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Speaker 1: straight Fire, fam, It's me Jason McIntyre. It's straight Fire

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Speaker 1: for Wednesday, September one football month is here. We are

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Speaker 1: Bucks next Thursday. It's pretty cool that we get like

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Speaker 1: you're rested, folks. I hope you're well rested and ready

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Speaker 1: for action because the NFL is nearly upon us. Very

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Speaker 1: exciting and obviously we got an NFL heavy show today,

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Speaker 1: although I'm gonna say my little Ben Simmons rant for

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Speaker 1: the end, and yes, we will have college football picks

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Speaker 1: probably today or tomorrow's show. Um, we will be having

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Speaker 1: a Fantasy Football Extraordinaire show coming up, and then we're

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Speaker 1: gonna have another one I had I talked about. My

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Speaker 1: to go. Very excited. I got my son doing fantasy football,

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Speaker 1: and um, I have you know several leagues. Obviously got

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Speaker 1: I love fantasy, I love gambling. I love the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and like it's weird because towards the end of summer here,

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Speaker 1: And I found myself, honestly, since we bought a soccer team,

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Speaker 1: I want to get to know Liga MX. UM. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: our team lost a brutal, brutal result. I don't even

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Speaker 1: texting the other guy who's like one of the majority owners,

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Speaker 1: the worst teams in the league. And the referees like,

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Speaker 1: me for a loop for a whole but nevertheless, UM,

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Speaker 1: so I found myself playing a lot of FIFA and UM,

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Speaker 1: of this pod? No, what's up? Okay? Yeah, I predicted

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Speaker 1: Mac Jones is a smart kid. He turns twenty three.

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Speaker 1: I think the reality is he's not done. He doesn't

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Speaker 1: You know? Um, I think there's options for Cam. Fox

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