This is about the summer of 2026.

Okay, that's all fine and well, but we need to see someone that's going to come in and hit the ground running. Oh, Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome to the State of the Union Podcast. We look at a beautiful game on and off the field

through the lens of red white and blue colored glasses,

this show will be talking

Pulis flying, the Mutant Gene, Hendrick, Columbus, Suarez, Royce,

Champions League changes,

clutch, road trips, college drop-off, Garber after 25 years,

and so much more.

But first joining me, as always my friend, my colleague,

my guiding light,

David Mossy, a soccer soccer savant and a fox soccer

researcher and writer extraordinary! Maussi how are you doing on this Monday August

26th in the year 2024? I'm doing well how are you and where are you?

So I come to you from the great state of Connecticut where I am getting ready to head out on this

road trip that I've been telling you and our

listeners and watchers about over the last couple of weeks my son and I driving cross

country now yesterday I I had a I had a moment Mossy I had a moment, I had a moment, Massey, I had a day. My wife and I, we dropped off our firstborn, our daughter at college.

Now listen, I know these are first-willed problems, okay, but it doesn't make it any easier,

especially for your first and look, I raised this now young woman from a little pink blob and now you're sending her off into the

real word yet because let's be honest it's college but still her far away in our case and man it was not easy to hold it together

Mossy but I'm incredibly proud of her and like I said a tradition that many have gone through and she's very lucky we are very

very lucky and I wish her well going forward and then tomorrow morning as I said I get up and my son and I head across this beautiful country from coast to coast from basically

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