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What have we just witnessed? What have we just shared? I am blown away after twitching through.

Lionel Messi's glory, the irony, a world cup in which beer was banned produces the single drunkest world cup final of all time.

It was not even close a game in which Andreas Cantor's lungs ran six ultra-marathons and somehow lived through the penalty shootout in which every single emotion known to man was lived in the space between Ray Hudson's apartment and Ronaldo's mansion.

What those two men emotionally must have lived in the ups and downs of this spectacle. Normally, I try and compose myself before we amp together.

Normally, I try and think through what I'm going to say, but I'm coming on with raw emotion today because I want to commune with you. I want to share in this moment. I want to take your questions. I want to hear what you're thinking because we've just experienced something truly transcendent, something so powerful, something so potent.

Then it even preempted the NFL on Fox and you just know how much Fox hated every second of that. But listen, millions of Americans unwittingly had to watch the spectacle to share in the human drama of two teams reaching for the clouds, grasping them and then plummeting, falling to earth like Icarus, their wax wings melting.

Oh, too human scream. I mean, there was more crown placing in this game than in the entire every single bloody season of Game of Thrones and I mean, first off, Lionel Messi, Lionel Messi.

What emotions must he be experiencing some a born great some achieve greatness some have greatness thrust upon them and others are named Lionel and dress Messi and God we got to see today just in his fifth world cup.

Finally, a heroes journey, this was this was the weight and the burden rolling off his shoulders. This is a man with the world watching with the world watching for filling his destiny. This was as close as will ever come to with our own eyes, seeing ODCS at the end of the Odyssey.

And reaching the end of his heroes journey prosperity is restored to if the car ODCS is home at last today we saw that and it was it was Messianic.

It was Messianic to see a man not Maradona eyes, but being himself.

And truly, this doesn't diminish Maradona the two honestly Diego Maradona Lionel Messi. It's so beautiful to say both of their names now in the second that both men are World Cup winners.

Just the duality of transcendent emotions brilliant book ends both independent.

I'm going to move utterly glorious and I want to try and talk about the game a little bit in a fractured way because I'm be candid I can't compute what we've just seen. There's no way of mere words capturing what we have just shared together.

I was watching extra time penalties are found excruciating truly truly I'm not Argentinian I don't support the other says this I don't I've no Argentinian family I love Malbec truly madly deeply yes care for deep great stakes.

I adore the football culture but I'm not Argentinian but I could not watch that. But into that extra time name a movie name a movie that you have just watched name a song you have listened to name a piece of human creation that moved you in the way the narrative the drama the human experience these are human beings.

Elite football players yes but these are human beings performing trying to think trying to breathe trying to run under the pressure of a crucible just that would smell less a human beings that trying to make the decision when that ball comes to their feet do I pass do I run by or do I shoot those are the three choices any man or woman has when the ball comes to their feet and we watch them live that out hammer and tongues.

Just audaciously courageously both teams credit the French here incredible human character name a song name a name a movie that you have seen I mean I'd say a piece of theatre but as I said on the twitch I bloody hate going the theatre.

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