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Badlands is a true crime podcast about the famous at their most infamous.

This season we dive deep into some of the most notorious and controversial all-stars,

featuring the insane true stories of Ray Lewis, Michael Vick, Paul Gascoin, Andre Céscovar, and many more.

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Oh, it's Roach and World Cup 2022 is upon us.

It wasn't exactly like the Shalabalaba moment in South Africa was it, but soccer's coming home.

And you join us on this day.

The first World Cup game of 2022 has just been played 1,590 days after the very last one,

which has you watch with Megan Rapinoe.

The final Croatia France, it's upon us once again in all the colours of its light and its darkness,

no bear, too much geopolitics, and football almost, almost as a side show.

But here we are 12 years after the surreal awarding of the World Cup,

two guitar, $260 billion splurged on eight stayed here later with thousands of unexplained deaths

along the way, which the FIFA president has told us to shut up and forget about.

And he survived being a ginger and having freckles, so do without what you may.

Though to be honest, I did think football was life.

This World Cup feels like the opposite of that.

It really does. I don't know about you, but I normally, I mean, always wake up on World Cup opening day

with the giddiness, kind of goodness we've all had.

When you were a kid and you saw snowfall for the first time, you just exhilarated.

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