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"It below watching Ronaldo, the Vegas Elvis years and we know how that ended. I mean, that's like artistically that is what it is. Although, I guess the tragedy with him is physically he can still play, it's just it feels like mentally he's not willing to play as a late career version of himself. So you were left with something which is somewhere between tragic and pathetic and it is a very sad way. For a career to end, although I would argue fitting. He's ending his story tying all the ends together in a way that makes you think, yeah, that's a pretty satisfying conclusion to this. Well, true I even crazy. I deeply competitive human being put out to stud. He wrote internally, body Renee and The Guardian. He said Ronaldo is no longer engaged in sport. He's an actor, a publicity megaphone, a tool of power. He wrote to call Ronaldo the highest paid footballer in the world is like calling Tom Cruise the highest paid fighter pilot. Yeah, I think that's the thing. He's doing something else now. And if I thought he'd made his peace with that, that would be one thing, but I'm not sure he has. And I think that there might be some who knows. Some dark moments of the soul there. Do you remember those there was that really troubling documentary about Paul Gascoigne playing in China? Do you remember that? There's one shot of him kind of sobbing on the bench and he's clearly going through a lot. But it did seem and he's projecting, but he seemed like one of those things he was going through was, what am I doing here? What sequels of decisions has led to this? From all the talent that I had and yet I'm here. And I would not be surprised if at some point there is a version of that. And it will probably be one not alone in a hotel room or in one of the very many salt based steak restaurants that he'll have. Easy booking access to. I think it might be on a football field as you're looking around at the standard of what's happening around you and thinking what did I do? I'm guessing what he'll then do is say, I made a load of money. I'm Chris Joe Ronaldo. Works for me, John, one last and important moment from the World Cup, Richardson, blasting scorching goals and immediately going to do the rational thing getting a giant back tattoo, which features the faces of three Brazilian greats, Neymar, the original Ronaldo, and himself Richardson, side by side, almost life size, beautiful right job. Yes, it is the it's the Mount Rushmore of the back that he's carved. That somebody has carved quickly. I will say, I don't know much about tattoo art. I'm not sure that that tattoo artist was working at their peak capabilities. And in fact, we're working with capabilities. He may have gone to someone in a gas station. I think it's the Mount Rushmore of back hair is what it is. I think it was actually Emmy Martinez looks like he drew it left handed. But here's what I want to know. If you were going to get three people tattooed on the John Oliver back, who would it be? I wouldn't be on it. That's for sure. I guess that's the difference between me and a football. It wouldn't be who flanks me. It wouldn't be maybe sell it and the catheter cowboy. No, I'll take, oh, that's a good question. I'll take mo Salah, Samuel Beckett and Peter cook. God, yeah, can clock erasure. I actually thought it'd be there'll be out of driver Adam jova and Adam Joker. Oh God, let's make it so it's going to be my gift. I'm going to gift certificate for you for the next holidays John for use at your pleasure and leisure. At smithy's back tattoo in midtown Manhattan, but this has been should say a relatively dark discussion in a lot of regards. At the end of it, I've still found myself excited talking to you about the actual football, the memories, it conjures the feelings that inspires inside of me. God believe it does maintain a place of purity inside all of us. It's always important to be skeptical about the darker side of football, which is all too real, but John, it is important to allow ourselves to be moved by the things we grew up loving right. Yeah, it just increasingly feels to me like you have to have to protect that place because there are outside influences that would that would taint it otherwise. Hold on, hold on to that little birdhouse in your soul as they might be giants once so movingly sank. That's all we've got now as Everton fans. Luke and Eric, by the light switch rod, who's watching over you. Put a little bit of it. God bless you. I saw the wants that leads university. Yeah, stole the song list, which I still have God bless your own off for some they might be giants bite my arm off for Last Week Tonight, which returns for its tenth season February 19th on HBO, John Oliver. I'm not going to pretend I feel better after this, but I'll just leave it there.
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"john oliver" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"By the way, lino Messi, quick word on him. Were you as excited as salt bait? That also felt illuminating to me of kind of, oh yeah, if you had to, if you had to sum up, the, the drop off between what this tournament's produced in a footballing sense, and what it's produced in a kind of moral marketing sense. It's basically having messy at the greatest moment of his life interrupted by salt bay. You hear that. You remember me from the stakes. Yeah, I do. I've just I've just cemented my I've just, I've just written a final chapter of my legend. Yeah. I do that. Can we have a photo? Can I touch the trophy? Oh. Yeah. And the FIFA president Johnny infantino just like in the hot dog outfit, be like, we've got to find a guy who did this. But that, I think that's what I loved about those moments, 'cause those are the memories to me. The football memory is fantastic tournament. Those games were fantastic. And I think that everything around it is beautifully undercut by Emmy Martinez and stole pay. They both did the right thing. I've got to ask you very quickly. What other prediction of yours, England final exit? Poor Harry Kane. You said you hoped that he would seize the chance to make out with Declan rice in protest of guitars ban on same sex relations. That never happened. But God, that quarterfinal, when he skied that penalty, the chance to become reinforces status as a national hero against the bloody French. Take us into the John Oliver home the scene, and one went through your mind. Agony. I walked, I just silently, when he skyed it, I walked out the room because I knew it was over. And my 7 year olds followed me out and he said, are you okay? And I said, not really. And he walked and he left. The consolation and the wisdom of a 7 year old, that's what football reduces us to need things. And I was glad with my response, not really, I think, is that I think that's good parenting response rather than the humor responses. What makes you think I'd be okay in this moment? Why would I be okay? God, what is wrong with you? Why are you meant to do as a parent to teach your kid good values in their moment is to smash your large screen television and get a 100 million likes on a sport 7 Twitter. Turn lemons into lemonade. Our American boys jump did the minimum required to make us proud and then flitted away the momentum by having their manager Greg berhalter and one of his closest childhood friends, American football royalty, cloudier Rainer, engaging a strange power play family feud about which we don't fully know the true facts involving the next generation, blackmail. People like Tonya Harding without the crew bob. Actually, Tonya Harding for something so much more painful, hurtful, traumatizing and long-lasting the emotionally scarring, a private memory, and we should acknowledge this that involves domestic violence, unearthed flung into the public court of opinion by a lifelong friend. I mean, does this make us a real football nation now we're dealing with like Rebecca Rebecca Vardy Colleen Rooney, tabloid controversy? Yeah. It's sad, isn't it? Because you have all those hopes for the U.S. national team with the World Cup. And it ends in kind of the grimness of a Real Housewives episode. There's a soap opera quality to the way that this is going to go down. Because I do think there's it is not the ideal way for him to lose his job. I do think he needed to lose his job because however, if the answer can not be Mourinho, I think it's hard to overstate the choice that America has had to make here. Listen, you're at a host of World Cup. You have more talent than I think many people understand you actually are sitting on top of. Things you've got so many opportunities here. Do not let that man ruin it. Don't have José Mourinho as the U.S. national manager. There are so few things in life I'm completely certain about that. He is not the answer to the U.S.'s situation right now. Why can you spell this out for people? When he beats El Salvador 30 nil and charges straight down the sideline in glory as if his whole life is bad. Can you just explain to people who don't fully understand the intense mismatch of value? Yes, and it also goes back to that what your idea of football is. And I think I just disagree that I see that as football of the past. It's a negative kind of football. It's kind of results over anything. If that's what you want. As your U.S. national team is the best possible result you can get on. I know this sounds crazy, right? Because that's supposedly what you. I would make the case that most teams aren't going to win the World Cup. So what you want to make is those memories that you only get to be four years. He will give you nothing. Fight Europa for nothing. I think my favorite line about the entire World Cup was yours when you cook Cristiano Ronaldo, the Qatar World Cup of human beings and lo behold post tournament he washes up. Having Piers Morgan this way out of Manchester United, he washes up in the Saudi pro league playing for Alan de sac for a reported $214 million a year, essentially acting as a global megaphone for the Saudi brand. How has this been for you is it below watching Ronaldo, the Vegas Elvis years and we know how that ended. I mean, that's like artistically that is what it is.
