Hi, I'm Grant Wall, and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast. Today, S.I.

Brian Strauss joins me to talk about Jonathan Gonzalez choosing Mexico over the United States.

Eric Lehi is Blinder to dethron Arsenal in the FA Cup, the new US January

camp roster, and what it was like for Brian to attend the Baltimore Blast Indoor game over

the weekend.

Onward.

As promise, Brian Strauss has joined me from Washington, D.C.

I'm in New York.

Brian, how are you you man? Hey Grant. I'm in a different part of

Washington than normal. I'm at my mom's house. Nice. We had a what was the

storm called the cluster the the bomb cyclone yeah I was about to say a

naughty word so I'm thank you for in time I guess this thing always does wind up with the parental advisory on it

but you know if I can avoid doing that literally within the first 30 seconds of

the podcast that's good. Yeah so all my power went out my internet and all that kind of fun stuff and so I

I absconded to moms to uh spend the night and eat all over crackers.

Cool man.

So here we are.

Well, it's good to have you.

I do know that this weekend you went to see a Baltimore Blast Indoor game and that gets me very

excited because my roots are being a Kansas City

comets fan in the 1980s MISL days.

I it's funny because I I never went to a blast game as a kid. I mean when that was when

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