Look, I don't want to come across as a tech bro, but here's my elevator pitch.

Uber, but for people who will let you bite their nails off while you watch your team in the final group game of the World Cup.

This is the Arsenal Vision World Cup Daily.

My name is Alex Smith, Blackman, Twitter, Yankee Gunner. Yeah, like, you get on the app,

and they have pictures of their fingernails, and you can, like, pick the ones you want,

and then they come to your house, and while you watch the World Cup, you bite their fingernails off. first of all gross

really gross we live in a post-pandemic era

no one's going to go for that second of all

like i believe in bootstrapping i believe in rugged

individualism bite your own nails off. Come on, you can do it. I know I did. The USA have progressed to the knockout rounds, as have England, breezing their way past Wales, as have Senegal in what was a thrilling game. We're going to discuss all that and more in some of the permutations coming up. And we're going to do it with Phil Costa, who you can find on Twitter at Phil Costa,

at underscore Phil Costa, hello, Phil Costa. Hello, Elliot. Are your organs all in one place again,

heart rate back down to normal? I would like to get on the telephone with Christian Polisic and

decide whose organs are in less of the

right place right now, his around his stomach or mine around my stomach. Yeah, it was nervy.

And it's funny because, like, I don't count myself as someone who cares too much about international

football. The World Cup will get you excited, whether you do or not. But I'm not like the most intense.

I'm not the most intense about international football, just really at any given moment, but I found myself pretty wrapped up in the end of this. And I think it also tells me something about elevated expectations of this group and the talent that's in this group and what I expect from them. Because once upon a time, really anything the U.S. did in an international tournament.

I was like, well, that's a nice little bonus.

It doesn't feel that way right now.

And we can certainly come on to that.

But I think more importantly, talking about surviving and advancing, you survived and advanced

past the episode you did solo with Paul.

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