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[14] This is the Dan Levatore show with the Stucats podcast.
[15] I know that people come to this show for distraction.
[16] We have a fun cast in today.
[17] I guarantee you we will be that distraction from what happened over the weekend.
[18] But we can't start this show without discussing the tragic events of the weekend.
[19] One person lost their life.
[20] A couple people are still receiving medical attention.
[21] injured from the assassination attempt on former President Trump's life over the weekend.
[22] And to say it was jarring to experience all of that, I think, is an understatement.
[23] I kind of felt numb.
[24] Where were you when you heard the news?
[25] I was sitting at home.
[26] I too felt numb.
[27] You start to ask yourself questions as to how this is happening in 2024.
[28] You start to think about the gun laws in the United States of America.
[29] You start to think about the Secret Service.
[30] You start to think about how lucky Donald Trump is to be alive today.
[31] And you wonder and you ask yourself, how could someone get that close with a rifle, with any sort of weapon to a former president and a guy who was currently running for president of the United States?
[32] I was numb as well.
[33] Yeah, I couldn't process all those things all at once that happened, I guess, in the several hours that followed.
[34] It was kind of eerie in that I was leaving the American Century Championship in Tahoe.
[35] And I remember when I was in high school, 9 -11 happened, and I was trying to piece things together by hearing people talk around the lockers.
[36] This was also like pre -smart phones and whatnot.
[37] And I remember picking up on certain things.
[38] And I thought people were talking about how Independence Day was airing on like Network Fox.
[39] It was a Sunday night movie.
[40] And I thought people were talking about that.
[41] And I started piecing together more of this information.
[42] It was kind of similar.
[43] I was leaving this golf course.
[44] And I heard people talking, like, President Trump was shot at.
[45] I was like, wait, what?
[46] So I ex -search Trump shots fired, and I see this incredibly strong image of Donald Trump bleeding from the side of his face, holding a fist in the air with the American flag behind him, a really striking image.
[47] And I start finding out what happened.
[48] And, yeah, Sue got all the same questions.
[49] Like, if a former president is there, this has to be.
[50] The Secret Service is there.
[51] This is one of the more secure places on the planet.
[52] And you realize the shot came from outside the grounds and you have all these questions.
[53] But it was a moment in time.
[54] I continued my walk.
[55] I got to the casino.
[56] Every TV had been either switched to news coverage or the news preempted what was going on.
[57] All the big time anchors were called in.
[58] Wall -to -wall coverage on this really horrific act.
[59] And then the processing starts happening.
[60] You try to find out, is anybody injured?
[61] Did they capture this person?
[62] The world that we live in right now, you start seeing all the misinformation on social media and you try to parse what's real, what isn't.
[63] And then you start processing.
[64] And my process was, I understand how we got here.
[65] And it makes me like really, really sad.
[66] in the last few years we had what happened on January 6th we had an armed assailant enter the home of the Pelosi's and try a politically motivated attack that severely injured Nancy Pelosi's husband there are things that we have seen recently both over the weekend and the last two years which I personally thought we'd never see in my lifetime Yeah.
[67] And now we're, we have this crescendo over the weekend of an attempt on Donald Trump's life.
[68] And I think in the days that followed, what really struck me was how normal everything seemed to be afterwards.
[69] I thought that this would still be something that everybody is living with right now.
[70] Well, what did you think was going to happen?
[71] We were going to cancel sporting events, things were going to, like, what did you think was going to happen?
[72] Yeah, because you could see, like, all the sporting events that happened that were on schedule that followed.
[73] and you started asking questions.
[74] Like, there's no way any of this would be happening if that bullet was a little bit closer to Donald Trump.
[75] And I was just really struck by how the world kept moving.
[76] And I want to hit pause on that because, no, the world should not keep moving.
[77] This is...
[78] Well, Mike, hold on a second, because Trump kept moving.
[79] Well, yeah, Trump.
[80] I believe he played golf yesterday.
[81] Yeah, Trump was pictured at the golf course, which, you know, I mean, people can deal with an attack on their life however they want.
[82] one of your supporters is in the hospital people can parse like what what the optics are there that's not but i do want to talk about the general normalcy that everybody just kind of fell into and no we we shouldn't be normal the there is a huge very clear and obvious spike in politically motivated violence sometimes it plays out in hate crimes um sometimes it may play out in hugely toxic rhetoric on your social media and unfortunately it's played out now with an assassination attempt on presently the leading candidate for president and we should do everything in our power to put our foot down and say this should not be normal this should not be reacted to in the way that it is we need to again it's cliche but use this as a moment to come together and I'm a little scared that we're not.
