have at least A game in like the semifinals.
• 3:47
  I Hate Talking: After the knockout rounds.
• 3:49
  I Hate Talking: Because that's where you actually have to determine a winner instead of allowing it to be a tie, whereas in like the knockout rounds, it's just gonna be points based, so a game can end in a, in a draw in that scenario.
• 4:00
  I Hate Talking: So, and then there has to be a tie at both the end of regular time and then also a tie at the end of the extra time.
• 4:09
  I Hate Talking: Yeah.
• 4:10
  I Hate Talking: And then I think I've heard people refer to the time added to the end of the standard 45 minute half as extra time, but it's also referred to more explicitly as stoppage time.
• 4:23
  I Hate Talking: Oh, OK, yeah, I've heard that term before.
• 4:25
  I Hate Talking: Yes, so that is the time that is added to the regular time for injuries, substitutions, and other interruptions such as the hydration break.
• 4:36
  I Hate Talking: Right?
• 4:37
  I Hate Talking: So I had heard, and you can correct me if you think otherwise.
• 4:41
  I Hate Talking: I'd heard that this year for FIFA World Cup, they did the 5 minute hydration break.
• 4:48
  I Hate Talking: In each half, because it was so hot here in America, where they're hosting.
• 4:53
  I Hate Talking: But then I heard somebody else saying, well, that's just what they're saying it's really for commercial break.
• 5:01
  I Hate Talking: Well, there certainly were a lot more commercials this World Cup, so I think that's perhaps true.
• 5:07
  I Hate Talking: It's also interesting that in some games, even though the hydration break was supposed to take 5 minutes, either it did not, or the ref just didn't keep track of it because there would be actually less than 5 minutes of stoppage time added afterwards.
• 5:20
  I Hate Talking: So that was sort of strange.
• 5:24
  I Hate Talking: Like, even the announcers, I think, were sometimes caught off guard by that because they're like, and we'll see at least 5 minutes of stoppage time, and then it would be like 4 minutes or something.
• 5:32
  I Hate Talking: I didn't think about that, but you're right, there was definitely at least 1 time it was plus 4 minutes indeed, huh.
• 5:39
  I Hate Talking: So I suppose we've touched on some different Definitions of time that is used within.
• 5:48
  I Hate Talking: The world of soccer or football, as it is known in the rest of the world, but our official word or phrase of the episode is offsides.
• 5:59
  I Hate Talking: OK.
• 5:59
  I Hate Talking: So Basically, according to Duck Duck Go AI search assist, a player is in an offside position if any part of their head, body, or feet, excluding hands and arms, is in the opponent's half and closer to the goal line than the ball and the second last opponent.
• 6:20
  I Hate Talking: So, they're basically including the goalie as an opponent in that particular definition.
• 6:25
  I Hate Talking: So that's why you would have basically the first defender or the last defender essentially would be offsides if you're past that person.
• 6:35
  I Hate Talking: On their side of the field.
• 6:38
  I Hate Talking: OK, so that makes um some sense because when you clarify that the goalie counts as an opponent, which he does, that makes sense, because I thought I had understood offsides finally, after all these years.
• 6:52
  I Hate Talking: And then when you said that, I was like, oh no, wait, now there has to be two opponents, yes, obviously the goalie and But here's a question, what if the goalie goes rogue and leaves his box and runs to the front?
• 7:07
  I Hate Talking: Does there still have to be 2?
• 7:10
  I Hate Talking: Soccer opponents.
• 7:12
  I Hate Talking: Um, I'm not sure.
• 7:15
  I Hate Talking: We'll have to check because maybe AI got this wrong because I thought it was just basically a player.
• 7:20
  I Hate Talking: That is not the goalie.
• 7:22
  I Hate Talking: So, perhaps we can look at that.
• 7:26
  I Hate Talking: That is pretty rare as well.
• 7:27
  I Hate Talking: That may occur like if there's been a red card and they're playing a man down and then they want to pull the goalie to try to Score, yeah, push it forward or something.
• 7:37
  I Hate Talking: So, there are some nuances about offsides.
• 7:40
  I Hate Talking: So offsides cannot occur if you're on your own side of the field.
