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Thank you. Hello, hello everybody and welcome to the Total Soccer Show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell.

It is almost 1 a.m. on the East Coast as we record this, my daughter is asleep, so I'm trying not to wake her with this introduction.

Joining me to talk about the USA's tuna win over Canada in the Concaffe Calfin Nations League. Final is a man who is presently hiding out in Allegiance Stadium, hoping no one comes and finds him. It's Joe Lowry. Hello, Joe. How's the bunker going? It does look like you're recording in a bunker. I essentially, I am. I've climbed up to the very top of Allegiance Stadium in Paradise, Nevada. I thought it was in Las Vegas. Apparently, it's in Paradise. You learn something new every week. I'm currently watching them vacuum up confetti from the grass on the stadium floor like 8,000 feet below where I'm sitting. It's a red, white, and blue color confetti, as it should be for the nation's league champions. Before we dive any deeper into that, Taylor, I want to give you props.

You mentioned it.

It is absurdly late on the East Coast as we're recording this.

I want the listeners to know, like, Taylor, Taylor is genuinely so committed to making

the best possible product and show.

He stayed up extremely late to do this.

It's going to be a good show.

Taylor, props to you.

I appreciate it.

Yeah, I mean, thank you. I appreciate that. It is very

exciting to be here. There's a lot to discuss. And I will, as always, reiterate, not like I'm

working at a coal mine. Watching soccer and staying up to talk about soccer is just fine with me,

especially when it was such a compelling game, but also a convincing win at the same time.

Before we get into that, Joe, you now have me wondering, if Canada had won, do they just hold the blue confetti and only let the red and white down? Do you think they let more red and white down? How do you think that works? It's a really good question, Taylor. I won't lie. I was considering that in the moments before you sent me the link to start the recording process. I would imagine there were two separate piles of

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