World Cup Analysis with TDS Soccer Experts Joe Opio & George Gountas

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

Comedy, Daily News, News

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🗓️ 3 December 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The World Cup group stages are over. Next stop: the knockout round. Daily Show writer Joe Opio and lighting designer George Gountas, our in-house soccer experts, break down the drama from the first batch of games, and look ahead to the round of 16. How deep of a run can Team USA make? What are the odds of a Ronaldo-Messi final? And who’s favored to win it all?

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central!
0:02.7	Hey, what's up everyone, I'm George Guintas.
0:13.0	Many of you love the Daily Show for its incisive political commentary, but did you know that
0:16.4	it's also a hotbed for soccer mania?
0:18.3	I'm the lighting designer here at the Daily Show, and the only thing that I love more than
0:21.9	making our set come to life is the beautiful game.
0:24.4	I'm joined by Daily Show writer Joe Opieu, a guy who loves soccer so much, his loved ones
0:28.8	once stage intervention.
0:30.7	The World Cup has been a top-training topic in the world, not involving Kanye, and we
0:34.1	wanted to quickly drop a bonus podcast episode dissecting all the best action from guitar.
0:38.4	The US men's national team has made it through the group and have won over the entire nation.
0:42.7	How do you think they've been doing so far?
0:44.1	Well, first of all, America, I've been impressed by America because when you think about
0:48.8	it, America dominates the world in every human endeavor, you know, from commerce to
0:54.4	gun violence, politics to manufacturing Kardashians.
0:59.4	So it's great that the best country ever, no longer sucks, balls at the world's biggest
1:03.8	spot.
1:04.8	I'm also happy to see that Americans have embraced the World Cup.
1:08.0	The US Iran game in particular was a lot of costarade of emotions, you know, there was
1:12.1	so much at stake.
1:13.1	On one hand, America wanted to make it to the sweet 16 as they call it here, but on the
1:18.5	other hand, Iran wanted to knock out the great Saturn, you know, last to America.
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