June 9, 2026 • 8 mins
Rio gives us the very first spin of his World Cup anthem.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
I Heart podcasts, hear more gold podcasts, playlists, and listen
live on the free I Heart app. Two days away
for the biggest World Cup ever, always the biggest show
on Earth with thirty two countries now forty eight countries,
which means is going to go from thirty two to
thirty nine days of football, not soccer where you're not
(00:31):
American football action.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
And not the football rules.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Damn it, you're right always there with the logit rio
is quite tiring. Sometimes just go with the nonsense, Just
go with the flow of the nonsense that speeze out
of me. All right, Welcome to World Cup Wednesday. We
are so excited about the World Cup. It's a chance
for all these countries, the forty eight countries, all their players,
(00:57):
all the mums and dads and families they've all, they're
all going to be gathered around. It's all these stories
that were waiting to find out. You're going to meet
new stars of the Soccer US seventeen seventeen Soccer Rus
or the twenty sixth squad are making their debuts. Most
of them you don't even know who they are. But
over the next color you will get to fall in
love with them. There's some really exciting young talent they're
(01:18):
playing for this country and what it is, you know,
in sport in Australia often splits the country unless it's
the Olympics or the Matilda. Doesn't look what happened last
couple of years ago with the Matildas and hold the
whole country bit by bit got around them and swept
up in that something we just don't get enough of
these days, which is genuine unity and national cheer to
get around each other and what it is to be
(01:40):
this country now. And that's the same for all the
other forty seven countries are going to be out there.
It stops it, it stops. It's a rare thing in life.
Sometimes sport can bring us together and it's where I, you, me,
we all become. We the soccer Us. They get to
play this Sunday, two pm on the rare games when
it's not the early hours of the morning, where you
can all maybe have some friends around, have a barbecue
(02:01):
and support the soccer use. I can't wait. The World
Cup is an incredible thing. Now. Rio has crunched some
numbers about the odds, yes, okay, but anything can happen,
that's true. Stars are made. You know, Italy aren't even there.
They fail to qualify for the third time, which is
why we've now got Christian Volpato. He wanted to play
(02:22):
for Italy, they didn't qualify. It's that, you know, I've
always loved my home country Australia. How about a little
kicking around with you guys. Yeah, all right, we have
to have it. We don't want him, boss, he's actually
bloody good.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
You have to have him.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
All right, we'll have him stuff. You'll all be cheering
in trustle he starts sparging them in, you'll all start
cheering his name.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
But yes, it's not okay. The outlook is not great
for Australia. We're five hundred and one dollar odds to win,
five hundred and one to win the whole tournament. Time
not great, especially when you compare it to Spain, who
are one hundred times more likely than us to win.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
England though our third favorite.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Please don't really, it's not coming home in my lifetime.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
You should get your hopes way up because you just
want to say me cry, No, I'm just looking at
the numbers, looking at the numbers.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Get the hope the numbers don't apply to England. I've
been here too many times. That's why I'm getting right by.
And the only bandruding I'm junking on, jumping on is
the Soccer Roofs.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
So yes, it's the but who knows anything could happen,
Maybe we win the whole World Cup.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I was doing some research yesterday and I found this
incredible story from the Soccer Roots of nineteen sixty nine.
On a qualifying trip to play Rhodesia in Mozambique, soccer
whose players hired a local witch doctor. Different time. He
buried bones near the goalposts, cursed the opposition Australia one
three to one. Then it gets bad. I'm afraid you've
(03:52):
refused to pay him. He wanted his money, they said no.
He then cursed the socer. He then cursed the soccer Roofs.
You then failed to qualify for every World Cup from
nineteen from nineteen teventy four to two thousand and five.
The curse was finally lifted in two thousand and four
(04:13):
when TV presenter John Saffren, Yes, John Saffren Lengen, flew
back to Mozambiak hired a new witch doctor to reverse
the curse. The next year, you qualified and you made
the second round, an almost thirty year hex What about this?
