Raj, are you drunk? Are you feeling drunk like me? What do you do after a game like this?

After an event like this?

That's a human being that is that inside. I have never felt war alive, probably, sorry.

Fleetingly alive.

Raj, your benefit is the co-founder of the Menem Blazers, Media Network, and the author

of the World Cup book out now called Gods of Soccer.

But my God, what did we just witness? What did we just witness? The irony of ironies

is a World Cup in which beer was banned.

That's right.

Only goes and produces the drunkest World Cup final of all time.

So, if you aren't among the billions of people who watch this World Cup final, you should

know right up top here that Argentina needed penalty kicks to beat France in as intoxicating

an experience as you will ever have in any sport, in any country, in any lifetime.

Which might be one reason that Qatar spent a record $220 billion to host his tournament

in the first place, because for all of their disturbing moral compromises, all of which

we have investigated on this show over multiple episodes.

It is also now time to examine the transcendence of Leo Messi and Killian Mbappe and Andres Contor

and the sport itself.

So, today we ask our friend Roger Bennett to relive the game of our lives as only he can.

And then Alex Smith returns to make us a lot smarter about the other kind of high-stakes

football that Gorboli does consume our brains.

Time Pablo Torre, it's Monday, December 19th.

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