Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Total Soccer Show, a weekend edition of the Total Soccer Show.

I am Taylor Rockwell.

Joining me, I have my regular host. It's Darrell Grove. Hello, Darrell. Hello. You know, it's Friday, right? Not Saturday. Is it? I always forget in these moments. I don't know. I've been thinking it was Saturday since yesterday when I ran into a friend of mine. And I was like, oh, yeah, I guess it's pretty slow, but it's a Friday.

It'll pick up.

And he was like, no, it's Thursday.

So I've just thought it was one day ahead for like 36 hours now. Maybe your weekend starts on Friday. It does. I mean, we're recording this after 5 p.m. I think the weekend officially starts at 5 p.m. That feels like a Jimmy Buffett song that I've accidentally just stumbled into. So let's just move on quickly, shall we?

Yes.

I'll just stumbled into. So let's

just move on quickly, shall we? Yeah. So I just do want to quick mention, this is weirdly a big

show for me because this is the first total structure I'm doing during chemotherapy. So this is

kind of a testing my limits kind of thing, but I think I'm good. And just to clarify, you're not

like sitting, like seated in the chemo chair right now, correct? No, I mean, I'm at home, but there's, like, a home two days of inclusion thing going on. Yeah. I'm really glad that I had France career to watch today. It's past the time. Yeah, and was it, was it, like, an enthusiastic thing to watch? Did you enjoy it? Did it take your mind off of, you know, nausea and all that unpleasant stuff?

It actually did just because of the, obviously, the first game in the World Cup, you know, we're underway. But seeing the host nation at Prague-de-Prince and then really delivering for the French fans, right? If you're a France fan, you could not have asked for much more from today, including the dancing. the dancing i feel like yeah it was just fun to see everything go right for the host nation all right i know this is going to sound like maybe a little bit absurd uh i am kind

of glad you were in studio today uh the amandine enrigal it got a little dusty in here i'm not

going to lie it got a little dusty because like i'm not a huge kat a huge Katie Perry fan, but in the context of like the French women's national team destroying their opponent in the opener in a pack stadium and then like Roar coming on, I was like, all right, that's pretty good. That's pretty good. I appreciate the musical cues. Yes, it was. It was. And then the whoever did the for it, like, cut to the wide shot of the whole crowd,

like jumping up and down and all the French flags. And I was like, all right, I'm in. I'm definitely, I mean, I was already in, but now I'm all in on France. I mean, slightly less than America, but France is second. France is second for me. Yeah, yeah. There's a lot of talk about that potential quarterfinal, right?

And I couldn't help thinking, let's not think about avoiding it.

Let's see the US-place rents.

This had

me, um, psyched for that game. If you're going to win the World Cup, you've got to go through a team like France. Right? Now, I'm going to get easy draws all the way through. Last time we had to beat, what, Germany in the semifinals in 2015.

I say, let's just do it all again.

Yeah, exactly. Let's just get out of the way early.

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