Valuetainment - June 11, 2026


“This Is An EMBARRASSMENT” - World Cup Matches THREATENED By L.A. Strike CHAOS


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L.A. stadium workers vote to strike days before the World Cup, and it s going to be ugly. Plus, Pat McAfee and Tom Brolley break down why the strike is happening and why it s a big deal.

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00:00:30.000 L.A.'s got a massive strike. L.A. stadium workers vote to strike days before World Cup.
00:00:35.640 This is a Wall Street Journal story.
00:00:36.900 2,000 hospitality workers at SoFi Stadium overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike.
00:00:42.820 Their union said Friday the stoppage authorized by 96% of voting members occur at any time,
00:00:49.140 though union officials made it clear that U.S. national team's opening World Cup match against Paraguay on June 12th
00:00:53.740 would be an opportune moment if workers walk off the job.
00:00:57.380 Soccer fans who pay thousands of dollars to attend the match 0.98
00:01:00.920 might have a hard time getting refreshments.
00:01:04.220 Can you imagine you're going to the game and you may not get drinks, Vinny?
00:01:07.960 FIFA soccer's governing body has recommended fans arrive three hours early
00:01:11.760 for matches at stadium located just outside of L.A.,
00:01:14.920 which suffers from difficult parking and chaotic road access.
00:01:19.740 There's a story here about I guess soccer can be played
00:01:22.740 if workers go on strikes, said Kurt Peterson,
00:01:25.400 co-president of the local union, in an interview,
00:01:27.500 but someone paying $100,000 for a suite
00:01:29.540 and they're ending up getting bottled water and Doritos,
00:01:32.640 I'm not sure that's what they're expecting.
00:01:34.680 Local Global, the company operated concessions at the stadium
00:01:37.240 said it has presented a progressive wage proposal.
00:01:40.040 So, by the way, while this is happening,
00:01:42.720 what was the story about Penn Station that five individuals got stabbed?
00:01:45.560 Five people were stabbed, like, right outside where the World Cup is going to be played.
00:01:51.360 Actually, it just jumped up to six people.
00:01:54.380 Six people stabbed?
00:01:55.600 At Penn Station.
00:01:56.560 Six people stabbed that attack at Penn Station in New York.
00:01:59.240 Suspect in custody as bus busy rail hub adjacent to Madison Square Garden
00:02:03.380 one day before the Game 3 of NBA Finals.
00:02:05.500 Obviously, these are two different things.
00:02:07.120 We'll go into them, NBA Finals.
00:02:08.700 California's got to figure it out with this whole thing that's going on here.
00:02:11.900 Tom, how ugly could this thing be if the strike goes through
00:02:15.180 and it impacts some of the games?
00:02:17.060 This is horribly ugly, but this is exactly what –
00:02:21.360 Do you think Karen Bass cares about the World Cup?
00:02:23.700 No, she cares about Karen Bass. 0.99
00:02:25.240 And she cares about winning the election.
00:02:27.220 And she's going to come out there and say,
00:02:28.920 President Trump and the World Cup, you're going to, mark my words,
00:02:32.460 you're going to see her associating it that way.
00:02:34.880 And she's going to say, these workers got what they had long deserved.
00:02:39.960 You know, you're going to hear that.
00:02:41.280 That's her Marxist side of it.
00:02:43.680 I think, Pat, the World Cup organizers have done a horrible job.
00:02:49.320 You need to go to city by city by city and clear all the things that need to be cleared.
00:02:54.160 Otherwise, you just run into it like this.
00:02:56.540 Did you know in Mexico, yesterday, what happened?
00:02:59.400 They are so worried about fighting at the World Cup.
00:03:02.920 They said it's possible that they will not allow beer to be served, you know, at the World Cup stadium that's in Mexico.
00:03:11.040 Did you see that?
00:03:11.760 And then AB InBev and Modelo, they're like, wait, what?
00:03:16.000 I thought we paid for some advertising here.
00:03:18.200 You're telling me we can't do it?
00:03:19.840 And I think what this is showing is going to be ugly in L.A.,
00:03:22.420 but the World Cup organizers have done a hellaciously bad job of putting it together.
00:03:28.280 Look at the PR they've gotten hit with.
00:03:30.340 They allowed tickets on a lottery system to actually go out in bundles of 10.
00:03:34.680 Immediately they went to the stalker markets at tens and thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars, number one.
00:03:40.620 Number two, they point out that the security protocols are even worse than the American Super Bowl.
00:03:46.280 Wait a minute. How is that possible?
00:03:47.900 The American Super Bowl is a huge target, and they manage to get people in and out.
00:03:51.980 Why wouldn't they say, hey, Roger Goodell, NFL, who are your security people?
00:03:56.260 You hold the Super Bowl in a different city every year, and you manage to get people in and out safe,
