Podcasts about american fiasco

Very few are as knowledgable and passionate about America's intervention in Afghanistan as the great Scott Horton. Listen to hear the Director of the Libertarian Institute, host of the Scott Horton Show and author of "Enough Already" break down the absolute ridiculousness of America's activity in Afghanistan.

Trump lawsuits, still no proof, antivax, anti mask, anti justice, anti brains America is in trouble if we can't make this country smarter.

Lisa Hanawalt is known for creating worlds populated by animal characters that reveal so much about the human condition. Her illustration and design work includes Tuca & Bertie, BoJack Horseman, Coyote Doggirl and Hot Dog Taste Test. She sat down with Paula Szuchman at the 2019 Werk It Festival keynote to talk about creativity, collaborating, and her love of horses.  Paula is the Vice President of New Show Development at WNYC Studios, where she has worked on shows such as 2 Dope Queens, Sooo Many White Guys, Nancy, Late Night Whenever, Ten Things That Scare Me, American Fiasco, and many more.     Visual references from this episode:• Lisa’s custom suit she wore to the 2019 Emmy Awards (link)• “She Draws Deeply Human Characters. They’re Just Animals.” by Amanda Hess (The New York Times, April 29, 2019)• Lisa’s Baen Chunch t-shirt design on Threadless• Music video for “Hang on to the Night” by Tegan and Sara directed and designed by Lisa Hanawalt.   Hosted by Dessa, Werk It: The Podcast is the ICYMI version of the live event. Both the festival and the podcast are produced by WNYC Studios and are made possible by a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting with additional support from the Annenberg Foundation. Event sponsors for Werk It 2019 include Luminary, Spotify, Spreaker, Acast, Himalaya, and the Women’s Foundation of California.

Vad kan vi lära oss av Raheem Sterling? Vilken otrohetsaffär påverkade VM 98? Var Jonas Lantto ett geni 40 år före sin tid? Dessutom: Messiaskomplex i Östersund, MLS-final, blundskyltar, American Fiasco, Orrenius Fiasco, Carolas hockeyhälsning och Olle Kullingers pläderingar nu och då.

Vad kan vi lära oss av Raheem Sterling? Vilken otrohetsaffär påverkade VM 98? Var Jonas Lantto ett geni 40 år före sin tid? Dessutom: Messiaskomplex i Östersund, MLS-final, blundskyltar, American Fiasco, Orrenius Fiasco, Carolas hockeyhälsning och Olle Kullingers pläderingar nu och då.

Join Will (Lardteamaker), Chris (Hurgleman) and James (TGWPIS Spike) on the new season of fun, hijinks and occasional commentary on video games.  Live Every Friday Night 7pm EST on twitch.tv/tgwpis And if you Enjoy the show come and join us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TGWPI As well as all our other sites. https://www.youtube.com/c/TheGameWontPlayItself twitter @tgwpis instagram @tgwpis

Join Kayti and John as we look back at the stunning England-Croatia game and the unmemorable France-Belgium game. Then we look ahead to the Third Place Game and the Final. Who do we want to win? Who do we think is going to win? What do we hope for the Third Place Game? Also- We talk about Cristiano Ronaldo's move from Madrid to Turin and ask, "where?" and "why?" Finally, a plug for a podcast about one of American Soccer History's worst moments, depicted in "American Fiasco." Listen, won't you?

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The ninth episode of Rog's new 12-part series on U.S. Soccer's 1994 rise and 1998 fall, which he made in conjunction with WNYC Studios. For more episodes, go to www.FiascoPodcast.com.

The third episode of Rog's new 12-part series on U.S. Soccer's 1994 rise and 1998 fall, which he made in conjunction with WNYC Studios. For more episodes, go to www.FiascoPodcast.com.

It’s the show where we talk about what we like! In What’s Happening What’s Up, your pod docents cover the World Cup, predicting who will win and choosing who they want to win. Our recommendations for the biweek:Taylor rec #1The TV show “Hate Thy Neighbor”https://www.viceland.com/en_us/show/hate-thy-neighborJacob rec #1Half Waif “In the Evening”Taylor rec #2The podcast “American Fiasco”https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/american-fiascoJacob rec #2The musical “Soft Power”Read about it here: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-cm-soft-power-20180506-htmlstory.htmlWe also get into your recs and more! Follow us here:instagram.com/goodtastepodtwitter.com/@jacobthewilson twitter.com/@taylorjaywilsonEmail us: goodtastepod@gmail.comLeave a review and something you want us to check out and we’ll do so! Click here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/good-taste/id1331981072?mt=2Our advertisers:Our intro song is by Koihttps://open.spotify.com/artist/6MhwQdck5uQDaUUf0wI1kj?si=vzuRLjPCSBSPoCi6wpPOOARival Sports Club https://www.spreaker.com/show/rival-sports-club

