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

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 MLS and UCL and UCL and the League Champions from over there in Europe and

U.S. men's national team in Mystic Pizza and Brazil's all-time Best Eleven

synthetic surfaces, those who wish me dead, some, which would be soccer United

marketing, water skiing, 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 24th in the year 2021?

I am doing well although I am going to receive a tongue lashing from my mother because I did not budget

enough time this morning to shave. This is the scruffiest I've ever looked in the three years

we've been doing this podcast and I did rationalize that you

would probably look scruffy as well and it turns out this morning you are a clean

shaven so I am sticking out like a sore thumb. You look okay, you look rugged, I think,

would be appropriate here.

I mean, not dishevelled in any way,

in any more way than you normally do.

I think you look beautiful, my friend.

Okay, what have you been watching or listening to or reading out there when it comes to the last week?

Well, because we worked late last night on MLS, I am one episode behind on Mayor of East Town. I have that recorded. I can't

wait to watch it as soon as we're done taping. I did watch this past week a couple things. This show,

Beer Town, that was recommended to me by my buddy Dan Houtman about that

this hockey team in the small Swedish town i don't know if you're

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