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S6, Ep 87: Beating the Heat: Mac Brown's Morning Fishing Tips · The Articulate Fly

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  Marvin: Hey folks it's marvin cash the host of the articulate fly and we're back with
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  Marvin: another casting angles with mac brown mac how are you i'm.
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  Mac: Doing great how are you marvin.
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  Marvin: As always just trying to stay out of trouble and kind of getting excited i'm
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  Marvin: getting ready to uh sneak away for a few days in east tennessee to fish the
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  Marvin: uh the south holston the watauga with my oldest son you know him oh.
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  Mac: Yeah no that'll be great that'll be great fun it's supposed to be cooler this
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  Mac: next week. So it's going to be a little bit better temperatures on the water.
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  Marvin: Yeah. It's kind of funny. He's, he doesn't fish a lot. And so I was kind of
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  Marvin: telling him, you know, what he needed to pack this morning and all that kind
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  Marvin: of good stuff. You know, the basic stuff, like if you're going to wear Keens,
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  Marvin: you might want to wear socks.
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  Marvin: Otherwise you're going to have Swiss cheese sunburn on the top of your feet.
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  Marvin: And, you know, you know, all the important stuff about, you know, long pants, buffs.
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  Marvin: And, you know, he's like, well, isn't a baseball cap good enough?
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  Marvin: And I was like, you know, only if you want sunburned ears. So,
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  Marvin: you know, you got to figure it all out, right?
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  Mac: Oh, yeah. Yeah, it might be a bandana. Put it underneath the hat and protect his neck and back.
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  Mac: And yeah, no, that's good. That'll be a lot of fun.
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  Marvin: Yeah, I have a big straw cowboy hat that I just basically take with me and I
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  Marvin: dunk in the water and that seems to work pretty good for air conditioning. Yeah.
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  Mac: No, that's a good idea, and that's kind of what I've been using a lot in the
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  Mac: morning is a big, you know, wide-brimmed straw hat, and that's pretty nice.
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  Mac: And then it keeps all the—well, it's been overcast. I've been lucky.
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  Mac: The last eight or nine days, the sun hadn't really come out here until about
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  Mac: 11 because it's been overcast, had some nice rains.
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  Mac: So that's made it pretty nice in the morning where you don't have to worry about
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  Mac: it because I'm done before, you know, before it's noon. and I'm done usually by 10, 30, 11.
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  Mac: And then I don't have to worry about the heat, you know?
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  Marvin: Yeah, it's interesting too, right? Because, I mean, looking at the weather,
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  Marvin: I mean, it's been pretty hot. It's kind of hot here in the, you know, kind of the Piedmont.
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  Marvin: But, you know, western North Carolina, east Tennessee for the next week to 10
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  Marvin: days looks like it's probably not going to get back above 90.
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  Marvin: So it's starting, I would say it's a little early, you know,
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  Marvin: early August to say that we're starting to maybe tip down.
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  Marvin: But, I mean, it is at least a welcome respite from the heat we've had.
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  Marvin: And hopefully the conditions will improve a little bit.
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  Mac: I think it will. We've been in the low 80s the last four days.
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  Mac: The evening will get down in upper 60s and then come back up to low 80s.
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  Mac: So, yeah, I mean, I think it stays cooler maybe on this side of the mountain than up by Johnson City.
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  Mac: You know what I mean? Because I grew up in Greenville. I think it's a little
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  Mac: hotter up where I grew up in Greenville, Tennessee.
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  Mac: So, I don't know. No, usually it does because the weather pattern,
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  Mac: but the good news is over there, they get the rains.
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  Mac: A lot of times the rains will hit the mountains, the Appalachias,
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  Mac: and they go back to the northeast and they don't even make it over the mountains.
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  Mac: So I'm sure they've got more rainfall overall than we have, you know, for the year.
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  Mac: But we've been getting nice rains this last week. It's been nice.
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  Mac: It's the first time in, I would say, almost a decade that late July,
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  Mac: August hasn't been in severe drought.
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  Mac: So to be getting these rains is really a, really a big plus,
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  Mac: you know, for keeping everything cooled down some.
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  Mac: The water temp, I can tell you that this morning, I take it every day,
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  Mac: but just this morning's temperature was 63 degrees.
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  Mac: It's 630 in the morning. And that's not a bad water temp.
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  Mac: You know what I mean? Everybody's talking about the waters are all too hot.
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  Mac: I mean, it'll probably come up by the time late in the day on that same creek. It's probably 67, 68.
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  Mac: But having a morning temperature that's below 65 is actually,
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  Mac: you know, kind of special for this part of the country because most places aren't.
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  Marvin: Yeah and so we were talking because it was a little bit better i guess when
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  Marvin: we spoke two weeks ago but you know it really is you know like you have to kind
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  Marvin: of really define what getting out early and getting off the water early means.
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  Mac: Okay. You want me to define it?
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  Marvin: Yeah. Well, I was just saying you have to, and I was just kind of kicking it
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  Marvin: to you. You're my trusty sidekick.
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  Mac: Yeah. Well, I think that, uh, I mean, like this morning we started, I had a, um,
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  Mac: a young kid and his mom this morning early and I met them at,
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  Mac: we started at 630 and that's when it's just getting light enough where you can see.
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  Mac: One thing I've noticed the last three weeks is we were lighter earlier several
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  Mac: weeks ago, and it's starting to get later and later already.
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  Mac: So it was 6 a.m., and now at this time of year, it's moved to about 6.30 to
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  Mac: meet them because it's tough to start in the dark with the traffic.
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  Mac: So 6.30 is about the time they can start seeing it. And we're done by 9.30 to 10 o'clock.
