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Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

Interview with Hootie and the Blowfish’s Jim ‘Soni’ Sonefeld

Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

FOX Sports

Soccer, News, Sports, Sports News

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Hootie and the Blowfish drummer Jim ‘Soni’ Sonefeld joins the State of the Union Podcast to talk about his new book ‘Swimming with the Blowfish: Hootie, Healing, and One Hell of a Ride’ as well as his new EP ‘Remember Tomorrow’, his journey as a musician and why he named a chapter of his book after Alexi Lalas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello Sunshine I'm Alexi Wallace and welcome to a special edition of the State of the Union podcast.

0:05.0

We have ourselves a hell of a guest.

0:07.0

Jim, Sony Sonifel. Some people call him Sony, I call him Jim. I have known him since the 90s. You may know him from his

0:15.1

incredible work with Hootie and the Blowfish. He is also now a solo artist and

0:21.3

a writer. His new book is out, it's called A Swimming with the Blowfish,

0:26.3

Hooty, Healing, and one hell of a ride. And his new EP called Remember Tomorrow will be out this July 29th at all of your record stores and all of the different

0:36.6

platforms out there that you get your music on.

0:39.4

Welcome Jim into the State of the Union.

0:41.6

You look wonderful my friend, your dome is glistening what

0:45.2

uh what's the jersey you're wearing I can't tell from here well it's the greyhounds

0:50.4

oh my goodness I don't know if you need a fictional team to support in your life, but this is my favorite fictional team.

0:58.0

I love it. I love it.

1:00.0

All right, listen, I wanted to have you on for a number of different reasons.

1:04.1

As I said, you know, we've been friends since the 90s and we'll get into some of that.

1:07.9

But your soccer background, obviously we're a soccer show here. Your soccer background is is incredible and so I read the book and when I say I read the book you read the book to me because I pulled it up on audible you don't care you're getting the money

1:23.4

anyway so you read it to me which was which was actually really interesting to hear

1:27.5

you read it but soccer is throughout the book in so many different ways and I want to go back to when you were a kid because you talk about how soccer was one of your original loves and the connection that you had to it because of the

1:44.2

international aspect and all of the different you know diversity that it

1:48.8

enabled you to come in contact with in terms of the teams you played on and the players that you

1:54.0

played with. So take us back to that point and why you know everybody listens to

1:58.9

this pot at some point soccer grabbed us and held us. So take us back to that point when you were young and soccer grabbed us and held us. So take us back to that point when you were young and soccer

2:04.8

grabbed a hold of you. A year was 1973. You know, we, my family had moved around a bit and we arrived in a suburb of Chicago

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