Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Wallace 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 Arsenal R. I. P. Open Cup romance, Crocker official, owner influence, U.S. playing style,

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!

Massey, how you doing on this Wednesday, April 26th in the year 2023?

Doing well, a busy day for me, as soon as we're done taping I'm headed over to the

Fox lot to cover CCL. You're ecstatic about this I can I can tell a big day of

soccer those lots to talk about, but in the last couple of days, you read anything or seen anything of note?

I watch the latest episode of Ted Lasso. A lot of people have.

Hearing a lot of people have. Very good.

A lot of good things.

Also, I haven't watched this yet, but the final season of Marvelous Mrs. Maisle dropped on Amazon Prime,

so I can't wait.

In totality or it's starting? I think they released the first four

episodes. Got it. Got it. But you're already into it. You've you're caught up to this right?

Yep. And I think if I remember correctly you give this two thumbs up really big fan of the show.

Big fan of the show. I did not watch anything of note. I'm not saying I didn't watch anything but nothing that really comes to mind or that I jotted down to relate to the good folks out there.

Although, follow up on something we talked about earlier in the week.

I had mentioned the Twitter Blue, the checkmark thing there and stuff like that.

Well, I came to the decision, yes, I have signed up for it.

Elon has my money, so I expect my world to fundamentally change if and when it comes.

Well, he's already charged my card,

but the blue has not shown up yet.

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