Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome to the State of the Union

podcast where you look at the beautiful game on and off the fields of the

lens of red-white and blue-colored glasses. This pod will be talking about

well the final international window is upon us. We'll go through all of that.

Reassessing Jesus Ferreira, question mark. The bling ring,

Polisic publication, refereeing, Berthalter, and much, much more.

But first joining me, as always, my friend, my colleague, my guiding light, David Massey,

a soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary.

Maassee, how are you doing on this,

what are recording here on this Wednesday, September 21st,

2022, and we are recording remotely,

so we are not in the same room.

I'm at my place, you're at your place here, but it looks good and it sounds good too. How you do my friend?

I am doing well and we're going to be seeing a lot of each other over this international break. We're

covering lots of matches. I'm excited for it.

Yeah we got all sorts I mean it's obviously as I mentioned in the open it's a really interesting

moment right now especially when it comes to the international game we're're going to dive into all that. Have you

watched anything for the people?

I'm caught up on House of the Dragon, caught up on industry, caught up on Atlanta, but I'm

going to talk about something different.

If you listen to the opening segments of these pods in which you and I talk pop culture,

you'll know that we frequently bring up true crime documentaries. We both have a

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