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6-16: Visiting World Cup Fans' Love Of America Is Good For The Soul · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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Speaker 1: Full confession, full disclosure. I've never been much of a
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Speaker 1: soccer guy, but I third, you know, we all heard
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Speaker 1: that the World Cup was coming to the State's cool,
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Speaker 1: that's awesome, that's you know, that'll be cool. It'd be
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Speaker 1: great for the economy. It's a big win for America,
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Speaker 1: all this stuff. I never ever expected this to be
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Speaker 1: so awesome as it's been, because it has been incredible.
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Speaker 1: But I tell you what, you know, who else didn't
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Speaker 1: expect it. The European soccer fans did not expect to
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Speaker 1: love America as much as they are because what they've
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Speaker 1: been told, America's full of crime. It's terrible because their
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Speaker 1: media is the same as our media, and that's really
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Speaker 1: the problem. But man, has this been cool. So let's
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Speaker 1: take a little look at some of the European fans
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Speaker 1: and their experience in the States so far and see
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Speaker 1: who we like the best. Because it's been I tell
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Speaker 1: you what, it's been heartwarming for the soul to see
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Speaker 1: their reaction to this thing, not only their behavior and
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Speaker 1: how they've acted and how they've been, but also, I
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Speaker 1: gotta tell you, as a proud American as we've accepted
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Speaker 1: them as well. Because it's been just amazing. We'll go through.
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Speaker 1: I think it's the best part now. Of course I'm
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Speaker 1: rooting for the US in the actual games, but this
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Speaker 1: whole event, Boyd's turned me around. I think it's fantastic
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Speaker 1: ext for finding me. I appreciate your wicked radio live
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Speaker 1: find it. I appreciate you so much. Let's get to
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Speaker 1: it now. Let's start with Well, the English fans' first
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Speaker 1: round games were in Tampa, right in Florida, So let's
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Speaker 1: go across the state where I am and see how
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Speaker 1: they're behaving. Of course, before the games happen, before they
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Speaker 1: get to Raymond James Stadium, they hit the bars. How
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Speaker 1: are the English acting? Solid? Impressive? Keer Starmer's a wanker.
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Speaker 1: Gotta like that? Not bad at all, not bad at all?
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Speaker 1: Like it? All right. Not only that, but you got
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Speaker 1: some English bloggers that this particular couple they go on
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Speaker 1: and they travel throughout the world, I guess, and they
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Speaker 1: do this things. I think there are a couple, and
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Speaker 1: of course because the English fans have ventured into Florida
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Speaker 1: and then Deep South and all that good stuff, everything
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Speaker 1: they ever heard about online. Right, this is their reaction,
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Speaker 1: these two when they found that's right, you know where
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Speaker 1: I'm going a BUCkies. Check this out.
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Speaker 2: Right behind me is the world's biggest gas station.
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Speaker 3: Only America can make a gas station an attraction that
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Speaker 3: everybody wants to come and see.
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure what we're going to expect in here,
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Speaker 2: but let's go see what we could find.
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Speaker 3: Guys, I wasn't expecting this.
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Speaker 2: It's like its own universe and we've already gone in
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Speaker 2: on the food.
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Speaker 3: It looks so weird. It didn't help myself and.
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Speaker 2: The guys behind the counter like they do a sing
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Speaker 2: song they even have yet.
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Speaker 3: How much do you think this is coming to.
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Speaker 1: Trucks and not only the food and the abenormity of it.
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Speaker 1: You know, even America is the first time you probably
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Speaker 1: went to a BUCkies and me too, I was like,
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Speaker 1: this is this is this is incredible. This is this
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Speaker 1: is America in action right here. But you know what
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Speaker 1: else they couldn't say a little bit deeper into the video.
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Speaker 1: They were talking about the friendliness, and this is how
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Speaker 1: it all started. So those two English bloggers are talking
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Speaker 1: about the friendly Americans. That was interesting, and then they
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Speaker 1: were talking about all the things that were available to them.
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Speaker 1: They got into it a little bit with the beef jerky,
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Speaker 1: but they said this probably is the most more food
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Speaker 1: in all of the UK. Little exaggeration, but we'll see.
