World Cup Special edition

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Good.
Welcome back to record of my

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father.
Today, we're going to be talking

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about his experience at the
World Cup and what that was like

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for him and I think it was his
first World Cup.

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I'm pretty sure pretty, pretty
sure, pretty close to sure about

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that.
But uh, how is, how was your

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experience over there and caught
her?

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Oh, to meet it actually to be
there.

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Yeah, I I've actually seen them
before Have you been to another

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world cup?
No, I've never.

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I've been to like world soccer
game.

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In Spain.
We saw Barca.

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You were there actually.
Are you mean like a soccer game

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in the world?
And I was football.

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It's not soccer.
Stop that are right?

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Yeah, but we saw messy play.
Yeah, we didn't remember that

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campaign knew when he was still
there on the border came that

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was really, I was crazy.
But anyway, that we were asking

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if I've ever been before, no,
I've been in other countries and

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watched when the world a cup was
happening, we were in Tokyo with

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the last World Cup and we
watched Japan play.

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I forget who they played, and it
was just, it just the feel of

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the Countryman because when he
was in Serbia, I can't remember.

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I don't remember getting this is
like four years ago where they

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were talking about, didn't want
to know this is when we climbed

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Mount Fuji, but Loose could I
went there and we actually went

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to a bar when the world goes
playing in.

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Japan was playing and it was
just so cool because it really

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got me.
Sense of feel that if you really

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want to feel like country them
or whatever you want to call it

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football.
And let me say football, I mean

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the football is just the come
together.

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Anise is like nothing I've ever
seen camaraderie.

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Yeah, we feel, we feel it here
because for our sports, like,

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for football, for baseball for
for all the different things

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that basketball for measurement
system, too.

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But but all three of Those
things take a lot of money,

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skiing all that stuff takes
money, a court, a place.

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It's not an expensive to to, to
do, what I mean.

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I understand basketball, you
know who peed ball?

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Well with football.
You only need a little round

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ball that you throw into a field
kids kick it around.

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And I mean, that's why you have
a country.

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Like Uruguay that has her Guai.
Sorry has a few million people

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and they won multiple world.
Pop's because when we met, we

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met a couple urgh, why ins
there?

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And we went to a match at the
world cup with Uruguay playing

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and they play Portugal.
And I think it was I think

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Portugal be Dome one-nil.
I think that was the ultimate

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score.
I don't remember play.

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So it was to hang out with them,
was to it du listen to the

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stories and that, you know, when
you're, you know, when you're Or

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when you're not even in
elementary school, you want to

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be a football player, you want
to grow up and you want to be

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that.
Not like and I'm sure that here

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you know, meet you say well
people want to be a basketball

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player, they want to be a
football player baseball player,

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but all that it seems like
that's such a broader Choice,

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whereas in very small countries,
you know, footballs it that's it

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and every Everybody Plays and
even Even your parents have

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played at some point all the way
through every single person.

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I mean, it's kind of, like, you
think about Texas in Friday

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Night, Football everybody plays
football.

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Well, the rest of the world
football is Art what we call

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soccer.
But it's everybody, that's it.

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That's this, it's a World sport.
Football is not a World sport.

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Basketball is not a World sport,
best balls.

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Baseball's kind of a little.
Well, not really.

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It means playing a couple of
Nations Mexico, and Japan.

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Yeah.
When you start to look at the

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little Nations, the little
nations compete with football.

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That's what they do.
That's it.

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That's where that's where Brazil
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They don't play bait, they may
play baseball, they may be I

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don't think they put a not to
the degree or saying what they

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play for the MLB, that's what
they do.

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And that's when you look at this
nation, after Nation, after

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nation and we're like sort of
the odd country out then that we

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kind of like look back and go.
Oh wow.

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This is weird.
Why you're bad at it?

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Maybe I don't know very well.
I think.

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Medical exam.
It's never been a priority.

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However, this this time around,
even though we didn't Advance,

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we have a really young team and
they did really, really, really

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loose do.
Yeah, I do.

