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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What is up, everybody,

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Speaker 1: It's me your boy, j mac here on Straight Fire

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Speaker 1: for Friday februe Weary twelve. Valentine's weekend. First weekend, no

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Speaker 1: look forward to the super Bowl. Now nothing on the horizon.

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Speaker 1: Maybe some trades, that's all exciting, but uh, this weekend,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys will spend it with your loved ones. Listen.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to add to the Urban Stems promo,

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Speaker 1: but I did order from there four times earlier this week.

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Speaker 1: The wife, the mom, the mother in law, and the

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Speaker 1: stepmother in law. All of them got flowers. You gotta deliver.

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Speaker 1: I hope you guys got up on it. Got a

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Speaker 1: lot of feedback on the b J. Armstrong interview from

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Speaker 1: did earlier this week, I will shout people out. You know,

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Speaker 1: you guys hit me up. You're listening, you're subscribing, rating

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Speaker 1: and reviewing. I mean, yeah, I like I listen. I

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Speaker 1: like to take. Sometimes you guys hit me with some

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Speaker 1: interesting stuff. Not always. Sometimes I get some really dumb stuff.

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Speaker 1: Not no, lie, I'm keeping it a hunted with you guys.

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Speaker 1: Um a couple stories to get to, but I wanted

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Speaker 1: to start the podcast with a little piece of news.

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Speaker 1: Um not huge. But on Monday morning, if you turn

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Speaker 1: on your TV East Coast time, I will be hosting

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Speaker 1: First Things First with Chris Broussard, friend of the podcast,

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Speaker 1: obviously Rob G's guy from the Odd Couple. I will

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Speaker 1: be uh doing the show from l A. And you

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Speaker 1: here in l A. But I'm very excited. I've never

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Speaker 1: it with my guy Brussor. We love to chop it

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Speaker 1: but a little bit later this month, I will be

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Speaker 1: hosting Undisputed with Boussard and LaVar Arrington for an entire week.

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Speaker 1: That should be off the hook. So set the DVRs

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Speaker 1: in advance. All right, let's get to a couple of

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Speaker 1: quick sports stories here. Um. I'm sure you guys saw

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Speaker 1: this Urban Meyer kerfuffle in Jacksonville. Okay, just so you

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Speaker 1: guys know, the media doesn't love Urban Meyer because of

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Speaker 1: the way it ended at Florida. He's a great coach, Um,

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Speaker 1: because of all the arrests at Florida. I get it,

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Speaker 1: of sports performances, controversial coach by the name of Chris Doyle,

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Speaker 1: if you guys had forgotten who he was. In June

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Speaker 1: He was accused of making racial remarks. Um. And they

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Speaker 1: it's not like they fired him, you know, with cause

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Speaker 1: he they the investigation turned up enough to say, hey,

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Speaker 1: the football player. That's a straight up racist comment. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that's unacceptable. Now I'm gonna not defend Urban Meyer. Um,

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Speaker 1: this this coach, and relationships matter. You know. I know

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Speaker 1: So I had started a website back in two thousand six,

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Speaker 1: Because I've been doing some profiles. I expanded from being

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, wow, Okay. So I drive up again

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Speaker 1: Jamie Horowitz, who some of you don't know, ended up

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Speaker 1: Chris Doyle other than what I've read. He's a very

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Speaker 1: this Chris Doyle, the new Jacksonville Jacks director of Sports Performance,

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Speaker 1: would love is if the NBA said you can come

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Speaker 1: to playoff games if you show proof that you've had

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Speaker 1: the vaccine. Obviously you know it's only but it's clearly enough.

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Speaker 1: Would you have to wear a mask in the stadium?

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Speaker 1: I mean maybe the players are vaccinated by that time.

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Speaker 1: going to change the complexion of the playoffs for sure.

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Speaker 1: Like you talk can get loud, denver can get loud.

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Speaker 1: I still think the Lakers have a monster edge against

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Speaker 1: match semifinal matchup where you've got to go through Kawai

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Speaker 1: don't take games off. It's obviously significantly different. But it'll

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Speaker 1: much does Vogel wrest Lebron and can he try to

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Speaker 1: get by with Horton, Tucker, uh, Cus, Wes Matthews like

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Speaker 1: these are good players. I think the Lakers have the

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Speaker 1: best depth in the league. But remember they're good when

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Speaker 1: Lebron or ideas on the court with them. I don't

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Speaker 1: know who's carrying them. Sorry, guys, it ain't KCP, that's

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Speaker 1: for sure. Um, it's gonna be fascinating to watch. The

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Speaker 1: that playoff race in the West is about to get

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Speaker 1: interesting alright. And to wrap up the podcast, I was

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Speaker 1: gonna dive into this Russell Wilson controversy, or should I

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Speaker 1: say nontroversy? Come on, guys, what are we doing? Are

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Speaker 1: we that desperate to talk about football that we're gonna

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Speaker 1: make this Russell Wilson, Oh, he's angry? Could he be traded? No?

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Speaker 1: What are we wasting time and energy for? I can't

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Speaker 1: believe I just wasted twenty five seconds even discussing upset

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. He's a Super Bowl winning quarterback. He's the

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Speaker 1: best player in franchise history. He's upset. People get upset.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they should put some talent around him, build a defense,

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Speaker 1: get an offensive line. Like, No, Russell Wilson's not getting traded.

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Speaker 1: Next story. All right, everybody have a great Valentine's weekend.

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Speaker 1: I hear the northeast is getting more snow. I pity you, guys,

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Speaker 1: trust me, many years of using a snowblower. UH did

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Speaker 1: not like it. Um, But you know, as I found

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Speaker 1: out what I went to the dentist on Thursday. Out

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Speaker 1: here in l A. A lot of people are leaving

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Speaker 1: l A County and the general area like they're just

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Speaker 1: sick of it. The taxes are about to go up.

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Speaker 1: That ain't fun. The lockdown that sucked. Um, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: We're not going anywhere. I like it out here, and

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Speaker 1: I hope you guys like it wherever you are and

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Speaker 1: have a great weekend.