Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lallis and welcome to the State of the Union Podcast.

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,

Synthi and St Louis Magic, VAR mayhem, player power, reptile, 13 year old professional players, 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!

Massey how you doing on this Monday October 2nd in the year

2023. I'm doing well great to have you back here with me and not hanging out with Stu Holden and Rob Stone.

Yes, as we mentioned last week I was up in the mountains, you know, doing all sorts of crazy things and hiking and water skiing and

I'm glad to be back here with you in person.

Again later on this week I will be in our nation's capital for an appearance there and so I will be coming

to you again in in you know over the airwaves here from afar on for our Wednesday show but I'm here with you today my friend all

sorts of stuff to talk about have you watched anything interesting the only thing

I've got TV wise is another episode of the show the gold that I'm watching on Paramount Plus about that famous Gold Heist at Heathrow Airport,

1983.

We're four episodes down, just two more to go.

What is that on? What I haven't found that yet.

Paramount Plus. It's on Paramount Plus. All right, I'm going to check that out because now you've mentioned it twice.

Speaking of mentioning things twice, I mentioned last week this crazy show naked attraction.

It's starting now to filter out into the public and people are

are discovering it.

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