Hey there, folks. Welcome to a special episode of Allocation Disorder. Obviously with the COVID-19 pandemic, the coronavirus outbreak, whatever you want to call it,

wreaking so much havoc around the world.

There's a lot of stress.

I know, for one, you know, anxiety is up.

I'm a little bit on edge.

So any distraction that I can find in any funny stories and laughs that I can find in this kind of weird day-to-day existence that we're all now living in is very welcome for me.

So what we wanted to do is have another episode where we kind of tell some funny stories from our careers covering soccer in the U.S.

Paul Tenori and I did one of those, of course, last week for you, but we wanted to open up

to the rest of our athletic colleagues this week. So I spoke with Pablo Mauer, Matt Pence,

Meg Linahan, Felipe Cardenas, and Jeff Ruder.

They all told me some funny stories.

I told some of my own that they sparked in my memory.

And I had a really good time doing it.

I hope you have a good time listening to it.

But without any further ado, go ahead and enjoy this special episode of Allocation Disorder.

And remember, stay safe out there.

I am here with Jeff Ruder, the Athletics Intrepid Reporter of all things Minnesota United and

USL and a lot of other good stuff stationed up there in the Twin Cities.

Jeff, how's it going today?

It's good.

It's warm for Minnesota.

What are we talking about?

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