Hello Sunshine, this is Alexi Lautless 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 week we'll be talking, well, Copa America group stage is done, so we're in the knockout stage, the Euros,

there in the knockout stage, MLS, LFG, water skiing, and so much more.

But first joining me as always, my friend colleague my guiding light David Mossy a soccer

Savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary

Mossy how are you on this Tuesday June 29th yes again we are coming at you a day late because as you know

we are knee deep in the summer of soccer and Mossy in particular has all sorts of

stuff going on so please forgive us but we are getting the

State of the Union out once again a day late. How you doing Massey? I am doing well I

know I've made this reference before on the podcast I grew up in New York

listening to the Mike and the Madad radio program I used to love when I did a show during the NCAA college basketball tournament and they'd be describing the action while doing a radio show and it's a similar dynamic today. I have the England Germany game on, it's nil in the second half.

And this could time out perfectly because where Jeff Hernandez placed our Eurochattam and rundown,

we could be offering fresh takes as soon as this game goes

final unless it goes into extra time but what are the odds a Euro match goes to

extra time? All right we're gonna get into all of, but yes, we are watching this as it plays out.

Oh, Kyivards just hit a bomb. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. But it didn't go in the net.

So it's still zero zero from where from where we are right now

Mossy are you watching anything besides soccer there's so much soccer to watch I

can't imagine that a lot of people have a lot of other stuff going on when it comes to

their watching habits but are you taking a break at all from all the soccer?

Well, good news for your school teacher friend. Part two, season one of Luper has dropped on Netflix, five more episodes. I'm often running on those.

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