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This is the Football Daily podcast on the BBC Sounds.

Hello and welcome to Rick and Lloyd's Guide to the World Cup, which I'll be honest,

is less of a guide to the World Cup and more of us trying to figure out what we're going

to be doing every day while we're out in America for the World Cup.

It's slowly beginning to crystallise for me.

I don't know about you, Lloyd, but I thought I would go back to our first interaction about

this. So I just checked my texts. And you're currently in Australia, by the way. How are you?

Hello. Yeah, I am currently in Australia. I'm the way that you confirmed I am currently in Australia. But you're going to be back, aren't you? I'm going to be back in England for four days, do my washing, say hello to the girlfriend, and then jump to a plane with you to L.A. Very nice. So what happened on the 5th of February, I'd had a conversation with people at the BBC about the Football Daily at the World Cup.

And they said to me, we need to find someone for you to do it with.

And my criteria were someone I'm going to enjoy spending a lot of time with, someone who is a football fan, someone ideally who is funny, and someone who's got a lovely singing voice. And I thought that is, that is Lloyd Griffith. It's tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. That was my old hinge profile back in the day. Well, I know. I've just quoted it directly. And I did say, that is lovely. Is this a wind-up and how many people have you asked before me? Because apart from the singing thing, I mean, there's surely better people than me. I think you're right, but I couldn't think of any. So I've got the text here. I said, big man, what are you doing for the World Cup? Do you fancy spending it in L.A. with me and doing the Football Daily podcast, hope it was well, this would be a paid gig. You said, are you asking me to go to LA for the World Cup? Is this a scam? I said, oh, sorry, meant to send this to Rob Beckett. And then you called me a, well, you insulted me and then you said he preferred Steve Jones all along. And that was the start of it. And we were off. And then suddenly it's happening.

I can't quite believe it. I mean, look, the banter has started flowing from the off and we're going to

LA. We're going to spend a lot of time at Muscle Beach. I cannot wait, Rick.

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