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

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Speaker 1: It's me Jason McIntyre. Somber mood today for straight Fire.

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Speaker 1: I would love to be excited, but given the events

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Speaker 1: in this country and in the sports leagues in this country,

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Speaker 1: it is not exactly a chipper tone because I started

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Speaker 1: Straight Fire with one primary objective, okay, to be the

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Speaker 1: best daily sports podcast on iTunes and Spotify. That's a

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Speaker 1: number one. How tough could it be? Right talk about

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Speaker 1: sports every day, make jokes, you know, be a fun

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Speaker 1: guy that everybody wants to listen to and be part

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Speaker 1: of the conversation of. I mean, talking about sports has

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Speaker 1: gotten me this far. I got a great producer, great

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Speaker 1: social guy in Gavin who doesn't even get the love

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Speaker 1: he Gavin has been great. This is fun. We're having

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Speaker 1: a blast. NBA's back post quarantined, MLB's back. We don't

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Speaker 1: really talk about hockey, but you know what, if you

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Speaker 1: want to flip the channel, watch hockey, it's there. NFL

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Speaker 1: is coming back shortly, and that's a lofty goal, right

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Speaker 1: to be the best. But I don't know anybody who

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Speaker 1: aims low. You know, I don't know anybody who says,

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Speaker 1: assistant regional manager. I really want to get third place

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Speaker 1: in this race, and that condract. You guys love the

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Speaker 1: stories I tell, so this is a quick one before

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Speaker 1: we get to obviously the biggest story in sports, the NBA.

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Speaker 1: So when we were living in Pennsylvania before we moved

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Speaker 1: Every Sunday they would go and join the run Club

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Speaker 1: pretty cool things, and I want my kids to be

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Speaker 1: parents race in one mile. And you know me. You

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Speaker 1: guys know me if you follow me on social media,

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Speaker 1: you know me in real life. I'm competitive. I always

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Speaker 1: think I'm gonna win, maybe a little cocky, and I

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Speaker 1: You know, let's have fun, and I roll up to

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Speaker 1: this is a topic I just don't love. And you

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Speaker 1: it's a no win situation. And in my real life,

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Speaker 1: this podcast, I was texting with them today. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: I'm just telling you it's a dangerous one. And my

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Speaker 1: What about my bets? Selfishly, I was just thinking about

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Speaker 1: And if you guys listening yesterday's podcast, you know I

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Speaker 1: I'm cool with this topic. It's important, but talking about

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Speaker 1: these social issues are delicate. My wife even said to me,

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Speaker 1: as the hours go on, guys, I decided, Okay, I'm

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Speaker 1: And it started, you know, when you're reading, you know

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Speaker 1: and smart and understandable that they're saying, you know what,

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Speaker 1: that we're piste off about, and we don't want to

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Speaker 1: Some of the stuff he says is more funny than accurate.

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Speaker 1: think about this guy's four years ago on August, Colin

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Speaker 1: Has anything changed, Maybe the discussion has changed, and you know,

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Speaker 1: Think about it in this framework. Okay, the NBA is

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Speaker 1: the back. That's like something you hear that's happening in

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Speaker 1: pick a side debates, guys, it's just not. You can't

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Speaker 1: Don't try to come at me in social media with that.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's dumb. It's reductive. It solves nothing. Okay.

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Speaker 1: that one. I'm sure some people are gonna see this

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Speaker 1: I don't need that. Like, I don't know. This feels

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Speaker 1: like an important podcast, but overall it's just it bums

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Speaker 1: I don't know, rob G. Maybe we need to put

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Speaker 1: in early for vacation the week of November five when

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Speaker 1: be near social media that week. Well, I'm already using

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Speaker 1: some vacation here in a couple of weeks, so we'll

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Speaker 1: see how much I have left after that. But um,

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Speaker 1: it's not looking good for people, especially in our business

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Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, this is this is bad news. So anyways,

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Speaker 1: I'll spare you the subscribe rate review and all that

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Speaker 1: fun stuff. You know. I don't know. We'll see what

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Speaker 1: happens on Thursday. We had an awesome guest lined up.

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Speaker 1: We can still get him. We can still do it.

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Speaker 1: I'll Rob you and I'll have to talk. Maybe you

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Speaker 1: s or Twitter or whatever. But I don't know. Do

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Speaker 1: I don't know, let us know, And for now, I

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