[83] You're scared because Biden said we need to come together.
[84] Trump has said he has scrapped his entire speech for tonight, Republican National Convention.
[85] He has scrapped the entire speech.
[86] He will talk about unity and dial it down a little bit and all of us coming together.
[87] You don't believe that is what you're saying.
[88] Because you have every reason to be skeptical about that.
[89] You do.
[90] I think that so far people are kind of meeting the moment saying the right things and sometimes not saying anything is the right thing, especially when you consider some of the track records here.
[91] But then I started processing like, well, what is my role in this?
[92] Am I a contributing factor?
[93] Am I making the discourse worse?
[94] Am I by calling out things that I see contributing to a toxic rhetoric?
[95] Do I want to kind of publicly check out on all of this?
[96] All these questions start popping up.
[97] What does this mean for my family?
[98] What does this mean for November?
[99] Is Is this going to be worse?
[100] Is this the start of something?
[101] Because that was a fear that I had, which was also post -traumatic stress from 9 -11.
[102] Because you start seeing things pop up on social media and you see all this increased security.
[103] And I really do hope that it looks like from a tragedy standpoint, we have the one loss of life.
[104] The former president is, as you mentioned, playing golf.
[105] Hopefully it all ends there.
[106] And we can all just take the temperature down, dial it back, and realize that we are percolating at an insane place.
[107] And maybe, hopefully in retrospect, that's the crescendo, and it doesn't get any worse after that.
[108] And I really hope the politicians involved take the opportunity to cool everything down because this was, it was something that doesn't happen here.
[109] And if I'm someone from another country...
[110] Happened in the 80s, hasn't happened since Ronald Reagan.
[111] Yeah, well, I was actually reminded this on social media.
[112] Someone threw a grenade at President Bush, and it didn't go off.
[113] Right.
[114] I was not aware of that.
[115] But, yeah, I would say that let's all take the opportunity to realize this needs to cool off.
[116] I'm really worried about our reaction to it, almost as much as I was made worried by the attempt.
[117] Now, let's talk about the attempt.
[118] We know some things about the shooter.
[119] Again, this is a very tricky time for misinformation on the Internet.
[120] But this happened in a state where the shooter got this gun.
[121] He's not old enough to rent a car in this state, but he is old enough to procure an assault rifle and take an attempt on the former president's life.
[122] He can buy that rifle, walk through a field, get to within 160 yards, I guess, of the president, former president of the United States.
[123] He can do that, but he can't drive.
[124] He can't drink.
[125] So if I'm saying things like this doesn't happen in our country, and I've seen the perspective of people from outside of our country, and they usually just turn and say, what are you talking about?
[126] Of course it happens in your country.
[127] Look at the last few years.
[128] Look at your record with gun violence and mass shootings, and that was another thing that I was.
[129] I started a process after the initial shock of the attempt on the former president's life is people can't gather and celebrate a common, a common tether anymore without the fear of this.
[130] That's supposed to be one of the more secure places on the planet and gun violence is lapping upon its shores.
[131] It's because guns are so accessible, Mike, in the United States.
[132] So we know that.
[133] Like, we've been down this many, many times.
[134] And hopefully this will lead to a changing gun law.
[135] but we know it won't it won't there were you know when sandy hook was allowed to happen you realize that we were at the point in no return this is an attempt on the former president's life if there's any kind of eye -opening moment when it comes to gun laws it would be that one i don't think we're going to see that but hopefully again the former president has been relatively quiet publicly he's put a couple messages out on true social but this is an opportunity to do something good when it comes to gun violence.
[136] But I don't think, I don't know how realistic that is.
[137] But there is some good.
[138] You'll find out tonight, right?
[139] There is some good.
[140] Like Donald Trump has first crack at kind of, you know, uniting the country, uniting the parties.
[141] They're never going to agree on everything.
[142] But at least they could dial down the temperature a little bit.
[143] And Donald Trump has first crack of that this evening.
[144] It's a huge evening for America.
[145] I think COVID was another one of these opportunities that the former President Trump had in his past where he had an opportunity to unify.
[146] And the discourse was such that we got just more extreme and more polarized.
