Hello, hello, everybody, and welcome to The Total Soccer Show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell, and on today's episode, we are taking more in-depth looks at some players in the USM&T pool.

Last week, it was Tyler Adams, Josh Sargent, Christian Policic, Anthony Robinson, and Eunice Musa.

This week, five names for cutting down a little bit to give us more time to talk about him.

Miles Robertson, Walker Zimmerman, Giorina, and Kevin Paredes, and Zach, uh, and Zach Stephan. I missed one in there. See, I'm trying to cut it down too much. We're going to look at what they do well, what they don't do well, what their ideal positions might be. to break all this down, I'm joined by two fine fellows. Up first, it's a man who has

volunteered to donate his hamstrings and whatever other muscles might be. To break all this down, I'm joined by two fine fellows. Up first, it's a man who has volunteered to donate his hamstrings and whatever other muscles might be necessary to make Gio Raina fit to play again. It's Joe Lowry. Hi, Joe. Yes, Taylor, I did come close to making that agreement with Gio after I sat down yesterday and watched a ton of his footage. And remember just how good he is, I don't really need my hamstrings, right? He can have those at this point. That's very noble of you, Joe. I also will add, yeah, I forgot to write Zach Stephan in the running order on my notes. And in my panic, I almost called him Zach Turner. And now I'm wondering, Joe, should we just combine those two? Is that what the U.S. needs? Is half Turner, half Stefan? Does that make the ideal goalkeeper? Oh, it might make the ideal U.S. men's national team goalkeeper of players in the pool. It also would just save us so much time in air on this particular show. So I'm here for it. All right. All right. So that's one possible solution. Joe, I appreciate your flexibility on that. Joining us is a gentleman who puts the word Scottish and football and writer into the phrase Scottish football writer. It's Graham Ruffman. Hi, Graham.

That I do. That I do, too. It's really the only thing that I add to that phrase. You could say. Thank you. How are you today?

Doing well, my friend. I could add podcaster as well.

You've been podcasting quite a bit. Do you have a preference between the two, between

writing and podcasting? Podcasting, actually. I do enjoy that a lot. This has been very enjoyable,

to be sincere for a moment. The last kind of year or a half is this has probably been the most I've

enjoyed doing anything. I used to write about golf football for an outlet in the golf and that was like pretty tough going just because I don't really have much of an interest in golf football. Not that I told them that. So this is a lot easier than that. I also thought you said golf football. I was like you read about foot golf? What? Like, okay, golf football. Now I'm with you. Yeah, it's PK's new. It's PK's new league. Yeah, after last week's new question, where we discussed foot golf, I decided to dive right into that sport. And I'm now chief foot golf writer for the athletic. They've expanded into that area. I like it. Joe, I want to ask you the

same question, but I do feel like you, it's more balanced for you between podcasting and writing,

because I think, I'm assuming writing allows you to like slow down, take your time and figure

some things out as you go. It gives me the chance to refine things more, I guess, than on a podcast,

because sure you can reset on a podcast and to peel back the curtain. I've had to do that

plenty of times in the past, but you do have more of a chance to rework thoughts and to really

think through some things when you're writing. I try to approach podcasts in a similar way,

but I value different things about both of those particular outlets, guys.

Yeah, see, I like podcasting because you can veer into nonsense every so often.

Like if I put, if I put like a paragraph on dude wipes in one of my articles, my editor is going to

pick up on that more than Taylor does.

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