• 7:44
  I Hate Talking: So you could have the goalie in his Goal and then all the opponents standing like at the, your home goal, and if you're on your side, you can.
• 7:56
  I Hate Talking: Be on sides essentially, so OK, -- you can go behind them or in front of them -- and if you're -- on your side of the field -- because you're not shooting to your goal.
• 8:05
  I Hate Talking: No, but even if the Ball is passed from like the 18 yard line to the closest edge of the circle.
• 8:15
  I Hate Talking: And all the defenders are closer to the home goal, then that's not offsides cause you're still on your side of the field.
• 8:23
  I Hate Talking: OK, wait, yes, but if they were to push it to go to make a goal, then it would be offsides.
• 8:31
  I Hate Talking: No.
• 8:31
  I Hate Talking: Oh no OK.
• 8:33
  I Hate Talking: So then, A player can be quote unquote, offsides, but then it's not necessarily going to be a stoppage if they are not involved in the play.
• 8:44
  I Hate Talking: So, typically, you'll see the offsides call when they either receive a pass or are somehow involved in the play with like either covering a different opposing player or something like that.
• 8:56
  I Hate Talking: And then, so wait, so for that you're saying.
• 9:01
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, say some a player wants to be proactive and runs towards the goal, and then just chills there.
• 9:08
  I Hate Talking: As long as he doesn't get the ball first before the other opponent comes, he's OK.
• 9:13
  I Hate Talking: -- He can run over that way and hang out -- if he's not involved in the play at all.
• 9:17
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, -- if he's just -- just go and hang out over there.
• 9:19
  I Hate Talking: OK, because is that something uh that teams, is that a strategy that they could maybe back out?
• 9:28
  I Hate Talking: If they realize like, oh no, there's all, you know, like, they're way ahead of us, so we're all behind.
• 9:34
  I Hate Talking: So the player could instead of trying to run ahead and get the ball, could he just step back?
• 9:39
  I Hate Talking: And then the team is offsides.
• 9:43
  I Hate Talking: -- Like -- the defenders are basically -- Pulling this player offsides by -- moving closer to, yes, that is true.
• 9:51
  I Hate Talking: They do that sometimes.
• 9:52
  I Hate Talking: Now, the critical thing about offsides is that the position of the player is only measured when the ball is passed to them.
• 10:05
  I Hate Talking: So, at the time their teammate is passing the ball, they actually kick it.
• 10:11
  I Hate Talking: They have to be onsides, but then immediately after the kick, they can go into the quote unquote offsides position because the ball has already been in play.
• 10:21
  I Hate Talking: OK.
• 10:21
  I Hate Talking: Because they're theoretically moving to the next play, right, they're moving faster than the defender, and they can receive the pass, -- and that's -- OK as long as they don't touch the ball again, right?
• 10:32
  I Hate Talking: That's where all those like fancy.
• 10:34
  I Hate Talking: VAR replays come into play where they're checking that player's exact position at the time the ball was actually kicked as a pass.
• 10:43
  I Hate Talking: That's where I finally realized I understand offsides was they had one of those.
• 10:49
  I Hate Talking: Graphics, they lined up.
• 10:51
  I Hate Talking: And they showed that his shoulder and part of his head.
• 10:55
  I Hate Talking: was off like ahead of the defender.
• 10:59
  I Hate Talking: And so he didn't, the goal didn't count or whatnot, right?
• 11:02
  I Hate Talking: So I was like, oh, that visual really helped me see, but they said that if he had just moved his shoulder, Like I guess to the right, like a little bit back.
• 11:11
  I Hate Talking: Then he would have been fine, because he was leaning towards the left, he was offsides.
• 11:18
  I Hate Talking: And it's crazy that it can be that strict.
• 11:21
  I Hate Talking: So what's the purpose of offsides though, like.
• 11:26
  I Hate Talking: For the rules, why is it so strict?
• 11:31
  I Hate Talking: Well, to prevent exactly what you were saying, that a player could just go hang out on the opposing side of the field and just wait for a pass, and that could be colloquially known as cherry-picking because you're basically just hanging out and waiting for a pass, and that offside's role is to try to prevent that.
