Hello Sunshack, I'm Alexi Lawless 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 well of course

USA Mexico and obviously the continuation of the World Cup qualifying

process for the US men's national team. World Cup qualifying in general, whether

it's Combinable or Kankakaff or anything else out there we'll be talking let's see the

wire v a r Bruce arena and so much more but first joining me as always is my friend

my colleague my guiding light David Mossy a soccer savant and he fock what are you, and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary!

How are you, Mossy, on this Monday, November 15th in the year 2021?

Late again, huh?

Are you going to throw your kids under the bus this time?

Uh, I, it's, it's a long story, I'm not going to tell it here,

but this will be dealt with and this will be dealt with severely okay so just

know know that I'm not happy all right but I am a professional I'm not going to

let it impact the ability to give you a interesting entertaining

State of the Union podcast. Alex it's been a roller coaster last few days for me

because my life ebbs and flows on your text messages about the wire.

There are some that I interpret as, oh, he's starting to like it.

And then there are others that are very negative.

So let me know where you're at in terms of the number of episodes

and where you're at in terms of your enjoyment of episodes and where you're at in terms of your

enjoyment of the show. Okay so specifically when it comes to the wire and for those

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