Why are you still talking about Gio? Why do you care? Well, it's Gio Raina. To Western McKinney's credit, time and time again, he has proven to whoever comes in, how valuable is, how versatile he is. Like, if Messi started talking broken English, people would eat it up. It would be wonderful. Nobody gives a crap whether you can talk English perfectly.

Hello, Sunshine. I'm Alexi Lalas, 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 show will be talking.

All right, let's see.

How about go Brendan, Tyler's rarefied air, Liverpool Crisis, Geo-Sighting, Springsteen, dualingo messy,

RIP Camp Cupcake, the Expos, and so much more. But first joining me as always my friend,

my colleague, my guiding light, David Mossie, a soccer savant and a Fox Soccer, researcher,

and writer, extraordinaire. Mossie, how do you do on this? What are we looking at? October 27th in the year 2025. I'm doing well, despite the fact that I had a lousy night of sleep. It might be time to quit the Zizi quill. Yeah, so you've now complained multiple

times about your sleep. Is this something new traditionally and historically you have been able to sleep well?

We did talk a little bit about you taking some supplements that's helped? Or what's the deal?

Do you think something's going on? It's been an issue the last few years. The ZZEQuil for a while had

worked, but no longer. Do you think you're immune to it at this point? I do. Yes.

We need to up the dosage or find something else? Maybe, yeah. An alternative? Oh, my goodness. Are you someone that wakes up at points during the night, or usually in better times, it was start to finish, you were out? Start to finish. Really? Has anybody told you whether you snore or not? Do you snore? Do you think you snore or do you know you snore? I do not snore. You've established that?

Yeah. Has anybody told you whether you snore or not? Do you snore? Do you think you snore or do you know you snore?

I do not snore.

You've established that?

Yes.

Really? Okay. I wouldn't be so sure.

Okay. You read anything or seen anything you want to mention here to the folks?

First off, do you recall last year that infamous one-year-old's birthday party in which I made a fool of myself

by wearing a Zoro costume?

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