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

ooh an intriguing Polisic interview, UCL, CCL, Boston Movies, World Cup,

Vegas, El Bambino Conte, the shining light that is St Louis and and so much more but first joining me as always my friend my colleague my guiding light

David Mossier soccer sauvant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary

Maussi how are you doing on this Monday,

March 20th in the year 20th,

in the year 2023?

I'm doing well, but more importantly,

you made it in here this morning,

so your knee must be feeling pretty must be I am here in all my

glory I am met it up a little bit just to get through but I'll be honest with

the it's been good we are a week out exactly a week today from my

My knee surgery and I'm feeling good. I'm doing rehab the pain is

It's there, but it's minimal and certainly nothing that is keeping me up at night.

Like I said, I do have some medication.

I've found Mossy that the opioids that they did give me, which are kind of last resort things. I tried

Oxy once and I'll be honest it didn't affect me in the way that I've been led to

believe that this does which I guess is a good thing except

there's a reason why these medications exist is it's to actually help with pain and so

it didn't really change anything there's this other thing called tram-adol that I got, which actually I like more because not only does it help, at least me, it just affects me better when it comes to the pain, but it also makes me incredibly sleepy and I doze out which is a good thing in terms of my recovery.

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