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THE COOLIGANS - Drama-Filled Day 1 of the World Cup w/ Clint Smith

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.98.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The World Cup has kicked off in Qatar and it wasn’t without controversy! From uncomfortable press conferences to a cringy opening ceremony, we break it all down throughout the entire tournament! We’re also joined by NYT Bestselling author Clint Smith to discuss why this World Cup is so problematic, and we discuss his book, “How The Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With The History of Slavery Across America.” Follow us everywhere @soccercooligans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello Ho Ho! Here's an important message from Network Rail for anyone who's travelling by train

0:05.9

this Christmas and New Year. We'll be working over the festive period to make improvements to the

0:11.4

railway. Most of the network remains open, but some train services will be affected from Sunday

0:18.0

25 December until Monday 2 January. So, to keep your festive plans on track, please check before

0:25.9

you travel at nationalrail.co.uk slash Christmas. It's the cool again stupid. The world's cup is upon us!

0:39.2

It has arrived. We've already experienced it. Now we've got to move through the awkwardness of

0:50.0

this world cup. And the awkwardness started right away, baby. There is no opening ceremony that's

0:59.0

never not awkward, right? If it's not cringe, did he really do an opening ceremony?

1:05.4

Right. It's got to be like, let's just get all the local dancing schools together as much fabric

1:10.9

and fireworks as possible and see what happens. And that's kind of what this was. This was one of

1:15.9

those, another one of those things where I'm like, there's a lot of interpretive dance happening here.

1:19.2

And I'm not really sure how to interpret it. Okay. Something's lost in translation.

1:26.2

What is good, everybody? Welcome to the Cool Against World Cup. Daily, if you are new here,

1:34.2

it is the Cool Against buddy. We are here. We are part of the Levittard and Friends Network. We are

1:40.6

going to be with you throughout the entire World Cup. And this episode is brought to you by AutoZone.

1:46.2

Get in the zone, AutoZone. My name is Christian Polanco. I'm Alexis Guerrero's.

1:53.7

And Alexis, normally we are both in the same room. Yeah, that's why we ran through the studio.

1:59.5

It's that we both be there. But the whole thing in preparation for this exact moment. And Alexis is

2:06.4

not in the room right now. I'm not really, I'm not really, you know, buying into the whole idea

2:11.6

of us being in the same room, even though it was my idea. No, I came up a little over a week

2:18.6

ago. And I was like, I'm fine. I'm sure it's nothing. And it turns out I was not fine. And it was

2:24.1

something. Yes. You got, you got hit with the, with the Rona. Yo, bro. And I was like, damn,

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