Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome to the State of the Union

podcast where we look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of

red white and blue colored glasses. This episode will be talking the US men's

national team new coach. I suppose I should put a question mark there.

Yeats, American Summer Transfers, Dortman Choking, Leeds Wimpering, TFC Drama, the World Cup Final Stadium, final stadium statues and so much more

but first joining me as always my friend my colleague my guiding light David Mossier

soccer savant and a Fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary.

Massey, how you doing on this, uh, recording this Tuesday,

bright and early, May 30th.

I hope everybody had a fun, uh, long weekend and Memorial Day and hope everybody recognized what that day off actually is there for,

and we certainly send all of our respects and thanks to all of those who have

paid the ultimate sacrifice for giving us the freedom to come on a show like this and

babble on about soccer and do all the things that we sometimes unfortunately take for granted in our great country.

Massey, how you doing my man?

I am doing well, you know, you are fortunate to be sitting in that chair today

why's that because I had proposed cat Donnelly replacing you and we were going to

spend the entire show breaking down the succession finale but cat was unavailable because she is

celebrating her bachelorette party the past few days so she was in no

condition to come in today and record a pop band. Yeah she is in LA but evidently

the the partying and the celebratory escapades caught up with her.

So we wish her well.

Hydration, very, very important during and after certainly.

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