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USA. We knew this was going to happen, didn't we? I think. So the United States of America will be going into group B with England.

Holy crap! Holy! Oh my god, can you get the tea ready? Oh my god, USA. USA. USA. What? Just?

Happened? What just happened? We will break this down together. This astonishing so many levels. Remarkable.

Sickening the first part. An entirely predictable draw. Well, I guess almost entirely predictable. We didn't get garner, but bloody hell.

Bloody hell. I mean, let's unpack it together in the only way we know how. Bang your questions into the comments. I will bring you up to the stage because I wonder how you're feeling.

What you're thinking with this cognitive dissonance, this first exposure to a. World Cup that is going to be held in Qatar, a World Cup in a city state.

We knew it was going to Qatar. We couldn't believe it when the draw was made in 2010, but journalists have been wondering around Qatar for the last 48 hours and it's like it's just hit them. Holy crap. Yes, they are going to try and stuff a World Cup into an area population wise around the size of Chicago.

I think it's smaller than bloody Connecticut, 100 miles from North to South, the Qatar peninsula. We are going to jam all of this craziness, this chaos, this wonder, this horror. Let's be honest, there's going to be a lot of horror into a tiny, tiny sausage.

We're going to talk about the United States and yes, the drawer against England and the drawer against Iran and the drawer against player to be named later, but we've got to start as you guys are putting your comments in and we're bringing you up to to stage.

We're going to start by talking about what, what did we witness in that first 45 minutes, the opening monologues in a land where arid deserts and the Persian Gulf connect the rulers of soccer royalty will raid.

God bless Rob Stowe, he's in a tough position, tough position. I mean, Fox clearly decided to either focus on the football or just to get Alexi into a sand dune buggy. I mean, he used to phrase early on, it's going to be the most compact world cup of all time and in that moment we realized this is going to be the world cup of profoundly awkward broadcasting you for misms and God, I will say.

The Alexi going June bashing, which finished with if you don't come to guitar, you're missing out. It's like we have learned nothing from Russia 2018 where we watch FIFA and in Fantino, the FIFA president, cozy up hug kiss at one point, race champagne glasses with Vladimir bloody peuted.

So this is going to be I want to be clear about this before we talk about you know, it's going to be a world cup of cognitive dissonance, the rational horror of FIFA's corruption and the darkness that led to guitar being handed the world cup in the first place and the lives that have been lost.

I know this is not what we want to talk about right now, we want to talk about you say you say want to talk about England want to come around, but we need to bloody notes the lives that have been lost to build all of this for our entertainment, you know, this is going to be the world cup of fusing out with the emotional reality because I did feel that once the draw started and I'm sure you did too.

You know, the world cup has been compared to in the clips that sweeps the entire globe at the same moment and we are 234 days away Monday November the 21st for the week ahead of Thanksgiving, that's when it kicks off and I felt that too.

So by side with the horror of the ghastly just just just the darkness I felt the light, the light we're going to make more bloody memories together.

And I'm horrified and I can't wait the good news is in this draw the US were in it this time I did love Clinton Yates tweeting a savage reminder of 2018, which you said was the day the world cup draw that 23 and me broke the roots for your root campaign.

So many Americans wanted to know who they should support by the DNA we had Canada we had Mexico first and second in ConquerCath in the draw God bless so many messages from furious Canadians saying why are we in pot 4 we top the qualifying group and I just want to say this to all of our listeners north of the border you are

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