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  Mac: And that way you know later in the day then you'll see people start pulling
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  Mac: in trying to fish those same spots starting at 10 11 o'clock and then it's just
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  Mac: i'm sure they're frustrated because by that time the water's too warm the activity's
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  Mac: gone you know and it's like,
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  Mac: yeah every day every day still different too like where i've been going i've
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  Mac: been going on um a freestone creek that comes off about 6,500 feet up and it's
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  Mac: different every day like I like to say well it's been best on dry fly but it
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  Mac: it really hasn't like one day it'll be,
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  Mac: good on that I've been throwing a lot of ants and terrestrials like small ants like flying ants and.
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  Mac: That's one of my favorite you know patterns the one thing that's been really funny this year.
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  Mac: Year for us i mean for all my gods it's like normally
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  Mac: on the freestones this time of year that the inchworms king it's
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  Mac: at its best and it hasn't this year
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  Mac: hasn't been that way i fished the i fished a
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  Mac: lot of inchworms in places that should be
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  Mac: productive with inchworms and i i think that maybe
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  Mac: they're starting to get used to it kind of like kind of
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  Mac: like when i moved here years ago you could throw a royal wuss anywhere
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  Mac: in the park this time of year in the early morning and do well and then
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  Mac: then everybody threw it and it no longer worked as good
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  Mac: you know but the chartreuse inch worms the small ones the big ones and we've
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  Mac: caught some fish on it but it's not at all the magic bullet like it's been in
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  Mac: the past is what i'm saying so i think it's changed i think too many people
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  Mac: probably been throwing it now it's a thing of the past unless we go somewhere new you know yeah.
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  Marvin: It's interesting too like you know one thing i would suggest to people if you're
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  Marvin: getting out that early and particularly if you're trying to hike in to kind
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  Marvin: of get away from folks and get higher is, you know, also remember if you're wearing a headlamp,
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  Marvin: you know, only use it if you need to and, you know, don't shine it on the water,
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  Marvin: particularly when you get close to where you want to fish because that will,
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  Marvin: you know, make it less worth your while to put the time in to get up early and walk a little bit.
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  Mac: That's right. Or better yet, just hike in the night before when it's hot.
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  Mac: That's what, when the kids get back from their trip with Jennifer,
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  Mac: that's what we're going to do is go up and stay.
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  Mac: Because it's about time where they're getting ready to go back to college for
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  Mac: Connor and Duncan will be starting school, you know, high school, sophomore year.
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  Mac: And we still haven't, we were going to try to do something up in British Columbia
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  Mac: and summer's kind of gotten away from us. We've had a lot of unexpected things,
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  Mac: you know, the summer that we weren't planning for.
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  Mac: So we're stuck here. So I've told them before they went out of town that we'll
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  Mac: go in when they get back next week and maybe stay three or four days.
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  Mac: And that'll be a good time with the kids.
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  Mac: And we'll do the same thing even when we hike in. We'll fish early in the morning
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  Mac: and we'll probably go do some hikes and other things in the afternoon.
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  Mac: But we won't be trying to fish in the middle of the day up high.
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  Marvin: Yeah. And, you know, as we mentioned last time, you know, it's kind of depending
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  Marvin: on where you are. I think kids in Tennessee are already back in school.
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  Marvin: You know, we start to thinking about school stuff, and that means guide schools
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  Marvin: and casting schools and all that kind of good stuff.
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  Marvin: And I know you've got some travel
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  Marvin: set up. You want to let folks know about all that kind of good stuff?
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  Mac: Yeah we we still got some uh what
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  Mac: do we have left this year well we got we still
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  Mac: got the casting school in september we got a couple of
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  Mac: guide schools october november and the show schedule i worked on that last week
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  Mac: that's going to be really busy um i think from the first week of january to
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  Mac: the middle of april we'll be on the road so it's like i looked at the turnaround
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  Mac: like the west west coast ones at bellevue,
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  Mac: and then right after Bellevue's Denver,
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  Mac: and then Pleasanton, it's like, I'll just stay out there because there's only,
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  Mac: for me, there's only like two days turning around between those shoals.
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  Mac: So it wouldn't make sense, you know, to come fly all the way back east and get
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  Mac: on a plane and fly six hours back.
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  Mac: So I'll probably get lucky and get to go, go to Pyramid Reservoir and fish a
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  Mac: lot of the stuff I want to fish out there in the winter. I like to fish those.
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  Mac: There's certain places I like to be at, be that time of year.
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  Mac: So I'm going to try to make a little vacation as well as the shows and mix them together.
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  Mac: And, yeah, it's going to be a busy show season though, Marvin.
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  Marvin: Yeah. And so, you know, folks, I have and I'm adding every day.
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  Marvin: If you go to thearticulatefly.com and go to our events page,
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  Marvin: you'll see all the shows listed.
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  Marvin: And I'll keep adding to those. And if you're an event promoter and you want
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  Marvin: your info up there, shoot me an email.
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  Marvin: Use the contact form on the website or if you know me, just shoot me an email.
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  Marvin: And, you know, Mac, I assume the best way for people to figure out what you're
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  Marvin: up to is to go to MacBrownFlyfish.com, right?
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  Mac: Yeah, that'd be the best one, you know, to get my contact email or phone number
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  Mac: or whatever. That would be the easiest way to get me.
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  Marvin: Yeah, and all that stuff and Mac's social media stuff's all in the show notes.
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  Marvin: So if you just hop to the website and check that stuff out, you can find it
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  Marvin: all there. and folks, even though it's hot, just get up super early and then
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  Marvin: take a nap at 11 o'clock after you eat a big pancake breakfast.
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  Marvin: Get out there and catch a few, everybody.
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  Marvin: Tight lines, everybody. Tight lines, Matt.
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  Mac: Tight lines, Marvin.