The Banter Chronicles
Tom is joined by Chris Keller, the co-owner of Brooklyn's preeminent soccer bar (and Quality Service's home base) Banter, to discuss its origins, the ...
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Quality Service is a weekly chronicle of the American soccer experience told from the perspective of the fans at the bars they call home. Hosted by Tom Kludt.
American unexceptionalism
Tom and Aaron reflect on the USMNT's humiliating 3-0 loss to arch-rivals Mexico, and discuss the institutional impediments within the U.S. Soccer Fede...
We are for the gods
Quality Service returns as Tom and Aaron make sense of Eric Cantona's batshit speech and dissect this week's Champions League draw. Will any of the po...
PREMIER LEAGUE PREVIEW EXTRAVAGANZA (featuring Luis Paez-Pumar)
Can Liverpool overtake Manchester City? Can Arsenal get top four? Could Manchester United fall outside the top six? Who will win the Golden Boot and p...
Hey Pepe!
Aaron Timms joins Tom once again to revel in Arsenal's blockbuster acquisition of Nicolas Pepe.The two discuss where the transfer ranks among the club...
And we're back
After overcoming the technical difficulties that forced us to scrap an episode last week, Quality Service returns with a visit from old friend Aaron T...
VARcical
Quality Service squad player John Balnaves (aka "The Contrarian") returns to the podcast to offer up some ideas on how to improve VAR, and to recap th...
Rapinoe got you mad, bro (featuring Jessie Losch)
Jessie Losch, a contributor to the feminist soccer website Unusual Efforts, joins Tom to talk about the U.S. women's team's triumph at the World Cup a...
Tea time (featuring Matt McDonald)
Journalist and British expat Matt McDonald (@mattjpfmcdonald) joins Tom to talk about this summer's World Cup, his newfound love of women's soccer and...
Yeah, Zeets (featuring Zito Madu)
SB Nation's Zito Madu joins the podcast on a soccer-filled Sunday afternoon at Banter, where he discussed his family's immigration to the U.S. from Ni...