Hello and welcome to the Total Soccer Show.

My name is Daryl Grove, and I'm joined by one of the producers for MLS Assist.

His name is Taylor Rockwell.

Hello.

Hello.

Wow, that is a specific and on-topic introduction.

And accurate.

Also true.

So we are recording this episode, July 8th.

MLS is back has not kicked off.

So at time of recording, MLS's back is not officially back.

But if you want to hear all about all the action at MLS is back, you've got to listen to the Total Soccer Show spin-off podcast, MLS assist, starring Joe Lowry and Jordan Angeli. Where can people find that, Taylor? They can find it in their own iTunes feed, Mr. Grove, which is what you have to do. You have to do some searching and then you have to subscribe. You have to. It's mandatory. It's not in our feed anymore.

You have to go out into the world, into Apple Podcasts or Spotify or whatever your podcast player is.

Search the words, MLS Assist and you will find MLS Assist and you will get reviews of all the action every single day from Joe and Jordan.

And you'll be making a really wise choice. You will. I mean, I initially thought that our spinoff show should be about like a gritty origin story about how we came together. You maybe had the better idea of it should be a tactical analysis of things happening in Major League Soccer and the trends and the individual players and the coaching hires and all that good stuff. That one makes a bit more sense for what we're actually doing no one needs to see a show about my teenage years nah nor mine my friend nor mine just a lot of oversleeping and being late for class it's not an inspirational story and as i learned in our conversation with r Bailey for me, mostly bad music as well.

And I don't think I need to go back and revisit that either. Oh yeah, keep an eye for that. We are on, what was that? I believe the show is called Day Drinking with Ryan Bailey. No, it's called. It's between two ferns, I think is what it's called. It's between two pints. Oh, okay, right. With Ryan Bailey. I don't know when it will be published, but sometime in the next few days, I believe.

We basically give all kinds of advice to the upcoming Charlotte MLS team, which I hope they take.

I hope they sign Hugh Roberts.

That was great advice.

I'm really happy you brought that up.

I really, really mean it.

I think Hugh Roberts can play an MLS.

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