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"I don't level English. It never believes. We wanted Phillip lam. We got Phillip Larkin. I mean, can you even relate to this? You can't even relate it. The thing you love that keeps you saying that gives you your weekly fix of mild sanity. I don't think I can. I think it's unfair to pretend that I know what you're facing here. Because I think to pretend that with Liverpool, as under Hodgson, mid table mediocrity, is just not the same as what you're facing here. Because from mid table mediocrity means that, you know, spring planting season will come. I'm worried I'm worried for Evan. I think what you need is someone with an idea and that idea can't just be perpetual survival. So we need new owners. You know, oligarch usmanov is lost to us. And to some degree, Liverpool also in the same boat thinking about new owners, oligarchs, now widely seen as no good because Putin. At this point, a lot of Liverpool fans like the only way for us to keep up with the footballing Jones is to welcome solving state wealth to Newcastle to pivot with Saudi Arabia to Abu Dhabi to guitar. If Liverpool did take minority investment from Qatar, would you be like, we finally got some of that sweet old oil money and out some BAPE, or would you be, you know, I would prefer to be left behind the breaking pack and know that we still have the kind of moral high ground that typically only scandinavians experience. You know what? I was so completely sure that I was going to say it's not worth it until you said an announcement and then you go oh well what they would like? He's quick though isn't he? He's really quick. I just don't think you can morally square that. I think it's hard it's just an arms race towards something that starts to fundamentally erode what's great about football. I think bipartisan in that particular arms and look, it's all the financial fuckery around football is everywhere. It's just that the sovereign state stuff feels like a distinction with a real difference to me. And I'm just not sure that is a line that I would want Liverpool to cross. I mean, we all gained to a point in which club football is really about two fates, which is relegation or autocratic benefactor. Someone on one of my call in shows talked about how he longs for the bitter taste of dictator owners, which brings us to really the chance to reflect upon the World Cup experience because we've not spoken since either the tournament, which began with complex emotions that armband wars, the Germans putting a hands across their mouths before kick off the Danes, taking to the field in their subtle protest jerseys. It's got to be said, that soon all burn off football did take over, and in the most ecstatic way, what did you make of it? You know, there was there was really an irony that a World Cup in which beer was banned, produced the drunkest tournament of all time. Definitely. And I guess the biggest distance there is between the fact that this is a morally bankrupt tournament. And the final game is almost the apex of what the World Cup can produce in terms of what's on the field. And I think it's possible to hold those two thoughts in your mind, though. I don't think one necessarily has to have raised the other as it has done in the past. I think football was all, that's the most frustrating thing about FIFA, isn't it? Football is always going to produce moments of magic and wonder because players are going to will it into action. We're going to will it to happen. So it's what seems so fundamentally unfair. It was not going to fail as a tournament because the football was going to be spectacular. It seemed anemic and antiseptic, the atmosphere in the stadium, but what you're watching is spectacular. So yeah, that final was about as good as football gets in a World Cup context. And it was kind of helpful to be reminded immediately after that as that final whistle goes and they start to bring out all the kind of Qatar World Cup iconography. You realize, yeah, and this is, this is the unfortunate aftertaste. That's why that is why I appreciated so much the kind of shit house that World Cup goalkeeper at the end. Emmy, every Martinez. Martinez. That's amazing. You're like, by the way, it should be said for the record. You came on our live show and predicted the entire World Cup, John. You said, you hope Qatar lose all their games. They did. You said, you hope Ronaldo would play badly there is a God. And she don't like Draco on the wall. You hope Lionel Messi would play well. Yeah, he did. He listened. Oliver straddle. And we're going to get to Ronaldo in a minute. That hero's journey of Lionel Messi, you know, we finally got to see him like a DCS at the end of the Odyssey, reach Ithaca. He's home at last, and he's wearing a beast. I'm fascinated. Your point is the qataris were like this will be the image of Qatar, heard round the world, and instead we get Emmy Martinez clashing a trophy near as genitals. Exactly, but because I think it was never about you, Qatar, right? It was always going to be about the football. That's the thing. It's all about you. That's the one thing that you actually can't fundamentally mess up. Everything else has an asterisk on it. And I think why I like that every Martinez moment so much was it is reminding me do you remember years ago at the BRIT Awards when Jarvis cocker ran on to round to the stage joint? Yeah, yeah, he ran to the stage during Michael Jackson at least offensively messianic version. And Java Scott just ran to the stage. And I think he just showed his ass. Showed his bum to the crowd, and it felt like a perfect editorial comment of this is a load of nonsense, isn't it? And Emmy Martinez felt like that for me. Like, you can put all that planning in. Throw money at all the problems, what you can't take away. It's a goalkeeper going. Oh, I could make this hand look like a penis. Check your list tell me this. Jack, can you imagine how hard Jack Grealish laughed at that? Push my finger. Because he's like a golden hand, just put his leg in like his Willie. Willie? Or like that guy? Oh my God. By the way, lino Messi, quick word on him. Were you as excited as
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"Manchester United may. May finally have woken from their near decade of slumber Eric ten hog those three words so stoic, so severe, essentially, so incredibly Dutch. Now you came on this show and called Antonio Conte and Italian stereotype to an almost offensive degree. Genuinely genuinely offensive. ETH is almost a low country equivalent of that. What do you mean? I think that's right. I would imagine you got Dutch people kind of slightly squirming sometimes that's too Dutch though, Eric. That's a little bit too Dutch. It feels like the camera's going to pan down. You're going to be wearing wooden shoes. That's too Dutch for me, Eric. You're for reminds me. Of a stern preacher in elmore city Oklahoma who doesn't take kindly to a young Kevin Bacon rolling in from the big city with his dancing and devil's rock and roll music. We've obviously Harry Maguire at the Kevin Bacon roll, but he does seem to be a transformational genius. Yeah, I can't stand Manchester United, roger, you know that. So it's very hard for me to will anything positive happening to that organization. I have truly delighted in the chaos that was there. I'm not quite ready to say goodbye to it yet. I thought it was going to take a little bit longer, and I was kind of enjoying the final morsels of pain. That would be experiencing. I worry, I worry that, unfortunately, it is the right guy for that job. He is taking on a massive reconstruction and he's doing it quite well and I think I have to emotionally prepare myself for the fact that again I've enjoyed a really good run as a Liverpool fan of watching Manchester United destroy themselves. It's been great and I'm so grateful to Cristiano for coming back. That really was the cherry on top of the whipped cream on top of the ice cream. And I think it was probably we were probably at the mountain top there. That was probably as good as the view from the Manchester United was going to get. We always say on this show, see for every moment, take nothing for granted, even the Sheldon Freudian misery and you only defeat. As he failed, you know he said, you know, I always used to laugh. By the way, this all comes new united fans from united being so bloody good under Sir Alex Ferguson. It's just a dynasty. Dynastically oppressively brilliant. And I always used to choke that if united played a 11 in which Vlad the Impaler and I even the terrible were amongst the 11. I would cheer for that 11, such was my hatred. I've actually felt so sorry for united fans in this wilderness period. I've actually come round to the feeling a sadness and almost joyful that they get to have joy again, but you know what? Glazes don't miss. The fact that I got close. I think that's when I realized just how bad it was. I just thinking, I don't know. Actually, you don't want mine and I should be this bad luck. Is this really the end of this club? And as much as I love seeing Roy Keane, just speechless, go, ah. What are these guys doing? Watching Gary Neville just kind of emotionally disintegrate. It almost got too much for me. And that's when I realized, I think this the misery cup actually run up. You know, make a wish for Roy Keane, Chelsea football club. Under new ownership, that of LA Dodgers, Todd Burley. He have aimed fire ready strategy, arriving spanner by all star games are doubling revenue lines. Is Chelsea take over? It's been a bit like watching Elon Musk roll up to Twitter headquarters Karen a kitchen sink. Yeah, I hope the Chelsea fans have got some chance about revenue lines coming up because that's about the only thing that makes sense in terms of the strategies that are right now. I don't really know what the plan is here. No one seems to be able to articulate it. Graham Potter, again, has a plan. As a, as an individual, he has a plan for the kind of football he wants to play. But, you know, it's like an episode of chopped. I think he goes in wanting to make a move soccer. Next thing you know, someone's throwing a lamb shack at him and some jelly. You're like, yeah, that's not really what I do though. What is it with these guys, though? The self styled billionaire change makers. It immediately, if there's a room, they are instantly whether they're in it or not. They are the smartest man in that room. And, you know, when you share, let's break some eggs. Sometimes, aren't you just breaking eggs? Yes, there's nothing more baseless than the confidence of a billionaire, right? I do worry that the worst case scenario for Chelsea fans is that burleigh is basically approaching that Elon Musk realization of am I the world's dumbest smart person or am I the world's smartest idiot? Because it's one of those. The clue is really when he walks into board meetings while not wearing pants. That is the clue that we've moved into the second realm, which brings us to Everton, bite your arm off for a smart billionaire. A season so tragic. It's honestly been like listening to a mash up of Johnny Cash hurt and Tracy Chapman fast car for 90 minutes on a loop.
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"Oh shit, they do. Watch you embrace all know, not just break them, but obliterate all knowing goal records. Honestly, it is like, I imagine watching the first Viking raiders roll ashore and start to pillage and the saxons just be like, oh, crap, this is not going to go well for us. All hail our new king, king, can you. Is that I don't know what you're really supposed to do as a defender. He can't foul him. He's too strong. You can't race him. He's too fast, right? You can't ignore him because he's too clever he'll find space. And it feels like you know when those NBA players go around saying you're too small to guard me afterwards. It feels like he's got a version of that for everyone. You're too stupid to go. Defend me. You're too weak to defend me. I don't know what you're supposed to do, and I don't know what the answer is. Maybe some smart manager will come up with it, but other than saying you have to double or triple up on him and just take your medicine with mahrez. I don't know. But are they silver and grills? You've got to always take him. That's an medicine you don't mind taking. You know what? In many ways, he's man cities Darwin Nunez. If you're angry with him, I think you're angry with life. It really is. That gentleman. So misunderstood. He's just here to bring joy to entertain to bring light where he'll be also I want to interview them and he said the role of football is to bring joy to those who find joy hard to experience. I watch grills and I think he is bielsa's idea of football link on it. That's right, his body of a man, mind of a child. It's like a child saying, I want to be a Premier League footballer. And then like some fairy coming down saying, ding, you just have a large body now. There you can go and do it. He has the innocence of a good to do this for a living. Look at this. Oh yeah. You go along. Oh, I've got a header. It's nice. This is neat. I'm a full baller. You just nailed grills, grills is essentially English Tom Hanks in big. Yes, it's absolutely. That is exactly, I truly believe it's fundamentally football big. That is what's happened there. He's standing there going, I can't believe it. Look my feet are really big. Look at this. How about it? Look I've got a cool haircut too, 'cause that's the haircut, a child thinks. Would be a cool for an adult to have. This beer tastes funny. It's why he gets on so well with children. When you see him being spectacularly kind to kids, you realize that's because their peers. He's just so down tell anybody on one of you, I'm just playing for Manchester's bitterly. And England poured away. A work on me celebrations. In front of the mirror, I can child. You know when you get to be grown up, you get to stay up to any time you like, you can't believe it, anyone. Who does not like girls and it's tired of the phrase of a professional football answering a question with, I don't have a Scooby. Can you imagine what the nutritionist of man city has to go through? Just kind of walk in Jack groove that you can't have cocoa pops for breakfast. Because you're a professional athlete. Your body's an engine, but they're so tasting and they turn the milk Brown the milk more like poo. I don't know how to have this conversation with impact. I'm looking for common ground when they're just isn't telly. I'm just going to give him my iPhone and tell him to watch cartoons. And I love him. I think it's good for the game. I've got to tell you, I felt low for a week until this conversation. That is the gift of grills to the world, but city. Exactly. City have been strangely vulnerable at times this season, borderline human, and the only thing that has remained constantly the same is pep being so perpetually weird in his post match words, pretending to throw the towel in on the title race. I don't care about the Premier League. We've won a lot. It's not a problem. You look at that. Marino's mania always seem calculated and staged in a kind of WWE way. Peps actually seems like a genuine mania and I've won the John. How exhausting must that be to keep up? Oh, I imagine it's utterly exhausting. Again, I do think we need to appreciate the fact that for a long time. We had a period of incredible characters in football. And then it felt like football became professional because it realized you actually can't be like Brian clough. You can't do that. If the sport is going to be the way it's going to be going forward, you can't have Brian cloughs. Then it felt like you had all of these automatons that didn't have any real personality. Now you've got some genuine cloth, interesting, weird man. Pep, interesting, weird man. So yeah, I think we do need to appreciate it. But I can't imagine how how exhausting it is to be that kind of committed. For both of them, I think there's a reason why both of them are