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 color glasses.

This week, well, we're recording on July 4th, so we'll be talking America and so much more.

But first joining me as always, my friend, my colleague, my guiding light, David Mossier.

Soccer Savant and a Fox Soccer researcher, extraordinary!

And writer, by the way, how are you on this July 4th in the year

2022?

I am doing well.

I've been enjoying your Twitter pictures from your vacation. I'm wondering where are you right now?

I come to you from the great state of Connecticut but I spent the last week going up and down the eastern seaboard for those that follow and if you've listened to previous podcast you'll know that we've kind of taken my teenagers and one of the teenagers who eventually

will be kind of thinking about going to college and get a preliminary type of feel for

what college is. And so we went up and down the East Coast. We started up in

Connecticut. We went down and saw my alma mater down there at Rutgers. Not that

either of them have any interest in Rutgers.

Then we went down to Princeton.

Then we went to Penn in Philadelphia.

Then we went down to Georgetown, then UVA.

And a lot of these different places.

Now I'm not saying that any of my spawn

have any chance of getting into these places,

but like I said, it was just kind of a preliminary way

for them to wrap their minds around what is out there and maybe if they work really

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