Welcome to the total soccer show and our Olympics.

Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our Olympics review in which we're discussing a nice pair of four ones for the men and the women in Paris.

My name's Ryan Bailey joining me today and definitely not parodying the Last Supper as we record this is Taylor Rockwell. Hello Taylor. Hello. I don't even know what that means, but no, I am not. Someone didn't watch the opening ceremony of the Olympics. No, I definitely did not. I maintained my goal of not watching any opening ceremonies ever. I will say, for as cynical as I have been about the Olympics and as unenthusiastic, I'm all in on the Olympics. I'm loving the Olympics. We had it all on the entire weekend. I watched so many random sports that were all very, very entertaining. The Olympics are great. Yeah, absolutely, you're quite right there, Taylor. Graham, rather than joining us, Graham, like me, are you also a K-1 kayaking and archery expert after this weekend? Hello, Ryan Bailey. Not quite. I mean, for me, it's all downhill after the opening ceremony.

That's what it's all about.

There was Lady Ganga.

That's the bobsledding you're talking about going downhill.

Sorry, go on head. I don't think they have bobsleding, and these are Olympics. We'll need to wait a couple years for that. That is actually quite entertaining the bobsleding. But yeah, there's like, I watched some mountain biking earlier.

That was fairly entertaining.

A British guy won the gold and the French crowd booed them at the finish line,

which felt very French. some mountain biking earlier. That was fairly entertaining. A British guy won the gold and the

French crowd booed them at the finish line, which felt very French. That's the most French thing I've

seen so far. But yes, I've enjoyed it so far, particularly the opening ceremony where there was

Lady Gaga and it rained a lot and they all sailed up the river in a flotilla like they were arriving

at Dunkirk. Very enjoyable night of memery on the old Twitter machine. Wonderful stuff. Graham, the skateboarding for GB, I believe, is two 15-year-olds and a 50-year-old. Sounds fun. Who brought their dad? I know. Apparently he's an American defector as well, the 50-year-old. He flipped an emotional 180 Ollie and went to went to the TeamGB, is what he did. A 14-year-old won gold, right? Yeah? Sure? In what? In skateboarding. Oh, wow. I believe, yes. And then we had like a 31-year-old win-silver and swimming. It's all over the place. The Olympics are great. They are indeed.

Joe Lauer and say, hello, Joe. 180 Ollie emotionally is just elite work on your part, Ryan. I also, and with Taylor, did not watch the opening ceremony, and I think I was better off for it. Taylor, we stuck to our principles. Well done to us. Yep. Yeah, Taylor, to paint the tableau that the French painted in the opening ceremony, there was a scene that was seen to be taking off the Last Supper, but the French insisted was taking off Dionysus, the Greek of God, the Greek god of fertility, who looked like, you know, like Tobias Funky when he went in the Blue Man group? It was like that, basically. When he blew himself? Yes, I'm familiar. Exactly that. It caused uproar. When he prematurely blew himself, yes. Oh, man, we would stalk this fire any further. That's when he thought he was the standby guy, and he thought he was going to get the call to be in the performance that night. So he put on the body makeup, and then he found out that he wasn't going to be performing that night. What else could it possibly mean? Exactly. Blue Man group references all around. Patreon.com slash Total Soccer Show if you'd like to support this smutty endeavor. There is bonus podcast episodes. There are videos there as well. And of course, access to our Discord where many people are talking about, I'll take it or leave it,

hot take about MLS playing through the winter. Can't be done in the North Taylor. We've learned our lesson. We've learned it. Yeah, yeah. I think we're going to have to do a, like, a TSS trip to Minnesota in January and then totally, totally reverse our positions on that one. Joe, You've been there in the cold weather, right?

Yeah, I was going to say real quick, pass.

Yeah, I wasn positions on that one. Joe, you've been there in the cold weather, right?

Yeah, I was going to say real quick, pass.

Yeah, I wasn't on that episode, and I think maybe it's telling. I also haven't listened all the way through, so I feel like there was probably a lot more nuance in that discussion that you guys probably aren't getting credit for. I wasn't on that episode, and it's telling. says, he says after we got pelters for having the wrong opinion.

Joe, the nuance was Ryan proposed

MLS funds don't. on that episode and it's telling, he says after we got pelters for having the wrong opinion.

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