All right, everybody. Welcome back, Sam's Army episode 2.1, 57. We have a lot to talk about

this week. We're going to start with some headlines. World Cup 2026 host cities and United

Front Office with a rare dub perhaps. Weekly, what if we're actually replacing it this

week with a pop quiz for our panel members here because we're going to do a whole mailbag

section. We've got tons of questions on World Cup 2022, my national team, Premier League,

MLS, some other randoms. We are in the dog days of summer. Wanda Nara is not giving us any

content to work with. We just got to do the best with what we got. So after the mailbag,

we got Rest of World, which is a quick U.S. Open Cup preview and then stop it's time

for course with best bets and everybody's favorite segment. Go us. Now it is time to

welcome in these beauties here with me this week. We'll start with Mikey podcast. Mikey

Fowler is back. He hates being introduced first. So we're going to start with him. What

the hell have you been up to Mikey? I'm in the dog days of running a new company right

now kind of doing everything. You know, I've been saying this a lot, but I'm far, far too

famous to be working this hard. It's really tough, honestly, but no, it's great to be back.

And I do hate being introduced first because everybody else is oftentimes a professional

athlete or more talented in different areas. And I have to go first. So thank you for

that again.

And you always feel awkward about it. So I genuinely hate it.

My goal with these with these intros are usually to make you feel awkward. So it's just

not easy to be back to softball. I'm very happy to be back. I do actually have a real

question for you because you know, listen, I think a lot of people here have directed

them to your Instagram before. And this is actually not going to be a bad one. I've already

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