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 we'll be talking

well the US women's national team they are in action

for the first time in 2023 referee announcements HBO Max the US men's

national team roster drop the LA Galaxy Joseph Martinez inside man euro roundup and so much more but

first joining me as always my friend my colleague my guiding light David Mossier soccer

Savant any Fox Soccer researcher and writer,

Extraordin' there!

Mossy, how you doing on this Wednesday, January 18th in the year 2023?

Our second recording of the week.

I am doing well. I'm glad you showed up at the proper time today.

I was told that for last Wednesday's pod, you got mixed up and showed up eight hours before the taping.

Yeah, so, you know, we switched, I don't know, halfway through the year,

last year to twice a week.

And the first one we do on Mondays and we do those in the mornings,

and the

Sundays taping that we do we do in the afternoon and I you know I'm still a little fuzzy from the guitar trip I'm not gonna lie to you and so yeah I showed up

bright and early as it were to record the

State of the Union podcast turn the corner I did not see any of this and

knew right away that something was wrong and turned my ass back around, went home, had my wife laugh at me more so than

usual, and then showed up later in the day. And yeah, I didn't mention that. I don't know how that got out though did I tell you that or did you find out there's the eyes are everywhere so there snitches all over the place

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