[147] And I hope that that does not happen in the next few days.
[148] And I think this is a huge moment in time.
[149] And Donald Trump's reaction to it is hugely important.
[150] And I hope for the sake of everybody, we don't make things worse because that was scary.
[151] And you want to lean on, hey, that's not our country.
[152] In the last few years, kind of has been.
[153] And now we have this assassination attempt.
[154] And hopefully it's in our rearview mirror and not something that's predictive for the road ahead.
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[168] So it's a day on Lovettarche with Stuggets.
[169] We got Stugats back.
[170] Dan will be back in tomorrow.
[171] Shock that he missed today.
[172] It's open championship week.
[173] Yeah.
[174] For what it's worth, John Stewart isn't doing his show today.
[175] They're logistic issues for the daily show.
[176] So I know Dan wants wanted to be here, but I think with the travel coming back from Africa, that was too difficult to task.
[177] The plan was always for him to be in tomorrow.
[178] So he's going to be in tomorrow and it's going to be business as usual.
[179] It takes a lot to outshine what happened over the weekend in terms of security breakdowns.
[180] And Copa America, it's final.
[181] They tried.
[182] Hard Rock Stadium.
[183] Man, they did their damnedest to be the least secure place in America this week.
[184] Chris Cody, you were there.
[185] I was out there, terrifying, terrifying scene, really scary images, tons of people got roughed up, and let's get into why this happened, how it happened.
[186] Chris, you've been to several events at the stadium.
[187] Besides Miami, I mean.
[188] Well, you know, you knew there was going to be a shit show aspect to this.
[189] Once the final was announced, Argentina, Columbia, I was trying to explain to people outside of South Florida, what this was.
[190] I called it one of the biggest international soccer matches of all time.
[191] You told me it was the biggest.
[192] Outside of the World Cup, you could make a real argument that that was the biggest soccer match ever.
[193] And there were a lot of people, it's like, it's not even the biggest soccer match of the weekend.
[194] You got Spain versus England.
[195] Shut up.
[196] Get in price was like triple what it was for Euro.
[197] I know this market.
[198] I know those teams.
[199] I know its support.
[200] I knew it was going to be something to experience.
[201] And thankfully, the MLS helped us out, and we were there for it.
[202] But driving up, you already knew it was going to be bad news.
[203] Chris, you go to events there a lot of times.
[204] I'm a Miami hurricane season ticket holder.
[205] I was really concerned when I pulled up and I saw less uniform personnel than I do for a Bethune Cookman game, establishing a perimeter.
[206] But driving up is when you realize this could be a problem.
[207] I could have told you that a week ago.
[208] Well, look, this is a venue, Stu Gatz, that kind of successfully and quietly has become one of the premier venues in all of entertainment.
[209] There aren't places that can host world -class tennis, Formula One, Super Bowls, WrestleMania, Taylor Swift's, college football playoffs, the way that this one has.
[210] And it's done all of that without any public scrutiny, without any high -profile incidents.
[211] It's always been well organized and driving up.
[212] Yeah, I could tell right away that something was different about their setup and it was not going to be a good thing.
[213] Chris, did you have the same experience pulling up?
[214] It was just an insane amount of people.
[215] The vibes were actually great until you got up to the stadium.
[216] Like in the parking lot and the far parts of the parking lot, it was kind of normal.
[217] It seemed really crowded.
[218] And I was like, holy shit, everyone's got a ticket to this thing.
[219] And the parking lot was like, you can't get into the parking lot without a ticket.
[220] That rule was not followed.
[221] No one had a ticket.
[222] But, dude, when I tell you it was legitimately scary, every gate before, like at 7 when they were supposed to open, every gate, the four corners and like the VIP entrances.
[223] What I'm telling you, tens of thousands of people pressed up against it as if they were like trying to, like it was scary, dude, people banging on the glass.
[224] Like I understood why they were like, we're not opening this.
[225] And like Mike said, there was no barrier.
[226] So it was one of those things where as soon as they opened the door, they got bum rushed.
[227] the employees at that point were probably told, don't fight it.
[228] Just like, what are you going to do at that point?
[229] I didn't even scan my ticket to get in because the entrance that I was at got bum rushed to the extent that I was sitting there with my ticket, like, where do I scan this?
[230] And I just walked in because there was, it was chaos.
[231] There was fights.
[232] I saw someone got, like, kicked in the face.
