Podbit · Fin vs History
Qatar had agreed with FIFA's $75 million Budweiser sponsorship deal to allow beer sales at the 2022 World Cup. Then, 48 hours before the opening match, they simply cancelled it. When your net wealth is $765 billion, FIFA's contract means nothing.
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Fin and Horatio close out their four-part World Cup series with a moment of genuine reflection: doing the research has been comforting, because it confirms that corruption was never an aberration — the World Cup has always been this way. Horatio delivers the episode's sharpest satirical line, noting that Sepp Blatter now looks like a high point in FIFA's anti-corruption history. The hosts pour one out for Chuck Blazer (dead at around 70), Mark Fuhrman (recently deceased at time of recording), and the rest of their assembled Mount Rushmore of toxic white dads. The final note is Fin's sign-off — 'It's beginning to look a little Christmassy' — a direct callback to Gary Lineker's Qatar World Cup pun, delivered with exactly the same level of commitment.
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