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Thank you. Welcome to the Tonal Soccer Show and our latest edition of Take It or Leave It.

It's simple. You, dear listener, send us in your hot takes and we decide whether we'll take them or we'll leave them.

Today we're turning up the take-based heat on making Black Friday a major soccer day.

We're going spicy on the Mexican national team

and we're steaming up the take windshield with Namar's career. The take windshield. Wow. My name is

Ryan Bailey joining me today as always my good friend, your good friend, our good friend, Taylor Rockall. Hello.

Hello my friend. How are you? You are in the States, but even further south than normal. I am indeed. I am in Will Smith's favorite town, Taylor. Can you guess which one that is? It's not the Wild Wild West. Wherever Chris Rock is not? Yeah, exactly. There it is. Thank you, Joe. Thank you, Joe. It's nice. Yes, I'm in Miami. I was here for a soccer conference called Soccer X, Taylor, which involved a lot of people in suits talking about soccer.

That sounds like my nightmare.

Yeah, great. You should come next year.

Joining us, someone who should also come next year to Soccer X, Joe Lowry, how are you on Mountain Time over there in Arizona, you crazy diamond?

Mountain standard time, baby, let's go. You love to see it. Taylor, I'm just confused. People standing around talking about soccer is your nightmare. What is it that you think you do for a living? The suits, my friend. It's the suits part. I'm wearing sweatpants and a t-shirt right now. I have shower today, so that's progress. But yeah, the idea of having to put on a suit to do that sounds immediately exhausting. Although sometimes you do have to look the part, dress the part to look the part or whatever it is. Yeah. Right, you really salvaged that Indochino sponsorship right at the end there, didn't you? I've done that before, though, besides salvaging the Indochino sponsorship, there are times when I've put on like more formal attire when I feel

like I need that sort of structure. If I feel like I'm slacking in the morning, then occasionally I will put on a suit jacket to record. But those times are few and far between, as you all can attest. That's true. Listen, right? We can all attest to that. Sometimes if Taylor comes to the recording a couple of minutes late, he'll turn up with a top hat on and we know, okay, he's had to lift

himself up today. That's how we know. Today might be the opposite. Like, shirt could come off at any point. Who knows how this recording session is going to go? All right. On that note, let's introduce our final co-host, Graham Rutherland, who told us just before we started recording that he almost choked while brushing his teeth. Now, Graham, you know this is something you've probably done twice a day for most of your life, right? What happened at this stage of your life? Well, actually, it was your fault, Ryan, because we're recording a little bit earlier today. And so normally I would have plenty of time to brush my teeth. But I was trying to rush, you know, to meet our 930 recording time, and

yeah, I almost died brushing my teeth, which, to be fair, is the way that if you were going to choose how to go out, then maybe brush, no, it's a bad way to go out. I'm glad I didn't die. Yeah, I'm glad that you didn't die also, but also, it's your afternoon, by the way. It is, but this is not the first time I brushed my teeth.

This is the second time I brushed my teeth.

Do you only brush your teeth twice in a day, Ryan? Telling on yourself there. Yeah? Do you do more than twice? Your dentist said it's meant to be three. Well, my dentist does anyway. What? Is that true? Your dentist is lying to you. Why would he lie to me, Taylor? Why would he want me to brush my teeth more?

Because he wants the business out of me.

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