Hello, Sunshine, I'm Alexi Wallace and welcome to the State of the Union Hot Cross.

We look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of red, white, and blue-colored

glasses.

This episode will be talking, Berhalter, the Gold Cup, messy, bail, our new set and so much more. But first joining me as always, my friend, my colleague, my guiding light, a soccer savant and a Fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary Mr. David

Mossy David how are you doing on this June 21st in the year 2023 doing well excited about our new home we are moving up in the year 2023. Doing well, excited about our new home. We are moving up in the world, my friend.

We are, and I hearken back to the days that don't seem so long ago, but they were a long time ago when we were doing the pod from basically a closet

in a whole other side of Los Angeles and each year a little bit better moving up and up and as the saying goes you've come a long way baby this is

incredible and you're only seeing a small portion of it here if you are watching if you're

listening it is we've blown out

out what used to be the fifth floor studios digital studios that we had

and now we have studio D up here that houses not only all of our digital content, but all of the incredible men and women.

We have multiple sets and the ability to do simultaneous recordings and content.

We also have these incredible stages and all the bells and whistles when it comes to what's happening.

There was some question as to what we're going to where because of the,

we've always been, we've had a visual component of it, but now it's ratcheted up to a whole other level but what the

ensemble that we have today how did you come upon this and decide on this?

I don't know where people at this idea that I don't wear pants for a podcast because like 10

different people came up to me in the last few days and said make sure you wear

pants for the first day in the new set because you're going to be standing there

and I said yeah genes like I always do but people seem to think that that's not the case.

Well, you've cleaned up.

There's part of me that while, you know, recognizing all of this incredible technology and the higher level that we have.

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