From The Network: Next in Foreign Policy - Sports Washing, The World Cup, and Ben Valdez-Hempel

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 1 January 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The World Cup may be over but the questions about the politics of FIFA and soccer remain. Zoe and Grant talk with Ben Valdez-Hempel of District Sports and Manchester City about the beautiful game and the people and policies that are making it so ugly. For our final segment Zoe talks about George Santos lying about his resume, Ben goes down the rabbit hole on Scientology, and Grant recommends Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio. If you are under 40 and interested in being featured on the podcast, be sure to fill out this form. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Grant Haver.
0:02.6	I'm Zoe Weinberg.
0:04.8	And this is next in foreign policy, the podcast where the next generation of national security
0:09.4	and foreign policy leaders talk about the issues of today and tomorrow.
0:14.0	This week we're joined by Ben Valdez-Himple.
0:17.7	Ben studied political science and undergrad, but has since made the switch to working in
0:22.2	soccer.
0:23.2	He has spent the past year and a half running communications for Manchester City, U.S.
0:28.3	locally for district sports.
0:30.4	Ben, thanks for joining us.
0:32.4	Thank you so much, Grant, for having me on today.
0:34.2	I'm very excited to be here.
0:36.3	Like I said in your intro, you studied foreign policy and undergrad.
0:39.6	What made you interested in foreign policy to start?
0:42.6	How did you then make the move to sports?
0:44.7	Yeah, so I got interested in the foreign policy back when I was a teenager.
0:50.3	We hosted an exchange student from Lebanon, who lived with me here in my house, and just
0:56.1	threw conversations with him and learning about Lebanon and learning about the Middle
1:00.4	East.
1:01.4	That made me extremely interested in foreign policy and America's foreign policy abroad.
1:06.4	So then I studied foreign policy in college and then moved to DC and worked in DC in international
1:15.6	development for a few years, realized that I wasn't really seeing the difference because
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