Hi, I'm Grant Wall. And welcome to the Planet Football Podcast, where I go in depth with the most intriguing people in the world of soccer.

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This week Brian Strauss joins me to talk El Clasico.

What's next for Arson Venger, the New York City Darby, a U.S.less and Mexico-Lis Copa America, Rocco Camiso, and the possibility of recording

next week's pod a few beers into our editor's wedding this week. Onward.

Let's bring in Brian Strauss here from beautiful Washington DC.

Brian, what's going on man?

Hey man, you know like those times when you have so much

work to do that there's almost no point in doing any of it.

Yes. Yeah, like what's another, what's an hour of work?

How is that, what is that one shovel full of sand from the beach really going to do for me?

So I'm actually just gonna gonna I'm gonna sit on the

couch and and you know pick my nose and watch Simpsons reruns. Well nobody's gonna feel

sorry for us for covering soccer full time for a living and I realize that but I will say this that

Folks might be surprised to know that the hardest most busiest time for us is not during a World Cup itself. It's right

before the World Cup because you've got a million preview things that you're

working on. Yeah, we've each got these two magazine features. My first

one, like 4,000 plus words is due tomorrow as we are recording this and I'm behind so so if covering soccer means being at home

when your underpants pacing at three in the morning trying to figure out how to explain, you know,

solidarity payments to a magazine audience, then be jealous of that.

Be jealous.

I have two magazine stories I need to write by the end of the week for a World Cup preview issue.

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