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 week, we'll be talking, well, we'll be talking one crazy week on and off the field.

We'll be talking about the messy saga, the boycotts, the Salt Lake drama,

Weston McKinney, Boys State, Ted Lasso, 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 on this Monday,

August 31st of the year 2020?

I am doing well after another busy weekend

of covering Major League soccer?

Yes, I mean, knock on wood and thank whatever gods you want out there, including the

soccer gods that we continue to be employed and we continue to be working.

Soccer coming fast and furious, especially when it comes to Major League soccer and we've spent our weekend working on that.

We will continue to do so throughout this week and through next weekend because

There's a lot of games there's a lot of games out there and the European seasons are upon us basically in the next week or two starting up again all over the place.

There's going to be a lot of people kicking the ball.

How did your week go aside from the soccer part of it?

See anything interesting out there?

I am cranking away on Deadwood,

middle of season three, just a few episodes left,

and then the movie I should be done by the end of this week,

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