Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lallis 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 diving into the return of the US men's national team.

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We also have our international roundup which includes all the international games going on

over Europe, Comnable, all sorts of stuff in terms of World Cup qualifying.

We'll talk about the Queen's gambit, maybe some community and so much more, but first joining me.

As always, my friend, 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 Tuesday we're're recording on Tuesday, not Monday, Tuesday, November 17th. Thank you for bearing with us as we took an extra day just to kind of get in the second U.S. men's national team game to be able to talk about that.

How are you, Massey on this Tuesday, November 17th in the year 2020?

I'm doing well.

We have a laundry list of television things to talk about the main

event is your review of the Queen's gambit so let's save that for last and I'd

like to run through some stuff on my end first, which is a couple of things that you recommended.

I went back and watched. I did watch the documentary about the Challenger Explosion, which I thought was very well done, very powerful, very infuriating at times.

Also, the Netflix True Crime Doc,

who killed Maria Marta, which I feel like we could

do an entire podcast on the Argentinian judicial system because the courtroom scenes or some of the most bizarre

television I've ever seen in my life. Agreed 100% on that. There's, I'm not going, I'm not giving anything away but it obviously is you know it

focuses a lot in the courtroom scenes in Argentina and there's a point I kid you not where

there is a woman testifying, and she's talking about a conversation that she had with a friend.

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