Hello,

Hello, Hello everybody and welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Total Soccer Show, a fireable offense edition of the Total Soccer Show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell.

That was an ominous introduction.

Joe Lowry, how we feeling?

I feel great, maybe better than some of the folks that lost their jobs in MLS of the last few days, although they're probably now getting paid quite a bit of money to not work, so maybe I'm actually doing worse than them. I could go either way. I could go either way, indeed. Not going either way, because he hasn't been fired. It's Jeff Ruter. Hello, Jeff. Yet. I don't know how hot the seat is. It was hot in Austin. It was hot in Columbus. Is it hot wherever you may be?

It was stormy last night. I had one of those magical nights where you just had like rolling thunder as in rain sort of fall. In the last two nights in St. Paul, we have truly been blessed. But I also still as far as I'm employed. I love a a rainy night I don't know I'm a writer I love

moody rainy days it focuses the brain and and I'm in the middle of constructing I

and I'm posting about this only on Instagram which I'm not plugging my Instagram whatsoever but I'm

currently building a Lego set of the World Cup trophy, which is like a 2,700 piece

creators set, and I am halfway through it, and it looks like it's going to break.

So I'm nervous, but good for the ring.

Jesse, the all-encompassing important question, why?

For fun.

I wanted to do it just to feel some of that. Like,

sometimes World Cups bring joy and they aren't always like seeing, you know, waking up and

reading a column on The Guardian about how this is going to be a climate catastrophe because of the 48

teams and all of the travel across North America and stuff like that. So, you know, if you can

build little things and you can think of Ronaldinho and players

you liked when you were younger watching World Cups, that's a good headspace to try to get

into for a little bit.

How many pieces?

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