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Speaker 1: Straight Fire Family with me Jason McIntyre, Straight Fire or Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: September eighth. Everybody back at work across the country. Everybody's

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Speaker 1: ready for football. You can feel it in the air.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how often you guys just are outside

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Speaker 1: talking to people. I know, COVID screwing up everything now,

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Speaker 1: the gambling. I mean, it's just I'm so geek for

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Speaker 1: the season. So what we'll do on today's pot a

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Speaker 1: little different. I'm gonna give you my playoff picks in

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Speaker 1: the NFC, n a f C, and my Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: prediction today, um tomorrow, as we prepare for Bucks Cowboys

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Speaker 1: Thursday night plans for that one. Um. We will uh

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Speaker 1: will bring in a guest, A special guest. Actually, UM,

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Speaker 1: I don't know many of you know him, but I've

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Speaker 1: had him on my Saturday radio show for several years.

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Speaker 1: Kind of brought him to the gambling community. You know,

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Speaker 1: you you go out and you'd like to find people

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Speaker 1: I noticed that, and you know, he wasn't he didn't

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Speaker 1: having on the radio show, and he's like done a

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Speaker 1: lot of good things. He is on the way up

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Speaker 1: in the gambling community. And I know gambling is gonna

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Speaker 1: be talked about more this year than any other season before.

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Speaker 1: Last year was big. This year it's going to be extraordinary. Um.

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Speaker 1: And I just want to say two things that I

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Speaker 1: stand by. I don't ever pay for picks. Um. I

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Speaker 1: just I don't do it. It's just a gain. I

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Speaker 1: doing this long enough. I've been profitable enough in gambling,

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Speaker 1: You just want information. And it's funny because I talked

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Speaker 1: last week about how much I played FIFA now that

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Speaker 1: spending all your time looking at these NFL injuries leading

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Speaker 1: I will deliver for you daily. But before we get

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Speaker 1: to NFL predictions for the full on season, just two

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Speaker 1: quick things. Um Number one, can we briefly talk about

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Speaker 1: to this podcast and you had your fantasy, you know that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: gust the Bus is the starter. Everybody knows that. Well,

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Speaker 1: This is how desperate the Ravens are. They now picked

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Speaker 1: begins Thursday night. We have the new expanded playoffs this year.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go through with my division winners in the

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