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athletic for sponsoring Soccer show. I am Taylor Rockwell and today, for I think the first time ever, I believe I'm talking to Adam Bells, at least solo, at least on this program. It's a landmark day, Adam, I'm assuming you're planning to celebrate in the traditional way, which is to get extremely deep on the U.S. men's national team pool. Does that sound good for you? Sounds great. Mr. Rockwell, nice to be here. Yeah. Am I correct in saying that this is the first time you and I have done a solo version of this show at the very least?

Yeah, I've always been under Daryl's wing. I'm spreading my own wings and joining you. His wing is calmer and more British. Mine is a bit more erratic and feathers all over the place, I think. We'll see how it goes. But yeah, it is to the point where, like, I almost wrote you a message like six months ago being like, hey, I promise there's no beef or anything like that. It just always is. I think Daryl really enjoys talking to you. I think you bring out really good ideas. And Daryl enjoys having that sort of back and forth with you about the national team pool and the players therein that I think he just kind of he goes to

you you're one of his go-to interviews and then there was a moment I was like I probably need to talk to him before somebody's like do they not like each other is there some weird silent beef we don't know about so as far as I know there is not we are no beef no beef no beef no beef all right cool Darrell's like, he's the godfather of scuffed, as I've said before.

I mean, I, I, the first time I was ever on a podcast was when I messaged him and said, you want to do an episode about Leftbacks in the U.S. Men's National Seam pool? And he was like, yeah, let's do it. Not one part of that is surprising to me now that I think about it. He started the whole thing.

He started the whole thing.

Well, speaking of left backs, they featured sort of prominently in the show that you all just did, which was a, correct if I'm wrong, a three-person draft of U-21 national team players who have not yet been capped at the senior level.

Is that a fair way to

describe the draft? Yeah, I actually said that on the podcast. It was U23. I apologize. All right. Yeah. So in that draft, you did not take Richie Ledesma early. And I'm sort of now convinced that that's a code for like there's, you're under duress. There's an intruder in the house. and that's how you're letting everybody know.

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