Hello,

Hello, everybody, and welcome to The Total Soccer Show.

I changed it up there.

My name is Taylor Rockwell.

Thank you for joining us today.

A Tuesday in Mid-Bay to talk some Major League soccer.

But we're not talking games and results necessarily.

We're looking at some big picture items, some of which are topical

and newsworthy and some things I think, I suspect, are things that we just kind of felt like talking

about because they could be fun. We'll find out. I'm joined by the podcast Franchise Cornerstone

himself, Joe Lowry. Hello, Joe. Yeah, I'm not thrilled about giving you 12.5% of my profit

every month, Taylor, but it is what it is. Like, I'll do whatever I have to do to continue franchising the Total Soccer Show brand and getting to talk MLS. Joey, if you are, with that in mind, starting a spinoff podcast with one current player, who are you going into business with, or should I open it up to managers so you can just tell Wilfred Nonse, the different ways he's great for 45 minutes every day.

Yeah, I, Wolf would be really, really high up the list.

I think there is, I think there is no better quote in American soccer than Pablo Mastorini, who is like the soccer philosopher, if there ever was one in the American game.

He would be pretty high up on my list.

If I want to make some of that cold hard cash money, though, the answer is like any of the Barsa guys, right? I mean, I feel cheap about it. I feel like that's going to be my, oh, I'm going to go play in Saudi Arabia to end my career move. But am I above that in the podcast world? We'll find out someday. Here's, I think I would have genuine enthusiasm for a podcast featuring you and if we brought it out, Gio Raina, but it's sort of like you pulling along a moody teenager to be like, gee, we have to record. Like, come on, off your phone. Off your phone. It's time to record. It's like the first 20 minutes. I need all that audio. Yes.

We're just going to leave that in at the end.

We're just going to save it all in top.

Sometimes people request us to leave in the bloopers. And I kind of want us to do that. At some point, we'll release all the bloopers that we've definitely 100% saved over the years. Yeah, me and Gio, it's going to be like 10 minutes of usable audio and then 45 minutes of cajoling.

I think that's going to be about right.

45 minutes of cajoling.

I think that's going to be about right. 45 minutes of cajoling. That's the podcast. With us, but soon to be shipped off to a European podcast for a sizable fee. It's Jeff Ruder. Hello, Jeff. Hey, yeah, it's funny. I thought I was here on a loan with purchase option at first. And so I was very, very surprised to see that I'm actually part of the, like, roster evolution.

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