Hello,

Hello, Hello everybody and welcome to the Total Soccer Show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell, and I am sad.

Not because the U.S. lost the goal cup final to Mexico, but because I forgot Ryan Bailey wouldn't be here.

So I'm hosting while agitated, it's going to be great.

Here with me in a somewhat more relaxed emotional state, we hope, is Mr. Graham Rethven. Hello, Graham. Hello, Taylor Rockwell. No indoor fireworks for you to start the show today. We all know that indoor fireworks are a great idea and definitely don't make it impossible to actually watch the match. I'm disappointed that there aren't any. I thought this was a continuation of my concerns about July 4th fireworks and the possible

ramifications of getting too close to them.

Graham correctly pointing out that maybe a bunch of indoor fireworks don't make for the greatest

viewing experience between that and grass laid on turf laid on top of concrete.

A really aesthetically pleasing game.

Great job, Conca Cap. Graham, on that note. As those fireworks were going off the right. Who? Was that rugby closed the whole time? Somebody turn on the vent fans. We got some work to do. Graham, on a scale of zero to ten, how much did you enjoy Diego Luna at left wing back? Zero? About as much as

Mercio Pochitino, I think, seemed to enjoy it. So yeah, zero. Minus,

minus, actually, I think. Just as much as I enjoyed Malik Tillman at wherever the heck he was

playing. We're starting early. The agitation for me is bleeding in, making his triumphant return, the accountant's accountant himself, the outlaws accountant himself.

It's Joe Lowry, fresh from the wilds of the Dakota Territory.

Joe, it's good to have you back.

I hate how accurate that is.

That was my biggest disappointment reading through the Discord and the Out of Context Channel, which is always gold, a gold mine for content nonetheless. And I read that and I'm like, my first reaction was, no, that's not, wait, no, that's spot on. Frustratingly spot on. Glad to be back, fellas. If it helps, what Jeff and I landed on when we were discussing the idea of Joe Lowry as an outlaw, is that you would be the face, the confidence man. If you go Ocean's 11, you'd be the Matt Damon who's sort of like in doing the little ground, like the groundwork and sort of like giving people a false sense of security while we're robbing them from behind. And then Ryan is the anyway. Matt Damon is like the weeniest character in that movie. In Ocean's 11, he's like such a weenie. I mean, if the weeny shoe fits, Joe. Yeah, that's great. Joe, did you come back from the Dakotas with an outlaw hat and you were ready to wear it for this show today until you saw you'd been outdone by Alexi? I bought the whole outfit. I had the spurs.

I had whatever. The chaps, that's a thing, right? Chaps. All the other cowboys. Stuff. And then I watched the Fox pregame and I see Alexi riding on a stallion and I just, I just dumped it all. Like, honestly, it was just a waste of money on my part. My bad guys. What did he have on?

I will be invoicing for that, however.

I missed it.

I don't know.

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