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In this episode, Brian Strauss and I get ready for our daily World Cup podcast by discussing our stories in the SI World Cup preview issue.

Brian explains what it was like at the SI cover shoot with Chichrito

Rondez, Chuck Losano, and Carlos Vela, and I talk about what went into my new half hour

video documentary on Iceland on S.I. TV and my cover story on Mohammed Sala.

Odd word.

Let's bring in Brian Strauss from Washington, D.C. Brian, how are you doing man?

I've got Stanley Cup fever.

Okay, awesome.

I'm completely and totally unprepared for this trip we're about to go on.

And you know, I'm upright and breathing.

So, well Well congratulations to your

Washington Capitol so far. I know it's not set in stone anything yet. No no no so

much could still go wrong. but yeah it's it's an awesome it's an awesome ride and you know I if you're a

sports fan and you care about really only one, I recommend that you have that team go on a on a championship run

after 35 years of failure.

It's well for me 35 you, for others 43 or more. But yeah, it's a rush and of course it's all happening as we're going to getting ready for this trip or not getting ready as the case may be. This will be the last podcast we record on American

soil I guess because you're leaving in a few days and I'm leaving. I'll be on a plane a week from

right this very minute going over there.

Yeah, I mean it's pretty exciting my man looking forward to being over there.

We may have mentioned this before we are doing a daily podcast during the World Cup. It starts on the 12th of June, the same day you arrive, which I think should make for an entertaining start, and literally goes every single day of the tournament even the

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