Welcome to the total soccer show and the glorious return of Take It or Leave It,

the show where we get your hot takes, and we either take them or leave them.

It's that simple.

On this episode, you, dear listener, have served up spicy takes on the Club World Cup,

switching to a TST format, the coach who will follow Marizzo Pocetino, oh boy,

Man United's Barron Streak and much, much more. My name's Ryan Bailey, joining me today, your friend of mine, Mr. Taylor Rockwell, hello, Taylor, how are you? I am lovely Ryan Bailey. How are you? I like your new recording setup, in what I assume is your home in Charlotte, yes? That's kind of right Now it's kind of wrong actually Taylor

I'll tell you where I am

I am in the one place recording setup in what I assume is your home in Charlotte, yes? That's kind of right.

No, it's kind of wrong, actually, Taylor. I'll tell you where I am. I am in the one place in the United Kingdom that has internet. I found the room. I found where it is. Wait, you're not in the room with me. Okay, England. I found the wrong room in England. There we go. Graham's got the other room. There we go. I am actually broadcasting live from athletic headquarters in That London, Taylor.

Get me, Get me. Yeah. And if you want to see what a podcast recording booth looks like at the Athletic Headquarters in London, you can look at our YouTube channel, like and subscribe. There we go. When you told them what program you were with, did they know what it was, or were they unsure what

you were talking about? This is

the sick Thor I had to knock on today. I finally

found the right one. Yeah, there we go.

Did you mean these total football show?

I'm confused. I don't know what words you're saying.

We were totally something, and we

are here. Thank you very much.

Graham Ruffman,ton hello how are you I'm very well Ryan Bailey can you like steal me some pens or is there anything see whenever I go to a nice hotel like whenever I stay at a Disney hotel I always steal the Disney theme soap which I think you're allowed to do is there anything like pens or that that mic looks that mic looks nice the athletic branded mic that would look good in my own office what athletic mike graham what athletic brand in mike i don't know it's gone what a mystery while we're talking about our backgrounds uh me being in london graham you've you've done some decorating as well which dear listener can see if they're on our youtube channel as well you put some scarves up how very original of you yeah i thought it was about time that i had john mcginn which i don't know whether it's actually shown in very original of you. Yeah, I thought it was about time that I had John McGinn,

which I don't know whether it's actually shown in the field of vision on the YouTube,

but he's looking over me. So I thought it was about 10. I've got Landon Donovan down here as well.

McGinn above Donovan, of course, there's a hierarchy that you have to stick to. But yeah,

there's some stuff in my world. I woke up this morning. I actually didn't do it. I just woke up this morning and it was there.

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