Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome for 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 Americans on the move at Afcon and Citet and Sergeant and North London Derby

Derby whatever north by northwest McKinney fonzie streetcar

named Desire Rusnick, and 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.

How are you today, Massey on this?

What are we looking at?

Monday, January 17th, and we are in the offices, in the Fox studios recording this one now no more remote

Well, there'll be more remote, but at least not this week. Yeah, good to be back. We kicked stick skip bail us out

But we do it's very very clear here hierarchy here and you know he learned his lesson. We sent him packing and we're back here.

How was your week my friend? Do you see anything interesting? Yeah, you know a couple of things for me. I actually got back into the soccer documentary game.

Ooh! I watched on Amazon Prime the Juventus one, which was very interesting because you had

Christina Ronaldo and Weston McKinney as prime characters in it and then I also watched the Byron Munich one behind the legend which was fascinating.

Our good friend Thomas Houtman got a cameo in it.

Yeah, and just going behind the scenes with that juggernaut of a club and seeing how they operate.

I watched the PSG one as well.

So, you know, I read a column recently, I think it was on World Soccer Talk talking about how there were maybe too many of these soccer documentaries that market was becoming oversaturated and I think there's some truth of that for a while I felt like I needed to get away from them but but this week I dipped back into it I also watched a couple movies I

went to the theater I saw Lickerish Pizza. Oh any good? I liked it yeah very good

oh big thumbs up from a movie expert Louise Agilor. Okay all all right, so that's two thumbs up, I haven't seen it.

And then last night on Netflix I watched this, the Power of the Dog, which is the Oscar favorite,

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