Hello, Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lawler, so welcome to the State of the Union

podcast presented by State Farm, where we look at the beautiful game on and

off the field of the lens of red lens red white and blue colored glasses.

Joining me as always my friend my colleague my guiding lights David what's your name again David

Mossy a soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary

Massey welcome back to soccer researcher and writer. Extraordinary!

Massey, welcome back to the show, my friend.

You were not Wally Pipped.

We missed you last night.

Not even the great Heather O'Reilly and Stu Holden could fill the massive shoes and responsibility that is used.

So you are back, so thank you very.

Thank you.

My mother, by the way, finds Heather O'Reilly to be a very interesting performer.

As we all do, you know, she's full of energy that Heather O'Reilly, that Hale, she brings the energy.

But I did want to address my absence.

Okay, good.

It was a tight window in between two matches. I probably could have made it, but I'm still

scarred by Sean Sullivan's disastrous time management on our first day, which caused me to be late to an

important meeting.

Jim Caldwell over there in the control room.

So I didn't want to risk it.

So I bowed out.

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