Hello and welcome everybody to The Total Soccer Show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell, and on today's episode, we're talking the Concaf Women's Championship in general, more specifically the U.S. women's national team and their preparations for that competition.

Here to do so with me is a man responsible for roughly one-sixth of all the soccer content on the internet. It's Joe Lowry. Hi, Joe. Hello, Taylor. Yeah, I mean, that percentage might be just a little bit high, but I am certainly trying to keep myself busy over here, Taylor. Yeah, it does seem that way, man. You've got back yield, you've got the athletic, MLS soccer,

total soccer show. How are you able to cover that much? And I don't even mean it that jokingly.

It just feels like for me, writing always took a very long time and was a much slower, more deliberative process. And I would struggle to even turn out like quick little news articles because I put way

too much like thought and analysis and worried about them too much. It feels like you're able to

kind of focus down and get stuff out. I try. I mean, it's it is difficult. And I think at times,

if I'm really in the podcasting rhythm, then the podcasts tend to flow a lot easier and they're easier

to get out. And if I really settle down and try to get in the writing rhythm, I can podcasts tend to flow a lot easier and they're easier to get out. And if I really

settle down and try to get in the writing rhythm, I can do a similar thing. Writing always takes

longer and I feel more pressure to really, to really dive into a topic because you know that you can

go back in and make as many edits as you need before you post something, and I guess even after

you post something. But still, I feel this pressure to make sure everything is so perfect because I have the time and it's not, I know podcasts aren't live, but these are much closer to being a live exercise than an article is. So it's different. And sometimes it's hard to go back and forth between the two, but I really do enjoy doing both. And I'm glad that I have the chance to do both. We do sort of treat it as a

live performance, I guess, because there's not a ton of edits to this one. We don't sort of hash a lot out before we start recording. So in that way, I think your point, you do have to sort of be prepped, but then be ready to kind of move on the fly, whereas writing it out, maybe a bit more detail. Sure. Yeah. And then at that point, then I just feel like I have to nail everything.

I mean, I kind of feel that way regardless.

But I like the exercise for both.

They're different experiences, and I think they're both fun. Is there a piece, we will talk women's soccer in the U.S. and Cockneyup Women's Championship in a moment. Joe, if like if somebody gave you the opportunity to write a long form, a very long-form article or even

like a short book, is there a topic that you would most enjoy getting into? Is there something

that you feel like you haven't been able to explore the way you would like? Yeah, these are kind

of related ideas. And I guess somebody's welcome to steal them now that I'm tossing them out,

but I hope you don't. I want to go through at some point and really try to

chronicle the evolution of soccer on the field in the United States from when the game first

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