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, our new studio for damn sure, World Cup qualifying as we kick off the Akatago

now, a crazy week of MLS, Bob Ross, the end of a transfer window, a team in Brazil slash

Argentina to root for, more on what the best leagues are,

Heather's water skiing and so much more, but first joining me as always my friend, my colleague,

my guiding light, David Mossy, a soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary

Mossy how are you on this Tuesday August 31st in the year 2021 I I am doing well. We are coming to you from the fifth floor at the

Fox Lot which of course you and I both knew is where we'd be taping this podcast.

So we are. It was wonderful Louise put this together. All right, so

the last time that we actually recorded together in a official capacity Fox studio setting with our digital studios was way back, if you can believe it, March 9th, 2020.

And then, as we all know, the world went to Hell in a Hand basket, and we all kind of pivoted and

rotated and adjusted as best we could.

So Zoom be gone.

We are back.

And we both made this mistake coming into what we thought was work this morning in that we went to our other facility where it's where we originally

Had recorded our pod and we come to find out that were actually as you mentioned

on the fifth floor of our normal Fox lot in Los Angeles and that's where we are actually recording.

Now the bad news is we both went through the wrong place.

We were sent to the wrong place and maybe you want to lay some blame but hold on a second.

The good news is if you're going to go to the wrong

place when you then get to the right place at least have it be something special and I

think we can look around and say this is definitely an upgrade from anything that we

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