kind of, again, unusually tried to build in sabbaticals between teams, thinking I need to mentally recover because this is so all consuming for me. And you can understand why that there's a reason that Klopp built that into his schedule because he can't do. Let alone his plays, he can't keep putting himself through that. And you kind of see the same with pep and they're both on the long end of what they're normally able to do contractually, which is interesting to watch because you are seeing the exhaustion. They're a little bit older. They've been there a little bit longer. But yeah, they're fascinating to watch, and it's not often that you really care about what a football manager has to say. But to see pep laugh at journalists and again, no, in the way that Klopp is often right underneath the snippet. I remember that pep that post match interview where they were saying, oh, do you even need a false 9? And he said, I will bet you I can't waste like a million pounds that you are going to ask me that same question when we don't score. And say, do we do you need a striker now? And he was right. He's just okay, because it's that short termism. Oh, wow, you played really well. Maybe you don't need a striker. Maybe you can play with a false 9 forever. And he knew, sure, we can agree on that now, but you're going to turn around like this conversation never happened in 7 days time. I mean, he is so inside his own head, pep, the level of which he's not just processing tactics in this Ethan and no one can match, but then processing the reaction to his tactics in the press room and then planning his counter reaction to that in his pre match comments is just, I mean, it is incredible madness. That's why I would love to be able to see him and Jack Grealish talking together. He's got one guy who's playing chess. One goes playing hungry, hungry hippos. One guy who's speaking a second language, one who is not fluent in his first. So the fact that pep can build any kind of understanding between the two of them. I think says more for him, any kind of pre match team talk ever can. You remind me of a line from the two the excellent slow horses. It's like trying to explain Norway to a dog. Yes. Yes. Exactly. That's exactly what it is. Talk to Jack Grealish about anything that isn't directly in front of him at that moment. Former NFL star Ryan shazier wants to make something clear. When doctors told him he would never walk again after a devastating on field injury, it wouldn't be his last play for Ryan, miraculously walking back onto the football field was his only option because the one thing the odds don't account for is the will to overcome. Don't call it a comeback is a new podcast from wondery, co hosted by Ryan shazier, a former Pro Bowl linebacker along with Dave damashek, a former fantasy analyst on the NFL network. 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"john oliver" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"What the gloves on? Arteta had a plan. It was so clear to everyone from outside that it was going to take a while for that plan to bed in, but you had to commit to it. And it felt for a while that they nearly pulled the plug on it, which would have been an absolutely idiotic decision. So this is definitely happening earlier than I thought it would, but I thought it was pretty clear that he had a fundamental philosophy of football that he was going to be able to apply there. It's just happened quickly and beautifully. A plan with a hair helmet and slightly surreal use of the F word during halftime speeches as we found out in all or nothing, but he smells good. I bet he smells good as well. God damn, does he ever? He smelled too good for Everton. That's what he sounded like. Eddie was dragged, but a year on. He's now suddenly seen as one of the most inspirational wartime leaders. Since Winston Churchill, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight Rick Joel listen when he's pulling shit how's he doing the Northland and Darby? I very good. How do you understand the transformation? For so, let's just all acknowledge that the North London, I don't say this lightly. The North London Darby nearly reached its final perfect form there. It was almost everyone on and off that pitch was doing exactly what they were supposed to be doing. Which is thinking, let's all become for 90 minutes plus extra time, the worst version of ourselves. That is what this picture is all about. Why do we watch? It's the answer to the question, how low can you go? It's this. I just kicked a goalkeeper. Am I? Am I that person? And then never to the right hold my beer. You think that's the worst version? Oh God, that is true. So that's what we saw in that second ritual listen. Just elevating it on the field and off and off and off knocking the hand away, knocking the hand away. I think he's not even like that's what you ask for a substitute. Get your head in the game. What are you going to be doing? I'm going to be doing all kind of this business. That's what I'm going to be doing. I'm ready. Get me on gaffer. When this Brazilian teammate reached out to give him a high 5 and he just snubbed him like we're not Brazilian anymore. We did not grow up playing football through academies, playing them. That's a we're all North London is now roger. You can take the man out of Everton. You can't take the evidence out of the man. That's what that's what that moment showed me. God, but an arsenal that win league titles, John. John, it's new that idea for many fans here who've only started a watch in the United States since 2000 14. It's almost an anathema. That is the thing. For me, I will say, I guess if you're around our age, for me, it's still slightly too soon. You can hear a lot of we've suffered as Arsenal fans. I remember the perfect season. I don't think you've suffered long enough to pay for what you had then. So I still think this is happening early than I expected in terms of Arteta's plan. And earlier than really is earned in terms of Arsenal fan misery. You're getting this early. You went undefeated for a whole season. I don't really want to hear about things have been bad. Things have been fine in aggregate. God, I love you. John Oliver made a football sense to the theology of reward and punishment. We are so wonderfully medieval in our footballing approach, but this team have so many joyous weapons, Martin urder God, ethereal, Aaron ramsdale, proper bonkers in all of the good ways, but Kayo saka hold me closer, tiny dancer, watching him charge down the wing. So witnessing a baby unicorn just sparkle dust coming out behind him. This is not a drill is it this season? Tell me. Arsenal are not going to implode and self sabotage and crash to earth. I don't think so. I don't see it. They've had plenty of chances to crack and they haven't. I think they're going to be okay. And I know in saying that, that is just the sweet, sweet kiss of death. But I don't know. It looks real to me. Stan Kroenke don't miss. The team. Wow. I think you might have just come up with the least the least beautiful football chart that's ever been, and that's an incredibly low bar. Don't miss. Stan Kroenke. I'm not train marking that. That is my gift of a turd to the world, but the team. Oh, can I wash my mouth out after that? Stan Kroenke don't miss. Sorry. Ugly use of the English language. The team most likely to catch them. Manchester City. What do you make John of erling Harlan? Who is a believe chat GPT in cleats and extraordinarily next level footballer who will score all the goals when all the games then write term papers, which means college as we know it will cease to exist. I think it's one of the reasons that I would be quite happy with arsenal winning the league this year, is that that signing felt unfair, right? Even aside from all the financial steroids going on, it felt like, well, you can't have him, though. That's place station footballer. That doesn't that's not fair, is it? And it seemed so unfair for so long. I think it would be great if it didn't work for at least one season. I don't know what the answer is to stop him other than it's going to take four people to do it. So you better hope that they don't have anyone else.
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"Well, that do, but you do have new friends. You've got Darwin noon yes. Yes. And that gender is box office. He's almost like a human. Me may master of the slap stick. You know, you hear about people who only learn English by watching daytime soap operas. He's like a striker who learned to play football, solely by watching Bobby femino goal celebrations. Yes, it does feel like even when he misses a bunch of chances. He is justified as kind of turned towards the crowd. Like gladiators saying, are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? That's a fair point, Darwin, I would love you to have stuck that what seemed like a tap in a way to me, but you're funny. You're funny to watch. Behold, my art. Oh my God, you know, it's ecclesiastical. What is a goal? When you think about it. Or Darwin. There's ecclesiastes. Why is he once said for everything there is a season, a time to be born and a time to die. The titer plant, a time to harvest, and a time, possibly to drop Jordan hendo and fabinho. And it has been agonizing, suddenly all the anchors are that team, including big verge, appear to be gods with clay feet, which is a theological moment of doubt for even the most God theory human beings, so many bad moments, what's been the saddest experience watching John Oliver not just alone anymore, but with your children who are seeing your kids are seeing a vulnerable Liverpool for the first time. I think the thing that was striking to me was approaching that Brighton game and just thinking we're going to lose this game though. And that felt very different. Again, you talk about 12 months ago. There's no way that they'll entertain your head, but I genuinely thought a point would be great, but I don't think we're going to win this. And then you catch yourself and think, wow. Wow, that golden era sunsetted real fast, didn't it? By the way, fearing Brighton been there, done that, but it has been hard to watch Jürgen Klopp, fatty, daddy, you know, flail, like a giant German care bear drink of love to see him bereft, sniping at journalists, referees here. He's never in his career. He's done so much, but he's never built a team, a winning team, and then rebuilt it. You know, his impact, his words, maybe wearing off on his players, you may be grappling with challenges, John Oliver, that fist bumps or hugs, no matter how tantric can cure, they're even asked the question. If you contemplate this, might we be seeing the end of the Jürgen Klopp era at Liverpool and how would you even begin to feel about that? I really hope not. I would be a pretty strong cop evangelist. I think he is, you have to factor in what things were like when he arrived and what they had been like for a long time before that happened. I think he has more than earned the right to fully watch this crumble if that indeed is what is happening and to give him a chance to build again. I find any course for Klopp out utterly ludicrous. That seems to come from the most inane level entitled imaginable. I mean, it must be Russian disinformation. It's almost so crazy humanly, right? It doesn't make any sense. I do worry what the potential dude Bellingham plan B is, because the plan a there is fantastic. That feels like, is the rest on it. You can get excited about prospective signings, obviously, all the time we all do that. That is the method of being a human being. It was interested in football. You love that sweet, sweet methadone. With Bellingham, it does feel like you're potentially talking about a decades long. Superstar for your team. And something that makes the whole thing work. It's a little bit like putting Virginia or Alison, but in the middle. I don't see what the plan B is there. If we get him fantastic and I think that he will make everything around him better if we don't get him. I would love to know what is scrawled on klops whiteboard. It's because I know it's due in big letters. And I don't know what it says after that. He's a Tom Davis of our generation. When you first came on our show and you mentioned what came before Klopp, let me remind you back in 2010, Liverpool, were under Roy Hodgson. We still my favorite Liverpool manager of all time and the football was terrible. And you said, and I often repeat this because I think there's a lesson in it for fans of every team. There's a lesson about life here. You used to come on and you'd say, oh, you beg for when you tune in, it's 5 minutes of good football, one great passing sequence. You've since John, senior team when it all. You really have so right now, are you like, I don't care what we're doing, night, tenths, whatever, mine eyes have seen the glory, or it's a truth in Dante's quote that there's no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in a time of misery. I think that's the thing is that football fans are plagued with very, very short memories. So you forget what you were very, very recently. You want to shape you while the shoulders they remember who you were yesterday. Really just cast cast your mind back to Liverpool fans both 12 months and also to the late Rogers mid Roy Hodgson era, and accept that things are meaningfully better now. And for you to say, no, I want more, I want more. You sound like violet beauregard in the chocolate factory. You're not, you're not getting the building from mister Willie. You sound like a piece of shit. I think you just want to pull up. Some of them first. It is amazing to me. I've got to say, when I hear Liverpool fans on Twitter after a admittedly a frustrating result, just say like, FSG out, you're killing our club. And I look at it and I'm like, you've won the league. You wouldn't have championed the you in the final of the day. I wish someone would come in and kill my club in that same creative glorious silverware tinge weight. Absolutely. And the problem is and I fully understand how frustrating this is for Klopp. Like you have major investments. And it's just so significantly different than some of these fundamentally state owned, even if it's called something else, football teams. If you're asking for that, you want to be very, very careful what you're wishing for there. That's the problem. That comes with a significant moral price. As when we get to the sordid turkey to Everton put this story, we will discuss. But first, to happier stories, because we're not just living out a football season, we're living out one etched, I do believe, carved out a 100% pure arsenal supporter, fan fiction, a team for so long a weakling who had the sound kicked into their face on the beach by bullies like true Dini. They have risen. They've cut out the Deadwood. They've trusted youth. They've grown to become rippled, and I've only seen this before once, and I think that was in The Karate Kid in the Miyagi dojo, maybe arguably Clifford the big red dog too, I guess. They'd become an unstoppable, joyous force for good. But you know, it speaks, though, to what we were just talking about. To the short term short termism, idiocy of football fans. There was Arteta out chance from Arsenal fans two years ago. At the beginning of last season, the beginning of last season, it's got to go. He's got to go. I can't remember if we talked about this. You think, right, right then you're listening to that thing, and you're absolutely out of your mind. This is a guy who has a very clear sense of what he wants to happen. And you know what, anyone. Or you can really ask for fundamentally is a manager with a plan. A plan for the kind of football that he wants to play, not the kind of Sam Allardyce plan of, you know what? I will get you, what's the bare minimum points? I'll get you that or one more. Don't ask me how. It's almost coming in like Harvey Keitel as a cleaner. Don't ask me how I get this done. It's not going to be pretty. But I'm going to get the job done.
