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 colored glasses.

This is a State of the Union special where we will be putting a bow on this weekend's US 2-0 win over Panama,

Saturday in Austin and looking ahead to Tuesday's USA versus Mexico game in

Guadalajara. But first joining me as always my friend my colleague my guiding lights David

Mossier soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary and back again.

Stu Holden former US international and our own Fox soccer

Color commentator and extraordinary and analyst and all that kind of stuff and it has to be said at this point

Far and away the State of the Union appearance leader I mean you are you are far and away ahead of anybody when it comes

to appearances on the State of the union. Welcome,

Mossy. We did a show immediately following an instant reaction

when it comes to the state of the union,

live over there on the old spaces machine. And I haven't got your thoughts either of your

thoughts yet in terms of the reaction to the two-nothing win but before we get

there you spent that Saturday night not watching the US team but actually going to see

Billy Joel here in Los Angeles how was it my friend it was an incredible show

75 years old he still got it he did over two and a half hours almost 30 songs brought

out John Mayer and Axel Rose as special guests he opened with Miami. He did New York State of Mind, only the good Die Young.

He closed the regular set with scenes from an Italian restaurant and piano man and then did an encore where he did some of the more up-tempo songs like you may be right and we didn't start the fire and big shot

But fantastic show I had a great time pretty good concert year for me. I saw Springsteen at the forum

Nas and Vegas and now Billy Joel.

Who'd you go with yes to the concert?

Some buddies of mine.

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