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Speaker 1: So that's the first indication the English have been awesome, fantastic.
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Speaker 1: Let's check in on. Let's see. How about the Dutch.
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Speaker 1: I think they're in Houston. Maybe I don't know, but
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Speaker 1: they're pretty cool to very musical. I didn't know that
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Speaker 1: the Dutch fans from the Netherlands were so music, but
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Speaker 1: I mean, by the thousands sing Sweet Caroline. Fantastic as well.
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Speaker 1: That's been great. Good for them. I didn't really you know,
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Speaker 1: big Orange army. I guess that's their thing. No problems there.
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Speaker 1: They've been fun, They've been awesome. How about japan Ah,
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Speaker 1: this is interesting. I learned something interesting about the Japanese fans.
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Speaker 1: Did not know this. I think there first. It's hard
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Speaker 1: to keep track of all this stuff. I think their
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Speaker 1: first game was in la I think I'm not too sure,
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Speaker 1: but the Japanese fans also showed up en mass A
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Speaker 1: lot of them showing up and they have a unique culture.
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Speaker 1: I guess they do with Japanese baseball. Uh maybe their
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Speaker 1: soccer games as well. They bring their own bags to
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Speaker 1: the stadium. Why would that be because they helped clean
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Speaker 1: up the stadium afterwards. There's all kinds of videos you
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Speaker 1: can check out on your timeline of Japanese fans after
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Speaker 1: their first round game in the World Cup picking up
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Speaker 1: trash in the stadium themselves. What compare that to Knicks
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Speaker 1: fans outside of Penn Station, outside of Madison Square Garden
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Speaker 1: the other night, flipping over school buses and destroying their city.
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Speaker 1: I think it's a different think we could use more
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Speaker 1: of the Japanese culture. Yeah, I think so. Anyway, here's
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Speaker 1: one of them. Where you guys from, where's everyone from?
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Speaker 1: Of America?
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Speaker 2: Texas?
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Speaker 1: Texas is good, everything need to be. Texas is cool,
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Speaker 1: everything is big. Loved it too. They've been fun to follow,
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Speaker 1: So that's interesting. I love that culture. But nobody, and
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Speaker 1: I mean nobody at least as far as I'm concerned. Now.
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Speaker 1: My timeline is all filled with so many different New
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Speaker 1: England media sites and different things because that's where'm from.
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Speaker 1: I still have a lot of family there. Obviously, I
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Speaker 1: never ever expected this to happen. The Tartan Army Scotland
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Speaker 1: had their game at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, so the
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Speaker 1: Tartan Army showed up by the tens of thousands. Of
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Speaker 1: all not all, I'm had tickets, they just wanted to
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Speaker 1: be there for the event. They were renting out airbnbs
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Speaker 1: throughout all of eastern Massachusetts, mostly the one twenty eight corridor,
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Speaker 1: some around the stadium if they were lucky enough. They
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Speaker 1: were playing bagpipes at six o'clock in the morning. They
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Speaker 1: were a partying. It's fent pastic, massive drinkers, I guess
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Speaker 1: some of the There's apparently a Scottish bar, the Haven
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Speaker 1: or something in Boston. Never been there. They went through
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Speaker 1: something like one hundred and fifty kegs in the first
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Speaker 1: two days. Just been incredible. But this is what makes
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Speaker 1: my soul heel and my heart sore. It's been reaction
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Speaker 1: of Americans, particularly in New England and Massachusetts, welcoming them
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Speaker 1: as well. It's like a perfect fit. It's been unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we should make like New England, Western Scotland.
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Speaker 1: These people have been fantastic little piece of this. This
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Speaker 1: is before the game. This is before their first round
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Speaker 1: World Cup match. They just took over Government Center in
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Speaker 1: downtown Boston. It's not organized, they didn't have a license.
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Speaker 1: They just decided to show up in front of City
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Speaker 1: Hall and they started doing this. What I think that's
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Speaker 1: the I think at Scottish national anthem. I think I
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Speaker 1: don't know, I'm American. I think it's the Flower or
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Speaker 1: Rose of Scotland or something like this. But they're all
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Speaker 1: singing and they're all awesome, and there's been no incidents.
