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, oh, CCL and

UCL and Open Cup and Rolling Stone and MLS Roundup and my brilliant friend

and NWSL and Madonna, Jesse Polisic, Christopher Walken, American ownership,

Kubano sandwiches, Seinfeld, 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, May 9th in the year 2022?

I am doing well.

You know, we usually taped this podcast at 9 a.m.

which is the time we're doing it today.

Louise Aguilar sent us a text message last week to tell us that the May 16th

taping would have to be in the afternoon because the studio wasn't available in the

morning and somehow it registered with me

that he was talking about today's taping and so I scheduled a fitness class.

Your orange fitness, your orange crush, orange orange, orange dream, orange, what's it called?

Orange fitness theory. Orange fitness theory theory orange theory and then I realized that I had made that mistake

and so I had to cancel at the last minute my fitness class and which is a big no-no they were not happy with me so this is the first little sort of

Bump it. Wow this relationship. Okay, you can't make well I mean you can make it up obviously of

a different time, but they like to know because you

know there's limited seating standing yeah cycling whatever kind of stuff all right well

I hope you would not be you know one of those people that had to walk around for the rest of your life and

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