Hi, this is Josh Levine, the host of Slate Sports Podcast Hang Up and Listen. Throughout the World Cup, we're going to bring you a podcast from our friends at the soccer magazine Howler. They'll have analysis from the games, news from outside the stadiums in Brazil, and reports from a writer embedded with the U.S. national team. I hope you enjoy the special podcast Extra, and I'll now pass the mic to George Qureshi, the founder and editor of

Howler. Take it away, George. Hello, this is the podcast of Haile magazine.

It's a Eric the Home podcast.

What a howlars! Hello and welcome to D'Awe.

What a Howler! Hello and welcome to Dummy, a twice-weekly conversation among editors and friends of Howler magazine.

My name is George Qureshi. I am the editor of Howler, and this week, as with last week, I am joined by Danny Karpassion, who remains the only member of this podcast to have scored for Arsenal. To date. To date. Hi, Danny.

Hey, George. How's it going? And yes, I am still going strong. Good. And in Bristol, England, not Connecticut. David Goldblatt is the author of The Ball is Round and Fucci Ball Nation. David, hello.

Hey, evening. Good to hear, be with you, man.

It's a lot later where you are.

It's a lot later.

You stayed up for a very exciting game.

Yeah, there was no way I was going to bed before the end of that.

You're now conditioned just to be waiting for, you know, late winning goals by the American

team in the World Cup, right?

It was great.

I love a last-minute goal.

Better than the Swiss one as well.

That was good, but you felt like, yeah, the US really had earned that one.

If you can't tell, we were recording this minutes after John Anthony Brooks put the US ahead

and won the game against Ghana and, you know, it was the first World Cup game for the US.

Group G now looks a little bit

less deathly or I don't know fatal lethal you know Germany wiped out Portugal today and in fact

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