Welcome to USMNTEEKWKIN. Welcome for USMNT Weekly on the Total Soccer Show.

It's our weekly foray into all things men's national team.

On this episode, we're looking at some of the big American player transfers floating around right now.

We're giving the cliff notes on Mauricio Pochitio's tactics and formation and much, much more.

Let's get it going. My name's

Ryan Bailey. Joining me today in a power trio. First up, Mr. Joe Lowry's here. Hello, Joe. How are you? Ryan, I'm great. I'm just waiting for Graham to give us the World Cup countdown for my anxiety to start up again. I know he's got it ready. This is a weekly occurrence. right i'm doing so well how are you sir oh i'm wonderful thank you very much for asking i appreciate

that joe i'm cold no doubt. How are you, sir? Oh, I'm wonderful. Thank you very much for asking.

I appreciate that, Joe. I'm cold. No doubt colded than you in the southern climes where we find you currently. Yeah, Joe's getting a little bit chilly in the Arizonaian desert and thought, oh, I need to migrate for the winter to Mexico while the rest of us, especially you, Ryan, and Taylor this week are shivering in the gold.

I am,

I am staunchly against weather chat on podcast, but I will say a giant winter storm does feel like a decent time to do it. The snow chat and the slack listener, I need you to understand. Graham and Ryan and Taylor were all talking about how much snow and ice and whatever there was. And Graham asked me like, oh, you're getting a lot of snow down and down where you are Joe and I texted a picture we were driving in Mexico at the time I just put my phone out the window it snapped the picture it's bright and sunny and there's trees everywhere

and I texted it back in the slide and no one no one responded to that that kind of ended the chat

disgustingly pleasant the climate in that picture did yeah sorry shouldn't interrupt

very clement Joe so you're still to against where disgustingly pleasant the climate in that picture. Sorry, should interrupt it.

Very clement, Joe. So you're staunchy against weather on podcast. I need to know more about this. Which podcasts you're listening to where they ferret into weather? No, actually, this is something that Taylor told me a long time ago when I was first kind of started doing this and working on hosting and all these things. And clearly the hosting stuff stuck because I do it all the time.

Taylor was telling me that when he feels like when you get into a podcast between two people and they initially start out with talking about the weather, it feels like they have nothing else to talk about. Like they're not, they don't actually have a relationship or a rapport. And so they just talk about the weather, which is what happens in real life as well. Like, that is, of course, what happens when we interact with people.

And that really stuck me.

That was probably five, six years ago now.

But I think about that all the time. just talk about the weather, which is what happens in real life as well. Like, that is, of course, what happens when we interact with people.

And that really stuck with me.

That was probably five, six years ago now.

But I think about that all the time.

Joel, you cannot stop two Brits talking about the weather. It's in our cultural DNA. It is. Tennis next, I assume. That's right. Beans and squab. I don't know what comes.

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