I found two thousand and one Covs Harbor Australia beat
(04:36):
America American Samoa thirty one nil.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yes, Archie Thompson scored like what twelve twelveth No, No,
I've got it wrong, thirteen goals.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
The scoreboard just gave up and just displayed it as
thirty two nil. Even though it's thirty one, it still
remains in history the biggest loss in an international game.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
At some point that becomes mean spirited?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Does it.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Tens?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Pretty good with you don't have to parle on another
twenty or thirty two?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Is incredible?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
All right?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
So last week I was talking about, you know a
lot of the countries, they have their songs to cheer on,
national pride, wish the team well and all the fans
back home supporting them out there in the at the
World Cup. And this is the one from Bosnia. This
this is a banger. I'm from Bossia, dig too, America.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I want to see statue of the deal. I can
no longer h dg me do you United States? Dig
me to Golden.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Gate Nature There's no landmarks mentioned in Canada on Mexico.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
It's a statue limited.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
In the Golden Game Ganger right right, We're not Bossia,
but certainly one of the Bosan We have nothing Hambauns
in this country has nothing until now. Last week I
commissioned Rio to make a song, the unofficial People's Anthem
for the soccer use and it's time for the world's
(06:04):
first play.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Well, my starting point was it had to be an
Aralian song.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I can't have any of this, you know, foreign stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
An international football too, yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Where we beat other countries, you're not trying to be
friends with other countries. So it had to be an
Aussie song. It had to be a big sum a
foot stomper, something that would.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Get kicker, very good Mondo rock.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
And.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I'm picturing this is what the boys play. They put
it on the Bluetooth in the locker room. But speaker,
who's got the orcs G what's the Wi Fi code?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
So we're in the studio getting very fired up.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I do before we play it, maybe have to issue
a bit of a preemptive apology to the good people
of Paraguay. I did get a bit carried away a
little bit with the lyrics I'm sure you're.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
All we're not starting an international incident. I'm sure you're
straight up her moves. Let's not pick another fight, but
you know you just have. I got a fair play,
beautiful game, exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
But with that in mind, it's time for the boys.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Safara, fly in, Annison, nay go.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Wait to the States, scoring for your country, play you
for your mates, smash it, Yankes, feed the tracks, Paraguays.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Sorry Arada, oh day, I'll tell you what the as
you boys could play.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
It's a love way to the cup when you play
the creed of gold.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
This is very good. It's a love way to the
cup when you play the greed of gold.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
This it's coming to this, Hope, It's coming to.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
This, hope, just on this on alone.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
How can they not win in the opening game Sunday
afternoons against.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Turkey, Yes, I can not. Inspired.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Incredible, incredible, I've actually got goosebumps.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
That is brilliance.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
And I want to send it to the Yanks to
let them know we're coming to smash them.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I want to send it to Turkey.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Let them beat them in their own country, have their
own World Cup.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Oh my god, please let it be Please let it be.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
This is not the spirit. Is it smashing other countries?
We're starting to sound like Trump.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
FM getting into
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Soccaro's Great again masaga
I Heart podcasts, hear more gold podcasts, playlists, and listen
live on the free I Heart app. Two days away
for the biggest World Cup ever, always the biggest show
on Earth with thirty two countries now forty eight countries,
which means is going to go from thirty two to
thirty nine days of football, not soccer where you're not
(00:31):
American football action.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
And not the football rules.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Damn it, you're right always there with the logit rio
is quite tiring. Sometimes just go with the nonsense, Just
go with the flow of the nonsense that speeze out
of me. All right, Welcome to World Cup Wednesday. We
are so excited about the World Cup. It's a chance
for all these countries, the forty eight countries, all their players,
(00:57):
all the mums and dads and families they've all, they're
all going to be gathered around. It's all these stories
that were waiting to find out. You're going to meet
new stars of the Soccer US seventeen seventeen Soccer Rus
or the twenty sixth squad are making their debuts. Most
of them you don't even know who they are. But
over the next color you will get to fall in
love with them. There's some really exciting young talent they're
(01:18):
playing for this country and what it is, you know,
in sport in Australia often splits the country unless it's
the Olympics or the Matilda. Doesn't look what happened last
couple of years ago with the Matildas and hold the
whole country bit by bit got around them and swept
up in that something we just don't get enough of
these days, which is genuine unity and national cheer to
get around each other and what it is to be
(01:40):
this country now. And that's the same for all the
other forty seven countries are going to be out there.
It stops it, it stops. It's a rare thing in life.
Sometimes sport can bring us together and it's where I, you, me,
we all become. We the soccer Us. They get to
play this Sunday, two pm on the rare games when
it's not the early hours of the morning, where you
can all maybe have some friends around, have a barbecue
(02:01):
and support the soccer use. I can't wait. The World
Cup is an incredible thing. Now. Rio has crunched some
numbers about the odds, yes, okay, but anything can happen,
that's true. Stars are made. You know, Italy aren't even there.
