Hello and welcome to the total soccer show.

We're on vacation, but we're also in the office. Of course we are. My name is Daryl Grove, and joining me on Not Vacation is Taylor Rockwell. Hello, that is correct. Yeah, I guess we just pointed out one episode this week just to keep the feed alive. Yeah, my wife, as I was packing up today, said, I thought you were on vacation. And I said, ah, you know, that was enough. That was enough. Plus, you get a chance to talk to Aaron West. That's true. You've got to

take it. You do. Right? So today's show is mostly Taylor interviewing Aaron West of World Cup fame.

Mm-hmm. World Cup. He didn't play, but he was on Fox during the Women's World Cup. You will have seen him.

He certainly was.

We talk about that.

We talk about where his fandom comes from, how he asks questions in his kind of one-on-one interviews,

lots of other stuff involved in that interview.

I really enjoyed it because you get to know him, but you get to know his perspective on the game.

And then, you know, what it's like to cover World Cup in person. All right. So there's that Taylor Rock or Aaron West interview to come very soon, right, right after this intro. But then Taylor will be back to talk Christian Pulisic. We have a listener question about Christian Pulisic. We will be answering that. All right. Let's get to Aaron to get to that. All right. But first, I also want to let people know, Soccer 101. Our new show that we've been working on is live. You can find it on, so far, Stitcher and Spotify, I've got it out there. In Apple Podcast, it's not findable via search, but we will put a link in the show notes so you can click on it and find it that way apple really doesn't want us to get

into the charts do they tim cook is against us but yeah i mean probably it'll appear in the charts in

the next couple days right now if you click the link you can find it there's 10 episodes ready to go

you've heard us talk about it before right there's a one there's a show explaining offside

explaining panenka's, explaining

how the numbers work, like number six, number seven, all that. I want to ask you, Taylor, what was your favorite episode of what we recorded? Probably the Pele episode. The Pele episode. Yeah, because, like, to be, like, totally honest, like, some of those shows, like, I think the idea for 101 came about from being like, we've been asked that question so many times but we always have to go back and find that episode let's do it once and for all here's the

explainer that you can I think the idea for 101 came about from being like, we've been asked that question so many times,

but we always have to go back and find that episode. So let's do it once and for all. Here's the explainer that you can always find and it won't disappear in the TSS. Yeah, and so all those episodes have new stuff in there. There's new points and perspectives or updates or what have you. The Pelley one was kind of like the one that I was most excited to do heading into it because it's more about

like the player himself but about

the myth of the player was kind of like the one that I was most excited to do heading into it because it's more about

like the player himself but about the myth of the player and then what he accomplished and then

kind of debunking some of that myth. I kind of even forgot the one about how like Brazil made

the law that he was this like national treasure or whatever. It's like yeah, that didn't really

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