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 episode will be talking, well, the U.S. men's national team Gold Cup action, Burr Halter of course, Busts, Bob Bradley, Club World Cup,

Pulisic, B.J. choosing lineups, bulletproof vests, and so much more.

But first joining me as always, my friend, my colleague, my guiding light, David Massey, a soccer sauerk, a soccer saucy, a soccer saucy, how you doing on this Monday, June 26th in the year 2023?

I am doing well, you know the first show we did in this new studio,

there was an electricity in the air.

There were all sorts of executives walking around.

For show number two, a bit of a different vibe, I would say.

Well, for those that just listen and don't see us right now,

we are back in our more traditional, and I would say more comfortable position at the desk.

And it was interesting in listening to the show last weekend and as we mentioned, if you didn't

listen or watch, we've moved into these new digs, these new digital

studios here on our Foxlot up here on the fifth floor and they're incredible.

But the dynamic of us standing to do a show, I could hear that there was a little bit different.

And you know, I'm more used to it being on camera and consistently doing that, but, you know, the gesticulation that I'm able to do, the movement that I do, I thought it, not necessarily in a bad way, but I think it impacted and changed a little bit of the way that we converse and the way that we go about doing our business here.

But did you feel comfortable because you look comfortable?

Today? No, standing up the other day.

Yeah, no, it went well. It's a little different but this is my

preferred we are in your comfort zone right now and you look comfortable we're

we're back with the hats and everything wearing pants again pants again So you know that that has continued on through and we will look we will use all of the capabilities

of these incredible studios as we go forward as we mentioned you saw us on stage last week. We have some fireside chat type of

environments that we could use for interviews and that kind of stuff. But are you watching anything,

my friend? Nothing new in terms of TV shows, but I tell you I've been watching a lot of the news.

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