This is Roj. Just before we took the stage tonight in Los Angeles, the truly unfathomable,

unbearable awful news broke that Grant War passed away at the World Cup. Grant War

was really a past finding journalist. In my knowledge, he was the first human being

in our nation's history to become a full-time soccer journalist, Badge of Honor, which

he truly carried to his full. A past finder who knew that so many would follow the

road he built. And our hearts, as we say in the show, and our minds and our love go

out to his wife and his family and all those who loved him and knew him and worked with him

in this moment, and we dedicate tonight's show to Grant. Here it is.

You're listening to the Men in Blazers media network suboptimal radium. Okay, live from

the Novo in downtown LA. It's the Men in Blazers. This comes for you World Cup Tour.

What day of days soccer is a hell of a drug? And Los Angeles am yours. You city of wonder.

What joy it is to be here with you tonight. In the words of one of the all-time great

Angelinos, we've hopped off the plane at LAX with a dreamer my card again. You love

a good cardie, Rodge, and we are not alone. We are live right now on Twitch, where thousands

are potentially tens of thousands of GFOPs around the world are watching. And what a night

of nights to join us following a day of football that was essentially like shaking up a cano

choke and then ripping off the tab, having dropped in a few Mentos and America. I know you

love penalty shootouts. And I think even Dana fucking white loves penalty shootouts. And

if you're one of those human beings, today was for you.

On Telemundo, Rodge, it's all been penalty shootouts. I haven't got anything else in this

whole World Cup. Okay, we're going to break all of today's action down. We're going to

look ahead to the rest of these epic quarter final matchups, including tomorrow's seismic

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