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"Qatar World Cup ripping up the traditional calendar shattering the club campaign into two pieces to facilitate a winter World Cup break in the middle, in which the correlate on new king, Lionel, which said knock on effects across the world of football, exhausted players, a nosebleed fixture list, and also what the world is most upset about, destroying our annual tradition of having a John Oliver holiday special. Fear not though football don't sleep and John Oliver don't catnap too much either as I live and breathe and the Premier League finally hits its halfway mark. Story to welcome back for a first half of the season, footballing review a gent, you may know from HBO's Last Week Tonight, which is to the Emmys, what Bayern Munich is to Bundesliga champion shields, returning for its tenth season on February 19th, same number as men in blazers, 26 Emmys between the two of us. And if you don't know him from that, surely from his portrayal of zazu in the documentary, The Lion King. What a sight to behold. It's mister John Oliver. Roger, what a pleasure to be back. Who needs a holiday special, right? Where spirits are high. This year more than any others. It seems more appropriate to check in during the ennui of a late January. Early February depression. Let's wallow in every misery that the football world can throw at us, John. I've got to say, let's be clear, roger, right from the start, neither you. Nor I, nor davo, a happy with what's happening with our teams right now. None of us, none of us are happy, but I must admit, darkness comes in different hues. And you are experiencing a deeper darkness than we are. There's just no question about that. You are experienced the darkness normally you find at the bottom of an ocean, only illuminated by a passing lantern fish. Bottom of the ocean, you'll never sing that. I am currently wallowing in a place. I think I'll need you from the book of job. And maybe some of the Egyptians who suffered the templates not overstated at all. I do believe that if we wake up with just every single morning, Everton fantasy is waking up in this cycle of, oh my God, what fresh hell will be inflicted on the club we love today, but enough about me. You could be watching this on mute. You've spent literally more than half the time with your head in your hand so far. Your body language is screaming things are not going well. And on top of it, I just found out I was bald, but the season of strange. I was going to say, as in fact, a few clubs model Liverpool football club says roger the master of deflection. This time last year, we had you on and we were in the midst of borderline human perfection. Honestly, alchemy, the quadruple was coming home. And now you're joy. Let's turn to ashes in your mouth as you club. For times this season are a shadow of the squad, which obliterated all come as John. How are you experiencing it all? Again, roger. Ashes in the mouth, it's fair, but coming from you. We're talking about an ashes in the mouth challenge. You remember when those kids were taking cinnamon and coughing it up, that's the life of an Everton fan right now. Listen, 12 months ago, it really was. If you can do it, anything is possible? And then this year is what tired, so tired, you know, dreams and dreams, and then you wake up and your life is as it is. So yeah, it does seem like it took so much out of them. Physically, obviously, because I think you're not supposed to play that much football as a human being, especially with that level of intensity. And emotionally, I think it did a real number on them. So it's interesting. They're a bit of a, it seems like this is going to be a halfway between a significant transition season and a kind of emotional and physical recovery season. Klopp, he kind of called it in his credit. It was a pretty clear warning sign when he said, yeah, we're not ready for the start of this season. That precedent wasn't good enough. We're going to have a couple of extra games. That doesn't sound like it's going to do it. If you're saying that before we play to Fulham, then things might not be going smoothly this year. And by a couple of extra games, he met 38. I mean, you have been beaten by united by arsenal, but also not in forest Brentford and Leeds. You know, where you describe it, it does seem a little bit like either strapping on wax wings and heading right for the sun last season or maybe Sadio Mané was just the single Jenga piece, the removal of which brought the entire tower crashing down. It's such a crazy argument. So if we just hadn't sold sadio, we think that was not it, everyone. It's not one magnificent winger who has made this engine hum over the years. Clearly they need a midfield. That's the thing. It feels like you have a injured, but fundamentally functional front three that you can rotate between, you have a defense which is actually in better shape than it looks like. And then you have almost nothing in between. So short of Jude Bellingham arriving, and now it's dude. That's announced you now. Come on, dude. Come on, shoot. We've got the songs ready. Command you, we need you more than you need us, isn't that what every footballer wants? Especially like we can afford Jude Law on a one picture deal.
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"Oh my God. Look from James now. That's the beauty of football. It's not just in its ability to find people together. It's to completely change the atmosphere of a room in half a second. Oh my God. Can we go Brenda, who's bronny? Bronnie aronson. Oh yeah. In every regard. American boy. I did yeah, it got blessed. I did interview in English Premier League player recently. It was not Harry Kate. And I asked him, what he thought, the United States challenge, just to throw a question and interview. And he said, this is the quote he goes. Nothing really. And I was like, that's a follow work that didn't lead to come with a hard hitting for a lot. As I said, can you name an American player? And he said, he thought for a minute and he goes, Clint Dempsey? Does he still play for them? And I was like, in that moment, I was like, holy crap, John. We can absolutely zero respect. Yeah, I mean, I will say for America, I do think it is going to be too early, partly because you haven't hurt enough for this to win a World Cup yet, but also that this team is young and very, very talented, but very, very raw. I do think they're young and exactly the right way. Talented in exactly the right way. And the next World Cup, they could be dangerous, especially, especially given where it is the only thing there will be how much, how can they play under that kind of pressure when you're a team in four or 5 years time, which is a legitimate contender. That's going to be a lot of pressure to have here. I can't wait for that World Cup Qatar will be defending champions. I'm going to ask them up big time. Finally, back in America, a country that's never committed any human rights abuses.
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"Kane's scrotum. Nothing like. Does that come with an Xbox? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I'll come with the next box. By the way, Tyler Adams is going to get a gold to balloon. One of the blue. Raise this to you. Your family may your son. And your future generations experience whales in a World Cup as totally totally normal. Make great memories. Let's hear from Matthew Reese and courage. She is. Okay, David. I'm taking the lead on this ad read because this is a product that's in the Bennett DNA. I don't even want to know what this is for, roger. Devo we're talking butchering. Let's have talked about on this podcast before my grandfather Sam was a butcher in Liverpool and so much of my youth revolved around that gent and a shocked and so this is an ad read for some sort of fancy knife when you're carving up meat? Not exactly Dave out. Turns out I'll rodge didn't exactly get those butchery jeans, which is why I get mummy delivered via butcher box. Oh, I love a bit of butcher box. Butcher box takes the guesswork out of finding high quality meat and seafood you can trust a 100% grass fed beef, free range organic chicken, pork raised crate free and wild caught seafood. And ultimate convenience, get just what you want, delivered right to your doorstep. Yeah, it's called the early all and diet. This has been a game changer for the family Bennett, Dave. Get back to our butchering route with only the finest meat and seafood. The
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"Sick bastard. Yes. That's what they called me in school. And you did it. Just to be different. Yeah, just to be just to be toffee and sick. And when I first spoke to you, you told me you did it just to be because when you were young, your queries I was just an effing idiom. It's not what I'm just when I was young. I've always been an effing in him still an effing idiot. I used to have a friend who ran the Liverpool local newspaper and then the early days of the Internet, the Liverpool echo, he ran the sports pages. I remember when he came round to my house and he showed me with this map these data maps. He said, this is where Liverpool are like popular and assuming this incredible world map of like hits from late Africa and Thailand and South America and across Scandinavia. And then that made the mistake. I was like, well, where do everything get hits for the Liverpool echo when he double up on his computer, pulled up a map, and he just showed the city of Liverpool and North Wales. And that was all Matthew Richard. That would be running rampant. You grew up as you said, when Everton had a great Welsh lineage. Pat van den Howe, the legendary Neville southall, as you mentioned, there's also Liverpool's in rush, man United's Mark Hughes playing at the same time. But they were always quite poor as a collective when they played for the Welsh national team to be a Welsh fan was about being braced to be disappointed for much of your youth. It was a marathon, some would say, of misery. To learn to be Welsh, it is basically, what was the court again? A marathon of misery. Yes, to be Welsh is bracing yourself for a marathon and regardless of following a sport a national steamer or sport. And we held from a long line of people, always says things like, but when you say you're Welch, you win, who always say, isn't it shame me and rush never got to play, isn't it a shame Mark Hughes? Isn't it a shame Ryan Giggs? Isn't it a shame? And they almost, they almost got away with it by saying, isn't it a shame Gareth Bale never and we go actually you're wrong. He will. Yes.
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"My mate, John Oliver. Okay, we come to marvel. We come to celebrate. We come to analyze. We come to make bold and most likely delusional predictions about what will unfold over the next month. And above all, we will make collective memories with you all. That's a whole point of this talk. I like to think of the World Cup as the world's greatest blockbuster movie franchise, one that's played out live with the players doing all their own stunt work in 64, get them, Tom Cruise, David, all the players. Kind of. We have 64 games crushed into 29 days. We're going to embrace all of the life, all of the joy, all of the darkness too. We're going to embrace the World Cup as we do honestly. Real life right now, we've always joked football is just a reflection of real life. This is a World Cup that is truly a reflection of real life. We will marvel and we will fight. We will marvel and we will fight and pray that there are footballers who are courageous enough to do something that will highlight the evil that exists at the heart of the game and will make sure please God that the game is never hijacked. The game we love in this way again, please God. Yes, real life with more shipping containers, roger. We will do this as we travel C two shining sea, I'm going in a seaplane. Roger because that's how I like to roll. Roger will be hitchhiking. We have 9 shows across the United States. We're doing so many Twitch broadcasts of the biggest games with a slew of incredible guests, including Matthew McConaughey. Becky sauerbrunn and Cola bikini and of course, there will be podcasts on the daily because Rogers Rogers. A long list is to win this World Cup for America. No matter what happens on the field. Yeah. We're going to win it in terms of podcast volume. We have so much to talk through together tonight. Can you win the World Cup? I know. It's very good way. Very good way. Please do the honors. Make this official by bringing us together with a tour. Can I get my style? Oh, here we go. I love you. This is amazing. So John Johnson.
