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Speaker 1: Fire with Jason McIntyre. What's up, everybody, It's me Jason McIntyre,

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Speaker 1: Straight Fire, Episode five. We made it one whole week,

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Speaker 1: very exciting, first debut week for the show, for the podcast,

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Speaker 1: whatever you guys wanna call it. Thank you for the downloads, obviously,

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Speaker 1: thank you for commenting. I did read some negative comments.

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Speaker 1: I like that I thrive off the negativity. Remember subscribe,

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Speaker 1: tell all your friends. And this was an awesome week.

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Speaker 1: And we wrap up the week with what I think

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Speaker 1: is the biggest story in sports. Obviously, the NBA playoffs

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Speaker 1: were massive, Portland's with the heart stopping victory over the

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Speaker 1: lowly Brooklyn Nets so setting up a Portland Memphis play

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Speaker 1: in to face the Lakers. We'll get to that later,

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Speaker 1: but I want to start with you know, I'm kind

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Speaker 1: and I have a different angle than I saw anybody

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Speaker 1: else take. Essentially, smart teams in the NFL doing smart things. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey and George Kittle to tight ends, signing big contracts,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of people will gloss over it, maybe

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Speaker 1: look at the fantasy football angle, but I think it's

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Speaker 1: smart teams doing smart things, and I want to take

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Speaker 1: you back. I like these little stories, these vignettes, if

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Speaker 1: you will too. When I had started out at James

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Speaker 1: It wasn't great, but hey, you gotta put a hair

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Speaker 1: on your chest somehow. And the second, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: my buddies were like, hey man, we got this awesome party,

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Speaker 1: the internship. I called. I called the next day and

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Speaker 1: I was like, hey man, I'm sorry. I couldn't make it.

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Speaker 1: I got tied up. They're like, okay, we'll see you Monday,

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Speaker 1: and I was like, oh what that went over pretty well?

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Speaker 1: So I show up on Monday, Hey apologize again, and

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Speaker 1: the editors like, okay. Two minutes later, hey, Jason, can

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Speaker 1: I talk to you for a second. Okay, And in

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Speaker 1: the most calm but firm voice ever, I was basically told,

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Speaker 1: what the hell do you think you're doing? Smart people

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Speaker 1: do smart things, Jason, and you just did a really

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Speaker 1: dumb thing. You did not show up for work. Do

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Speaker 1: you think you're gonna be anything in this industry? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I was stunned. I was scared straight Like I. I

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Speaker 1: was friendly with this guy, Chris Simmons Rest in peace,

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Speaker 1: Chris Simmons. He passed away a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 1: and he was like one of my mentors and I

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Speaker 1: and I vowed from that day I gotta be smart.

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Speaker 1: I gotta do smart things. And you guys can apply

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Speaker 1: your your wife, your life, your kids. You gotta be smart.

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Speaker 1: And I I look at sports that way, with teams

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Speaker 1: look at their draft history, second round finding all these

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. Now everybody copies them. Look at what happened

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Speaker 1: a week it's been. And I thought, Rob that the

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Speaker 1: Who is that guy in the locker room for the Clippers. Well,

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Speaker 1: he's definitely It's not it. No, I don't think so either.

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Speaker 1: You know, I thought Lou Williams would be the guy.

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Speaker 1: But you know when you go to Magic City and

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Speaker 1: around and he took a couple of dances. What kind

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Speaker 1: of respect? Do you love basketball? Or do you you

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Speaker 1: just can't resist the you know, the lap dances in

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Speaker 1: that scene. And we know Lou Williams off the court,

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Speaker 1: he's a big time playboy. Does he love basketball? How bad?

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Speaker 1: Does he want a title? I don't know. Is he

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Speaker 1: gonna be locked in with I am? So they're rob

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Speaker 1: for Clippers in fighting If Luca Steeles Game one or

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Speaker 1: something insane happened, like I don't think Luca could, but

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Speaker 1: it would be phenomenal. I don't know. I I know

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Speaker 1: the Clippers, like you said, have the talent. I'm just

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Speaker 1: not a hundred thousand percents sold on them definitely beating

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Speaker 1: the Lakers. Um, we'll wrap up with UM. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: was gonna talk about the Miami heat. I guess we

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Speaker 1: could save that. There's nothing really special there except that

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Speaker 1: I really think they've got a good chance. I'll set

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Speaker 1: the Bucks in the second round. I think they're plus

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Speaker 1: look closely at as we know now, and Beat is hurt.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna play Ben Simmons obviously out Boston Celtics. Man,

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Speaker 1: they you know, as long as they don't have to

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Speaker 1: face Janice till the conference finals that they're gonna they're

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Speaker 1: they should be there. Um. But I'm so geeked for

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Speaker 1: the playoffs and uh, we will obviously do a lot

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Speaker 1: of college football NFL on the podcast. We'll do some baseball.

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Speaker 1: I want to beat up on the Houston Astros next

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Speaker 1: week because they're still struggling and I really don't like

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Speaker 1: them at all. But I think that does it for

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Speaker 1: episode five. That's one week in the books. Guys, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for listening, subscribing, Jump in the comments

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Speaker 1: and say something nice or you know, challenge me whatever.

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