Hello,

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.

Joining me, as always, every week my friend, my colleague, my guiding light, a

fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary and let's be honest a soccer savant is my good friend David Mossy.

Mossy, we are going to be talking about all sorts of things this week,

including changes when it comes to the United States Soccer Federation on and off the field.

We'll be looking back at that great men's team from 2002 in the World Cup and comparing and

contrasting with the U.S. men's national team of 2020.

We're going to be comparing, speaking of comparing the great Carlos Vela with Guatema

Blanco and so much more, including some rules that either should or maybe shouldn't be

implemented so we're gonna be talking about a lot of different things.

Massey how are you in these interesting times? I am good I have gone down the Ken Burns Vortex. I am currently watching his documentary about World War II.

As you know, I greatly enjoyed the Civil War One and also the Vietnam War One.

Those are my two favorite of the documentaries I've seen from him.

And so I figured I'd complete the set

by watching the World War II one.

It is seven parts.

I'm through four and absolutely fascinating gripping so far. I'm enjoying it.

Yeah, everyone's watching a lot of TV and movies out there.

We talked before about the Tiger King documentary on Netflix that is just blowing everybody's mind.

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