World Cup Concerns and Time Wasting

Audio newewspaper for a visual Wor. Hello Buglers and welcome to issue four thousand three hundred and eighty one of the Bugle Audio newewspaper for a Visual worldorld. I'm Andy Z Otzman here in London, in the shed where dreams come to die. Sorry, where I go and I wake up in the morning, Potato Patfa. It's the second of june twenty twenty six as we record. But the insert the date on which you are actually listening to this here, by the time you yourself are listening proving once again that either time remains unchangeable and the one constant in our otherwise fluid world or Time travel has finally been invented, delete according to whether you were listening to this after or before the second of june twenty twenty six. Anyway, joining me resolutely sticking to the presence where we all belong, frankly. delighted to welcome back to the buugle, R Lina and Mark Steele. Hello Hello, both of you. How are you Morning, afternoon night, insert here what time you're listening to us I'm finally. I've been to Germany to mart. Fb team win a win a a contrived cup Yes I mean that's it's andd's an odd sponsorship t contrived as a concept, but you know, I guess you got to se it. So this was the mighty Crystal Palace their their first European was the Europe the confference Lague Cference It' for the confonference League, but it doesn't really matter. you know, it could be called the round three Fruit Bastel confonerence and it would would be fine with that In what form did the conference element of this Um come about? Was there a sort of you know a special selection of speakers with PowerPoint presentations before before the players all have to get voted and then there's a big row on the floor. and of course you know some of the trade unions had a block vote. so that's how You know, that's how we won is the other team. their conference elected a sidebard as their left back. surprises me the Germans lost. they're usually very good at team sports. No the game was in Germany, but we were playing against the Spanish team. A Spanish team, I'd to say that is magnificent Ro Vllicano. and they are the poorer part of Madrid And they're very proud that they're not at Letico Madrid or Royal Madrid And so they u they what about this gave out leaflets to all their fans as they were going in, explaining the history of Crystal Palace Um, And and then waited forteen they had a big banner they brought out at the end, saying to be with you in our defeat is our victory and And then they waited for forty minutes to She it palace who were just beating them as we got the trophy. And then spent the rest of the night in the center of Leipzig just getting drunk and dancing about. So in the end I sort of thought, o no you've ruined it now because now volks you'd win, you're brilliant. That's the problem with sport. You need people to be absolutely devastated by defeat. Remember think think of the same in the cricketorld Cup final twenty nineteen when New Zealand lost on them In questionable circumstances, we' probably talked about on the bugle at the time that the initial game was tied. they had the super over sort of cricketetss equivalent of a penalty shooter. that was tied as well. And then someone found a rule saying that whichever team hit more Four on sixes in the game was the winner, which is a something that no one had considered at any point during the game and be a completely ridiculous way to judge a cricket match. It was one of the great in many ways, one of the great sporting injustices and New Zealand took it irritatingly well. They should have been on the floor bawling their eyes out the cosmic injustice of this And they ruin the moment by being good sports about it. There's no place for that in modern Sport. We're recording on the second of june twenty twenty six, as I said earlier on the fourth of June It is apparently national Cheese Day Um It wasn't entirely clear from my not particularly in depth research in what specific nation it is National Cheese Day When all is said and done and we're not all just part of the single great nation of humanity No, absolutely not, as proved by, for example, the past and the present and almost certainly the future. Also, when all is said and done never actually happens People just keep fucking nattering on and doing stuff one often leading into the other. Anyway, it is National Tuesday To commemorate which, here is the sound of milk being poured into a big bucket Then some bacteria being chucked in and a squadge of rena Sorry, Ren it, Rennit remo remove Jeremy Renner from the cheese. Anyway, if you'll come back and listen to this bit in a few days, it will sound like a piece of cheese. As always, a section of the bugle is going straight in the bin this week, well, Tony Blair The former British Prime Minister in two thousand three British mass protest prompting champion bleed his way back into politics last week With of all things an essay five and half thousand words long loosely entitled Why the Labour Party is shit these days compared to when I was the Labour Party. Basically in summary, This country ain't big enough for two labour leaders who won a sizable majority at a general election despite a low vote share of a dismal turnout leaving the party vulnerable to its shallow support dissipating over the course of the ensuing Parliament So we are a with the We are having a special commemorative essays section in the bin in which we set you essays about the world Your choice of essays, Buglus answered to in in over five and a half thousand words each Explain