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**Marianna Spring** (0:00)
Today, we are going Under the Radar, bringing news stories away from the main news headlines that we haven't had a chance to get into. We're going to be talking about the viral clips of football fans from all over the world, talking about what a welcoming and great country America is. And we're going to be discussing Jill Biden, who's been confessing her true feelings about that Biden versus Trump debate two years ago.
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**Caitriona Perry** (1:02)
Hello, it's Caitriona Perry joining from Washington, DC.

**Justin Webb** (1:06)
Caitriona, you are very welcome. It's very nice to have you on. We are also going to be joined. I'm reliably informed by Marianna, but she's buzzing about doing a million things, so we're not going to wait for her. We're going to start talking about football. A lot of people saying before it, it's going to be a nightmare, it's going to be heavily politicized. There are all sorts of fears about empty seats because the ticket price is so high.
There's a general kind of sense that the United States is not as welcoming. Actually, it has turned out to be, at least online, something that is the very opposite of all those things, I guess.

**Caitriona Perry** (1:40)
Yeah, I think all of that's true at the same time because the ticket prices are crazy, really exorbitant. And obviously we see lawsuits proceeding in New Jersey and New York City against FIFA, looking for explanations into dynamic pricing and so on. And there have been many, many tales about people not getting visas, not getting through the borders and so on. But for those who are here, it's America. I mean, we remember that fantastic World Cup in 94 that was hosted here. And I know especially for me being from Ireland, that was a really special World Cup because we almost never get to the World Cup, including this year. And there's the same sort of fervor and fever around the place this year as well. And of course, this time around, we didn't have it in 94 We have Instagram and all the various social media platforms. So people are documenting their travels around their first encounters with Taco Bell or with McDonald's or with Waffle Houses and all this kind of standard American fare.

**Justin Webb** (2:45)
Yeah. And talking of social media, Marianna has joined us. She's in the room.

**Caitriona Perry** (2:50)
Hi, Caitriona.

**Marianna Spring** (2:51)
I just came running in. Yeah. I mean, this content is going mega, mega viral, which is unsurprising to some extent because every time there's a World Cup on the whole, you see a lot of this kind of content. Like you've got fans from all over the world. Coming to a place, often meeting the kind of collision of cultures.
But particularly in the US, I think, a lot of the social media content has been about places where teams chose to make their base. So a team will decide that like a particular city or place that's convenient for them is where they're going to train in between games, because obviously the games are in loads of different places. And one of the clips that I saw pop up on my feed was a TikTok again quite emotional about how this Louisville in Kansas has become home to Team Algeria, who unfortunately lost to, well, unfortunately for them, lost to Argentina yesterday, so they might not be feeling quite so joyous today. But those are the TikToks are basically this town like completely embracing the team. So you've got like restaurants with musicians playing Algerian music, like people who are thanking Algeria for choosing Louisville. But this is a little flavor of the TikTok and an influence of saying how emotional it made her because she really liked it.

**SPEAKER_7** (3:57)
Algeria decided to go to Louisville, Kansas for their host city. And the way people in Kansas have accepted them with open arms has just been the most heartwarming.

**SPEAKER_3** (4:28)
Everybody here has been very friendly and very welcoming, and I'm really glad Algeria is going to be here. And one, two, three, Viva Algeria!