Hello, Sunshine, I'm Alexi Wallace and welcome to the State of the Union

podcast presented by State Farm by the way. When we look at the

beautiful game on and off the field with the lens of red, white and blue-colored

glasses, joining me as always my friend my colleague my guiding light David Martin and off the field with the lens of red, white and blue-colored

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

and writer extraordinary!

Mossy, we come to you after finishing up a game today, but also some games yesterday

that we didn't get a chance to talk about.

And before we do that, I want to shout out to our friend Julie Stewart Banks, wonderful talent, former colleague with us here at Fox.

She's gone on to do great things.

Incredible comedian, she said some really nice things about the pod and I think it

not just because it's nice but because I think it sums it up succinctly. She

called what we are doing right now snackable in terms of giving her what she wants in a very digestible form and a very efficient form of what is happening, especially during the tournaments, day after day after day.

And I just like it, I love Julie, but that she was able to put this into words.

Ah, it warms the cockles of my red-headed American heart because it makes us

understand that this is what we're trying to do and that it's resonating out there.

She did preface it with Say what she will about Alexi Lollis.

What do you think that was about?

I mean people do say what they will to my face behind my back online.

You are a polarizing figure so whenever somebody is going to praise you they do

feel the need to insert that at the front of it.

Yeah but you know Julie and I are cool and she's she's one of us you know she's yes she's got the

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