Good morning, Sweet World! It's Thursday, August 24th, 2023. I'm J.E. Skeets, and this

is a quick, sicko edition of the NoDunk podcast on the Athletic Network. Shout out to everyone

joining me live here on YouTube, smash the likes, subscribe away. Why am I here? Because I was

at the car dealership this morning doing a classic service, a little tune up, you know, change

that oil, check my tires, and I'm sitting there, because I always hope it's going to take

20 minutes, but of course it takes two hours. And I'm like, oh man, we got the feeble

world cup start tomorrow. Man, I'm pumped for this. Man, I should do a little preview podcast.

So why not? That's why we're here a little later than normal on a Thursday. We got the

2023 feeble world cup tipping on Friday. Tomorrow morning, very early, 32 teams playing in

the Philippines, Indonesia, and Japan. So why not do a little preview? You know what, this

is for me, not even for you, the viewers or listeners. We got the defending champs. We

got Spain, their favorite, Australia, deep team. They looked pretty damn good in a recent

international tournaments. France always a tough out. And then team USA looking to reclaim

a gold after a very disappointing seven place finish in 2019. But I wanted to go through

like sort of the basics when it comes to the world cup. Because honestly, I'm not sure

how many people really know how this all goes down. So it's a one man show. I'm skeets

and JD here today. So bear with me as we try and do this here in the yard. But I've got

like a bunch of basic questions. Like I said, about the feeble world cup will go quickly

through each group. And so sort of talk through who the favorites are. And I'll make some

dumb predictions at the end. But the first cue that some people want to know is like, what's

the format? What's the schedule for this damn thing? It's very simple. Tournament is played

in three phases. They love to call them phases. We got the group phase first round. We got

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