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Thank you. Welcome to the total soccer show and our latest round of listener questions.

On today's show, we're asking how much weight a player's weight should carry.

We're going on a Zhao Felix deep dive, and we're reinventing the laws of the game again.

My name's Ryan Bailey joining me today. He's our hero. It's the hero we didn't

know he needed. Taylor Rock call. Hello. Hello. I appreciate that. I appreciate that introduction,

Ryan. You brought the energy today. Well done, sir. I'm having an energy-related drink as we were

discussing before we recorded, Taylor. It's got vitamins and electrolytes and I'm buzzing right now with a tablet

in some water. Are you one of those people that considers that an energy drink? Because if so,

I don't like you. Are you one of those people who like eats a candy and that it's like, well,

I'm going to be awake for 12 hours? What answer can I give to make you still like me?

I'm just saying, I think an energy drink for me is like, as you can attest, it's a

Granday latte with an extra shot thrown in there, which I think made Ryan literally shake for

like eight hours.

So I think by contrast, your water is probably slightly a healthier option.

When we were together in Brooklyn, Taylor would start every morning with a gatorade mixed with a cold brew coffee and four pounds of sugar in it. Was that right, Taylor? I try to avoid the sugar. I wish I could just do the black coffee, which sometimes I can, but oftentimes sometimes you need the cream and sugar, even though that in and of itself was a confusing point, cream versus milk. we've lost like 8 to 90% of our listeners at this point. With two of your co-hosts as well, just to add that in. Well, let's pull them back in and try and pull back in at least one co-host. Joe Lowry. Hello, how are you, sir? Hello, Ryan. I'm back. I really couldn't leave this wonderful for some. I am pumped to be here talking about listener questions and talking about how Barcelona are fun, question mark,

slash maybe bad. leave this wonderful for some i am pumped to be here talking about listener questions and talking about

how barcelona are fun question mark slash maybe bad at everything that they do i mean i'm excited for

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