Hello and welcome to the total soccer show. My name is Darrell Grove and I'm joined by a man who has all kinds of soccer podcasting experience. I'm talking about just this week. His name is Taylor Rockwell. Hello. Hello. That's a good intro. Yeah, multiple times this week, I've had to tell my wife, like, okay, like when we're doing our daily plan in the morning, like, oh, it's going to be a late night and I'm going to be in the office. She's like what? You did that last night? And the night before. It's been a lot of late recording for us. I had the same thing. We both have very forgiving and encouraging. This is very true. They support our podcasting. Just like Jeremy Renner's wife supports his avenging. She does. I have a question for you, though. This is a view behind

the curtain. Do you and your wife tend to go to bed at the same time, or is it she goes to bed, you're up late? She goes earlier than me. That's about where we are. I think my wife goes to bed at like 10, and then I'm in bed anywhere between midnight and like 4 a.m. Which sounds bad, but it means that like I can spend time with her in the late evening.

Yep.

And then afterwards then I get some time to do some work.

This is the schedule that I have stumbled upon yeah we could go to bed at the same time but it would mean me just working yeah I was home yeah I did I do intentionally leave lights on downstairs or like something cooking so that I know at some point I have to get out of bed. You need something cooking? I will like, yeah.

How is your house not constantly on fire?

You live there, baby.

You got to use that instant pot, man.

You got to use the instant pot.

Or I'll leave laundry running so then I know it'll be wrinkled if I leave it in the dryer.

So then I have to get up and deal with that.

Then I'll do the work.

And then I keep going. Answer that. You're sponsored by Nike now, right? Yes. I read the Nike slogan. So today's show, we've got all kinds of listener questions.

The reason we've been sort of working, doing what's it called, two a days in soccer training,

is we've been publishing all kinds of Soccer 101 content.

That's our spin-off show.

It's our timeless episodes.

It's a library of what we hope is informative and entertaining soccer information. We added a big text to it last night. We did. Or this morning, in fact. Yeah. Well, I think it was both this morning. We added the league cup. I'm assuming that's the one you're talking about when it comes to the one that's going to get a lot of downloads and maybe create a source of controversy? Let's say yes. Probably not. Instead, the ProREL episode was released today where we kind of go over what ProREL is, why it doesn't exist in this country, why it should exist in this country, some of the obstacles to it, and then we go into some of our plans for how it could come about. Yep. So Darrell and Taylor's big plans for ProREL. That episode is now alive. If you go and find it in the Soccer 101 feed, you can listen to it there. As I said in the description, tinfoil hats, not necessary. I do think that to your point about us doing two a days, though, similar to how that apparently burned out Tottenham players, and they were all kind of sluggish and tired, and thus was the end of Ricio Pachitino. The computer today took its time turning on is all I'm saying. It's usually up and ready to go. It executes the game plan perfectly. Today, maybe it's feeling it a little bit. It's telling us to take some time off for Thanksgiving, which we will do. We will. Which we will do. All right, but today we've got, I think, ten questions to answer,

ten good questions, I'm going to say. A lot of thought experiments in here. If you're good,

I'm going to start with Shane Albrecht's thought experiment question. Shane asks us,

if you could have any three Mexican or Canadian players make the switch to the US men's national team, who would it be and why? I love this question. I had a feeling you would. So how did you approach this question? I just chose three players that I liked. But did you look at the US right now or anything like that? Or was it just three players that you think would be great? Honestly, I didn't go and look at the US because we've spent the last week sort of hyper-focusing on the US.

I didn't really have look at the US because we've spent the last week, sort of hyper-focusing on the US.

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