It's Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022, from Peach Fish Productions.

It's the GIST-Dime Mike Paschic Did you see?

The Saudi upset of the Argentines, those plucky upstarts, those lovable underdogs, those

chopper uppers of journalists, the Saudis!

I actually did get an involuntary thrill when I saw the third best team in the world, according

to FIFA rankings.

To come by a score of 2-1 to the 51st best team, Saudi Arabia, they're the second worst

team at the world cup, and that goal that go ahead, goal beautiful!

Stop taking goal!

That from Fox's broadcast, but that momentary feeling that thrill that a drenalized rush

of sports, surprise, triumph, upset, it is exactly why we let Qatar get the games, well

that in the bribes.

The glory of the game is always going to overwhelm any inklings of discontent.

On this week's not even mad, in fact, we have a whole world cup segment in which I take

the general stance that, well, this is the business that we've chosen.

What is the use of being mad at Qatar?

When we go there, we send our teams there, we buy our beer there, and little Budweiser

leper colonies, we wear our rainbow flags to protest, and then those rainbow flags get

us banned from Stadia, but then we get apologized to if our complaint goes viral.

There are a hundred nations in the world more free than Qatar, according to the democracy

index of the economist and freedom house, there are 150 more free and fair than Saudi Arabia,

but that's the only country hosting the world cup, and the other ones, the country that

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