Weston and Timmy,

uh,

Arrivederci. Hello, Sunshine. I'm Alexi Lalas and welcome for 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 show will be talking, well, MLS's 30th season preview with the great Taylor Twelman, who will

join us as a guest. You wave for Champions League action. Pulicism or Pulicists, I don't know. We'll talk about it. Is the N-N-I for Geo? Pep and Man City and maybe

the end of the road. Gabby Petito, the moment you fell in love with soccer, hockey players

versus soccer players, MLS 30 years on, snow games, and so much more. The first joining as always

my friend, my colleague, my guiding light, David Mossie, a soccer savant, any Fox Soccer

Research and Writer extraordinaire. Mossie, how you doing on this Wednesday, February 19th in the year

2025? I'm doing well. What a blockbuster show today. We got a lot of stuff to get to, you know,

and, you know, when I do the open, over the years, you know, because I do it ahead of time before we actually do the show. And so I'm

assuming that we're going to get to all of these things. But for those avid listeners and viewers out

there, you will know that every so often I will mention something in an effort to tease what's

coming up that doesn't actually appear in the show. Maybe it's frustrating, but I'm doing

my best to when I mention it in the preview that we actually talk about it in the show.

On our last pod, we had a lengthy opening segment, the what are we watching segment. And I saw

in the comment section on YouTube, some guy actually posted when the pod really begins at the nine

minute mark. You wanted to

let everybody know, you can fast forward to that if you want to hear soccer. Don't bore us get to the

chorus. I get it. Well, along those lines, are you watching anything? I've still been on this

SNL tip. I went into Peacock and I've been watching old episodes, including the second ever episode,

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