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But the trip was, the trip, was
amazing.

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I was there's a lot of
trepidation going into it.

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I mean my it's because of you
heard all the print, excuse me,

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you heard all the Pressed where
Qatar was going?

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Birra very restrictive and then
they had the no alcohol policies

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which of course didn't apply to
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Because we were on this boat MSC
/ celje where they had 12 bars

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and you could drink 24/7.
So it didn't really matter.

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Even in the waters though
because international waters are

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eight miles out.
So it's going to be interesting

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or just docked and they had bars
and no one was saying anything

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in there, wasn't a big deal and,
you know, and we didn't, he's

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really interested in the u.s.
one when they beat her on.

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We went to the England, Wales
came Right.

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Which the English were?
They were not nice.

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They were not very good.
The, the nice as in the fans are

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like good this morning.
I mean, the beginning of every

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football game.
Each side's national anthem gets

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sang.
Yeah, right.

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Like you seeing my cousin,
whatever our national anthem and

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then sent them to, you know, you
seeing Uruguay's Portugal's,

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Canada's Morocco's, whatever the
case may be, well, they sing

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England's.
And then they start singing way.

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Whales in the English.
There's so many English there.

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They drowned out the Wales
National Anthem with their

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national anthem.
Again, that's crazy.

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Now that's shitty.
That's not crazy.

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That's crazy.
I don't know.

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I've never seen it.
And the funny thing is we had

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people next to us to turn and
look to us and say, man, can you

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imagine if they had alcohol?
That would have been bad.

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Yeah, really bad.
But they crushed and they

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crushed Wells.
They you know, and Wales is sort

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of not not not a top-notch team
anyway but they it was it was

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really neat to see it and to get
the feel But also to see like

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the stadium was probably 70 80 %
filled with English and the

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whales were they were all in
read the English were white, I

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think, white and blue.
So it was very obvious and you

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can see the little pockets of
red and then a little pocket.

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The red.
Never stood up.

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Never scream, never yell because
nothing ever.

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I mean, they really didn't.
They were just, they were taken

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to the Woodshed the whole time.
It was so sad.

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Yeah it was it was it was a
pretty sad match, you know

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unlike many of the others like
Spain.

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And Germany was probably, I
would say the best game we

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watched back and forth very,
very tough Germany's.

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Like I had team though,
Germany's really good, they're

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really good with the rolled.
They've won like three formed

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out really well.
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So what's the the ultimate game
coming up here?

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Let's I think you'll admit
coming up is isn't Argentina,

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and Croatia in Croatia was
never.

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Back to go this far.
That's the next one.

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That's crazy.
I didn't even know Croatia.

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Was that good?
It's to be determined from a

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little lot of them.
A lot of them have come a long,

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you know, when you start to look
at these, like Japan has a

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younger team.
Yeah, the US has a younger team.

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Yeah, Morocco did amazing.
Has done amazing.

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Were they knocked out?
Weren't they walked out the

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other day?
So right now we're looking at

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semi-finals or France Morocco.
Yeah, Argentina in Croatia is

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most of the for you.
Yeah.

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So of those, you they will each
play each other.

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Yeah.
And then the two losers will

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play for third place.
Yeah, which is kind of

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interesting that they would have
the two losers play for third

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place.
And then the two winners will

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play for first and second.
So it's kind of like a very,

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very I mean the the feeling I
think you really have to couch

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it like, when we were going to
Qatar, Qatar really can't

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pronounce very well.
Can't pronounce it on two

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things.
Well, it caught our, I mean,

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they always say they're caught
are they said, Cotter, they say

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Kotter, but it's cut our and
it's ours.

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Kind of more the closest you're
not emphasized.

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Anyway, What were the the
stadiums?

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Like, there's five.
Yeah.

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Well, no, there were seven
total.

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I believe that's correct.
I went to five.

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I went to al-bayt lusail.
I'm in Ben.

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Ali Stadium Alpha mama and
Khalifa International.

