Hello and welcome to the total sucker show. My name is Daryl Grove. I'm joined by a man who's giggling. His name is Taylor Rockwell. Hello, why you're giggling? You know why I'm giggling because we've been recording so many introductions to our new show in the last couple days that I feel like maybe you were of two minds when you started this one. It's because I messed up the first take. Maybe, yes. But we are here, and we are recording.

We are on vacation this week. You're hearing this. The Total Soccer Show is on vacation. Daryl in a chaise lounge with a straw hat. Yeah, Gerald's kicking out, relaxing. I'm, if past his precedent, doing manual labor on my house. Yeah, you do. It's great. Weirdly, right?

Fun turns into obligation at a certain point.

I see.

Yeah.

I'll be watching TV.

Home ownership.

So, Ron. doing manual labor on my house. Yeah, you do have fun. Weirdly, right? Fun turns into obligation at a certain point.

I see.

Yeah.

I'll be watching TV. Home ownership. Yeah. So we're on vacation, but we have a new show for you to listen to. You've heard us tease this before. We are fully, it is launched. Soccer 101. Is that what we're doing here? our new show. This is like a launch party.

I thought we were just discussing our vacation plans.

No, no, no. You don't think people want to hear about the TDMO? Soccer 101. Is that what we're doing here? Our new show. This is like a launch party. I thought we were just discussing our vacation plans.

No, no, no.

You don't think people want to hear about the TDM of our existence? All right, fine. All right. Let's talk about soccer one then. Soccer 101. Our new spin-off show is now live. live, you can go find it on Apple Podcasts, on Spotify, on Stitcher, on whatever it is that you use to listen to podcasts, assuming it's a legit thing.

You can find it on Apple Podcasts, on Spotify, on Stitcher, on whatever it is that you use to listen to podcasts, assuming it's a legit thing. You can find Sucker 101 there. So we just hear briefly to essentially tell you about a new show and encourage you to go and listen to it. We will because, and are, because we're really proud of the show. It's a few shows maybe you've heard, if you've been listening for years and years,

it's a few things from like the back catalog that we're sort of revisiting in order to maybe go back to doing some of those types of shows on Soccer 101. But then it's also some explainers about, like, key concepts in soccer that you might know about, but we go more in depth on the history and the origin of them. So yeah, it's a variety of things that we hope will appeal to a variety of listeners.

And the best way I find of explaining it to people as a short hand is to say it's a bit like how stuff works, you know, that show, but all about soccer. So the topics are all soccer instead of about, you know, how ice is formed. Yeah, and I think that's a good one to compare it to because even when how stuff works is about a thing that is fairly common knowledge, I think they still try to find little things in there that make it interesting. Even if you've already heard some of the stories or if you're already familiar with the narrative or the history of that moment or person or whatever, you still get a little bit out of it, and that's what we're aiming for as well.

That even if you think you understand the offside rule, maybe you don't know about the history of how it evolved and changed, or even just how to explain it succinctly. I mean, I didn't know that all that history until we did our research, right? So there should be enough there for newbies and soccer savvy people alike. That's up so. The other thing I say is this isn't our first spin-off project, right?

We have the Gold Mouth, we've got our top-dra soccer show,

but all our other spin-off project, right? We have the Gold Mouth, we've got our top-draud soccer show.

But all our other spin-off projects were in partnership with other people.

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