why military action works better when no discernible advance planning has been done ay number two The time for judging politicians by their actions and the results of those actions is rightly over. Discuss with reference to one or both of the forty fifth and forty seventh presidents of the USA say number three. The vast majority of species Deserve to go extinct. It's what's Charles Darwin would have wanted, discuss Esay four, explain exactly what the term endangered species means with reference to the fact that there are fewer billionaires in the world than there are tigers in the wild Eay five outline how the third millennium is on course to become the most annoying millennium in history and SA six compare and contrast the relative merits and deerits of dysentery and the Republican partarty in the twenty twenties So those your essays do send in your responses Top story this week The Iran warar. Remember that? It was all the rage a few months ago with an emphasis very much on the rage. And fans of completely pointless ego driven conflicts could be about to see their entertainment curtailed if a peace deal can be hacked out. but that remains B if, as it has for quite some time We're in a strange situation at the moment, don't you think that there's all this talk about peace deal and then sort of attacks happen and then it's no one is even worth trying to work out what is going on anymore, Mark No I are Jeremy Bowen, the BBC's foreign Affairs correspondent, who seems like a decent chat and seems very knowledgeable. And I heard him on the radio one morning a few weeks ago in this conflict and lit pretty much This is what he said This morning, the president said that he'd got a present from Iran was a huge present. He couldn't say who the present had come from or what it was, but it was a big present, the biggest of all the presents And he said he was looking forward to playing with the present and enjoying the present. And you could tell in Jeremy Bowens voice. He was so close to going I can do this anymore it's just what am I supposed to say? Tomorrow, am I going go This morning, the president said that he'd learned to fly, that he could fly like an eagle and that he fly better than all the other eagles have said he could fly better than the eagles. The other eagles have said he's got more feathers than all the other eagles and he's going fly through Iran and in the Straits of Hormmu is going to command all the other eagles to pick the Iranian ships and make them sink. and that certainly would transform the conflict can you begin to make sense of it? It's just a bllet But and and the commentators are on there going, well, the the negotiations at the moment are they it's just mad What's he going to do? announce that he's a cat and announce he's bought Iran and he's now turn it into a golden tower and put it on top of his aid. I just so you can't don't bother with it That's good advice, Mark.ia how I mean it's in terms of you know, sort of clearing up the mess, Donald Trump hasn't always come across as someone who scrupulously clears up after himself as a matter of ingrained Lifelong habit. and do forive me. Well, hang on to be fair, we've never seen those tapes from Russia, so we don't know who did the cleeting up That's true. And look, do forgive me if I'm judging a book by its cover contents title, author publisher and what sort of paper it's printed on and who the quotes on the cover are from and about how great the book is. never good one they' all from the author himself. And the price of the book, which is ruinously expensive, but has to be paid for in the future. So Look, it's it's hard to know what what's going on. what's your take on the situation Ria? I think it's one of those things you have to ignore. Do you know what I mean? Like I think we need to I think we need to remove all oxygen from the situation metaphorically and possibly literally and just and just Lave that fire to die out by itself. It's a weird thing to talk about having a peace deal. Peace deal suggests that both sides entered into this You know, notot that one of them jumped the other one in the middle of the night. Like it is so strange. L it's like if your neighbor went to the neighborhood across the other side of town and started beating up on someone else's house and then went, well, I'll stop if you you know, if you do all these things that I want you to do. you go, why are you all the way over there? Like he's never he's never once put anything in your bins. Why do you have an issue with that guy? I'm the one who keeps putting shit in your bins It just I think we just have to leave it. L this Hormz hokey pokey that we keep playing, like all these boats have got have got, you know, they need massages. They metaphorical neck massages for the number of times they're going, Oh, we go, no, we can't Oh, no wait can't they got like whiplash from going, canan we go canan we not go can go, canan we not go You know, and The one good thing that's coming out of it, though, apparently, is that Trump is using up all of their own gas and oil reserves in the US. And I'm like, that's not a bad thing because if he uses it all up in this conflict, he's going to have to endorse renewable energy for the next one, which know might make Greenland feel better. I don't think I think they got minerals, but I don't think they got squat else. so I think they're off the table. And they sit back and relax overnight, I think which Wait was that in relation to Iran or Eugene Carroll? Like what are we talking for here? I think Iran whatever happens, he's