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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. Straight Fire for Thursday,

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Speaker 1: March seventeen, also known as Christmas Morning, Mary n C

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Speaker 1: A tournament everybody. I hope you're having a great morning.

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited I can barely contain myself. On the

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Speaker 1: you know, instead of acting like a lunatic in front

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Speaker 1: of your friends over college basketball. Um, it's just fun

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Speaker 1: to watch the games. You know, you're on the internet.

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Speaker 1: You got the brad. I got like twenty bracket sheets

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Speaker 1: these next two days pace yourselves. It is so exciting, exhilarating.

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Speaker 1: I got my kids into bracket Shout out to my

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Speaker 1: So he's doing his homework and hopefully he can deliver.

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Speaker 1: I'm just so pumped about the brackets. But before we

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Speaker 1: I gotta quickly touch on a couple of big NFL moves.

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Speaker 1: Holy cow, I'm kind of sort of stunned at this

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Speaker 1: every week during the season to track quarterback pressure rates,

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Speaker 1: well right off the gate. Like, let's let's calm down

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Speaker 1: A couple other big signings in case you missed them

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Speaker 1: while filling out brackets and watching the Lakers get their

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Speaker 1: What's not to like about him? Talented player um Jarvis

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Speaker 1: to listen live. Now, we gotta get to everybody's favorite portion.

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Speaker 1: D n C A tournament. Now, I don't know if

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