Welcome to the Total Soccero

Welcome to the Total Soccer Show.

My name is Ryan Bailey, and unlike Manchester United, we are focusing on the Champions League.

Joining me on this episode is your friend of mine, a man who would never confuse the cities of Budapest and Bucharest, Taylor Rockwell.

I mean, a double shot in the introduction, that's how we're starting.

All right, sir, it's going to be a contentious episode.

Yes, Manchester United are incompetent, and I'm incompetent when it comes to knowing which

cities go with West countries.

I knew we were in Romania.

I went Budapest, and I apologized.

It should have been, or I apologize now, should have been Bucharest.

My mistake.

It's okay, it's okay.

And I apologize for the double shot in the intro there.

I realized that was a pretty rough way to come in there. No, it's fine. I love MK. Dance. It's great. Okay. It is going to be one of those things. All right. All right. Anyway, joining Taylor and I to talk Champions League is a man who would never confuse tactics with Tic Tacs, and he's a breath of fresh air in both regards.

It's Joe Lowry. See, that was much nicer for Joe. That was brilliant, and I just like how this episode's already shaping up because I think, Taylor, you're going to get all the hard questions from Ryan, and I'm going to get all the softballs lobbed underhand my direction. Well played, guys. Okay, yeah, so opening questions. Joe, what did you have for breakfast? And Taylor, what's the meaning of life? Oh, I had a granola bar. Now, Taylor, over to you. Forty-two? Is that the answer? Is that 42 or 47? I can never remember which one it is from Douglas Adams. See me after class, Rockwell. Okay. See me after class.

Do either of you know what I'm talking about? Nope. Read a book. Yeah, the space one. What's it called? Hitchhackers Guide to the Galaxy? That's right. Oh, I do know that book. I haven't read it, but I know it. They ask a supercomputer, the, like, the world's largest, the universe's largest supercomputer, what the answer is to life, the universe, and everything. And after several centuries of calculations, it returns an answer of, I believe 42 or 47. I can't remember which one. So they made a movie of that, didn't they in the end. Did you watch the movie? I did. And I watched the miniseries. The miniseries, uh, I think a little more fun because it's a little more Douglas Adams-esque, but then most deaf is great, so it balances out. Very nice. And has my familial connection of sorts, Sam Rockwell, in there? And has it got the guy from the office, Martin Freeman's in it as well, right? Yeah, him too, whatever. Yes.

Yes, he is there.

So what relation is Sam Rockwell? Is he a fourth cousin, fifth cousin? I've always been told that like all Rockwells are somehow related, but that feels like a bold claim from my family. I don't know. He's a Rockwell in there, so we'll go. He's like, yeah, third cousin. We're best friends. It's fine. Any famous Lowrys you're related to, Joe?

Not that I'm aware of, but man, apparently I need to do some digging and find some really, really external familial relationships just so I can really get on Taylor's level over here.

All right.

Anyway, we're talking about the Champions League today.

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