Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our recap of the 2024 Copper America Final.

Yes, it's a record 16th title for Argentina and a hot and humid night in Miami.

But got going after a sizable delay, this is the second consecutive Copper America for La Albi Celeste and a third major trophy in a row for Leo Messi and co.

And of course, Argentina now have 100% record in Copper America Finals where Shakira does a 25-minute half-time show.

What a time to be alive. My name's Ryan Bailey. Paul Trio joining us today. Taylor Rockwell's here.

Hello, Taylor. Hello, Ryan Bailey. Good to speak to you, my friend. Less good to speak to Joe with whom I just spoke to about nine hours ago. We're back again, Joe. We're back again. Yeah, I would feel offended if I didn't feel the exact same way, Taylor. Not even waiting for Ryan to introduce me. Ryan did you have something clever and nice to say about me?

Because if you did, you can actually go ahead now and we'll just pretend that that didn't happen.

No, Joe Lowry. You go ahead. It sounds like you guys have got iron some stuff out based on your conversations nine hours ago from what you're saying. Mostly just recording a postgame show when you're very confident that the only people listening to said postgame show are angry supporters

of one team or the other.

And then also, I think when most of our correspondents yesterday was me texting Joe, is it,

is it starting soon?

Is it starting in 10 minutes?

Is it 15 minutes?

Yeah, the delay of Cop America kickoff was not a thing that I had budgeted into my Sunday evening. But here we are. I'm excited to talk about it today. Well, really, in hindsight, Taylor, that was just a flaw in our thinking. We should have always anticipated this. We should have expected it. Yeah, I was in a somewhat similar boat. Bleach report had asked us to do a live stream in their app after the game, and they'd asked us sort of right when the Cop America started.

And so I was thinking, oh, that'll be great. It'll be a good way to end the tournament. I like doing those shows. And I truly do. I had fun doing it overall. As we sat there at, you know, after, after midnight for you, Taylor, your time over on the East Coast. I was thinking, is anybody actually here with us? and then we got a few kind of comments with expletives about Columbia.

And I was like, all right, time to turn off the chat. And let's go ahead and move this thing for them. Did you turn the chat off? Is that always stopped getting comments? You can turn it off as far as it appears on the screen. It automatically sets to just have the comments roll, which is a choice, I think. And up until that moment, I was like, oh, we're fine.

No, there's nobody here anyway, so it's all good. And then they started rolling in, and I flipped that button to the side. That makes more sense. I was really, because we got the one about like Emmy Martinez being a reliable goalkeeper. And then I kept refreshing to see if we got any more comments and we did not. and I thought, oh, well, I guess we've just enraged everybody and they've signed off.

I'm glad that that wasn't the case.

They were just enraged still.

They just... to see if we got any more comments and we did not and I thought oh well I guess we've just enraged

everybody and they've signed off I'm glad that that wasn't the case they were just enraged still they just couldn't let us know all right I'm gonna wait in here and try and steer us back to talking about the soccer game that happened so we can try and get on track here but before I do patreon.com slash total soccer show for bonus content bonus episodes bonus videos and access to our Discord, it is the best way to support this show, please.

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