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national vision pre-match, post-match podcast.

What am I talking about? I've been saying World Cup daily every day. My name is Elliot Spithic Blackman on Twitter, Yankee Gunner. I said pre-match, look, okay, let's go behind the scenes here. We're trying a new recording environment for this episode, something that makes it a little easier to put out on YouTube to see how it goes.

And we figured we'd do it now while we're in the World Cup,

work out the kinks, you know, kind of like setting up a,

setting up a little bit of a friendly, right?

Like Arsenal are doing. how it goes and we figured we do it now while we're in the World Cup, work out the kinks, you know, kind of like setting up a, setting up a little bit of a friendly, right, like Arsenal doing, except like a friendly podcast where we can work out the kinks on some new technology. And what I didn't realize is not only the music I played on the YouTube side is the old theme music, so if you miss the old theme music, you can go back and listen to it over on YouTube. And it says pre-match show on the video instead of just regular show. So it's all kinds of messed up. But if you're just listening on a regular podcast platform, you won't know any of that, which is a good thing. Because, you know, we're, like I said, we're working out the kinks. So here's the story. We are going to talk Arsenal today. We're doing the World Cup daily. There'll still be a World Cup daily out today as usual. So yeah, it's just, it's your

cup runneth over with podcasts. What that doesn't mean, though, is that this won't be much of a

discussion about the World Cup. Now, as a reminder, we did a scouting video for De Nilo.

For who else did we do on that? Oh, Fekando Torres. We've also done one for Mudrick and yes, for Lindstrom. There was even a mystery person scouted. So those are all over on the Patreon side if you want to be there. We got a lot going on. There's pods every day. Hopefully you are enjoying the World Cup to the extent that, you know, that's possible while we're all thinking about Arsenal. But if not, no problem. Arsenal will be back amazingly sooner than it seems. And if you did celebrate the holiday recently in America, happy holiday. I hope it was a good time. And here to talk actual Arsenal stuff with me now is Tim. You can find them on Twitter at Stillminator. Hello, Tim. Hello there. You finally got it. I did finally get it. And with me as well as Paul, you can find them on Twitter at Paz's My Pants. Hello. Paz. Woohoo. Ooh. Ooh. Indeed. So, yeah, so just the wrong video, the wrong audio and me with the wrong intro, Again, it's a friendly. We're not going to bring this kind of energy to the season when it comes back. So nothing to worry about there. But Tim,

I guess let's start just with a little meta discussion. Like let's go super zoomed out.

How are you doing with it being November and there's no Arsenal? How are you

doing with this World Cup taking place and there's no arsenal? Because like it feels a million

years ago we played wolves. The intensity and heat and nervousness and excitement of the season

we've been building just feels like it's been cauterized.

Like it just came to a stop like a freight train.

I have no idea how the players and the manager are going to recapture the momentum and psychological edge of where we were.

If I, random fan, can't even stay connected to it. So how are you from a sort of

meta-macro standpoint dealing with the absence of Arsenal football at the time of year

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