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"Here to revel in all of it with you in this New York City celebrating the global game in this most global of cities. We've got a World Cup to celebrate together. Yeah. Yeah, roger world cups, they are such incredible oases in time. One of my favorite plurals. They have stopped wars. They have brought the world together. A gaggle of oasis is. They've also honestly made us feel alive. The sports historian David goldblatt once compared a World Cup to an eclipse that strikes the entire planet for a month instantaneously. And the remarkable thing about them is that intra planetary sense of connectivity this tournament creates you know that a relatively unknown player can pirouette through three defenders, then deliver a spinning round house kick, blast the ball past Jordan Pickford. And within minutes, kids on school yards, dusty, muddy, whatever they are, all over the globe will run outside and try and mimic that entire move while screaming that very player's name. And that player's name, roger, is Jordan Morris. Truly this more people who are Jordan Morris lovers here. Let's try
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"And now all the data likes bacon says Rogers probably on his first 12th bud by now. We'll reveal that in a minute when we do the toast. Go bless all of you who are joining us on Twitch. We are honored to partner with them for this entire tour. And we are so grateful to head across this nation on tour to make memories through this World Cup. I'm just splitting excited to meet Aussie Smith in St. Louis. While telling that I named the kid after him, the wizard, Charles E Bennett, big thanks to our mates at DoorDash for making all of this possible DoorDash best footballing double D since Didier deschamps. That is Danny drinkwater erasure though, roger. But for those of us here, we all know this city New York City was built on two foundational principles. One, not making eye contact with strangers on the street and two, making sure pizza rat does not go hungry. Pizza about, by the way, is proper Burnley. And I know Sean dyche is not a manager anymore, but that Ginger bastard would assign pizza rat in a minute. Yeah. And not just for the American branding. It all seriously. There's a Sean Dutch kind of player, roger. Here's a show. He brings it every single games committed these tenacious heats up bloody pizza and I love this city. I moved here in 2000 and as anyone who read my book will know that I grew up with a mural of the Statue of Liberty and the New York skyline painted very badly on my bedroom. I remember looking at that thing and it's amazing. But the only thing is, and many of you who are artists will know this, you can tell when you look at it that the guy really started out confidently, but then realized he'd run out of room with just jam the ice cream in on the top like people remember they were just here I am 87 years later you were crap artist and we overpaid you. But the reality is this is for divo and midge. It's three minutes into our world tour and Rogers already in tears. It's amazing. The land of the Beastie Boys. Ghostbusters. Lawrence Taylor, cagney and Lacey. Martin Scorsese. In my love so much. I named the dog after him. It's a city filled with raw emotion, mixed with magical life-changing chance encounters like meeting new day though for me to be candid. And then the words of the late great Joan didion. This is an entire city suffused with a sense that something extraordinary would happen any minute, any day, any month. And for us, that honestly describes the World Cup, but it also describes building men in blazers and the men in blazers, media network. That is very much been the truth of it. Yeah, we've met on a bullet circumnavigating the island roger. I love it. This is a proper football region one that has given rise to so many of the young boys babies on the baby eagles team, including Gio rayner, Tyler Adams, yunus,
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"You are the bachelor John Oliver. It's the last rose ceremony. So make sure romantic one yet. Two less competitors. Most Salah. Yeah. And Adam Driver. Who gets the reason why? Honestly, I look at Adam. I was like, Adam I hope you understand. I look at me and say, take it. I'm not giving you this rose. Take it from me. It's yours. Okay, let's go. That's fast forward now. Let's get off that romantic scene to the end of October. You were the only unbeaten team left in the league, John. And you're headed to Old Trafford to face rivals man united. Where goals from nabi cater Diego Jota and a casual most Salah hattie saw this one in 5 mil. Blow out those not even nearly as close as it sounds. Sir Alex shaking his head in disbelief king Kenny dalglish in the stands dropping F bombs like Logan Roy and John. That's a lifelong Liverpool fan who's disdain if united is tattooed on your face. Malone style. Yes. What, you know, Lee. Well, I love you. Tattooed on your face. Yes. Post Malone style. Yes, watching go play. A lovely man. But more casino greeter than tactical managerial mic. I've got to ask you, which are a movement when even you, a lifelong Liverpool fan start to feel bad for united. No. I'm afraid I'm afraid not. I'm afraid those tears still quench. So I was definitely sipping down as many of the existential crisis tears that were coming out of manual to that time. I think the problem was, with each goal, what was complicated was it became clear, olay is going to be gone soon. So what we have here is someone that we need to appreciate every single day. I hope they don't fire them for the next game. I hope they don't. I hope we are not destroying the thing that had brought us so much joy. Thankfully we didn't. Thankfully, they kept him on for a little bit longer. Every day after that, the Ole was man united manager was a gift. Those tears still quench how arid was thy desert. Oh, pretty arid. Pretty hard, because I was going into that game fully expecting to lose. 'cause that felt a game like what was more likely to happen. United team on the brink of crisis suddenly rallying themselves out of pure spite, spiked the greatest gasoline there is the power anymore. And would run over us. So to actually stick it to them in front of their fans like that. And stick it to them in a way that was so comprehensive that it really felt like 5 you're lucky it's 5. It's technically this should be 15. United a fascinating at this point, they're less a football club. The more a global billboard will the airlines credit cards tractor engines and this is true. Official potato snack partners in every region, they might be the world's first post football team. Yeah, well, the tricky thing for united is for me is that in the history of pantomime villains that they produced for liveable fans. Rashford really is a complicated factor. I still find it very, very hard to wish him ill. So yeah, it cuts into me a little bit when you see him a bit sad, you think, oh, that's not. There's a fly in this otherwise delicious soup. It's fine. The soup's still great, but there is a flying in there. God, it's very big of you that you still find it hard to despise and be. You lifted this a cliffhanger, whether you do it. No, I really, he is such a thoroughly decent human being. That I'm afraid. I'm truly sorry that the decency of Marcus Rashford actually beats the pettiness of me. You followed that win over united genre with a hard fought draw against scrappy Brighton and a three two loss to West Ham, but we're not gonna let a little boys stand in the way of your good time John. So let's go to that dominant four nil win over arsenal on November 20th. The real highlight of that game for us, not the football. Put the touchline spat between Jürgen Klopp and arsenal manager Michael Arteta after Saudi ara they dropped a people's elbow on Tommy yasu. Now manager fights. We're just stand on the jump. Do you find them embarrassing? Like watching just like creatures, posture up to each other at the two. Or are you let them fight, let them fight that could beat up your dad? Case by case basis for sure. So with those two, fully enjoyable because you know there's two pretty decent human beings there and there is an inherent comedy to cop yelling at Arteta through his cigarette infused voice. Yeah, look at this beautiful Spaniard who's going through a difficult time. That I got no problem with that. I don't want to see Mourinho fight anyone because it just feels like it's all about him. A big Sam Allardyce fight. It's hard not to want that. Hard to not feel like that's a net positive for humanity, isn't it? So I think it really depends on the manager and managers in the situation. With klop Arteta, you have one we think this is going to be okay. This is not going to get ugly. It's going to stay funny. With other managers you're less confident about that. If you half brother, Michael Oliver, would have done the showbiz thing and let you clock and Mikhail Arteta play out jump. How would it have ended? You know what, with those two? I'm guessing there is a wrestle initially, and it seems like it's a fight, and then the wrestle loses some of its intensity, and then you realize, actually, it's a hug. That's a thing how bad fight plays out. It hits the.
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"john oliver" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"Welcome to the men emblazon show and a holiday tradition unlike any other. Ever since annual festive fixture claps which officially renders our season dead and puts me in hibernation for the rest of the year? Well, we'll get to that rod, don't you worry, but first we want to welcome our guest, a man whose record 9 appearances on men in blazers is dwarfed only by the number of Emmys in his trophy Cavanaugh host of HBO's Last Week Tonight. Seeker of truth force of good, massive Liverpool supporter and the greatest friend of the pod in all the world the one and only mister John Oliver. Guys, thank you so much. It's the most inevitable time of the year. It's great to be back. Let's keep doing this until two of us die. Which may be in the next half hour. Who knows? But before we get into Liverpool says I want a very passive aggressively. Thank you. For lending us Rafa Benitez, deliverable hero who took over an Everton when her old dad mister Carlo left the milk and never came back. John, when rapha, a man who led you to Champions League glory, saw the light and cross Stanley park to take the helm at us quote small club. What did you think? I thought that's not gonna work for anybody involved. I felt about that the same way I heard about that horse deworming medicine being used to treat COVID. Do you think it's a bold idea? Science says it's not going to work out. So that's how I feel about you and rapha. Honestly, I feel for Everton fans. Rapha is not the answer to the question you were posing. What is it? What is the question that we're posing? I mean what's a good idea to do next? And I guess rapha is only one step under Kenny dog leash. You want to try Kenny? I bet you're home off. I don't want to say Everton fans call rapha. They call him paella dice and sometimes I do think there should be a Pulitzer Prize football supporter humor. But he has proof that it's not always time plus tragedy that equals sometimes it's just tragedy. It's just sad roger. I am I'm sorry for you because this is not there are many different ways to lose aren't there. And some are better than others, and I'm afraid you've hit yourself to a very depressing wagon. Honestly, ever to know fast becoming to the Premier League. What rat erotica is to your show? Conceptually horrific. But impossible to take your eyes off. Just signing rapha feels, it's not just like failure. It doesn't just feel like we all know what failure feels like. This is self harm. That's different. There's a different tone to the taste of pain there, isn't it? Oh, well, on that optimistic note, let's get to it, John. We're going to spend this segment reliving your mobs season so far. We want to go back to the source of the river Klopp. Liverpool entered this campaign. Coming off a distinctly mortal season by klops own high standards. One triage in the most dramatic and meaningful way possible by your goalkeeper Allison's audacious last gasp heroics, which transcended football and locked down a top four place, most often though last year, it was grimaces, not smiles that revealed Jürgen Klopp's giant German piano keys, not a huge number of reinforcements coming in ahead of the season to take his back to August level of us. How did you feel on the eve of kick-off? What was possible? For this season, I think it all felt like it was going to be better. Because it was so grim and so sad in so many different ways last year, albeit that there was that moment of escapist euphoria at the end of it with Allison's beautiful head, all of it. The beauty, the beautiful proportions on it, glancing. Glancing like Duncan Ferguson in his prime branch. A very much handsome of Duncan Ferguson for being honest. I don't think even dunk would deny that. I think it felt like they had a chance to refine themselves to the extent that they had their identity taken from them by injuries. It felt like they had a chance to restate what they were really about. And I think that's what's been so edifying watching them do that. Right, roger, you'd agree in that, right? Right, finding your true form. It's hard to resent that, right, roger. Well, any concerns you did have, John would have been assuaged when you cruise through August and September and into October without a single league loss led by who else, Egyptian king, Mohamed Salah. A man whose transcendent highlight reel deserves to be woven into a Tapestry and hung in museum around the world. He kicked off October. We're back to back puska centuries first in an epic two two heavyweight rumble against Manchester City in which Moe turned their merit Laporte too hard. Dude thought he was French again. And in the very next game, a 5 nil thumping of Watford, he did it again, like an Egyptian Britney Spears, putting Craig cathcart's soul in his back pocket before ping he wanted to Ben foster's side netting. The big question John. When mo and feels magic like that. Yeah. Do you tinker with your pants just a little bit? A little bit. It's not just that he did it. He could do that. It's not just that he did it to any defending digital port, not any team. He did his man city. And then he did it again. Yes to what? But he did it again. It's a great cathar, but yes, he did it again. You know me. I'm a horrible person John. Who comes to berry Liverpool not to praise them? Yes. But mo Salah, a makeshift striker, screwing a hundred league goals for Liverpool from the Flank. Most of them poetry, not prose. I mean, watching him and Manet, you don't get Vulcan mind more chemistry like outside of the Manning cast. But how many Grealish is a mosella worth? What's the greatest exchange rate? I would say. That's a really good question. I mean, obviously, the economy's wobbling at the moment. I'd say I would say at least 6 Grealish. I don't know what the collective now for a group of Grealish is is. I would say, I would say 6 Grealish is one Moe salad. That's how I feel. It could be Dogecoin to dollars and it's not. We're living in a post Bitcoin world now. We're all just trading in Greece's but not to go all pardon my blazer on you. But we do need a hot take and a ruling on the biggest debate in global football besides how elite is Solomon Rondon. Here's the question is Mohamed Salah, the best player in the world right now. How do you bend your head around that eternal question? Hard Nick, because it's hard to be absolute about questions that reductive. I think it's really God must remember that answer. It's difficult to make a case against it. That's the thing. Rather than saying, yes, he's the best player in the world. It's very, very tricky. To prove that anyone is better. Arigi. Well, ariga is not that he's a better footballer. It's just that as a character in the fairytale of life, he pops up at all the right times. Football really is just 90 minutes to try to position a rigi to Heather flaming projectile into your village. It's absolutely incredible. I mean, he is like when cops said he's a legend, a regi he's alleged. He hit like he is. A cultural legend now. And because in the classic Greek storytelling, that legend will arrive when that legend is needed the most. Yes. It sleeps outside of the village and comes and saves it whenever we are doomed. Listen, I'm going to my question was reductive. And I'm really, I don't want to be, I don't want to do you like that. So let me ask you this.
