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And I think the U.S. finishes the year with a sense of optimism.

Thank you. is amazing. Hello, Sunshine. I'm Alexie Lawless and welcome, 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 show will be talking, ooh, to the great Dougie Mack with a transfer window preview

and a look back and a review of 2024, the Mack Herman Award, Academy v.

College, Italian Super Coppa, the longest night, 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 extraordinaire.

Mossie, how are you doing on this?

Well, what are we looking at here?

January 1st in the year 2025?

I am doing well as we kick off yet another year on the State of the Union podcast.

Hey, listen, happy new year to everybody.

I hope that you have wonderful 2025.

2024, by the way, on and off the field, was nuts.

Hopefully we have another interesting year when it comes to 2025, but

hopefully it's also a healthy and happy and safe one for you and yours out there. As I mentioned,

last show, thank you so much for everybody that checks us out and has now as we come up on

our, I guess it would be our seventh year anniversary when it

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