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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What is up

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Speaker 1: straight Fire, fam, It's me Jason McIntyre. I'm back from

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Speaker 1: vacation on Straight Fire Monday June. Did you miss me?

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Speaker 1: Oh what a great week I had away from work,

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Speaker 1: untethered from the computer, no Twitter all week. I did

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Speaker 1: watch soccer, I did watch NBA, and um, I listened

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Speaker 1: to a little bit of Straight Fire early in the

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Speaker 1: week with Rob g and Gavin filling in. Thank you

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Speaker 1: to both of those kind gentlemen. What an I mean? Listen?

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Speaker 1: They were great, at least the podcast I heard earlier

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Speaker 1: in the week. Late in the week, we were just

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Speaker 1: jammed with events. I'll tell you about the vacation later,

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Speaker 1: but shout out to Scott the Big Boss, for letting

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Speaker 1: me take the vacation without bringing the podcast equipment, because,

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Speaker 1: believe it or not, that was actually the thought. Then

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Speaker 1: my wife was like, are you sure you want to

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Speaker 1: And so we went out to Hawaii for a week.

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Speaker 1: It was awesome. If you follow me on Instagram, you

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Speaker 1: know the level of awesomeness it was. We had so

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Speaker 1: much fun. My wife planned everything and um, you know,

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Speaker 1: we went horseback riding, We went to Queen's bath. If

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Speaker 1: anybody here has been to Kauai, um, it was just amazing.

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Speaker 1: It was an incredible time. And uh, you know, it

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Speaker 1: was sad to miss like the NBA Draft lottery because

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Speaker 1: I love that kind of geeky stuff and I have

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Speaker 1: a mock draft coming out for Fox Sports this week obviously, Uh,

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Speaker 1: and I missed some pretty good NBA playoffs. But um,

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Speaker 1: It was good to not have to follow the trade

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Speaker 1: rumors or the coaching rumors, um and like you know,

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Speaker 1: a week off. But I will say I'll start the

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Speaker 1: podcast with the unrelated to all this. You know. So

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Speaker 1: I'm in Hawaii and you know, not really answering the phone,

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Speaker 1: but there's basically like three or four people who if

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Speaker 1: Outside of family of course, um, work related people sources

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Speaker 1: that I've developed for a long time. And I get

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Speaker 1: what what's going on? Man? I'm I'm pool side I

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Speaker 1: I have a drink. Uh you know, a boat drink.

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Speaker 1: It's eleven thirty am in Hawaii. What do you got?

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Speaker 1: He's like, oh, man, I just talked to a big

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Speaker 1: wig in the MP. There's a lot happening. I was like,

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Speaker 1: But did you know Jay that Rick Carlisle left the

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Speaker 1: Maths because he thought he was getting the Bucks job.

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Speaker 1: After Kevin Durant went postal in Game five against the Bucks,

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Speaker 1: everybody thought Budenholzer was toasted. Series is over. So did

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Speaker 1: Rick Carlisle. Apparently he he was telling people, yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna be going to Milwaukee. He thought that job was his.

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Speaker 1: And then of course the Bucks win the next two games,

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Speaker 1: and you know, apparently Rick Carlo I was like, all right,

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Speaker 1: you can go to the Bucks a contender with Joannese

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Speaker 1: Boudenholzer vomiting all over himself in that series. Do you

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Speaker 1: why wouldn't carl I want? What's Boston? That's a really

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Speaker 1: good gig. Well, Boston's hiring an African American coach. That's

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Speaker 1: not happening. The guys who run the Sixers are private

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Speaker 1: Remember I said I think Bucks in five was my pick.

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Speaker 1: And that come back late spearheaded by one Chris Middleton.

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Speaker 1: So in the playoffs, the Bucks are seven and one

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Speaker 1: and this Damian Lillard stuff. I start getting this slew

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Speaker 1: I uh open Twitter and you know, Cuffs the legend

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Speaker 1: to get him back this week, Rob Cuffs. The legend

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Speaker 1: is that Damian Lillard wants to be a Laker, And

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Speaker 1: then you see Chris Haynes of Yahoo write about it,

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Speaker 1: not the Laker part, but Damian Lillard not thrilled with.