• 11:53
  I Hate Talking: OK.
• 11:54
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I can see that.
• 11:56
  I Hate Talking: And then offsides rules are suspended for throw-ins, so a player can receive a ball from a throw-in and be quote unquote offsides, and that is allowed.
• 12:07
  I Hate Talking: There is no offsides in a corner kick, and then there's also no offsides during a goal kick.
• 12:14
  I Hate Talking: So even A player that is.
• 12:18
  I Hate Talking: On the same team that is performing the goal kick, they will not be offsides in that particular scenario.
• 12:26
  I Hate Talking: OK.
• 12:26
  I Hate Talking: Now, typically, it's gonna be quite a long pass to pass to somebody that far away in a goal kick, but it is possible, right?
• 12:35
  I Hate Talking: There's a lot of rules, like, In soccer, you think initially it's just a lot of running and kicking.
• 12:42
  I Hate Talking: But there's a lot of nuanced rules in this.
• 12:46
  I Hate Talking: I guess I mean, I think there's like offsides in hockey, right?
• 12:51
  I Hate Talking: I don't even know hockey at all.
• 12:52
  I Hate Talking: So I think there's offsides, there's icing on in hockey as well that has some sort of similar rules, I believe.
• 12:59
  I Hate Talking: So, it's all about player positioning with these type of games.
• 13:04
  I Hate Talking: Can you have offsides in basketball?
• 13:05
  I Hate Talking: I don't, I don't know.
• 13:07
  I Hate Talking: -- I've never heard of all sides -- in basketball.
• 13:09
  I Hate Talking: Like, -- like -- I'm trying to think of all the roles.
• 13:11
  I Hate Talking: It's been so long since I was in that world, and I never played.
• 13:16
  I Hate Talking: I, we were very much a basketball family.
• 13:19
  I Hate Talking: So I'm trying, I've never heard that term, I feel like for that.
• 13:23
  I Hate Talking: No, the biggest quote unquote cheat you would do in basketball that I was aware of was, yeah, when you're throwing in, or in a position, like you're kind of boxed in.
• 13:36
  I Hate Talking: You throw the ball at the person's foot, and it goes out and then your team gets the ball and you can all reset and play a better.
• 13:46
  I Hate Talking: From better positions.
• 13:48
  I Hate Talking: So, basketball does not have offsides, but have you heard of the three-second violation?
• 13:53
  I Hate Talking: When you don't throw it or you don't bounce it for 3 seconds, an offensive player cannot remain in the paint area for more than 3 seconds.
• 14:02
  I Hate Talking: Oh, yeah, I do know that.
• 14:04
  I Hate Talking: I do know that.
• 14:05
  I Hate Talking: Well, I don't know the word paint area.
• 14:07
  I Hate Talking: I'm trying to think of it a box.
• 14:09
  I Hate Talking: What do we call it a box.
• 14:10
  I Hate Talking: -- I'm trying to think of what we call -- it officially, yeah, OK, there you go.
• 14:14
  I Hate Talking: Oh man, this is coming back.
• 14:16
  I Hate Talking: Yeah.
• 14:16
  I Hate Talking: So yeah, you can't just like, again, I guess it's the same kind of idea, right?
• 14:20
  I Hate Talking: You can't just hang out there waiting.
• 14:22
  I Hate Talking: You got to be moving.
• 14:23
  I Hate Talking: If you're in that section.
• 14:26
  I Hate Talking: And then there's a backcourt violation that is somewhat to do with player positioning that occurs when an offensive player returns the ball to the backcourt after crossing the midline.
• 14:37
  I Hate Talking: So I guess that's actually to like prevent some of the back passes that happen very frequently in soccer.
• 14:44
  I Hate Talking: So basically, once you're past the midline, you can't pass backwards.
• 14:49
  I Hate Talking: So you have to continue to drive.
• 14:51
  I Hate Talking: So that's very different than soccer where you have all the freedom to pass backwards and keep control of the ball all the way back to the goalie if the team so desires.
• 15:02
  I Hate Talking: Oh, they love to do that, it seems like.
