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 with the lens of

red white and blue colored glasses. This is a special live pod. We will be taking your questions to the extent that you have any and

I welcome in my very special guest host a friend and colleague of mine Mr. Stewart

Holden you know him well, you know his beautiful face,

you certainly know his beautiful voice from all of our Fox soccer broadcasts from World Cup to Copa America to MLS and the list goes on and on and on if there are people

kicking a soccer ball on Fox chances are you are going to hear and see Stu Holden.

How you doing my friend?

I'm good, I feel, you know, we've seen each other quite a few times here coming off the back of

Sydney for spending a whole month together there for the Women's World Cup disappointing for the United States

but I would say from our perspective really enjoyed it. What a wonderful place that over there in Australia

in that part of the world and getting to I don't know hang at Bondi Beach and

Manly Beach and playing some pickup soccer all the wonderful things that we did so

good to see again it was a it was a fun summer it was an interesting summer.

Have you recovered sufficiently when it comes to the jet lag?

I still find myself almost like a heroin addict at strange times kind of nodding out.

And I don't know if they still, I don't know they still remits.

Lex, I had to break it to you buddy.

That's called Old Age.

That's not, you know, I didn't invite on here, I invite you on here to be an asshole, all right?

So please, let's just nip that in the bud right now.

What else have you done this summer?

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