Hello, Sunshine. I'm Alexi Lollis, and welcome to the State of the Union

podcast where we look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of

red white and blue-colored glasses. This show will be talking the US men's

national team window grade, if you will, Michael Bradley, Neymar,

so-fy, Anvils Decision Day, Swag giveaway, U.S. Soccer Rushmore, frozen grapes, and so much more.

They're first joining me as always my friend, my colleague, my guiding light.

David Mossier soccer savant and a Fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary!

Mossy, how you doing on this Wednesday, October 18th in the year

2023.

Doing well, I love a good Twitter space as much as anyone,

but it is good to be back in the studio.

Yes, it is good to see you.

We are back in our familiar confines here, sounding and looking great.

Thank you to everyone for joining us, whether you're listening or watching.

There's still plenty to talk about,

and as you mentioned, if you want a instant reaction,

if you will, to the Ghana game,

we did put out a X-Spaces, guess it's called now live pod that should have shown up in

your feed we'll talk a little bit about that at the beginning here but first

off you watch anything interesting one thing I watched this past weekend was the gold finale

and based on the excited text I received from you,

it sounds like you watched it as well.

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