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My name is Taylor Rockwell, and it's the international break, which means Ryan Bailey is refusing to record.

Graham Ruthman can only talk about Scotland, so it's myself and Mr. Joe Lowry here today to discuss the USM&T's comprehensive, not at all frustrating. Three-no win over Uzbekistan. Joe Lowry, how you doing, buddy? Taylor, I'm doing great. I mean, what a win. 3-0 over a sneaky good team in Uzbekistan. BJ Callahan is really pushing all the right buttons, despite having to go three-deep at the number six spot, just 30 minutes. Wait, it wasn't BJ? Oh, never mind. This was a disaster, Taylor, for Greg Berlther's team. They should be beating bad teams like this by four or five, six goals. Berhalter out. Really? Really, disaster. Burhalter out. Joe has swung dramatically in the opening moments of this podcast. I can't express to you how frustrated I was scrolling through Twitter. So you and I both watch this game on a little bit of a delay. So I'd seen the reaction. I think you tried to shield yourself a bit more from it. It was just a reminder to me about all the folks that can twist the narrative into whatever they want it to be. Right. Beat Jalhan wins a goal cup game and he is the savior of this program. Greg Beralta coaches a team that beats a team in Uzbekistan by three goals and he is the devil. It just, it blows my mind, Taylor. It really does. It's honestly comical at a certain point. Yeah. So I wanted to infuse some of that, hopefully lightheartedness into the intro. I appreciate that, my friend. I appreciate the lightheartedness. I appreciate you taking the time to record today. We chose not to record over the weekend because it's a fairly meaningless friendly. It is the return of Greg Burrhalter, but it's also as Beckastand. We felt like we could save it for Monday. But Joe, you're heading out. You're going to be gone for the rest of the week. I'm telling you things you already know, but I'm also telling the audience at the same time.

I do already know, which is good, because if I didn't know, I'm not sure I'd be able to get packed in time. Yeah, that's right. I'm going on a trip. My wife and I are going to Europe for a few weeks. The first week will be the only week off. That'll be some time in London. We're just doing the Ryan Bailey Redemption Tour, to be honest, is what we're doing. So we're hitting London first.

The only city in England, really, that's worth visiting, according to Ryan Bailey Redemption Tour, to be honest, is what we're doing. So we're hitting London first.

The only city in England, really, that's worth visiting, according to Ryan Bailey. And then we're going to hit Rome, which I think he would probably say, you can skip that one. But we're doing it anyway. We'll be working for the rest of the trip after London. But we're super excited. and glad that we could at least hit some U.S. chat before that, because I'm going to miss the Tuesday game.

And I hate that I'm actually kind of of bummed about that but here I am. Here you are. I appreciate that you're going on the Ryan Bailey Redemption tour. I also like to think of it as the Ryan Bailey apology tour. I assume you're just planning to walk through the streets of the giant cut out of Ryan. Sorry about him. Guys, sorry. Exactly. He just loves Starbucks, Guys, guys I can't explain it I know it's weird but we're sorry I suppose the next step of that could be

that yeah you you then scroll through Twitter on the Greg Burrhalter apology tour Greg Barhalter

back in charge of the US for this game which as you said we watched on delay I had seen a little bit of the response, including, I believe Berhalter himself saying

that we need to be better, we need to improve.

I saw a lot of jokes about crossing.

So I think I was expecting this to be a somewhat poor performance.

I thought maybe it was going to finish 1-0.

I thought maybe Uzbekistan would get something from a series of U.S. mistakes that we did see and maybe it would finish 1-0. I thought maybe Uzbekistan would get something from a series

of U.S. mistakes that we did see and maybe it would finish one to one. So 3-0 as a scoreline,

not that bad. But I think that they started so electric and then faded, in my opinion, so

quickly is a big reason why I feel like people were underwhelmed for this game. But Joe,

the most underwhelming thing for game. But Joe, the most

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