Hello, Sunshine. I'm Alexi Laus, and 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, this week we'll be talking, well, an

MLS Roundup, the Queen, the Garage, Longhorns, prepping for a World Cup,

the Lions, a U.S. Jersey reveal, Boca River, converting EPL fans, football lines, and so much more.

But first joining me, as always, my friend, my colleague,

my guiding light, David Massey, a soccer savant, and a fox soccer researcher and writer,

extraordinary. Mossy, how are you doing on this Monday, September 12th in the year 2022?

I am doing very well.

A lot of positive reaction to our Chad Johnson interview.

I hang out with some friends this weekend.

Really?

Really? Really? He's an interesting cat. I'm excited to work with him and see what he brings.

You know, if you didn't listen to it, check it out. You know, we dropped these interviews every

once in a while and you know some of them are more interesting than others.

That's just the way that it goes, but I thought Chad Ocho Cinco Johnson

was was really interesting and was cool.

And so he's gonna be involved in our World Cup coverage. Did you watch anything, see anything, read anything, listen to anything?

I watched the latest episode of House of the Dragon,

I am caught up there. It's going gangbusters. Everyone keeps talking about this and as you know I can't watch it until it's fully done so I don't

want to be beholden to the man or in this case the dragon. I did also watch the Princess

Diana HBO documentary for obvious and sad reasons, I've had the British Royal Family

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