Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and another round of listener questions.

On today's show, we're learning about MLS's next big homegrown players, the winners and losers of the expanded 48 team world cup.

And we imagine ourselves in Squid Game, which doesn't sound fun for us,

but hopefully fun for you, listener. My name's Ryan Bailey. Joining me today as a man who might not have been expected to be introduced first on the podcast. We'll see if he's ready to talk. Joe Lowry, go. I was ready as soon as you said, might not be expecting to be introduced first. I was about to bend over to pick up my glass of water to take a sip thinking, oh, I've got some time.

And then, Ryan, I snapped back up upright. not be expecting to be introduced first. I was about to bend over to pick up my glass of water to take a sip thinking,

oh, I've got some time.

And then, Ryan, I snapped back up upright in my chair.

I'm ready for you. Keeping you on your toes, bud. That's what I'm here for, right? Man, you really did. I like that. You should do that more often. I was thinking, by the way, Joe, about your lovely state of Arizona, which I love very much.

Do you have a lot of golf courses?

I'm wondering if you could lure Gareth Bale overstated. the way, Joe, about your lovely state of Arizona, which I love very much. Do you have a lot of

golf courses? I'm wondering if you could lure Gareth Bale over state borders, and so you could

see how lovely Scottsdale is and maybe play a few holes. Yeah, I mean, Scottsdale feels like the

place for Gareth Bail out of all the cities. In Arizona, we have tons of golf here. Arizona's a

really big golf course state. It really is outside of the months where if you're outside you want to die. A beautiful state to go out and just enjoy being outside. I kind of talked about this the other day. To go enjoy being outside and a lot of folks out here like to golf, I'm not one of them. But Gareth, if you're looking to get a little break from California, I don't know exactly why you would need that. California kind of has everything that Arizona has, but it's not like death outside for six months of the year. Either way, if you're looking for some really good Mexican food, no, California has that too. I got nothing. If there's one place less economically viable to have acres of grass for golf than California than it's Arizona.

Yeah.

Yeah, there we go.

Also joining us, Joe as a man, who's making us record early today so he can watch Andy Murray play tennis.

It's Grandmother. Hello.

Accurate, pretty much.

Yes, exactly.

I mean, I have delayed a lot of life events to watch Andy Murray. True story, my wife's waters

broke while we were watching Andy Murray at Wimbledon and we waited until the end of the

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