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Welcome back to Eyes on the Right podcast.
This weekend, billions of people around the world are going to be watching the World Cup.
Entire nations are united behind their teams.
People are wearing the jerseys.
They're waving the flags.
They are celebrating the victories and some are mourning the defeats.
For a few hours, the world's attention is fixed on one stage.
Not simply rebellion, not merely deception, worship.
So today we're going to connect some fascinating dots.
We're going to decode, talk about symbolism.
We're going to travel back to the Roman Empire and the Colosseum and fast forward all the way to today's stadiums, the global sporting events that we watch, the celebrity culture and the hero worship.
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