It’s the show where we talk about what we like! In What’s Happening What’s Up, your pod docents cover the World Cup, predicting who will win and choosing who they want to win. Our recommendations for the biweek: Taylor rec #1 The TV show “Hate Thy Neighbor” https://www.viceland.com/en_us/show/hate-thy-neighbor Jacob rec #1 Half Waif “In the Evening” Taylor rec #2 The podcast “American Fiasco” https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/american-fiasco Jacob rec #2 The musical “Soft Power” Read about it here: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-cm-soft-power-20180506-htmlstory.html We also get into your recs and more! Follow us here: instagram.com/goodtastepod twitter.com/@jacobthewilson twitter.com/@taylorjaywilson Email us: goodtastepod@gmail.com Leave a review and something you want us to check out and we’ll do so! Click here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/good-taste/id1331981072?mt=2 Our advertisers: Our intro song is by Koi https://open.spotify.com/artist/6MhwQdck5uQDaUUf0wI1kj?si=vzuRLjPCSBSPoCi6wpPOOA Rival Sports Club https://www.spreaker.com/show/rival-sports-club

What do you do after you’ve just crashed and burned in a World Cup? That’s what the entire 1998 U.S. men’s national team was asking themselves, including the coach. The day after the team lost to Yugoslavia in its third and final World Cup game, Steve Sampson told the Washington Post that he wanted to remain head coach and that he wouldn’t let a few disgruntled players dictate his future. He even threatened to fine players who had aired their grievances in the press.   But Sampson was smart enough to know he was headed for the exit. His boss, U.S. Soccer Federation president Alan Rothenberg, asked Steve to meet him for breakfast in Paris first thing Monday. Sampson remembers: “I offered my resignation because I felt it was the right thing to do because I had lost three games in a world championship. I didn't want Alan to feel as if he needed to fire me. Before he could get it out of his mouth, I offered to him to resign from the national team." An autographed U.S. national team jersey from the 1998 World Cup. Most of the players returned to the U.S., eager to forget the painful losses in France. But for Frankie Hejduk, the end of the World Cup marked a new beginning. He was actually kind of -- elated. Amid all the drama swirling around the U.S. national team, Hejduk and his agent negotiated a contract to play with Bayer Leverkusen, a top-flight German team. This California surfer and reluctant soccer star was headed to the big time in Europe. (Soccer Digest, November 1998) “It's crazy how that works out, right?” Hejduk remarks to Roger Bennett in American Fiasco. “It ended up changing my life in probably the best way ever because I wouldn't be here with you, doing interviews, I wouldn't be fishing. I wouldn't be hitting golf balls off my back deck.” Hejduk’s excitement, of course, was the exception. Most of the team returned to the U.S., eager to forget their humiliating defeat in France. More than anything, 1998 was supposed to be the year that this group of guys, playing this game, finally won over the great uncaring American audience to establish the game they loved as a truly major league sport. Roger Bennett with former U.S. national team defender Marcelo Balboa at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Denver, home of the Colorado Rapids. Balboa spent most of his MLS career with the Rapids and is a coach with the team’s development academy.     “The boys had blown it. We had really lost of lot of respect from the world and internationally,” says striker Eric Wynalda. “Not until Brandi Chastain saved it in 1999, did we have a good feeling about the sport.” That was the year Chastain won the World Cup for the U.S. women’s team in a dramatic penalty shootout. Soccer was once again breakfast table conversation, because Chastain and Mia Hamm were plastered all over Wheaties boxes.   It’s been 20 years since the men finished last at the World Cup. The petty grievances, the outsized vanities and the rank embarrassment have mostly faded away. Since then, soccer has arrived in the United States. Dozens of leagues are broadcast on American television. EA Sports FIFA isn’t just a best-selling video game; it’s an educational tool that is introducing generations to the rules, teams and stars of the sport. International icons Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi regularly poll in Americans’ top ten favorite sports heroes, outranking their N.F.L., M.L.B. and N.B.A. counterparts. This past season, 72,000 fans packed a stadium in Atlanta and set a Major League Soccer attendance record. The two previous records were held by, wait for it, Atlanta. And today, though Americans were embarrassed that the U.S. men failed to even qualify for the 2018 World Cup, worry not. The U.S. Women will — let’s pray — redeem us once again at the 2019 World Cup. After all, they’ve won three World Cups to date. As for the men’s team, hope still burns in the hearts of American soccer evangelists and 1998 survivors like Hank Steinbrecher. “We're Americans,” Steinbrecher tells Roger in the final moments of the podcast. “Let's climb Everest. Let's go to the moon. Let's cure cancer. Go for it. Let's win a World Cup.”  

