Hello, Sunshine. I'm Alexi Lalaus, 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 the beginning

and the end of the Water Sports Arena, if you will,

Seattle's brand new brand, naked attraction, who in terms of MLS is playoff hot and who is not, the return of Tyler Adams, quality balls,

2030 World Cup and so much more for us joining me as always my

colleague my guiding light David Mossier soccer savant and a fox soccer

researcher and writer extraordinary. Mossy how you doing it on this September

27th in the year 2023. I am doing well. How are you and where are you?

Well my friend I come to you from the mountains of right outside Lake Arrowhead. I came up here with a few buddies to hang out and to get into some trouble and we have done all of that. It's wonderful, clean air. We went for a hike this morning we've done all

sorts of different things and we've had a really really good time so yes I am

remote today I miss you but I will be back next next week but need a little break and Lake

Arrowhead for those that don't know is right outside of Los Angeles in the in the

mountains beautiful beautiful place and we have had a good time.

As you can see behind me, I'm actually

in the great Stu Holden's house.

I have commandeered his little office here

up at Lake Arrowhead to do our podcast. And the, I think the whole reason why I was brought up here was for like Stu Holden and what I thought were my friends Stu Holden and Rob Stone to find a way to get me on the lake and to watch me watch her ski.

There it is ladies and gentlemen, not only did I do it and I was pure pressure and it was like a

it was like a complete after school special in that they just kept wearing me down and eventually I got out

there I am not a water skier by any stretch of the imagination I had no clue what I was doing. They are both very, very good

water skiers, both Rob Stone and Stu Holden. And they assured me that everything was going

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