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The concept is simple, you, dear listener, send us your hot takes and we decide if we're going to take them or leave them.

Today we've got some spicy thoughts on the next MLSMVP,Broiner's goat status, and the modern emphasis on analytics and data.

Oh, my name's Ryan Bailey.

Joining me today, it's the power trio.

Joe Larry, hello, Joe.

Am I the power trio all on my own, or do we collectively make up the power trio?

I need to know on a scale of zero to Zerdon Shakiri. Well, we're an Isosceles triangle, so you're one of the corners thereof, Joe. Is that okay? Do we have to be Isosceles? Like, could we be scaling or no? Well, that would imply power is seeded in one of the corners, would it not, Joe? Oh, very interesting. So you chose your triangle carefully, Ryan? A power triangle is its strength lies in its equality. That's what I say, Joe. What are we talking about? Graham Rutherman, hello. Hello, Ryan Bailey. I am shooke that there are different types of triangle. This is Illuminati talk right here. Did you go to school, Graham? Eh Barely. Scottish school. I'm still, so I went out on a limb yesterday trying to do math on this show and butchered it when we were talking about calendars. I saw these triangles have like an unequal side, right? Like there's a side that's not the same. If we're going all the way down, you know, we got to do equilateral. Otherwise, Ryan, I'm giving you the short side on the ISO triangle. I messed up the terminology. I wanted the triangle where all three angles are the same, Joe. I've failed. No, it works out. You're the short side. Sorry, Ryan. Wow, what an excellent intro to this podcast so far. The ship is sinking because there's no Taylor Rockwell on this episode. Fun fact, he takes every leap day off. So he has a day off every four years. Happy leap day, Graham. How are you feeling? I hadn't even clocked that it was a leap day, leap year, this year, this day. Yeah, happy leap day year to you too, Ryan. Thank you very much. Olympic years,

always leap years, always an extra day of goodness. That's what I find. I've got a friend who is

10 years old today despite being on his earth 40 years. Isn't that fun? Aw.

That's a Jesse Wingard. Oh, really? Okay, there we go. I'm learning things about footballers.

What does he do with his birthday? Does he do both days, like the 28th and the first? Or what does he do usually? I think usually he's a March 1st kind of guy. But it's a difficult one, isn't it? Jarl, also born on Leap Day. The more you know. I don't know why I know that, but I do. Patreon.com slash total soccer show for our bonus content.

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Graham, I demand a video coming up about your kettle, which you just told us about your boiling device.

This might be quite British-centric, but you claim you had a kettle.

It might be?

No, no, yeah.

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