They fail to qualify for the third time, which is
why we've now got Christian Volpato. He wanted to play
(02:22):
for Italy, they didn't qualify. It's that, you know, I've
always loved my home country Australia. How about a little
kicking around with you guys. Yeah, all right, we have
to have it. We don't want him, boss, he's actually
bloody good.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
You have to have him.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
All right, we'll have him stuff. You'll all be cheering
in trustle he starts sparging them in, you'll all start
cheering his name.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
But yes, it's not okay. The outlook is not great
for Australia. We're five hundred and one dollar odds to win,
five hundred and one to win the whole tournament. Time
not great, especially when you compare it to Spain, who
are one hundred times more likely than us to win.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
England though our third favorite.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Please don't really, it's not coming home in my lifetime.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
You should get your hopes way up because you just
want to say me cry, No, I'm just looking at
the numbers, looking at the numbers.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Get the hope the numbers don't apply to England. I've
been here too many times. That's why I'm getting right by.
And the only bandruding I'm junking on, jumping on is
the Soccer Roofs.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
So yes, it's the but who knows anything could happen,
Maybe we win the whole World Cup.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I was doing some research yesterday and I found this
incredible story from the Soccer Roots of nineteen sixty nine.
On a qualifying trip to play Rhodesia in Mozambique, soccer
whose players hired a local witch doctor. Different time. He
buried bones near the goalposts, cursed the opposition Australia one
three to one. Then it gets bad. I'm afraid you've
(03:52):
refused to pay him. He wanted his money, they said no.
He then cursed the socer. He then cursed the soccer Roofs.
You then failed to qualify for every World Cup from
nineteen from nineteen teventy four to two thousand and five.
The curse was finally lifted in two thousand and four
(04:13):
when TV presenter John Saffren, Yes, John Saffren Lengen, flew
back to Mozambiak hired a new witch doctor to reverse
the curse. The next year, you qualified and you made
the second round, an almost thirty year hex What about this?
I found two thousand and one Covs Harbor Australia beat
(04:36):
America American Samoa thirty one nil.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yes, Archie Thompson scored like what twelve twelveth No, No,
I've got it wrong, thirteen goals.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
The scoreboard just gave up and just displayed it as
thirty two nil. Even though it's thirty one, it still
remains in history the biggest loss in an international game.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
At some point that becomes mean spirited?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Does it.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Tens?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Pretty good with you don't have to parle on another
twenty or thirty two?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Is incredible?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
All right?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
So last week I was talking about, you know a
lot of the countries, they have their songs to cheer on,
national pride, wish the team well and all the fans
back home supporting them out there in the at the
World Cup. And this is the one from Bosnia. This
this is a banger. I'm from Bossia, dig too, America.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I want to see statue of the deal. I can
no longer h dg me do you United States? Dig
me to Golden.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Gate Nature There's no landmarks mentioned in Canada on Mexico.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
It's a statue limited.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
In the Golden Game Ganger right right, We're not Bossia,
but certainly one of the Bosan We have nothing Hambauns
in this country has nothing until now. Last week I
commissioned Rio to make a song, the unofficial People's Anthem
for the soccer use and it's time for the world's
(06:04):
first play.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Well, my starting point was it had to be an
Aralian song.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I can't have any of this, you know, foreign stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
An international football too, yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Where we beat other countries, you're not trying to be
friends with other countries. So it had to be an
Aussie song. It had to be a big sum a
foot stomper, something that would.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Get kicker, very good Mondo rock.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
And.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I'm picturing this is what the boys play. They put
it on the Bluetooth in the locker room. But speaker,
who's got the orcs G what's the Wi Fi code?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
So we're in the studio getting very fired up.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I do before we play it, maybe have to issue
a bit of a preemptive apology to the good people
of Paraguay. I did get a bit carried away a
little bit with the lyrics I'm sure you're.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
All we're not starting an international incident. I'm sure you're
straight up her moves. Let's not pick another fight, but
you know you just have. I got a fair play,
beautiful game, exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
But with that in mind, it's time for the boys.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Safara, fly in, Annison, nay go.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Wait to the States, scoring for your country, play you
for your mates, smash it, Yankes, feed the tracks, Paraguays.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Sorry Arada, oh day, I'll tell you what the as
you boys could play.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
It's a love way to the cup when you play
the creed of gold.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
This is very good. It's a love way to the
cup when you play the greed of gold.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
This it's coming to this, Hope, It's coming to.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
This, hope, just on this on alone.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
How can they not win in the opening game Sunday
afternoons against.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Turkey, Yes, I can not. Inspired.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Incredible, incredible, I've actually got goosebumps.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
That is brilliance.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
And I want to send it to the Yanks to
let them know we're coming to smash them.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I want to send it to Turkey.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Let them beat them in their own country, have their
own World Cup.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Oh my god, please let it be Please let it be.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
This is not the spirit. Is it smashing other countries?
We're starting to sound like Trump.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
FM getting into
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Soccaro's Great again masaga
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