Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexei Lass 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 episode will be talking a U.S. men's national team review slash preview the Bruce Arena drama psycho shower messy German

dysfunction a look back at 9-11 relative to mLS and soccer and so much more but first joining me as always my friend my colleague my guiding light he's back baby David

Mossy a soccer saverot and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary.

How you doing my friend? Welcome back from Ibitha.

The disappointment in the studio today is palpable.

It is. I mean...

Everybody loves too Holden. Everybody loves too mean... Everybody loves too holding. You came close to getting Wally piped, but your seat is fine and we welcome you back with open arms. How was your trip? How was it over there? Is it everything that it's

cracked up to be? Yeah, it was absolutely terrific. Remember, I spent a few days in Madrid first by myself, a lot of sightseeing,

museums, monuments, cathedrals, you know, I love that kind of stuff.

And then I headed over to Ibiza for a few days to attend Keith Kostigan's wedding, which was beautiful.

Ian Joy was there.

I got to reconnect with him, Jason Carapiece,

and other of our former colleagues at Fox.

Have it, yep.

So fun times, yeah, and Ibiza lived up to the billing, it is absolutely beautiful,

it is heaven on earth.

Now do they say

Ibiza or a beeth, what's the deal? What's the pronunciation? Frankly I didn't

realize how much more they identify with Catalunia than Spain so it's

mostly Catalan there so it's actually spelled

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