Hello, hello everybody and welcome to the total soccer show. My name is Taylor Rockwell. On today's episode,

we've got the return of a friend. He's a national reporter for the athletic. He's 50% of

allocation disorder. He's Paul Tenorio's other better half. It's Sam's day school. Sam, thank you

for being here. Nice to talk to you, buddy. Listen, I'm my own man. You don't

have to define me in terms of Paul Tenoria, okay? So this is actually my opening question for you is, is do people now lump you and Paul together? Are you allowed to have your own identities? Are you BFFs for life? How does this... No, we've been lumped together for a long time. It is what it is, you know, like he's an indecent guy

so he can live with it, but whatever.

You know, sometimes you just want to be an end of it.

No, I'm kidding. Paul's great. He's an excellent guy. He's a very close right of mind. Yes, but people do love us together. How long have you up with friends? Or how long have you been in each other's orbit, put it that way? Oh, so this is kind of a funny story, actually.

So Paul and I both went to the same college.

And when I was a, he's a few years old than me.

And we didn't know each other in school.

He graduated right before I showed up.

So we didn't cross paths.

But when I was a senior, I was looking to stay in soccer for my career.

And Paul was working at the Washington Post at the time.

And I was just in that zone, you know, where you're like reaching out to everyone and

anyone who's in the field that you want to be in and saying like, how did you do this?

What do you think I should do?

That sort of thing.

And so I emailed him out of the blue.

And I was like, hey, can we talk? And he was like, sure. And so we talked on the phone.

And this is in the fall. And a few weeks later, he emails me. And he's like, hey, my brother's

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