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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up straight firefam, It's me Jason McIntyre Street

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Speaker 2: Fire for Valentine's Day of Friday, February fourteenth. If you

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Speaker 2: are listening to this in the morning, there's still time.

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Speaker 2: Get to the grocery store, get the wife, the girlfriend,

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Speaker 2: the side piece, the jump up, whatever you got going on,

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Speaker 2: and get the lady something. You gotta deliver. Guys, even

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Speaker 2: if it's the thought that counts, I don't care what

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Speaker 2: Just get it, you know, put on the old credit card.

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Speaker 2: You gotta be nice. Anyways, Happy Valentine's Day to those

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Speaker 2: who celebrate, which kind of shortest should be everybody. We

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Speaker 2: have a fun Friday podcast ahead. We'll dabble into NBA

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Speaker 2: All Star Weekend. I'll tell you why I'm not super

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Speaker 2: stoked about it. Aaron Ron and the Jets officially broken up,

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Speaker 2: which should surprise nobody, happened early Thursday morning. And you know,

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Speaker 2: then we'll get into why there's no podcast next week.

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Speaker 2: We are taking a little hiatus. We'll talk about that

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Speaker 2: at the very end, but first we got to start.

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Speaker 2: I think we'll start with the Jets, right the official

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Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers kiss off and say good night, good audios,

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Speaker 2: thank you for your service. If you are a Jets

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Speaker 2: I do have a cousin of mine who's a Jets fan,

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Speaker 2: and I'm on a text thread with him, but I'm

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Speaker 2: on at least four Jets text threads. This was after

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Speaker 2: Jets a long thirty years. It's Tampa Bay Bucks for me.

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Speaker 2: Now what a dumpster fire that organization is? Okay? So yes,

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Speaker 2: the Jets organization is a dumpster fire that is undeniable.

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Speaker 2: They have the longest playoff drought in professional sports in America. Okay,

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Speaker 2: it's just ineptitude from the owner to the GM to

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Speaker 2: the coach, doesn't matter. Since Mark Sanchez and the Jets

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Speaker 2: playoffs since. I'm not gonna bore you with all the

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Speaker 2: we had a good two year run. Somebody joked to

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Speaker 2: me that Aaron Rodgers did more radio interviews with Pat McAfee,

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Speaker 2: as in New York Jet. Now, I haven't looked that up.

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Speaker 2: It's too funny. I hear that out loud. I'm just

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Speaker 2: You know, when you get new information, you kind of

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Speaker 2: It's like I can lock in for an All Star Game,

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Speaker 2: Now he is still an automatic bucket because of his jumper.

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Speaker 2: because the Warriors titles don't count. Whatever. Anyways, guys, no

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Speaker 2: little respite. I will be very limited on social media.

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Speaker 2: Definitely no Twitter unless there's a big trade in the

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