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 the beginning and end of the US women's national team with our good friend

Heather O'Reilly, MLS playoff musical chairs, ducks, roofs, dancing, supporter power,

flow, no, college soccer and so much more, but first joining me, as always, my friend, my

colleague, my guiding light, David Mossier soccer, Savant, and a Fox soccer researcher and writer,

Extraordinary!

Mossy, how you doing on this Monday, September 25th in the year

2023? I am doing well and today was the first time and a long time that I drove

into Fox and did not see writers outside picketing it appears the strike is going to be over here

Right so hopefully that is the case and all those incredible men and women can get back to doing what they do so well.

Well, most of the time they do well, but either way working, so that's good to hear.

You know, strikes going on all over the place and hopefully they get resolved and people get what they want in a fair and I guess equitable way and looks like that's that's done so yeah that's a good thing because each and every day going in and out of the lot and seeing everybody out there.

That's not, you know, that wasn't a good thing.

Have you watched anything, seen anything, my friend?

I finished Rough Diamonds. Okay. Really enjoyed it it that's the show my father recommended

it's diamond business and Antwerp I've started a new show the gold on Paramount Plus which is based on a true story,

this famous gold heist that occurred at Heathrow Airport

in London back in 1983.

Three episodes in out of six British crime drama very good.

Also I watched this documentary Neither Confirm nor Deny about the CIA's attempt in the early 70s to retrieve this Soviet submarine that had sunk the bottom of the

Pacific Ocean and to do it without the Soviets finding out.

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