[233] I saw a guy with his kid and the kid's, like, sobbing cry.
[234] It was legitimately horrifying for a good, like, 10 -minute stretch getting in there.
[235] So why was it that way?
[236] And I mentioned, like, the Bethune Cookman perimeter that they establish outside the stadium for Miami Hurricanes games of Miami Hurricanes and the stadium operations people.
[237] They pay uniform personnel to be on the outside.
[238] Cognoball, for whatever reason, who's a governing body here in conjunction with Concaf, they take over lead when it comes to stadium ops.
[239] So pulling in, you don't have the uniform personnel outside establishing a perimeter checking for parking for parking vouchers to get into the stadium.
[240] I, to get into my parking lot, had to make a U -turn that was really not efficient at all, and I was left on my own, on an island as a sea of people were moving from nearby places, being dropped off by Ubers.
[241] They were all on the street.
[242] So I'm getting waived at by stadium personnel, who is now inside the gates, who usually is outside the gates, telling me to come in.
[243] And I'm asking, how?
[244] How can I drive in there?
[245] there is right now presently as you're screaming at me not doing it in a kind fashion but i understand it's all crazy there's presently 80 people around my car right now you are telling me to drive through them without any uniform personnel guiding the way to come meet you there fine now i'm an outlier because they checked my parking ticket and to see if i actually had ticket tickets and i got in and then i got to the ticket uh place where i actually enter and this is the entrance I went in the entrance that I do for Hurricanes games all the time.
[246] And I know exactly how that place got bum rushed because I went to the front of a line after waiting for 40 minutes for a sweet entrance ticket.
[247] I go to a sweet entrance and someone tells me that's not the entrance for this.
[248] I'm like, what are you talking about?
[249] That's always the entrance for this.
[250] They're like, well, that's always the entrance for other things.
[251] But today, the entrance is over there.
[252] And he points to a singular door with a singular metal detector with a line that is wrapped around the venue.
[253] and he tells me to go to that entrance.
[254] So you're having thousands of every single person with a club -level ticket trying to squeeze into one door.
[255] Now, in front of me, there are fights, there's pushing, they're shoving.
[256] And once you start having two people pushing and shoving, it's a domino effect, more people push and shove, they crack open a door, you're hot, you got your family, you start making a run for it, you start pushing against.
[257] The entrance that I walked in was that entrance that you've seen on social media.
[258] That got totally destroyed, the 72 club entrance.
[259] that's where I walked in.
[260] I can absolutely see how that happened.
[261] I don't want to excuse the behavior of the people there, but I also think it was a byproduct of the entire setup.
[262] I've been out there for Miami FSU.
[263] Those people for Miami FSU, way more sauce up before the actual event starts than these people.
[264] This got out of hand.
[265] This got violent, and it was all because it wasn't mitigated on the front end.
[266] People made this situation worse.
[267] And you have families trying to defend themselves.
[268] You have cops now coming in with a full head of steam, making things worse, really pushing things because they're not stadium ops people.
[269] They're trying to manage this entire situation, which is already crossed through the threshold into a very dangerous public security matter.
[270] And so they're going to meet that moment with the type of aggression that you're used to seeing from Miami PD.
[271] It was all really bad, really scary, really messy.
[272] Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like hard rock stadium operations were allowed to do their usual job and had to take a back seat to a whole bunch of bureaucrats that don't know how to operate that stadium and we saw how it played out with people actually going into AC vents like die hard.
[273] Going into AC vents, people sneaking into the 200 level which is like the sweet level at points they had the doors shut with like something in it blocking it and people are like on the glass like, no, I have a ticket to be in there and they're just like nope, there's thousands of people out there were not letting you in.
[274] Just legitimately scary.
[275] At one point, I don't want to make light of this.
[276] At one point I almost grabbed a kid and did my I have a child thing.
[277] It was that kind of chaos.
[278] It did feel like Titanic.
[279] I have a child.
[280] It did feel like Titanic.
[281] It absolutely did feel like Titanic.
[282] What was the idea with the vents?
[283] We were playing the video on stream.
[284] I don't know.
[285] Were people going to get through like schematically through the stadium to like somewhere else?
[286] Is there like a place where you can like just hop out on the other side?
[287] Because what if you get in that bench?
[288] You start climbing.
[289] You're like oh shit I'm lost.
[290] Where where do I go?