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Speaker 1: It's been fantastic. They're partying and having fun. And then
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Speaker 1: and then they had their game. I guess they won
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Speaker 1: Haiti or something, but whatever. And then they still wanted
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Speaker 1: a party, so they all went from Boston Common and
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Speaker 1: they marched to Fenway Park. They marched, not all of them.
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Speaker 1: They had tickets again, but they wanted to be there.
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Speaker 1: These are possibly the most fun loving people on the
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Speaker 1: face of the planet. And then what was it like
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Speaker 1: when they got to the game for those who were
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Speaker 1: inside the bleachers under the stands. I don't know whether
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Speaker 1: it's like this in other host countries. For the World Cup.
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Speaker 1: I haven't followed it that much and never been to one, obviously,
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Speaker 1: but this has taken me completely by surprise. But it
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Speaker 1: will tell you it's the Americans acceptance of these fun
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Speaker 1: loving European fans as well that's made it so awesome,
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Speaker 1: because it has been fantastic. Now look at the appreciation
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Speaker 1: that you hear, and your timeline will be flooded to
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Speaker 1: with people giving their reaction to America and how much
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Speaker 1: they love it, and they'll and they'll talk about all
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Speaker 1: the uniquely American things. Yeah, they'll look at like a
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Speaker 1: Bucky's and it's amazing and it's a spectacle and all
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Speaker 1: this other stuff. But overwhelmingly, what you're gonna see with
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Speaker 1: all these videos and these reaction videos from European fans
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Speaker 1: as they meet and encounter other Americans is how much
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Speaker 1: we're getting along. That's a little different than what we're told, right,
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Speaker 1: That's a little different than what the media is telling us.
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Speaker 1: It's certainly different than what their media over there is
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Speaker 1: telling us. Now here's an interview that even Jake Tapper
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Speaker 1: on CNN had to do with a German fan talking
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Speaker 1: about how great Americans have been and he's talking about
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Speaker 1: They mentioned here a guy named Freddie. If you haven't
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Speaker 1: followed Freddy online, here's a German soccer fan that's gone
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Speaker 1: through the Deep South. I think Germany's game was in Auburn,
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Speaker 1: Auburn University, so that's the deep deep South. So he
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Speaker 1: was experiencing all kinds of things like deep soup, barbecue,
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Speaker 1: different things throughout you know, the South and checking it
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Speaker 1: out and he's loving it. He's mostly you know, texting
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Speaker 1: all this stuff online a text version and not video,
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Speaker 1: but he's gained about a million followers saying how awesome
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Speaker 1: it is? How much? How does it pain Jake Tapper
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Speaker 1: to have to interview this other German guy who's talking
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Speaker 1: about how great America is? Here's what he asked him.
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Speaker 4: Freddy has also been going viral on AX. He posted
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Speaker 4: this photo of a custom welcome Freddie banner with the
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Speaker 4: German flag added to Louisiana's state welcome sign. What do
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Speaker 4: you make of all the viral content coming out of
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Speaker 4: this tournament and all the love for the European tourists
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Speaker 4: from the American people as you show us our country
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Speaker 4: with fresh eyes?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I know, Freddie, he's a nice guy.
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Speaker 3: He's from He's from like close to me, so I've
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Speaker 3: been talking to him. He's loving it. He's more touring
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Speaker 3: the South.
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Speaker 2: I did Chicago, And I think it's more like because
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Speaker 2: in Europe we have a lot of rather negative news
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Speaker 2: about the Americans in the last five years, let's say that,
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Speaker 2: and I think we're all enjoying like the fact that
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Speaker 2: this country is so great to visit, The people are amazing,
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Speaker 2: so welcoming, the culture is amazing.
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Speaker 3: It's not like Europeans are getting a new view of
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Speaker 3: America right now. I think through also through our content,
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Speaker 3: and that's that's cool.
