It's the Brian Laris Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. Let's start today with some good news.

Have you heard yet that New York and New Jersey have been selected to host the 26 men's World Cup soccer tournament?

Maybe the most watched sporting event of any kind in the world.

Mayor Adams heard it.

Last night, we won the hosting of the World Cup here in the city and New Jersey, New York in this region,

this is just huge for us.

Two billion dollars predicted in economic revenue.

We're looking at 14,000 jobs, over one million tourists.

And the beauty of that, not every tourist or visitor goes to the game, something that many people don't realize when you talk about the World Cup.

It is the fan experience.

When I was in Qatar to look and see how they handled that large volume of people. It was about the fans.

The fans enjoyed it.

They come out.

They spend money.

We want them to go to Broadway to visit some of our beautiful sites and to interact with our city.

So we are really, really excited.

Hats off to a good partner across the bridge to Governor Murphy. He has been an amazing partner throughout

this entire venture. We have been speaking with FIFA personnel to make sure that we had the most

attractive product. Mayor Adams there from his weekly news conference, which he had on Monday this

week. But then the mayor had a pivot from the World

Cup to the Tin Cup. Yesterday, he went to Albany for what's known as Tin Cup Day when the mayor

of New York comes begging to the state legislature once a year for money and sometimes also

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