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Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our latest dive into the listener questions mailbag.

On today's show, we're learning about the history of the Derby.

We're finding out how many seats are on the plane to Qatar,

and we're quantum leaping into Greg Berthelter's body for the sake of humanity. That'll be fun. My name's Ryan Bailey. Joining me today, we have a man who's still a little down about the USMNT's performance against Newcastle United's parent club. You okay, Taylor Rockwell? A lot down, my friend. A lot down. Yeah, it was not my favorite game that the U.S. has ever played,

and it was one, I said this on Twitter, it stuck with me for a while. It still sort of is.

It's been a while since a game, like, truly impacted by mood, but there I was, doing dishes

and muttering into the soap bubbles about overlapping runs and lack of possession or attacking

possession.

Not my favorite game overall.

I can't understand a world where people get emotional about friendlies.

I'm sorry, I can't do it, Taylor.

Yeah, and that's fair.

And I think very justifiable and normally correct.

It's just that this wasn't just a friendly.

It was the final friendlies before the World Cup. And for us to have come out of that one, hoping to have some solid answers, and instead, kind of the only answers we have are, this might go poorly. I don't really know what to make of it. I have a lot of questions. I think we just came away having more questions than answers. And that was not what we were hoping for, certainly not ideal, leading into a World

Cup.

Indeed. See the previous episode on the feed, listener, if you haven't already. Joining us, Taylor, a man who may also have the World Cup Group Bsads like you and me, Taylor. It's Joe Lowry. Hello, Joe. Hello, Ryan. I just went and ate about a box or two. I think it ended up being two boxes of hot pockets yesterday after I stopped recording with Taylor and Graham.

And you'll be surprised to know. That did not make me feel better. So here I am. I am a little bit down. Ryan, we're not bummed. I guess we can be bummed about friendlies. But how much more so should you be bummed about the Nation's League? You know, that's sort of just the question i keep coming back to uh i'll stop talking and leave it to you to parse through that

joe you've always been my favorite the nation's what uh joining us uh man you just heard his voice

there someone who is very invested all of a sudden in the ua for nations league graham rathman hello

hello i'm just basking in the glory of league A. I couldn't imagine being the fan of a team that isn't in league A. That must be a weird feeling. Ryan Bailey, can you maybe tell us what that's like? Do you have a nosebleed right now from being so high up the tables? I mean, I have a nosebleeds every Wednesday. you know, that's routine for me, but I don't

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