Hello, Stushion. 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 the

U.S. men's national Team roster, Beckham documentary, a

MLS five-year plan, Pulisic, for a little go, the coaching guillotine and so

much more. But first joining me as always my friend, my colleague, my my guiding light David Mossier soccer

sauerk soccer researcher and writer

extreme how you doing on this uh Monday October 9th in the year

twenty three I am doing well a great Monday, October 9th in the year 2023.

I am doing well, great to have you back in studio.

Yes, I am back after my travels, visiting my mom out there in DC,

who evidently you have some correspondence with now.

Yes she emailed me a few days ago to thank me for the birthday wishes I gave her

on air and also to give me a little show recommendation this heartland

the horses she's she is so into the heartland thing and it's got you know

hundreds of episodes plenty of seasons and all that kind of stuff.

Yeah, it's about horses or something like she cannot stop talking about it.

She is immersed in that thing.

But she usually takes a lot of your recommendations.

So we'll see if it's a reciprocal. Speaking of, you know, things that you're watching, anything interesting,

I will say this, because the documentary kind of is so much a part of everything that we talk about,

what we've done today, since we both watched it, we're going to put it to the end of the show I know I'm giving away my one for the road but the one for the road is going to be a

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