Hello, Suncha. I'm Alexi Lollis and 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

quests. This episode will be talking Leeds and Wrexham and Pamela and

Super League and Gold Cup and the 2030 World Cup

and Moby Dick and much, much more.

But first, joining me as always, my friend, my colleague,

my guiding light, David Mossy, a soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer

extraordinary. Mossy how you doing on this Thursday morning February 9th

2023.

Doing well, good to be here for the real state of the union this week.

Yes, right? We were, uh, you know, co-op, and, uh, overshadowed earlier this week by Podes and you know the the state of the union

which is you know by design and in the Constitution and all that so I watch it

you watch it I did yeah what you think what do you give a grade we know how much we love to give grades here what do you give it

well we don't like to get into politics

it's not politics I mean let's just say just in terms of the performance because ultimately it is a performance

I thought Joe Biden he grew into it as the speech went on it's always a little bit jarring

how much she struggles doesn't exactly have a way with words these days

So you don't say really but you sort of get used to it. I will say it was very testy

Yeah, heckling I actually like it. I liked it. It's you know reminiscent of you know over there in England where they scream and yelling doing all that. We actually got to some some meat through that but to your point it's a it's a pretty low bar relative to him public speaking so that he got through it and you know evidently record number word count over there so you know I give him B I think a solid B for it.

Good to have you back in LA after a brief. give him B. I think a solid B for it.

Good to have you back in LA after a brief sojourn to Vegas.

Yeah, I went in and out to Vegas.

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