Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Total Soccer show.

My name is Joe Lowry, and today I'm joined by a man who has the best mustache in American soccer.

It's MLSSocer.com's Tom Bogart.

Tom, thanks for coming on the show.

How are you?

And maybe more importantly, how is the mustache?

Thanks for having me, Joe. But the quick correction right off the bat here to, you know,

embrace debate and disagreements. I always have to give credit to the patron saint of

M.S. Mustaches, that is Sasha Kletchen, who is still active and doing it at an elite level that I'll

never reach. I'll take number two there. Okay, I'll give you some props there for deflecting that compliment to Sasha because his mustache's solid Tom. Man, though, you are, you're killing it. When did you start growing that and are you tired of it being your brand? Because I feel kind of bad leading the show with that fact, but it's just so good. So that's the thing. Like I had done it a few times in college or whatever when like, because I can't grow like a full beard or anything. And so like November's I would just joking around, do a mustache or whatever, do it as a bit. And then like when at some point over the last couple of years, I was like, oh no, like this kind of looks normal. I don't know if there's a bit anymore. And then it slowly became, all right, I would do it like in the off

season. And then I'd do it for longer during the season. And now it's like the rare times that is not on my face because it's just part of the brand. It's part of me now. You got to embrace it. Bobby Warshaw's book, I think, is called When the Dream Became Reality.

I think, Tom, your story is when the stash became reality because it did become real.

The bit became reality. I think, Tom, your story is when

the stash became reality because it did become real. The bit became reality as well. We're not here to talk about stashes. As much as that kind of bums me out. We're not here to talk about something. I'm out then. Thank you for the time. I'll see you later. That was a great two minutes that we did, Tom. If you do want to stick around, we hear to talk about the USMSU's roster.

It's all downhill for me for me.

The US Meds national team to talk about the U.S. It's a lot of over for me.

The U.S.S. National Team's roster for the October World Cup qualifying window that dropped earlier today. Taylor Rockwell isn't here with us. He says he's on vacation. I have sources, though, that say that he's been trying to figure out how to hop over the fence at soccer house all day. So I'll let listeners decide what they want to believe.

But either way, Tom was kind enough to hop on with me to discuss the... hop over the fence at soccer house all day. So I'll let listeners decide what they want to believe.

But either way, Tom was kind enough to hop on with me to discuss this roster, 27-man roster

for the three October World Cup qualifiers.

It got the Jamaica game in Austin on Thursday, October 7th, Panama game in Panama on Sunday,

October 10th.

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