Welcome back to the Dirt Show. I just finished watching the United States soccer team.

They call it football there. Beat the Iranian team one to nothing. For most Americans,

you know, soccer is just another sport. It's something like basketball, something like

baseball, something like football. Fewer people like soccer, increasingly young kids are playing.

Soccer, it's developing into a major sport, but certainly not Italy with football, basketball,

and baseball. But around the rest of the world, soccer is life or death. It's a blood sport.

It affects the dignity of countries. Officials have been attacked. Players have been attacked.

Dets have resulted. When you watch the faces of some of these fans and the players,

you sense an amazing difference between how soccer is perceived in the United States and

how soccer is perceived elsewhere. You know, it's so important to some countries that reports

recently said that both Qatar and Iran hired actors to come sit in the stands, pretend they

were from those countries, and you know, wash shirts from those countries, and perceptive

journalists picked that up. And so that, you know, it's a lot of a lot of phony support in the

stands. I don't know what they expect to accomplish through that. I guess it will stimulate the

players a bit and make it seem like the country has a widespread support. This was an important

game for America. I put them in the next round, and it knocked Iran out of the tournament. They

have to go home, and I don't envy them because in Iran, everything is religious and political,

and matters of life and death. According to CNN, the revolutionary guard came into the locker room

of the Iran players, some of whom had not sung the national anthem in protest of how Iran is

treating women and protesters. And apparently, according to CNN, they have documentation of it.

The revolutionary guard threatened the players' families and saying they would be tortured and killed.

I don't haven't heard that they threatened the players themselves if they didn't win,

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