00:04:02.000 and you avoid problems, and you haven't had a terrorist attack.
00:04:05.480 That hasn't happened.
00:04:06.860 And then now they go to L.A. that, hey, you've cleared your union, right?
00:04:10.880 Your union's good to go here.
00:04:12.100 You talk to the union leaders.
00:04:13.440 We don't need any trouble.
00:04:15.280 Nope, they come out and the union leaders strike.
00:04:17.320 The people aren't striking.
00:04:18.560 They're green-lit by the union leaders.
00:04:20.720 And then Mexico loses control of the populace, which isn't surprising. 0.68
00:04:26.160 And suddenly now they're like, well, you can't serve beer, can't do anything, 0.88
00:04:29.360 and you have major sponsors and patrons saying, wait, I can't go get a beer
00:04:32.740 and go to a World Cup game?
00:04:34.160 It's just they've lost control of the whole thing.
00:04:36.320 This isn't – so far, Pat, tragically, unfortunately,
00:04:40.060 this is like a D-minus for the organizers.
00:04:42.520 Yeah, I agree.
00:04:43.340 I blame PBD.
00:04:44.980 I'll tell you why.
00:04:45.680 because wherever pbd leaves the state gets better have you noticed that the state gets better better
00:04:51.460 you leave and the state that you go to gets better and the state that you left
00:04:55.360 i know you've been wearing those shoes early for one of your backwards arguments yes what i'm saying
00:05:06.320 right now i remember when you did a uh this would have been in 2020 it was my tito did a um a board
00:05:11.600 episode about i think it was disney yeah california versus florida and the way that the
00:05:16.440 governors of california and the governors of florida basically managed it yep ultimately
00:05:22.940 what i think is this we're seeing the rise of the sunbelt great states of florida and texas
00:05:29.420 and we're seeing the demise of california and new york these these these amazing states and
00:05:37.740 these amazing cities, New York City, California, L.A., San Francisco even, the greatest cities that
00:05:44.020 the world has ever known. And sadly, they are no longer being that case. So we're going to see this.
00:05:49.900 You can revisit this in a few years. Between New York and L.A., when you have the Mamdani's, 1.00
00:05:55.020 the Hochul's, the Bass's, the Newsom's, and then in Florida and Texas, you have the Abbott's,
00:06:00.540 the Cruz's, DeSantis, and we're going to see what happens with Byron Donald's and Jay Collins here
00:06:05.240 Florida. Florida is the future. Texas is the future. Unfortunately, LA and New York are the
00:06:11.660 past and relics of what was once great. Let me ask you a question. The future of LA and New York
00:06:16.140 is social Marxism. And I think that's terrible. Let me just say one thing just before we finish
00:06:20.720 off. You remember the story? I don't know if we covered it last week. California loses its Fortune
00:06:25.640 500 crown to Texas. Samsung left, I think, New Jersey for Texas in a symbolic blow to the
00:06:33.580 Golden State's long-standing economic dominance, Texas has officially dethroned California as the state with the most Fortune 500 companies.
00:06:42.680 So it's already happening.
00:06:43.880 California's beauty is no longer the reason to stay in California.
00:06:47.420 But at one point, okay, ready for this?
00:06:49.320 California failed.
00:06:51.240 New York failing, failed.
00:06:53.580 Okay, people are going to keep moving to Florida or Texas.
00:06:57.100 But at what point are the people going to go, you know what?
00:06:59.160 No.
00:06:59.720 Why the hell should we leave?
00:07:01.300 We like it here.
00:07:02.180 We live here.
00:07:02.800 We grew up here. 0.52
00:07:03.280 my family's from here whatever happened to we the people to hell with them like what what people
00:07:07.560 are just going to keep giving up everybody's going to leave california who's going to be stuck there
00:07:11.180 just rich people that don't want to leave because they have the money to freaking deal with the 0.81
00:07:15.040 nonsense but they love the weather you got to fight for it this is america to hell with them
00:07:19.720 i appreciate everything you're saying yeah and there's just one word that that encompasses
00:07:23.840 everything choice you have a choice to stay you have a choice to leave but apparently they don't
00:07:28.580 hear me out my friend they don't have a hear me out yes i understand there's a lot of frustration
00:07:33.380 you have a choice to stay and fight it like the guy in australia yeah or you have a choice to say
00:07:38.280 you know what i'm done with this thing and that's the beauty of the federalism system system in
00:07:43.100 america is that if you don't like it leave or if you don't like it you can you can stay what do
00:07:47.540 they say flight fight flight or freeze what do you always talk about with that pat yeah fight
00:07:52.140 flight freeze but we look numbers never lie man california is losing fortune 500 companies we're
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