Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and USMNT Weekly, our regular foray into the men's national team.

Today, we're lamenting a big injury to the striker contingent. We're looking at lessons learned from the last window and so much more, listener, so so much more. My name's Ryan Bailey. Join to me today. It's our Captain Taylor Rockwell. Hello, Taylor. How are you? Hello, Ryan. I am doing well. It's lovely to be here. I would say that maybe you're the captain, because you are the host with the mostest. And I do my best approximation of you when you're gone. But it doesn't come close. It's lovely to have you back. Thank you very much. Can I be VP of captaincy? Yes, that's fine. It's an official title. Senior VP of captaincy. In US business, everyone wants to be a VP. I don't get it. I've asked my wife this a thousand times because she is a VP, and I don't get how there are 400 different VPs and why you can have executive VP, senior VP, assistant VP. It doesn't seem like the most logical of systems. But I think American Psycho started it, and now here we are.

There we go.

Just shoot for being the P.

Drop the V. That's what I say. That sounded gross. Joe Lowry, hello, how are you? Really did. I am shooting to be the P. Let's just be very clear about that. But for now, I'm happy to be the assistant to the VP. that feels like a really...

Oh, the assistant VP.

Sorry, no, it's not assistant to the VP.

I'm assistant VP.

Assistant to disagree on that.

But I'm Ryan's assistant slash up-and-coming air, you know? That's how I view it. Just with less rhyming, really, I think. It's good to be back on the feed and focused on the soccer straight out of the gate, as we always are. Excellent stuff. Very good. I'm so happy Ryan got like a sunny vacation. I feel like the last two times Ryan has gone to the beach. It's been fully raining the whole time as much as we're now about to talk about weather and vacation. But Ryan got to enjoy sunlight for like the 12 minutes that British skin is allowed to be out in the sun, I think, before it burns. It's not just that. It's not just that he got sun instead of rain. It's that also, usually when Ryan comes back from a trip, he looks haunted and like a shell of himself. Usually those are work trips rather than family trips. Yeah. But Ryan does have a sort of glow to him this morning that I do not recall him having previously after he gets off of light.

That I thank you, I think.

Yeah, I don't know where to go with that either.

There's a lot of argument.

That was just a description of reality, not a compliment or a shot.

Yes.

Well, I had some well-deserved time off, some very valuable time off as well this past weekend.

On the Carolina coast, I will say Taylor, there were three

British adults in our party. All three of them got sunburned. Yep. That seems part for the

course. But then you all learn from it and proceed to never put sunscreen on and just get

even brighter and pinker. Yeah, that's right. We're Stephen Gior. We go again.

We just get out straight back out there.

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