The brilliance of Ted Lasso, the most exciting USMNT player in the pool right now, the best methods for fair analysis in soccer media, and much more w/ Jason Davis
Total Soccer Show: USMNT, Champions League, EPL, and more ...
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4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Taylor talks to Jason Davis about, as has become tradition, a wide variety of topics, including being new parents, the best soccer documentaries, the ease with which USMNT soccer players can become villains, the perceptions of American players abroad, creating content in an aggressive media landscape, and a whoooole bunch more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Kitty, time to eat your profits. Good kitty, look how fat you've gotten. That's the sound of some |
| 0:07.8 | workplace pension providers paying their shareholders instead of you. At people's pension, |
| 0:12.8 | we don't have shareholders to pamper. That's why over the last five years, we've given |
| 0:17.4 | £100 million back to our members instead. |
| 0:23.0 | Oh, you've broken the cat flap again. |
| 0:25.9 | People's pension. Now that's a pension with purpose. |
| 0:29.7 | Visit people'spension.com.uk forward slash pays you. You. Hello, |
| 0:40.3 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to The Total Soccer Show. |
| 0:56.1 | My name is Taylor Rockwell. |
| 0:57.5 | Today I'm going to be talking to Jason Davis of the best soccer show of Sirius XM. |
| 1:03.0 | Recently of fatherhood, Jason just had a baby with his wife. |
| 1:06.5 | He didn't do the work there, but he does have to do the parenting. |
| 1:09.7 | We're going to talk a little bit about parenting, a lot about the national team and covering them and what it is to do a daily |
| 1:15.1 | show and lots of other meandering topics in there as has come to be tradition when I speak to |
| 1:20.2 | Jason. But I am doing this preamble to let you know that, but also to let you know that we have |
| 1:25.0 | a new feature, a live show, a digital at home live show. This |
| 1:29.2 | week it will be myself and Ryan Bailey on Thursday, 5 p.m. Eastern on the stereo app. You can follow |
| 1:36.1 | the link in today's show notes to sign up, register, and then be there for that. But we're going to be |
| 1:40.1 | discussing Ryan's recent Soccer 101 episode about the Champions League and the history and how it came to be. But then we're also going to look at this season's Champions League, what might happen in some of the knockout rounds. And you all, if you are there, can record your own messages, be they questions or comments or whatever, and submit them. Joe's, I think, going to be moderating those, so you'll be able to ask us questions. We'll live respond. It should be a very good time. I'm excited to see how it goes. So again, that's going to be Thursday, 5 p.m., download the stereo app, set up an account. It's all free and pretty easy. We'll see how it goes with the questions and what ends up happening there, but I'm pretty excited to see how it goes and to figure it out with Ryan. So that will be Thursday again on the stereo app. |
| 2:02.8 | Follow the link in today's show notes. And with all that said, now I will turn it over to myself talking to Jason Davis. With me now is the new dad himself. It's Jason Davis. Jason, it is great to talk to you, but I'm going to start with the obvious question. How are you here and not like simultaneously half asleep and 100% awake? Well, I definitely am half asleep. I think when we set this up, Taylor, and it's good to talk to you. It's been a while. Oh, yeah, you too. I think I was thinking, well, I'm not sure what day it is. And, you know, what sport are we talking |
| 2:51.1 | about again? Which one is this? But, but I, I, I definitely have been paying as much attention as I can. And I'm feeling pretty good about this talk we're going to have. And I'm glad to be here, uh, to talk, uh, maybe we'll talk about, about babies at some point. I mean, I think we can, I think we can go ahead and get into it. |
| 2:48.1 | Because, like, you have the experience, and now you have a... about babies at some point. I mean, I think we can go ahead and get into it. |
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