All right, everybody. Welcome back, Sam's army episode 2.193. We got a lot to talk about this week. We're going to start with headlines where we will discuss

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First though, let me welcome in these beauties here with me this week. Hold your applause till the end. And by the way, this is actually a heads up for you too.

You're going to get the same intro question and we're going to keep it short. We got a lot of Darby's to get to.

And not enough time. So first up, Mr. Mikey Fowler, no doubt, shopping at the bit to dive into the Northland Darby, but that will have to wait a minute.

So your question, who's winning the championship game tonight, Georgia or TCU?

It's going to be Georgia and they're not and I don't think they're going to cover.

Oh, so it's going to be close. Okay. Yeah. All right. Okay. Good answer. And by the way, everybody by the time they read this or more listen to this or watch this, whatever.

This is just being mean. It's setting up. It is. It is. We're just going to get laughed at.

So next up, we got senior Dapper himself, Tyler Terrence and his smooth baritone. Same question, sir. Georgia Geoja or TCU?

Let's go frogs, baby. Why not? Love it. Because I also, I mean, my head is telling me the same as Mikey, but why not a little magic?

Georgia's been running vulnerable. I'm with you. I'm with you. I talk to myself into TCU.

I'm on the TCU bandwagon as well convincing guy. I convinced myself sometimes. That's pretty much the only person I've ever convinced anything.

All right. Let's go headlines. So fresh off the presses. Gareth Bale has announced he is retiring from soccer all together. One fell swoop. You know, he's gone from domestic golf golf golf.

Obviously. All right. In that order or he's going back to Europe. Well, let's see about that. It feels good for him. You know, going out on his terms. The timing feels right. I'll add that. I will always love Gareth Bale.

He's, I'm not unbiased when it comes to Gareth Bale. He was like one of the first sort of athletes that I was like, I mean, I guess we're kind of the same age, but like I was in love with him.

I mean, it was just like this guy is just larger than life. I mean, that's not true. I remember Roberto Baggio was the first person I actually fell in love with, but he was, you know, much older than me. Anyway.

Um, but the thing right here. So it wasn't weird. So it wasn't weird. It was a man that was much older than me. Um, it was not my first crush. It was my second crush. So it's not weird.

Which is cool. He's from Canada. You guys don't know. Um, so like as neutrals. I, I know where I stand on this neutral. I, well, whatever, semi unbiased. I don't know if you are not, but I hear a lot of people talk about Bale.

And the first thing they say is that he's criminally underrated. You know, as far as his career goes, he, listen, he's got five champions leagues. He's won LaLiga. He carried almost single handedly carried Wales to multiple international tournaments and into, you know, knock out sometimes.

He won an MLS Cup, perhaps most impressively. He want to make lead cup with Tatum. So where do you guys come down in terms of like how, whether he's underrated, it's where do you put him in that best of his generation debate?

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