77WABC Radio
"john oliver" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"John Oliver is of course a moron Is he on the comedy channel still I think so I was at HBO okay even worse And you have to understand these people are worth tens of millions of dollars They have 2030 and given day comedy writers They have people who go into the bathroom with them and wipe their you know what But they're always down for the revolution And I love it when this guy comes in with the British accent which means he's purposely immigrated to the United States I don't know if he crawled over the southern border or did a legitimately or what his excuses But I want you to hear how he talks about the cops And a quote Maggie haberman This is really a mistake It violates our traditions our norms are yeah that's in our traditions And I say norms yeah yeah right like so All right cut tango A customer frame we hear from cops every time they kill anybody always sound like he's burping Let's start from the top please A customer frame we hear from cops every time they kill an unarmed black person is they should have complied with commands Now that's not the constant refrain that you hear from cops who kill unarmed black people You're sick bastard You're really sick I mean it's unbelievable The kind of propaganda that these phony columnists push
Mark Levin
John Oliver Spreads Propaganda About Police Officers
"John Oliver is of course a moron Is he on the comedy channel still I think so I was at HBO okay even worse And you have to understand these people are worth tens of millions of dollars They have 2030 and given day comedy writers They have people who go into the bathroom with them and wipe their you know what But they're always down for the revolution And I love it when this guy comes in with the British accent which means he's purposely immigrated to the United States I don't know if he crawled over the southern border or did a legitimately or what his excuses But I want you to hear how he talks about the cops And a quote Maggie haberman This is really a mistake It violates our traditions our norms are yeah that's in our traditions And I say norms yeah yeah right like so All right cut tango A customer frame we hear from cops every time they kill anybody always sound like he's burping Let's start from the top please A customer frame we hear from cops every time they kill an unarmed black person is they should have complied with commands Now that's not the constant refrain that you hear from cops who kill unarmed black people You're sick bastard You're really sick I mean it's unbelievable The kind of propaganda that these phony columnists push
Marketplace Tech with Molly Wood
New antitrust legislation would check the power of tech giants
"Arguably the biggest problem with big tech. Is you know the bigness. A few giant companies gobble up their competition owned the digital advertising and web hosting markets control the information ecosystem and sometimes control the distribution of their own competition so far though these worries haven't led to regulation now democratic senator amy klobuchar who leads the senate subcommittee on antitrust introduced a bill intended to check the power of tech. Giant's it focuses mostly on acquisitions to prevent huge companies from buying potential competitors and it would force companies that control more fifty percent of a single market to prove that an acquisition would not reduce competition. Here's senator club shar. We all know that misinformation has been rampant on social media and it is greatly. Set us back. But there's another much more insidious problem and that is that any company that was starting to come and do cool things got bought and i think maybe you could look at this legislation as basically a reply to mark zuckerberg's email when he said about they're looking at what's happened instagram. These businesses are nascent but the networks established. The brands are already meaningful. And get this. And if they grow to a large scale they could be very disruptive to us. Google has ninety percent market share. Right now they are literally taking on a government of a major country in australia when the prime minister says hey we're gonna start making you guys pay for content and they say back. No you're not we're going to withdraw from your market and you'll have no search engine and a big part of this. It sounds like is funding these agencies right making sure that the ftc which is charged with a lot of this actually has some teeth exactly and of a numbers can't lie the ftc in nineteen eighty at one thousand seven hundred nineteen employees by twenty eighteen down to one thousand one hundred two. You cannot take on the biggest companies. The world has ever known trillion dollar companies with bandaids and duct tape. And that's why senator grassley has join me on a portion of this bill to up the fees on megamerger so we can put in over one hundred million dollars to each agency so they can actually do their job and this isn't just about tech. There's only to cat food. Companies that control most of the market. There's only two online travel agencies. You think you're getting all their choices. Go look at. Who owns them. And as john oliver closed in a segment on his. And if this all makes you wanna die good luck. Because the casket market is controlled by three companies which actually sadly no one purchase the other. It's down to
Trivia With Budds
10 Trivia Questions on Big Mouth
"It is now time to dive into ten thirty questions on the hit animated sitcom big mouth. Here we go big mouth trivia. Here comes question number one. What actor is missy most obsessed with on the shell number one on big mouth. What actor is missy most obsessed with number one question number two which piano playing ghost lives in knicks attic number. Two which piano playing ghost lives in knicks attic number. Two and number three. When j is talking about the queen's nuggets is what is he referring to number three. When j is talking about the queen's nargis what is he referring to number four. Who did the voice of the main camp counselor on season. Four of big mouth number four. Who did the voice of the main camp counselor on season. Four of big mouth number four question number five on season three. There's an episode named after one state. What is it on season three. There's an episode named after one state. What is it and number six. What do nick jesse get high on in the episode drug buddies number six. What do nick and jesse get high on in the episode drug buddies number six number seven in the episode. The department of puberty jesse gets trapped by the depression blank. Fill in that blank and the episode. The department of puberty jesse gets trapped by the depression. What number seven and question number. Eight who becomes knicks hormone monster at the start of season three number eight. Who becomes knicks new hormone monster at the start of season three question for season four. What does t h stand for number nine on season four. What does t h stand for as a nickname for characters number nine and number ten. What is andrew superpower on the episode super mouth number ten. What is andrew superpower on the episode super mouth. Those are all your questions. were big mouth trivia. We're going to jump into those ten answers when we come back. After this weird noise we are back with the answers to big mouth trivial. One of my favorite shows on netflix. Number one what actors missy most obsessed with that is nathan fillion mri on this show as well as my mom. Kieran buds of joliet illinois. She loves nathan fillion. she loves castle. She really likes to show castle number. Two which piano playing ghost lives in knicks addict. That is duke ellington duke ellington number two and number three. When j is talking about the queen's nuggets he is referring to lola's toes to very gross and it's on season four j. the queen's nuggets lola's toes number four. Who did the voice. The main camp counselor and season four. That was john. Oliver john oliver late night host and comedian number five on season three. There's an episode named after one state. What is it. it's called florida. One of my favorite episodes of the entire series. A lot of crazy stuff happens. Watch that episode. Florida number six. What do nick and jesse get high on the episode drug buddies it is. We'd gumy's get into jesse's dad's we'd gummy collection. And they go nuts number seven in the episode. The department of puberty jesse gets trapped by the depression. Kitty the depression. Kitty sort of an eight cat. That keeps you depressed number. Seven number eight. Who becomes knicks new hormone monster at the start of season. Three that is connie. Connie becomes knicks new hormone monster at the start of that season number nine on season four. What does t h stand for. That is thick hogs men thick hogs men a weird nickname from seth. Rollins voiced character at camp and number ten. What is andrew's sister. Power on the episode super mouth. He has the power of invisibility invisibility. And there you have it. Your big mouth. quiz has been completed. I thought i had done on the show before and realize that i had not so there. You go big mouth trivia.
AP News Radio
John Oliver now has a sewage plant named after him
"The popular comedian now has his name smeared on a sewage plant the saga between John Oliver in the city of Danbury Connecticut has come to a close the comedian made a secret trip to the city last week to cut the ribbon on a sign banning the sewage treatment plant in his honor this all started this summer when the HBO host ripped Danbury in a profane rant on the show the mayor said he had a mind to name the town sewage plant after him but when the mayor said it was just a joke all over press the issue in the city went along with the gag when Oliver offered a donation to the city all of the shared the video of the ribbon cutting on his show Sunday the ceremony was kept private as a public health precaution I'm Oscar wells Gabriel
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Connecticut city officially renames sewage plant after John Oliver
"Connecticut has voted to rename it sewage treatment plant after John. Oliver the vote is result of like this weird love hate relationship between them John. Oliver. Bashed the city the city on his show and Dan Barry's mayor threatened to rename the sewage plant for the host he approved and then promised to donate fifty five thousand dollars in charitable donations for that honor
Politics and Public Policy Today
John Oliver: Name sewage plant for me, I'll give to charity
WBZ Morning News
Danbury, Connecticut will name sewage plant after John Oliver - The Guardian
"HBO comedian John Oliver unloaded on last week tonight with John Oliver with an expletive filled tirade on his show, blasting the city's charming railways Museum and historic Heart Stone Castle. Mayor Mark Broden tries to get the last laugh, though, by renaming the city sewage plants in honor of Oliver. Oliver was discussing racial disparities on Connecticut Juries. Its not clear why Danbury in particular set him off, right. It's a 20. It is good to be Apple
Morning Drive with Casey and Elliot
John Oliver ‘honored’ in Connecticut: Mayor names sewer plant after him
"John Oliver has long used his platform mark government agencies and public officials. Now the tables have turned The mayor of Danbury, Connecticut, has named a local sewer plant after the British born comedian after he marked Danbury on his August 16th show. The mayor said it a post on Facebook quote. Why? Because it's full of blank like you, John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant
AP News Radio
Missouri health director warns revelers: Virus is still here
"A lake of the Ozarks mayor says he has concerns following those viral videos of a huge packed pool party with no social distancing over the holiday weekend the images on social media sparked a national concern over spread of the corona virus something Osage beach mayor John Oliver re worries about these numbers when you go up because again the lake of the Ozarks details KMI's either continue to fall the governor and don't have plans for new rules for July fourth which is always a busy weekend then we're already says businesses are responsible for enforcing guidelines to them you know to figure out how they really knew him as those seen partying in the video from whether it be in state or out of state they have a lot of the the very same guidelines I'm Julie Walker
AP News Radio
Missouri health director warns revelers: Virus is still here
"A lake of the Ozarks mayor says he has concerns following those viral videos of a huge packed pool party with no social distancing over the holiday weekend the images on social media sparked a national concern over spread of the corona virus something Osage beach mayor John Oliver re worries about these numbers when you go up because again the lake of the Ozarks details KMI's either continue to fall the governor and don't have plans for new rules for July fourth which is always a busy weekend then we're already says businesses are responsible for enforcing guidelines to them you know to figure out how they really knew him as those seen partying in the video from whether it be in state or out of state they have a lot of the the very same guidelines I'm Julie Walker
Young House Love Has A Podcast
The PODS Container Has Gone!
