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 colored glasses.

This week we'll be talking about, ooh, the first week of the

MLS is back tournament. It is in the books. Games actually being played on

the field. We'll also be talking about the Great Escape

from Man City.

We'll be talking about the Champions League draw,

Josh Sergeant, Jesse Marsh, M'Bape, Allen,

and so much more all on the State of the Union podcast but first joining me as always my friend my

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

writer extraordinary mossy how are you on this Monday, July 13th in the year 2020?

I am doing well.

I am happy to be busy again.

As soon as we are done taping this pot I have to jump in the shower get dressed and head to work for a long day of

MLS's back coverage.

It sounds so good. We're going to talk a lot about that here in a second. I will say this. I know we often

kick off the show and talk about our viewing habits and our latest discoveries. I think last week or the last couple of weeks I've told you that

my family we have started watching the show Lost. I can't remember you did know this show

right you've heard of this show I am familiar with it

it pains me to tell you because I know there's a lot of fans out there and I've seen a lot of people

have gotten in touch with me over the last couple of weeks to tell them to you know with

curiosity and interest is how I'm going to react to this.

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