Jun 25, 2026 · 56 min · 12 segments
Britain is changing prime minister again, which would be funny if the policy consequences were not so bleak. So this week on *Crashed*, Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker ignore the Westminster…
Chris Stokel-WalkerHostAlex HudsonHostThe one piece you have written that I haven't read because I tried to read it and it wouldn't let me because it was under a very heavy paywall was about which World Cup cooling methods really keep players cool from extreme heat.
Because obviously we're recording this right in the middle of a heat wave where...
The wet bulb temperature graph, which is a thing that I never knew I would need to know existed, but has suddenly just railroaded itself into common parlance with the Met Office warnings about the fact that we're going to get all sorts of heat waves and crazy storms and things like that.
But effectively, something like a quarter of all of the World Cup games are being held in places where it's estimated, it's forecast that we will have effectively unhealthily hot games.
So people cannot possibly cope with that, never mind having to play actual competitive world-class sports.
So even if you're just walking around doing mild exhaustion, a long period of time in that sort of temperature could cause you heat stress.
So yeah, I was looking at a whole bunch of different ways that this is happening.
Obviously, the hydration breaks have been much more aligned, not least because American commentators have taken to calling them quarters, which belies the fact that they're not really meant to be that.
He wouldn't talk live to me, but he did say, send over some questions, I might respond to them via email if I get the time tomorrow, he said.
And then he replied 1am Eastern to me, which I thought was a level of dedication that even I would not do.
They're not currently being done well because effectively all that you're doing is having people still stood in the middle of a red hot stadium in full sun and put a little few towels on them, which is more psychosomatic than actually meaningful.
The one piece you have written that I haven't read because I tried to read it and it wouldn't let me because it was under a very heavy paywall was about which World Cup cooling methods really keep players cool from extreme heat.
Because obviously we're recording this right in the middle of a heat wave where...
The wet bulb temperature graph, which is a thing that I never knew I would need to know existed, but has suddenly just railroaded itself into common parlance with the Met Office warnings about the fact that we're going to get all sorts of heat waves and crazy storms and things like that.
But effectively, something like a quarter of all of the World Cup games are being held in places where it's estimated, it's forecast that we will have effectively unhealthily hot games.
So people cannot possibly cope with that, never mind having to play actual competitive world-class sports.
So even if you're just walking around doing mild exhaustion, a long period of time in that sort of temperature could cause you heat stress.
So yeah, I was looking at a whole bunch of different ways that this is happening.
Obviously, the hydration breaks have been much more aligned, not least because American commentators have taken to calling them quarters, which belies the fact that they're not really meant to be that.
He wouldn't talk live to me, but he did say, send over some questions, I might respond to them via email if I get the time tomorrow, he said.
And then he replied 1am Eastern to me, which I thought was a level of dedication that even I would not do.
They're not currently being done well because effectively all that you're doing is having people still stood in the middle of a red hot stadium in full sun and put a little few towels on them, which is more psychosomatic than actually meaningful.
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