Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and the USMNT focused episode in which we're taking stock of the national team 71 days out from its opening match of the 2026 World Cup.

My name's Ryan Bailey.

Join me today to go deep.

Hello, Joe Lowry.

How are you?

Oh, I'm so good, right? It does feel kind of nice to tie a bow on the March window because it's not even March anymore. It's April. So this thing's already so out of date. So if we didn't drop this episode ASAP, then it's just all ruined. So we've done a March madness where we just creep into April in a way. I think so, right? I mean, nobody ever talks about that, do they? The final fours not even played in March, the most famous part of the whole thing.

Yeah, it really makes you thinking. April in a way. I think so, right? I mean, nobody ever talks about that, do they? The final four

is not even played in March, the most famous part of the whole thing. Yeah, it really makes you

think about how these things are structured. April Madness. What do we think? Rebranding.

Yeah, it's fine. March Maddenance just has that alliterative appeal for me, really. April

Anarchy? In, sold. Excellent. We'll work on that and we'll present it Mad Men's style to the NCAA. Graham Rutherford, hello. How are you? I'm good, Ryan Bailey. I'm just trying to work out what sport we're talking about. I presume dodgeball. Dodgeball paddle. That's one of those two. You're right first time. And when you get to April, you throw wrenches instead of dodge balls. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's the fastest growing sport in America, of course. Dodgeball. So that makes sense. Indeed. Joe, have you seen the movie Dodgill? I know. And I know I need to tap into these references. And I'm just so ashamed. I knew this is coming and I feel horrible.

I really do.

Need to correct you that.

This summer?

Yeah, exactly.

I was going to say, if you haven't watched it by the summer, Joe, we are watching

dog ball together.

So last summer, we watched some random travel show that I don't really remember, but it's like a solidly B-tier travel show, I suppose.

That was like the thing. And what we do in the shadows is also something that we watch, and that was delightful. This time around, we're going to have to watch all our TV in the morning before we watch all of our soccer TV, right? Because all the games are going to be in the evening and I don't know about you all, but I'm going to go to bed after we're doing those shows. Unless we're doing like one

Can we do like you know

Thirds?

Can we watch the movie in thirds?

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