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Speaker 1: Straight Fire? Fam, It's me Jason McIntyre. Straight Fire for Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: November twenty second, Thanksgiving Week in full mother bleep in effect.

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Speaker 1: Get to the soccer results shortly. I think I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: open with football. It will put me in a better splace,

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Speaker 1: a better place to talk about USA Whales. I was

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Speaker 1: honestly emotionally wrecked for a couple of hours after that. Again,

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Speaker 1: I listen, we'll do a lot of NFL to start,

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Speaker 1: Cup happens every four years. You literally work four years

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Speaker 1: That's it. Three soccer matches, so plus n ninety so

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Speaker 1: essentially minutes of her take whatever the referee says to

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Speaker 1: move on. Four years and you get three games and

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Speaker 1: I want some money on the Niners last night. I

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Speaker 1: hope you did too, easy, easy winner San Francisco forty

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Speaker 1: I'll confess with you, guys, I did not watch a

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Speaker 1: forty Niners looked like every time I tuned in, Forts

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Speaker 1: football chagrin. That included Deebo Samuel, George Kittle, and Brandon

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Speaker 1: ayuk Um. Fourt Niners just look great Arizona. They are

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Speaker 1: beat up RAMS team, but he ain't beating the forty Niners,

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Speaker 1: who might be super Bowl worthy. I'm stunned that, like

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Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins did not have a bigger game. But then again,

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Speaker 1: it's the forty Niners defense. Um, and folks, listen, you

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Speaker 1: don't want to do this thing where every week you're

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Speaker 1: I was like, more about the Bills. You see Cowboys

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Speaker 1: I don't want to hear this Cliff Kingsbury stuff, Like,

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Speaker 1: come on, guys, really, Cliff Kingsbury did not have a

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Speaker 1: that is a punching bag for one minute? Can we

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Speaker 1: just avoid that? The Forts look great, the defense is

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Speaker 1: getting healthier. Um, you know, Bosa had a sack, Warner

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Speaker 1: I know that Vikings is gonna hear that and be like,

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Speaker 1: about the record, guys. Here's a stat for you. You know,

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Speaker 1: their benches as deep as any bench outside of Brazil.

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Speaker 1: England rests what three four starters, maybe a couple of

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Speaker 1: guys out who have yellow cards at that point. And

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Speaker 1: now you've got like a backup line up against Wales,

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Speaker 1: and Wales has a shot to not get destroyed, maybe

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Speaker 1: scratch out a draw, who the hell knows, maybe get

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Speaker 1: a win. And then the US is up Ships Creek

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Speaker 1: without a paddle. So that that tie really hurt us

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Speaker 1: against Wales. It really did. It puts pressure on this

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Speaker 1: game against England, and you know when you see England's

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Speaker 1: drop a six on Iran, you're like, goodness, gracious. Now,

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Speaker 1: England did have a couple of guys getting nicked up.

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Speaker 1: Iran was playing with some heat. Man, those guys were

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Speaker 1: coming in hot. I mean, I thought Wales was fouling

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Speaker 1: a lot, Iran, those guys. England. No no major injuries

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Speaker 1: for England, but guys were kind of limping a lot.

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Speaker 1: And I know that happens at soccer. And I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I want to be optimistic about the US's chances, but

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Speaker 1: I'm also a realist. And and folks, it really it hurts. Man,

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Speaker 1: it's stung. You guys know, I love soccer. I'm a

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Speaker 1: minority owner of a club team in Mexico, the top

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Speaker 1: league nick Coxa. Um, I like soccer. I play. I

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Speaker 1: almost wanted to get out there this week. There's a

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Speaker 1: pickup game, pretty good one in our area every Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: I haven't played since our last tournament because I you know,

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Speaker 1: I did tennis and hoops and it's like the day

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Speaker 1: before Thanksgiving. Do I want to play soccer right, So

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Speaker 1: I'll get after it afterward. And um, the World Cup

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Speaker 1: listen is gonna be the next four weeks of fun. Um,

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Speaker 1: But a soccer sweat is a great sweat, guys. It

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Speaker 1: is awesome. Anyways, So four matches today and I think

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Speaker 1: four matches every day for the rest of the week.

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Speaker 1: All I'll say is pace yourselves today and Wednesday you

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Speaker 1: can kind of slow play. Thursday wall to wall NFL, Friday,

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Speaker 1: USA England, Saturday, Ohio State, Michigan and to a lesser

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Speaker 1: extentd Notre Dame USC and then Sunday week I have

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Speaker 1: I'm losing track, guys. Thanksgiving weeks always a tough one

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Speaker 1: for me sportswise. At any rate. Let's keep our heads up,

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Speaker 1: let's stay positive for US soccer, and um let's want

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Speaker 1: some more bets. We'll talk to you tomorrow.