Hello, Sunshine. I'm Alexi Lollis 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, well, breaking news on the World Cups of 2030 and 34

Scarface soccer moms PS Geez Louise man you got to be kidding me

more VAR talk, MLS MVP criteria, Rocco, D.C. Strutten, and so much more.

But first joining me as always my colleague, my friend, my, I mean my guiding light, let's be honest.

David Mossy, a soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer

extraordinary, Maussi, how you doing on this Wednesday,

October 4th in the year 2023? And I once again am on the road coming to you from

our nation's capital. How you do my friend? I am doing well and I am waiting with

baited breath to find out why you're in DC?

Well, my mother has turned 80 years old,

and so I flew out here to surprise her.

And she was surprised and she was surprised and she is an OG soccer mom. I'm going to talk a

little bit more about soccer moms at the end of the show here but I have not seen her in a long

time and so it was nice to kind of get out here and and

check it out when we're done with the pot I'm going to go out to dinner with her and we got some

presents and all sorts of stuff.

She does not look 80 years old and I'm, she's got plenty of years ahead of her and like, I mean, I'm hopefully a lot of people

out there.

I love my mom and she's done a hell of a lot for me over the years so this is the least I can do is come out and like I said surprise her and have a good time. We traipsed around DC today at all the different monuments. She lives in D.C. but like people that live in, you know,

great cities, they don't always go out to the site. So I dragged her to the capital, to the White House, and to the Lincoln Memorial and all that kind of stuff.

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