[291] Mike and I were sitting in our nice suite and we were expecting like a head to like come through the air conditioning vent like up this place is taken all right next yeah we were absolutely expecting people to crash through the the top of the ceiling uh in our suite yeah mLS hooked it up we were in club live and if we had that difficult of a time getting in i can't imagine what people in the upper deck were experiencing again i told you the get in price for this was three times as much as it was for the euro final people had paid three thousand dollars and didn't even get their ticket scan some people were just stuck outside.
[292] Is there a chance that someone is stuck in a vent right now?
[293] There is.
[294] Wow.
[295] There absolutely is.
[296] I'm sure they're doing a thorough search, but yeah, absolutely.
[297] You say that jokingly?
[298] I would bet that there's one fan still in that stadium.
[299] I guarantee you.
[300] I guarantee you there's a fan that's somewhere they shouldn't be right now.
[301] Stuck, though.
[302] Potentially.
[303] Right.
[304] Yeah.
[305] Right.
[306] And you'd leave the stadium if you weren't stuck.
[307] At this point, you're banging, right?
[308] You're like, all right.
[309] And then once you get inside the doors, you realize that where are all the people?
[310] It was, the game's kicking off in 15 minutes.
[311] This is, I know there's a ton of people here.
[312] I just walk through a sea of people.
[313] Where is everybody?
[314] You knew the game would be delayed.
[315] And true, like, governing body soccer style.
[316] They were in the vents.
[317] There was a public announcement from some dude, I guess, an official from Karmnibol, with a bunch of cops behind them.
[318] And he was saying something that seemed important, but the sound wasn't working on the announcement, so I don't know.
[319] But I gathered that they were saying that because of what was going on outside, they were going to delay the game.
[320] The game got delayed about 75 minutes.
[321] I know a bunch of stories, and I know a bunch of people that tried to get to their seats.
[322] People were in their seats, and they had to handle it mono on mono, which is like, hey, get out of here, or I'm going to have to get security.
[323] And you had a couple people call them bluff.
[324] Go find the security.
[325] Security is bigger fish to fry.
[326] They're not going to help you out here.
[327] So a bunch of people had tickets.
[328] They didn't actually watch the match from the seats that were assigned to them.
[329] It was real bad, real bad.
[330] What time was the game supposed to start?
[331] Supposed to start at 8.
[332] And what time did it start?
[333] 922.
[334] Did you guys have a time in mind where like, hey, if it doesn't start by this time, it's a Sunday night, I've got to work tomorrow.
[335] Did you have a time in mind where you're like, hey, I'm going to bail on this game?
[336] I had that for if we didn't get let in, but we got let in around game time.
[337] So you would have waited until 11 if you had to?
[338] I was sitting, like, if it's 9 o 'clock and we're not even in the stadium yet, I'm leaving.
[339] I had a babysitter, and so I had to get back at a time.
[340] I also had a friend who had very nice seats that couldn't make it to their seats, and she was stuck outside, and I was worried about her because she was just by herself.
[341] So I wanted to make it out safely.
[342] I had started, I went to the bathroom, and I saw several police officers in riot gear, and I was like, this could be bad.
[343] At that point, you wonder, like, depending on how this.
[344] game ends.
[345] This could be a riot afterwards, and the police are dressed like they're expecting it to be.
[346] So I told Cynthia, let's leave at around like minute 80.
[347] And I take Cynthia, we go downstairs, the elevator doors open to the 72 Club.
[348] I see this disaster area, and I saw 200 Miami PD riot officers.
[349] It feels like an Armageddon type of movie.
[350] It was really scary.
[351] So that just made me want to get out of there more.
[352] And so I find, I find my friend, I get sworn by like 14, people trying to get a screen cap of my ticket so they can go inside.
[353] I'm like, read the room, pal.
[354] I get to the car.
[355] I drive through some barricades because I had heard that they closed off 27th Avenue, which seemed like a great idea at the time.
[356] Let me tell you.
[357] I just got some 95 exit.
[358] This is an action movie.
[359] I mean, you're driving through barricades.
[360] I had just watched Dante's Peak.
[361] I'm working on a limited fake.
[362] It's a good movie.
[363] Limited fake Pierce Brasen and Dante's Peak.
[364] You want to hear it?
[365] Yeah, please.
[366] I have to put the town on alert.
[367] What are you doing?
[368] You have to put the town on alert.
[369] He says that like 75 times in the first half hour Why are you working on this?
