2026 Updates Episode! Gas Taxes, Grudges, and FIFA World Cup Corruption

About this episode

The episode discusses various current events including gas taxes, FIFA World Cup corruption, and personal recommendations for mental health.

Visit Patreon.com/millennial to get exclusive bonus episodes, live stream access, and more! Visit our merch store: ⁠⁠https://shop.millennialshow.com⁠⁠ Follow the show in your favorite podcast app and leave us a review! Happy Pride, Millennials! We're kicking off with a Dumpster Fire Corner that basically writes itself — UFC fights on the South Lawn of the White House, an America 250 concert lineup that's... something, and Georgia gas prices ticking back up at midnight. Oh, and Jill Biden is doing press for her new book. We have thoughts. From there, we're checking in on our 2026 predictions, then catching up on stories we've been tracking: a jury found Live Nation acted as a monopoly, Ticketmaster's president admitted the queue isn't randomized (lol), and listener John asked us to dig into FIFA — so we went in on corruption, Qatar, migrant worker deaths, and whether we're personally watching the World Cup. We've also got a great mailbag this week — a listener used the confessional to blow the whistle on the current Ebola outbreak, a dispatch on government protests in Ireland from a Gen Z/Alpha listener on the ground, and a beautiful email about grandparents secretly canceling…

People in this episode

Hosts: Andrew Sims, Laura Tee, Pamela Gocobachi

Topics covered

• gas taxes
• FIFA World Cup corruption
• UFC fights
• Georgia gas prices
• Ebola outbreak
• government protests
• mental health

Keywords

• gas taxes
• FIFA
• World Cup
• Ebola outbreak
• Georgia gas prices
• UFC fights
• mental health

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Live Nation, Ticketmaster, FIFA

Places: Qatar, Ireland

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