About this episode

Bridget Phetasy discusses America's indifferent reaction to the US men's soccer team's World Cup loss and other related events.

The US men's soccer team got knocked out of the World Cup by Belgium 4-1, and America responded by immediately going back to not caring about soccer. Bridget breaks down the Balogun red card, Trump calling the president of FIFA, and all the reasons why America will truly never care about soccer the way the rest of the world does. Also: two Russians illegally climbed the Empire State Building, got engaged at the top, and got arrested on the way down. She was raised in the circus. Obviously.&nb...

People in this episode

Host: Bridget Phetasy

Topics covered

• soccer
• World Cup
• American culture
• sports
• current events

Keywords

• soccer
• World Cup
• Bridget Phetasy
• Trump
• FIFA
• Empire State Building
• sports culture

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FIFA

Places: United States, Belgium, Empire State Building

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