Hello,

Hello, everybody, and welcome to a holiday edition of The Total Soccer Show.

I think my voice cracked there.

I'm not entirely sure.

My name is Taylor Rockwell.

I have two lovely gentlemen with me today.

The first one, the most lovely.

Oh, this is a, I've backed myself into a corner here.

Equally lovely is Ryan Bailey.

Hello, Ryan.

Hello, Tate. What a pleasure to be introduced first. I'm going to go with alphabetical, right? Yes, B.L. There we go. And also with me is Mr. Joe Lowry. Hello, Joe. Hello, Taylor. Hello, Ryan. Ryan, I'm happy to give you the first introductory honors of sorts, even though I had no control over how that went down. I feel kind of bad that I did take first spot now, to be fair. I'd like, can we re-record? Can we start again? I have to say, listeners, we usually don't record with video. We are doing that this time so we can all see each other and ideally not interrupt a ton. Ryan, you could not have been less sincere when you said, I do feel bad about that. He's like casually holding his cup of coffee, just like, oh, I feel very bad about that. You do not at all. I was doing the Mr. Burns' excellent hands while I said it. Yes, you're quite right. But it is nice to see you both. I've never seen Taylor do his intro before and he had his arms up in the air and it looked like

he's very enthusiastic as one would hope when I've never seen Taylor do his intro before and he had his arms up in the air and it looked

like as enthusiastic as one would hope when Taylor does his enthusiastic intro. And Joe meanwhile is

have you been listening to Nine Inch Nails Records a lot this morning Joe because it looks

like you've got a very Gothic vibe going on. You seem to be in a cellar. You're wearing a black shirt that says birds aren't real on it. You know, it's Christmas time, right? It is Christmas time. In my defense, I was not aware we were recording with video today that was not communicated to me by management or whoever is in charge of this app. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I didn't know, genuinely, that we were recording on video, but that really wouldn't have changed anything. This is my setup. Bobby Warshaw made fun of it when he came on MLS assist with Jordan and I. So I'm at this point pretty impervious to the critique of my recording setup. I do feel it necessary to point out. I do see several nutcrackers in the background, I think. So he has gone slightly festive, but they, because of the lighting setup, just look more so like your slightly minion army, which is a little bit terrifying, Joe. I feel like it's an intimidating approach Joe's gone with here. It's a power move. What can I say? It's dramatic lighting as as well it's the underlighting it's very

1930s horror movie

and meanwhile I have just gone with sheet in background

so you can't see the chaos of my home

that's that's how we block everything out

but we are here today the three of us

myself and my wonderful two colleagues co-hosts

who have been steering the ship in my absence.

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