Hello and welcome to the total soccer show.

My name is Darrell Grove and I'm joined by a man who is the best friend and podcast partner. A man could ever have. His name is Taylor Rockwell. Hello. Hey, buddy. How you doing? I'm doing pretty well. Yeah, you're doing the opening remarks while wrapped in a blanket. Yeah, yeah, I'm a little cold. I've got a little bit of a raspy voice.

A little bit.

And obviously I haven't been on the show for what, two weeks? Thereabouts, yeah. Thereabouts. And so I should explain my absence. I mean, you don't need to put it quite in such a like, I must explain my absence. You have to do it at high school? I think you should have to do it on podcasts.

Okay, that's fair.

Maybe, yeah, maybe like the abbreviated version would be good

because I've sort of,

I haven't, like, the best way I can explain it is like I haven't wanted to put your business in the streets. So I haven't wanted to say quite so much what's going on other than to say that like, you're as okay as you can be, you're okay, but you're not great. So now you're here and you can do it yourself.

All right. So the very long story is I got that cancer diagnosis in January.

The recent news is I got that cancer diagnosis in January.

The recent news is I had a bowel blockage because a tumor was blocking my bowel.

So it's kind of a get dabbling to hospital, do some surgery on him kind of situation, right?

So I've got an iliostomy, which is where you get a bag.

And I've been recovering from the surgery. And I'm kind of still recovering, but I was really desperate just to get back in the studio and do an episode with Taylor. So I'm okay. I'm through the danger because it was dangerous when the bowel was blocked because things are supposed to move through your pals. They're not just supposed to keep inflating, apparently. So that has been solved. I'm

feeling pretty good. I'm feeling pretty lively with a microphone in front of me. And I'm good

to continue also the clinical trial, which is going on in Boston, which is the treatment I'm

getting for the cancer. So there we are. That's me explained. Okay. That's you explained. So

you feel good, as good as you can, at least. You're back wrapped in your blanket to help me answer those your questions. Blanket is post-surgery blood thinners to stop any clots. Also makes you feel a bit cold. That makes sense. Yes. And also the air conditioning in our building is centralized. So we have low, medium, and high. Low is necessary, given that it's still hot outside, but it doesn't really, isn't really forgiving to folks who are maybe slightly colder. It's not. But I'm okay. I've got my blanket. I'm all good. I've got eight listener questions. You do. All submitted to total soccer show.com slash questions. You do. We've got many to get to they are a varying degrees of difficulty

in how we're going to answer them uh the one first i struggled with you less so so we'll go there

billy height asks is burholtzer system just too cerebral and complex for international play

uh you did a very good job of kind of breaking this question down to its basics in a way that I did not, which is probably why it was easier for you to answer than me.

Well, so the way I answer this is to not think about like, is Bell to doing a good job, implementing this and that, like just take the question at face value.

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