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0:00 - Taylor and Travis give an update on the show and discuss some of the things they've been watching and reading while live soccer has b...

Taylor and Travis do their best to answer your listener question! Who is the next dual-national that could help the national team that wasn'...

Taylor and Travis break down the 23-man squad Jason Kreis has assembled for Olympic qualifying. Who are the notable omissions and what do th...

Who are the young players to watch in the 2020 USL Championship? The Athletic's Jeff Rueter joins the podcast this week to break down the le...

Joe Lowery joins this week's podcast to chat about some of the up-and-coming young U.S. players to watch ahead of the start of the 2020 Majo...

Taylor and Travis take a long look at the US U20 women's national team ahead of the start of the 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship. Th...

Taylor and Travis take a look at eleven youngsters currently playing (or, in some cases, not playing) in Europe and try to figure out 1) whe...

UVA Men's Soccer Performance Analyst Carl Carpenter joins the show to discuss how Video Analysis and Performance Analytics are used to find...

Taylor and Travis go deep on the US men's and women's U20 national teams. Up first, they take a look at the women's team and discuss the hir...

Travis talks to Maryland men's head coach Sasho Cirovski about the proposed 21st Century Model that will be up for vote this April by the NC...

Taylor and Travis review the 2020 NWSL Draft on location in Baltimore. Who did the best, who made the big moves, and what will the future ho...

Taylor and Travis discuss the strangeness of the 2020 MLS SuperDraft as well as, as Travis put it, "the players and teams that did things."...

Taylor and Travis take a look at the upcoming MLS SuperDraft. How different will it be this season, who are the key players who could be inv...

Taylor and Travis discuss the DA showcase in Floria before turning their focus to the men's and women's college tournaments. On the women's...

Taylor gives a brief review of the recent events in the both the women's and men's D1 soccer tournaments. We'll discuss both the women's and...

Taylor and Travis discuss all the action so far in both the men's and women's D1 soccer tournaments. On the men's side, it's mostly gone as...

In Part 1, Taylor and Travis review the big matches that have already happened and preview those soon to come in both the women's and men's...

ESPN broadcaster Jonathan Yardley joins the show to break down the men's Division I tournament field, contenders to watch, MLS prospects to...

Taylor and (mostly) Travis preview the start of the 2019 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer tournament by taking a look at the top 8 teams, as w...

Adam Belz of the Scuffed Podcast joins this week's show to dissect the USA's performance at the Under-17 World. What is important, what isn'...

J.R. Eskilson joins the show to review the first two games for the United States at the U17 World Cup. What went right (not much), what went...

Stade de Reims goalkeeper Phallon Tullis-Joyce discusses life in France's Ligue 1 Feminie, where she moved after playing for the University...

Taylor and Travis break down the US U17 World Cup roster. Who is in, who is out, and who will need to have a strong tournament to help the U...

Jeff Kassouf of Equalizer Soccer joins the show to discuss the next stars of the NWSL, the status of the US Women's national team coaching s...

Taylor and Travis start off by analyzing the 25 names included on Jason Kreis' 25-player squad for the US U23 national team ahead of its upc...

Travis talks to Mexico international (and former US youth international) Jonathan González about how he became a professional player, what h...

On this week's show, Virginia women's head coach (and USWNT assistant) Steven Swanson breaks down his team's early success in the 2019 DI se...

Taylor and Travis attempt to cure their USMNT Blues by taking a prolonged look at the next generation of talent coming through. The U17 Worl...

Taylor talks to Ira Jersey of The League One Fun podcast about the best young players currently employed by each and every USL League One si...

Travis talks to Soccer America's Mike Woitalla about the start of the 2019 Development Academy season, as well as the changes that have been...

Taylor and Travis (mostly Travis) preview the 2019 college seasons (both men and women) by taking a look at some of the performers they thin...

Taylor and Travis are back together (via the internet) to discuss the brights starts for both Gio Reyna at Dortmund and Sergino Dest at Ajax...

Note - Apologies for the lack of introduction for this episode. My (Taylor's) microphone appears to have ceased functioning, so no fancy gre...

From a hotel room in Orlando, Taylor talks to Bobby Warshaw about the 2019 MLS Homegrown game, which both attended but Bobby actually covere...

Travis talks to SB Nation's Kim McCauley about the 2023 Women's World Cup cycle: who from the 2019 might be in that squad, who are some youn...

Taylor and Travis take turns discussing their combined 11 homegrown players that have impressed this season in either MLS or USL (or occasio...

J.R. ESKILSON HAD MADE AN APPEARANCE! Travis is joined by J.R. Eskilson (of TopDrawerSoccer) to discuss the girls and boys Development Acade...

After gushing about Gio Reyna's (now official) move to Borussia Dortmund, Taylor and Travis answer your listener questions, including (but n...

Jordan Gardner, Chairman of the Board and Co-Owner of FC Helsingor, explains the process he and his partners went through to transform a Dan...

Travis talks to attorney Miki Turner about the recent news involving training compensation and solidarity payments. What do those terms mean...

With the USA's elimination from the U20 World Cup, Taylor and Travis discuss what comes next for eleven of the team's key players. What did...

Taylor and Travis briefly discuss the USA's 1-0 loss to Jamaica (Travis was at Audi Field and has thoughts), as well as some of the names on...

Taylor and Travis take a look back at the USA's (somewhat disappointing) 1-0 win over Qatar in the U20 World Cup. The Baby Yanks could have...

Taylor and Travis start off the episode with a U20 World Cup roster update before moving on to briefly discussing some of the younger names...

Travis talks to Adam Belz of The Scuffed Podcast about the USA's disappointing loss in the U17 Concacaf Championships... though they did sti...

It's a show of two halves! In Part I, Taylor and Travis go in-depth on the USA's roster for the upcoming U20 World Cup. Timothy Weah is in a...

Travis talks to Chris Madden, Director of Competition and Development for USL League 2 (formerly the Premier Development League). They go de...

Taylor and Travis break down Raphael Wicky's roster for the upcoming U17 Concacaf Championships and do their best to figure out a possible s...

Taylor disrupts Travis' hard-earned vacation time to discuss the new training compensation and solidarity payments policy unveiled by MLS ye...

Taylor talks to Meg Linehan of The Athletic about the 2019 NWSL rookie class, as well as the league as a whole. How chaotic will things be d...