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Speaker 1: If you're listening to this on Saturday, but we're not

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Speaker 1: recording this on Christmas. But you can find him every

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Speaker 1: week Action Network podcast Thursday Mornings comes out. Uh, you

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Speaker 1: can also find him every single week here. So Stucky,

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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Holidays, happy gambling, let's

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Speaker 1: find some winners. How are you doing doing well? Man?

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Speaker 1: It's just, uh, it's funny that holidays like Thanksgiving and

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Speaker 1: Christmas they're not They're not really like holiday weeks for me.

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Speaker 1: But at least Christmas this year falls on a Saturday,

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Speaker 1: like Thanksgiving on Thursday. It's like they it's still football.

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Speaker 1: I still got a prep for football. I can so

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Speaker 1: um yeah, I'll be able to. I'm gonna go up

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Speaker 1: I looked up at the TV would have been a

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Speaker 1: um and I, it's just like I go crazy on

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Speaker 1: your yeah, that's my day. Okay, Well you had a

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Speaker 1: pick them. Uh. It started at minus one that the

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Speaker 1: I look. I mean if this line was what it was,

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Speaker 1: this game before last week's results was Arizona minus four

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Speaker 1: A couple of things I like about this matchup. But first,

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Speaker 1: to the NFC South Tampa. Just I mean, the injuries

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