I think that Klopp would be the first person to say, hey, this is Arnizlotte that did this and give him his flowers.

From a pure soccer perspective, if you didn't know that this was Real Madrid and Barcelona, and if I had put this out as, hey, look at this goal, I guarantee people would have said, yeah, look at that I'm a less defendant.

Look at that MLS type of situation.

What has the talk been when it comes to the FIFA Club World Cup?

The teams aren't going to take it seriously. Hello, Sunshine.

I'm Alexi Lollison, 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 show will be talking, well, Policic again, draft stories,

interpissing it away, Liverpool walking away, Barsa, Madrid, Copa Brawl, Nashville touchdown,

Wrexham, Wallets, the classics, New Hope, Burhalter, and so much more. But first joining you,

as always, my friend, my colleague, my guiding light, David Mossier, Soccer Savant, and a Fox Soccer, researcher

and writer extraordinaire. Malsy, how are you doing on this Monday, April 28th in the year, 2025?

I'm doing well. You know, a couple of weeks ago in the opening segment of this pod, you wrote me

into what I frankly thought was a lame bit in which you asked me to take out my wallet and you

compared it to yours.

I remember eating lunch with director Gabe after that show and we commiserated on how much that

bit fell flat on the air. But you get the last laugh, my friend, because a couple of days later,

I got a message on social media from a guy who owns a handcrafted leather goods company.

Big fan of the show was listening and offered to send us wallets.

So I went through his catalog.

I picked out a couple for us.

They're called Emmett Flaps.

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