World Cup Final Fixing Theories and Psychic Octopus
Spain defeated the Netherlands in the 2010 World Cup final, an outcome predicted by the hosts based on theories of political necessity and match-fixing. The high number of yellow cards issued by the English referee and the eventual red card in overtime are cited as evidence of a scripted "playbook" to prevent slave revolts in economically distressed Spain. Paul the Octopus, the famous animal oracle, has reportedly been retired from the prediction business following the tournament's conclusion.
world cup· spain· netherlands· fifa· paul the octopus· match fixing
00:00 You're right, it'll probably be point of discussion all over the place by a bunch of morons. Adam Curry John C. Dvorak It's Thursday July 15th 2010 time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination episode 217 This is no agenda The best bookies in the business! And coming to you from the Hilltop Watchtower, Crackpot Command Center and Gitmo Nation West here in the People's Republic of Southern California. In the morning I'm Adam Curry There is no oil in the San Francisco Bay. I am John C. Dvorak It's crackpot and buzzkill...in the morning!
00:40 In the morning to everybody and good morning to you and in the morning to the ships at sea. And all of the human resources listening to us live now at noagendastream.com, and in the chat room at noagendachat.com Hello Human Resources! Are you nice and charged? Your government needs you today. Yowza! Hey man I was mentioning on the pre-stream there before we got started that we actually have not spoken with each other since Sunday's show and thats great. Great Yeah its awesome Last night I went to bed. I was actually excited Oh, I get to do the show tomorrow get to talk to John You know it's like nice so I thought you had to get up early and pick up your daughter No that was yesterday yesterday And you haven't got them all edge would say you wouldn't pick her up They lost our luggage and you haven't gotten it back yet Yeah, yeah usually comes within 24 hours well It's not 20 fits like now its 12 hours is not quite 24 hours yet what airline
01:32 KLM, but unfortunately the baggage handling in the US side because they're now a big consortium with Air France and Northwest. It's handled by Delta so that's... Delta I hate Delta Yeah it doesn't sound really positive But they were able to track it down that actually what was on the plane and they know what bin number it was in So that's a positive They say well, maybe someone took it off the the belt and took it home by mistake And like and you know Christina's like dad. It was 29 kilos I don't think you know people can make a mistake with a bag based upon what it looks like but not when You pick it up me like that's not so that had 29 kilos of dope in it Poppies my friend nothing about poppies now his shoes shoes
02:26 Well, she's here for two weeks and you know, she needs a young woman needs her outfits man. Here's what the irony is Now there's a couple of things possible one There was no baggage and you're gonna have to buy all kinds of cool stuff I actually already offered that said no. No, this is my collection This is my cool stuff now. She yeah. No, that's not it So what's the other one? That was the other one too John even though it's been Like four days now, I do think we need to just stop briefly and just say we got it right on the World Cup. We are the best bookies in the business you can count on us! Yeah
03:09 No, we nailed it. The joke of it was we finally agreed on what was going to happen and why... Well I pretty much got right to the very end but you beat me eventually because you actually nailed the score cause I was thinking the scores and I thought that they were going to run up the score but they couldn't get a goal And so when it turns out that uh We got the whole scenario figured out accurately and you actually had the score You could have cleaned up. You know what's interesting is now that I was watching because, I mean...I don't think you or either of us watched any games. I think i watched a little bit of USA and I saw the last five minutes of Holland semi-finals but three more than three weeks before the final I said look Spain and it's because its fixed and because Spain isn't in biggest disarray right now and they need to win so that the slaves don't revolt
04:06 And that was the only theory based on nothing else and with no proof of anything just a theory. Now I will point out that Spain by the way, learned later they were the European champions so not like a sucky team but I was wondering... No none of their teams were good except for US where there's a couple... Nah nah they weren't that bad but i was thinking how do they fix these games? and now I figured it out Because you know it's with these yellow cards. So when you have one yellow card, if you commit another foul then two yellows equals a red and you get kicked off. And so I mean come on de Jong the Dutch guy who karate kicked Bruce Lee the Spanish player? I think there were some players that possibly could have been committing fouls on purpose. The ref who was an English ref
04:54 Former police officer, you know he maybe I think was the most yellow the most penalty cards ever Or foul cards ever in a World Cup game So he was handing him out like candy left and right and of course You know the minute that happens then everyone has to slow down because you can't have your good players You know getting kicked off of the field because when you're off then you play with it with a guy less So people are drawing files. People are commuting files That's a very easy way to fix the game and as it went on I was like, you know What's gonna happen? And in fact, I even called you I did call you during the game I said someone's gonna get kicked off the field and it happened almost as I said in overtime
05:36 And at that point, the Spanish almost had nothing to lose but to go and try and get the goal and not go into penalty kicks for sudden death. So the whole thing was almost playbook the way it looked to me. Playbook! Yeah Yeah, if I was a fan of that game after listening to us and watching that game. I would never watch it again. And the funny thing is another part of the prediction kind of came true because The Netherlands you know hey this is the third time they've lost the final game in the World Cup first times 74 second times 78 I think
06:19 and they came close in, I don't know 84. I really don't know all the stats but i think it's the third time and they lost and immediately all the good trained slaves of Gitmo Nation Lowlands turned around and said well you know what we were second that wasn't bad yay for us! We're a second and it was like everyone celebrating their second yeah I was watching at the news report and I was looking at some reports oh must be Queen's Day In the Netherlands, because I'm seeing all these people stacked up around those canals and then I realized it was their celebration of their second place team. They throw stuff at our teams when they come in second. Dude we riot when we win!
07:01 I did get a couple of notes from people saying, you know. I wasn't really on board with you guys but now that i saw what happened... You know? I've got to question the New Orleans Saints winning the Super Bowl Of course so that came on the heels of Katrina Was that game fix and then.. Well thats a... The guy said that today! I saw that note and I said look it was the best... What do you think? It was a feel good story! It was a story! Cinderella Story! People were talking about it as a Cinderella story! It was unbelievable Like a fairy tale. It was a fairy tale, literally an actual fairy tale! Ah it's amazing so I think we should continue to do this John and we could actually make some real money if we... We just need one of the sports books that we can bet on. Yes man in Gitmo Nation East in the UK you can walk into any corner store almost and bet its amazing out there yeah thats why they have you rigged
07:57 It's awesome. I don't know what next big thing is, uh... Who knows? ...that it would come up that it would be obviously fixed because some of these things are just you're not going to see it happen or they're gonna be rigged in such a way that it's like point shaving or something unless you actually know in advance but when we have these feel-good stories that show up Yeah, you gotta question them That's the one I think he got too bad on And psychic Paul The Octopus now that he knows were on this scene He's retired They've taken him out of, they decommissioned him. He's no longer in the business of predicting. They should have a little sign, NoAgendaShow.com on his tank. Just go to those guys and they know what's going on. It was rigged. Find out who those guys are that were doing that and you're gonna find it the guys you want to stay in touch with yeah
