Greetings, everybody.

Greetings everybody, welcome to the Total Soccer Show. My name is Ryan Bailey. And to follow on from

yesterday's listener question show with Joe and Taylor, we're coming at you like Cleopatra

with even more queries today. Joining me to put the world's to rights is a man who represented

his country at a World Cup, who has dominated soccer media since hanging up his cleats and who has some of the greatest hair this side of Antoine Griesman's braids. That's true, right? He is the Duke of Defending, the King of Commentary, the Marquist of Matchday Analysis, the Prince of Podcasting. I could go on all day with these. He's a man whose name you already know because you saw the episode title before you clicked here. It's Mr. Jimmy Conrad. Wow, man, I feel like we should hang out more. That is quite an intro. I'm priding myself on stupid intros now, so you've got the latest one there. You're very welcome, Jimmy. How are you doing? Yeah, I'm doing good. It's great to see your face. I know people don't know, but we're looking at each other on Zoom.

It's been a while. We started this adventure together, or at least my adventure in the media space on Kik TV, so it's cool to be reunited. And it feels so good, Ryan. It always feels good with you, Jimmy.

Oh God, we've gone there already.

So yeah, we did start working together in, I'm going to say, late 2011 when we were put together with Kick TV in New York. One of my earliest memories of meeting you, Jimmy, is after maybe the first few days we recorded, we went shirt shopping. Can you remember that? I do remember, yeah. So like back in the day before like YouTubers were a big thing and you could wear like clothes that actually express your personality,

we were sort of wearing these buttonups. And I think neither of us had any sort of TV ready

button ups. So we went to some department store or something and bought these really lame,

baggy shirts that we ended up wearing for a few weeks. I remember that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I don't have any more of them.

They were pretty cheaply made. And we had to survive, man. That was kind of the fun part about Kick TV at that time. Yeah, I don't remember those shirts lasting long for many reasons. But yeah, yeah, that was good. Those were good times at Kick TV days. They were good times, very good times of these. Of course, I don't need to give you any more introduction than my silly one I just gave you.

If you know US soccer, you know Jimmy.

Generally... So good times, very good times of these. Of course, I don't need to give you any more introduction than my silly one I just gave you. If you know US soccer, you know Jimmy. Generally, one of the kindest and nicest people that I know, not just in soccer media, but in general. So it's really good of you to join me today for this one. And tell us what you're up to at the moment as well. Yeah, so I'm doing a lot of stuff for CBS Sports. I'm a wagering analyst of all things. You know, when they first got started,

they bought the Champions League right from Turner, Champions League Rights, excuse me, not just one.

It's not a single little thing. It's a plural thing. But they bought the rights to more than one

game. And as I started to get in there and talk to the people, the guy that runs talent for them just happened to be my first agent, my first media agent.

And so I kind of used that connection to get into the door.

And he was handling all the European stuff.

So Jamie Kerriga and Micah, Micah Richards, and Roberto Martinez, Kate Abdu, like, fantastic over there, but he handed me off to the American-based crew, and they said, yeah, if you want in, do you know anything about gambling? I'm like, I absolutely can know everything I need to know about gambling. So I got in there, I'm a wagering analyst, and it's been nice. It'd give me more time on screen. And I get to give some nice analysis as to why

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