00:00Now, let's talk a little bit more about ridiculous prices because rumor has it, my friends, that if you are
00:06trying to go from New York to New Jersey to MetLife Stadium for any of the World Cup games, instead
00:13of paying the $12 that normally cost, we are hearing rumor of a $100 fare for the ferry that takes
00:25you to New Jersey, my friends.
00:27We are talking about the fact that people might be dropping $200 to $300 before they even get to the
00:34stadium.
00:36Are we destroying the legacy of the World Cup by this money-hungry organization that the 2026 Cup is becoming?
00:43Marce, it's called dynamic pricing. Please, calm down.
00:48Sorry, can you please break that up to me? Because it feels unfair.
00:51Yes. In this country, everything is about money. Matt Crocker. Is his name Matt Crocker? Matt Crocker. Mr. Crocker.
01:01And yes, that's going to reflect. FIFA has turned into a money-grabbing machine. It probably always has been.
01:07Now it's just on display because USA is just, that's what USA is. So you combine the two. Boom! Reach
01:13it in your pockets at every point.
01:14You can't even go to fan zones anymore for free and watch the game on a big screen because you
01:19can't afford to go watch inside the stadium because you don't have $10,000 for ticket.
01:22Well, now you can't even just walk and go see a big projection of the game outside of the stadium.
01:27You're going to have to pay to go into those. Those have historically been free as well.
01:30They're going to have halftime shows. Shakira, Shakira, shaking it over there at halftime. I don't know who it's going
01:35to be, but I'm just saying.
01:36But it's like we are totally NFL-izing the World Cup and it's just like commercials everywhere. Well, Liga Mekis
01:43is no stranger to commercials.
01:44But we're, let's say, North American-izing the sport, commercializing it too much, corporatizing it too much. It's a bit
01:51much. With the hydration breaks, come on now.
01:54Context. I'd like to bring context, historical context to this.
01:58In Qatar, public transportation was free to everyone with a ticket for the World Cup.
02:04I'm not talking about 20 years ago where, like in 1994, the ticket to the final on a very good
02:11seat was $100.
02:14So we have a historical context of where we are talking that a family that wants to go to the
02:20final has to drop at least $25,000.
02:23You heard right. $25,000 for a group of four tickets to go to the World Cup.
02:29Some of these tickets might be $25,000 on their own.
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