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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? We have a special episode of the

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Speaker 1: podcast today stepping out of our comfort zone, trying something new.

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Speaker 1: We partnered with twenty three and me two kind of

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Speaker 1: get some information on my health. Um, you guys know,

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Speaker 1: I play a lot of sports. I'm very active. I

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Speaker 1: like to think of myself as a weekend warrior. And

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Speaker 1: you really have to know what your body is about

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Speaker 1: and know your background and what you made of and

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Speaker 1: where you come from if you want to optimize fully

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Speaker 1: your body and your health as you age out of

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Speaker 1: your twenties and thirties and get into uh I'm leally

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Speaker 1: to even say middle age, but um, you guys. When

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Speaker 1: we do a lot of sports gambling on the podcast,

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Speaker 1: obvious and the most valuable commodity you can have is information.

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Speaker 1: I talk all the time on the podcast about how

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Speaker 1: you know, look at an injury reports, to look at

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Speaker 1: the weather reports, everything throughout the week every day, and

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Speaker 1: the lines are moving and you gotta jump on it

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Speaker 1: and take advantage to get the best number. And you

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Speaker 1: can't just make decisions all willy nilly if you want

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Speaker 1: to be successful in gambling without getting all the information,

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Speaker 1: and I feel like the same is true for my health. Um,

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Speaker 1: and you guys know, listen, I am trying to live

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Speaker 1: my best dad life playing tennis. I joined a tennis

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Speaker 1: ladder one of my first match, which was nice. I

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Speaker 1: played in the basketball league in the summer one a championship.

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Speaker 1: Little humble black brag, humble brag flex for you right there. Um,

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Speaker 1: I've played in some more soccer tournaments in the last

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Speaker 1: three years than I had geez in the last twenty.

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Speaker 1: I did play competitive sports growing up, and I think

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Speaker 1: I've talked about it a little bit on the podcast.

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Speaker 1: So as I was growing up, I was like a

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Speaker 1: pretty good youth athlete, more soccer than anything, because I

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Speaker 1: my best sport. I loved basketball the most. My parents

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Speaker 1: would not let me play football for understandable reasons, you know,

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Speaker 1: concern over injuries and what have you. And I realized

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Speaker 1: pretty quickly soccer was my best. So I did some

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Speaker 1: the high school sports teams and you don't make the teams,

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Speaker 1: and you're kind of stunned because you've been playing sports

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Speaker 1: I mean, I wish I had been a better basketball player,

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Speaker 1: And so they were like, well, you still like sports,

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Speaker 1: This was when newspapers mattered, way back when, and they

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Speaker 1: It was like a weekly, and I was like, hey,

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Speaker 1: And that's kind of how my career got started in

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Speaker 1: And I had played in some basketball leagues in New York,

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Speaker 1: what they're able to do is provide like a deep

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Speaker 1: dive into my health background, my traits, my wellness, and

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Speaker 1: not gonna say I got into all the hippie dippy

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Speaker 1: twenty three and Me, you're able to dive into your

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Speaker 1: get researching myself online. And one of the things, um,

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Speaker 1: at the same time, I start telling my parents and siblings,

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Speaker 1: and obviously I have I'm sure you guys know. My

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Speaker 1: And they have a section um called sleep quality in

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Speaker 1: just a little and no, no, fully definitive one percent.

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Speaker 1: I'm predisposed to weigh about average, which is always nice

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Speaker 1: from a health perspective. You guys already know I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: be prepared for sports and to talk about Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: I'm going to be able to do all the homework

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Speaker 1: and background in wellness, I needed twenty three and Me.

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Speaker 1: So it's it kind of was an invaluable tool that

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