Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome to 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 episode will be talking the MLS Redemption campaigns that are going on

Arsenal's failure yeah I said it geo the superist of subs Michael J Fox getting rid of

ties air apologizing to fans, listening to fans, running from fans,

getting attacked by fans, and so much more. But first joining me, as always, my friend, my colleague,

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

and writer extraordinary! Mossy how you doing on this Monday at May 15th in the

year 2023 for those that can't see.

Mossy is in the screen in front of me, so that means that he is on the road.

I'm assuming continuing your travels and your vacation and your visitation over there on the East. your I found a nice little sweet spot in our schedule that allowed me to come here for 10 days to visit my parents.

So, yeah, I'm still in the midst of that visit.

Have you been watching anything or seeing anything there?

You got a couple more days before you return but anything

float your boat? Well we had a very cool day on Friday we drove to Hyde Park we

took a tour of the Vanderbilt Mansion and then went to the Franklin Roosevelt Presidential Library, which was excellent.

On Tuesday night we have the Broadway show Leopoldstadt.

One thing I do not have to look forward to is game seven Knicks heat because the Knicks went out in six so that's disappointing

But I did attend a sporting event this weekend. We'll get to that in a minute when we start our MSS weekend with you. Would you say that your Knicks failed? No, they had a very

good season, Miami is a better team, so I'm totally at peace with how... Even though you didn't

get to see your your your game seven.

All right. I let's see what that I watched obviously I was in the air and so I saw some stuff

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