Hello Sunshah I'm Alexi Wallace 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 color glasses this week we'll be talking

mLS craziness shania bail it's coming home runny j Josie, Hale, Panenka's, World Cup accommodations,

Messy Naimar Rinaldo, not necessarily in that order, and so much more.

But first joining me, as always, my friend, my colleague, my guiding light,

David Massey, a soccer savant and a

fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary

mossy how are you doing on this Monday August 1st and wait a second you're not here you're not across from me but I do see you in our beautiful monitor

You are evidently coming to us from the road I come to you from New York City. I am visiting my parents

We have a little bit of a break here in Fox in terms of our productions. So I snuck in a little trip home to hang out with my parents going well so far. Looking forward to we're going to be here for the rest of this week. Now listen the whole

trope of visiting your parents and the craziness that happens and and and all

that what do you do when you go back to visit your family and your parents?

No matter how many times I've been to New York I still approach it like a tourist.

We have lots of activities plan.

We're going to take the tramway to Roosevelt Island. We're going to walk the

Brooklyn Bridge, hang out in Dumbo. I'm probably going to go to the top of

this summit, which is this new observatory that was built open late last year.

So tons of activities like that.

I might even sneak in a Yankees game.

So you'd think it'd be my first time in New York

rather than the $5 billion, but that's just

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