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Thank you. Hello, hello, and welcome to the total soccer show. It's going to be a weird one. We're recording this after the USA's two to one loss to Trinidad and Tobago in the Conca Calf Nations League, a result which sends them to the semifinal on aggregate and also qualifies them for the Copa America.

So an embarrassing loss that also means they got the minimum job done. Like I said, it's going to be a strange episode. My name is Taylor Rockwell. With me this evening, I've got a man who loves an away game in Trinidad and Tobago. It's Joe Lowry. Hello, Joe. I mean, who doesn't? Nothing bad ever happens there, and it's always so much fun. What's there not to like?

I don't understand.

Yes, I'm excited to talk with you.

I enjoyed your pregame and postgame shows with our guest. Still to be introduced, joining us. We have a fellow who skipped his co-head playoff to watch this game and his team subsequently won. David Goss, have you been holding the squad back? Is that what we learned tonight? I don't love a game insurance at Amigo, and I don't love this show, and I don't like the service for playing it on.

So I'm going to punt my microphone out of this stadium, and I'm going to scream at you, Taylor.

I dare you to kick me out.

I dare you.

And here's a yellow card for you and a yellow card for you.

Let's start with the obvious.

A yellow card for you and a yellow card for you. Let's start with the obvious. Oh, really? A yellow card?

Let's start with the obvious on that note. So Gino Desk gets the strangest, dumbest red card, I think I can think of. It colors most of this game. There are strong, but other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln vibes around this game? Joe, I think you were frustrated the other night that Dest wasn't able to have more of an

impact on the game. Are you now regret that you weren't more specific about the type of impact you wanted? Yeah, this feels like it's on me in a weird way. I think I left the door too open for Desk and he just sort of waltz his way right through it. I think Wachie tweeted out.

For folks who don't know Wachke, he does some incredible videos around the USM&T on social media, I think he tweeted out something to the effect of, like, got to give Desk credit. You know, there's not many players who are weird enough to do what he did, something along those lines. That is the Sergenio Des reality. I can't believe that this happened. So there's so much to get into it here on just this one play. I swear we could do a 45 minute, hour long episode. Just on this, we won't because we're merciful, but we could and just know that. This death sequence is absolutely insane. I've never seen a red card like this in my entire life. It's a set of double yellows, as we've already sort of discussed in our David Goss parody play. Dest is high up the field in one moment in the first half, and he thinks he's been fouled. He ends up going down, doesn't end up with the ball, he thinks he's been fouled, very clearly he's upset about that. The ball ends up coming back the other way. The U.S. are in possession again. the ball comes over to Sugenio Dest on the right side, and it rolls what the referee deems to be out of bounds. And it looks out of bounds enough to me. It's not certainly worth making this big of a fuss over. And Desh just kind of loses his mind. He points back up the field towards where he was brought down earlier and is covering his mouth so that you can say bad stuff

because there's no other reason to cover your mouth.

It's either secret stuff or it's bad stuff.

And in this case, you don't need to tell the referee's secret stuff.

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