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Speaker 1: You know, Damian Lillard is obviously feeling like, hey, you

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Speaker 1: watching the dirty Portuguese national team take out the players

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Speaker 1: so many dirty plays. I was upset because I think

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Speaker 1: Belgium could win it all, and like, I have a

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Speaker 1: good buddy here where I live and he's from the Netherlands,

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Speaker 1: and they got there. One of their players got a

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Speaker 1: red card against I think it was Czech Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic,

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Speaker 1: and instant it was zero zero and instantly the TI

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Speaker 1: turned and check just dominated the rest of the game

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Speaker 1: and want to nothing. And it's like soccer is really

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Speaker 1: fun right now. I mean, I'm super into it. Like

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Speaker 1: NBA playoffs extending into July. I mean, is there gonna

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Speaker 1: be Summer League robbed this summer in Vega? There is

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Speaker 1: I'll actually be in Vegas during summer that I won't

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Speaker 1: be going to Summer League, but I will be there.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, I know that you're a big

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Speaker 1: soccer fan. A little birdie told me that we may

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Speaker 1: have a former US men's national soccer player on the

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Speaker 1: pod this week. I like the sound of that. Also,

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Speaker 1: maybe you could be a correspondent for the Summer League

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Speaker 1: from Vegas if you can get media access. Um, I

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Speaker 1: mean I could, but I won't. You know, I'm I

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Speaker 1: will be at the craps table and I will be

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Speaker 1: at the pool. I have no increase and watching a

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Speaker 1: bunch of nineteen year old basketball players either. You say

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Speaker 1: nineteen year olds at the Vegas pools US different. Um,

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Speaker 1: But it's funny. The Fox Gambling team is is putting

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Speaker 1: together a Vegas weekend UH in August. I'll be signing

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Speaker 1: up for the super Contest and I will be hopefully

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Speaker 1: kicking it at the pool. UM in the cabanas um

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Speaker 1: maybe robbed. You'll stop by there we go. But anyways,

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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Speaker 1: it for today's show. We have plenty more UH coming

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Speaker 1: up this week. It is good to be back back

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Speaker 1: on the grind. Although it's not much of a grind.

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Speaker 1: This is just fun. I mean, you watch sports and

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Speaker 1: you talk about it. I explained my the podcast to

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Speaker 1: someone UM when I was on vacation. They were like,

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Speaker 1: that sounds amazing. And I did have somebody come up

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Speaker 1: to me. Yes, I went to the gym like three

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Speaker 1: times in Hawaii. Someone came up, who do you like tonight?

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Speaker 1: J I've never seen the person. I don't even know

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Speaker 1: where he's from. I just came up and just said

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Speaker 1: that to me, like we were friends. I guess he

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Speaker 1: is familiar with my work. Uh. And I looked at

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Speaker 1: him like startled because the way he phrased, I thought

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Speaker 1: he'd like knew me from l A or something. I

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Speaker 1: don't know where he's from. I was like tough to

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Speaker 1: pick against the bucks man. That was pretty much it.

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Speaker 1: Like I don't get to earbuds in. You're like, huh,

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Speaker 1: what in between supersets kind of give out bidding. No,

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Speaker 1: there's no supersets. This is maintenance. So because you know,

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Speaker 1: because I can't resist a chocolate lava cake. UM. One

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Speaker 1: quick story, So if anybody has been to Queen's Bath

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Speaker 1: in Kauai, I have. It's fantastic. Is it an amazing?

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Speaker 1: It's awesome one of the I think it's the coolest

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Speaker 1: place I've ever been on planet Earth, and I have

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Speaker 1: been to. Um. We went to Peru for one of

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Speaker 1: my wife's friend's weddings and we went to Machu Picchu,

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Speaker 1: which was incredible. It's amazing. How did this happen? Oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, it's amazing. How did they build this? How

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Speaker 1: do they log this stuff up here to the top

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Speaker 1: of the mountain. This is incredible. Um. I think queen

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Speaker 1: Bath is cooler. And at one point we're in the

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Speaker 1: water in the in the bath and my wife's like, hey,

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Speaker 1: why don't you give that girl our phone. She's young,

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Speaker 1: she knows how to take pictures with iPhone. She'll say,

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Speaker 1: take some pictures of us, perfect, great ideas and give

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Speaker 1: it to her. She takes pictures and she's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I can't get off the video. I think I got it.

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Speaker 1: And then I was like, all right, you can just

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Speaker 1: toss me the phone. I'll catch it. And it was

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Speaker 1: like the worst throw ever, um, And I was not ready.

