Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our latest batch of listener questions.

On today's show, we're looking at Florian Verz's Premier League struggles,

the biggest stars who never performed on the international stage,

USL's new D-1 Staters League, and much, much more.

My name's Ryan Bailey, joining me today to answer your questions and to provide much hilarity, as always. It's Taylor Rockwell. Hello, Taylor. Hello, Ryan. That was funny in itself, see? You started off very strong. You really backed me into a corner there, which is why you are most deserving of the podcast, Ballandor. Ballando, Ballando, Ballando, Ballando.

Who votes for that? Is it a jury of my peers?

Unfortunately, it's just Gianni Infantino, and then the people that he appoints to vote for Best Podcast,

which I think it looks like is his own podcast, the Infantino cast.

It's all your LinkedIn connections, I think.

Oh, good.

I'm going to prove my no personally.

Right, right.

I have a LinkedIn story for you.

Somebody, somebody, my wife posts a lot about AI because that is an industry that she is actively involved in and exploring further

somebody stole her post and posted it as their own whoa what did she do was it

did an AI do it perhaps she sent the person who she likes a message of like

hi I understand that you're very interested in this field that I enjoyed like

your talks on it.

It seems like your post is very similar to mine and posted them side by side.

And they are like it's very much a like move subject and verb around and made it passive and then made it their own.

And they said, oh, it sounds like we were doing similar research.

So I'm not sure what could have happened there and then they pulled their post.

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