World Cup Controversy, Iran’s New Supreme Leader & Newport Beach Chaos | PBD Podcast #828

**Patrick Bet-David** (0:28)
All right. Here we go, hope you had a great 4th of July weekend, especially to people in Newport Beach, because I heard 400 people were arrested in Newport. What the hell happened to Newport Beach last night? Couple nights ago, the city with the average house price is $3 million, and that one island that's got 70, 80, $100 million homes, people went into that city to try to destroy Newport Beach last night. I mean, you know how many times I've been to Newport Beach?
Newport Beach is like, deep place to be in LA. They had a mess last night. Then there was this guy, I want you to think about this. Imagine you get a red card, okay? Now you didn't do it on purpose, but say you do a red card, like Messi did it on purpose that foul, he didn't get a red card, but say this guy doesn't do it on purpose, gets a red card, you leave, a guy named Donald calls the boss of this World Cup and says, hey, I don't think that's fair. Then FIFA announces they're removing the red card and the guy Balagan is playing tonight against, what an underdog story, what a great story, right? Now a lot of people are happy, Belgium, they're not happy, and by the way, if that was the other way around, if it was the other way around and if this was like in a different place and they did this to a player, I think Americans would be upset, especially if they're playing against us.
But in this case, you're glad he pulled the Trump card out, right? Are you kind of happy about it?

**Vincent Oshana** (1:43)
What's Belgium going to do? Waffle us to death? Like, we're fine, we're going to be fine.

**Patrick Bet-David** (1:47)
I got a video about Belgium we have to show. I got a video about Belgium I sent you. What the hell is going on in Belgium? I'll show you that. By the way, a couple of people so far in soccer that have become heroes. Vozinio.
What a story with this Vozinio guy from Cape Verde, right? If Cape Verde wasn't on the map, it's officially on the map.
A country with 500,000 people are able to go against Argentina almost beat Argentina. Those two ridiculous goals, they almost beat Argentina. Dilly was a massive Cape Verde fan for a couple of days. He was hoping that we're going to beat him, and then they come back and win. This Vozinha guy, I don't know if you know what he did for a living. Do you know what he did right before the World Cup? He was a bus driver. The guy was a bus driver with 40,000 followers on Instagram.

**Vincent Oshana** (2:33)
Seriously?

**Patrick Bet-David** (2:33)
No joke. Went from a bus driver to goalie to seven saves in a game, I think against Spain, to then all of a sudden, he has 27 million followers on Instagram today like this.

**Vincent Oshana** (2:45)
Wow.

**Patrick Bet-David** (2:45)
Yeah. It's just such a great story with that. Then we got today US Belgium and we have Portugal, things playing Spain today. Yesterday's England match against Mexico was probably the best match I've seen so far. We have some clips we're going to talk about that. On top of that, yesterday was Khamenei's, what do you call it? Funeral, which we were invited to.
We got an email saying he- Should have gone, Pat. I'm actually not being sarcastic. If you guys want to come down, we're like, yeah, we're on our way. Let me get a quick flight on our way to come see it. Come on down, come on down to Iran. But a funeral happened.
There's numbers estimating millions were out in the street. Some are estimating 10 plus million. And you have to hear what the MC said. I don't even think you guys know what the MC said. I want to read it to you. What the MC of the event opened up the message with. And this is Iran. We're negotiating with them right now. And the MC opens up the funeral with a message I'm going to read to you. You're going to say there's no way they said that, and I want you to fact check me. When I read you what the MC at Khamenei's funeral said in Iran.

**Vincent Oshana** (3:50)
And it wasn't, y'all ready to get this party started? It definitely wasn't that.

**Patrick Bet-David** (3:53)
It wasn't that. Give me the fuck that nasty. It wasn't none of that stuff. Because Tom was saying that was James.

**Vincent Oshana** (3:58)
Tom was saying that.