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I went to those and they put
these together, I think winter,

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they get it in 2012, so they put
them together in a decade when

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you see these.
It's, I mean, they have cloth.

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Wrapped around one of them on
the outside and they're just,

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what color, really gorgeous.
The first one we went to had

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60,000 people in it.
The second one had, 88,000

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people in it.
I mean they were filled to

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capacity, the crowds were
incredible but but but before we

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get into it too deep, what I
want to talk about and I thought

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was more sort of the play, was
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Before we went there we've been
wanting.

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I want to go to World Cup for a
long time and I kind of book

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this a year ago and I never even
thought about the whole wow they

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suck at Human Rights their
shitty to the workers.

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They do all it never even
crossed my but as it got after

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we purchased the tickets did all
the stuff.

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It was a whole lot of what he
call at issues that we had to

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jump through to get there and
and like What?

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Well, you know that we the
booking of the trip was you know

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the wasn't nightmare, right?
Yeah.

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We had a lot of name changes in
a lot of issues with the tickets

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and that issue with the burst.
And then they matched me with, I

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went with a cup another couple
and they had me staying in a

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cabin with his wife and him
stand in my cabin, my wife,

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which, you know, I mean, hey, I
didn't care.

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But that that wasn't gonna fly.
And also like planes, there was

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all sorts of Wiggly stuff that
it was the name thing.

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That was the biggest issue.
I remember the, what the name

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is.
Oh, yeah.

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The name thing name, still has
like four months to resolve.

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That was, there was a lot, a lot
of picky stuff there, but then,

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as we got closer and closer,
then you start to see all this

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press that, there are oppressing
people, they're horrible, and

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it's like, well, they've been
doing that forever, you know?

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And if we really want to go into
depression, you can sort of

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start to look at the different
countries and how they differ

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oppress different people.
And, you know, is there a

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Western Media.
Yeah, it's tonight.

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Well, I mean, they're ones that
have looser rules when it comes

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to control over women and it'd
be like, it became very, it was

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very clear that that that they
treat women very differently and

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that you need to dress
appropriately, to respect the

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culture, respect the rules, and
we can argue that.

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It's not really culture.
It's basically just Sort of

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religious entrapment, almost
interpretation interpretation.

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Right?
So it's not really even it's, it

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doesn't say that you have to
have your head covered.

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It doesn't say that in its
interpreted, right?

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Exactly.
It's an interpretation and, you

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know, we can argue and well, no,
we don't need to argue because

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there's no one here to argue.
No, no.

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There's no argument at all.
Yeah.

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And I didn't care and and but we
went there with the idea that as

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is, we started getting closer
and closer people started

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saying, oh, and then they change
the beer.

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Right.
Three days before that you're

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not going to have alcohol and I
didn't care.

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And Budweiser ended up saying
we're going to give all the beer

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that we were going to send the
World Cup to the winning

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country.
Did you see them?

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It's crazy.
Yeah, but I mean they still had

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all the fifo places, they hold
these file FIFA, I like five

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know, I like finding a better
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They had all these different
play event areas that you could

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go to where they had
representations from all the

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different countries and they
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But Very slowly.
We're at, like, in the boats and

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where, we know, but throughout
the city, they had multiple

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drills places, venues where they
had and also, they just had

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venue set up all over like a
park, they'd have a, you know, a

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60-foot by 25-foot screen where
you could just stop and you see

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a huge group of people watching
the game and when I say huge

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group I'm saying 1,000 you know
it wasn't it wasn't like 10 and

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also they just set out chairs.
This was all over the city and

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it was just like large,
speakeasies what came out will,

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but there was no beer there.
There was no, no.

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You just said there was.
There was in the actual.

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I mean, they have certain, Like,
official places where they had

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it all caged off and you had to
go in with an ID.

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And yeah, and they are, they had
the vendors at serve beer and it

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was so they actually had that
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Yeah.
And it was restrictive and stuff

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like that.
No, it was no alcohol in

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stadiums in the state.
I thought it was you could only

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buy fake beer in the stadium.
So that was, that was the big

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deal.
Your Heineken 00.

