Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollis 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 about the new Hopi, oh yeah, MLS Labor Negotiations, David Beckham and Friends.

Freddie Adieu, Pochitino, Ireland, Polisic, Super Clubs, Submarines and so much more, but first joining me as always my friend, my colleague, my guiding light David Mossy a soccer

savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary

mossy how are you doing on this January 12th Tuesday of the year 2021, as you all know by now, we have delayed this broadcast

for a day.

Apologies couldn't be helped.

We try to be as regular as possible but sometimes technical problems get in

the way and scheduling gets in the way so we're coming to you a day late

apologies. Massey how are you? I am doing well and I am to blame for the delay. You and I had a meeting on Monday morning at the time where we would normally be taping the podcast and I made a big issue of the fact that we had to move the podcast taping to Tuesday and as it turns out the meeting

we had ended much sooner than we expected and we probably could have taped at more or less the

regular time so that is on me I apologize to the folks so that you are deprived of

your regularly scheduled state of the Union as you just heard the

responsibility is being taken by David Massey.

Wonderful, Massey, that's very, very nice of you.

But, you know, we trudge on.

Over the weekend or anything, over the past week,

Massey, did you watch anything or listen to anything interesting? or anything

interesting? interesting. I did and I'll tell you that in a second but I want to hear you first.

A couple things. I binged Tehran

which is a show I'm a big fan of Fowda and Tehran is done by the same people. This one is focusing on the Israeli-Iranian conflict, very good.

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