When the U.S. men’s national team departed JFK International Airport for France on June 5, 1998, many players assumed they were headed straight into the heart of World Cup action. Fourteen hours later, they arrived in the middle of nowhere. It’s common for elite national teams to train in isolation during the final days before the World Cup. Argentina was holed up in the town of L’Etrat, in the Loire Valley. The English were hiding out on a golf resort an hour west of Nantes. U.S. head coach Steve Sampson wanted the same thing for his players. “We were staying at the Chateau de Pizay, in one of the finest hotels in the world,” he tells Roger Bennett in episode 5 of American Fiasco. “We had a five-star chef preparing meals for these players. We had a magnificent training ground. France, Brazil and England all stayed there and I felt it was good enough for our national team.” However, the Chateau de Pizay was surrounded by 130 acres of beaujolais vineyards in Saint-Jean-d'Ardières, four hours away from Paris. Defender Marcelo Balboa remembers his frustration. “You're like, 'We're isolated up in a mountain, in a vineyard where I have to ride a bike into town 10 minutes just to get out and go do something.' We were like, 'Why are we being isolated? Why are we being secluded? Why are we being put by ourselves out here?'” Jeremy Schaap, then an ESPN reporter embedded with the team, explains: “Look, mostly these were guys who were expecting something out of the World Cup akin to what Olympic athletes get out of the Olympic Village.” “We wanted this to be ridiculously special for the players,” says Sampson. “It cost the Federation a lot more money than they anticipated.” But his players just couldn’t -- or wouldn’t -- hack it. In the Chateau, their gilded prison, the inmates were going a little batty. “It looked great from the outside,” remarks forward Eric Wynalda. But inside? “It was Hotel California, man, and we were inside those walls trying to figure out how we could just get through the next day.” Everyone had their way of coping. High-stakes poker games were popular. Midfielder Preki Radosavljevic soon amassed enough cash to fill a sock he slung over his shoulder. (“Most of it was mine,” notes Wynalda.) Once, press officer Jim Froslid saw a pot that was about half his salary. Needless to say, he didn’t join the game. Forward Brian McBride read the New Testament cover to cover for the first (and only) time. Midfielder Brian Maisonneuve told a reporter he was reading les pages jaunes … the yellow pages. Meanwhile, veteran midfielders Cobi Jones and Earnie Stewart were spotted having conversations with the local ducks. Each of these men, everyone on that team, had devoted his professional and personal life to this moment. They’d all made enormous sacrifices to be here, had beaten out every other American to make the squad, and then competed against each other to lock down starting roles. They’d desperately tried to impress their coach even when they did not understand what he wanted from them. They had lost their captain. And now, they felt they were losing their minds. On June 14th, 1998, the first kick-off was just a night away. Come morning, the U.S. would battle Germany on the football field. The whole world would be watching.

After chronicling the rise and fall of the 1998 U.S. national team, Roger Bennett -- like Marty McFly in Back to the Future -- jumps into the DeLorean, sets the coordinates for present day, and blasts through space and time to return to 2018. Where he learns the Americans are once again mired in a World Cup fiasco. Fortunately, the smoking-hot time machine has returned him to a studio at WNYC, where Roger sits down to talk with Freakonomics Radio host Stephen Dubner about the 2018 World Cup, including the U.S. team’s failure to qualify for the tournament. They also deliver a primer on all the compelling drama that will unfold in Russia over the next month, including Lionel Messi’s quest for vindication with Argentina, Cristiano Ronaldo’s eight-pack, and the Icelandic underdogs who swear they have Viking blood coursing through their veins (but are also being coached by a part-time dentist.) Plus, Roger learns that Dubner, a soccer fan who hosts the podcast Footy for Two with his son Solomon, fell in love with the sport at his alma mater, Appalachian State University. The Division I upstart Mountaineers, as it turns out, were coached by none other than Hank Steinbrecher, the former U.S. Soccer executive and all-around soccer patriot who plays a key role throughout American Fiasco. Later, with the announcement of the 2026 World Cup host coming this week, Roger weighs in on whether the joint bid by the U.S., Mexico and Canada has a shot. And, he predicts that -- somehow, some way -- the United States will win the World Cup in 2018.

The first episode of Rog's new 12-part series on U.S. Soccer's 1994 rise and 1998 fall, which he made in conjunction with WNYC Studios. For more episodes, go to www.FiascoPodcast.com.

American Fiasco isn’t Roger’s only podcast gig. Along with his great friend (and fellow bald) Michael Davies, he hosts the soccer show Men in Blazers. That show’s unofficial slogan -- “Soccer. America’s sport of the future, as it has been since 1972” -- is based on the hilarious expectation that soccer is forever tomorrow’s sport. Always on the horizon, having never quite arrived. When Roger first came to the U.S. in the 1993, Americans were not just inured to soccer’s charms. They actively disliked it. Roger was fascinated by their malice -- and about what’s important to Americans in sports. Even today, with the rise of MLS and growth of the game nationwide, soccer still has its skeptics who savor a good dig at the game. In this bonus episode, Roger sits down with Dan Katz, better known as Big Cat. The Barstool Sports personality and host of Pardon My Take explains why he and other Americans won’t take soccer seriously, in part because of its time-honored association with orange slices and Oreos.  

Coming June 4: Join host Roger Bennett of Men in Blazers for this true tale of the U.S. men's soccer team's quest to conquer the 1998 World Cup. American Fiasco is a 12-part series based on over 30 interviews with the players, coaches, and media personalities who lived out this sporting descent into madness.