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Yeah.
But we didn't drink in the

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Stadium's.
Anyway, we probably would have

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been nice to have a beer in the
stadium, but you know, who wants

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to wait in the wines anyway and
I wasn't there to drink beer.

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I was there to actually see the
games and now, and it was just,

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they were so exciting.
The stadiums were so cool.

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The, the expectation that they
would come down on you for how

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you dressed with your shoulders
showing or you didn't have your

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head cover.
None of that.

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It happened.
We went through the middle of,

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there's a place called the
Cornish, we went there, which is

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like abs are area where there's
tons and tons of shops there.

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There were, there were hundreds,
maybe thousands of Caucasian

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individuals and Asian
individuals that and I would say

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Far Eastern, not like Middle
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headdress didn't have their arms
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Didn't, I mean, they they
dressed in any of the people you

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were.
With really wear burqas are no,

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not really.
Okay.

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No I Jeeps none.
Well it's like under that police

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that many people like I do.
That's what that's what my buddy

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said, Jim said.
He said he said there's 2.3 2.8

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million people in this country
and there's probably two million

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people going to show up.
It's just the numbers, don't

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make seven possible way and I'm
like, well I you know me I've

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got the biggest mouth of anybody
in a room.

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So I'm the one going to jail.
That's he's like damn yeah,

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that's why I know I'm not.
But anyway, you know and you

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look at that but I thought it
would be much more restrictive.

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I thought they would be a lot
more, but they were not.

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They were incredibly nice and we
went to show after show I mean

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event her match after match.
I remember I got in through the

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quickie line because there's
like, they call it the, what is

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it in fast fast like Disney
World?

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It was kind of like that, but it
was for people that were what do

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you call?
Elites or something like that?

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Yeah, they had the quickie pass
or whatever it was and it was,

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and it was like you had to go
through this long snaky line and

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then you had a straight shot
through.

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And I just walked by and the guy
looks at me and goes, oh, and he

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points and goes and I said, hey,
is this, can I get in here?

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And he goes oh sure.
And I thought like the first

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time I went through that they're
being it was nice and I said and

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I was pushing the wife and
everybody else.

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Like you got to ask you don't
ask you get nothing.

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Yeah you know they like let We
go through and they all smiled.

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And I said, hi, and I shook
hands with everybody.

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And was just, you know, we were
really gregarious Lee happy with

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everyone and and this happened
three different times second

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time.
They didn't.

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Let me go through.
They said go get in line tubby,

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you know, they didn't see tubby
because if the managers looking.

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Yeah.
But this is the third time he

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did.
And then the guy said it and

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this is when it was funny and he
looks over it like Jim and he

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goes it's because he's old.
Whoa, and I was like, holy shit.

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I got in because I have gray
hair.

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There was like this, they had no
one waiting.

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They saw me walking with my
silver hair and said old guy, he

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shouldn't wait in line and they
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Wow, and that's why they were
do.

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I didn't?
I thought it was because like,

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well, I tricked, I was
aggressive and being all this

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and going to ask and I was
always nice.

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Anyway but it wasn't.
It was because I was gray.

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Yeah, I was like wow.
You're approaching 85 or

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something?
Yeah, one way or the other get

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in there, get in there.
Why?

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That's crazy though?
Yeah, it's funny, well, it's

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sort of a lot of countries
though, which shows you, they

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treat people that have aged with
respect, no matter where you're

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from.
So you look at Japan that to?

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Yeah, man is the same way.
Yeah, well, we saw the Japan,

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Jack Japan.
Game.

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We saw that we saw Japan who was
a Japan Spain play.

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Oh, that was an amazing game.
Well, there was a questionable

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call.
We're Japan 121 was like the

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lion, right?
Yeah, it looks vaguely looked

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out for me, but I didn't call it
and a piece of the ball was in

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and that's the way they measure.
It's not like all of its out,

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all that has to be in.
It's a little different and

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football than it is in our
football or our soccer.

