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 color glasses. This show will be talking

ooh US Open Cup drama, under pressure documentary,

Club World Cup, crap soccer, the Hall of Fame,

Qatar one year on and so much more.

But first joining me as always my friend, my colleague my guiding

light David Mossy a soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer

extraordinary! Maussi how you doing on this Monday December 18th in the year

23 and you come to us from the great state of Florida, yes?

Yes, I'm doing well. I come to you from Fort Lauderdale.

I'm here with my parents. I arrived on Friday Friday a couple of days of lousy weather to begin

with but now the weather has turned so as soon as I'm done taping this pot with you I

will be off to the beach for the first time yeah Yeah, so what does the Mossy Clan do on a, I guess a break down there in the sun of Florida?

You go to the beach, obviously now are you a sunbather you do you frolic do you play paddleboard you go into the water all of the above all of the above I frolic with the best of that

do you get tan? I do get tan, yes. Lucky bastard, God. If I only could. Anything else, because I know you're usually, you you know head off to different shows or museums and stuff like that or you're just going to lay low this break?

We're thinking of checking out a Miami Heat game. They play the Sixers on Monday so that's a possibility.

Other than that lots of good shopping malls here where my mother likes to go so

it'll be that sort of stuff. Have you watched anything interesting?

All I've watched the last few days. Have you watched anything interesting?

All I've watched the last few days is I've banged out some episodes of the crown. They released the final batch of episodes.

I've watched some of those now.

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