Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollison, welcome to the State of the Union podcast.

When we look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of red, white, and blue-colored glasses,

we're going to be talking about all sorts of things today, but we're going to be focusing mostly this show on yes

the return of the Bundesliga we will go in depth we'll actually have multiple parts

as we talk about not not just the Bundesliga but what this means for the sport going forward and not just Bundesliga fans I think will enjoy this be interested in this and there probably a whole lot more Bundesliga fans after the next week.

We'll also be talking about the legendary feud between Land and Donovan and Yergen-Clinsman.

We'll be talking about Zumes, something that I think everybody has become very accustomed to doing each and every day in order to communicate with folks out there.

We're talking about American stadiums or stadia if you want to get technical or real hoidy toidy.

But first joining me as always, my friend, my colleague, my guiding light, David Monsieur

soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary

mossy how are you doing on this Saturday morning we were recording this on a Saturday

morning to give ourselves a little bit of a break on

Sunday everybody as I've told you multiple times the digital folks there are working their

asses off we want to make sure we give them as much time to rest and recuperate

as possible. Moss, how you doing?

I'm doing well.

Yeah, this Saturday thing was an Alex Dowd initiative,

which you and I acquiesced to, so it's a good way

to start the weekend by taping this podcast.

How has your week been, my friend?

What have you been doing?

You know, I'm always so intrigued by what

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