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World Cup Fever HITS! · Brainwaves

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  Welcome to TWO SHOT Tuesday. My name is Jason Riley, and with
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  me, as always, Barry T Nixon, a man who is in control of his
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  environment and in control of himself and in control of all
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  things that bring entertainment to the masses.
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  Aren't you Barry? I'm I'm in control of at least
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  myself for the time being. Those other things, I don't
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  know. I think that's up to.
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  That's up to God and you. Jay.
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  Thanks for making time before me again this week.
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  I would do it just like I've done every week for the past six
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  years because we, you know, we release on a record on a
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  Tuesday, release on a Tuesday. We are barreling down to episode
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  300. It is coming up sooner than you
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  can think. But before that, we've got some
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  pretty exciting episodes coming up like this one right here
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  today that we're recording. And as always, we have a format
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  on this show. Barry, I know you've got
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  something going on tonight. Why don't you tell our listeners
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  and viewers what you're having? As your shop, you know Jay, I've
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  been on a bit of a kick with having my workouts on the same
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  day as our podcast recording. Why?
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  Because I like to be busy. I like to have two fun things to
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  do in an evening. It doesn't get much more fun
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  than that. That's just a long way of saying
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  I'm not drinking any alcohol. I'll be having some pre workout.
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  You can kind of see it right there.
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  That's the Godzilla piss that I like to drink before I pump the
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  iron. What about yourself?
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  I've worked out earlier this morning and so I'm going to
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  reward myself for a a day with it.
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  What used to be our favorite Jameson triple triple.
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  It's been, you know, pushed aside again by the black barrel.
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  But this is what was at the local and I'm happy to have it
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  and still do enjoy it. So in your honor, Good Sir
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  Jameson, triple, triple. Amazing.
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  Cheers. I also kind of feel like that
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  was a short love affair with the triple triple.
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  I think we were just liking the fact that we could call it.
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  We like the name of it. You and I are very like in
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  similar in that way. If something has a good name, a
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  name that's fun to say, it's suddenly rock us to the top of
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  our favorites list. And I think that's what happened
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  with triple triple. But then it kind of went away it
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  it's. Am I misremembering or no?
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  No, it sounded so much more fun because it's kind of like when
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  you overdo it at Tim horton's and you get the triple, triple
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  cream and triple, triple sugar, right?
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  It's like that triple cream, triple sugar that I never really
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  had, but it was always. Popular.
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  I don't know anyone. Construction workers for some
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  reason and maybe. That makes sense.
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  Will often have the triple, triple.
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  They're burning a lot of calories and they need the
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  energy. So I would see a lot of those
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  ordered ahead of me, especially in Sudbury.
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  Sudbury is a triple, triple town and you know it.
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  You know it when you're in Sudbury.
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  The triple triples are flying. It's worth going to Sudbury just
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  to witness that, I think. Yeah, I'll be there.
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  I don't have my my, my booking yet, but at some point this
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  summer I'll be going back to visit mom and dad.
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  So I know exciting we're getting.
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  The trip shout out to Millie. Shout out to Millie, friend of
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  the show. Barry, what's coming out?
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  I got a pen out now just as a little prop because I want to
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  point at you. I want to point at that shirt
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  you're wearing. What is happening very soon?
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  You know, based on the time of our recording.
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  Jay, the biggest sporting event on planet Earth is about to be
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  descending towards Toronto. We are one of the host cities,
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  one of the host countries. And when people are visiting, I
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  just want to make it clear to fans visiting, it's great to
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  have you, but you're not at home.
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  You're still visiting. So please, you know, treat the
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  area with respect, OK? Because I've seen some previous
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  World Cups where host cities get trashed.
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  They have to deal with a lot of bad behavior.
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  Now, I would, I would hope that that wouldn't happen here in
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  Toronto. I do live right beside the
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  epicenter of where this tournament is happening.
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  Jay, you're nicely tucked away in the annex.
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  There's no games going on anywhere near you.
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  You're probably going to be insulated for the most part from
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  some of his madness. However, Linda and I, right in
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  the left ventricle of the hardest thing.
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  Am I complaining? No.
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  I can't wait. Well, why don't you get into
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  that a little bit because you've already told me what is
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  happening there is you are getting the VIP treatment.
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  I don't think we've talked about it on the show.
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  Why don't you explain the pass system to our audience and what
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  you'll be going through the privilege of going through over
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  the next little while as you live where the athletes breathe?
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  Please yes. We haven't gotten the passes, so
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  I'm not sure I should even raise it because I don't know whether
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  now it's even going to be a thing.
