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Music Welcome to the total soccer show in our latest batch of listener questions. Today we're discussing

the practicalities of an MLS calendar switch. We're asking what discovery rights actually are,

and we're seeing if we could buy a USL franchise. My name's Ryan Bailey, joining me today,

my fellow franchisee, Taylor Rockwell. Hello, Taylor. Hello, I'm excited to go on this journey with you, Ryan. I'm assuming you're the one providing the $10 million. We'll talk about that. Okay. Yeah. Let's offline about that, as they say. Just north and death and race his door. Just open the window. Aye, deck! That's better than what i thought it was going to be which is ryan rolling out blueprints a a a ocean's 11 like here's our plan to buy a usl team it involves a bank vault oh that would be nice let's get cluny involved can i be the one who eats shrimp cocktail the whole time i mean you get to go to vegas so ryan's in in sounds good Graham Rutherman, how are you? I'm very well. I mean, you get to go to Vegas, so Ryan's in. Ian, sounds good. Graham Rutherman,

how are you? I'm very well. I'm speaking currently over the noise of construction work. There's a giant hole right outside my house that they've been digging all week, so I'm looking, I can't wait to see what goes in that hole. I have no idea what's going on. Also, someone's going in, not coming out. Well, what would be better? Going in would be better, I think, than coming out.

Graham, how many years has that been the top running Scottish television program? What's in the whole? Yeah, there's podcasts about it. There's YouTube. There's a whole ecosystem around it. It's a companion podcast. They speculate on what could be in there.

I mean, do it. Sorry, I stepped on your joke to make my joke. I'll take the load, Lord. I'll get to the hole before you. That's a song, isn't it? So I'm looking forward to finding out what the whole... Maybe the house came with a free grave. It was quite a morbid thought. The rest of your life. I mean, I'm tied in through this mortgage,

so they might as well just throw a grave in.

Amazing.

Larry. quite a morbid thought the rest of your life. I mean, I'm tied in through this mortgage, so they might as well just throw a grave in. Amazing. Lowry, how are you? Any holes in your vicinity? No, not that I know of. Graham, I feel like I try to come to your defense in the Scotland versus England debates that we inevitably have on this show, just because it does feel a bit one-sided. You make it really hard, dude. You got to stop talking about holes.

You got to stop talking about all this noise that you're constantly dealing with.

The food discussion maybe should take a little revamp as well.

Just, I don't know, just some feedback from my friend.

Flip side, I feel like Graham's subtly trying to be like, see how good it is?

There's constant development and building. Oh how we're adding a new restaurant we're adding a new

franchise oh we're doing so well i mean maybe that's what's going in the hole a restaurant

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