Welcome to Allocation Disorder. I am Sam Staskel, joined by a laughing, Bobby Warshaw.

Bobby, what's going on, man?

So that's how you pronounce your name?

I only came on this show to figure out how to know. You don't know how to pronounce my name? You are such a fraud. Nobody does. Don't act like anybody else. How long have we known each other? You're acting out here like you don't know how to say my name. I also want to say that that was a third time's a charm for your intro.

Well, the first time was a charm until someone decided to clap in the middle of it for no reason.

You're supposed to clap. Do you think this is a professional podcast? Does Greg Burrhalter clap? We don't clap. Oh, so not everyone claps. We do not clap. All right. Just you're falling apart. House of Cards over here at Warshaw. Anyway, Bobby is joining me this week. Many of you know him from his illustrious playing career with FC Dallas and over in

Sweden. More of you probably know him from his wildly illustrious career at MLSSoccur.com as a writer and

analyst over there for several years.

Bobby is one of the more interesting soccer people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting.

So no pressure, Bob.

Got to deliver on this podcast now, my man.

Did you just call me Bob?

I wasn't ready for that.

I caught me out of guard.

I like to keep you on your toes. How? So, Sam, I have a few questions for you. I know that you're the producer. You make questions. You send them to me. It's weird to say as a journalist and a reporter, but I think I'm terrible at coming up with questions. So please ask away. That's fascinating. That's like a midfielder being like, I realized the other day that I'm just like bad at trapping the ball. I realize it's this weakness in my game. I've been working on it. It's just imposter syndrome. We all have a two degree. I have some questions for you. Some pertain to soccer. Some pertain to other things. one is the right block to do them in. Can we do them at the front? Let's do it right now. We're figuring it out on the fly. Let's do it now. Before we do it, for those of you who don't know, I do want to mention that Bobby hosts a podcast via U.S. soccer with USM&T head coach Greg Burrhalter. It is legitimately interesting.

It's a good look into how Burrhalter thinks about things.

It's also a good look into, you know, his sneaker collection and what he likes to grill and stuff.

They do a little lightning round at the end of most of the episodes.

It's a legitimately good listen.

Paul and I have talked about it on this show before, but I just to shout it out before you start grilling me. You seasoned podcast. Thanks. That was nice of you.

So I am curious. You and I have talked podcasts for years. Partially when we were both on ETR.

Yeah. Exxime radio. You were on a less so because you weren't living in New York at the time, so you

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