going to have to sell it as a victory, isn't he? evenven if it's the final deal is now part of Iran Yeah and I so far his victory is to replace Kimoni with his son. That's the At the moment, all that's happened and the place has become much stronger probably will be and they're even more appalling am vicious at shooting at all the dissidents, which is most people in the country So But he'll sell it as a victory, run it? he'll go This is the greatest vory They wanted New York, but they only had They only got Connecticut. yeah, R is absolutely absolutely right. It's it's you negotiate with you wouldn't do that with them That's what Israel does and they'll bomb someone else next because they're on a roll, aren't they? And they'll bomb Finland and say that I think Helsinki is hiding Hamas and Hezbollah underne the ice and they' They wherever they fancy. Wherever Israel's going to bomb next, it's a bit like the World Cup draw, isn't it Hot flam Guatemalo. But that would at least bring a bit of a bit of Manis war, I think. We've've said this said this for many, many years that war needs to learn from sport. and they'll probably end up. if it's like the World Cup they'll end up with a ludicrously convoluted format that no one's particularly interested in. but Oh yeah, the first yeah, yeah yeah. the four countries get bombed and first The two with the least amount of destroyed buildings go through to the next ground or the third ones go into a playoff go into a playoff with Maltar Iran, according to Reuters is trying to buy timey. and as soon as that was announced, the price of timeyme on the global market shot up uncontrollably So yeah, everything's up in the air frankly. I think the thing with saying it's impossible to know what's going on. I've come to the conclusion as a news consumer that I'm now only going to read the news ten years after it happened and then be able to see it with some sort of context Um And I think yeah, I think the world actually going back to twenty sixteen is probably not a good idea. but but I think there needs to be like a delay I think there needs to a delay on varings. So in America There should be a delay between pulling the trigger on a gun and the gun actually firing of twenty four hours U I think a delay on on news of, like I say, ten years Let stuff happen and then we can work out what we think of it ten years later with a bit of objectivity. B, we' all just rush into the moment these days and I think we've got to change Well, I mean, by that logic, I mean, let's look back, twenty sixteen, we voted to leave the EU. We thought we were wrong then. Definitely Definitely still wrong to not be back What about is one hundred and twelve years. So we just now be going should we have the First World War? Yeah. I mean I mean I don't think they the only one, wouldn't he? Yeahes Belgium has clearly you know they've been and the and the Kaiser with his ons of mass destruction and then No evidence for it He's not someone who learns from his mistakes, is he Blair Well, no, you can't you can't that's the last thing you can do these days, M. You can't leararning is a sign of weakness. that should be that should be clear now as a species as individuals I thought Blair had retired, you know, and that's why he doesn't wear his masks anymore and he just is his true like demon self. Have you I haven't seen a single picture of him in the last year that I haven't gone Oh, Oh, that's his face. Oh, that's for real. Oh my God, it's frightening, isn't it? And then the on we have the long hair where he looked like They look like like this is the picture of like u You imagine someone who had a couple of hits in nineteen eighty five Yeah, but like s what he looks like now in in his cell But now I was for because after he retired as Prime Minister, he immediately announced that he'd become a Catholic And I just thought, o, imagine the poor ice that has to take that confession Four fucking days I've been here and he's not even got as far as Iraq Um Yes. so but in terms of mostost pointless wars. ever ever f. if this war does does end relatively soon with basically notothing having having changed. We talked Q while quite a while ago on the Bugle fact episode seventy eight of the Bugle about the pig warar. have ever come across as eighteen fifty nine? Britain and America went to war about a pig. It onene casualty in the war, which was the pig. but it became known as the pig W, alth it was more of a just a preparation for a barbecue. But I think this could be Almost Almost up there rupt Britain newews Now. it turns out that the palace Not not Crystal Palace, but the Buckingham Palace as a building was given emails and buildings so often not so good at picking up on these things about Eprince Andrew's Activities as a trade envoy in twenty twenty, it was given these emails containing information about the Erstwild Prince's dealings with the with Geffrey Epstein He's facing criminal proceedings over allegations that while he was trade envoy for the UK, he'd passed sensitive government information to Epstein. I mean, in his defense, there's nothing in the job spec as trade envoy that said that trading didn't involve trading state secrets in exchange for access to trafficked women. So look, you can understand why he maybe didn't pick up on the on that. A new report has suggested that the palace ew like I said, you knew about this as long ago as twenty twenty. The palace hasn't yet responded under an ancient tradition under which the Ryal family has twenty years to produce its version of events, and it can do so