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

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Speaker 1: straight Fire fan? It's means Jason McIntire Straight Fire for

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Speaker 1: Thursday October had a good guest on yesterday, Wilkaine. I

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Speaker 1: heard from some of you that you did not want

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Speaker 1: to hear from Wilkaine. I heard others really liked him. Listen.

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Speaker 1: We talk sports, no politics. We try to avoid politics

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Speaker 1: on this podcast. Um. Everything can be woven into politics eventually,

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Speaker 1: but we'll try to keep it to sports as often

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Speaker 1: as possible. Listen. Sometimes politics will be warranted, but hopefully

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Speaker 1: not often. UM. In other news, We've got an awful

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Speaker 1: Thursday night football game tonight Washington Chicago, but maybe it'll

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Speaker 1: be good because the teams are so bad the totals

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Speaker 1: criminally low. Will do a best bet at the end

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Speaker 1: of the podcast. A couple other notes. Did you recall

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Speaker 1: if you listened yesterday, I say ed I grabbed the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings at three on a guess that Teddy and

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Speaker 1: two would not be playing. Tour has been ruled out.

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Speaker 1: He will not play still in concussion protocol or whatever

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Speaker 1: to the Dolphins, Skyler Thompson will get the start against Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: Teddy will be relegated to hopefully back up duty. Hopefully

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Speaker 1: You guys know, I like the Vikings. The lines up

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Speaker 1: at three and a half. Now, that's a big issue

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Speaker 1: But I wanted to actually sink my tea into a

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Speaker 1: little bit of NBA today. We're gonna do. We just

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Speaker 1: secured a really good NBA guest for next Tuesday's podcast.

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Speaker 1: The season begins next Tuesday. Uh, Lakers Warriors in the

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Speaker 1: opener Thursday is Lakers paper clips. Your boy will be

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Speaker 1: blah blah blah. Monday Night Football Chargers Broncos. Justin Herbert

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a good one. Um, it sounds like

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson will play. He is a little dinged up,

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Speaker 1: Jeff has Lakers season tickets. We've gone the last two

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Speaker 1: season openers, and folks, I can't wait. Lakers Clippers should

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Speaker 1: be a really, really good one. I'm trying to secure

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Speaker 1: And you know, be that nerdy dude who's a shoot

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Speaker 1: Lakers during like fifteen threes in a row. Just because

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Speaker 1: I'm a basketball obsessed nerd, I really love that stuff.

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Speaker 1: Um So, anyways, next week, said Monster sports week. This

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Speaker 1: several good college football games. Oh my gosh, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: take a quick brief time out from NFL NBA to

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Speaker 1: talk college football. I'm not a newsbreaker, You guys know

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Speaker 1: out to someone who is kind of a big, big

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying he is. I'm saying these team fights

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