Hello Sunshine I'm Alexi,

and I'm Alexi Wallace and welcome

to the State of the Union Podcast presented by State Farm,

where we look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of red, white,

and blue colored glasses. This episode, what will be talking, let's see, World Cup workouts,

World Cup predictions, guitars, and so much other stuff.

But before that, here it is, my friend, my colleague,

my guiding light, David Mossy, a soccer savant,

and a fox soccer researcher and writer

extraordinary!

Mossy how you're doing on this Wednesday, July 19th, but wait before you answer,

look who else is here.

Legends abound. Heo! In the house! Heather O'Reilly in the house, as we sit on the

Eve, we are recording this on the eve of the World Cup. How are you, Massey? I know it's been a long day of rehearsals. We're just trying to get it right. How's it going?

I'm doing well, as you know, communication at Fox is not the best.

So that led to an embarrassing moment for me. A couple of days ago, I went up to Heather in the green room and I said hey you're going to be doing the podcast very exciting and she looked at me and said what the hell are you talking I know she said the same thing to me last night. So we finally you did finally get the message, right?

I found out.

We just locked you in here.

No, yeah.

I found out yesterday I was going to be on and I puffed my chest out and I was like,

what an honor.

What an honor.

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