Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollis 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, ooh, with the great Steve Truundolo, a guest on the State of the Union.

We'll be talking British crime dramas, Insignee, Ferreira, RSL, D-Wade, The Time Out,

FA Cup, Vini Jr, UVA Pepe, Zardez, pre-World Cup behavior, U.S. Home Stadems, Red, White, and Denham, and so much more.

But first joining me as always, my friend, my colleague, my guiding light David Mossy a soccer

avant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary

Mossy how are you on this Monday January 10th in the year

2022 Monday, January 10th, and the year 2022.

I'm doing well, especially after the weather has picked up again in LA

the last couple days.

We're back to what LA weather should be.

Yeah, well, we were both, as we mentioned last week we were in

Florida for the holidays and we could not have timed it any better my friend

because I was getting reports about the deluge that was going on and And everybody, I know everybody's really crying out there

for us over here.

But you know, it rains in LA and all hell breaks loose.

Nobody knows what to do and it's the end of days

and all that kind of stuff.

While the rest of the country is freezing their

ass off for the most part we were over in beautiful sunny Florida and then we

get back here and the sun comes out and it's another beautiful southern California week here so we've been very very lucky let's see you

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