Hello. Hello, Sunshine. I'm Alexei Wallace and welcome to the State of the Union

podcast. We look at a beautiful game on and off the field with the lens of

red white and blue colored glasses. This is my good friend, my colleague, my guiding light,

David Mossy, a soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer, extraordinary!

Mossy, well I know how you're doing. I mean we just got off the air with your Brazil team with a smoke and a coffee. No problem. We'll get to that in a second, but I do have a bone to pick with you.

Little Birdy told me that you weren't happy with my attitude last night on our show was it something that I said something that I did because I want to make

sure that you are comfortable when we are doing the state of the

union if there's something that I am doing that's throwing you off offending you or in

any way causing problems I need to know about this.

Is this little birdy name Judy Boyd by chance?

I am just telling you that nothing stays secret

in this little microorganism that we have that is a world cup.

So you can try to keep it secret, but it's not going to say to you.

Well, she expressed some concern about how late we're doing some of these pods.

And I said, yeah, Alexi did seem tired last night.

His vibe was a little off.

But what does that mean?

How does that manifest?

What did I do?

It went off on something about your tie,

and it was utterly bizarre.

All right, cool.

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