• 15:04
  I Hate Talking: That was, yeah, a lot of time, I guess 90 minutes is a long time watching the World Cup.
• 15:11
  I Hate Talking: I'm like, man, y'all are in no hurry.
• 15:13
  I Hate Talking: You're just dillydallying out there passing it back and forth.
• 15:17
  I Hate Talking: I just felt like it was like our front yard just kicking it around to each other.
• 15:21
  I Hate Talking: And then they would get into it for sure, and then it would get intense, but.
• 15:27
  I Hate Talking: Right, they're looking for those gaps in the defense or trying to set up a set play or something like that.
• 15:32
  I Hate Talking: So they'll just pass it back in order to maintain control of the ball until they find that opportunity.
• 15:39
  I Hate Talking: So That can happen with soccer as well, where you're trying to get it out on the other person, right?
• 15:48
  I Hate Talking: That happens.
• 15:49
  I Hate Talking: Frequently where you're basically kicking it as hard as you can against the opponent and hoping that it bounces out so that you take a throw in or take a corner or something like that.
• 15:59
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, they do that in soccer too.
• 16:00
  I Hate Talking: So That was the The thing that was probably the most prevalent thing to referee when I was doing referee for youth soccer, you had to make sure that the ball was given to the correct team after the ball went out of play.
• 16:20
  I Hate Talking: For a throw in a corner or a goal kick, because you got to pay attention to that and I was paid ref, but then the linemen were volunteers, so you couldn't often trust them to pay attention because they'd be like someone's dad.
• 16:35
  I Hate Talking: No, he's usually like a sibling, like an older sibling, probably.
• 16:39
  I Hate Talking: So I had a vested interest in who won.
• 16:43
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, maybe.
• 16:44
  I Hate Talking: That's why I still had to pay attention to make sure they're, were making the right call.
• 16:48
  I Hate Talking: But you would know, like if you go to the same teams over and over again, you'd know like which ones are the good ones and you could just say like, no, you're not allowed to do it because you're not accurate or fair, and then you have to find somebody else.
• 17:02
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I mean, obviously, like, you know, we're Compared to basketball, basketball has that too.
• 17:09
  I Hate Talking: But the court is much smaller, so I think it's just a lot less running, like, I mean, in basketball, the refs run some.
• 17:20
  I Hate Talking: But man, in soccer, those guys.
• 17:24
  I Hate Talking: Uh The refs have a hard job.
• 17:28
  I Hate Talking: I would know.
• 17:29
  I Hate Talking: I was like, really feeling for, especially in the last game, the main ref.
• 17:35
  I Hate Talking: I was like, oh, I don't want to be him right now.
• 17:36
  I Hate Talking: I think he's more stressed than anyone.
• 17:38
  I Hate Talking: Because He has to watch all around him while running and not getting in the way.
• 17:45
  I Hate Talking: Sometimes they get in the way of the ball.
• 17:47
  I Hate Talking: And then mess that up too.
• 17:50
  I Hate Talking: Indeed.
• 17:52
  I Hate Talking: So according to Docco AI.
• 17:56
  I Hate Talking: An average professional basketball player runs about 2.55 miles during a 48 minute game.
• 18:04
  I Hate Talking: OK, well, that's half of a soccer game.
• 18:09
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 18:11
  I Hate Talking: So how much does a soccer player run and then half that, I guess, right?
• 18:16
  I Hate Talking: I suppose so, -- but maybe -- the same then.
• 18:19
  I Hate Talking: Um, but Is a 48 minute game standard basketball game?
• 18:24
  I Hate Talking: There's, yeah, they're quarters.
• 18:28
  I Hate Talking: I don't know, it says NBA game, cause this is 48 minutes.
• 18:33
  I Hate Talking: I'm certainly not a basketball expert, as is probably readily apparent.
• 18:37
  I Hate Talking: Well, obviously I'm not either.
• 18:39
  I Hate Talking: All right, well, no, OK, I was wrong.
• 18:42
  I Hate Talking: I said for 15 minutes, it's for 12 minutes.
• 18:45
  I Hate Talking: For 12 minutes.
