Welcome to USMENT. Welcome to USMNT Weekly on the Total Soccer Show. It's our regular foray into all things men's national team. On this episode, we're looking at the Americans who stood out in the past weekend of action. We're looking at the latest young American to break through in the Bundesliga and we're looking ahead to the 2030

World Cup too. Get ahead of ourselves. My name's Ryan Bailey. Joining me today, Power trio. Joe Larry's here. Hello, Joe. How's you? I'm great. You know, it's electric to be part of a trio. You know, to get to be part of a triangle like that. One of these angles, it gets to be juiced, man. So I'm stoked to be here. Excellent. Do you think, is there more strength in a triangle than a square, like in geometry? Is that, is that a thing? I don't know. I feel, I feel not, because I feel that we are incomplete without Taylor. So if that parallels over into math, then triangles would sort of have this feeling of incompleteness. but today it's going to drive me to be even better.

I agree.

Is it the hexagon the strongest, like the honeycomb hexagon?

Maybe it's that.

I know I've got the glasses, so the nerd persona comes with it,

but I really don't know, man.

It sounds plausible.

I was going to go with the septagon.

That's a thing, right?

The seven?

Yes?

Yes. Sounds like it. Why not? One short of the old octagon.

Graham, Ruffin. Hello, Graham. How are you? I'm good, Ryan Bailey. Don't ask me any

mathematics questions or construction questions or what. Why don't you go ahead and do that for us?

This is another situation where my brother would be better than me because he's a coder and a former

carpenter. He knows math and construction, but I have no idea. Graham, we thought you would know about pie. Come on. I do, just not this kind. Okay, fine. Very well. All right. 44 days until the World Cup. Yay, I didn't have to ask. 44 days. Wow. You feeling ready, Graham? Are you ready? I am starting to get excited. 44 days feels real now. That's enough time for Chelsea to get through at least a couple more managers. But for the rest of us, it feels like no time at all. I think we're all on injury watch. Now am I the only one doing that every Doing that every time games happen, every time a player goes down, I am fearful now. So, yeah, let's get them frozen and carving like Han Solo, Joe's method. Let's do it indeed. And also at Total Soccer Show, Towers, we have been prepping for the World Cup. We're going to have previews of every nation taking part coming on the feed as we go into the tournament.

We've also been doing like admin stuff. We're going to be in Los Angeles. So we're going to be all together for the World Cup.

We've done things like get our accommodation and our rental car and all the boring stuff taking care of now because the fun stuff is ahead tsss world cup.com if you go there

dear listener you will find details of our live show we are doing it live total soccer show

world cup live is coming to the el ray theater on wilshere that just sounds cool doesn't that sound

oh it does telling that yeah you'll find us there on june 11th the opening night of the World Cup, the night before the US take on Paraguay at SoFi Stadium. Graham, what can the folks expect? Give us a full rundown of everything we're going to talk about in that show, please. Sure, yeah. Let me just whap it out here. Oh, wait, have we even decided that amongst ourselves? We'll wing it. It'll be great. We will not wing it. Please buy tickets. There will be a plan. There will be, I think, some merchandise, hopefully some special guests as well. And it has been great hearing from people who have bought tickets. Let us know if you're coming along and we'll give you a shout out. So thank you to Diane And Bailey, presume no relation, Ryan. Thanks, ma'am. Who got in touch. Yeah, your mom's bought the tickets. I don't believe Diane Bailey is a relative. So she got in touch through our Instagram to say she's coming along. Joe Shaw as well, who messes me through my newsletter. John Adams in the Discord

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