Hi, I'm Grant Wall, and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast, World Cup Daily. Day 22 of World Cup 2018 is done.

Brian Strauss and I will be talking about Friday's quarterfinals is part of our podcast coming to you daily from Russia through July 16.

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Kate Abdo of Fox Sports onward let's bring in Brian Strauss from his new hotel

Ruben St. Petersburg how are you Brian?

I've had a day man.

So I was going to

um, um, de camp, is that the word I'm thinking of?

Yeah, what does that?

De Camp mean.

Anyway, whatever it means, I did that.

Oh no, it means leave a place suddenly or secretly.

This is obviously not a secret because I'm discussing it on a Sports Illustrated podcast.

To St. Petersburg for some time leading into the second semi-final,

I will not be covering a quarter-final in person.

So I took the Sapsan high-speed train today, which was quite cool. I enjoy train rides like the countryside.

And then I got to my hotel and it took me more than two hours

to check in.

So that was a brutal soul-sucking experience that is now over.

I'm glad you're settled.

I'm not going to get to St. Petersburg on this trip.

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