How to watch a complicated World Cup

Channels with Peter Kafka

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4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Qatar is hosting the 2022 World Cup, casting a pall over one of the globe’s most-watched sporting events. Men With Blazers co-host Roger Bennett joins Recode’s Peter Kafka to talk through the geopolitical awareness and cognitive dissonance required to enjoy this year’s tournament. First they tackle the human rights abuses of Qatar and the perennial corruption of FIFA. Then, they get into the games — players to watch, which countries have a chance, and we learn that PETER KAFKA WAS BORN IN WALES. Cymru am byth! Featuring: Roger Bennett (@rogbennett), Co-Host of Men In Blazers Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. We are conducting a short audience survey to help plan for our future and hear from you. To participate, head to vox.com/podsurvey, and thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:29.3	This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka, and today we are here to talk about soccer, football.
1:36.6	Yeah, yeah, it's a media story. We'll tell you it is. It's underway. The men's World Cup is
1:40.9	underway. It comes around every four years. It's in Qatar. It's very exciting.
1:44.8	It's also very morally fraught because it's in Qatar. So here to talk about it out, you can hear him sighing, is not Elon Musk. It's Roger Bennett, co-host of the Most Excellent Men in Blazers podcast, proprietor of a very interesting media company as well that I'm going to make him talk about, even though he doesn't want to talk about.
2:00.5	Welcome back, Roger.
2:02.0	Oh, PTK, it's good to be here.
2:04.6	Thank you. media company as well that I'm going to make him talk about even though he doesn't want to talk about welcome back roger oh ptk it's good to be here thank you for coming on you were
2:06.0	performing live for i think over a thousand pleasant pleasantly rowdy soccer fans last night
2:14.1	on a really rainy unpleasant night and basically in the Hudson River.
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