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  It will be. You think so?
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  I think so. Please share.
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  I I'm excited for you because I've reframed this for you and
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  that also makes me happy. You have reframed because I
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  first looked at it as an imposition and I didn't think it
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  was a great idea. But apparently the people who
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  who live in my building and the neighboring condos next to Fort
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  York, again the epicenter of the fan festival, are going to be
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  issued residence cards to keep on their purse at at all times
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  in order to access your building.
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  You will also have to have one on your vehicle if you have a
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  vehicle to be able to come in and out.
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  Now when I was first told this, my knee jerk reaction was one of
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  disgust and shades of East Germany were crossing my mind.
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  But then I sat down with my good friend Jay and he reframed it.
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  He he'd put it into AVIP context and that changed everything for
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  me. Yeah, because you get to what?
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  When you're walking somewhere, they're going to stop you.
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  But you hold up your card, you tap it against maybe an
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  electronic device of some kind, and they will say.
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  Just the helmet of the person stopping me, but we'll see.
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  Yeah, they will say right this way, Mr. Nixon.
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  They might not say your name, but right this way, Sir, and you
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  will be allowed to go where other people have no access.
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  You are going beyond the best access because you get to go
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  home. As I said, you live where the
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  athletes, even the athletes themselves, are only able to
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  come and go. You'll be there 24/7 if you so
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  choose. And I so choose because it is by
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  a domicile. I have no other place to rest my
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  weary head, Jay. But you know, whatever that's
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  going to be, that's part of it. It's going to be fun.
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  You've reframed for me. We are going to be expecting I
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  think like another half million to 1,000,000 visitors from
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  around the world during the six matches that Toronto was
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  hosting. And it's going to be a month
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  long, Jay, even after the matches are not being played
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  here any longer, the fan fast and all of the hoopla, I feel
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  pardon expression will continue all the way to the World Cup
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  final. So it's about a month, 5 weeks.
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  Do we have any? There's no final matches here.
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  Are we like a qualification round?
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  Are we split amongst different rounds?
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  How does that work in Toronto? We will be, we will be in the
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  round of 32. So there's more teams in this
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  World Cup than ever before. So there's 48 teams to begin
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  with, OK, the group stage matches here, some of them.
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  And then there will be a round of 32 match, at least one at
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  EMO. Beyond that, I don't think so.
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  I think all the big ones, the knockout stages are going to be
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  happening in the United States and Mexico.
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  But so it's like 3216842 then you're that's it a winner.
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  I can do math. Soccer is mostly about math.
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  I played soccer as a child, by the way, so I'm not new to the
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  sport. I have played soccer.
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  Millie would vouch for you. My strategy was to run up the
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  side of the field and run back the side of the field, rarely
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  touching the ball. There was just it's.
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  A good strategy. Yeah, it's something that I
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  didn't do. I wasn't excited about it was I
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  found it hard to manage the ball.
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  I I was really not much of an athlete.
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  So I would just charge up to the front.
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  I'd let somebody else get it. They would kick it back and I
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  would go back. Here's something I don't know
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  and maybe you know this and can explain this to me and our
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  listeners and viewers. Sure.
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  I don't understand how offsides works.
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  Hockey is very simple. How does soccer or football
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  offsides work? Barry, please let.
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  Us know basically the same. It's just a different size
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  pitch, different size playing fields.
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  So you the if you do not have the ball, you cannot have
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  somebody ahead of you who doesn't have it.
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  It's the same principle. It's just because the field is
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  so much larger, they call it at a different place on the field.
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  But there's no line like. There's no.
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  Blue line. There's a line up here of the
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  line. That's what I'm saying.
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  But once you watch enough games, you you kind of get to know
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  where it is and it's at the often it's at the discretion of
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  the official it. Is OK look kind of like how the
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  clock never stops it just it never is going and then it goes
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  into overtime and it just goes in the ad time that's I find
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  that to be a very elegant way of playing things just keep going
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  that's. Why they call it the Beautiful
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  game? Do they?
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  Call it that. Yeah.
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  Who does? Everybody.
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  Is that a? Thing everyone.
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  Everyone but you. OK, everyone.
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  That's great. It's called the Beautiful Game.
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  Yeah, because of that. And they do add time.
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  They call it stoppage time just so you know, for things like
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  injuries, because we also know that soccer players are
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  tremendous actors all the time. They're riding on the floor like
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  they've been shot. And so they might lie there for
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  a while, maybe a minute and a half, maybe longer.
