It's a fun time to be an American if you're in Italy. So, Hello sunshine. 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 show will be talking the US men's national

team story lines over there in Europe as the leagues kick off. Speaking of leagues,

leagues Cup rolls on American reasons for liking or loving an EPL team.

Our first video question and State of the Union

podcast history, Insomnia, Vinny Jr.

And so much more.

But first joining me as always my friend, my my guiding lights David Mossy a soccer savant and a fox soccer

research and writer extraordinary! Massey how you doing on this Wednesday

August 14th in the year 2024. I'm doing well you know Lex I've now lived in

Los Angeles for more than 10 years and there have only been a handful of

earthquakes that I really felt and we had one a couple of days ago right after we

finished taping our regular pot I was in the edit bay talking to Jack about

Michigan football you were in the middle of conducting an interview you were like

Al Michael's at candlestick in 89.

Yes, you know, we have them out here. I have experienced them over the decades that I have lived here and you just

tend to, you know, you don't get used to them but you recognize that it's kind of part of living out here but it never fails to literally jolt you and in this case there's there's sometimes where they are kind of rolling ones and they last a little bit longer and there's other ones that are kind of like Sonic Booms.

And this was a big one in that the entire studio here shook for those that saw the the video out there and you know you take it with a grain of salt and make sure that everybody's okay and we got a lot of lights and all that kind of stuff hanging around so we we made sure that everything was secure and we continued on but it's a

it's all it's still a little strange I don't think you ever get used to it no matter how long

you're out here in California you were okay and you and yours everything was good

I kept my cool. Jack was very nervous you should have seen his face really scared. Yeah

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