Jeff Rueter

In time, I would imagine that especially if the United States gets off to a good start, there will be plenty of enthusiasm.

If they don't, maybe there will be a different kind of schadenfreude involved.

Yeah.

And you've certainly caught the content bug while you've been here, haven't you?

You're yet to publish it.

you know, kind of the bowels of their hearts are necessarily the ramp up and the pre-tournament speech from the president and all of the litigation that comes with it.

I think that it's going to be that sort of like fierce communal joy is going to be ultimately the thing that actually is going to be able to get things through.

And that's where you do need the games to provide a little bit of sugar with the medicine.

But

It certainly has been a lot of medicine, hasn't it?

And it certainly has been, you know, great to see him get that hero's welcome of sorts when he does return to Somalia, right, and be able to have that sort of community that I think historically one would expect when they come to work a World Cup.

You know, at least at least able to get on the other end.

And hopefully this is something that I mean, to be fair, I don't really know where the tournament's reputation recovers from on this one.

Right.