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Hello. Welcome back to the study of podcast. I'm Lisa Kwonger. I'm Ryan Han.

Ryan, how are you doing? I'm, I'm all right. Thanks, man. How are you?

I'm very well. Well fed. Well, I've rated slightly tired,

having to keep in between games just because like just absorbing all of this,

like there's so much in this tournament on and off the field that it's like twice

as much and that's not, that's not complete. I'm just saying it like in terms of

you're absorbing not just the tactical nuances and what's happening on the pitch,

but off the pitch and there's this so much. So it just means if you're trying to do

that justice, yeah, just doing twice as much work, I would say.

I think that's a really valid point, actually, and something that maybe we haven't

considered in terms of our viewing of the World Cup, because this felt super

different. We've talked about this from the start of the tournament, but also just

kind of because I'm in the UK at the moment, and just on the ground, it feels like

there's not really that much excitement about it. It doesn't feel like, I think a lot,

I think a lot of that is just the time of year because we're used to World Cup's

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