Welcome to the total soccer Show and an episode in which we answer questions from our listeners.

That's right, it's listener questions.

We really worked hard on the title there.

My name is Ryan Bailey, and joining me today is a man who believes the greatest movie montage of all time is from Backdraft, Taylor Rockwell. I mean, it is. And hello, Ryan. I do love that movie. It is a formative movie in my childhood, which is then immediately troubling because I realize the age I would have had to have been to watch that on VHS, and it's not good. It's not a great way to begin your childhood, but it is a good way to begin your childhood if you want to be a firefighter. I will happily continue this backdraft monologue, but I feel like I should take a breath. I'm vaguely remembering backdrop. Was it Kurt Russell? I mean, it was Kurt Russell in multiple roles, playing his own father, first of all. But then there's Robert O'Neiro. There's Donald Sutherland. There's Billy Baldwin, the second best Baldwin, I think. Jennifer Jason Lee in there. It's a packed squad, my friend. Man, I need to go back and visit that movie. And what did the montage consist of, by the way? Well, it's just hilarious to me because it's supposed to be like the firefighter montage of all of them, you know, doing all the different firefighter things. but kind of the premise of the movie is maybe Billy Baldwin shouldn't be a firefighter. And the montage sort of shows that, that like everybody else is good at it. He's just sort of standing around being awkward and not knowing how to work a hydrant. So it works in that way too. But it's just, you know, it's the 80s montage. It's just good stuff. It's Kurt Russell being intense. What more do you need?

Is the montage send up? Was that Team America or South Park? Whereas you need a montage or some

improvement with every frame? I think that it was, I think that was Team America. I get

confused with the song from basketball about like what the character is actually going through in the moment but I think it's Team America Spinning out of control I know all the words trailer Show a lot of things happening once Remind everyone of what's going on And with every shot show a little improvement To show it all would take too long That is called a montage There we go All right we've talked far too long about this Let's introduce a man who has spicy things to say about Into Miami on Twitter, Joe Lowry. Oh, it wasn't even that spicy, right? Compared to what other folks were tweeting about that Pulitzerio article, I think I picked, like, the eighth juiciest nugget to make fun of them for. I can up the spiceomometer. Is that a thing? It's a thing now.

At least you went top eight, my space style. I like that. The article is, we launched a brand, not a team, Insight Into Miami's Disaster, starting MLS by Paul DeLore very much recommended. Did you enjoy the article, Joe? Oh, it's so good. It's a great piece of work from Paul generally. And it also just reminds me of how

much inter- Miami goofed, which is also a weird, I don't know, it's a weird joy to watch something

implode. I'm not wishing ill on them, but that's kind of like a guilty pleasure, right? I think

watching just this Miami team that's been rumored for so long and it actually

happens and now they're just falling apart before our eyes.

There's some weird twisted satisfaction that I found in that.

You hate to see it.

Joe, do you mind?

I have a question for Joe for a moment because we haven't gotten to talk about this.

Joe, I remember you and Jordan doing like a pretty in-depth breakdown of Diego Alonso,

like when he was first hired. And this is like a larger question, I guess. But like, do you,

do you think about that and realize like how little we actually know about what's going on with

teams? Because you can sort of watch a coach's tactics and what they've done in previous games and

think you know them. But if there's all this craziness behind the scenes and the players are being sort of assembled without the coach knowing, it does change things a little bit, right? It's that Diego Alonzo situation. It's the Gabriel Hinesa situation. You can go back and look at their past teams and say, wow, they had success. These are the things they do well. These are some of the characteristics of their teams. But they go and it's either a toxic work

environment as it seems to have been in Atlanta with some really dogmatic personalities or there's

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