Hello!

Hello and welcome everybody to The Total Soccer Show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell.

With me to talk U.S. men's national team and a whole bunch of MLS.

Is Lyle's dad.

It's Sam Stasco.

Hi, Sam.

How you doing, buddy?

I'm doing great.

I've never been introduced that way before on a podcast or maybe ever, You don't introduce yourself two people as Lyle's dad? Hello, Lyle's dad, Sam. Pleasure to meet you. No, it's going well. Thank you for having me on the show. I am excited. We're going to have some fun. We sure are. We have, as I said, those two topics to be discussed. We also have some questions from Twitter. And I wrote that introduction before we got this question off Twitter, but I'll start here. It's from a person with a prominent mustache. I forget his name. But a creepy mustache on Twitter who also writes about MLS said, Sam, when you're walking your dog and he stops to greet another person's dog, what is your go-to way to end the interaction?

Is it have a good one?

Is it, come on, bud?

Is it just silence and staring at the ground?

It's a combination of have a good one and come on, bud. It's like, it's usually like, okay, buddy, let's go. And I'm like, have a good day. Like, after that. And usually, usually my dog is doing something stupid.

So, like, we get to, like, laugh, like, share, like, kind of like a weird forced chuckle on the way out as well. The weird forest chuckle. Yeah. That's the best. But I like to spice it up sometimes. Like, the other day, I'm a Chicago Bears fan. The other day, he was, like, very excited because my dog gets more excited to greet humans than other dogs.

Yeah.

So he was very excited to greet this other person wearing a bear shirt.

And he got a little too excited and he, like, tried to jump up a little bit.

And I was like, all right, Lyle.

Like, I know we like the bears, but that doesn't mean you get to jump.

Okay?

So I felt pretty good about that one.

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