Hello,

Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Total Soccer Show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell.

And today we've got a Copa America preview for you, specifically a Copa America preview that mentions the U.S. M&T as little as possible.

We've talked about them plenty.

We haven't talked about everybody else.

Here with me to do most of that talking is Mr. John Arnold of the getting

concapped newsletter and his daily TikToks, which John, I'm to understand will be continuing on

during Copamica. Yeah, I've got a series plan that's going to reintegrate me drinking coffee

and talking about soccer. That's a series I often do called Get Concaffeinated. We'll be doing something

a little different for Copa America since there's 10 South American teams joining us here in the United

States over the next month or so. But yeah, so if you like watching someone drink coffee and talk

about soccer, definitely follow the TikTok. I do a lot of other stuff over there as well, but that's kind of the big novelty

for the TikTok account ahead of the summer.

Is it like evaluating, reviewing the coffee and then also talking soccer, or is the coffee

more so secondary background to the soccer conversation?

So just in general, my coffee consumption is more geared around the

experience than the taste or the coffee. So when I will travel to games, I like to kind of give

a little review of the shop that I've visited. Hey, I'm at this place in this city. Good vibe. Great

lavender latte or whatever it is. And then we move into the soccer. So a lot of this tournament, I'll be sitting at home just because there's a lot of games and a lot of far flung places, so that'll be more soccer. But yeah, hopefully people get a little slice of what the venues are like, what the cities are like, and also what's going on on the field. John, if I'm standing next to you ordering coffee and then I add cream and sugar to my coffee, am I going to get a look of judgment from you? I feel like maybe, no, you're cool with it, you're cool with however you want to take coffee? I got into coffee because of the coffee shop. I like to go and work in a place where I'm getting inspiration and you have this kind of old school idea

of maybe the guy next to you is talking philosophy or writing poetry or whatever. I still romanticize

that even though the actual situation is that the guy next to you is on a Zoom call about Bitcoin,

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