[370] You have to put the town on alert.
[371] But why?
[372] Well, it came, it actually came in handy because I got everybody in my Jeep and I started driving like Pierce Brasen and Dante's Peak.
[373] Put in the town on alert.
[374] It's a good thing you worked it out beforehand.
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[403] Oh, my God.
[404] What a weird interaction.
[405] What?
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[407] This is the Dan LeBatar show with a Stugat.
[408] Lucy, this would have been the best edition of off -roading ever.
[409] You really miss a golden opportunity here with Columbia, Argentina.
[410] When we went to Michigan, Ohio State, the fans were like swarming us and they were not nice.
[411] And that was just Michigan fans, so I could not be happier that I was not there.
[412] Well, it was a different shade of maize and blue, probably as incoherent and angry as you've ever seen.
[413] Look, there were a lot of people that wanted to be a part of that atmosphere that thought they just wanted to be around the grounds.
[414] They have that TV.
[415] It's actually set up for if you want to just tailgate and you have.
[416] have a ticket to do so.
[417] It's actually kind of a nice setup over there.
[418] We've seen with tennis and whatnot, totally different crowd three times.
[419] Also, I heard from some, this is my own reporting, from stadium ops people that I know at Hard Rock Stadium, company ball also sold more tickets than they actually had.
[420] So that was a contributing factor as to why more people were there.
[421] But, you know, this is an event town.
[422] You know that there was an expensive ticket.
[423] People were just going to want to be there around that atmosphere.
[424] year.
[425] And then people were like, well, shit, if everyone's going to make a run for it and some people are going to get in that stadium, why don't I?
[426] So it's a real mob mentality thing that spirals out of control.
[427] And thankfully, I was, dude, I went to bed as soon as that match ended, really afraid for what I was going to wake up to because I saw all those riot cops.
[428] I just thought, wow, Columbia is not going to take this loss well.
[429] And thankfully, nothing, nothing on social media afterwards.
[430] So kudos to law enforcement and stadium operations for salvaging what was a disaster and a huge black eye for a venue that is usually stellar in this department.
[431] I feel like everyone at the end was just like, we've done enough.
[432] Let's go home.
[433] Well, this is.
[434] Really?
[435] It was kind of like, I feel like we've caused it could have been up chaos for one night.
[436] It's after midnight.
[437] It's been a weekend.
[438] Yeah, we're all just a little tired.
[439] No one needs this in their life.
[440] Let's just go.
[441] International soccer matches, especially ones that have access to the secondary market.
[442] Keep in mind, a lot of these cup finals, there isn't a game time that you can go into in Europe.
[443] There is no such thing as a secondary market.
[444] I know that's hard to believe for club soccer.
[445] If you want to see a Premier League game, you're risking a lot if you're going to try to go to the secondary market.
[446] It's just not an aspect of the ticket marketplace over there.
[447] So you never see what you saw, which is all these rival fans sitting together.
[448] their pockets.
[449] Yeah, you have some silos, but you have sky blue and white shirts next to yellow shirts, and you're hoping for a lot of harmony in a really emotional game.
[450] A lot of yellow.
[451] And it was a lot of yellow, but we could all see that.
[452] There were some people saying like, oh, this is Messymania.
[453] I'm like, dude, you have no idea what Miami is.
[454] I'll get to him in just a second, but you cannot allow people who don't have tickets into the stadium, into the parking lot, to tailgate, to get all liquored up because they're so close to a game that they want to go to, there's a good chance that some of them are going to try to get in illegally.
[455] That's a terrible idea.
[456] Exactly.
[457] Cagat's your...
[458] Captain hindsight.
[459] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[460] They had a rule.
[461] No, you're not allowed in the parking lot without a ticket, but it was just hard to enforce it.
[462] Yeah, but Mike's saying there's a tailgating area.
[463] You're that close to a game that you really want to see.
[464] You're all liquored up.
[465] You've been drinking for four hours.
[466] Yeah, some people are going to get unruly.
[467] They're going to try to get into the stadium.
[468] Right, but you mitigate that by having a perimeter and you have different checkpoints that people go through.
[469] So they're not all bottlenecking.
[470] You don't have, like, one person there telling tens of thousands of people, no, you don't have a ticket.
[471] You have a ticket come on through because that's going to have a huge delay.
[472] You spread that out across all the entrances, which is what they do for friggin' Bethune Cookman.
