The time has come to get ready for the 2022 World Cup.

And what better way to prepare than by revisiting the World Cup's most amazing goals?

I'm Brian Phillips. I'm making a podcast about the history of the men's World Cup,

told through the stories of 22 iconic goals.

The show's called 22 Goals.

It's out now on the Ringer Podcast Network, and we're having so much fun.

Hello, friends.

A quick note to say that we will be taking next week off for Thanksgiving and so forth,

but we will return on Wednesday, November 30th.

Have a happy Thanksgiving, if that's your thing, and we'll talk to you soon. Thanks.

As we all know, the internet was first invented specifically to amuse me with a video compilation of off-color bloopers from

the mid-80s after-school cartoon series Thundercats.

And keep your foot off that blasted Samo flange!

What the fuck is a Samo Flans?

I have to do that again.

Hilarious. There's me at 22 years old. My first job ever. My first constant exposure to the internet ever.

Autumn 2000, I'm a lowly arts writer at a humble Midwestern Altweekly.

That paper is long gone now. What's that? Kids, you don't know what an alt weekly is. Too bad. They're pretty much all long gone now. What's that? What killed all the alt weeklies? Let me ask you this. You ever buy anything off Craigslist? You have. You killed the all weeklies. Nice going. My job at this paper was to write about local bands and fart around on ebombsworld.com.

I was extremely good at half my job.

You've got to snap out of it, Lion O. Call the Thundercats before.

Shut up, you fuck.

I was extremely good at two-thirds of my job. The other part of my job, the thunder catch before? Shut up, you fuck.

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