in the form of a tapestry. It goes back quite a while. But It seems I mean he keeps cropping up in the in the news Andrew now known as Andrew Mountbatten. Mount Batton Windsor, there was a thirty thousand document strong archive? or was it a cach or was it a trove? We we don't know previously and also previously unseen communication revealing that in nineteen ninety nine, Buckingham Palace attempted to sell Andrew on eBay. There was a listing from the day eBay launched its UK site from an account named Lizzy Big Palaces offering a quotes, genuine prrince in need of repair with a starting bit of ten pounds. The auction expired without anyone making a bid withough another listing for spare Corgi fetch twenty three pounds seventy six and a broken sceptter. rumored to have been snapped into in frustration when the then Queen Elizabeth Is second mister blew off its spot when she was on for a maximum one forty seven break on the Royal Snooker table. That went for eight pounds plus postage But what are we to make of this I mean, perh, it'd be quite nice if this whole sorded story was was concluded quite soon through the proper judicial channels. it seems that there's no way of completely getting rid of this troublesome prince from our news cycle No. Well the trouble is he's not it would be dealt with like if it was normal criminal proceedings, but because he was once a royal punishment seems to be that every time a new thing comes out is title just becomes a bit more common Within about two years, his official tit will be And a you wener That's very much his un off fests yeah, he gets away with it doesnn't he He doesn't seem to show a great deal of rems, does he No I think that's that's been congenitally bred out of out of the the gene p, the remorse gene has long gone, I think Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of the guy. but I have to say with this story I thought to myself that if I have been completely untrained my entire life for the job and then handed the job of trade envoy for the UK, I too would struggle to know where the line is between what I can and can't say to people with money who are going to do trades. because you know, because imagine what his life is. likeike he was walking around doing nothing. They went,, this guy needs employment. They give him trade envoy. Now he's walking around with the same people. like every time he walks into an event, it's just everyone that he went to school with And some of them are politicians and some of them are not in politics, but some of them are lobbyists. L I'd also get very confused as to who I can say what to and when quite right,' been's been found out to be useless as a member of the royal family So they have to give him another job but he can't do anything So because he's been a member of the royal family. So it's a bit if King Charles was suddenly told you can't be king anymore But we have got you a job in quick fit and they can And you just cllutch is gone I need beays is the clutch what's No, you've got to just You must not to do that. you' Mcchany as a ger and then Yeah my guess would be ppointed customer And I guess you'd probably just try and stick a couple of horses on the frontks. that's you know all he's ever known this particular Niss and microbe brought in isn't a covered ball but I think that' that going wrong plate it, stick a couple of horses on the front. C't go wrong I mean, is this the same story kind of as the Mandelsen story where we cannot hold the guy to bl like Andrew we knew who Andrew was by the time we made him trade envoy. We like it was clear who he was. It was clear who Mandelson was. It was clear who his friends were It' clear that the man couldn't be trusted. Do we hold them to account for their own actions at this point or the people who gave them the job You know' absolutely it. No, that's absolutely it. It' be like if twenty years ago they'd gone we've appointed as trade envoit. Reggie Cry and then is Oh no, he's gone bloody shot Minister for trrade in Poland is shocking just Well, who could possibly have known? I was manager, right of the warehouse up at Morrisons point U security guard. And so his bear cut in and I'll give him the job, you know And I asked yeah If he was allright being left alone with food overnight a. And I thought, allright, that me, you know what I mean? they' coming in the next morning, he's eating all the sandwiches, the brawns of not, you know I mean how was all supposed to know that, you know? And then u S thing. turns out his previous job he was ask. He was put in charge of the woods, keep it clean. He's goingone and out of shit in him. and Yeah They've just released fifteen hundred more pages of stuff relating to Peter Mandleton. some por sowdust to trarawl through that for the newspapers. That might internal, pity for that role. Some of the revelations were described by a government minister as embarrassing for the government Although not, as you've suggested, quite as embarrassing as the fact that they appointed Peter Manddleton to a significant public position in the year twenty twenty four. And this is AD we're talking about, notly before people could have you know might not have known. AD AD. There's a brilliant one I've been trying to find it again because I've found it and then I've lost it I saw the Litial quote, O part of it in which Mandelson it says something like I feel that Kia isn't leading from the front. And Ed is absolutely no use and I did speak to Angela, but she isn't going to be able to correct this and the problem with Wes is that he won't listen And Andy