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Yeah, anyway, we were there with
a couple that we met.

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And they were, they were wearing
Japanese shirts.

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They had, you know, they were
Japan and then I was like, oh,

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so you're from Japan.
They're looking at me go.

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No, no, we're we just support
Japan.

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Were from Singapore.
And yeah.

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And then we talked to them for a
while and they were like I mean

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I actually we exchanged photos
and all this kind of stuff.

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I've met a lot of people from a
lot of different places.

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Did you get a contact info for
the future of it?

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And they actually and they said
and I goaded him into saying

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they should come to the games
and all this the The in the US

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and that we would we be nice to
them to.

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But they are the ones that
showed us how we went from one

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game to the next.
We went, we were Canada,

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Morocco.
And we were there and they told

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us that there was a bus between
that stayed even the other

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Stadium because that was like
Alpha Mama Altima its Alpha

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mama, I think and to Khalifa
International Stadium, there was

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a bus between the two.
The worst thing there was

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traffic traffic because so many
rows were shut down.

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The road, probably are the, the
town, or the city really.

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Wasn't ready.
The country note was already.

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This the thing is they were
ready for the way that they

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directed traffic was they shut
down a lot of roads out of make

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it and they push traffic in
certain ways and then if they're

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became a line on an off ramp,
they closed it.

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Why would they close it?
They closed it.

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And told you to go to the next
off-ramp to turn around and

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sure.
And that that one got too busy.

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They closed it.
And told you to go to the toilet

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where the the so it never got
busy.

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So then, They would open up the
first one again at 0.

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And so, it was very much like,
it wouldn't run out into traffic

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and stop the Mage, the whole
road, because if everybody had

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to get off at the first exit,
yeah, like it happens around

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here on 495 people.
First they first they stop.

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And they back up that one exit,
they back up the first the slow

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lane, because they're all
cutting over.

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And then the people back up the
lane next to the slow lane

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because they're trying to cut in
front of the people and slowly

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and you get off and then they
end in slowly backs up all the

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They wouldn't let that happen.
Very very quickly.

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You know, it was really really
well run that's fantastic.

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Lot of security was it just like
big highways like 495 or was it

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more like like roads like town
roads?

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Or I say not it more like 395
more like two or three roads.

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Not we were always on three Road
or to road going to and from the

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stadium Stadium.
It was a six-lane highways weíre

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talking about.
Yeah.

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Okay, the stereo stadiums were
there were two.

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There were four and six Lane.
None were just too.

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So kind of like an Autobahn her,
right?

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And you were, we were probably
anywhere from the closest

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stadium was 40 minutes away.
Before others was about, 60

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minutes away.
Sorry, that you are so.

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So we were on a boat on the, I
guess the Persian Gulf and the

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we went to Five different games.
They were, you know, they were

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scattered around.
I was shocked by how, how far

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away they were.
And, and the thing that was so

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amazing was the look of each
stadium was just wow.

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And people talked about I'm not
being done and I didn't see that

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I didn't see that in any of the
stadiums.

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Everybody without exception was
well I mean besides the English

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being crappy to the whales but
that may just be that's the

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sport.
Certain amount people were just

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that civilian Philadelphia
Philly, anywhere.

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People were really good to each
other.

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That's what I was a really
interesting thing, no matter who

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they were, no matter what they
were, we went to museums

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afterward and people were really
nice to us. and we went to just

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simple things, you go to get a
table when someone else is going

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for the same table and they turn
and tell you to take the table,

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And then you're like, no, no you
were here first and then they

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just go.
No.

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And then they walk away.
You like.

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Okay you I can't say no.
Again.

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And then he went around and I
think he was, he was from

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Cotter, he was a local I because
he was dressed in the full.

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I go to the garbage.
Yeah.

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The big, the white from, you
know, floor to ceiling with the

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headscarf the whole thing.
But we visit a lot of places

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after we went to the Museum of
Islamic Art, we went to the

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copter National Museum, which I
would say that I've been to

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Museums all over the world, a
lot of beautiful museums and

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this one has to be definitely in
the top 10, really?