• 18:47
  I Hate Talking: Interesting.
• 18:49
  I Hate Talking: So, um, I was off by 3, which I guess, yeah, 4 times 12 is 48 minutes, and then that's for NBA.
• 18:57
  I Hate Talking: The NCAA does 2 20-minute halves.
• 19:02
  I Hate Talking: Oh, but here we go.
• 19:05
  I Hate Talking: Can I justify myself?
• 19:07
  I Hate Talking: Oh no, I'm not gonna, that doesn't justify me, never mind.
• 19:10
  I Hate Talking: I was gonna say high school is for.
• 19:15
  I Hate Talking: 8 minute quarters.
• 19:17
  I Hate Talking: That's even less.
• 19:19
  I Hate Talking: That's even less.
• 19:20
  I Hate Talking: So, on average, a soccer player runs 6 to 8 miles during a professional game, and it can vary because your fullbacks are gonna run in a different amount than your midfielders are gonna run a different amount than your forwards and strikers.
• 19:34
  I Hate Talking: But If you essentially AA basketball game to 5 miles.
• 19:42
  I Hate Talking: Even on the low end of soccer players running more than that and close to double that.
• 19:49
  I Hate Talking: And then that's, Assuming that they play for the entire length of the game, but then if it goes to extra time.
• 19:57
  I Hate Talking: That could be playing even longer and then they're running even more.
• 20:02
  I Hate Talking: And I did just look it up because once again, my uh memory, I'm not in this world any longer.
• 20:10
  I Hate Talking: Basketball players typically don't play an entire game.
• 20:14
  I Hate Talking: Like I was, I was surprised at how.
• 20:17
  I Hate Talking: The majority of the soccer players play the entire time, like you said, if they go to overtime, they're playing for like 120 minutes.
• 20:26
  I Hate Talking: No, yeah, yeah.
• 20:28
  I Hate Talking: Oh man, my math today, but yes, 120 minutes, that's intent.
• 20:33
  I Hate Talking: Basketball players often, uh, they'll often swap them out.
• 20:38
  I Hate Talking: There you go.
• 20:39
  I Hate Talking: All right, so, a deep dive into various rules and nuances of soccer and as well and other sports and things of that nature.
• 20:49
  I Hate Talking: So as we round out this episode, what was your favorite game of World Cup 2026?
• 20:55
  I Hate Talking: Like to watch or.
• 21:00
  I Hate Talking: But I'm glad I participated in.
• 21:03
  I Hate Talking: Well, I don't, did you, you were on the field, you were playing?
• 21:06
  I Hate Talking: No, but I mean, some games were more interesting to watch than others.
• 21:12
  I Hate Talking: And, but like our church had an event for.
• 21:20
  I Hate Talking: The first US game.
• 21:23
  I Hate Talking: And we all like watched it and ate good food and like all decked out.
• 21:30
  I Hate Talking: Like it was just a really fun day.
• 21:31
  I Hate Talking: So I think that one or like.
• 21:36
  I Hate Talking: Ambience or whatever you wanna call it, you know, I really enjoyed all that and then they have like pickup soccer games and stuff like that, that people participated in our kids did.
• 21:49
  I Hate Talking: It was really fun, you did.
• 21:50
  I Hate Talking: It was really fun to watch.
• 21:51
  I Hate Talking: So the US game, that one particularly?
• 21:56
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I think we won too, right?
• 21:59
  I Hate Talking: I don't recall.
• 22:01
  I Hate Talking: I had to leave before it ended.
• 22:03
  I Hate Talking: That's true, but we were ahead when I left.
• 22:06
  I Hate Talking: That was good.
• 22:07
  I Hate Talking: But I mean, so yeah, that was the most fun overall experience.
• 22:14
  I Hate Talking: I really enjoyed watching.
• 22:17
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I mean, the game, I we only watched the.
• 22:21
  I Hate Talking: Over time in Vegas, but that one was really fun.
• 22:26
  I Hate Talking: And again, part of it was, it was the atmosphere and the shootouts.
• 22:30
  I Hate Talking: I was most invested.
