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

When we look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of red, white, and blue-colored glasses,

this episode will be talking, well, 2026, way too early roster predictions, but it's never really too early.

Polisic, Apple, the Banshee, Vatig Girl, 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.

Extraordinair.

Mossy, how are you doing on this Wednesday, January 11th in the year

2023? I am doing well and excited to have a producer today. Yes, we should let people know, a little peek behind the curtain here.

We did the Monday show which came out on Tuesday, the first one of 2023.

We were, we're not going to be, we're not going to say we were flying blind because we have an incredible crew here that just picked up the slack and there was slap, slack to pick up because producer Sean was nowhere to be found. And you know sometimes when people don't show up and you just say,

you know, it's all right, it's not a problem. It got to that point that also happens sometimes

where you actually start to get worried about him. And I hesitate to, you know know to talk about this is make him feel like we really we care about him but let's be honest we do and we did we you know because he wasn't picking up his phone he wasn't picking up his

texts and now you start your wheel starts spinning you think where is this guy and

what's going on well come to find out that he was out at 4 a.m. walking his brand new dog in English bulldog evidently and he left his phone which nowadays has everybody's alarm in the other room, then went back to sleep and not only

over slept but slept through all the alarms and slept through the entire

taping of our show and so it was not until we were well and truly done with our with our

episode on Monday that we found out that he is okay he is alive it's not a problem

and he's back in the saddle for today's show. So if you do see a difference in today's

show relative to the first show of the week let us know in terms of the incredible drop of quality.

But Sean's back and you know he's going to continue on.

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