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My name is Taylor Rockwell and it is playoff time.

The MLS playoffs are underway.

The first round is in the books.

Here with me to talk about six games and preview a few more with varying degrees of fun and information involved are two fine fellows. Up first, a man who spent time with Bobby Warshall, which is always a risky proposition. It's Joe Lowry. Hi, Joe. Hello, Taylor. We both did a couple of those watch-alongs with Bobby for these first-round play-out games. I thought it was fun. Not only did I enjoy getting to chat with Bobby, because Bobby has lots of interesting ideas on things and stuff that I've never thought about and kind of challenges your thinking in good ways. I think that are helpful. But also just because it was fun to watch soccer. Like they were fun. It was the technology was fun. It was a good time. Did you actually watch the game though? How much of your conversation was about what was happening on the field? Because I feel like maybe in like the three hours I was on that stream, maybe 10 minutes was about what was happening on the field because I feel like maybe in like the three

hours I was on that stream, maybe 10 minutes was about the actual game itself. Yeah, very little,

generally speaking. And part of that is a symptom of playoff soccer. I think and part of that is just

like conversations that I think tend to be more interesting. And we have platforms like this to talk

about the games and get into the nitty gritty. It's not, uh, sometimes those watchalongs, unless you're going in with the express intent to like commentate the game, they are naturally going to sort of weave off into some of those other discussions. We would know nothing about that. Conversations on this show never weave off into other topics at all, including failing

to introduce our other co-host. Let's do that now. Joining us is TSS's resident football scran

expert, footie scran expert, excuse me, Graham Ruthven, Graham, you requested that we allow

at least the first segment of this episode to your comprehensive and exhaustive review of the dude

eating a giant taco during the FC Dallas game. Do you want me to just turn it over to you? Do I need to ask questions? How do you want to do this? I can just give my analysis straight off the bat, I think. So I didn't watch this match live because it happened in the middle of the night, my time. But it's good to know that my personal brand is so strong that people on Twitter now tag me whenever any food-related hijinks occur. So I'm thankful for that. I woke this morning to at least

three or four tweets directing me towards the giant tackle. And I have so many questions about

the giant tackle. So for starters, it fails the one-hand test. My theory is that for something to be the perfect football food, you need to be able to eat it with one hand so you can, I don't know, what do you do with the other hand?

Like gesture and abuse the referee and things like that, you know, standard football fair.

This poor guy is, as good as his technique was, and it was a very good technique, it looked like he needed

a crane to help him get a proper grip of this tackle. And then secondly, how much did that thing cost? Okay, I went some insight here. Yeah, keep going, keep going, but I want to hop in after. So I went to a Jets game once and bought quote unquote nachos, and it was just a bag of chips with some cheese sauce in the bag,

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