Hello and welcome to the total soccer show. My name is Daryl Grove and joining me by the magic of telephony.

It's a man I haven't seen in a whole week. I know. It's weird.

His name is Taylor Rockwell. Hello. Hello. It is strange. It's so strange in fact that I stepped on your introduction to talk about how weird it is not to see your darling face.

But you've been doing great shows without me. Yeah, I mean, I think they've been good shows. Without Daryl Grove, can something be truly great? I mean, probably not. Probably not. Probably not. So I've genuinely missed doing the show with you, but I'm also really grateful that you kind of said to me, yeah, take a few days off in Michigan. So that's what I did. Saw a lot of my wife's family, been around town, been to Detroit City Fieldhouse, made the most of my time off. I like it. I think you're the one, it maybe was a long game by you, well played if so, but you're the one who kind of got me to buy into the idea of like don't just like pack your schedule with stuff because like you want everything to work out like make the decisions to be like no I'm not really going to have time for that this is probably isn't going to work and really just getting that stuff dealt with earlier and often makes your life way less stressful so this felt like a situation in which like you were already going to be traveling on the road. It was just more like, why don't you just not have to worry about stuff?

And yet here we are Thursday afternoon.

You're recording a show.

Yeah, so it was a long con.

I was sort of like saying to you, yeah, yeah, just take it easy, take it easy whenever you go out of town and then I'd go out of town.

But jokes on you because next year I'm going to be gone for six months. Well, I'm just going to come with you.

How about that?

Today, I am back. I'm still in Dearborn, Michigan, but I'm back on the show. And we have, I haven't counted them, but I'm going to say nine listener questions to answer. Something like that, I think. Yeah. And I'm excited to do it. We've got some big ones. Some will be lengthier than others. one I asked you yesterday, I think, is that the only question we're doing?

Because it probably could be a full show.

We'll see how long we go today. big ones. Some will be lengthier than others. One, I asked you yesterday, I think, is that the only

question we're doing? Because it probably could be a full show. We'll see how long we go today.

That'll be question number two. It'll probably be the headline of this episode as well.

Awesome. Pun intended. All right. Shall we start with the first question?

Oh, and I already don't miss you.

Oh, wow.

So there was a five second delay either on this line or on you getting that pun.

Oh, no, I got it.

It was just, I was choosing whether or not to comment.

And then you asked me, and I felt the need to comment.

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