• 22:33
  I Hate Talking: In the US game at the end when they got out, yeah, I was rooting for Norway and then they lost.
• 22:40
  I Hate Talking: I was rooting for Switzerland and then they got out.
• 22:43
  I Hate Talking: I see.
• 22:45
  I Hate Talking: They were out pretty early though.
• 22:47
  I Hate Talking: No, they made it to the quarterfinals.
• 22:50
  I Hate Talking: Maybe they'd make it to the quarterfinals.
• 22:52
  I Hate Talking: They did better than us.
• 22:53
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 22:54
  I Hate Talking: So, yeah, and then after that.
• 22:59
  I Hate Talking: I think I did France and they lost.
• 23:03
  I Hate Talking: And then I was rooting for Argentina, and they lost to Spain.
• 23:08
  I Hate Talking: So I really.
• 23:10
  I Hate Talking: Did bad choosing this time.
• 23:12
  I Hate Talking: But what about you?
• 23:14
  I Hate Talking: What was your favorite games and who were you rooting for?
• 23:18
  I Hate Talking: So Yeah, I was rooting for the US, uh, so.
• 23:24
  I Hate Talking: Well, typically for Germany.
• 23:26
  I Hate Talking: Norway was one that was following that up to the very end, would have liked to see them go to the final or even win.
• 23:35
  I Hate Talking: The particular games that stand out to me were the 3rd-place match between England and France, just because that was such a strange game.
• 23:46
  I Hate Talking: Like England scored 4 goals in the very 1st half.
• 23:49
  I Hate Talking: It was like all England.
• 23:51
  I Hate Talking: France didn't seem like they even wanted to be there.
• 23:53
  I Hate Talking: And then something changed at the half.
• 23:55
  I Hate Talking: So either inspirational speech or, you know, like an offer of a bonus or something if they win.
• 24:02
  I Hate Talking: And, They played like a completely different game, and that game ended, I think 6-4 England.
• 24:08
  I Hate Talking: So it was a very high scoring game, very exciting.
• 24:11
  I Hate Talking: And that was probably my favorite game of the World Cup 2026, the.
• 24:18
  I Hate Talking: Other ones that were interesting way back in the Uh, knockout rounds were converting just because they did so well and were able to defend, and I think they finished.
• 24:33
  I Hate Talking: Didn't they finish their game with Argentina as a tie and a And also finished their Spain match as a tie.
• 24:42
  I Hate Talking: I don't know.
• 24:44
  I Hate Talking: So based on that, they should have just won because they basically tied both of the final teams.
• 24:51
  I Hate Talking: Yeah.
• 24:52
  I Hate Talking: Do some of the teams not try hard in the beginning?
• 24:56
  I Hate Talking: That is true.
• 24:57
  I Hate Talking: They kind of save their best players or they save their so that they don't get injured or anything like that, yeah.
• 25:03
  I Hate Talking: Makes sense.
• 25:05
  I Hate Talking: If you don't really have any skin in the game, if you're not gonna lose anything.
• 25:08
  I Hate Talking: Will it give you a better bracket, like, You'll get like home field advantage, I believe, so.
• 25:16
  I Hate Talking: Like you will But none of them are home.
• 25:20
  I Hate Talking: Mexico.
• 25:21
  I Hate Talking: So they could have played at home in the US and Canada, and Canada as well, right?
• 25:28
  I Hate Talking: So if they, if they won all their matches and were able to like pick their games, they would play in Canada or in Mexico.
• 25:36
  I Hate Talking: What do you think Canada and Mexico felt like?
• 25:39
  I Hate Talking: They were part of the World Cup too, right?
• 25:42
  I Hate Talking: They're hosting everything was the US, like a big US when it was the 4th of July.
• 25:48
  I Hate Talking: 250 years.
• 25:50
  I Hate Talking: President Trump was out there giving out the medals and all that.
• 25:54
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 25:55
  I Hate Talking: -- They really participate or -- yeah, they hosted, they had some of the, the Mexico City.
• 26:00
  I Hate Talking: One had some really good matches at the Mexico City.
• 26:03
  I Hate Talking: Yeah.
