On the Ground in Qatar for the Most Controversial World Cup Ever

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🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The World Cup, the biggest sporting event on the planet, begins this Sunday. While every World Cup is extreme in its own way, nothing compares to what’s going on in Qatar right now. There is the migrant worker crisis (which this podcast reported on two weeks ago). There’s the fact that Qatar is the smallest country to ever host the World Cup. And there are concerns about the rights of the LGBTQ community in Qatar and the possibility of protests in a country that historically has been very tightly controlled. Sam Borden has been covering all of the issues surrounding Qatar’s bid for years, and reports from on the ground in Doha about the most controversial World Cup ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sam Borden, where are you right now?
0:03.6	Well, Pablo, I am in an apartment in the Moussia Reb neighborhood in Doha, Qatar, which
0:11.4	is in the southern part of the city.
0:13.2	I've been here for a couple of days and I'm here for the next month or so because this
0:18.0	is where the World Cup is, man.
0:20.2	12 years in the making and it's finally happening.
0:22.6	Yeah.
0:23.6	Sam, I remember when we were in Brazil, I grew a disgusting beard.
0:27.2	I had laundry issues.
0:29.4	Yeah.
0:30.4	We were there for a long ass time like five weeks.
0:32.2	This will only be around 29 days, I believe, because of the weird schedule.
0:36.6	But how are you feeling as you're at the very beginning of this journey?
0:41.1	I'm feeling okay.
0:42.1	I mean, one of the things that's weird about this World Cup is that, you know, it's in
0:45.9	a place that's the size of Connecticut.
0:47.4	So there's no airplanes, you know.
0:50.3	All we're doing is driving from one end of the city to the other, right?
0:53.8	I mean, it's a lot of vans.
0:55.0	That's right.
0:56.0	That's kind of nice to be able to unpack in one place and just stay there.
0:58.7	But it's bizarre.
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