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It was like, I was, I was
shocked, by the way, that it

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sort of brings you in, it was
civilization first started.

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I realized.
It was just literally, they

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talked about, they had one on
Mongolian the Mongols because is

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about, because here we have our
own history and his Middle

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Eastern.
Right?

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Yeah.
But it was not necessarily me.

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Police turn.
It was about all the peoples,

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there were all related or going
to York.

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So they had the Ottoman Empire.
They had all sorts of different

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things and you saw it and as you
and it's sort of a was very,

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very it walked you through the
museum, medium one section at a

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time and it was just very neat.
It was just like nothing I'd

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ever seen well, and I just
thought, wow.

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This just the, did you see the
new water park being built?

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No, I didn't see that.
Have you?

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In the new water park being
built.

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Now, maybe that'll be the
thumbnail for this, but it is

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like nine slides together, like
swooping throughout each other.

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It's kind of like the one in
China that they built five years

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ago, big.
Oh, my water park data, and

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there is a slide in China, that
is a gyroscope and constantly

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moving and when you go through
it, this slide shift a shift in.

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Oh my gosh.
So like when you're going

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through, The shift into the
other tube.

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Wow, that's crazy.
Yeah.

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Well I mean, I look at this and
I went into this and I was

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worried and I started getting
more and more worried and then I

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came out like after the Iran,
u.s., when I expected some

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turbulence there, nothing we
were on the boat and the place

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went crazy.
We were up till 4:00 in the

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morning, morning celebrating the
group eyes with stayed up.

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Until the following morning,
partying, and took sunset rise

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with beers and all that kind of
stuff like that.

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So, that was crazy.
But I mean, Iran was, they were

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wonderful.
I mean, they they protested

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their countries restrictions on
women, just like we would

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portray, you know, protest
things that happen in our

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country.
So it was just like very it was

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very neat to see this and
understand this.

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I didn't I wasn't at that.
That match.

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But I was at the party
afterward.

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The after party is amazing.
This is amazing.

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Did your your cohort go?
No, no, no, no.

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We met people from upstairs at
the top on the top of the boat

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from Kentucky, from Chicago from
Idaho.

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A lot of different people from
all over the US that went to

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that game Idaho.
Yeah and I was just like really

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what the hell you doing here?
And it's like, it's the World

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Cup.
And I mean And then you start to

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see it, it's kind of your
senses.

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Well yeah.
And I mean I think that overall

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when I when I look at this, this
experience we traveled in, we

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stopped the de Barcelona on the
way and out and we ended up

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going through Frankford which is
what a pain in the ass but

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that's another story.
But that's what travels all

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about.
Coming back.

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We stayed in Barcelona.
We were near the So I can't

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remember.
It's the museum that kind of

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looks like Salvador Dali, but
MacBook, there's a The Argosy

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one of the Gracia August,
Sophia.

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I guess if you know, right now
that's on the different gun for.

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No, no your, you know.
But anyway, we I mean, or is

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that I have to say wisdom, if I
was, if I look at this to go to

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cut our again, I missed things I
missed.

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I didn't go into the desert and
do do the desert and camel.

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Ride and watch the sunset and
sunrise.

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And the desert?
No water, slide together.

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Like, I would do that.
The water slide is something

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that yeah.
Okay, we could do that.

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But for me, I didn't see much of
the countryside other than the

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driving to, and from the
different stadiums and stuff

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like that, we went to the place.
That was the Pearl, which is

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like this really for a food
tour, that was a really cool.

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It's really Ultra crazy
over-the-top but very, very

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neat.
And So I mean in the end I got

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to say that it was a wonderful
experience and if they do the

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Olympics there, I'd be very
interested in going back and I

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have to say the World Cup was a
great thing.

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So on that note I'm going to say
good night Jack and I'm going to

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have to say goodnight mr.
Phil it was a great time.

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Cheers.
Bye.