Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Wallace, and welcome to the State of the Union podcast. We look at a beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of red white and blue-colored

glasses.

Joining me as always, my friend, my colleague, my guiding light, David Mossy, a soccer

sauerker, researcher, researcher, gosh, sometimes I get that wrong.

Researcher and writer, extraordinary!

Massey, how are you doing?

We have a semi-final in the books.

And again, thanks to State Farm

for representing this each and every night.

It's just been wonderful what we've been able to do here and we come to you

after yet another, scintillating, I guess there were parts of it that were scintillating type of game.

Now I have been told by you that I sometimes don't

let you talk at the beginning and just ramble on so I'm stopping. How are you?

I am doing very well. Okay. I can't believe it's almost over that's's gone by too fast, but I am excited to talk about this first semi-final.

What were your thoughts on it? See, that's all I ask for.

You've developed this weird habit of going on this five minute monologue before anybody's even heard my voice, so I just need to get a quick hello in there and then you can go.

Listen, we know that when you get a redhead in a position of power and a person of influence, as we saw with the Australia game that things happen.

To be fair, you know, you come off of the set and you come off of this, you know, this TV high,

all right? And I'm just bub bubbling I'm full of all sorts of stuff and as

you know there's there's only so much that you can get out in the limited time that

you have on television.

So I'm just excited to get the stuff out.

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