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  And so the officials add that stoppage time.
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  And but again, they can also end the game when they see fit.
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  Sometimes stoppage time is plus 6 minutes, maybe they get to and
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  then they'll they'll add 3 more minutes, but then they might
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  decide now that's enough. I've seen it.
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  It's really arbitrary. It's really weird, unless I'm
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  not fully understanding, which is completely possible, that the
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  matches that I've been into and watched on TV, the officials
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  have all. The power that is incredible,
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  and also that it's called stoppage time, but that nothing
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  actually stops, that's also interesting.
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  Well, I guess, yeah, I guess they it stops when someone is
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  writhing on the ground. Everything stops for a period of
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  time. Not the clock, but that's.
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  It everything stops but the clock, That's interesting.
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  It's kind of like life. Things will stop, but the clock
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  never stops. You just never does.
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  You try and keep up with the clock as best you can.
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  It will take away. It is a monotonous monster.
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  But anyway, enough of that. I think that leads us into our
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  second shot. You know, I want to reach in for
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  it. Perfect timing, Jay.
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  You've got, of course, the same. You're Godzilla piss right?
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  Yeah, yeah, it's nice and hot and frothy and that way.
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  I like it. I've got triple, triple and I
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  want to raise the glass Berry to your VIP experience.
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  You are going to go where few people in the city are.
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  There may be a lot of people in your condo area, but
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  comparatively to the rest of us in the city and in fact the
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  nation in the world, we won't have that kind of access that
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  you'll have. And you get to flash a card and
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  go where those of us cannot, places that I hope you'll be
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  reporting back to our audience on as we go through this World
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  Cup. The only place is my own home.
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  I'll be thrilled to have access to my own home, Jay.
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  I'm excited for you buddy. Cheers, this is harsh stuff.
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  So yeah, so that's the fan faster.
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  But there is one other thing I think I did mention that I will
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  be attending a World Cup match. Which is it's.
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  Crazy. It's Germany versus Ivory Coast
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  at BMO Field on June 20th, Saturday afternoon, 4:00
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  kickoff, and they open the gates at noon.
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  Here's a funny thing, they serve.
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  It's called a walk up whenever you like, whatever the time is
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  before the event, those hours before that, it's called the
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  walk up. Sometimes it's a 2 hour walk up.
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  In this case it's a four hour walk up.
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  The game doesn't start till 4, but the open BMO Field at noon.
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  Why do they do that? To serve alcohol.
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  Why? Because halftime is last call
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  there. This is very European, very kind
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  of draconian. They want people to get
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  completely blasted in advance of the match.
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  And then slowly, I guess the thought is you sober up as the
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  game wears on and by the end of it, you're good to drive home
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  because you haven't drank in 45 minutes.
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  You know what I mean? It's it's wild.
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  Anyway, we're going to experience this live at BMO,
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  Germany and Ivory Coast, Me and my friend Brad and his son
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  Peyton. And yeah, it's fantastic.
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  We're all, we're 8 rows from the pitch, from the field, 8 gross.
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  So that's very good. So we're like, like, it's as
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  close as you could probably want to be.
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  And we're like just high enough you can see all the action you
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  don't want to. Be also seven you're in with
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  let's like 1. Would have been great. 87 would
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  have. Been you're higher than 7 which
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  is nice. You can see over the sevens.
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  It is so anyway. For you amazing, I'll eat this
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  for you it's. Going to be great.
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  Sunnyside, like Bmo's got that side that the sun blasts on you
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  if it's in the afternoon or the shady side what side we're on
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  the. Shady side.
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  That is beautiful. I've been in the Sunnyside for
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  some CFL games and you just on a really hot day you just can't be
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  there like you have to be. We would go to one of the bar
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  areas but I have feeling it was it's much busier at World Cup
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  than during ACFL. Game I would assume, but we
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  don't know. I'm like this is a first, this
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  has never. Been in this country before?
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  You go there at noon, you're in your seats.
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  You're drinking in your seats. Nothing.
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  Things going on and then stuff happens and that's when the bar
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  closes. That's great.
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  Well, they don't. Apparently they they're not like
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  if they stick with the European rules.
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  Like, again, this was one person that I spoke with when Brad and
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  I went to a TFC match about a month ago at the time of this
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  recording. And we were asking questions
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  about what can we expect for the World Cup?
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  We're we're we're coming on for the Germany match.
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  What can we expect? That's when we were told it's a
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  four hour walk up. Last call is going to be half
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  time. And during the match, I think
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  the only service you're going to be able to get if you want to
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  continue is like the guy coming up and down the aisle.
