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The future is open. Hello and welcome everybody to the Total Soccer show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell.

Today we're talking MLS recruiting scandals, Generation Adidas Cup, U.S.M&T updates, and much, much more. To do so, I'm joined by a man who is generously taking time away from debating his colleagues about what is and isn't a handball. It's Mr. Paul Tenoreo. Hello, Paul. I was right, and Felipe was egregiously wrong, as usual. And my favorite thing is that he's been in the comment section all day. He's in the comment section. Battling with the commenters of the column. He just cannot leave it alone. I was going to ask if it had been resolved if you all were moving towards just like open conflict. It sounds like more open conflict than resolution. Yeah, and there's not really a conflict. There's there is right and there is wrong and I am right and he is wrong. Paul, I was also in the comment section and I backed your perspective

on that one. I don't know if Felipe responded, but if you did, I'm assuming it was with

frustration. We'll talk more about that, maybe later on. Right now,

rounding at our crew is Mr. Generation Adidas himself. I think you've been Mr. Blank himself multiple

times on this one, David Goss. Hello, David. How are you doing? Are you recording from a sunny

field in Florida? Are there alligators around? Are you staying alive? How are things?

This is the mister that I most closely do associate with.

So I will accept that one. I have the most amazing setup for this record. I'm in this

hotel room in Sarasota, Florida. I have window, a window that runs probably like a hundred

feet across this room. And let me tell you, the parking lot that I have a view of is world class.

And the laundromat across the street that is named Surf City makes me feel like I'm looking at the beach.

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