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 special episode will be interviewing the great

writer actor and comedian Brendan Hunt. You may know him as Coach Beard from the

wildly successful Ted Lasso show and by the way that Ted Lasso show is allegedly entering its final season the third season

but we'll talk to him about that and that drops this week I'll also be giving you my top

five soccer movies and I'm sure people will disagree and my good

friend David Mossy will be giving you his top five I think it's going to be five but

it's difficult for him movies of 2022 and so much more but first joining me as always the aforementioned

David Mossy my friend my colleague my guiding light a soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer

extraordinary

Mossy how you doing on this Friday March 10th in the year 2023.

I am doing very well, excited to have a big star as a guest on our show today.

Yes, indeed.

I mean, well, he's a star of stage and screen.

Did you watch anything over the weekend?

I am off and running on The Last of Us.

I've watched the first episode.

That's the HBO series.

That's attracting a lot of buzz so far so good I'm

excited to continue watching it I've also watched the first two episodes of the

third season of the Mandalorian oh really you're back to the Mandal. I mentioned last week that I was waiting for this

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