[473] And why they didn't have it there for the Copa America Final, I don't know.
[474] I mean, I do know because Cominipal was in charge and Concaf was in charge, and they decided, no, we're the sheriff in town, you listen to us.
[475] To which I say, and I saw the mayor's statement on this.
[476] You're the cops.
[477] You don't say Kahnibal was in charge.
[478] You're in charge.
[479] You're the cops.
[480] What are you doing?
[481] Why is no one throwing their hands up saying, that's a bad plan?
[482] We do this all the time.
[483] I'm sure it happened.
[484] But look, this is how you get the cup final.
[485] You bend at the knee.
[486] You bend the knee to Kahnabaw and Kankakeaf and you say, you're in charge.
[487] We'll do things your way, even though our way keeps everybody safe.
[488] Even though Rway has a stellar record and is able to to host World Cup tennis.
[489] World Cup matches.
[490] We'll see if that happens in 2026 now on the heels of this.
[491] But Formula One, you name it, this venue can do it.
[492] But here, with Concaf and Kahnemanball involved, that's when we're going to decide we're going to be a shit show.
[493] Real bad situation.
[494] Not prepared.
[495] I mean.
[496] Real bad situation.
[497] Do you think soccer is dead still?
[498] I do.
[499] I mean, you stay up until midnight.
[500] You get a single goal.
[501] You get messy crying for no reason.
[502] I mean, just bawling on the sidelines.
[503] And what is going on?
[504] I'm serious.
[505] It's like a soap opera soccer.
[506] I mean, half the game is watching guys riding around on the ground, like they're in some sort of pain that they'll never, ever get rid of for the remainder of their life, and then they're up three minutes later, and they're fine, and they're running around the pitch.
[507] Guys, can we put up the ankle picture, please?
[508] Let's do got some.
[509] Sugat said Messi was crying for no reason.
[510] Look at that ankle.
[511] Look at the size of that ankle.
[512] I get it.
[513] Yeah.
[514] He was fine.
[515] I mean, he heard it in the first half.
[516] He got up two minutes later.
[517] He's flying around the field.
[518] He's doing whatever it is that Messi does, not scoring goals.
[519] And he's crying.
[520] Mike, I just can't get into the game.
[521] I tried to watch it last night.
[522] I did.
[523] You told me it was the biggest non -world cup soccer game in the history of soccer.
[524] I would argue, I would say some of those, you know, New York Arrows game, Shep Messing, Steve Zungle, they were probably bigger.
[525] Okay, that's club soccer.
[526] Totally different conversation.
[527] The history of international soccer.
[528] This is probably the biggest non -world cup match of my lifetime.
[529] But I try to get into it.
[530] It's delayed 90 minutes.
[531] The game finally starts.
[532] Guys are falling all over the field.
[533] They're faking injuries.
[534] And you get a single goal.
[535] It's midnight.
[536] Faking injuries diving all over the place.
[537] That's not a faked injury.
[538] I don't like the sport.
[539] I don't know what to tell you.
[540] That's totally fine.
[541] Yeah.
[542] I tried.
[543] I tried for you.
[544] I did.
[545] There were two games yesterday.
[546] You had Spain and England.
[547] That was two to one, I think.
[548] That was a good game.
[549] Right.
[550] What does it mean?
[551] They're European champions.
[552] So does Spain now play Colombia or?
[553] Spain is, well, actually.
[554] They should do that.
[555] Well, they're going to fix soccer now.
[556] They actually do.
[557] Next summer, they'll play like a final, I think, where they take the UEFA champion against a Cumbna ball champion and they have a really funny name attached to it and they play for a trophy.
[558] But what happens next is...
[559] Who's going to care in a year?
[560] What happens next is there's another euro in four years and someone will be named European Champion in four years, but in two years is a World Cup.
[561] That has nothing to do with what we saw over the weekend.
[562] It's just, you know, each qualifying region has a championship.
[563] They essentially have a World Cup just for their continents, and that's what happened there.
[564] So which one would you rather win?
[565] Like what's considered the better league?
[566] The World Cup.
[567] No, no, I'm talking about like last night's game or England and Spain.
[568] Which one's more impressive?
[569] Uwafah, I mean, if you look at FIFA rankings, look, they're both really hard to win.
[570] The World Champion presently resides in South America and entering that match last night, Columbia had the longest undefeated streak in international soccer.
