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Yeah, and I would say specifically for Americans,

and I do believe that there will be a couple before the World Cup.

I have heard, like, let's say, FC Cincinnati came really close to Josh Sarge,

and FC Cincinnati came really close to Weston McKinney. Hello, Sunshine. I'm Alexi Lollast 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 show, well, it's a very special show because we will be interviewing Tom Bogart, the MLS and U.S. and U.S. Men's National Team Insider, and over there for Give Me Sport and for CBS,

and we'll be talking to him about all sorts of things, including breaking news and sources

and transfers and the Knickerbockers and the U.S. Open Cup and so much more.

But first joining me as always my friend, my colleague, my guiding lights, David Mossie,

a soccer savant and a Fox

soccer researcher and writer extraordinaire. Mossie, how are you doing on this? Well, listen,

we are recording this on Monday, February 3rd, but you're probably listening to this on

Tuesday or Wednesday, February 4th or 5th. How are you, Massey? I'm doing well. The weather in

L.A. was pretty funky this past weekend.

On Sunday afternoon, I got home from a late lunch with a friend, 3.30 in the afternoon, and it was a

beautiful day. And I'm reading this terrific book right now, O Jerusalem, about the Israeli-Palestinian

conflict. And I thought, you know what, I'm going to drive

to a park nearby and read the book for a couple hours. And just in the 10 minutes, it took me to

drive to this park. This incredible fog descended on the west side of Los Angeles. And by the time I

arrived, it looked like that Bears Eagles playoff game in 1988. It was the vibe had completely

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