Hello Sunshine I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome to the State of the Union Podcast where 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, Copa America we have a final and maybe by the end of the day, well not by the end of the day we'll have a final when it comes to euros, but we are recording this on Wednesday, July 7th before the the England-Denmark game.

So we have a one of the finalists when it comes to the Euros

with Italy, a team that has turned a lot of heads over the tournament and they will take on the

winner of England Denmark and as I said we're recording this before that game

we'll give you a couple of recommendations out there and so much more.

But first joining me as always my friend, my colleague, my guiding light, David Massey,

a soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary.

Massey, how are you doing on this, as I said, Wednesday, July 7th?

Now usually we record on Monday.

We then switched it to Tuesday, but now we have said let's just get it done on Wednesday and once again

We hope that you forgive us how you do Massey doing great never felt better

So I think correct me if I'm wrong, I don't think that I'm, you know, speaking out of turn here, but the listener and the viewers should know that our good friend David Mossy had had a fun night shall we say and he might be a little

slow although I think he's going to rally what did you do last night what did you get up to my

friend well after the show a bunch of us went out for a few beers. You were

smart enough to just briefly stop by, have one or two and call it a night. I of

course was that Bozo who ends up staying till the very end of the night

and closes down the bar so yeah.

Well listen about you've been working hard okay and you deserve a night out multiple multiple nights out for that matter, and so no shame, no shame, many of us, including yours truly have been there before.

I was not there to see you in all, all your glory now do you I'm sure our

listeners are avid listeners would want to know what a mossy a you know a

lubed up mossy looks and sounds like do you start spouting off you know

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