Hey there, welcome to Food Ball with Grant Wall, thanks so much for joining me.

Our interview guest today is Meg Swanek, who travels extensively to write about U.S. soccer.

She has a new sub-stack site called The Swan Dive, you should check out.

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It has all my writing, including magazine-style stories and on-site coverage of the men's and women's game.

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In segment one, Chris Whittingham and I will break down the soccer news.

We'll have my interview with Meg Swanek in segment two.

Let's bring in Whitty. How are you, my friend?

Doing all right, sir. I'm very jealous that Meg Swanek's name lends itself to a name like The Swan Dive.

I wish that I had a name that could be punned.

If we did yours, would your sub-stack be called Another Brick in the Wall?

Could we do that?

I have a visceral reaction to bad pun names, like puns off of the creator's name on things,

to the point where I really don't like it.

But not with Meg. Meg's is good. I have no issues with Meg's.

Somebody asked me if I did football with grantwall, so it rhymed.

I'm just like, no. No, I didn't.

So, yeah, I was never good at naming things anyway.

Yeah, me too. I'm terrible at it, but I'm jealous of people.

The low post is a perfect name for a podcast about basketball hosted by a guy with the surname Low.

I'm very jealous that it works to that degree.

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