Another window is going to be wasted and what I thought was going to be the moment of,

all right, let's go, is now being postponed again. Oh, 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 show will be talking Parchwatch, the U.S. men's national team roster, Atlanta changes, Cheating Wolverines, Hope Solo, Suarez Goodbye,

Rinaldo Keeping on, Ballone Door, and so much more.

But first joining me as always my friend, my colleague, my guiding guiding lights David Mossy a soccer

savant and a fox soccer research and writer extraordinary

Mossy how you doing on this Wednesday September 4th in the year

2024 and doing well and it's great to have you back in studio.

Thank you so much.

Yes, so let's see, how far did I go here across country?

And another thank you to everybody behind the scenes for making it easy to do the shows on the road.

Like 3,300 miles and 5 days, 15 states including, let's see, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,

Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and of course, California.

And I've done this a bunch of times.

It never gets old.

It gives you an incredible and profound appreciation for the size of our country and the diversity

Especially when it comes to the geography of our country just wonderful and as I mentioned for those that have listened and watched over the last couple of weeks

I did it with my teenage son and it really wouldn't have matter where we went it was just fun to be with him to go across country

and at times he rolled his eyes but you know if you get the opportunity

alone or with anybody that that you like or love definitely do it so it was fun and I would

recommend it to anybody so have you

watched anything my friend can I give away the fact that we didn't actually tape

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