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Hello sunshine.

I'm Alexi Loyles 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

glasses. This episode will be talking Giorana once again, Ernie Stewart, the War for Football, Berhalter, McBride, Bielsa, and so 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, January 26th, bright and early over here on the West Coast.

I am doing well, feeling a bit left out though. I did not attend the US game

last night. You and producer Sean Sullivan did. We did. We found our way there and we'll talk a whole lot more about the game but it was fun.

It was fun to actually go to a game and not work it, have some drinks, hang out with my son

and a couple other folks out there and watch my team, my national team play.

And like I said, we'll talk all about what happened on the field.

Now that sun that was next to you, was that the same one who in the early days of this

back in Playa Vista you brought him into the studio a couple times he sat next to me?

Yes, that would be him. He has since grown as they do.

I keep feeding them and they just keep getting bigger and I can't take them back either of my children.

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