The Hello Sunshine I'm Alexi Lollis and I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome to the State of the

Union Podcast presented by State Farm by the way. I'm Alexi Lollis and this is the State of the Union.

We look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of red, white and blue-colored glasses.

This man over here is my friend, my colleague, my guiding light, David Massey, a soccer

savant and a fox soccer and researcher extraordinary.

Massey, how you doing on this? I don't know what the hell day it is, but how you doing today?

I am doing well and very happy to be here as you can tell by the big smile on my face.

Have you been told to, you know, lighten it up or what you bring in the

the Grim Reaper vibes out there?

On our last pod I had a scowl on my face during it and

our colleague Brad Weimer took a picture of that and circulated it to everybody

in the Fox Sports Group here and he became this very popular meme today.

I had no idea.

20 different people come up to me and crack a joke. I tell you what we will get our

crack staff on that and maybe we can accumulate some of those pictures and memes. I mean I don't

know what they look like I couldn't possibly fathom what they look like but maybe in a future show will show the people what people are doing behind the scenes

In my defense doing a pod with yourself Heather O'Reilly and, it did feel like being the one sober guy at a bar surrounded by drunk people.

Oh buddy, all right, listen, where should we start here? We come to you for those that aren't watching again from down here down under and our incredible fox set?

What day is this? What do they call the match day? What are we looking at? It's Monday here where we're recording today, but

Day four is what we call this. And your buddy Rob Stone dubbed this contender Sunday.

He likes to brand things.

And so the fact that Sweden, the Netherlands,

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