Welcome to USMENT. Welcome to USMNT weekly on The Total Stocker Show.

It's our weekly foray into all things, men's national team.

On this episode, we're looking into what happened with Ricardo Pepe's collapsed Premier League move.

We're discussing Marizio Pochitino's view on Tim Weyer's view of World Cup tickets.

We're answering a listener question about a scenario where FIFA is even more corrupt and much more. Hey, hey, my name's Ryan Bailey. Joining me today, hello, Taylor Rockwell. How are you? I am well, Ryan, buckle up because I'm taking us down this path right away. Before we started recording, we were discussing the recent Epstein list. And Joe is very quiet, is all I'm going to say. I'm going to have to check some flight logs and see what's going on because grammar thoughts writer thoughts Joe suspiciously silent Joe will will Forte Lowry I think that is my that's my full name wow Joe Lowry exercising your right to reply how are you yeah I'm great I'm doing great I didn't expect that coming out, but, you know, I think I called Taylor 50 earlier this week, so it all squares.

Oh, wow, there it was the retort. Very good. Just in my face, Joe. Just in my face.

Wow. Graham, Rosvin. Hello. Hello, Ryan Bailey. I guess I do live on an island of sorts, I guess.

Island of shame?

Well, Plague Island.

One of the worst islands.

Oh, the British Isles, I see. I see. Very good.

How are the British Isles today, Graham? Tell us about them.

Oh, beautiful. Beautiful as always.

127 days to the World Cup. You can't stop me doing the countdown, Ryan. No matter how far off the rails, we start this episode. 127 days! Wow, I expect nothing less. 128 days to the US kickoff then by version of that statistic. Very good. Wow. Joe, it's so close. I can almost feel it. I actually can almost feel it. I'm incredibly excited. I'm getting more and more excited. Like it's feeling a bit more real, I suppose. It's going to be some, so my World Cup prep, just to feel back the curtain from my life, which I don't think anybody's really going to care about on this. Apparently Taylor does. Yeah, Taylor does. That's good to hear. To be by the curtain on my life, I'm basically spending every waking moment writing a bunch of

MLS previews for Back Heald at the moment. And once that's done, which is hopefully going to be soon-ish, then I will pivot to World Cup previewing prep, at least laying the foundation for that prep. I can see it on the horizon. Maybe for the first time ever, I can really see it and it's fun. I'm looking forward to it.

Joe, how many words down are you, have you got with your MLS previous?

Is it a 30 number? I don't know the number, Graham. It's high. It's really high. Let me give you a, we're in like the 30,000 range out. That's an opus. Yeah. Wow. An odyssey. Wonderful. Good to hear. Good to hear that's happening, Joe. Good to hear that we have a Patreon. Patreon.com slash total soccer show. It's the best way to support us. You'll get bonus episodes, bonus video content, and access to our Discord server where someone has started a music league. And I into it Taylor I'm enjoying already I forgot that

was starting I need to join I need to get back into us don't we all listener don't we all

Patreon dot com a music league I somehow missed this in the discords there's a lot in there

but what we explain what a music league is we have a music channel where we talk about

music and there is a league where each each week there's a round

and you pick a song I think the first round we join was pick a love song and then there's

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