Hello Sunshine, I'm

I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome to the State of the Union podcast. We look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens

of red white and blue colored glasses. This show will be talking

MLS's wild card action, the catnip

that is the US Men's National Team

2023 versus 2014, I guess it would be.

Milli Vanilli, the Champions League Roundup, American soccer jobs, vaping, redundancy

of the cheating wolverines, yeah, it and much more but first joining me as

always my friend my colleague my guiding light David Mossy a soccer

savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary

Mossy how are you doing and you're coming to me from the great city of Seattle, am I right?

Correct, and I just arrived in my hotel room. visit hasn't really started yet but I'm looking forward but I've never been in Seattle

I'm visiting my younger brother who I see so infrequently he's basically a glorified cousin at this point but I did decide to come visit him this weekend

Well, I mean your reputation precedes you usually when you get into a hotel, especially early in the morning, a lot of times they won't have

the room ready and you gotta wander or put your bags down.

But they said, David Mossy's coming into town, better have the room ready so they got you

right in which is great for us because we get to have you here I hope you have a

wonderful time in Seattle it's a it's a great city wonderful things to see and

that you get to see your cousin slash brother. That's a good thing.

Have you watched anything my friend?

Not really since we last spoke but I will say last weekend I went to the Grammy Museum in downtown LA.

They have this great hip hip-hop 50-year anniversary exhibition

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