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Speaker 1: I think that's it. He said it right there, and
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Speaker 1: I'll give I'll give Jake Tapper a credit for a
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Speaker 1: great line he said there, because that's the good way
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Speaker 1: to wrap it up, is like you, what's your what's
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Speaker 1: your reaction to seeing America through a new set of eyes?
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Speaker 1: And then his guest there said, we get a lot
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Speaker 1: of new negative news about America. Now, why is that?
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Speaker 1: Because it's the same media conglomerate that wants to divide
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Speaker 1: and scare everybody else. All they've heard about, all that
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Speaker 1: kid has heard about about America is crime and racism
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Speaker 1: and divide and you know, violence and all this other crap.
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Speaker 1: They get here and you start to talk to real Americans,
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Speaker 1: not the ones presented through the media. You start to
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Speaker 1: get like that Freddy the German guy, and you go
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Speaker 1: into the Deep South and you meet real people, or
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Speaker 1: like the Scottish fans and you go into New England
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Speaker 1: and meet real people. Oh, we're much more alike than
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Speaker 1: we even knew. Isn't that amazing? And that's the takeaway.
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Speaker 1: We need more of that. But then the kappa of
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Speaker 1: the entire thing was you may be asking the question,
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Speaker 1: like I did, Well, how's it gonna work? These are rivalries, right,
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Speaker 1: I mean, you got like England and Scotland, and I'm
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Speaker 1: sure they're listen, there's hundreds of thousands of them in
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Speaker 1: the country right now. There's got to be a few
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Speaker 1: random fights happening there and there. England and Scotland is
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Speaker 1: an ancient rivalry. So how's that going? How would they
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Speaker 1: get along? How about Scotland and German fans interacting? How
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Speaker 1: would that go? Well, they found each other and they
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Speaker 1: started singing together. Just one incident for sure, But how
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Speaker 1: great is this Scottish fans and German fans Okay, you've
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Speaker 1: got Scottish and English fans singing American pie. I don't
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Speaker 1: know how to do. I can't top that. That's fantastic.
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Speaker 1: That's been. That's been for me, the World Cup experience
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Speaker 1: so far, in this whole thing, and how amazing it is.
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Speaker 1: And here's the takeaway. Wouldn't it be amazing if we
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Speaker 1: had this kind of appreciation for this country all the time?
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Speaker 1: Even I, you know that, I'm a you know, flag
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Speaker 1: waven cornball, even I take what we have for granted.
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Speaker 1: They don't. They see it like Jake Tapperson for with
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Speaker 1: a fresh set of eyes, and they realize how many
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Speaker 1: amazing things happen. Wouldn't it be great if we had
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Speaker 1: more people like all of these fans, foreign fans we
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Speaker 1: just talked about, appreciating and loving our country. Wouldn't it
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Speaker 1: would be great if we had more of them instead
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Speaker 1: of the people who just bag on this country all
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Speaker 1: the time, the America hating losers. Wouldn't that be amazing
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Speaker 1: to have that? Maybe we need to keep them here,
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Speaker 1: but it's great, and let's hope this if that's what
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Speaker 1: the US, if that's what the World Cup brings us
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Speaker 1: in this tournament if that's what it is, a new
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Speaker 1: appreciation for our own country. Through their fresh set of eyes,
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Speaker 1: this thing is already like what a week in a
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Speaker 1: little over a week, a tremendous success. Now I understand
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Speaker 1: why President Trump was so excited to have this thing.
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Speaker 1: Besides the economic benefit this has been. This has been great,
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Speaker 1: and besides the fact that I'm rooting for all these
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Speaker 1: other fans of other nations, go Team USA, because apparently
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Speaker 1: I watched that first game that we had. Apparently we
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Speaker 1: have a shot in this thing, so that would be
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Speaker 1: amazing to see too. So just about perspective, use their
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Speaker 1: fresh set of eyes and realize how great we have
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Speaker 1: it in this country. I think we all need that
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Speaker 1: a little bit, all right, Actually hanging out with me,
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Speaker 1: I got to get out of here tomorrow. Who knows
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Speaker 1: what's happening, but it'll be midweek in the meantime. Thanks
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Speaker 1: for finding the Wicked Radio live Steam and then replay
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