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  But the bars on the concourse are not going to be serving
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  during play. It's very European.
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  That's what they do in England, apparently.
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  Yeah, it is weird. It's because people just get to
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  out of control. But I'm thinking like, but
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  you're giving them four hours of runway to get out of control
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  before the game. So what are we doing here?
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  Doesn't make sense. I would think no it doesn't.
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  And plus the fact that we are now granted, there's going to be
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  a lot of visitors coming in, but there's going to be a ton of
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  people from the city who are used to going to sporting events
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  or, and a ton of people in North America that are used to going
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  to sporting events and consuming alcohol the North American
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  sporting event way, which is pacing themselves or not during
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  the course of the regular game. So why all of a sudden shift
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  people? Now you're like, I can see you
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  doing the math, doing the calculation going how much do I
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  need to get in? How?
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  Many. Yeah, should I take 5 to my
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  seat? Because now people are going to
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  be paranoid that wait, you can't even take 5 to your seat.
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  You're allowed two at a time, Jay.
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  That hasn't changed. See, and then people are going
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  to go to their seat and then go back.
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  I think that's going to be not the best thing.
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  I'm not saying don't do it. And I want to hear from you
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  exactly how this went. This is June 20th.
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  You're going to be there at noon.
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  It's like, Yep, it's almost better because you're so close.
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  You could just be at your place just drinking for free and then
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  go. But I know you want the
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  experience of it. Which is that's that's it and
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  it's not just me, it's Brad and his son, but they are both of
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  German heritage. So for them to see the German
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  national team, this is like life changing.
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  This is like the exploding head emoji times a million.
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  Like so. And his son doesn't even know
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  what's happening and you're. Nice.
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  And you're a huge Ivory Coast fan, so I.
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  Know that's. Where is the Ivory Coast?
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  What is? Born and raised, as you know.
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  Yeah. It's somewhere in Africa, around
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  the Horn of Africa, I believe it's, it's a, it's a coastal
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  country, I believe. OK, it's a former French colony.
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  I do know that. Exciting now before we go, I
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  want you to tell you were just telling me before we got on and
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  I said save it for the show. Something about this jersey
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  you're wearing now and and being cat called what?
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  What happened? It wasn't so much that I wore it
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  to the office. And I'm I'm I'm intending I have
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  a bunch of England shirts. I'm going to be wearing a
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  different one all week because we are now like at the time of
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  this recording, about a week and a bit away from kickoff from the
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  tournament. And one of my Irish colleagues,
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  by the way, Ireland did not qualify for the World Cup.
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  So this is maybe why she was a little perturbed, but not didn't
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  take offense, but was wondering and questioning my fashion
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  choices when she saw my England shirt.
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  So of course we know there's a lot of bad blood between Irish
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  and English hundreds of years ago, but I thought we were past
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  it. Clearly there was somebody
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  perhaps who's not past it, and that is her decision.
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  What was said exactly? Nothing really like, nothing
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  like how dare you or you know, you baby killer or colonial,
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  whatever. She's very much a like a
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  left-leaning person. So I think she was thinking more
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  about what is England done to the world is kind of what she
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  said to me. And I was like, I thought we
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  were talking about soccer. We're not talking about politics
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  here. But some people can't separate
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  the two. I thankfully am a little more
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  evolved and I can easily separate those two things.
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  Yeah. And we are.
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  We're better for it as a species.
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  I like to think so. Barry, anyway, I hope you will
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  continue to be our person on the ground as we go through the
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  World Cup. This is a yeah, this is a huge
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  event for us. Only you have got 24/7 access to
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  the grounds and you'll be living there embedded with the
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  athletes. And so I expect the the biggest
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  scoops, the stuff people doesn't don't know about will be coming
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  to two shot Tuesday to get the real story of the World Cup.
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  So I invite viewers, listeners, check us out on YouTube as we go
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  through World Cup fever where Barry takes us through.
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  I think we dedicate at least a portion of every show to
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  touching on World Cup news as only you can see it.
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  And Barry, thank you for giving us this huge preview.
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  I know this ended up being a huge episode on you and on the
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  World Cup, but I am richer for it and so are so are our viewers
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  and listeners. And Speaking of which, we will
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  see you again next week for another exciting episode of Two
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  Shot Tuesday. World Cup fever has caught Barry
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  T Nixon and caught me in its wake, and we hope you'll all
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  come along for the ride. See you next week, Jay.
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  Thank you for listening to Two Shot Tuesday.
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