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 show will be talking

Champions League,

Barbie, American soccer innovation, Kissinger, Blackberry, Pepi, Javi,

MLS MVPs, predators, 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!

Mossy, how you doing on this Thursday, November 30th in the year 2023.

Doing well, you are farther away than usual.

Yes, we are, we continue to be in our new studios, but along with, you know, when you move

into a new house, sometimes you say, hey, listen you move into a new house sometimes you say hey listen not only a new house but let's buy new furniture to

To have it go with the new house so we are in our new house. We have new furniture for those that are watching the show and there's so many

of you out that are that are watching whether it's on Spotify or YouTube or any of the

other platforms out there we appreciate that that you can see us in all our glory

and you can see that we have new desks.

Now it does take us a little further away from each other, but it's certainly an upgrade.

We got all the bells and whistles and all the wonderful men and women that work behind the scenes here have put this together.

It's also module, so it can change

with whatever we desire in terms of a number of people and stuff like that.

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