What It’s Like to Cover the World Cup With Jason Gay
The Press Box
The Ringer
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🗓️ 2 December 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The time has come to get ready for the 2022 World Cup and what better way to prepare than by revisiting the World Cup's most amazing goals. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Brian Phillips, I'm making a podcast about the history of the men's World Cup, told through the stories of 22 iconic goals. |
| 0:22.0 | The show's called 22 goals, it's out now on the Rinner Podcast Network and we're having so much fun. |
| 0:33.0 | Best gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike. |
| 0:38.0 | It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like, it was all wrapped up, it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so guest. |
| 0:48.0 | For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling, rama area now so for that one change me a little. |
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| 1:30.0 | Hello media consumers welcome to press box final edition Brian Curtis of the ringer here along with producer Carlos Chiroboga who is filling in for Erica. |
| 1:44.0 | Today's guest is an old friend who just flew in from covering the World Cup in Qatar and he's absolutely not above making a joke about his arms being tired. |
| 1:55.0 | The Wall Street Journal's jet lag Jason Gay how are you Jason? |
| 2:01.0 | Thank you for being me here. I'm great and I actually feel honored because I believe this is the first time I've been on the press box in a long time without anybody dying. |
| 2:10.0 | Usually I'm brought in for the eulogy corner I believe is my segment on press box. So thank you very much for the invite. |
| 2:22.0 | You are definitely the lettuce pay respects to the beloved so and so. |
| 2:26.0 | Guest on the press box and we love you for that. Let us talk about the World Cup. Can you give me some press box scene from Qatar? |
| 2:36.0 | I mean context is important here because of course this is the smallest place the World Cup has ever occurred and everything that we kind of assumed going into it that it would be strange and different and very unusual because of the compact nature. |
| 2:49.0 | It's that but almost like times 10 and you can go to everything and a number of correspondence have already gone out and done this they went to four games and one day. |
| 2:59.0 | You know we were talking about Qatar being the science of Connecticut. |
| 3:03.0 | The range between the stadiums is more like going from like you know new rush out to to Bay Ridge. It's a very small thumbprint and it really just changes the dynamic around completely because. |
| 3:17.0 | Well not only what you're doing covering a world cup is getting on airplanes you're going from region to region city to city you have plays like Russia which has the last world cup before that Brazil enormous countries it's going to North America in 2026. |
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