Welcome to the Total Soccer Show weekend review.

There's a theme that's becoming the big Premier League conceit.

We've had another weekend with another Man City defeat.

At Anfield, it didn't take long to realise Liverpool would win it.

To be honest, it's amazing city held out for 12 minutes.

Elsewhere, fun has returned to Old Trafford and Chelsea are looking great,

and in the Bundesliga, Der Classica, ended in a checkmate.

In Spain, the title race tightened as Barcelona slipped up,

while the LA Galaxy and New York Red Bulls will face off in MLS Cup.

My name's Ryan Bailey.

Joining me today, it's a man who would never hold up six fingers at Anfield. Taylor Rock, hello, Taylor. I wouldn't because I'd be too busy awkwardly waving to the crowd. That would be my approach. Ryan, I loved your introduction, as always. It is wild that your joke about City, like, holding on for the first 12 minutes was very accurate it was sort of a like back against

the walls start to that game and then finish to that game and also middle to that game yeah

city are now an average team that is the universe we now live in which we will explore very shortly

on this year podcast Taylor very exciting stuff yeah it does still feel a little bit like

poking of the bear and you don't want to quite jump to that level, but it is wild how not up to the races they looked in this one. We'll get to it. We will indeed, but not before introducing our good friend Joseph Lowry of Arizona. Joe, how was your Thanksgiving? It was lovely. Thanksgiving, this was the first year we were talking pre-show that we didn't do a full-on turkey. The turkey showed up in other ways. Turkey meatballs, turkey stuffing muffins. I'm a stuffing first and maybe, I'm not a stuffing only guy. But I'd be tempted to be. I love stuffing so much. My mother crafted delightful things. And it was, well, I also crafted stuff, but the stuffing muffins were all her and they were delightful.

Stuffing. Is that a dessert or? No, okay. Is that a savory muffin? Your usual cubed stuffing, some small bits of dark meat turkey. And then there's like probably egg as binder. I was not, I wasn't around when these are made, but this is my best guess. So it's like they're very much rustic, more in muffin form than actually being a muffins themselves. But they're baked in a muffin tin and they're really good. Don't knock them until you try them. So Joe's a maniac. I'm trying to figure out what's complicated about it. Taylor, are you with me on this? on this where you cubes of stuffing through me i'm not going to lie what how do you have your stuffing is that like cubes of bread you mean like little like diced up piece of okay okay okay i'm back with you now just what do you guys make stuffing out of yeah no but i think you meant like the pocket that it comes from in this supermarket all right right, Graham's out of this conversation. Graham Ruffington did, by the way. And Ryan should never have been in, actually, so Taylor, this was just you and me. Joe, I'm all in because I think my brother has previously made sausage stuffing muffins, and that I could get on board for as well. And I am a dark meat, uh, uh, jerky person. So that also appeals.

Delight. All right. Glad we all had a good Thanksgiving. Listener, we hope you did indeed too. We are back at it, of course, with weekend. I'm not sure you are glad that we did, frankly. It doesn't really sound authentic to me. I don't think Ryan understands anything that we just said, is what I thought. Between this and Ryan hunting humans on that island that he spent his thanksgiving on. And Taylor,

I saw on Instagram you dangling your child off a bridge into a stream. Between all of this and the marshmallow thing on the potatoes, maybe Thanksgiving is weirder than I realized. I thought it was weird that Ryan made the people he was hunting dress up like a turkey, personally. That's sort of where I drew the line. But, you know, to each other, I guess. That was the way I was taught to do Thanksgiving. I haven't been in that country this long, Joe. Happy gobble, gobble, click. There was a turkey trot where I was. I was there. Oh, I was down in China. And everyone on the trot had like those hats which are turkeys. They don't look very breathable for a run. What is going on? Did you track? Did you try? I did my own independent trot. I didn't join. I was solo trot. That's right. I blazed my own path, so to speak, Joe. I didn't wear a turkey hat.

I don't even know what a turkey trot is, but I feel I'm hesitant to ask.

It's what a bunch of people run from Ryan, and he gives them a head start. Yeah, that's right. We sound the claxon, and then I release the hounds. They don't know that they're still starting in range, though. Turkey Toronto Graham is usually a 5K on the morning of Thanksgiving

They do them all over the country to justify the killerific intake of Turkey Trot Graham is usually a 5K on the morning of Thanksgiving

They do them all over the country

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