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Speaker 1: And you know, Queen's math is shockingly deep. Rob Like

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Speaker 1: when I first went in the water, I go in

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Speaker 1: and you know, you expect to put your foot down

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Speaker 1: and like stand and no, foot doesn't touch anything. I

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Speaker 1: wait another second. Foots keeps going deeper and like, okay,

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Speaker 1: I gotta swim up. I think it was like eleven

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Speaker 1: feet deep, and you know, the water is clear, but

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Speaker 1: there's rocks at the bottom and all these crevices. So

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Speaker 1: the woman tosses the phone. I can't get it, and

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Speaker 1: I can watch it sinking and I quickly scurry and

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Speaker 1: I can't get it and goes to the bottom. And

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Speaker 1: then I looked down. I'm like, shit, I don't see

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Speaker 1: the phone. And it's in this bright orange case, this

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Speaker 1: incredible case. I don't want to do advertising for them,

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Speaker 1: but I got off Amazon. It's like Bucks and it's incredible,

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Speaker 1: and I don't see it. So my wife, I don't

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Speaker 1: open my eyes underwater because I got lasik um. So

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Speaker 1: my wife borrows goggles, swims down and like, can't really

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Speaker 1: find it. This guy's like, hey, I was a diver.

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Speaker 1: I'll look for it, and he goes like three or

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Speaker 1: four times. He can't find it. And at this point,

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Speaker 1: like I'm not panicking, but my son is like, Dad,

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Speaker 1: don't start crying. You know, there's like a group of

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Speaker 1: people now in the area, Like, Dad, don't relax. It's

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Speaker 1: I'm like, it's gonna be fine. I'd like turn around

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Speaker 1: and say a little prayer. I'm not even kidding. I'm like, please,

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Speaker 1: there's I can't this cannot happen, you know, Um, we're

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Speaker 1: leaving the following day, are flights, I mean every this

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Speaker 1: cannot happen, And in my mind, I'm going through, Okay,

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Speaker 1: what happens if this dude can't find it? So by

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Speaker 1: like the fifth one, he finds it and like everybody cheers.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's like thirty people around. Was like, all right, dude,

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Speaker 1: I gave the guy a hundred bucks and my wife's

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Speaker 1: like hundreds. It's like listen, first of all, the phone's

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Speaker 1: like a grand and the value of the hoops you

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00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 1: gotta jump through two, get the cloud up and running

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Speaker 1: and transfer all the stuff and all this stuff, and

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Speaker 1: maybe the phone's out. I don't need that. Like, I

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Speaker 1: was just so thrilled and it uh, it was. It

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Speaker 1: was fun. But anyways, Rob, I know you don't want

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Speaker 1: to hear more vacation stories. I am just curious. Did

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Speaker 1: you hear like any very specific reaction to the pod? Uh?

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Speaker 1: You know, the combatants on social media can get very unruly,

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Speaker 1: you know what. Actually most of it was positive. I'm

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Speaker 1: more critical of the pod, and I think any of

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00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 1: the listeners are, and I think that's part of our job.

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Speaker 1: And you know, me and Gavin, as much fun as

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Speaker 1: we had, were definitely not talent. We are not Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 1: We do not know how to ratchet it up from

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Speaker 1: zero to a hundred that easily, you know, So I

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00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 1: gotta take a lot of reps. Maybe uh take some

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Speaker 1: red Bull or something before we do the next one.

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Speaker 1: So when you go on vacation again, make sure that

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Speaker 1: we're aware and we are ready with caffeine. Well there,

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00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 1: you know, it's of course, it's funny you say that

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Speaker 1: we were just planning another potential because this one was fun.

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Speaker 1: You know, the kids are getting older. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: like at the airport, you gotta go the bathroom where

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Speaker 1: I go in the bathroom, come back. You know, I

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Speaker 1: don't need to take him in and do everything. And

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Speaker 1: then that's not just the year. By the way, flying

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00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: still stinks. You gotta wear the mask the whole time.

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Speaker 1: Um My, my my son. Did watch A Quiet Place?

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Speaker 1: Have you seen it? Rob? No, I have not yet.

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Speaker 1: Have you heard have you heard it? I've heard of it.

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Speaker 1: I just haven't got around to seeing it. And so,

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Speaker 1: you know, the flight's kind of quiet, and this is

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Speaker 1: early and you could my son would just he's very

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Speaker 1: chatty during the movie because I think he was a

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00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 1: little nervous. Oh no, you know, like really and I

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Speaker 1: just keep looking over cracking up and uh he said

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Speaker 1: that there's no way I'm watching Quiet Place too. There's

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Speaker 1: just no way I'm not doing it like you saw

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Speaker 1: all those monsters, Like, there's no I'm not watching. I

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Speaker 1: was just like, this is cool. My kids can watch

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Speaker 1: all rated movies now and we can discuss that with them.

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Speaker 1: So anyways, al right, guys, thanks for listening. We will

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Speaker 1: be back tomorrow. It's good to be back. See you

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Speaker 1: tomorrow