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Learn more at vertexinck.com. Welcome to the Total Soccero show and to the red carpet of our annual awards.

Yes, on today's show we're giving out gongs for the player of the season, the transfer of the season, the story of the season, and much, much more.

My name's Ryan Bailey joining me today to help hand out the aforementioned gongs to seal the envelopes and to make sure Josie Marino doesn't turn up and slap anyone, Will Smith-style. Taylor Rockwell, hello. Hello, yeah, that's why I'm going a black t-shirt up top to be the bouncer, but I am wearing tuxedo pants and very shiny shoes on the bottom. You can't see them on camera, but that is what I'm

wearing. Yeah, it's spectacular. Thank you for drawing the visual picture there.

My pleasure. My pleasure. I was trying to think of the most villainous person who would do

Will Smith Slat, and Josie was the one that struck me. Struck me, literally, he struck me.

Yeah, I could see that. Pep occasionally has a weird, like, violent outburst that then is followed up by weirdly, like, philosophical ramblings. So maybe him, that could be a Pep Gordiola moment, but I think Jose is probably, yeah, the most likely offender. Yes, keep my low-X-G and dull final out of your mouth. Why do I sound Russian? I don't know. Did he become Drago there? Anyway, joining us a man who has bad takes on Cheesecake Factory, but is an excellent soccer award judge, Joe Lowry. Ciao, chow. Hello. Chao, hello, Ryan. So I have like 84 different questions or things to say from the first minute of this show.

So first of all, Ryan, are we giving out gongs?

Like the symbol-y kind of things? Is that what we're doing? Yeah, gongs, yeah. It's called the totalies, uh, these awards, I think. I couldn't think it's a better name. Is that like a, is that a real thing?

Or is this just like a Ryan Bailey, you know, this is, this is, this is,

us starting a trend kind of situation.

A gong is a citizen in for an award, Joe.

Okay, all right. a, is that a real thing or is this is just like a Ryan Bailey, you know, this is, this is us starting a trend kind of situation.

A gong is a citizen in for an award, Joe.

Okay, all right.

I'm learning something every day.

That's what I think that might only exist in Ryan Bailey land, Joe Lowry.

That's my, that helps.

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