"Well we started last week's episode with our pods container just having gotten delivered and we started this week with it just having been picked up. Yeah it was a momentous thing to see it. Roll out be well. God's all the things I love yes it was a little bit more nerve racking than I expected it to be because we have used a pod before when we had our floors refinished and this house just downstairs so we had to move all the furniture and our first floor out of the House and we put it in a pod in the driveway. But you know that didn't have to go anywhere. It didn't get transported on a truck states away to new place to be dropped down. It just sat still rate. You know what I'm realizing right now. We have never not been with the stuff that we've moved ever in our whole lives. Yeah every other move. We've done up to this. Point has been basically a local move between places in Richmond apart from moving from New York here fourteen years ago but minivan van me and John Oliver Steph. It is the first time in a while that we've made an interstate move and so when we moved from our first house to our second house and then later to our current house. Our Third House here in Richmond like those are all within miles of each other and we did like just little trips like packing the car with stuff one day coming back the next afternoon like it was really easy. I think we took one truck for each move like we did. Use A u-haul rented truck for just like an afternoon like it was not a big deal right and that's how we also furnish the duplex and the beach us. We rented a U haul. Once put our stuff in it but we've always been like the driver of our things and it's not that I think we have any mistrust in pods driving. It itself is just a funny feeling to watch all of your possessions leave. You like going ahead of you and we are here and what. I have dubbed pod Purgatory. Because as we wait for the PIE to make its way to Florida over two weeks. We can't get there. The House isn't ready for US ANYWAY. And we wouldn't have any of her stuff so we just kind of hang out of the. House for two weeks wait for the pods to land and then in two weeks we do the journey. That pot is doing ahead of us. Yes our timeline. Right now is that we are hoping to make the move to Florida sometime. The first week of May because that's when the pod is scheduled to arrive there. That's when our contractor says. It should be ready for us to come move our stuff in and so that starting to feel like the week things are GonNa Happen. I'm knocking on all the wood because everything seems to be up in the air these days but I think that two week window is another thing. We didn't really wrap our heads around until recently because again having only done local moves before it's always been this kind of like a gradual process into the new house. Where if we forgot something at the old house we could like run back and get it. But that's not really an option here like we have to be much more organized and basically just have one shot at getting everything packed between the pod. That's going down and then we can fit in our car when we actually go down the first week of May. Yeah so what remains in our houses just like you know the linens on the beds that were still sleeping in because we did sell the beds to the new owners along with about fifty percent of our stuff because that house being less than half the size of this house means we certainly would be not smart debris one hundred percent of the seven this house because it would have nowhere to land in Florida. Yes there's a lot of stuff here. I mean I should point out. We're also fortunate that because we sold so much to the new owners that it's still fairly comfortable here while we wait out these two weeks before we can go because like Sherry said. We'VE GOT BEDS. We have a TV. We have a couch upstairs. Bonus Room so like apart from having the discomfort of like not having all of our kitchen stuff and not all of our close like. We basically packed a suitcase that we're living out for two weeks. Yeah but it's really not bad and then you know what the cool thing has been as we've shared this stuff. We're sharing a lot of stuff as we've gone in stories so if you ever want like real day to day stuff that's where to follow us but as we share it we've heard from so many people who've done these big moves even those who are you know in the military or who have done these like international moves to other countries and they have said it's fairly standard to be without your stuff for a while. Sometimes two weeks sometimes even four weeks and so a lot of people said. We do folding chairs. We do air mattresses. We do like basically camping as a way to make your food. You One pan and you have a hot pot and all this stuff. I think we really are lamping. We have four burner stove like this. House has all the appliances still. We have our beds but we do have fully empty rooms some pictures in the show notes of some rooms. This house vacant and some rooms like our entire dining room remains our entire bonus room still here except for one table that we took. Actually I think this week on the blog post a video tour our house in two stages so one will be how it looked when we sold it. So like right before the showings happened and everything was cleaned and in its perfect spot. We took video. I haven't watched it yet so hopefully it's good but that will give you a sense of what the house looked like at its finished state and then we're going to try to shoot a video this week of what it looks like now. That has been packed up. I think that will answer a lot of questions for people who are wondering. Like what exactly did you leave? What did you take so you'll be able to see the contrast between those two things so that should be on the blog this
AP News Radio
`Handmaid's Tale,' Harry Potter on challenged books list
"The American library association released its annual list of books that receive the most objections last year at schools and libraries the top two R. Alex Gino's George and Susan Copeland's beyond magenta transgender teens speak out both because of trans gender content number three John Oliver's parody of the children's book by vice president Mike pence's wife a day in the life of Marlon Brando all story is about Marlon Bundo falling in love with another boy rabbit because the potter books are on the list religious groups are critical of sorcery Margaret Atwood's handmaid's tale is mentioned to for Paul Garrity and sexual overtones I'm a Donahue
AP News Radio
`Handmaid's Tale,' Harry Potter on challenged books list
"The top two R. Alex Gino's George and Susan Copeland's beyond magenta transgender teens speak out both because of trans gender content number three John Oliver's parody of the children's book by vice president Mike pence's wife a day in the life of Marlon Brando all story is about Marlon Bundo falling in love with another boy rabbit because the potter books are on the list religious groups are critical of sorcery Margaret Atwood's handmaid's tale is mentioned to for Paul Garrity and sexual overtones I'm a Donahue
News and Perspective with Tom Hutyler
All NYC Late-Night Shows to Tape Without Live Studio Audiences Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
"Reporting New York late night shows will go on without in person audiences in an effort to contain the spread of coronavirus Jimmy Fallon Seth Meyers Stephen Cole bear Trevor Noah Samantha bee and John Oliver will all continue to take their programs with out that in studio audience Conan o'brien is on schedule two week hiatus is pre tape shows airing this week have audiences late night shows networks released a statement saying they are falling in line with recommendations from New York City
Donna and Steve
‘Ellen DeGeneres Show’ to Tape Without Live Audience Over Coronavirus Concerns
"The Ellen DeGeneres show Wednesday became the latest TV talk show to take upcoming shows without audiences as corona virus as a coronavirus precaution Ellen joins a growing list of other shows including CBS's the late show with Stephen Cole bear and B. C.'s a tonight show starring Jimmy Fallon late night with Seth Seth Meyers and last week tonight with John Oliver they all take shows without an audience starting next week also earlier Wednesday Walt Disney confirmed that it's news and talk shows including ABC's the view good morning America and as we mentioned live with Kelly and Ryan will go bodies free
Medicare for All
Launching Patients over Profits
"Have some exciting stuff to talk about this week. Most exciting top of the list is that there's a new massive national medicare for all campaign that was launched just this last week Ourselves healthcare now part of a coalition That's going to roll out this campaign it's being led by national nurses United And it has called the patients over prophets pledge So Stephanie Before we get into the details like nuts and bolts of what this campaign is GonNa look like This is a campaign that is targeting. Legislators so they will not take money from the healthcare industry. Why is that important like at this particular stage movement right so as we expected as our movement is taking off there's momentum in Congress and at the grassroots level our opposition has taken noticed and they have organized? They've convened a new organization The Partnership for America's healthcare future may have heard of it which is comprised of bad guys like health insurers members of Pharma hospitals and everybody else who has something to lose shows of commerce single the most exactly So now we have this like mega villain. This transformer of multiple villains Who have have convened this new partnership and they are spending a lot of money. For example on ads on industry aligned speakers on ghost writing op eds for members of Congress and other legislators and employing lobbyists to spread their talking points Why don't we go ahead and listen to to a short clip of an ad? This is like a prime example of what they are running around. The country. Politicians are pushing one-size-fits-all health. Plans Medicare for all Medicare buy buy in in and and public public option. option. All All mean mean the the same same thing. thing. You'd You'd pay pay more more to to wait wait longer longer for for worse worse care. care. So they're doing stuff like this and of course they're also donating millions to our elected officials. So how are we going to take on this new mega opposition that has launched with the express purpose of taking down? Medicare for all So any new has come up with this patients over. Prophets pledge. Ben. Can you tell us a little more about it? Yeah so it's pretty straightforward basically We're going to be asking a legislators Elected officials but especially members of Congress to not accept money from any arm of the healthcare industry. That is part of the Partnership for America's healthcare future any wing of the healthcare industry. That is trying to undermine Medicare for all trying to prevent us from getting the healthcare. We need We want to drive a wedge between this partnership of this empire of evil. Who's trying to stop us from getting our health care and the legislators who were supposed to be representing us. I'll remind you just normal constituents patients so here's a little clip from Max Cotterell of National Nurses United on a national call that they hosted to launch this campaign. The patients over profits pledge is linked to aim to sever those direct ties that corporations actively involved in fighting Medicare for all have been carefully building with politicians across the country. And so in this fight to pass Medicare for all what we know is that will never be able to outspend the for profit industry but we can make the active accepting their campaign contributions politically toxic. Well put Max And you know I would say just a little bit beyond this that any elected official can sign this pledge. Whether that's mayors city councillors a state REP state senators. Any target is fair game but obviously the big boys are the ones in Congress who can actually Enact Medicare for all and who the partnership is just spending hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars trying to weasel their way into their confidences and to get them to oppose this So now I'd like to say that US in the Medicare for all movement can take credit for this campaign design and the structure but actually we have an closely allied movement. Who's had a lot of success with this kind of Pledge Approach Stephanie? Do you want to say a little bit? More about sort of the roots of this tactic and the strategy sure so if this campaign sounds familiar it's because of the climate change momentum. 