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Thank you. Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and a very special batch of World Cup-themed listener questions.

Yes, listener today, it's a travel day for the TSS team.

We're all heading back to our respective time zones.

So we're not going to go in depth on Tuesday's Group C and Group D matches.

We're going to answer your questions instead. Wonderful stuff. My name's

Ryan Bailey, joining me today, a man who's about to drive through, I believe, six states to get

home from our Brooklyn HQ, Taylor Rockwell. Hello, six states, some faster than others,

is my assumption based on 95. The whims of the 95 gods, sometimes it's clear, sometimes you're going to sit there for 14 miles. But either way, I don't have to go through the TSA, so I'm good with it. That is good. Do you get to go through the south of the border rest stop? I do not. That is a North Carolina exclusive that you will see signs for from, I think as soon as you're like 100 miles away, they start putting up those billboards.

I've never stopped.

Have you?

I've not, but there are the signs 100 miles away, and then when you're sort of 50 miles

gone past, it's 50 miles back that way.

You want to turn around?

I do not want to turn around.

Joining us also, Taylor is a man who's about to fly back to the desert, a little older, a little wiser, and with more what we do in the shadows quotes in his locker than he had when he arrived. Joe Lowry, hello. It is true. I wish we'd had a little more time to watch and just to hang out as the evenings were on. It turns out there was a lot to do throughout our time here. We did shows every single day.

We went and did shows for Bleacher Report and really enjoyed that and hanging out at the studio. I know Graham loved that, especially with the four of us. Overall, we had a really good time. Maybe next time, next World Cup, 2026 for the men, at least. Who knows, maybe next summer. We'll figure something out. We can watch like three more episodes. Oh, is it like being at summer camp, is it? But in winter and working very hard every day. Yeah, so the perfect comparison, Ryan. Really good. Indeed. Rounding up the pack, as always, we've got a man he's going to have to fly coach for the first time in a while. As he heads back to Scotland, it's Graham First Class Rutherman. Hello. Hello, Ryan, Billy. Yes, I'm now accustomed to turning left when I walk onto the plane after my journey here. But unfortunately, I'll be turning right for my trip back to Scotland. You pleb. I'm sorry. You commoner. I'll have plastic cutlery on this flight home. Yeah. Graham, I'm in row 47. Right, okay. Okay. Well, you even have a couple of it.

They'll just tell you to use your hands.

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