Hello Sunshine I'm Alexi Lollis 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 bail and menudo and MLS and Bears and Open Cup and transfer news and US

women's national team and 26 player rosters and under 20s and so much more but

first joining me as always my friend my colleague my guiding light David Mossy a soccer saffant and a fox soccer researcher

and writer extraordinary

Mossy how are you on this Monday June 27th in the glorious year of 2022.

I am doing well.

I am wondering if that studio is going to be available

when we finally return.

This has been quite a long time

without doing one of these imparts.

You know, we have to bob, we have to weave, we are in the summer months and there's things going

on and I am actually going right from this taping, recording, if you will, to LAX and I'm off to the East Coast.

I'll be taking a little trip with the family and my daughter is of the age where she's starting to think about going to college.

Knock on wood that she actually gets in someplace.

And so we're trying to narrow it down

to kind of, you know, maybe a hemisphere at this point

because it's wide open out there.

I think she's established that she wants to leave

California which I interpret as get as far away from her parents as possible. So

that's that's the only thing that we've established so far so we're going to have a

fun little east coast trip swing where we'll be seeing a bunch of schools.

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