Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollison 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

colored glasses. This week we'll be talking, well we're talking Newcastle both

on and off the field and following up on a little bit of a conversation we had last week.

We'll be talking about Major League soccer, and we'll take a trip around Europe.

We'll be talking about squid game. We'll be talking about Squid game will be talking about Brittany Murphy will be talking about all sorts of different things that are going on when it comes to the

the world of soccer including the end of the window so we'll put a button on that

when it comes to the international window 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. Mossy, first off, how are you and welcome back?

You are back on the show for those that listened last week.

We had Stu Holden fill in as best as he possibly could and fill those

big shoes of David Mossy. He was off on the East Coast visiting his family. Welcome back.

How was your trip? The trip trip was excellent I can see the

disappointed faces around the studio at my return everybody loves to and in lieu of

last week's pod smashing all our download records the term Wally Pipped has been

officially changed to David Mossy. I missed you I want you back we did have a

good week we're We did have a good week. We're always going to have a good week, especially

when the US national team has played. So I mean, I think you can fall on that side and recognize

that with the US playing and all the attention and a lot of the general

sports world turning their head maybe for one of the few times to to soccer because of the

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