Hello and welcome to full-time with Meg Linnehan. I'm Meg Tamara Griffin. My lovely cohost, has crossed the Atlantic on us.

She's currently in Portugal.

So Theo Lloyd Hughes is back on camera and back with me this week, Theo.

How are you?

I'm good.

Going for sixth man of the year.

Missing Tamara dearly, though.

But she's in Portugal, so Tamara wins don't worry about

her too much that is true it is back to snowing in Vermont I think you are now free of snow in

Texas so yeah the natural order has at least righted itself I mean I'm glad one natural order is

writing itself it feels like you know we're under order is writing itself. It feels like, you know, we're

under a barrage of strangeness. And, you know, last week's snow in the south was sort of

magical as strangeness and big world changes go. But yes, I don't know how soon in terms of

having a toddler in the house, I want to see 10 inches of snow and not being able to

drive or go outside. So fascinating week, but you can keep the snow Vermont for now. And snow

is going to be kind of a theme on the show, EMEG. Yeah, that's true. That's true because this

week on full time, we are finally officially welcoming the 16th expansion team to the NWSL.

We're going to go inside how Denver's bid got it across the line from the three finalists,

that also included Cincinnati and Cleveland, with some help, of course, from the athletics,

Melanie Ansaday, who talked to the club's new control owner, Rob Cohen,

and then filling us in on the big picture

coming out of Denver from official day one, though not really day one, as we're going to find out.

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