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 week we'll be doing things a little bit differently giving the fact that we are in a new normal we're all muddling through this together

That we know traditional type of state of the union we're just gonna jump right in and talk about things with my good friend. You know him, you love him. My friend, my colleague, my confidant, a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinaire, David Mossy.

How are you, my friend?

I am good, hanging in there.

I do want to give a shout out to a couple of legends

that celebrated birthdays in the last couple of days, one of them being our colleague

Warren Barton, and the other being Ronald Dinga, who celebrated his 40th birthday, although I'm going to guess this is not the way

he envisioned the perfect way to celebrate his 40th birthday.

He's still in jail, right? Correct me if I'm wrong down there and uh...

where is he in jail? Peru?

Paraguay. Paraguay.

My goodness.

I mean, is that any way to treat a legend?

I am going to guess that they still found a way to have some sort of party.

Uh, yeah, there was talk of some sort of barbecue in prison. I'm not sure if that actually happened, but that was what they were planning anyway.

Well, as you will see, and hopefully you are hearing, we have upgraded our technical capabilities here when it comes to microphones so hopefully

this is a lot clearer

uh... and better quality as you are listening

i usually talk about you listening on runs or bike rides or all the different things but given

the fact that we rarely if ever go out this is probably something that you are listening to at home we did

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