is just going to cause more trouble And it's like It's like a sort of seven year old. L literally got a seven year old coming on and again and it's not fair, right? Because like I was at school right and then I got in trouble and it wasn't me what was talking because it was Angela and she got talking but she's a woman, then she gets away with it and then Andy com on and he's not even meant to be in the class and he wants to be in the class and wears and he's like and I asked him and he never done it and it's not fair's justust you your You useless horrible human being. Tony Blair, who's now making his big intervention how to save the Labour Py, is the bloke who gave us this brick I told us that his job wasn't done until the Labour Party learnt to love this f This is like p That's that job still isn't done by the sounds of it And finally, this week on the bugle, football newews now. and well, it wasn't just Crystal Palace that won a European trophy lastast week, a Qatari giants Paris Saint Germin beat America's arrsenal FC. I like to judge football clubs by their own not their geographical location. to in the European Champions League, the renowned football competition isn't really a league andf which you don't have to be champions to qualify. I miss living in a world where words meant something. Anyway, I'll be honest I didn't watch the game. I was watching the tennis, which has been sensational But after a one one draw and a penalty shootout there was a victory for Paris andermin, and celebrations in Paris that resulted In seven hundred and eighty arrests, two hundred and eighty people being injured, including sixty police officers, looting, people throwing chairs around, cars being set on fire. I mean that's quite a weird form of celebration. I would say, u mean whether you can call it a full ot or not mean also, French history suggests that big ots in Paris generally do cal down within decades. So its not much to go over But I mean, Mark, it's it's it sounds like the celebrations at the palace final were rather good rather rather good natured by by comparison. was a bit There were a few scuffles before before the game, but that's, you know it's it's football. That's what the sport is all about is is as a vehicle for the repressed fury of society. But I mean that seemed Celebrating winning by having seven hundred and eighty people arrested seems that maybe that celebration went a little too far. What do you think Well, as you say, it's France, isn't it? I mean, it's if you're become a citizen in France, then part of the citizenship is that you are show and I know because I've seen this, you've shown a sort of film in which you're told that you're now U you're now at liberty to take part in protests and demonstrations and that sort of is part of the thing of being French and you know that's what That's what they've gone and done and every you know, someone lives in a village and they're told onlyn goes out of the village once every two years to the town when there is a new development new law is passed and so it burns down the townhll in protest against the new potato regulations And that's what you do. So they win Paris and Germain win. They're not very they're not entirely popular within Paris, I think, Paris and Germain because they're such a symbol pivulence and stuff Um sort of I don't know. Are you glad they won Really from a sporting point of view. there are weirds I've almost completely lost interest in football Um, But they're a beautiful team but with a fairly kind of They also exemplify everything that's bad about the sort of the politics and financing of of football. so it's Yeah, I don't I like when they had all the top stars, they couldn't win because all the top stars were just playing for themselves. You know, I don't watch football, don't follow it, don't like it. think it's just a substitution for war evidenced by what their fans do afterwards. However, I did watch the penalty shoot out And I think football needs to have two different categories of win. I wouldn't call that a win. I wouldn't say, I don't think PSG should be able to say we won that game. I think that Arsenal should say shit, we lost that game. because Be they didn't win. They just they just kept shooting goals until somebody missed. That's not a win. That is not honorable. That's probably why they, you know, went running through the streets. They just went a cake and we didn't want them to have cake or whatever it is that the French do when they You know, genuine because, you know, that that stupid little that stupid little stutter The guy did that made him miss that last N. No, that's the other rule. I think you should bring it Oly Ronaldo Fernandez can stutter and score. So stop trying to do it You can't just accept you can't do it. You can't do it mighty there. I think that should be. I think there are certain things that Kirstam was clearly incapable of anything of changing anything very much for the better There's certain things he could do and I think one of the things he could do is make that stuttering thing when you take. Illegal, no trial, straight to jail, ten years because it it just it just works Like if I'm a poker player, that does that that's not good GTO. That is not good game theory optimization. The stutter does not work Most of the time. so stop trying to do it like will be the equivalent in poker of the stuttering sort of as you're about to end uping a seven two offsuit when someone else is clearly representing aces. You know what I mean? S, I don't know what you mean, but. because seven two offsuit