2017 launched a very similar pledge called the no fossil fuel money pledge after which the patients over prophets pledges kind of designed so the no fossil fuel money pledge prohibited. Siamese from accepting campaign contributions over two hundred dollars from executives political groups or lobbyists in the oil gas or coal industries. So what has been the impact of this? Almost all of the major candidates in the presidential race of sign the pledge although both Biden and budgets have come under fire for violations of of the pledge and over fifty members of Congress and both the Senate and House have signed as well and dozens of elected state and local levels as well I think you know when there was news about Biden holding a fundraiser with an investor in fossil fuels and Buddha judge also having close ties with some of these industry players that has been huge news. And it's really affected perceptions about their campaigns So what do you think? Ben What do you think is the potential of this campaign? Yeah well so first of all. I'm going to play a clip from An activist in the sunrise movement. Who has worked had been heavily involved in this no fossil fuel contributions campaign Talk about what he sees as the impacts and then. I'm going to say a little bit about how that sort of carries over to Medicare for all for us the no fossil fuel money. Pledge has been a tremendous tool for three reasons. I it's been a really good at organizing tool for building are organizing muscle second. It's helped us draw media attention to the corruption of fossil fuel money in politics and three. It's translated into concrete political games both in winning and losing elections as well as the impact inside the legislatures. Yes these are all some of the outcomes that I think we'll see also in the Medicare for all movement I see this pledge as a very versatile tactic right You can target existing legislators who support Medicare for all already. But you know maybe. Their level of commitment is not super strong Maybe we're a little worried that when it comes time to actually vote on this bill we might lose that legislator That they might get cold feet Is the time to try and get them to up their commitment level and to really pledge not to take money from these industries Which I think will more firmly. Secure them in our camp when it comes time to vote But you can also target if you have like a legislator who is so right wing that you don't think they're ever going to back. Medicare for all this is the way to publicly shamed them right and to start imposing political costs on them for making the wrong decision. So I think you can take You can apply this in all sorts of different targets And there's also been a lot of success recently getting candidates to pledge not to take PAC money for example. Obviously not all candidates have of of come up with this have agreed to this pledge but there's paralells of this tactic working in clean elections in anti fossil fuel movement and Clean Energy Movement And I think bringing this tactic to our woman is really going to strengthen us. Yeah I think the corporate pack pledge has been really useful for our movement. Because you know we've seen candidates who have taken the pledge return or refused donations from insurance and pharmaceutical companies but because it doesn't include individuals like you know the new patients over profit pledge does executives have been free to donate money as individuals to candidates. And that's a big issue too right because couple can actually give more than a Pat Ken so two people can give them more than a pack. They can give up to fifty six hundred dollars so marquis who is a co-sponsor of the Medicare for all bill. You know when you look up his campaign donations He has taken Donations actually Max out. Donations From health insurance executives and this pledge sort of encourages us as activists to take a closer look at the financing sources of our incumbent and our candidates. And say look this obviously violates the spirit of your co-sponsorship of Medicare for all a Bill. That would actually do away with these corporations. That are giving you money. You know in please stand with us and not the corporations. Yeah this is another clever way. That that Corporations impact elections sometimes with they won't have an official company. Pack that funnels money to a candidate. They'll like get all the executives in the company to bundle their money together essentially and send it to a certain candidate and then they're gonNA know who it's coming from but this pledge is designed to catch those people to But it is. It will not catch you. Know if some hapless low level employee of pharmaceutical company wants to support where? We're candidate they support. That's fine. We're not going after those contributions so Stephanie. If folks Who listening want to get involved with this campaign One help US pressure. They're elected to take this pledge. How do they do it? How they get involved in. What is it like? Would you have to do to to actually carry this out? Sure if you're listening to this right now you actually can participate in this campaign because every single district there is not been a single signer in Congress of this pledge yet so everybody everybody has somebody to work on totally brand new. So there's going to be a week of Action April six to the tenth Before that we'll be doing canvases to ask people to demand that their representative take this pledge and so we're going to be collecting signatures before that and then we're going to be gathering them together and we're going to have a drop off date sometime in April and both healthcare now and then you have resources to help you organize and recruit for this. You know if you want to. If you want to take the lead in organizing in your area you can do that. If you don't want to take the lead and you just WANNA show up to an event you can also do that so If you want to get involved just send us an email And we will help connect you to this
The Frame
Alfonso Gmez-Rejn Plugs Into The Right 'Current'
"Today's show Kenny and Cartman in the South Park kid It's are in the middle of a big bidding war then Alfonso Gomez Ray homes movie the current war went into limbo because of Harvey Weinstein's troubles but the director let it go I couldn't stop because it wasn't hadn't been ripped away from yet and is more Aziz right wing nationalism turning off a large part of his fan base all that coming up on the frame Bloomberg's Lucas Shaw is reporting on a potential landmark deal for the lucrative streaming rights to a long running animated series before we hear from Lucas here's a clip from the show that we're going to talk about that got it banned in China here's the character that is fair to say represents the Walt Disney Company you are fat diabetic bear and if the Chinese don't watch you then I don't either now as Mr Marsh that's me randy marsh who is I don't know you are you from Pixar from South Park what South Park do I all not no not yet not yet and probably not soon that as South Park it just launched its twenty third season all old episodes of the series have lived on Hulu for the past couple of years but now the show's owner comedy central is looking for a new home Lucas who's chasing it and what kind of numbers are we talking about they are training get about five hundred million dollars or as much as five hundred million dollars for a four or five year deal and have have half a dozen companies bidding on those right they hope to get a deal done by the end of the year and I would expect you to get announced well before okay I gotta stop half a billion dollars for a couple of years for South Park we've seen deals for friends for the office what is happening here because that money seems crazy you mentioned into the office Big Bang theory has gotten a big deal Seinfeld got a big deal the money for South Park is in the Ballpark of those the thing to keep in mind to south park has more episode than any of those so that both inflate the overall package but the price that has been paid per episode decided think about it is actually a bit smaller than the other ones but what's happening is you've got this this race to build all these new streaming services you have comcast at and T. Apple and Disney all creating new services all meeting properties that people will want to watch in between those originals and the case of South Park it's one that has been very popular on Hulu and has a passionate passionate audience I think a lot of people are figuring if you go out and you license South Park not only is that GonNa bring in some customers which is weird for reruns be of more than three hundred episodes for people to watch at any time they're very watchable we're talking Luca Shaw at Bloomberg about the potential big deal for South Park does this fall into the whole idea of kind of a loss leader because there is such an arms race for content right now Netflix earlier this week borrowed another two billion dollars and has more than thirteen billion dollars in debt they're spending a lot to create an acquire content when you're thinking about a show like South Park what is the appeal of it does it bring people in who might not subsist arrive does it make those people happy wherever it ends up what is the benefit for a streaming service if you're maybe actually GONNA lose money on the deal I think it's a bit of both I think for most of these reruns especially for shows like friends in the office you're not bringing in new customers with those programs nobody is subscribing to each Max v because they're friends just like nobody subscribed to Netflix because it had friends but they're really good for retention and keeping people there in the case of South Park again so many episodes it just is a lot for people to watch so let's say for example Hbo Max five the Rights That means that for review or maybe inbetween washing succession and watchmen they might binge watch a few episodes of South Park and then a Lotta this in in my opinion is just defensive what you've got is these companies I've seen net flicks build a massive audience with their properties and with big old TV shows and movies that they had seen as not as valuable and even though net flicks is now not renewing its deals for a lot of them they just they can't stomach the thought of seeing that vacuum up these properties and continue to build an audience they want to go out and get some of these big names get a lot of headlines and show that they're in the game and so I think you're seeing prices for all these things go way up in large part because these companies have to atone and make up for years of bad dealmaking with Netflix I'm wondering about branding because if you look at Zinni plus they have I think five distinct brands it's Disney Pixar Marvel Lucas and nat go they're probably not that interested in south park giving what the creators have said about their own company but are there certain shows that fit into certain models in terms of what the content is better than others yeah I can look every service is working to define what their proposition is to consumer you know you mentioned Disney plus one hundred percent right that is not a place for park but Hulu which is also owned by Disney is where South Park has been and does a little bit more into that brand offering HBO Max makes a lot of sense shows from HBO which are obviously you know John Oliver has no problem thumbing his nose at his new corporate parents that at and T. You could see south park fitting there does South Park's bid that's something like peacock which is the service coming from comcast that's hard to know because we don't really know what the identity is of comcast South Park feels like a stretch thing like apple I could be wrong maybe apple go in and buy it but apple has thus far not bid on a Lotta Library shows and apple similar to Disney is very sensitive of its end image and I'm wanting to be relatively family friendly apple also has a huge business in China so the fact that South Park has just offended the Chinese government make the topic proposition and let me ask you this one last question South Park even though it's not at the top of the ratings has been incredibly popular for comedy central does that mean that that audience could be equally big on a streaming service I think it could especially because South Park core audience is a young man I was speaking with the former Viacom executive earlier this week and we asked him have how big South Park was for comedy central and they said that South Park was the most important show on that network it was not only the most popular one for many years it might even still be now but it was the one that sort of fed into the other programming because it spoke to that core group and frankly young men are the customers that have been most likely to sign up for streaming services early there what the industry thinks of its early adopters and so if you've got a new service and you've got South Park near betting going to probably help them in getting some of the young men in the door
The Frame
Emmy Special: Julia Louis-Dreyfus
"Welcome to the frame emme special from KPCC in Los Angeles. I'm John Horn the host of the frame and I'm Lorraine Ali television critic for the La Times Save. We'll hear from a lot of nominees. It's about their work and their shows and we'll talk about. Emmys can tell us about the state of television right now. which is a really really interesting state? Yeah and one thing I want to talk about is he is late night. Talk shows I mean I know. We think that that's a place to go for humor and some jokes. I'm finding some of the best documentary reporting on television right now is happening on shows like John Oliver Samantha B so we'll cover that I am really looking forward to the limited series category this year because it is dumbass about stuff that has been on television talking about Chernobyl when they see us Fussy verdon escaping down more these are excellent shows and the limited series category used to be kind of like now. It's like that is the place that we're looking at it. I'm looking forward to see what happens with that but we're going to start with a comedy series and that Atas veep its lead actress could make some Emmy History Julia Louis and the emmy goes to even Julia Louis Dreyfuss. Let me try to annoy drivers now for most emmys one by performer and the same the same series peaches came back for its final season. There is another big final season it rhymes with game of thrones it is getting thrown and so on but before veep wrapped up its final season. I had a chance to speak with Julia Louis Dreyfuss. There's a lot of grief around the end of a series assuming the series has been a a good thing and a happy thing which in our case it has been and that has an incredible bitter sweetness to it that can really got you and it did. Let's talk about the final season running for President and she is asked a basic question of very early in the season which is why and other people are curious but here's a conversation. I bet she has with Gary who's played by Tony Hill because it is my God is was the game changer. I took bombed the glass ceiling. I shave my in the sink of the Old Boys Club for three years. He kept me chained to a radiator some basement in Cleveland. So as far as I'm concerned America owes me an eight year stay in the White House at this time. I want a war yeah. What is it like listening to that. It's gobs of fun. I think that's so well written so I was just sort of listening to the language you you know she's not a great candidate. That's not under state but I appreciate her her bitterness and her struggle when you are playing her. You'll have some way of saying okay. I know that this is a character and and I know that what she wants is not something that she's able to express but that's the actor plane her. I have to believe what it is. She wants here's how I would answer that. She's he's a very horrible human being and hideously behaved and really has no leadership skills whatsoever or no point view even other than her own narcissistic endeavor but when you player you have to come at it from well bill why and once you start to humanize that horrible nece you can find a way in to play it with a certain amount of well in a weird way. I say empathy and even though I'm not necessarily asking the viewer to be empathetic. I just want the viewer to laugh off but it just perhaps that keeps her from being hated by the audience right. What are the greater kinds of compliments. You can get from people who work in politics. I I hear time and time again. This is what it's really like in Washington and you know. I- winces I say that too but yeah that's that's what we hear. I had the great good fortune into meet Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan once and she told me that she got together with Justice Scalia. When veep was on on the air every week to discuss the past week's episode because there were both fans imagine that are can't? I know I would do anything thing to have those conversations. Let's hope somebody recorded them. I know maybe the FBI