To all you burhaltor haters out there, just sheath those knives for now.

Don't worry, don't worry, fear not. You are going to get an opportunity because summer is coming. 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 show will be talking a US men's national team recap, the fallacy of form, never

Gregors, Brazil Rebirth, the chant Nickelodeon, the German Swish, punk soccer, and so much more.

But first joining 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 doing on this Monday March 25th in the year 2024

I'm doing well it's good to be back in the studio it is good to be back in the studio. It is good to be back in the studio and we have cause for celebration.

We come at you here Monday morning the day after yet another victory when it comes to U.S. and Mexico.

We'll get to that in a second, but first, did you watch anything, my friend?

For the last week, my life has been a documentary origin.

Okay. I finished the bomb in the Cold War which I thought was sensational.

I then watched that Flamingo Fire documentary, Nino d'Orubu, and I also watched The Octopus Murders, and I then went back and

listened to the pot a couple weeks ago to see what you had said about that pot, and I agree with you

100 percent, two all over the place

doesn't really come together at the end yeah I mean there's a lot of

tin foil foil flying around and sometimes the tin foil is okay we talked last week

about the Daily Plaza and my visit to Dallas.

Yeah, this one, I mean it's in the name, the octopus,

because it's all of these tentacles that go out all over the place.

But a lot of them

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