statistically the worst hand that you can play. But if you win with it, it's the most glorious fake out. you know, it's the most glorious bluff that you could do, especially if you win against aces, which is statistically in the starting round, the best hand that you can play. I'll very much take your words words for that. seven two off suuit, is that the same as a seven two off side field in cricket or am I getting anyway, It's very similar in that if you're playing either one, you don't know what you're doing I don't know what you just said. I what you just said. You were you need duolingo to and cricket So got with the World Cup starts in well, just about a week or so's time as I mentioned earlier on Like I said, I'm not as interested in football as I used to be and this particular World Cup. I'm really struggling to find any enthusiasm for. It feels to me, Mark that basically this World Cup is going to be a combination of exhausted players, stifling heat Tactical caution, rubbish former, Jooyce Sapping officiating aggressively overpriced everything orrganized by a travesty of an organisation in a country headed by complete Charlatan. Is this the beautiful game anymore? Mark Well, all of those things plus one of the one of history's great psychopaths, making sure that he's in the centre of all of it. And then Are they actually going to do this like a half hour halfim for the final so that they can have one of their stupid shows like the Super Bowl, like they're embarrassed that it's a game of football and they've got to get Cld Blade to come and do some shite in the middle of it and then just as if as if there was any lingering, lingering for me that it would be worth watching Adam Waron from Crystal Palace wasn't picked by Thomas T So the whole thing. I'm going to be watching Badmintston on Sky Sport seven. I think that half hour show iss going to really backfire on all of the cities that implement it because if we've learned anything from this week, it's what fans can do with a city in half an hour, look at parents. Like if you give them half an hour, they will go out, they will ransack your town and then they'll come back for the second half, but they're not going to stay. I guess in America also if there's, you know, if there is sort of football related violence that we've seen this week it would be quite hard to tell who are the football fans and who are the Iice agents and it could get could be very, very complicated. That's a game I would watch. Football fans versus IC. I would totally show up for All right. But we need to be very clear what we mean by a penalty shootout U at the end of that match because that could be deadly What a deportation from the plucky little agent R Minia The format forty eight teams, thirty two of which get through the groups days and then there's not it used to be simpler. there was, you know, in early World Cups, there was one team, England And we simply knew we were the best so there was no need for an actual tournament. And it's got more and more complicated progressively. over over the years. One thing FIVA have done belatedly is announce a clamp downown on goalkeepers pretending to be injured to allow their managers to sneak out like an extra tactical briefing ono There will still be loads of other time wasting done't whereabout. FIFA's not ready to completely abandon that noble part of the sports Sorts heritage. but What do you make of this Mark? Be I mean, it's been one of the, you know, the real areas of progress in football, the different ways people have found to waste time. Obvious it could easily be solved by just having aoping clock like you do in ice hockey and otherensible sports but football can't can't be seen to learn from any other sport. So I mean where do you see the next frontier and time wasting coming after this? Well, I think there should be a simple rule that I think people like Ria who don't like football, I think would be encouraged to watch it if they just changed one rule that whenever a player pretends to be injured and they're not injured If a doctor says, no, they weren't actually injured, O teams should be allowed to inflict the amount of pain they were defended theal Oh I think the doctor would just go. I think a spanner in the bollocks would be about I'm now That would be even. Yeah R simple. You're right. I would watch that. I would watch that. But if If that meant that all football players matured overnight into adults that don't keep feigning injury and you know then it would again become a very boring game to watch. You'd have to come up with some other way to keep me entertained Well, the way they roll, I think that they could because they sort of sometimes roll over. they on the ankle, it might not even be a fail. they fall over And some of them roll eight or nine times And I think there should be a special prize in this World Cup for whoever rolls the most. So they roll actually out of the ground out into, u out into the streets of Baltimore or wherever they are or three miles. Yeah He's still going. He's now out of the city virons and he these Gone onto a subway He's gone onto a train and he's roolling all the way It's really, really disappointing. And I think Donald Trump has done a lot of bad things with Iran and IS agents and generally sort of total destruction of democracy and hope around the world. but The thing Iate and foremost is he's ruin this World Cup That will be his lasting legacy Thank you for listening. Buglers, Rear, anything the plug Go on my Patreon. 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