• 26:03
  I Hate Talking: We're just the real big ones, the final ones here in the state, right?
• 26:08
  I Hate Talking: Yes.
• 26:08
  I Hate Talking: OK.
• 26:09
  I Hate Talking: Miami, New York, New Jersey.
• 26:11
  I Hate Talking: So, and we're already bidding to host it next time.
• 26:16
  I Hate Talking: Oh really?
• 26:17
  I Hate Talking: That's what Mr.
• 26:19
  I Hate Talking: President Trump says, yep.
• 26:20
  I Hate Talking: So we'll see.
• 26:22
  I Hate Talking: They don't have it already lined up.
• 26:24
  I Hate Talking: It's 4 years away.
• 26:25
  I Hate Talking: I feel like they should.
• 26:25
  I Hate Talking: Um, yeah, maybe that, I think maybe it already is determined for 2030, so this would be like the next bid for 2034.
• 26:34
  I Hate Talking: I don't know.
• 26:35
  I Hate Talking: Let's check that as our final stat for this episode, see where the 2030 World Cup is.
• 26:41
  I Hate Talking: Again, a group of countries will be hosting in 2030, Morocco, Portugal, and Spain.
• 26:48
  I Hate Talking: OK, how fun.
• 26:50
  I Hate Talking: It's a fun area to go to.
• 26:52
  I Hate Talking: I really enjoyed, probably my biggest thing I enjoyed about the FIFA World Cup this year.
• 26:59
  I Hate Talking: Was, I mean, our kids were into it, so that was fun to watch and obviously you really like it, so I enjoy spending time with you doing that.
• 27:07
  I Hate Talking: But I loved all the Europeans and their takeaways coming to the States.
• 27:13
  I Hate Talking: They just cracked me up all their tweets and their Instagram posts and stuff.
• 27:18
  I Hate Talking: They seem to, most of them seem to really like it.
• 27:21
  I Hate Talking: There you go.
• 27:21
  I Hate Talking: There will also be 3 matches, one held in each of the following countries, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
• 27:28
  I Hate Talking: OK.
• 27:29
  I Hate Talking: And then 2034 will be hosted by Saudi Arabia.
• 27:34
  I Hate Talking: So if they thought it was gonna be hot in the US, I think it's gonna be pretty hot there.
• 27:37
  I Hate Talking: So maybe they'll need, you know, maybe like 5 hydration breaks a game or something.
• 27:42
  I Hate Talking: Is that where they had it last time?
• 27:45
  I Hate Talking: I feel like they had it there.
• 27:46
  I Hate Talking: Or where they did it somewhere back east in the Middle East.
• 27:50
  I Hate Talking: It was very hot in Qatar, so maybe that's what you're thinking of, right, which is why, I mean, and it was exceptionally hot.
• 27:58
  I Hate Talking: The last couple of weeks here in the States, hotter than normal, like record-breaking heat.
• 28:05
  I Hate Talking: But I don't think they could really know that for sure.
• 28:09
  I Hate Talking: I think a lot of it was water breaks that were unprecedented were more so for ads, which is such an American thing to make it.
• 28:20
  I Hate Talking: Uh, money grab.
• 28:22
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 28:23
  I Hate Talking: So, lots of statistics and thoughts on the World Cup and soccer in general.
• 28:31
  I Hate Talking: So if you did enjoy this episode, make sure to like, share and subscribe, and you can always send us your thoughts via text message, email, or comment on whatever platform you're listening on.
• 28:43
  I Hate Talking: And then maybe Toy Story 4 next time.
• 28:46
  I Hate Talking: We'll see if we have time to get to it.
• 28:49
  I Hate Talking: We have to watch it.
• 28:50
  I Hate Talking: We do have to watch it.
• 28:51
  I Hate Talking: And Toy Story 5, which that may be a longer thing because we don't plan on going to theaters for that.
• 28:57
  I Hate Talking: No, yeah, we need to, it needs to come to streaming first.
• 29:00
  I Hate Talking: There you go.
• 29:01
  I Hate Talking: So from your friends at I Hate Talking, until next time, remember, it is only through talking that we begin the journey to understanding.