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

When we look at the beautiful game on and off the field,

through the lens of red, white, and blue colored glasses, this is a special live pod coming to you in the day after USA versus Jamaica the semi-final of the

Nations League a game that ultimately saw the US men's national team win.

Three to one, probably should use quotes when it comes to win in terms of

how much of a win it actually was, but ultimately the US goes on, finds themselves in yet another

Nations League final where they will face Mexico. But before we get to that, I want to introduce my friend, my colleague, my guiding light,

a soccer savantly, Fox soccer researcher and writer, extraordinary.

Am, I'm see, how are you doing on this Friday, March 22nd of the year, 2024.

I'm doing well, it's good to have you back in LA.

I know you were in Arlington, Texas,

and attended last night's match.

I was.

I just got off the plane, and we had a wonderful time in Dallas. I know that I had sent some pictures to you. We'll probably talk about this on the show next week a little bit, but I got to do a little bit of sight seeing in

that I've been to Dallas so many times and it's it's a fun city and it's a unique

city but I never was able to actually go down to Daily Plaza there and the historical

significance and I know you got a kick out of it because you love history and everything like that.

And it was amazing.

The sixth floor museum that they

have at the book depository nothing has changed they've kept it as as true as

possible obviously with some you know updates here or there but it's it's an

amazing experience to see that obviously an incredibly dark day for for our country but also an incredibly important historic day and

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