# OnlyLands Ep. 61: New Intro, World Cup Fever & The Gas Price Debate of the Century

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Podcast: [Badlands Media](https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-5934327)
Published: 2026-06-20T04:57:04+00:00
Episode link: https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com/e/onlylands-ep-61-new-intro-world-cup-fever-the-gas-price-debate-of-the-century/
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Phil Scarborough dropped a new AI-generated OnlyLands intro that the crew watched three times and still could not fully process. That set the tone. From there it is wall-to-wall World Cup energy: Cam fresh off the Czechia vs. South Africa match in Atlanta, viral videos of Europeans discovering Bass Pro Shops and Waffle House, a US team winning odds debate that got personal, and the pride jersey question nobody can agree on. Then the show grinds to a loving halt over CannCon's gas price prediction from weeks ago, a chat jury poll, three rounds of clip evidence, and a legal argument about whether national average was implied. Biden wandered the stage at the Obama library looking for his granddaughter. The 2026 Patriot Games got announced. South Korea achieved thermonuclear fusion for a full minute. Jon built a fully automated news aggregator using Claude in about an hour. And Zak learned that the actual vote for independence happened on July 2nd, not the 4th, which John Adams predicted would be celebrated forever. It was not.

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