[571] A really interesting team Columbia, because Hamas, I think he won't player of the tournament, Hamas, who everyone would consider a superstar, on the club side, really bizarre career, often injured, journeyman not playing well for much of the last 10 years on the club side.
[572] But on the international stage, he is so much better.
[573] He is every bit the superstar that he flashed in Brazil at the World Cup.
[574] He's incredible.
[575] It's a real huge gulf between who he is on the international stage and who he is on the club stage.
[576] And it was high drama, high theater, Columbia.
[577] I would essentially describe their talent and people may dismiss me for this.
[578] I know the clubs that these players play for.
[579] That is a rag -tag group.
[580] When Hamas is your talisman, when Hamas is your solid number, your number one name atop the team sheet, you're in a dire talent situation in your qualifying region, and they put together the longest undefeated streak entering last night.
[581] So an incredible game, tragic in some respects.
[582] I also saw children in the arms of their parents crying.
[583] It's hot.
[584] People, it becomes like survival mode out there.
[585] I can see how that spirals had a hand.
[586] Like the people had their hand in it.
[587] Law enforcement had.
[588] their hand in it.
[589] Government bodies had their hand in it.
[590] Huge failure from the stadium ops people that told me they knew better.
[591] They straight up said, yeah, that's the entrance usually.
[592] But for this, it's over there.
[593] You're having someone tell you that with a straight face, knowing how dangerous that situation's going to be.
[594] It's no wonder that that escalator on that side got totally destroyed.
[595] Got to slip that guy at 20, by the way.
[596] You have to.
[597] Hey, buddy, come on.
[598] I tried that move.
[599] Although on a night like that, it might be a C note.
[600] A C note, but I mean, come on.
[601] I saw Mike McDaniel walk up and get in.
[602] I'm I'm going to go over there.
[603] Yeah, that guy probably.
[604] His office, though, I mean.
[605] That guy probably has it figured out.
[606] He knows all the great vents to crawl into here.
[607] That's what the guy in the vent is, Mike McDaniel's office.
[608] Dude, you're saying.
[609] Suspended over.
[610] Look, can we show the video again of the people climbing into the vents?
[611] There is definitely somebody inside the air conditioning system.
[612] You make a wrong turn.
[613] I mean, you're going for a mile inside an AC event.
[614] I saw some guy just totally ditch his white.
[615] for a girlfriend because she couldn't get up the canopy.
[616] It was just like he tried to leg lift her.
[617] She fell back down and then she was just like, sorry honey.
[618] See on the backside.
[619] His ex -wife.
[620] Well, mob mentality is a very real thing.
[621] We see it spiral all the time with riots where you're like, well, this person's going to do it.
[622] And then you get altitude.
[623] There's a 30 for 30 on the Vancouver riots when Vancouver lost the Stanley Cup.
[624] And everyone's just like, I don't really know how that got out of hand.
[625] It's like, that escalated quickly.
[626] It's the Anchorman meme.
[627] But never against Bethune, though.
[628] Never against Bethune.
[629] It's crazy.
[630] Starting today, I can run to a national title with Bethune Cookman on a video game.
[631] Today.
[632] Still world a triple option over with Bethune or not?
[633] Shout out to the world.
[634] Shout out to the world for somehow making a 10 -year wait feel extra long as we approach the finish line here.
[635] Because today is the day for a lot of young men and women of a certain age.
[636] They're going to find out that they have a hell of a lot.
[637] less time to play this game than they used to.
[638] And I am ready for that culture shock, but Sue Gads, I have braced Cynthia for this moment for 10 years.
[639] You saw me out in Tahoe.
[640] We weren't working Tahoe.
[641] Taho was an anniversary trip.
[642] My anniversary isn't for another two weeks, but I strategized.
[643] I came up with a pathway.
[644] I was getting, no more trips.
[645] I'm not going anywhere.
[646] My next trip is Gainesville for week one against Florida.
[647] Big.
[648] My summer is clear.
[649] And it's clear for college football 25.
[650] You're not a part of this since I have two more trips to the sphere.
[651] What's your first season road schedule like?
[652] I mean, you do have some trips planned.
[653] I do.
[654] Yeah, well, we'll see what kind of neutral site games I can negotiate with Georgia Tech at the Mercedes -Benz Stadium.
[655] Seems like a great week -zero opponent for my Nevada Wolfpack that is now going to be perennial.
[656] the old national champions.
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