Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lawless and welcome 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, U.S. men's national team wrapping up that window

selfie gate name are gladiator the weather mLS super bowl Milan afcon

Polisic and much 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 how are you on

this Monday of February 7th, Moose?

I am doing very well, happy to be back in the studio.

And you know now when I look at you, all I can think of is, this is what Red Gerard is going to look like in about 20 years.

Yeah I continue to grow this beard. I mean I don't even I don't even know if it's COVID

beard anymore because we're so far into it. It's just laziness, beard and we had a lot of

January off and so I didn't have to do anything and then when we knew we were

going to go up to Minnesota I said well this well, this is Apropos. I mean, this is very northern-esque.

And so, and I just haven't, I haven't had a chance to shave it, but I like it. My wife hates it and will not even come close to me.

Even in the best circumstances, it's debatable whether she will,

but certainly with this beard it's not happening.

But one thing that bugs are with it is that it retains moisture

unnecessarily, especially after either showering or sweating so it's she's not having any of it so

it will be gone soon well to explain the red Gerard reference which apparently

went over your head.

He's a famous American snowboarder currently competing in the Winter Olympics.

Have you gotten into the Olympics at all?

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