Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexei Wallace, 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 color glasses.

Joining me, as always, my friend, my colleague,

David Mossy, a soccer savant, and a,

what are you a fox soccer researcher and writer

extraordinary?

It's been an interesting day.

We come to you, obviously a day after the US loss. We've put that in the rear room.

We'll still talk about it as we go forward, but we put that in the rear room here.

Would you like to fire off a tweet about the US women not being relevant anymore that went down really

well. You know well so I've been getting a getting a lot of tweets by the way you know if if you

watch the state of the union a lot of these tweets whether they're just completely innocuous or

or spicy you hear the you hear that takes first here so this is if you need

another reason to watch or listen this is what this is what happens here. You know they so people send me

you know tweets or Instagram's or whatever anyway they're sending me message in the social

media age and some of it makes its way to me but they use the emojies you know the

emoji things this can't say I'm any more old and grumpy old man but sometimes they use the faces, right?

And I can't tell if it's good or bad face,

because it's so small to begin with.

Rob Stone has this problem, too. And then I don't, I can't tell if it's the

emoji face that's saying, hey, you're, you know, you're a dick or something like that. Or it's, hey, I really,

really agree with you. Or hey, I'm really, really agree with you or hey I'm really laughing that's hilarious or hey I'm laughing at you so you know it's and which is difficult so if you're going to yell at me and if you're going to call me

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